[2022] 2022 Hearthstone Masters Tour Vashj'ir | Day 1 | Hearthstone Dev Tracker

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935s	to win through something incredibly
936s	scammy right now that was just an
938s	incredibly diplomatic and well-mannered
940s	concede from your opponent and Habu we
944s	can break the news to you right now my
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963s	back takes the victory
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972s	that's why we play this game
978s	hello everyone and welcome to Masters
981s	Tour vashir we've got another weekend of
984s	HearthStone for you coming up where a
986s	few hundred players are going to be put
987s	through their pieces in a long format
990s	tournament I'm Raven and joining me is
992s	Lorinda will be bringing you the action
993s	for the first round of the day Lorinda
996s	how's it going mate going great Raven I
998s	say it every time on day one but day one
1001s	of these events where we get to find out
1002s	what the meta is what the new cards are
1004s	going to do or the new card is going to
1006s	do
1007s	um really excited me and looking forward
1009s	to getting into it and seeing what this
1010s	matter is going to be just can't wait
1012s	yeah as we said there's going to be a
1014s	ton of Power Stone coming up over the
1016s	course of the weekend so make sure to
1017s	stay tuned there even though it may be
1019s	slightly difficult if you're in a
1020s	certain time zone like we are where it's
1022s	uh coming up on midnight at this point
1024s	but still and there'll be a lot of
1026s	action to check out and vods to watch of
1028s	course but as we can see they're 345
1031s	total players from around the world are
1033s	going to be duking out all weekend it's
1035s	gonna be eight rounds of Swiss uh four
1037s	rounds each day and and then we of
1039s	course as you may well I remember from
1041s	previous Masters tours be cutting to
1043s	that top 16 on the final day and find
1046s	our champion at the end of that and uh
1048s	it's a big deal this one Lorinda because
1050s	we've just had very recently the summer
1052s	Championship which was the top players
1054s	from the first three Masters tours of
1056s	the year and now it kind of starts again
1058s	the cycle begins in new uh getting ready
1061s	for the winter Championship which is
1063s	going to be the top plays from the next
1065s	three which uh this been the first one
1067s	so uh a lot of options here for the
1069s	players to get off to a very good start
1071s	yeah and I think it's worked really well
1074s	so far I think that top 16 was a
1076s	fantastic summer Championship I think we
1078s	got a lot of the best players regarded
1080s	as the best players and the players now
1082s	have a feel for each win really does
1086s	make a difference in these tournaments
1087s	okay Abu gabu went 0-3 and the first one
1090s	dropped but he was under so much
1092s	pressure in those second or third
1094s	tournaments to to make the top eight
1095s	which he did to get the points he needed
1098s	I think might see filmed players
1099s	dropping out now more players battling
1100s	on to get two or three points even if
1102s	they don't like their lineup but yeah
1104s	the system's working we have the world
1105s	champion in there what more could you
1107s	ask for I think it's going to be
1108s	interesting to see who gets off to that
1110s	Flying Star to the end of this weekend
1111s	yeah it really is like for the first
1114s	half and casting your championship event
1116s	again was pretty great and like you said
1118s	the quality of play there was kind of
1120s	ridiculous and you know we have no doubt
1122s	we'll see that a little bit later on in
1123s	the year with the winter one and we're
1125s	just looking at just a quick reminder of
1126s	the schedule here of course it's four
1128s	rounds of Swiss per day so four rounds
1131s	today four rounds tomorrow and then that
1133s	top 16 cut on Sunday and looking forward
1136s	to it again I think we both I think the
1139s	majority of the casters right just have
1140s	that appreciation for a Swiss tournament
1142s	where you get to see uh players not just
1145s	be you know single elimination or even
1147s	double to an extent but because of this
1149s	uh the format now for the championship
1151s	where wins the total wins across three
1154s	different Masters tours they're even
1156s	players who you know go zero two in the
1158s	first two rounds have a lot to play for
1160s	in the next few as well so uh as you
1163s	said everyone's important every match is
1165s	important so we'll see how the players
1168s	do in this uh kind of like weirdly new
1170s	meta and we've had some Buffs and nerves
1173s	very recently but also we had the
1174s	inclusion of one new card which is
1176s	definitely shaking things up and put a
1179s	lot of the player base sort of on either
1181s	side of the line right some players love
1183s	it and think the the Dex created by
1185s	renifil are fantastic and some people
1187s	think it's just massive bait and guess
1189s	what's really good to find the answer to
1190s	that a huge Swiss tournament which is
1193s	what we're gonna have right now so I'm
1194s	looking forward to that but let's check
1196s	out the prize for Lorinda and see what's
1198s	going on over there and what these
1199s	players other than wins are playing for
1201s	I don't understand Raven I can't do this
1203s	without TJ I don't know how numbers work
1206s	anymore I'm so used to doing this with
1208s	TJ where we talk about 500 a win but
1210s	it's significantly more than that if you
1212s	win it it's 14 large in your pocket for
1215s	first place that's a lot of money ten
1218s	thousand a second and you can put
1219s	yourselves going down to 2004 making
1222s	that Final Cut to get to the final day
1224s	yeah I mean even just looking at those
1226s	two uh the top two places there four
1228s	four grand extra is a nice little bump
1231s	for winning one additional match of
1232s	hearthstone but also the winners go
1235s	straight to the championship that I was
1237s	talking about earlier right so it's not
1239s	even just the 14 it's that plus the spy
1242s	in the championship which will then no
1244s	doubt uh account for even more cash
1246s	money as well so a really big
1248s	opportunity for players to actually go
1250s	first place as we said is made up of uh
1253s	the amount of wins in total for the
1254s	majority but the winner of each of the
1257s	three Masters tours just goes through
1258s	automatically so you can put their feet
1260s	up maybe take a little bit more of a
1262s	relaxed approach to the Futures Masters
1263s	tours as well so yeah definitely a lot
1266s	to play for especially when we get in
1268s	that top 16. so yeah it's going to be an
1271s	exciting one and Neil I may I'm ready
1273s	for it
1274s	yep um the question for me is going to
1277s	be all about Druid do people go for
1279s	press store do they go for alignment do
1280s	they go for 40 card alignment uh all
1283s	three of which have been discussed by
1285s	all the play test groups and I don't
1287s	think there's any answer personally I'm
1288s	on the side of 40 card alignment but I
1291s	know you are not Raymond so we will see
1294s	how it goes I may form my opinion as we
1296s	as we go through the weekend uh just of
1298s	course a quick reminder it's going to be
1300s	Conquest format the go-to format for
1303s	competitive Hearthstone of course and I
1305s	think maybe now more than ever although
1308s	this has often been the case where the
1310s	fourth deck question seems like a big
1313s	ask this weekend because when we've been
1315s	looking at the players have been
1316s	tweeting how the deck lists and lineups
1318s	for that for this weekend just you know
1320s	half an hour or so I'll go uh but um but
1322s	just looking at what those fourth decks
1324s	are you know again personally I don't
1326s	have tons of faith in Rogue right now
1328s	but it seems a lot of players do but for
1331s	me that in the lineups that Rogue is in
1333s	it feels like the fourth deck and then
1335s	the slightly different sort of slower
1337s	lineups where people are starting
1338s	questioning you know warlock for example
1340s	with renothill in is that good is it
1342s	bait I'm excited for this one Lorinda
1345s	because whether you like the the renatal
1347s	sort of style or not all the decks
1350s	people are playing it in I think what's
1353s	just true is the player base is very
1355s	split and undecided right so I think I
1358s	either way we're going to get some form
1360s	of answer this weekend yeah one thing
1362s	that's been very hard I think for the
1364s	players this time is okay you've got how
1366s	you normally build is you get the old
1368s	decks you then tune them up with a new
1370s	cards adjust but this time your aggro
1372s	decks are designed to do 30 damage and
1375s	suddenly they're having to do 40 damage
1377s	so you can't just burn people in the
1379s	face and finish off with a couple of
1381s	burn spells anymore you need to have
1382s	that board presence that sustained board
1384s	presence for 10 extra damage that's one
1386s	two extra turns of damage and I don't
1388s	think the players have necessarily had
1389s	time to really tune up aggro decks to to
1393s	deal with it which is weird because
1394s	normally how a format works is you start
1397s	with the aggro decks you hit your points
1399s	for 30 and then the control adjusts but
1401s	this time around I think everything has
1403s	been reversed it might be the aggro
1404s	Decks that are not tuned well enough but
1407s	talking of aggro decks we have some in
1409s	this opener even
1411s	we really do these are the first two
1413s	players we are going to feature as the
1415s	first round of Swiss here and both
1417s	players are quite famous for slightly
1420s	different reasons I would say banterface
1422s	of course uh America's Grandmaster came
1425s	on uh into Grand Masters I would say
1426s	late in the overall scheme of the life
1429s	of grand Masters but definitely made an
1432s	impact with his just extremely solid
1434s	play and then we have a donkey who's a
1437s	player where we know very well as we
1439s	speak to donkey a lot and not only a
1442s	great player in of themselves but also
1444s	just the creative one of the most used
1446s	Hearthstone websites ever which is uh
1449s	tracking you know Tournament results
1450s	placements and everything you could ever
1452s	really want and for the game and
1454s	especially for the competitive aspect of
1455s	the game which believe it or not
1457s	interest learning myself greatly so yeah
1459s	I'm excited to see donkey on stream we
1461s	there I don't think we've seen donkey
1463s	play on streaming Masters tours too
1464s	often I feel like even though they
1467s	compete a lot they're not really a
1469s	regular on stream as much as we see some
1471s	other players so really excited to see
1472s	this this happen
1474s	yeah and there you see um third Masters
1477s	Tour overslept at the first one I think
1479s	got a match loss from the first one for
1481s	submissions uh possibly remember that
1483s	this is even their fourth appearance and
1485s	that one doesn't count on the stats not
1486s	even sure use donkey sites for the
1488s	donkey's particular stats so not quite
1490s	sure which way around that worked but
1491s	yeah since then they've been improving
1494s	five and three record in the most recent
1495s	tournament tournament they played at
1497s	under City and it's just regular 150 120
1502s	83 on the leaderboard you know nothing
1504s	amazing but also most of you watching
1507s	out there you try getting regular top
1509s	200 finishes good luck with that and
1511s	gather of stats I mean I've been a
1513s	gatherer of stats for many years but
1515s	donkey does it you know so well and
1517s	massive shout out to donkey for all that
1520s	work that they put in yeah also as well
1522s	if there's ever going to be a a try desk
1524s	Caster team uh based on usage of
1528s	flamingo shirts uh this is they now have
1530s	their third person right they're subtle
1532s	there's a TJ and now there's donkey that
1534s	Flamingo show greatly appreciated there
1536s	but yeah check it out donkey's first
1538s	list here it's gonna be the priest and
1540s	it's a deck I like a lot in this matter
1543s	I think this goes under all the fancy
1545s	things people are trying to do and
1547s	people are jumping on there Druid with
1548s	Presta all without with alignment for
1551s	example uh people trying to like test
1553s	out these slower renithal decks and and
1555s	I do think wig priest actually just gets
1558s	there that you power on a lot of
1560s	pressure make minions that are just two
1561s	really big to handle and also even
1564s	against the um the
1567s	uh the Presto Druid even though they're
1570s	playing low anchor of minions with the
1573s	wigs like your memes are just bigger so
1575s	you can just keep Trading
1577s	yeah and at priest is another of the
1580s	classes it's going to be interesting
1581s	this weekend we're going to see a lot of
1582s	priests but bore priest is also fighting
1585s	for the which priest do you bring slot
1588s	so one for Raven who I know is very much
1590s	in the wig priest Camp uh but we'll see
1592s	how that goes on over the course of the
1594s	tournament but banter faces profile we
1596s	talked a lot about him earlier on but
1598s	yeah won his very first season as Grand
1600s	Masters I think they even summed it up
1602s	really well there with the just did
1604s	nothing wrong you know not the flashy
1607s	lights and emotions that some of the
1609s	players bring although has got a lot
1610s	more emotive recently but just very hard
1613s	to pick holes in his play and when
1616s	somebody does pick a hole in his plates
1617s	usually himself afterwards with some
1620s	extended tweet as to why something went
1622s	wrong
1623s	yeah looking at this as well he's going
1625s	to be queuing the Rogue first we do see
1627s	a slightly uh like we see a rogue band
1630s	on one side uh where donkeys lost their
1634s	Rogue and on the other side my Planet
1635s	face has lost his shame in there so uh
1638s	pretty interesting the way the bands are
1640s	going because obviously the lineups
1641s	aren't mirrored so that's shame and
1643s	being a priority for turkey uh over the
1645s	Rogue here and again Rogue it is what it
1649s	is it does what it does but my question
1651s	is like even like what was it it is
1653s	summer Champs it didn't feel like it was
1655s	doing too great at least for me it just
1658s	feels like a deck that every time you
1660s	see it win it just about gets there and
1663s	it worries me that the more time goes on
1665s	just about getting there might not be
1668s	enough you know regardless of whether
1669s	we're talking about the extra Health
1670s	from renothel or not uh or we're just
1672s	talking about the just continued
1674s	development of the meta and this deck
1676s	hasn't really changed for a while now
1678s	obviously the white Paul knows they're
1680s	getting sort of rebuffed to help the
1682s	deck a lot but uh for me I'm still a bit
1685s	skeptical and I think I just always will
1687s	be I think it's just sometimes you have
1689s	these certain archetypes where they just
1690s	don't really gel with you so you just
1693s	think oh it's okay we'll see how it goes
1695s	yeah and the thing that that's gonna
1697s	test the Rogue is not so much this
1699s	particular match we're going to see now
1701s	but it's when it wanted to it runs hello
1703s	words okay good start uh when it runs
1706s	into those 40 Health decks later on it's
1709s	not a deck that does faulty very well
1711s	it's gonna have to be played creatively
1713s	to find ways to keep Minions on board uh
1716s	sneak extra damage through to what it's
1717s	normally used to doing
1719s	um this isn't one of those donkey has
1720s	brought all 30 card decks including the
1723s	Beast Hunter which I've seen played as a
1725s	40 and struggled mightily against with
1728s	Rogue when it's got 40 Health uh but
1730s	yeah we'll see how that goes on but
1731s	donkey in this match I think is a decent
1734s	favorite honestly with this lineup I
1736s	think that the Druid May struggle a
1738s	little bit here I think the the Demon
1740s	Hunter May struggle a bit here so
1742s	um assignment banter face so gotta be
1744s	interested to see if my banterface can
1745s	turn this around with all that extra
1747s	experience he has at this level
1749s	yeah I do like donkey's lineup a lot and
1752s	I think honestly maybe except for
1754s	exactly the Rogue this is pretty much
1756s	the lineup I would have submitted or at
1759s	least close right I like Demon Hunter at
1761s	the moment I like Hunter and I like the
1762s	wig priests so we'll have to see how
1765s	this goes as we get into gamer number
1766s	one donkey gonna be on that weak priest
1768s	on the top and make banter face on the
1771s	bottom on the uh I I saw some
1775s	Thief Rogue which I cannot get behind
1778s	and I will not call it that but uh What
1780s	boat Rogue I'm much happy with that show
1783s	um
1785s	sorry I just got distracted by uh
1787s	donkey's camera is that a bow tie in the
1790s	beard
1791s	they're dressed the occasion here at the
1793s	Masters Tour first time on camera loving
1796s	it making sure I didn't have to put my
1797s	glasses on I wasn't doing it right
1800s	oh okay okay there's the wig yeah good
1804s	opener here for donkey and not really
1806s	got the Naga you want for turn one but
1810s	does have a Naga at least for now which
1813s	can really help out push some more power
1815s	with them hello Donkey how are you good
1819s	to see you settled down into round one
1821s	and you got into a round one all the
1823s	best
1828s	and Santa Fe is gonna with without the
1830s	option of any tradables in hand gonna
1833s	have to just quickly reveal that yes
1835s	they are on the Rogue and it definitely
1839s	helps right Philip going down on turn
1840s	one not really the play you're always
1842s	looking for but against the deck that is
1845s	almost solely reliant on sticking
1846s	minions yes you will take a three one
1849s	that challenges a sleather spear for
1851s	example
1852s	they're also loving this from Donkey
1854s	just getting settled down first time on
1856s	again a big cast
1857s	um they played some pretty decent sized
1859s	tournaments recently anyway but first
1861s	i'm in one of these these massive casts
1863s	here at the Masters Tour just taking
1865s	time to get everything done I hope
1871s	yep who's in not to Cone anything out of
1874s	course uh if they did coin out the
1876s	elemental then things would get a little
1878s	bit tricky and weird with the wig as
1881s	well but no major reason to rush right
1884s	now but with this pickup from the
1887s	interface it's getting to the point
1889s	where donkey will start falling behind
1892s	on board relatively quickly the amarose
1896s	okay to have but again donkey just
1899s	missing a sort of Cheaper Naga to
1902s	actually play
1903s	yeah looking a little bit awkward but
1905s	again having the samurai ready uh
1908s	nothing scary against him yet on the
1910s	board uh should be absolutely fine for
1912s	the time being we can see but banterface
1915s	doesn't really have anything to occupy
1917s	the board yet although nothing of
1920s	preparation wouldn't sort out off the
1921s	top
1922s	yeah also it's not just The Defector
1924s	it's a pretty big deal yeah like it's a
1927s	good amount of stats and when your
1928s	opponents start playing any stats on
1930s	board like anything's better than
1932s	nothing here so that could still cause
1934s	some issues so funky definitely needs to
1937s	look at something Shadowood devour not
1939s	bad already has a blessing hand so I'm
1942s	not sure if that one's required maybe
1943s	another Thrive would be fine as well
1945s	yeah
1948s	foreign
1950s	banter has is the curve here
1954s	um also a question of whether McDonald's
1956s	just wants to get this gone fishing
1958s	plate at some time soon just because
1960s	it's speed right
1963s	um really don't want to do that with the
1964s	the boat already in hand but you need to
1968s	get the board set up
1972s	I was probably hoping for
1975s	something he could play here
1980s	I wonder
1983s	I'm actually looking at me though right
1984s	now
1986s	I'm going the other way I'm looking at
1987s	the kodo but I get it I understand
1991s	yeah I'm just not sure I just don't
1993s	think the kodo ever does anything
1995s	it's a three five
1998s	yeah four six that's strictly better
2001s	yeah but one cost two it won't cost four
2004s	I think I think mabanta had to work out
2005s	do I think I'm playing my um usheran
2008s	next turn if so I want to play a code
2010s	alongside it just to keep something on
2012s	the board there's a good chance you may
2013s	have to trade both minions in and then
2015s	Dakota just sits those leftovers
2018s	yeah it definitely fits the immediate
2020s	curve better I do think though honestly
2022s	if I was in that spot I probably would
2024s	have just played The Defector instead of
2026s	doing sure reconnaissance that turn
2030s	donkey's on the rough spot second bless
2033s	being picked up uh I honestly wonder if
2036s	at this point like this is just a hard
2038s	consideration for calling now either
2040s	samurai or just go radiant Elemental
2044s	um
2045s	I I don't know like Thrive and then
2048s	Priestess and then wig or something like
2050s	that right just to just to do something
2052s	I think the more turns this weights it's
2055s	very reliant on exactly Samurai dealing
2057s	with the board and don't get me wrong
2059s	Samurai probably can deal with the ball
2061s	right there needs to be a very there
2063s	needs to be almost like no response from
2065s	mcbana face to really feel good about
2067s	this he might be looking at a six Mana
2069s	so turn five with a coin um radiant
2072s	Samurai double wig clear your board good
2075s	luck deal with that
2081s	um but he's taking obviously decent
2083s	damage in the meantime
2091s	one thing you do have to be a little bit
2093s	scared of against this priest is going
2096s	too wide because it means like
2098s	disgusting sized minions can be made
2100s	with Shadowood devour
2102s	so that's definitely just something to
2105s	bear in mind one of the reasons why uh
2107s	mcbannah face may have been holding this
2109s	uh ashran Defector
2111s	yeah and the Rogue doesn't deal very
2114s	well with minions once they get past
2116s	about 10 Health right they just they
2117s	just sit there and kill you if you're
2119s	the Rogue which will allow a donkey to
2122s	tidy things up let's see how patient
2124s	they are this turn
2128s	that's a solid pickup yeah I think
2130s	that's you just play it and sort of pick
2131s	up another thing to do next and then
2134s	next turn pop off still on 20 Health
2136s	gotta be a bit careful with the bursts
2138s	from the stabs and
2140s	stabs and scabs I guess but
2143s	yeah most importantly it does just
2145s	activate the wigs right by playing the
2149s	like you said there was still going to
2150s	be another seven damage minimum next
2152s	turn
2154s	yeah I think that's okay this deck
2157s	doesn't really run heels either so
2162s	yeah it's not like other priest decks
2164s	where you're on 20 it's like LOL I'm
2166s	back to 30 or 40
2168s	um straight away
2171s	it's outside of hero power I mean close
2175s	to just being a rogue at this point
2177s	right the the priest in this deck
2179s	because spending two Mana to Euro power
2181s	a lot of the time isn't something you
2182s	want to do with this list so you do have
2185s	that sense of damage permanence I'm
2188s	gonna go for illuminate
2190s	of the naggling I think
2193s	banter might be getting a little bit
2195s	suspicious here as well as like what is
2197s	my opponent doing
2200s	don't forget as well that um donkey does
2202s	have the the Priestess in hand so on the
2205s	pop-off turn there could be a lot of
2206s	Mana spent a lot of things played
2210s	to switch the board around in just one
2211s	turn which will be next turn if
2214s	I've read the situation right
2223s	so it would be something like Samurai
2225s	coin radiant play some wigs and play a
2228s	priestess then maybe a bless or whatever
2231s	as well with the extra Mana loads of
2232s	things going on there
2235s	foreign
2237s	just going to play vessel makes sense
2239s	just put forward some more minions looks
2241s	like he may have lined up a trade there
2243s	yep take a good devour Target off the
2246s	board
2247s	But Here Comes donkey
2254s	pretty sure this was planned several
2256s	turns ago
2264s	yeah treasure Guard Great pickup as well
2266s	so much help on that thing and that's
2269s	one of the real killers in the deck
2271s	actually because the attack being low
2274s	doesn't really matter and because of the
2277s	way the wigs work and the stacking that
2279s	health and then you just drop a blast is
2281s	absolutely huge the princess Raven it's
2283s	gonna be insane with the bless and the
2285s	samurai as well yep
2288s	absolutely nutty turn
2291s	as we've come to expect from this deck
2293s	yeah I mean donkey doesn't even need to
2295s	use a blaster right
2299s	sure yeah it's just the two wigs and
2301s	save the blast for the uh or the minions
2303s	next turn to win
2304s	yeah
2306s	let's just wig wig that clears the board
2308s	anyway and then just have bless for the
2311s	um the elemental and the
2314s	uh the guard
2317s	sure
2321s	yeah I met half the pop-up but there's
2325s	so much more obviously and that's just
2328s	lethal next turn
2334s	there is a whole lot of nothing here
2338s	from mcbanna face
2341s	16 is too far out of reach with a torn
2344s	donkey
2345s	trying to calm cells down just saying
2347s	yep come on just live and that is a lot
2350s	of this deck actually is you build your
2352s	board you know you plan you make a one
2355s	to two threatening minions and you like
2357s	just don't have an answer just don't
2359s	have an answer and as soon as they click
2361s	that end turn button and your minions
2363s	are still alive you feel very very good
2365s	about the game yep and no problem with
2368s	scabs until eight Mana so two turns to
2370s	get this done
2372s	before potential accidents
2378s	and a minute ago we're saying oh look at
2379s	that Health total going down 16 oh no
2381s	what will the priest do with no healing
2383s	well this is what it'll do with no
2385s	healing yeah
2387s	Banner phase does get to kill the
2390s	treasure guard though with extortion and
2392s	stats
2395s	which is a pretty big deal right
2396s	significant amount of uh of damage lost
2399s	that was a bless used by a donkey as
2402s	well
2406s	yep fans are trying to get to eight Mana
2409s	intact so potentially clear the board
2411s	with scabs and maybe change it around
2412s	from there
2417s	here we go again
2421s	another treasure guards big I think how
2423s	big is the Queen's guard gonna be I
2426s	don't think it matters because it won't
2427s	sure until this turn so the treasure
2430s	guard needs to be there because there
2432s	are worlds in which uh donkey actually
2433s	just dies next turn yep that's fair
2436s	that's very fair
2440s	foreign
2455s	Make It Stop Raven
2459s	yeah finish with the bless this feels
2461s	like a much better bless than the the
2463s	guard last turn because you just cash
2465s	the damage in right now and put them all
2468s	the way down to nine there's my
2472s	not quite enough
2476s	no
2477s	and it needs to be enough
2481s	yeah
2483s	and you can see though as well right
2485s	like yes the the recent Smite nerve to
2488s	seven Mana meant that it was unlikely
2491s	especially with the wicked stab used
2493s	that the lethal was gonna get there but
2495s	with the treasure guard number two from
2497s	donkey that was just the extra layer
2499s	right because then you have to push
2501s	through five extra Health before they
2503s	can get to yours so a really big win
2505s	there for donkey I think they played
2507s	really really well there the setup as
2508s	you called it you could see early on and
2511s	that was the benefit having both wigs
2513s	and Samurai in hand
2515s	um means that you can play like this and
2517s	that was the turn we saw there the real
2519s	big sort of flip the board kind of turn
2521s	and again it's one of the you know
2523s	weaknesses that Rogue has is they kind
2526s	of just play some stuff for a while
2528s	right like yeah they get three three
2531s	stealths and things like that but it's
2533s	just no no singular thing Rogue does is
2536s	super powerful and you know they're just
2538s	plain like weird little minions for a
2540s	while and then late game they have the
2542s	options of wicked stabs might Plus some
2544s	Pirates to charge and stuff like that to
2546s	end the game but until then their board
2548s	presence is relatively weak and their
2550s	donkey just saw that and adjusted to it
2552s	really well which means he's going to be
2554s	one zero up so far and they're gonna go
2557s	on to the fell Demon Hunter now a deck I
2560s	also like along with that uh that wig
2563s	priest and the deck I've been testing a
2565s	little bit especially since we do have
2566s	that 40 Health meta to an extent right
2570s	now but I do think Demon Hunter still
2571s	got what it takes
2573s	absolutely it's one of those decks
2575s	um we were discussing sort of will it be
2577s	Demon Hunter will it be Rogue obviously
2579s	in donkey's case it's both but overall
2581s	it's one of those decks that's competing
2583s	for the the fourth deck in your three
2586s	deck lineup slot for people with sort of
2588s	the line of the banterface has where the
2591s	Rogue is very much the the afterthought
2593s	in this deck as as the first three of
2596s	the main Crux of his lineup
2598s	but yeah um donkey gets to play them all
2600s	and hit people in the face all day
2604s	uh if if donkey can dodge those 40
2606s	Health lineups might be in for a very
2608s	good day but we we don't know yet this
2610s	is one match isn't it right there's
2612s	going to be a lot going on there's that
2614s	we've seen on Twitter there's definitely
2615s	40 40 card decks all over the place here
2618s	and that's gonna be a real test for
2619s	donkey when they run into those
2624s	being picked up turn one does have a
2626s	Vanguard to drop out soonish anyway has
2629s	been on the receiver end of a Nerf
2630s	itself uh going down to a 2-1 instead of
2633s	two two but still just the way the hand
2636s	is shaping up here for donkey looks very
2638s	very good early prediction courtress in
2641s	hand now as well but mainly just donkey
2644s	it does look like that they can just
2645s	drop the Vanguard this turn even though
2647s	it can feel a little bit bad just to get
2650s	that spectral sight unlocked for next
2652s	turn I think that's by far the most
2654s	important object here for donkey
2656s	I think so too and obviously once again
2659s	against the Rogue yeah that is actually
2661s	a rogue I'm gonna get it wrong at some
2663s	point this weekend but I'm still awake
2664s	at the moment it's not a paladin just be
2667s	careful
2668s	um I think it is okay to occupy board
2671s	last couple of turns so as you can force
2674s	the Rogue to actually come out of cheat
2677s	mode
2685s	does look like donkey's gonna play a
2687s	slightly slower game though probably
2689s	gonna drop Vanguard plus 0 power now
2691s	which is fine is gonna get chomped by
2693s	the null more than likely next turn but
2696s	still this uh just
2698s	it's a little bit more efficient
2699s	especially when we're looking at the
2700s	courtress in hand right donkey got an
2702s	extra attack
2703s	off instead of playing the Vanguard last
2706s	turn and still has time to predation and
2708s	yeah sorry to spit your sight anyway
2711s	yeah and this is a huge deal for the
2715s	match this one this is the sort of the
2717s	one unfavored that donkey has in all of
2720s	the the whole grid basically in my
2723s	opinion at least which isn't always the
2725s	right opinion but I think this is the
2727s	the Demon Hunter versus the Rogue is
2729s	their worst matchup of the whole match
2731s	so if donkey can take this one down in
2734s	an incredibly good 2-0 lead
2741s	benefits does have the null available
2743s	could go for tradable first but that
2747s	would if anything help the other null
2749s	more than the one he currently has in
2751s	hand right so
2753s	I have to make that call right now could
2756s	really just use the uh extortion if we
2759s	really wanted to anyway oh he's gonna go
2762s	shroud for the double Knoll that yeah
2763s	that's just better actually yep
2768s	anyways not to double no I don't think
2770s	so because next time you want to coin
2772s	out the um the boat and off you go and
2776s	Donkey is going to struggle to come back
2778s	from this one
2785s	definitely doable though we can kill the
2787s	two nulls pretty easily right now
2792s	yeah with um with coaches in hand as
2794s	well there's some long-term play there
2796s	to try and swing the board back
2798s	um but that's from where we're looking
2799s	at donkeys and looking at banter's hand
2801s	it's just lovely
2804s	a couple of boats Dakota into Edwin into
2808s	scurbs light is just looking really tidy
2811s	for my banter face
2816s	there's the option here now fiori plus
2819s	the murloc uh to come down to activate
2822s	it doesn't look too terrible depends how
2825s	scared donkey is of these nulls
2828s	necessarily have to be scared of them
2830s	right now
2833s	I don't think you're scared of the nose
2834s	I think you're scared of what happens if
2835s	you don't kill them because then there's
2837s	gonna be more stuff and that's when
2838s	rogue's in its element when it's getting
2840s	wider and wider and you're not
2841s	controlling it as it goes so I think you
2843s	have to be scared of the fact that your
2845s	opponent has it got Rolling
2849s	In this case
2851s	no
2857s	now the autopilot option here from
2859s	Atlanta faces of yeah it's just coin
2862s	Boat Boat uh for the next two turns at
2865s	least but there is an option when Banner
2869s	face can play a little bit differently
2870s	maybe go for the reconnaissance maybe go
2873s	for hero power uh to trade away this and
2875s	then have coin crab at Tower first this
2878s	is to try and leverage ball control that
2880s	way and then go into boat bow and then
2882s	uh see what happens after that so even
2885s	though it looks like very
2886s	straightforward and that might well just
2888s	end up happening my benefit still has
2891s	options right it's not just a a simple
2893s	one two three kind of play I quite like
2895s	the idea of stalling the turn going into
2897s	cooling craber tower as well these are
2899s	the choices that I associate with
2901s	banterface getting right where it's uh
2904s	two choices there do I go slow do I go
2906s	fast
2907s	and then he goes into the tank and then
2910s	he just picks one and and goes with it
2913s	uh these are the choices I associate
2915s	with him playing very very well now it's
2917s	even harder Choice yeah gone fishing now
2920s	to not only draw an additional card but
2922s	buff Edwin Van Cleef or save the gun
2926s	fishing for boat coin go fishing next
2930s	turn to get the instant activation looks
2932s	like he is going to save it and then try
2934s	and go for the big pop-off turn next and
2936s	now donkey has to find a way to get
2939s	themselves out of this situation because
2941s	again it's not looking good as of this
2945s	second in time but there is just
2947s	curtress next turn right which can solve
2950s	a lot of problems yeah absolutely just
2953s	go back to banterface's choices there
2957s	um the extra card the extra stuff on
2959s	board there in the short term he's he's
2960s	got enough cards the main problem is is
2962s	already how to efficiently use the Mana
2965s	right so
2967s	um just sitting here and waiting for the
2968s	Creator I think is a good idea
2974s	you see it's not like the Edwin is
2976s	needed for cards in this particular
2977s	setup because this game is going to be
2979s	over before he runs out of cards one way
2981s	or the other
2982s	yep donkey gonna get the attack in and
2984s	use Fel barrage to actually clear up the
2985s	Van Cleave really nice play here again
2988s	even though it looks like donkey's been
2989s	behind for the majority of the game
2992s	they are opening themselves up to just a
2994s	strong courtress
2996s	yeah and because uh donkey did not apply
2999s	any pressure on this turn but banter's
3002s	like okay then well I'll just put a load
3003s	of three threes down and save my save my
3005s	crab for later
3008s	through this lot
3009s	did on 29
3011s	got the board
3013s	got a crab at the ready emergency scabs
3016s	is also there which is really hard for
3018s	Demon Hunter to do much about
3021s	I actually wonder if this is bone glove
3023s	this turn with the um
3025s	vigil
3026s	oh but I'm not laughing because it might
3030s	be wrong it sounds good but it's the
3032s	most raven play ever I'm in trouble what
3034s	should I do I know hit him
3039s	that's my thing I'm not laughing at you
3042s	babe I'm laughing because every time
3044s	there's always a situation whenever I
3046s	cast with you where you're probably
3048s	right but it's still the most Raven
3050s	player ever right or not
3052s	look you go back to basics how do you
3055s	win a game of hearthstone you make your
3056s	opponent's portrait explode how do you
3058s	do that hit them in the face so yeah
3060s	have something to do just hit them in
3063s	the face you're still kind of doing the
3065s	job right yeah you've got to do 30 or 40
3067s	damage
3071s	or 712 if you're playing against police
3074s	it looked like a predation pickup
3077s	there for the dreads
3080s	what donkey will want right like at this
3083s	point can't really do much about the
3084s	stealth so go face and guess what else
3087s	goes face zero Mana deal three cards
3092s	there's so much damage the first thing
3094s	that banterface has to do yeah you can
3095s	see more about interface counting can I
3097s	take 20 next turn
3100s	because if not play the crab and hit
3102s	your opponent for what
3104s	16 and have a board full of stuff just
3108s	looks like game over yeah it does look
3110s	pretty strong uses the one claw
3114s	trading for taunt pushes tons of damage
3117s	and still has a lot of power on board
3118s	you are absolutely right it's gonna be a
3120s	big one here curtress can help to an
3123s	extent here
3126s	and again that I think the biggest
3128s	problem for donkeys just no Naga means
3131s	that these predations are still I was
3133s	gonna say full cast Okay one to two but
3135s	you know what I mean they're not zero
3138s	yep
3143s	like you say Curtis tied these things up
3145s	he can't can lethal even be avoided
3147s	though
3149s	five armor point to twelve yeah can kill
3153s	off the krabatoa
3156s	sure three three
3160s	um
3162s	that's 316.
3164s	13.
3168s	yeah where's the 13.
3171s	what are you killing
3173s	g65 and the three three okay so that
3176s	leaves
3177s	um four and three threes just
3181s	won't be a four one right because
3183s	because the crap it'll be a two okay
3185s	then there's a hero power sure
3188s	foreign
3204s	would do it as well right with the
3207s	amount of damage so still plenty of
3209s	damage there but donkey did go for the
3211s	only check oops hope you didn't hear
3213s	that cause I just knocked something over
3214s	we didn't hear you crashing things all
3216s	around your liver okay
3218s	um donkey did go for the uh the the only
3221s	play that potentially kept them alive to
3222s	to try and steal the game there but it
3224s	wasn't good enough um at band face gets
3226s	the Rogue over the line so even the
3228s	series one and one and the Rogue is done
3231s	so I guess the uh the next hurdle
3233s	arguably the Demon Hunter although we've
3235s	got a chance to check out the Druid too
3236s	much as of yet so yeah looking forward
3238s	to the rest of this series I do think
3240s	donkey got a little bit unlucky there
3242s	because I think if they just had a
3243s	slitherspoon at any point in that game
3245s	and this change is pretty dramatically
3248s	right because even at worst that we
3250s	could have started either talking about
3251s	lethals or just killing what three of
3254s	the three threes instead of one of them
3256s	it would have been a really big deal
3258s	it's one of the talking points about
3260s	this deck especially if you talk to
3261s	somebody like meaty about it is how much
3264s	card draw do you need in the Demon
3266s	Hunter uh donkey has got pretty much the
3269s	bare minimum but it still was that card
3272s	draw that ended up sort of cluttering up
3273s	the hand really to get an early curve
3275s	and then draw cards later and that's
3278s	just not how it worked out for them in
3279s	that one but now Raven something that I
3282s	was going to bring up in the opening as
3283s	you know and something I'm sure you're
3284s	happy to see Beast Hunter but only with
3287s	30 cards I found the 40 card version
3289s	this might be better for for aggro games
3292s	but what do I know what do you know even
3294s	you know a lot about Hunter you tell me
3295s	yeah it it's kind of interesting isn't
3298s	it because
3300s	and this deck is a pretty high value
3302s	deck right you can see just from the
3304s	selected breather air revived pair and
3308s	the uh Sharon Sabers as well right very
3311s	high value sort of uh chunky deck so you
3313s	would think well the extra Health means
3316s	that you don't die early as often so you
3318s	can start pushing out these high value
3319s	targets right but on the other side of
3323s	that is well if you're putting 10 extra
3325s	cards in the deck everything you're
3327s	doing is less consistent right the whole
3329s	point of at least this version is your
3332s	discover is a very clean
3334s	um your dredges are normally quite good
3336s	and that you can just get to those sort
3339s	of key cards that you need to do the
3341s	high value things I'll be honest I
3343s	haven't had time to jam a ton of the 40
3345s	card version so I this a lot of this is
3348s	my assumptions but uh but I think that's
3350s	definitely going to be an interesting
3352s	factor and it might even just end up
3353s	being meta dependent right is 10 Health
3355s	more important than the hunter than
3357s	consistency in the mid game yeah we'll
3360s	have to find out but this is going to be
3362s	the alignment Druid here from Atlanta
3364s	face which is the Renault version so
3366s	this is I believe the first 40 card deck
3369s	we are seeing on stream you can see the
3371s	extra cards there just tucked under
3372s	Prince rounderville himself and yes this
3376s	might not be the deck you've seen the
3378s	most if you've been playing a lot of
3379s	ladder I think the Presto version is
3381s	more just generally popular but this has
3384s	been showing some promise as of the last
3386s	24 hours or so yeah it's fairly
3389s	interesting I personally think this is
3391s	the better version uh the argument being
3393s	that the extra 10 cards in your deck in
3395s	Druid in particular aren't that
3400s	um bad for you because you've got so
3402s	many ways of finding stuff that you
3405s	should still be able to find your stuff
3406s	but obviously it does raise the failure
3409s	rate of the deck but also with alignment
3412s	the failure rate is largely built into
3413s	not getting to cast your alignment
3417s	because you're dead so you're giving up
3419s	the chance of dying you're giving up the
3423s	the consistency of the deck to some
3425s	degree by having more cards and against
3428s	that you're getting 10 extra Health
3429s	which means if you do get your alignment
3431s	you should be able to do the things and
3434s	it's going to be very interesting to see
3435s	who's got this one right and we will
3438s	find an answer there are going to be a
3439s	lot of Druids in this tournament I don't
3441s	think anyone's really agreed going into
3443s	this tournament what is right especially
3445s	as you say because ladder is full of
3448s	people jamming press store because it's
3449s	a new deck you know everyone knows how
3451s	alignment Works uh to some degree so
3454s	it's like oh you know if it's a bit more
3456s	inconsistent we'll take our chance but
3457s	nobody really knows yet it's Dave three
3460s	of the matter let's find out okay a
3462s	really good pick up there as well from a
3464s	banner face at the start just getting
3465s	that Druid of the reef being able to
3467s	trade off the Slither spear that closes
3469s	down so many disgusting options from the
3472s	hunter of just dropping uh you know any
3475s	of the Buffs early on on that slow the
3477s	sphere and starts just making it almost
3479s	Unstoppable minions so that was a good
3482s	response uh donkey has managed to drop a
3484s	another Naga down as well to start with
3486s	that naga's pride and options of ramming
3489s	mount in the near future so still a lot
3490s	of pressure coming out for donkey and
3492s	banner face
3494s	after already using the Druid of the
3495s	reef has quickly got to the point where
3497s	there's no real answers right now yeah
3499s	and already we're seeing the downside of
3501s	the 40 card deck where moonlit guidance
3503s	and Aquatic form just you know not quite
3506s	as good as they were because you're
3508s	you're hunting through more stuff to
3510s	find your your useful cards
3516s	a pretty good cycle though aquatic into
3519s	aquatic
3520s	gonna be coin or Carly here
3522s	all right
3525s	it's like it yeah
3528s	wow I don't know if that was much of a
3531s	Time issue but I wondered if the other
3533s	Aquatic would have ever been worthwhile
3535s	there I've seen that banter knows two of
3537s	the three cards that would have been
3538s	offered but I was just thinking of just
3540s	drawing a card anyway but I guess that
3541s	can happen next turn but only with three
3543s	men
3545s	yeah and this is
3548s	going to be interesting to see if this
3549s	pays off this is dramatically going to
3552s	slow down donkey's game plan but at the
3554s	cost of banterface also going a lot
3556s	slower
3561s	but it really has
3563s	put a holy what donkey wants to do here
3565s	especially is it's not immediately
3568s	obvious what's going to be counted here
3569s	so gonna have to test I yeah I think if
3573s	I was dunking this spot I would have
3575s	assumed it would be spell and weirdly
3579s	enough and this might just be cast
3581s	division but I think I would have looked
3583s	at selective breather to try and get an
3585s	assurance Sable uh saber to then make up
3588s	the damage to trade away the akari to
3590s	turn after but still really tough call
3593s	to make and the second it's not spell
3595s	you feel very good about life
3597s	yeah absolutely
3601s	also one of the uh the crazier things
3603s	about renothel right now is what it does
3606s	is well okay we can talk all weekend
3608s	about whether this is powerful enough or
3610s	not right the plus 10 Health which yes
3612s	everyone would love more than you know
3614s	10 extra Health but not everyone would
3616s	love 10 extra cards so it's kind of that
3618s	mixed bag there but the fact that the
3620s	actual card itself is just a spider tank
3622s	is pretty good right it's just it's just
3625s	a fine card it's not like it's a big
3627s	clunky like nine drop that gets stuck in
3629s	your hand it's just a three man a three
3631s	four that seems absolutely fine
3635s	yeah it's it's actually a good point
3639s	um I hadn't even considered that to be
3641s	honest it's just a card it's just a good
3643s	car garbage but you're right it's fine
3644s	it's a spider tank it's fine
3647s	just say it's fine enough times there
3650s	I think I've got the point across but I
3652s	agree with you 27 times yeah this is big
3655s	though now for donkey gonna be the uh
3658s	little beast is coming out as three
3660s	threes but most importantly the Asher
3662s	and saber in hand
3664s	so hello again there 40 cards who cares
3669s	just hit the best three cards in your
3671s	deck no no one Minds this
3673s	good doing great things
3677s	absolutely
3679s	okay though Guff isn't strong
3684s	you know don't go fine Raven yeah
3690s	the spammy is going to be important here
3692s	as well I think that might be what my
3693s	banterface is considering though at the
3695s	end of the day you probably will just
3697s	trade away
3698s	two minions decide whether to take the
3700s	value trade or not is important of
3702s	course
3703s	but yeah this looks absolutely sensible
3706s	and with Guff coming next to her with
3708s	spammy in hand with no ish in hand the
3711s	banterface looks like he's set to really
3713s	get going towards that alignment
3717s	yeah it's looking quite good the golf
3719s	has kind of changed everything right now
3721s	because it's just the acceleration that
3724s	Gulf is offering with bandit face is
3725s	huge
3729s	ankido again I think just with this
3732s	saber all things are possible
3738s	a little bit unfortunate this three one
3740s	is just such an awkward trade
3744s	for war
3747s	yeah
3749s	I'm just gonna leave it okay I didn't
3752s	know whether it was gonna be the other
3753s	way around where the 3-3 goes into the
3755s	three one that way and just does it I've
3758s	used the rush to kill the NFL oh yeah
3760s	yeah he's just gonna leave it up and let
3762s	MC Bend to face decide but
3765s	there's there's only one decision really
3767s	to be made
3768s	how quickly do I play my goth
3785s	am okay
3787s	donkey looking a little low on ammo
3791s	right now and this is where you're
3792s	seeing this 40 Health coming into play
3794s	on the other side as well like they just
3795s	haven't even got my banter face down to
3798s	below what your normal starting Health
3800s	would be forgetting the fact that Drew
3802s	is absolutely nonsense when it comes to
3804s	armor and stuff anyway
3806s	and has allowed my bunch of face to
3809s	really get a foothold in this gonna
3811s	start drawing through the deck obviously
3813s	and
3814s	with some of the big stuff in the don't
3816s	mind not even need to alignment but
3817s	probably will at some point this is
3819s	still fine though for donkey again this
3821s	is not Face Hunter it's not like if they
3823s	don't kill them in the first six turns
3825s	then the game's over as you should see
3828s	now mountain bear being picked up from
3830s	the uh the
3833s	randomly forgot the name of the card the
3834s	Breather
3835s	um so there's that revive pair there's
3838s	more bears in the deck there's still
3840s	hydrology and there's you know there's
3842s	all sorts still available there for
3844s	donkey and also as well there is just be
3846s	stalker tavish which can start putting
3848s	out a ton of damage so by all means not
3851s	out of it yet but of course you just
3852s	going against Druid you never want to
3854s	see them just drop golf on five
3857s	never gonna be fun and again I'm gonna
3859s	labor this point because it's there to
3861s	be labored like the the extra Health
3863s	here just allowing with banter face to
3865s	take allegedly sort of turn off of just
3868s	getting in a million manner ready for
3870s	those nulls for next turn for the spammy
3872s	setup for for everything he needs to get
3874s	control of this game
3877s	but that being said
3879s	the damage is going to start coming in
3881s	pretty heavily now like you were
3882s	describing so definitely not over
3885s	you're really interested as well because
3887s	Harpoon Gun in hand with a saber on
3889s	board
3890s	that'd be really nice
3893s	to start doing really crazy things very
3896s	soon I do think it's mounting bear this
3897s	turn though just spend their money to
3899s	get it down now and it will only get
3901s	cheaper right whether it's from revive
3903s	pet or whether another one's summoned
3905s	from the saber like it's still gonna
3907s	look good here
3918s	[Music]
3922s	which of these nonsense cards would you
3924s	like Raven
3925s	yeah I actually think it's raid boss on
3928s	this I think he might be as well it
3930s	makes the most sense
3932s	um obviously you've got to have a
3934s	consideration whether you're the thing
3935s	your deck is meant to do is gonna help
3937s	but the other thing your deck is meant
3939s	to do is just kill him like this
3942s	yeah this just gets through the bear too
3944s	easily to be ignored right yeah
3954s	and everything else and it's gone
3957s	it's all gone
3962s	too bad
3966s	what do you go for with the Carney here
3968s	spells with all the zero cost stuff
3971s	minions because they're going to damage
3973s	you
3975s	kind of interested as well now right
3977s	because it looks like they're gonna go
3978s	for bear but I was looking at another
3980s	saber and just stack them and then start
3982s	just chain pulling them with the Harpoon
3984s	Gun it could have been pretty
3986s	interesting there but I imagine this is
3988s	going to be sunken saber mm-hmm
3994s	hey weaving
3997s	you look power weaves down to 13.
4000s	oh
4008s	we also know right that because of the
4011s	aquatic farm that one of the celestial
4014s	alignments is bottom of the deck yep
4016s	which is a pretty big deal there's still
4018s	24 cards in there so make Banner face if
4022s	he wants to do the celestial alignment
4023s	Shenanigans needs to find the other one
4025s	who needs to hope it's near the top
4027s	double null now though as well as
4029s	something else not really the hit the
4032s	banter was after though
4035s	and draw another card effectively for
4037s	free with goth
4041s	even with a double null though there's
4043s	still the chance that the slow the spare
4044s	gets to go face there's heavy damage
4046s	from the weapon and also there's just
4049s	the saber that they're going to draw
4050s	which means that's just going to summon
4052s	something else as well which could just
4053s	be king Crush
4055s	and now you start looking are there any
4056s	clever spammies you can do
4061s	I don't think so not I don't think so
4063s	either but yeah
4065s	we start to look for now you've got to
4067s	do something banter let me innovate self
4069s	alexstrasza right looks like it yeah
4071s	it's the only thing that looks even
4074s	remotely safe for a turn
4076s	it's still scary
4078s	very much so and now donkey's gonna be
4081s	able to put the akani onto
4084s	minions with all this taunt in the way
4086s	we'll slow down at least one of the
4088s	nulls well slow down the amalgam I guess
4090s	but some
4093s	this could change everything
4096s	okay pretty good oh it's a lot
4100s	obviously they don't have Rush The Rush
4102s	effect is a Battle Cry
4105s	so uh yeah won't have rush but that is
4107s	still simply a lot of additional stats
4109s	and with the okanie there to back it up
4112s	with additional hero power looks pretty
4114s	solid so far unless they set up the um
4118s	spammy now
4120s	I'm not big brain enough to work this
4121s	out but if you put the Alex into the
4123s	five six you have a three Health minion
4128s	can't get to the right I think
4134s	oh you can two ones for the heads the
4136s	raid boss into the two four or that yeah
4147s	I think banter's already working on it
4152s	ten eight
4158s	that's the Neil kind of gets played for
4160s	Minion here
4161s	oh spell did he run out of time
4164s	possibly or possibly was just scared of
4167s	something we're not thinking of
4174s	I think the clear is there you've called
4176s	it
4177s	um one two three four
4180s	five six yes there
4185s	you better be Scrappy is going to drop
4188s	the uh
4190s	minion first just to double check wait
4195s	potential yeah the head's getting oh
4197s	it's fine we've had some space
4199s	kind of filthy honestly it's actually
4202s	pretty disgusting yeah
4209s	donkey annoyed at themselves for not
4211s	seeing that coming but this is fine
4213s	though this is the biggest king Crush
4215s	off the top you've ever seen
4218s	again
4222s	18 cars in the deck no Earthen scales
4226s	which is uh what I think Brandon face
4228s	was really hoping for from that draw
4230s	yeah
4233s	okay well yeah everybody's like no just
4236s	one time don't do it
4238s	ah
4244s	and yeah now Miracle growth and
4247s	banterface will swing it around into his
4249s	favor and the Drew is going to get out
4251s	of here intact
4258s	as well like I I I will say a lot of
4261s	kind words about the bang to face but
4263s	this is another thing that I like about
4264s	his play you and I have jammed this
4266s	miracle growth already I think Raven
4269s	I just wouldn't have even queued through
4270s	it if I'm honest but then
4273s	well yeah
4275s	there's nothing forced into playing
4277s	Druid I would have what well you've got
4281s	to make sure you've got enough space I
4282s	would have probably played a uh null
4284s	first but yeah
4292s	they're Alex okay well that solves that
4295s	problem a slightly different way
4297s	it does
4298s	Next Step make sure you've got lethal
4300s	next turn which every play does but oh
4303s	there's the other scales for the safety
4305s	yeah that's a very quick get out of the
4307s	game now so close but so far yeah
4313s	around the exactes as well looked for
4315s	the dragon with that in mind as well
4317s	and we're about to takes that two one
4319s	lead and he's left with just his own
4323s	Demon Hunter yeah
4325s	yeah a little bit unfortunately there
4327s	for donkey like weirdly enough uh Hydra
4330s	can be a very weird card to be pulled
4333s	from saber because yes it's a lot of
4336s	stats it's a lot of stuff you can
4338s	duplicate them next turn it's good right
4340s	it's not terrible but because the rush
4344s	effect is a Battle Cry and then we saw
4346s	the interaction with the spami arcanus
4348s	like with if that Hydra was in like
4351s	another mountain bear or whatever right
4353s	yeah then like this game looks very
4356s	different because as we can see here the
4358s	spammy arcan is just absolutely blasting
4361s	the board away was just such a big deal
4364s	and I do Wonder not that it would have
4366s	mattered man you if a donkey wanted to
4370s	choose minion but maybe ran out of time
4372s	on the old Carney and there was still a
4374s	small minion played out by bandit face
4376s	anyway so it wouldn't have really made a
4378s	difference but still there is just that
4380s	small factor to think about but you are
4382s	right we are moving on into uh the next
4384s	game and the band face only has this
4386s	fell Demon Hunter left and again we saw
4389s	what Demon Hunter was capable of in the
4392s	Rogue matchup even though donkey lost
4395s	that as Demon Hunter considering their
4398s	opening hand was not great there were
4400s	still options for them to win right but
4402s	yeah the face had to do all of the
4404s	broken Rogue things to win so yeah I
4406s	have I have high hopes for Demon Hunter
4408s	this out at this tournament honestly I
4409s	think it's strong
4410s	yeah I think we'll be seeing a
4412s	reasonable amount of it I think like I
4413s	said earlier it'll be replaced by Rogue
4415s	to some degree when you've got the
4417s	choice of one or the other but
4420s	um a banterface choosing to bring both
4422s	and Donkey choosing to bring both so
4424s	what do I know
4427s	foreign up the
4430s	the hunter first makes a lot of sense to
4432s	me
4433s	uh I haven't seen so much of the 30 card
4436s	version uh weirdly enough the 40 card
4438s	version though I think is pretty good
4439s	against the Demon Hunter now
4444s	yep I still think this is just fine for
4447s	hunter in general again the bear huge
4450s	deal the biggest worry that Hunter has
4454s	is and I want to see a lot of decks that
4456s	play minions have is that dread prison
4458s	glaive the ability to just push so much
4461s	additional damage through minions is a
4465s	big big problem because you know you
4466s	could have the bear in the way and then
4468s	suddenly they just glave you for five
4470s	and then swing again into a 2-4 anyway
4472s	yeah it can be a little bit scary as
4474s	they get to get kind of The Best of Both
4476s	Worlds so we'll see how it goes another
4478s	donkey
4480s	just pondering their Mulligan right now
4484s	a little bit slow but very powerful I'm
4487s	going to keep a face Naga plus Barb net
4490s	it's not bad
4491s	yeah just planning to get something down
4493s	um donkey needs to forget that last game
4495s	get on with this game part of the
4496s	tournament experience part of being on
4498s	the stream experience where you want to
4500s	show your very best Hearthstone to
4502s	everybody in the world and just because
4505s	you lose a game doesn't mean you're not
4507s	showing some good Hearthstone to us all
4511s	but when you first get streamed I think
4513s	even you've been there Raven and I've
4515s	definitely been there it's
4517s	you feel like you have to play the best
4518s	game of Hosting you've ever played well
4520s	that's not always the case right you
4522s	just play good Hearthstone that's fine
4524s	oh the first few times I was streamed I
4526s	played so bad and it was a combination
4529s	of me just being bad at the game but
4532s	also the the nerves of just knowing
4535s	you're being watched right yeah
4537s	yeah it's that super weird type thing
4539s	and you make really weird plays when
4541s	you're not experienced so yeah but
4543s	donkey knows what they're doing you're
4545s	not saying the donkey's done that even
4546s	I'm just saying that donkey's obviously
4548s	a little bit down on themselves right
4549s	now and that's just nothing to be
4551s	worried about just
4552s	keep playing
4555s	get back to 2-2 beware game five mirror
4558s	goes
4559s	Bob that's gonna be okay though just
4561s	cleaning this up keeping everything
4562s	relatively even donkey will need
4565s	something to just uh take them over the
4567s	line towards that bear but once the bear
4570s	comes down when there's revived pet
4572s	things get very slow indeed for the
4574s	Demon Hunter and even benefits now
4578s	really have great options the
4580s	slitherspoon hero power but
4582s	realistically cow strike is going to
4584s	need to be played because heropower
4586s	would almost certainly like float The
4588s	Manor and then you're using a dread
4589s	player dread prison glaive
4592s	Dodge anyway so yeah I really do like
4595s	the cow strike even though it doesn't
4596s	help you punch through a minion with the
4599s	glaive it's still pushing the damage
4601s	yeah and something you're saying about
4602s	the glaive though
4603s	um
4604s	the finishing blows obviously be able to
4606s	do damage basically through taunts and
4609s	killing minions at the same time that's
4611s	all well and good but you have got to
4612s	have done some damage before you get
4614s	there and be in the range to take that
4616s	damage you know that you're taking from
4617s	the bear yourself assuming it's going to
4619s	be a bear that gets traded into and but
4622s	banterface's board is not particularly
4624s	menacing the thing that's saving him
4626s	right now is that donkey's board is also
4628s	non-existent
4629s	that's true but I do think Demon Hunter
4632s	in the early game has the ways to deal
4634s	with almost all of the boards from
4636s	Hunter I think their demon Hunters
4639s	weapons Buffs foul barrage minions
4642s	themselves are often generally stronger
4644s	than Hunter uh the way Hunter like beats
4647s	sub Demon Hunter early on
4650s	is them with biscuit ramming mount on
4652s	Minions that they've stuck earlier but
4654s	without sticking them it's a little bit
4656s	difficult even now there's an option
4659s	here to go
4660s	oh okay
4662s	by the place looking at Vanguard I was
4663s	looking at just fell barrage and
4665s	metamorph in honestly
4667s	who's the hero power as well
4669s	what if he's thinking that the Vanguard
4671s	might never get through um an explosive
4673s	later so let's just get the one ones now
4675s	out of the way and use them
4682s	I was more just thinking put four damage
4684s	to face with the film sure yeah I know
4686s	and that metamorphin is pretty big also
4690s	true and banter may be going to change
4693s	his mind
4695s	probably just uh doing the old maths
4697s	each star the old maths
4700s	oh okay growing the uh complete other
4703s	way just dropping the murloc without the
4705s	buff which is fine again I think
4707s	something you can get trapped into a
4708s	little bit with this metamorphin is that
4710s	you have to buff it to play it well of
4713s	course not that's not how the card works
4714s	you just get more stats so just getting
4716s	one extra minion down and this is kind
4718s	of The Best of Both Worlds right where
4720s	you just play more stuff and tell your
4723s	opponent well they have to deal with it
4724s	and as you mentioned the explosive trap
4727s	well it's not coming out this turn
4729s	because it's only turned five so at
4731s	worst tavitch comes down next to him so
4733s	it means that Banner gets at least one
4735s	turns worth of attack but this was a
4736s	good solid response here with another
4738s	Nets and now a bust buffed slitherspoon
4741s	sorry it means that Banner face is a bit
4745s	of a reduced board now yeah and he's got
4747s	reduced damage you're talking again
4749s	about the the glaive and what it can do
4751s	and I absolutely agree with you but if
4753s	you haven't got any Buffs because you've
4754s	used them in the early game to to push
4756s	damage the glaive's only going to do
4758s	zero damage you've got to get the exact
4760s	kill
4761s	and at the moment donkey if donkey can
4764s	survive one more turn bander face is out
4767s	of cards I talked about that card draw
4769s	element earlier let's have a look I
4771s	think banterface is also just on double
4773s	spectral sites so
4775s	may end up just not having the the juice
4777s	to get over the line here but there's
4779s	one more turn for donkey to survive and
4781s	this is going to be the tough part
4784s	yeah just not getting to the bear a lack
4787s	of Harpoon it's been a really big issue
4789s	in this game like normally you just you
4791s	just need the weapon it's so good being
4793s	able to fish for beasts and and make
4795s	them cheaper or just drag the cards that
4797s	you actually need so
4799s	this is just going to be revived wait it
4801s	can't be a revived pet right there's
4803s	been no Beast played there's nothing
4804s	yeah there's nothing to revive
4806s	and to praying
4808s	that's a good pickup for banter
4813s	yeah
4814s	although there's a high chance that it
4816s	doesn't create lethal this turn right it
4819s	probably does not but let's see three
4821s	four five six seven on the board just
4824s	because a lot of the Spells are actually
4826s	weapon swing damage spells so
4828s	Banner has to swing to get the card
4831s	right we'll get the extra buff on the to
4834s	the spear as well
4835s	multi-strike oh my goodness he did
4838s	attack into the right thing
4840s	and he saves that now that's so good now
4842s	going into the bear though
4852s	yeah
4854s	I get there so multi-strike goes to
4858s	Three Harry Potter goes to four pushes
4859s	two one ones in To Kill The Bear push
4862s	for then there's two two fours that'll
4866s	be
4868s	demon free no it's not
4873s	oh wait
4875s	yeah it's fine right I thought I can't
4878s	do it yeah I think I think it's fine
4879s	because the second attack gets through
4881s	yeah but
4882s	he didn't get any attacks for two and
4884s	doesn't push the extra right
4888s	even easier now that is going to be game
4891s	two banter face and series to make band
4894s	faces so he wins 3-1 over donkey a
4897s	little bit of a rough series for donkey
4899s	honestly I think he played well I just
4901s	think the hunter just didn't give him
4902s	what he needed
4903s	um at the right time right we saw
4905s	especially in that game just nothing
4908s	early enough to be relevant did keep the
4910s	face Naga but it got cleaned up nice and
4912s	early so yeah real real tough one there
4914s	for donkey but congratulations to my
4916s	banner face getting off to the start you
4918s	want in this tournament a 1-0 victory in
4922s	the Swiss round so far so looking good
4924s	for mcband face yep the same old same
4926s	old ultimate banterface very solid
4928s	considered yeah getting it done another
4931s	win in the books not a huge amount to
4933s	talk about in terms of decisions made
4935s	there are a couple of points where he
4936s	just paused had a long thing worked out
4938s	how he saw the game unfolding and guess
4940s	what it unfolded the way he expected
4943s	um talk a little bit about this though
4944s	getting the extra damage early on
4946s	realized he was going to run out of
4947s	cards so did kind of go all in early and
4951s	look how that worked out for him
4953s	um that all in very early on turning
4956s	into
4956s	basically an exact Leaf I know he got a
4959s	couple of extra damage in but he was
4961s	absolutely out of gas as he got to this
4964s	Finishing Line yeah it was really tricky
4966s	and again you look at this hand and it
4968s	sort of uh goes to what I was talking
4970s	about with the 40 card Hunter is that
4973s	look how much donkey struggled without
4974s	Harpoon without a normal saber without
4977s	some of the you know the cards early on
4979s	that really get the deck going well if
4981s	you had 10 more cards into the pool that
4983s	he already has access to those openings
4985s	get less and lesser consistent because
4988s	even though you could say well you can
4989s	play other one and two drops right but
4992s	other one and two drops aren't Harpoon
4994s	right which is such a Crux of the deck
4996s	so it gets pretty difficult after that
4998s	and even the revived pet was no Beast to
5000s	revive anyway so real real top one for
5002s	donkey there but again uh
5004s	congratulations to the band face that
5006s	was it for our featured match of round
5009s	one but of course if you've watched any
5010s	more Masters tours in the past you know
5012s	that we take as much coverage as
5013s	possible from other matches throughout
5015s	each round so we are going to go to a
5017s	quick break when we come back there'll
5019s	be more round one Hearthstone
5021s	foreign
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5044s	[Music]
5051s	thank you
5053s	[Music]
5082s	foreign
5087s	[Music]
5117s	foreign
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5148s	foreign
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5175s	foreign
5179s	foreign
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5208s	foreign
5218s	to Masters Tour Village we are jumping
5221s	into some of the other action from round
5223s	one here all around the tavern a great
5226s	first match and as a Big Mac band's face
5228s	fan I am very happy that he was able to
5230s	get the job done even if it does mean uh
5232s	don't keep taking the loss but of course
5234s	for this uh remaining match I am joined
5237s	by Gia uh how are you doing today
5239s	jumping into today's action doing great
5242s	dark knowing that somebody is struggling
5244s	to pronounce vagir even more than I am
5246s	just going for a card name instead
5249s	I'm sorry I'm sorry
5251s	I'll get it next time as you know I
5253s	would I'll make a trend of it I'm gonna
5254s	get it wrong every single time on
5255s	purpose and go out in a blaze of glory
5261s	and uh we do have a very cool match to
5265s	fill out the rest of our round here
5267s	between Tice and jackpack which is
5269s	another one of those classic Masters
5271s	Tour situations of a very very
5273s	well-known player and somebody that's a
5276s	bit more off the radar maybe getting one
5278s	of their first competitive real pedigree
5280s	on the board here uh we'll be jumping in
5283s	from the second game and based on the
5285s	lineups here we are seeing quite a bit
5287s	of class diversity which is something I
5289s	am very very excited about going into
5291s	this Master's tour but the choices from
5294s	jackpack in particular are pretty spicy
5296s	as Warlock and Warrior are highly
5298s	underrepresented in the tournament
5301s	that's right yeah it was a really
5303s	difficult tournament for me to predict
5305s	exactly what we would be seeing you know
5307s	there's some of the big contenders we
5309s	were thinking like a lot of Mage
5310s	probably a fair bit of Demon Hunter even
5312s	though it's flown a little bit under the
5313s	radar recently is still just a very
5314s	powerful deck overall even considering
5316s	the Nerfs uh to it recently uh but like
5318s	you say some of the uh unexpected
5321s	characters making an appearance here
5322s	which we'd love to see uh warlock is a
5325s	deck that I in particular have seen a
5326s	lot of very very varying opinions on uh
5328s	where do you think it stands now in this
5330s	very heavily nerfed metagame
5332s	I have to admit I'm not a big fan of
5335s	warlock at the moment I've seen many a
5337s	good player bringing it in their list
5339s	like Gabby with a heavily teched out
5341s	warlock with no quest in there even a
5344s	dreaded mount for poor priests and it
5346s	just feels like you can run a very very
5348s	uh diverse toolkit with the addition of
5351s	prince ranathal in there and that ton
5353s	health does benefit warlock a lot in
5355s	some of its weaker matchups like Rogan
5357s	Demon Hunter but overall I just don't
5360s	feel like the power level is quite on
5362s	par with a lot of the other decks in The
5364s	Meta so I feel like that could be a
5366s	struggle point for a jetpack he also
5370s	does have Warrior which is a deck that
5373s	is still good at doing what it's meant
5375s	to do right prey on aggro but now has a
5377s	bit less flexibility in its toolkit
5379s	because it doesn't generally run from
5382s	the depths anymore Nelly got heavily
5384s	nerfed and now you can't quite kill your
5386s	opponent as consistently we do see
5388s	Jetpack starting off with perhaps his
5390s	most conventional deck here in the bar
5393s	priest which is one that I'm always
5395s	excited to see a new player queue up
5397s	first because I feel like this is a very
5400s	um binary skill check we can look at for
5403s	whether a player is up to Masters Tour
5405s	Talent level yeah uh speaking of one of
5408s	the uh well the other player in this
5410s	tournament entice I was casting his uh
5412s	twice's Tavern tournament uh last week
5414s	with you actually for that matter but
5416s	for this specific match I was casting
5418s	with pocket train now I think is
5419s	probably I think it's fair to say the
5421s	best uh ball priest player in the world
5423s	at the very least the most experienced
5424s	having just spent his entire life for
5427s	the past couple of months just jamming
5428s	pool priest on ladder every single day
5430s	indeed yeah I know that is quite a
5433s	hellish existence indeed but uh he is a
5436s	a very very interesting person to talk
5438s	to about the deck because there's so
5440s	many small decisions that you don't even
5442s	think about earlier on that come back to
5444s	uh
5445s	to haunt you later on in the game but I
5448s	think you're absolutely right in saying
5449s	it's a good skill check deck because
5450s	even though it's a very very difficult
5452s	deck to play when you're playing it
5454s	there's a lot of very common themes very
5456s	common rules that you just have to learn
5458s	and if you don't know them you're not
5459s	going to be up to the standard it's a
5461s	very homework sort of deck where you
5463s	just need to put in the correct number
5464s	of games
5465s	and it's a deck that I think against the
5467s	likes of big spell Mage as I believe we
5470s	are seeing here from Thais uh should be
5473s	in a pretty good spot for the most part
5474s	unless you get messed up very very
5477s	terribly by the uh barbaric Sorceress in
5480s	order to get your amulets up to
5482s	uncastable levels of Mana uh for the
5484s	most part the the big threats from Mage
5487s	come online a little bit too slow
5489s	compared to your combo capabilities yeah
5491s	I definitely agree with that assessment
5493s	on average I feel the board pieces ahead
5495s	but just like you mentioned the barbaric
5497s	sorceress is a win condition for the
5499s	major if they manage to get a big swap
5502s	on that on an amulet in particular that
5504s	can mess up the whole turn from the bar
5506s	piece to get the combo activated but
5508s	also there is just the Classic thing
5510s	that Mage can do to win any single
5512s	matchup in the matter which is like a
5513s	turn five Belinda followed by a um
5517s	Drake fire amulet or Rune um generally
5520s	Amulet of course being the ideal one but
5522s	we don't see that option available for
5524s	just yet whereas for Jetpack he's off to
5527s	a pretty good start gets the switcheroo
5529s	one turn later than he'd like but it's
5531s	still a decent um way to cycle through
5533s	the deck
5536s	yeah it's not a bad start he's got a lot
5538s	of the uh the good cards his hand was
5539s	looking very shaky uh before some of
5541s	these uh pickups came in the form of the
5544s	switch route off the top in order to
5546s	activate the and Maiden as well uh four
5550s	ties given that there's no really
5552s	obvious power plays here there's nothing
5554s	in his hand that screams like you want
5555s	to go coin Village or coin sorceress or
5558s	coin one of the big spells do you see
5561s	the Merit of maybe just trying to like
5562s	use the coin in these next few turns to
5564s	get as many stats online as quickly as
5567s	possible is it anything other than just
5569s	a snap vomit in these turns
5572s	um I do see Merit in using the coin
5574s	potentially to play evoker but I don't
5576s	think it's worth it because it's less
5578s	stats than actually playing just the
5579s	null here and I really favor just
5581s	skipping on the treasure guard because
5583s	if you play that you potentially
5584s	overdraw as Tice if jetpack removes at
5587s	that turn so I think Tice hits a win-win
5590s	situation here of being able to play a
5592s	lot of stats and hold on to the coin no
5595s	waves can sink this
5597s	and I really call it a win-win though
5599s	when it's not a Belinda hand I don't
5601s	know
5601s	yeah I know
5603s	uh it does just feel so much worse isn't
5605s	it again sorceress can kind of get the
5607s	job done especially against the deck
5608s	like the ball priest that runs so many
5610s	cheap spells uh but for the moment it's
5612s	just an arena deck straight up you're
5614s	playing the best distatted minion you
5616s	can every single turn and hoping that
5618s	you get the job done uh the one tricky
5620s	part of Tyson's hand though I guess
5622s	could be the blade master of khani as to
5625s	when you want to play that uh do you
5627s	think that has any chance of really
5629s	disrupting the ball priest's combo
5632s	it does depending on whether or not Jax
5635s	pack has Shard of the Naru in hand
5636s	because I think rule of thumb of playing
5638s	okani against border priest is to pick
5640s	minion counter because they don't
5642s	generally have Minions that they want to
5644s	dump to get rid of that and they need
5646s	minions to clear the okani in the first
5649s	place but the one counter to that is the
5651s	silence option uh Shard of the Naru
5653s	which just removes the minion counter
5655s	only at the expense of one Mana from the
5657s	priest so we'll see if jackpac trades
5659s	that away or holds on to it generally I
5661s	think it's fine to trade it because you
5663s	don't expect the okanya this early I
5664s	feel akani is more likely when it's um
5668s	either protecting a very high threat
5670s	board or going into the combo turn and
5673s	trying to disrupt and buy the Mage one
5675s	more turn
5678s	well both successfully dead I don't
5681s	think there's really anything you're
5682s	afraid of uh against this Mage in terms
5685s	of having your board transformed silence
5688s	again does not make a difference it
5690s	still died as long as the seventh ball
5692s	uh has the death rattle then you are
5694s	absolutely fine uh and so here Fringe
5698s	scenarios for the Rune of the arc Mage
5699s	and it's very very unlikely it's true
5701s	yes very true I guess we'll worry about
5703s	that when it comes to it but Ty's
5705s	finally letting rip with the blade
5707s	Master akani which I do like I think
5709s	there's a slim chance at this point that
5712s	you can counteract them from playing uh
5715s	zyrella in order to clear the board and
5717s	honestly in this matchup I think that's
5719s	about as best of a shot as you're gonna
5721s	get especially when the board is
5722s	actually pretty respectably sized now
5724s	yeah it's true it's a lot of damage that
5726s	toast has been pushing even though
5728s	jackpack has healed most of it back up
5731s	it's the most threats that Tice is gonna
5733s	get for the foreseeable future because
5735s	his hand is chock full of tech cards at
5737s	the moment
5739s	well there is zirella off the top with
5741s	Shard of the naurus so there's uh
5744s	there's clear potential uh but it's
5747s	still a little bit awkward like flash
5749s	heal not quite doing it gifted the nauru
5751s	same thing uh so maybe it ends up being
5753s	a wild
5755s	pyro turn although I've got to say I
5757s	don't think that clears off much damage
5759s	at all
5760s	really tough because the Pyro only has
5762s	the one Health on it as well but
5764s	jackpack I think correctly realizes that
5766s	this is probably the last board State
5767s	Franchise that he can abuse to get cycle
5769s	from it's unlikely that post zyrella as
5772s	a clear jackpack would have that many
5774s	damage minion targets so I like that
5776s	he's going in with the cleric this turn
5778s	has plenty of healing even if he has the
5779s	tanks have damaged next turn can go for
5782s	the clear next turn and just gets the
5784s	cycle going right through here okay he
5786s	can still end the turn with zarella if
5787s	he likes yeah that's I think just a
5790s	guaranteed clear now or five on a yeah
5793s	sorry a million with the flash Shield
5794s	factored in as well yeah uh very very
5796s	nicely done clearing the board and
5798s	getting the card draw done it's all just
5800s	going to plan for Jetpack right now I
5802s	think the one thing he really needs to
5803s	be doing now is get trading uh with
5806s	those amulets to really juice them up uh
5809s	in time for the combo
5811s	advertise the problems do not stop here
5814s	because he can play treasure regards to
5818s	keep cycling but at this point the
5820s	Belinda would be too late and he's miles
5823s	and miles away from playing a drake part
5826s	amulet goes with one starfish one
5828s	treasure guard I think the starfish is
5830s	important to make sure that the cleric
5831s	cannot cycle anymore just on the off
5834s	chance that jackpac doesn't have any
5836s	other draw effects in hand maybe Tice
5838s	could buy himself one more turn but that
5839s	silence but we do see this Switcheroo
5842s	um I think it still pulls at least a
5844s	pyro from this point
5846s	power onto cleric Oh Perfect combo uh to
5851s	go with the the other gift on the
5853s	following turn
5854s	um obviously it's I guess not
5856s	necessarily quite so clean as all that
5858s	because you do ideally want to save the
5860s	Pyro uh to go for the big uh sword turn
5864s	where you kill off all the balls at the
5865s	same time but it can still be achieved
5867s	with a Shadowood devour in a pinch
5871s	Ken
5874s	and I think it's for that reason
5876s	um it you say it's in a pinch because
5878s	you can only clear like one layer of
5881s	bores with one Shadow or Devourer the
5883s	difference with pyro is that both
5884s	amulets you can play and kill off with
5886s	that one pyro so I think the thinking
5888s	for Jetpack is to save the Pyro to
5890s	remove any chance of shenanigans and if
5893s	you know you're not using the Pyro might
5894s	as well just commit the other cleric
5896s	this turn and gets the cycle through he
5899s	is missing the amulets from this point
5901s	but uh The Other Board in hand ready to
5904s	be killed by the Pyro could mean that
5906s	jetpack is popping off at any point in
5908s	the near future there however is the old
5910s	barbaric sorceress from Tice as long as
5913s	he uses the coin first yes essentially
5916s	snipe something amazing
5918s	and he's guaranteed to be able to play
5921s	here from his perspective maybe he was
5923s	hoping for three Mana to hit the amulet
5925s	but this is absolutely fine a 12 12
5928s	another 12 12. is a Game ending amount
5932s	of pressure uh for ties which comes with
5935s	their hands actually of a play that I
5936s	didn't think was necessarily so obvious
5938s	which was to trade the Drake fire amulet
5941s	like one manner on this turn was quite a
5943s	lot of Mana to spend when you could just
5945s	go stats that stat stats and hope to get
5947s	there that way but I think it was a very
5949s	clever realization that he is currently
5951s	not winning this game he needs to hit
5953s	one of these Hyrule cards and that's
5955s	exactly what he did and now potentially
5957s	in a spot to close it out next turn
5960s	yeah that is just a lethal setup on
5962s	board thanks to those deathwings and The
5964s	crucial factor is that he's seen zirella
5966s	which is really the only way that boar
5968s	priest has enough reach to kill 12
5971s	Health minions the break points on pyro
5972s	don't quite get there the one thing
5974s	jetpack has going for him is that Tice
5976s	has swapped the cost on a relatively
5978s	unimpactful spell from backpack side the
5981s	holy Smite but I don't see a way that
5983s	jackpack can survive he can kill
5986s	everything but the death wings but right
5989s	just a little bit of burst from Thai so
5991s	would still end the game after
5993s	he does also I believe have both amulets
5996s	at zero Manner and I think this one is
5999s	at two and the one in his deck is at
6001s	three uh so if he had drawn the other
6004s	amulet there off of the trade on the
6005s	shot of the Naru then I think he could
6007s	have actually got himself in a situation
6009s	where he just
6011s	wings for lethal in two turns it would
6013s	have been very close it might not have
6015s	worked out uh quite but it was a lot
6018s	closer uh whereas here without getting
6020s	the sword on this online on this turn I
6023s	think the death rings are just a tad too
6025s	much yeah there's just no hope without
6027s	the sword but even if he had gotten the
6029s	sword here the fact is he would have to
6030s	swing into a Deathwing to not die over
6033s	too dark and he would still die because
6035s	the other Deathwing could go first a
6037s	good control face
6040s	just not a situation that you're able to
6043s	get out of as the boar priest and for
6045s	Tice here uh 25 20 6 27 damage
6053s	not quite lethal but it's fine
6058s	yep no you can dig for either you just
6060s	have to make sure you are killing off or
6062s	at least silencing uh the wild pyro I
6065s	don't really think even then it matters
6067s	all that much
6069s	um but uh it's still the correct thing
6072s	to do for sure
6074s	yeah I think I like the silence here
6076s	just not missing the 12 extra damage
6079s	face but also making sure that just in
6081s	case for example jetpack had enough
6084s	spells including a holy Spike to clear
6086s	off when Deathwing given the Pyro sticks
6088s	on board with its effect I think this is
6091s	a line that always takes the victory for
6092s	Tice
6094s	yeah I guess maybe if jetpack could have
6096s	set him up in a situation where he can
6097s	tank one of the deathwings and still
6099s	live givenly as flash Shield plus
6101s	desperate prayer would have been really
6103s	really close uh but in this situation
6105s	there is absolutely no chance whatsoever
6107s	and so for Tice after a uh a game that
6109s	started off with just a whole lot of
6111s	nothing for five or six turns uh just
6113s	hits that one miracle that you need on
6116s	the uh the big spell Mage and everything
6118s	just falls into place a great start to
6119s	the game in a a very tough matchup yeah
6122s	turn around in the blink of an eye with
6124s	that amazing uh barbaric sorcerer's top
6127s	deck and also just the fact that his
6128s	Drake fire amulet did not disappoint
6130s	hits the big dragons pretty consistently
6132s	but the difference between an 8 8 and
6134s	the 12 12 is that an eight eight can
6136s	often still be cleared by pyro plus
6139s	holies maybe not the other eight eight
6141s	but two 12 twelves that's just
6143s	impossible for board priests to deal
6144s	with once they've used their zairala so
6146s	for tyster that was I think already a
6150s	lock as soon as he saw the results on
6152s	that amulet but it is only the first
6154s	game of this series we do still have
6157s	what's this a druid priest and a robe
6160s	for Tice I'm gonna double check what got
6162s	banned from him just a sec
6166s	I think it was Mutual Druid bands here
6168s	so Ty still just a win on his Rogue and
6172s	uh his own priest
6176s	that's right and he is going for uh wow
6179s	not the uh yeah neither the expected
6183s	ones neither will priest nor weak priest
6185s	it is renithal Quest priest which I
6189s	truly hope that we get to see a look at
6190s	someone because this is an absolute
6192s	monstrosity I mean I saw him playing it
6194s	on stream the other day which I hadn't
6196s	like my my side monitor but uh I did not
6199s	believe he was actually bringing it to
6200s	the tournament which is uh very very
6202s	impressive indeed uh but I mean if it's
6205s	gonna be able to be any uh any deck at
6207s	all surely it should be uh Prince
6210s	renithal uh warlock on the other side
6213s	that must be even worse than whatever
6215s	that disaster is from Thais yeah I mean
6218s	that priest I think will have the time
6221s	to play the zirella quest reward and
6223s	find the purified chart to instantly win
6226s	the game and they should generally have
6227s	time against this warlock especially one
6231s	that is tucked not quite for this
6233s	matchup it has a quest in there which I
6235s	think is exclusively kept in the mirror
6238s	matchup I don't know if the quest is
6239s	useful in any other one uh it also has
6243s	the
6245s	um what is it double Rune mithril Rod
6247s	which I thought has fallen out of
6248s	fashion even with the ranathal Warlock
6251s	which as an archetype I also thought
6253s	fell out of fashion after two days of
6255s	the meta fell out fashion display a
6258s	hardly existing uh three days ago but it
6261s	is going to be ties instead on the uh
6264s	the Rogue first which is the uh the
6267s	thief variant I suppose this place
6269s	started calling it with the Contraband
6270s	stash jackpot in there as well which I
6274s	think
6276s	it is one of the the more subtle but
6279s	bigger impacts that renithal has had
6281s	which is that for me I would beforehand
6284s	100 have been on the pirate boat version
6287s	of the deck you just go all in on
6289s	getting these Pirates getting down Mr
6290s	Smite doing that damage because it could
6292s	very very easily deal 30 damage when you
6295s	start moving up to 40 damage that
6297s	actually becomes pretty difficult for
6299s	the Rogue to do especially with Mr Smite
6301s	up at seven Mana now and so with this
6304s	change over to renothel being in quite a
6306s	few of our players decks in The Druids
6308s	and the warlocks uh in particular I
6310s	think it's very respectable for Tice and
6312s	all the other players to go for the
6314s	thief variant instead just to have a bit
6317s	more of a board focused approach uh
6320s	which is probably going to be pretty
6321s	strong in this meta
6323s	blah in The Meta sure in this matchup I
6327s	am uncertain because I feel like against
6329s	warlock even if they're at 4D Health you
6331s	would rather still have the Smite in
6333s	there with the filet Fishers for reach
6335s	and most importantly of all the Edwin
6337s	which you can potentially step back to
6338s	your hand for a lot of burst with the Mr
6341s	Smite even though ties can generate tons
6343s	of value and build board after board as
6345s	long as he gets some minions from other
6347s	classes to replay with Tess and
6349s	Contraband stash he doesn't necessarily
6351s	have infinite time because the curses do
6353s	stack up pretty quickly against this
6355s	Rogue that shadowcrafters gabs being in
6358s	hand early though is a pretty important
6359s	one because it means that the Warlock
6361s	can't necessarily get ahead on board
6363s	later and that's where Thais can start
6366s	to swing things around because I don't
6367s	expect that anything ties plays in the
6369s	early game is going to stick
6371s	probably not yet even when you're
6373s	juicing your deck up to 40 cars which
6375s	obviously lowers the consistency
6376s	somewhat uh you could there's so much
6378s	removal in warlock especially with the
6380s	the curse package in there which jetpack
6382s	is clearly going for is his main win
6384s	condition uh that you can quite happily
6386s	kill off anything that the road can play
6388s	in these early turns uh Ty's going for
6390s	prep into shroud is a bit of an awkward
6394s	one because it does mean that if you
6396s	draw null which he has done
6398s	um it's not quite cheap enough to play
6400s	but with the jackpot slotted in as well
6402s	uh works out very nicely well calculated
6404s	by Tice leading him up into just a
6408s	pretty good situation for these early
6409s	turns he's got trickster into Refreshing
6411s	Spring Water which okay is not insane
6414s	but it's a way to just keep that hand
6416s	economy nice and high that's right it is
6418s	some cycle it's a hit and a miss I think
6420s	fair to say from the jackpot where light
6422s	bomb is terrible in the matchup you are
6424s	not the Defender as the Rogue you're the
6427s	aggressor you don't need board clears
6428s	generally uh the spring water is like
6431s	you said decent first cycle but it's not
6433s	one of those amazing cards that you want
6435s	to see
6436s	um like Miracle grows Drake fire amulet
6438s	or even Gardens Grace to just start
6440s	pushing more damage and playing Divine
6442s	Shield that's a very awkward thing for
6443s	warlock to deal with off of this
6446s	reconnaissance even though I did just
6448s	say the Rogue is not the defender in the
6452s	matchup the gigafen I still feel is the
6455s	best option here for Tyson others are
6456s	too low impact and you can get in a
6458s	situation where maybe you stuck a board
6460s	and the Warlock plays some taunts in the
6462s	way the gigafin can allow you to push
6464s	more face damage yeah I was very tempted
6467s	by the razor fin just to have a 3-3 to
6470s	just throw online uh but I guess like
6472s	you said you know even if a five Health
6474s	minion is a little bit tricky for the
6475s	Warlock to clear three health is just
6477s	almost a perfect utilization for their
6479s	Mana for pretty much every card uh
6481s	removal card that they have in these
6483s	early turns so just taking a uh a
6485s	slightly bigger one uh instead does make
6487s	sense uh on the gigafin as the curse is
6490s	finally start rolling in uh for Jetpack
6494s	they're gonna start tick ticking away
6495s	and uh like you say for Tice you would I
6499s	agree probably rather have uh that
6501s	damage focused approach because any
6503s	games that go long definitely start to
6505s	favor the Warlock with those uh ticking
6507s	up of those curses right guys does hit
6511s	double spell from the spring water which
6513s	is great gets to refresh that Mana but
6516s	honestly Enzo uh ends up using it on
6519s	some pretty low impact actions just
6521s	another 3-2 and the dagger up doesn't
6523s	value removing the curse because this is
6525s	just the one damage one I think that's
6527s	completely fine and Jetpack here
6530s	actually goes for a demonic assault I
6532s	was wondering if this was the coin Rune
6534s	mithril run because I feel if you're
6535s	running rod in your deck you just want
6536s	to get that online as soon as possible
6540s	all right tooth pretty important
6542s	discovers all around here given that
6544s	there's a Contraband stash in hands we
6545s	want to get some high impact spells here
6548s	uh which
6550s	probably comes in the form of spirit
6553s	Mount yeah they're not fantastic are
6555s	they but it's playable right now you can
6557s	just go Spirit Mountain to probably gone
6558s	fishing as well because I don't think
6560s	there's any especially uh important
6562s	dredges that you want to be hitting
6565s	the one thing to think about is that
6567s	Earthen scales targets only friendly
6569s	minions and spirit bound is any minions
6571s	so thinking about what your Contraband
6573s	stash and chess will replay later on the
6576s	Earthen skills is guaranteed to hit
6578s	something positive so I kind of like the
6580s	urban scales pick for the long game
6582s	and actually to be fair I was gonna say
6584s	the health isn't relevant but that's
6585s	just not actually true against quest uh
6588s	sorry against curse warlock as well uh
6590s	if you can play like tests for example
6592s	later on getting yourself seven armor uh
6595s	with an urban scales could be uh
6597s	absolutely huge uh and the spell damage
6599s	is probably not that relevant so I think
6601s	I actually would have got that wrong and
6603s	I like Tyson's Choice a lot here
6606s	okay the rod finally comes down for
6609s	Jetpack here doesn't have a lot of cycle
6611s	but he does have this crucial combo of
6613s	bran and zakul with the coins saved in
6615s	hand and potentially going to be
6616s	discount by the roon myth will run in
6618s	the near future that is a lot of healing
6621s	on demand as long as you can take the
6623s	curses up to at least four and then five
6625s	damage I would say from the zakulin
6627s	brand and does have this Abyssal wave
6630s	for the next turn so it's looking fine
6632s	for now that extra 10 Health really
6634s	giving jackpac a lot more breathing room
6636s	here but ties you can see he's already
6637s	considering just Tempo gigafin because
6639s	he doesn't really have any other good
6641s	Tempo options split in the water not
6644s	great here
6645s	yeah exactly and even though the
6647s	expected clear is Abyssal wave if you
6650s	can call any play expected uh in a 40
6653s	card deck uh it's just the only thing
6656s	that sticks any amount of pressure on
6657s	the board like the blood in the water
6659s	yes you know you are sticking a five one
6661s	uh at the end of it uh but if they don't
6664s	have it then this is by far a much much
6667s	higher amount of pressure so I do think
6668s	this is just the correct line
6670s	honestly think ties should be happy to
6672s	see an Abyssal wave because it's not a
6674s	customer which would have cleared every
6676s	single thing which is also a two of in
6678s	the decks so fair enough Tice gets to
6681s	stick one more minion here uh that's the
6684s	test which currently doesn't replay too
6686s	many threatening things what it's just
6688s	refreshing and Earthen skills
6692s	oh true the gigafit right I almost feel
6694s	like that's a road card for them
6697s	frequency I see it in Rogue versus
6699s	warlock these days that's actually true
6701s	well there is uh in this instance
6703s	actually in both decks so who knows it
6705s	could be some gigafen on gigafin action
6707s	always exciting to see uh but I do like
6710s	this from Thais it's just the uh the
6712s	most amount of pressure uh when you
6714s	factor the M which is all you need to be
6715s	doing every single turn from here uh
6717s	don't need to get greedy because again
6719s	he's correctly realizing uh this game's
6721s	got to end fast eventually the Warlock
6723s	will steal the advantage back so let's
6725s	close out the game now which means uh
6728s	with all this pressure coming online
6729s	what does Jetpack got and what does he
6731s	need to hit in the next turns to maybe
6734s	swing this one back what he's got is a
6737s	whole lot of curse energy but he's not
6739s	in a position to make that lethal yet so
6741s	what he needs is an entitled customer
6743s	right now
6748s	nope uh demonic assault is a fell spell
6750s	not a shadow spell unfortunately
6754s	anyway to draw a cards no I mean if he
6758s	could take up the uh the quest anymore
6760s	oh sorry the uh the wand the one the rod
6763s	uh any further this is the kind of hand
6765s	that you might be able to start pulling
6766s	off some tricks with uh with like the
6768s	drain Soul as well just to heal up a
6770s	little bit of Health uh but the man is
6772s	just really really tight
6775s	right and Tyson's also remained at nine
6777s	cards here so at most jackpack could put
6779s	one more curse in Tyson's hand brands
6781s	are cool hardly does anything here
6784s	um Tams and dream does look like it's
6788s	the best that jackpot can put together
6789s	with the Knoll first of course
6792s	but can
6794s	stay alive I guess yeah pretty reliably
6796s	right you remove a five four and and um
6799s	either a test or the gigafen main body
6802s	to leave either 11 or 10 attack on board
6807s	and at the following turn you have uh
6810s	what would that be two two and four so
6813s	you do actually have access to bran
6815s	Syracuse plus the zakul right which uh
6818s	if they leave you hand space with which
6820s	to fill up their hand with curses uh
6823s	it's quite a lot of healing even if it's
6824s	not any removal maybe enough to just uh
6826s	tank another wave of damage from their
6828s	development
6829s	correct but I think Tyson will be aware
6831s	of that and will not leave much hand
6833s	space available yeah jetpack to maneuver
6836s	so there's plenty of ways ties can play
6838s	cards that replace themselves and hand
6840s	the tooth I think azshara will be active
6842s	post-tooth as well and it's still Tempo
6845s	hitting the board while keeping his hand
6847s	space nice and curse proof
6850s	yeah even the Contraband itself right to
6852s	get yourself a couple more cards drawn
6854s	another Giga fin as well as potentially
6857s	something of this tooth to start off the
6860s	turn with uh with the prep to fit in
6862s	some more Mana right so azshara is on
6865s	two more spells to be played so if he
6867s	does want active Azara this turn I guess
6869s	Tice would start with prep I don't
6871s	really see him using extortion this turn
6876s	uh gifts
6878s	time's ticking kind of looking at
6882s	Butler is that weird oh and he oh okay
6885s	okay so this bike shell gives him a copy
6888s	right so it replaces itself in hand yeah
6890s	okay okay I like I like this line
6893s	it goes blood in the water
6896s	over the queen azshara which is still a
6899s	nice Middle Ground seven cards in hand
6901s	is it too many but is it enough for
6904s	Jetpack to stay alive crucially jackpot
6905s	can still weave in a tap to get that Rod
6909s	activation finally going through
6912s	oh yeah of course all right he needs to
6913s	tap to get the activation so he actually
6915s	can't go Brands there uh Syracuse plus
6917s	this is a cool all on the same turn
6920s	um even with the coin affected him as
6922s	well
6925s	that's a bit unfortunate
6930s	so at best it is just brands are cool
6932s	here which is not enough healing I don't
6934s	think to get the job done
6938s	it was a cool conceived is that what
6940s	we're seeing
6942s	this basically pretty much I think yeah
6945s	or is it down twice two oh up just
6949s	winning games with good decks here right
6950s	not messing around uh with any of these
6952s	slightly weirder archetypes you know his
6954s	his priest is the last one involved
6956s	which does change the story somewhat a
6958s	big spell Mage and Thief frog uh this is
6961s	the kind of the winning formula for all
6964s	of these Masters that's why we've seen
6965s	Gabby win two of them uh and very often
6968s	the winner of these Master tours setting
6969s	the meta game with just what are the
6971s	four best decks in any format and even
6974s	though as I said that priest does very
6975s	much go against that formula uh Tice is
6977s	uh very nicely painting a picture of
6980s	what this meta game actually is in what
6982s	was quite an undecided field going into
6984s	the Masters Tour yeah I did actually
6986s	catch a bit of Tyson's stream just
6988s	exactly yesterday and I was there at the
6991s	moment he said it's 40 card Celestial
6993s	Druid just a bit because he kept losing
6995s	with it when playing on ladder and then
6998s	he said he didn't want to play prester
7000s	because it seems like a lottery deck
7001s	when fair enough I can understand that
7004s	assessment even though I feel like it's
7005s	the nuts and then somehow his mind went
7008s	to what if I play Quest priest
7011s	he's been playing it on stream for quite
7013s	some time and I guess having a decent
7016s	win rate with it to
7017s	um convince him that it's good enough to
7019s	bring to the Masters Tour and I will
7021s	admit this is a deck that I have zero
7024s	experience on but the runneth all in
7026s	there does you know on paper give you
7029s	more time to find your zyrella uh sorry
7032s	to find your purified Shard later on I
7035s	am however a bit skeptical as to whether
7038s	purified chart is actually the wind
7040s	condition in this deck like how often
7042s	are you gonna find it with a 4D card
7045s	deck to begin with maybe you just win
7047s	off of control which I think is more
7048s	likely yeah I've played against it
7051s	surprisingly high amount of times over
7053s	the last few games I've played it I
7054s	didn't think the players would be
7055s	jamming it uh in the the last few hours
7058s	of the the season which ended two hours
7060s	ago or the uh the first few games of the
7064s	Season uh since that started up again uh
7066s	but I've been playing against it a bit
7067s	with the mid-range murlocy Shaman that a
7069s	fair few players have brought here to
7070s	this tournament as well and against that
7072s	deck they very much did feel like the
7074s	purify chart is the win Condition it's
7076s	the card that you really need to hit to
7078s	actually finally get uh over the finish
7080s	line given that it's just such a dense
7082s	board back battle back and forth uh in
7085s	this matchup I think we can quite
7086s	harshly agree uh no it's not gonna come
7089s	online before the ball uh the boar
7091s	priest can kill you uh I think this has
7094s	to just be an overwhelmingly favored
7096s	matchup for the ball priest right what
7098s	can ties possibly do yeah it's miserable
7101s	for the quest priest
7104s	um there are some scams you can pull off
7106s	like we can see two of them in hand or
7108s	Kani mutinous I don't think jackpack is
7110s	going to play into a tiny like throw a
7113s	bar into akani that's one way you can
7115s	instantly lose
7117s	um the mutedness is a lot harder to pull
7119s	off because especially with one bar in
7121s	hand you cannot guaran 20s ties that you
7123s	are able to eat one that much later in
7126s	the game uh looking down the list
7128s	there's also magic hexen which is
7130s	something to think about so basically
7132s	all the scams revolve around jackpack
7134s	leaving his boards vulnerable whether
7136s	they're in hand or on the board but it's
7138s	not difficult to make sure that doesn't
7140s	happen that's right and it's actually
7142s	the fourth one in hand right in drown uh
7145s	actually as well if you play it just uh
7147s	gets it right onto the bottom of the
7148s	deck straight away which does mean that
7150s	jetpack is in
7152s	bit of a weird spot where his bores are
7155s	not safe on the board at any point if he
7157s	just plays them and leaves them but they
7159s	are also not safe in hand from turn
7161s	seven onwards because mutinous could get
7163s	lucky and snipe them and so to be honest
7165s	for ties if he was ever gonna win this
7167s	game of hearthstone he has the perfect
7169s	hand with which to do it it's just
7171s	maximum disruption at all points along
7172s	the way
7173s	true this top deck for a jetpack is
7176s	enormous though The Shard solves a lot
7178s	of his problems because he didn't really
7179s	have a good way of playing around okanie
7181s	interminion there all of his minions are
7183s	valuable here perhaps they're rather
7185s	even the least valuable I think if he
7187s	didn't draw The Shard the turn might
7189s	just be
7190s	um like place I rather to get that
7192s	effect just out of the way so you can
7195s	freely play Minions on the next couple
7197s	turns but now with The Shard he has the
7200s	Liberty to play some boards on the board
7202s	that being said he probably wants to
7205s	kill them off immediately if he plays
7206s	them so is this ever a pyro as well
7211s	I think given that you have a switch
7213s	ruin hand I would rather see the Pyro
7215s	saved to go for a a really big cleric
7218s	pyro draw turn like especially when you
7221s	have the uh the gift of Denario having
7223s	been found now as well uh because even
7225s	though Mana can get a little bit tight I
7227s	think again as long as your pre-turn
7228s	seven for the opponent you can just
7231s	still get that really perfect pop-off uh
7233s	with the pirate the cleric and the balls
7235s	slotted in there as well yeah I like it
7237s	the only problem I was looking at for
7238s	Jetpack was hand space like I feel like
7241s	he had to dump something but
7243s	um through the Thrive was actually just
7245s	replacing itself in hand and it wasn't
7246s	Switcheroo which would have let him over
7248s	draw the next turn so I think he's fine
7251s	to delay a little bit longer finds the
7253s	cleric now has the gift in hand so the
7255s	setup is there the question is what does
7258s	he dump this turn I think it's desperate
7260s	prayer
7262s	I
7264s	think so too you can't really afford to
7269s	overdraw uh with two amulets left right
7273s	even with the two pigs in hand
7275s	um it's annoying because you really want
7277s	as many spells as possible but I get
7279s	it's I guess it's fine to just go uh
7282s	Pyro Pig Pig cleric coin
7285s	gift next turn
7287s	yeah there's also a line where you dump
7290s	a cleric because it's not super
7292s	necessary with the other one in hand but
7294s	again this is a priest mirror even
7296s	though Hunter is advised you never play
7297s	around anything in a 40 card deck if
7300s	ties had some other way to abuse that
7303s	cleric on the other side and make
7304s	jackpack overdraw that's one of the few
7306s	ways you could also lose the game
7311s	thank you
7314s	well we have hit the expected problem
7317s	for Tice which is he's not playing a
7319s	curved deck so right out of threats and
7323s	it's not the four Mana he needs it's
7325s	three isn't it because he's only played
7327s	two and four given that the uh
7329s	uh gorillapot went down to two as well
7332s	so he can't even progress Quest
7334s	I need to correct myself though he is
7336s	playing a curved deck in fact the the
7337s	quest literally tells you to curve out
7339s	yeah quiet yeah playing like a threat
7343s	heavy curve deck a lot of these options
7345s	are just removal based and is not hit
7348s	the minion threats unfortunately so
7350s	jetpack starting with pyro into think
7354s	yeah that's always happening yeah so
7357s	Bora Bora you coin there's four damage
7361s	Targets on board you have cleric gift it
7363s	will draw you for five and I think you
7366s	do have the hand space for this the only
7367s	question was whether you start with the
7370s	cleric on board before the coin but I do
7372s	like this order better oh he doesn't
7374s	play The Other Board
7376s	surprised by that left to board hand for
7379s	the moment I mean you still have Mana to
7380s	go ball plus spell uh at the end which
7386s	probably should do because now he's just
7388s	in a situation no it's too healthy oh
7390s	it's a two health so we should have gone
7392s	earlier right well he could still kill
7394s	with the Devourer yeah yeah okay okay
7398s	yeah if you play it earlier actually it
7401s	gets healed by the gift so it's plus one
7404s	draw
7408s	yeah it did mean that he was reliant on
7410s	drawing a shadow word devour
7413s	um but it was pretty likely to happen
7416s	fair enough
7418s	big difference all these little
7420s	adjustments to the health toad also make
7422s	in the deck guys
7424s	kind of a Sitting Duck he has mutinous
7427s	but he's seen both boars played out
7429s	already
7432s	um
7432s	yeah I mean maybe you can Munch a
7435s	handmaid which slows them down but
7438s	that's really the best you can hope for
7440s	there's also just the Pyro itself being
7442s	on board being so problematic because
7444s	that's sticking around potentially means
7446s	the pop-off for jackpack when turned
7449s	sooner so I think Ty's ends the turn
7450s	with drown here after he picks pichuru I
7454s	guess
7456s	oh disciple okay
7462s	I can actually imagine an ironically
7464s	bringing a deck that runs two Deep Run
7466s	engineers in it and it's a Mech Mage
7469s	like it's embarrassing playing it even
7471s	in a Mech deck this is something else
7475s	strictly an arena card
7477s	literally
7481s	all right
7483s	so jackpack needs to just consider his
7486s	hand space for the
7488s	um handmaidens
7490s	I think this is both amulets done now
7492s	yeah he traded a one and a two so as
7494s	soon as he finds both those will
7496s	resurrect the appropriate amounts of
7498s	boars
7499s	that's the other pyro now as well
7504s	yeah and I think I would rather have
7505s	that be not on the bottom of my deck
7507s	even if you don't get any uh discount
7509s	because I think it could uh it's very
7511s	much looking to be a a turn 8 sword
7514s	swing uh this game
7517s	uh possibly see if he can redraw the
7520s	upgraded amulet right
7523s	The Flash Shield here I assume
7530s	yeah I think that's fine I'm just trying
7532s	to think if uh what happens if you draw
7536s	um Priestess Village uh off the top
7540s	um I don't think you would be playing
7542s	that on this turn it's only been one
7543s	spell so far and two with the uh the
7545s	flash heal
7547s	um okay but it's actually holding on to
7548s	the other amulet because I guess that
7549s	one's upgraded enough and it just needs
7551s	to find the other right
7554s	yeah there's no reason to trade it when
7555s	it's a crucial part of the combo anyway
7557s	it's nice prayer hands for I don't know
7559s	what okay pyro that's probably the best
7561s	Target to hit here it now creates a
7563s	situation where jetpack needs to play
7566s	one Amulet the one for two boards have
7568s	the boards naturally die and then wait
7571s	to play the last amulet and use the
7574s	shadow word to trigger the sword
7576s	um so now that means Tice potentially
7578s	has a window to drown a boar
7581s	uh
7582s	no right why can't you go amulet amulet
7585s	uh
7586s	devour on an opposing minion
7589s	amulet amulet because only two boys oh
7592s	two balls have died sorry yeah yeah my
7593s	bad my bad okay
7595s	what you can do is amulet for two and
7598s	then devour and then let the three bars
7600s	naturally die but at some point you have
7602s	to let boards naturally die and that's
7604s	right the tricky part
7608s	yeah okay uh and so there's no more
7614s	there's a Smite yes Smite can that do it
7617s	well that means you can play the other
7618s	amulet now because there's a third board
7620s	dead in the pool okay yeah there it is
7622s	he found it nice with the village gets
7626s	the Mana to play shadow or devour and
7627s	removes the window for ties to play
7629s	Drown very nicely done
7631s	yeah it was a nice spot from ties to
7633s	maybe get himself the one extra window
7635s	to get the uh
7637s	uh the disruption by killing off the
7639s	Pyro which he did manage to hit uh but
7640s	for Jetpack it's just they uh it's too
7643s	much and even though he's swinging into
7644s	minions here uh we know that zirella in
7646s	order to get extra charge swings will uh
7649s	lock this one out I don't see
7652s	cards uh for ties that could be uh good
7655s	enough to swing this one back and so
7656s	that's just gonna be it jetpack taking
7658s	the win as we expected despite Tice
7660s	doing everything he possibly could as I
7662s	think we saw uh Simi peeking in right at
7664s	the end of there just as he went off cam
7666s	uh to get uh jetpack up to one win here
7669s	on the board yeah what's she thinking oh
7672s	man my man's playing Quest preschool
7678s	not a great place to be at but you know
7681s	Ty still has two attempts on it uh it
7684s	definitely has a shot against the
7686s	control Warrior maybe I mean there's
7688s	still a kazaka-san in there but let's
7690s	say jackpot gets a terrible draw the
7692s	kazaka sounds at the bottom maybe we can
7693s	see the purified Shard actually come
7695s	into place
7697s	yeah and I mean it's a very very
7699s	different deck when you take out the uh
7701s	the from the depths uh since that has
7703s	been nerfed it goes much much slower
7705s	because that sound obviously only
7706s	available on turn 8 absolute earliest
7709s	and very very likely a whole lot slower
7711s	than that so I think it's still a fine
7713s	situation uh for ties to be in uh
7716s	because again you know that was a
7718s	somewhat slow Quest progression uh Quest
7721s	progression was not his biggest priority
7723s	by any means at all in that game so he
7725s	therefore was not prioritizing it but he
7727s	still would have liked to curve out uh
7729s	but this Quest priest deck you know I
7731s	have seen it curve out pretty close to
7734s	perfectly a lot of these cards even
7736s	though I mock them like the Deep Run
7737s	engineer do allow you to get a lot more
7740s	consistency and a lot more flexibility
7742s	in terms of the cards you discover in
7744s	order to complete that quest uh which is
7746s	obviously his biggest concern when going
7749s	up against the uh the curse Warlock and
7751s	the control Warrior
7756s	so for Jetpack the question I think is
7759s	exclusively how to get kazakasan online
7762s	as soon as possible so you want hard
7764s	draw and you want ways to get the
7766s	kazakasan in hand the judge effect from
7769s	gorger is pseudo karjaw you can say it
7771s	like putting a card that you would
7773s	rather have way at the top than at the
7775s	bottom can equal more card draw later on
7777s	but perhaps the more important part of
7779s	his hand is this forged in flame which
7781s	ideally can draw him
7784s	uh five cards with rakara
7793s	no mistake I don't think anything else
7795s	but kazaka-san will allow jackpack to
7798s	threaten dice especially from 40 health
7804s	my man puts 40 cards in his deck and
7806s	then throws his hands up in the air when
7807s	he draws them
7811s	you're putting so many words in simi's
7813s	mouth I'm sorry
7817s	yeah uh obviously I am uh trolling him
7820s	so much this is a pretty unfortunate
7822s	draw Thrive could be a good way to
7824s	smooth out the curve okay that's a two
7826s	then it's a three it's pretty off curve
7828s	uh but it's Quest completion again the
7830s	most important thing that he needs to
7832s	hit and in the meantime it's not like
7833s	jetpack is doing anything himself he's
7835s	not playing any dragons in order to
7836s	activate Kazakhstan and uh honestly
7838s	there's not really anything else that he
7840s	can do that's good for this game plan uh
7843s	everything else is just very very slow
7845s	indeed
7847s	all three options are dragons uh
7853s	amalgam is the most flexible but it's
7855s	not guaranteed to have a Target anytime
7857s	soon let alone a dragon Target perhaps
7859s	you just take the Drake yeah
7865s	I could just go four on four here and
7869s	then save switch through uh for the
7871s	following turn just to like be more man
7874s	up secure
7875s	um but to be fair zarella even in these
7878s	slow matchups can be very very potent
7882s	fourth the spiciest Battlegrounds curve
7891s	yeah I do like the switcheroo
7898s	oh man
7900s	kind of just feels like a Sitting Duck
7902s	here Granddad ties doesn't have a way to
7904s	clear these minions yet because his
7906s	sirella has no healing to go alongside
7908s	her but now ties has a different option
7910s	to progress quest with the drown instead
7913s	I think that's decent
7915s	yeah it's fine I mean honestly the fact
7916s	that it goes on the bottom of your deck
7918s	is good because you don't really ever
7918s	want to see these cards again anyway so
7920s	you can just shove them down there and
7922s	forget about them
7924s	uh it would mean that he's over drawing
7928s	though unless he plays the coin right or
7931s	unless sorry he finds something that's
7933s	uh discover something playable uh for
7935s	one manner from his deck
7938s	not too many of those but he actually
7940s	hits one in Call of the great however it
7942s	replaces himself in hand so
7946s	maybe you take the troller because you
7948s	can actually play it while spending coin
7952s	you can also just accept the overdraw I
7954s	don't think that's too much of a problem
7956s	for ties I'm fine with that I mean the
7958s	rest of his hand very much just plays
7960s	itself right you can just go five six
7962s	and then seven eight uh everything
7965s	coming together and then just praying
7967s	that you draw your uh you're one of
7969s	purified shot for the game
7972s	it is 5678 but unfortunately he's
7974s	entering turn six without the Five
7976s	played yet so at minimum the Quest for
7979s	completion happens on turn nine
7983s	he's got time I think you'll be fine
7987s	we'll see how fast it is because
7988s	Arkansas can happen
7993s	man now uh you know what I was mocking
7995s	soul for his uh constant uh sorry
7998s	constant uh lee being so upset at
8000s	calling it control Warrior beforehand
8002s	but now I see what control Warrior
8004s	actually is uh I start to understand why
8007s	he was so upset because this looks very
8009s	very different from the Warriors of old
8011s	this is just so so slow it's doing
8014s	nothing it's just control
8020s	and if this is what control is I'd
8023s	rather we call it the wrong thing every
8025s	single day
8029s	all right thumb cycle galvagar that card
8032s	ghost face
8035s	it does go face and it can go face next
8038s	turn with all the armor being gained as
8039s	well
8041s	probably have to take Shield block for
8042s	more cycle anything that gets you closer
8045s	to kazaka-san the card itself rather
8048s	than activating it I think
8050s	is the way to go for Jetpack yep
8057s	this has player five cost now to finish
8060s	this stage of quest going to overdraw
8063s	off this death throttle but I don't
8064s	think it's a big deal
8067s	yeah 100 as long as he doesn't burn
8068s	Quest reward it's uh it's fine
8072s	take desperate prayer to overdraw less I
8075s	guess
8076s	sure yeah
8079s	I don't think you're catching any uh
8081s	you're not going to be catching them off
8082s	guard with uh whirlpool
8084s	that being said it's just it's over
8086s	drawing his quest pretty just positive
8087s	at this point in the game because it's
8089s	technically less cards out of your deck
8090s	and as long as you don't overdraw by the
8092s	time you or you don't overdraw the quest
8094s	reward itself yeah it's true it's
8096s	technically higher odds to find the
8098s	purified chart yeah I think a card
8101s	burned is is roughly equivalent to a
8103s	card drawn at this point I agree yeah as
8105s	long as you're not drawing more card
8107s	draw uh is the only way that could go
8108s	wrong
8110s	there's just nothing that Titus really
8113s	cares about in his deck at this point he
8115s	has the seven and the eight so that's
8117s	guaranteed Quest completion if I turn
8119s	nine if he wants it
8121s	um probably not turn nine because he has
8123s	to make
8124s	and space I think so maybe
8127s	wow jetpack just plays the mutinous I
8130s	was gonna say like his one
8131s	chance of winning the game might be the
8133s	fact that you can't complete Quest and
8136s	play seven seven zarella uh on the same
8140s	turn you uh just because it has to be a
8142s	seven or an eight cost card in order to
8143s	actually complete the quest uh but
8145s	jetpack's just going for it here I guess
8147s	thinking he might lose on Tempo anyway I
8150s	don't know I I felt like that could have
8152s	been used as just a Hail Mary to try and
8154s	win a disastrous matchup
8157s	that was also my first instinct uh maybe
8160s	jetpack's thinking is that there's so
8164s	many minions in the deck anyway that
8165s	it's low odds to eat it with mutinous
8168s	maybe he thinks higher odds of winning
8170s	is Turbo kazaka-san and of course buying
8172s	more time by playing Just dashboard
8175s	every single turn that's him a better
8178s	kazakus on an average or a safer spot to
8180s	play it I am honestly not sure I don't
8182s	play either of these decks
8185s	foreign
8187s	and weirdly enough the mutinous eating
8190s	the amalgam there was kind of the good
8193s	outcome even though the only other
8194s	option was uh Captain galvinger because
8196s	it just means that Kazakhstan is
8198s	so difficult to activate now you have to
8201s	find basically your entire deck uh
8203s	before that's even going to be uh
8204s	playable at all
8207s	right jackpots only played one Dragon so
8208s	far right the next engine
8210s	yep
8211s	three more necessary to play kazaka-san
8215s	and that would mean anxia another
8219s	annexian Drake an amalgam or an amalgam
8222s	and whatever it discovers ideally you
8225s	don't have to play onyxia because it's
8226s	too slow
8230s	yeah Thai skin just get the Quest reward
8234s	here right
8235s	uh he can business
8238s	with uh
8240s	with cyrilla so you're right there's
8242s	nothing that he'd be terribly afraid of
8244s	it's just what does it do and is he ever
8246s	afraid of this board you know this is
8248s	kind of scary what he's seeing right now
8249s	admittedly I just noticed he's at 18 I'm
8252s	so sorry like that happened he was at 40
8255s	a while ago oh uh and also actually
8256s	zarella would activate the spirit guide
8259s	right so it would draw two cards and
8261s	then complete so I think actually
8264s	zarella would have overdrawn uh the
8265s	quest Rod uh there if I said good catch
8268s	good catch
8270s	and so he decided to just clear the
8272s	board and heal for a million instead
8273s	which I think is also going to be
8274s	winning this game
8278s	oh man this hand from check
8281s	this nothing it's less than nothing
8291s	so if Tai still draws two from zarella
8294s	at this point he needs to wait one more
8296s	turn right right yeah nine cards right
8300s	now so
8301s	needs to have three spaces in hand
8305s	we got the quest reward
8307s	yeah I mean he could just go Thrive hope
8309s	to hit Whirlpool of which there are
8311s	decent odds because there aren't that
8313s	many spells in the deck
8316s	um and then again just go for it that
8319s	way but I think this is uh an equally
8321s	reasonable way to go about it just by
8323s	applying pressure you know it's not
8325s	going to win you the game uh but it is
8326s	just going to make it so they can't
8327s	stick anything themselves and then you
8330s	just go for the relatively
8332s	aims are good
8336s	a cycle for jackpack
8340s	conditional cycle oh yeah you can
8342s	activate it right now with the shield
8343s	shutter the Nerf worked out for him
8349s	bricked upgrade uh as I I do agree 100
8352s	with jetpack in going for the cycle game
8354s	plan I think that uh you know fatigue
8356s	quite clearly uh has absolutely no
8359s	chance of working it whatsoever so it's
8360s	just a pure uh draw through to kazakasan
8363s	and pray that that'll get you there uh
8366s	Ty's done the maths that he should be
8368s	able to get the quest in hand or the
8371s	zarella sorry uh in hand with this play
8373s	which I think again is correct hopefully
8375s	no disasters
8378s	outside
8382s	there we go perfect
8384s	I really sanctified
8387s	I was trying to remember what the heck
8389s	her title was because we need to
8392s	distinguish zarella the hero cards are
8394s	all of the quest reward but I strict
8396s	strictly just didn't know the name of
8398s	the quest Rewards
8402s	I don't know the quest reward names of
8404s	any of them scabs the uh scabs the seven
8407s	seven tavish the seven seven I think
8409s	that's more or less it
8412s	all right well there is kazakhsan in
8414s	hand but still need two three more
8416s	dragons right uh in order to be drawn
8419s	for it to be playable at all
8422s	no way he's thinking of just sampling
8424s	that you'd never win the game that way
8426s	that's just a concede yeah
8431s	so it's just a strict pass from jackpack
8435s	here
8441s	and uh then from there it's just a
8444s	pretty straight up game plan from Tice
8447s	he has ways to tutor out uh the
8450s	uh the purified Shard with obviously the
8454s	spirit guide in hand maybe call of the
8455s	grave and get him another one uh thrive
8457s	in the shadows of course as the main one
8459s	to get it as soon as possible
8461s	this is but the truest cycle
8465s	yep uh absolutely taking that
8472s	now he does have to be concerned about
8473s	hand space again because there is
8475s	something that he doesn't want to
8477s	overdraw in the deck now so after taking
8480s	Switcheroo the turn's probably just
8481s	Viper oh okay sorceress yeah
8484s	true
8487s	pressed gone so it doesn't draw anything
8494s	okay there's a tradable
8496s	uh Rancor
8498s	Rancor oh it's a swing okay that's one
8502s	way to give yourself an extra draw
8505s	every last Choice precious he's down to
8508s	five cards in the deck but I think he
8510s	knows the bottom like the other amalgam
8513s	and the onyxia are at the bottom we saw
8515s	that from the dredges oh that's true
8516s	actually yeah oh he literally needs to
8519s	get to the end of that day
8522s	[Laughter]
8525s	[Music]
8528s	just not the same with eyes sound
8530s	effects is it this is why we watch the
8532s	mainstream never on mute and never any
8534s	doubt uh that Tice would get it done the
8537s	uh the quest priest uh with Quest
8541s	Renault the whole priest uh a deck that
8543s	uh I uh you know was poo pooing to no
8546s	end beforehand and still honestly have
8548s	my doubts but they're against zero win
8550s	condition control Warrior turns out
8552s	that's a matchup that it can win so good
8555s	job ties he got the job done and he's up
8558s	1-0 in the Swiss
8560s	yeah uh congratulations to Tice with a
8563s	lineup that you kind of called three
8565s	good decks and a quest priest I think
8567s	that's a decent assessment of it I will
8570s	join you on the poo pooing train
8572s	I really don't think this is
8578s	a good Chugga poop
8581s	but maybe Ty's can prove us wrong
8582s	there's still seven more rounds of Swiss
8584s	if he wins you know if he gets top 16
8587s	with this deck he is unquestionably the
8589s	greatest Hearthstone player alive like
8591s	he obviously has a great resume to
8593s	support that at the moment but this
8596s	would be the final cherry on top it's
8597s	greater than having any
8600s	um every player have less earnings than
8603s	you in the history of parcel which is
8604s	currently you know that is Tyson's
8606s	pedigree right now but it would be a
8607s	greater achievement to
8610s	even make top 16 with this Quest priest
8613s	I would say I agree 100 and I'm sure
8616s	that will be uh much more uh rewarding
8619s	for him than uh or his very very much
8623s	amount of money that he has won over the
8624s	course of his uh Hearthstone history uh
8626s	but either way uh that does mean that we
8628s	are all done I believe uh with action
8631s	for round one no other matches left to
8633s	come and I believe all the match is
8635s	pretty much wrapped up uh so without any
8637s	further Ado we are going to go to a
8639s	break when we come back some of the
8641s	action from round two will kick off here
8644s	at Masters Tour for
8647s	foreign
8653s	[Music]
8661s	[Music]
8665s	[Applause]
8667s	[Music]
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8686s	[Music]
8695s	[Music]
8729s	foreign
8733s	[Music]
8760s	foreign
8764s	[Music]
8779s	[Music]
8804s	foreign
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8836s	thank you
8841s	welcome back everyone to Masters Tour of
8843s	Asher I'm Raven and joining me uh well
8845s	joining me I'm kind of joining Derek
8846s	since he was just cashed yeah uh but
8848s	yeah I'm joining Derek to cast the first
8850s	match of round two of the Swiss it is
8853s	going to be a Luna versus uh pathinka
8857s	I'm gonna go for you'll understand why
8859s	when you see the name there you go I
8861s	challenge anyone to pronounce it better
8862s	but yeah it's going to be a first match
8864s	of round two and again another a bit of
8867s	a mixed bag in terms of lineup once more
8870s	I think regardless of thoughts on meta
8873s	thoughts on grenathil I think something
8875s	that's very clear right now is a lot of
8877s	the players have very different ideas of
8879s	how they want to approach this
8880s	tournament
8881s	100 yeah and it was great to see a
8884s	little bit more closely uh Luna's
8887s	thought process going into this
8888s	tournament because she was one of the
8889s	recent additions to the uh the Mr Tony
8892s	ofan groupen uh one of the Premier uh
8894s	Masters Tour uh practice groups
8897s	um uh uh expanding their field into a
8900s	little bit more of the America's
8901s	representation which is great to see
8903s	given that it's pretty much Luna uh and
8906s	Monsanto as the two only last remaining
8909s	hopes uh for North America at this point
8911s	uh but yes she did have some very very
8912s	strong opinions on The Meta game right
8915s	now uh some of those I think were agreed
8918s	upon by the rest of the group but some
8919s	of those some of them were very much her
8921s	own uh opinions her own spin on The Meta
8924s	game and one thing that I can absolutely
8925s	agree on is her her Die Hard
8927s	appreciation of Shaman it's a deck that
8929s	I've been incredibly impressed by uh
8932s	over the last uh couple days of testing
8934s	it out in anticipation of the Masters
8936s	Tour and even drawing a ban away from
8939s	prithinka here uh clearly demonstrating
8941s	the the power of the deck uh but another
8945s	deck that was a bit of a surprise for me
8946s	was uh this Beast Hunter which has been
8948s	everywhere on ladder uh in my experience
8951s	a lot of players have been testing it
8953s	out and uh for once I'm actually
8956s	starting to believe there might be
8957s	something here I've been a big doubter
8959s	in any kind of non-hyper aggro Hunter
8962s	for the longest time but this definitely
8964s	feels like there's something going on
8966s	here yeah really interesting list as
8967s	well definitely not what I would call
8970s	Super standard or what we're really used
8972s	to seeing and there's the click clocker
8974s	and the K nanotron as well in the list
8977s	and nowhere Tamers for example so no
8979s	duplicate beasts on offer and also just
8982s	the one saber too which uh I know a lot
8985s	of players do just play one but because
8987s	I I just like the card so much I play
8989s	two no matter what because I think the
8991s	card and what it does are super powerful
8993s	but still definitely excited to see what
8995s	that Hunter brings to the table but
8998s	checking out uh Luna and her lineup
9000s	again is that sort of big spell Mage The
9002s	Whig priest the mid-range chairman which
9005s	has been banned away as you mentioned
9006s	and then the Rogue again and for me the
9009s	priest definitely ticks the box at the
9011s	big Mage even though I personally don't
9013s	really like the deck I can appreciate it
9016s	strong but I think once more we're in
9019s	that point where I think it's that Rogue
9021s	that is the deck that has to get over
9023s	the line
9025s	it does start to feel that way doesn't
9027s	it uh I think for a lot of players as
9029s	well uh in again the Miss Tony often
9032s	group the uh the pirate Rogue the boat
9034s	Rogue whatever you want to call it was
9035s	kind of the doubt for them because it
9037s	was a bit of a a weak spot in the recent
9040s	summer championships it's a little bit
9042s	shaky on ladder as well and when you
9044s	start to compare it to all the broken
9046s	things that different decks in this meta
9048s	game can do
9050s	not to wonder how it's even playable at
9052s	all what is this deck doing that makes
9053s	it special like with wig priests you
9056s	know you have these ridiculous turns
9057s	where you can give yourself like plus uh
9060s	I don't know like plus seven plus
9061s	fourteen so it'll be ridiculous like
9063s	that in a single turn just from these
9065s	wigs a big spell Mage you know you're
9067s	playing five six Mana
9069s	um very very early uh Drake fire amulet
9072s	Rune of the archmage that can just win
9074s	you the game on the spot uh whereas the
9076s	Rogue you know it's a pretty fair deck
9079s	in all honesty especially if you're not
9081s	playing the thief package you're going
9082s	five Mana six six off the ashar
9084s	investors like the best thing you can do
9086s	in the early turns the wild porno yes
9088s	very powerful but have been nerfed
9090s	recently back down to uh to three attack
9093s	um and so I think especially as I've
9095s	said before when there's a lot of
9096s	renothel knocking about I think Rogue
9098s	starts to take a big hit especially this
9100s	version does just run the full-on damage
9102s	the pirate package with Mr Smite as well
9104s	uh but given that provinka does not have
9106s	any of the Renault decks uh I have I
9109s	have hopes that Luna will be able to get
9111s	it done but I am right there with you
9113s	that I think it could be the other weak
9114s	spot in both of our players lineups yeah
9116s	we are going to see a matchup I believe
9118s	we saw or at least I saw in the first uh
9121s	round as well with just uh just to see
9123s	how good the hunter actually is there's
9125s	different Hunter of course but again
9127s	it's a tough one versus Rogue because I
9129s	think this is why Rogue Stills is sort
9131s	of hanging on is some games you do just
9134s	pop off right you just get the draws
9136s	yeah and the sort of early draws well
9138s	you get the nulls down early then sort
9140s	of smoothly transition to like krabatoa
9143s	and the boats and then that's often
9145s	pretty good right you know if you need
9146s	some extra spell damage to end the game
9148s	great but if you just don't actually do
9151s	exactly that it can suffer just a little
9154s	bit so let's dive into game number one
9156s	and check out these Mulligans and for
9159s	you Derek is shroud of concealment a an
9163s	auto keep because we've seen it in
9165s	different versions of Rogue in the past
9167s	where it is one of the best cards in
9168s	your opening hand but this this deck
9170s	does work just a little bit differently
9172s	than some others there are some other
9174s	similar Rogues we've seen in the past
9176s	yeah I mean the main thing you're
9177s	looking for off of it is obviously to
9179s	have it be the first row card you play
9182s	and then draw nulls off of it because
9185s	then they still get the discount because
9186s	you are wild the spell is being cast
9189s	you're still not in Rogue form so it
9191s	still discounts them but that becomes a
9194s	little bit awkward because you have prep
9195s	in hand so you would much rather go prep
9198s	into the Shroud on the same turn in
9200s	order to get them down but then the prep
9202s	is the first road card you play so
9204s	you'll know might not be cheap enough so
9205s	it gets a little bit a little bit
9206s	difficult there so I am perfectly fine
9208s	with Luna here throwing it away with no
9210s	nulls in hand no guaranteed way to be
9212s	able to cheapen them it wasn't
9213s	necessarily going to be good enough but
9215s	the way this has worked out by getting
9217s	cutlers and discounting shroud it
9219s	literally could not be a more perfect
9221s	series of events yeah this is just one
9225s	of the best openings if not the best
9228s	that you can get right disgusting turned
9230s	two shroud into double null and then the
9233s	problem here is if you just uh casterize
9235s	to the top of the screen protinker's
9237s	opening is not quite as strong I would
9239s	say there is the Harpoon Gun in hand but
9242s	yeah that's where my sentence stops
9245s	because that's really the only Shining
9247s	Light of this hand so far
9250s	yeah I mean it's it's okay there's
9252s	something going on here right with it
9253s	the fact that it's almost uh sorry it's
9255s	purely big beasts in the deck being able
9257s	to go quite into pet collector and then
9260s	have the follow-up of the revive pet
9263s	afterwards in order to get yourself
9264s	another mountain bear another king crush
9267s	or a hydralodon uh oh sorry with the
9269s	orade in hand basically King crush or
9270s	mountain bear is the kind of play that I
9272s	think could Salvage this one for pro
9274s	thinker however lunar is not slowing
9277s	down it's just another couple of Philip
9279s	Fighters which are very difficult for
9281s	Hunter to deal with Mida is a fantastic
9283s	turn for play as well this is the
9286s	filthiest start to a game for rogue I
9288s	think I've ever seen yeah and this is
9290s	the problem right Harpoon comes down
9292s	here which is fine everything is going
9294s	to take a look at what's on offer here
9297s	on the a
9300s	uh uh it has to be Saban I think it does
9304s	yeah save a trade revive pet next term I
9308s	don't know um there is the coin into
9310s	collect as you mentioned but uh oh it's
9313s	so tricky
9319s	well at least the uh saber means the
9321s	OPEC collector is guaranteed to
9324s	uh oh no sorry guaranteed to get
9326s	yourself the uh
9327s	Azar and Sabers you need to have it die
9329s	so it means the pet collector is still
9331s	an extra full turn away yeah yeah
9336s	I mean collector could still just rip
9338s	King Crush right like they're still just
9340s	and all the other bear so there's still
9342s	things but
9344s	uh just one no it's five or less yeah I
9347s	think I was confusing you sorry
9349s	ah this is just I think it might just
9353s	have to be like saber
9355s	and then just
9357s	go for it next term with revive pet and
9360s	I think with this coin onto yeah because
9362s	kind of shows that that's probably gonna
9365s	have to be the plan
9369s	man that's so bad like this just never
9372s	ever gets there does it and it's the
9374s	fact that there's Mida here and then
9376s	there's just Wicked stab dagger next
9378s	right oh yeah rest they're absolutely
9382s	brutal not only the double Knolls in
9384s	like the perfect outcome but double
9387s	Philip and then the midaround curve it's
9390s	just
9391s	there's just nothing for think it's
9393s	gonna do or can do
9397s	so trade azsharon saber kill off one of
9400s	the nulls you take three damage down to
9402s	nine there's seven on board so dagger
9404s	you're not technically dead and then
9406s	next turn you can try and go for
9408s	uh this uh jar and save or the sun can
9412s	save us sorry right uh into getting
9414s	yourself the uh mountain bear uh to pull
9417s	things back
9422s	uh yeah unfortunately that's just not
9425s	gonna work the uh the wicked style can
9427s	cleanse things out no matter what even
9428s	if that wasn't there I think we can see
9430s	it's just such a slim chance for
9433s	prithika to be able to even get there at
9435s	all this and this is rough as well
9436s	because prothinker is actually playing a
9439s	list that has sort of more active early
9442s	game than others and just west on
9445s	drawing it big time like no canine
9448s	Ultron uh the the the one drop he got
9452s	was obviously here with clocker on turn
9455s	four which I will turn three sorry which
9457s	is just isn't great so yeah it's just a
9460s	little bit unfortunate but again if
9463s	we're talking strength of Rogue if that
9465s	was your opening hand every game Rogue
9468s	would be the best deck in the game
9469s	because that is absolutely brutal and
9471s	Luna is gonna take game number one in
9475s	Rapid fashion yep just absolutely
9477s	nothing that thinker could do at all I
9479s	think it was a good setup from him
9482s	because it did mean that there was if
9485s	he'd survived one last turn the
9487s	possibility to go for those kind of
9489s	plays that can turn things around right
9490s	he still had the pet collector in hand
9492s	to get himself an Azar and saber he
9494s	would have drawn one off the top with a
9495s	swing of the web as well right which
9496s	could have then been playable for one
9498s	manner so he was making these kind of
9500s	powerful plays that can really start to
9501s	turn things around but
9504s	um in the face of a turn to double null
9506s	obviously that's not going to be good
9508s	enough even down at three attack Luna
9510s	was still able to get things done which
9511s	means I mean right out the gate Raven
9513s	the deck that we were thinking might be
9515s	a struggle point for Luna was just the
9517s	easiest win of her absolute Hearthstone
9519s	life yeah well we got her made to look
9521s	rather stupid didn't we this game but
9524s	yeah there's a pretty brutal and again I
9527s	do agree I think pratinka did a what
9529s	they could do here to try and just
9531s	defend and give any possible out but one
9534s	of the problems as well in that scenario
9536s	was uh Hydra was in hand one of the
9539s	mountain bears was already in hand which
9541s	makes the likelihood of ripping them
9543s	from the deck obviously lower because
9544s	there's only one instead of two it was
9547s	just downhill from the beginning but I
9548s	think the important factor when for one
9551s	of a better phrase when you get
9552s	absolutely dumpstered like that game one
9554s	forget about it never happened move on
9557s	it's like because there's nothing you
9559s	could have done and it's easy to just
9561s	crack on it looks like I think it's
9563s	taking a a little bit of a break from
9565s	the hunter moving off to the demon
9567s	variety of Hunter here jumping over to
9569s	that for the next deck and there don't
9571s	blame him at all after your Hunter draw
9573s	doing that to you in game number one
9576s	yeah it really was something else wasn't
9577s	it uh and it's the kind of thing that I
9580s	was gonna say uh I thought prithika
9582s	could struggle with because I hadn't
9584s	heard of him as a player before I
9585s	thought that he might be a newcomer here
9587s	but actually he's been around the block
9589s	in Masters tours he this is his sixth
9591s	Masters Tour and he's yet to go negative
9594s	uh in scoreline which is a very very
9597s	impressive fee even if he's uh never
9599s	made better than six and two uh so he's
9601s	never made a top 16. that level of
9603s	consistency is the kind of thing that
9605s	doesn't go unrewarded forever eventually
9607s	you will be getting up to that score
9609s	line where you're able to make it
9610s	through to a top 16 and start looking at
9613s	summer or fall Champs but that's it
9615s	especially now if you're oh yeah
9617s	churning out six twos Left Right Center
9619s	well that's gonna start looking good
9621s	because then you only need one well like
9623s	sort of one tournament to just cut you
9625s	to top 16 and then you're looking easily
9628s	in the running for for a championship
9630s	right that's a really strong
9631s	performances overall we are taking a
9633s	quick look at the fell Demon Hunter it
9635s	looks very very standard there there was
9638s	of course the um
9640s	I'm completely blank on the name of the
9642s	legendary that was Nerf Arya uh yeah
9644s	carrier there that's gone now and I've
9646s	seen a lot of players just put in the um
9648s	the weapon as well the bone glaive just
9650s	to kind of it's not the same but it's
9652s	still just more damage there's something
9654s	around that Mana cost but yeah very
9656s	standard list I don't think there's
9657s	anything too crazy going on in fell
9659s	Demon Hunter at the moment too many
9661s	crazy texts or anything like that so
9663s	pretty expected list there and the list
9664s	I do like I do think even though uh
9667s	people are saying aggro can't cut it
9668s	anymore I think demons are still very
9670s	strong and now Luna is going to be
9672s	moving on to the big spell Mage and
9674s	again this is a deck that is just uh
9677s	jumped massively in popularity with the
9679s	help of a couple of cards and also just
9681s	uh The Meta kind of Shifting itself
9685s	there not too long ago as well with this
9688s	kind of Belinda plus the Drake fire
9689s	amulet cheese that you can do but
9692s	they're right now super popular not a
9694s	deck I'm personally a huge fan of but I
9697s	think I can appreciate why it's strong
9700s	I'm a huge fan of it I queued up two
9702s	games just before our matches started
9704s	and I drew Belinda both times and
9706s	surprise surprise I won both games uh
9709s	and then uh yeah when you don't you
9711s	start to see that it becomes a lot less
9713s	enjoyable uh but it's it's a cool deck I
9715s	think I'm glad the big spellmage has
9717s	finally found its home it's like kind of
9720s	existed a couple of points in
9721s	hearthstone's history but I don't think
9723s	it's ever been uh quite so uh dominant
9726s	as it is quite here being I believe the
9729s	single most brought archetype to the
9731s	Masters Tour at above 50 uh which uh
9735s	it's cool to see you know again it
9737s	really does show that
9739s	the progression of the Hearthstone meta
9741s	is not something that happens
9742s	automatically right you need people to
9744s	come forward and say I believe this deck
9747s	is the best deck in the game and then it
9748s	starts to take off on ladder and then it
9750s	starts to really see high representation
9752s	in these competitive tournaments and for
9754s	me the big player was uh again surprise
9757s	surprise Habu gabu playing this deck a
9759s	whole lot tweeting about how strong he
9761s	believes it to be and playing a good
9763s	amount on stream as well perfecting that
9764s	list as well in my opinion
9767s	um and it's uh it's cool to see that his
9769s	influence is being felt more and more in
9771s	the Hearthstone Met game as one of the
9772s	most creative uh sorry creative and
9774s	insightful deck builders I think we have
9777s	and one thing here that's going to be
9780s	very interesting about this game is the
9782s	weakness of this Mage list and might be
9787s	preyed upon Here by The Thinker because
9788s	one thing I found when I've tried it
9790s	I've been playing it a little bit is
9792s	when when you just don't have like the
9794s	good early game cards you can get
9797s	steamrolled a little bit and if you're
9799s	spending time trying to like uh trade up
9801s	all the Drake fire elements back in your
9803s	deck you don't get hold of the armor
9804s	gain that you need
9806s	it can feel a little bit clunky you know
9809s	you can end up with like no but I was
9811s	gonna say no Belinda haha
9813s	um but then like you know you've just
9814s	got like a parrot and a couple of other
9816s	things in your hand that don't do
9817s	anything and then you're like oh no I've
9819s	got to wait more turns oh I'm dead so we
9822s	will see how it pans out but
9824s	the Belinda pickup and about 100 coins
9827s	some conversations right now because I
9830s	will say that the coins in this matchup
9834s	definitely benefit Luna on the Mage more
9837s	than the Demon Hunter from thinker
9839s	because in some matchups the coins feel
9841s	neutral because obviously well you're
9844s	likely to both get a coin and certain
9847s	classes or decks use coins in a really
9849s	efficient way Demon Hunter I don't think
9852s	so because they're already so efficient
9854s	manner-wise
9855s	yeah absolutely and there's not quite so
9858s	much card draw in the deck now as there
9860s	was uh previously you know with uh none
9863s	of the nonsense that you were playing in
9865s	order to facilitate a uh an otk uh
9868s	package that you were in the good old
9869s	days it's still a good amount of course
9871s	uh but not so much that you can just
9872s	draw a million cards spend all their
9874s	manner on coins and then still develop a
9876s	nice bit forward afterwards yeah it's
9878s	like the aggro kind of card draw instead
9881s	of right combo kind of card draw right
9883s	where it's it's like uh it's a trickle
9886s	of draws as opposed to really popping
9888s	off in any given turn very true yeah
9892s	um but yeah it's the perfect curve right
9895s	it's turn four Belinda turn five uh
9897s	Drake fire amulet or roon of the arc
9900s	Mage both of which I think would be
9902s	absolutely fine obviously the uh the
9905s	amulet is a little bit better uh given
9907s	that they're not likely to have too big
9908s	of a board by that point in the game but
9909s	you'd happily take either and also just
9912s	thematically I think it works very well
9913s	because mailbox dancer I think perfectly
9915s	portrays the emotion that you're trying
9917s	to uh send to your opponent of a turn
9919s	for Belinda yeah I do love mailbox
9922s	dancer because it's a it's a card and
9925s	art that has just been directly taken
9929s	from World of Warcraft uh where there
9931s	are so many human characters on top of
9933s	the mailbox in Stormwind oh really that
9935s	is the human dance if you type slash
9937s	dance they do that
9939s	and you'd see people because the mailbox
9941s	is where you'd see loads of characters
9943s	because they get mail from auction house
9945s	and so on there's loads of people stood
9946s	around it and then they'll just there's
9948s	always one just stood on the mailbox
9950s	dancing and they're just throw just in
9952s	their hips and you're just like oh this
9954s	is a great game
9957s	ah don't they sound like
9960s	the coolest people around oh yeah I
9963s	promise I've never done that
9966s	all right well for thinking here with
9968s	the uh the metamorphin that probably has
9972s	to be the first Port of Call here
9973s	because even though activating dread
9975s	prison glaive would be nice uh on this
9978s	turn just to be able to get a bit of
9980s	damage through uh I don't really see it
9983s	as the uh oh sorry uh Frozen anyway so
9985s	not available to do on this turn uh but
9987s	yeah just getting the metamorphin set up
9989s	as soon as possible and I guess going
9991s	for the draw this turn giving your hero
9993s	is frozen makes sense yeah Pelican
9995s	coming down as well like a week good
9997s	card yeah it's insane I don't think it
10000s	was respected that much when it was
10001s	announced and now suddenly it's the best
10003s	card in the game it's kind of hilarious
10006s	um but yeah it's just awkward again like
10009s	the early game for Demon Hunter is about
10011s	pushing with those minions and already
10013s	pretinka's just getting out-tempoed
10015s	which is disastrous when we can see that
10018s	coin coin Belinda is on offer next turn
10021s	that this just again feels like a game
10025s	is going to be very difficult for
10027s	prothinker to recover from because Luna
10029s	yet again has just gotten hold of the
10032s	board
10033s	and so the way that you can
10035s	squeeze out some kind of an advantage
10037s	from this situation or make the best of
10039s	a bad situation for thinker is the fact
10041s	that you know very likely given that
10043s	they've saved coin and have another one
10044s	on the following term the expected play
10046s	is again Belinda which means they're not
10048s	answering your board on that following
10050s	turn and so battle one Vanguard is a uh
10053s	oh sorry I guess the Pelican does help
10055s	but either way you can get it online get
10057s	a couple of activations from it with the
10059s	uh the multi-strike and then hope to
10061s	push extra damage on the following turn
10064s	The Coin would also mean that curtress
10067s	becomes available next turn as well
10070s	um and I think it is opting to not go
10072s	for the multi-strike instead which again
10074s	I guess is reasonable because you could
10076s	could go for a uh a big multi-strike
10078s	play next turn to kill off the Belinda
10080s	and then follow up with more damage face
10083s	um and so I think the heart of the play
10084s	is still very much here for thinker in
10086s	terms of punishing just a uh a single
10088s	Minion coming down
10090s	foreign
10112s	how much is that five six eight okay I
10115s	mean
10116s	there is just a swing right
10120s	yeah you can get up to ten right okay
10125s	with uh the coins slotted in as well if
10127s	you wanted to which is a huge amount of
10129s	damage
10133s	wait is it nine uh oh sorry up to nine
10136s	oh no no sorry yeah with one of the one
10137s	ones as well okay yeah yeah yeah yeah I
10139s	was confused it's still fine because he
10141s	he can kill it anyway it's no problem I
10143s	was just like oh I know I'm tired but I
10145s	thought I could count to ten
10147s	oh I can't Raven okay
10150s	sorry
10153s	here though it looks bad to tank the
10156s	nine but I think at this point you tank
10158s	the nine every day because it helps you
10161s	push damage and put some level of threat
10163s	on right if uh if Luna and again this is
10166s	unlikely but if Luna whiffs on the Drake
10168s	fire yeah there's a small window right
10170s	that just is
10172s	yeah exactly and I mean the Drake fire
10174s	Hamlet if you hit big dragons that don't
10176s	have taunts there's a reasonable chance
10178s	they will have more Health than Luna has
10182s	of the following turn and so then all of
10183s	a sudden a lady safino and fell barrage
10186s	become very possible lethal options next
10188s	turn as well
10197s	I mean I think uh again sorry it's
10199s	really got to be said here for thinker
10201s	that the Real Genius play was actually
10202s	not going for what I was advising of
10204s	using the the multi-strike on the same
10207s	turn right you went for the Vanguard it
10209s	was saving it for a big Berlin I think
10211s	he knew exactly what was going to be
10212s	played from Luna and really cleverly set
10215s	up a punish to that uh to have a chance
10217s	in this game kind of interest in this
10219s	isn't it because there's evoker which
10221s	would get what nine or ten armor but
10225s	there's also just Rune of the arc Mage I
10228s	don't think Drake fire is the correct
10231s	answer right now really maybe maybe it's
10234s	just me but I feel like there's
10237s	traditions in the deck you know what I
10239s	mean like I'm wondering if you just need
10240s	something more and if okay I don't mind
10242s	either because it's just why to be a
10244s	good amount of armor
10247s	I mean mission accomplished straight
10249s	away for prothinka to be able to push
10250s	Luna off of a five-manage fire amulet is
10254s	absolutely incredible at this point in
10256s	the game uh and now the decision needs
10258s	to be made once again when weighing up
10260s	damage verse board because curtress is
10263s	quite clearly the strongest board option
10264s	available to prothinker here which would
10267s	also ramp up the amount of damage
10269s	available next turn
10270s	but just dread prison plus the uh the
10273s	chaos strike on this turn plus even a
10275s	metamorphin as well is a pretty good
10277s	amount of damage
10280s	yeah I kind of like actually because you
10283s	can even save the hero power right
10286s	and oh no you'd still need Arrow power
10289s	okay yeah I was looking at whether you
10291s	can still squeeze in the sigil but still
10295s	like I I do like just pushing damage
10297s	here and not worrying about Kurt just
10299s	because kuch's biggest Factor right now
10301s	is if the Drake fire comes down you kind
10304s	of have an answer with the rush minions
10306s	why not make the rush minions bigger
10308s	right you're still pushing damage why
10311s	not so yeah I really like this just
10313s	taking away some of that armor down to
10314s	nine now for Luna
10317s	I'm again
10320s	and Drake fire amulet I think it just
10322s	has to be right you have a decent chance
10324s	of hitting taunt off the primordial
10326s	Drake or the Sleepy dragon
10332s	yeah it's true I I guess you've seen
10334s	enough
10335s	of spells now for the weapon attacks to
10338s	feel safe
10343s	Cali
10348s	or no taunt no taunt
10356s	what is this now one two three four five
10359s	oh that's lethal right
10362s	how much is that five yep that's just
10364s	lethal that'll do it because the dragons
10366s	are too big
10368s	wow Demon Hunter gets there I knew I had
10371s	faith in this deck for a reason and that
10373s	was a early Belinda Derek that was very
10376s	well played by papinka and a rewarded
10379s	massively for just being cool under the
10382s	pressure of no feeling like you are
10384s	gonna get turned forward Belinda and
10386s	that was crazy
10388s	yep an absolutely gorgeous game from pre
10390s	thinker I think the lines he took were
10391s	pretty much the uh the only way to get
10394s	through that game it was a very very
10395s	narrow path and he tread it absolutely
10397s	or Trot it uh absolutely perfectly uh
10400s	for Luna the only other options that she
10401s	had that game which she was toying with
10403s	I think were
10405s	um right at the start of the game she
10406s	could have gone coin mailbox dancer
10408s	mailbox dancer which would then still
10410s	have given her the two coins necessary
10412s	to go coin coin Belinda I don't think
10415s	that would have made a difference
10416s	because the problem from prisinka wasn't
10417s	really early pressure on turns one two
10420s	and three uh it was that big pop-up that
10421s	we saw with the dread prison blade as
10423s	well and for Luna
10425s	you know the the real debate turn has to
10427s	be that turn five where it was throw
10430s	caution to the wind and just slam the
10431s	Drake fire amulet or take the much more
10434s	cautious route of gaining the armor and
10436s	then hoping to go off uh on the
10437s	following turn I think if I was in that
10440s	instance and I was just playing on
10441s	ladder it would have just been a slam
10443s	Drake fire amulet and pray for the good
10445s	dragons but I can totally see her
10447s	thinking that there are so many draws
10449s	for her opponent that just lose her the
10451s	game on the spot she goes for that yeah
10454s	I think I would have definitely just
10455s	done ruin of arguments of course cast it
10459s	again with uh Pat pirate the turn after
10461s	let's be like well you know what so
10464s	semi-seriously here yeah the position
10467s	she was in she needed something big to
10469s	happen and two dragons like yeah you
10472s	could have got a taunt that's fine it
10475s	doesn't win you the game but it's fine
10476s	and then yes there's the armor from the
10478s	evoker that we saw but it was a
10481s	basically an evoke a past turn which
10483s	means that well your opponent is going
10484s	to hit you again right so I do
10486s	understand it but I think like there's
10488s	an argument that in that position you're
10490s	so far behind that you do just need ruin
10493s	about majoring about it's back to back
10495s	to try and get you know potential ice
10496s	barrier products to freeze your
10498s	opponents somehow yeah and you know just
10501s	burn them you know just do something uh
10503s	you know maybe that was the case but
10505s	don't get me wrong I am not saying the
10507s	other options were bad by any means they
10509s	all made sense and I am a bit of an
10511s	idiot so I would have just played rude
10514s	um but we are moving on now it looks
10516s	like both players are queuing the decks
10518s	they have already lost with so Mage once
10520s	again for Luna and it's going to be the
10521s	hunter for thinker another interesting
10524s	matchup because we do see again one of
10527s	the weird weaknesses of Mage is they
10530s	don't really have a way to react because
10532s	they need to be proactive at all times
10534s	right like they don't really have the
10537s	Spells they just have minions to play
10538s	early and then they make big dragons or
10541s	do some stuff with ruin later whereas
10544s	the Hunter's ability to keep pound on
10546s	pressure and might make this a pretty
10548s	interesting matchup for game number
10550s	three
10551s	it's a very weird couple of decks going
10553s	up against each other where uh the the
10556s	variance in terms of power level for
10558s	both decks is so so high like the power
10561s	ceiling is astronomical but the floor is
10564s	just uh you know it's six feet
10566s	underground right where uh if you miss
10568s	the Belinda or the bar uh the the
10570s	sorcerer or the sorcerer sorry for the
10572s	Mage then you are just doing very very
10575s	weak things indeed and same thing for
10577s	the hunter you know if you're drawing
10578s	your king Crush you'll bear your
10579s	hydralodon and your pet collector
10582s	without being able to get the Azure and
10583s	saber properly working online you just
10585s	do nothing the deck is so so weak the
10588s	best chance you have then is an early
10589s	curve in terms of One Drops two drops
10591s	and smoking out the Mage that way but
10594s	that's very unlikely to happen because
10595s	the Mages early game is actually not
10596s	that bad in terms of just stats online
10599s	uh from the opponent and so for both
10602s	players I think it should be a a pretty
10604s	all-in push to find their power Spike
10606s	plays because just going for Tit for Tat
10608s	uh I don't know maybe one of these
10610s	players knows is it better than I do but
10612s	it would honestly just be guesswork I
10614s	think so would come out ahead uh if you
10617s	just play your decent uh least added
10619s	cards on curve you really would much
10621s	rather just hit those uh those power
10622s	spikes yeah it's definitely tricky
10625s	indeed uh we do just have a disconnect
10627s	as you can see there so we'll wait to
10629s	see if that gets sorted out hopefully it
10631s	will but yeah I actually played against
10633s	some Hunters uh that were actually
10635s	running the you know the watch posts and
10637s	I found that to be like a bit of a
10639s	problem because again although Hunter
10641s	wants to play on curve a lot of the time
10643s	they're really going for that turn three
10645s	weapon turn four saber then start
10648s	rolling from there onwards so like the
10650s	watch poster it was like turn to watch
10652s	post turn three watch post and then they
10654s	curved and I was like well this is a
10656s	disaster like how am I supposed to deal
10658s	with this because I was Demon Hunter as
10659s	well so like that was a bit of a problem
10661s	that I was facing where everything was
10663s	costing one more and they were just
10665s	smoothly get into the late game which is
10667s	where Hunter wants to be so little bit
10670s	scary overall it looks like we are good
10672s	to get back into the game reconnect
10674s	feature kicking in as always and a bit
10677s	more pressure being uh put down there
10679s	for a pradinka but nothing too great to
10682s	follow with Boardwalk eyes but there is
10684s	that Harpoon Gun in hand yeah exactly I
10687s	can hope to smooth out your curve
10688s	especially if you can find the uh the
10691s	one-off Assurance table which would be
10692s	the the naughty drawer here I think
10694s	undeniably just to then dredge up the uh
10696s	yeah the sunken version as well uh but
10700s	for lunalup on the other side it's a
10703s	decent enough start to the game right
10704s	she's got a decent amount of border
10706s	control option uh the deep water revoker
10708s	can gain her the necessary armor uh to
10710s	see her way through this early game I
10712s	think uh both players have all the tools
10714s	they need necessarily to come out of the
10716s	early game without falling too far
10719s	behind but still neither player has the
10721s	uh the power Spike cars as I was talking
10723s	about to really lock out this game uh so
10726s	it's really just anybody's shot at the
10728s	moment
10730s	yeah I do think if you're playing this
10732s	Mage and your opening hand is Deepwater
10733s	revoker you're probably fine right like
10736s	it's just a good it's a good step one
10738s	you're probably just okay here
10742s	and not fanastic for patinka but I
10746s	imagine it just has to be pet collector
10748s	agreed yeah none of these are beast
10750s	right so you're not getting the discount
10751s	anyway
10753s	pet collect is just the next best card
10756s	right potential layer doggy biscuit and
10758s	that's next turn or just a draw for
10761s	example and then go from there
10763s	absolutely yeah you go pet collector
10766s	it's guaranteed to get you the Azure and
10768s	saber right and then you can uh have it
10771s	die dredge out the sun conversion and
10773s	then with the revive pet and one of the
10775s	beasts you summon out the tools are
10777s	there for prothinker it's going to take
10778s	a good two three turns for him to really
10781s	start getting those stats online but
10783s	it's a uh uh a trackable sequence of
10786s	events right you know all the steps are
10788s	achievable at all points along the way
10790s	with all the tutor effects
10796s	[Music]
10797s	few pings there from The Reckless
10800s	now this straw is going to be absolutely
10805s	Bob Net's going to be able to help clear
10807s	this up with another swing gonna need to
10809s	find something a little bit better
10811s	obviously if I think it knows two out of
10813s	the three options and they're both kind
10815s	of bad so
10818s	yeah I I don't think you can swing here
10821s	I think you need to go for pet collector
10823s	have your saber die off and then use the
10824s	dredge to get yourself uh the sunken
10828s	saber uh uh even though you know you do
10831s	want to swing here and you're having a
10832s	very weak turn without it uh I just
10835s	think the uh the power of those
10837s	guaranteed plays is too important I can
10839s	see it just go biscuit and that's
10841s	instead maybe yeah and just call it a
10844s	day unfortunately it's a little bit
10845s	rough it does mean that you can just
10847s	whip a hero power in so it seems fine
10850s	overall
10855s	when you just go in a little bit slow
10857s	and you don't really have a great game
10860s	plan or at least it's a slow game plan
10862s	against this Mage you are feeling a
10864s	little bit afraid
10867s	definitely scary but you have seen the
10869s	coin be used on just a
10873s	Reckless Apprentice sorry in order to
10875s	clear off the board which they probably
10876s	would not do if they had the Belinda in
10880s	hand and so I think for the moment here
10882s	for thinker it's very very difficult to
10885s	make these reads when you can't see the
10886s	hand but if I was him I think I would be
10888s	feeling good here I think you should be
10890s	feeling positive about its position in
10891s	the game
10895s	I mean especially with this board like
10896s	this is just absolutely perfect Tech
10898s	collector to get you the saber perfectly
10899s	clears off the board the weapon can be
10901s	used to dredge out the other one it's
10903s	the dream
10905s	yeah start of the recovery phase right
10908s	now for pathinka and again just with a
10911s	revived pet this can start to get pretty
10913s	huge and just start stacking exactly
10915s	what he needs it just really does need
10917s	to get I don't know even at this point
10921s	I guess anything would be good except
10923s	for maybe a hydraulican right off the uh
10926s	the sunken uh yeah yeah I guess that
10930s	might be a little bit Rocky it depends
10931s	what uh what board they play
10937s	but it could just be a very very good
10939s	amount of damage
10940s	and again spammy Arcanist is a dubious
10943s	Prospect against the Hydraulics yeah
10946s	I've already witnessed that one too many
10948s	times for today and that was a once so
10953s	face again definitely here looking to be
10955s	a slightly more aggressive uh retaining
10958s	the health on the clocker
10962s	I quite like this though because I I
10964s	honestly feel like against this mage
10966s	deck uh if you're dead you're dead it
10968s	doesn't really matter what health you're
10969s	on because the opponent's probably got
10972s	two massive dragons or more on board so
10974s	like just trade a bit of Health to keep
10977s	your own minions up and start pressuring
10979s	that way
10981s	Luna I've got to imagine is going to be
10982s	starting to feel the pressure now
10985s	barbaric sorceress is a fantastic pickup
10987s	because any spell in your opponent's
10989s	hand whatsoever and you're very very
10991s	happy just to get that Rune of the
10993s	archmage possible uh because again she
10995s	she needs to studying her own power
10997s	Spike place which barbaric sorceress
10998s	does finally open up uh I think you're
11004s	probably okay with ending with mailbox
11006s	dancer here uh it obviously means you
11008s	have to go coin into the barbaric
11010s	sorceress but that's fine I think the
11012s	Varden can
11014s	probably find a better usage over the
11016s	course I was actually wondering whether
11017s	it's ever just pelcon punch them okay so
11021s	there's nothing to trade into from the
11023s	card you know is coming this term well
11025s	that's a good point yeah that is a good
11026s	point it is a death rattle so uh you
11028s	could
11030s	disrupted their ability to summon any
11031s	big beasts
11034s	yeah exactly it's a reasonable
11036s	assumption the other two cards probably
11038s	aren't great based on that turn three is
11041s	it Autumn four maybe so like just not
11043s	playing something into this sunken which
11045s	you know for sure is going to be in hand
11052s	okay well that's probably the best
11054s	outcome for Luna uh just because it's
11056s	the lowest attack
11061s	yeah minus the Hydra of course
11065s	uh sure yes sorry
11069s	it's gonna stop again taken out of lists
11071s	purely because of spamia yeah true
11073s	actually
11074s	[Music]
11077s	uh so I will say better than the king
11079s	Crush
11080s	Stephanie
11083s	uh but if it's worth just committing the
11085s	revived pet here for the no time for
11088s	games oh I watched just to get the uh
11090s	the sun can say but
11093s	how bad actually is it to be fair well I
11096s	was just thinking as well to it either
11098s	dies which feels unlikely
11101s	or it pushes for next turn right right
11103s	and it it also plays around sorceress
11106s	pretty heavily I like it I think it is
11108s	the play and the end having thought
11109s	about it yeah
11110s	and it might just pull King crush and
11112s	you win like it's very true it feels
11114s	like the upsides are way more than like
11116s	saving it and then the Bears got to die
11119s	then you just summon another bear which
11120s	is a very good card but is it a
11123s	game-winning card
11125s	and so now the play for Luna becomes
11129s	pretty much summon hydralodon for my
11132s	opponent uh and then hope to clear the
11134s	board that way with spammy Arcanist
11135s	because currently
11137s	uh there's no way to make it work right
11140s	Pelican unfortunately lays dormant for a
11142s	turn so you can't use that to give
11144s	yourself a one uh Health minion on the
11146s	board and the Ping On the uh the 3-2
11150s	doesn't quite work yeah not enough
11153s	I even like mailbox coin it's not really
11157s	anything that quite works out
11159s	yeah I needed a zero amount of ping this
11161s	turn really to make anything happen
11163s	right yeah I think you just have to take
11165s	your beatings for a turn and I do agree
11168s	that it's Pelican uh it's all of this
11171s	stuff instead of the uh
11174s	the barbaric sorceress as close as it is
11176s	like sorceress just doesn't really do
11178s	enough and the Pelican gives you a
11180s	slightly higher chance of being able to
11182s	clear with spammy Arc in his next turn
11186s	but now certainly the three two
11189s	and fourth three to trade
11192s	I think I really wants
11194s	would be very clean coin out the the
11197s	mountain bear as well oh yeah and I'll
11200s	take that coin thank you
11205s	I could Mount him bear
11207s	offering from inflation
11211s	oh honestly there's a play I don't hate
11213s	which guess what is Derek all to face
11216s	hmm I like the way you think so how does
11219s	spammy alchemist interact with that uh
11224s	basically you're kind of just giving
11225s	them a full board Clear Eye I think they
11227s	should always be able to get that done
11229s	uh but for think of the the real big
11231s	fear the only fear here I think is fair
11233s	to say is spammy Arcanist everything
11235s	else
11236s	um
11236s	is uh is fine and so by sending this
11239s	whole face I think he's kind of
11241s	realizing that spami Arcanist probably
11243s	gets the job done no matter what here so
11245s	just get the damage through
11247s	yeah and also in
11249s	Luna goes to seven
11252s	you could just get a crush and also
11256s	I mean Arcanist would have to be played
11258s	which then means that the turn
11262s	look at this from the Luna though forced
11265s	them to take the coin and then ruin of
11267s	the archmage who needs spammy Arcanist
11269s	when this can get the job done instead
11271s	that is a whiff though that is also a
11274s	whiff that's basically kind of a whiff
11276s	for the amount of Mana it's spending
11280s	oh hey oh wait wait
11283s	oh but the freeze
11286s	insane
11287s	double Wildfire this turn as well that's
11289s	a three damage ping kicking out
11292s	oh my God this what a turn
11297s	yeah I guess if we were
11300s	being nitpicky about that term from
11303s	pretinka one minion trade into mailbox
11306s	just to blow the coin was bright yeah I
11310s	guess so that's normally what you try
11311s	and do against Mage right from turns
11313s	what six onwards is if you have coins or
11316s	could get coins yeah yeah them and play
11318s	them even if you don't spend the Mana
11320s	just to stop that from happening and
11323s	then you also get to just play mountain
11325s	bear as well which you know even though
11327s	it might die to spammy Arcanist they
11328s	might just not have it right
11332s	well if uh one Rune was good two runes
11335s	can only be better
11338s	definitely how it works
11348s	I'm gonna set up the kill on the bear
11350s	first if there's any AOE this will help
11353s	clear the board of course gonna start
11356s	earn the enemies to see if anything's
11358s	dead Sharon Blaster instant happens
11360s	every time
11365s	jellyfish
11366s	huge
11369s	oh very dead jellyfish
11373s	oh it's getting ripped apart both taunts
11376s	dead
11378s	there we go bored entirely disappeared
11381s	now the hero power not used on the
11383s	previous term for prothinka so the
11384s	actual chance of getting lethal is
11386s	starting to slip away the Hub poon gun
11388s	is the kind of card that can maybe get
11391s	you the lethal in the next one or two
11393s	turns but that taunt that 3-2 in the way
11396s	is just absolutely heartbreaking yeah I
11399s	mean there's revive pet
11403s	I draw it in
11405s	avish
11408s	quick shot mm-hmm
11411s	that's pretty much all uh all there is
11415s	to
11416s	I would say make a relevant impact on
11418s	the game
11419s	and even hydrology and less so because
11421s	of the Rune right
11424s	yep good point
11426s	this has to start with a trade on the
11428s	biscuit though regardless
11433s	I think I agree uh
11436s	I'm just wondering if you ever go with a
11437s	swing of the harpoon
11439s	burst but uh he should know what options
11442s	are on the bottom as well right I think
11444s	one to slow the spare oh yeah I think
11446s	you're right the space something
11450s	accurate guesses for me
11455s	yeah maybe a ramming Mount again oh yeah
11457s	I can't quite remember
11459s	we are really good
11461s	quick shot that was it okay that's a lot
11464s	better
11466s	as next turn all of a sudden we have uh
11468s	lethal set up
11471s	corporate thinker yeah but just concedes
11474s	because that was just lethal yeah yeah
11475s	the three damage hero power was enough
11477s	to make it up to 11 and lose oh win
11479s	there and that looked awfully close and
11483s	uh a little bit bad for patinka there
11485s	because everything was set up well the
11487s	pressure was on and then that pesky Rune
11490s	of the archmage causing absolute Havoc
11492s	as it is want to do and one of the
11495s	reasons why people are playing the deck
11496s	right
11497s	um weirdly enough maybe this is just
11499s	when I've been playing against it and
11501s	playing it but Rune of the outmage feels
11503s	more impactful a lot of the time than uh
11506s	the dragons themselves I feel like there
11508s	were just no answers to the level of
11510s	spells you can kick out with that and it
11512s	was dragons do have some ways to be
11514s	dealt with but still a little bit
11516s	unfortunate there everything just
11518s	locking him down in the wrong order even
11519s	the threes on the king Crush then the
11521s	blizzard as we've seen now with a
11523s	polymorph for good measure just locking
11526s	out any chance of that extra burst
11528s	damage yeah it was very very nicely
11530s	played by Luna and I think the the one
11531s	slip up from from I think to leave that
11534s	coin available to be put in Hand of the
11536s	barbaric sorceress to swap the costs
11537s	around is ultimately what uh cost him uh
11541s	that game which means that Luna love is
11543s	going to be moving up two games to one
11545s	just the wig priest left over to take a
11547s	win against either the uh what are the
11550s	remaining two decks uh the hunter or the
11553s	Mage uh from The Thinker on the other
11555s	side as well which I think is probably
11557s	two decent matchups uh for Luna right
11560s	the Hunter and the Mage both have
11563s	limited removal in these early turns
11566s	which is uh very often exactly what you
11569s	need against the Whig priest you need
11571s	some very very strong kill effects to
11573s	keep this board locked down because even
11575s	though they have these big pop-off turns
11577s	with the raiding Elemental with uh
11579s	Priestess Village in order to gain huge
11581s	amounts of mana and Buffs all on the
11583s	same turn for the most part with this
11585s	deck if you can just kill off every
11586s	minion on the turn it comes down that's
11589s	enough to bridge you the gap until you
11591s	hit whatever your deck is trying to do
11594s	yeah very very difficult for Hunter to
11596s	deal with this at least in my experience
11598s	because the priest if you look at a card
11601s	like mountain bear right the priest has
11603s	Shard which means is a you know the
11605s	one-way silence so he could just get rid
11607s	of that and also the hunter being able
11610s	to keep up is going to be very very
11612s	difficult it did especially with an
11614s	opening like this from Luna double wig
11617s	with a Merc War to scribe as the opening
11621s	wow like okay let's play because even
11625s	this right pathinka's opening hand
11627s	pretty good right like slitherspoon
11629s	scribe quick shot
11631s	but even that doesn't necessarily feel
11634s	good enough to keep up with the just
11637s	Relentless air Buffs from the wigs
11641s	man you can almost hear her tabbing out
11644s	print screening and getting ready to
11646s	send that screenshot to everyone I've
11648s	just wig me dude of the uh the perfect
11651s	start like double wig plus the motor
11653s	chord scribe as you said it's exactly
11655s	what you want to see and even though the
11658s	rest of this hand is a little bit
11659s	dubious right now uh with a lot of
11661s	spells and no nagas no card draw to back
11663s	it up it's still absolutely premium and
11666s	the the owner thinker to turn it around
11668s	I'll say though so this spear into doggy
11670s	biscuit is something you are looking for
11673s	as Hunter here and that's insane this is
11676s	exactly what is needed
11678s	let the one curve that keeps him in the
11681s	game against this start oh my goodness
11684s	and this is the only thing that can
11688s	happen after this opening to Luna it's a
11690s	big negative is just simply a bad draw a
11693s	Shard into handmaiden still rough
11696s	because there's just nothing to Target
11697s	you just need something to build on and
11701s	very very roughly indeed that the uh the
11704s	initial Naga got dispatched pretty
11705s	easily actually from pathinka
11709s	I guess be careful what you wish for
11711s	because with uh both wigs come every
11714s	spell in the deck apparently and even
11716s	though that you know that goes with the
11717s	handmaiden quite nicely in order to get
11719s	it activated if you have nothing to play
11721s	you can't if sorry if you have no
11723s	minions to play you can't really play
11724s	your spells because you don't want to
11726s	buff the opponent's cards uh on the
11728s	other side so Luna love still really
11730s	really looking for uh a uh a Slither
11733s	spear or basically any naga in the deck
11736s	uh in order to actually get this
11738s	handmade and activated because right now
11740s	it's like two three turns at least
11742s	before she really starts to kick this
11744s	game back in action
11745s	one thing I will say though is if you
11748s	haven't seen this pre-stick played that
11750s	often it is
11752s	surprising how late in the game you can
11755s	still win right even from an empty board
11758s	it is very doable it's way harder than
11761s	just steamrolling from the beginning but
11763s	it is still very doable I can see the
11766s	canadron played out here from patinka
11773s	look at that
11775s	yeah I think you should take the look
11777s	out of the summon
11778s	yeah it makes sense I was just looking
11780s	at you know how viable revived pet is
11783s	for example because you don't
11784s	necessarily need the correct choice
11787s	right if that makes I get you all the
11789s	time
11790s	okay Thrive not the spell what is
11794s	happening
11799s	oh
11802s	disgusting got to be done right
11805s	no it doesn't it feels too bad I refuse
11808s	to admit it has to be done okay
11812s	I mean it does but no no you've refused
11815s	now though nothing else
11827s	the dog is pride
11830s	it's because it's like the most stats
11836s	it's really not good but none of these
11839s	options are
11846s	it's not great but at least it's not
11850s	great and for thinkers ahead yeah as
11852s	opposed to be not great Angie behind
11856s	on now Malcolm with no the Nugget I mean
11858s	I
11860s	guess you just play it right
11863s	Malcolm double wig
11867s	oh or unless you can go Thrive into the
11870s	other
11872s	one devour
11874s	and amalgam Devourer
11876s	yeah or even Wade drive into Shard of
11880s	the narrow trade into a minion that
11883s	doesn't suck
11885s	it's really bad don't get me wrong but
11888s	it's just you know you look at this hand
11891s	and like a treasure guard is god-like
11894s	you know what I mean just like a
11897s	different minion it's insane here
11899s	we know the Devourer yet got to be done
11903s	problem is this is still just dead to
11907s	weapon swing right yes plus the 2-1 like
11910s	that's the issue the devour doesn't
11911s	actually push uh Luna's uh Malcolm out
11914s	of range of just what's on board
11917s	I mean again thankfully for Luna uh
11920s	prathinka's hand is pretty God awful
11922s	there's still nothing that can be done
11924s	here uh I mean naga's pride is okay yeah
11928s	it gets activated next time but then
11929s	that means you're not playing the mercor
11932s	to subscribe on this turn which means
11934s	you're floating even more manner like I
11935s	think you have to play it here yeah I
11937s	think just next turn the naga's pride
11940s	just to have a card you can get there
11942s	sure play right even if it's just
11944s	smaller
11945s	okay there we go a minion and a dream
11949s	yeah
11952s	now Luna needs it to be uh Naga all the
11955s	way down right now for this to work with
11957s	serpent wig I
11961s	I don't even mind the bless or maybe
11964s	even one wig is that crazy Derek am I
11967s	crazy
11969s	because if this dies surely that's just
11971s	game
11971s	I think don't play anything more it's
11974s	not like there's any really strong
11976s	predictable plays they're gonna come
11978s	down like if it was going into turn
11980s	seven and you knew you could play around
11981s	to hydralazon then yeah sure then you
11984s	can play as much as you can to get out
11985s	of range of that here though I think you
11987s	just uh do everything uh you can to make
11991s	you have more consistent gameplay and
11993s	with it living here uh Luna has a few
11996s	drawers that can keep her in this game
11998s	bless is not one of them though what are
12001s	these drawers there's like one spell
12003s	left in the deck
12007s	oh my
12009s	it's
12011s	been talking this deck up this weekend
12013s	and uh this game is it it normally works
12017s	out better than this a lot better than
12019s	this actually especially when you draw a
12021s	double wig like the only card that
12023s	matters yeah
12029s	and now it's all downhill because Luna's
12033s	about to enter the dreaded turns seven
12035s	against Hunter awareness the combo of
12037s	mountain bear or Hydra loading that can
12039s	actually just ruin her day
12046s	he said hide your loaded there made it
12048s	sound like the uh the belter loader from
12051s	the expanse
12054s	good show it's a good show taught me a
12057s	lot of things about space
12060s	couldn't work out why the the ships
12062s	flipped and then realized
12064s	it's very logical flip our Wars was not
12068s	100 scientifically accurate yeah who
12071s	knew
12073s	I wonder my uh Brian's homework was
12076s	wrong when I was from Star Wars
12081s	you know yeah it's just a nightmare and
12083s	now I said treasure guard is Godlike I I
12087s	think we're Beyond Godlike right now
12089s	because this is just too much
12091s	yeah it was completely Luna love can
12093s	concede whenever she's ready there are
12096s	no outs uh in this situation anymore
12098s	I'll never be ready
12101s	wait till the end I mean it's the right
12104s	thing to do I don't know maybe I'm being
12106s	stupid like if you get a uh
12109s	perfect draw of like the silence but
12112s	even then you don't have a another
12114s	Shadow at Davao which is I think the
12115s	card that you need to swing this one
12116s	back it's uh yeah it's nothing she's
12118s	just she knows it's over and it does
12120s	mean that we are pretty much certainly
12123s	going to be going to game five yeah
12126s	I think the big key here however much we
12129s	talk about hanging on versus not are
12131s	conceding versus not
12133s	it's lack of concede well
12136s	something could happen but if your
12137s	opponent just plays one more turn you
12140s	probably die if you're gonna lose so he
12141s	wasn't really a big change in time uh we
12144s	are going to go on to that last game
12145s	though of course as you said it's going
12146s	to be the priest once again against the
12149s	maid from patinka I'll just triple check
12152s	it is Big spell right oh I don't even
12155s	have the decklist up that's not a great
12156s	start is it I'm not doing my job uh yes
12158s	it is yeah yeah I did do the cards for
12160s	this so I assumed it was but this is
12163s	again another one where it's why I
12166s	thought priests looked good going into
12168s	this tournament not only because of all
12170s	the discussion around our NFL but um
12173s	just the fact that people seem to be
12174s	leaning more towards sort of slower uh
12177s	decks in general and I'd started playing
12180s	this priest and I was just killing him
12182s	like yeah you enjoy you turn six and
12184s	seven plays you're already dead and I
12186s	think yet again versus Mage that's
12188s	something that can definitely happen
12190s	because the spells in this deck are just
12192s	those Rune of the archmage and the um
12195s	the Drake fight Amulet of course and
12197s	before that you just have to say that if
12201s	if priest and Mage sort of equal
12203s	themselves on card quality then the
12206s	priests will laugh at Mage in the early
12207s	game and there's nothing really there to
12209s	stop them uh doing it so yeah I've got
12212s	high hopes for priest still even after
12214s	that unfortunate game there from Luna
12217s	that is true uh but I do think that uh
12220s	especially in the tournament lists uh as
12222s	compared to the ladder list there is a
12223s	little bit more that the spell major
12224s	access to uh number one double
12227s	smothering starfish that is the tech
12229s	card against wig priests to just
12230s	absolutely shut them down on these big
12232s	pop-up turns or at the very least force
12234s	them to play in a more conservative
12235s	manner even if you're happy in hand
12237s	they're rarely going to be going all in
12239s	on one big minion that can just lose to
12241s	a smothering starfish uh and even then
12243s	again talking about it uh once again the
12245s	Pelican diver is I think a very very
12247s	quick card to find in these early turns
12249s	because it means if your opponent just
12252s	goes uh Slither spear on turn one being
12255s	able to go Pelican diver in response is
12257s	very often the only answer in your deck
12259s	to be able to clear it off and it's very
12261s	often a good enough answer to be able to
12263s	stay alive in these starting turns so
12266s	for a prithinka obviously number one
12268s	you're wanting to find Belinda Barbara
12271s	uh oh sorry Pub Eric sorceress is
12273s	probably a number two follow-up uh but
12275s	again the Pelican the starfish very very
12277s	as well Barbosa sorcerer yep definitely
12280s	the great one that would be a cool card
12283s	we are going into game five and as you
12285s	can see both players 1-0 in the Swiss so
12287s	far so this single game basically will
12289s	Propel uh one of them to a two zero star
12292s	in the Swiss and speaking of starts
12294s	Derek Slither spear wig wig and maiden
12298s	and school teacher in hand much much
12301s	better than last game
12303s	yeah this is much more like it that
12304s	really nice balance of uh nagas and
12307s	spells namely with only one spelling
12309s	hand being the wig is exactly what you
12311s	want I would be very unsurprised to see
12313s	like just Tempo handmaiden on the
12315s	following turn I don't think this and
12317s	really needs two of them uh to be
12319s	getting the job done against mage
12325s	what about now that's probably just even
12329s	better we'll go with that instead
12332s	yeah this is looking great and and this
12334s	is what the deck wants to do right you
12335s	know you've got card draw because you've
12337s	effectively Bank it with the wigs and
12339s	the handmaiden but then you have the
12341s	flexible nature of school teacher
12342s	because it's not only the fact that it's
12345s	just a good card it's a Naga but it
12347s	gives you another Naga so school teacher
12349s	alone gives you two separate wig procs
12352s	these are all words combined together
12354s	that I never really saw myself saying
12357s	but I am is a school teacher gives you
12360s	two wigs which
12362s	the French school but we're there's
12365s	treasure guard as well for Luna so this
12368s	is looking pretty ridiculous right now
12370s	this is the opening she wanted last game
12373s	yeah slightly all good numbers obviously
12375s	in terms of actually killing off the
12377s	treasure god but I think you still do it
12380s	you want to start banging down the gates
12382s	at this point for Luna you want to go
12383s	for the kill uh as soon as possible
12385s	because with uh how high Health minions
12388s	uh or sorry how high the health of her
12391s	minions are becoming uh a single draw of
12393s	bless off the top can pretty much just
12395s	close this one out assuming there's no
12398s	starfish and although I completely agree
12400s	uh with the the discussion we had about
12403s	the starfish being super strong in this
12405s	matchup for the mage of course it is one
12408s	of the weird benefits and like the
12409s	unique aspects of wig is that it does
12412s	its job and you get it back in hand it's
12414s	not like your libriums or any Buffs like
12416s	that where it just goes away you can
12418s	rebuild them so really the thing to keep
12421s	an eye on is when bless is used and if
12423s	it's held for almost lethal or exactly
12427s	lethal because that's the way to try and
12429s	beat starfish right
12433s	well there is the starfish found Opera
12437s	think which could deny a card draw and
12440s	delete quite a lot of stats for that
12442s	matter uh but it's just not clearing the
12444s	board is the problem and like you said
12446s	the wig is still in hand
12448s	really tricky isn't it the one
12452s	other side of using this starfish as you
12455s	said like The Thinker does not know
12457s	there's two handmaidens in hand so
12458s	denying the character is almost
12460s	meaningless but it denies a lot of
12462s	damage still right especially because it
12465s	removes the ongoing effect from the
12467s	Slither space that when spells are cast
12469s	They gain attack so that's something and
12473s	maybe pre thinkers at the point where he
12474s	just thinks well you know what I just
12476s	need a bit of time and if I don't
12477s	silence this I ain't getting time
12482s	I think you're supposed to play the
12484s	evoker here because number one it allows
12487s	you to Greed out the uh the silence
12489s	effect whilst also mitigating the amount
12491s	of damage you're taking right because
12492s	you're still gaining the armor and it
12494s	also actually means that you have a big
12496s	spell in hand which means the pickup of
12497s	barbaric sorceress becomes a lot lot
12500s	stronger uh any point going forward
12503s	um and with coin in hand it could have
12505s	been like you know if you're in a truly
12507s	disastrous situation and you need to say
12509s	right the next card in my deck is
12510s	barbaric sorceress then it would have
12512s	allowed for coin Sorcerers into either
12514s	Drake fire amulet or hopefully uh the uh
12518s	Rune of the archmage in order to swing
12520s	this one around uh whereas here for
12522s	prothinka even though it's the
12523s	immediately stronger play to go for the
12525s	silence the actual top deck ability uh
12528s	is like pretty much just Belinda in
12531s	terms of your chances of swinging this
12532s	one around now
12538s	okay
12541s	the the Priestess is definitely the card
12544s	that opens up the biggest pop-offs right
12547s	in terms of Buffs but not necessarily
12549s	for this turn because well it doesn't
12551s	really been many spells played uh well
12552s	zero actually but still good to have in
12555s	hand here I think this is just a
12557s	easy go in just play a wig do a trade
12559s	maybe and just carry on with your day
12562s	but slowly but surely Luna is piecing
12564s	together a very explosive looking hand I
12568s	even deciding to push everything thanks
12569s	not even going for the trades assuming I
12571s	imagine the pratinka will do it for it
12576s	not a bad pickup either in
12578s	Barden uh in order to basically give
12583s	yourself one turn of absolute safety uh
12586s	on the other side
12587s	we're on lunar love but again what are
12590s	you but what are you building your time
12591s	to what does that allow you to do on the
12593s	following term which is currently
12594s	nothing which is why again I think in
12596s	this situation it should end up on
12598s	evoker because it gains you that armor
12600s	to make sure you're a little bit safer
12602s	and uh just gets a big spell in hand
12604s	which is still good with this uh
12606s	barbaric sorceress but it's kind of just
12608s	almost playable I think with Varden in
12611s	hand there's a decent shot you'll be
12612s	able to bridge the gap into uh just
12615s	playing Rune of the archmage for the
12617s	full nine mana on turn eight
12619s	Yeah It's Tricky isn't it because I was
12621s	going to ask you about what you thought
12622s	of the Avoca and then coin one of the
12625s	two drops this turn as well yeah because
12628s	they both kind of have merits right
12630s	watch posts yeah and all the freeze uh
12632s	but I do get your point if it is going
12634s	to be roon which it is
12636s	then maybe the coin just has to be kept
12638s	in hand because there's no mailbox
12640s	dancers that are available there's
12642s	nothing else right now that really ramps
12644s	that spell up so I guess that's just the
12646s	last ditch attempt but here now with
12648s	thrive
12650s	there's so much available here
12657s	oh wow
12659s	that has to be now I've guaranteed
12661s	second wig right yeah there's a lot that
12664s	can go on here
12667s	yeah
12670s	I'm not gonna take a look though because
12671s	this isn't as straightforward there's no
12675s	blessing hand currently right the
12677s	Devourer to just put Health on something
12679s	which again if you know you can dig to
12682s	bless which she can because she's got
12685s	another Thrive with this Priestess and
12688s	suddenly things start stacking up
12690s	yeah the numbers weren't quite so clean
12693s	as I think Luna had anticipated at the
12695s	start because if she wants to get the
12696s	maximum value out of Village it does
12699s	mean that Wick has to be played here
12701s	um I don't think there's lethal in any
12704s	capacity here still uh but blame master
12707s	and car needs to round things out does
12708s	mean that you can choose minion right
12711s	and then all of a sudden Belinda and
12712s	more importantly barbaric sorceress are
12714s	not playable I like this a lot actually
12717s	yeah I think it's wrong 90 of the deck
12719s	is minions probably more than 90
12721s	actually
12726s	yeah I think that's very very smart uh
12729s	from Luna I didn't see this line at all
12731s	honestly I thought she was going to lead
12732s	up into a big bless in order to punter
12735s	as much damage as possible
12737s	uh but again you know both on her play
12739s	on the Mage and against the Mage I think
12741s	Luna has had very very clear
12743s	identification of the power of sorceress
12746s	right which I mean I've mentioned it so
12747s	many times already this card uh in this
12750s	game uh it's quite clearly the Avenue
12751s	back into this game for prothinka uh
12754s	which Luna has 100 denied with this line
12757s	outside of like coin Pelican barbaric
12760s	sorceress
12763s	love that the answer to every problem we
12765s	have so far in this series
12767s	it's just like yeah but what about if
12769s	they're just Pelican do you
12771s	spell yeah
12773s	that's wins
12775s	it's huge and again this is
12778s	um one of the drawbacks of the deck
12781s	right it is just a ton of minions and if
12784s	you fall behind it can be hard to get
12786s	back without doing the big spell thing
12789s	right so it's a it's one of the things
12791s	keeping the deck in check uh Reckless
12794s	Apprentice is going to help clean up a
12795s	few things but most importantly the
12798s	elemental is still on board the big
12800s	minion with the treasure guard still on
12802s	board did Miss on the wig that right
12805s	which is a bit of a shame but there's
12808s	also a queen's guard there's also a
12809s	school teacher as well which I think
12811s	might be worth throwing out there
12817s	trying to think of any weird discoveries
12819s	you could go for because obviously Naga
12821s	is the expected one off amalgam but any
12823s	weird Elementals uh I don't think so
12828s	I'll just start naming all the
12829s	Battlegrounds ones because the ones I'm
12831s	not familiar with right now I'll be like
12834s	okay another school teacher fine just
12836s	good cards
12840s	be blessing in Queens God
12845s	just most that's possible I think it's
12848s	definitely the way to go
12849s	and most importantly of all actually
12852s	again this is a play around barbaric
12855s	sorceress because it dumps all the
12857s	spells from her hand and so Luna now
12859s	knows the uh coin sorceress Rune is not
12862s	available she of course knows that coin
12864s	Rune is not available on this turn
12865s	however because prathinka was able to
12869s	survive the turn it means that Varden
12871s	can come down this turn then coin Rune
12874s	of the archimage can come down so
12875s	actually despite all these really really
12878s	ingenious plays from Luna I think it is
12880s	still in with a Chance of taking this
12882s	game and and let's be honest it's no
12885s	surprise you've just said patinka is in
12888s	with a chance as the Pelican hit the
12890s	hand
12893s	it's a harbinger of good luck
12896s	unless you're a fish
12899s	very true
12904s	space though a thing
12907s	bad luck
12909s	biting one flying overhead was
12911s	considered good luck as the sailors
12912s	believed that the Mariners sold the
12914s	albatross carriage had come to protect
12916s	them from harm or bring needed wind for
12918s	the ship's sales that's nice so it's
12921s	only good luck if you're a sailor
12922s	because if there's an albatross over
12923s	your head and you're not in a boat
12925s	you've got to wonder why this now but
12927s	like where are you and what's gone wrong
12929s	I live in Arkansas why is there an
12932s	albatross
12939s	hmm
12944s	this is choices here
12948s	uh yeah
12950s	illuminate uh there's no real spells
12952s	that are especially important I just
12954s	always feel so bad picking wig off the
12955s	noggling because you never get it back
12957s	uh Whispers of the
12960s	deep is interesting just to get a
12962s	guaranteed unfreeze if you are expecting
12964s	coin Rune of the archmage there are
12967s	quite a few freezing effects but of
12969s	course the problem is if you unfreeze
12971s	one of your big minions you're probably
12972s	deleting all their stats as well because
12974s	you're just silencing it if anything
12976s	it's like a a weird play for board space
12979s	maybe yeah maybe about to just do a
12981s	trade uh good thing again though as we
12984s	mentioned that the fact that those
12985s	spells are in the nagalings it means
12988s	that they aren't spells which means that
12990s	they can't be swapped so although
12992s	prithinka can still coin out the Rune
12994s	it's just not going to be as an easy
12996s	potential turn or as a protected turn as
12999s	it would be with the Sorceress
13003s	stop thinking come on we know what's
13006s	happening
13008s	I guess you can trade some of your
13010s	minions first
13015s	I want to see Full confidence just do it
13017s	aim yeah 100.
13020s	well if you're not confident in the game
13022s	the game won't be confident in you
13024s	The Apprentice okay I guess it does get
13026s	that full freeze doesn't it even so
13046s	okay
13048s	oh really no Rune of the archimage on
13050s	that turn I am very surprised I didn't
13052s	believe yeah
13064s	oh is this Samurai on the wig from the
13067s	naggling I guess pretty good pretty good
13070s	it's off the watch post and The Reckless
13073s	reasonable to me and just puts a good
13075s	high Health minion on the board right
13076s	all relatively higher
13081s	all right come on now we know what's
13084s	coming
13086s	boom I'd love it if it was Drake fire
13089s	emulate
13092s	and here we go it's all come down to
13095s	this
13098s	I need 22's answers and that'll do
13100s	that'll do just fine water yeah so this
13104s	is the usual outcome I mean the game
13107s	could also end in a weird way here but
13109s	this is like the expected outcome and
13111s	something we learned very quickly with
13112s	original yogg a long time ago was that
13115s	even though it casts random spells there
13118s	are expected outcomes and the expected
13121s	outcomes for for mage right now with
13123s	this card are freeze AOE
13126s	you're a secret and maybe some burn
13128s	right and look that's kind of what
13131s	happened right like the freeze went off
13132s	and there's a spell in in a sorry
13135s	there's a secret equipped here for
13137s	prithinka which is that counter spell
13138s	and Luna now I think is an app in an
13141s	absolutely horrific spot uh I said this
13145s	deck can go late this is what I would
13147s	call late-ish in the game based on how
13149s	many phrases and delays have been but I
13153s	think at this point now with the card
13155s	draw that patinka got as well
13157s	close to nine possible
13164s	all right Whispers for an unfreeze which
13168s	can get you back a coin which can
13170s	activate the crush claw enforcer it's
13173s	all coming together it's all coming
13175s	together
13176s	[Laughter]
13180s	dang it
13182s	oh it's such a good plan
13186s	let's play it I think so
13191s	I think this is right your opponent's on
13193s	13 you just hope you can get it done
13195s	it's going to be Rune again
13197s	I mean it could be roon it could be
13199s	Belinda coin amulet it could be uh
13202s	parrot like it's whatever you want it
13205s	was actually a little bit
13207s	you there oh okay okay should that
13210s	have been evoker first
13216s	uh what Eric could have brought them but
13218s	I've drawn them right yeah that's fair
13220s	yeah just only a small thing but
13223s	regardless it does get the job done with
13226s	a squawk the parrot does effectively end
13228s	the game there for prothinka and it
13231s	really close series Derek like uh Luna
13234s	put herself in some great spots there
13236s	and some really heads up plays actually
13237s	to negate the effects and big
13240s	um outcomes that the Mage goes for
13242s	but it just wasn't going to be enough
13243s	because the freezes were just there the
13245s	vard in turn was huge and then of course
13248s	ruin of the archmage doing what Rune of
13250s	the archmage does so huge
13252s	congratulations to prithinka not as you
13254s	were saying really consistent player
13256s	just hasn't quite peaked yet in the
13258s	Masters tours but has been getting the
13259s	work done and also just taking a victory
13262s	over Luna and you know easily one of the
13265s	best players in the Americas region is
13267s	there an achievement in itself
13269s	yeah I do think that there was uh
13272s	overall a very very high standard of
13274s	play uh from both players actually that
13276s	last game from Luna was really really
13278s	interesting because the lines that she
13279s	went for in one regard were very very
13282s	clever right because it was to get down
13284s	the uh the blade Master at Carney in
13287s	order to play around the barbarics right
13288s	I think the the main standout play on
13291s	that turn but the problem with that play
13294s	was that it meant the actual amount of
13296s	stats that she was getting online was
13298s	surprisingly low given that there was
13300s	the opportunity on that turn to go for a
13302s	really really big pop-up turn like she
13304s	had a double
13307s	um uh Visions to be able to see further
13309s	into her deck right uh with uh
13313s	sorry thrive in the shadows to be able
13315s	to see further into a deck uh to get
13317s	those uh serpent wigs and then blesses
13319s	as well like she could have put a
13320s	significantly higher amount of stats on
13322s	the board but instead obviously to go
13324s	for the blade master akani and honestly
13326s	I'm not actually sure which I think is
13328s	better because even though the akani did
13330s	the job it was supposed to it meant that
13331s	no matter what there was no immediate
13333s	big response uh from prithinka it meant
13337s	that even though she got what she wanted
13338s	there wasn't a lethal on the following
13340s	term because there wasn't enough stats
13341s	online so a very very difficult spot to
13343s	be in and I think you could definitely
13345s	make the argument that Luna was uh going
13348s	a level too deep uh in that instance I
13351s	could have just gone for maximum stats
13353s	online uh the thought process was 100
13355s	there in every play She Made made a
13358s	total amount of sense even if I think
13360s	there was some amount of debate there I
13362s	think it's one of those things where you
13364s	have to pick a play and just do it right
13366s	because if you go halfway you lose so I
13369s	think it's just one of those things
13370s	where you either worry about the
13371s	Sorceress and then they pop off with an
13373s	Amy or Rune of the arcmage early anyway
13375s	or you play around that and do what I
13378s	think Luna did there and just uh get
13381s	sort of yanked by uh Varden in that
13384s	situation right where your whole board's
13386s	froze now and you're in trouble but a
13387s	bit of an unfortunate one but again just
13389s	another congratulations to
13390s	um uh patinka who's going up to 2-0 in
13393s	Swiss but that was our first match of
13395s	round two we are gonna go to a quick
13397s	break while we set up some more matches
13398s	for you guys to check out so we'll be
13400s	right back don't go anywhere
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13597s	welcome back everyone to Mars's Tour
13599s	Version and here with me is subtle to
13601s	answer the important questions like how
13603s	many cards should be in your deck and
13604s	how do you say garage subtle how's it
13606s	going yeah I don't know why the word
13610s	with like five six different valid
13613s	pronunciations for around the world has
13615s	been chosen as our style guide for this
13617s	event uh yeah contrary to popular belief
13620s	I do not say garage as many people may
13622s	expect me to I do also say garage
13625s	um I don't say barrage however which you
13627s	know is is a step too far but no one in
13631s	the world apart from Raven says barrage
13633s	so I guess we'll move on and moving on
13636s	we are into dead draw versus mega glisco
13638s	it is one a piece and I believe we're
13640s	gonna have a almost Rogue mirror it's
13643s	gonna be Thief Rogue versus the more
13645s	regular for me at least the boat Rogue
13647s	but subtle the big question first chance
13649s	we're gonna have to ask you today if you
13651s	could have a deck with any number of
13653s	cards you want but you only get that
13655s	much health what's the right number
13657s	but you also only get that much health
13659s	yeah I mean that's that's the factor
13662s	right because I feel like we do need to
13664s	start at the beginning I feel like this
13665s	discussion has tried to walk before it
13667s	can run in terms of us having this
13669s	argument on broadcast card game
13672s	fundamentals right less cards is better
13674s	the reason why there is a 30 card limit
13677s	in Hearthstone is not to prevent people
13679s	playing more cards than that it's to
13681s	prevent people paying less cards than
13682s	that because less is better everyone
13684s	will have had the experience where
13686s	you're building a deck 27 cards you're
13688s	pretty happy with card 28 29 30 yeah
13691s	swings and roundabouts could go one way
13692s	or the other and that's kind of where
13694s	you see discrepancies when we talk about
13695s	different tech cards different you know
13698s	30th cards that go into decks generally
13701s	you would rather play less however if
13703s	you are going to be given an upside
13705s	alongside the idea of having to play
13708s	more cards in your deck and that's the
13710s	right way to look at it you're being
13712s	forced to make your deck worse by
13714s	playing more cards in it for the payoff
13717s	off of being given additional Health
13719s	then suddenly we can talk again
13721s	predictably I am very much on the side
13724s	that very very few decks currently are
13726s	better off with more than 30 cards in
13728s	them I do think 40 Druid does make a lot
13731s	of sense outside of that I'm gonna need
13733s	an incredible amount of convincing
13735s	Miranda well I asked you for a number
13737s	like in in the world where the card says
13740s	like so one one card is bad you die you
13742s	want one Health they shoot you in the
13743s	face of the hero power so one is bad at
13746s	some point how much lower than 30 would
13748s	you go
13749s	it's probably somewhere between 25 and
13751s	28 to be honest I wouldn't really want
13753s	to go much lower than that if the health
13755s	scales down with it
13757s	um but certainly like I I think 31 is
13761s	already I have 31 health and 31 cards I
13763s	think you've already made my deck worse
13765s	in most instances I think Druid is very
13767s	much the exception I'm aware we're not
13769s	talking about what's on the screen but
13771s	I'm following my host right now
13772s	lorinda's been wanting to have this
13774s	argument with me for days so the moment
13776s	that he's got me in a corner he's asked
13778s	me these questions
13779s	um yeah I think as soon as you go 31
13782s	Health 31 cards you've made your your
13783s	deck worse in most instances the only
13785s	difference with Druid is in the
13787s	prestor's version it literally doesn't
13788s	matter how many cards you have in your
13790s	deck because you chew to presto with
13792s	Incredible consistency regardless you
13794s	have chains of cards one draws the other
13797s	and they all end impressed or uh all
13799s	roads they're multiple roads to El
13801s	Dorado it's a great Hearthstone cast at
13803s	once
13804s	um and in that instance it literally
13806s	doesn't matter there's no benefit to you
13808s	having 40 cards in your deck either but
13810s	you're getting 10 health for free every
13813s	other class in the game no not seeing it
13816s	I don't think there's a level of
13817s	consistency in the Decks at the moment
13819s	and so for me it's a little bit of a
13824s	flavor of the week that I think will be
13826s	phased out a little bit over time that's
13828s	kind of where my stance is at the moment
13829s	but would you like to talk about some
13832s	Rogue instead yeah with that all in mind
13834s	what is the key difference between
13835s	jackpot Rogue and boat Rogue
13838s	uh
13840s	do you intend to talk for any period of
13843s	this car I just you know I mean I didn't
13845s	get the chance to be honest I asked you
13847s	a question off you went that's that's
13848s	kind of my um hang on have I been
13850s	accused of not talking enough here you
13852s	have actually is that where we got to
13853s	this conversation the for the first time
13856s	in the history of our relationship
13858s	you're actually being asked to talk more
13859s	and I don't actually know how we've led
13862s	to this so I will continue running on
13864s	with this sentence so that you don't
13866s	talk uh yeah it's a good question
13868s	um I think obviously uh gliscos deck
13872s	with the the jackpot Rogue the thief
13874s	Rogue whatever you want to call it kind
13875s	of has that extra longevity it doesn't
13877s	run out of gas you've made the
13879s	accusation that aggro decks are kind of
13881s	tuned to do 30 damage right and they
13883s	then struggle to do 40 which is another
13886s	argument that we might get to have at
13887s	some point jackpot Rogue is kind of a
13890s	deck that's tuned where if it gets ahead
13891s	it's going to stay ahead if it needs to
13893s	be and if it needs more Longevity if it
13895s	needs to stay in a game for longer it
13897s	can do that because of the age tools
13899s	that it has whereas the the straight up
13901s	boat Rogue that we see from dead drawer
13903s	on the other side is kind of the more
13905s	straight up classic aggro deck which
13908s	will run out of gas at some point it's
13911s	just as a matter of how much damage they
13912s	can do how far ahead in a game they can
13914s	get by the point that they run out of
13916s	gas yeah and I think that's a really
13918s	important distinction for this
13920s	particular tournament I feel personally
13921s	that the boat Rogue is just the better
13923s	tuned deck it does what it's meant to do
13925s	but again with the 40 card discussion it
13928s	wasn't quite as unlinked as it sounds
13930s	when I asked you that
13932s	um this this extra damage this extra
13934s	longevity as you call it or you call it
13936s	something slightly different because you
13937s	say the word correctly I pronounced it
13939s	properly for a start
13942s	um does make a difference so we're gonna
13943s	go see them head to head which is of
13946s	course not necessarily why you're
13947s	bringing the thief Rogue instead of the
13950s	boat row uh the head-to-head being
13952s	obviously pretty close I think yeah but
13955s	it's a great indication for me of the
13958s	the the dichotomy of the two decks right
13960s	is you are going to see probably dead
13964s	draw's more aggressive version of Rogue
13965s	curving out quicker getting ahead more
13967s	consistently establishing itself as the
13970s	aggro in the match-up and just going for
13971s	the throat really quickly whereas Mega
13974s	Gliscor is almost playing control Rogue
13976s	on the other side and you'll see cars
13978s	like krabatoa for example just what an
13980s	incredible flexible card it is dead draw
13982s	would be using it as a way to push
13983s	massive amounts of damage blitzkor will
13985s	probably be using it as a way to just
13987s	rush into the board and clear off on the
13988s	other side not to say that there aren't
13991s	ways that Gliscor can do random scammy
13994s	things to get ahead early because there
13996s	absolutely are such is the sort of the
13997s	high variance nature of thief deck uh
14000s	the thief deck is just sometimes you get
14002s	given wonderful options that can just
14005s	run away with a game before your
14006s	opponent can get stuck and I mean I've
14008s	Got a Theory on this as well but
14010s	something that you may have missed in
14012s	your um your adventures tonight let's
14014s	say
14015s	um the Rogue is the most brought deck to
14018s	this tournament so I've Got a Theory but
14020s	I'd like to hear yours first having just
14022s	given you that information put you on
14024s	the spot no time to think about it
14026s	that's too wide that is yeah
14030s	I'll say it's the best deck right no
14032s	one's saying it's the best deck no but
14034s	it is a deck with the extreme level of
14037s	flexibility I'm assuming when you're
14039s	saying that you mean some version of
14041s	Rogue like
14042s	um so something like yeah these two
14045s	versions these two Rogues are basically
14046s	all of it
14048s	which again makes sense to me because
14050s	between these two decks you can kind of
14052s	fit together into very different
14053s	strategies
14055s	um I think Rogue is very flexible very
14058s	adaptable to me it's a very Swiss army
14061s	knife type of deck it has tools to win
14063s	any matchup I think there's very few
14065s	match-ups that you queue up with Rogue
14067s	and say I can't win this likewise
14069s	there's very few matchups that you qrp
14071s	like okay sick I'm 70 here this is a
14073s	free win but I do think for the nature
14076s	of Conquest in a situation where exactly
14079s	nailing The Meta read is very difficult
14081s	because we just had a huge shake up then
14083s	Rogue just makes sense as a deck that
14085s	can go into basically any lineup and do
14087s	very little damage to your overall win
14090s	yeah it's not far from where I got it as
14092s	well you get the um you build your
14094s	lineup you probably end up with two and
14096s	a half maybe three decks you're really
14097s	happy with and then you just end up
14099s	playing a rogue deck because it fills
14101s	everything up really nicely so it's
14103s	everybody in the tournament's fourth
14104s	deck I know that's a massive massive
14107s	reductiveness of a statement but I'm
14110s	sure that's really well worded as well
14111s	but you know what I mean
14113s	um there's gonna be a lot of people's
14114s	fourth deck so Rogue mirror something I
14117s	like to bang on about and have them for
14118s	about two years now it's very very
14120s	important if it is people's fourth deck
14124s	indeed and for now dead draw just one
14127s	man off getting that null down which is
14129s	slightly awkward this turn he is now in
14132s	that position where he's having to play
14133s	from behind a little bit and it looks
14135s	like he is going to step back the uh
14138s	fillet fighter
14140s	that's like garage filet you know you've
14143s	got a garage assistant in these things
14144s	yeah yeah fillet of fish apparently
14149s	apparently spelling different things
14150s	different ways leads to the same
14152s	pronunciation okay you're oohing that's
14155s	pretty good
14156s	it is extremely good yes
14161s	and we're gonna see now a problem for
14163s	dead draw he's already kind of all in on
14166s	trying to kill Mega blitzker in one hit
14168s	and he's just not gonna have the time by
14170s	the look of this
14177s	so adding us uh seventh minion to the
14180s	board doesn't actually set up the lethal
14182s	right that's what he's considering here
14184s	you can't always trust uh 5 10 11 12 16
14189s	8 it could it very well could do
14193s	um to keep me in mind any mechs to get
14195s	to attack also do the the extra damage
14196s	as well
14199s	it's plenty though looking at dead
14202s	drawers body language hand and general
14204s	board State yeah
14206s	um this is a lot of damage
14209s	and five Health minions and one one
14212s	poisons are exactly what you don't want
14214s	to see when you have krabatora in hand
14216s	there is the exact opposite scenario
14218s	that I was uh suggesting where it would
14220s	be dead raw trying to use krabator to
14222s	clean up here kravator just such an
14224s	incredibly strong and flexible card when
14226s	you're this far behind however nah not
14230s	looking quite so good
14233s	yeah
14235s	um you while we're watching the draw
14236s	struggle with this nightmare scenario
14239s	you you alluded to the fact that we
14241s	might have the discussion about 40 cars
14243s	with Rogue later on as well
14245s	I don't know why you said that no I I
14247s	think I was you was when I said you
14250s	referred to how decks were built to deal
14253s	30 damage and didn't necessarily dot you
14255s	40. um I wanted to counter that point by
14258s	saying every deck that has 40 health is
14262s	also less consistent so the same deck
14265s	that is built to do 30 damage against a
14267s	deck with 30 cards gets closer to
14269s	dealing 40 damage against that very same
14271s	deck just because they've made their
14273s	deck worse in the first place yeah and I
14275s	don't think you necessarily represented
14277s	that uh that factor to my satisfaction
14280s	during your explanation because I
14282s	disagree with the the point in general
14284s	but my ideas up as the weekend goes on
14286s	so I fit your expectations subtle
14289s	that's what I've been doing all my life
14291s	let's face it let's stop now
14294s	all right
14296s	unless um Deadpool can do something
14298s	spectacular next turn we're going
14301s	through the death throws here just a
14302s	case of
14303s	how you want to do this
14306s	there's nothing for your
14308s	crab pincers to bounce off if you trade
14310s	here
14311s	slightly irritating for Mega blitzker
14315s	hmm
14320s	English score as I am
14323s	just looking at various Shadow step
14325s	options what this means in various
14328s	positions as you said the trade is
14330s	required Shadows that does happen once
14332s	the double value of the crab claws I
14335s	think first things first you check your
14336s	hand you check all your random outs you
14338s	look at the shadow step you're very very
14340s	close to lethal in that position so
14342s	weird Shadow step ashara things go
14345s	through your mind everything in the the
14347s	everything in the universe under the sun
14351s	consider to make sure you're not going
14353s	to miss lethal in that situation but in
14355s	the end I think liscore does find the
14356s	best line and that is going to be 2-1
14358s	now gliscal going up I'm not sure that's
14360s	scientifically accurate subtle oh it was
14363s	nonsense utter nonsense the universe
14365s	under the sun
14368s	is that where we're at that's where
14370s	we're starting this broadcast okay
14372s	who wants a mega Glitz score and now he
14375s	just has another deck remaining which is
14378s	the Press store Druid which is great
14379s	because we get to talk about Druid once
14382s	again
14383s	um my argument for personal Druid isn't
14385s	that it's not a good deck it's just an
14387s	alignment Druid for me is a better deck
14389s	I mean almost all situations I think
14394s	um something I'll pick your brain on
14395s	because honestly I get the impression
14396s	you've played more of the alignment
14398s	version particularly the 40 card
14399s	alignment version than I have
14401s	um I did put a good amount of time into
14403s	the Presto version of the deck I do
14404s	think it's very very strong as described
14407s	you really have no downside for having
14409s	40 health so that extra health is just a
14411s	godsend in a lot of positions
14413s	um which matchups in particular do you
14414s	think you gain on with the celestial
14417s	version of the deck in comparison to
14418s	going with the Presto I think you gain
14421s	consistency which is a tournament I
14424s	think is not always the best thing but I
14426s	think if you're considering yourself as
14427s	one of the best players I think being
14428s	able to do the things you want to do
14431s	consistently is important inconsistency
14434s	as we know is a misnomer when it comes
14437s	to to decks in some degree what it
14441s	actually means is you drop percentage
14442s	points because you roll badly sometimes
14446s	um and I think that overall it just has
14448s	a lower win rate because of not being
14450s	able to always do the thing you want it
14452s	to as pest or druid
14454s	well Counterpoint when you say not
14456s	always do the thing you want to I'm
14459s	assuming you're referring to sometimes
14460s	you get bad dragons because I think we
14462s	both agree in terms of playing your win
14465s	condition card Preston Druid does it
14467s	more often and more consistently than
14470s	Celestial it does right because
14471s	specifically there are cards that tutor
14474s	towards Presto that don't necessarily
14477s	exist in the same way to International
14478s	alignment in the other version agree
14481s	um so
14482s	if you're above a certain threshold
14484s	which is the win the game threshold
14486s	let's say that Presto Druid dips below
14488s	it and goes a long way above it but the
14490s	times you go a long way above it you
14492s	still just win the game you don't get a
14494s	point and a half for murdering your
14496s	opponent horribly whereas alignment
14498s	Druid just constantly is just above that
14500s	wind threshold for me meaning that
14502s	you're getting a more a higher win
14504s	percentage because you're just more
14505s	often above it so your low rolls cost
14507s	you on both but your High Rolls on
14510s	Presto drill that cancel out your low
14511s	rolls if you like don't necessarily get
14513s	you those extra wins that it needs to
14514s	get you to be better that's my opinion
14516s	and many players have disagreed with
14518s	this
14519s	yeah and I think honestly this is a
14521s	debate I'm kind of happy with people on
14523s	either side of right now like I'm less
14525s	happy with the 40 warlock players the 40
14528s	priest players like I don't know what
14530s	they're doing what people are on are
14533s	people who are on either side of this
14534s	debate of the lineman versus Presto I I
14537s	kind of do see both sides of it and
14539s	honestly I just didn't put enough time
14540s	into the alignment version of the deck
14542s	to really have a strong fully fleshed
14544s	out opinion and match up spreads and all
14546s	that kind of thing but this is certainly
14548s	the deck that I have put a decent amount
14550s	of time in uh this is the list that is
14554s	relatively 30 card match to what I'm
14556s	expecting to see and to me 40 card thank
14561s	you uh 40 card match to what I'm
14562s	expecting to see uh skulker is the car
14565s	that I have the biggest question Marco
14566s	but I don't think skulker is a
14568s	particularly good card and I think that
14570s	can be
14572s	um maybe just like beaming sidekick
14574s	various other one to two drops that
14576s	could be thrown in there that you know
14577s	help you in those early game situations
14579s	where you do need to fight for board
14580s	early because for me skulker just really
14583s	wasn't getting it done in a lot of
14585s	positions but other than that I think
14586s	fairly Universal agreement in what's
14588s	going on in this deck one thing I know
14591s	this isn't the magic we're doing now but
14592s	I know it's something I think you want
14594s	to talk about is the mirror match for
14597s	the Presto deck I think you're on a not
14601s	an island but I think you have a
14602s	slightly different opinion to many
14603s	people on how much skill there is in
14605s	that member match yeah yes what I will
14608s	say is that I've played a lot of presto
14610s	Druid mirrors and I feel like I've
14612s	outplayed my opponent in a large
14614s	majority of the ones I've played I will
14617s	say however that before playing this
14619s	tournament because I've been in
14620s	Battlegrounds mode because I've been
14622s	casting and producing and observing
14624s	Battlegrounds I haven't played a whole
14626s	lot of constructed for the last period
14628s	leading up to this patch so my MMR is
14630s	down a lot lower than it usually is
14632s	which might explain why I feel like I'm
14634s	out playing people but I do think
14636s	because cards are randomly generated
14637s	people naturally assume that this deck
14639s	doesn't have decisions and that's not
14643s	true right like right working out the
14645s	right thing to do with randomly
14647s	generated cards is still skill
14650s	expressive you can still find edges in
14653s	those positions yes sometimes it's
14655s	frustrating to overcome what you might
14657s	think is a discrepancy because your
14658s	opponent's just playing mirrors on every
14660s	single turn and you're not like yes that
14663s	happens
14664s	um but I do think that all just throw
14666s	your car up in the air and see which
14668s	dragons you get and see who wins like no
14670s	that's that's not the match-up come on
14672s	be serious yeah I just I as having sent
14676s	you down that road as your host I'm now
14678s	going to put you back on track but of
14679s	course this is a really interesting
14681s	start for Mega glisco with the double
14683s	watch post here
14684s	uh it is is it enough it feels like it
14687s	just gets traded away and doesn't get
14689s	you anywhere to me yeah I I completely
14692s	agree with that like honestly this is
14694s	not really the kind of start I would
14696s	like to have against another board-based
14698s	aggro deck which wig priest kind of is
14700s	because sure you might slow them down
14703s	for one or two turns in the mid game
14704s	with these couple of drawers that you
14705s	disrupt but in terms of actually
14708s	fighting for board these cards don't
14709s	really do anything your opponent just
14712s	gets to choose if and when to trade over
14714s	them on their own terms
14716s	um so honestly like Drew to The Reef
14718s	coming down earlier just being able to
14720s	come out as a 3-1 rush in the early game
14722s	even that beaming sidekick potentially
14724s	being in the deck to allow you to fight
14725s	for that board a little bit earlier on I
14727s	think could have been more to gliscores
14730s	benefit even though of course it's not
14731s	in the deck because you see exactly that
14733s	those two si7 skulkers in hand just
14736s	really doing absolutely nothing and will
14738s	do absolutely nothing for the majority
14740s	of this game I'm really curious to see
14742s	where this goes dead or thought about
14744s	this a long time hovered over the cars
14746s	in his hand look to the curve he's got
14748s	I'm the wondering if he's thinking of
14750s	just ignoring these and trying to end it
14751s	before Presto comes down but now he is
14753s	going to trade damn it
14758s	I think he was just trying to calculate
14759s	if he could get there with what he
14761s	already had
14763s	yeah 40 is a big number though but I do
14765s	really like the bring of wig priest to
14768s	this tournament for this reason
14771s	um again to your point from earlier if
14773s	your deck is just counting to 30 like
14775s	damage goes face until opponent explodes
14778s	that's gonna be a struggle if your deck
14781s	plays minions Buffs minions makes
14783s	minions bigger plays more minions makes
14785s	those minions bigger goes face at that
14788s	point it doesn't matter how much health
14789s	your opponent has right as long as you
14791s	are winning and consistently keyboard
14793s	and that's what wig priest does
14795s	incredibly well in these kinds of
14796s	situations
14798s	well it is going to likely come down to
14801s	Mega glisco playing a presto and hoping
14805s	very quickly that it goes correctly
14807s	um this feels like the last really
14809s	awkward Turn For Dead draw then he's in
14811s	the clear doing plenty of damage
14814s	yeah and likewise this is one of the
14817s	last hopefully last awkward turns for
14819s	glisco because he has the guaranteed
14821s	draw towards the prestos uh We've
14823s	alluded to this previously but just if
14825s	in case you are entirely unfamiliar with
14827s	the way this deck Works capture cold
14829s	tooth mine can draw your highest cost
14830s	card your highest cost card is pressed
14832s	or so you then transform everything in
14834s	your deck which is entirely cheap cards
14836s	apart from that Presto into dragons with
14839s	potentially game-winning effects you
14841s	then have
14843s	um Jerry Ray Carpenter that can draw the
14844s	capture cold tooth mine split it into
14846s	highest and lowest and so on you have
14848s	all these layers of redundancy that let
14851s	you get to that prestos so glisco
14853s	already knows that he is guaranteed
14855s	pressed or in hand whenever he wants it
14858s	at this point which is fantastic because
14860s	he can now form a game plan around doing
14862s	exactly that also super nice
14865s	um that Guff is your second most
14867s	expensive car just in case you draw one
14869s	or the other
14870s	um the other good card in the deck as
14872s	the as the game starts you will also
14874s	draw both a remarkable amount of the
14876s	time because of that which obviously is
14879s	is the whole engine for the deck it's
14881s	not just a presto it's the fact that
14882s	Guff goes crazy you can play all those
14884s	stupid dragons in one turn and draw more
14886s	stupid dragons and then do stupid Dragon
14889s	things
14890s	yeah for a deck that is so based around
14893s	utterly random nonsense it's very
14896s	interesting how naturally synergistic
14897s	some of the things are because you know
14899s	you play your first cold tooth mine you
14902s	draw your Presto you play the Presto and
14904s	then you roll like a malagos for example
14906s	and then malagost draws all your spells
14908s	including your second cold tooth line
14909s	well guess what that then draws you that
14911s	then draws you your Guff so you can
14913s	continue to press that card draw button
14914s	for the rest of the game or ramp up or
14916s	do whatever you need get that kazakasan
14918s	rolling that you've generated as well
14919s	like there's so many uh nice little tied
14923s	together synergies in the deck which I I
14925s	do think makes it feel quite rewarding
14926s	to play I do think it's an incredibly
14929s	well-built deck like superb deck again I
14931s	just I just would argue maybe not quite
14933s	it's pressed or a 39 God so how hard was
14937s	it to build in the first place I mean I
14940s	didn't build it yeah true yeah yeah
14944s	I mean just spotting it is nice
14946s	obviously I I correctly predicted back
14949s	um a year and a half ago that Presto
14951s	would be the most powerful card in the
14952s	set so I guess absolutely
14956s	always best to be lucky than good
14960s	hey would you like that
14963s	Never mind take it all back skulk is
14965s	actually just the best card in
14966s	Hearthstone yeah you clearly have no
14968s	idea what I'm talking about I mean it's
14970s	gonna hit the Presto in this 40 card
14972s	deck so often
14975s	okay that actually makes this into a
14978s	Hearthstone game suddenly
14980s	I think before that Glitz goes in a
14982s	little bit of trouble in the dead draw
14985s	was just on top of the board but maybe
14987s	it's just in time now
14990s	Maybe
14993s	yeah with aquatic forms still available
14997s	he can at least have some sort of choice
15000s	of what he picks up on the following
15001s	turn uh still has innovates and such in
15004s	the deck I believe sometimes you can uh
15007s	cold tooth mine for lowest in a lot of
15009s	situations just try and like grab a one
15011s	Mana dragon that will save you in some
15013s	positions you know one Mana Deathwing
15015s	that kind of thing and but when you
15017s	still have the zero amount of spells
15018s	left in your deck that's not really an
15020s	out highest cost card of course as
15022s	previously mentioned will still be Guff
15024s	at this point just be a little bit slow
15026s	to get anything done here for gliscal
15028s	need some immediate help from that
15030s	aquatic form I would say
15033s	look at this trade versus face decision
15035s	here with the potential of a buff as
15037s	well actually one of the more Awkward
15038s	ones you're going to see with the the
15040s	five five that really wants to be
15042s	protected but a face that really wants
15043s	to be hit
15046s	he hits the face of course he does
15050s	uh
15054s	uh
15057s	draw cards do it again
15060s	I think it has to be
15064s	Patron not really getting there even
15066s	with the cold tooth mine although you
15068s	can go cold tooth mining to innovate
15070s	remember
15073s	then starts to get a little bit more
15075s	interesting
15078s	there's a five five clean trade
15079s	available on the board and then you need
15081s	to do seven damage to a nine Health
15083s	minion yeah I do actually like this I
15085s	think this makes sense
15087s	I'm gonna go first because that allows
15089s	him to have the two attack break point
15091s	into the five Health minion if you want
15093s	to go about it that way yep that worked
15095s	out
15096s	oh one damage off on the 8-7 though that
15100s	is rough
15103s	I've still got some um
15105s	no problems but I had a person play the
15109s	matron and then just fill it up with
15111s	kazakasan making it copies of all of
15113s	them so there's seven of them on the
15114s	board and then just spelled me to death
15116s	the other day
15117s	a million damage with the remaining
15119s	spells this wasn't really nice
15121s	yeah hero power it this makes sense to
15124s	me
15127s	obviously wildly underdeveloped ah
15133s	[Laughter]
15136s	okay I could invest this problem now I'm
15139s	much happier having seen this happen
15142s	you pew pew pew and then another pew pew
15145s	pew pew pew
15147s	okay then and that's two games a piece
15151s	here in round number two both players
15152s	one and oh of course so absolutely
15155s	Monster game coming up next it's gonna
15158s	be dead Roars Rogue it's gonna be the
15159s	pesto Druid again and I've played quite
15163s	a lot of both sides of this and I have
15165s	won mainly with a rogue and lost mainly
15167s	with a druid
15168s	it it the Rogue seems to just get there
15170s	just in time I think if you set it up
15173s	that has not been my experience so far
15177s	um I found this to be very reasonable
15179s	for the Druid I think everything but the
15181s	most oppressive of starts do you have
15184s	enough time with that 40 Health just to
15185s	get there and again like we talk about
15188s	the consistency of the deck this time we
15189s	saw it was Presto on five with the help
15192s	of the skulker but when we say you know
15194s	Presto gets drawn every single game on
15197s	average I would say Presto gets played
15200s	before turn six right because all you
15202s	have to be doing is draw is be on coin
15205s	draw and innovate and both of those
15207s	things are very easy to do and then
15208s	suddenly you're not only are you drawing
15210s	Presto earlier you're actually playing
15212s	it early on as well
15213s	um even you know other routes of going
15215s	about it of coin Guff then into Presto
15218s	all that kind of stuff as well
15220s	so you don't really need much of a
15222s	window I would say as the Druid to be
15224s	able to get there in my experiences
15225s	matchup has been uh totally fine for the
15228s	Druid overall but of course I think
15230s	there's always going to be some amount
15232s	of debate around these Druid matchups
15234s	because the nature of the deck as
15235s	discussed already is just somewhat High
15237s	variance
15239s	yeah and I
15240s	it's when your favorite card ever uh
15242s	yogg first came out it took a long time
15245s	for the whole player base to agree okay
15248s	this is actually good
15250s	um I say that's one of the last holdouts
15252s	of people who didn't believe it was good
15253s	as I'm going to be here I suspect the
15255s	professor although I loved it on day one
15257s	but it takes a lot of games to remove
15260s	everybody's confirmation biases
15264s	and a full keep looks like a full keep
15266s	to me yeah is indeed a full keeper has
15269s	it all won
15271s	especially because you're looking at
15272s	yeah okay I didn't necessarily know what
15274s	hero power he was seeing on the other
15276s	side this is he seeing warrior hero
15278s	power peasant on one just looks extra
15280s	fantastic right because dead drawn
15282s	doesn't necessarily have any way of
15284s	interacting with it himself just to play
15286s	the cutlers which is not where you want
15288s	to be does he yeah I like this I like
15292s	the disrespect honestly I think dead
15294s	draw should be trying to get on with his
15295s	own game plan okay
15297s	um again like to me the peasant is a
15300s	little bit of a bait sometimes because I
15303s	think when you first play against this
15304s	deck you're like oh God okay Kill The
15306s	Peasants so they don't draw the Presto
15307s	all right they're going to draw it you
15310s	can't stop them drawing it the only
15312s	thing you're doing by killing peasant is
15314s	giving them uh less cheap cheap cards in
15318s	their hand which don't really matter the
15320s	cheap cards that matter are the ones
15322s	that remain in the deck that get turned
15323s	into drag items anyway so for me I don't
15326s	think peasant really does that much
15328s	damage overall
15330s	yeah okay sure
15332s	um it's just the I mean it's not the
15334s	worst trade ever you still have drawn
15336s	another card and got rid of stuff but
15339s	trading away Cutters with no reduction
15340s	as well was just yeah but I understand
15343s	having listened to your lovely
15345s	explanation why I was probably incorrect
15348s	but this is a grim for dead draw now
15350s	also produce right it reduced the gun
15353s	fishing but he just played for zero oh
15355s	because it hit yeah okay sure at the
15357s	time though yeah
15359s	he drew that from the trade right
15362s	I don't think so was it not though I'm
15365s	going insane it's all right I'm going to
15366s	just plead insanity and move on okay
15368s	fine
15370s	no but this is getting pretty Grim now
15372s	uh having to take some action here
15374s	because it's not just the do you draw
15376s	the Presto it's do you draw enough
15377s	random garbage to kill me anyway
15381s	the deck's full of ones twos and threes
15383s	if you're drawing two cards a turn the
15385s	the overwhelming lumps of garbage are
15387s	going to get you in the end
15389s	yep agree I think the second peasant was
15392s	just a big enough indicator for dead
15393s	drawers like okay well I just lose to
15395s	aggro Druid if I don't take care of this
15397s	problem right now so
15400s	yeah absolutely fair enough that is an
15403s	absolute pile of bunk that gliscore is
15406s	not interested in whatsoever
15409s	yeah cheap one
15411s	next to just take two more just things
15417s	don't even look at the bottom numbers
15419s	just look at the top number two twos
15420s	that's a four off we go
15426s	digital's current plan I guess is to
15428s	survive to turn six somehow
15431s	work it out from there there's the
15433s	pirate setup starting to happen
15435s	but 40 so at all this is where the 40
15438s	starts to matter
15440s	I mean the 40s starts to matter an awful
15441s	lot when you're just starting the game
15443s	behind yeah
15445s	um which you know again
15447s	outside of the incredible null starts
15449s	which of course are possible for this
15451s	version of Rogue this is one of the
15453s	reasons why I do like this version of
15454s	the deck is that it does go one two
15457s	three basically every single game
15459s	because that's 30 plus cards of the deck
15462s	yeah when when you when you take out
15465s	golf Presto and the Spells that are just
15467s	engineered to make that package happen
15469s	the rest of the deck is basically just
15471s	aggro minions which is you know a very
15474s	strange experience to see those two
15476s	sides of the deck clashing up against
15477s	each other so a lot of the time you can
15479s	just get ahead against Decks that would
15481s	normally be trying to aggro down Druid
15484s	in these kind of positions but not only
15485s	do you have 10 extra Health you might
15488s	then gain another 10 extra Health just
15490s	by being a head on board in the early
15493s	game which is a really weird luxury that
15495s	Druid hasn't always had you know what's
15497s	kind of scary having just listened to
15499s	you say that as well there's two more
15501s	sets to come there is yeah you actually
15503s	have all the best ones and all the best
15506s	twos and all the best for me these after
15507s	those sets have come out
15510s	rather than just at the moment the ones
15512s	you can find
15514s	somewhat amusing I think the amount of
15516s	care and attention that will go into you
15518s	know exactly which one two and three
15519s	drops you put in this deck just to
15521s	transform them away anyway the majority
15523s	of them remember there's that that small
15526s	percentage of games where those are the
15527s	cards that you draw and that's your
15529s	curve and how do they all work and
15530s	interact with each other what is the
15532s	best one two three curve you can play
15534s	before you then innovate out your
15535s	prestord like all of that stuff really
15537s	matters and that's how decks get tuned
15540s	from being 50 win rate decks to 5758 win
15544s	rate decks where you really want them to
15545s	be and you can see that in action right
15547s	now right if these were the best premium
15549s	ones twos threes in the game then dead
15552s	draw would be in a lot of trouble but as
15553s	it happens they're they're good but
15555s	they're they're not actually completely
15557s	destroying dead draw yet the Presto
15559s	might do that but these cards are on the
15561s	verge getting wiped out now
15563s	foreign
15566s	doing his best though trying to stem the
15569s	type that is absolutely not what the
15572s	boat Rogue wants to be doing because you
15575s	know
15577s	sooner rather than later the pressure is
15579s	going to ramp up enormously with this
15583s	lady Presto now coming down
15585s	yeah she's not that easy to deal with
15587s	either is she obviously krabatoa gets
15589s	rid of it but you're getting rid of your
15590s	your claws or your sex damage to your
15593s	face tick Seven's a large minion you
15597s	know when you did that like Witch of the
15599s	best colossals thing that you're
15600s	involved oh don't and everyone where
15603s	everyone got everything wildly wrong an
15606s	actual professional Hearthstone
15608s	professionals who get paid money to
15610s	Hearthstone that nearly was going to be
15613s	the best colossal you remember that
15614s	thing that thing he did uh where did you
15617s	rate krabato at the time really low I
15620s	don't remember how low but really low I
15622s	got it very very wrong a lot of people
15623s	didn't write I was one of the outliers I
15625s	think of getting this one okay yeah I'm
15627s	actually like I'm not going to give you
15628s	too much grief about that because I
15629s	underestimated krabator as well I never
15631s	thought it was bad I looked at it and
15632s	was like yeah that's a lot of stuff but
15634s	like every time I draw this card I just
15637s	want to do a backflip like it honestly
15639s	just feels so good to have in your hand
15641s	every single game it's so flexible so
15643s	powerful absolutely love it now
15646s	look at that
15647s	[Laughter]
15649s	the reason I got it wrong is I thought
15651s	there just might not be the space in the
15653s	time that Rogue was just so powerful
15654s	anyway it's like do I want to spend six
15656s	mana on anything my hand overflows hey
15659s	do I just want to kill people before I
15660s	get there or just be overwhelming them
15662s	already
15663s	enjoying this aren't you look at it yeah
15666s	I mean unnamed household assistant that
15669s	I will not say in order to not trigger
15671s	people's household assistance Define
15673s	irony with the malagos drawing all of
15675s	the Spells one of which being an acorn
15677s	which then Drew another Managers from
15680s	the deck and burned it nicely done it
15682s	was fair
15688s	what is all this stuff
15691s	don't play composting clue
15695s	okay yeah it's probably just sleepy
15698s	Dragon right
15699s	alternatively you can add extraza the
15701s	crab if you really wanted to but I feel
15703s	like that Alex Strauss is going face
15705s	this game more so than killing a minion
15707s	yeah
15709s	I mean it's just a lethal setup right
15710s	now
15716s	three of these things hit the face and
15718s	the face hits them counts
15720s	they do yes
15724s	that's the mega glisco taking down one
15727s	of the biggest all-time winners in
15730s	Masters Tour events four top eights for
15732s	dead draw but he's got it to do if he's
15733s	going to do it this time around because
15735s	he goes to 1-1 Mega gliscal going to two
15738s	and oh and looking pretty tidy on it as
15741s	well
15743s	yeah and I think
15744s	lots of unanswered questions still about
15747s	the Presto variation of Druid right went
15749s	one and one from what we saw in that
15752s	series and not sure if it joined the
15754s	party before we came to things but still
15757s	a deck that I think we'll see a lot of
15759s	throughout I think there are more
15761s	lineups that ban the alignment version
15764s	than there are versions that uh lineups
15766s	that ban the Presto version I think that
15768s	could be you know potentially give some
15770s	Credence to your argument there does
15772s	seem to be more players that are scared
15774s	of the alignment version which I do
15775s	believe is the case in this series right
15777s	their drawers alignment drew it is hand
15779s	out but glisco's Presto version is not
15781s	so I do think we'll see a chunk of the
15784s	Presto Druid throughout the tournament
15786s	as we go on and uh certainly I think as
15789s	time goes on we will have a much more
15791s	fully fleshed out vision of what this
15793s	deck looks like when being played at a
15795s	very high level
15796s	I'm talking of playing at a very high
15799s	level that is round two just about in
15802s	the books these players on 2-0 already
15805s	off to a good start two points towards
15807s	their winter championships qualification
15809s	and I mentioned a few times but just
15811s	while we're waiting for a moment
15813s	um how do you feel the system's worked
15814s	out so far did you feel the summer champ
15816s	produced 16 of the best
15818s	I mean there are thereabouts right I I
15820s	for one I know what you're like You'll
15823s	Always Find The Narrative for whatever
15824s	given player to be deserving of the spot
15827s	that they have I know that's what you do
15829s	best and have done so for a very long
15831s	time I think I'm very much on the other
15833s	side of that and I think you know I'm
15835s	very hesitant to call a player one of
15837s	the 16 best players in the world if I
15839s	don't think they deserve that title did
15842s	we have 16 players where the majority of
15845s	them you could argue were within the top
15848s	100 players in the world yeah I think
15850s	you could probably make that argument
15851s	and I think that is a really good
15853s	turnout for what you then get down to
15856s	um at the end of the season I thought it
15857s	was a fantastic event I thought it was
15859s	great to see high stakes Hearthstone
15861s	coming back again obviously dead draw in
15863s	particular a player who has long since
15866s	uh deserved his spot at that kind of
15868s	level putting in a great performance
15870s	right up until the end and then Abu
15871s	garbu who back once again as the
15873s	trendsetter and The Taste maker this
15875s	time with the big spell Mage coming
15877s	around and picking up the wind so I
15879s	thought it was a fantastic event and
15880s	yeah I think I think the changes this
15881s	year have been nothing but positive so
15883s	far well I'm glad to hear you say that
15885s	because we've got round three coming up
15887s	in just a moment and we're going to be
15889s	having presumably some Habu gabu so back
15892s	in about five minutes and we'll see you
15893s	then
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15975s	foreign
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16019s	thank you
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16055s	each other
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16090s	welcome back everyone to Master's tour
16092s	of Ashia
16093s	that's my best attempt uh my name is
16095s	Soto and I'm joined by Gia for round
16098s	number three uh Geo we were supposed to
16100s	do this a little bit earlier on but I
16102s	had a massive uh internet outage with my
16104s	ISP so thanks for that but we are back
16106s	now picking up making up for lost time
16109s	and what a match if anything this has
16112s	worked out perfectly because what a
16114s	match we now get to cast in place of
16116s	what we're gonna do in round one uh I
16119s	was mentioning earlier that I do not
16121s	like to throw out things like you know
16123s	top five top 16 in the world or whatever
16125s	Gia has no such concerns because she did
16127s	it immediately in the break talking
16129s	about this matchup that we have that is
16132s	right we've got habugabu and chaoti this
16134s	is a matchup that I wouldn't be
16136s	surprised to see at the finals of the
16138s	Masters Tour at the finals of the world
16139s	championship I'm just gonna throw it out
16141s	there but we are getting the treat of
16143s	casting it here in the third round of
16146s	Swiss both of our players 2-0 so far
16148s	with some pretty cool lineups obviously
16151s	the classes in common there's actually
16154s	three of them here in Priest Rogue and
16156s	Shaman but honestly I was expecting that
16159s	if there is any class in this tournament
16161s	that most people would be bringing it
16163s	would be Druid because there are two
16164s	very viable archetypes at the moment
16166s	yeah but I think we've learned as well
16168s	at this point never to try and second
16170s	guess or never to expect habugabu to
16173s	conform to society's Norms Geo if we
16176s	expect him to bring Druid he is going to
16178s	do something very very different indeed
16180s	uh going with priest Rogue Mage Shaman
16183s	as his lineup of choice everything
16186s	looking fairly standard but of course
16188s	you always have to apply a different
16190s	standard to what standard is for
16192s	harbugabu because for example the big
16194s	spell Mage the only reason this deck is
16197s	now considered to have a standard list
16198s	is because of Habu gabu himself who put
16201s	in a lot of work in really pushing this
16203s	deck as a successful choice in the
16204s	metagame that's right he pioneered it
16207s	and most people were naysayers on day
16209s	one but as they tried the deck they
16211s	found out huh this actually is kind of
16213s	insane and I really wonder if it was
16216s	just the Nerf to Naga Mage making Habu
16219s	move away from nagamage that actually
16222s	let this big spell Mage become
16223s	discovered because there's nothing that
16225s	really changed from the set from that
16228s	patch that nerfed um spite lash siren to
16230s	make the big spell Mage better it just
16232s	moved the other Mage out of the way and
16235s	let this new Beast take the center stage
16237s	shouty however has notably omitted it
16239s	from his lineup I thought Mage would be
16241s	an auto bring honestly I thought
16242s	everybody would have this on their radar
16245s	but ciao tea is opting instead for a
16249s	more uh I guess standard set of decks
16252s	that can be predictable as to what
16254s	they're going to do every single time
16256s	the boar priest something that I feel a
16259s	player of shaoki's caliber can really
16261s	utilize to its fullest potential you've
16263s	got the jackpot Rogue in there which you
16265s	know even though it has a lot of
16267s	variance to just the deck and the name
16270s	of the deck I feel when you have that
16273s	added consistency of being able to
16274s	replay those spells from other classes
16276s	with the Contraband station with tests
16278s	you can most certainly have a lot of
16280s	value for the late game
16283s	and speaking of value Habu are really in
16287s	the form of his life having the season
16289s	of his life the year of his life at this
16291s	point at least in Hearthstone terms uh
16294s	two Masters Tour top aides and of course
16295s	rounding out the first half of our
16298s	competitive Year by taking home the
16300s	title of 2022 summer champion and of
16303s	course the world championship spot that
16305s	goes alongside that we just saw dead
16307s	draw in our previous Series in the wrap
16310s	up with myself and Lorinda who was of
16312s	course the vanquished finalist who fell
16315s	to the sword of Habu gabu in that one um
16318s	Gia coming into this year you said just
16320s	now to me in the break Habu and jlt both
16323s	to you potentially top five players in
16325s	the world right now now I would have
16328s	agreed with that if xiaote of basically
16330s	any time you brought it up of when I
16332s	became aware of him had I said to you on
16334s	the 1st of January 2022 is Habu gabu a
16338s	top five player in the world would he
16339s	have been on your list then
16341s	admittedly no because he didn't quite
16343s	have the big victories to back it up he
16345s	always had big results you know top
16347s	eights and consistent performances but
16350s	generally I have this bias of you know
16352s	if you got a trophy you got a
16354s	championship title then yeah you're just
16356s	one of the best because you've proved
16358s	you can take it all the way to the top
16360s	and he's going to worlds for it so I
16362s	think everything is going in favor of my
16364s	extra biased analysis here
16367s	well I think then the interesting
16369s	question Gia is what puts GLT on that
16372s	list because yes he has had a phenomenal
16375s	amount of success in the China scene but
16378s	in terms of holding up trophies of big
16380s	major Western tournaments and huge
16382s	Global events perhaps xiaote doesn't
16385s	have that moment that would put him on
16386s	Gia's biased list so what makes jerge
16388s	out to your top five player in the world
16389s	for you well he did have a big Masters
16391s	for win last year
16393s	so I guess it's not quite the argument
16395s	for right now but I think the the
16398s	winning of something huge at some point
16400s	in his life and it's multiple things and
16402s	the fact that your shouty would extend
16404s	to this point of I don't think he has
16406s	ever been bad I don't think he's ever
16408s	brought a questionable lineup and I
16410s	don't think he's capable of rusting that
16412s	much within a one year period so yeah
16415s	shout out to you in my top five as well
16417s	all right weak priests which I believe
16420s	was part of the lineup for habugabu
16422s	going into that summer Championship
16425s	um for me I talked about this a little
16426s	bit with Lorinda I don't know if you
16427s	agreed here but I do think this is a
16429s	very sensible deck to bring to the
16431s	tournament and because of that ability
16433s	to stick boards make large minions and
16436s	kind of get repetitive damage in a meta
16438s	game that might just require you to do
16441s	large amounts of repetitive damage for
16443s	various renithal-shaped reasons yes I
16446s	think wig priest is a very good bring to
16448s	the tournament I think both you and I
16449s	agreed it would
16451s	um not outperform necessarily but
16453s	outnumber the war priests in the field
16455s	and we were right I believe there are
16458s	more wig priests right now than boar I'm
16461s	not saying that the deck is better than
16462s	boar but I honestly accept the fact that
16465s	you know a lot of people are not pocket
16468s	trained a lot of people have to play on
16470s	a certain amount of ping and a lot of
16472s	people have to play at a certain weird
16474s	time of day that makes more priest just
16476s	not worth it compared to wig which is at
16478s	you know still a high power level and
16480s	maybe takes a bit less finesse to Pilot
16484s	the deck optimally so I think wig priest
16486s	is definitely still a good bring with
16488s	all of those technical things in mind on
16490s	top of it having decent matchups for the
16492s	field If You're Expecting Celestial
16494s	Druid I think wig priest is pretty good
16496s	into that if you're expecting
16499s	um warlock to a certain extent that can
16502s	beat it
16503s	um and it's not got too many truly awful
16506s	matchups out there even things that on
16508s	paper look like it would lose to like
16510s	Rogue and Demon Hunter because those
16512s	decks have a lot of removal and they got
16514s	a head on board sometimes it's not
16515s	enough removal for very high Health
16517s	minions
16519s	yeah and I think right on cue we do get
16521s	to look at glt's option to bring boar
16524s	priest
16525s	um you said you know not necessarily
16526s	everyone is pocket train but xiaoti is
16529s	xiaoti and I would trust him to Pilot
16531s	any High skill cap deck that he wants to
16534s	go with looking at his lineup overall I
16536s	don't necessarily know if you Vibe with
16538s	this assessment but it feels like he is
16540s	sort of trying to counter 40 decks a
16544s	little bit overall right ball priest
16545s	kind of that in that unbeatable infinite
16548s	win condition that you do have available
16549s	even though it's a little bit harder to
16550s	do 40 than it is to do 30 you still
16552s	generally get the job done alignment
16554s	Druid in particular I think gives you a
16557s	little bit more
16558s	um inevitability in those kind of
16559s	matchups as well and even the Rogue
16561s	right not just being boat Rogue being
16563s	the thief version of the Rogue overall
16565s	as well like do you think he has some of
16567s	these Renault decks in mind with the way
16569s	he's built this lineup I think he has
16570s	with the exception of the shaman I think
16573s	that the three decks work in tandem or
16575s	at least they're better archetypes than
16577s	the other ones available to their class
16578s	into Renault but they're also just quite
16581s	good in the overall meta outside of the
16583s	Druid I think shouty also has great
16585s	matchups into other Rogues but I'm so
16587s	glad that we got to start off with the
16589s	two main priest archetypes against each
16591s	other sorry Quest priest not a main
16593s	priest archetype
16595s	um because I think clarification the
16597s	only two priest archetypes
16600s	I think this matchup is very intricate I
16603s	do think it comes out slightly wig
16605s	priest favored even in the hands of a
16607s	very skilled boar priest player but
16609s	there's so many things you can debate
16611s	off right off the bat because
16614s	um just the idea of whether you go face
16617s	at all until you have lethal as the big
16619s	priest into more Feast is a question
16621s	I've seen players of the top level
16623s	debating that until as recently as
16625s	yesterday and they still didn't come up
16627s	with a conclusion and then on the board
16629s	priest side it's so skill intensive the
16631s	timing of when to use Shard of the naaru
16633s	because you have to make sure generally
16634s	that into your bore setup turn um when
16638s	you get the sword you need to that have
16640s	at least one Shard still available
16642s	because if your opponent has built a
16643s	board doesn't matter if you have the
16645s	sort of a thousand troops if you're dead
16646s	on board anyway
16648s	yeah and I think this is a large part of
16650s	the story of uh the recent summer
16653s	championships right I think we saw a lot
16656s	of really fantastic series a lot of
16657s	super high level play but I thought but
16659s	the reason why that tournament was so
16661s	entertaining overall was that we also
16663s	saw a large number of mistakes and
16665s	fumbles and players getting caught up in
16666s	the moment and I think a lot of those
16668s	positions were just players not really
16671s	calculating that they needed that extra
16673s	resource at the end of a game with boar
16675s	priests we saw a couple of players I
16677s	think in the position where they
16679s	completed the quest if you want to look
16680s	at it that way they got the sword
16681s	activated but they just did not have the
16684s	time to swing it twice without dying to
16686s	the opponent's board on the other side
16688s	so I love you highlighting Shard
16689s	absolutely I think it's the number one
16691s	most important thing to look out for in
16694s	this matchup overall
16696s	um gelty even going as far here to go
16698s	Tempo cleric on one how do you feel
16701s	about this stream well it did earn a
16703s	raise of the eyebrows from habugabu and
16705s	me as well I was like it's been a long
16707s	time time since I've seen clerican one
16709s	not since the days of old combo priest I
16712s	feel but with the context of shouti's
16714s	hand where he did see Habu for example
16717s	on play not playing a one drop
16720s	um shouty can play as cleric and into
16722s	certain uh two drops on the other side
16724s	namely Iranian Elemental the cleric can
16727s	sometimes get a trade and then a free
16728s	heal for a draw afterward and I guess
16730s	more important to hear the fact that
16732s	shouty has second cleric in hand is
16734s	saying that at some point he's going to
16736s	hit the Pyro and you generally don't
16738s	need two huge gift of the Naruto turns
16741s	just one and then enough switcheroo's
16743s	can be enough to get you to the bottom
16745s	of the deck or at least to the point
16746s	where you get your boars dead and the
16749s	shards all shuffled in and back into the
16752s	hand
16753s	and this is just good old-fashioned 2014
16756s	Hearthstone right here if your opponent
16758s	plays cleric on one you play a blood fin
16760s	Raptor that's just how you deal with the
16763s	situation where's our power Shield
16766s	I mean I have no idea oh no that's what
16770s	I say
16772s	yes
16773s	well as it happens it is kind of awkward
16776s	like you really protect the cleric here
16779s	without expending a huge amount of
16781s	resources so for shouty I feel it's just
16783s	kind of time to Let It Go the cleric
16786s	didn't get a draw but he knew that this
16788s	was a real risk anyway just proceed with
16791s	the normal game plan of going Switcheroo
16793s	here
16799s	the timing of when to play bore is also
16802s	of a small bit of concern
16805s	um there is the natural magic hexane in
16808s	the wig priest deck which can punish the
16811s	boar uh especially if the najak has
16813s	gotten to enough Health where shouty
16816s	can't get to a point where he destroys
16818s	the najak before the stolen bore
16822s	a little bit awkward one Health
16824s	pyromancer always adds a little extra
16826s	layer of complexity for those turns
16829s	where you are looking to make those
16830s	pop-offs happen
16834s	who here can spell zinjari anybody
16840s	hmm
16842s	looking pretty nice resting yeah it's
16846s	just a matter of whether the kind of
16849s	drawer effect the soft draw effect of
16851s	the bridge is worth having there instead
16853s	but I think bless is just such a
16855s	universally good card in the deck
16857s	yeah I would agree with that extra one
16860s	Habu can even use that before it's
16862s	lethal right maybe to just get something
16863s	out of range of your expected pyro type
16867s	of clear of course one of those shards
16869s	that you were talking about earlier get
16870s	it out of the hand try and set up for a
16872s	lethal further down the line once you've
16874s	exhausted those
16877s	and for xiaoti is getting complicated
16880s	like you said that one Health pyro does
16882s	make these setups with cleric that
16884s	little bit more difficult and the fact
16886s	that there's one Health on the mer
16888s	quarter scribe makes me think this isn't
16890s	the big uh cleric draw turn for shouty
16893s	it could be some type of setup turn
16895s	instead with Thrive you play out your
16897s	board you can holy Smite the school
16899s	teacher
16904s	another gift can't quite hurt I don't
16907s	think he needs a second Shard here the
16908s	prayer isn't doing much either
16912s	it may just be worth having it just as a
16915s	straight up tradable right now though
16916s	just okay I I I'm on board with this
16918s	just being able to use it this turn and
16919s	then probably just allocating that last
16921s	manner to the holy Smite I think the
16923s	problem with filling up the hand too
16925s	much with you know if you look at his
16926s	hand cleric gift gift is if your
16929s	opponent then decides to go the route of
16931s	not attacking you your hand stalls out
16932s	incredibly quickly from that point so I
16935s	do respect the uh the idea from Xiao 2
16937s	just to float uh use the Mana on that
16939s	turn avoid floating the Mana I should
16940s	say
16942s	um use the tradable holy Smite being
16943s	able to clean up the uh the newly nerfed
16946s	school teacher of course now dies
16948s	straight after holy Smite which is a
16950s	very nice dude
16951s	off of this one Shadow or Devourer I
16953s	think is the only real consideration
16958s	did spend all his Mana last turn but not
16961s	on playing the board he could have held
16963s	on to the tradable uh but I think he's
16965s	got it in his mind that he's not in a
16968s	position where he needs to play even
16969s	into the slight risk of najak hackson
16971s	here which I think is a fair assessment
16973s	he can easily slot that into a pyro turn
16975s	potentially both bars now as well it is
16978s	now one of those situations as board
16980s	priest where I think you take this
16982s	entire turn to figure out exactly how
16984s	next turn is going to work because I
16987s	think it's the cleric pyro double board
16989s	turn you have of a leash maybe can even
16991s	end the turn with that refresh Mana uh
16994s	playing a handmaiden
16995s	yeah absolutely possible I think xiaote
16999s	would love a Devourer at some point
17002s	because that makes that this turn pretty
17004s	free with the wild pyromancer Norse
17006s	cleric all that good stuff going on but
17008s	still it's that one Health pyromancer
17010s	that makes things just a little bit
17012s	awkward at the moment right
17017s	it doesn't really stop his prospects of
17020s	killing off the boars altogether it's
17022s	fine it the problem is that it would
17024s	only leave theoretically on shouty side
17026s	of the board one damaged cleric and so
17029s	not too many targets for a gift so
17031s	actually shouty ends up playing two
17035s	boards here maybe to make hand space for
17037s	the handmaiden instead and then delay
17039s	the cleric turn even later
17042s	abu's eyes just widen as he sees the
17045s	double bore come out the other side then
17046s	the shake of the head as he realizes
17048s	that there's nothing that he can really
17050s	do
17051s	nope
17053s	if he wants to get very fancy he could
17056s	devour a board to put its Health away
17058s	from dying anytime soon but I don't
17061s	think that's the line especially when he
17063s	has a four or three on board
17065s	Devour the ball kill your own board so
17068s	that it can't trade off on the other
17070s	side got him all right we'll win
17073s	you sometimes do that in different
17074s	situations like desperation but this is
17077s	not one of those situations yet Habu
17079s	still has a real way of winning this
17081s	game outside of cheese especially now
17083s	he's found a wig
17092s	claw going to be the wig activator and
17096s	we'll also pick up another Naga
17106s	as soon as xiaoti sees three Mana spent
17108s	and knows that najak hexen can no longer
17111s	be played that turn I'm sure that's a
17113s	bit of relief on his side yeah
17115s	absolutely big rest taken from Xiao tea
17117s	but this is a debate I got into with
17120s	Fury Hunter after the previous event I
17122s	think it was insane that was pretty
17124s	critical of him exposing a ball to the
17126s	board and ending up losing a game in a
17128s	situation where I didn't he didn't have
17130s	to Theory quite rightly made the point
17132s	that there is an opportunity cost to
17135s	just holding balls in your hand it does
17136s	cost you something to have to do it
17138s	later on the game you do gain a benefit
17140s	by just throwing out the the bores onto
17144s	the board when you have the Mana to do
17145s	so I think in that situation Fury
17148s	eventually came around to my line of
17149s	thinking that there was no reason to do
17150s	it in that spot but xiaote there as you
17152s	were saying just opened up his hand gave
17154s	himself options for handmade and so on
17156s	further down the line because he is a
17158s	little bit choked by that one Health
17159s	pyromancer in terms of card draw so he
17162s	took a risk there's no denying it's a
17163s	risk but it's not necessarily wrong to
17166s	take risks you cannot take zero risks in
17169s	most games of hearthstone it just
17171s	doesn't really work like that
17172s	and look at what it's kind of cost
17176s	shouting now the fact that Habu hasn't
17178s	gone face for this minions here shouty
17180s	actually uses A Shard on what I would
17182s	say is a much lower impact board than
17184s	you would prefer especially knowing
17186s	there is a wig in hand just to get that
17188s	handmade in activation the only other
17190s	spells that could have gone with the
17192s	coin to activate handmaiden were gift
17194s	and Shadow were devour both of which
17196s	have some pretty crucial roles in this
17198s	current hand the Devourer to protect
17201s	that one Health Pyro from immediately
17203s	dying and the gift is cycled further
17205s	with the cleric so having to use Shard
17207s	there I feel that's a big win for Abu
17208s	gabu
17210s	uh how much damage is this
17214s	oh it's a big number
17216s	because there's wig wig Priestess
17218s	there's wigs coming up oh my our
17220s	remaining Naga is of course right
17223s	there's another Devourer as well let's
17225s	just call the people I've called it I
17227s	mean I'm pretty happy yeah
17230s	I think it's lethal yeah okay
17235s	you know you don't want to fall into it
17238s	it's a way over of counting right like
17240s	that's the most embarrassing thing you
17242s	can possibly do no one wants to count in
17245s	this position
17254s	genuinely could have done yeah might
17256s	have killed the 50 Health deck
17260s	dear stop leaking the next expansion
17262s	you've been warned about this okay
17267s	Yeah clean performance from habugabu
17270s	biding his time and I would say that is
17272s	a fairly textbook example of how I would
17275s	advise to play the match-up
17277s	um didn't really worry too much about
17279s	early pressure just buyed your time
17281s	answer any questions that are asked on
17283s	the other side and just try and build
17285s	that one board right and as soon as he
17287s	was able to do that even with the
17289s	silence coming down on the previous turn
17291s	which gave Habu the smallest base to
17294s	work from he was still able to just
17296s	straight up otk starting with a full
17299s	health minion for 30 on the following
17301s	term which is absolutely absurd and for
17304s	me that is
17305s	um in my experience the best way to come
17307s	out victorious in that matchup if you
17309s	are given the time to do so
17311s	um but it was a sort of slightly slow
17313s	and awkward and clunky ball pretty stand
17315s	on the other side mostly limited I would
17317s	say by that one Health pyromancer off
17319s	the switcheroo I would agree generally
17322s	if the wig priest is going for a silence
17325s	it means they're able to clear that
17327s	board that got it starts reduced on the
17329s	very same turn whether it's through
17330s	zirella or pyro but the fact that shouty
17332s	kind of had to
17334s	um go for his clear in a piecemeal way
17336s	over a couple of turns that gave Habu
17338s	more than enough of a window to get
17340s	lethal leaving any one single Minion on
17343s	board when you know the boar priest has
17344s	uh sorry the wig priest has that many
17346s	cards in hand can never feel good but
17349s	Habu here going to move on now to his
17352s	boat Rogue and yet again we have a
17353s	distinction of archetypes within the
17355s	same class here although I would say
17357s	boat Rogue and jackpot Rogue are much
17360s	more closely related than wig priest is
17362s	to boar priest yeah I would certainly
17364s	agree with that I think it's not
17367s	uncommon that you you know play against
17368s	one or the other and you don't
17370s	necessarily know for quite some time
17372s	what you're dealing with
17374s	um in multiple ways of course with the
17376s	natural effect of Maestra coming into
17378s	that as well and I do think they are
17380s	very similar overall no great surprise
17382s	to see Habu going with this version of
17384s	the deck alongside
17386s	um the rest of the lineup that he has
17387s	which is just overall a little bit more
17390s	uh smooth and streamlined to what we're
17392s	seeing on the other side xiaoti has a
17394s	little bit more of the anti-control and
17397s	slight clunkiness to his versions of the
17398s	deck as well which I think is far from a
17401s	criticism it's just kind of
17402s	stylistically and holistically what his
17404s	lineup is trying to do which then allows
17406s	him to squeeze a test and some jackpots
17408s	and some of those extra greedy clunky
17410s	Cards into the Rogue as well and
17411s	thematically I think it just fits a
17413s	little bit better with what his lineup
17415s	is trying to do overall but fahabu 1-0
17418s	up with the wig priest out of the series
17420s	Shaman's band on both sides which is
17423s	something that we didn't really touch on
17425s	at the start of the series gear do you
17426s	have any thoughts on the shaman bands
17427s	going into this one
17429s	I think the shaman buns may be to
17431s	protect the Rogues on the other side
17433s	because I feel Rogan to Shaman is not a
17436s	particularly good matchup
17438s	um Shaman into wig priest is a close one
17441s	I feel the shaman comes out a little bit
17443s	ahead with that persistent freeze effect
17445s	really making it a struggle for Wig
17448s	priests to get through and then you're
17450s	able to eat some of the threats on hand
17451s	with mutinous later on so I think it's
17454s	reasonable here the big headline for
17456s	this upcoming game though is that Habu
17458s	has once again gotten himself a very
17460s	good matchup perhaps even better than
17462s	the one we saw a while ago Rogue into 30
17465s	card alignment Druid no run of all spice
17468s	to be found here so no extra breathing
17470s	room against this aggro Doug and Habu is
17473s	still running all of the tools here no
17475s	jackpot no testings he's made room for
17478s	all the Pirates just as the original
17480s	deck has been and unlike lorinder I'll
17483s	wait until the questions are actually
17484s	relevant before I ask you questions on
17487s	Fallen 40 cards
17489s	um since we now have a 30 card version
17492s	of alignment Druid on our screen Geo for
17495s	us to actually talk about
17497s	um you know I know that you largely are
17499s	aligned with me pun intended on 40 card
17502s	prestord Druid how do you feel on the 30
17504s	versus 40 card alignment Druid debate
17507s	well I think I might be in the minority
17510s	here just speaking from the various
17513s	practice groups I sit in on but I prefer
17515s	the 30 card version just straight up I
17518s	know that the 40 card version with 4D
17520s	Health more like more relevantly gives
17523s	you percent against your bad matchups
17526s	but I feel you lose enough percent in
17528s	the matchups you're supposed to be good
17529s	at as alignment that it's not really
17531s	worth losing that consistency by running
17533s	that extra 10 cards so I do like the 30
17536s	card version especially within the
17539s	context of shouti's lineup which seems
17541s	like it has a bit of a lean towards
17543s	targeting other Renault decks and
17546s	um if you are alignment you are very
17550s	good at uh versus prester to begin with
17552s	and if you find the celestial alignment
17556s	card itself more consistently you can
17558s	only get better
17560s	because I think that's the big
17561s	difference for me right like restore
17564s	Druid it almost doesn't matter how many
17566s	cards are in your deck you specifically
17568s	have cards that pluck Presto out of your
17571s	deck and then your win condition is
17572s	online that's not necessarily the case
17575s	with plucking Celestial alignment in
17577s	your deck right that card can actually
17579s	get buried and yes there's a lot of
17581s	dredge there's a lot of tutoring there's
17583s	various card draw effects that you can
17585s	have but there's nothing that you know
17586s	in the same way just rips an alignment
17589s	out of your deck in this version
17590s	nope
17593s	oh but this hand from shouty is so
17596s	perfect it lacks an alignment but
17598s	honestly does he even need it if you can
17600s	just you know wrap up to an onyxia super
17603s	early if he finds that that's more than
17604s	enough to beat a rogue early on
17606s	especially when they've hit such a slow
17608s	hand like habugabu has no ajaran vessel
17612s	to be found no early Knolls best he has
17614s	is reconnaissance and these are all
17616s	pretty low impact options
17620s	they are yeah really not what Habu would
17624s	have been looking for here
17626s	want something probably slightly more
17628s	expensive than this just to fully throw
17630s	out the curve this turn like right now
17632s	he almost has an entirely wasted prep
17634s	this term with the way that he's played
17636s	it
17637s	right
17639s	I think it ends up being cookie and then
17642s	oh okay mounted Raptor so he probably
17645s	daggers then to protect the Raptor from
17647s	just being straight up dead to the Jerry
17648s	red Carpenter okay
17650s	yeah it makes sense
17652s	I was thinking cookie and then you just
17655s	try and go again with the reconnaissance
17657s	and it means if you hit a natural six
17660s	drop off of it ideally Mida it's
17664s	playable next turn as a four drop
17672s	he kind of plays itself from here
17675s	yeah not too much to break down on the
17678s	other side for Xiao tea that is a zero
17680s	amount of null coming into the hand
17681s	though for Abu garbu so things are
17683s	looking up for our hero but yeah gelty
17686s	will be pretty much just playing the
17688s	green card for the next few turns
17691s	wait our hero don't speak for me shout
17694s	he's my hero I did his winner interview
17696s	last year
17700s	warn me
17703s	did he do it in English or was it
17705s	translated in English is very very like
17708s	considerate and obviously extremely
17710s	smart to be able to be fluent in
17712s	multiple languages goth here coin hero
17715s	power it's two crystals of ramp
17718s	equivalent to the rampant growth so
17720s	might as well just play the golf because
17722s	you got the card draw as well and just
17724s	the upgraded hero power sooner rather
17725s	than later
17728s	not to mention the five armor of course
17731s	which is very relevant in this situation
17733s	when you're facing down this board
17735s	yeah and uh cheer a couple of turns ago
17738s	you said this hand was missing a
17739s	particular card can you remember what
17741s	that was
17743s	um sun isn't missing anything I don't
17744s	know what I was talking about oh okay
17746s	fine
17747s	yeah alignment after this ramp here
17750s	going to be playable at eight Mana next
17753s	turn of course it's a little bit scary
17755s	to have to leave this 10 damage on board
17758s	which will no doubt From shouti's
17760s	perspective be augmented by you know
17763s	very likely six more damage the next
17765s	turn so shouty has to count if you take
17767s	10 and 16 the next turn plus the dagger
17769s	you take 27 and that five armor keeps
17772s	him alive
17774s	thanks golf you've always got my back
17778s	who needs run Apollo wait is he not
17780s	coining the ramp
17782s	oh
17783s	all right it me and shouty
17787s	is not necessarily A lining next turn
17791s	I mean he still could no can but if you
17795s	are committed to alignment I don't see
17797s	why you wouldn't just coin here
17800s	uh maybe okay is the consideration
17804s	true yeah no it's a fish out
17812s	sure we've got this count correct there
17814s	is now 10 16 showing down on the other
17816s	side yeah but is exactly that five armor
17819s	that is currently keeping Abu gabu alive
17822s	and of course the null comes out to play
17824s	as well changing some of those break
17826s	points making sure that no Wicked stab
17828s	silliness can come out on the other side
17830s	either
17834s	I'll break her actually a nice pickup
17836s	for havugabu even though it did give
17837s	shouty pretty accurate information as to
17840s	what spell was picked up just made sure
17842s	that Habu had more resources rolling if
17844s	he hadn't had the boat this turn I feel
17847s	like the game completely so it Slips
17849s	Away From Him from Hobby's perspective
17850s	he can maybe still stabilize post
17853s	alignment but we can see shouti's hand
17855s	that has anacondra and three pieces of
17857s	nourish
17865s	you off
17869s	that null saved the day of her Shanti
17878s	I like this it technically puts more
17881s	damage on board even though you push a
17884s	bit less in the immediate and then he
17886s	saves my gun fishing for the next turn
17888s	it's asking shouty to have the full
17889s	board clear and healing above 13 health
17894s	unfortunately for habugabu I think
17896s	shouty has all that and more
17898s	so one of those games where you just
17900s	look at the history bar like okay my
17903s	opponent played wild growth goth yes
17906s	alignment null and now anacondra like
17909s	it's literally perfect this game don't
17912s	forget the Cherry rig oh the Jerry rig
17914s	of course
17916s	I would hate to undersell how hard we
17919s	got scammed in this game
17922s	oh and their second alignment to close
17924s	the turn as well if necessary probably
17926s	not necessary but Style on him you know
17929s	yeah why not
17933s	this is so crazy there isn't skills
17936s	there as well the rough part for Hot
17938s	Boys you can't concede yet until he sees
17940s	his scales but okay I think he can now
17944s	I think there's a momentary pause there
17947s	from xiaote like eh do I have to keep
17949s	playing okay
17953s	like I played the scales you've lost
17955s	Miracles can get out
17960s	anytime now
17962s	you can leave it's fine
17968s	foreign
17973s	glorious what a turn
17975s	able
17979s	all right
17982s	reconnaissance into gigafen could save
17985s	Habu there because the gigafen would be
17987s	post alignment and at its full cost
17989s	literally zero costs uh zero outs and
17994s	yeah like you said one one there even
17996s	though I really did not expect this
17998s	outcome
17999s	yeah turns out when you draw uh Jerry
18002s	growth Guff alignment uh Knoll you're in
18005s	a pretty good shape especially when you
18007s	have anaconda and three nourishes to
18008s	follow that up let alone the three
18010s	Miracle growths and the the Earth scales
18012s	everything else that you need to go with
18015s	it Nerf what Nerf Earth and scales still
18017s	costs Zero from where I'm standing
18020s	um xiaote putting on a clinic with the
18024s	Druid just as Habu did with the priest
18026s	in the early one and I think Lorinda
18028s	will be putting another mark on his
18030s	chalkboard a little another notch on his
18033s	desk of Rogue losses that I'm sure he'll
18035s	be keeping track of I feel like he's
18036s	been banging this drum for quite some
18039s	time of you know he understands he gets
18041s	why it gets brought to tournament but
18043s	you know I think he always wants to see
18045s	the lineup that that finds the fourth
18048s	deck that isn't Rogue because he doesn't
18050s	have a lot of faith in that kind of
18051s	thing from happening and again I think
18054s	the more we see Rogue struggle the more
18056s	we're going to have to hear him harp on
18059s	about his Rogue theories here guys two
18062s	things to take away from that Lorinda
18064s	hates almost every deck and Hearthstone
18066s	I don't know why the Rogue in particular
18069s	really sets him off but I mean who knows
18072s	the other thing to take away is that
18075s	he'll also have to chalk it up as a win
18078s	for 30 card Celestial Druid against
18081s	aggro which maybe goes some way to the
18084s	theory that if you are just more
18086s	consistent in doing the thing that wins
18089s	you any matchup that 10 Health doesn't
18091s	necessarily matter
18093s	imagine putting 10 other cards in your
18095s	deck that aren't Jerry rigged wild
18097s	growth Garf Celestial alignment and
18099s	anacondra why would you do that you
18101s	don't need any of those cards you just
18104s	need the really really obvious ones
18106s	um yeah makes sense to me and of course
18109s	you will now move on to more priests
18113s	from Xiao tea more Rogue from habugabu
18116s	the two defeated decks so far in the
18119s	series how do you feel about this
18121s	matchup
18122s	well actually I need to roll it back a
18125s	little bit from what I thought before
18126s	because I thought this was a heavy bore
18128s	priest uh favored one as recent as the
18132s	last summer Championship as well but
18134s	even having sat in practice groups of
18138s	which pocket train bore priest experts
18140s	and perhaps best player in the world is
18141s	a member of he only puts it at about 55
18144s	for the priests so not actually that
18146s	heavily favored and I think that goes a
18149s	long way towards how
18151s	um the board sorry the boat Rogue
18153s	understands their position in the game
18155s	plan because I think a very good boat
18158s	Rogue player knows exactly when to not
18160s	overextend when they should be playing
18162s	Edwin just straight up on the board or
18164s	whether it's worth stepping and the sort
18167s	of distribution of the threats here
18171s	that is interesting to hear because I
18173s	honestly myself would have had it more
18175s	in the region like closer to a 60
18177s	matchup for the priest like not an
18179s	overwhelming favorite but certainly a
18181s	matchup you're happy to see but yeah
18183s	certainly if you're going to listen to
18184s	anyone's opinions on bore Rogue uh
18186s	pocket train is certainly the first
18189s	person that I would be visiting
18194s	and already we're seeing some difference
18196s	as to how you normally play the Rogue in
18199s	this matchup compared to others just the
18200s	filet fighter on one recognizing that
18203s	this is not something that shouty wants
18205s	to play Holy smidan he's certainly not
18207s	going to commit a pyro this early so
18209s	that ballet fighter even though you can
18211s	argue it gets four damage sometimes
18214s	eight with a
18216s	um Mr Smite later on it can get that
18219s	eight damage at the beginning of the
18220s	game
18224s	ready Xiao tea looking like he has a
18227s	slightly more promising hand in terms of
18230s	card draw
18231s	uh problem is the free one on the other
18233s	side of the ball that's beating him up
18235s	very rapidly at the moment
18237s	don't think he has to panic quite yet
18240s	though it is still quite a bit of
18242s	healing and I think he'll be holding on
18245s	to the Pyro cleric until he sees more
18247s	Minions on the other side to actually
18250s	get multiple activations from gift of
18252s	the naaru here so this is one of those
18255s	situations where the boat rogue's
18257s	understanding of their place in the
18259s	match-up comes into play like should
18261s	they over commit into this should they
18263s	play only one or two more threats the
18266s	very close one
18268s	I had to get a very transparent idea of
18270s	what's in your opponent's hand at this
18272s	point right because when your opponent
18273s	afk's turn three essentially that's no
18277s	switch Rue that's no amulets no other
18279s	tradables no Thrive no dredge like
18281s	there's so many cards that your opponent
18283s	just doesn't have in hand at that point
18285s	that it almost pins them exactly on
18288s	waiting for a zirella clear or waiting
18291s	for a pyromancer turn right with the
18292s	cards that they have in their hand so
18294s	it's it's a fairly uh Elementary read I
18299s	would say on the other side how Habu
18301s	decides to deal with it is up to him but
18303s	I think he will certainly have a very
18305s	good idea of what is up with shouty's
18306s	handbook
18308s	and already you can see that he's
18309s	committed Marta setting up for the
18311s	refilter and rather than just playing an
18313s	inefficient null here doesn't want to go
18316s	for further extension from this point on
18318s	trying to see how much mileage he can
18321s	get out of the filet fighter before
18322s	shouty goes for a clear but I don't
18324s	think shouty is going to take the bait
18326s	this turn either probably just an
18328s	illuminate and hero power
18330s	um with his priest hero power
18332s	technically the filet fighter is only
18333s	delaying one damage per turn that is
18336s	true
18337s	the LT more than happy to play this
18340s	waiting game
18344s	hmm
18347s	particularly if this illuminae does find
18349s	a Switcheroo or similar something that
18352s	can actually help him effectively spend
18353s	his Mana this time
18356s	yeah and generally the thought process
18357s	of whether you play illuminate first
18360s	thing you ask is do I have a handmaiden
18361s	in hand that needs activation if yes
18364s	illuminate seems a lot more enticing to
18366s	play if not then you ask is there any
18368s	card that is something you really want
18371s	to have specifically for next turn and
18373s	in shouty situation I don't think there
18374s	is so he can pretty happily still hold
18377s	on to it here
18386s	and now havu starts to ask how much
18390s	longer can he wait he does have three
18393s	development options here
18395s	both coined out just aegon or the wild
18398s	Pawn Knoll I really dislike the null
18401s	among those other options
18403s	um because he still has Recon that can
18405s	get it cheaper so maybe Recon null is
18407s	The Sweet Spot here
18411s	I'll break her again
18415s	I'll break it does
18417s	seem to be the most useful of those
18418s	options
18424s	it's come at an unfortunate timing where
18427s	the prep really falls off in value here
18429s	for Habu because he will from next turn
18432s	forward assuming he saves the coin have
18434s	enough natural Mana to play boat and
18436s	dredge goes for the stealth 4 for
18439s	instead though which has that upside of
18440s	the death rattle making azarella clear a
18443s	bit more Awkward for shouty in theory
18446s	it does also require four straight up
18449s	AOE this turn even to deal with the
18451s	large body because you know not
18453s	targetable by holy Smite for example if
18455s	that's the kind of turn that xiaote was
18457s	waiting for to go along with the
18458s	pyromancer that I'm sure hibugabe was
18460s	incredibly suspicious
18463s	really starting to become a game of
18465s	chicken here where if shouty keeps
18467s	waiting Habu gets his incremental damage
18470s	and inches ever so much closer to the
18473s	shadowcrafter scabs which then allows
18476s	Habu to have that hero power that lets
18478s	him put forth way more burst damage in a
18480s	single turn than you normally expect
18482s	from a rogue yep
18487s	this is it is a very weird stalemate
18489s	because normally a combo deck in this
18492s	situation would be happy to say okay you
18495s	pass a turn I pass a turn you're pushing
18497s	one damage two damage whatever that's
18498s	absolutely fine
18500s	the problem is xiaote is not spending
18502s	those turns drawing cards he's spending
18504s	those turns passing he's only drawing
18506s	one card a turn which means he's still
18508s	so far away from the win condition right
18511s	yeah it's a very unfortunate draw for
18513s	shouty no switcheroos not even amulets
18516s	for him to trade to at least get
18518s	somewhere close to the many
18522s	um boxes he needs to tick before he can
18524s	get that bore combo active no bar is
18527s	dead no amulets traded hardly anything
18530s	cycled from the deck it's really
18532s	dependent on how habugabu reads this
18534s	situation he did there is one amulet
18537s	traded on either term one or turn two I
18540s	believe I do think he's I managed to
18542s	trade one so far this game but yeah no
18544s	your point absolutely stands that key
18546s	has done almost nothing this entire game
18549s	up until this point and hobby says all
18551s	right fine I blink let's actually play
18554s	some Hearthstone here's a third minion
18556s	what are you gonna do about it
18559s	well that means two minions can be
18561s	damaged if xiaote once he can go for a
18564s	double cleric turn
18566s	but I think it ends up maybe being
18571s	okay the order is
18575s	Pyro shadowward
18577s	with one cleric on board and then you
18579s	play the other clerican gift
18583s	gosh does that overdraw
18589s	no he's playing both clerics immediately
18593s	no no okay he's getting the order that I
18596s	think this is what you said right yeah
18599s	all right the animation made me think
18600s	that both clerics hit the board before
18602s	the shadow were devour and I think that
18603s	would have made him overdraw but this
18605s	looks very good finally gets to make up
18608s	for all those turns of not doing
18609s	anything
18611s	and the village to top it off and you
18614s	got all the actions done
18616s	leash for Smite whatever else you want
18618s	to go about plenty of Mana left for
18620s	tradables on the amulet
18625s	foreign
18634s	stealth which is not a big deal
18636s	whatsoever
18637s	has double handmade in here very easy to
18641s	activate with that illuminate as well
18643s	so shouty with only nine cards left in
18647s	deck in the blink of an eye has made up
18650s	for about five turns worth of nothing
18655s	yeah very nicely done I think coming out
18657s	on top of the game of chicken on the end
18659s	uh in the end Habu you could see kind of
18662s	visibly getting a little bit frustrated
18663s	particularly with more so with his
18666s	drawers I would say them with the state
18667s	of the game he was just drawing you know
18669s	gone fishing prep gone fishing in a row
18671s	from that point not really the level of
18674s	consistent minion refill that he
18676s	necessarily would have been looking for
18677s	uh no Mr Smite which I think would have
18680s	given him at least a very consistent
18681s	game plan going on he did choose to
18683s	Blink in the end he dropped down the
18684s	third minion delti's patience absolutely
18688s	rewarded many of those things that Gia
18691s	was uh uh marking off the check boxes
18694s	that needed to be ticked for GLT many of
18696s	them were achieved on that turn
18701s	but you brought up about shouty not
18703s	doing very much in the early turns while
18706s	they were in that game of chicken can
18708s	also somewhat be applied to habugabu
18710s	where in the turns where he was being
18712s	very patient with his minions set up he
18714s	would have loved to have his own card
18716s	draw cards um shroud of concealment
18719s	being the main one even Edwin and then
18721s	step it back to hand so you have that
18723s	set up for its caps and potential Smite
18725s	later but he doesn't have those
18727s	um check boxes ticked off in case he
18730s	needs to get to the point where all the
18731s	burst has to come from hand so he is
18733s	committing to board here not fully
18736s	there's still another gun fishing that
18738s	could have found something else but
18740s	certainly going to be a trivial matter
18742s	for shouty to clean up
18744s	yeah picked up uh crab over the boat as
18748s	well off the first gone fishing
18751s	um which again I'm a huge fan of
18753s	krabatoa I continue to my fandom but
18756s	increases with each passing day of this
18759s	card I think it's uh such a powerful
18762s	addition to the deck I think it's such a
18764s	a lifesaver in such a variety of
18766s	situations no great surprise to me to
18768s	see Abu see that on the bottom of the
18770s	deck and go nope absolutely not you're
18772s	coming up here
18774s	only downside of this crab is that we
18776s	can't eat it
18779s	I mean you could try there's nothing
18781s	stopping you
18782s	no I can't try it's digital it's not
18785s	even a physical card that I won't
18787s	attempt to consume now that I think
18789s	about it you raise a good point
18793s	what it does do though even though it
18795s	doesn't seem necessarily good against
18796s	War priests because you don't need the
18798s	trading tools it's still if there is any
18800s	one minion on their side allowing you to
18802s	push four damage while creating
18806s	um heavy minion threats on board so I
18808s	think it's a very reasonable pick here
18809s	for Habu the chaoti quickly deciding
18812s	that this board isn't nearly threatening
18815s	enough for him to commit his second pyro
18817s	to I like this assessment a lot won't
18820s	even necessarily need the switcheroo
18823s	this game
18826s	foreign
18830s	this is 10 cards in hand for shouty
18833s	potential to overdraw the other amulet
18843s	scary stuff it's a one in five for Habu
18846s	to straight up win the game next turn
18851s	I'll be making the I think less
18853s	consequential decision of whether he
18856s	wants to hear a power replay a minion
18858s	this turn and if so which Minion but
18860s	really we are just waiting for that end
18863s	turn button to be here at this point
18867s	thank you
18868s	my hand is oh
18874s	disaster
18876s	it is a disaster it is a disaster for
18879s	xiaote and I think it's something that
18880s	he could have at the very least
18882s	considered and again it's those
18884s	arguments I would say in ball priest
18887s	match-ups of like how far ahead am I can
18889s	I afford to play around with uh
18891s	situations like you know coin scabs burn
18894s	a card he did have a very specific hand
18896s	that was very difficult to do that with
18899s	I would argue because everything he
18901s	needed was either a crucial piece he
18903s	needed for a board clear an actual combo
18905s	piece or something that just drew more
18908s	cards anyway so I'm not even entirely
18910s	sure if there was a route that xiaote
18912s	could have taken but still boar priest
18915s	really difficult deck very punishing
18917s	deck
18918s	um when the moments like that happen
18922s	bouti still in the game I think trying
18925s	to formulate a very French scenario when
18928s	condition which is maybe clearing this
18931s	board having a pyro stick and then
18933s	trying to players are rather hero and
18935s	every other turn dealing five to Habu
18937s	but quickly realizes that those numbers
18939s	do not add up in his favor Habu draws
18941s	far too many cards that can get himself
18944s	back on board there so shouty throws it
18947s	down and that means that habu's taken
18950s	another uh unfair sorry he's taken an
18953s	unfavorable so it feels like there's
18955s	been a win in the opposite direction of
18958s	what's expected for both of our players
18960s	so far
18963s	yeah certainly I mean based on the news
18965s	we heard from pocket train via uh Gia
18969s	our undercover correspondent did that
18971s	matchup might be a little bit uh closer
18973s	than we were expecting then maybe that's
18974s	not perhaps as surprising
18977s	um but still it's a matchup that I would
18978s	expect to go the way of the ball press
18981s	more often than not and we will now move
18983s	on to the one remaining deck Gia for
18986s	haboo it is the big spell Mage the new
18990s	flavor of the month deck the Abu dhabu
18993s	is injecting into our meta game once
18996s	again coming along and injecting our
18998s	meta with a lethal dose of poison he's
19001s	not satisfied with breaking the metal
19003s	once he has to do it all over again with
19006s	the very same class
19008s	I feel like havu just needs to come up
19011s	with 29 other signature Decks that
19014s	quickly become the top of the meta and
19016s	then he can open an ice cream shop
19018s	perfect
19020s	big spell Mage with the double parrot
19025s	one spammy okay it's a bit of a greedier
19028s	list I've seen others go for doubles
19030s	family one parrots but you know if
19033s	you're doubling down on the Rune then I
19035s	like just going all in on that game plan
19038s	obviously the surf in the sea guide is I
19042s	think the most debatable card in the
19044s	list at the moment there's some people
19045s	that are huge fans of it others that say
19047s	it's just not good enough here it's a
19050s	re-roll on your hand that lets you find
19052s	Belinda maybe more of the time but you
19055s	know if Habu the pioneer of the deck
19057s	himself is running it I feel that the
19059s	naysayers maybe need to take another
19061s	look
19062s	yeah I don't mind it because in my
19065s	experience with this deck it is a deck
19067s	where your hand can just break sometimes
19069s	right like if you swap spells and it
19071s	doesn't go well for some reason if you
19074s	do just draw I have a sequence of like
19075s	fairly bad draws in a row your hand can
19078s	just kind of get ruined and it's hard to
19081s	recover that piecemeal via top decks but
19084s	I I do somewhat like the choice of being
19086s	able to re-roll however it is largely
19089s	hypocritical of me to say that because I
19092s	have very loudly and very vocally made
19094s	fun of people that thought you know
19096s	Twist on a stick was going to be a
19098s	playable card for some reason
19100s	um I think you know in the dredge
19102s	Warrior the scam Warrior the not control
19105s	Warrior glad to see everyone's finally
19107s	on board with this by the way I may have
19109s	had no internet but I was still able to
19111s	listen to that conversation
19113s	um that deck in particular of course the
19115s	bottom of your deck is cheap and
19117s	temporary and scammy and you want access
19119s	to it in particular without that
19121s	specific motivation I personally don't
19125s	value uh so Finley particularly highly
19128s	but again I would Echo the end of your
19130s	wrap up which is who on Earth am I to
19132s	argue with
19135s	flip side though is most people who
19138s	don't run from me instead run the
19140s	Pelican divers and that's a card that is
19143s	a fan favorite Caster favorite as well
19145s	I'm told and I've just recently heard so
19149s	certainly both creatures are things that
19154s	um I think have their own merits here
19156s	but perhaps a more interesting thing is
19158s	this road matchup into the big spell
19161s	Mage because I'm of the opinion that
19163s	boat Rogue is a slight favorable into
19165s	big spell Mage
19167s	um but the jackpot Rogue I don't think
19170s	is where you want to be at it leans less
19172s	into the early game Beatdown and
19175s	um that I think on in theory leaves it
19178s	more vulnerable to the majors toolkit in
19180s	the late game
19182s	yeah I do agree I think I do think it is
19184s	also one of those situations where
19186s	sometimes we will talk about these kind
19188s	of match-ups and there's two versions of
19190s	a deck and they're like 24 cards the
19193s	same but like oh well this deck just
19195s	doesn't curve out as aggressively as the
19196s	other deck and all those kind of cards
19198s	are still there right I think the most
19200s	recent example of that was like Naga
19202s	Mage versus Naga ping Mage right where
19204s	all the tools were still kind of there
19206s	in the Ping Mage to do things as quickly
19208s	as possible
19209s	um but if you were the glass half full
19212s	kind of person you say okay I still have
19214s	all the early curve tools but I have the
19216s	addition of this extra late game as well
19218s	I think that's the way that some people
19220s	I think look at this version of Rogue
19223s	and say well I think I have very little
19225s	downside I'm not cutting any of the
19228s	early game tools
19230s	um maybe just Philip I guess is the big
19232s	Miss in terms of being able to push
19233s	early damage
19234s	and in the late game this might be
19237s	missing because reach is still something
19239s	to consider here the Mage does have
19242s	armor from Deepwater evoker but they're
19244s	not running Ice barriers it's not
19245s	infinite necessarily oh do you have a
19249s	double Knoll start from Xiao tea which
19251s	is absolutely amazing
19254s	um this might not be one of the games
19256s	where this interaction I'm about to
19258s	mention comes into play but there's also
19260s	the way that barbaric sorceress
19262s	interacts with jackpot to consider here
19265s	because it can sometimes clog the Rogue
19267s	hand with spells that the Mage actually
19269s	doesn't want to swap because they'll be
19271s	high cost as well and the Swift scale
19274s	trickster only brings them to zero on
19276s	your turn so that's something that
19278s	shouty can consider if he finds room to
19281s	use the coin and Shadow step to be
19283s	stronger against Barbara
19285s	and that is
19288s	sorry that's really tickled me
19291s	um uh and I think that's exactly what
19293s	you are seeing him do right this is
19295s	minimal Shadow step value I would say
19297s	but uh xiaoti just working as hard as
19300s	possible to get those cards out of hand
19302s	as quickly as possible you see this as
19305s	well with like the innovates and so on
19306s	in Druid when you play this particular
19308s	match up as well just do not leave zero
19311s	cost spells in your hand under any
19314s	circumstance because uh that is
19316s	Barbara's favorite food I am reliably
19318s	info
19319s	hahaha
19322s	and Barbara's weirder than me trying to
19325s	eat kravatoa the digital card
19329s	all right Ram Commander for Habu gabu
19332s	not a huge impact this turn but more
19335s	important to get the 1-1 tokens in hand
19337s	to maybe trigger a spammy clear on the
19340s	next turn because he definitely has one
19342s	of those situations where he doesn't
19343s	have the time necessarily to set up a
19347s	sorceress nor the guarantee that it
19348s	would be good for him and it's not a
19350s	Belinda hand either shouty with the
19352s	pickup of part of the Ancients though
19354s	even going to slot in the trickster for
19356s	maximum Tempo even though that trickster
19358s	could discount a lot more later on
19360s	natural on is a pretty good album oh
19364s	look at this board
19368s	it probably is just the best outcome
19370s	isn't it it threatens the most damage
19373s	growing hands Gia it's what we're doing
19376s	[Music]
19377s	um
19378s	I can't even talk about fondant of Arden
19381s	as an out or Varden being in the deck
19385s	all right so let's count the spammy
19388s	clear uh you trade in with the one one
19390s	and there's one two
19393s	three
19397s	Next plan there is no Next plan next
19400s	game
19401s	it might well be a next game
19405s	yeah you gotta try right yeah I like
19407s	hobby Smiles he knows the deal I think
19410s	you can see from the way your opponent
19412s	played that they don't have zero cost
19414s	spells in hand but I do think that was
19416s	probably the out the Habu had to go for
19418s	in that position
19420s	doesn't have room wait if you trade a
19423s	4-2 and you get one Claw is it enough
19426s	uh or
19430s	I think so right
19435s	it
19443s	yeah
19444s	yeah
19449s	I don't know why yeah so I have no
19452s	conviction about this but
19461s	more than didn't even need the cloth
19463s	swing
19466s	plenty of damage going through in the
19469s	end
19471s	also
19474s	[Music]
19475s	Chill on right so it's not necessarily
19478s	going to work out how you expect it to
19480s	but yeah tons of damage in the end lined
19482s	up uh Forge LT really that was big big
19486s	spell Mage just not really looking like
19489s	a deck just absolutely suffering uh this
19491s	is something I am also curious to see as
19493s	the tournament develops because I think
19494s	in a lot of spots
19497s	um big spell Mage wins because of
19500s	players inexperience against it and I do
19502s	think there are little niche situations
19505s	little beats little patterns that the
19507s	deck falls into that can be exploited by
19509s	good players particularly Chief among
19511s	them and I think this is something that
19512s	you'll see more and more as the
19513s	tournament goes on this dumping of cheap
19516s	spells from The Hand by any means
19518s	necessary Shadow step used for
19520s	incredibly minimal value coin used
19522s	rapidly straight away even the horn as
19525s	soon as it went in the hand it came out
19526s	the hand the very next turn like spells
19528s	were just not being left in the hand
19530s	whatsoever from Xiao tea and that
19533s	effectively muted the entire deck for on
19537s	the other side although I will say the
19539s	Shroud into the second Knoll probably
19541s	had something to do with it in the early
19543s	game as well
19545s	yep that is definitely an above average
19547s	outcome for this jackpot Rogue and it's
19550s	weird to say that without the card
19551s	jackpot itself being involved in that
19554s	game but it does lead us now to a final
19557s	match-up between big spell Mage and boar
19561s	priest which is one that I cast at the
19564s	very beginning of the day as well which
19566s	I did you know say that I think it's a
19569s	board priest favorable but there's
19570s	certainly a lot of things the Mage can
19572s	do to mess them up on top of the usual
19575s	just straight up win the game type of
19577s	draw which is early Belinda into Drake
19579s	fire amulet
19581s	yeah there is and there's enough going
19583s	on there just in terms of random
19586s	outcomes
19587s	um huge taunts that can come after
19589s	shards have been used extra Health that
19591s	could be generated from Ice barrier all
19593s	sorts of things that can happen from
19594s	Rune of the archmage as well there are
19596s	enough routes to Victory to be found
19598s	even blade master okanie I would say is
19602s	a niche Wing condition
19604s	um what you don't really see is blade
19606s	Master okanie on the board your opponent
19608s	just plays a ball or an amulet or
19610s	whatever right and then you lose the
19611s	game to it being counted what you might
19614s	see from not a very experienced warpries
19617s	player is they play every other minion
19620s	in their deck apart from the last
19621s	pyromancer and the last ball that they
19624s	need at the end of the game and then are
19625s	unable to play one of those two minions
19628s	because then the okani has played in the
19630s	last game uh in the late game sorry
19631s	that's something that you can forget
19633s	about and not keep track of if you do
19635s	get into those situations so yes it's a
19638s	selection of 40 to 40 32 different one
19642s	percent out I would say for the Mage in
19645s	this matchup that can all just vaguely
19648s	find you a way of getting out of the
19649s	game but yeah I do very much agree uh
19652s	heavily favored or at least a decent
19653s	favorite for the ball priest in this one
19655s	I like the way you put it and honestly
19658s	the fact that there are so many sort of
19660s	gotcha interactions that the Mage can
19662s	pull off to beat the priest
19665s	um on top of the fact that the priest is
19667s	just base deck so difficult to play
19669s	optimally it can be a lot for one person
19672s	to process and keep track of at all
19675s	times but I'm sure shouty will be up to
19678s	the task whether or not he was up to the
19680s	task against the Rogan playing around
19682s	scabs is something we can debate I
19684s	wasn't necessarily sure if he had a good
19686s	enough line that left him at eight cards
19688s	instead of within overdraw range and it
19690s	was still a one in five that he had to
19691s	lose pretty unfortunate but that's the
19694s	real sort of
19696s	um difficulty of playing War priest you
19698s	have so many situations where because
19699s	the deck needs to take so many boxes
19702s	because there's so many moving parts to
19704s	the combo that can be disrupted by your
19706s	opponent you need to decide which of
19708s	those if any are worth taking the risk
19711s	on them being disrupted and whether
19713s	those risks are worth avoiding at the
19716s	cost of just making the overall flow and
19718s	rhythm of your combo take longer
19721s	yeah I think the best illustration we
19722s	had of that was it yourself and Derek
19724s	that was casting Ty's Quest priest that
19727s	had magic hexen and mutinous in it so
19730s	then as bull priest playing against that
19731s	you're like well where are my balls
19733s	supposed to be then I have no idea I
19734s	can't put them on the board I can't have
19736s	them in my hand what am I supposed to do
19738s	that's kind of the uh the rhythm of
19741s	playing against this deck from Abu dhabu
19743s	is you have to keep in mind which
19745s	particular scams Habu is indicating as
19749s	well of course as keeping an eye on just
19751s	the giant threats that Habu is able to
19752s	throw out on the board in some
19754s	particular drawers that are available
19756s	just kept Drake fire amulet as well and
19758s	found the Barbara so it's looking good
19761s	for Habu soda so far
19764s	um
19765s	obviously the quality of spell that you
19768s	swap on average is not going to heavily
19771s	disrupt the priest
19773s	um obviously amulet is the extreme High
19776s	Roll here because that's the one that
19778s	actually is necessary to get the sword
19780s	online and if your amulet costs 10 you
19784s	cannot generally kill off the bores on
19787s	the same turn that you summon them but
19789s	even disrupting something like gift of
19791s	the naaru which is very important for
19794s	cycling or a Switcheroo that can be game
19796s	winning for the major as well by virtue
19798s	of the extra turns they buy themselves
19801s	oh that's right
19810s	which makes it very important I would
19812s	say to not leave amulets sitting in your
19815s	hand it's rare that you will do so
19816s	really anyway as trading amulets is kind
19819s	of the uh the very first thing you're
19821s	trying to do in a lot of situations
19824s	oh no I've just realized there's a card
19826s	called amulet for both players
19828s	[Laughter]
19831s	as a tradable card for both sides cool
19834s	down oh my we could stop
19838s	and they could swap costs and we'll be
19840s	like the 10 cost amulet wait the
19842s	original Tech cost or the current Sun
19845s	cost
19847s	one that costs 10 Jia I don't know why
19850s	this is so hard to grasp come on
19853s	we're just completely refusing to use
19855s	the other words in their name
19857s	I mean imagine actually reading card
19860s	names
19861s	couldn't be subtle it couldn't no
19866s	okay treasure guard keeps the curve
19869s	rolling
19874s	probably most likely just considering
19876s	the order of proceedings here because we
19879s	are expecting a turn five uh
19883s	bursaries for Habu here
19886s	ideally if he could get the mailbox
19888s	dancer to die on the same turn so that
19891s	there's uh higher odds of habugabu
19895s	getting the Drake Fire 2-0 by virtue of
19897s	a coin being in xiaote-san from that
19899s	point that could be pretty good
19904s	the true
19908s	Yep looks good
19910s	does have a pyro in hand but already has
19912s	the gift of the Naru to go with it here
19914s	anyway
19917s	I believe the handmaiden is already
19918s	active so no real Merit to other cheap
19920s	spells in that situation
19923s	I'd agree
19925s	between handmaiden and Switcheroo this
19927s	turn
19931s	kind of close actually
19934s	zahan made an early doesn't have much
19937s	upside of being on board it does come at
19940s	a turn where Habu can't necessarily
19943s	manipulate the coin he knows would enter
19946s	shouti's hand
19948s	um because barbaric sorcers wouldn't be
19951s	playable even with habu's coin next turn
19953s	so maybe this is the turn to try to
19955s	weave the handmaiden in
19956s	yeah that's what I'm leaning towards
19958s	because I think over the next two turns
19961s	you probably want to play both
19963s	handmaiden and the switcheroo and if you
19965s	do them in the other order then you'd
19967s	have to be playing your handmaiden as
19969s	alongside some kind of pyromancer turn
19971s	where he then killed the mailbox dancer
19973s	in the same turn use the coin you don't
19975s	have the cleric that you'd want to do
19977s	that with anyway so this order just does
19979s	seem to make the most sense
19982s	we're not bothering with the attacks
19984s	doesn't want to activate gift of the
19987s	Naru or zirella
19989s	sense
19996s	shouty starts with Switcheroo he does
19998s	have to end the turn dumping one of
20000s	these other cards which could be
20002s	illuminate
20016s	I do like this being played because even
20018s	though so true is the most expensive
20020s	spell I feel it's the most painful one
20023s	to be made to cost 10 because it's so
20025s	crucial towards the cycling game plan
20029s	yeah absolutely agree and there's no
20032s	risk again currently no uh amulet in
20035s	hand so there's no risk when you're
20037s	playing Switcheroo you're drawing
20038s	specifically two minions so there's no
20040s	risk that you you know instead if you
20042s	went with the root of just playing
20043s	tradables instead you might end up with
20045s	one of those amulets in your hand with
20046s	no Mana to spend in that spot which
20048s	would be a potential disaster since you
20051s	are I would say what 90 plus percent
20053s	confident that you're getting coin
20055s	Barber at this turn
20065s	this is one of those barbaric sorceress
20068s	situations where Habu knows that he is
20070s	unlikely to disrupt a very crucial spell
20073s	to shouty but he is just setting up for
20076s	a drake fire the next turn and those
20078s	dragons sometimes have too many stats on
20081s	them for zyrella to get through
20082s	especially when shouty is still at 30.
20085s	so it's still a decent setup for
20087s	habugabu
20093s	now it's on shouty to find a way to
20096s	create hand space while still
20098s	maintaining enough spells for an
20100s	eventual cleric with his pyro gift Turn
20102s	and most likely enough healing to
20105s	activate his zarella because now he
20107s	knows there's a drake fire amulet in
20109s	hand that cost too
20110s	yes which is what I'm eyeing is if worse
20115s	comes to worst how do you have like a
20117s	pyromancer gift turn that enables you to
20120s	then have an eight damage uh zarella
20124s	right like saying AA dragons come down
20126s	for example and I think it's still a
20129s	little bit too difficult to do overall
20131s	without access to that additional coin
20134s	coming off the mailbox dancer first
20137s	um so yeah I think he's just gonna be
20138s	able to clear all this up
20140s	I think finding the leash would be ideal
20143s	to get in that scenario where you're
20145s	able to clear that many things
20148s	it was handmaiden needs to dump one more
20151s	card
20156s	and hero power okay I honestly Bitcoin
20159s	yeah didn't know which spell was least
20162s	valuable here for shouty I was even
20164s	thinking maybe one gift can be used
20166s	but it's just too relevant with zarella
20169s	because he knows these big dragons are
20171s	coming and that's the other thing like
20172s	he didn't want to use like a Devourer or
20175s	a pyromancer or whatever to try and
20177s	clear the board because he wants those
20178s	two injured minions to remain on board
20181s	so that he can heal them next turn to
20183s	potentially be able to get a clear with
20184s	the zirella uh I was counting in eight
20187s	unfortunately Habu is of course an
20189s	absolute God and so rolls the uh the 212
20192s	Health deathwings which is going to make
20193s	life even more difficult
20197s	on top of sheltie still not having the
20199s	leash so he hardly has Mana to work with
20201s	for the pyrosarella turn like acid
20203s	stance he can't even play gift of the
20205s	naaru with those two cards all together
20206s	yep
20209s	I think the one one always trades here
20211s	just because it has the largest buffer
20214s	of restorable Health on it I suppose I
20217s	run the disaster and then no attacks
20221s	like there's a lot
20223s	yep I like this right gift heals one
20226s	deathwings eleven more uh
20230s	so you trade the one wanted and then you
20232s	spammy Arc and it no no it still doesn't
20234s	work
20238s	I think he's going for a character in
20240s	which needs to happen right velicia is
20242s	the only way this board ever gets
20245s	anywhere being feared so he needs to dig
20246s	for it
20249s	all right
20250s	gift gonna cycle for
20254s	five cards
20258s	I have healing in the pool so far
20261s	novelish
20264s	one more tradable for it
20269s	okay two draws with the flash Shield
20272s	any Village
20276s	nope
20281s	he is not dead on board
20287s	does however have 10 cards in his hand
20290s	two clerics on the board and what are
20293s	these four cards remaining
20295s	uh hold on
20298s	that's for prayer velish elwin bore and
20301s	zarella pretty sad that the village was
20305s	bottom for here
20314s	well at the very least another Drake
20316s	fire can happen from the Magister Don
20319s	graspier
20320s	yep
20323s	and importantly this is actually the
20326s	only way in hand to push extra damage
20328s	right now is what we upgraded to hear
20330s	about
20336s	Abu is in one of those situations where
20339s	he knows that all these Chief spells
20341s	have been expended a lot of them were
20343s	healing
20344s	and at this point the leash is very very
20347s	hard to activate but the one away that
20350s	Habu potentially loses is if there is a
20353s	clear with zirella and healing
20360s	he's going to starfish to remove the
20363s	Pyro which helps with the clearing part
20366s	of that long checklist of things
20370s	hey
20374s	wasn't necessary
20377s	but it's just funny
20379s	I mean when you're the Hearthstone
20382s	summer champion
20385s	that's just how your games go you know
20386s	like
20388s	26 cards draw Nova leash that will clear
20391s	your boards of 12 12. you rolled the two
20393s	12 twelves to begin with and you burn
20396s	two cards over the course of a series
20398s	and it's an amulet and a ball come on
20403s	that's just what it's like to be Habu
20406s	gabu three and oh so far here in Masters
20410s	Tour Virginia on his way potentially to
20413s	another master store top 16 potentially
20416s	a win another huge championship
20418s	appearance it's just like completely on
20421s	a roll it would be nice to see him just
20423s	not
20424s	um taking any slack on the way to the
20427s	world championship it is still many
20429s	months off but it's nice to see that
20431s	Habu is still putting in all the effort
20433s	making sure he's at the top of the team
20435s	for that eventual World Finals yeah
20438s	absolutely I mean
20440s	Abu really putting his name up there
20442s	with you know the absolute greats of the
20445s	Masters Tour system right now if you
20446s	want to throw summer Championship into
20448s	that as well the top eights that he has
20450s	in actual Masters tours alongside that
20452s	like it's only the fact that you know
20454s	Gabby's won two of them and I don't know
20455s	if you've heard about this year but
20456s	actually bly's one two back to back I
20459s	don't think we've actually talked about
20460s	this enough yeah unbelievable I really
20463s	think we should talk about that more
20464s	often but it's only those incredible
20466s	Feats that you know stop Habu gabu from
20468s	being right up at the top of the echelon
20470s	uh if he's an incredible player honestly
20473s	and he's a player that really emerged
20475s	onto the competitive scene very rapidly
20478s	as to my point earlier of like first of
20480s	January 2022 is like Abu Dhabi one of
20483s	the best competitive Hearthstone players
20484s	in the world I think it would have been
20485s	a stretch for a lot of people to really
20486s	put him in there but he has been a
20489s	fantastic performer but Gia before we
20492s	move on to some more round three action
20494s	do you have any final thoughts on the
20495s	series that we just watched
20498s	maybe just for people to watch out for
20501s	Wig priest versus bar priest a bit more
20503s	because certainly that was a big beating
20506s	on board priests it's not to say it's a
20508s	bad bring into this meta but we are
20510s	seeing that there are a lot of counter
20512s	play to it and the Whig priest is yet
20515s	another duck that I think has gotten
20517s	more popular ever since
20519s	wow who'd have thought uh piloted it to
20522s	huge success in recent months and now
20525s	it's just finally overtaken bar priest
20527s	and popularity I wonder if those numbers
20529s	will actually support its win rate as
20532s	well
20533s	well on that note I believe we do have a
20536s	little bit more action left in the round
20538s	so we will go for a quick break you can
20540s	go for a quick break get yourself a
20541s	glass of water get yourself a snack but
20543s	rush back because there is plenty more
20546s	action to take in here at the Masters
20549s	Tour do not go too far because we will
20551s	be right back
20554s	[Music]
20561s	[Music]
20566s	[Applause]
20566s	[Music]
20569s	welcome to revendraff in the darkest of
20573s	Seasons where ruthless eyes gawk for
20576s	horrific reasons for a hidden hand has
20580s	struck me down with
20584s	lessness so deep and profound
20589s	then he comes with his malokian skull
20597s	to uncover the truth of murder most foul
20602s	the anima drifts across the floor
20606s	highlighting the creatures who walked
20608s	through my door the motives are as black
20612s	as night avarice power revenge and
20618s	blight
20619s	we watch the hero uncover the clues
20624s	that lead to the truth
20627s	behind this dark rooms
20631s	join us here with the Grim and Empires
20636s	choose your power without Heavenly bias
20640s	for at the end they will burn in the
20643s	fire
20645s	when it is known who's slain
20648s	dinathrius Messiah
20653s	oh
20654s	[Music]
20658s	foreign
20680s	[Music]
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20690s	foreign
20693s	[Music]
20719s	foreign
20721s	[Music]
20734s	[Music]
20748s	welcome back everyone we are ready to
20750s	jump into more games from round three of
20753s	the Swiss I believe we're going in at
20755s	Casey vs Raphael at one zero but been
20759s	pretty interesting so far and I've been
20760s	a little bit surprised at least on my
20762s	end that how many sort of we've seen a
20764s	lot of similar decks but a lot of
20766s	different lineups and uh sort of
20768s	different interactions between the decks
20769s	so it's been kind of cool for me so far
20771s	how have you been finding it yeah it's
20773s	the the lineup started off looking kind
20775s	of like I expected and then Shaman came
20777s	to play and Shaman has been in
20779s	everything
20780s	um it's only in something like 20 of the
20782s	lineups I think but it is going well
20784s	it's getting banned a lot and for me at
20787s	least it's one of the surprises of the
20789s	tournament but I think the power is but
20791s	it's really good against those expected
20793s	sort of four decks The Druids the Mages
20796s	Etc it's it's just got the matchups
20798s	against those so the people who brought
20799s	it I think we might see a lot of Shame
20801s	and going into tomorrow and I think the
20803s	deck right now just has that a flexible
20806s	effect of it can play aggressively and
20810s	it can fall back if there's a deck
20812s	that's more aggressive than it it can
20814s	fall back and play defensively right so
20816s	as long as you know which one you are in
20819s	any given matchup or which one you're
20821s	supposed to be and then you can sort of
20823s	react and play the deck in that fashion
20826s	I've been playing it over the last over
20828s	the last week or so and it is pretty
20830s	good right because you're not just
20831s	shoehorned into one thing you can just
20833s	Flex it and change a little bit if
20835s	needed but as I said we are going in at
20837s	one zero so we will be jumping in game
20839s	two and I believe game one if I triple
20843s	check it was a rogue beating up on Druid
20847s	in game number one so Casey took the win
20849s	with the Rogue against raps Druid and I
20852s	believe now we're going to go into a
20853s	shaman versus Mage matchup take a look
20855s	this is the shaman me and lorinder are
20857s	talking about and as you can see you
20859s	don't have any like raked aggro tools
20862s	but you can find yourself very easily
20865s	playing an aggressive opening one you
20867s	have wild Power Cavern and two you have
20869s	clown face reconnect which can actually
20871s	dump a lot of cards on board nice and
20874s	early with the help of the amalgams yeah
20876s	and the return of bloodlust I know
20878s	that's one of subtle's absolute all-time
20880s	favorite cards I'm sure he'd have
20881s	something to say about that at some
20883s	point in this tournament if this carries
20884s	on uh but yeah just a nice closing card
20887s	because you make so much just garbage
20889s	stuff as you're going along ready to
20892s	make those massive Guardians and so on
20894s	uh if you haven't already won with your
20896s	garbage stuff so interesting looking
20899s	deck I think this is much better than
20900s	the straight murloc version this has
20902s	just got that sustained that we've
20905s	talked about it 40 Health on the other
20907s	side you kind of need to have some
20908s	sustain and it's just a really well
20911s	placed deck I'm not going to call it a
20913s	good deck right now even though I was a
20915s	big fan of Shaman previously but I think
20918s	it's very well placed for this
20919s	tournament at least
20920s	right um I think uh I I think it's a
20924s	good deck I think it's very very strong
20925s	right now because it's just I think as
20928s	long as snowfall guardian and macaw are
20930s	in the game there will be a shame in
20933s	deck because that effect here by itself
20935s	is just super strong right anytime
20937s	there's board focus and we've seen the
20938s	game shift to a very sort of Minion
20941s	board Focus game style so we'll uh we'll
20943s	see how it goes this tournament I'm sure
20945s	as always by the end of Sunday and we'll
20947s	have the numbers and work out whether
20949s	Shaman was actually good or maybe we
20951s	just thought it was good but uh going
20953s	from one of the decks I've been playing
20955s	a fair bit to one of the decks you have
20956s	been playing a fair bit I believe
20957s	Lorinda yeah this is the big spell Mage
20960s	a new air Lorinda favorite yeah and it's
20962s	unlike me as Jesus I don't like me to
20964s	like any decks now I'm not really that
20966s	miserable I promise but yeah Mage at the
20969s	moment is probably my favorite deck it's
20971s	not as particularly versatile deck it
20974s	does one thing it does it incredibly
20975s	well we just play the same two spells
20977s	over and over and over again until you
20979s	win the game of hearthstone with them
20981s	the rest of it is all pretty much fluff
20984s	in there you can just ignore a large
20986s	chunk of it I know you're a very big fan
20988s	of playing Belinda as early as possible
20989s	Raven but that's not all there is to the
20991s	deck uh you can do a lot of trickery by
20994s	swapping spell costs uh her subtle talk
20997s	about the top players trying to dump
20999s	their really cheap spells that's all
21001s	well and good but some of these decks
21002s	just don't have the ability to dump all
21004s	those if they do you can still sometimes
21006s	trick them into taking a coin although
21007s	again if they're smart they'll just dump
21009s	that coin as quickly as possible so
21011s	interesting to see how this is played at
21013s	the top level and we are going to get to
21015s	see a pretty tasty looking stuff from
21017s	Casey though over the other side yeah
21019s	and that's the thing right and then this
21021s	is where it's very clear or at least
21023s	initially that the shaman is more of the
21027s	aggro deck right we do see schooling
21029s	played on turn one which is gonna give
21031s	it weirdly enough the fish are going to
21033s	give the Pelican the trouble here
21035s	because just one of these takes out this
21038s	four one and there's still more where
21039s	that came from so pretty nice overall
21042s	for Casey just being able to lock down
21044s	this far one without too much of trouble
21046s	whatsoever and yeah I think Casey's
21048s	going to be playing just the aggro
21050s	approach here going to drop that baller
21051s	nice and early to probably set up with
21054s	the clown fish uh Apollo here and it's
21057s	all looking solid because again one
21060s	thing that this made kind of struggles
21062s	with especially in the early game
21064s	they're very much a one card return kind
21066s	of deck at the moment right which means
21069s	if you build a board and then play
21071s	orkani into minion because you just are
21074s	going to pick minion against Mage like
21077s	look at these Shenanigans already look
21079s	at this pop-up it's ridiculous
21081s	yeah I've been playing a handful of this
21083s	in the breaks today and at the start of
21085s	the day because I didn't know what I was
21087s	doing wrong with the deck and now I know
21088s	I'm not playing a million clownfish on
21091s	turn three and just winning the game
21092s	this may be over Raven
21095s	well that's it what's the response from
21098s	this Majestic to this kind of board
21099s	right like the best draw would have
21102s	probably been a the um card I always
21104s	forget the name of the armor the draw
21106s	spelling armor yep spelling Armor man
21109s	um three four for four yeah to get 10
21111s	armor pretty handy oh yeah my track is
21114s	definitely oh yeah my tracker doesn't
21115s	work right now
21118s	um yeah anyway regardless as we blink
21120s	deep water evoker yeah
21124s	um that that's like okay you gained some
21126s	armor and soak not even half a turns
21129s	worth of damage I suppose and just like
21131s	that in the blink of an eye game done
21134s	that's Casey going up to zero so far in
21138s	the series and again it does show the
21141s	weakness of that Mage and why obviously
21143s	that was a ridiculous power level of
21145s	turn right don't don't get me wrong but
21148s	as I was sort of saying before Casey
21150s	Walnut really popped off was the Mage is
21153s	very much a one card return kind of deck
21155s	for at least the first what six seven
21156s	turns the game and it's why I do think
21159s	there is an element to aggro doing
21162s	um
21163s	you know getting something done in this
21165s	matter yeah because a lot of these decks
21167s	they are very very strong but they don't
21169s	have much game early right which is why
21171s	I know sale keeps talking about you know
21173s	the Presta Druid well it plays a curve
21175s	that's one to three drops so that does
21178s	contest things early on which is maybe
21180s	while we'll see that stick around a
21182s	little bit longer than most but just
21183s	like that Lorinda we are moving on to
21186s	game three and Casey I'm gonna be
21187s	jumping over to his final deck to take
21189s	the series with which is wig priest and
21191s	I know you've not been playing a ton of
21193s	this but just at a glance what do you
21195s	think of the queen ashara because I've
21197s	seen a million Decks that don't play it
21199s	and I've seen a few players at least in
21200s	this master tour that do
21202s	yeah I don't know if that's a response
21205s	to again talking about 40 health and
21207s	stuff just a little bit extra stuff or
21209s	if it's just a a 30th card for people to
21213s	slot in but
21215s	I don't know I I what do I think of it I
21217s	think it looks fine but that's because I
21218s	tend not to build my own decks a large
21220s	part so if the deck's in front of me I'm
21222s	going to say it looks fine because I
21223s	have nothing particularly to add
21225s	constructively but it is just a bit of
21227s	extra stuff for a deck that is very
21231s	easily stopped early on in some
21233s	situations
21234s	yeah I think um I've not played too much
21237s	of their shower version but even just
21239s	glancing at it one it's a Naga so it can
21242s	it's another card that can proc the wig
21244s	also one of the there's the Colossus
21247s	that you can get of exactly but really
21249s	there's the uh additional spell right
21251s	the Spell mimic which can be another wig
21253s	so you could end up playing three which
21255s	is very very powerful indeed so it's
21258s	maybe some extra late game push but he's
21260s	gonna be going up against the pirate row
21262s	okay again we've seen I think multiple
21265s	times today the true sort of big early
21268s	turns of like shroud into double null
21271s	and then go which has definitely been
21273s	one of the super strong early openings
21276s	with double null just taking over the
21278s	early game and then the usual follow-ups
21280s	and Rogue so again tricky one I think
21282s	for both players here the the Rogue can
21286s	get ahead but the second the priest
21288s	starts dropping wigs on uh it's weird
21292s	sentences right it is it and create
21296s	Minions that are a little bit too big
21298s	for the road to deal with comfortably
21299s	yeah I think though that the Rogue does
21301s	tend to get the best of the start
21303s	personally
21305s	um again it's another matchup that I've
21306s	played a lot of one side and you wasn't
21307s	one of the other it was Druid by looks
21309s	of things
21311s	superb never mind okay well
21315s	um do it huh cool well Druid he's gonna
21317s	struggle yes
21319s	it is the celestial Druid I believe the
21322s	40 card version
21324s	um and this is one of the the games
21326s	where you're not so keen on your extra
21328s	10 health and diluting your deck because
21330s	if the priest gets on that board and
21331s	starts hitting you for chunky damage
21334s	your hotel total almost doesn't matter
21336s	anymore so this is definitely one of the
21338s	situations where you wish you hadn't got
21339s	your extra 10 cards
21343s	yeah and definitely a matchup where
21346s	again I know you're a big fan of
21348s	celestial but I believe in this matchup
21349s	you would prefer to be playing Presta
21351s	right because you will have Minions on
21353s	board right now so you get that yeah try
21356s	and contest whereas this is very much
21359s	there the sort of ramp Druid style it
21362s	doesn't mean that the matchup's
21363s	unwinnable by any means we all know how
21365s	powerful true it is there is Guff into
21367s	scale of inyxia available for Raphael so
21370s	there's still opportunity to really go
21373s	off and put pressure on but we'll have
21375s	to see how it goes because oh Casey
21378s	hasn't really got
21379s	uh sort of good playable NADA until now
21382s	with the amalgam yeah he's gonna be fine
21386s	though I think here
21390s	it's about going already devour yeah I
21393s	mean the trouble is like you've just
21395s	described there's no real way for the
21396s	Druid to to slow this down
21404s	look
21405s	at all his
21407s	interesting
21411s	yeah
21413s	there is an argument here actually for
21416s	okanie spell
21418s	right yeah I think akani spells very
21420s	tempting here
21422s	because it's very likely that wigs the
21425s	only spelling hand yeah or maybe not
21428s	very it's likely that wig's the only
21431s	spelling hand it's a hundred percent
21432s	likely Raven because we can see it Ah
21435s	that's how it looks okay it's definitely
21438s	how it works here in the Americas region
21443s	and Casey might have to do this the slow
21446s	way if you can't find a way to deal with
21447s	this I wonder if it's worth him actually
21449s	bumping into this oh yeah this is yeah
21452s	yeah minion was better right because
21453s	minion procs the wig whereas if it gets
21456s	cancer a wig can't be replayed yeah okay
21464s	it's the alignment to do much
21468s	you can got a lot of money next turn
21470s	with the the knowledge split or the
21474s	knowledge itself
21476s	it really nice play actually as well I
21478s	think it is very tempting to just slam
21480s	go from five
21482s	but uh Rafael is showing some restraint
21484s	here and getting really good trade
21486s	getting rid of the elemental
21488s	setting up for potentially Guff on six
21490s	to then go Celestial afterwards
21492s	it goes back to what you said a minute
21494s	ago right it's um you've got to fight
21495s	for the board well you've got less tools
21497s	to do it with here but you can still do
21499s	it and that's what I feel showing us but
21501s	I think I always played all three
21503s	Masters tours this year five three
21505s	finish in all three of those okay
21508s	uh one of those players who just needs
21511s	to have a bit of variance in the results
21514s	and we'll see a lot more of him
21516s	yeah I mean five three means if you hit
21519s	him five threes across three uh then
21522s	that's you're on the right track right
21523s	you need to do something a little bit
21524s	extra but you're not oh five three two
21530s	whatever
21531s	I'm pretty sure he's had a finish but I
21533s	couldn't find it in the two minutes we
21535s	had to have a look I'm pretty sure he's
21537s	had a finish of some sort but it's his
21538s	15th event he's running at 59 which is
21540s	about the same as Casey
21542s	he's obviously played them all
21546s	do you think he's missed one but yeah
21548s	Casey is piling on the pressure it does
21551s	have blast does have a natural on for
21553s	some extra late game punch if he oh that
21557s	stuff ish pretty big deal kill me now
21560s	with your one Mana or go home I mean
21564s	Casey just says okay and play snap Chill
21567s	on yeah
21576s	no here comes the Mana
21581s	I mean there's starfish there's scale
21584s	there's another nurse to get some more
21585s	Mana before you do any of that
21588s	Bliss like starfish scale lock right
21593s	although it's not active
21597s	yeah oh it's Miracle growth afterwards
21601s	sure
21609s	it's fine right oh yeah damage
21614s	and suddenly
21616s	yeah it's a huge problem
21619s	plenty more car draw for Raphael in hand
21622s	as well six Mana next turn to work with
21625s	that's basically the whole deck this is
21628s	so close to a concede right now I think
21630s	here Casey does have like minion wig
21632s	minion wig minion wig but the problem is
21634s	as soon as I guess like this enrich into
21637s	Miracle growth gets played
21640s	I think this is a big just get out of
21642s	the game you think he's played this
21644s	before Raven
21646s	the tournaments we go for three seconds
21648s	he's drawn about seven cards played
21651s	about six cards and yeah absolutely spot
21654s	on with the speed on this oh my goodness
21657s	this is disgusting as always yeah I
21659s	think Katie of course is continuing to
21662s	play especially on his turn because it
21665s	wasn't guaranteed right uh what was in
21667s	hand but I think now uh with the two
21671s	taunts from the uh
21673s	uh in the miracle growth plus scales
21677s	like back up to basically 30 Health two
21679s	massive taunts on the board at this
21682s	blade Masters
21684s	really gonna cut it although there is
21686s	blade master and bless
21688s	but it just dies right anyway yeah
21691s	because he didn't realign there but I
21693s	guess um he doesn't want to waste all
21695s	the Mana buildup he had because he has
21696s	got no more real quick Mana acceleration
21699s	now
21700s	okay so blade Master devour bless
21707s	it's actually uses silence as well right
21709s	to just hit on one of the other minions
21713s	it doesn't have to actually put the
21714s	blade Master into the tender okay
21722s	all right this isn't lethal is it I'm
21724s	not being stupid look lethally there's
21728s	not enough nowhere near enough
21729s	I didn't know if I missed like a second
21731s	Devourer or something
21734s	yeah I look like it's too clear to me
21736s	but we'll see why glass oh it clears
21740s	nearly everything and you hit number 17
21741s	this way
21743s	I think at this point it's worth playing
21744s	the other way gear clear everything yeah
21746s	attack the uh
21748s	the treasure guard
21751s	yeah it's another starfish starfish
21754s	number two
21756s	and that was basically Casey's last push
21760s	right both bless used one wig guaranteed
21764s	gone don't curious why Raphael didn't
21766s	realize that I'm sure there's a good
21767s	reason but I can't see it at the end of
21769s	his last turn
21770s	get a minor spare to you choose to just
21772s	drop something extra on the board the
21774s	problem is if he if he did realign he
21777s	would also be more or less down to one
21779s	card return right sure no that was the
21782s	original ramp
21783s	with a whole Board of nine nines if he
21785s	just felt like that was locking it out
21787s	so how close Casey came with three Mana
21790s	there
21791s	but yeah either way it's gonna work
21795s	again I'm sure that Raphael's better
21797s	yeah Casey gives it up he goes to two
21799s	games two one and the weak priest there
21804s	didn't get it done in a quite a bit
21806s	favorable which is going to make this
21808s	match a lot more interesting
21810s	yeah 100 there that's a pretty rough one
21814s	because I think Casey was piling on the
21816s	pressure but again just getting hold of
21818s	the starfish and we saw exactly uh and
21821s	they said the problem and I guess it's
21823s	only a problem depending on which side
21825s	of Druid you're on but Druid
21827s	specifically being a Renault deck
21830s	look how many cards were drawn like yeah
21832s	just drew through the deck anyway it
21834s	just didn't matter uh which is why Drew
21837s	it is at least at first glance the deck
21839s	best uh suited to to dealing with having
21843s	extra cards in the deck because you
21845s	could cycle so fast like we saw double
21847s	starfish drawn we saw the nourish split
21850s	happen Gulf was there maybe it just
21852s	lined up well but realistically Druid
21854s	does that pretty often which is why you
21856s	can run these kinds of 40 card decks uh
21859s	very easily compared to some of the
21861s	other decks where we do see the sort of
21863s	Gap in consistency kind of punished a
21866s	lot of the time and I'm gonna make the
21867s	reductive and irritating argument here
21870s	that um Casey got Raphael down to 10
21872s	left
21877s	you hit 19 on this turn when Raphael was
21879s	on 29 so you know extra 10 Health doing
21882s	the job
21883s	obviously that sample size of one game
21885s	completely proves everything all you
21888s	need you need to prove it once and then
21890s	it's true that's it it's true now that's
21892s	how science works right
21894s	um it does mean though now let me just
21895s	quick although I shouldn't check because
21897s	we were wrong last time but uh it is
21899s	going to increase versus something that
21901s	I kind of promise you but still I think
21904s	Casey in a good spot because the um the
21908s	Mage is gonna be right
21910s	um yeah all this is just it's major
21912s	Rogue right because yeah interest won
21915s	yeah something's going on here but it's
21917s	fine we'll try and keep up
21919s	um but yeah if it's their major Rogue I
21921s	think versus Mage especially it can be
21924s	very very tricky yes there's potential
21926s	freeze but really if you just get going
21928s	with the priest early enough there's
21930s	just no real way that Mage is gonna
21932s	answer because again for the first what
21934s	five turns Mage is just dropping a
21936s	minion endless her turn whereas as the
21939s	priest you're building up huge minions
21941s	early on and now there's the uh we took
21944s	a quick glance there the najak XM which
21946s	is kind of interesting when you think of
21948s	uh stealing the buffed Belinda
21951s	gonna um I am going to disagree with you
21953s	a little bit on this I do like the Mage
21954s	in this matchup even though the
21957s	um obvious things you've said the the
21959s	Naga can get absolutely huge I think
21961s	they do give you a little bit of time in
21964s	the priest deck before they really get
21966s	rolling I think the Mage loves that
21967s	extra time but again
21970s	um it's great that we are in
21971s	disagreement about things this earlier
21972s	than better because it means we haven't
21974s	worked it all out yet and when I say we
21975s	I don't just mean me I mean I don't just
21977s	base my opinions on what I've done
21979s	although sometimes I do when it comes to
21981s	Rogue especially uh but based on what
21983s	other people have said and you do the
21984s	same and you know we've come to separate
21986s	conclusions so let's see who's right
21988s	once and for all obviously
21991s	oh well does that say uh Diamond through
21994s	Legend is Mage favorite which is fair
21997s	you know I'll give that one
21999s	people about it playing priest I mean I
22001s	was gonna say that like joking aside I
22003s	think the mage deck is probably a little
22004s	bit easier to play in the Press deck so
22006s	you can give the the priest a little bit
22007s	extra but
22009s	yeah yeah
22010s	meanwhile I'm not trying to fight my own
22013s	corner but the Mage feels like a bit
22014s	more of a paint by numbers deck right
22016s	yes but Casey's doing a great job right
22018s	pound on the pressure there is the
22020s	starfish being played now to science
22022s	everything out but that's the thing with
22023s	this deck even silenced well if you're
22025s	wide enough you're still getting to
22027s	swing face
22029s	okay you see
22031s	trying not to walk into a spammy here
22034s	yeah doing a really good job of it
22037s	making sure there's no two for the
22039s	spammy to trigger on
22042s	that was um all that training he did
22044s	there otherwise he just loses the whole
22045s	board and probably the game right
22049s	AC not messing about either jeez it's
22052s	Casey we haven't seen him for a little
22054s	while although he did make the top 16 at
22055s	a next year's layer I think um he was
22057s	not the featured match there
22059s	and yeah forget how fast Casey plays
22062s	sometimes
22065s	it's your trade here once again to play
22067s	around that spammy
22070s	yeah he is going to keep the wide
22071s	minions because when it's not spammy
22073s	Arcanist it's an extra minion on board
22075s	but now there's the uh the zero Mana
22078s	ping can't really do much about that
22080s	spammy Arcanist is going to clear this
22083s	up
22086s	yeah
22087s	and this is the queen of shower that we
22090s	will talk about at the start
22092s	just having to be played as a 5'5
22096s	it does tickle me that uh
22098s	the way Casey plays the game sometimes
22101s	it's just fun to watch because you know
22104s	he's just like yeah yeah now I do this
22106s	yeah yeah now I do this and he's just
22108s	playing and um it's not even the speed
22110s	it's just the conviction it has on
22112s	certain terms is great this is so
22115s	obvious I just play my five five that
22116s	does nothing I'm just gonna play it it
22118s	just knows right oh okay school teacher
22121s	anybody uh was that illuminate
22125s	Buzz since Casey Ridge needs to get this
22127s	handmade and active
22130s	doing what you're saying
22134s	getting as close as you can to it
22137s	the thing here as well is Raphael's hand
22140s	is actually quite clunky right now he
22142s	does have the Pelicans trade off
22145s	but this hand isn't it's been a really
22149s	weird hand actually draw no spells no
22151s	way of swapping
22154s	um it feels like he's drawn nothing and
22155s	this deck just do that that often
22157s	because there are other three six drops
22158s	that are usually useful but yeah drawing
22161s	no Spells at all not they would have
22163s	helped that much overall because Casey
22165s	then wouldn't have taken the devour
22166s	obviously like you say he's just taking
22168s	it to activate the the handmaiden
22176s	any mountains that offers some more
22178s	juice
22180s	it instantly trades away the spell as
22182s	well to avoid any disasters from these
22184s	sore sources
22187s	okay
22189s	Barbara apparently uh what we're calling
22191s	it now in hand
22193s	yep this is more like no spell Mage
22195s	right now
22196s	just Mage minion Mage Bad Minion mage
22204s	with his power just doing nothing
22208s	interesting right oh bless
22213s	p37 yep
22217s	station oh he's got whiteboard right so
22220s	he'll want to just buff as much as he
22222s	can this makes sense protects the hexen
22224s	a little bit as well as the taunt
22227s	keep the shard in hand so if a spell is
22230s	drawn here for Raphael maybe
22233s	if another taunts drawing how much
22236s	damage is that jobs done
22241s	11.
22245s	oh 11. that's just lethal right that is
22247s	lethal because you can get the first six
22249s	on the three nine that is 17 exactly and
22251s	Casey goes to three and oh joining bunny
22254s	Hopper joining habogabo joining
22258s	to give please on three and oh and one
22264s	more round to go in the day to see
22267s	against those four no spots but very
22268s	impressive there from Casey very rapid
22270s	Casey work and just like that 3-1 yeah
22274s	really good there lineup I think from
22276s	Casey and one I like a lot again and I I
22279s	like the mid-range Shaman I've talked
22281s	about priests before we even started the
22283s	weekend to release you guys and Rogue I
22286s	don't know but it's Casey so he'll make
22288s	Rogue work anyway so yeah really really
22290s	good win there for Casey Raphael still a
22292s	good spot being two one after three
22294s	rounds and also just some of the names
22296s	you listed especially obviously the
22298s	European players uh really good work for
22301s	those players because I know not not
22303s	everyone's like me and has a very normal
22305s	us and sleep schedule some people can
22307s	handle being up all night a lot better
22308s	than I can but they are still competing
22311s	at a high level in odd hours of the day
22314s	right it's now uh half five in the
22316s	morning here in the UK so like half six
22318s	in you know Germany where Casey I think
22320s	he is and you know through the most of
22322s	you are up there so a really good job
22324s	for those players just uh sticking it
22327s	out and still performing well not that
22328s	we expect anything less but still very
22331s	very good indeed but I believe that is
22333s	the end of the coverage for round number
22335s	three which means there's only one more
22337s	round left for today which guess what
22339s	it's random before coming up after this
22343s	foreign
22350s	[Music]
22355s	[Applause]
22356s	[Music]
22359s	dress in the darkest of Seasons where
22363s	ruthless eyes gawk for horrific reasons
22367s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
22371s	with such ruthlessness so deep and
22376s	profound
22378s	then he comes with his milwaukeean scowl
22386s	to uncover the truth of murder most foul
22391s	the anima drifts across the floor
22395s	highlighting the creatures who walked
22397s	through my door the motives are as black
22401s	as night avarice
22404s	power revenge and blight
22408s	we watch the hero uncover the clues that
22414s	lead to the truth
22416s	behind this dark rooms
22420s	join us here with the Grim and Empires
22425s	choose your path without Heavenly bias
22429s	for at the end they will burn in the
22433s	fire
22434s	when it is known who's slain
22437s	dinathrius Messiah
22440s	[Music]
22446s	thank you
22448s	foreign
22455s	[Music]
22463s	[Music]
22467s	[Applause]
22469s	[Music]
22477s	foreign
22488s	[Music]
22497s	[Music]
22508s	foreign
22513s	[Music]
22537s	welcome back everyone to the final round
22539s	of the day here for Masters Tour verse
22541s	share some very exciting names making
22543s	their way up to the three and oh score
22546s	line Abu Gabby one of our most
22548s	successful Masters Tour players of the
22550s	Year up at that score line as well I
22551s	believe potentially making another run
22553s	at the full championships as well as the
22555s	summer championships and uh joining with
22558s	me for the final round of the day is
22560s	subtle how has the tournament going been
22562s	going for you so far in terms of play
22564s	The Players The Meta game as well has
22566s	been living up to your expectations yeah
22569s	bad then rapidly better I had no
22572s	internet first round and a half which
22574s	made it a very difficult to do my job
22576s	and be very be very difficult to follow
22577s	the tournament so I actually have uh
22580s	very little to say on the first round
22581s	and a half but what I've been more
22583s	involved in since then has been pretty
22586s	much what I expected the right mix of
22589s	30s and 40s of Believers and
22592s	non-believers in terms of the 40 card
22596s	decks of aggro trying to do their thing
22598s	the same sort of Fringe Decks that we've
22601s	been seeing and arguing about for quite
22603s	some time in this meta game of what the
22604s	good third and fourth decks are so I
22607s	think it's been an interesting Clash up
22608s	until this point and I think that will
22610s	continue with this series because I
22612s	think
22613s	um you can correct me if I'm wrong if
22614s	there's something like this in the first
22616s	round this is the most polarized matchup
22619s	that I've seen in terms of lineups that
22621s	are just so markedly different from each
22623s	other going into a match
22624s	yeah pretty much the the first round was
22627s	a little bit spicy but nothing on this
22629s	level as I think for you and I
22632s	especially subtle it's going to be an
22634s	effort in not getting fired while
22636s	talking about uh nemu
22638s	nakuma's lineup because there's an awful
22641s	lot of a new card in there that I am I
22644s	believe alongside you in being yet to be
22646s	persuaded on yes uh quite fitting
22650s	because I believe Loosely translated uh
22652s	nemu's name is Sleepy Bear nemu means
22655s	sleepy Kuma means bear although Akuma
22658s	means like Devil demon so I'm not sure
22660s	where like the compound breaks down so I
22663s	think fittingly for a 5 a.m for us
22666s	series that has you know 150 cards in
22670s	one of the lineup I think I think sleepy
22673s	bear is about as appropriate a name as
22676s	you could possibly be given at this
22677s	point
22679s	and I love as well that like okay he's
22680s	like clearly committing completely to
22683s	the Renault theme in his decks but he's
22685s	like okay control Paladin that's a
22688s	bridge too far we are calling it quits
22690s	there that needs the streamlined draw
22693s	package 30 cards in there whereas like
22696s	bloody Mage and I I don't even know what
22699s	to call this it's not big spell Mage
22700s	it's some other monstrosity uh Paladin
22703s	needs is the warm hands and the cool
22706s	Embrace of light Forge carrier I'm not
22708s	putting any other cards in my Paladin
22710s	deck that stop me from drawing the win
22713s	condition yeah I mean I get it for sure
22716s	I I mean if anything I don't think what
22719s	we should be doing here is criticizing
22721s	the Paladin for not playing
22723s	if anything I feel like we should be
22726s	going in on the other decks for playing
22728s	40 cards
22729s	yeah uh I am right there beside you but
22732s	with that said and done it does mean
22733s	that the Paladin is actually banned away
22734s	uh so very fat cat saying the one real
22737s	deck in the lineup is going away and we
22739s	are in the uh the very wee hours of the
22741s	morning uh gonna be going through the
22742s	full Renault lineup from nemetage which
22745s	I am very much here for uh I think it
22747s	will be cool to see again the debate
22748s	that is Raging on uh be taken in a
22751s	wildly different Direction with again a
22753s	very very different lineup indeed from
22755s	nemitage even from uh Tice who had his
22758s	quest priests uh on the uh the earlier
22761s	rounds of the day uh to start things off
22765s	though however I believe sorry as I get
22768s	up via the match up oh we don't have the
22770s	games lined up yet unfortunately uh but
22772s	in terms of them overall I'm kind of
22774s	trying to think about how it works out
22775s	in favor of both players because the
22777s	Decks that nemu Target has I do think
22781s	are for the most part a little bit
22782s	vulnerable to what very fat cat has
22784s	going on
22786s	um that Shaman is I think the really
22787s	really interesting one because it's a
22791s	deck that weirdly enough is quite
22793s	vulnerable to renithal mainly because
22796s	the opponent just has so much value in
22799s	their deck that the shaman can often not
22801s	get to a position where they're winning
22803s	the game quickly enough and there's not
22804s	actually that much value in the deck you
22806s	can gas out fairly quickly and so I
22808s	wonder if that's part of the game plan
22810s	from Nemo Target and potentially a weak
22812s	deck actually the very fat cat despite
22814s	being overall very powerful
22816s	yeah I think the lineup overall is
22819s	interesting the fact that it is so
22821s	wildly different from what we've seen
22823s	obviously Mage being banned out but no
22825s	Druid in this lineup which kind of
22827s	pushes it towards the same line as what
22830s	Habu gabu was going for for example
22833s	um I think both myself and Gia have been
22835s	big fans of firstly pressed or Druid
22838s	which is not in the lineup but secondly
22839s	wig priest as kind of the best deck
22842s	right now to punish inconsistency which
22846s	is what you can do if your opponents are
22848s	going to fill their decks with 40 cards
22850s	instead of 30. weak priests is a very
22853s	threat check kind of deck you play a
22856s	board and your opponent needs to have
22858s	the specific thing that deals with that
22860s	situation or they die then you do that
22863s	again then you do that again then you do
22865s	that maybe one more time and then you
22867s	lose if they've had those four answers
22868s	from that point onwards when your
22870s	opponent kind of has the built-in
22871s	inconsistency of having to play weird
22873s	redundancy of cards that sort of do the
22875s	same thing but not really it's almost
22878s	like a Reno deck right playing 40 cards
22880s	in your deck overall of like you have
22882s	this redundancy of cards that do the
22883s	same thing but you're a little bit less
22885s	consistent in doing the actual
22887s	of what a pure 30 card 15 2ov's deck can
22891s	do so for me I think wig priest was
22894s	first name on the team sheet for this
22895s	tournament I think it's a really really
22897s	strong bring I think Rogue kind of does
22899s	the same thing but worse but similar
22902s	thematically to what weak priest is
22903s	trying to do in punishing that
22905s	inconsistency
22906s	and then support that with big spell
22909s	Mage and the shaman I think is a little
22912s	bit more interesting and this is where
22914s	as I was saying earlier the debates
22917s	about third decks and fourth decks
22918s	really start to come into play as to
22920s	like what do you actually trust in this
22922s	meta game particularly in a lot of
22925s	relatively untested matchups I would say
22928s	right because who has a hundred game
22930s	sample under their belt against 40 card
22933s	Mage you know like I just don't think
22935s	that's a thing that people have tested
22936s	extensively going into this tournament
22938s	so I think it's really interesting to
22940s	see where players have landed on these
22941s	last two decks I mean I think Shaman
22943s	very much fits into that uh same kind of
22946s	category that you're saying of just kind
22948s	of generic good decks it's less of like
22950s	a threat check deck that forces your
22952s	opponent to remove stuff every turn but
22954s	it's uh you know as finna was saying
22956s	when he was uh bringing this deck or uh
22958s	Rising this deck up in Fame it's just if
22960s	you spend your manner you kind of just
22962s	win uh with this deck it feels like
22964s	especially with the clownfish in these
22965s	early games we saw from Casey what
22967s	bulner in combination with that can do
22969s	and I think as long as you're not
22971s	running what I think are the uh the four
22975s	most upsetting words in the English
22976s	language for subtle of uh one of
22979s	bloodlust uh you are in a very very good
22982s	spot uh with this shaman
22985s	uh wait four isn't bloodlust or one oh
22988s	three three sorry yeah right okay I was
22990s	gonna say I I know I like as soon as I
22993s	look anywhere near that card I do just
22995s	projectile vomit across whatever room
22997s	I'm in so I haven't spent a lot of time
22999s	looking at the card bloodlust but
23001s	certainly remember when you try to argue
23004s	with me and said that people would be
23005s	playing bloodlust in their deck again
23007s	Derek can we talk about that do we
23008s	remember that happening it wasn't this
23010s	deck it was a different Shaman deck and
23012s	there's a time and a place man I'm just
23013s	saying it's
23015s	not now but it exists all right fine uh
23020s	yeah very fat cat control murloc Shaman
23023s	is the words on the header but I'm not
23027s	really sure that paints the picture in
23029s	the way that this deck plays out we saw
23031s	for example I don't know if you caught
23033s	it in the Casey Series where it was just
23035s	uh boner stuck to the board oh yeah then
23037s	just clownfish clownfish clownfish goloc
23040s	galuck go look full Board of murlocs on
23043s	turn three there's so many different
23045s	brutes so many different passages
23047s	um even the piranha swarms you can just
23049s	turn into such an incredibly fast aggro
23051s	deck if you're able to get all that kind
23052s	of stuff going particularly if you find
23054s	it from a school teacher as opposed to
23056s	just you know doing it naturally kind of
23058s	thing so there's a lot of different
23060s	methods but get used to that Prince
23063s	renithal graphic for this series because
23066s	Kuma uh he's packing a lot of cards in
23069s	this lineup that's one thing um not
23071s	can't speak to the quality of them but
23073s	there's a lot of them in there
23075s	that's kind of what I was saying they
23077s	don't really need to be good they just
23078s	need to be there and that can kind of
23081s	get the job done against Shaman because
23083s	I'm still relatively new at this deck
23085s	I've been doing remarkably well with it
23088s	you know I climbed uh pretty high up
23090s	before the uh the ladder reset for a
23092s	Caster at least
23094s	um but I I found it against the control
23096s	decks I was really struggling you know
23098s	in any matchup where it's just play your
23099s	cards do the strongest thing each turn
23101s	sure it's pretty easy and I thought it
23102s	was fairly powerful but against the like
23103s	sequest priests couple of control
23105s	Warriors as well
23107s	um you you really do start to struggle
23109s	you have to be very very disciplined uh
23112s	with your uh your resources how you are
23115s	choosing to develop as much value as
23117s	possible admittedly my matchup I felt
23120s	like it got a lot better when I put
23121s	double school teacher in which uh very
23123s	fat cat is playing as I believe is the
23125s	standard list now
23127s	um but the main point is just I think
23129s	boner is a card you have to be very very
23132s	uh conservative with and save it for one
23134s	of these big pop-up turns with school
23136s	teacher or arguably even amalgam can be
23140s	a decent card to go with in combination
23142s	with it just to give yourself enough
23144s	value to overcome all the removal that
23146s	Warrior has yeah and I do think this is
23149s	something that I expected to see a
23151s	little bit more of you know I can rinse
23154s	other people for saying blood loss to be
23155s	playable but I was very big on like the
23158s	minion curve Deck with a brand thrown in
23161s	there for anti-control Tech like I
23163s	thought that was going to be a much
23164s	bigger thing than it ended up being
23166s	which is very much the school of thought
23168s	that the shaman falls into like you know
23170s	day one Mech Mage for example that was
23172s	kind of the build back then was just
23173s	this like Smooth aggro curve and then
23176s	the amount of value that you could find
23177s	from Brandon the battle cries if you
23178s	needed it with of course amalgam of the
23181s	deep being a big part of the engine that
23182s	went alongside that so there is the
23185s	option there to find a lot of high value
23187s	things but you know bran is a one-off in
23190s	the deck you've got to a find it and B
23193s	maximize it when you do actually decide
23195s	it's time to go for that Big Brand turn
23197s	and I do agree I think overall I think
23200s	this Shaman might just be the weak point
23203s	for uh for fat cat in this series so
23206s	we'll see if he just chooses to beat his
23207s	head against the wall with it three
23208s	times here into these decks from uh from
23211s	Kuma because I think it is going to be
23213s	the tricky one to pick up a win with
23216s	clownfish is pretty much always the card
23217s	you're looking for in the starting hand
23219s	it allows you to do the truly broken
23221s	stuff that we saw from Casey uh in the
23224s	previous series and also it's just kind
23226s	of the best temper card in your deck so
23227s	I'm very much on board keeping that and
23229s	the schooling as well against Warrior
23231s	it's a little shakier but I mean to be
23234s	honest I think it's actually a
23235s	reasonable shot that they just get him
23237s	for a lot of damage I think that's
23239s	something I kind of underestimate in
23241s	myself is yes they can be fairly
23242s	efficient removal in the tempo matchups
23244s	but it really is a lot of damage if they
23246s	don't have some AOE effect in the early
23249s	game and honestly I was delighted I
23252s	can't remember who posted the screenshot
23253s	but when your boy Hunter race gave the
23256s	sage advice to everyone of like here's
23258s	how you play against these 40 card decks
23260s	don't play around anything they don't
23263s	have it just oh yeah your things and go
23266s	phase like that's a hundred percent what
23268s	I've been doing in these kind of
23269s	matchups just treating it like a Reno
23272s	matchup and just saying yeah they just
23273s	they just don't have it I'm just gonna
23274s	play much more high risk against this
23276s	variant of the deck I think yeah
23278s	absolutely just going you know piranha
23280s	piranha piranha and trying to push as
23282s	much damage as you can early absolutely
23284s	let's do it
23285s	I mean that's definitely the most
23286s	intelligible thing that I've heard
23287s	Hunter a say to me so far this weekend
23289s	aside from his uh DMS to me yesterday
23292s	which were Derek this tourney is
23294s	actually a first I'm feeling it glug me
23296s	dude actually bringing real dicks First
23299s	Time in Forever
23303s	ah never change Caspian
23307s	uh well anyway jumping in uh it is of
23309s	course as I was talking about that nice
23311s	aggressive start to the game for the
23313s	very fat cat which I think is plan a you
23316s	know I talk about going for huge amounts
23318s	of value later on which uh you do need
23320s	to consider uh because brewcan is most
23323s	certainly not a one card win condition
23325s	against these control decks uh but if
23327s	you can get there uh with just this nice
23330s	aggressive starts uh then that's
23332s	definitely the way you should be
23333s	approaching it
23338s	by Sleep breaker seems like the cleanest
23341s	way to spend your Mana this turn and
23342s	yeah I I do like your assessment or
23344s	Fino's assessment that you co-opted I
23346s	suppose of this being kind of a true
23349s	mid-range deck in style where you just
23351s	want to spend your man at every turn
23353s	your cards are efficient your cards are
23355s	powerful your cards have good words on
23357s	them so if you spend the maximum amount
23359s	of Mana each term making those good
23360s	things happen you're gonna win a lot of
23362s	games at Hearthstone I think so far very
23364s	fat cat is well on board with that
23366s	strategy
23368s	I mean now we're really starting to uh
23371s	oh actually no I'm gonna take it back I
23373s	was gonna say we're starting to test how
23374s	much you want to play around stuff
23375s	because command the elements is the oh
23378s	sorry command of natural I'm sorry is
23380s	the uh the obvious play on this turn
23382s	just to get the most stats online but it
23384s	would be making so if your opponent has
23385s	the ball then you are leading yourself
23387s	to a pretty strong clear uh but that's
23389s	not a possibility uh because of the
23391s	frostbite so I kind of was on board
23394s	actually for a very fat cat of just
23396s	getting stats online on this turn
23398s	because the removal available was
23399s	actually pretty Limited
23401s	oh yeah can you can spend three dicks in
23404s	Missouri
23405s	anybody
23408s	wow okay oh bad though
23414s	yeah successfully killed a turn there
23416s	with the akani do you think Kuma was you
23419s	know willing to throw that out there
23420s	just to break the Minion or was he
23421s	expecting it was spell on the other side
23423s	I think you would usually take minion in
23425s	that position if uh fat cat right I
23427s	think Kuma kind of knew what was up in
23428s	most situations yeah and I was gonna say
23432s	I probably would have expected the
23434s	Frozen buckler plus a shield slam to
23436s	clear it off but having said that
23437s	actually he does have a pretty good
23440s	amount of card draw plus dredge as well
23442s	right so I think there's a reasonable
23444s	expectation that he'll be able to hit
23446s	the uh The Shield chatter to go
23448s	alongside that even if his hand is quite
23450s	expensive right now
23454s	very early brand usage here from Fat Cat
23458s	I was talking about this as a real
23459s	potential you know Crux of the match-up
23462s	is when he would choose to throw out
23463s	this brand through our very early
23465s	doubled up the clownfish doubled up the
23467s	amalgam did find himself a mutinous to
23469s	go alongside that is a very nice pickup
23472s	but now the brand oh
23475s	no that's a disaster this mutinous is
23480s	gonna go to town for fat cat now oh my
23485s	God it's a very fat cat and a very fat
23488s	mutinous as well with mutinous into the
23491s	brilliant macaw for four Chomps that's
23494s	every minion in the hand deleted you
23496s	have to do it right yeah real real talk
23499s	though what are we thinking about why
23501s	hasn't it happened yet
23510s	your first time on streaming a big
23512s	tournament you have to at least pretend
23514s	you're thinking for the Integrity of the
23516s	game
23518s	oh my God good luck finding your other
23522s	brawl as well you 40 God Noob
23526s	I mean the other way you can look at it
23528s	is this this 40 card Chad might have had
23531s	four cards eaten still has 36 remaining
23534s	left to play with
23537s	deck mate atheists
23541s	okay well we're gonna need to see it
23543s	right now and this time if you did see
23545s	the brawl you'd be praying that the
23547s	brand survives because the other options
23548s	uh are absolutely terrifying
23555s	oh man you can't even gain enough armor
23558s	you could only get up to 12.
23562s	oh
23566s	what now
23568s	what do you even look for uh
23573s	I can't think of anything for that cheap
23576s	right
23578s	like
23581s	there's way too much Banner if you even
23584s	if you found more armor gain from the
23586s	other Naga it doesn't even work out
23593s	so that's it double activation of this
23595s	as well
23597s	uh so you hope for fire or lightning
23601s	right because then you want AOE agree
23604s	again yeah
23605s	yep okay
23607s	[Laughter]
23609s	imagine saying that the shaman is gonna
23612s	struggle
23613s	imagine oh yeah of course I think we
23616s	were both in the same headspace of
23617s	thinking of it as like the repeated
23619s	Battle Cry with a parrot or something
23620s	but you literally just get to pick twice
23622s	because it's Brad right like you're
23624s	actually in full control of three
23625s	options you just go double AOE double
23627s	AOE double six damage is guaranteed
23629s	lethal in that position so yeah fat cat
23632s	gets the shaman out of the series
23633s	straight away uh turns out when you just
23636s	throw your brand on the board get a
23638s	mutinous out of it and then your brand
23639s	survives the one in six brawl uh that
23642s	actually puts you in a pretty good
23643s	position in the match-up that we were
23644s	thinking was uh going to be quite
23646s	difficult
23648s	indeed uh I mean it's it's kind of a
23650s	symptom of Renault but I think more so
23652s	it's just a very solid indication of
23654s	where Warrior is right now whether you
23656s	play 30 cards whether you play 40 cards
23658s	that kind of thing is going to happen
23660s	this is what control Warrior was like
23663s	supposed to be in the last meta game but
23667s	obviously it never actually played the
23669s	fair game because the fair game looks a
23670s	lot more like that where you're just
23671s	trying to find the correct answer
23673s	instead of actually getting ahead on
23675s	board yourself and so for uh for never
23678s	Target it feels like that's a uh a
23681s	pretty tough loss but I will say that I
23683s	think the worry is still in a reasonable
23686s	spot because that kind of game plan of
23688s	just clear stuff every turn is not bad
23691s	against Rogue and uh against uh priests
23695s	these are two of the most vulnerable
23696s	decks to just being exhausted out of
23699s	their resources because they do very
23701s	powerful stuff very quickly but they
23703s	don't have a tremendous amount of
23704s	follow-up most of the time yeah I agree
23706s	I do think Warrior you're having just
23709s	self see our prediction record saying
23711s	Shaman will struggle with is crushing it
23713s	right now Derek but I do think to follow
23715s	that up the warrior will be the deck
23717s	that does the best against these style
23720s	of decks and I described them as sort of
23721s	threat check style decks they make a
23723s	number of boards and then they run out
23725s	of resources uh Warrior does kind of
23728s	have the redundancy and removal to be
23729s	able to clear them up
23731s	um armaged to stall brawls and whatever
23733s	Shield chatter combos to be able to take
23736s	care of board States however I do think
23740s	you can underestimate the resiliency of
23743s	wig priests incapable players hands you
23745s	know we saw Casey for example in that
23748s	last series sat there with like one card
23750s	in hand for two or three turns doing
23752s	absolutely nothing eventually just
23755s	pieced together a couple of spells to
23757s	activate a handmaiden and suddenly was
23758s	Off to the Races and found lethal out of
23760s	almost nowhere like this deck can really
23763s	pull out some some surprising situations
23766s	perhaps not to the level of we've seen
23768s	in the past with power Shield Divine
23770s	spirit in a fire that kind of stuff but
23772s	it still has the spirit of that deck
23775s	inside it you know it is able to steal
23778s	winds away from nowhere as soon as a
23780s	single Minion is left up on one side of
23782s	the ball
23783s	a very good point uh but I will say that
23785s	for nematake on the the other side if we
23788s	want to talk about again the consistency
23790s	of 30 card but 40 card control Warrior
23792s	looking through his list
23794s	just the cards in there are actually not
23796s	that bad and it feels like the cards
23798s	you're really stretching uh to fill up a
23801s	list like a treasure guard it's okay in
23804s	this matchup the priest is going to want
23805s	to kill off anyway so it's likely to
23807s	draw a card smothering starfish a
23809s	fantastic uh Tech card against wig
23811s	priest and then you're fitting in like
23813s	the second forged in flame which wasn't
23815s	in a lot of the old controllers you're
23816s	getting in double igneous lava gorger as
23819s	well as the enixion Drake like these are
23820s	all strong either draw or removal cards
23823s	and uh so I think you know in terms of
23826s	the list that we're talking the decks
23828s	we're talking about that can happily
23829s	fill out 40 cards weirdly enough despite
23832s	being such a weak deck in The Meta game
23834s	right now in my opinion Warrior does
23836s	have 40 quite reasonable cards to play
23839s	in a control deck I think
23842s	yeah I would agree with that assessment
23844s	as you were talking I'm sort of scanning
23846s	through like yeah what is the worst card
23848s	in this deck you know like playing you
23851s	know two of copies of tech cards is a
23853s	little bit weird not really used to
23854s	seeing that obviously the worst card in
23856s	the deck is just kind of the spider tank
23857s	that you have to play but you can rule
23859s	that one out outside of that yeah you
23861s	know like if you saw any of these cards
23863s	in a control Warrior list you'd be like
23865s	oh that's unusual there's a
23866s	blacksmithing hammer in here or there's
23868s	two starfish in here or whatever but you
23870s	wouldn't necessarily
23872s	um say that the deck was built terribly
23873s	so sure you can probably just about get
23876s	away with it
23877s	and it's a respectable little hand he's
23879s	getting for himself here the card draw
23881s	from the uh treasure God will be nice of
23884s	course and
23888s	no din
23890s	uh I want to say uh is a reasonable way
23893s	to go I don't think we're at the point
23895s	of fights of zinashari being the way to
23897s	go
23901s	uh but overall it's got a decent amount
23902s	of removal and uh some value as well
23919s	I've got plenty of Mojo to go around
23924s	another Rush working quite funnily there
23927s	against never Target yep
23931s	it was a cute interaction always
23933s	something you do want to look out for
23934s	with your now Jack hex and try and get
23936s	some value out of the minion immediately
23938s	because particularly in situations like
23940s	this where it's not like a Steeler ball
23943s	win the game immediately kind of
23945s	situation right like you know that
23946s	Minions going back so the more value you
23948s	can get out of it immediately the better
23951s	foreign
23955s	poor overworked poor overworked teachers
23958s	rushing back and forth literally uh in
23960s	this game to meet everyone's demands the
23963s	real heroes
23971s	sorry I've just remembered my
23972s	mother-in-law as a teacher in case she's
23973s	watching I should agree with that
23975s	vociferously and wholeheartedly yes you
23977s	are absolutely correct Eric what up yeah
23980s	that's the only reason why you should
23982s	support teachers because you're related
23985s	yep
23990s	I like that he's clearing out some of
23992s	the space in his hand as well uh his
23994s	name Target here with the uh the forged
23997s	and flaming hand uh and some of the card
23999s	draw from the weapon as well I think
24001s	it's just a case of cycling through his
24003s	deck as quickly as humanly possible as
24005s	uh you know I think really I should be
24007s	focusing more on very fat cat who has
24009s	the uh the slightly more interesting
24012s	um go of things here in terms of how he
24014s	has to approach this where he obviously
24016s	does not have the wigs which makes this
24017s	game an awful lot harder to get through
24020s	and therefore can't even activate most
24023s	of his hands he like has a decent amount
24026s	of value like his hand is quite full but
24028s	it's really doing very very little right
24030s	now
24033s	yeah I agreed and so it was a weird deck
24035s	to Pilot when you don't find the wigs
24038s	early because obviously you do want to
24041s	continue the kind of the spirit of the
24043s	deck you do want to continue to try and
24044s	be aggressive a little bit you want to
24046s	present threats you want to you know
24047s	create problems for your opponent to
24049s	solve but every time you do that that's
24052s	a Naga you've played from your hand that
24054s	has not been refreshing the wigs that
24056s	you're going to pick up later on so
24058s	finding that balance I think is a really
24061s	difficult tight rope to walk in a lot of
24063s	situations
24064s	and never Target is really not giving
24067s	him the time that he needs to be able to
24070s	make this work because his next few
24072s	turns are looking really beefy uh with
24075s	bran into school teacher into another
24077s	link as well or just mutinous on this
24080s	turn or just Captain Galvin gar and
24083s	punched him in the face for nine all of
24085s	these plays really turn up the pressure
24089s	yeah I think sometimes you kind of lose
24092s	that card in the hand right because
24094s	you're so used to just waiting for
24096s	charge Combos and the like but I think
24098s	yeah absolutely spot on in this
24100s	situation for Kuma just to say you know
24102s	what nah nine nine go face does pull out
24105s	the blade Master on the other side uh
24107s	finding these creative blade Master
24109s	clears is key to being able to Pilot
24111s	this deck just noticing all the various
24113s	break points uh fat cat does that very
24116s	nicely there combination of the bless
24118s	and the devour able to clean this up
24120s	very nicely but this is looking still
24124s	very Elementary for Kuma to deal with
24130s	and he's really not slowing down a very
24132s	very fast piece of play indeed uh
24135s	clearly showing good amount of
24136s	familiarity with the deck which again
24138s	admittedly is fairly similar to the uh
24141s	the more powerful mid-rangey sort of
24144s	Warrior from the previous
24145s	uh balance patch uh but still it's good
24149s	to see that he is uh up to scratch with
24150s	the deck that he is bringing uh four
24153s	very fat cat here
24154s	it kind of feels to me like it should be
24158s	a storm Pike aid station rather than the
24160s	call of the Grave even though it's very
24162s	very tempting to get that extra value uh
24165s	off of that on the following turns uh
24168s	the extra two Health on all of your
24170s	minions can actually make it much much
24172s	harder for warrior to get an efficient
24174s	clear especially with the recent Nerf to
24176s	Shield chatter
24177s	I've never not picked an aid station and
24180s	I never willed Aaron
24183s	that's the best card in the deck even
24185s	though it's not in the deck it's
24187s	actually true
24190s	it was the best it's the best card in
24191s	this deck and it was the worst card in
24193s	Miracle priest I hated getting that
24197s	so expensive yeah
24201s	was that a noggling conditioning it's a
24204s	very minion heavy hand I'm not sure if
24206s	it was the option that was taken up
24208s	but that is a big old chunk of tempo I'm
24212s	gonna assume if it's not happening here
24214s	that it wasn't taken
24216s	probably not yeah
24219s	it'd go for Call of the Grave wow okay
24221s	we need something big
24224s	humongous owl fungus one could say bang
24230s	and then concede
24234s	I see anyone that does pretty much
24242s	uh
24244s	urge to recite entire Monty Python but a
24248s	flesh wound sketch Rising
24257s	okay something is happening here right
24259s	we're looking of course for velish to
24262s	really make this term uh something that
24265s	can fight back against this board uh but
24268s	the amount of hand space the amount of
24269s	Mana available it's all starting to look
24271s	quite awkward actually
24278s	go for wig
24280s	uh Shard into the handmade and he's
24285s	really digging for the village
24293s	no such luck
24297s	it was a decent turn a very very
24299s	threatening minion generated indeed uh
24302s	with most of the board dealt with at the
24304s	same time uh but there is obviously a
24307s	clear for nemitage and honestly there's
24310s	like almost lethal available as well
24313s	with just rakara uh with 10 on the board
24317s	six from the weapon not quite there but
24319s	not a million miles off either
24322s	no
24327s	no I wanted the owl
24330s	wait was his brand already silenced
24332s	before his starfish yes it was yeah okay
24335s	fine damn
24339s	not even close it felt like they're the
24341s	warrior doing pretty much what it did
24344s	in its previous form of just deleting
24346s	everything the priest does there was
24348s	just nothing uh for very fat cat to do
24350s	there I think in a non-week non-wig game
24353s	uh the final term was a little bit more
24355s	complicated but honestly then he was
24357s	just uh already lost board foreign
24360s	yeah and I do think it's the starfish
24362s	that really pushes that match up over
24365s	the line or starfishes I should say with
24367s	two of them being in there because
24368s	otherwise that strategy of what we saw
24371s	from Fat Cat which is just don't die
24373s	don't die hang in there stay competitive
24375s	cool there's my wigs there's my bless
24377s	just make like a 25 Health minion and
24380s	leave it on the board right like that's
24382s	really effective against warrior in a
24384s	lot of positions normally you're not
24386s	quite expecting them to be able to stack
24388s	30 40 armor in the early game when
24390s	you're the supposed to be the aggressor
24392s	so you'll be keeping that armor carved
24394s	down a little bit and then making that
24396s	one minion with a massive Health total
24399s	um will quite often present some
24400s	problems they might have to get lucky
24402s	win a 50 50 33 abroad that kind of thing
24405s	but the double starfish being in there
24407s	is just such a beautiful Problem Solver
24410s	for those kind of situations because fat
24412s	cat would have had to have done that
24413s	same thing twice more minimum from that
24416s	position to really have had any hope of
24418s	going anywhere in that matchup so yeah I
24421s	guess first real test for the warrior
24422s	outside of that bizarre opening matchup
24425s	against the shaman and uh yeah passed
24427s	with flying colors I would say
24430s	indeed as now it's going to be the the
24432s	boat Rogue the pirate Rogue the most
24434s	standard list available of it uh for a
24438s	very fat cat uh we know well I think you
24440s	gave it a very good run down earlier on
24442s	the days just a very much Jack of all
24443s	trades kind of deck it's gonna be uh
24447s	decent against a lot of the tempo decks
24448s	because it does have these tricks that
24450s	it can pull off with wild porn null
24451s	obviously vessel into uh dredge in order
24454s	to get a lot of pirates and then very
24456s	very easily able to deal with 30 damage
24458s	uh in order to close out the game where
24460s	it gets a little bit tougher is in my
24462s	opinion where renithal comes into the
24464s	equation because even though I know you
24466s	were saying that aggro decks can deal
24468s	more than 30 damage uh
24471s	this rogue deck often feels more like a
24473s	burn deck in the games where you don't
24474s	get off to a really good start than it
24476s	does like an aggro deck where you're
24478s	just hoping to get a damage face with uh
24480s	the tooth the wicked stab uh and the uh
24484s	uh the Mr Smite as well uh but against
24487s	this renithal ping Mage honestly I just
24491s	don't even know what to say
24493s	what what is this Abomination I mean
24496s	yeah this is really going a bit too far
24499s	come on now yeah and so you know sort of
24502s	pulling the same trick right of like
24504s	what's the worst card in this deck well
24506s	now suddenly you're looking at
24509s	um an archonologist you're looking at
24511s	Taylor and Ford ring for example like
24513s	there's a lot of cards where you're
24514s	suddenly like okay yeah I'm not quite so
24517s	sure about those anymore
24519s	um and the quality and the diluting of
24521s	the draw particularly in a deck that I
24523s	think does live and die a lot of times
24525s	by
24527s	um wildfires and Reckless apprentices
24528s	for example in the early game if you're
24531s	gonna be drawing that combination less
24533s	of the time and particularly I would say
24536s	um with this deck the overall amount of
24538s	card draw is fairly low I would say I
24542s	think the primary argument we have in
24544s	favor of Druid is just the amount of
24545s	tutor and the amount of draw that that
24547s	class has available to it making it very
24549s	little downside I think the reason why
24551s	warlock is the other debatable deck even
24553s	though I'm not a huge fan of that deck
24555s	with 40 is just again the amount of card
24558s	draw the life tap you know Rod all of
24560s	these interactions where you you can be
24562s	rewarded for drawing a whole bunch of
24563s	cards this deck I'm just really not
24567s	seeing it
24568s	well let's see if we can pull it out of
24570s	the bag he has not drawn uh the uh the
24575s	Wildfire unfortunately Kell surprise in
24578s	this instance uh which means his ability
24580s	to fight off these early turns is going
24582s	to be somewhat hindered but he does have
24584s	still a decent number of answers to
24587s	these early boards obviously in the form
24588s	but first thing The Reckless Apprentice
24590s	is not bad double fire sale despite
24592s	being I think one of those 31st to 40
24595s	cards slotted into the deck is pretty
24597s	decent against Rogue just because it can
24599s	clear off the uh stealth pirates from
24602s	The Vessel
24604s	um as very fat cat is presented with the
24606s	first real question of the game if he
24609s	was to go coin into shroud I believe he
24614s	would be able to play any nulls that
24616s	were presented to him which is probably
24618s	where my head was at first of all
24622s	Brad King's pretty interesting there
24623s	though that's not bad
24633s	those are the curve nicely and contest
24635s	this treasure guard wonderfully
24637s	[Music]
24639s	yep but a a decent turn in response for
24641s	nemitage who I think
24644s	just looking at like uh okay he wants to
24646s	go for the car driver saying it looks
24648s	like first flame ping wildfire in order
24651s	to get it online for The Reckless uh
24654s	whilst also clearing off the board
24659s	jobs done
24673s	a prep shroud now looking for some
24676s	options to play immediately
24678s	uh Philip not really the one knowing
24682s	there is the threat of Reckless
24683s	Apprentice coming down but again it's
24685s	that question of how much do you care
24687s	about the potential punishers your
24689s	opponent's 40 card deck has against you
24691s	and I certainly respect the lack of
24694s	respect from Fat Cat here just throwing
24696s	it out
24697s	I always respect a lack of respect I do
24700s	that is true
24703s	all right so uh the
24706s	taylan is always drawing more dress fire
24708s	eye which is a decent draw actually to
24711s	be fair given that he has the Wildfire
24713s	online Reckless Apprentice very easily
24715s	activating uh the more dress at some
24718s	point so I do think taylan is a fairly
24721s	high priority play at some point in the
24722s	near future
24732s	uh but that makes things a little more
24736s	complicated
24739s	yeah I do like it
24744s	rare for me to see a turn where krabatoa
24747s	is League want to play kravitor but this
24749s	is one of those terms
24752s	well you haven't told me personally on
24754s	cast why you love krabatoa so much I've
24756s	heard it second hand from both Lorinda
24758s	and Gia's cast but go on give me the
24760s	goodness
24761s	it you actually need this explained to
24764s	you it's just so it's just nuts it's
24767s	what like there's no great mystery here
24769s	Derek it's just an incredibly good
24771s	Hearthstone card that's good on
24772s	basically every turn you draw it
24775s	now I know what you're gonna say subtle
24777s	but I just love to hear you say it's
24778s	like watching the same movie 50 times
24780s	over oh I know what's gonna happen but I
24782s	still love it
24788s	just turned me into your own personal
24791s	version of The Simpsons Meet the
24792s	classroom say the things cravators
24796s	good hey
24799s	have we ever talked about the extreme
24801s	irony of that like the fact that people
24803s	use a meme to make fun of like people
24806s	just saying it like reciting a populist
24809s	opinion just to let people hear the
24812s	thing that they're used to hearing like
24814s	that's literally what memes are and
24816s	you're responding to something with a
24818s	meme saying stop doing this thing that
24821s	just is twanging Nostalgia both it's
24823s	really weird it just doesn't sit well
24825s	with me sorry it's incredible tangent
24827s	we've wanted we've gone too deep it's
24829s	time to burn it all down and start again
24830s	like my ancestors build things and
24832s	that's what that's what that's what
24834s	we're doing it's not right we all know
24837s	that uh that Meme culture peaked with
24840s	the Derrick Brown Hearthstone BoJack
24842s	Horseman crossover like actually yeah
24847s	foreign
24854s	Choice here actually in the form of
24857s	second Wildfire vs volcano mancy
24859s	probably is the Wildfire uh because
24861s	bridging that Gap from two up to three
24864s	uh is a very very big difference but uh
24867s	volcano mag see it you know it does very
24869s	similar things it's a very very good
24870s	card versus rope
24873s	this is still some very chunky damage
24877s	coming through though
24880s	a potential stealth Ed
24885s	War has not been seen since the days of
24888s	2013.
24891s	2014.
24892s	whenever Edwin had stealth
24895s	whatever Edwin had stealth
24899s	hey
24903s	no Smite in hand
24907s	just wondering whether you're ever
24909s	lining up the uh The Forbidden Edwin
24911s	Shadow step lines buffing it in hand
24913s	trying to set up some kind of smite line
24914s	in the future but you still only have
24916s	you still have 15 whole cards left
24918s	remaining in the deck and smite buried
24919s	in there somewhere so I don't know
24920s	whether that's a plan you can
24921s	necessarily build towards
24927s	The Apprentice ping available it's
24932s	probably still better to go Apprentice
24935s	King rather than double Apprentice
24938s	um just because of how valuable the
24940s	second one is I think I'd value that
24942s	more so than the tempo uh but if you're
24945s	going sir Finley things get a lot more
24947s	interesting
24954s	finds a nice barrier that's a big deal
24957s	arcanologists will represent the second
24958s	ice barrier as well
24967s	this hand's not very good actually for
24969s	never Target though is it you kind of
24971s	think that by going Finley for almost a
24973s	full hand you're gonna get something
24975s	threatening uh but this is not that
24979s	yeah it's weird because the hand he had
24981s	originally was quite threatening right
24982s	there was a second Reckless Apprentice
24984s	there was a lot of damage there was the
24986s	Talon which draws the mordoresh which is
24988s	a lot of damage like this to me is a
24991s	very conscious decision from Kuma to say
24994s	no I actually want the defensive cards
24996s	in my deck because I don't actually have
24998s	any of those anymore right and uh that's
25001s	kind of what he's found he's found
25002s	double ice barrier essentially through
25005s	you know one drawer and one
25006s	archonologist
25010s	now we proceeding here for fat cat it's
25013s	approaching the point quite rapidly
25015s	where if he were to find Mr Smite uh
25017s	lethal is very very reachable
25021s	um so how does he best move to
25024s	get to that position like car draw is
25026s	very tempting in the form of gone
25027s	fishing uh Edwin as well of course can
25029s	get the job done but I guess with this
25031s	hand he's setting up even more so down
25034s	the combo route uh I would argue by
25037s	giving himself the possibility of like
25038s	hero power Edwin maybe Shadow step it
25041s	back again as well when uh if you're
25043s	going for the Mr Smite lethal is the one
25045s	acceptable time to Shadow Steph and
25046s	Edward
25053s	Ryan Finley I can't take him nope
25058s	we've been there before
25063s	yeah he knew this was gonna happen with
25065s	The Apprentice going back
25079s	it looks like this is the plan for fat
25081s	cat
25083s	[Music]
25086s	before first draw Smite nope
25098s	yeah let's just keep going right like
25099s	you just slam everything off the top
25110s	I think
25116s	like you could make the argument that
25118s	you want to play a genre vessel in order
25120s	to set up for
25121s	Mr Smite off the top and being able to
25124s	just go Mr Smite plus gone fishing okay
25126s	yeah this is the the one deviation I
25128s	think is acceptable yeah I don't have
25130s	this at all
25132s	uh yeah sorry yeah that's fine
25144s	back we go
25158s	oh okay mine's the more trash naturally
25169s	the benefit of not going for for more
25172s	dress from this turn is like you can
25173s	still clear the board and you get to fit
25175s	in card drawer as well in order to try
25177s	and find the the Magister Dawn grass
25179s	which is looking pretty important
25182s	I wonder
25185s	but honestly maybe just making an 88 is
25187s	the uh the way to go like you know yes
25189s	you're obviously very afraid of
25191s	dying in which case maybe it's Reckless
25193s	plus taylan I was gonna say you also get
25196s	to play a Divine Shield taunt if you
25197s	just slam Reckless Apprentice which is
25199s	it's something
25205s	spins the one manner on Wildfire instead
25208s	which allows him to Ping okay and then
25211s	set up for Ping more trash for lethal
25213s	that's Smite off the top though I think
25216s	yes it is
25219s	that's gotta be lethal right
25223s	27.
25237s	wait what happened sorry why is Edwin a
25239s	4-4 right now because he stepped it
25241s	after buffing it a bunch as opposed to
25243s	oh sorry yeah yeah buffing it like it
25246s	retains the Enchantment of being able to
25248s	gain Buffs but it loses the stats when
25251s	you step it back to your hands right
25252s	right right yeah like if you're gonna
25254s	step it you should do it first not just
25256s	halfway through the turn that's probably
25257s	the criticism is the fat cat just kind
25259s	of changed his mind halfway through the
25260s	turn which is being punished for a
25263s	little bit here that'll be the face poem
25265s	he gave at the end of his turn that
25266s	makes sense
25270s	after that sizzle
25276s	and this is Mega lethal
25281s	he just missed
25286s	is this lethal anyway okay he gets it
25288s	anyway yeah yeah
25292s	he could have gone Smite coin gone
25294s	fishing which would have got him charge
25296s	on Edwin plus the uh oh yeah uh the
25300s	Pirates at the bottom as well but he
25301s	gets there anyway it's a different way
25302s	of going about it but uh still a
25305s	remarkable amount of damage that he was
25306s	able to get through there
25308s	yeah I went about it in a different
25310s	method by not interacting with the ice
25312s	barrier do you think the term before was
25314s	probably a little indecisive uh from Fat
25317s	Cat but largely what I expected to
25322s	happen against that deck right we can
25323s	argue about the execution but I do think
25326s	the idea of you know the maze just kind
25328s	of meandered along trying to get through
25330s	their their bloated deck while the road
25332s	just threw some damage at their face and
25334s	I think that was about as smooth as we
25336s	could have seen it from the Mage early
25338s	Wildfire was found two treasure guards
25340s	found early uh double Reckless
25342s	Apprentice options he could have just
25344s	continued to play like the tail and more
25346s	dress curve he chose to go with Finley
25348s	stuff
25349s	um I did instead which was his choice to
25352s	go with at that point so I think overall
25354s	you know a reasonable draw for the Mage
25357s	but still just kind of that that extra
25359s	bloated factor that it does have despite
25361s	some let's just say uh indecisive and
25364s	probably sub-optimal moments from Fat
25366s	Cat on the other side yeah some like uh
25370s	as you said uh just uh inconsistencies
25372s	the deck maybe not quite comfortable
25373s	with it on the big stage but it does
25376s	mean now that he's left with only the
25378s	big priest left oh sorry the weaker is
25380s	not the big priest
25381s	big wig priest that is a decade player
25384s	against both the Mage and the uh the
25388s	Druid on the other side which is the uh
25390s	just the pretty much straight down the
25392s	middle uh Celestial lineman Prince
25394s	renothal uh double best and shell in
25397s	there as well as a little bit spicy
25400s	um but for that in the Mage I do think
25402s	that both of these decks should probably
25404s	struggle uh I want to say uh against the
25408s	the priest the Mage may be a little bit
25410s	less so because they do have the the
25413s	double starfish in there and if you're
25414s	able to get a head on board at the start
25416s	or juice up your hero Powers a lot then
25418s	you can very easily kill off most of the
25420s	things the wig priest is playing but
25422s	aside from that the Druid in particular
25424s	I like where uh I like where fat cat is
25428s	positioned going into the rest of the
25430s	city which is just an excellent sentence
25433s	uh when removed from all context uh yeah
25436s	I mean obviously I've been very critical
25438s	I'm not a huge fan of these Renault
25440s	decks overall so I have been very
25441s	critical of Kuma's lineup obviously Kuma
25444s	is 3-0 so first of all jokes on me
25447s	they're 3-0 and a Masters Tour and I'm
25448s	not with this lineup but to give some
25451s	credit I do think you know squeezing in
25455s	all these starfishes wherever possible
25456s	is a smart addition
25459s	um because it's a decent counter to the
25463s	biggest problem style of decks that
25466s	you're gonna throw up against him right
25467s	which is particularly this wig priest
25469s	that we're seeing I think this wig
25471s	priest would have been long gone out of
25473s	this series and fat cat would be 4-0
25475s	celebrating if it wasn't for the uh the
25478s	sheer amount of starfish
25480s	I'm at 4-0 in the series like man that
25483s	is impressive and this deck is great
25487s	yeah it's just it's just the extra rules
25489s	like okay you get to have 40 cards and
25491s	40 Health but if I beat it I get two
25494s	wins in the series
25496s	does that make a difference no
25498s	but you suck but the mental damage oh
25503s	yeah is just incoming terrible
25507s	well it's a decent start what was
25508s	looking absolutely disastrous for fat
25511s	cat with uh well the three cards that
25513s	are still in the left of his hand being
25515s	his starting hand
25516s	um things have turned around quite
25517s	heavily with a week being found a couple
25519s	of nagas as well in order to smooth out
25521s	this hand much more cleanly uh the onus
25525s	is very much on nemitage to uh remedy
25529s	this situation which you can do to be
25531s	fair with uh flurry with Varden in order
25534s	to stall out the game and then that
25536s	starfish in order to really reset the
25538s	board and get things back in uh back in
25541s	position ready for Magister don't grasp
25543s	to start uh juicing up in power
25557s	very aggressive hex and
25560s	don't hate it though because if you kind
25561s	of look up and down the deck there's not
25563s	a great deal of like straight up AOE
25565s	removal the way these boards are going
25568s	to get dealt with as we've talked about
25569s	is just with silence and starfish and
25572s	this does seem like the best way that
25574s	you can really try and punish that in
25575s	this position
25576s	make a lot of sense
25578s	yeah fire sale really the highest you're
25580s	reaching up to in these early turns
25583s	which like you say uh plays around that
25585s	pretty nicely
25594s	oh those were not the shots actually
25598s	this is a triple I believe on the draw
25603s	uh but boy are these terrible cards to
25607s	be drawing oh unfortunately it's a
25611s	triple draw but you draw three cards
25613s	that are in your deck in this case is
25616s	very unfortunate it's the one place he
25619s	didn't want to draw from laughs
25624s	I'd much rather use his triple to
25626s	discover a six instead in this instance
25634s	speaking of Battlegrounds it turns out
25636s	in the uh the game that I was playing in
25638s	the break and then it ended a little bit
25639s	quicker than I thought after skipping
25641s	four turns I got a second place so good
25645s	ah nice
25648s	you're proud
25650s	I am it's better than I normally place
25652s	when I'm paying attention which I don't
25654s	know how to process but
25665s	when don't grasp yeah looking that way
25668s	you get the the freeze replayed right
25670s	which is the the very important one uh
25673s	drawing two cards as well of the Arcane
25675s	I believe so you're gonna overdraw here
25679s	he wants to hit that 311 for safety very
25682s	nice okay
25685s	some of the Wildfire as well so that's a
25687s	four damage ping I think now at this
25689s	point uh
25691s	not bad in all honesty if he can just
25693s	find himself a reckless Apprentice this
25696s	is okay
25704s	or so with
25706s	foolish Plus
25712s	bless
25714s	can't really get that high can you with
25716s	that freeze effect so backbreaking yeah
25719s	the freeze is so brutal here
25722s	to take a chill again oh
25728s	it's fine
25734s	ten cards in hand and he has to trade to
25737s	find something playable oh no okay she's
25739s	going for blood my calculations
25746s	yeah I've Arden really big deal in this
25748s	spot
25749s	being able to delay for that one extra
25751s	turn very very feasible lethal situation
25754s	with a 13 Health award as 13 Health
25757s	minion on the other side of the board
25758s	obviously of course there is the
25759s	starfish available that can be used to
25762s	just uh pull the trigger but I think
25764s	more than willing to kind of stretch
25767s	these resources out for as long as
25769s	possible
25771s	Beyond
25773s	a honorable kill targets available which
25776s	is fine by Nemo targets is able to I
25778s	think activate mordresh uh whilst also
25781s	getting back his renothal restoring its
25784s	one Health that it had taken away uh by
25787s	the Shadowood devour and just leave
25789s	himself ahead on board these are the
25791s	turns for Wig priest where you have
25793s	exactly one turn to swing the board back
25796s	or the game just ends on the spot pretty
25799s	much because you just putting opponent
25800s	just spends all their mana on minions
25802s	every turn and you lose but thankfully
25804s	uh the samurai is the perfect way to
25808s	keep the dream alive for fat cat for the
25810s	moment
25814s	foreign
25851s	I'm just saying the board honestly just
25854s	doesn't really matter I don't know if
25855s	this is what fat cat was thinking when
25856s	he started the turn to be perfectly
25858s	honest oh I don't I'm not really sure
25861s	how we ended up here yeah
25865s	but it's where he ended
25868s	like your blade Masters on boards
25871s	without having done anything which is
25874s	your only real comeback mechanism
25876s	against you know big freeze turns or a
25879s	mordresh turn or anything your your
25881s	valesh didn't really do anything for you
25884s	that turn and yet it came down anyway
25886s	there are many questions and few answers
25892s	ah Wildfire against get up to seven if
25894s	you wanted but I guess the Ping is uh
25897s	big enough as it is
25899s	um ordress plus flurry was available but
25902s	uh really there are other plans
25905s	uh for nemit Target which could be
25908s	flurry which could be the snow flurry
25910s	plus uh the Ping as well uh just you
25913s	know as long as you're spending all your
25915s	Mana here and not allowing something to
25916s	Attack Base uh you will win this game
25919s	from here on in yep for sure
25926s	trying his best to keep that minion
25928s	alive
25930s	oh whatever means possible but I think
25933s	at this point he is fighting a wildly
25935s	losing battle
25954s	the flurry up to rank three at this
25956s	point honestly you could just push the
25958s	lethal right I don't think there's
25961s	really any priest control that would
25962s	stop you from killing them next time
25966s	Herbert sure this also is a pretty much
25968s	100 win
25971s	play some cards until your opponent
25974s	concedes is pretty much the only line
25976s	you had available to you that turn and
25978s	it was executed beautifully uh yeah I
25981s	think some questions again from uh the
25984s	way fat cat played him out um obviously
25986s	fat cat not a player I'm massively
25987s	familiar with is 3-0 in the Swiss but
25989s	not a player that I have seen have a lot
25992s	of experience with being streamed in
25995s	feature matches on round four on day one
25998s	of a Masters Tour
26000s	um I don't know how much the the impact
26001s	of being on camera is getting to him but
26004s	certainly we had questions in the
26007s	previous game a little bit about some of
26009s	the lines but that one in particular
26010s	just did not really seem like there was
26013s	a plan going into that penultimate term
26015s	from fatca yeah agreed I I think some of
26018s	the uh
26020s	the turn ordering fundamentals that you
26023s	uh can honestly let slip on ladder and
26026s	probably do fine but in tournament play
26028s	when every match is so so important you
26030s	really do need to make sure you're
26032s	planning out every single part of your
26033s	turn as you know I think this will be
26037s	the biggest hindrance for fact because
26038s	like you say it's not very used to being
26040s	on stream not very used to playing in
26041s	Masters tours this is only a second one
26043s	uh so far
26045s	um
26046s	uh so a 30 start from is obviously
26048s	fantastic and I think overall his play
26050s	has been very good but just uh mopping
26053s	up these uh sequences that you need to
26055s	have in a weak priest of all decks a
26057s	very very clear plan at the start of
26059s	every turn on what every single one of
26061s	your points of Mana is going to be spent
26063s	on you can't just get away with saying
26065s	this looks good and then playing stuff
26067s	even though that is
26069s	the only thing I do with the deck that's
26072s	why it's a lot
26075s	well here we go uh 40 alignment Druid
26081s	going up against the big priest on the
26084s	other side Pat versus bear wigs versus
26089s	Stars there's all kinds of hearthstone
26091s	nonsense going on right now Derek but I
26095s	do think this is going to be the most
26097s	difficult matchup that uh nematakeuma
26101s	has potentially left in the well left in
26104s	this series certainly but possibly
26105s	beginning in this series as well
26107s	yeah I think that's very true but the
26109s	fact that he's nodding here I think
26110s	tells us everything we need to know
26112s	about how this game is looking with
26115s	Jerry into wild growth into the rampant
26119s	growth as well in order to get the Mana
26120s	up to Celestial alignment this is the
26122s	smoothest curve that you could ever ask
26125s	for and it's basically just all in on
26127s	Fat Cat here to be able to fight back
26129s	which he is going to do in the fastest
26132s	way possible with coin into bless
26136s	turning up the pressure that 10 extra
26139s	Health might be the Difference Maker
26141s	here it very well might be because his
26145s	turn is a fat pass
26148s	it goes straight back over nine showing
26152s	already handmade and active just based
26155s	off that previous turn to continue to
26157s	juice up the hand oh this turn is now a
26160s	pass as well arguably
26163s	if he's gonna choose not to react with
26164s	the park Panther which he's dead
26167s	momentary diversion here wow
26173s	I mean to be honest with fat cat even
26175s	though some of the board is being
26176s	answered here is kind of jobs done if
26178s	he's putting on so much pressure that it
26180s	takes a full extra turn away from his
26183s	opponent uh before the alignment can
26185s	even come down
26190s	sorry squishy
26199s	trades oh
26213s	I've been nine they tank three if they
26215s	trade there
26218s	foreign just had lethal if I mean if
26221s	they play Just nourish they kind of just
26223s	die there on that turn if you go face
26228s	The Reef I'm sure rushing here trying to
26231s	take some damage off the ball but that's
26233s	still 11 more showing oh man
26238s	uh but less is not lethal so I don't
26241s	think there's any outs for lethal right
26243s	now for fat cat
26249s	probably just starting wig no matter
26251s	what yeah let's just get these played I
26254s	like it yeah
26257s	is it even a school teacher turn yeah
26259s	agreed I think it's just Queen's guard
26261s	again
26264s	make another spider tank push two more
26266s	with the other wig
26269s	I mean what what can your opponent do
26271s	here what are their answers it's like
26274s	lock color I think
26277s	specifically uh in order for them to
26280s	have any real chance
26284s	maybe nulls if they somehow manage if
26287s	they've drawn both of them off the top
26289s	uh oh with that in mind are we actually
26292s	playing around molten giant here is that
26294s	a thing that we're doing uh
26298s	I think I would be more so inclined to
26299s	go like
26301s	Queen like Queen's guard wig wig in that
26305s	instance because it
26307s	uh Maybe not maybe that's too far I was
26309s	thinking like if they have local plus
26310s	the uh
26312s	um
26313s	Earthen scales as well but it's a 40
26315s	card deck you're not playing around that
26317s	yeah
26321s	best in Shell traded best in Shell
26323s	played and I hope for Fat Cat's sake oh
26326s	no best instruction as well okay I was
26329s	about to say I hope that that was a
26333s	Shard picked up from Fat Cat on the
26335s	other side as a quick portrait mode just
26340s	to round things off fat cat able to get
26342s	over the line I think in the end it was
26344s	probably uh local law that was being
26346s	traded for in the end I think he just
26348s	adds a better out in that position and
26351s	we saw The Shard get offered from the
26353s	school teacher which would have been
26355s	able to blow through those turtles if
26356s	they had come down and yeah in the end
26358s	even though it was growth into ramp into
26362s	alignment possibility we could see just
26365s	because all priests had to do was draw
26367s	bless and that was just too slow at that
26369s	point would have been pushing lethal if
26371s	uh if Nemo had just gone through that
26373s	curve so had to divert had to try and do
26375s	other things and in the end yes the
26377s	lineup is three and one but as far as
26379s	we've seen it on stream it does look
26382s	like a failed experiment from where I'm
26384s	set sample size of one Derek that's all
26386s	that matters if it failed on stream it's
26388s	nothing
26391s	uh yeah yeah I don't know to be fair
26394s	they didn't look that bad for the most
26396s	part like the warrior had three good
26398s	matchups I would argue you know the
26400s	shaman may be a little bit closer the
26402s	Mage yeah I think I would rather just
26404s	bring big spell Mage give me the chance
26406s	to Hyrule with the the Belinda instead
26408s	of messing around with all this P
26409s	nonsense but the Druid I think is you
26411s	know pretty uh agreed upon archetype as
26413s	being decent so
26415s	even though I'm right there with you I
26417s	am not a believer in triple renithal uh
26419s	in a Masters Tour lineup I think Nemet
26421s	Target if you were going to do so has
26423s	found three reasonable ways uh to try
26425s	and approach it and then let us know
26426s	forget just a paladin slotted in there
26428s	as well which was banned as well
26431s	reasonable ways of approaching it and
26433s	then a mage I'm not standing for this
26435s	okay it's being called reasonable Derek
26437s	no you're not sliding that one past me
26439s	anytime soon fair enough uh but that
26441s	does mean the very fat cat in his uh
26443s	second Master's thought is up four and
26446s	zero a market improvement from I think
26448s	it's two and five score line that he had
26450s	at the end of the last one which uh is
26452s	fantastic you know this is the uh the
26453s	start of the second Bunch uh of Masters
26456s	tours of this year so getting a good
26458s	finish here is very very important for
26459s	your chances of getting through to the
26462s	uh the full Championship uh and uh just
26465s	of course the uh the glory and the prize
26466s	money that comes alongside winning a
26468s	Masters Tour as well so best of luck for
26470s	fat cat tomorrow
26473s	um we are I believe warming up some of
26476s	the other matches that were going on
26478s	around round four uh here in Masters
26482s	Tour for sure so without any further Ado
26483s	we are going to go to a break and when
26485s	we come back wrapping up the last of the
26487s	action for day one of the Masters Tour
26492s	foreign
26497s	[Music]
26502s	[Applause]
26503s	[Music]
26507s	in the darkest of Seasons where ruthless
26511s	eyes gawk for horrific reasons for a
26516s	hidden hand has struck me down with such
26520s	ruthlessness so deep and profound
26526s	then he comes with his molokian skull
26533s	to uncover the truth of murder most foul
26539s	the anima drifts across the floor
26542s	highlighting the creatures who walked
26545s	through my door the motives are as black
26549s	as night avarice power revenge and
26554s	blight
26556s	we watch the hero uncover the clues
26561s	that lead to the truth
26564s	behind behind this dark rooms
26568s	join us here with grim and Empires
26572s	choose your path without Heavenly bias
26576s	for at the end they will burn in the
26580s	fire
26581s	when it is known who's slain
26585s	dinathrius Messiah
26588s	[Music]
26595s	foreign
26602s	[Music]
26610s	[Music]
26616s	[Music]
26625s	foreign
26628s	[Music]
26655s	foreign
26659s	[Music]
26685s	welcome back everyone we are ready to
26687s	jump in some more games from round
26689s	number four the final round of the day
26691s	I'm Raven and joining me is Gia and I
26694s	believe we're going to jump into Melody
26695s	versus Mighty a double M matchup I guess
26700s	uh but we're going in at one zero uh
26703s	gear what have we got coming up in terms
26705s	of lineups
26706s	we've got two renothal decks on the side
26709s	of Melody who's on team VK by the way
26712s	he's got the prester Druid very fun and
26716s	then curse warlock a deck that I have
26718s	been vocal about not really believing in
26720s	its power level but I do think it's a
26722s	pretty fun one to watch and rounding out
26724s	his lineup is a bar priest and jackpot
26727s	Rogue so aside from the boar priest 3
26729s	Decks that can get pretty out of control
26732s	depending on certain outcomes of
26734s	generations and then on Mighty side we
26737s	have a full aggro lineup something for
26739s	everyone this one's for you Raven yeah I
26741s	was gonna say if if I was playing in
26743s	this tournament my lineup would look
26745s	very similar to mighties and I would
26748s	probably end up even though I'm not a
26750s	huge fan I probably end up like urgently
26752s	playing the Rogue even though I very
26754s	much think it's the fourth deck at least
26756s	for me but we do see the bands as well
26758s	the priests being banned away from
26760s	mighty I think makes sense based on what
26763s	Melody has and then the Rogue being
26765s	banned away again on the other side
26766s	either that kind of makes sense because
26768s	it's like the more aggressive version or
26770s	the more aggressive out of the lineup
26772s	That Melody has so already though Melody
26775s	uh one zero up with the Druid uh which
26779s	unfortunately was the Presto Druid so we
26781s	don't get to cast that I know it's a
26783s	deck you're enjoying at the moment or at
26785s	least you have a lot of respect for so
26787s	we won't be seeing that but I do believe
26789s	the next game up is gonna be the Warlock
26792s	versus The Demon Hunter and the Demon
26794s	Hunter did lose to the Druid in game one
26797s	it's about something to bear in mind but
26799s	yeah this is the Warlock gear and uh
26801s	what do you make of this deck do you
26802s	think it has legs do you think it's just
26804s	not quite there yet
26805s	I do think some people brought this in
26808s	their lineup thinking that it was the
26810s	deck that would benefit from renithal
26812s	the most I think once ranathal was
26814s	announced people were Theory crafting
26816s	most likely curse warlock can
26818s	um get the most sort of benefits from
26820s	this because it really requires that
26823s	extra Health to get rolling with the
26825s	curses and especially given that your
26828s	hero power is also damaging you until
26829s	you play the times in hero card it just
26832s	seemed like it was pretty good uh
26833s	warlock would draw a lot so you still
26835s	see most of your deck was the theory
26838s	however I feel like the deck still kind
26841s	of struggles even with the 4D Health
26843s	certainly its matchups against Rogan
26845s	Demon Hunter were helped but I don't
26847s	think that the Warlock becomes favored
26850s	um to the point where it justifies
26851s	bringing the deck all together
26853s	the wig priest on the side of Mighty I'm
26857s	super unsurprised to see that band away
26858s	because I think that warlock struggles
26861s	against ducks that can play singular
26863s	tall minions as well which is something
26865s	that is not really available to Demon
26868s	Hunter though so hopefully for the sake
26870s	of Melody he he's able to get the AOE on
26874s	time against the
26876s	um many board developments from mighty
26879s	yeah and after seeing uh it played a
26882s	little bit over this weekend and of
26883s	course in the weeks leading up to this
26885s	even though it's received some more
26887s	Nerfs recently I'm still a fan of this
26889s	for uh this Demon Hunter list I think
26891s	it's really strong even if decks are
26893s	running faulty health I still think it's
26896s	got enough damage in there to make it
26898s	work as we've already seen on stream uh
26900s	so far today so this is definitely that
26902s	I'm a fan of it
26904s	and suffer just a little bit with things
26906s	just costing a little bit more now
26908s	there's not like the second Colossus in
26911s	the deck or anything like that basically
26913s	so it's a little bit worse but I do like
26915s	the addition of the bone glaive to help
26917s	make up some extra damage that was
26918s	missed that's right I think even without
26921s	the carrier in there the core of the
26924s	deck that is very streamlined damage
26926s	output and card draw and the curving up
26929s	to Jace is still something that warlock
26931s	can struggle with and the fact that the
26932s	Warlock has had to had add another 10
26935s	cards to activate renathal and that
26937s	extra 10 Health it sort of upset the
26939s	balance that warlock needs to hit which
26942s	is lots of removal in the early game and
26944s	then hitting all of their healing in the
26946s	late game most importantly the spice
26949s	bread Bakers to stabilize but beyond all
26951s	that the singular most important card
26954s	for the Warlock is dreadlich Tamsin
26956s	because it helps them stabilize it's a
26958s	board clear often lets them get ahead on
26960s	board because of the fell drips uh being
26963s	churned out every other turn or so and
26966s	that is where they usually turn the
26967s	corner against Demon Hunter but of
26969s	course that hero card is harder to find
26971s	when you're searching for it in a deck
26973s	of sports yeah that's the that's the
26975s	sort of weird issue isn't it like it on
26978s	papers you as you sort of laid hour
26980s	earlier the Warlock having more health
26982s	and more cards when it's a live tap deck
26984s	makes sense right but then you realize a
26988s	lot of the time with the curses you kind
26989s	of want to machine gun the curses right
26992s	to just stack them up quickly at one
26994s	point maybe with a brand and so on to
26996s	really get the maximum benefit and you
26998s	just you're just less likely to be able
27000s	to draw them together anyway so it does
27003s	have that slight issue but already
27004s	jumping into game two here Mighty off to
27007s	a decent start we're just getting these
27009s	sigil down I'm going to make the next
27011s	few turns a little bit smoother with
27013s	some more card draw make them a little
27014s	bit cheaper whereas Melody does have
27017s	some of that early removal and some of
27019s	the heel as well so at least there's an
27021s	opening not looking too bad especially
27023s	because Prince rather Phil himself is
27026s	just a reasonable card right it's just a
27028s	spider tank you can just throw out there
27030s	not too bad Mighty though gets a pretty
27033s	good outcome off of that schedule of
27036s	alacrity making the metamorphan come
27038s	down alongside the chaos drag ideally
27040s	Melody would have dragged below to
27042s	remove this but next best thing is
27044s	counter development here although we saw
27046s	mighty cap that dread prison glave to
27048s	make sure that he can remove any threats
27051s	on the other side while also doubling up
27052s	on damage he doesn't have cards to buff
27055s	his attack this turn though so we're
27057s	gonna use the fell barrage instead and
27058s	play second metamorphin and already this
27061s	is the shape of board that warlock
27062s	struggles to deal with prior to turn six
27065s	the big AOE from warlock is Abyssal wave
27069s	and uh entitled customer and
27071s	dreadlichtems in all of which competing
27073s	for that six Mana slot and you can see
27075s	here already inefficient removal usage
27079s	Right double touch used on one minion
27081s	which means it's only going to heal for
27082s	three and there's two you know decent
27085s	removal tools used up already
27087s	and those are just the One Drops right
27089s	there's still going to be more where
27090s	that came from but Mighty gonna switch
27092s	gears a little bit and coin into the
27094s	bone glaive
27096s	huh
27097s	that's not the greatest options off of
27099s	The Dredge like seeing the Jace is nice
27103s	but it's going to be unplayable for
27105s	quite some time here and mighty already
27107s	has to contend with the idea of is this
27109s	going to be a Jace game if he doesn't
27112s	take it here though it's likely he will
27114s	never see that card because that bone
27116s	glaive only affords him one dredge and I
27119s	think it's the only judge card in the
27120s	deck yeah I I think even though that
27123s	wasn't really the best set of choices I
27125s	think the Jace feels correct against
27127s	this Warlock deck and I think because
27130s	he's got at least a couple of turns with
27132s	a play right now with the characters
27134s	especially that the just getting the
27136s	Jace knot at the bottom of the deck is
27139s	probably worth more than the issue you
27141s	have of not having not having the
27143s	ability to even play it over the next
27146s	few turns so even though it looks kind
27148s	of bad I think it's okay for now I'd
27151s	agree it does make for an awkward Turn 5
27153s	for Mighty but he can certainly bridge
27155s	the gap into Jace with the hero card on
27158s	curve uh Melody finds a pretty nice
27161s	window to go for counter development
27162s	where the Mistresses are relevant on
27164s	board and also going to heal him for
27166s	eight total the problem is his hand is
27168s	double Rune mithril Rod which I think
27170s	never finds the time to get played if it
27172s	wasn't last turned so he will need a top
27175s	deck Tamsin ideally but any other sort
27179s	of further card draw would help him
27181s	after he gets his healing
27185s	hey so Mike's you're just gonna push as
27188s	much damage as possible does get the
27190s	nice glaive follow-up hair to push even
27193s	more damage really nice play actually
27195s	and something that maybe wasn't you know
27197s	initially obvious straight away that it
27199s	could be done because it always gets a
27200s	bit weird when you swapping weapons out
27202s	to work out the damage but yeah really
27204s	nice play from mighty pushing Max damage
27206s	he knows his opponent's gonna heal up to
27208s	eight uh well eight more but uh but
27211s	still looking worthwhile gets the extra
27213s	attacking to help out with the curtress
27215s	demons as well and mighty's looking
27217s	quite strong now especially especially
27219s	with the uh
27220s	yeah I completely agree especially
27223s	looking at Melody's hand Which is far
27225s	too slow nowhere near getting the Rune
27227s	metal rod active and even if it does get
27230s	the first proc it's hardly discounting
27231s	anything relevant Baker not much healing
27236s	but at least it's something to play
27237s	alongside that drag below however Mighty
27239s	gets the 64 to stick on board which is
27241s	essentially an eight four because of the
27243s	Refresh on the hero power that curse
27245s	works as an activation for lady stand
27247s	though even
27249s	that's crazy pretty solid yeah it's kind
27252s	of a funny interaction also just uh
27254s	locks in the predation as well
27257s	right
27259s	um I do think he ends up skipping on the
27260s	curse they'll just go barrage and
27262s	Foundation because that's two more fell
27264s	spells loaded up into Jason extern and
27266s	maximum damage for now
27270s	I get well I think he's too awfully
27272s	though he could save the presentation
27275s	anyway and just cast it next turn right
27278s	but yeah yeah this is still fine though
27282s	anyway put him down to two and
27285s	they meant it does damage
27287s	a lot it's done 38 more than because
27290s	there was the spice bread Baker as well
27292s	and the egg from the mixtures right true
27296s	yeah D100 just deals infinite
27299s	Renault no problem whatsoever we are
27303s	starting to see the problems with the
27304s	Warlock as well I think this matchup was
27307s	bad to begin with I don't know if the
27309s	runneth all helped it that much uh but
27311s	this was you know to be fair not a great
27313s	draw for Melody I don't think Rune metal
27315s	rod is a keep in the matchup if you can
27317s	help it he just kind of ended up playing
27318s	it because there wasn't any other real
27320s	option but this I think is guaranteed
27323s	lethal for Mighty because he has
27324s	multi-strike there at the minimum so
27326s	even if the predation hits a minion he
27329s	still has uh two attacks one that could
27331s	go face and one through the time the
27333s	fell barrage as well it's just uh it is
27336s	so lethal on every single level and
27338s	mighty evens up the series getting a win
27341s	with the Demon Hunter looking very very
27343s	strong and I'll say uh warlock not
27345s	looking so great yes maybe not the best
27347s	matchup for warlock of course a bit of a
27349s	tough draw but the problem is how often
27351s	is your draw not going to be that great
27354s	with that many cards in the deck right
27356s	it doesn't feel quite as consistent so
27358s	yeah tough one there for Melody but I'm
27360s	sure he will be able to fight back yeah
27363s	just really solid for Demon Hunter and
27365s	honestly like and the people sort of
27367s	questioning whether demon Hunters still
27369s	got it uh just wrong because they
27372s	well against warlock it's certainly
27374s	fallen off against some other decks I
27377s	would say I hope it's great versus
27378s	everything I've decided
27380s	okay continuing the Warlock narrative
27383s	though if we look at the archetype of
27386s	Rogue from mighty it is still the Mr
27389s	Smite variant which I think the Warlock
27392s	doesn't gain that much percentage
27394s	against even with the Renault in there I
27396s	think Melody would much rather see the
27398s	jackpot version on the other side
27400s	because you're not under as much threat
27402s	of burst on average however I do think
27404s	the Warlock gains a lot of percentage
27406s	due to run at all against this Beast
27408s	Hunter which does take a bit longer time
27411s	to really get online unless they hit the
27414s	early curve not super consistent because
27417s	there's only four one drops in here but
27420s	if the Warlock can stabilize thanks to
27423s	the extra time of their not being too
27425s	much burst damage compared to say A Face
27427s	Hunter I think that the curses can stack
27431s	up and really counter pressure
27433s	yeah I definitely think that's true this
27435s	is one of those matchups as fun I mean
27436s	they're all kind of these matchups as
27438s	this Hunter but you really want the
27440s	early aggressive openings of like
27442s	slitherspace straight into biscuit and
27444s	just start piling on the pressure
27445s	because outside of exactly that opening
27447s	you're completely right if you start
27449s	drawing a mountain bear on turn two or
27452s	three and and things like that like
27454s	you're so slow they actually does give
27456s	Warlock the time to get there and a lot
27459s	of the removal is actually a lot better
27461s	versus the hunter than the Demon Hunter
27463s	because Dante just relies more on
27465s	minions right so this is the AOE the
27467s	drained Soul as you can see there is uh
27469s	going to be looking a little bit better
27471s	but looking at The Mulligans now her
27473s	Mighty kind of average in there with a
27475s	shake of the hand and the clocker and
27477s	the biscuit so take those boxes but then
27480s	the other two not fantastic because
27482s	again with the okanie all kind is always
27485s	okay but against warlock you kind of
27487s	expect them to have a lot of just throw
27489s	away cards
27490s	okay honey it's in the name yeah it is
27493s	fine
27494s	yeah Mighty I think uh correctly
27497s	evaluating the hand as so so and I think
27499s	it's worth mentioning that if a player
27501s	like Mighty is bringing Beast Hunter
27503s	over Face Hunter in a meta that just
27505s	means that facehunter is really not
27507s	where it's at currently because Mighty
27509s	is one of the most aggressive players to
27512s	Grace the Masters Tour system he
27514s	qualified through to Grand Masters off
27516s	the back of aggro lineups on several
27519s	Masters tours hasn't had a top 16 or 8
27522s	that I couldn't recall though in the
27524s	Masters Tour but he did qualify through
27526s	two worlds already throughout the Apec
27530s	Grand Masters finals so it would be nice
27532s	to see him add a Masters Tour Big Win to
27536s	his accolades right
27538s	and this is that was a good pickup as
27540s	well I got the saber from the first
27542s	Harpoon swing which means there's a good
27545s	chance he can get that going maybe even
27547s	holds off on the swing but then again
27548s	with second Harpoon he can just swing
27550s	anyway after playing the saber whether
27553s	it dies or not it's likely to die
27555s	afterwards anyway
27561s	I still prefer the okanion curve though
27564s	um I think it's more than okay here what
27566s	about just coin
27568s	and play the saber as well I'm seven
27571s	reasonable
27573s	it's just more pressure especially if
27574s	you expect the okanie to just block the
27577s	entire turn from Melody I didn't quite
27579s	see the pick here but I was thinking
27581s	minion would make sense because Noel
27583s	seems a bit scary at this point
27585s	yeah I did pick minion
27587s	Melody gets the clear valuing the card
27590s	draw over effectively to Healing which I
27592s	completely agree with
27596s	or is he gonna greet the tap
27603s	so the key thing to note here is
27606s	obviously clearing the economy means
27608s	he's free to play a minion next turn but
27610s	what minions is impactful enough to
27612s	justify this many spells used I think
27615s	the answer is azshara
27616s	um you can take that and immediately
27619s	play tidestone if you want more likely
27621s	take ring or horn
27623s	um and then at least the customer is
27625s	playable even if it only deals five AOE
27627s	next train
27631s	either for Mighty gonna go for an August
27633s	Pride does have it with the miracle
27635s	describe of course so I'm not looking
27638s	too bad here nice little fitting that in
27641s	the only issue I thought about of just
27643s	playing the coin to get the saber which
27645s	I think again could have happened this
27646s	turn is that I don't think uh hydrolodon
27650s	is something you necessarily need to
27652s	coin out in this matchup so I I think
27655s	it's definitely the week if there was a
27657s	mountain bear in the hand or of course a
27659s	king Crush we can definitely talk but
27661s	yeah I still think it's uh saber could
27664s	have just been on board maybe gets to
27666s	attack face once and you can cash in
27668s	some damage
27670s	who actually does take tidestone to be
27672s	completely amount of efficient wasn't
27674s	enough
27676s	45 you run malkazar end uh renithal all
27681s	the princes here
27683s	I was about to make the argument that
27685s	coin hydraulodon at least works pretty
27687s	well into this turn whether you expect
27690s	azshara or Customer because it's board
27692s	refill alongside clearing whatever
27694s	they've played on the other side but
27696s	he's actually going to delay the
27698s	hydraulicon a bit longer in order to get
27700s	the saber uh the sunken saber down at
27703s	the bottom of the deck he can dredge it
27705s	to the top and next turn guarantee
27708s	himself one of the big beasts popping up
27710s	as long as he has something to trade the
27713s	sunken into
27716s	Melody though is starting to piece
27719s	together a
27720s	hand size actually and that's a solid
27722s	AOE in hand if wanted
27726s	conditioning's not bad yeah you'll take
27728s	it right it's the one thing that all
27730s	these sort of tech minions have in
27732s	common is their stats are normally
27734s	pretty bad so if you can give them all
27736s	plus two plus two yeah I mean certainly
27738s	six Mana five four clear the board I'd
27741s	play that
27743s	all right so King Crush probably
27745s	Superior to mountain bear in this
27747s	situation Mighty lands mountain bear
27749s	which was the more likely outcome
27752s	foreign
27763s	yeah I'd actually see what was in the
27765s	naggling either oh sorry I can see the
27769s	text quick shot yeah okay
27776s	and then the snuggling the uh unstable
27779s	Shadow seemed pretty good if he wanted
27782s	to use it this turn but actually the
27783s	null just gets a value trade so yeah
27785s	it's probably even better
27787s	yeah I actually think this
27788s	conditioning's
27790s	right it's amazing look at the size of
27792s	the minions like melt is able to just
27794s	contend with this board and even if he
27796s	gets pushed off he has Tamsin with torch
27800s	he has another customer Freya weed has a
27803s	bread maker for heels again like gigafin
27806s	if all else fails you know like this is
27808s	looking very very solid indeed actually
27810s	and still on 24 Health yeah Melody very
27814s	far in the lead here make no mistake
27815s	about the hydraulodon I don't even think
27817s	gigafin should be looked at as a last
27819s	resort because against the specific
27821s	build of Hunter they don't have cards to
27823s	snipe off a 7-4 that's hiding behind a
27826s	four seven taunt right there is quick
27827s	shot in the nuggling but that's one
27829s	damage hurt of actually being able to
27831s	kill it like Mighty just doesn't answer
27833s	gigafen I don't think yeah the contrast
27836s	between certain classes and ability to
27838s	deal with gigafin is huge right some
27840s	classes can just do it every single time
27842s	without any real worry and some classes
27844s	like on to just simply just can't they
27847s	just don't have good ways is really
27850s	rough
27851s	you're going to finally use the coin to
27854s	weave in a ping here I think it makes a
27855s	lot of sense no reason to trade off
27857s	because from his perspective except
27860s	gigafin every other clear on his board
27862s	would also symmetrically clear the
27864s	school teacher but he's gonna get the
27866s	bad news that Melody sets up lethal with
27869s	this play and there is nothing Mighty
27871s	can do about it
27875s	yeah there's no is there even with the
27877s	uh that comes in oh okay yeah
27882s	he can take a risk with shell shot for
27885s	extra damage or he can take the
27886s	guaranteed clear with the dragon Bane
27888s	alongside the quick shot nuggling that's
27890s	already in hand
27893s	still a bit of a problem isn't it
27895s	because the um the Hydra heads won't
27898s	have Rush
27899s	right yeah all he does is get his board
27902s	back and he's still staring down 10
27904s	damage on the other side of the board so
27906s	it might be shell shot to try and Hyrule
27908s	killing the school teacher as well
27914s	snuggling Dragon Bane on the cool
27918s	teacher do you get a new copy of dragon
27920s	vein if it's from another guy I've never
27921s	actually done that
27923s	I've never done it but I would assume
27926s	you do
27928s	but that is just me guessing
27930s	because the spell still has honorable
27932s	kill right like it's right yeah it's not
27934s	like something you casting it makes it a
27937s	vulnerable kill
27939s	yeah as you said the uh
27941s	Rush's not gonna be there there was only
27943s	one head anyway so it wasn't really
27945s	going to make a huge difference but
27946s	customer number two coming down this was
27949s	the problem right look at that clear
27951s	again the heel comes out for a
27954s	reasonable amount as well there's now
27956s	the curses there there's still touched
27958s	there's a an Emergency null if required
27961s	and mighty is a long way off dealing
27965s	with this board and I think this is
27968s	where we're starting to see the Renault
27970s	really come into play against the
27971s	matchups where the opposing deck to
27973s	warlock doesn't have a lot of reach if
27976s	they're completely board based Melody
27978s	uses that 10 extra Health to tank that
27981s	board damage in the early game and then
27983s	after he stabilizes there is not much
27985s	that the other player can do not
27988s	necessarily the case for Rogan Demon
27990s	Hunter because they do still have reach
27992s	but in this matchup Hunter is forever
27995s	struggling yeah and that's just lethal
27997s	right that's just enough with Tamsin and
27999s	that was the problem just all the
28000s	resources in the world with their
28002s	families in that sort of mid to late
28004s	game scenario and that looks like more
28007s	than 11 from where I'm looking at it and
28009s	Melody gets to win with the Warlock and
28010s	honestly and it looked pretty one-sided
28013s	I know that was a one game sample size
28015s	but Melody looked like it he was in good
28018s	control for the majority of that game
28019s	and we can talk about whether that was
28021s	because of the conditioning or just
28023s	having the two customers in hand early
28025s	enough that they could get that good AOE
28027s	clear but either way that's a win with
28029s	the Warlock
28030s	yeah very nicely done I do think the
28033s	conditioning played a pretty significant
28035s	part in speed ing up the pressure from
28037s	Melody for an earlier lethal because he
28040s	was able to get that value trade with
28041s	the nulls but overall I think the game
28044s	plan of just not taking too much damage
28046s	in the early game clearing boards while
28048s	still managing to draw cards and
28050s	recognizing that gigafin is so
28053s	uncontestable under normal circumstances
28055s	from the hunter allowed him this Victory
28058s	and even though Mighty did manage to
28059s	clear off the main body it was not
28062s	removing enough damage on the other side
28065s	yeah was that just a little bit rough
28067s	there I do Wonder just looking back that
28070s	coin was used for a hero power on like
28072s	turn eight or something I think and like
28074s	if that if disable was just coined out
28076s	earlier then maybe just the pulling the
28079s	minion could have been a turn earlier
28081s	and so on like maybe that helps it might
28083s	well not uh but it's definitely
28085s	something that could have changed the
28086s	game potentially but moving on Melody
28089s	does have the bore priest as his last
28092s	deck to try and get a win with to take
28094s	this uh final series of the day and uh
28096s	what what do you think of ball priest in
28099s	this tournament specifically Gia because
28101s	we've talked a lot about the Renault
28103s	priest I think you were casting ties
28105s	earlier when he was playing it and
28107s	there's ball priests which we've seen
28108s	you know in previous matters of course
28110s	but there's also the wig priest as well
28113s	uh do you think one's a better Brink
28116s	than the other now that we've seen a bit
28117s	of the overall meta
28119s	I would actually wager with priest is
28123s	slightly better because poor priest is
28126s	kind of suffering in my opinion to the
28130s	prevalence of certain tech cards in The
28132s	Meta uh like okanie for example also is
28135s	good against wig priests but I think
28137s	just the density of ways you can mess
28140s	with boar priest which is
28143s	um like trying to have mutinous or if
28145s	your big spell Mage swap the cost on one
28147s	of those things makes the deck a bit
28149s	vulnerable on top of it being one that
28152s	is really difficult to Pilot I feel like
28154s	wig priest is very similar in a win
28158s	percentage to boar priest and its
28160s	matchup spread works out well for this
28162s	current meta so I actually do like the
28164s	wig pre-spring a bit better but uh
28167s	talented board priest player I think can
28169s	bring this deck in almost any meta and
28171s	it'll be fine right yeah the positive
28173s	factor at least in this matchup is there
28175s	is only the okani that really messes
28177s	with anything right to do with getting
28180s	rid of the balls in some respect and so
28182s	we'll see how that one plays out but
28184s	mighty's opening hand with mountain bear
28186s	and Hydra is very very rough indeed it's
28189s	not only that you want to potentially
28191s	pull those out of the deck instead of
28193s	play them from hand but also it just
28195s	means the opening curve is often a
28197s	little bit weaker okay though this kind
28200s	of helps pile on a bit more pressure for
28202s	mighty
28204s	he's recalling the Mulligan from Melody
28206s	I believe he kept pyro and cleric and
28209s	then Drew into gift which is why we saw
28211s	the mini pop off from him there that is
28213s	the perfect card to compliment it Mighty
28216s	gets a decent dredge here one of the few
28218s	One Drops left that allows him to get
28220s	extra value from the canine Atron but
28221s	Melody is just waiting for a couple more
28224s	spells and he can make quick work of
28227s	this board and draw a whole lot of cards
28229s	however the sakani is going to throw our
28232s	wrench in the works
28234s	it really is I do think as soon as you
28237s	have zyrella in a matchup specifically
28239s	like Hunter you do feel a lot better as
28242s	long as you have a heel to go with it of
28243s	course but the okanie always a problem
28246s	gonna test out the cleric throw it away
28248s	and then move on with his day
28252s	got devour which is among the best
28255s	outcomes here but Melody is not going to
28258s	play it yet he says let me take this
28260s	damage and then set up for a bigger
28263s	clear on the next turn
28266s	and now like look how it is weird
28269s	mighties had really head on board of
28271s	course with a pretty solid opening
28272s	pushing Melody all the way down to
28274s	what's that eight but that was just a
28276s	skip turn five which is not the turns
28279s	you really want to skip with this Hunter
28280s	list and now uh we're gonna see Havoc
28283s	basically with that desperate prayer
28285s	pickup Okay so
28288s	thinking about the order on this so if
28290s	he does devour that kills off the two
28292s	two twos so there's six damage Minions
28295s	on board and then his face so he'll draw
28296s	seven off of this gift oh my Lord
28303s	oh this is a back breaker this isn't it
28306s	like Mighty I've been in this situation
28308s	so many times you know you're against
28309s	the healing back you know you're against
28312s	like something that you can't give it
28314s	time you're so ahead you put them down
28316s	to eight and then they do that and you
28318s	want to cry
28321s	if Melody wanted he could even end with
28324s	zarella to clear the akani but I think
28325s	this is more reasonable just get the uh
28328s	handmaiden down get the bore as well
28331s	because he knows that this version of
28333s	Hunter doesn't have aimed shot doesn't
28334s	have very much reach at all and now
28337s	Mighty already has to contemplate if he
28339s	is on the back foot does he need to go
28341s	for a tavish line here or can he get
28344s	away with just pulling the first half of
28346s	saber from pet collector
28349s	oh it's so scary because there's no
28352s	dredge so the first half of Sabers you
28354s	know it's a good play but how do you
28356s	even find the second half
28358s	uh it's pretty rough it's gonna go
28361s	tavish to try and get some of these
28362s	secrets online improved ice trap
28364s	something you've always got to look at
28366s	against a deck like priest but
28369s	the problem is they have especially
28370s	after drawing most of their deck now
28372s	they have so many cheap spells that they
28374s	can just cast into ice trap and then
28376s	just ignore for the majority of the game
28378s	that is never normally that much of a
28380s	problem but sometimes it's just what you
28381s	have to do to buy time
28384s	yeah I like that Mighty goes for that
28386s	combination of ice trap and then
28388s	explosive he prioritized ice trap over
28390s	explosive on the first pick
28392s	um specifically which I think is a good
28394s	call because he knows Melody can play
28395s	around explosive pretty easily here
28398s	Mighty it's just about him buying time
28401s	to land the hydraula done safely and
28403s	then praying that it doesn't get cleared
28404s	but with this many cards in hand for
28406s	Melody it's a long shot for mighty
28410s	yeah at this point when boar priest has
28413s	drawn the majority of its deck in by
28415s	turn seven and can obviously draw more
28418s	if they want to
28420s	it can just do whatever they want really
28422s	can't they especially when so much of it
28424s	is healed there's so much heal left for
28426s	Melody that he's sort of choosing to be
28428s	at 14 right now he's not like oh no I
28431s	can't get any higher that's completely
28433s	by choice and even now with the gift of
28435s	narrow draw more cards heal more and let
28439s	your opponent worry about what to do
28443s	oh that handmade and he would overdraw
28445s	okay
28447s	yeah I was just about to say from the
28450s	first viewing of Melody playing ball
28451s	priest he looks very confident with this
28454s	deck and then he covered handmade does
28455s	like whoa whoa whoa don't make me sound
28457s	stupid now
28460s	yeah he caught himself though which is
28462s	the important part has all of the setup
28464s	intact and basically at full health
28466s	again Mighty starting from scratch
28468s	almost nothing he can do to contest this
28473s	is the problem you get to right with so
28475s	much of the deck drawn you know that
28477s	zirella you know there's another
28479s	Devourer you know there's the other pyro
28481s	so even plain Hydra this turned and like
28484s	double trading into the pyromancer it
28486s	looks cool you've got a big board for a
28488s	few seconds but you know Melody will
28490s	just obliterate it next to him
28493s	I think hydraulic on this turn and then
28497s	in the world where it baits out
28499s	azzarella if Mighty can then follow up
28501s	with somehow a tutored out king Crush
28504s	that's potentially a line that lets him
28506s	get there because
28509s	um King Crush you know even if it's
28511s	silenced is still an eight eight and
28513s	it's going to deal a lot of damage on
28514s	the following turns and if Mighty can
28516s	try and build that board State into the
28519s	sword activation turn for Melody that's
28521s	maybe an out but he's so far off from
28524s	getting the uh King Crush off of pet
28526s	collector in the first place I think
28528s	even though it's going to start getting
28530s	difficult there's even a plan to just
28531s	play Hydra
28533s	assume it gets cleared then revive pet
28536s	Hydra and then revive pet Hydra and you
28538s	know I just keep making as bigger boards
28541s	as possible and see if that works but
28543s	it's definitely a desperation time for
28545s	Mighty right now as Melody just going to
28547s	be doing the quicker mental gymnastics
28549s	you have to do sometimes to make sure
28551s	everything's clean with this deck
28553s	because as as you saw mentioned earlier
28555s	when you're good at ball priest it's
28557s	great but if you slip you probably lose
28559s	a lot of the time so just making sure
28562s	things are clean gets the ball killed so
28564s	it doesn't have to worry about that
28566s	it's a very punishing deck and already
28568s	all those turns that Melody deliberately
28570s	chose to leave up the explosive chap are
28573s	coming into fruition here just getting
28575s	that immediate bore kill activated
28578s	without having to expend a pyro or
28581s	Shadow word devour zarella cleans up
28583s	nicely as well and now Mighty knows he
28587s	is only a few turns away maybe next turn
28591s	from dying
28593s	yeah and there's nothing he can do right
28596s	because it's not any other matchup where
28598s	you can try and Outlast them with
28600s	mountain bear revive Pet Mountain Bear
28603s	you know revive pets so on like that
28604s	because you know once that death count
28607s	hits zero you're probably dead unless
28611s	something crazy goes wrong the mountain
28613s	bears can help with the weapon but
28615s	because there's been I think zero shards
28618s	played maybe one I'm not sure that they
28621s	can just silence away the taunts and
28623s	just hit you anyway
28625s	yeah I think there was one played the
28628s	beginning of the game not 100 sure but
28631s	yeah Melody's under almost no pressure
28634s	back up to 30 and it does look like
28637s	Mighty might have to go for the player
28639s	recommending a revived pet which is not
28641s	guaranteed to find the main head of
28643s	hydraulodon at this point but it is
28645s	getting to that position where he's
28647s	desperate enough to maybe do so
28657s	about it I think it's likely has to
28659s	start using these hero Powers as well
28660s	you know
28662s	and just hope to build a board that way
28665s	would be
28667s	yeah
28669s	yeah lioc and Huffer both pretty good
28671s	here I don't think Mighty has to bother
28673s	clearing the zyrala the bear protects
28676s	whatever minions he summons anyway
28689s	you can potentially give one of them
28691s	Rush with the doggy biscuit but that's
28693s	probably not relevant at this point yeah
28696s	amisha's fine as well right especially
28698s	uh you know maybe not at this Split
28699s	Second but if you're expecting the uh to
28702s	go into that weapon turn if you've got
28704s	mountain bear and Misha that's like some
28707s	glimmer of hope right it's still not
28709s	great but it's something
28712s	oh okay but that's double amulet with
28714s	the pyro now and they're both at zero
28717s	Mana I don't think the switchers draw
28719s	anything maybe the leash but it's just
28722s	not relevant they're honestly just three
28724s	Mana activate pyro one more time
28729s	this is just reminding me of the uh the
28732s	Spanish Alchemist from earlier where
28734s	like the heads just sort of it looks
28736s	good and looks resistant but it's going
28739s	to die
28741s	just need five procs to kill the main
28743s	head and then all of these Fringe wow
28746s	they're all on the left now
28750s	Melody yeah it's gonna be the final one
28753s	gets to swing in and suddenly there's a
28756s	whole lot of nothing to do for mighty
28759s	that is gonna be game now this is gonna
28761s	be the series Melody gonna end day one
28763s	four oh and again shout out to Mighty
28766s	3-1 not a bad way to end either honestly
28769s	true uh especially with the lineup that
28771s	I think to mighty's own admission was
28773s	not one that he spent a lot of prep time
28775s	on the time zone for India is horrendous
28777s	on this Masters Tour so it's been an
28780s	uphill climb but obviously
28781s	congratulations to Melody four and zero
28783s	is an amazing score and doing that with
28786s	a warlock in the lineup Nola that's very
28788s	impressive stuff in my book yeah it
28790s	really is and I do think especially uh
28792s	we've seen a lot of ball priest over the
28794s	last few months but he looked very very
28797s	comfortable indeed on specifically that
28799s	deck would not surprise me if I if we
28802s	found out he'd Jam like a million games
28804s	over the past you know the recent time
28806s	it's been in a in The Meta so look good
28808s	with the ball priest there which is
28810s	something you always want to see I think
28811s	Dex light bore priest when players do
28813s	make mistakes they're so brutal that
28816s	it's actually a little bit painful to
28817s	watch sometimes so I'm glad that that
28819s	play was very very clean indeed
28822s	right
28824s	not already I think kind of shows to a
28827s	certain extent why players are moving
28830s	away from the four aggro decks lineup
28833s	because that fourth deck is kind of hard
28835s	to fill out you were saying Rogue is a
28837s	shaky fourth I honestly feel like Hunter
28839s	is a shaky forth because I feel like a
28842s	good aggro deck in this meta needs some
28844s	form of spell-based reach the reach from
28847s	the hunter is weapon and sometimes can
28849s	Crush base which is a bit difficult to
28852s	curate so I feel that this is a deck
28854s	that can be abused by the runoff
28856s	runathol lists uh in our field yeah it
28860s	definitely definitely doesn't help but
28862s	that is gonna be the end of day one with
28865s	four Swiss rounds done I believe we have
28868s	some standings to check out as well just
28870s	to see where everything's lying now
28871s	because as we said there's gonna be
28873s	eight rounds of Swiss overall after
28875s	those eight rounds which will end
28876s	tomorrow the top 16 get cut into single
28878s	a limb so uh there we go gsmo names are
28881s	obviously scream out here habit
28884s	so far we've got a lutamu at the barmana
28889s	16 as 40 Ying as well in there too some
28893s	really good names actually give please a
28895s	lot of a strong Apec representation oh
28898s	I'm glad you pointed it out Raven so I
28900s	didn't have to do it like I do every
28901s	single time and annoy people again but
28904s	another couple names that jump out at me
28906s	is apparently we've solved that solved
28909s	the cats vs dog debate we have a very
28911s	fat cat two whole ranks above a German
28914s	Shepherd I guess that's what that's
28916s	short for off of tiebreakers I guess but
28919s	obviously everybody here is lossless so
28922s	far in match score and in Prime position
28924s	to not only potentially make top 16 or
28927s	top eight throughout this Master's tour
28929s	but because this is the first empty of
28932s	the new 3mt season they're starting off
28935s	with a very clean slate and amazing
28939s	score to propel them potentially to the
28941s	seasonal Championship yeah 100 percent
28944s	we've seen that the level of play that's
28946s	required to make it to a championship
28949s	and then obviously plays well in that
28951s	Championship but going 4-0 already even
28954s	if they can just win let's say they go
28956s	6-2 right and maybe you know they don't
28958s	make the coins top 16. that's still
28960s	great because ignore the two you've got
28962s	six wins and that's six more than there
28964s	a good chunk of people five more than a
28967s	good chunk of people and if you can keep
28968s	that up throughout the next two masters
28970s	tours you're looking really good to get
28972s	into the championship so yeah a really
28974s	good job for those players obviously
28975s	things can change a lot tomorrow as
28977s	there's going to be another four rounds
28979s	of Swiss so people who may be struggling
28981s	a little bit could make a last minute
28982s	attempt but yeah keep an eye on those
28985s	four O's but we are done for the day and
28988s	I am very much gonna go to bed because
28990s	it's just here uh 20 past seven in the
28993s	morning and I've been awake all night
28994s	and so yeah thanks a lot for watching
28996s	everyone we appreciate we hope you'll
28998s	tune in tomorrow I believe same time
28999s	same place to go through that second set
29002s	of four rounds of Swift
29004s	see that
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29104s	thank you
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29114s	[Applause]
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29144s	foreign
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29165s	well played me when he's actually about
29168s	to win through something incredibly
29169s	scammy right now that was just an
29171s	incredibly diplomatic and well-mannered
29173s	concede from your opponent and Habu we
29177s	can break the news to you right now my
29179s	friend
29184s	foreign
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29192s	believe you're still counting he comes
29196s	back takes the victory
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29205s	why we play this game
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[2022] 2022 Hearthstone Masters Tour Vashj'ir | Day 1

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