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| 938s | it's a blast off the top pesco a 2-0 up |
| 942s | in the finals |
| 944s | it looked rough for him for a moment the |
| 946s | shard of the naaru was so clutch |
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| 953s | says he tried so hard he set up a lethal |
| 955s | himself with the void chart and shadow |
| 958s | form on the next turn even if his ethic |
| 960s | got cleared it was as good a plan as any |
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| 970s | there it is the bowel master off the top |
| 974s | for yala |
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| 987s | welcome welcome welcome everybody to |
| 989s | hearthstone grand masters last call it |
| 991s | is the sunset season of hearthstone |
| 993s | grand masters where we get to crown one |
| 996s | more champion going through to the world |
| 998s | championship my name is gia and joining |
| 1000s | me to bring you all the action for today |
| 1003s | is none other than amy chan a renowned |
| 1006s | esports journalist and one of the few |
| 1008s | people who has covered more hearthstone |
| 1010s | perhaps than the regular casters how are |
| 1012s | you doing amy i'm doing great gia thank |
| 1015s | you i have my morning coffee ready and |
| 1017s | i'm super excited to see all this apac |
| 1021s | action |
| 1022s | yeah not just apac though because we did |
| 1024s | have for the first time in grand masters |
| 1026s | history one consolidated region of 16 of |
| 1030s | the best players battling it out for |
| 1032s | that one ticket through to worlds later |
| 1035s | on amy it is 16 players 12 of which who |
| 1038s | came through as the top four of their |
| 1040s | respective seasons um earlier on this |
| 1044s | year and then four players who qualified |
| 1046s | through the masters tour system and we |
| 1048s | do have a nice little overview here of |
| 1051s | how this last season will be working |
| 1052s | largely similar to season one where it |
| 1055s | is only four weeks three weeks where our |
| 1057s | players can earn points and then one |
| 1059s | final playoff |
| 1063s | yes |
| 1064s | to get to the playoffs uh the players |
| 1066s | have to be one of the top eight point |
| 1069s | earners and what's really exciting here |
| 1071s | is that the match format rotates every |
| 1073s | week starting with conquest today |
| 1076s | yeah that's right this weekend we do |
| 1078s | have conquest to start us off nice and |
| 1080s | familiar but we will be cycling through |
| 1083s | to trio and then last hero standing and |
| 1085s | then a best of seven conquest for our |
| 1088s | playoffs so the stakes are higher than |
| 1089s | ever but we are starting with the tried |
| 1091s | and true format where each player has to |
| 1093s | bring a deck from four unique classes |
| 1096s | ban one from their opponent and make |
| 1098s | sure they get a win with their three |
| 1100s | remaining classes and amy i know during |
| 1102s | rehearsal you said there's some things |
| 1103s | that you like about conquest |
| 1105s | i do although there is potential for a |
| 1109s | 3-0 sweep there's also the reverse speed |
| 1111s | potential which is always a fun uphill |
| 1114s | battle to watch uh |
| 1116s | in terms of like the player journey and |
| 1118s | how they |
| 1119s | uh switch up the decks to get there |
| 1122s | that's right and it also means that |
| 1124s | there's room for targeting strategies |
| 1126s | even though we don't necessarily see |
| 1128s | that too much from the lineups we do |
| 1130s | have uh of course the prince runethol in |
| 1133s | the meta that's already been floating |
| 1135s | around since the masters tour a lot of |
| 1137s | people experimenting with anywhere from |
| 1139s | 120 card lineups to 160 and we are gonna |
| 1142s | see the full variety later on because we |
| 1144s | have a very nice distribution of decks |
| 1148s | and archetypes this weekend we have a |
| 1150s | dual tournament format which most of our |
| 1153s | viewers should already be pretty used to |
| 1155s | which means that if you get two wins |
| 1157s | within your group you are through to |
| 1159s | sunday and if you get two losses you are |
| 1162s | out but you can get through with a 2-1 |
| 1164s | score because there is a chance to get |
| 1166s | through from the losers bracket amy i am |
| 1169s | so excited to see what our players are |
| 1172s | going to be playing for |
| 1173s | yes so |
| 1175s | first prize for last call is 22.5 k uh |
| 1179s | second price 15k and xo1 and so on of |
| 1183s | course if you place 13 to 16 you still |
| 1186s | get 6k |
| 1188s | for that participation |
| 1191s | yeah that's right just because it took a |
| 1194s | lot to qualify through to here in the |
| 1195s | first place you had to be top four in |
| 1197s | your respective season in grand master |
| 1199s | season one or you had to be top four |
| 1202s | masters tour point earners in the first |
| 1203s | three masters tour of the year so a lot |
| 1206s | of our players are no strangers to |
| 1208s | competition and that first place prize |
| 1210s | of 22 500 is not where it ends because |
| 1214s | that first place winner will also |
| 1216s | qualify themselves through to the world |
| 1218s | championship later on but i'm sure our |
| 1220s | viewers know that a lot of our |
| 1222s | participants are actually already |
| 1223s | qualified through to world so there's |
| 1225s | plenty of chances here for that invite |
| 1227s | to get passed down but the most |
| 1229s | important thing is to accumulate those |
| 1231s | points every single week and because |
| 1233s | this is only a four week season and one |
| 1236s | of those weeks is playoffs there's only |
| 1238s | three weeks that you can earn points and |
| 1240s | that means that none of our players can |
| 1242s | afford to slack off |
| 1245s | that's correct |
| 1248s | every match counts and every deck and |
| 1251s | play counts in this uh nascar tournament |
| 1255s | of course today we're studying we're |
| 1256s | starting with group a's and a and b and |
| 1260s | then following up tomorrow is cnd and |
| 1263s | then sunday will be our top eight single |
| 1266s | elimination match so there will be very |
| 1269s | intense games there and as gia you said |
| 1272s | um |
| 1273s | these players only have three weeks in |
| 1275s | total to earn a spa in the playoffs so |
| 1279s | every match has to count |
| 1282s | absolutely amy and we do have of course |
| 1284s | this one giant region spanning all of |
| 1288s | america's apac and eu our four players |
| 1291s | that qualified through the masters tour |
| 1293s | system happen to all be from eu so we |
| 1295s | actually have eight eu players four from |
| 1298s | america's and four from apac and because |
| 1300s | it's only one region we do get to play |
| 1303s | out every single game on stream here |
| 1304s | there's nothing happening off stream we |
| 1306s | have 10 games sorry 10 series to play |
| 1309s | out today 10 tomorrow and then seven on |
| 1312s | sunday to see who our weekly champions |
| 1314s | will be and we're starting off here with |
| 1316s | group a possessive versus super fake |
| 1318s | followed up by habugabu vs mighty amy |
| 1320s | these are some heavyweight names in the |
| 1322s | scene |
| 1323s | they are especially with possessive |
| 1325s | being last year's hearthstone world |
| 1328s | champion and super fake we can feel that |
| 1330s | he is very hungry for the crown as well |
| 1333s | uh having |
| 1335s | like played in the last season and |
| 1337s | getting so close |
| 1340s | of course is always |
| 1342s | a |
| 1343s | sorry he was a winner of the summer's |
| 1345s | championship that happened just last |
| 1347s | month so |
| 1348s | i'm wondering if he would continue with |
| 1351s | that victory streak |
| 1353s | yeah he's been on unstoppable terror |
| 1355s | recently but we also have mighty who was |
| 1357s | the winner of aipac season one and of |
| 1360s | course is already qualified through to |
| 1362s | world so actually here given that habu |
| 1364s | and possessi qualified to worlds through |
| 1366s | the summer championship and mighty |
| 1367s | through season one of grand masters it's |
| 1369s | only super fake in group a that hasn't |
| 1371s | booked himself a ticket yet so i'm sure |
| 1373s | he will be hungry to prove that he has |
| 1375s | what it takes to stand up to all of |
| 1378s | these amazing players and we can take a |
| 1381s | look at the other groups a bit later on |
| 1383s | as they happen if you're curious about |
| 1384s | any of the action you can of course head |
| 1386s | over to you play hearthstone website to |
| 1388s | see the full schedule but we are just |
| 1390s | going to start off with group a for now |
| 1393s | group b to be played later on and if |
| 1395s | you're curious as to how the groups |
| 1397s | proceeded it was semi-random taking into |
| 1399s | account the fact that our players are |
| 1402s | from all across the globe so we're |
| 1403s | having a bit more emphasis on aipac |
| 1406s | players playing on early in the day and |
| 1408s | then later on we're gonna see more eu |
| 1410s | and americas very exciting stuff amy i |
| 1413s | am so happy to see that we're starting |
| 1416s | off the day with possessi the current |
| 1418s | world champion up against super fake who |
| 1420s | is very well known for his on-camera |
| 1423s | presence on top of some very wacky |
| 1425s | lineups as well |
| 1427s | yeah i'm looking forward to seeing his |
| 1429s | reactions and how it all plays out we |
| 1432s | have a reigning champion here versus |
| 1434s | someone who |
| 1435s | uh |
| 1436s | is very consistent and is super hungry |
| 1439s | for the crown |
| 1441s | that is right and we can see the classes |
| 1444s | here on both sides there's only one |
| 1446s | class in common in the hunter here which |
| 1448s | is going to be that renathal quest |
| 1450s | hunter available for both players now |
| 1452s | prince runethal was a card that when it |
| 1454s | was first released just a few days |
| 1456s | before the masters tour was already such |
| 1460s | a controversial card as to whether it's |
| 1461s | garbage or it's going to be meta |
| 1463s | defining and it feels like it has stood |
| 1465s | the test of time amy where do you stand |
| 1467s | on this card right now |
| 1468s | i think it makes the meta uh quite |
| 1470s | interesting i mean you have |
| 1473s | decks that |
| 1474s | have 40 cards and plus that 10 extra hp |
| 1477s | gives you a lot of flexibility |
| 1480s | in terms of what you want to do and |
| 1482s | what's really interesting here is that |
| 1484s | possessi and super fake uh have the |
| 1487s | exact mirror the same cards i believe |
| 1490s | so it'll be interesting to see what |
| 1492s | their mulligans are and how they |
| 1494s | strategize to face the mirror if that |
| 1497s | ever happens |
| 1498s | that's right the quest hunter you're |
| 1500s | right 40 cards for 40 straight down the |
| 1502s | same here but we can take a look of |
| 1504s | course at possessions very impressive |
| 1506s | track record here it's his fifth season |
| 1509s | of grand masters it's kind of hard to |
| 1510s | believe honestly that he wasn't here all |
| 1512s | the way from the beginning he wasn't one |
| 1514s | of the original invites but did qualify |
| 1516s | very early on through a very uh |
| 1519s | impressive run at masters tour las vegas |
| 1521s | all the way back in 2019. he hasn't had |
| 1525s | too many top masters tour performances |
| 1527s | since but one of them is pretty recent |
| 1529s | in the sunken city at uh with the top |
| 1532s | eight there but even though there's not |
| 1534s | too many top eight top 16s there that |
| 1537s | overall high win rate breaking the line |
| 1539s | of six here is very impressive indeed |
| 1543s | that's right uh that that win rate is |
| 1546s | nothing to laugh at or |
| 1548s | or underestimate |
| 1550s | five seasons of grand masters that is |
| 1553s | really uh that's a very good track |
| 1555s | record and now we have |
| 1558s | a look over possesses first deck the |
| 1561s | mine rogue |
| 1563s | let's see |
| 1564s | so mineral basically can do lots of |
| 1566s | damage in the for to the face early game |
| 1569s | and it can be very consistent when it |
| 1570s | comes to these swift victories |
| 1573s | if the car is mine correctly uh gia do |
| 1576s | you have any |
| 1577s | comments about the different combos and |
| 1581s | perhaps about the naval mines trigger |
| 1584s | and how |
| 1584s | on how these games can be either very |
| 1587s | short |
| 1588s | or |
| 1589s | uh very unfortunate |
| 1592s | oh yeah for sure there is i think a lot |
| 1594s | to be said for dependence on the quality |
| 1597s | of your card drop more so than other |
| 1599s | decks the mine rogue is at the mercy of |
| 1602s | whether you can get the trickster to go |
| 1603s | with the smoke screen otherwise that |
| 1605s | smokescreen 8 mana card is just stuck in |
| 1607s | your hand for a very long time and |
| 1609s | whether that smokescreen can even draw |
| 1610s | enough death rattles but it is |
| 1612s | consistent enough that our players deem |
| 1614s | it worth bringing and i do think it is a |
| 1617s | clever um choice for the lineup of |
| 1619s | possession that seems to be very good |
| 1621s | against control decks because he does |
| 1622s | also have that uh borg priest in there |
| 1626s | and the um quest hunter which can also |
| 1628s | put out huge amounts of damage even even |
| 1631s | against these xl decks that we've taken |
| 1633s | to calling them because well they're |
| 1635s | running 40 cards they're extra large and |
| 1637s | xl is also the roman numeral for forty |
| 1640s | so pretty nice to see here and it is |
| 1642s | gonna be super fake with a 160 card line |
| 1646s | up here because every last one of these |
| 1648s | decks are renathol |
| 1651s | amazing i'm really excited to see what |
| 1653s | he comes up with |
| 1656s | listen |
| 1657s | curse warlock |
| 1658s | putting curse upon curse while managing |
| 1661s | your hand space is really important |
| 1663s | uh he looks like he has a loss of great |
| 1665s | board clear and of course tasman rome is |
| 1668s | there for the copying of shadow spells |
| 1671s | um plus extra value and extra curses |
| 1674s | with the bran bronze beard |
| 1677s | yeah this is a deck that definitely has |
| 1679s | a lot of staying power |
| 1680s | you have a decent amount of heal just |
| 1682s | from the tamzin and train soul and touch |
| 1685s | uh the mistress in the early games but |
| 1687s | also bran zakul later on if you have |
| 1689s | stacked the curses to a certain point |
| 1691s | can almost be a reno effect but um as |
| 1694s | always i think curse warlock is very |
| 1696s | dependent on getting a dreadlitch tamzin |
| 1698s | sooner rather than later to make sure |
| 1700s | their resources can keep up uh this is a |
| 1703s | deck where that 4e health is going to be |
| 1705s | super very super relevant against the |
| 1708s | mind rogue because like you said the |
| 1709s | naval mine damage can stack up very |
| 1711s | quickly but i think possessing will be |
| 1713s | aware that there's a potential to set up |
| 1715s | a huge combo he doesn't have to be |
| 1718s | pressured into playing the mine super |
| 1719s | early he can hold a lot of them in hand |
| 1721s | wait for the snowfall graveyard and get |
| 1723s | as much damage as possible so i am very |
| 1726s | hyped to see how the match-up pans out |
| 1728s | here um have you played a bit of either |
| 1731s | of these decks amy which one do you feel |
| 1732s | like is in the lead |
| 1734s | oh i've played a lot of chris warlock |
| 1736s | recently uh |
| 1738s | not quite sure how it fares with my rope |
| 1741s | but seeing possessing uh have like |
| 1744s | controlling that behind the wheel i |
| 1745s | think will be a very interesting matchup |
| 1749s | yeah i would have to agree |
| 1752s | possessi can get into a sticky situation |
| 1755s | if he comes up just a little bit damaged |
| 1757s | short of a combo let's say as a rogue |
| 1759s | feel like you are forced to invest your |
| 1762s | big shatter chamber naval mine combos |
| 1764s | early on get the war locked down to say |
| 1767s | eight health 10 health if the warlock |
| 1769s | can then respond with the spice bread |
| 1772s | breaker or is a cool especially with a |
| 1773s | brand sometimes the damage comes up a |
| 1775s | little bit short so i expect to see a |
| 1777s | lot of patients from possessing here if |
| 1779s | he can try and get some board damage |
| 1781s | from the burning blade acolyte death |
| 1783s | rattles as well that could be pretty |
| 1785s | relevant but he always has to keep in |
| 1787s | mind that once he puts the burning blade |
| 1789s | acolyte into the deathrattle pool the |
| 1791s | counterfeit blade is no longer |
| 1792s | guaranteed to copy naval 9 which can |
| 1795s | sometimes be a bit of a detriment later |
| 1797s | on |
| 1802s | i see you |
| 1803s | all right we see both ridicules |
| 1805s | activating |
| 1807s | i just won |
| 1809s | oh yeah sorry it was just a bit of that |
| 1811s | spectator thing where we felt super fake |
| 1813s | from both perspectives so yeah |
| 1817s | all right looks like super fake had a |
| 1819s | good one turn with the mistress of |
| 1821s | mixtures upon mulligan |
| 1824s | he's just tapping to get more cards |
| 1827s | yeah he does have a pretty decent |
| 1829s | opening here with the sierra cast |
| 1830s | cultist which is just a very good card |
| 1833s | to start the curse train rolling it also |
| 1836s | um is a decent body you know spider |
| 1838s | tanks all have flavor text these days |
| 1841s | and there is something to be said for |
| 1843s | the rogue not having infinite time in |
| 1845s | this matchup because |
| 1847s | in most situations they can try and hope |
| 1849s | to put together a big combo but if the |
| 1852s | warlock is putting curse after curse |
| 1854s | into hand they will not necessarily have |
| 1856s | the freedom to do so |
| 1859s | yeah correct |
| 1863s | the mana is very important |
| 1865s | especially for possessing and the rogue |
| 1868s | and now that super fig has played blame |
| 1870s | master okani uh if it's a spell then |
| 1874s | that possess it might be in a bit of |
| 1876s | trouble but again he also has the coin |
| 1878s | to check |
| 1880s | but we see super fake did choose the |
| 1882s | minion counter which i absolutely agree |
| 1884s | with that is um okani is just so hard to |
| 1888s | deal with for a minion here there's no |
| 1890s | minions that are worthless to possess |
| 1891s | every single one of them has a very |
| 1894s | specific role here on the death |
| 1896s | throttles to of course get the damage |
| 1898s | through the trickster to make sure you |
| 1900s | can get |
| 1901s | smokescreen early but possessing here |
| 1903s | says it's fine to give up the naval mine |
| 1905s | it hurts but he is more focused on the |
| 1907s | board game plan right now with of course |
| 1910s | the graveyard double activating the |
| 1911s | burning blade acolyte and that uh damage |
| 1914s | from the 5 8 i think will more than make |
| 1916s | up for the damage he misses by having to |
| 1917s | sacrifice his navel mine |
| 1923s | yep |
| 1924s | that our look from super fake you |
| 1925s | already know he's in a lot of trouble |
| 1927s | because he doesn't have six mana to play |
| 1930s | one of the big board clears yet and even |
| 1931s | if he did have entitled customer |
| 1934s | it's not the full 8 damage |
| 1940s | looks like he's doing some intense math |
| 1942s | here to figure out what the next move |
| 1944s | should be he could like tap for an |
| 1946s | answer but there's also a minion to help |
| 1949s | develop the board |
| 1950s | i wonder if do you think it's too much |
| 1953s | damage if he plays hellfire this turn to |
| 1957s | try and set up for the abyssal wave next |
| 1959s | turn does he take too much damage from |
| 1962s | uh leaving the board up like that |
| 1966s | he might i mean |
| 1969s | tend to the face |
| 1971s | oh against a rogue who is super |
| 1973s | aggressive might be a lot |
| 1976s | it really is like he could try to |
| 1977s | mitigate it by using touch on the one |
| 1979s | one |
| 1980s | but he is just gonna hold on here to |
| 1982s | hellfire and then take the two |
| 1984s | preemptive trade okay gonna touch on |
| 1987s | that minion instead which makes a lot of |
| 1989s | sense just don't take that five make |
| 1991s | sure that the abyssal is set up for the |
| 1994s | other minion on the next turn i think |
| 1995s | it's a very disciplined play |
| 2003s | possession going to break his cutlass |
| 2006s | right away just to get another five |
| 2008s | eight doesn't mind that he uh loses out |
| 2011s | on four attack from the blade he just |
| 2013s | wants to make sure he gets maximum value |
| 2015s | from the snowfall graveyard and he has |
| 2017s | set up a board that no individual card |
| 2020s | from super fake can clear the abyssal |
| 2022s | wave not enough damage um entitled |
| 2024s | customer would only deal 4 damage if he |
| 2027s | had it here so |
| 2029s | just too much |
| 2031s | bit much |
| 2041s | it's a very strong board on possessive |
| 2043s | side |
| 2045s | yeah i think he's very safe to just go |
| 2048s | for another counterfeit blade play um |
| 2051s | maybe use the curse as well because i |
| 2052s | think the graveyard has expired already |
| 2065s | i guess possess he's thinking about |
| 2067s | whether or not he should try to milk |
| 2069s | some damage from the cutlass before |
| 2071s | equipping the counterfeit blade but i |
| 2073s | think he's right to identify that the |
| 2075s | game is not going to last that much |
| 2077s | longer so just making sure that in the |
| 2079s | next immediate two turns he can get the |
| 2081s | full damage from the counterfeit blade |
| 2083s | makes a lot of sense |
| 2088s | i think he's deciding whether or not to |
| 2090s | go face with that be super aggro about |
| 2093s | it |
| 2096s | um there's considerations as to whether |
| 2099s | he would want to play the wicked stab as |
| 2102s | early as now for example if he top decks |
| 2105s | preparation next turn he would have to |
| 2108s | spend all his mana on prep smoke screen |
| 2110s | and not be able to play the wicked stab |
| 2112s | but possessing says not worth the risk |
| 2115s | on that just going to get rid of the |
| 2116s | curse here he most likely has mana to |
| 2118s | play wicked stab on the next turn |
| 2120s | and super fake tap for an answer but it |
| 2123s | doesn't look like there is anything |
| 2126s | there |
| 2128s | and that is going to be a quick victory |
| 2130s | for possessi in game one very nicely |
| 2134s | navigated even though that akane looked |
| 2136s | like it was going to be a backbreaker |
| 2138s | possess he quickly identified that the |
| 2140s | naval mine was not his win condition in |
| 2141s | that position he had the burning blade |
| 2143s | acolytes he had the graveyard and he |
| 2145s | knew that there were too many stats on |
| 2147s | those five eights for super fake to |
| 2149s | clear |
| 2151s | that's true and he took full advantage |
| 2153s | of it by |
| 2154s | consistently |
| 2157s | peppering face with a damage uh |
| 2160s | using those weapons to activate death |
| 2163s | rattle |
| 2165s | yeah |
| 2166s | it's a completely good point this was a |
| 2167s | very good draw from possession to be |
| 2169s | fair but he did lend himself towards |
| 2172s | that with uh the nice keep on the |
| 2173s | shatter shambler at the beginning but |
| 2175s | for super fake that does not feel good |
| 2178s | whatsoever essentially just getting |
| 2180s | steamrolled there and that could be a |
| 2182s | theme with this warlock here because |
| 2184s | possesses lineup i think in general is |
| 2186s | very good at dealing with these slower |
| 2188s | more control oriented decks from super |
| 2190s | fake |
| 2191s | [Music] |
| 2195s | all right um so given that the rogue is |
| 2198s | out of the way for possessing do you |
| 2200s | have any guesses amy as to what he's |
| 2202s | queuing up next between that druid or |
| 2203s | hunter |
| 2205s | i mean |
| 2206s | i'm ex i'm still excited to see that |
| 2208s | hunter versus hunter matchup |
| 2212s | but uh druid with the addition of uh |
| 2216s | prince vernathol |
| 2218s | he has cards |
| 2220s | like the wild heart guff i see on the |
| 2222s | screen plus |
| 2224s | like draws for that lady presser so |
| 2227s | there is potential quickly transforming |
| 2229s | uh his minions into dragons and because |
| 2233s | of like the innervate and the other ramp |
| 2235s | uh he has fuel and the mana to flood the |
| 2238s | board |
| 2239s | yes i have made no secret of the fact |
| 2242s | that i'm a big fan of presser druid ever |
| 2244s | since the master's tour i am very happy |
| 2246s | to see possessive bringing it over |
| 2248s | alignment even though i am honestly not |
| 2251s | sure if it was the better choice for his |
| 2253s | lineup just given that the anti-control |
| 2255s | strategy kind of makes sense with |
| 2257s | alignment but possession says you know |
| 2258s | pressure is just kind of good in general |
| 2260s | and there are a lot of situations where |
| 2263s | you can act as an anti-control deck |
| 2265s | playing prester as well right if you're |
| 2268s | able to land kazakhstan as one of the |
| 2269s | transformed dragons that can beat |
| 2271s | control decks very consistently |
| 2274s | if you hit multiple alex drazas or hala |
| 2277s | matron protectorate you also get tons of |
| 2279s | burst damage so i think possessing's in |
| 2281s | a good spot either way no matter which |
| 2283s | druid he chose um for the lineup but we |
| 2286s | do see super fake moving on to his ping |
| 2289s | mage now um which is a duck that i don't |
| 2292s | often see let alone with the run of all |
| 2295s | version what do you think of this |
| 2297s | i mean it's very uh i don't see it quite |
| 2300s | often compared to cars decks like big |
| 2303s | spell mage or meg mage but it's really |
| 2305s | interesting that he plays it here |
| 2307s | because we still have the combos of like |
| 2310s | the reckless apprentice for the hero |
| 2312s | power damage to all min uh enemies plus |
| 2315s | he also has that uh dawn grabs for the |
| 2318s | spell recasts |
| 2320s | that's right the magister dawn grasp the |
| 2323s | hero card is i think essential to the |
| 2325s | wind condition to start stacking up that |
| 2328s | hero power and getting to the points |
| 2329s | where you can actually burn down the |
| 2331s | presser druid turn after turn um the ice |
| 2335s | barriers in there will be nice to help |
| 2336s | give that mage some time to survive i |
| 2339s | don't think there's any danger of mage |
| 2341s | dying to just like the base deck of |
| 2343s | prestor which kind of functions as aggro |
| 2344s | druid it's more as to whether they can |
| 2347s | outlast the dragons later on which is |
| 2349s | really tough to say because you don't |
| 2351s | know exactly what types of dragons are |
| 2353s | like the difference of whether or not a |
| 2355s | kazakhstan is generated is absolutely |
| 2357s | monumental but beyond magister don grasp |
| 2360s | i also want to highlight the vardan don |
| 2362s | gasp just the four mana minion that |
| 2364s | freezes board here because one thing |
| 2366s | that presser druid is actually very weak |
| 2368s | too is locking themselves on board if |
| 2371s | they play seven minions and get hit by a |
| 2373s | vardhan dawn grasp there is nothing in |
| 2375s | the deck and no dragons generated that |
| 2377s | can let you interact with that frozen |
| 2380s | board |
| 2381s | if you have no space to play that |
| 2382s | starfish it essentially means that super |
| 2385s | fake could get another turn for free |
| 2387s | right after that so i would like to see |
| 2389s | possessive be careful around that varden |
| 2391s | later on oh and we see it right here |
| 2398s | well that's the presser already ready |
| 2401s | and locked up no need to look for um the |
| 2403s | cherry red carpeter or a cold tooth mine |
| 2406s | um it's just a question as to whether |
| 2407s | possession wants to keep the trog for |
| 2409s | turn one or look for something a bit |
| 2411s | better |
| 2417s | what do you think you could be looking |
| 2419s | for as something a bit nicer on the |
| 2421s | early turns |
| 2422s | oh gosh um |
| 2426s | not sure but |
| 2427s | uh i know that a cart in there is bran |
| 2430s | bronzebeard and he has a lot of |
| 2432s | advantage for battle cries |
| 2434s | uh |
| 2436s | so perhaps with um it could be more |
| 2439s | spell action with multicaster or again |
| 2442s | magister don scrap don grahams again |
| 2447s | super fake with the brand later on also |
| 2449s | has a lot of potential for healing with |
| 2451s | the spice bread baker or it could act as |
| 2454s | huge damage with the reckless apprentice |
| 2456s | once he has that uh dawn grasp already |
| 2459s | activated so we will be keeping an eye |
| 2461s | out for bran later on but for possessing |
| 2462s | oh my goodness what an opening trog into |
| 2465s | jerry rig and already has the guff in |
| 2468s | hand so actually the draw more uh draw |
| 2471s | your highest cost card is not |
| 2472s | particularly good anymore but it's still |
| 2475s | a curve um if he goes lowest cost and |
| 2477s | finds the innervate for earlier guff |
| 2479s | then he is absolutely in business |
| 2486s | not great options for super fake are |
| 2488s | they |
| 2493s | uh do you think there's an argument for |
| 2495s | shattering blast if he picks up his |
| 2498s | vardhan dawn grasp a bit later on |
| 2501s | uh |
| 2503s | maybe but we're i'm wondering what he |
| 2505s | would do for term three as well uh jim's |
| 2509s | a planning ahead will he use the coin |
| 2511s | later on |
| 2512s | uh lots of potential there it looks like |
| 2514s | he chose uh the |
| 2517s | freezing card |
| 2520s | yeah just the cheapest to make sure that |
| 2521s | he's as flexible as possible i think is |
| 2524s | super reasonable possessing also going |
| 2525s | to take a turn here to be a bit off |
| 2527s | curve and he does hit the 50 50 finds |
| 2529s | innervate instead of aquatic form which |
| 2531s | means that the presser is coming out a |
| 2534s | whole turn sooner he can vade out the |
| 2536s | guff next turn and immediately follow |
| 2538s | that up with the prestar very very nice |
| 2541s | stuff but for super fake none of the |
| 2543s | early win conditions are coming together |
| 2545s | here hasn't found wildfire doesn't have |
| 2548s | a whole lot of card draw |
| 2550s | he could be a sitting duck here as |
| 2552s | possessive starts the army of dragons |
| 2554s | soon |
| 2565s | okay |
| 2566s | right |
| 2570s | so in terms of spell schools we've only |
| 2572s | seen a runed orb so far for arcane i |
| 2575s | believe uh super fake going to cycle |
| 2578s | once more with the gifts of azshara but |
| 2580s | unfortunate that he hasn't found a naga |
| 2582s | but not going to get too greedy with |
| 2584s | that |
| 2587s | here we go all right |
| 2589s | dragons galore time |
| 2594s | the nice thing for super fake is that he |
| 2596s | loaded up that freeze hero power from |
| 2598s | the snow flurry so he gets the snap |
| 2600s | freeze now to kill the press star we're |
| 2601s | already seeing the plan for the snap |
| 2604s | freeze pick was to go with that snow |
| 2605s | flurry for an expected prester i think a |
| 2607s | very wise decision here um getting some |
| 2610s | cycle through |
| 2613s | but we'll see if he can keep up first |
| 2615s | dragon pickup for possession is average |
| 2618s | like the battleground that is not too |
| 2620s | bad |
| 2624s | i do like the moonlit pick here |
| 2630s | we're looking for high impact dragons of |
| 2633s | which there are quite a few alex strazza |
| 2636s | marazon maybe not necessarily this turn |
| 2638s | the mirrors on but later on |
| 2640s | of course kazakhstan later even though |
| 2642s | it's not active yet |
| 2647s | and raid boss onyxia |
| 2648s | never too bad either possessing deciding |
| 2651s | whether he placed the moonlit as early |
| 2654s | as this turn now one thing i'd like to |
| 2656s | do as pressure druid with moonlit |
| 2657s | guidance is if there's a potential to |
| 2659s | get hala uh matron |
| 2662s | it from this card and play both of them |
| 2663s | in one turn it's so much damage right so |
| 2666s | maybe he's holding on to that later on |
| 2668s | when he has more spells |
| 2673s | that's true and also notice he picked |
| 2675s | the four mana dragon which increases in |
| 2678s | hp depending on hand size i i recall |
| 2682s | so there's potential there of cour |
| 2686s | continuing to steamroll with different |
| 2688s | dragons |
| 2689s | yeah that twilight rate being discovered |
| 2691s | means it has a relevant attack total |
| 2692s | rather than just being generated so not |
| 2695s | too bad as possessive continues to ramp |
| 2697s | up but we see here that the hit from the |
| 2700s | far watch post is magister don grasp |
| 2702s | which is very unfortunate for super fake |
| 2705s | he has to wait until next turn to play |
| 2707s | that instead and getting that online as |
| 2709s | soon as possible to start ramping up the |
| 2711s | hero power is one of the best ways super |
| 2713s | fake can generally fight back so let's |
| 2715s | see his plan here if he wants to get |
| 2717s | through the watch post he can |
| 2720s | use that first flame to get rid of the |
| 2722s | tutu dragon and then trade it off but |
| 2725s | that tutu dragon is also his potential |
| 2727s | best target for a ping from don grasp |
| 2730s | later to get the honorable kill |
| 2743s | alright he is going to end up on that |
| 2746s | first flame here |
| 2748s | lay down the renathol and |
| 2751s | just pink on the turn i feel like this |
| 2753s | coin is too valuable right so hold on |
| 2755s | for the hero card later |
| 2760s | just establishing |
| 2762s | a bit of board control while |
| 2764s | alex |
| 2766s | that's two alex's |
| 2771s | coming straight from the moonlit |
| 2773s | guidance that is huge however possessing |
| 2775s | did whiff a little bit on the natural |
| 2777s | draw the nozdormu is not a great one to |
| 2779s | get here we'll see if he wants to |
| 2781s | continue cycling with the hero power for |
| 2784s | draw or if he can just ramp up with that |
| 2786s | and play the twilight drake i think both |
| 2787s | are pretty reasonable |
| 2789s | he also has the option to discover |
| 2792s | another dragon |
| 2793s | uh |
| 2797s | i see using the starfish to revert the |
| 2800s | stats to the original on the dragons |
| 2802s | which is a very nice spot here my bad |
| 2805s | for um |
| 2806s | bad mouthing the nos dormu there it's |
| 2808s | definitely putting in a lot of work |
| 2814s | all the different dragonflies play their |
| 2815s | part in this |
| 2818s | all right super fake going to flurry |
| 2820s | first and then play the magister don |
| 2822s | grass hoping to get flurry again because |
| 2824s | he has played snap freeze as another |
| 2826s | frost spell here which you know it's not |
| 2828s | terrible but not as good as flurry in |
| 2830s | this situation i think |
| 2835s | it's his own menu |
| 2836s | what are the odds |
| 2840s | one in five |
| 2847s | okay guess that full board frozen not |
| 2849s | too bad and possessing did just use a |
| 2851s | starfish so very unlikely that he has |
| 2853s | the other one to unfreeze everything and |
| 2855s | get lethal |
| 2857s | so |
| 2858s | super fake can be pretty |
| 2860s | safe uh to chain freezes with the vardan |
| 2862s | on the next turn as well ooh there's |
| 2865s | kazakusando |
| 2870s | all right |
| 2873s | remember when i mentioned the board |
| 2875s | locking situation being very bad into |
| 2878s | vardhan dawn grasp here what i want to |
| 2880s | see from possession is to play no more |
| 2881s | than six minions leave that space |
| 2884s | potentially to play kazakhstan the next |
| 2887s | turn he's taking it to the next level |
| 2888s | playing only five minions in case he |
| 2891s | needs space to play a treasure |
| 2892s | immediately from kazakhstan i really |
| 2894s | like the discipline |
| 2897s | oops planning a few steps ahead |
| 2902s | well super fake pretty much forced to |
| 2905s | play varden don grasp here |
| 2907s | but the rest of the turn is a little bit |
| 2909s | up in the air |
| 2916s | it's your power is still just doing two |
| 2918s | right |
| 2921s | [Music] |
| 2926s | interesting |
| 2927s | okay so the vardan i do agree with but i |
| 2930s | was thinking superfic would potentially |
| 2932s | just play a second flame on the starfish |
| 2934s | and ping it off to upgrade his hero |
| 2936s | power |
| 2937s | that being said after upgrading the hero |
| 2939s | power he still doesn't have a strong |
| 2941s | enough apprentice to clear the whole |
| 2943s | board so this play activates the more |
| 2945s | dress for the next turn so he can get |
| 2946s | the full clear but we do have possessive |
| 2948s | playing down his kazakhstan knowing that |
| 2950s | his board isn't going to be |
| 2951s | consequential from here looking for some |
| 2953s | over-the-top damage instead |
| 2956s | he has seen vardhan now so i don't mind |
| 2958s | the annoying horn pick yeah |
| 2962s | numbers he picked the oh the embers for |
| 2965s | the |
| 2966s | rag |
| 2968s | yes |
| 2969s | looking for the lethal here is |
| 2971s | possessive because he knows that there's |
| 2973s | a very likely uh more rush coming next |
| 2976s | turn based on the setup from superfix so |
| 2978s | i think he's just trying to get as much |
| 2980s | damage as possible here between boombot |
| 2983s | and krusty it's kind of close because if |
| 2985s | there is more dress you kind of want to |
| 2987s | answer it with a crusty as possessive on |
| 2989s | the next turn |
| 2997s | okay i didn't see what he picked there |
| 2999s | but we'll find out soon enough and on |
| 3001s | this last one i guess pure cold but if |
| 3004s | he didn't pick krusty there's still the |
| 3006s | argument for vampiric fangs right to get |
| 3007s | rid of mordress |
| 3013s | what are you favoring |
| 3015s | i'm favoring the vampire thanks |
| 3019s | possess he agrees |
| 3026s | drawing the highest cost card we'll get |
| 3028s | him the embers |
| 3034s | got it in at the last second |
| 3038s | all right here we go now with the march |
| 3040s | rush very cleanly set up by super fake |
| 3046s | the big swing means possessing needs to |
| 3049s | clear quite a bit otherwise he's just |
| 3051s | dead on board |
| 3055s | we have some fantastic reactions from |
| 3057s | super fake here |
| 3058s | [Laughter] |
| 3061s | very well known for that indeed |
| 3066s | okay the nomich army knife does let him |
| 3070s | clear two minions with you know playing |
| 3073s | down |
| 3074s | i guess the twilight drake |
| 3079s | i like how he drew some cards for the |
| 3082s | extra twilight |
| 3084s | drake hp |
| 3087s | nice optimization there |
| 3090s | um |
| 3091s | he can end this with the amalgam |
| 3095s | afterward it's not super relevant on |
| 3097s | board but potentially can get him you |
| 3100s | know raid boss onyxia at this point some |
| 3102s | very relevant dragons malygos gets him |
| 3105s | more spells but |
| 3106s | i don't even remember how many spells |
| 3108s | are left in the deck the annoy horns i |
| 3109s | guess but picks the azure drake instead |
| 3112s | here |
| 3115s | if it stays on board it'll be extra |
| 3117s | spell damage from those embers |
| 3120s | that he might or might not need |
| 3125s | the superfreak here can |
| 3127s | trade off his renathol and then ping the |
| 3129s | twilight trick to upgrade his hero power |
| 3132s | um it does give possessi a bit more |
| 3134s | lifesteal but that upgraded hero power |
| 3137s | can pay dividends over more time it just |
| 3140s | depends whether super fake thinks he has |
| 3142s | that time right from his perspective |
| 3144s | there could be book of the dead there |
| 3145s | could be embers of ragnaros the next |
| 3147s | turn so he wants to um i guess go wider |
| 3151s | on board as well to be stronger against |
| 3153s | embers |
| 3158s | this is not what we stood for |
| 3163s | taylon and treasure guard protecting a |
| 3165s | little bit against embers |
| 3167s | that divine shield is very nice to play |
| 3169s | around it |
| 3172s | but if possessee wants he can vampiric |
| 3174s | fangs |
| 3175s | on the tailline and then |
| 3177s | let rip with one of the embers |
| 3180s | which deals a minimum of eight to face |
| 3182s | here |
| 3184s | the king |
| 3185s | is doing that |
| 3188s | oh my god |
| 3189s | what hello |
| 3192s | oh |
| 3198s | [Laughter] |
| 3200s | are you kidding |
| 3201s | that's disgusting |
| 3203s | don't worry he has ice barrier |
| 3207s | against spells |
| 3209s | but it looks like he's |
| 3212s | putting more minions on the board to |
| 3215s | kind of |
| 3216s | hopefully |
| 3217s | not be hit in the face again with spells |
| 3220s | right the lady najar for frost does give |
| 3223s | him a little bit more survivability i |
| 3225s | mean he's alive to vampiric embers |
| 3229s | sometimes like not if possessing triple |
| 3231s | snipes face again |
| 3233s | um |
| 3234s | i'm trying to look for a way that |
| 3235s | possession can guarantee it's still like |
| 3237s | if he went |
| 3238s | minion uh gnomish army knife killed two |
| 3240s | and then embers that would work but he |
| 3242s | doesn't have the mana for that and now |
| 3244s | there's a fourth minion on board so |
| 3246s | super fake is being as safe as possible |
| 3248s | here but possessing it's not like he |
| 3249s | needs to get the kill the very next turn |
| 3252s | right right |
| 3257s | um |
| 3260s | beastly beauty plus no meat gnomish army |
| 3263s | knife lets him get 16 life steal it's |
| 3266s | pretty good |
| 3273s | i don't see the draw but i think it was |
| 3275s | annoying |
| 3281s | i'm kind of liking the look of |
| 3283s | beastly beauty trade it in |
| 3286s | and then you get the |
| 3287s | uh eight eight and then use that with |
| 3289s | the gnomish army knife because |
| 3291s | there's a world where possession can |
| 3293s | also be scared for his own health total |
| 3295s | if there's a |
| 3296s | brand reckless apprentice even then |
| 3299s | i'm kind of stretching it because it's |
| 3302s | not that much damage with only a four |
| 3304s | damage hero power at the moment but it's |
| 3306s | just nice to clear up more of these |
| 3308s | minions and give himself better chances |
| 3310s | to get the embers but he goes for the |
| 3312s | andoyo horn instead which is also fair |
| 3315s | play given that he's seen the vardan |
| 3317s | already no chance of getting board |
| 3319s | locked |
| 3326s | well |
| 3327s | well |
| 3333s | do you happen to know how many spells |
| 3335s | the azshara is at because i'm thinking |
| 3337s | maybe a gig of like try to find gigafin |
| 3339s | from the horn is super fakes out here i |
| 3342s | don't know oh gosh i haven't i cannot |
| 3346s | see it or have i've been keeping track |
| 3348s | of it to be honest |
| 3349s | sorry me neither but |
| 3351s | it it needs to be only one spell left |
| 3354s | otherwise he doesn't have the mana to |
| 3356s | play the horn and the um colossal off of |
| 3359s | it so if it's |
| 3361s | not playable any other outs for super |
| 3364s | fake |
| 3365s | arcane intellect into |
| 3368s | roon orb and to discover |
| 3371s | something |
| 3374s | thank you for asking my brain's effect |
| 3377s | but you know it has to be like double |
| 3379s | freeze |
| 3380s | that's even possible with the man that |
| 3382s | he has nothing |
| 3383s | right okay so the azara was more than |
| 3385s | one spell off being active so it doesn't |
| 3387s | even go for it but finds cone of cold |
| 3389s | there's the freeze ish and the two fours |
| 3392s | in the middle are all the highest attack |
| 3395s | after you ping off the three four fair |
| 3397s | enough you can kill one more |
| 3399s | annoyed tron but i don't think he had |
| 3401s | the time |
| 3404s | this has to be lethal for possession |
| 3406s | right you just army knife kill two |
| 3407s | minions and then go for embers |
| 3415s | and there you have it there we go three |
| 3418s | more embers to the face |
| 3420s | this time guaranteed no scamming here |
| 3424s | [Music] |
| 3427s | well uh that is possessive going up two |
| 3430s | to zero here off the power of kazakhstan |
| 3433s | which is something that we specifically |
| 3434s | mentioned right is something that |
| 3436s | proster druid needs to do to win the |
| 3438s | match up either kazakhstan or some like |
| 3441s | scams with hala or alexstrasza just |
| 3443s | getting there with dragons on board |
| 3445s | doesn't generally do the job but i think |
| 3447s | posessi very clearly recognized a lot of |
| 3450s | the tricks here using the starfish to |
| 3452s | essentially buff his dragons to 8 8 and |
| 3454s | most importantly not leaving himself |
| 3456s | board locked into a varden i think that |
| 3458s | was very nicely recognized yeah and |
| 3461s | having super fake uh uses cars to |
| 3464s | clear the board um and of course that |
| 3467s | embers uh to the face which uh was very |
| 3471s | surprising and that guaranteed one at |
| 3474s | the end |
| 3475s | was not that one was not really |
| 3477s | surprising but it makes for an explosive |
| 3479s | finish |
| 3481s | and because of that possessing's only |
| 3483s | left with this hunter now so amy in |
| 3485s | order to get your wish of a hunter |
| 3486s | mirror you have to talk to super fake |
| 3489s | now and tell him to cue it up because |
| 3491s | that's the only chance left if possessee |
| 3494s | wins with that hunter then that is it |
| 3497s | but you know if super fake's feeling |
| 3499s | lucky maybe he could take a win versus |
| 3501s | that hunter with his other two decks and |
| 3502s | end with the mirror but i am going to be |
| 3505s | honest and say i do not like his chances |
| 3508s | the mage can maybe get there against the |
| 3510s | hunter if they get super early dawn |
| 3512s | grasp and lots of pings but this warlock |
| 3514s | oh my goodness is that an abysmal |
| 3516s | match-up into the quest hunter playing |
| 3519s | curses procs the hunter quest you are |
| 3522s | helping the hunter progress in that case |
| 3528s | [Music] |
| 3530s | one |
| 3532s | [Music] |
| 3535s | all right so this is the list that we |
| 3538s | took a look at a little bit earlier on |
| 3540s | like you said amy it's completely |
| 3542s | identical to super fakes one um have you |
| 3545s | had the chance to play much quest hunter |
| 3547s | here are you liking the new version with |
| 3549s | ancient kraken bean and conscious call |
| 3552s | i'm i'm actually really enjoying |
| 3554s | watching like the |
| 3556s | you know prince friend is prince from |
| 3558s | nato in this one yes he is awesome |
| 3562s | i see that he has like a |
| 3563s | a bunch of secrets and again you can do |
| 3566s | a lot of spell damage with |
| 3568s | uh cards like uh shell shot marked shot |
| 3571s | and piercing shot |
| 3573s | uh of course that uh b stalker tavish |
| 3575s | cards |
| 3576s | and the secrets can work really well |
| 3578s | against more control matchups |
| 3581s | but as something |
| 3583s | yeah go ahead sorry oh but as we can see |
| 3586s | uh super fakes pink like he has a ping |
| 3589s | mage quest uh hunter and chris warlock |
| 3593s | uh |
| 3594s | unfortunately there's no whole uh holy |
| 3596s | palette in there for that |
| 3599s | mid-rangey match up but we will see and |
| 3602s | looks like he's opted uh sorry it looks |
| 3604s | like super face opted for ping mage |
| 3607s | yeah that makes a lot of sense to me |
| 3609s | because i really don't like the warlocks |
| 3611s | odds into the hunter um |
| 3613s | i was gonna say just a trick for |
| 3615s | remembering which are the damage spells |
| 3618s | from the hunter it's everything with the |
| 3619s | word shot in it it's crazy i just don't |
| 3622s | think they can print another card with |
| 3624s | the word shot but i i am wrong every |
| 3627s | single time |
| 3629s | we can see here two of them already in |
| 3631s | hand for possession neither of which i |
| 3632s | think is a keep you would much rather |
| 3634s | get some early card draw growing the |
| 3636s | most important one i would say is |
| 3637s | dunbaldar bunker it just represents so |
| 3640s | much cycle to get those secrets which |
| 3642s | are generally just filler in the deck um |
| 3645s | and just make sure that he has the |
| 3647s | resources going forward for that quest |
| 3649s | completion |
| 3650s | i don't think it's very often that the |
| 3652s | xl quest hunter can get their quest |
| 3655s | finished as early as the old version of |
| 3657s | only 30 cards but what they have going |
| 3660s | for them is not really ever running out |
| 3662s | of stuff because there's so much card |
| 3664s | draw there's barracodo bin and there is |
| 3667s | card generation as well |
| 3674s | does end up keeping the shell shot so i |
| 3677s | was wrong on that one but it is for sure |
| 3680s | still decent to get rid of many early |
| 3682s | board states here that six damage spread |
| 3684s | across multiple targets can often deal |
| 3687s | with two minions |
| 3695s | not a great start for possession is it |
| 3696s | double secret in the opener not what you |
| 3699s | want to see |
| 3713s | okay so starting off with the ruined orb |
| 3715s | here now knows that it is not ice |
| 3717s | trapped because we can see from |
| 3718s | possession's list he's running too |
| 3720s | explosive to freezing to ice here uh |
| 3722s | what do you think super fake should pick |
| 3726s | let's see |
| 3731s | how perplexing i mean karispa would be |
| 3735s | solid |
| 3739s | just because of the nature of hunter and |
| 3741s | the spells possess he has in his hand |
| 3745s | makes a lot of sense to me very few |
| 3746s | minions um the deck is mostly spelled so |
| 3750s | super fake potentially sniping off one |
| 3752s | of the damage spells and delaying that |
| 3753s | quest a bit more could come in clutch |
| 3756s | but as it happens possessing hardly has |
| 3758s | targets to begin with um all of these |
| 3761s | spells only hit minions at the moment so |
| 3767s | don't worry the steady |
| 3769s | shot hero |
| 3770s | hero power damage to the face |
| 3773s | going alongside uh all those spell cards |
| 3775s | with the worst shot in it of course |
| 3778s | you're right i didn't even realize even |
| 3779s | the hero power oh gosh hunter do |
| 3782s | something different would ya |
| 3783s | [Music] |
| 3785s | so we can see here super fake has been |
| 3788s | holding off on playing minions so far he |
| 3790s | could play snow flurry but i absolutely |
| 3792s | agree with the idea of just holding on |
| 3794s | to it you don't want to give the hunter |
| 3795s | targets is the thing and spring the trap |
| 3798s | is an especially back-breaking one to |
| 3800s | get the honorable kill on something with |
| 3802s | three health so i like super fake's |
| 3804s | approach here he should know the deck |
| 3806s | very well because he's bringing it |
| 3807s | himself and he already has |
| 3810s | dawn grasp in hand so there is a real |
| 3812s | plan unfolding here if he finds a |
| 3815s | wildfire this could get out of control |
| 3817s | even more quickly because of that |
| 3818s | commander sevara as |
| 3823s | is well stuck he can't play anything |
| 3826s | that's crazy |
| 3827s | we see superface reaction here he knows |
| 3830s | what's going on like |
| 3832s | again like you said uh he brought this |
| 3834s | deck and he's fairly familiar with it oh |
| 3836s | and now comes the magister non-grams for |
| 3839s | all the spells |
| 3842s | counter which is really good to continue |
| 3845s | uh to slow down uh possesses quest |
| 3848s | progression and possession responds with |
| 3851s | another hero power to the face |
| 3853s | it's so sad i mean possessing knows of |
| 3855s | course that it's counter and he |
| 3856s | thankfully had the freezing to proc it |
| 3859s | um the first time you know not a very |
| 3861s | consequential spell in the matchup |
| 3863s | because super fake's not playing minions |
| 3864s | anyway but this time possess he can't |
| 3866s | even proc the counter spell because the |
| 3868s | only playable spell for him right now is |
| 3870s | quickshot and he wants to save that to |
| 3872s | actually progress his quest because it's |
| 3874s | one of the few precious spells that |
| 3876s | doesn't require a minion target and |
| 3878s | super fake here playing like the old |
| 3880s | quest mage mirrors as soon as you play a |
| 3881s | minion you kill it off yourself don't |
| 3884s | give your opponent the chance to |
| 3885s | progress anything |
| 3887s | [Laughter] |
| 3890s | i'm sure super fake agrees with you as |
| 3891s | he is |
| 3892s | his reaction is uh very fantastic right |
| 3896s | now he's just |
| 3897s | laughing at the ridiculousness of this |
| 3899s | matchup |
| 3900s | although he has uh how many cars is that |
| 3904s | almost ten so he has to be considerate |
| 3906s | of empty emptying his hand and perhaps |
| 3908s | getting rid of his own minion if he |
| 3910s | doesn't want possessive to |
| 3913s | further progress on his quest right he |
| 3915s | does have two four health minions as |
| 3917s | targets for the honorable kill ping |
| 3919s | ranathal or the starfish i feel like the |
| 3922s | starfish doesn't really do anything |
| 3924s | useful for him because possession is not |
| 3926s | playing minions anyway so might as well |
| 3928s | just kill that off and he can finish the |
| 3931s | turn with just drawing one off of gifts |
| 3934s | of azshara |
| 3935s | okay he's gonna |
| 3936s | kill his renaissance dead maybe there's |
| 3938s | some utility for starfish that i'm not |
| 3940s | thinking of at the moment |
| 3944s | who doesn't play gifts though so |
| 3946s | not going to necessarily play ivara |
| 3949s | right away next turn the zassi |
| 3953s | has a playable minion |
| 3956s | which draws him too right off of a |
| 3958s | freezing end fire |
| 3962s | sorry frost and fire spell |
| 3967s | don't you see some foreign |
| 3969s | yeah going to kill off his own but he |
| 3971s | notices his counter spell so actually |
| 3973s | just leaves the kraken vein |
| 3979s | uh did possession know this i don't |
| 3980s | think he knew this his reaction oh my |
| 3983s | god |
| 3987s | okay |
| 3991s | uh we did see a tweet from priscessi |
| 3993s | before going live today that he said i |
| 3996s | actually already have the world |
| 3997s | championship qualification so i kind of |
| 4000s | want to take it easy i didn't think |
| 4002s | you'd want to take it that easy but okay |
| 4010s | [Music] |
| 4012s | it's fine though i mean he was |
| 4014s | admittedly in a terrible position right |
| 4016s | there was it was what five turns back to |
| 4018s | back of doing nothing because he simply |
| 4020s | couldn't play his hand he knew super |
| 4022s | fake was ramping up the hero power and |
| 4024s | even if super fake were to do nothing |
| 4025s | but ping face from that point forward |
| 4028s | like possibly could hardly do anything |
| 4030s | to contest that so saving us time here |
| 4033s | is possessing and potentially getting us |
| 4035s | closer to the matchup you wanted to see |
| 4037s | amy |
| 4038s | baby oh |
| 4040s | look |
| 4041s | the text is holy paladin that's probably |
| 4043s | my bad i probably interchanged something |
| 4046s | on the sheet |
| 4047s | sorry hey the mirror fantastic |
| 4051s | yes this is a very fun one |
| 4057s | um back in the day when the quest |
| 4059s | hunters were only 30 cards it was very |
| 4062s | much a race of who could um either |
| 4065s | burn face immediately or get the tavish |
| 4068s | played because it wasn't even necessary |
| 4069s | to play the tavish quest reward i would |
| 4072s | say to win that matchup back when both |
| 4074s | decks were at 30 health like you could |
| 4075s | get there with hero powers and just |
| 4077s | normal damage spells if you drew well |
| 4079s | enough um now that both decks are at 40 |
| 4082s | health it is very important to actually |
| 4084s | complete the quest to get enough damage |
| 4086s | through and there's also the x factor of |
| 4089s | playing the tavish hero card instead be |
| 4092s | stalker tavish which allows you to go |
| 4093s | wider on board and not necessarily rely |
| 4096s | on pings many different ways you can |
| 4098s | approach this but i think the most |
| 4099s | crucial of which is just making sure you |
| 4102s | have resources to play every single turn |
| 4112s | all righty i like that aim shot keep |
| 4114s | from possessing it's just one of the |
| 4116s | precious spells that can go face here |
| 4118s | and you know not too many minions on |
| 4120s | either side so we could see those minion |
| 4122s | targeting spells get stranded once again |
| 4129s | so amy whose opening hand are you liking |
| 4131s | the look of better |
| 4132s | oh let's see |
| 4139s | perhaps possess c |
| 4140s | uh because he has the coin and they also |
| 4143s | has the right shot the cheaper spells uh |
| 4147s | to continue on with his uh quest |
| 4149s | progression |
| 4151s | uh let's see |
| 4154s | yeah possessing does have more um damage |
| 4158s | spells at the moment but super fake did |
| 4160s | pick up that nice dumbledore bunker |
| 4163s | which represents three car draw right |
| 4165s | very very nice gets him discounted |
| 4167s | secrets and thins the deck so i think |
| 4169s | he's actually also in a very good spot |
| 4171s | here |
| 4173s | yes and the |
| 4175s | uh mana discount on his |
| 4177s | uh ice trap |
| 4179s | useful as well oh now freezing trap as |
| 4181s | well |
| 4185s | russia going to continue on with the aim |
| 4189s | shot here that's actually his first |
| 4191s | damage spell played i don't think he can |
| 4193s | expect his explosive to get procked |
| 4195s | anytime soon so |
| 4197s | going to need quite a few more spells to |
| 4199s | support this quest completion game plan |
| 4202s | we see here super fake picks up that b |
| 4203s | stalker tavish which already gives him |
| 4206s | the potential to completely shift the |
| 4208s | game plan right instead of going for a |
| 4209s | pure damage race he can go for animal |
| 4212s | companions instead and if you play that |
| 4214s | tavish before second stage of quest uh |
| 4216s | progression is done you can get the zero |
| 4219s | cost animal companions for the rest of |
| 4220s | the game and that can be very powerful |
| 4222s | indeed |
| 4227s | now super fake can test for ice trap |
| 4230s | with his own ice trap but he tests with |
| 4231s | wound prey instead and because it's not |
| 4235s | ice trapped he can just nicely piercing |
| 4237s | shot this away make sure possibly has no |
| 4239s | target |
| 4241s | and continue along with the game plan |
| 4244s | here tavish and then make that hero |
| 4246s | power cost zero later on means he could |
| 4249s | win off the army of animal companions |
| 4253s | right |
| 4254s | it looks like the zesty has a |
| 4257s | similar strategy of targeting his own |
| 4260s | minions uh denying super fake of the |
| 4263s | damage to |
| 4264s | his side of the board |
| 4267s | we have some |
| 4269s | cheap spells here that he can choose |
| 4272s | so the arcane shot is both damage and a |
| 4274s | different spell school for his |
| 4276s | multicasters so i definitely like the |
| 4278s | look of that over the tracking |
| 4285s | right here cabbage time for super fake |
| 4289s | time |
| 4291s | i think it is like this hand just does |
| 4293s | not support him getting there with just |
| 4295s | pure damage right it's almost all secret |
| 4297s | so trying to go for a board-based game |
| 4299s | plan instead makes sense to me emergency |
| 4301s | maneuvers is great because he'll start |
| 4303s | getting animal companions soon and |
| 4305s | potentially can put together a board |
| 4307s | that is actually too large for |
| 4309s | possession to kill off all in one turn |
| 4315s | the caveat i guess is that possessive |
| 4318s | has an explosive trap so if super fake |
| 4320s | only hits offers then the maneuvers |
| 4322s | might not be too good |
| 4325s | and he actually has two ace traps in |
| 4328s | hand oh and an option for a third one |
| 4330s | again |
| 4331s | uh there is also freezing trap so if the |
| 4333s | minion decides to attack |
| 4336s | uh something on super fake side of the |
| 4338s | board it gets sent back into his hand |
| 4343s | i am liking the ice trap more because |
| 4346s | you can of course stack the regular eye |
| 4348s | strap and improve you can play both of |
| 4350s | those and you know there's |
| 4352s | way more utility in blocking a spell |
| 4354s | even temporarily i think than there is |
| 4356s | in freezing a minion but he actually |
| 4358s | goes for explosive trap instead |
| 4361s | um |
| 4362s | maybe trying to bait possession into |
| 4364s | thinking something is ice trapped i i |
| 4366s | don't really see him getting value from |
| 4368s | the explosive like anytime soon though |
| 4378s | ooh barrack okay |
| 4381s | uh oh man |
| 4383s | they kind of close |
| 4386s | i don't remember what possesses quest |
| 4389s | counter is at but if he's on his last |
| 4391s | spell the aim shot does represent |
| 4393s | you know |
| 4394s | playing aimshot and then tavish right |
| 4396s | away after okay not quite done yet |
| 4406s | there's also the rajna jean to think |
| 4407s | about at what point can he actually get |
| 4409s | value from that because he's been using |
| 4411s | a lot of spells |
| 4417s | taking advantage of that improved hero |
| 4419s | power for more |
| 4421s | uh arrows to the face |
| 4425s | that's the second best place you can put |
| 4427s | arrows after the knee |
| 4433s | all right so just going to get one cycle |
| 4435s | from the furious hall unfortunately |
| 4437s | super fake doesn't really have |
| 4439s | enough playables well actually he can |
| 4442s | play |
| 4444s | oh no it's going to draw one no matter |
| 4445s | what right because he can't play both |
| 4446s | ice traps here |
| 4449s | almost overloading with the amount of |
| 4451s | secrets |
| 4452s | yeah he's possessing to activate them so |
| 4455s | he can play the rest |
| 4458s | possess he knows |
| 4462s | yeah i think the explosive it was |
| 4465s | not what i would have gone for a super |
| 4468s | fake here |
| 4471s | okay multicaster is amazing he can get |
| 4474s | one more arcane or one more spell school |
| 4478s | in there and then continue cycling |
| 4482s | are getting some animal companions if |
| 4485s | you want |
| 4488s | yeah explosive might be useful maybe |
| 4491s | uh later down the line if possessee |
| 4495s | creates a support |
| 4498s | it goes for |
| 4500s | ice trap over |
| 4501s | multicaster hoping to delay the tavis |
| 4504s | quest reward from possessive for one |
| 4505s | more turn which is a reasonable |
| 4508s | expectation except that possessing has a |
| 4510s | cheap spell so um you can just proc that |
| 4512s | with coin and then get tavish with the |
| 4515s | barb nuts |
| 4518s | start the big damage rolling |
| 4527s | and actually that coin returning to |
| 4529s | possessive's hand now just acts as fuel |
| 4532s | right with a huge hero power |
| 4539s | i mean two things on the board there are |
| 4541s | doormats so |
| 4543s | but he already plays the uh the tavis |
| 4545s | legendary |
| 4548s | did possess he forget about maneuvers |
| 4550s | that's my question it's like |
| 4553s | you can argue that rocking it there is |
| 4555s | better than having to proc it on a |
| 4557s | hoffer later on and you do have freezing |
| 4559s | and explosives so it's not the end of |
| 4561s | the world but |
| 4563s | going a face also seemed pretty |
| 4564s | reasonable |
| 4570s | in any case uh super fake now able to |
| 4575s | lay down more secrets he has that |
| 4578s | regular freezing and improved explosive |
| 4580s | as well as regular explosive right now |
| 4583s | and he is using |
| 4585s | uh the car to draw for more fuel |
| 4589s | searching for |
| 4591s | answers but it looks like he is using |
| 4593s | aimshot to the face as opposed to |
| 4596s | doing anything to possess this legendary |
| 4599s | there |
| 4602s | possession i think should be certain |
| 4604s | about freezing trap at this point so |
| 4606s | there's no chance that the tavish |
| 4607s | actually gets to attack anywhere here |
| 4613s | uh huh |
| 4617s | so i do think possession has to clear |
| 4619s | some of this board right it's getting |
| 4620s | too threatening |
| 4622s | wait hear power first |
| 4625s | [Laughter] |
| 4627s | okay okay good |
| 4632s | yep mitigate that |
| 4634s | extra damage |
| 4637s | okay now notice there's no fresh ice |
| 4640s | trap played |
| 4644s | oh okay aiming for the the ton so |
| 4647s | perhaps |
| 4648s | his explosive trap can activate |
| 4652s | yeah i think it makes sense |
| 4655s | and he can piercing maybe the |
| 4658s | poor health lyok |
| 4660s | and then just hero power the multicaster |
| 4663s | instead and that's a decent setup to |
| 4665s | make sure he doesn't take any damage |
| 4666s | from this board |
| 4671s | oh face okay |
| 4673s | doesn't care about multicaster going |
| 4675s | face potentially i think that's |
| 4677s | reasonable |
| 4686s | i think uh superfake can get his own |
| 4688s | tavis quest reward now |
| 4696s | his first concern though with clearing |
| 4698s | this board |
| 4703s | or at least enough of it to isolate that |
| 4704s | tabish make sure that the freezing will |
| 4707s | go off on that |
| 4710s | hero power |
| 4712s | arcane shot play tavish i think he's on |
| 4714s | one more spell right |
| 4718s | i think so i'm not quite sure |
| 4720s | yeah okay oh there we go |
| 4723s | hurricane shot face played tavish |
| 4726s | played |
| 4727s | a lot of one-cost spells and animal |
| 4728s | companions in between every single one |
| 4730s | and you know this could be plenty of |
| 4733s | huffers this could be game ending damage |
| 4740s | but highly unlikely |
| 4743s | imagine just like four full of huffers |
| 4747s | oh yes |
| 4749s | the dream |
| 4750s | did he got the eye strap off did he get |
| 4753s | the hero power through it looks like |
| 4754s | everything is done okay |
| 4756s | that ice trap is very important part of |
| 4759s | this turn to make sure that he locks out |
| 4761s | any chance of possessing counter |
| 4763s | lethaling him because it's not |
| 4764s | impossible here right if possessing had |
| 4766s | furious howl lots of draw |
| 4769s | okay um it's not lots of draw sorry but |
| 4772s | if he had like tracking etc maybe with |
| 4775s | the rajnashan he could have dealt 22 but |
| 4777s | that's just not doable with this hand |
| 4781s | he has freezing arcane |
| 4784s | and another spell |
| 4786s | yeah that freezing is quite good |
| 4795s | yeah |
| 4796s | yeah i think possessing's locked out of |
| 4797s | this one now because he can only clear |
| 4799s | one more minion from this point and he |
| 4801s | only has |
| 4802s | one freezing oh no he doesn't even have |
| 4804s | any secrets in play right now |
| 4806s | and super fake knows it he's like come |
| 4808s | on what you're doing you can't do |
| 4810s | anything you have three mana |
| 4813s | oh there we go |
| 4816s | there are many options there with the |
| 4818s | freezing or parking shot |
| 4822s | and super fakes pulling it back after |
| 4824s | going down 02 he's now on the brink of a |
| 4827s | reverse sweep amy all your favorite |
| 4829s | things are happening the hunter mirror |
| 4831s | and a possible reverse sweep um |
| 4835s | that i think was a really good showing |
| 4837s | of the difference that the hero card |
| 4839s | tavish can make in the matchup i think |
| 4841s | it's actually very very powerful here um |
| 4844s | since both players starting at 40 health |
| 4846s | means that it's really hard to actually |
| 4848s | get a lethal purely through spells at |
| 4850s | the moment having the support of |
| 4852s | continuous animal companions and a board |
| 4855s | that's too big to deal with made the |
| 4857s | difference here for super fame for sure |
| 4859s | and then the addition of that those |
| 4862s | freezing traps to prevent |
| 4864s | um minions attack going |
| 4866s | to clear forward or |
| 4868s | face is almost really |
| 4871s | important |
| 4873s | however it does mean that super fake is |
| 4876s | left with a pretty abysmal matchup to |
| 4878s | try and win here the warlock into quest |
| 4882s | hunter now |
| 4883s | i think that this is almost unwinnable |
| 4886s | for the warlock uh but you know what's |
| 4889s | happened before |
| 4890s | i it's just really difficult because |
| 4893s | you're not allowed to play cursed cards |
| 4895s | in the early okay not allowed is a is an |
| 4897s | overstatement maybe there's a huge |
| 4899s | drawback to playing cursed cards in the |
| 4900s | early game because they do count as |
| 4903s | spells in the hunter's hand that deal |
| 4905s | damage on their turn which means that it |
| 4908s | progresses the hunter quest |
| 4910s | and it potentially means an earlier |
| 4912s | tavish however you can make the |
| 4914s | executive decision as the warlock to |
| 4916s | still play those curses and say that the |
| 4918s | damage is worth it you're gonna try and |
| 4921s | race them by going curse curse curse |
| 4923s | branson cool and try to win that way |
| 4925s | it's very difficult to get an outcome |
| 4927s | like that though so i'm really curious |
| 4929s | to see if super fake will find a |
| 4931s | different way of approaching this where |
| 4932s | he doesn't necessarily play curses in |
| 4934s | the early game |
| 4935s | it looks like he kept his whole hand |
| 4937s | including the |
| 4939s | oh it cannot see it but |
| 4941s | uh |
| 4942s | is it legendary |
| 4944s | i wonder if they will be racing in this |
| 4946s | matchup with possessive doing the quest |
| 4949s | uh hunter versus super fake hopeful uh |
| 4953s | perhaps uh dealing some damage with the |
| 4956s | curse cards and |
| 4957s | hopefully hoping that |
| 4960s | the |
| 4961s | damage outweighs the quest progression |
| 4964s | right sometimes you do have to hope |
| 4966s | against hope like that choose the lesser |
| 4968s | of two evils for possession was gonna |
| 4970s | say he had a kind of slow opening hand |
| 4973s | with all these four cost cards but that |
| 4974s | is hugely um mitigated now by the pickup |
| 4978s | of arcane shot which not only gets his |
| 4980s | quest rolling and spends the mana nicely |
| 4982s | for this turn alongside tracking it's a |
| 4984s | spell school which means that he can |
| 4985s | potentially start playing the |
| 4987s | multi-casters even if they only draw one |
| 4989s | or two cards a piece i think you're |
| 4991s | absolutely fine with that as the hunter |
| 4993s | because you want to get that tavish |
| 4995s | quest reward as soon as possible and |
| 4997s | burn down the warlock |
| 5005s | posse thinking about whether he has to |
| 5007s | use arcane shot here he technically |
| 5009s | doesn't right because next turn he |
| 5011s | probably wants to play explosive shop |
| 5013s | rather than coin out a multicaster so he |
| 5015s | has more spell schools to draw so he can |
| 5017s | actually hold arcane shot and play that |
| 5019s | with the explosive next turn the upside |
| 5022s | of playing arcane shot this turn is that |
| 5023s | if he draws a one cost card next turn he |
| 5025s | can spend his mana on that instead |
| 5031s | super fake in a |
| 5034s | in uh |
| 5035s | not very good position here but he's |
| 5037s | tapping for a card there's mistress |
| 5040s | mixtures of course and the option of |
| 5042s | tasmania |
| 5042s | uh but again the hunter |
| 5045s | with their spells at their arsenal might |
| 5048s | not be a very good time to play that |
| 5050s | card since he can't get off his curse |
| 5053s | uh |
| 5055s | combos yeah i think tamzin is very |
| 5058s | valuable later on to copy a drag below |
| 5060s | or something like that because he will |
| 5062s | need as much reach as possible to raise |
| 5064s | possession here uh the downside of |
| 5066s | playing mistress of course is once again |
| 5069s | giving a target for a quest hunter to |
| 5071s | play their spells on but i think super i |
| 5073s | was gonna say i think he kind of has to |
| 5075s | play it because hand space will start to |
| 5077s | become an issue leading into the |
| 5079s | dreadlitch tamsin turn which is a card |
| 5080s | that he definitely wants to play as soon |
| 5082s | as possible |
| 5083s | uh |
| 5085s | possessee here probably just plays |
| 5087s | explosive trap sets up for a two draw |
| 5090s | multicaster on the next turn |
| 5098s | looks like it |
| 5104s | so super fake once you can weave in a |
| 5106s | tap and then play double one drop here |
| 5109s | um the nolan then the mistress |
| 5112s | but he could also just play okani which |
| 5116s | is relatively disruptive at this point |
| 5119s | if you pick minion but i don't know |
| 5122s | maybe you are supposed to just pick |
| 5123s | spell but you know they have coin |
| 5125s | the thing is if you pick spell |
| 5127s | and then they just go coin to proc it |
| 5129s | and then piercing shot you're in a bad |
| 5131s | spot but if you pick minion and they |
| 5132s | piercing shot straight up you're in a |
| 5134s | bad spot maybe it's not a good old honey |
| 5144s | if we |
| 5146s | if super fake takes the |
| 5149s | top |
| 5150s | line |
| 5151s | he is |
| 5152s | you know of course cycling through the |
| 5153s | deck the question is what does he want |
| 5155s | to cycle for and my instinct would be to |
| 5158s | say curse bells to start the damage |
| 5160s | train rolling but is he going to play |
| 5163s | those curse spells before possessing has |
| 5165s | completed quest is the question |
| 5170s | oh it looks like he's out before playing |
| 5171s | master okani and capturing a spell |
| 5176s | okay |
| 5177s | all right |
| 5179s | so now this does introduce a bit of a |
| 5181s | mind game because if possessive thinks |
| 5183s | that is a minion counter then he doesn't |
| 5188s | oh oh |
| 5190s | he doesn't play coin |
| 5192s | huh |
| 5193s | no |
| 5195s | reaction all right like |
| 5198s | i think possession was banking on that |
| 5200s | being minions so he just played spell |
| 5202s | and didn't want to call a bluff but |
| 5204s | he deemed it not even worth testing with |
| 5207s | the coin |
| 5209s | which i don't know if i agree with i |
| 5212s | feel like |
| 5213s | it's definitely a safer place to start |
| 5215s | with coin no matter what and you know if |
| 5216s | they did counter minion then you feel |
| 5219s | sad that you wasted a mana but at least |
| 5221s | that's not an entire turn down the drain |
| 5224s | yeah uh |
| 5226s | although the coin could be later useful |
| 5228s | on if he |
| 5229s | wants to |
| 5231s | have that empowered hero power advantage |
| 5235s | it's true |
| 5239s | okay |
| 5241s | um |
| 5242s | so |
| 5243s | that's actually a huge deal for |
| 5244s | possessing that super fake chose to proc |
| 5247s | the |
| 5248s | secret because not only does it progress |
| 5250s | possesses |
| 5251s | quest it means he's now allowed to play |
| 5253s | the other explosive trap |
| 5255s | side effects |
| 5258s | trust me |
| 5260s | i think super fake only really took that |
| 5262s | attack so he could play down more |
| 5264s | minions and start to clear board right |
| 5267s | because he's making a hand space for the |
| 5269s | dreadlitch tamzin |
| 5280s | okay this is going to be |
| 5283s | three draws for possessive from the |
| 5285s | multicaster i've heard of it |
| 5296s | okay using okani to proc that |
| 5300s | secret |
| 5302s | might be useful later on if you could |
| 5304s | play it for six mana and |
| 5308s | decide to perhaps |
| 5309s | get rid of another spell by possessing |
| 5312s | or potentially another minion |
| 5315s | yeah if you can time that in such a way |
| 5317s | where it blocks a tavish from possessive |
| 5320s | the quest reward that could be very |
| 5322s | useful later on |
| 5323s | um |
| 5325s | i think super fake just looking at |
| 5327s | demonic assault plus mortal coil on the |
| 5330s | multicaster but the question is does he |
| 5332s | even want the draw from the mortal coil |
| 5334s | because he's still kind of struggling |
| 5335s | with hand space for the dreadlitch |
| 5337s | tamzin so i actually wouldn't mind |
| 5339s | seeing coil and then demonic assault |
| 5341s | here |
| 5345s | disagrees though |
| 5350s | oh it's a one drop perfect |
| 5352s | oh yay |
| 5355s | works out very nicely for super fake |
| 5357s | there |
| 5357s | um possessee |
| 5360s | still in a bit of |
| 5362s | trouble here super fake did hit a hand |
| 5365s | which was completely curse-free so he |
| 5367s | was never faced with the dilemma of |
| 5369s | whether he should progress possesses |
| 5370s | quest for him uh but possessing still |
| 5373s | has quite a bit of health to work with |
| 5375s | he has |
| 5376s | brush targets for spring the trap which |
| 5378s | will definitely go off this time |
| 5383s | and i think it's guaranteed to get him |
| 5384s | freezing plus ice trap because both |
| 5386s | explosives have been drawn at this point |
| 5397s | doesn't want to bother with the spring |
| 5398s | wants to get rid of the highest damage |
| 5400s | minion which i think is also pretty |
| 5402s | respectable |
| 5409s | oh amy as a cursed warlock player don't |
| 5411s | you hate seeing this board state with |
| 5413s | the time zone that only clears your own |
| 5415s | minions |
| 5418s | not not quite the best match up against |
| 5422s | us spell heavy decks |
| 5425s | wait |
| 5426s | oh no |
| 5429s | so if super fake expects another |
| 5431s | explosive his mistress is of course just |
| 5434s | dead upon immediately attacking |
| 5437s | um |
| 5439s | does he have to proc the explosive you |
| 5441s | think can he maybe get away with |
| 5443s | playing |
| 5445s | an okani |
| 5447s | i was thinking some oh connie plays just |
| 5450s | to get rid of another spell |
| 5452s | um |
| 5455s | uh if |
| 5457s | possessee finishes his quest and plays |
| 5459s | his legendary uh starting the whole |
| 5462s | animal companion train |
| 5464s | uh then i think super fakes hellfires |
| 5467s | and the dreadlitch would be |
| 5470s | quite useful later in the game |
| 5474s | yeah it is just gonna be the damage hero |
| 5476s | par for now since he doesn't have the |
| 5478s | hero card |
| 5479s | which is you know kind of hard to |
| 5481s | evaluate whether or not that's actually |
| 5483s | better than animal companions in the |
| 5484s | match up because it's not often that the |
| 5487s | hunter can deal like |
| 5489s | 40 damage in one turn |
| 5491s | almost impossible even |
| 5493s | 30 is already difficult to do so if you |
| 5495s | ever deal damage as hunter and leave the |
| 5498s | option for the warlock to respond with a |
| 5500s | big healing turn maybe you're in trouble |
| 5503s | but i am getting a bit of a head ahead |
| 5505s | of myself we still have of course just |
| 5507s | the okani to deal with for possessing |
| 5509s | here and |
| 5510s | he can test spell |
| 5512s | with something cheap this time not |
| 5515s | necessarily barb nuts because that's one |
| 5516s | of his precious damage spells so do you |
| 5518s | think he could maybe even test with the |
| 5520s | dunbaldar bunker |
| 5527s | oh it looks like he's going for the |
| 5531s | barbed |
| 5538s | so the bunker of course is still very |
| 5540s | useful to keep cycling secrets i believe |
| 5542s | he still has two ice drops and one |
| 5544s | freezing and duck |
| 5545s | um i |
| 5547s | find that possessing doesn't save all of |
| 5550s | his damage spells |
| 5558s | gets the nice spot of the full clear as |
| 5561s | well oh sorry yeah his quest is already |
| 5564s | done with that knowledge in mind it |
| 5566s | absolutely makes sense to just test with |
| 5568s | barb nets it's just not as necessary at |
| 5570s | this point |
| 5575s | okay so for super fake good news and bad |
| 5578s | news right good news you're allowed to |
| 5580s | play curses with no downside now |
| 5584s | uh bad news they have cabbage |
| 5592s | and maybe the no downside is not even a |
| 5594s | fair thing to say because you actually |
| 5596s | give them a spell that they can play and |
| 5599s | continue refreshing their hero power |
| 5601s | with by putting a curse in their hands |
| 5602s | so |
| 5604s | you only have half the downsides i guess |
| 5606s | is the more accurate thing to say |
| 5623s | and worse news |
| 5625s | i don't even see a way to clear this |
| 5626s | tavish |
| 5629s | no |
| 5630s | and now that he uh possessed he's drawn |
| 5632s | the raj |
| 5634s | okay there's the way my bad double |
| 5635s | abyssal |
| 5637s | yeah yeah |
| 5638s | it is very expensive to spend a whole |
| 5640s | turn just doing that but at least he |
| 5643s | doesn't take more damage from the minion |
| 5646s | here but for possessing that's two |
| 5648s | spells that he can use just handed to |
| 5650s | him on a platter to refresh the hero |
| 5652s | power two more times |
| 5654s | and like you said the rajna john can be |
| 5656s | used as well i feel like it's pretty |
| 5658s | decent here to get you know um seven |
| 5661s | extra damage through |
| 5669s | if he wants to be greedy he can wait |
| 5671s | till |
| 5672s | the raj gets 8 extra damage through but |
| 5675s | that means that this turn |
| 5677s | would be using a lot of his cheap spells |
| 5679s | to make room and i don't think the break |
| 5682s | points work as nicely so i do like the |
| 5684s | raj this turn a lot |
| 5691s | he's taking a bit of damage because of |
| 5693s | the |
| 5694s | curse cards but of course |
| 5697s | the hero power damage might outweigh |
| 5700s | that in |
| 5701s | the long game |
| 5704s | yeah for sure with these first two |
| 5705s | curses possessing actually gets a better |
| 5707s | deal out of the curses being in his hand |
| 5710s | right because they're essentially |
| 5712s | working as 4 damage each for him with |
| 5714s | the rajna jaan |
| 5716s | um plus the hero power refresh |
| 5720s | so many hunter hero powers today |
| 5723s | many shots were taken shots shot shots |
| 5726s | shot shots |
| 5729s | a pretty decent pickup for super fake to |
| 5731s | test ice trap with at least |
| 5734s | bread baker giving him some much needed |
| 5739s | feeling |
| 5743s | okay hellfire for that clear |
| 5754s | yeah i don't see a reason that |
| 5756s | possession wouldn't start with the |
| 5757s | multicaster this right yeah i like |
| 5759s | that's this a lot i've heard of it |
| 5767s | i don't think this is a game where you |
| 5769s | pivot to be stalker tavish i think the |
| 5772s | full damage game plan is looking very |
| 5773s | reasonable with super fake already down |
| 5775s | to 26 and having used his one of uh |
| 5778s | sorry one of his two bakers |
| 5780s | barack obama for even more cycle |
| 5785s | oh just takes archaic is this lethal am |
| 5787s | i not |
| 5788s | no |
| 5789s | continuous |
| 5791s | damage to the face |
| 5793s | yeah |
| 5794s | yeah it makes sense actually it's a very |
| 5796s | clean |
| 5797s | set up he has so much mana to spend |
| 5800s | already even without the barracuda bin |
| 5802s | and much refreshing |
| 5804s | to do another arcane shot or barbed |
| 5806s | wires yeah it's just insane super fake |
| 5810s | can heal a little bit with his zakul but |
| 5814s | possessing here i think is going to |
| 5815s | deliberately stay on nine cards in hand |
| 5817s | so there's no more than one curse that |
| 5819s | can enter his hand at the moment oh okay |
| 5821s | never mind he's going down to eight |
| 5831s | eight cards but plays on ice drops so i |
| 5833s | think it's a nice middle ground right |
| 5834s | you're still kind of making it awkward |
| 5836s | for them to play curses if they don't |
| 5838s | come in the form of minions but we do |
| 5840s | see super fake does have the minion |
| 5842s | curse available |
| 5849s | although i feel like this is lethal for |
| 5851s | possessing i'm just not gonna count but |
| 5854s | like because the wound chop can generate |
| 5856s | him a one health minion and then you |
| 5858s | have the piercing shot it has to be |
| 5860s | lethal i'm not counting here |
| 5862s | okay |
| 5863s | just trust |
| 5865s | stress oh and it's a bit unfortunate |
| 5869s | because super big just played his kill |
| 5872s | that |
| 5873s | had potential for healing him cursed |
| 5875s | cards but then again |
| 5877s | uh |
| 5878s | you know the double the uh here the uh |
| 5881s | hero power damage |
| 5883s | kind of negates that a bit |
| 5886s | yeah he didn't stack enough curses to |
| 5888s | make it so that the zukul healed enough |
| 5890s | right it only healed uh three at that |
| 5892s | point he had the potential to heal seven |
| 5894s | instead by playing syracuse instead of |
| 5896s | zola but that is probably not going to |
| 5899s | help his overall long-term game plan |
| 5901s | here just hoping to survive longer and |
| 5903s | get more value didn't work out though |
| 5905s | because the matchup is really tough for |
| 5907s | the warlock there and as possessive kind |
| 5909s | of waves and floats and flies away with |
| 5912s | his hands we have crowned um the first |
| 5915s | victor of the day however that's not the |
| 5918s | end right possessing still has to win |
| 5920s | one more series to qualify through to |
| 5922s | sunday and super fake is not out just |
| 5925s | yet he's just gonna go down to the |
| 5926s | elimination match |
| 5929s | right there is still a chance uh for him |
| 5932s | to get some points advice to the |
| 5935s | occasion |
| 5938s | oh amy your first series cast on grand |
| 5941s | masters and you got the full five game |
| 5944s | series almost a reverse sweep how are |
| 5946s | you feeling after that one |
| 5948s | i mean it is uh fantastic to watch all |
| 5951s | the action and see um what the mirrors |
| 5954s | uh gameplay is like i especially enjoy |
| 5957s | although it was a bit short uh the |
| 5961s | um |
| 5962s | the hunter versus ping mage match up |
| 5964s | matchup |
| 5968s | i think that one was really cool as well |
| 5970s | i'd agree that's my highlight of the |
| 5972s | series but of course we still have |
| 5974s | plenty more series to be played out |
| 5976s | today four from group a and all five |
| 5979s | from group b once again in grand masters |
| 5982s | last call don't forget all the regions |
| 5984s | are melded into one so plenty of |
| 5986s | hearthstone action still to be had we're |
| 5988s | just gonna go to a quick break right |
| 5990s | after this it is going to be habukabu vs |
| 5993s | mighty |
| 5997s | [Music] |
| 6002s | [Applause] |
| 6007s | [Music] |
| 6012s | in the darkest of seasons where ruthless |
| 6015s | eyes gawk for horrific reasons |
| 6019s | for a hidden hand has struck me down |
| 6023s | with such ruthlessness |
| 6026s | so |
| 6027s | deep and profound |
| 6030s | then he comes with his mullockian scowl |
| 6038s | to uncover the truth |
| 6040s | of murder most foul |
| 6043s | the anima drifts across the floor |
| 6046s | highlighting the creatures who walked |
| 6049s | through my door |
| 6051s | the motives are as black as night |
| 6054s | avarice power revenge and blight |
| 6060s | we watch the hero |
| 6063s | uncover the clues |
| 6065s | that lead to the truth |
| 6068s | behind this dark blues |
| 6072s | join us here with the grimm and empires |
| 6077s | choose your power without heavenly bias |
| 6081s | for at the end |
| 6082s | they will burn in the fire |
| 6086s | when it is known whose slave |
| 6089s | tenacious the sire |
| 6092s | [Music] |
| 6106s | [Music] |
| 6111s | so |
| 6114s | [Music] |
| 6118s | [Applause] |
| 6120s | [Music] |
| 6132s | do |
| 6137s | so |
| 6138s | [Music] |
| 6148s | [Music] |
| 6189s | welcome back everybody to hearthstone |
| 6191s | grand masters last call it is day one of |
| 6194s | week one and we have just witnessed a |
| 6196s | win from reigning world champion |
| 6198s | possessing over super fake in a nail |
| 6201s | biter um three to two series amy uh we |
| 6204s | are going to have yet another banger for |
| 6207s | the very next match here it's just so |
| 6209s | nice to see the melding of the regions |
| 6211s | as we once again have an apac versus eu |
| 6214s | showdown |
| 6216s | it is we have haboo gabby versus mighty |
| 6220s | uh coming up and both players are |
| 6225s | one |
| 6226s | have a decorated list of achievements um |
| 6229s | we know that mighty is |
| 6231s | one the grand masters playoffs i believe |
| 6233s | last season |
| 6235s | and then we have of course um |
| 6240s | who uh |
| 6242s | recently won the master summer |
| 6245s | championship |
| 6246s | yeah uh recently one master summer and |
| 6249s | also had amazing runs throughout the two |
| 6252s | most recent masters tours just |
| 6254s | unstoppable this guy it feels like |
| 6257s | he and mighty have already both |
| 6260s | qualified through to the world |
| 6261s | championship later on so playing mostly |
| 6264s | for pride and prize money these two um |
| 6267s | alongside possessi but they're |
| 6269s | definitely still putting in the work as |
| 6271s | i heard uh that mighty is you know not |
| 6275s | necessarily feeling too good against |
| 6277s | potentially facing super fake's lineup |
| 6279s | here and it makes sense right because he |
| 6281s | has this more aggressively oriented |
| 6283s | lineup with the boat rogue with the fel |
| 6285s | demon hunter and that doesn't line up so |
| 6287s | well against super fake's sort of |
| 6290s | control decks so what's really important |
| 6292s | for mighty here i think is to get the |
| 6294s | win against habukabu so he can face |
| 6296s | possession later on but habu is not |
| 6299s | really so far from that as well in a |
| 6301s | very similar boat here with a shaman |
| 6303s | that could potentially struggle against |
| 6305s | the um sort of control lineup from super |
| 6309s | fake later on so really between these |
| 6311s | two players they're fighting for the |
| 6313s | right to face possessi and avoid super |
| 6315s | fake more than anything |
| 6317s | right |
| 6319s | oh let's just go over a bit more about |
| 6322s | habukabu as uh |
| 6324s | what we said he's the summer champion of |
| 6327s | masters tour |
| 6328s | um but i also have three consecutive |
| 6331s | masters to our win making him a part of |
| 6334s | the top eight |
| 6335s | record is 26 to 8 uh which is like |
| 6339s | equivalent to 76.5 |
| 6341s | nothing |
| 6342s | to |
| 6343s | underestimate |
| 6345s | and as you said |
| 6346s | oh go on |
| 6348s | that 76.5 just blows my mind that's the |
| 6351s | highest number i've seen in a master's |
| 6354s | tour win rate of course it is narrowed |
| 6355s | down to just this year but 2022 is |
| 6357s | definitely hakugamu's year he hasn't had |
| 6360s | a bad tournament all year that's just |
| 6363s | what it straight comes down to and he is |
| 6366s | hoping to continue that streak here in |
| 6369s | last call gonna start off with this |
| 6370s | beast hunter which is different to the |
| 6373s | two hunters we've seen a while ago amy |
| 6375s | um it is however going to be beast |
| 6377s | hunter for both our players so is this a |
| 6380s | hunter mirror that you're looking |
| 6381s | forward to seeing again |
| 6382s | i am always looking forward to seeing |
| 6384s | the mirror and how those play out we |
| 6386s | have three decks that are |
| 6388s | well of the same class so it's quite |
| 6390s | interesting |
| 6392s | i'm interested to see what they will ban |
| 6394s | from each other |
| 6396s | but |
| 6397s | before we get into that uh let's |
| 6399s | introduce |
| 6400s | and talk more a bit about mighty again |
| 6403s | he won the aipac grand masters |
| 6407s | but he also has a very high uh |
| 6409s | percentage in terms of his uh |
| 6412s | grand master's record 73 73.3 percent |
| 6415s | which is |
| 6416s | uh quite amazing masters tour 54.5 |
| 6421s | yeah um mighty didn't really have too |
| 6424s | many seasons throughout grand masters in |
| 6425s | fact he only had one prior to this and |
| 6428s | qualified through to worlds immediately |
| 6430s | from it that's why that um |
| 6432s | that win rate is definitely impressive |
| 6435s | here means he just needs one really to |
| 6438s | make a big splash but we'll see if he |
| 6440s | can continue that amazing win streak and |
| 6443s | it is going to be that hunter uh mirror |
| 6447s | as we were talking about and it's |
| 6449s | definitely a bit more of a fast one |
| 6452s | compared to the quest hunter here we |
| 6454s | could see both players getting off to a |
| 6456s | nice start with a one drop into doggy |
| 6458s | biscuit which can actually be a huge |
| 6461s | deciding factor in here because while |
| 6463s | the big combos with the harpoon gun and |
| 6466s | early mountain bearer is very important |
| 6468s | i think a lot of people underestimate |
| 6470s | just how crucial it is to make sure you |
| 6473s | get down that early board and the |
| 6474s | incremental chip damage at the beginning |
| 6476s | of the game |
| 6482s | [Music] |
| 6487s | uh we |
| 6489s | have a different list on either side |
| 6492s | here though so it's a little bit um |
| 6494s | like not exactly the same pan out as we |
| 6498s | saw right with the first hunter mirror |
| 6500s | with exactly the same 40 cards here |
| 6502s | there is some room for variation |
| 6506s | there is |
| 6507s | i |
| 6508s | i'm trying to let's figure out what the |
| 6510s | different cards are but i see that while |
| 6513s | habu gabu has the click clocker |
| 6516s | for a potential one drop which gives him |
| 6519s | some mech energy and plus that defined |
| 6522s | shield of course |
| 6523s | versus mighty's zero devouring swarm um |
| 6527s | which would might might be useful since |
| 6530s | um |
| 6531s | it can attack |
| 6533s | enemy minions and then return any that |
| 6536s | die to his hand |
| 6538s | yeah that is a card that can definitely |
| 6540s | be good to get you extra um azure and |
| 6543s | sabers i think is the most important one |
| 6545s | uh sunken saber i should say to get |
| 6547s | beasts down um |
| 6550s | sooner rather than later but |
| 6552s | my goodness that's an amazing opening |
| 6554s | hand especially when you're on the play |
| 6556s | just going slitherspear into doggy |
| 6557s | biscuit there's nothing mighty can do to |
| 6559s | stop that opener and it means that habu |
| 6562s | can get his pick of early trades in his |
| 6564s | favor question is whether he wants to |
| 6566s | keep the okani which is also a pretty |
| 6568s | good curve option and given that he has |
| 6570s | a decent chance of drawing into a three |
| 6572s | drop to fill out the gap |
| 6578s | mighty also has the option to mulligan |
| 6581s | or perhaps use trekking to dig for |
| 6583s | answers against the vicious lotuspear |
| 6585s | and looks like he just mulligans his |
| 6587s | entire hand and gets |
| 6589s | well uh the harpoon gun for a weapon |
| 6593s | potentially for a clear |
| 6596s | mighty with the shake of his head i |
| 6598s | think because he saw the full kit from |
| 6600s | habu you already kind of know that |
| 6601s | you're in for a doggie biscuit opener |
| 6604s | which is not a great thing to see but |
| 6606s | mighty does have the double canitron |
| 6608s | start which is in some instances good |
| 6611s | but he doesn't actually hit a one drop |
| 6613s | minion here so only going to dredge |
| 6616s | a tracking i don't know these are not |
| 6619s | great |
| 6624s | is tracking continuously oh no |
| 6628s | yeah |
| 6629s | it's a bit problematic for mighty also |
| 6631s | that he's drawn mountain bear because |
| 6633s | that's a lower chance for him to |
| 6635s | actually cheat that out either from |
| 6637s | harpoon gun or from azshara and saber |
| 6640s | later on |
| 6641s | um the harpoon gun at the moment because |
| 6643s | mighty's seen his dredge options two out |
| 6645s | of three knows there's no beast at the |
| 6647s | bottom either and there's still no beast |
| 6649s | he's gonna put the varring swarm at the |
| 6651s | top and hope that harpoon gun on turn |
| 6653s | three that the latest card at the bottom |
| 6655s | now is a beast that's actually useful to |
| 6657s | him but if not he can fall behind very |
| 6659s | quickly here |
| 6664s | ooh phelan for habu |
| 6667s | because then he can play that and then |
| 6669s | dredge a colossal a lot of which are |
| 6671s | beasts |
| 6672s | yeah and continue uh |
| 6674s | taking advantage of the board uh |
| 6677s | that slithers beer in particular getting |
| 6680s | a lot of value so far taking down two of |
| 6683s | uh his uh almighty's beasts |
| 6688s | just pretty much the best opening you |
| 6690s | can hope for as avugabu i think he did |
| 6693s | end up choosing selective breeder which |
| 6695s | means that he is not going for |
| 6698s | the early colossal game plan but instead |
| 6700s | the azsharin saber game plan because he |
| 6702s | does have saber in there which he can |
| 6706s | immediately |
| 6708s | if there's something to trade in to get |
| 6709s | that death rattle there then the |
| 6710s | selective breeder can get him that |
| 6713s | saber |
| 6715s | and just means that he can get the big |
| 6717s | beast in his deck even more consistently |
| 6719s | and it's actually a good deal for habu |
| 6721s | that he has the hydrala done in hand |
| 6724s | because he's now guaranteed to get from |
| 6725s | the big beasts either mountain bear or |
| 6728s | king crush which are all better outcomes |
| 6730s | than hydraladon when pulled from the |
| 6732s | deck in my opinion |
| 6736s | my tear in a tough spot uh |
| 6738s | oh going for harpoon gun just to get |
| 6741s | some damage into that slither spear |
| 6743s | hopefully discover something but |
| 6747s | you can get a beast you can draw a card |
| 6750s | but that does not take care of the |
| 6753s | the ultimate value minion |
| 6756s | on hub |
| 6756s | side of the board |
| 6758s | it's just terrible revive pet doesn't |
| 6761s | even pull anything at the moment habu |
| 6763s | gets to land the first okani and if you |
| 6766s | take minion counter there's almost |
| 6768s | nothing mighty can do |
| 6770s | um to remove that because how do you |
| 6772s | kill akani when you don't have a board |
| 6775s | like you don't |
| 6781s | yeah i just took a look at mighty's list |
| 6783s | again he's not even running a quick shot |
| 6785s | so he doesn't have the option to maybe |
| 6787s | find that from tracking and then kill |
| 6789s | off the okani that way just needs to |
| 6792s | sink a minion into that which to be fair |
| 6794s | the peasant isn't super relevant here |
| 6796s | you can just sacrifice that to remove |
| 6799s | the okani aura |
| 6805s | oh no okay |
| 6807s | but taking six damage with the face |
| 6811s | oh dear |
| 6812s | he at least found mountain bear so |
| 6814s | something strong to do next turn for |
| 6816s | mighty but man he is just dying to hero |
| 6819s | powers at this point he can hide behind |
| 6821s | the taunt all he wants but |
| 6823s | just needs to press the button a couple |
| 6825s | times and mighty will be done |
| 6827s | it's true |
| 6829s | oh did he take the bear was that |
| 6834s | that's going to be discounted so |
| 6836s | playable alongside hero power next turn |
| 6838s | for habu |
| 6840s | everything coming together to the point |
| 6842s | where he doesn't even want the selective |
| 6844s | breeder he wants to just get the bear |
| 6847s | down |
| 6848s | sorry get the hero powers down and put |
| 6851s | mighty on a clock |
| 6853s | well |
| 6854s | the taunt from the mighty bear will stop |
| 6856s | the bleeding a little bit and with the |
| 6859s | death rattle the tutu cubs would uh |
| 6862s | continue helping but again as you said |
| 6864s | he's on a timer uh the clock is ticking |
| 6867s | especially with havoc |
| 6868s | uh consistent hero power damage |
| 6871s | and |
| 6875s | we're not going for mountain bear just |
| 6877s | goes for |
| 6878s | the uh |
| 6881s | dunkin saber instead which he can get a |
| 6884s | copy of with selected breeder |
| 6890s | interesting that he didn't choose to |
| 6892s | swing with a harpoon gun to just get |
| 6893s | that to the top of the deck so it means |
| 6895s | that hubble really wants to get a copy |
| 6898s | of it with selective breeder rather than |
| 6900s | drawing the card itself |
| 6918s | testing okani spell first |
| 6924s | uh |
| 6926s | revive pet would be interesting if he |
| 6928s | had already played mountain bear but you |
| 6930s | can still take that and hope to revive |
| 6932s | the mountain bear later on |
| 6935s | that's true |
| 6937s | the problem with selective breeder here |
| 6938s | is that if he does get the saber it |
| 6940s | actually can't kill itself off all the |
| 6942s | taunts have too little attack |
| 6951s | oh just going to |
| 6954s | play selective breeder to remove the |
| 6956s | okani aura and instead go for |
| 6959s | oh i thought it would be mountain bear |
| 6960s | but |
| 6962s | trying to get the saber immediately all |
| 6965s | right |
| 6978s | almighty is in huge trouble anyone can |
| 6980s | see that but he does have this mountain |
| 6982s | bear that he can hide behind |
| 6984s | indefinitely |
| 6989s | that's true um |
| 6994s | if it survives or the taunt survives you |
| 6996s | can perhaps put a doggie vista on it to |
| 6998s | continue uh to stop the bleeding but |
| 7001s | then again uh we have some minions like |
| 7006s | who's oh mountain bear coming up and |
| 7008s | we haven't seen the appearance of king |
| 7010s | crush yet so that's something to worry |
| 7012s | about if the game goes that long |
| 7015s | yahavu i think |
| 7017s | has a very good chance of getting the |
| 7019s | king crush here and because he has |
| 7021s | hydraulodon which is playable from hand |
| 7024s | he has a lot of capability to clear the |
| 7026s | mountain bear from hand as well |
| 7031s | might he just doesn't have a choice |
| 7033s | though |
| 7038s | whether or not he pops the saber is the |
| 7040s | question |
| 7041s | if it's king crush it's kind of the same |
| 7043s | outcome whether it's there at the end of |
| 7046s | his turn or at the start of habu's turn |
| 7048s | but if it's mountain bear you are giving |
| 7050s | like habu an additional attack so mighty |
| 7053s | just goes face here now we're gonna see |
| 7055s | the hydraladon |
| 7059s | double sabres which will guarantee can |
| 7062s | crush right |
| 7069s | oh no mountain bear well the second one |
| 7073s | how it's going to get yeah |
| 7076s | okay |
| 7078s | and that is going to go face for the |
| 7080s | lethal yeah |
| 7083s | very nicely planned out from habu in the |
| 7085s | late game there honestly he did have a |
| 7087s | perfect start handed to him on a silver |
| 7089s | platter but how to navigate the mid to |
| 7091s | end game was a bit trickier i was |
| 7094s | wondering if he was ever supposed to |
| 7096s | play down a mountain bear but he found |
| 7099s | lions that let him go for the back to |
| 7101s | back azsharan sabres |
| 7103s | with the selective breeder even with |
| 7105s | anukani slotted in there which meant |
| 7107s | that he was able to get the king crush |
| 7110s | for lethal a bit later on uh it was a |
| 7113s | nice spot there and for mighty just |
| 7115s | really rough right he just didn't have |
| 7117s | anything much he could do with his early |
| 7119s | hand |
| 7120s | yeah the after the again like he as you |
| 7123s | said before he knows that happy coward |
| 7125s | had a great start and with that smithers |
| 7128s | uh so there's beer |
| 7131s | getting a lot of value and then |
| 7132s | eventually um making mighty use his |
| 7135s | weapon to attack it i believe twice |
| 7139s | that continue to take |
| 7141s | continue to uh |
| 7143s | put damage to the face |
| 7146s | just a little bit too much for mighty to |
| 7149s | have to deal with but that is of course |
| 7151s | just game one in the book so far uh we |
| 7154s | did see that both players band each |
| 7156s | other's shamans out which makes a lot of |
| 7157s | sense i think because both players are |
| 7159s | going for more of board-based decks a |
| 7162s | slightly more tempo approach uh shaman |
| 7164s | is a deck that you really cannot afford |
| 7166s | to leave up because they can freeze your |
| 7168s | board they can clear it pretty |
| 7170s | consistently |
| 7171s | with the firemancer fleurgal and so |
| 7175s | i think it's a clear option for banning |
| 7177s | away but we are gonna see one of the |
| 7179s | decks that both players have different |
| 7182s | come into action here habukabu has his |
| 7184s | big spelmage one of his signature decks |
| 7187s | in recent months which mighty does not |
| 7190s | have he has a fel demon hunter instead |
| 7196s | that's correct we see with big spell |
| 7198s | mage especially we have that reckless |
| 7200s | apprentice magister don grabs |
| 7203s | rune of arch mage |
| 7205s | and if he can get into the late game |
| 7208s | it'll be |
| 7210s | very tough for mighty to deal with |
| 7212s | depending on what he chooses of course |
| 7214s | he has that um |
| 7217s | silence card to i believe it's two mana |
| 7222s | in the case we go up against hunter |
| 7230s | we do see mighty going for the hunter |
| 7233s | again which is |
| 7236s | a pretty interesting matchup into big |
| 7238s | spell mage because generally the hunter |
| 7241s | can deal a lot of damage in the early |
| 7243s | game if they hit you know one of those |
| 7244s | one drops and doggy must get or ramming |
| 7246s | mount which is before the key turns from |
| 7249s | the mage which is generally six mana in |
| 7252s | order to get that belinda or uh |
| 7255s | barbaric sorceress down but whether the |
| 7257s | hunter can close out the game is |
| 7259s | actually the question because playing |
| 7261s | big beast doesn't necessarily get there |
| 7263s | against mage that has the capability of |
| 7266s | getting armor from their deep water |
| 7268s | evoker they can freeze some mountain |
| 7270s | bears with amplified snow flurry later |
| 7272s | on but mighty does have an amazing |
| 7275s | opening hand so if anything can beat the |
| 7277s | belinda start it is this |
| 7282s | oh my gain again this leather spear uh |
| 7285s | perhaps pairing with the doggie biscuit |
| 7287s | depending um a hand that perhaps he |
| 7291s | wished he had last game |
| 7298s | using to go canine atron instead of |
| 7301s | doggy biscuit which means that his uh |
| 7304s | slither spear potentially dies unless |
| 7306s | mighty wants to coin and trade doggy |
| 7308s | biscuits so something gets rushed |
| 7310s | but then it doesn't even work if it hits |
| 7312s | the click clocker so he is just gonna |
| 7314s | let this other spear die off here |
| 7316s | holding onto coin for an earlier pet |
| 7319s | collector i'd have to imagine |
| 7326s | so habu can go mailbox dancer and ram |
| 7330s | kill off the slither spear looks pretty |
| 7333s | clean |
| 7334s | uh get that coin in hand for turn five |
| 7336s | belinda |
| 7347s | interesting spot because mighty can try |
| 7349s | to utilize the coin he gets from the |
| 7351s | death rattle of mailbox dancer here if |
| 7353s | he wants to play pet collector |
| 7355s | immediately not that it's particularly |
| 7358s | good but you can get the saber on board |
| 7360s | it can value trade the two one and as |
| 7363s | soon as that dies you can use the |
| 7365s | harpoon gun to get that sunken saber |
| 7368s | maybe it is worth it especially since |
| 7370s | you are on a clock to use the coins |
| 7372s | anyway as mighty to play around the |
| 7373s | barbaric sorceress |
| 7382s | okay he is going for the plate |
| 7387s | you are so cute |
| 7395s | abu has a pretty decent response of the |
| 7397s | reckless apprentice to clear off some of |
| 7399s | this pressure |
| 7400s | uh but is that actually something that |
| 7403s | mighty wants right because if the saber |
| 7405s | dies he can go harpoon gun and get the |
| 7409s | sunken saber ready for the next turn |
| 7413s | all right |
| 7414s | oh hero pow going off there getting red |
| 7418s | uh popping that divine shield |
| 7421s | it's not the giver of that minion |
| 7423s | uh |
| 7428s | if mighty had one more mana we could go |
| 7431s | he could go harpoon gun trade and then |
| 7434s | play the sunken saber off the top right |
| 7436s | but |
| 7437s | because that's not doable gonna go |
| 7438s | tracking first doesn't hit |
| 7445s | kinda see if there's anything cool he |
| 7447s | can do with the devouring swarm |
| 7451s | later on with his sunken saber that |
| 7453s | could be worth thinking about |
| 7455s | because the mountain bear is just too |
| 7456s | expensive at the moment right |
| 7473s | i was rambling about this turn rather |
| 7475s | than harpoon gun i think that makes |
| 7477s | sense right because he's able to then |
| 7479s | instead use harpoon gun next turn then |
| 7483s | trade his doggie biscuit and then you |
| 7485s | got he he would get the sunken saber |
| 7487s | still playable all on the same turn next |
| 7490s | turn |
| 7491s | do you take me for an ordinary mage |
| 7495s | melinda though |
| 7499s | and nine |
| 7510s | how will mighty deal with this |
| 7516s | i'd have to imagine with the sunken |
| 7518s | saber he can go face with harpoon gun |
| 7521s | dredge the sunken saber trade doggie |
| 7524s | biscuit and then play the one cost saber |
| 7533s | um and then that plus the pet collector |
| 7536s | can kill belinda |
| 7538s | i wonder |
| 7542s | is there some other line |
| 7549s | i'm not seeing much that i like better |
| 7551s | so peace |
| 7555s | quickly |
| 7559s | i mean sunken saber might be |
| 7562s | useful |
| 7564s | uh just for that rush potential plus the |
| 7567s | death rod was something something from |
| 7569s | his deck he opted for was it king crush |
| 7573s | oh |
| 7575s | he doesn't want to bother dealing with |
| 7576s | belinda just wants to get the king crush |
| 7579s | as soon as possible okay it's a bold |
| 7581s | approach but |
| 7583s | i think it's very reasonable right |
| 7585s | because if he were to clear the belinda |
| 7587s | he actually misses six damage face that |
| 7589s | turn and then he leaves himself |
| 7592s | potentially vulnerable to just |
| 7594s | ruin dealing with the board to um |
| 7598s | be |
| 7603s | a potential just come back from habu |
| 7606s | right if he's able to freeze something |
| 7607s | but mighty you can already see he is so |
| 7609s | pumped right because habu is not |
| 7612s | protecting his face there's no ice |
| 7614s | barrier there's no taunt and nothing to |
| 7616s | stop king crush at the moment from just |
| 7618s | ending the game even though habu has set |
| 7621s | up his own lethal |
| 7623s | yeah potentially forcing |
| 7626s | uh the |
| 7628s | uh |
| 7630s | to |
| 7631s | clear his minion |
| 7633s | but he does |
| 7636s | very nicely done for you |
| 7641s | is he going to be him as well |
| 7646s | all right |
| 7647s | that was a very clever spot from mighty |
| 7649s | i think |
| 7650s | i myself was tunnel visioning on the |
| 7653s | regular game plan of get your azure and |
| 7655s | saber pull the beast and then |
| 7658s | do the regular game plan right which |
| 7660s | would have been powerful on that one |
| 7663s | turn to clear belinda but was it |
| 7664s | immediately game-winning not necessarily |
| 7667s | if the saber had |
| 7669s | uh pulled a mountain bear or hydraulodon |
| 7671s | instead of king crush mighty was still |
| 7673s | looking at two or three turns to set up |
| 7675s | and being potentially vulnerable to a |
| 7677s | freeze or a rune but with the setup of |
| 7680s | the king crush um given that he had the |
| 7682s | option from the dredge mighty stopped |
| 7684s | himself from going for the autopilot |
| 7686s | play thought about the situation found a |
| 7688s | better line and got rewarded |
| 7691s | yeah definitely as you said before it is |
| 7693s | a very bold play uh in fact they're not |
| 7695s | dealing with uh that 10 damage on board |
| 7699s | and then later on having uh habukabu |
| 7702s | instead face uh the might of mighty |
| 7708s | it does mean both our players have |
| 7709s | gotten a win now with their beast hunter |
| 7712s | and that means there is less potential |
| 7714s | for mirrors now we're seeing the sort of |
| 7716s | differences in the lineup come out to |
| 7718s | play with that mage but abu is shifting |
| 7720s | over to his boat rogue now which could |
| 7723s | face either mighty's own rogue or the |
| 7726s | demon hunter which i think it makes a |
| 7728s | lot of sense for habu to shift at this |
| 7729s | point because |
| 7730s | the mirror is of course 50 50 and then |
| 7732s | into demon hunter the rogue is a solid |
| 7735s | favorite in my opinion |
| 7737s | yeah |
| 7738s | we have all these pirate |
| 7740s | road cars etc and |
| 7743s | combining them in the early game with |
| 7745s | the masquerade card for example and |
| 7747s | perhaps the wild pawn knoll package |
| 7750s | uh |
| 7751s | it could really |
| 7752s | create a board and |
| 7754s | be very good with tempo early on |
| 7757s | of course mighty is well not of course |
| 7759s | but mighty is opting for the about rogue |
| 7763s | attack as well |
| 7765s | which is another a mirror match from |
| 7768s | these two players |
| 7769s | that's right not only is it a mirror it |
| 7772s | is identical lists uh straight down the |
| 7775s | line 30 cards the same which is not a |
| 7777s | big shocker i think boat rogue is one of |
| 7780s | the few decks in the meta where the |
| 7782s | player base has generally agreed upon |
| 7784s | this is the 30 cards that you play there |
| 7786s | is no more room for a text ever since |
| 7790s | vanessa vancleef kind of fell off in |
| 7792s | favor of blademaster akani |
| 7794s | most people have been playing this exact |
| 7796s | list and it means that we are going to |
| 7799s | potentially see a very swingy game where |
| 7804s | the amount of wild panels either player |
| 7806s | finds is very important of course but |
| 7808s | also how our players choose to go for |
| 7811s | their damage distribution right because |
| 7813s | ever since mr smite went up to seven |
| 7815s | mana i think the sort of burst oriented |
| 7818s | game plan became a bit less achievable |
| 7821s | and now it's become more of a fight for |
| 7823s | board |
| 7833s | hero power from maestra which is not |
| 7836s | particularly good i think mighty got the |
| 7838s | slightly better end of the stick here |
| 7840s | because he has something to do on turn |
| 7842s | two if not just trade and i do favor the |
| 7844s | hero power over knoll here because i |
| 7846s | don't think this is a matchup where you |
| 7848s | should be playing out knolls as soon as |
| 7850s | possible because they can easily be |
| 7853s | value traded by noel and shadow stop on |
| 7855s | the other side and it makes more sense |
| 7857s | in my opinion to wait for it to get even |
| 7859s | cheaper mighty disagrees though |
| 7872s | interesting hand for habu where he |
| 7874s | doesn't have |
| 7876s | a clean |
| 7877s | knoll kill here like if he wants to he |
| 7879s | can wild pawn oil trade prep wicked |
| 7882s | stamp to kill but that is extremely |
| 7884s | expensive a lot of resources |
| 7887s | right |
| 7888s | now |
| 7890s | so i think he could wait maybe play |
| 7892s | reconnaissance here see what he gets |
| 7895s | he was hovering coin there which is |
| 7896s | super interesting to me because i feel |
| 7898s | like the coin is very valuable to save |
| 7900s | for early crabatoa here but |
| 7903s | we'll see what he goes for |
| 7910s | okay the battle ram is nuts right that |
| 7913s | gets the krabatoa cheaper |
| 7916s | that's true |
| 7922s | nice oh that's a turn three krabatoa for |
| 7926s | habu not good news for mighty |
| 7932s | uh |
| 7934s | these are all off curve |
| 7938s | only just take the kodo and hold on to |
| 7940s | it |
| 7942s | okay peddler to trade |
| 7944s | business |
| 7948s | almighty i think has to shadowstep his |
| 7950s | null here after attacking to give it |
| 7952s | more health |
| 7953s | there's just no better shadow step |
| 7955s | target in the near future i don't think |
| 7957s | he should be getting greedy so i like |
| 7958s | the line a lot |
| 7969s | using to play it here |
| 7971s | i actually don't know whether or not |
| 7973s | it's better to play or hold it if you |
| 7974s | expect kravito because |
| 7976s | the knoll of course is dead to kravatoa |
| 7978s | but at least it takes down both of the |
| 7980s | claws |
| 7981s | in the meantime |
| 7984s | yeah it's true |
| 7986s | you hate to see it as mighty |
| 7989s | but he has a decent answer with wicked |
| 7991s | stab tooth for the honorable kill |
| 7994s | oh or he could prep vessel now |
| 8001s | ah it's so close amy i actually prefer |
| 8004s | the the clear of wicked stabbing tooth |
| 8006s | what do you think |
| 8010s | that's possible uh |
| 8014s | gosh |
| 8018s | it's a very passive play but i think |
| 8020s | it's wise for mighty to not allow |
| 8023s | himself to take an additional 10 damage |
| 8026s | face um rather just to get extra three |
| 8029s | threes on board here he also gets |
| 8031s | honorable kill where it might not be |
| 8033s | possible going from next turn forward |
| 8041s | when he chooses a quick shot |
| 8043s | or |
| 8044s | potentially |
| 8046s | helping to clear any minions that havoc |
| 8048s | might play next |
| 8050s | right |
| 8051s | i also |
| 8054s | i think the quick shot also has a pretty |
| 8056s | decent chance of drawing mighty a card |
| 8058s | here because he can actually play three |
| 8060s | cards next turn and if he continues to |
| 8062s | draw cheap cards that could be a pretty |
| 8064s | clutch for more resources later but um |
| 8067s | moving on to ha booster and like you |
| 8069s | said the cutlass is an option if he |
| 8072s | wants to proc |
| 8074s | the |
| 8075s | um |
| 8076s | like combo on the gun fishing or just |
| 8078s | trade it and then proc combo instead |
| 8080s | with the wild panel |
| 8092s | oh yes leo connie strikes again |
| 8101s | whoa |
| 8102s | that's such an |
| 8104s | nuts draw like he can go vessel and gun |
| 8106s | fishing this turn |
| 8109s | 12 damage worth of stealth minions that |
| 8112s | habu can do nothing to stop |
| 8116s | at the moment oh beautiful |
| 8123s | oh |
| 8125s | you're just stealthing there |
| 8128s | looking at him |
| 8129s | okay |
| 8141s | uh mighty getting more potential for |
| 8144s | card draw |
| 8145s | yeah |
| 8146s | um so he can choose to just double trade |
| 8149s | the okani to make sure that the spell |
| 8151s | goes off no matter what or he can just |
| 8154s | say i don't care about the spell proc |
| 8156s | and push 12 face i think that's kind of |
| 8158s | reasonable because he also just has what |
| 8161s | is the seven burst from hand uh but |
| 8165s | i don't think there's a huge downside |
| 8167s | for losing the six damage because his |
| 8168s | two minions survive anyway so i really |
| 8171s | like the option here |
| 8174s | you enjoy the uh car no draw |
| 8179s | with the uh man erection |
| 8182s | oh and there we go quick shot comes into |
| 8185s | play |
| 8186s | uh with clearing a minion and will he |
| 8189s | attack face with the two stealth ones uh |
| 8194s | this is huge just sets up lethal on the |
| 8196s | next turn even well beyond that and habu |
| 8199s | from this point the only thing you can |
| 8201s | really do in boat road mirror is |
| 8202s | generate something from tooth or |
| 8205s | reconnaissance but because he hasn't |
| 8208s | drawn it okay there's tooth but |
| 8211s | these are not good enough |
| 8213s | and far side gets something |
| 8216s | i think so |
| 8218s | wig not very energized here |
| 8223s | [Music] |
| 8226s | he gets farsight |
| 8228s | and gets reconnaissance and plays |
| 8231s | reconnaissance |
| 8233s | he cannot even afford to play |
| 8236s | not jack hexson at this point yeah i |
| 8238s | think that's just it |
| 8240s | looks like it |
| 8243s | best you can do is bring the trap to |
| 8244s | remove a minion and not be dead on board |
| 8247s | which is a terrible feeling but |
| 8252s | i'm gonna see what's on the far side |
| 8255s | i please |
| 8261s | yes all right |
| 8263s | now not that on board because he uses |
| 8265s | that wicked stub to get rid of a 3-3 |
| 8268s | mighty is just a little bit damaged |
| 8269s | short of lethal right now |
| 8273s | and play tempo crab |
| 8275s | i'm a fan |
| 8277s | this counts who needs them |
| 8285s | it goes wicked stab instead |
| 8289s | fair enough like as long as habu plays a |
| 8291s | minion next turn the crab can represent |
| 8295s | first damage anyway and he couldn't even |
| 8297s | clear that board so that's gonna be game |
| 8299s | game three sorry over to mighty which is |
| 8302s | very impressive that comeback given that |
| 8304s | habu had such an early crabatoa but it |
| 8306s | just goes to show that krabato is still |
| 8309s | somewhat situational right mighty |
| 8311s | recognizing that even though there was |
| 8313s | that potential for crab to come out on |
| 8315s | turn three was it if he plays a five |
| 8318s | health minion and forces both the claws |
| 8320s | to kill that knoll then actually he has |
| 8322s | a very good answer for the main body of |
| 8324s | the crab instead and then following that |
| 8326s | up with the vessel and the sunken vessel |
| 8329s | of course that's too much for hubbu to |
| 8331s | deal with yeah definitely and |
| 8335s | oh |
| 8335s | and then when we had we saw happy gabby |
| 8338s | play his uh playmaster okani and with |
| 8341s | mighty and his uh three three stealth |
| 8343s | minions instead of going 12 fates he |
| 8345s | opted to take down okani and continue to |
| 8348s | do some chip damage uh for lethal later |
| 8352s | on |
| 8354s | yeah i think it goes to show that okani |
| 8356s | is not really in the list for the mirror |
| 8358s | matchup because there are so many |
| 8360s | situations where the okani is actually |
| 8362s | just dead to a couple three threes or a |
| 8364s | three three and the null and doesn't |
| 8366s | really get to disrupt anything but okani |
| 8369s | is just so useful in almost every other |
| 8371s | matchup in the meta that's it's |
| 8373s | important to have in the deck there okay |
| 8376s | we do have mighty now moving on to his |
| 8378s | final deck which is the fel demon hunter |
| 8380s | which i'd imagine habu is just gonna try |
| 8382s | again on the rogue because that's a |
| 8384s | tough matchup for demon hunter to deal |
| 8386s | with |
| 8388s | yeah uh although demon felt teammate |
| 8390s | hunter has potential to do a ton of |
| 8392s | damage with uh spell cards like |
| 8394s | multi-strike uh fel barrage and chaos |
| 8397s | strike but oh looks like i have a gap |
| 8401s | with the rogue um |
| 8403s | it might be a difficult matchup just |
| 8405s | because of all that |
| 8408s | temple and early game play |
| 8411s | yeah even though demon hunter is |
| 8414s | generally good at dealing with minions |
| 8417s | early on they don't deal well with wide |
| 8419s | boards which is what rogue specializes |
| 8421s | in once they are able to get the vessels |
| 8424s | out right so for mighty here it's about |
| 8427s | trying to get a lot of damage in the |
| 8429s | early game before the boats can come out |
| 8430s | to play and starting with vicious |
| 8432s | slither spirit is a great way of um |
| 8436s | starting that off |
| 8438s | oh the hand for rob was insane though |
| 8440s | look at that |
| 8451s | so turn for mighty doesn't get the |
| 8453s | follow-up with minions but |
| 8457s | his window might be closing soon because |
| 8459s | habu here can trade his cutlass he can |
| 8462s | play reconnaissance and in most |
| 8464s | situations get that knoll down for zero |
| 8468s | yep he didn't trade into a neutral |
| 8470s | minion so |
| 8482s | spirit guide i think can be a nice |
| 8484s | follow-up on the next turn he could also |
| 8486s | take cookie |
| 8487s | if he wants to play the other recon with |
| 8490s | prep next turn potentially playing two |
| 8492s | minions |
| 8501s | the upshot of spirit guide though is of |
| 8503s | course it can actually draw shadow |
| 8506s | spells for the rogue either or one |
| 8508s | shadow spell either shadow step or shot |
| 8510s | of concealment but habu goes cookie |
| 8512s | instead going for a maximum tempo it |
| 8515s | looks like |
| 8517s | that's a terrible draw for mighty yikes |
| 8520s | oh not chase the only time we don't want |
| 8522s | to see him is on turn three |
| 8525s | uh |
| 8534s | okay uh might be opting to clear out the |
| 8536s | null so abugabu doesn't get continuous |
| 8539s | value with it but it looks like from |
| 8542s | pablo gappy's reaction he's kind of |
| 8544s | prepared for this |
| 8545s | oh i think he reacted to his top deck |
| 8548s | there yeah oh yes |
| 8552s | mighty getting hit with a taste of his |
| 8554s | own medicine perhaps an even stronger |
| 8557s | dosage because this is happening on turn |
| 8559s | three |
| 8561s | without the usage of a coin |
| 8563s | that's crazy amazing |
| 8567s | yeah okay |
| 8568s | i think my mighty can pack this one up |
| 8571s | it's so early but ah this hand is just |
| 8573s | not doing it for him |
| 8582s | i can tell you what's going through his |
| 8584s | head right now it's it's the it's the |
| 8586s | signs of hope right he has curtris which |
| 8589s | is amazing to stabilize on turn six and |
| 8591s | then he has jace which is the best car |
| 8593s | you can play on turn eight |
| 8595s | but |
| 8595s | he has nothing to do turn five or turn |
| 8598s | seven and i don't think that habu is |
| 8600s | going to |
| 8602s | you know let him survive two dead turns |
| 8608s | oh no |
| 8610s | it's the hero power predation doesn't |
| 8612s | even activate just because |
| 8615s | uh |
| 8617s | not do any damage to those stealth |
| 8618s | minions |
| 8619s | uh habu gabu |
| 8621s | right now |
| 8624s | perhaps not rodent-ness |
| 8626s | but |
| 8628s | i'm looking at the outfitter just for |
| 8631s | the immediate plus one plus one i think |
| 8633s | it's decent |
| 8636s | okay but i was thinking i'd play |
| 8638s | outfitter before cookie because this has |
| 8640s | now a one and four to buff cookie and i |
| 8643s | if i rehab i would rather just guarantee |
| 8646s | immediate face damage |
| 8654s | yeah disaster oh no |
| 8660s | i don't think he can do much with his uh |
| 8662s | dreadful blade |
| 8665s | either except perhaps go face |
| 8668s | and he is just dead to wicked stop |
| 8670s | dagger plus this board |
| 8672s | in fact habu can get even one more |
| 8675s | damage by getting the cookie deathrattle |
| 8677s | from his extortion if he wants |
| 8680s | or the death rattle from the cabal |
| 8682s | outfitter there's so many ways to lethal |
| 8684s | here |
| 8687s | just counting it up to make sure that |
| 8689s | everything's right you can even |
| 8690s | shadowstep his cabal outfitter wow i |
| 8692s | think this is like 19 damage somehow |
| 8696s | maximum |
| 8704s | and the heels as well |
| 8707s | [Music] |
| 8710s | is this some very calculated bm |
| 8713s | oh he he really is trying to get the |
| 8715s | full 19 isn't |
| 8718s | his still come in with you |
| 8721s | i must withdraw |
| 8725s | okay oh and mighty withdraws |
| 8729s | yeah there was not much he could do |
| 8731s | about that one it is simply the nature |
| 8733s | of the match up if the rogue does just |
| 8735s | hit their vessel and on top of that the |
| 8738s | gun fishing there is almost nothing the |
| 8740s | demon hunter can do to interact with |
| 8742s | that favorably |
| 8744s | on top of mighty not really having a |
| 8745s | good follow-up after his vicious slither |
| 8748s | spear so just like that amy it's so much |
| 8751s | faster than the first series we were |
| 8752s | casting we're down to gain five already |
| 8755s | yeah amazing oh as we can see right here |
| 8758s | in the recap |
| 8762s | we have that minion buff let's go in |
| 8764s | face again |
| 8765s | uh just kind of steamrolling uh in on |
| 8769s | his like |
| 8770s | i think it started on turn three with |
| 8772s | those four stealth things giving uh |
| 8775s | mighty uh again a taste of his own |
| 8777s | medicine and turning the tides in this |
| 8781s | rogue matchup |
| 8782s | uh |
| 8784s | bro versus demon hunter matchup |
| 8787s | you know what i would give to figure out |
| 8790s | what's going on through habu's mind |
| 8791s | there because i really feel like he was |
| 8793s | trying to set himself up an unnecessary |
| 8795s | lethal puzzle there like how do you |
| 8797s | maximize this damage because i do |
| 8799s | believe he found the maximum but he |
| 8801s | really only needed 17 to kill there and |
| 8803s | took an extra what 10 20 seconds to beat |
| 8806s | mighty there maybe it's some tilt games |
| 8808s | going on as well because mighty also did |
| 8811s | rope a little bit of a lethal with the |
| 8813s | king crush a while ago but it all comes |
| 8816s | down to this now amy the big spell mage |
| 8818s | versus the fel demon hunter which is a |
| 8820s | matchup that i have honestly gone back |
| 8822s | and forth on who i think is favored here |
| 8825s | because the demon hunter can very easily |
| 8827s | just out pressure the mage in the early |
| 8829s | game but if the mage just hits like one |
| 8831s | deep water evoker that plus nine or plus |
| 8834s | ten armor often means that the mage has |
| 8836s | the time to completely swing the match |
| 8838s | up the other way |
| 8850s | all right mighty has |
| 8852s | uh some early game in his hand |
| 8857s | and |
| 8858s | of course has the amplify snow fury for |
| 8861s | that hero power if he wants to freeze |
| 8865s | anything |
| 8872s | also has that ram commander to get the |
| 8874s | hand even more filled up and have a |
| 8876s | cheaper knoll very nice opening for habu |
| 8880s | especially since mighty didn't actually |
| 8881s | play a minion but no big deal for mighty |
| 8884s | he can just clear this with the dread |
| 8886s | prison wave and hero power if you want |
| 8891s | chaos strike and metamorphin is also an |
| 8894s | option or holding onto coin altogether |
| 8896s | because coinplus tenno later on could |
| 8899s | represent a lot of damage |
| 8907s | oh yes the coin into the |
| 8910s | metamorphic oh no we have the silence |
| 8913s | coming down and just get ridding getting |
| 8916s | rid of that buff fairly quickly |
| 8920s | i think habu recognizes that this is not |
| 8922s | a match-up where he needs to wait for |
| 8923s | the starfish for some particular minion |
| 8925s | later on just playing it for a tempo |
| 8927s | right here saves him a lot more health |
| 8929s | than it would um in the late game so i |
| 8932s | like the play a lot mighty here just |
| 8934s | going to uh get that battle sworn a |
| 8937s | vanguard active and pray for no reckless |
| 8940s | apprentice but we can see it's there |
| 8942s | habu is going to get a full clear and |
| 8944s | mighty's going to be playing from |
| 8947s | i behind take them |
| 8949s | wait |
| 8950s | not all of them |
| 8959s | mighty does have bone glaive and curtris |
| 8962s | so |
| 8963s | this is potentially an all face game |
| 8965s | plan but we'll see if mighty finds that |
| 8968s | too early double fell barrage probably |
| 8970s | take one of them to go with the stunner |
| 8972s | later on |
| 8973s | is he supposed to clear apprentice or |
| 8975s | start pushing face that's the question |
| 8984s | i do like the minion clear like 10 |
| 8986s | damage face doesn't actually get him |
| 8989s | close enough to lethal and if you leave |
| 8991s | minions then the stunner has to go |
| 8992s | through them anyway so i think what |
| 8994s | mighty's doing here is setting up for |
| 8997s | turn six curtris to try and get him back |
| 8999s | ahead on board |
| 9002s | yeah it definitely makes sense um |
| 9005s | especially with the |
| 9007s | aha gabriel's potential deep water |
| 9009s | evolver in plate later on where he just |
| 9012s | gains back that massive like a lot of |
| 9014s | armor |
| 9016s | oh another reckless apprentice going |
| 9019s | down |
| 9021s | yeah |
| 9022s | yeah i think kabu is cleverly |
| 9024s | recognizing that he just needs to play |
| 9026s | for tempo in the situation where he |
| 9027s | hasn't hit belinda hasn't hit barbara |
| 9030s | hasn't hit even one of the big spells |
| 9033s | to eventually hope towards playing so at |
| 9036s | this point the best thing he can do is |
| 9038s | just pressure using board and prevent |
| 9040s | mighty from running away with the mid |
| 9043s | game |
| 9054s | maintaining some more control see he's |
| 9057s | hovering uh i see my d is hovering over |
| 9060s | lady ass |
| 9062s | anno |
| 9063s | and purchase |
| 9069s | snow flurry here |
| 9071s | oh okay mailbox dancer i was thinking |
| 9073s | snow flurry to freeze the |
| 9075s | slither spear but habu is still at 28. i |
| 9078s | didn't notice he was still healthy so |
| 9080s | it's fine that he holds on to the freeze |
| 9081s | for now |
| 9090s | fortress |
| 9095s | so this is interesting right because |
| 9097s | mighty does see curtris as a very |
| 9099s | straightforward play but the thing is if |
| 9101s | he kills the mailbox dancer you might |
| 9103s | think oh the coin is amazing here save |
| 9105s | it for suno but mighty hasn't ruled out |
| 9107s | the barbaric sorceress yet from his hand |
| 9110s | read because it wasn't necessarily great |
| 9112s | for habu on the previous turn |
| 9116s | oh okay |
| 9118s | we're gonna see mighty |
| 9120s | hold off on kurtris |
| 9122s | and |
| 9123s | go for stano now like he can hero power |
| 9127s | kill the mailbox dancer |
| 9129s | and then steno coin you float the mana |
| 9131s | but you kill the noel with the steno |
| 9136s | okay maybe don't float the mana you just |
| 9138s | play fury even though he's already |
| 9140s | attacked |
| 9142s | good play around sorceress and to also |
| 9144s | get one more charge with this dunno |
| 9146s | through i like this a lot |
| 9148s | let's play a very nan efficient as well |
| 9151s | upgrading his pillow power for |
| 9156s | no face damage yet |
| 9161s | so this is now a spammy clear for habu |
| 9163s | just play a ram and then spammy clears |
| 9166s | everything |
| 9170s | it is not a winning game plan though it |
| 9173s | is just clearing the board he has still |
| 9176s | not hit any of his big spells |
| 9179s | that is true |
| 9181s | uh other mighty only has um his cursors |
| 9184s | in his hand it summons the demons with |
| 9187s | rush for |
| 9188s | um |
| 9189s | some some more control and potential |
| 9192s | here |
| 9194s | it is just one card but kirches is a |
| 9196s | heck of a card to be left with because |
| 9198s | this represents so much damage um in the |
| 9201s | long run especially if mighty can stick |
| 9203s | a minion um which |
| 9206s | based on habu's current hand it looks |
| 9207s | like he'll stick one but maybe it'll be |
| 9209s | frozen |
| 9212s | hey |
| 9217s | abu probably just tries to flood the |
| 9219s | board here treasure guard ramen to the |
| 9221s | sixth one snow flurry ping the six four |
| 9224s | play mailbox dancer hope it's enough to |
| 9226s | get there i don't know |
| 9229s | you can't stop these snow okay he's |
| 9232s | gonna ping face instead |
| 9238s | sure yeah because there's a ton in the |
| 9240s | way this probably prevents more anyway |
| 9242s | oh huge top deck for mighty |
| 9248s | hates to see it i see how we were |
| 9250s | reacting uh-oh |
| 9253s | but |
| 9254s | it was actually very clever for him to |
| 9256s | freeze face here because |
| 9258s | you know of the potential of cards like |
| 9260s | multi-strike |
| 9261s | huge |
| 9263s | he doesn't get to draw with fossil |
| 9265s | fanatic most that mighty can do is |
| 9268s | i guess spend the mana on predation now |
| 9271s | either on the face or on the mailbox |
| 9274s | dancer |
| 9284s | some slim options you could do some |
| 9286s | predation |
| 9287s | uh |
| 9289s | but most of his cards uh mighty's cards |
| 9292s | require him not being frozen |
| 9295s | exactly that's why it was so clever for |
| 9298s | habu to freeze face over minion here but |
| 9301s | man still not catching a break with |
| 9303s | these draws no rune no drake fire no |
| 9306s | barbaric no belinda |
| 9308s | not that barbaric would be particularly |
| 9310s | good here but yeah still |
| 9313s | not even a magister don grass |
| 9316s | gonna be face for the predation with |
| 9319s | uh from mighty here |
| 9321s | it makes sense |
| 9322s | he is seeing the path to victory and |
| 9325s | that is generally all towards the dome |
| 9327s | but my goodness habu cannot catch a |
| 9329s | break this is the worst big spell mage |
| 9331s | draw i've seen |
| 9333s | all year oh my goodness |
| 9341s | i mean |
| 9344s | how much of a choice right just |
| 9347s | has to like |
| 9349s | play the taunt play a ram commander |
| 9351s | maybe go ram ram ping into the 6-3 and |
| 9354s | go face with the minions |
| 9357s | yeah it is unfortunate that he hasn't |
| 9359s | drawn his like mid to late game cards |
| 9361s | yet |
| 9362s | i mean do we have the |
| 9365s | um research parrot |
| 9368s | but again he needs a spell that isn't |
| 9370s | coined in his hand yeah |
| 9372s | worth something |
| 9379s | and that means that mighty is going to |
| 9381s | have multi-strike hero oh |
| 9384s | oh clever he pings his own |
| 9387s | guy to make sure that there's no good |
| 9389s | break point for multi-strike from mighty |
| 9391s | this is actually super smart the four |
| 9394s | health is really really hard for mikey |
| 9396s | to get honorable kill on in a nice |
| 9398s | manner once you are in kurchus form |
| 9408s | yeah super smart here and because it's a |
| 9411s | taunt minion mighty cannot like first |
| 9413s | attack something else and then get the |
| 9415s | honorable kill he only even has one |
| 9417s | charge on the on the weapon anyway |
| 9423s | hmm |
| 9425s | it's turning um |
| 9427s | mighty's here throw |
| 9429s | power and weapon gameplay against him in |
| 9432s | a very smart way |
| 9436s | not sure if it's gonna be enough though |
| 9438s | because mighty is gonna continue cycling |
| 9440s | two more foul spells drawn |
| 9443s | finley for habu is a re-roll on this |
| 9446s | abysmal hand so that's above average i |
| 9449s | guess |
| 9451s | id can set up for just jay's next turn |
| 9456s | go face with this predation face |
| 9462s | asian minion okay |
| 9464s | some chaos strike with thanks to that uh |
| 9468s | fossil fanatic |
| 9471s | oh the barber has nothing to cheap and |
| 9473s | it's actually bad for him here i think |
| 9475s | he's forced to find me |
| 9480s | and it's not like they're you can play |
| 9482s | coin at the start and then finley and |
| 9484s | say you can oh i can play drake fire |
| 9486s | nope you cannot go above 10 mana unless |
| 9488s | you're in guff form so uh habu has to go |
| 9491s | finley here and pray for rune of the |
| 9493s | archmage almost exactly |
| 9497s | magister dawngrass could also be a |
| 9498s | decent hit here he could still play that |
| 9501s | and ping |
| 9502s | but i don't know if the five armor saves |
| 9504s | him from jace at this point |
| 9512s | are you seeing anything i don't see me |
| 9516s | quite i mean if he swallows the box |
| 9519s | uh his cards will follow his deck |
| 9521s | uh there's potential to draw something |
| 9523s | great like |
| 9525s | okay |
| 9530s | the voker and okani that's huge she can |
| 9532s | prevent the jace from happening |
| 9535s | if he has a read on it but |
| 9538s | okay |
| 9539s | that's no jace |
| 9541s | unless mighty gets a super cheap minion |
| 9543s | here |
| 9544s | oh that's a super cheap in here oh my |
| 9546s | gosh |
| 9547s | oh |
| 9551s | okay vanguard jace what is jace replay |
| 9554s | uh |
| 9555s | fel barrage i think a rank one fury or |
| 9558s | rank two fury and that's where my memory |
| 9561s | ends just letter up |
| 9563s | oh |
| 9569s | vanguards |
| 9570s | oh he's not doing it okay |
| 9575s | okay so i guess i draw |
| 9578s | i guess mighty then calculated that the |
| 9580s | jace wouldn't have been lethal if he |
| 9582s | didn't fit in the chaos strike so |
| 9585s | just not gonna play it this turn |
| 9590s | rocks the okani with the vanguard |
| 9597s | oh gosh |
| 9602s | yeah i don't think there's a reason to |
| 9604s | proc the honey this turn right |
| 9607s | or you could just use the multi-strike |
| 9609s | two pocket |
| 9615s | but now mighty's role is to not die to |
| 9618s | this rune |
| 9620s | is it a tall order i don't know |
| 9624s | by the way he's not active it's too loud |
| 9627s | he's one thing off |
| 9631s | oh no |
| 9632s | amy |
| 9633s | it's roon time |
| 9639s | is it is is can you get away with 20 |
| 9642s | mana |
| 9643s | worth of nate spells at enemies |
| 9647s | it just needs to deal |
| 9648s | like assuming everything goes face eight |
| 9650s | to face like one pyroblast or like one |
| 9653s | fireball and one siphon i don't even |
| 9656s | know if it's better odds to send one |
| 9657s | minion into a two one first or just get |
| 9660s | everything phased i don't know let's |
| 9662s | just gosh is he going for the rune he |
| 9664s | has to oh |
| 9670s | um |
| 9672s | fireball |
| 9674s | okay he won |
| 9675s | he already popped off oh |
| 9678s | he saw it before we did oh there's no |
| 9681s | the |
| 9682s | kill |
| 9683s | habukapu gets there with |
| 9685s | a very very delayed rune of the archmage |
| 9688s | and amy i think it's no exaggeration to |
| 9690s | say he bought himself an extra turn with |
| 9694s | the honorable kill or the preventing of |
| 9696s | honorable kill by pinging his own |
| 9698s | treasure guard i think that play if he |
| 9701s | had not made that mighty probably had a |
| 9703s | guaranteed lethal with his chase at that |
| 9706s | point um |
| 9707s | mighty didn't go for jace even though he |
| 9709s | could have removed the aura of akani i |
| 9712s | think because he didn't have guaranteed |
| 9713s | lethal from it yet |
| 9717s | streets uh not one but |
| 9720s | two awesome plays from habukapu there |
| 9723s | again we see right now the freezing of |
| 9725s | face and |
| 9726s | just |
| 9728s | the |
| 9728s | denial of chase |
| 9731s | and of course the rune of art bishop |
| 9733s | coming in clutch |
| 9735s | and i love habukapu's reaction here |
| 9741s | and you can see the full contrast from |
| 9743s | mighty here he might he's in sync with |
| 9745s | us right he's seeing the things happen |
| 9747s | later |
| 9748s | and you can see the despair when he |
| 9750s | loses that match off of the fireball and |
| 9752s | siphon mana it was really close straight |
| 9755s | down to the wire and wondering if mighty |
| 9758s | could have maybe found |
| 9760s | or like if he had played the jace on |
| 9762s | that turn even if it wasn't lethal could |
| 9764s | it have maybe prevented some damage from |
| 9766s | habu by killing minions with fel barrage |
| 9769s | was that even a good enough line to take |
| 9771s | if the jace wasn't lethal i don't know |
| 9773s | but that is certainly one of the most |
| 9776s | intricate outcomes of that matchup i've |
| 9778s | seen usually when i see fel demon hunter |
| 9781s | versus big spell mage it just runs away |
| 9783s | in favor of one of those players but |
| 9785s | this time we really saw |
| 9787s | a showcase of how the little technical |
| 9790s | plays make a huge difference |
| 9792s | that's right a nail fighting match from |
| 9794s | these two great players |
| 9796s | [Music] |
| 9798s | and that does mean now that habugabu is |
| 9800s | moving on to the winners match to face |
| 9802s | possessi for the right to make it |
| 9804s | through to sunday and the chance at the |
| 9806s | full five points whereas mighty is going |
| 9810s | down to the elimination match but don't |
| 9814s | go anywhere right after this we'll be |
| 9816s | bringing you the winners match just a |
| 9818s | short break see you later |
| 9823s | [Music] |
| 9832s | [Applause] |
| 9833s | [Music] |
| 9838s | in the darkest of seasons |
| 9840s | where ruthless eyes gawk for horrific |
| 9843s | reasons |
| 9845s | for a hidden hand has struck me down |
| 9849s | with such ruthlessness |
| 9852s | so deep and profound |
| 9856s | then he comes with his mullockian scowl |
| 9863s | to uncover the truth |
| 9865s | of murder most foul |
| 9869s | the anima drifts across the floor |
| 9872s | highlighting the creatures who walked |
| 9874s | through my door |
| 9876s | the motives are as black as night |
| 9880s | avarice power revenge and blight |
| 9886s | we watch the hero |
| 9888s | uncover the clues |
| 9891s | that lead to the truth |
| 9894s | behind this dark blues |
| 9898s | join us here with the grimm and in pious |
| 9902s | choose your power without heavenly bias |
| 9906s | for at the end |
| 9908s | they will burn in the fire |
| 9911s | when it is known whose slayed |
| 9914s | danathrius |
| 9916s | [Music] |
| 9934s | so |
| 9947s | [Music] |
| 9952s | [Music] |
| 9960s | so |
| 9973s | so |
| 10000s | [Music] |
| 10015s | [Music] |
| 10027s | [Music] |
| 10035s | [Music] |
| 10053s | [Music] |
| 10061s | [Music] |
| 10071s | [Music] |
| 10077s | [Music] |
| 10085s | [Music] |
| 10100s | so |
| 10105s | [Music] |
| 10114s | so |
| 10116s | [Music] |
| 10124s | [Music] |
| 10136s | welcome back once again to hearthstone |
| 10138s | grand masters last call where every week |
| 10141s | it is a maximum of five points at stake |
| 10144s | and at the end of it all potentially a |
| 10146s | chance at the world championship for one |
| 10149s | player only amy we have just watched our |
| 10152s | two initial matches panned out and we |
| 10154s | are entering now the winner match |
| 10156s | between possessi and habukabu any |
| 10158s | predictions |
| 10159s | oh gosh i mean |
| 10162s | a happy gobby just uh came off the match |
| 10165s | with mighty and we saw how intricate his |
| 10168s | gameplay is it's so small mechanics uh |
| 10171s | that really matter in the end and but |
| 10173s | then we also have possessee who uh has a |
| 10176s | really good record |
| 10178s | in in terms of like uh making sure |
| 10181s | his cards are |
| 10184s | all have value the synergies are lined |
| 10186s | up right |
| 10189s | yeah definitely going to be a close one |
| 10191s | i think it's fair to say even if you ask |
| 10192s | possessi himself that habu gabu has been |
| 10195s | a little bit more focused and mentally |
| 10198s | in the game throughout the day but i |
| 10200s | hope to see possessi clean it up a |
| 10202s | little bit now as he faces habu because |
| 10204s | i don't think his lineup is really going |
| 10207s | to carry him quite so much anymore |
| 10208s | earlier on in the day possess he had |
| 10210s | quite a favorable into super fake with |
| 10213s | um possesses sort of anti-control decks |
| 10215s | running straight into super effects for |
| 10217s | uh super fakes for |
| 10219s | runathol deck control lineup on the flip |
| 10222s | side though later on mighty's going to |
| 10224s | be really sad that he lost against |
| 10226s | habukabu not only because he's going to |
| 10228s | elimination but because he's facing now |
| 10230s | super fake against him he is supremely |
| 10232s | unfavored for now though let's take a |
| 10235s | look at the possessi and habukabu match |
| 10238s | up where the only common classes are |
| 10241s | rogue and hunter but even within those |
| 10243s | classes it's different archetypes |
| 10247s | uh no more mirror matches today |
| 10250s | in terms of tech archetypes at least |
| 10254s | but i am excited to see it nonetheless |
| 10257s | if they choose um |
| 10259s | interested in seeing what the shaman is |
| 10261s | up to since it was banned in the last |
| 10264s | couple of games |
| 10265s | yeah that's right the sort of mid-range |
| 10268s | shaman or control murloc whatever you |
| 10269s | want to call it is kind of a mainstay of |
| 10272s | the meta right now it's a deck that |
| 10274s | checks many boxes where it has a very |
| 10276s | strong tempo game plan of curving out it |
| 10279s | has great potential to deal with boards |
| 10282s | because you can just freeze them |
| 10283s | indefinitely with snowfall guardian and |
| 10285s | chaining with macaws and you also sort |
| 10287s | of have a bit of an anti-control game |
| 10289s | plan if you can get into a position |
| 10291s | where you get bran |
| 10293s | bolner and mutinous altogether with some |
| 10295s | clownfish discounts banked |
| 10297s | this is a deck that i feel would |
| 10300s | struggle a little bit against super fake |
| 10302s | sign up a bit more but against possessi |
| 10305s | i think has quite a bit of potential to |
| 10308s | get the job done |
| 10310s | [Music] |
| 10316s | so i'm from possessive's lineup what are |
| 10319s | you thinking that habugabu might ban |
| 10321s | away me |
| 10326s | oh well i was going to say press to drew |
| 10328s | but maybe not |
| 10330s | um |
| 10331s | let's see |
| 10335s | gosh i mean the my rogue is definitely |
| 10337s | something again to contend with just |
| 10339s | with that victory and gameplays |
| 10345s | at the right time especially in the |
| 10346s | early game with all those naval mines |
| 10349s | triggers uh the game would be pretty |
| 10351s | short |
| 10353s | uh meanwhile |
| 10356s | uh |
| 10357s | let's see habugabu does have that beast |
| 10360s | energy with his hunter |
| 10363s | and again his smart plays with |
| 10366s | a big spell mage and |
| 10368s | boat rogue |
| 10370s | i'm interested to see uh the class |
| 10373s | mirrors if |
| 10374s | that's because uh we as you as we said |
| 10378s | early on today conquest is for decks and |
| 10380s | four unique classes into the fray so um |
| 10384s | there is |
| 10385s | a |
| 10386s | deciding point in terms of uh what kind |
| 10389s | of archetype you want to go for um |
| 10391s | even earlier on today we saw ping mage |
| 10394s | as opposed to big spell mage or meg mage |
| 10396s | so it's those little |
| 10399s | differences that really matter |
| 10401s | yeah i would agree |
| 10403s | looking at the lineups as a whole i do |
| 10405s | think okay um glad to see that |
| 10407s | possessive hunter was banned away by |
| 10409s | habukabu because if we are going to look |
| 10411s | at this from a macro context where if |
| 10413s | we're saying habugabu is unfavored |
| 10415s | against super fakes lineup the only |
| 10417s | thing that possession had in common with |
| 10419s | super fake is that uh quest hunter which |
| 10422s | is you know able to function as both a |
| 10424s | control deck and anti-control and it |
| 10427s | works quite well against taboo stacks |
| 10428s | that really focus on getting on board |
| 10431s | early so it makes a lot of sense to me |
| 10432s | that possession has banned that one |
| 10434s | sorry that habu has banned that one away |
| 10436s | on the flip side we saw possession get |
| 10438s | rid of the shaman which does have a lot |
| 10440s | of potential to disrupt some of his |
| 10443s | other decks here so unfortunately we're |
| 10446s | still not going to see shaman amy but |
| 10448s | i'm sure this is still going to be a |
| 10450s | very fun series habu kicking it off with |
| 10453s | his boat rogue over here |
| 10461s | um so we do have the boat rogue versus |
| 10463s | prestor druid um any favorites here amy |
| 10469s | i mean i know that you enjoy the presto |
| 10471s | druid |
| 10473s | um i also enjoy it too because it |
| 10476s | reminds me i love the dragons and the |
| 10478s | value of it uh |
| 10480s | the different combos as well like with |
| 10482s | the silence uh two minion uh |
| 10485s | sorry two mana cosminion |
| 10488s | getting down to uh giant uh dragons that |
| 10491s | might be difficult to take down |
| 10493s | then again boat rogue uh |
| 10498s | lots of potential with the |
| 10500s | early game too |
| 10502s | and a lot of tempo as well so it depends |
| 10505s | on who |
| 10507s | can get the cards they need first and |
| 10512s | if they plan for the long game what that |
| 10513s | strategy is |
| 10516s | from my personal experience i kind of |
| 10519s | prefer as prester druid to face boat |
| 10521s | rogue than i would jackpot rogue because |
| 10523s | i feel that even the very strong starts |
| 10526s | from the boat rogue say early nol and a |
| 10529s | vessel you are still able to contend |
| 10531s | with as the prester druid because you do |
| 10533s | get ahead in the early game like the |
| 10535s | first couple turns |
| 10537s | just by playing a lot of one drops and |
| 10538s | then the prestor can close out the game |
| 10540s | with jackpot rogue they can get some |
| 10543s | very ridiculous shenanigans back like an |
| 10546s | early |
| 10547s | um |
| 10548s | miracle growth early generated spell |
| 10551s | discounted to zero by the swift scale |
| 10553s | trickster um which can be too much for |
| 10556s | the pressure druid to deal with but the |
| 10558s | boat rogue is somewhat more predictable |
| 10560s | possessing does have the potential now |
| 10563s | to find his suppressor uh with the |
| 10565s | capture called tooth mine so that's |
| 10567s | already one of the boxes ticked but he |
| 10569s | doesn't have to play at this turn if he |
| 10571s | wants he can just uh play a bit more |
| 10573s | wide on the board and make sure that he |
| 10576s | is as ahead as possible |
| 10582s | and it's true it looks like he's going |
| 10585s | for a dredge first and foremost |
| 10590s | this is interesting because the far |
| 10592s | watch post is obviously very disruptive |
| 10593s | playing it early here but i was going to |
| 10595s | say the skulker is amazing because |
| 10598s | possessing is not on coin which means |
| 10600s | that unless he draws mailbox dancer or |
| 10603s | innervate he'd have to wait until turn |
| 10605s | six to play out the prestar with the |
| 10607s | skulker though it means that on turn |
| 10609s | four he can go skulker and capture cold |
| 10611s | tooth for expensive card and then it |
| 10613s | goes down to five mana and he can curve |
| 10615s | into prester a bit earlier so i do like |
| 10617s | this option |
| 10625s | habu has hit nol in the opening hand and |
| 10627s | a lot of tradables but the rest of the |
| 10629s | hand is air right he really needs a boat |
| 10632s | a vessel to make this hand pop |
| 10639s | meanwhile possessing |
| 10641s | just doing what preston drew it does |
| 10643s | best flooding the board with those |
| 10645s | minions early on oh |
| 10648s | the vessel and he has the null to get |
| 10650s | rid of the trog before it multiplies a |
| 10653s | bit sad that after taking that trade the |
| 10656s | knoll is then just dead to pelican on |
| 10657s | the next turn but |
| 10659s | you gotta do you gotta make do with what |
| 10661s | you have as habu maybe even shadow stops |
| 10664s | the gnoll |
| 10666s | oh |
| 10667s | no value continues |
| 10670s | i know all this spills off an amalgam as |
| 10673s | well |
| 10679s | if you if he holds the null here |
| 10682s | what's the value i guess it lets them |
| 10683s | safely dagger the pelican and then maybe |
| 10686s | the null can kill two |
| 10688s | small minions and still stay alive |
| 10690s | but somehow i value just playing it here |
| 10692s | to not have to take the four damage |
| 10694s | happen disagrees though |
| 10698s | oh okay that's a bit unfortunate for |
| 10700s | possessive because the innervate isn't |
| 10702s | going to be necessary right because |
| 10705s | goalkeeper cold tooth mine means the |
| 10707s | presser is already playable next turn |
| 10713s | i guess what the innervate does is he |
| 10715s | can technically play cold tooth mine for |
| 10718s | prester |
| 10719s | and then play the skulker but i just |
| 10722s | don't know if that's even worth it |
| 10724s | because sometimes you might discount a |
| 10727s | zero cost card off the top anyway and uh |
| 10729s | just holding on to innervate has its |
| 10731s | value |
| 10739s | right uh |
| 10740s | mabugabu daggering up here uh playing |
| 10744s | the mulligan or that trade into |
| 10748s | mysterious mixtures |
| 10750s | oh and we |
| 10752s | oh we have |
| 10754s | a |
| 10754s | 3-2 for some more board control i could |
| 10758s | come nicely into the malcolm and the |
| 10760s | stealth minion |
| 10762s | but |
| 10764s | does have later pressed her next so that |
| 10766s | might mean some interesting plays |
| 10771s | i do like the decision from habu to not |
| 10774s | value trade the amalgam because he knows |
| 10775s | almost certainly what the turn is next |
| 10777s | turn right so |
| 10779s | just knowing that he can get some extra |
| 10782s | face damage and force possession to |
| 10784s | trade that turn makes a lot of sense to |
| 10786s | me |
| 10790s | as he's running on fumes though he needs |
| 10792s | a big top deck |
| 10794s | amongst the dragons the amazing ones in |
| 10796s | this spot is number one malygos number |
| 10799s | two |
| 10800s | i guess straight boss anexia |
| 10802s | uh but you would also be very happy to |
| 10804s | see spells like moonlit guidance |
| 10807s | composting not terrible in this instance |
| 10810s | i think composting is the reason he also |
| 10812s | traded his 2 3 instead of the tutu |
| 10814s | stealth here |
| 10819s | and then of course guff would be huge |
| 10821s | but all possesses he can really do at |
| 10823s | this point is pray thankfully he's still |
| 10825s | very healthy here meanwhile habu is |
| 10830s | what's he prepping |
| 10833s | oh prepping wicked stabs so he doesn't |
| 10835s | have to coin |
| 10837s | um |
| 10839s | leaving coin for mr smite next so if he |
| 10841s | preps wicked stab |
| 10843s | he can just trade a 3-3 to kill prestor |
| 10847s | he can play filet fighter and also weave |
| 10849s | in the re-dagger |
| 10864s | really need some card draw uh compo |
| 10868s | as you said would be really good uh |
| 10870s | giving his well too many death rattle |
| 10873s | yeah that's oh oh there he is there it |
| 10875s | is |
| 10876s | he was so heavily rewarded for not |
| 10877s | treating the stealth beautiful top deck |
| 10879s | yeah |
| 10881s | but that's a terrible dragon to get oh |
| 10883s | no not the fairy dragon ah that one's |
| 10886s | not great either okay these are whiffs |
| 10889s | so start off the dragon train but havo |
| 10891s | himself is also severely lacking card |
| 10893s | draw |
| 10899s | now |
| 10900s | is he a tempo smite gamer |
| 10903s | i am down for this |
| 10906s | yes oh it's going face okay i was |
| 10908s | actually thinking he would smite the 3-2 |
| 10911s | and then trade the 3-3 into ferry dragon |
| 10913s | because smite's still not that the hero |
| 10915s | power then i know i suggested smite |
| 10916s | trade which is blasphemy but felt like |
| 10919s | that might be better in the long run |
| 10928s | is happening |
| 10930s | next turn for possessing if the |
| 10933s | uh |
| 10934s | survives |
| 10935s | oh no never mind |
| 10938s | trade extortion pray for something good |
| 10940s | but the shadow stab is good right it |
| 10942s | means he guarantees another six damage |
| 10944s | from smite next turn |
| 10946s | uh |
| 10947s | unfortunately the fairy dragon is not |
| 10949s | targetable by tooth so he has to dagger |
| 10951s | the anexia to get the |
| 10953s | honorable kill |
| 10957s | he needs a really good spell here |
| 10960s | not equality yet |
| 10962s | last year's the only playable one right |
| 10966s | so when is possession gonna play three |
| 10968s | cards in a turn i guess if he top decks |
| 10970s | moonlit guidance |
| 10974s | i feel like the flashio is more |
| 10975s | beautiful |
| 10976s | probably the flash heal yeah |
| 10979s | crazy |
| 10981s | face with |
| 10982s | at least six |
| 10984s | fourths uh six damage |
| 10986s | and shadow step for misters |
| 10988s | yeah he has to stop this because there's |
| 10991s | no more damage if that gets traded off |
| 10994s | oh my god |
| 11000s | these top decks are amazing |
| 11003s | where's the composting into um dragons |
| 11007s | for |
| 11008s | flooding the board and now this |
| 11011s | puzzle box for his health he just |
| 11013s | doesn't have space for boombox and this |
| 11015s | board is not getting cleared |
| 11017s | unless he thinks there's a scabs coming |
| 11019s | up |
| 11021s | oh puzzle box do it |
| 11026s | i just don't know if it's necessary |
| 11028s | what possession can reasonably expect is |
| 11030s | his board is just sticking i don't think |
| 11032s | habu is ever going to clear minions from |
| 11034s | this point |
| 11037s | embers |
| 11038s | matey doesn't have mana to play embers |
| 11040s | yet |
| 11041s | but two more turns gia |
| 11044s | yeah maybe holy book just to have |
| 11045s | something that's playable in the x-ray |
| 11047s | yeah pure cold very good okay |
| 11049s | take damage |
| 11055s | how has the game gone on this long as a |
| 11057s | druid and embers is not playable |
| 11059s | no guff |
| 11063s | all right so habu |
| 11065s | actually gets to stall himself a full |
| 11067s | turn because of this flash heal right |
| 11069s | unless possessee draws something amazing |
| 11073s | a crab is very good |
| 11075s | your two minions push for face |
| 11079s | never underestimate the crowd |
| 11084s | you would get along very well with |
| 11086s | subtle amy he's a prabhatoa fan |
| 11097s | oh wait he didn't pick embers a pure |
| 11099s | cold would be decent looming presents i |
| 11100s | think is the best to get here oh he got |
| 11103s | one okay |
| 11105s | all right |
| 11106s | it |
| 11107s | does destroy |
| 11109s | right the crap |
| 11111s | so habu is on a filet fighter top deck |
| 11114s | for lethal here or wicked stab i think |
| 11118s | a thing else does the trick |
| 11123s | uh |
| 11126s | oh |
| 11128s | welp |
| 11131s | he's dead |
| 11132s | oh no oh wait no rat king wait he can |
| 11135s | survive at one right if he kills |
| 11138s | something with the rat king |
| 11141s | one yes sir |
| 11143s | with rat king |
| 11145s | let's do it who would win five whelps or |
| 11148s | a giant run |
| 11150s | okay what's possesses top deck |
| 11152s | one damage is all he needs |
| 11155s | but there's a lot of whiffs in there |
| 11157s | looming is huge right |
| 11160s | yeah |
| 11161s | that has to be |
| 11162s | your cold pure cold okay |
| 11169s | and that is |
| 11173s | presser druid ladies and gentlemen |
| 11179s | it's a good duck it's a good duck |
| 11180s | [Music] |
| 11185s | yeah um that one was weird to watch the |
| 11188s | pan out because both our players were |
| 11190s | essentially top decking at the end there |
| 11192s | habu had a hand that was so many |
| 11195s | preparations not enough card draw not |
| 11197s | something we see often from the rogue |
| 11199s | usually you hit at least like what one |
| 11201s | shroud of concealment or gone fishing |
| 11202s | before that um whereas for possessi |
| 11206s | it is common to see presser druid run |
| 11208s | out of cards if they get a lot of the |
| 11210s | ramp in the early game you know you play |
| 11212s | a super early presser but the downside |
| 11214s | is you don't necessarily have a lot of |
| 11215s | resources but i think the real um |
| 11218s | standout play from possession was just |
| 11220s | making sure to maintain his stealth |
| 11222s | minion just on the off chance he finds |
| 11224s | composting and he did got rewarded for |
| 11227s | that if that kazakhstan was even one |
| 11229s | turn later i don't think he was getting |
| 11230s | out of that alive |
| 11232s | yeah what a turnaround now we have a we |
| 11235s | had a kind of a desperate play there at |
| 11237s | the end |
| 11238s | with uh rush going into a wealth but |
| 11241s | again um as you said you referred to |
| 11244s | before possessing having the foresight |
| 11246s | to have that |
| 11248s | uh eight damage about your face uh |
| 11251s | also helped him win the game uh now we |
| 11253s | have possessive uh controlling four |
| 11257s | priests yes controlling the border as it |
| 11261s | happens here uh the boar priest is in a |
| 11264s | pretty good spot against habus lineup |
| 11267s | overall i would say god has a good match |
| 11269s | up against the |
| 11271s | um rogue decent match up into the beast |
| 11275s | hunter it could struggle against big |
| 11277s | spell mage |
| 11278s | that's one of the match-ups where the |
| 11281s | barbaric sorceress is most disruptive |
| 11284s | but i'm sure that possessee can get the |
| 11286s | job done here this is a deck however |
| 11289s | that requires your brain to be on a |
| 11291s | hundred percent effectivity so i hope |
| 11294s | for possessive sake he is fully focused |
| 11296s | now and not gonna have any of the |
| 11298s | fumbles that we saw from the first |
| 11299s | series |
| 11301s | yeah i i know on twitter he said you |
| 11304s | might be taking it a little easy but |
| 11306s | you know i |
| 11308s | all the points count |
| 11311s | still kind of just for the brownie |
| 11313s | points and everything |
| 11316s | oh it happened ops for his road deck |
| 11321s | right which is going to be a bit of a |
| 11324s | difficult one for habu most of the time |
| 11327s | i've seen when rogue is able to win this |
| 11329s | matchup it's off the back of consecutive |
| 11331s | okanis just okani force them to silence |
| 11334s | it shadowstep it sometimes they don't |
| 11336s | have the second silence and then you're |
| 11338s | suddenly deleting a minion from the |
| 11340s | borah priest which is you know sometimes |
| 11343s | fatal to them |
| 11345s | it puts us right off the bat oh |
| 11348s | putting it putting down a boar |
| 11351s | hovering over |
| 11353s | a shot of naruto silence all minions |
| 11356s | but |
| 11359s | very rough draw for habu right because |
| 11361s | he hit a neutral minion here in mr smite |
| 11364s | so it means the wild panel is still not |
| 11365s | playable this turn it's pretty likely to |
| 11369s | be playable for zero next turn if he |
| 11371s | goes shroud and hits two class minions |
| 11374s | not guaranteed though because there's |
| 11375s | still the okani in the deck and every |
| 11377s | turn he has to wait to put pressure on |
| 11379s | board is just a bit more breathing room |
| 11382s | for possessi |
| 11384s | the thrive for possessive is not |
| 11387s | particularly good though doesn't hit |
| 11389s | switcheroo so the card draw for now is |
| 11391s | running a bit dry |
| 11397s | oh he did hit okani so the knoll is |
| 11399s | still not playable |
| 11409s | we're just gonna be trade trade for |
| 11411s | possession |
| 11416s | i think you can hold the illuminate here |
| 11420s | or maybe not he doesn't really have a |
| 11421s | good guaranteed turn for right so just |
| 11424s | hope it's switcheroo |
| 11427s | oh man |
| 11433s | so from this he knows that his other |
| 11435s | boar is all the way at the bottom of the |
| 11437s | deck which means he will have to judge |
| 11438s | it at some point to get his game plan to |
| 11440s | be more efficient but for now he's |
| 11442s | picked the cleric of anche to |
| 11444s | give him the chance at discovering a |
| 11446s | switcheroo which he so sorely lacks at |
| 11449s | the moment habu though did just see the |
| 11452s | traded chart of the naaru back into the |
| 11454s | deck so i think it's a great timing to |
| 11455s | just play okani and say |
| 11458s | you don't get to play minions as long as |
| 11460s | this is on the board |
| 11464s | is also good for temple as well just |
| 11466s | having |
| 11467s | those stats on the board and |
| 11469s | this is having to deal with it but it |
| 11472s | looks like he's opting for |
| 11474s | the well pawn no well oh maybe not |
| 11478s | really considered it |
| 11480s | yeah |
| 11481s | if we're talking tempo the noel can be |
| 11483s | played alongside two other minions which |
| 11485s | does represent a lot of pressure um |
| 11489s | so reasonable for habu here |
| 11493s | oh looks like you're correct |
| 11496s | crucially possessing doesn't have that |
| 11499s | much health to heal here but the fact |
| 11501s | that he has one health to heal means he |
| 11503s | can at least activate his cleric of |
| 11505s | ancient so something to do this turn and |
| 11507s | then next turn |
| 11509s | hoping to get that cyrella clear once he |
| 11511s | has taken a significant amount of damage |
| 11513s | but finally there's the surgery |
| 11519s | okay |
| 11520s | so now habu goes for the okani to |
| 11522s | protect this board which actually still |
| 11524s | makes a lot of sense |
| 11528s | in fact this timing is probably just |
| 11529s | straight up better because he gets more |
| 11530s | damage over time if you already expect |
| 11532s | the okani to protect your board might as |
| 11535s | well |
| 11536s | develop more damage early on |
| 11545s | now possessing has to give up his cleric |
| 11547s | if he wants to deal with this board |
| 11551s | is it worth it |
| 11554s | uh i should change my question is it |
| 11556s | necessary |
| 11563s | in if he doesn't clear this he takes |
| 11565s | another 11 from this board |
| 11569s | it's |
| 11571s | starting to add up |
| 11576s | okay possessing is sticking it out |
| 11579s | though |
| 11582s | getting two clerics |
| 11585s | plus |
| 11591s | what is that the hand needed |
| 11594s | yeah |
| 11594s | all right |
| 11596s | hard rock lower |
| 11597s | oh now jack hexson |
| 11600s | this is um |
| 11601s | a gotcha card in the match up like if |
| 11603s | possessee ever leaves a board unattended |
| 11606s | a boar unattended on the board habugabu |
| 11609s | can steal it and shadow step back his |
| 11610s | najak and immediately win the game by |
| 11612s | disrupting possesses combo that way it's |
| 11614s | so nice to have that in his back pocket |
| 11617s | um off of this second pick i am looking |
| 11619s | at the azsharan defector just so you |
| 11621s | could play this turn but habu takes mida |
| 11623s | instead saying that this is already |
| 11625s | enough pressure on board and he wants |
| 11626s | best options for refill later on |
| 11629s | on second glance this is |
| 11631s | better this just makes a lot of sense |
| 11635s | right is someone injured |
| 11638s | predict was the cleric and now it's |
| 11640s | gonna be a zyrella clear |
| 11647s | [Music] |
| 11649s | i hope what oh yeah sorry zerella |
| 11652s | already does the trick even without the |
| 11653s | gift because habu also had taken damage |
| 11655s | at that point |
| 11659s | oh |
| 11672s | uh oh he played of course uh the crab |
| 11674s | toe is back |
| 11678s | is he having to take that much damage |
| 11680s | for the setup might come back to haunt |
| 11682s | him if he's not able to deal with this |
| 11684s | because currently we are just looking at |
| 11686s | mr smite and filet fighter for 10 damage |
| 11688s | from hand |
| 11693s | oh no pyro |
| 11700s | and does possess you have to silence |
| 11702s | this oh |
| 11705s | it at least |
| 11706s | you know |
| 11707s | goes back towards his bank mana from |
| 11709s | valeesh it also |
| 11711s | um pumps up the second hand maiden and |
| 11713s | this hand is just not getting there on |
| 11715s | its own |
| 11721s | it looks like a weird silence but i |
| 11723s | think it is a necessary one here |
| 11725s | alice handmaiden |
| 11727s | at the very least he can trade the |
| 11729s | amulet to end the turn but definitely |
| 11731s | looking for something a bit better here |
| 11733s | yeah and he digs out |
| 11735s | umbrella plus |
| 11738s | spells |
| 11740s | and without undying |
| 11743s | to further progress his |
| 11745s | uh bore combo |
| 11755s | doesn't have gun fishing to get a really |
| 11757s | nice setup with the mr smite |
| 11760s | and it's still a long ways off before |
| 11761s | you can smite prep vessel that's 10 mana |
| 11764s | so |
| 11765s | um this turn probably ends up being like |
| 11769s | vessel |
| 11770s | dagger or maybe mida prep vessel |
| 11782s | abu knows he's running out of time |
| 11784s | though |
| 11786s | how complicated |
| 11793s | and the other scary thing of going super |
| 11796s | white on board against poor priests is |
| 11798s | sometimes giving them more targets with |
| 11800s | which to go for the pyrocleric gift of |
| 11803s | the naaru combo |
| 11806s | there's still one gift left that habu |
| 11808s | hasn't seen but at this point i don't |
| 11809s | think he can afford to play super safe |
| 11812s | right he has to set up some sort of |
| 11814s | lethal |
| 11815s | so it's gonna be vessel and dagger here |
| 11818s | next turn he has smite and filet fighter |
| 11820s | for 10 burst from hand |
| 11833s | finally a pyro is found for possessing |
| 11846s | that's gift that's so much card draw |
| 11848s | another kid |
| 11850s | you can trade into it straight away with |
| 11852s | the shard or the amulet if he's not |
| 11854s | trading amulet i assume it's already on |
| 11856s | the full three |
| 11859s | resurrections do you like to play with |
| 11862s | fire |
| 11863s | now he has to contend with hand space a |
| 11866s | little bit if you go |
| 11867s | desperate prayer |
| 11870s | and then play |
| 11872s | okay wait handmaiden face for uh oh is |
| 11875s | he doing some card draw with more shire |
| 11877s | cleric |
| 11879s | yes you will with the gift it's just |
| 11880s | about the hand space that matters here |
| 11882s | because |
| 11884s | there's okay this is gonna kill off |
| 11886s | two minions so |
| 11889s | the hand is like the gift sorry is gonna |
| 11891s | draw seven here including the face proc |
| 11895s | and he can still |
| 11896s | clear the rest of the board with |
| 11898s | desperate prayer and one more spell |
| 11900s | probably the flash heal |
| 11904s | oh oh no out of cards wait i'm fatigued |
| 11907s | wait wait wait wait wait wait wait we're |
| 11908s | ready |
| 11910s | the question is are the amulets fully |
| 11911s | traded because if he has zero cards left |
| 11913s | on deck and one of the amulets is just |
| 11915s | that one charge |
| 11916s | then he still cannot do the combo |
| 11918s | because you cannot trade into an empty |
| 11919s | deck but possess is not panicking so i |
| 11921s | think he's okay |
| 11923s | uh the borah has also been killed so no |
| 11926s | chance for nadjak not that habu even had |
| 11928s | a shadow step |
| 11934s | yeah possesses in the clear because he |
| 11935s | still has second pyro double amulet next |
| 11938s | turn assuming the amulets are fully |
| 11941s | charged i couldn't keep track i'm sorry |
| 11950s | okay so for hubbu's perspective here |
| 11953s | right if you are assuming you're gonna |
| 11955s | get hit by the sort of a thousand truths |
| 11957s | next turn you just have to pray that |
| 11960s | possession cannot clear the board |
| 11961s | simultaneously |
| 11963s | and that would entail stealing his spyro |
| 11966s | and building a board with |
| 11969s | i was going to say vessel and mida but |
| 11971s | it's actually just the smite straight |
| 11972s | away here which means that habu even at |
| 11975s | one mana can still play his filet |
| 11978s | fighter next turn i think it's very |
| 11979s | clever |
| 11981s | and with possessing fatigue damage the |
| 11984s | clock continues to tick down uh |
| 11988s | oh but he is silencing the enemy minions |
| 11992s | yeah that means the pyro is within range |
| 11994s | of dying now to |
| 11996s | pyro amulet amulet and it also means |
| 11999s | this might will not give charge to filet |
| 12001s | fighter very big deal |
| 12006s | and because of that i don't think habu |
| 12009s | can get lethal next turn which means |
| 12012s | that possessi should just take the win |
| 12017s | stance is making me doubt my assessment |
| 12019s | but i think possesses done a good job |
| 12021s | here |
| 12022s | okay |
| 12026s | all right possessive takes the win |
| 12032s | all right it was a close one at the end |
| 12034s | there i think kabu did his best to build |
| 12037s | a board state that possession gonna deal |
| 12038s | with but possessing still having that |
| 12040s | silence at the end there was a very |
| 12042s | crucial piece of this puzzle because |
| 12044s | even as bore priests when you've set up |
| 12046s | the whole combo it's not the same as |
| 12048s | other otks where you literally just kill |
| 12050s | them it's an ot |
| 12052s | it's more like a two-turn kill where you |
| 12054s | need two swings and you still give your |
| 12056s | opponent one turn to potentially answer |
| 12058s | with whatever board they have plus one |
| 12060s | mana worth of cards from hand so nicely |
| 12063s | done there i think possessee had a very |
| 12065s | difficult game to navigate in the middle |
| 12068s | because his switcheroo was so late and |
| 12069s | the pyro was so late but just as soon as |
| 12072s | you find the pyro cleric gift combo you |
| 12075s | can very reliably get to the end of your |
| 12077s | deck there |
| 12080s | yep and he did that with |
| 12082s | some more clear as well uh science on mr |
| 12085s | smite is |
| 12088s | uh grape to prevent any |
| 12091s | iris charging through the face and of |
| 12092s | course his desperate for your heel |
| 12095s | uh he had he could have hit uh in the |
| 12098s | face but habukapu knew when it was over |
| 12101s | that's right |
| 12103s | none of our players are up for wasting |
| 12105s | time here possessing moving on straight |
| 12107s | away to his mind rogue which is a deck |
| 12110s | that i think was very good against super |
| 12113s | fake a while ago but could struggle a |
| 12114s | bit more against habukabu whose |
| 12117s | lineup is much more oriented to taking |
| 12119s | the board right the mine rogue if they |
| 12121s | don't hit the early burning blade |
| 12123s | acolyte procs they actually struggle to |
| 12126s | deal with aggressive pushes on the other |
| 12128s | side |
| 12132s | for sure |
| 12136s | what this what is habukabu choosing for |
| 12139s | this one would it be a reverse sweep do |
| 12141s | you think uh based on the decks right |
| 12144s | now or would it be a 3-0 |
| 12147s | or |
| 12148s | how how goes it |
| 12150s | uh can i cop out and choose something in |
| 12153s | between maybe |
| 12155s | i'm feeling a three one here just to be |
| 12158s | a bit different i don't know |
| 12160s | um okay so we do have habu going for his |
| 12162s | beast hunter which i think it's very |
| 12164s | reasonable choice against that mind |
| 12166s | rogue because this is a deck where if |
| 12168s | you just stick a one drop and put a |
| 12170s | doggie biscuit on it you are already |
| 12172s | outpacing most mine rogue draws you |
| 12174s | won't outpace like the super early smoke |
| 12177s | screen into 5 8 draw but |
| 12181s | most of the other stuff like just the |
| 12182s | regular mines on board and forsaken |
| 12184s | lieutenants i think the hunter can beat |
| 12186s | that |
| 12192s | um so |
| 12194s | as for the early |
| 12197s | curve from habugabu here amy do you feel |
| 12199s | like it's good enough for him to keep |
| 12201s | for example a click clocker or do you |
| 12204s | think he should be looking for something |
| 12206s | more |
| 12206s | uh aggressive like a vicious slither |
| 12208s | spear |
| 12212s | very good question |
| 12213s | i mean against my rogue it's gonna if he |
| 12216s | hops for aggro play |
| 12218s | he'll be kind of racing mine rogue uh |
| 12222s | lots of damage early game face |
| 12225s | but if he's able to create a board the |
| 12227s | mineral might be forced to use some |
| 12229s | spells |
| 12230s | or |
| 12231s | minions to get rid of it |
| 12235s | it depends on their mulligan you think |
| 12237s | chia |
| 12240s | well we'll definitely see possessi has |
| 12243s | shown that he's very familiar of when |
| 12246s | it's supposed to be a more |
| 12248s | board-oriented win condition for him |
| 12250s | versus the naval mine a while ago again |
| 12252s | super fake he went almost completely in |
| 12254s | the board direction with the burning |
| 12256s | blade acolyte deathrattles getting him |
| 12258s | the victory even with no mines exploding |
| 12261s | uh in this matchup i think either win |
| 12264s | condition is viable but he certainly |
| 12266s | needs the support cards right this is a |
| 12268s | smokescreen without a trickster is he |
| 12271s | going to be bold enough to keep it |
| 12273s | let's find out |
| 12275s | oh yes yes |
| 12276s | [Laughter] |
| 12278s | oh no not the mountain there |
| 12283s | okay so no tricks are yet for possessing |
| 12285s | but the shadow chamber is a great way to |
| 12287s | start off the curve and he hits |
| 12288s | graveyard and sketchy so this could be |
| 12291s | just a mine sort of game plan here the |
| 12293s | hunter really doesn't have ways of |
| 12296s | healing the most they can do is gain |
| 12297s | armor from tavish and then put some |
| 12299s | taunts in the way so |
| 12301s | this could end a bit quickly here |
| 12315s | the graveyard here obviously means |
| 12317s | possessing will not get activation off |
| 12319s | this first turn so it's gonna only be |
| 12321s | active for turn four and turn five uh on |
| 12324s | turn four he can definitely get the |
| 12326s | sketchy to get a naval mine for eight |
| 12327s | damage and on turn five he can play the |
| 12330s | mine which will blow up because of the |
| 12332s | shatter chamber aura and so that's 16 |
| 12335s | total damage still has 13 to account for |
| 12340s | it's a start though |
| 12347s | every dagger swing could potentially |
| 12349s | matter as well i like getting all the |
| 12352s | damage through before he sees any taunts |
| 12354s | but for habu gabu there is now the blade |
| 12358s | master akani that can happen this turn |
| 12360s | and |
| 12361s | cut off |
| 12362s | minion i think you put minion here |
| 12364s | because you're scared of the burning |
| 12365s | blade |
| 12367s | that's true i didn't oh i think he did |
| 12370s | pick minion |
| 12378s | acolyte's still not playable this turn |
| 12380s | possess he's going to test |
| 12383s | our minion with shutter shambler |
| 12387s | you could say test for spell with |
| 12389s | backstab but that backstab's actually |
| 12391s | super valuable |
| 12393s | in the case where habu did block minion |
| 12395s | you're not able to blow up a second mine |
| 12398s | later on with shatter shambler and so |
| 12400s | you would rather have the backstab in |
| 12402s | hand so i like the line from possessive |
| 12409s | and of course he's making the most |
| 12411s | out of |
| 12412s | those bombs with the face what is it |
| 12418s | yeah abugabu going for as much pressure |
| 12421s | as you can but it is too little too late |
| 12423s | right possession just has bomb and |
| 12425s | counterfeit blade now the blade will not |
| 12427s | trigger its death rattle on the same |
| 12429s | turn as the uh graveyard being active |
| 12432s | but he doesn't need to right it's fine |
| 12435s | he just has enough damage next turn |
| 12437s | anyway |
| 12442s | yep |
| 12443s | yep |
| 12445s | it's a three oh my bad amy |
| 12449s | goodness that snowfall graveyard in that |
| 12451s | early turn really helped possessing |
| 12455s | get those death rattles triggered and |
| 12457s | just do massive damage to the face um |
| 12460s | who didn't have a chance to like slow |
| 12463s | down the damage at all |
| 12466s | i mean it's just too easy for possession |
| 12469s | apparently as he just gets on his chair |
| 12472s | and wheels away like it's an amusement |
| 12474s | park |
| 12476s | is just giving us so much meme material |
| 12478s | today i cannot wrap my head around it |
| 12480s | but he has qualified through to sunday |
| 12483s | he's already earned two points minimum |
| 12486s | again a maximum of five is available to |
| 12488s | any of our players the champion gets the |
| 12490s | full five points and they put themselves |
| 12493s | in the best position to make it through |
| 12495s | to playoffs in week four so possessing |
| 12497s | already taking a quick lead here showing |
| 12500s | why he is the reigning world champion |
| 12502s | but that is not all of group a done yet |
| 12505s | amy we still have our elimination and |
| 12508s | decider match to be played we can take a |
| 12510s | look at the bracket right here |
| 12512s | awesome |
| 12515s | all |
| 12517s | right don't have super fake and mighty |
| 12520s | in the elimination and we have already |
| 12522s | talked about how both mighty and |
| 12524s | habugabu wanted to dodge super fake |
| 12527s | right because he has that lineup that's |
| 12529s | well oriented against decks like shaman |
| 12532s | and boat rogue which are available to |
| 12533s | both mighty and habu gabu so mighty has |
| 12536s | such an uphill climb here but if super |
| 12539s | fake wins habu is still not out of the |
| 12542s | woods just yet so |
| 12544s | definitely some high stakes matches to |
| 12546s | be played here maybe the 160 card lineup |
| 12549s | from super fake can show what it's made |
| 12551s | of |
| 12553s | i cannot wait to see some potentially |
| 12555s | more curse overlocked shenanigans from |
| 12558s | the super fake |
| 12562s | right um we also haven't seen the holy |
| 12564s | paladin yet we've also hardly seen any |
| 12566s | shaman action despite it being brought |
| 12568s | by by both mighty and habu gabu so still |
| 12571s | lots to be played out here but that is |
| 12574s | going to be uh you and me done for the |
| 12576s | day amy because i'm so not used to this |
| 12578s | because grandmasters has been um |
| 12581s | amalgamated into one region with eu |
| 12584s | americas and aipac all playing at the |
| 12586s | same time we also have our casters |
| 12589s | taking on a different sort of role here |
| 12591s | where we do have the chance now to throw |
| 12594s | over to raven and saddle for the next |
| 12597s | three matches of the day before we close |
| 12599s | out with the final four from our usual |
| 12601s | americas casters so thanks so much for |
| 12604s | joining me on day one amy we'll be back |
| 12606s | tomorrow to bring everybody the opening |
| 12609s | couple matches but for now don't go |
| 12611s | anywhere it's going to be the |
| 12613s | elimination and decider matches for |
| 12615s | group a followed by group b very shortly |
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| 12637s | in the darkest of seasons where ruthless |
| 12640s | eyes gawk for horrific |
| 12644s | for a hidden hand has struck me down |
| 12648s | with such ruthlessness |
| 12651s | so |
| 12652s | deep and profound |
| 12655s | then he comes with his |
| 12657s | [Music] |
| 12668s | the anima drifts across the floor |
| 12671s | highlighting the creatures who walked |
| 12674s | through my door |
| 12676s | the motives are as black as night |
| 12679s | avarice power revenge and blight |
| 12685s | we watch the hero |
| 12687s | uncover the clues |
| 12690s | that lead to the truth |
| 12693s | behind this dark rooms |
| 12697s | join us here with the grimm and in pious |
| 12702s | choose your power without heavenly bias |
| 12706s | for at the end |
| 12707s | they will burn in the fire |
| 12711s | when it is known whose slave |
| 12715s | the sire |
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| 12957s | so |
| 12970s | so |
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| 13000s | so |
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| 13011s | so |
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| 13024s | so |
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| 13040s | welcome back everyone to hearthstone at |
| 13041s | grand masters last call it's that time |
| 13044s | of day where myself and scotland are |
| 13045s | gonna jump in and we'll be bringing you |
| 13047s | the next three matches continuing on |
| 13049s | from where g and amy left off so i'll |
| 13051s | it's the start of a new season it's that |
| 13053s | time again uh are you uh are you ready |
| 13056s | for this one cause it's gonna be a |
| 13057s | little bit of a different season isn't |
| 13058s | it yeah i think that's the point i think |
| 13061s | i'm ready but i'm really not sure |
| 13063s | because this kind of rhythm that we've |
| 13065s | got into for the last few years has been |
| 13067s | very much disrupted and i'm sure that is |
| 13069s | the same for the players the shame for |
| 13071s | the view it's the same for the viewers |
| 13072s | as well because |
| 13074s | this mixing of regions the the crossing |
| 13077s | over of casters being in groups with |
| 13079s | players from different region and so on |
| 13080s | and having just different |
| 13082s | angles to have to prepare for is |
| 13085s | certainly a big deal as far as the |
| 13087s | preparation for these tournaments go |
| 13089s | along and certainly i think for the |
| 13091s | bragging rights between individual |
| 13092s | players because not only is there the |
| 13094s | additional spot of the world |
| 13095s | championships to play for not only is |
| 13097s | there an inflated prize pool to play for |
| 13100s | but all those bragging rights all those |
| 13102s | shots back and forth as the seasons have |
| 13104s | gone on as to which is the dominant |
| 13106s | region well now is your chance to |
| 13108s | finally prove it |
| 13110s | yeah it's going to be pretty great as |
| 13111s | always and i think historically we've |
| 13113s | always enjoyed it when we see sort of |
| 13115s | cross-region competition and for the |
| 13117s | past few years we've definitely had that |
| 13118s | in the masters tour system i think |
| 13120s | that's been one of the highlights of |
| 13122s | masters tours for me at least and i'm |
| 13124s | glad we get this sort of smaller form |
| 13126s | factor uh version of it with grand |
| 13129s | masters so as i said we are just going |
| 13131s | to pick up where we just left off |
| 13132s | possessing taking the win out of group a |
| 13135s | with victories over super fake and habu |
| 13137s | gabu habu is going to be sat in that |
| 13139s | decider match which we'll get to a |
| 13140s | little bit later on but to kick it off |
| 13142s | saul we're going to go in with the |
| 13144s | elimination match starting on the low |
| 13145s | factor of the day for us super fake |
| 13148s | versus mighty in this decider match the |
| 13151s | winner will go on to face habu so i |
| 13153s | would say honestly saul all these |
| 13155s | players are great but whoever wins this |
| 13157s | still has a lot of work to do to get out |
| 13160s | of the group because even though habu |
| 13161s | gabby lost like he is no pushover |
| 13164s | i think it makes sense right after the |
| 13166s | endless positivity of uh gia and amy you |
| 13169s | bring me in for the downer portion of |
| 13171s | the broadcast that i mean this is just |
| 13173s | good booking you have to say but yeah |
| 13175s | super fake going up against mighty uh if |
| 13177s | i am a bit bummed out at the point where |
| 13179s | i'm entering the broadcast i have to |
| 13181s | deal with captain 160 cards over here |
| 13184s | which i'm not exactly thrilled about |
| 13186s | uh super fake running the full renathol |
| 13189s | lineup um as jia was pointing out |
| 13192s | possibly one of the more feared lineups |
| 13194s | in this group and the the one that |
| 13196s | people will be looking to dodge a little |
| 13198s | bit potentially you know if you are a |
| 13200s | renathol believer and that's kind of |
| 13202s | been the calling card of super fake and |
| 13205s | regular practice partner fled is that |
| 13207s | they've consistently taken these high |
| 13210s | risk high reward kind of strategies with |
| 13213s | the decks that they've built throughout |
| 13214s | grand masters and throughout masters |
| 13216s | tours as well particularly on super |
| 13217s | fake's part |
| 13218s | and they've very much fallen on the |
| 13221s | reward side of that equation more often |
| 13223s | than not seeming to find the meta |
| 13225s | breakers over and over again yeah and as |
| 13228s | we take a look at this excel ping mage |
| 13230s | that's all quite rightly pointed out |
| 13231s | you're going to be seeing there renathel |
| 13233s | and 40 cards quite a lot in this first |
| 13235s | match of the day for us at least |
| 13237s | but uh i |
| 13239s | i'm still on the fence about renathel |
| 13241s | and i think from our theory casting |
| 13242s | stream last night i think we might see |
| 13244s | renfield you know almost take over in at |
| 13247s | least in certain decks uh because of the |
| 13250s | how board focused a lot of the game |
| 13252s | looks going forward uh but for me i do |
| 13256s | feel like you either see these decks |
| 13258s | look flawless and demolish competition |
| 13261s | or get destroyed i feel like there's no |
| 13264s | middle ground at least from what i've |
| 13265s | witnessed but it is going to be going up |
| 13267s | against the boat rogue very sort of |
| 13270s | standard go-to nothing flashy but |
| 13272s | generally solid roguelist so we are |
| 13275s | really getting there both sides of the |
| 13276s | spectrum here right of just very |
| 13278s | standard good solid rogue list against |
| 13281s | 40 card ping mage |
| 13284s | yeah and of course in recent memory at |
| 13286s | the summer championships rogue was a |
| 13289s | decent performer in the masters tour it |
| 13291s | was i think two rogue decks ended up |
| 13293s | being number one and two in win rate in |
| 13294s | the tournament overall despite some |
| 13297s | questions being asked going into it this |
| 13299s | is a deck that really has stood the test |
| 13300s | of time and it's had to do so against |
| 13303s | some backlash as well because there's |
| 13305s | been multiple points where various |
| 13307s | lineup builders players casters have |
| 13309s | questioned whether this deck was kind of |
| 13311s | just holding on because it was just kind |
| 13313s | of a default deck that people were |
| 13314s | putting in there is there something |
| 13315s | better that you could find but i think |
| 13317s | as time has gone on as play has been |
| 13318s | refined as the meta has settled uh boat |
| 13321s | rogue has very much found a position |
| 13323s | well whether it be boat rogue or jackpot |
| 13325s | rogue really this kind of |
| 13328s | has found its position in the meta and |
| 13331s | here we go i'm kicking off game number |
| 13333s | one again just a reminder the loser of |
| 13335s | this match is going to be done for the |
| 13337s | week with a pretty early exit and i |
| 13339s | imagine for that player a disappointing |
| 13341s | result to kick off the first of four |
| 13344s | weeks of grand masters so uh let's have |
| 13347s | a look what the openings look like again |
| 13349s | with this renauthol kind of deck here |
| 13351s | from super fake card draw is always |
| 13353s | going to be valuable because most the |
| 13355s | time that's how you end up losing right |
| 13357s | is you don't get to the cards you |
| 13359s | actually need to win games which is why |
| 13362s | card draw and tutor effects are |
| 13363s | generally going to be quite powerful and |
| 13365s | needed whereas over on mighty's side |
| 13368s | things aren't looking bad with a null |
| 13370s | the the reduced down bow and uh and also |
| 13373s | more cycle with the second cutlass being |
| 13375s | picked up |
| 13376s | anduin get out of here no one likes you |
| 13378s | what are you doing here looking forward |
| 13380s | to the fireworks honestly what dweeb |
| 13382s | come on |
| 13383s | there's one who's invited not invited to |
| 13385s | the party and turns up anyway yeah |
| 13387s | exactly and that one is anduin every |
| 13390s | single time |
| 13393s | really good start though for mighty it's |
| 13395s | one of those |
| 13396s | fears though i do think with this |
| 13399s | style of rogue is |
| 13400s | you can get on board |
| 13402s | quickly with the right opening hand you |
| 13404s | know like this from mighty but you do |
| 13406s | have a bit of a issue of when or when or |
| 13410s | if it's dealt with you suddenly have to |
| 13412s | start really stretching to add up to 40 |
| 13415s | damage that that mighty has to do in |
| 13417s | this matchup and i think that was one of |
| 13419s | the biggest issues with boat rogue |
| 13420s | before renathol was |
| 13423s | it felt like it just about got there |
| 13425s | every time when it did whereas with 40 |
| 13427s | health and you know more for from the |
| 13429s | likes of ice barrier and such like |
| 13431s | things i do feel have to go quite well |
| 13433s | for mighty |
| 13436s | coin prep boat it looks like so this was |
| 13439s | possible to do before the trade just |
| 13441s | straight up on the vessel |
| 13443s | obviously the trade could have hit the |
| 13445s | vessel at which point the prep was still |
| 13446s | possible and by doing the trade before |
| 13449s | using the prep obviously mighty stays |
| 13451s | unrevealed for an extra card draw which |
| 13453s | then banks that additional manner into |
| 13455s | the knoll over the course of the turn so |
| 13457s | i do think on average this way round was |
| 13459s | the best way of doing it even though it |
| 13460s | kind of ended up costing him a coin to |
| 13463s | end up making the play |
| 13465s | yeah and even though i'm looking a |
| 13466s | little bit further into the future one |
| 13468s | of the very good cards that's uh either |
| 13470s | to help keep the pressure on or a |
| 13472s | recovery card is that edwin |
| 13475s | in hand there for mighty like again not |
| 13477s | necessarily on curve but a little bit |
| 13478s | later on even if you can get one or two |
| 13481s | card draws out of it that's quite a lot |
| 13483s | for this bow rogue deck so we'll see how |
| 13485s | that one pays out as super fake it's |
| 13486s | gonna start getting to work |
| 13489s | it's also one of the good solutions to |
| 13491s | the problem you posed of well how do you |
| 13493s | do that extra damage when you know boat |
| 13495s | rogue seems to quite consistently do |
| 13497s | about 30 damage in a lot of positions |
| 13499s | where if you can go you know turn five |
| 13502s | turn six or so get like an edwin shadow |
| 13504s | step start buffing it up in your hand |
| 13506s | potentially and then that combo later on |
| 13508s | with smite and right fighter or whatever |
| 13511s | else can eventually output it end up |
| 13513s | outputting massive amounts of damage so |
| 13515s | we'll see what mighty comes up with here |
| 13517s | but crucially i think more so than |
| 13519s | thinking about burst combos mighty just |
| 13521s | has board early and that's a really |
| 13524s | really big deal here because that extra |
| 13526s | 10 health has now already been eroded |
| 13529s | and then some in the early game which is |
| 13530s | a very big deal yeah and again that's |
| 13532s | another struggle some of these rogue |
| 13534s | hands can be a little bit light in the |
| 13536s | early game and that's just something i |
| 13537s | think cannot happen against exactly this |
| 13539s | ping mage |
| 13540s | but now you can see the sort of drawback |
| 13543s | you have uh with the renault field deck |
| 13545s | says super fake has a lot of stuff but |
| 13547s | it's not a lot of stuff that's really |
| 13549s | gonna |
| 13550s | overly propel him into being competitive |
| 13552s | in this game does have flurry to go |
| 13555s | along with you know maybe an o'carny and |
| 13557s | maybe something else to try and land as |
| 13559s | well but for now it's just a lot of |
| 13561s | four drops that don't really do too much |
| 13564s | on their own |
| 13567s | all right does end up just going for the |
| 13568s | tempo edwin |
| 13571s | two copies of flurry in the opposing |
| 13573s | deck by the way which is of course |
| 13575s | another edition of a card that you have |
| 13576s | to think about in the renaissance |
| 13578s | version uh so that is some justification |
| 13580s | here for mighty playing a third minion |
| 13582s | because it means that minion into flurry |
| 13584s | for the full board freeze is just not |
| 13586s | really a possibility |
| 13590s | and again the tempo van cleef is is fine |
| 13592s | in exactly this position right there's |
| 13595s | some card draw already in the hand there |
| 13597s | is some burst damage as well from mighty |
| 13599s | so if he could get all this to face this |
| 13601s | turn and obviously it wasn't frozen he's |
| 13603s | really starting to just open up lethal |
| 13605s | in a turn or so so even though it was a |
| 13608s | bit of a weaker van cleef in general in |
| 13610s | this situation i do like it |
| 13613s | yeah it's just a 4-4 right it's just |
| 13615s | being exactly |
| 13616s | as a weak yeti in this position just |
| 13618s | representing extra pressure trying to |
| 13620s | push some extra damage |
| 13621s | trout pickup is decent here the other |
| 13624s | knoll is certainly available and |
| 13626s | playable here with the mana |
| 13629s | it looks like mighty is gonna go for the |
| 13631s | honorable kill on the tooth instead |
| 13633s | absolutely fine |
| 13636s | we've seen some absolute dumpster fires |
| 13638s | of selections coming off from the tooth |
| 13640s | here but those aren't as bad arcane |
| 13643s | shotgo |
| 13648s | it's kind of interesting as well while |
| 13651s | mighty looks at these discovers that i |
| 13653s | was looking at what extortion plus |
| 13655s | dagger and then gun fish or extortion |
| 13657s | gun fishing does uh to maybe open up |
| 13659s | more and save the damage for damage to |
| 13661s | face uh of course the gun fishing will |
| 13663s | offer some conversa and that's now into |
| 13666s | more pressure and right now super fake |
| 13668s | needs something big because he's getting |
| 13670s | to that point where |
| 13672s | he will just die and there's look at the |
| 13674s | hand right he can get into the flurry |
| 13676s | from the savara |
| 13679s | or |
| 13681s | that's more or less it |
| 13683s | looks like i've run out of ideas |
| 13685s | to me |
| 13691s | and and this is the sort of the game you |
| 13695s | choose to play right is because those |
| 13697s | extra cards your general draw isn't |
| 13699s | going to be as consistent to do what you |
| 13700s | want to do and when you are pressured |
| 13702s | down early |
| 13704s | it can be a problem |
| 13710s | another flurry maybe i assail no |
| 13713s | i imagine that was the dig right cross |
| 13716s | of the fingers shooting down the four |
| 13717s | four to two health i imagine fire sales |
| 13719s | was being looked for then |
| 13724s | and then the finger cross comes out on |
| 13726s | the other side |
| 13728s | and there is the good news two copies of |
| 13730s | fire sale in the deck as well remember |
| 13732s | plus the additional copy that could have |
| 13733s | been found from the order |
| 13736s | am i going |
| 13738s | crazy here was |
| 13740s | there is a flurry in savara right |
| 13743s | uh i'm not sure if there were three |
| 13745s | spells played before that or not i want |
| 13748s | to say there wasn't but i could be wrong |
| 13750s | so i'm not gonna go in but i felt like |
| 13752s | if there is a flurry savara flurry and |
| 13753s | then flamestrike next turn fell a little |
| 13756s | bit more there's also |
| 13757s | there's also hand space issues though |
| 13759s | right and i think if the flurry is in |
| 13761s | there it was probably the third spell |
| 13763s | that was played which means |
| 13765s | you'd need max hand space to be able to |
| 13767s | get it out |
| 13768s | absolutely reasonable and you know what |
| 13770s | likely i think at this point because i |
| 13772s | do feel like the flurry was in the |
| 13773s | savara but yeah you're absolutely right |
| 13775s | flurry was played before the hot streak |
| 13777s | so i'm pretty certain it would be in |
| 13779s | there but if it's in second or third |
| 13781s | position then you've got some hand space |
| 13782s | problems for sure |
| 13784s | now double phillip as well |
| 13786s | got the wicked stab too |
| 13789s | okay this is just a lot of damage and i |
| 13792s | fully respect the arcane shot pick |
| 13797s | gotta bang the mana right damage go face |
| 13804s | uh yeah so stop's going to be four five |
| 13807s | six seven eight yep lovely use the stab |
| 13810s | now yeah 100 yeah |
| 13813s | great just sets up smite alone |
| 13816s | as lethal as long as there's no |
| 13817s | shenanigans and |
| 13819s | staring at super fake's hand i cannot |
| 13821s | see that many shenanigans that is |
| 13823s | actually going to stop smite |
| 13827s | playing mage for a start which makes |
| 13829s | shenanigans a bit more difficult |
| 13831s | yeah which makes shenanigans exactly ice |
| 13833s | barrier |
| 13839s | well imagine as well that like |
| 13841s | that the flame strike comes down yeah |
| 13843s | mighty's happy he's gonna take the win |
| 13844s | with the smite game one goes to mighty |
| 13846s | but imagine if the fire sale was there |
| 13849s | subtle earlier because not only would |
| 13851s | the board have more or less been cleared |
| 13854s | but there would have been a fire sale in |
| 13855s | the hero card as well potentially right |
| 13859s | so like that could have done the job |
| 13860s | again and maybe would have helped super |
| 13862s | fake out but very very quickly mighty |
| 13865s | off to a great start and again we talked |
| 13867s | about all the discussion that's been |
| 13869s | surrounding rogue for the past few weeks |
| 13871s | maybe even a couple of months at this |
| 13872s | point but |
| 13874s | getting rogue like yes it looked great |
| 13876s | here but getting it done with a win has |
| 13878s | got to feel good here so a really really |
| 13881s | nice start for mighty |
| 13882s | yeah particularly in the position you're |
| 13884s | in right week one bad start down in the |
| 13887s | lower bracket sitting in the elimination |
| 13889s | match come up against super fake with |
| 13891s | this lineup that i think you know |
| 13893s | whether you think this is a good lineup |
| 13895s | or not this is probably one of the |
| 13897s | lineups that you don't want to face and |
| 13899s | that kind of gives it merit in and of |
| 13901s | itself and then it's difficult to |
| 13903s | prepare for you do kind of have to do |
| 13905s | specialist preparation because it's not |
| 13906s | what you face against every day day in |
| 13908s | day out in your practice sessions and on |
| 13910s | ladder and so i'm sure that is a big |
| 13913s | nerve settler for mighty to be able to |
| 13915s | get that nice quick win under the belt |
| 13917s | and i do mean quick because that was |
| 13919s | about as rapid as it gets chewing |
| 13921s | through 40 health like it was absolutely |
| 13924s | nothing yeah i do love that in |
| 13926s | hearthstone you know in competitive |
| 13928s | there's these lineups that you don't |
| 13929s | want to run into because they could be |
| 13931s | counters to your lineup it could contain |
| 13934s | like two decks you want to ban and |
| 13935s | obviously you can't do you know you |
| 13936s | can't ban two and then there are lineups |
| 13938s | there aren't particular counters but you |
| 13940s | just don't want to play against him |
| 13942s | yeah i think that's where this one falls |
| 13944s | in here for mighty and we did see there |
| 13946s | mighty's gonna be jumping over to his |
| 13948s | shaymin and super fake sticking to the |
| 13950s | mage and the shame and soul i know |
| 13951s | you've heard this from me multiple times |
| 13953s | because we talk about hearthstone a lot |
| 13955s | but i love this deck it's just ticks all |
| 13959s | the boxes for me it's such a solid |
| 13961s | reliable deck list and i'm glad to see |
| 13964s | mighty jump over to it now and have it |
| 13965s | in this lineup raven just as a just a |
| 13967s | point of order um obviously we're we're |
| 13969s | coming to the end of grand masters as a |
| 13971s | whole right now so this could be |
| 13973s | one of your final opportunities to |
| 13976s | actually say shaman during grand masters |
| 13978s | like are you are you willing to jump on |
| 13980s | this opportunity at all or |
| 13982s | i don't know if the viewers are ready |
| 13984s | saul |
| 13985s | because |
| 13987s | we're gonna go back to what 2016 2015 |
| 13990s | does it comes out and you just get like |
| 13992s | the broadcast feedback noise black black |
| 13994s | bars come over the screen technical |
| 13996s | difficult difficulties pop up like the |
| 13998s | world is not |
| 14001s | but i prepared if you want |
| 14004s | um |
| 14005s | after a good start with wildfire already |
| 14007s | a much better start for super fake than |
| 14009s | we saw in the previous game and mainly |
| 14012s | because when you do get those slightly |
| 14013s | worse hands you have hero power to fall |
| 14016s | back on and the second you drop a |
| 14017s | wildfire in it just becomes so much |
| 14019s | better but mighty on the shaymin uh |
| 14022s | playing fleurgal out nice and early can |
| 14024s | we start just piling on that pressure as |
| 14026s | well as pushing a bit of damage and i |
| 14028s | like this against mage because you're |
| 14031s | not trying to do like comboy aoe board |
| 14033s | clear with this right you just want to |
| 14035s | start pushing the damage |
| 14037s | yeah i think it's also one of those kind |
| 14039s | of matchups where i do sometimes look |
| 14040s | out for like what a tempo bowler does |
| 14043s | often oh yeah because sometimes the |
| 14044s | first minion you play is just going to |
| 14046s | stick around for quite some time |
| 14047s | particularly in a 40 card deck in a 30 |
| 14050s | card deck um first flame for example is |
| 14052s | a card that can pick pick apart your |
| 14054s | early ball but it's really just that |
| 14056s | that does it efficiently and obviously |
| 14058s | when you're playing 40 instead of 30 |
| 14059s | there's still only those two cards in |
| 14060s | the deck it's more less likely that your |
| 14062s | opponent is going to have it but i think |
| 14064s | in this position just getting some early |
| 14066s | damage on board is a pretty big deal |
| 14068s | it's just worth it and we saw then just |
| 14070s | these soaking up removal and inefficient |
| 14072s | removal as you just kind of mentioned |
| 14075s | it's huge right because now does super |
| 14077s | fake really want to take five or is he |
| 14080s | gonna hero power if he hero powers yeah |
| 14082s | he's actually scared enough to not play |
| 14084s | treasure guard into this board even |
| 14086s | though obviously it would it would be |
| 14087s | dead anyway we know treasure guard would |
| 14089s | go down but it would at least uh stall |
| 14091s | some damage so super fake again |
| 14093s | prioritizing the hero power and now |
| 14095s | there's another nemo in hand |
| 14098s | there |
| 14099s | is |
| 14101s | several options as to how to go about |
| 14102s | this he's choosing to hold potentially |
| 14105s | looking to use some of these cheap |
| 14106s | murlocs with the battle cries with a |
| 14108s | bowler combo somewhere down the line |
| 14110s | does have command coming up on the |
| 14112s | following term which is just a bunch of |
| 14115s | stats that you can throw on the board |
| 14117s | just a good card there's no arguing the |
| 14119s | command of the epsilon is ridiculous but |
| 14122s | yeah i do think that the second |
| 14123s | clownfish |
| 14125s | it's tough to play it with this hand |
| 14127s | from mighty because you really want a |
| 14129s | ravager right like you really want a |
| 14131s | cheap ravager to then draw whatever |
| 14133s | other murloc you want to be cheap as |
| 14135s | well um so i think just playing it out |
| 14137s | with like i know the ability holds but |
| 14140s | maybe playing it now instead of |
| 14142s | something else and then hoping you get |
| 14144s | to murloc soon and might be a little bit |
| 14146s | worse than just getting a winchell in |
| 14148s | hand |
| 14155s | okay took deep breath |
| 14160s | again look at how big the difference uh |
| 14162s | this wildfire has made |
| 14164s | already to the game for super fake right |
| 14167s | imagine if you just didn't have it on |
| 14168s | one it'd just be way behind |
| 14178s | great pick up on the deep breath yeah |
| 14180s | you see mighty with a little flick of |
| 14181s | the hand there not really a lot he could |
| 14183s | have done about that just |
| 14185s | a box that was opened in super fake's |
| 14187s | favor there but it was a smart pickup i |
| 14189s | think that was very much taken in mind |
| 14191s | with what the on curve play on the other |
| 14193s | side was going to be right it's very |
| 14194s | very likely it's a big fear when you're |
| 14197s | playing this kind of slower plodding |
| 14199s | deck two five fours on curve can just be |
| 14201s | the huge beat down stick that your |
| 14202s | opponent needs super fake picked up the |
| 14204s | deep breath to deal with it and has |
| 14205s | relinquished a lot of the pressure now |
| 14207s | or relieved a lot of the pressure i |
| 14209s | should say yeah and it's if you think |
| 14211s | about it it's one card that deletes the |
| 14213s | bonus from rendezvous right if it gets |
| 14215s | to hit face so you're like yes an answer |
| 14217s | to those is pretty big right now super |
| 14220s | fake gonna get hold of another uh |
| 14222s | wildfire which is gonna be pretty huge |
| 14224s | and two runes as well so |
| 14227s | okay a lot of flexibility available for |
| 14229s | him right now |
| 14231s | banking it now in terms of the wildfire |
| 14234s | seems strong helps you just deal with |
| 14236s | the cookie here leaving the 3-2 up on |
| 14237s | board does not seem like a particularly |
| 14239s | big deal and super fake is back oh how |
| 14243s | we've missed i was just gonna say i'm |
| 14244s | missing super fake on camera it's so |
| 14247s | great |
| 14248s | oh i like this turn though |
| 14252s | yeah this is really good |
| 14253s | he could choose to wait there is some |
| 14257s | possible greed |
| 14258s | don't be ridiculous |
| 14260s | okay |
| 14261s | only because there's power at this |
| 14262s | pirate there's parrot next turn right |
| 14264s | with the macaw and he also gets to clear |
| 14267s | the board with the weapon in the trade |
| 14269s | so this there's so much upside it's just |
| 14271s | loads of pressure a little bit |
| 14272s | disappointed uh clearly with the kills |
| 14275s | but still it's still putting a lot of |
| 14277s | stats on board and forcing super fake to |
| 14279s | have answers i do like uh the trade |
| 14281s | though because if yeah if this doesn't |
| 14283s | happen it opens him up to a lot of aoe |
| 14290s | yeah obviously mighty is not to know |
| 14292s | this but there weren't really game |
| 14294s | breaking targets in the hand to be |
| 14297s | chomped on by the mutinous that was |
| 14299s | about as good as it was ever going to |
| 14301s | get really |
| 14306s | without a big board though |
| 14308s | exactly and without some kind of |
| 14310s | transform effect |
| 14311s | that bone is just chilling right like |
| 14314s | what |
| 14315s | he could do nine in this uh yeah he |
| 14317s | could but that's his whole turn killing |
| 14319s | a two-nine bowler |
| 14321s | yeah |
| 14323s | but the alternative |
| 14325s | is you don't do that you know |
| 14328s | and that seems worse i'm not saying it's |
| 14330s | wrong i'm just saying from mighty's |
| 14332s | standpoint he probably gets to keep |
| 14334s | mutinous which is just eight damage |
| 14336s | which |
| 14337s | it feels like a you know an upside |
| 14339s | either way |
| 14340s | yeah that volcano mancy |
| 14343s | might just open up some interesting |
| 14345s | tricks though |
| 14347s | i think it's quite there this turn |
| 14353s | oh |
| 14355s | now i need to spend the remainder of |
| 14356s | your mana this turn on just doing |
| 14358s | volcano mancy plus the activator for |
| 14360s | volcano mansion |
| 14362s | gonna kill the mutanus |
| 14365s | doesn't want to tell the eight gonna run |
| 14367s | you know roll the dice a little bit with |
| 14369s | the bowler at least he knows if there's |
| 14370s | a parrot there's just only one minion in |
| 14372s | hand anyway so who cares oh there's glug |
| 14379s | mighty gets a lot of information from |
| 14381s | this though right |
| 14382s | in my eyes |
| 14384s | yep because he just now he knows okay |
| 14387s | zero minions in hand no dawngrass to be |
| 14390s | able to freeze the whole board and no |
| 14392s | card draw in the form of multicaster no |
| 14395s | reckless apprentice which is a pretty |
| 14397s | big deal now that super fakes hero power |
| 14398s | deals three so that is solid solid |
| 14402s | information |
| 14404s | i would like to see the schooling this |
| 14406s | turn though purely because it makes it a |
| 14408s | little bit cheaper to do glug things |
| 14410s | next turn |
| 14414s | that's fair yeah do you actually commit |
| 14418s | any or all of the fish in this position |
| 14420s | though because it's a very aoe heavy |
| 14423s | potential deck that your opponent has at |
| 14425s | this point but maybe the high health |
| 14426s | that you have on these two minions is |
| 14427s | good enough to want to protect it |
| 14429s | yeah i i think you could probably hold |
| 14431s | you can play two of your fish next turn |
| 14433s | anyway and maybe just play one because |
| 14436s | they'll have them regardless but oh |
| 14439s | right he's going to commit a little bit |
| 14440s | more interest |
| 14445s | that's my uh favorite super fake is and |
| 14447s | by the way like super fake starts every |
| 14450s | term with a very clear idea of what his |
| 14451s | opponent is allowed to do and then |
| 14453s | there's this gesture of yep that's okay |
| 14455s | that's okay but now you have to stop it |
| 14457s | is the law and i have decreed it yes |
| 14459s | okay perfect ref ref |
| 14462s | we didn't agree on this |
| 14465s | now you spoke about aoe heavy well |
| 14469s | a hand is definitely that |
| 14472s | yeah this is a uh |
| 14474s | 2015 |
| 14476s | 12 win major arena deck right now just |
| 14478s | all of the aoe |
| 14482s | i call it they leaving the |
| 14484s | macau up |
| 14487s | oh oh yeah still retaining the murloc |
| 14489s | discount as |
| 14492s | i'm going to ask you a question song |
| 14496s | generally speaking |
| 14498s | what minion type do you like doing |
| 14499s | amalgam on in this deck because you have |
| 14502s | a few options |
| 14503s | uh i think i've most often found myself |
| 14507s | going murloc either for flagler combos |
| 14511s | or you know more cheap outcry minions |
| 14513s | like because murlocs have battle cries |
| 14515s | right so if you're looking for a boner |
| 14516s | chain then that can quite often pay you |
| 14518s | off as well and quite often you've |
| 14520s | gotten like clown fish and you have an |
| 14522s | amalgam in your hand and that's a |
| 14523s | consistent way to then cheat two things |
| 14525s | in a row off the clownfish um so that's |
| 14528s | probably what i found myself going for |
| 14530s | most often but honestly i think the |
| 14532s | answer to that question is just |
| 14533s | whichever situation you've ended up in |
| 14535s | most because there are very specific |
| 14536s | situations which specifically demand |
| 14539s | specific answers right |
| 14541s | yeah i do like myself some elementals |
| 14544s | though i think there are a lot of good |
| 14545s | options for elementals |
| 14547s | so i do normally lean if i have the |
| 14548s | choice i normally lean towards that but |
| 14550s | you are right it's of course uh |
| 14552s | dependent i do love the craguar pic |
| 14554s | though |
| 14559s | i'll put some stank on it you know |
| 14561s | i'll leave that to you |
| 14566s | or else uh celeste will show up and tell |
| 14568s | you how to pronounce it |
| 14570s | i was quite mean to celeste yesterday on |
| 14572s | the subject of pronunciations yeah |
| 14574s | especially since he turned up to the |
| 14577s | theorycast stream and i answered all of |
| 14579s | our questions about game mechanics and |
| 14581s | then solo was just mean to him |
| 14584s | good old quest alone |
| 14589s | and when we are going to see the murlocs |
| 14591s | pick here |
| 14595s | it's two damage doesn't really really |
| 14597s | feel like a twin fin fin twin game |
| 14600s | no it does not |
| 14617s | can't possibly have another aoe this |
| 14619s | turn right |
| 14621s | right he's playing a 40 card deck he has |
| 14623s | loads of them |
| 14626s | there's no way they're all in the top 14 |
| 14629s | cards of his 40 card deck right |
| 14632s | wrong |
| 14633s | oh i'm lucky |
| 14636s | this is one thing i like about this |
| 14637s | shaymin deck is that |
| 14639s | you can play a late game as well |
| 14641s | especially if might again get hold of |
| 14644s | brakan |
| 14645s | you can still play it's not like if the |
| 14647s | the sort of tempo play doesn't work out |
| 14649s | you just lose there's still plenty of |
| 14651s | stuff to do although i will say i do |
| 14653s | think a good chunk of his sort of |
| 14655s | discover and his generation abilities |
| 14658s | have kind of gone by now so that could |
| 14659s | be a bit of a a backstep for him |
| 14664s | nothing yeah nothing unfortunate |
| 14670s | and i think that is probably gonna be |
| 14673s | the underwhelming turn |
| 14677s | super fake has been looking for this |
| 14678s | game pressure release valve fully hit |
| 14681s | here |
| 14683s | and i think super fake can just |
| 14684s | establish dominance from this point now |
| 14686s | finds the flame strike with the clear |
| 14688s | obviously fire sale was in the pool |
| 14689s | there as well to be able to deal with it |
| 14691s | plenty of health massive hero power |
| 14693s | already |
| 14694s | and i think super fake is just on the |
| 14696s | ping train to victory here |
| 14701s | i believe that is true as well the early |
| 14703s | wildfires are such a big deal and also |
| 14705s | the father super fakes been so defensive |
| 14708s | this game uh kind of naturally as well |
| 14710s | because that's how his draw went uh it |
| 14713s | was really good because he's just |
| 14714s | deleted the abilities of these snowfall |
| 14716s | guardians right like well if i don't |
| 14718s | play minions these snowfall guardians |
| 14720s | kind of suck |
| 14721s | but it's hard to play minions when your |
| 14723s | opponent eats them all you know true |
| 14729s | another one |
| 14738s | i have an idea |
| 14742s | the big thing super fakes had this game |
| 14744s | is time right like the complete opposite |
| 14746s | of the road game basically where um |
| 14748s | mighty on the road just didn't give him |
| 14750s | the opportunity to really get going but |
| 14752s | give this deck some time and of course |
| 14754s | that hero um in itself can get the job |
| 14757s | done with a few wildfires added on so |
| 14759s | super fake does fight back in weirdly |
| 14762s | enough saul another relatively quick |
| 14764s | match game i don't know what's going on |
| 14766s | but i'll take it uh pretty interesting |
| 14768s | overall |
| 14769s | it does mean both players are now one |
| 14771s | and one and we didn't talk about this |
| 14772s | too much but we do see the band as well |
| 14775s | with super fakes uh sort of like late |
| 14777s | game control paladin style going away |
| 14779s | that's gonna be banned out and then |
| 14781s | mighty's hunter as well always a shame |
| 14783s | when hunter gets banned but i can |
| 14785s | understand it |
| 14787s | yeah i think makes a lot of sense |
| 14790s | overall with the style of deck that |
| 14791s | super fake is going for obviously we've |
| 14793s | seen the power of just you know curving |
| 14795s | out into discounted king crush which |
| 14797s | might he set up very intelligently in |
| 14799s | his previous series uh just the level of |
| 14802s | sticky minion recurring beast death |
| 14804s | rattles plus damage it's kind of exactly |
| 14807s | the winning formula for being able to |
| 14809s | prey on some of the inconsistencies of |
| 14811s | these renauthol decks so i think that |
| 14812s | makes a ton of sense as a ban uh |
| 14815s | particularly then with some of the decks |
| 14816s | that you're left leaving up on the other |
| 14818s | side |
| 14819s | for example the demon hunter which you |
| 14821s | know may just struggle to put together |
| 14823s | that level of damage you need because |
| 14825s | you know in particular dealing with mage |
| 14826s | it's not just the 40 health that you |
| 14828s | have to go through but demon hunter is |
| 14830s | very much a deck that's kind of forced |
| 14832s | to deal with ice barriers as well if |
| 14834s | they're going to come out and they can |
| 14835s | come out multiple times over the course |
| 14838s | of the game through |
| 14839s | natural instances discovers and then of |
| 14841s | course the dawn grasp at the end of the |
| 14843s | game as well which can potentially put |
| 14844s | it back up so really really big deal i |
| 14847s | think in terms of the matchups over all |
| 14849s | four super fake but now you were thirsty |
| 14853s | for some hunter raven and you are |
| 14855s | finally going to get your wish |
| 14857s | yeah it's kind of interesting list isn't |
| 14859s | it super fake's going to be jumping nice |
| 14860s | hunter it is rendezvous of course uh but |
| 14863s | it isn't the sort of big beast hunter |
| 14865s | that a lot of players have been you know |
| 14867s | you see way more commonly on ladder for |
| 14869s | example it is actually going to be the |
| 14871s | quest hunter before we go too deep into |
| 14873s | it though we can take a quick look at |
| 14875s | mighty's fell demon hunter uh you were |
| 14877s | saying again can be a bit tough to get |
| 14879s | to that 40 damage but i've learned the |
| 14881s | lesson to never ever count demon hunter |
| 14884s | out and it just always gets there so i'm |
| 14886s | gonna stick with that opinion for now uh |
| 14888s | because i do think well this is a deck i |
| 14891s | like anyway i played a lot of this |
| 14892s | especially a few weeks ago for the |
| 14893s | masters tour and and i think it's just |
| 14896s | good enough because it might |
| 14898s | generally struggle to drip feed 40 |
| 14901s | damage but i think the speed in which it |
| 14903s | can go very similar to how we saw game |
| 14904s | one with the rogue just outpaces it |
| 14907s | anyway because that damage can happen |
| 14909s | with reoccurring damage when you know |
| 14911s | the opponents don't just get the aoe |
| 14914s | that's needed on curve right |
| 14916s | yeah and i do think certainly against |
| 14918s | the mage for example you might fear that |
| 14921s | the early minions land and the early |
| 14923s | minions pushed 10 12 14 damage |
| 14926s | because of the size of the deck and that |
| 14927s | first flame not being consistent as we |
| 14929s | talked about and then by the time you |
| 14931s | get to fire sale or flame strike or |
| 14933s | whatever else it is that advantage that |
| 14936s | you have from the extra health has |
| 14937s | already been eroded away um but with |
| 14940s | quest hunter you know the the deck is |
| 14942s | just kind of jammed full of things that |
| 14944s | you target at minions because that is |
| 14946s | kind of the point of the deck so the |
| 14948s | ability to stick boards in the early |
| 14950s | game through all the arcane shots and |
| 14952s | nets and explosive trap and freezing |
| 14954s | trap and whatever else can come out in |
| 14956s | the early game just makes doing that |
| 14958s | little bit of extra damage with minions |
| 14961s | difficult in the early game and i think |
| 14963s | when you play demon hunter up against a |
| 14964s | renathal deck that's one of the things |
| 14966s | that you look out for it's like okay |
| 14968s | let's pretend against a 30 health deck i |
| 14970s | can win without ever attacking with a |
| 14972s | minion because that's true right like |
| 14974s | that's not even an unfair assumption you |
| 14975s | can absolutely do that with demon hunter |
| 14977s | so then if you get 10 to 12 damage in |
| 14980s | with minions over the course of the game |
| 14981s | you feel in really good shape but i |
| 14983s | think being able to do that is a little |
| 14984s | bit trickier against this |
| 14986s | and i think with this hunter deck that's |
| 14988s | the the big change from like normal |
| 14991s | quest uh quest hunter that we saw a |
| 14992s | while back in this match up is that |
| 14995s | you don't just play explosive you play |
| 14998s | pretty much all of the main secrets and |
| 15000s | those are a bit of a nightmare for demon |
| 15002s | hunter because they all affect demon |
| 15004s | hunter in a negative way |
| 15006s | and they can't just really ignore any of |
| 15008s | them |
| 15009s | and the problem there is it doesn't even |
| 15011s | really waste the hunter's time because |
| 15014s | they have all the time in the world they |
| 15015s | have 40 l 40 cards and basically an |
| 15018s | inevitable amount of damage right like |
| 15020s | it will happen at some point that they |
| 15022s | can just kill you so i do think the sort |
| 15025s | of addition to fill out a good chunk of |
| 15026s | these extra cards being that secret |
| 15029s | passage at passage package is um is |
| 15032s | quite good actually matchups like this |
| 15035s | dominion in play for mighty this |
| 15038s | obviously is always a question that you |
| 15039s | have to ask i've been kind of evaluating |
| 15041s | it from the opposite position against |
| 15043s | quest hunter of actually trying to stick |
| 15045s | minions in attack with them but the |
| 15047s | other angle you can always try to take |
| 15049s | is well i'm going to make my life make |
| 15051s | my opponent's life as difficult as |
| 15052s | possible and just not play minions |
| 15054s | myself and just try and do as much |
| 15055s | damage with spells as possible slow down |
| 15058s | that quest but you quite clearly see |
| 15059s | there from mighty uh trying to stick a |
| 15062s | minion wherever possible doesn't work |
| 15064s | out because of the quick shot but still |
| 15066s | nothing lost and i think you saw just |
| 15068s | the hint of a nod coming out from mighty |
| 15070s | there as the jace was picked up as well |
| 15073s | yeah it's definitely a tricky one |
| 15075s | because |
| 15076s | they're not playing minions it's just |
| 15079s | so rarely actually pays off right i |
| 15081s | think you just have to make your |
| 15082s | opponent do stuff instead uh already |
| 15085s | down to 35 health for super fake but you |
| 15088s | are right with jace |
| 15090s | all things are possible right because |
| 15092s | again my team might get himself in the |
| 15094s | position where |
| 15096s | uh he has the time to build up like it's |
| 15098s | not a desperation on curve chase right |
| 15100s | it could easily become like let's juice |
| 15103s | this and push like ridiculous levels of |
| 15105s | damage yep absolutely |
| 15109s | what a find and give me intact |
| 15112s | let's get the news about the secret |
| 15113s | being ice traps that predation is gonna |
| 15115s | go back to hand for four for now but it |
| 15117s | does reduce back down |
| 15119s | ancient power |
| 15140s | also really nice that the furious hal is |
| 15142s | already in super fake's hands so he can |
| 15144s | be |
| 15144s | uh pretty easy going with his card usage |
| 15148s | actually he doesn't really have to |
| 15150s | sort of pull every single you know ounce |
| 15152s | of value out of every single card you |
| 15154s | can kind of just play a little bit loose |
| 15155s | and fast and just see what happens so |
| 15158s | especially if he goes into that tavish |
| 15160s | as well which is one of the things i'm |
| 15162s | always interested in is what match ups |
| 15165s | to do which players kind of decide that |
| 15168s | tavis is correct on curve versus not |
| 15172s | yeah agreed it's been really interesting |
| 15173s | to look at in the past as well i think |
| 15175s | there's been a particular point of |
| 15176s | disagreement for me in uh some warrior |
| 15180s | matchups where a couple of players in |
| 15181s | masters tours i've seen like very |
| 15183s | deliberately pass up quest completion to |
| 15186s | try and get to that tavish and play |
| 15187s | infinite animal companions where |
| 15189s | i i have always felt that you know |
| 15191s | damage against warrior can still very |
| 15193s | much get there but you are absolutely |
| 15194s | spot on it is a big point |
| 15197s | of debate and a big point of diversion |
| 15199s | for a lot of players in these matchups |
| 15201s | you now see super fake going for this |
| 15203s | tavish as early as humanly possible |
| 15207s | and also early enough that |
| 15209s | he will get the full quest reward |
| 15211s | basically from the tavis too which is |
| 15213s | huge it makes such a big difference uh |
| 15216s | getting it down that early so i do agree |
| 15218s | that if you do think tavis is correct |
| 15220s | getting it down asap is a very big deal |
| 15223s | explosive trap and their maneuvers as |
| 15225s | the choices two of the best ones in this |
| 15227s | match up as well because again will |
| 15230s | mighty be in a position to just ignore |
| 15232s | minions this game uh well not if they're |
| 15234s | misha |
| 15235s | more than likely but also he's gonna |
| 15237s | stack so fast that that air maneuvers is |
| 15240s | gonna be a big big deal later on |
| 15244s | and mighty this turn just approaching |
| 15246s | the point now where he's starting the |
| 15249s | game by getting his opponent below 30 |
| 15251s | health |
| 15252s | you guys say starting to believe i was |
| 15254s | like is he |
| 15256s | oh this is looking rough |
| 15258s | yeah i mean i i don't think he's out of |
| 15260s | this one by any means he's drawn |
| 15264s | a bunch of fell spells plus jace which |
| 15267s | you know you're always |
| 15268s | at least somewhat a believer when you |
| 15270s | have that combination of cards in your |
| 15272s | hand bone glaive as well represents an |
| 15273s | enormous amount of damage |
| 15275s | uh for mighty's perspective this is |
| 15277s | going to be about really huffer and |
| 15279s | misha numbers i think mighty's going to |
| 15280s | want to see as many leoks as humanly |
| 15282s | possible coming out of these hero powers |
| 15285s | and just how quickly super fake is able |
| 15287s | to march through the rest of this quest |
| 15291s | i just need to accelerate a little bit |
| 15293s | but now he does have that hero power for |
| 15295s | zero and there very quickly he'll be |
| 15297s | able to get the tavish active if he has |
| 15300s | time there's also like a weird world |
| 15302s | depending on how the next draw or so |
| 15304s | goes where you |
| 15306s | kind of can't play tavish because it's |
| 15308s | too expensive for what it does |
| 15312s | it doesn't come up often but depending |
| 15313s | on how aggressive mighty can be in the |
| 15315s | next couple of turns it can happen |
| 15319s | a little bit frustrating i imagine for |
| 15321s | mighty as well that he's kind of |
| 15323s | locked out of these weapons to an extent |
| 15326s | and he quit the glaive a little bit |
| 15327s | early sorry he equipped the glaive |
| 15329s | earlier but it was a little bit late |
| 15331s | which means he still has charges |
| 15333s | instead of just equipping bone clay for |
| 15336s | her last turn right and swinging and |
| 15337s | then swinging again this turn |
| 15341s | all secrets there for super fake as well |
| 15344s | which again i think |
| 15346s | it's one of the few decks where i'm like |
| 15347s | i can just see renathel being actually |
| 15350s | or maybe even non-disputably good in |
| 15352s | this deck because there's just enough of |
| 15354s | a sort of support package to slot in |
| 15357s | there you're not like |
| 15358s | searching for cards to fill out the 10. |
| 15364s | look double torn soul |
| 15371s | mighty's gonna |
| 15373s | pay for health to summon two taunts for |
| 15376s | his opponent |
| 15384s | and hopefully rely on |
| 15389s | on the next term but i believe they |
| 15391s | picked uh |
| 15392s | need for greed off the top right for the |
| 15394s | following turn which is not really going |
| 15397s | to help them |
| 15398s | in solving this problem in terms of mana |
| 15400s | expenditure |
| 15403s | weirdly a rough hand for super fake but |
| 15405s | i think just spring the trap face it's |
| 15407s | just fine |
| 15408s | bend the mana deal the damage |
| 15414s | i think trying to get fan oh right |
| 15417s | yeah i want to talk about the trap face |
| 15419s | raven yeah minion minion minion |
| 15423s | why don't we just mark shot face while |
| 15425s | we're at it huh |
| 15426s | i wish mark shot could go face oh |
| 15429s | that'll be like one of the best cards in |
| 15430s | the game okay but what i was getting at |
| 15432s | was there's i think there's zero point |
| 15434s | mark shotting your own minion right |
| 15436s | because it kills every minion on board |
| 15438s | so yeah using spring uh spring the tribe |
| 15440s | is is way way better |
| 15442s | there's any kind of retaining minion is |
| 15444s | huge because mighty very easily could |
| 15446s | just die next turn |
| 15448s | it doesn't do something big |
| 15450s | and this doesn't really look like |
| 15452s | something big |
| 15455s | elbrage and metamorphing |
| 15471s | hmm really anything else that can happen |
| 15474s | here |
| 15476s | i mean despite ours memeing about the |
| 15478s | spring the trap play |
| 15479s | it was actually net positive as well |
| 15482s | because of the card fell barrage right |
| 15483s | which super fake knows has been hit by |
| 15485s | the ice trap |
| 15486s | because now a fel barrage does not does |
| 15489s | not have any chance of killing amisha |
| 15491s | because it will always hit the lyok |
| 15493s | first with the first proc |
| 15495s | right there's it really removes so many |
| 15497s | outs of the ability of being able to |
| 15499s | actually bust through the two meshes |
| 15501s | that turn |
| 15502s | oh |
| 15502s | in a minute |
| 15504s | it's lethal right |
| 15510s | we might shutting face |
| 15512s | yes |
| 15513s | there's pierson's shot in hand okay sol |
| 15515s | don't be ridiculous |
| 15517s | there's an o'carney on the board raven |
| 15519s | yeah but he has ferocious howl yeah yeah |
| 15522s | we're fine fine stop trying to trip me |
| 15524s | up i made one little mistake and i |
| 15526s | misspoke |
| 15527s | i remember this song i remember this |
| 15531s | super fake's like that wasn't supposed |
| 15534s | to go off yeah |
| 15536s | you're amazing i've made this turn a lot |
| 15538s | more difficult than it needed to be but |
| 15539s | fine we will kill our opponent and we |
| 15541s | will move on |
| 15543s | yeah super fake gonna win at game number |
| 15545s | three only now one game away from moving |
| 15548s | on |
| 15550s | but |
| 15551s | you can see it from both players right |
| 15553s | it's um i was gonna say it's weird but |
| 15555s | it's not weird it's just amusing that |
| 15557s | already both players as you mentioned |
| 15559s | earlier right |
| 15560s | if they lose now that they're done for |
| 15562s | the week they've not progressed they've |
| 15563s | not really gained any relevance uh |
| 15565s | points or anything like that so you |
| 15567s | could see both of them are like i need |
| 15568s | to win it's like a masters tour final |
| 15571s | you know like i need to win this |
| 15572s | everything on the line here and both |
| 15574s | players are looking they're pretty |
| 15575s | stressed at different moments |
| 15577s | super fake's the one who's got that one |
| 15579s | step ahead and now only one more deck to |
| 15581s | take a win with and it's going to be the |
| 15583s | warlock subtle |
| 15585s | yes indeed i think one of the spicier |
| 15589s | decks in a lineup full of spicy decks |
| 15592s | overall |
| 15593s | the uh the 40 card curse warlock is |
| 15596s | certainly an interesting beast to look |
| 15598s | at here |
| 15599s | i think once again based on our little |
| 15602s | taster yesterday of the new upcoming |
| 15604s | expansion uh runed mithril rod combo |
| 15607s | warlocks could be making an appearance |
| 15609s | in the next expansion as well at least i |
| 15611s | certainly hope so |
| 15613s | uh based on some of the tantalizing |
| 15615s | promises that we were given by uh by a |
| 15617s | few player performances uh during that |
| 15619s | theory crafting event but we will wait |
| 15622s | and see and we'll have to make do i |
| 15623s | suppose with curses for now yeah for a |
| 15627s | tiny bit of extra backstory there we |
| 15629s | were you know watching people play the |
| 15630s | the new set seeing what was out there |
| 15632s | and we happened to run into a warlock |
| 15634s | deck that reminded us of d6 warlock and |
| 15638s | honestly i've never heard subtle be |
| 15641s | happier in my life |
| 15642s | he was very excited so we all know what |
| 15644s | saul's going to be queuing on ladder |
| 15646s | once the expansion does release but for |
| 15648s | now you are right we are going to see |
| 15650s | christmas that's true |
| 15651s | raven has never seen me be happier and |
| 15653s | he was at my wedding |
| 15656s | he wasn't but it was like |
| 15658s | did i go to that |
| 15660s | narratively for the purpose of the joke |
| 15662s | you just have to lie you know and just |
| 15663s | yes i was definitely there i was the |
| 15665s | best man |
| 15668s | you would never be the best man at any |
| 15670s | location that i'm in right |
| 15672s | ah god at least in time |
| 15676s | we are going to jump into game number |
| 15678s | four though and again this is another |
| 15680s | deck that's really again at least just |
| 15683s | in my experience got so much better with |
| 15686s | the addition of renathel right it was |
| 15688s | the one thing the duck was really |
| 15689s | struggling with was just time and trying |
| 15691s | not to die and then renathel's helped |
| 15694s | out with that quite a lot and in some |
| 15695s | match-ups especially when we look at |
| 15697s | some of the rogue matchups at least for |
| 15699s | me um |
| 15700s | the warlock's been doing really well |
| 15702s | because it's got the removal it's got |
| 15703s | the heel and any board-based decks the |
| 15705s | aoe feels like it's there |
| 15708s | all right poke once into fossil fanatic |
| 15711s | and poke again |
| 15713s | this is a nice setup for mighty it's |
| 15715s | very low cost for him as well right |
| 15718s | because of the fact that he's attacking |
| 15719s | into specifically a mistress of mixtures |
| 15721s | on the other side so this is a nice |
| 15723s | setup to be able to chew through the |
| 15724s | fell spell he's off to a decent start |
| 15727s | himself does have at steno and |
| 15730s | at least one predation in hand doesn't |
| 15732s | find the additional one from the draw |
| 15735s | however what i will say on the other |
| 15736s | side here is we you know we talked about |
| 15738s | this in terms of curse warlock but i |
| 15740s | think the most important thing for super |
| 15742s | fake in this matchup is going to be how |
| 15743s | effectively he's able to play heal |
| 15745s | warlock more than anything right |
| 15748s | that longevity and the ability to have |
| 15750s | big bursts of healing from spice bread |
| 15752s | baker from tamzin and drain souls or |
| 15755s | touches or whatever it ends up being |
| 15757s | that's going to give him the time to |
| 15758s | come up with a win condition of his own |
| 15760s | his win condition doesn't necessarily |
| 15761s | need to be |
| 15763s | curse otks it might just be playing a |
| 15765s | few of the big minions that he has |
| 15766s | available in the deck that can work out |
| 15768s | just as well in some spots but fake is |
| 15771s | going to need to heal on multiple |
| 15773s | occasions to be able to survive this |
| 15774s | game i would predict |
| 15776s | again i think it's just it it's solid |
| 15778s | we're of course looking at ladies and |
| 15780s | gentle in hand for mighty and you know a |
| 15782s | decent chunk of spells so far |
| 15784s | to maybe combo them with |
| 15787s | but you are right it's a big deal but i |
| 15789s | just think now with 10 natural more |
| 15791s | health and the healing removal cards |
| 15793s | that warlock has oh it's it's so big |
| 15796s | like they can just generate so much |
| 15798s | additional health whilst keeping the |
| 15799s | board empty so i do think mighty uh he's |
| 15802s | doing a good job getting the damage |
| 15804s | through for minions he has now but will |
| 15806s | have to rely on some kind of ending |
| 15809s | combo right i don't think he's going to |
| 15810s | get there through just playing minions |
| 15812s | and hitting face every other turn |
| 15814s | you say ending combo though but this is |
| 15817s | the hand right now to make that happen |
| 15820s | like single-handedly discounting double |
| 15822s | predation with fel barrages chaos |
| 15824s | strikes fury's everything weaved into |
| 15826s | this all together this can be |
| 15828s | so much damage in a single turn and then |
| 15830s | weaved in with a little bit of chip |
| 15832s | damage here on that here and there in |
| 15833s | subsequent turns this is all coming |
| 15835s | together very rapidly for mighty i would |
| 15838s | say and i would advise |
| 15840s | that this curtris gets down sooner |
| 15842s | rather than later because then you have |
| 15844s | the ability to weave in those hero |
| 15846s | powers in between the steno attacks as |
| 15848s | well as you uh have that combo in the |
| 15849s | late game |
| 15857s | yeah just looking at |
| 15859s | super fake's hand because i am half |
| 15861s | assuming that curtis is going to come |
| 15862s | down from mighty here look at sue fake's |
| 15865s | hand this school teacher might actually |
| 15866s | have to do some work |
| 15869s | oh going chaos strike |
| 15871s | okay chris this turn okay |
| 15874s | red prison glaive is a good pickup |
| 15876s | though there are still a couple of key |
| 15877s | cards left in the deck you're looking at |
| 15878s | jace and you are looking at dread prison |
| 15880s | glaive multi-strike kind of stuff which |
| 15883s | are |
| 15884s | both |
| 15885s | raise your damage output kind of |
| 15887s | exponentially in terms of how much you |
| 15888s | can output it is phenomenal how much |
| 15891s | damage a dread prison claim comes from |
| 15892s | well in certain situations |
| 15895s | the this is kind of huge though as well |
| 15898s | because by not playing curtis super fake |
| 15901s | doesn't have to |
| 15902s | clear the board necessarily |
| 15905s | it means there's more freedom to |
| 15907s | actually say go you know go for school |
| 15909s | teacher to try and finish something up |
| 15910s | play the ocarina to make mighty have to |
| 15912s | either deal with it or just run |
| 15914s | something into it i have to be able to |
| 15916s | do it but oh super fake is going for the |
| 15918s | aoe route okay i guess he's drawn the |
| 15921s | legendary now so those curses will heal |
| 15923s | him if he goes for it next turn does |
| 15925s | have bran |
| 15927s | as well |
| 15928s | that's some health recovery song |
| 15931s | it sure |
| 15933s | is discounts just yet though |
| 15936s | yeah super fakes just like play some |
| 15938s | cards get them out of your hand |
| 15942s | wait |
| 15943s | not dead right |
| 15944s | now |
| 15946s | mighty just banking damage while he can |
| 15949s | this will help him get to jace as well |
| 15961s | yuri |
| 15970s | good play though because |
| 15971s | excuse me if the bran |
| 15973s | combo comes out from super fake yeah no |
| 15977s | mana to kill this athena |
| 15979s | i guess so at this point you could say |
| 15980s | well all the spells were played |
| 15983s | which might well be worth it |
| 15988s | the bread is fair huge though |
| 15991s | i think you have to do it right it's too |
| 15993s | good |
| 15996s | what is it four and five |
| 15998s | plus three more for the curse that's |
| 16000s | already in hand |
| 16013s | i don't see anything else that's better |
| 16015s | and nothing that's even remotely safe |
| 16018s | for health-wise right |
| 16024s | yeah i think other than the school |
| 16026s | teacher getting something nothing else |
| 16028s | in hand even heals him at all |
| 16030s | right that's the biggest i think that's |
| 16031s | the the big kicker right let them have |
| 16033s | slitheno assume they've cast the |
| 16035s | majority of their spells and just just |
| 16038s | go |
| 16039s | yeah because you do still have these two |
| 16040s | bodies on board that are lower health |
| 16042s | targets after you've healed as well |
| 16044s | right which is gonna soak some damage |
| 16046s | potentially |
| 16048s | there's a three curse hit with this |
| 16051s | pretty big and |
| 16052s | it's just a lot of damage right |
| 16055s | oh was it two three four not three four |
| 16056s | five okay three four yeah yeah sorry my |
| 16059s | bad |
| 16061s | oh no |
| 16062s | multi-strike |
| 16064s | look at mighty he's like right matt's |
| 16066s | turn |
| 16068s | four eight |
| 16070s | ten |
| 16072s | i'll get curtras dread prison and |
| 16075s | multi-strike all in together even if he |
| 16076s | could that'd be pretty pointless because |
| 16078s | you have no mana left remaining for hero |
| 16079s | powers |
| 16085s | wait wait wait what about curtras hero |
| 16087s | power dread prison trade that's the |
| 16089s | thano |
| 16092s | i ever do |
| 16094s | anything |
| 16095s | where is your drug prison attack going |
| 16097s | just face |
| 16098s | well you could put sotheno in and then |
| 16101s | the hero power would do the three oh |
| 16103s | into the six five yeah |
| 16105s | yeah |
| 16106s | yeah yeah |
| 16108s | but again though the problem is with all |
| 16109s | these plays all the curses aren't uh |
| 16112s | aren't going anywhere that's true so |
| 16114s | it's gonna be even more damaged next |
| 16116s | turn and then super fake we can see um |
| 16119s | already has the uh |
| 16122s | uh circus cultists sorry i forgot the |
| 16124s | name for a second enhanced that's |
| 16125s | another occurs |
| 16128s | either way |
| 16129s | you could also spend two mana this turn |
| 16131s | on dumping a curse |
| 16133s | oh you definitely could |
| 16135s | i mean just damage to face right |
| 16137s | yep |
| 16143s | oh nice little pickup actually with the |
| 16145s | drain saw |
| 16150s | one manner off doing anything incredible |
| 16154s | would be the uh syracuse |
| 16156s | okani |
| 16158s | and the drain soul |
| 16167s | surely the satheno has to die this time |
| 16170s | it just feels too risky on this occasion |
| 16173s | i think so because there's no heal from |
| 16175s | the curses anymore and if super fake |
| 16177s | wants to do something big this turn it |
| 16179s | probably involves playing the curse |
| 16181s | yeah |
| 16184s | but how |
| 16187s | i mean |
| 16188s | just you have customer you could choose |
| 16189s | to bank the drain cell first just for |
| 16191s | the healing beforehand if you wanted to |
| 16193s | the problem with demon hunter though in |
| 16194s | the late game is there's so many |
| 16195s | different angles of attack from which |
| 16197s | they can do damage to you right like |
| 16198s | there's a log there's jace there's the |
| 16200s | the sofa that's on the board there's |
| 16202s | just straight up damage from hand with |
| 16203s | additional furys and so on like playing |
| 16206s | around all sources of damage just seems |
| 16208s | so difficult to do but yeah this is the |
| 16210s | play that jumped out to me this is the |
| 16211s | play that makes the most sense |
| 16214s | interesting |
| 16218s | yeah i guess this is fine i was actually |
| 16219s | looking at the opposite way round and |
| 16221s | drained soul in the 3-2 |
| 16225s | again like you said |
| 16227s | why what does that achieve through |
| 16229s | damage from multi-strike |
| 16231s | oh |
| 16232s | can't tread prison right for one yeah |
| 16234s | okay |
| 16234s | yeah |
| 16240s | i think having this body on board |
| 16241s | protects you more so against uh fel |
| 16244s | barrage and zolac right yeah yeah |
| 16247s | i like it |
| 16251s | i like the dread prison hero power here |
| 16254s | though instead of the fel barrage |
| 16257s | oh situation instead |
| 16265s | thanks heating up |
| 16272s | oh |
| 16273s | oh |
| 16274s | not enough right it's five six that's 11 |
| 16277s | damage it's one off yep there yeah yeah |
| 16280s | we know it's all right we're paying |
| 16283s | attention super fake it's okay |
| 16286s | if mighty hadn't have used that curse |
| 16289s | from us athena yeah |
| 16291s | mega dead |
| 16293s | yeah |
| 16295s | i knew i think it was very easy not to |
| 16297s | use that curse honestly you know that |
| 16299s | was definitely uh it wasn't just a |
| 16301s | guaranteed choice right yeah i agree i |
| 16303s | mean if you you listen to me that turn |
| 16305s | it only really entered my mind in the |
| 16307s | last 10 seconds right it's like what if |
| 16309s | we don't focus on damage you just spend |
| 16311s | two mana on throwing away the the curse |
| 16313s | instead which is what mighty absolutely |
| 16315s | ended up doing and what looks like might |
| 16317s | be |
| 16318s | almighty the game-winning play |
| 16326s | that's gonna go for the gig of fame |
| 16330s | and honestly i think it's the best he's |
| 16332s | got |
| 16333s | it's not going to be uh |
| 16336s | good enough most likely |
| 16342s | gets him all his stuff back right so |
| 16344s | yeah |
| 16345s | yeah this works too glade multi strike |
| 16347s | chilling oh yeah |
| 16350s | oh really really really close game there |
| 16355s | for our game number four and we are |
| 16356s | going all the way to game number five |
| 16358s | but |
| 16359s | i'm impressed that meaty at me meaty |
| 16361s | mighty hair uh hung on there because |
| 16364s | again that choice of curse and throwing |
| 16367s | that one curse out |
| 16369s | was the only curse he actually played |
| 16371s | all game and that was the one that saved |
| 16373s | his life because otherwise the game ends |
| 16376s | the series ends super fake moves on and |
| 16378s | mighty does not so really close game |
| 16380s | there a lot of pretty intense decision |
| 16382s | making |
| 16384s | yep indeed that's how you know that uh |
| 16386s | raven is hungry for pizza by the way |
| 16388s | when that mistake starts coming out um |
| 16390s | but uh yeah it was a really really close |
| 16392s | game and i honestly |
| 16393s | mighty played a game very differently |
| 16395s | than the one that i was suggesting and |
| 16397s | laying out and i think the game that i |
| 16398s | laid out might have just ended up losing |
| 16400s | um this being one damage away from |
| 16403s | getting there probably just shows you |
| 16405s | how narrow of a tightrope it was that |
| 16407s | mighty had to walk throughout this game |
| 16409s | and i think he navigated it pretty well |
| 16412s | overall and had plenty of damage to |
| 16414s | spare at the end of the game so |
| 16416s | really good performance gets himself |
| 16418s | back into the series now goes to two to |
| 16420s | two picks up a win with the demon hunter |
| 16422s | as well but now questions about the |
| 16424s | shaman we talk a lot about this shaman's |
| 16427s | ability to refill and keep going and |
| 16429s | keep finding plays |
| 16431s | but we saw one example |
| 16433s | where mighty drew all his murlocs and |
| 16436s | then kind of ran out of gas to be able |
| 16437s | to do things at that point and ended up |
| 16439s | conceding in a game that probably still |
| 16441s | had five or six turns of slow trickling |
| 16444s | death to go into it it was a fine |
| 16446s | concede um but mighty just kind of got |
| 16448s | out of it for you know it's hearthstone |
| 16450s | mental health reasons right it's like i |
| 16452s | don't want to wait to lose this game |
| 16453s | like i'm going to try it right now |
| 16455s | right no exactly so |
| 16457s | this won't quite be that match up |
| 16460s | because the cursed warlock on the other |
| 16461s | side of course has the inevitable win |
| 16463s | condition that they're working towards |
| 16464s | themselves but again it's a very similar |
| 16467s | factor in a very stacked aoe heavy deck |
| 16471s | with uh customers and other forms of aoe |
| 16473s | four damage being a very nice break |
| 16475s | point to be able to clear up most of the |
| 16477s | early murloc boards and boner boards |
| 16479s | that shaman is able to throw out so can |
| 16482s | this shaman keep on going for long |
| 16484s | enough to be able to you know resist the |
| 16487s | staying power that super fake has on the |
| 16489s | other side |
| 16490s | yeah that's the big deal right warlock |
| 16492s | plus aoe equals potential problems for |
| 16495s | mighty so let's see how it's going to |
| 16497s | play out with the opening hands here |
| 16501s | okay well wild poor cavern that's a big |
| 16503s | box ticked for the shame in his soul |
| 16506s | that's you're always happy to see that |
| 16508s | one but again look just plenty of aoe |
| 16510s | and i think importantly the entitled |
| 16512s | customer is what really is what's going |
| 16514s | to open up a lot of the options for |
| 16516s | super fake because shaman can for |
| 16518s | example play wild poor and suddenly all |
| 16521s | these minions are for health so entitled |
| 16523s | customer and the curse aoe as well are |
| 16525s | going to be pretty important here |
| 16534s | a coin fish into gorlok it looks like |
| 16537s | here |
| 16539s | got that out into wild poor cavern |
| 16542s | very strong opener |
| 16546s | yeah those wild paws coming out as and |
| 16548s | when they do is quite nice in this |
| 16550s | match-up because |
| 16552s | four damage aoe as mentioned the the aoe |
| 16555s | from the curse does four entitled |
| 16556s | customer does a million but by the time |
| 16559s | those can happen you've probably already |
| 16561s | had one or two stags on the board for a |
| 16563s | couple of turns if you're playing it on |
| 16564s | curves so |
| 16565s | um that sort of staggered removal can |
| 16568s | help you just get through a little bit |
| 16569s | of early damage |
| 16571s | already a ton of murlocs available there |
| 16574s | for mighty with the nemo opening |
| 16580s | the tough one isn't it like |
| 16582s | does he really want to discover murloc |
| 16585s | against |
| 16586s | uh this warlock i mean maybe i guess |
| 16588s | yeah especially if you get like a |
| 16589s | mutinous right like it's quite good |
| 16592s | versus warlock yeah yeah mutants is a |
| 16595s | good grab for sure i think the biggest |
| 16596s | consideration here for mighty is like |
| 16598s | whether |
| 16600s | he wants to play into hellfire or |
| 16602s | whether he would work because playing an |
| 16604s | extra minion plays into hellfire so |
| 16606s | holding a minion back plays around |
| 16607s | hellfire but not playing another minion |
| 16609s | there and suddenly your opponent just |
| 16611s | has like |
| 16612s | yeah touch drain soul any of the above |
| 16614s | right and they're kind of fine with your |
| 16616s | board state at that point so i think |
| 16618s | this is an undervalued facet of learning |
| 16620s | to play hearthstone at a high level is a |
| 16622s | certain point you learn that playing |
| 16624s | around aoe is good and then you do that |
| 16626s | too much and then when you get really |
| 16627s | good you start realizing that getting |
| 16629s | the aoe out of your opponent's hand and |
| 16631s | making them use their turn on that is |
| 16633s | actually to your benefit a lot of the |
| 16634s | time |
| 16635s | yeah because they can't progress the |
| 16637s | rest of their game plan right it's uh |
| 16638s | weirdly when you've realized it it's |
| 16640s | pretty simple as is most as are most |
| 16642s | things so uh yeah pretty cool to see |
| 16644s | there the hellfire come out super fast |
| 16646s | does have an abyssal wave in hand now so |
| 16649s | he does have the ability for that four |
| 16651s | damage aoe this turn and to start |
| 16653s | stacking those curses so definitely |
| 16656s | something to think about for super fake |
| 16658s | here |
| 16659s | and honestly |
| 16661s | yet again i think from mighty this is |
| 16663s | just a little bit too much damage to |
| 16664s | leave sitting on the board |
| 16675s | other option is just the entitled |
| 16678s | customer and maybe |
| 16680s | that's the play to just have something |
| 16682s | on board afterwards although entire |
| 16684s | customers are arguably a little bit more |
| 16686s | valuable because it can deal way more |
| 16688s | damage than four |
| 16689s | but he does end the turn with a 3-2 as |
| 16692s | opposed to nothing |
| 16693s | yeah i think i have a specific fear in |
| 16695s | this matchup in particular that i want |
| 16697s | to use in title customer for and that is |
| 16700s | glug specifically right because |
| 16702s | otherwise that can be very tricky to |
| 16704s | deal with from uh |
| 16706s | behind a taunt with the aoe that you |
| 16708s | require so i think entitled customer |
| 16710s | with a big hand is one of the best ways |
| 16711s | to be able to deal with that |
| 16713s | i think this is smart as well from super |
| 16715s | fake because my initial counterpoint um |
| 16717s | to the suggestion of aoe is with |
| 16720s | wildport cavan still in play |
| 16722s | i think if super fake aoes that turn he |
| 16724s | also has to aoe the turn after that as |
| 16726s | well most likely he knows the hand is |
| 16728s | full of murlocs he knows there's another |
| 16730s | three four coming out there could be |
| 16732s | command of neptulon to follow that up as |
| 16734s | well for example so i think rationing |
| 16737s | the removal that super fake has |
| 16738s | available to him this was a good turn |
| 16741s | not to aoe and just do something a |
| 16742s | little more proactive instead that's |
| 16744s | fair command is going to be really |
| 16746s | clutch though for mighty because he does |
| 16747s | actually get to kill |
| 16749s | uh this turn two which is huge but yet |
| 16751s | again another big board and as you quite |
| 16753s | rightly pointed out subtle looks like |
| 16755s | it's time to aoe again to me or are you |
| 16758s | gonna tell me you want to be even |
| 16759s | greedier |
| 16761s | i |
| 16763s | am not i would like to aoe this board |
| 16771s | i also sat here wondering if this is a |
| 16773s | spindly hand |
| 16777s | don't |
| 16778s | think so currently |
| 16781s | i mean you could always rod and at that |
| 16784s | go for i know well i mean the hand at |
| 16786s | this at the moment is quite good i think |
| 16788s | you want to get use out of that entitled |
| 16789s | customer before you do anything else and |
| 16791s | since you have the rod already you can |
| 16793s | just kind of work towards that if you're |
| 16795s | given any time |
| 16796s | but i don't necessarily think so as of |
| 16799s | right now with the brand in there as |
| 16801s | well like this hand is going places |
| 16804s | with 25 cards still remaining in your |
| 16806s | deck you can't necessarily guarantee |
| 16808s | that you're gonna get to those places |
| 16809s | you're heading but i think i like the |
| 16811s | current hand okay |
| 16815s | it just feels like it's it's missing the |
| 16816s | um |
| 16817s | the secret sauce to make something good |
| 16819s | happen here obviously rod is just always |
| 16821s | good gets to lifetap as well this is |
| 16823s | fine yeah but in terms of actually the |
| 16825s | payoff like yeah there's a small aoe |
| 16827s | there's a big aoe there's a brand but |
| 16829s | nothing really to brand right now |
| 16832s | it's the gigafin which again |
| 16835s | can be awkward actually for shaymin to |
| 16837s | actually deal with easily |
| 16839s | but but still we'll see what happens |
| 16841s | here maybe the giga thing comes out soon |
| 16846s | although saying that with the rod it's |
| 16848s | likely to come out with the silence |
| 16849s | combo right |
| 16858s | once again mighty putting up the you |
| 16861s | can't possibly have another clear for |
| 16863s | this in the top 16 cards of your 40 card |
| 16866s | deck right |
| 16874s | i think if i was mighty i'd just assume |
| 16875s | he does |
| 16876s | at this point it's happened too many |
| 16878s | times already the series |
| 16880s | honestly i think it's fine to do so the |
| 16883s | hand is still really stacked right this |
| 16885s | this hand with this amount of value and |
| 16887s | two of the cards being amalgams that are |
| 16889s | going to give you more juice anyway you |
| 16890s | can afford to to chomp through two or |
| 16893s | three more aoes here for sure |
| 16895s | that's the benefit of the day there |
| 16897s | though yeah what caverns is like right |
| 16899s | because you just kind of get to do this |
| 16901s | not for free obviously it costs mana but |
| 16903s | still it's just like just keeps adding |
| 16905s | those minions giving that extra little |
| 16907s | bit level of annoying |
| 16919s | i think we'll really want to keep |
| 16921s | drawing cards here right probably once a |
| 16923s | natural proc next turn |
| 16929s | yeah can't |
| 16930s | currently do that without burning a card |
| 16933s | though which is somewhat irritating yeah |
| 16935s | i might have to wait |
| 16938s | i actually do like the uh |
| 16940s | the zola on the customer though |
| 16944s | this kind of does the same thing right |
| 16945s | so instead of tapping costing yourself |
| 16947s | two health and losing a turn uh sorry |
| 16950s | losing a card you do this and you gain a |
| 16953s | turn because you've gained an entitled |
| 16954s | customer so you know you can pretty much |
| 16956s | aoe any board that comes down the next |
| 16958s | turn and then based on that turn plus |
| 16960s | potentially the next turn or a life tap |
| 16962s | on that turn you then get the discount |
| 16964s | that you were looking for to be able to |
| 16966s | set up you know brand baker or whatever |
| 16968s | on earth you're trying to do with the |
| 16969s | the rest of this hand to stabilize the |
| 16971s | game right |
| 16981s | ah yes that card |
| 16984s | all their favorite card ever is bond |
| 16986s | lost actually |
| 16988s | a little known fact |
| 16989s | loves it i can't stop talking nuts |
| 16992s | i mean that part's true |
| 16995s | oh customers gone |
| 16997s | bye-bye that's a big deal |
| 17000s | oh |
| 17003s | and he's gone bye-bye |
| 17005s | wait what was that sorry we'll go like |
| 17006s | we'll go |
| 17007s | canny i can time i was like kanye |
| 17021s | oh this is unfortunate isn't it |
| 17026s | man off from the silence |
| 17028s | the dream |
| 17037s | oh yeah |
| 17038s | it's it's a bit painful i was really |
| 17040s | staring at ways anyways possible that |
| 17043s | super fake could hold the uh |
| 17046s | uh the |
| 17047s | gigafin this turn |
| 17049s | but i just couldn't see it it felt |
| 17052s | potentially way too risky to do so so i |
| 17054s | understand the play but it does hurt to |
| 17056s | see the silence but again shaymin |
| 17057s | doesn't always have a good way to kill |
| 17060s | this it can be pretty difficult actually |
| 17062s | so maybe it does just live |
| 17071s | yeah unfortunately mighty's been very |
| 17073s | sensible here |
| 17075s | with the fleurgle so big |
| 17077s | he's able to clear this up very very |
| 17079s | nicely |
| 17080s | i think the rush is gonna be so huge |
| 17082s | clearing this up perfectly in the end |
| 17086s | yeah only got two of the minions back |
| 17088s | right you had three |
| 17090s | yes |
| 17092s | and of course not going to keep hold of |
| 17094s | the stats so |
| 17096s | still manageable for super fake but that |
| 17099s | is painful that his uh |
| 17101s | his customer got dealt with earlier on |
| 17103s | by the meatiness which means that this |
| 17105s | big aoe isn't quite as guaranteed |
| 17108s | yeah that cold light see it ends up |
| 17110s | being massive here as well because the |
| 17112s | hellfire in hand is really the only tool |
| 17114s | that super fake has to deal with this it |
| 17116s | would have just been the mutinous that |
| 17119s | was out of range if it were not for the |
| 17121s | cold lights here coming down being able |
| 17123s | to mess this up |
| 17130s | there is just silence hellfire right yep |
| 17136s | maybe just uh play the spy spread too |
| 17144s | because super fake knows bloodlust is a |
| 17146s | card mighty will only have eight cards |
| 17149s | left in the deck on his next turn |
| 17153s | i think you have to respect it |
| 17156s | you absolutely do |
| 17165s | oh we're going digging here yeah what's |
| 17167s | he going for |
| 17169s | uh still has a second abyssal curse |
| 17172s | still has a second uh yeah sorry abysmal |
| 17174s | oh still has the second natural customer |
| 17178s | there it is because the first one was |
| 17179s | solid and still had the tams in as well |
| 17181s | so yeah so that's a pretty good player i |
| 17183s | think from super fake had good odds uh |
| 17185s | even with the amount of cards remaining |
| 17186s | in the deck going fishing on the bottom |
| 17188s | there was uh was pretty smart |
| 17191s | yeah it gets the proc on the weapon this |
| 17193s | is taking a lot of boxes now this double |
| 17195s | demonic assault as well in hand which is |
| 17197s | very good at this stage for super fake |
| 17200s | to just do anything he can possibly do |
| 17201s | to just block attacks going face |
| 17210s | that looks like a glug turn to me |
| 17216s | as you said sol title customer ready and |
| 17218s | waiting yeah this interaction is always |
| 17221s | really huge when you play this matchup |
| 17223s | because five health minion hidden behind |
| 17224s | torn is very irritating you generally |
| 17227s | have to have a small spell to throw at |
| 17229s | it before you then proc your aoe but |
| 17231s | entitled customer is just the uh the one |
| 17233s | stop shop |
| 17235s | being able to clean it up even now with |
| 17237s | it pumped up to seven |
| 17248s | yeah love this card but it's about to go |
| 17250s | bye-bye |
| 17257s | crazy right as well because super fate |
| 17259s | doesn't even have to play the spice |
| 17261s | bread this turn by any means |
| 17264s | lord's going to go away could easily tap |
| 17267s | play demonic assault |
| 17276s | i don't hate getting the healing in |
| 17277s | though just because this turn you know |
| 17279s | that you can afford to spend four mana |
| 17281s | on healing right you know that for a |
| 17283s | fact because you're staring at it |
| 17285s | um obviously i think you would predict |
| 17288s | with seven cards eight cards at the time |
| 17289s | left remaining in mighty's deck that |
| 17291s | their ability to |
| 17293s | actually throw out a huge board that you |
| 17294s | would have to spend your whole turn |
| 17296s | dealing with is quite slim |
| 17298s | but i think by the same merit if you |
| 17300s | just go back up to 22 here in a |
| 17302s | situation where you know all the |
| 17304s | variables |
| 17305s | how are you losing this game |
| 17308s | um |
| 17309s | bloodlust |
| 17311s | [Music] |
| 17313s | what i've come up with |
| 17315s | doing the right thing counting cards |
| 17317s | understanding what is left to deal with |
| 17322s | mighty choosing not the trades here to |
| 17325s | get full juice on his own snowfall |
| 17327s | guardian make that as difficult as |
| 17329s | possible to deal with on the other side |
| 17331s | and they get unlocked for bloodlust |
| 17333s | turn anyway because they did miss an |
| 17335s | attack which is the russian attack so |
| 17337s | really nice just uh you know those small |
| 17339s | little things that you people might |
| 17341s | think well that's obvious well maybe not |
| 17343s | all the time |
| 17348s | super fake can now quadruple demonic |
| 17351s | assault it is shadow right |
| 17353s | what is going on in super fake's brain |
| 17355s | right now |
| 17356s | genuinely what is happening |
| 17358s | i don't know if i want to know i'm not |
| 17360s | sure what those hand gestures meant |
| 17363s | uh is a fel spell by the way i believe |
| 17366s | oh my bad my bad |
| 17368s | it doesn't drain souls at least from the |
| 17371s | tamzin which is nice gonna use the drag |
| 17372s | below to clean up the uh |
| 17375s | the elemental and start finally stacking |
| 17378s | some curses it's been too long |
| 17387s | we chucking in these drain soles this |
| 17389s | time |
| 17390s | pat middle wanted to see it |
| 17398s | you drain souls for the price of half a |
| 17401s | drain soul |
| 17404s | not the catchiest slogan i've ever heard |
| 17407s | no but it's true |
| 17412s | all right can we get there with |
| 17413s | bloodlust on this |
| 17417s | fish ah |
| 17419s | i don't want to spend the rest of this |
| 17420s | game dunking on bloodlust but it's |
| 17422s | really hard not to |
| 17424s | when it's right there asking me to yeah |
| 17428s | okay fish pushes the one |
| 17434s | [Music] |
| 17442s | it's only going to go downhill from here |
| 17443s | for mighty i believe |
| 17446s | yeah of course deck being |
| 17448s | shuffled i believe i believe tamzin |
| 17451s | shuffles the imps into your deck right |
| 17453s | so that brand changing the position from |
| 17454s | where it was on the bottom of the deck |
| 17456s | since the family and coming out in the |
| 17458s | middle |
| 17458s | i really hope super fait pick track |
| 17460s | below on that second nagaling with the |
| 17462s | brand already on board |
| 17476s | yeah honestly like render phil for this |
| 17479s | warlock is so huge this has been kind of |
| 17481s | my experience on ladder maybe it's the |
| 17483s | decks i've been playing but i feel like |
| 17486s | i'm almost winning and then the warlock |
| 17488s | heals i'm like no |
| 17489s | i'm going to lose now and it just slowly |
| 17492s | drags away |
| 17495s | th this is this so this is the super |
| 17496s | fake thing i was talking about superfake |
| 17498s | has a very clear idea of what mighty is |
| 17500s | allowed to do this turn and there it is |
| 17502s | that's what he was allowed to do |
| 17504s | yeah really good win there for super |
| 17507s | fake and he's hyped to be staying in the |
| 17510s | tournament for this week uh unfortunate |
| 17513s | there for mighty i do think this series |
| 17515s | was on a knife's edge though we saw what |
| 17517s | each game was coming down to right |
| 17519s | looked pretty tough at spots for both |
| 17521s | players uh but super fake is the one who |
| 17523s | made it work with this renathel lineup |
| 17526s | so he's going to be taking that to uh |
| 17528s | try and beat up habu gabu in the next |
| 17531s | match but uh what are the key highlights |
| 17532s | for you in this series song |
| 17535s | uh i mean obviously super fake's line up |
| 17537s | as a whole it's always a talking point |
| 17539s | he always brings something spicy and |
| 17541s | just seeing how it performs against just |
| 17543s | a general selection of you know the |
| 17546s | expected meta decks i imagine um demon |
| 17549s | hunter sort of middling performance i |
| 17553s | think demon hunter is something that we |
| 17554s | have to keep an eye on as the tournament |
| 17556s | goes on in terms of its performance and |
| 17558s | of course just watching super fake on |
| 17561s | camera is always a highlight of any |
| 17563s | given series but at the end a much |
| 17565s | needed w |
| 17566s | for super fake and i think as someone |
| 17569s | who is i believe a pretty big cristiano |
| 17571s | ronaldo fan someone that could do with a |
| 17573s | much-needed w in uh recent memory |
| 17576s | uh references that i do not understand |
| 17579s | we're definitely back to grand master's |
| 17581s | casting |
| 17582s | congratulations of course to super fake |
| 17584s | and like i said if you're just wondering |
| 17585s | if you're just joining us i'm wondering |
| 17587s | wait what's going on all right this is a |
| 17589s | this is a weird match up we've not seen |
| 17591s | the players fair play before uh it's |
| 17593s | because this season of grand masters we |
| 17595s | have it's basically a single season of a |
| 17598s | single set of 16 players we've not split |
| 17601s | in the regions for this last season uh |
| 17603s | it is all one group of players so been |
| 17606s | pretty cool already just to see uh super |
| 17608s | fake get to play here and look at this |
| 17610s | group in itself possessi super fake habu |
| 17613s | gabu |
| 17614s | and mighty uh so far we do have |
| 17616s | possession already through group a of |
| 17618s | course they're winning earlier on and |
| 17620s | then habu gabu is going to be coming up |
| 17622s | next to play against super fake and |
| 17624s | again as i said super fake was stressing |
| 17627s | obviously because he really needed to |
| 17628s | win this elimination match but his day |
| 17630s | is by no means done because he has to |
| 17632s | take down a player who's recently been |
| 17634s | on an absolute tear in the scene |
| 17637s | yeah the player of 2022 |
| 17640s | so far for sure harbour is an absolute |
| 17642s | pleasure to watch right now gets the big |
| 17644s | things right and gets the small things |
| 17646s | right as evidenced by some of his plays |
| 17648s | in the previous series the self ping to |
| 17650s | play around multi shot the lineup |
| 17652s | construction the composure harvey just |
| 17654s | kind of has everything right now and |
| 17656s | this is going to be a tough challenge |
| 17658s | yep we are going to go to a short break |
| 17660s | of course we give uh need to give super |
| 17661s | faker a few minutes just to get ready |
| 17663s | for some more very expressive |
| 17665s | emotions on camera in the next match but |
| 17668s | as we said we do have haboo gaboo versus |
| 17670s | super fake coming up see who's gonna |
| 17671s | make it out of group a we'll be right |
| 17673s | back |
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| 17686s | [Applause] |
| 17687s | [Music] |
| 17691s | in the darkest of seasons where ruthless |
| 17695s | eyes gawk for horrific reasons |
| 17698s | for a hidden hand has struck me down |
| 17703s | with such |
| 17704s | ruthlessness |
| 17706s | so deep and profound |
| 17710s | then he comes with his mullockian scowl |
| 17717s | to uncover the truth |
| 17719s | of murder most foul |
| 17723s | the anima drifts across the floor |
| 17726s | highlighting the creatures who walked |
| 17728s | through my door |
| 17730s | the motives are as black as night |
| 17734s | avarice power revenge and blight |
| 17740s | we watch the hero |
| 17742s | uncover the clues |
| 17744s | that lead to the truth |
| 17748s | behind this dark blues |
| 17752s | join us here with the grimm and in pious |
| 17756s | choose your power without heavenly bias |
| 17760s | for at the end |
| 17762s | they will burn in the fire |
| 17765s | when it is known whose slave |
| 17770s | the sire |
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| 17816s | do |
| 17827s | so |
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| 17872s | do |
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| 17928s | do |
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| 17948s | um |
| 17955s | [Music] |
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| 17998s | so |
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| 18025s | so |
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| 18191s | so |
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| 18207s | so |
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| 18232s | um |
| 18240s | [Music] |
| 18284s | [Music] |
| 18289s | welcome back everyone to grand masters |
| 18291s | last call we've got our next match |
| 18293s | coming up and it is going to be haboo |
| 18295s | gaboo going up against super fake just |
| 18297s | coming off the back of a win against |
| 18300s | mighty in the elimination match means he |
| 18302s | does have that final chance to make it |
| 18304s | out of the group but he is going up |
| 18306s | against habu gabu suttle which is a |
| 18308s | quite the scary foe at the moment |
| 18310s | yes but quite the tantalizing prospect |
| 18314s | for us raven because i think it would be |
| 18316s | fair to say i don't want to put words in |
| 18318s | your mouth but these have been two of |
| 18319s | our favorite players to watch in recent |
| 18322s | memory for different reasons super fake |
| 18324s | for the unconventional lineup for kind |
| 18327s | of the the memes that he brings to the |
| 18329s | tournament for the reactions |
| 18331s | uh in the player cam and habu has just |
| 18333s | been putting on an absolute |
| 18336s | hearthstone clinic for the last six or |
| 18338s | seven months at this point big |
| 18340s | tournament win after big tournament win |
| 18342s | top eight after top eight monstrous 70 |
| 18344s | plus win rate in the masters tour system |
| 18347s | and i think right now he is a real |
| 18349s | pleasure to watch and the kind of player |
| 18352s | the you know those those floating pros |
| 18354s | those players around the masters tour |
| 18356s | qualifier level that are not quite |
| 18358s | making it through habugabu is your model |
| 18361s | right now this is the player that you |
| 18362s | really should be looking up to and |
| 18364s | trying to model yourself on |
| 18365s | yeah it's a bit of a shame though we do |
| 18367s | see habugabu's mage has gonna be uh or |
| 18369s | is sorry banned away uh from him there |
| 18372s | because i do feel like although habu is |
| 18374s | just great in general uh i think some of |
| 18376s | the biggest moments are when he has been |
| 18378s | playing mage uh so it's a shame we don't |
| 18381s | get to see that but he does have a very |
| 18383s | solid lineup and yet again he's of |
| 18385s | course going uh going up against super |
| 18387s | fakes a bit more of out their lineup |
| 18389s | which is what we expect as you mentioned |
| 18390s | from super fake is gonna be starting on |
| 18393s | this warlock and i think we are gonna |
| 18395s | see uh maybe even a very similar outcome |
| 18398s | that we've only just seen from the |
| 18400s | previous match of super fake beating the |
| 18402s | shaman with this exact warlock list and |
| 18405s | uh again i think it's going to be a |
| 18406s | tough one for the shame and if habit |
| 18408s | doesn't get ahead quickly enough if |
| 18410s | super fake has access to those key aoes |
| 18413s | that we saw in the previous game then it |
| 18416s | is going to be an uphill battle because |
| 18417s | shaymin doesn't really run any of that |
| 18419s | burst from hand anymore there's a couple |
| 18421s | of cards that can help with that but |
| 18423s | generally it's about board control and |
| 18425s | just out valuing your opponent |
| 18428s | it is uh i do think overall this is a |
| 18431s | better match up for habu than it was |
| 18433s | previously for mighty i think dropping |
| 18436s | demon hunter and replacing it with |
| 18438s | regular hunter is an improvement overall |
| 18441s | against the 160 card lineup that super |
| 18444s | fake has on the other side i think the |
| 18447s | big mage as well drawing the ban and |
| 18449s | leaving that hunter available to play is |
| 18452s | another big deal i think generally habu |
| 18454s | has more possible good matchups to queue |
| 18456s | into um but i just don't potentially |
| 18459s | think that this is top of the charts in |
| 18462s | terms of win rate for habu in the |
| 18464s | potential match-ups yeah i think in this |
| 18466s | one you do just have to hope it's the |
| 18467s | shame in that you your opponent just |
| 18470s | gets the bad hand right maybe no rod and |
| 18473s | maybe no just early on curve aoe and |
| 18476s | that's the thing you have to go for and |
| 18478s | try and just push as much damage as |
| 18480s | possible habu just start with that |
| 18482s | schooling in hand |
| 18485s | super fake gonna keep demonic assault uh |
| 18488s | what do you what do you make of that is |
| 18489s | that something you like in this matchup |
| 18492s | i don't mind it for sure i mean there's |
| 18493s | a lot of three health targets that come |
| 18496s | down that have a significant amount of |
| 18499s | mana being spent on them |
| 18501s | so i think the potential to get a decent |
| 18502s | swing turn there is very reasonable with |
| 18504s | demonic assault i would say it is not a |
| 18507s | keep i was expecting but i can |
| 18508s | understand the logic behind it after |
| 18510s | it's been made |
| 18512s | and we already see a big difference from |
| 18514s | the previous game where habu actually |
| 18516s | has broken |
| 18518s | available right a little bit too early |
| 18519s | of course to the party but having bru |
| 18522s | khan and not having brakan in the slower |
| 18524s | matchups is such a big difference here |
| 18528s | and could maybe make enough of a |
| 18530s | difference to steal the game away |
| 18534s | bit of a wince from harbour as he sees |
| 18536s | the mortal coil come out obviously those |
| 18538s | piranhas being able to push massive |
| 18540s | amounts of damage in the early game is |
| 18542s | one way to make up that deficit that you |
| 18543s | do start with |
| 18545s | but the mortal coil of course being the |
| 18547s | perfect answer to deal with the |
| 18548s | situation |
| 18550s | we might see that demonic assault pay |
| 18552s | off right just get to kill off this uh |
| 18554s | amalgam on curve |
| 18556s | and then put something pretty beefy in |
| 18559s | the way of the piranha as well |
| 18563s | well there's one ball how do we get six |
| 18565s | more okay |
| 18576s | really good option here actually with |
| 18577s | this assault right because it just saves |
| 18579s | the hellfire a hellfire doesn't even |
| 18581s | need to be looked at this turn right yep |
| 18584s | for sure |
| 18588s | okay |
| 18589s | that's a card that is the draw |
| 18599s | okay i respect it damage being pushed |
| 18601s | boards being made |
| 18603s | the double trade here is a little bit |
| 18606s | scary though two four health minions |
| 18608s | going into one attack minions leaving |
| 18610s | the perfect hellfire on the other side |
| 18612s | yup and i think you saw the look of |
| 18614s | trepidation that entire time on |
| 18616s | harbour's face worst case scenario as |
| 18618s | well followed up by the mistress of |
| 18620s | mixtures for perfect mana utilization |
| 18623s | uh that was a big big turn for super |
| 18626s | fake but i think that's the situation |
| 18628s | where harbour is just looking at the |
| 18629s | game state and saying i don't love my |
| 18631s | position i don't love my match up let's |
| 18634s | just take a low percentage play and see |
| 18636s | if it works because if the hellfire |
| 18638s | isn't there i'm in business |
| 18640s | yeah because then there's a potentially |
| 18642s | the turn gap where even the um |
| 18645s | abyssal wave or the customer would just |
| 18647s | leave that one turn for the minions to |
| 18650s | actually hit face and then you can say |
| 18652s | well okay aoe mean now way more likely |
| 18654s | with the six drops in play uh but then |
| 18656s | you know happy would have actually |
| 18658s | pushed a relevant amount of damage which |
| 18660s | right now super fake sitting on 35 is |
| 18663s | extremely comfortable there's the |
| 18665s | dreadlich in hand as well for another |
| 18668s | sort of half aoe along with armor gain |
| 18670s | and card draw |
| 18671s | still looking good for super fake right |
| 18673s | now |
| 18678s | didn't see what was picked up from the |
| 18680s | nagaling |
| 18682s | or if you know but i have zero idea i |
| 18684s | was looking at abu's hand |
| 18688s | no i would imagine it was one of the two |
| 18690s | right most choices there was the |
| 18692s | opportunity to draw the other oh no it's |
| 18694s | only a single command of neptulon in the |
| 18696s | deck actually yes so probably would not |
| 18699s | have gone for the investment |
| 18707s | ah it's just glug right i think with |
| 18709s | this shape forward plug on curve |
| 18713s | reasonable chance it goes off |
| 18717s | hey yeah i'm with the avo we're thinking |
| 18719s | exactly the same like yep this could |
| 18721s | happen |
| 18729s | to the side like i cannot believe he has |
| 18732s | more |
| 18739s | and unlike mighty there is not enough |
| 18742s | murloc power to be able to use this |
| 18744s | flergle for the nice clear on this turn |
| 18748s | don't hate brook khan though |
| 18753s | i'm like |
| 18754s | deal 2 deal 6. |
| 18762s | yeah like a tip |
| 18764s | and then if a murloc's drawn and if you |
| 18767s | know |
| 18768s | the taunt doesn't die for that if super |
| 18770s | fake doesn't choose to kill the taunt if |
| 18772s | he can or can't i don't know but you |
| 18773s | know either way there's then a chance |
| 18775s | that habu gets to kill the uh the uh |
| 18777s | gigafin and get glug back me pick me |
| 18781s | okay it's title search oh in which case |
| 18783s | never mind |
| 18784s | yeah never mind even better |
| 18788s | perfect just enough space to find the |
| 18790s | glug one minion missing of course but |
| 18793s | still good enough for now |
| 18794s | and most importantly unlike the previous |
| 18797s | series that super fake was in there's no |
| 18799s | customers here the shop is closed |
| 18802s | speed |
| 18808s | why difference a health makes subtle |
| 18811s | [Music] |
| 18827s | and then reassess |
| 18830s | again much more difficult to go for |
| 18832s | these kind of draws when you're running |
| 18834s | a renaissance deck because it's it's |
| 18836s | just less likely you're going to hit the |
| 18838s | card you want |
| 18843s | it's counting how big the glug will be |
| 18845s | if he just chooses to go with the aoe in |
| 18847s | this situation yeah i respect this |
| 18861s | let's get the discount on demonic |
| 18863s | assault which is nice but of course the |
| 18866s | frostbite aura is still in place making |
| 18868s | this a problem |
| 18870s | oh no disaster |
| 18873s | not like this |
| 18875s | what are you this is europe versus |
| 18877s | europe this is when things were supposed |
| 18879s | to get good |
| 18882s | i look at super fast what do you mean |
| 18886s | oh |
| 18887s | no that is so much damage being left up |
| 18894s | and habu bank on this |
| 18896s | he could go brakan |
| 18899s | pawns and deal two right to push through |
| 18902s | and put more things in the way of globe |
| 18918s | i'm gonna use the rush to clear up |
| 18919s | instead and take the six damage yeah |
| 18921s | seems fine yeah this also seems fine i'm |
| 18924s | with it |
| 18927s | it's huge |
| 18932s | and when i talked about this shaman |
| 18934s | doesn't really have access to much burst |
| 18935s | from hand there is still those two |
| 18937s | murlocs flogal of course being one of |
| 18939s | them and a frostbite and now |
| 18942s | there's a you know two out of four |
| 18943s | chance you get to deal some amount of |
| 18945s | damage to face |
| 18948s | each turn with prakan of course |
| 18955s | i'm not getting any younger |
| 18964s | what does super fake even do now |
| 18966s | like that |
| 18968s | that one turn |
| 18970s | over here can |
| 18981s | has a full-blown evil in the original |
| 18984s | nagaling does have zola as well |
| 18987s | this was the play you know some sort of |
| 18988s | combination of this was the plan for the |
| 18990s | previous turn of course like zero mana |
| 18992s | full blown evil zero mana um knoll and |
| 18995s | then the zola as well but i think the |
| 18996s | zola left him with zero mana after it |
| 18998s | was played even after the discounts |
| 19000s | which i think is what caused the pause |
| 19001s | and then the turn just didn't complete |
| 19003s | yeah uh but yeah he's left himself in a |
| 19006s | world of trouble here and it does not |
| 19009s | look like this is going to be good |
| 19010s | enough and yeah i think super fake just |
| 19011s | giving the gesture like yeah like next |
| 19013s | game i'm i'm i'm done with this game |
| 19015s | let's play an entirely different game of |
| 19017s | hearthstone |
| 19021s | goodly enough |
| 19024s | not actually dead yet |
| 19026s | unless i'm missing something haboo can |
| 19029s | sleep breaker |
| 19030s | and draw to try and hit another murloc |
| 19033s | or something like would that happen |
| 19035s | would that help not really no |
| 19038s | right three mana spent on the sleep |
| 19040s | breaker stuff and then you'd have to |
| 19041s | spend five more on the two murlocs that |
| 19043s | you already have and you'd need you |
| 19046s | still need three aoe and you're only |
| 19048s | picking up two off one more murlocs you |
| 19050s | wouldn't really have the ability to do |
| 19051s | anything else |
| 19054s | if you've got |
| 19056s | a malcolm into the rush murloc again |
| 19059s | that's lethal |
| 19061s | super fake scene oh wait i'm not |
| 19063s | instantly dead okay |
| 19067s | um |
| 19068s | it's actually coming |
| 19075s | well right no you wouldn't have any way |
| 19077s | to prop the death rattle get the weapon |
| 19081s | yeah not without using the frostbite |
| 19083s | right exactly right which you need to |
| 19085s | use on the other taunt in that situation |
| 19086s | yeah okay well it's not over quite yet |
| 19090s | but habu has just dramatically reduced |
| 19092s | down the board pressure from super fake |
| 19094s | now it's super fakes go and there's |
| 19096s | still a lot of work to be done |
| 19101s | wants to trade off the mistress first |
| 19104s | though |
| 19105s | yes okay |
| 19107s | recovery time |
| 19109s | and now bran queen is available as well |
| 19112s | for more stabilization in the near |
| 19114s | future |
| 19115s | wondering whether it's just brand purses |
| 19120s | oh sorry i was thinking that was the uh |
| 19122s | the cursed legendary and not queen |
| 19124s | ashara that's my phone |
| 19128s | it's fine i'll i'll let you off this |
| 19130s | once |
| 19132s | is he gonna just aoe |
| 19136s | i guess 12. |
| 19138s | oh he's getting |
| 19139s | he's getting dealt six next turn though |
| 19146s | haven't heard |
| 19154s | interesting |
| 19157s | the next turn there's bran |
| 19160s | dolo with the legendary and the free |
| 19162s | abyssal wave to go first i guess |
| 19165s | to get like maximum curses maximum |
| 19167s | healing yeah |
| 19169s | forces opponent off board this turn so |
| 19170s | even with the six hero power damage uh |
| 19173s | showing |
| 19174s | very unlikely to die in the spot |
| 19178s | i think juicing up the curse by that one |
| 19180s | extra tick |
| 19185s | does habu maybe have to go |
| 19187s | the bran murloc route |
| 19189s | with the amalgam here |
| 19203s | amalgam discover two murlocs that will |
| 19205s | be heavily reduced |
| 19207s | aeropower and then trying flogal to |
| 19209s | finish at the turn after |
| 19211s | yeah is that maybe where we are i'm is |
| 19214s | your one man off of being able to play a |
| 19217s | mutinous after this as well which i |
| 19218s | think would be the absolute nuts right |
| 19221s | you'd get another clown fish though |
| 19223s | yeah it's a big deal |
| 19225s | not a flower |
| 19227s | wait a minute |
| 19231s | drop the curse presumably yeah |
| 19234s | there's gotta be so much |
| 19237s | healing and the aoe just obliterates |
| 19239s | this board as it is |
| 19250s | never seen someone that's more |
| 19252s | entertaining to watch count than |
| 19257s | i'm not getting any younger |
| 19261s | yep |
| 19271s | [Music] |
| 19273s | screams |
| 19289s | yeah makes sense right with the abyssal |
| 19295s | um |
| 19296s | go away |
| 19300s | um |
| 19304s | just because super fight didn't pick you |
| 19305s | doesn't mean you can hang around get out |
| 19307s | of here |
| 19309s | um |
| 19311s | red alert |
| 19313s | yeah maybe we can get this fixed in just |
| 19314s | a minute but at least we can see what's |
| 19316s | going on cuz i believe the |
| 19318s | game is still happening we just have the |
| 19320s | cards slapped across it never mind game |
| 19323s | over perfect we were saved from the bug |
| 19326s | super fake recovers and |
| 19329s | oh what a roller coaster of emotion saul |
| 19331s | because at first this whole opening |
| 19333s | there for habu gabu was given to him by |
| 19336s | super fake right super fake kind of |
| 19338s | whiffed the turn didn't end and and |
| 19341s | didn't really seal the deal on that turn |
| 19343s | uh so then oh |
| 19345s | we're okay um and then happy look like |
| 19347s | world okay well there's the game the |
| 19348s | massive glugs there he just needs a |
| 19350s | little bit of help to finish out the |
| 19352s | game and then suddenly it just all |
| 19354s | changes round with the draw of the |
| 19356s | starfish like oh that's just game one |
| 19359s | sol we've got a long way to go |
| 19361s | is indeed of course there are two |
| 19364s | starfish in the deck right which you |
| 19366s | know i will give renathol dex their fair |
| 19369s | share of stick but generally in a 30 |
| 19372s | card deck you are only going to play one |
| 19374s | copy of starfish under most reasonable |
| 19377s | circumstances uh the 40 card deck can |
| 19379s | afford to play two which means one in |
| 19381s | every 20 of your cards is a starfish |
| 19383s | instead of one in every 30 of your cards |
| 19385s | being a starfish so super fake entitled |
| 19388s | to find it and i think you saw that in |
| 19390s | habu's reactions during the game as well |
| 19392s | right when it was hellfire on curve he |
| 19394s | was annoyed because it was specifically |
| 19396s | that card in a 40 card deck that |
| 19397s | punished him when there was another aoe |
| 19399s | to follow that up he was annoyed when |
| 19401s | his stuff didn't get starfished on the |
| 19403s | turn he was expecting to get started |
| 19405s | she's like wait what my thing's still |
| 19407s | massive like what is happening here |
| 19409s | um so certainly super fake had to fight |
| 19412s | through that situation the hard way |
| 19414s | he certainly made his own life more |
| 19416s | difficult than he needed to i'm |
| 19418s | certainly not going to gloss over that |
| 19419s | fact but in the end was able to tidy it |
| 19421s | up the starfish appeared at just the |
| 19423s | right moment |
| 19425s | and was able to get there and it looks |
| 19428s | like we're going to move on to the |
| 19429s | hunter now for super fake as mentioned |
| 19432s | we do have habu gabu who has read the |
| 19435s | big beast manifesto but unfortunately |
| 19437s | super fake has not read the big beast |
| 19439s | manifesto are you familiar with the big |
| 19440s | beast manifesto raven i feel like i |
| 19443s | should be but i'm worried that i'm not |
| 19444s | now the big beast manifesto goes big |
| 19447s | beasts are the best roll high all the |
| 19448s | time it's very important okay you need |
| 19450s | to you need to bear this in mind i |
| 19451s | didn't know that was the title i have |
| 19453s | heard these words before |
| 19457s | someone put a title on it um |
| 19460s | yes we are going to see again this sort |
| 19462s | of quest version of hunter from super |
| 19464s | fake uh i am interested in seeing more |
| 19466s | play because it's a deck i have played |
| 19469s | but i've not put tons of time into uh so |
| 19471s | i'm excited to see especially on this |
| 19473s | level right where it's not just jamming |
| 19475s | it on ladder you're against the likes of |
| 19477s | habu gabu so you're really going to be |
| 19479s | put there put to the test here and |
| 19481s | especially against the shaming because |
| 19482s | yet again |
| 19483s | shaymin very bored focused deck right |
| 19486s | now and super fake has especially with a |
| 19489s | dumbbell bunker uh in the hand he can |
| 19491s | just access all of those secrets pretty |
| 19494s | quickly and pretty much make a mess of |
| 19496s | habits game plans at least for the first |
| 19497s | x amount of turns yeah something super |
| 19500s | fake was missing for his first game with |
| 19502s | this deck on stream for us at least i |
| 19505s | did just draw this the secrets play them |
| 19507s | naturally uh in this case is gonna have |
| 19510s | a little bit of extra tempo from that |
| 19513s | dumbledore bunker at the start being |
| 19515s | able to play secrets for a little bit |
| 19520s | yep |
| 19521s | exactly correct |
| 19531s | yeah i think our graphics are getting a |
| 19533s | little bit confused as well |
| 19535s | the ice trap graphic is actually the |
| 19537s | bunker and the secret is actually the |
| 19539s | ice trap |
| 19542s | ah close enough good effort |
| 19554s | in the super fake will have his work cut |
| 19556s | out for him here because of that wild |
| 19558s | poor cavern on four uh obviously he will |
| 19561s | know it won't come |
| 19562s | it |
| 19563s | it's gonna be a problem because a lot of |
| 19565s | the damage is gonna be uh just a little |
| 19568s | bit short we can see mark's shot in hand |
| 19570s | of course which is great but generally |
| 19572s | hunters doing threes |
| 19575s | so yeah that was a huge huge problem but |
| 19577s | have you actually |
| 19579s | you got gonna go for the gorlok here and |
| 19581s | not trying to test that secret |
| 19585s | it's probably smart when you want to |
| 19586s | just guarantee uh board control as |
| 19589s | opposed to hope for board control |
| 19594s | yeah this is such a huge tempo opening |
| 19596s | here for habu with double clown double |
| 19599s | gorlok |
| 19600s | absolutely just smashing through these |
| 19602s | murlocs as rapidly as possible |
| 19605s | now has the choice flergle and sia are |
| 19609s | two of the absolute best options i would |
| 19611s | say sia in particular just because of so |
| 19613s | much of the removal from hunter is just |
| 19615s | numbers based it |
| 19617s | does genuinely interact with the amount |
| 19619s | of health that your stuff has saying |
| 19621s | it's a really smart pick up here |
| 19622s | yeah i like this a lot especially |
| 19624s | because |
| 19626s | i sound a little bit stupid but for me |
| 19627s | the damage isn't as important from say |
| 19630s | the fleurgal than just making a hard |
| 19632s | board to deal with right because then |
| 19633s | the damage will come naturally and with |
| 19635s | uh already a decent chunk of murloc |
| 19638s | still in hand |
| 19639s | the options are definitely there mark |
| 19641s | shot gonna be used for super fake does |
| 19643s | progress the quest |
| 19645s | and |
| 19646s | maybe this is a devouring swamp |
| 19658s | but now just the opportunity to go again |
| 19663s | [Music] |
| 19664s | if he has a feeling about this ice trap |
| 19666s | as well he can just test it now which is |
| 19668s | a big deal because you do not really |
| 19670s | want to test it with her command of |
| 19672s | neptulon or wild poor caverns so now |
| 19674s | having that uh one one drop as an option |
| 19677s | is |
| 19678s | massive for him |
| 19679s | i think the cadence here is you do your |
| 19681s | big murloc pop-off this turn |
| 19684s | uh then the next turn you go sleep |
| 19686s | breaker windshield to deal with the ice |
| 19688s | trap and then you you start dealing the |
| 19690s | high impact spells after that |
| 19697s | what a board oh what a draw though |
| 19701s | explosive this turn do some other stuff |
| 19704s | and then get tavish explosive again |
| 19708s | enough though it's so much damage that |
| 19710s | goes through |
| 19711s | ah you've got 40 health |
| 19714s | it's fine |
| 19716s | what's the point having 40 health if you |
| 19717s | don't take more damage yeah i suppose |
| 19720s | sounds like the attitude of a renathol |
| 19722s | player to me |
| 19723s | just don't worry about anything let's |
| 19725s | just be lazy we've got 40 health nothing |
| 19727s | matters |
| 19732s | would like to see the explosive come |
| 19734s | down now though because obviously |
| 19736s | there's not enough mana available to |
| 19739s | uh to use it on the next turn |
| 19744s | with the cabbage of course |
| 19748s | yeah i like this a lot actually using |
| 19750s | the kraken bane which i hadn't really |
| 19752s | considered in the turn it does relieve a |
| 19754s | lot of the pressure you're able to |
| 19755s | straight up kill one minion and then of |
| 19757s | course make the other one dead to the |
| 19758s | initial explosive trap so now over the |
| 19761s | course of two turns that plan with the b |
| 19763s | stalker tavis does prevent a enormous |
| 19765s | amount of damage coming through from |
| 19766s | harbour garba very very nicely navigated |
| 19769s | by superfake |
| 19771s | i think this is one of those moments |
| 19772s | from habu or just against hunter in |
| 19774s | general with multiple secrets where you |
| 19776s | just make an attack and see what happens |
| 19783s | unless i'm missing something there isn't |
| 19784s | really anything further he can do to |
| 19787s | actually play around an explosive trap |
| 19790s | in any real way and no way for another |
| 19792s | cold light right so just |
| 19795s | and again i think against |
| 19797s | the quest hunter i don't think retaining |
| 19800s | the board and waiting to proc explosive |
| 19803s | is really going to help you out |
| 19805s | no i think harvey's just considering |
| 19807s | maybe attack order this turn because |
| 19809s | this is a brand new secret on this turn |
| 19811s | it could be an explosive bluff and it's |
| 19812s | actually freezing for example and then |
| 19815s | you're thinking well do i want the cold |
| 19816s | lightsaber back do i want the clownfish |
| 19818s | back do i just want to attack with the |
| 19819s | smallest minions so that i push the |
| 19820s | maximum amount of damage through i think |
| 19822s | there's a lot of the consideration going |
| 19824s | into this turn |
| 19842s | yeah good to know thanks raven |
| 19845s | oh nice |
| 19847s | explosive maneuvers my two favorite |
| 19850s | secrets |
| 19856s | on the best card in the deck |
| 19874s | at the same point again now where |
| 19875s | obviously i'm staring at explosive but |
| 19877s | he will no explosive is just a massively |
| 19881s | key |
| 19882s | crap |
| 19882s | for super fake |
| 19884s | i would have already attacked maybe just |
| 19886s | doesn't want to give super fake as many |
| 19888s | minions to proc spells on but can't |
| 19891s | really avoid that based on the deck he's |
| 19893s | playing in general right |
| 19902s | all right well at least now finally turn |
| 19905s | seven habu has had the freedom without |
| 19908s | an ice trap to be able to get the wild |
| 19909s | poor cabin down |
| 19925s | what have we here |
| 19937s | again just as we said in the previous |
| 19939s | series the uh early tavish |
| 19942s | starting to be class |
| 19945s | like huff up |
| 19949s | big bees are the best roll high all the |
| 19951s | time |
| 19952s | easy |
| 19975s | lots of trap |
| 19977s | natural one being drawn there at the end |
| 19979s | there for super fake so again more |
| 19981s | options for a kind of a aoe |
| 19988s | and this is a slight issue now that |
| 19990s | because exactly huffer was rolled |
| 19993s | again there's a reason i really like |
| 19995s | explosive |
| 19996s | and maneuvers and it's because the two |
| 19998s | of the best which means habu will kind |
| 20000s | of be expecting explosive maneuvers so |
| 20002s | uh trading with this offer may not be |
| 20004s | the best idea in the world |
| 20014s | it's the worst feeling in hearthstone i |
| 20015s | swear like you know it's coming back |
| 20018s | twice but you have no choice like what |
| 20020s | you're gonna do leave it there let it |
| 20021s | hit you for four and then it comes back |
| 20023s | twice the next turn like it's so |
| 20026s | miserable |
| 20041s | [Music] |
| 20045s | hello we're back |
| 20047s | press the button again get another offer |
| 20051s | a super fake now uh definitely at the |
| 20053s | point |
| 20054s | where he wants to get the uh the tavish |
| 20057s | down to complete quest does have to |
| 20059s | quickly work out this ocani though |
| 20062s | luckily for him he does have some |
| 20063s | throwaway minions and some spells that i |
| 20066s | could easily say with throwaway spells |
| 20068s | yeah for sure or at least with the ice |
| 20070s | trap exactly right you can just throw |
| 20072s | that out one mana if it gets blocked |
| 20074s | great |
| 20076s | predictable |
| 20078s | used to go spring the trap |
| 20079s | do you forget |
| 20083s | [Laughter] |
| 20086s | oh no |
| 20087s | surely ice traps better |
| 20090s | we agreed on this |
| 20091s | yes okay |
| 20096s | we're just gonna go ice explosive i |
| 20098s | guess |
| 20100s | i think so yeah |
| 20102s | enter face ten two face there we go at |
| 20106s | least we've got that bit right the |
| 20109s | correct hunter mindset whether you play |
| 20110s | the slower list or not |
| 20112s | feel the damage to the face |
| 20116s | i think super fake's upset with himself |
| 20118s | i think he is yeah i mean |
| 20120s | he's gone full mysterious challenger |
| 20122s | right he has the the full christmas tree |
| 20124s | in play and like every mysterious |
| 20126s | challenger paladin player his brain has |
| 20128s | turned to mush so |
| 20129s | we're fine |
| 20130s | just why have i not won yet question |
| 20135s | how do i keep have to use my brain to |
| 20137s | make decisions |
| 20142s | now haboo's been caught in that |
| 20145s | i guess literal trap of the longer you |
| 20148s | don't attack |
| 20149s | the worse it feels a lot of the time and |
| 20152s | now these explosives have stacked up to |
| 20153s | the point where i think he's simply just |
| 20156s | going to die the damage has been done |
| 20158s | and again this was kind of the issue |
| 20160s | with |
| 20161s | making this play against quest hunter |
| 20165s | feels very spicy in if you're playing a |
| 20167s | deck that doesn't heal a lot and shaymin |
| 20170s | does not heal a lot so |
| 20172s | gonna be a rough one for him let's see |
| 20174s | what he is offered chain lightning rot |
| 20176s | by a frostbite frostbite definitely not |
| 20178s | a bad pick up |
| 20184s | windchill springs the ice trap |
| 20189s | now gets cookie down cookie was going to |
| 20192s | die to this combination of traps but at |
| 20193s | least then the weapon will appear when |
| 20195s | the choice to attack is made which is |
| 20198s | something at the very least |
| 20202s | oh no fail the tracks lead this way |
| 20214s | i think i like just re-roll tracking |
| 20216s | honestly |
| 20224s | yeah i'm fine with it too |
| 20228s | could be conscious cool but i think |
| 20230s | tracking makes the most sense does go |
| 20231s | conscious cool okay fine |
| 20233s | expensive |
| 20235s | where's his face oh that's the one |
| 20240s | that is the face naga you're looking for |
| 20245s | it just felt like a lot of manner to |
| 20247s | spend when there's also furious howl in |
| 20250s | hand right |
| 20251s | i was looking at whether you get sort of |
| 20254s | he's super fake okay |
| 20256s | i'm not sure i'm gonna go with no just |
| 20259s | on a limb |
| 20261s | right so yeah okay |
| 20265s | and this goes face right |
| 20268s | there is the argument that like |
| 20270s | conscious calls specifically drawing |
| 20272s | face naga is to your benefit right when |
| 20274s | you're just looking for straight up |
| 20275s | damage to end the game you have that |
| 20276s | five damage in hand just to be able to |
| 20278s | go face i think it does make sense when |
| 20280s | you really look at it |
| 20291s | you just can't see he just doesn't want |
| 20293s | to see berkan right |
| 20295s | that's the uh the the biggie right now |
| 20306s | the weapon is |
| 20308s | insignificant |
| 20310s | currently yes you would need a small |
| 20313s | attack minion to be able to attack into |
| 20315s | to actually get any value out of this |
| 20317s | hey cool i'll attack face |
| 20319s | wait a minute |
| 20328s | you have it |
| 20329s | dire need of brakan at some point in the |
| 20332s | extreme near future to get the heels |
| 20337s | i believe |
| 20339s | it's very likely to just be it if not |
| 20343s | this should just bounce right yeah that |
| 20345s | does the majority of it |
| 20353s | with the |
| 20355s | current state of super fakes mental game |
| 20357s | anything could happen this year |
| 20359s | that is play some cards in the right |
| 20361s | order |
| 20362s | going to be okay |
| 20364s | yeah and i think we've seen this from a |
| 20367s | kind of kind of both super fake series |
| 20369s | that we've cast up until this point of |
| 20371s | course that super fake |
| 20374s | doesn't really look like he's on form |
| 20377s | right now he's doing enough obviously to |
| 20379s | win games but the uh the little mistakes |
| 20382s | are starting to to stack up a little bit |
| 20384s | and you can tell even he's getting |
| 20386s | annoyed at himself because he knows he |
| 20388s | knows their mistakes it's not like he's |
| 20390s | playing badly and has no knowledge of it |
| 20392s | and he just can't even see the mistakes |
| 20394s | himself but starting to get a little bit |
| 20396s | flustered the positive is if he can just |
| 20398s | get one more win you can forget about it |
| 20401s | for the rest of the day because he's |
| 20402s | done right he's done till tomorrow so um |
| 20404s | or to the day after actually so as long |
| 20406s | as he can get through and he keeps |
| 20409s | winning the games regardless of the |
| 20411s | small mistakes then great but i am |
| 20414s | worried that they are going to stack up |
| 20416s | and ahabu is the type of player that |
| 20418s | won't make those mistakes and we'll cash |
| 20420s | in on that |
| 20421s | well that's the thing like you know i've |
| 20423s | been in this position i've played games |
| 20425s | on stream and played badly and anything |
| 20427s | like particularly if you then win that |
| 20428s | game it just becomes embarrassing more |
| 20430s | than anything right like you just want |
| 20431s | to be you just want to bury your head in |
| 20433s | a in the sand like i remember a game |
| 20435s | specifically i was playing on stream |
| 20437s | against modern leper and i just missed |
| 20439s | grom in a rage to my opponent at 12. |
| 20442s | like i had eight mana i had like four |
| 20444s | cards in my hand and two of them were |
| 20445s | grommy in a rage i just didn't do it for |
| 20447s | some reason i have no idea why to this |
| 20450s | day but you can see is the fact that is |
| 20452s | still a brain worm in the back of my |
| 20454s | brain that i remember precisely that |
| 20456s | that stuff bothers you and it's really |
| 20458s | really hard to get over and uh and |
| 20461s | readjust and get yourself back into good |
| 20462s | positions yeah good thing here though |
| 20464s | super fake as we just saw only has his |
| 20466s | mage left so like i said if he just wins |
| 20468s | this one game or wins one game of mage |
| 20471s | out of three |
| 20472s | you can just forget about it for the |
| 20473s | rest of the day |
| 20475s | and spend tomorrow you know prepping of |
| 20476s | course but just relaxing i think is an |
| 20478s | important thing there but i will say as |
| 20481s | well super fake at least for us does |
| 20484s | lean towards mage is maybe a slightly |
| 20486s | favored class as well just his own |
| 20488s | personal preference he doesn't like to |
| 20490s | play the weird wage decks so maybe |
| 20492s | that's going to be enough to help him |
| 20493s | out here |
| 20494s | being so familiar with the deck in |
| 20497s | itself so let's see how it goes how |
| 20499s | about going to be back on the shame i'm |
| 20500s | going to cue it till it wins taking that |
| 20502s | approach where it's super fake |
| 20504s | got this mage left and double fire sale |
| 20507s | is it too much to keep both of those |
| 20509s | subtle |
| 20511s | probably yes i like keeping one |
| 20514s | uh but yeah doing god's work you say |
| 20516s | continuing to queue up shaman until he |
| 20518s | gets a win with it i choose to view it |
| 20520s | as giving raven maximum opportunities to |
| 20522s | say shaman before the end of grand |
| 20525s | masters now i'm confused |
| 20528s | you want me to say shaman oh oh shaman |
| 20532s | which did i say just then you said |
| 20534s | shaman but you said gives raven the |
| 20536s | maximum opportunities to say shaman |
| 20538s | during grand masters i'm like oh yeah no |
| 20540s | i feel like at least |
| 20542s | at least once before grand masters ends |
| 20545s | i think you should just call it shaman |
| 20547s | you know just so we have the experience |
| 20548s | of what that feels like |
| 20551s | you mean seriously in a in a game yeah |
| 20553s | yeah okay i'll uh |
| 20555s | i'll bring it out when you lose okay |
| 20558s | yeah this is the game now i have to |
| 20559s | notice you do it yeah okay fine |
| 20562s | regardless getting back to more |
| 20564s | important things and uh the way i say |
| 20566s | words |
| 20568s | which is quite important since it's |
| 20569s | literally my job i suppose but |
| 20571s | moving on they are the um |
| 20573s | runners on the board right now one just |
| 20576s | being cleared off yep |
| 20581s | well i'm not surprised with solids we |
| 20583s | haven't named the different colored |
| 20584s | piranhas |
| 20586s | that's true that does seem like a thing |
| 20588s | we would have done but we haven't it's a |
| 20589s | good point |
| 20593s | meanwhile |
| 20594s | on the board |
| 20598s | can't name anything of food stuff we'll |
| 20600s | move into an entirely different debate |
| 20602s | as soon as we do that |
| 20606s | i'm gonna think of the other two names |
| 20607s | soon |
| 20608s | okay fine |
| 20611s | uh we can see super fake obviously now |
| 20613s | under the effects of the frost beta |
| 20617s | making his turns a little bit more |
| 20619s | difficult |
| 20622s | whereas i'm thinking how i can say |
| 20624s | bioluminescence wrong because it's a |
| 20626s | weird word that because i know how it's |
| 20628s | said it's i feel like it's harder to |
| 20629s | make up a wrong way to say that |
| 20632s | uh biolumisians |
| 20634s | that's too close |
| 20642s | hello super fake |
| 20646s | weirdly enough |
| 20648s | might be staring at that coin as a way |
| 20651s | to |
| 20653s | get rid of this frostbite because all |
| 20654s | the other spells i don't think he wants |
| 20656s | to uh |
| 20657s | spend that much manner on them right |
| 20659s | where the coin is kind of negating the |
| 20662s | effect |
| 20665s | yeah the debate is whether you |
| 20666s | particularly need to worry about it |
| 20668s | right now you do have minions to play on |
| 20670s | curve for sure just a couple of turns |
| 20672s | from here |
| 20673s | yeah definitely not for now it's just |
| 20675s | looking at what what we've seen from |
| 20677s | previous games and how important the aoe |
| 20679s | is yeah does he want an aoe to be that |
| 20681s | expensive and then maybe block him out |
| 20683s | of a strong turn probably yeah i think |
| 20685s | what you would hope in super fake's |
| 20688s | position is so like you go carney this |
| 20690s | turn maybe taylor next turn and then |
| 20693s | maybe on six you can coin |
| 20695s | by sale and then that clears the boards |
| 20697s | and you get away with it you know like |
| 20699s | that hopefully in the dream scenario is |
| 20701s | what's going to line up but i think habu |
| 20704s | knowing that the coin is in hand for the |
| 20706s | opponent will be playing around that |
| 20707s | exact scenario on the other side as well |
| 20709s | so |
| 20710s | really tricky spot to navigate i would |
| 20712s | say |
| 20714s | bye nemo guess we're not finding you |
| 20716s | after all |
| 20721s | i'll be very quickly getting to that |
| 20723s | here |
| 20724s | glug again in a couple of turns time |
| 20727s | a little bit difficult again yeah it's |
| 20729s | the kind of same discussion we had about |
| 20731s | warlock except mage doesn't really have |
| 20733s | the big aoe right it's like five |
| 20737s | unless you count a really buffed |
| 20739s | reckless uh a reckless apprentice |
| 20743s | certainly could get to at some point |
| 20745s | this game obviously a lot trickier to |
| 20747s | specifically find your dawngrass hero |
| 20750s | with 40 cards in your deck which is what |
| 20752s | really starts to juice that reckless |
| 20754s | apprentice |
| 20758s | oh good another five mana ice barrier |
| 20760s | just what i always wanted |
| 20764s | okay could coin it out kind of |
| 20769s | all right dumb meta plays when you're |
| 20771s | trading a fire sale there do you ever |
| 20773s | trade the one that you kept in your |
| 20774s | opening hand because that's the one that |
| 20776s | your opponent might have a read on |
| 20777s | because it's a kept card and then you |
| 20779s | might convince them that you don't have |
| 20780s | a fire sale because you've just traded a |
| 20782s | card that they read as fire sale away |
| 20784s | from your opening hand oh do you take it |
| 20786s | a level more and you just want them to |
| 20788s | know |
| 20790s | yeah i've got it deal with it |
| 20808s | yeah this is the turn right it's the |
| 20809s | turn i was talking about where it was |
| 20810s | possible for an aoe to happen based on |
| 20812s | super fake's hand with the the coin and |
| 20814s | the fire sale and i think habu has |
| 20817s | represented that very nicely trickling |
| 20820s | out the stags turn by turn and only a |
| 20822s | single piranha what's this one's name |
| 20823s | raven i've forgotten |
| 20825s | yeah blue was uh |
| 20828s | percy or was that pepper i think blue is |
| 20830s | pepper okay |
| 20837s | is the story about peppers makes me feel |
| 20839s | sad |
| 20853s | we're going to come down here from habit |
| 20856s | and again that's the real issue here |
| 20858s | that |
| 20860s | you would need exactly a flame strike to |
| 20862s | deal with this right |
| 20872s | i mean |
| 20873s | the uh |
| 20874s | najar is on |
| 20876s | frost i believe so that's just going to |
| 20878s | be an eight arm again |
| 20880s | yep there we go |
| 20881s | perfect i think |
| 20898s | just let me hit you for 20 damage plug |
| 20905s | what's the plan here long term |
| 20909s | in terms of dealing with this glug |
| 20910s | situation |
| 20912s | um |
| 20913s | draw a fire a cheap fire spell |
| 20920s | because then lady najar just deals five |
| 20922s | to the glug and kills it oh |
| 20927s | i was just like hard purse |
| 20930s | and a lot else you can really do in that |
| 20931s | spot |
| 20938s | yeah i was wondering whether after the |
| 20939s | vardon there might have been a ping |
| 20941s | thrown into the glog |
| 20947s | ah is it a cr i guess they can gift |
| 20950s | first but i'm really staring at oddly |
| 20953s | enough trading this uh |
| 20955s | mind trading the fire sail away |
| 20959s | selfish to the rescue once again |
| 20962s | very nice |
| 20969s | oh is super fake saying you can get |
| 20970s | enough trades through here to use the |
| 20972s | flurry |
| 20982s | he does also have 36 health and an ice |
| 20984s | barrier right it's not a huge panic if |
| 20986s | he gets hit by a medium-sized glove once |
| 20988s | this turn oh i guess he could just |
| 20991s | double right |
| 20993s | if it's if he misses he can just cast it |
| 20995s | again |
| 20996s | cool |
| 20997s | oh he hits |
| 20999s | or haboo |
| 21000s | just don't miss idiot yeah |
| 21003s | like the beast thing right just |
| 21005s | just win |
| 21018s | hey does habu go from here like again |
| 21022s | murlocs in hand does have the clownfish |
| 21024s | in the galloc |
| 21029s | but it's a weird deck this mage deck |
| 21032s | isn't it because although there are a |
| 21034s | lot of good targets to hit with the |
| 21037s | mutinous as an example there's nothing |
| 21039s | that you |
| 21041s | game-winning that you hit with me to |
| 21042s | this at least nothing i feel anyway |
| 21047s | yeah i mean i guess maybe more dress is |
| 21050s | the closest thing to that right but even |
| 21052s | then i think |
| 21054s | quite often the the game ending burst |
| 21055s | damage comes more so from like giant |
| 21058s | reckless apprentice doubling up a ping |
| 21060s | yeah |
| 21061s | bran or something right you know stuff |
| 21063s | like that i completely agree like modric |
| 21065s | is nice to him because it's a lot of |
| 21066s | stats but not really like winning you |
| 21069s | the game |
| 21072s | i mean if anything i think hitting the |
| 21074s | reckless apprentices themselves is |
| 21075s | probably one of the best options that |
| 21077s | you can find yeah true |
| 21082s | well |
| 21083s | we might have to uh say hello to an old |
| 21085s | friend |
| 21089s | this starfish |
| 21093s | i thought you meant the more dress i was |
| 21094s | going to say no no no no no no no |
| 21096s | harbour was a purist |
| 21099s | how |
| 21111s | even has the |
| 21113s | pink now a one mana fire sale |
| 21117s | and of course like lady najar now |
| 21118s | actually is a very strong card against |
| 21121s | exactly the shame and it clears so many |
| 21123s | minions right like it's just insane |
| 21135s | oh as well taking a very |
| 21137s | quick |
| 21138s | glance here |
| 21140s | yet it is going to be one of the four |
| 21142s | drops that a tailing would draw now |
| 21144s | first |
| 21145s | can spell |
| 21148s | anybody |
| 21154s | we have a look at bioluminescence all is |
| 21156s | that something that's ever considered at |
| 21158s | this point like does schooling really |
| 21159s | help haboo i want to say no |
| 21163s | possible right |
| 21165s | i'll have the brand |
| 21166s | yeah yeah exactly like you have the bran |
| 21169s | you have a frostbite like there's at |
| 21171s | least the semblance of a plan coming |
| 21173s | together in that position whereas i |
| 21175s | don't really think the other cards are |
| 21176s | going to get there yeah like that plus |
| 21178s | brakan and a couple of sick deal sixes |
| 21180s | right like maybe |
| 21182s | and i and correct me if i'm wrong but i |
| 21184s | think bioluminescence is in the other |
| 21187s | nargling as well no |
| 21189s | i i'm not sure i know it was offered but |
| 21192s | i'm not sure if he picked it sorry |
| 21194s | commit to that and make myself look |
| 21196s | sillier than i already do sometimes |
| 21198s | fine |
| 21200s | valid |
| 21205s | not that i think super fakes had a bad |
| 21207s | or an unlucky game here but the lack of |
| 21209s | wildfires is the only thing that's |
| 21212s | actually |
| 21212s | making him not just obliterate havoc |
| 21215s | right now right we see the dawn grasp |
| 21217s | and the reckless apprentice now in hand |
| 21219s | yeah and having retained that coin for |
| 21221s | all this time yeah actually kind of just |
| 21223s | juicing right now depending on how this |
| 21225s | sequence of spells goes does hit the |
| 21227s | fire sale though okay clears the board |
| 21229s | up |
| 21230s | second reckless though |
| 21234s | we're just a bran away from a good time |
| 21242s | very close to just dealing uh |
| 21245s | 20 with modresh as well |
| 21251s | suddenly okay is this enough to play |
| 21254s | bran |
| 21255s | paul |
| 21257s | oh dude it really depends if there's |
| 21259s | another bioluminescence in that other |
| 21260s | nargling then no probably not like that |
| 21262s | is just your wing condition at some |
| 21264s | point surely |
| 21270s | it's a lot of stuff though and again |
| 21272s | this materials does have a lot of key |
| 21274s | minions we've just been talking about |
| 21275s | them right that's true maybe you're |
| 21278s | right i know it's less fun subtle i |
| 21280s | completely agree a big bioluminescence |
| 21282s | would be hilarious but |
| 21289s | there's the two murloc discounts |
| 21291s | finds clownfish though |
| 21294s | there's off a tidehunter as well which |
| 21296s | is |
| 21296s | it is bioluminescence |
| 21298s | wait a minute |
| 21303s | i'll be 40. he's not 14 is he |
| 21306s | so there's two spell damage on four |
| 21309s | minions oh there's the macor as well is |
| 21311s | this 14 |
| 21312s | i can't even count it calm down calm |
| 21315s | down everyone be calm |
| 21317s | everyone be calm super fake |
| 21319s | everyone be calm this is fine this is |
| 21322s | fine everything's fine it's only |
| 21325s | approximately 35. |
| 21328s | 33 is fine |
| 21330s | oh my god |
| 21332s | just a smooth 33 damage with a frost |
| 21335s | bite |
| 21336s | wow and this is the stuff we expect from |
| 21339s | habit |
| 21340s | our expectations are high but that's |
| 21342s | because he keeps delivering |
| 21344s | yep |
| 21346s | it takes like wait a minute where did my |
| 21348s | health go |
| 21349s | can you play the frostbite |
| 21354s | i am fairly sure super fake was like am |
| 21356s | i being lethal right now |
| 21364s | luckily |
| 21365s | especially with that one mana fire sale |
| 21367s | super fake has a very easy clear |
| 21371s | you just need to put his foot down on |
| 21373s | the gas a little bit here because |
| 21374s | suddenly he doesn't feel so safe anymore |
| 21377s | right |
| 21380s | you would really like to try and juice |
| 21381s | the reckless apprentice sometime soon as |
| 21383s | well i would imagine |
| 21386s | yeah there you go gonna ping get a |
| 21388s | reckless apprentice the first one will |
| 21390s | juice it to four yeah |
| 21394s | and then fours will clear up the rest |
| 21407s | but now that's this is the question |
| 21408s | right is that it was that harbour's |
| 21410s | entire game in that 33 damage burst can |
| 21413s | he actually re-establish from this point |
| 21416s | yeah i've said it once i'll say it again |
| 21418s | brook on |
| 21420s | yeah |
| 21421s | that's a guaranteed six and then maybe |
| 21424s | six |
| 21425s | for the rest of the game right which is |
| 21427s | a big deal we've seen people you know |
| 21429s | sort of rotate |
| 21431s | uh from other hero power and then deal |
| 21434s | six then other hero power then deal six |
| 21436s | it can get very slow |
| 21439s | it is still very possible for harbour |
| 21441s | he's still sitting on 26 health 28 with |
| 21443s | the weapon swing very very doable indeed |
| 21449s | those are not murlocs |
| 21452s | commander chill on though |
| 21457s | yeah pretty good or is the answer |
| 21460s | yeah yeah i'm with you on that as well |
| 21462s | yeah can't argue |
| 21465s | because again the one thing you are |
| 21466s | expecting still from super fake if you |
| 21468s | have a gabu is |
| 21470s | aoe you know minions dying so maybe |
| 21473s | really is just get to procon |
| 21478s | looking at the remaining cards here for |
| 21479s | abu ghrabo see what he has available |
| 21481s | there's the key bloodlust |
| 21483s | fill in the deck |
| 21484s | that's coming to play bolner a couple of |
| 21487s | other things but really we're looking at |
| 21488s | that bottom card right just exactly |
| 21490s | brakan |
| 21494s | does have the uh |
| 21496s | has options actually moderate coin zola |
| 21503s | i think the zola even if you coined zola |
| 21505s | you'd still probably put it on the |
| 21506s | reckless apprentice |
| 21508s | if you want to yeah i mean nothing |
| 21510s | choosing the hero power right you can |
| 21512s | also just more dress and just weave in |
| 21513s | the ping this turn face hunter style |
| 21515s | because you then do still have reckless |
| 21517s | apprentice and zola to be able to follow |
| 21519s | up on that later so it's not like you |
| 21520s | lose out on that much damage but it |
| 21522s | looks like it is going to be the zola |
| 21523s | play this turn and it is going to be on |
| 21525s | the mordresh |
| 21526s | this does still set up lethal for the |
| 21528s | following turn that does have to be an |
| 21530s | answer |
| 21539s | now of course we know even though as you |
| 21541s | said that bottom card brew khan we do |
| 21543s | know that brew khan is not on the bottom |
| 21545s | of the deck having just looked at it |
| 21547s | yeah so it is somewhere within the next |
| 21549s | eight cards |
| 21552s | gonna block minion right |
| 21554s | yeah absolutely |
| 21556s | make him hero power the ocarina so if he |
| 21558s | does play modresh |
| 21560s | then the minion trade and the hero |
| 21562s | powers to come in which means it's not |
| 21563s | lethal a good play for habu still |
| 21565s | hanging on again it's still looking |
| 21567s | quite grim |
| 21569s | but regardless |
| 21572s | no it's not quite lethal because the |
| 21574s | reckless apprentice here at powell's |
| 21575s | face first right |
| 21578s | because you can first flame the two six |
| 21582s | and then you actually still wouldn't |
| 21583s | have enough mana to break the okani and |
| 21586s | then get reckless apprentice what's the |
| 21588s | hero power actually it's at four |
| 21590s | currently |
| 21594s | if you are able to first flame the okani |
| 21596s | play the reckless apprentice juice it to |
| 21598s | six and then get the six damage to face |
| 21600s | plus the hero power to six and the three |
| 21602s | from the existing reckless apprentice on |
| 21603s | board that's 15 but that doesn't work |
| 21605s | for two entirely different reasons yeah |
| 21608s | i was actually looking at the potential |
| 21610s | of just multicaster ping reckless if |
| 21612s | that was enough but it just falls short |
| 21614s | yep |
| 21615s | i have an idea of course super fake has |
| 21618s | to plan this term without the knowledge |
| 21620s | that it is minion as well he does have |
| 21622s | to play around spell at the same time |
| 21624s | which is a little bit awkward |
| 21628s | yeah i mean luckily the uh the first |
| 21630s | flame is one of the best cards to do so |
| 21633s | and that's going to be a conceit there |
| 21634s | from abu he knows there's just no |
| 21636s | recovery from that point especially with |
| 21638s | the extra damage pushed gonna be dead to |
| 21640s | the second mojash and it was a tricky |
| 21643s | one it was uh |
| 21645s | weirdly close at points even though the |
| 21647s | score doesn't really reflect that yeah |
| 21649s | it was definitely a crazy series overall |
| 21652s | but the series does go to super fake |
| 21654s | with a three |
| 21655s | zero sweep again a lot harder than it |
| 21658s | looks on paper but still a good win for |
| 21661s | super fake that's back-to-back victories |
| 21663s | uh in the last two series there and he's |
| 21665s | going to move on to sunday the final day |
| 21667s | of the first week |
| 21668s | yeah i can't say that it was the |
| 21670s | performance he was looking for you could |
| 21673s | see that in his own gestures his own |
| 21674s | facial expressions his own demeanor |
| 21676s | during the series but either way it's |
| 21678s | the result he was looking for and the |
| 21681s | lineup itself does seem to be |
| 21683s | functioning pretty well it does seem to |
| 21685s | have a slant towards this shaman that so |
| 21688s | many people are bringing and the shaman |
| 21690s | is really struggling to get wins against |
| 21693s | it despite some of these insane |
| 21695s | situations that are coming out with you |
| 21697s | know 20 20 glugs and 33 damage |
| 21700s | frostbites that are coming out on the |
| 21702s | other side i think at the very least |
| 21704s | super fake had a good time with uh |
| 21706s | taking 33 damage purely because he was |
| 21709s | able to get out of the series with the |
| 21710s | win and i will just say as well it's one |
| 21713s | thing i i just love about habu gabu and |
| 21716s | i love casting kabukabu is even if |
| 21719s | habugabu gets three owed he still styles |
| 21722s | on people right like he still makes |
| 21725s | games great uh which is what we saw from |
| 21727s | this one especially as you said with |
| 21729s | that 33 damage frostbite kind of out of |
| 21732s | nowhere so haboo putting a good effort |
| 21734s | and he knew he had to get the shaymin |
| 21736s | over the line and it wasn't meant to be |
| 21738s | so your two players going out of group a |
| 21741s | on day one of grand masters last call |
| 21743s | are gonna be possessy and super fake |
| 21745s | they'll move on to the final day on |
| 21747s | sunday uh but really great start to |
| 21750s | their week we've talked about it a lot |
| 21751s | especially the you know the last couple |
| 21753s | of seasons where |
| 21754s | getting a good start week one starting |
| 21756s | those points early means that your goal |
| 21759s | feels much more achievable right instead |
| 21761s | of oh i have to win a week or top two a |
| 21764s | week it's actually oh i have to just not |
| 21767s | really get out or i have to get out of |
| 21769s | groups for another week and then i'm |
| 21770s | looking good |
| 21771s | yeah and i guess final point before we |
| 21773s | move on we will now be staying with you |
| 21775s | before passing off to the americas |
| 21777s | casters for one game of group b but |
| 21779s | before we do that i think final thing to |
| 21781s | take note of is that that's two losses |
| 21784s | for habu gabu which with the way this |
| 21786s | year has been going the fact that habu |
| 21788s | gabi just lost two series of hearthstone |
| 21790s | on stream is an event in and of itself |
| 21793s | and we should make it one like this |
| 21795s | person can lose it can happen who knew |
| 21799s | rare as it is but i'm excited to see how |
| 21801s | all the players have who especially uh |
| 21803s | competes within this new grand masters |
| 21805s | circuit here for this last season but we |
| 21808s | are going to go to a quick break as you |
| 21809s | saw that is group a done we're going to |
| 21811s | be moving on to group b as all mentioned |
| 21813s | we will be taking you through the first |
| 21815s | match of the day and then uh you'll have |
| 21818s | some america's casters following up |
| 21819s | after that but we're gonna go to that |
| 21820s | break we'll be right back |
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| 22020s | new group of players within this grand |
| 22023s | masters league day one is going to be |
| 22025s | group b and our first match of the day |
| 22027s | is going to be pun versus judgement but |
| 22029s | i believe we can take a look at the |
| 22031s | bracket just to check out exactly what |
| 22033s | group b looks like because for me so |
| 22035s | this is a one of the big exciting parts |
| 22037s | of grand masters this season as we're |
| 22040s | not seeing oh all the eu players oh all |
| 22042s | the america's players together it's a |
| 22044s | good mix so here we have pun judgement |
| 22047s | dimitri kazov and obliged so a bit of a |
| 22051s | a crazy group for me subtle definitely |
| 22054s | led in power by blize but a lot of uh |
| 22057s | very interesting players to fill out the |
| 22059s | rest of the group here |
| 22060s | yeah for sure i think having the |
| 22062s | opportunity to get up close and personal |
| 22064s | with dimitri is a big pleasure i think |
| 22067s | he's been a very solid player very much |
| 22069s | enjoyed what i've caught of him on the |
| 22071s | america's broadcast and of course for |
| 22074s | judgment just for us having a uk |
| 22076s | representative thrown into grand masters |
| 22077s | as well getting to see uh him go up |
| 22080s | against some uh some u.s north american |
| 22083s | compatriot some other america's players |
| 22085s | as well don't know if you remember raven |
| 22086s | but the last time we cast a big uk |
| 22089s | versus usa showdown it didn't work out |
| 22092s | particularly well for us uh if we go |
| 22095s | back to what hearthstone global games |
| 22098s | 2017 maybe something along those lines |
| 22101s | yeah did not end up particularly you |
| 22103s | have to go back that far to see a |
| 22105s | positive america's result yes um |
| 22108s | that many years ago now at some point |
| 22110s | but i'm sure we'll see something great |
| 22112s | out of grand masters this season but |
| 22113s | yeah again uh it's a mixed bag here of |
| 22117s | feelings for me because we know we |
| 22119s | aren't casting blinds today |
| 22120s | unfortunately but uh hopefully we get to |
| 22123s | cast him soon but i will be watching it |
| 22125s | so excited to see what he's gonna do but |
| 22127s | you are right for these two players |
| 22128s | especially judgement a player who at |
| 22131s | least for me saw kind of came out of |
| 22133s | nowhere yeah and showed some really |
| 22135s | impressive play uh throughout the |
| 22137s | masters tours to get to this place so |
| 22140s | really excited to see as you said like |
| 22142s | it in masters tours all of the players |
| 22145s | they have to qualify right so all the |
| 22146s | players are good but when you hit like |
| 22149s | this kind of level of grand masters that |
| 22151s | we've got to at this point in grand |
| 22153s | master's life cycle that a lot if not |
| 22156s | every single one of these players that |
| 22158s | are in the league right now are |
| 22160s | fantastic players right so this is like |
| 22162s | that extra step up i would say to really |
| 22164s | put judgment to the test |
| 22166s | yeah absolutely i mean you would expect |
| 22168s | us in particular to really |
| 22171s | know of and have heard of any uk players |
| 22173s | capable of making such a deep run as |
| 22175s | judgment did in masters tours |
| 22177s | consecutively in fact |
| 22178s | um we just hadn't really caught us by |
| 22180s | surprise we saw him you know up there |
| 22182s | with a uk flag we're like is that right |
| 22185s | like is it if they if they just is there |
| 22187s | a mistake here is he not actually from |
| 22188s | the uk but yeah ended up |
| 22190s | certainly a player that is very much on |
| 22192s | our radar now and of course taking a |
| 22194s | rightful place in grand masters last |
| 22197s | call pun on the other hand has got here |
| 22200s | uh through the conventional route i |
| 22202s | would suppose being an existing grand |
| 22204s | master and then surviving to the point |
| 22207s | of grand master's last call with a |
| 22209s | positive win rate as well 57 is |
| 22211s | absolutely nothing to be sniffed at |
| 22214s | positive season |
| 22216s | in grand masters of course despite it |
| 22217s | being a small sample size he is going to |
| 22220s | be running the demon hunter out first |
| 22222s | and foremost which is a deck that i do |
| 22223s | have one or two questions about overall |
| 22226s | in this format |
| 22228s | um so far we've seen it do okay i think |
| 22231s | is a fair description um you know not |
| 22233s | necessarily treating that in terms of |
| 22235s | win rate from what we've seen so far but |
| 22237s | just in how it has appeared to stack up |
| 22239s | against the other matchups that it's |
| 22241s | been facing against uh so for me the |
| 22243s | demon hunter might struggle but one of |
| 22245s | the many reasons it might struggle is |
| 22247s | that it's up against judgment who is a |
| 22248s | fantastic player raven yeah pretty |
| 22250s | interesting as well we just saw there |
| 22252s | now it's puns second season of grand |
| 22254s | masters so based on a lot of the players |
| 22256s | you know we're used to seeing that at |
| 22257s | this point there's like multiples of |
| 22259s | seasons behind them whereas only second |
| 22261s | season for pun and first a season of |
| 22264s | course for judgement but look at those |
| 22266s | results already they they kind of speak |
| 22268s | to themselves right runner up at nix's |
| 22270s | layer top four at silver moon 63 |
| 22274s | win win rate and masters tours of course |
| 22276s | not a gigantic sample size but you can |
| 22279s | only play what you play right in the 63 |
| 22281s | a result is actually very very solid |
| 22283s | indeed we're gonna see judgment going |
| 22285s | with the big spell mage here |
| 22288s | for some nice additions example the coil |
| 22290s | fan constrictor i am excited to see |
| 22294s | yeah a little bit of a |
| 22295s | different beast this time around from |
| 22297s | what we've been used to seeing in the |
| 22299s | past couple of tournaments but only in |
| 22301s | the matter of a small number of tech |
| 22303s | cards like coil fan constrictor as |
| 22305s | mentioned |
| 22306s | but we are back to the style of mage |
| 22308s | that i was perhaps expecting to see more |
| 22310s | of obviously we got caught in super fake |
| 22312s | world for the majority of our portion of |
| 22314s | the broadcast so far um so we've had you |
| 22317s | know the the xl ping mage instead but i |
| 22319s | was expecting to see uh a good chunk of |
| 22322s | bs mage hanging around and i'm very |
| 22324s | happy to see it coming back around this |
| 22326s | time from our uk representative |
| 22328s | and i believe that's the name we've |
| 22330s | ended up with if we're shortening it |
| 22332s | like that so but okay i think some |
| 22334s | people will feel that way when they're |
| 22335s | played against it a good amount of times |
| 22337s | as well so uh we'll see how the game |
| 22340s | goes as we jump into game number one of |
| 22342s | group b between punt and judgement |
| 22349s | not a bad offering here for judgment if |
| 22352s | we look at that ram commander i think |
| 22354s | especially uh just because of exactly |
| 22356s | what he's against right uh they said |
| 22358s | demon hunter although of course has the |
| 22360s | ability to pump out a ton of damage late |
| 22362s | game and from weapon swings and so on uh |
| 22364s | just being able to have answers |
| 22366s | immediately for the early sort of |
| 22369s | the you know the minions like the fossil |
| 22371s | fanatic it's actually pretty strong |
| 22373s | because this debt can sometimes struggle |
| 22375s | outside of just playing some minions to |
| 22378s | actually keep up with early aggression |
| 22384s | yeah certainly i think over time there |
| 22386s | was a little bit of debate as to what |
| 22388s | the right early game sort of anti-aggro |
| 22391s | cards were in the deck and it seems |
| 22393s | after a bit of time that a |
| 22396s | the ram commander has come out on top |
| 22398s | generally just in terms of player |
| 22400s | sentiment and in terms of stats being |
| 22402s | reported as well i believe it was the |
| 22404s | winner uh in terms of the the wicked |
| 22407s | good stat report on the previous masters |
| 22409s | tour in terms of uh cards inclusion |
| 22412s | effect on win rate |
| 22414s | i believe that is true and honestly |
| 22415s | start looking at these two hands who's |
| 22417s | the aggro deck yeah because |
| 22420s | it's looking quite good for now with |
| 22422s | plenty of early game pressure whereas |
| 22425s | pun |
| 22426s | starting with curtrice again curtis is |
| 22428s | always good but maybe not when the rest |
| 22430s | of your hand doesn't really achieve much |
| 22431s | either |
| 22433s | also can we point out judgment |
| 22436s | living in the uk |
| 22438s | wearing a hoodie right now i'm very |
| 22440s | confused |
| 22441s | what i mean going on |
| 22443s | i'm glad you've not noticed what i'm |
| 22445s | wearing in a room full of lights |
| 22447s | because uh i'm kind of with judgment |
| 22449s | here i am very warm though |
| 22451s | yeah |
| 22454s | at least it rained or at least it did |
| 22455s | where i live |
| 22456s | it did here as well yeah we are |
| 22458s | literally just talking about the weather |
| 22460s | now on grand masters broadcast that's |
| 22461s | happening |
| 22463s | well that's where we're from |
| 22466s | oh okay this is big for pun right just |
| 22468s | picking up something active to do can |
| 22470s | actually utilize the glaive because this |
| 22472s | is one of the problems as well when you |
| 22474s | get the glaive early great fantastic but |
| 22476s | then when you kind of force into i guess |
| 22479s | i just hear a power face for two and it |
| 22481s | does nothing you do feel a little bit |
| 22482s | worse yeah for |
| 22485s | sure the rams though are going to be so |
| 22487s | clutch |
| 22493s | they're very easily able to pick this |
| 22495s | apart if judgment so cheeses |
| 22498s | how perplexing |
| 22501s | and she's going to go coin reckless |
| 22502s | apprentice instead win the board more |
| 22504s | convincingly |
| 22506s | weirdly enough |
| 22508s | i was looking at that i was looking at |
| 22509s | the treasure guard plus coin ram just to |
| 22512s | kill the 2-1 |
| 22513s | but when i was thinking about i was like |
| 22515s | oh i feel so dangerous with glaive in |
| 22517s | equipped right like you're giving them |
| 22519s | five health to like trade and push |
| 22521s | through um so i was thinking of that as |
| 22523s | like a very odd downside especially |
| 22525s | since it only has one more charge left i |
| 22527s | can definitely see merit in just playing |
| 22529s | smaller minions but i don't mind this |
| 22531s | either just banking a good amount of |
| 22532s | pings there for judgement as well as |
| 22534s | clearing the board |
| 22536s | yeah also obviously five is kind of a |
| 22538s | weird break point to make them have at |
| 22540s | this point in the game uh you can see it |
| 22542s | here but it does involve using a rank |
| 22544s | one fury which you know is kind of a |
| 22547s | deficit for the opponent at that point |
| 22549s | in terms of damage uh with a one attack |
| 22551s | hero power and multi-strike being two it |
| 22553s | is sometimes tricky to make that five |
| 22555s | happen but pun just so had the uh |
| 22557s | suitable hand to make it happen in the |
| 22559s | end just a casual 10. |
| 22563s | out of nowhere |
| 22565s | and suddenly punt's hand is actually |
| 22566s | starting to shape up just a little bit |
| 22569s | because he pushed through so much damage |
| 22571s | uh the predation the fel barrage and |
| 22572s | then the curtrus in the near future is |
| 22575s | gonna start being a little bit scary if |
| 22578s | judgement doesn't get some minions to |
| 22580s | stick on board to soak some of that fel |
| 22582s | barrage |
| 22587s | information more than anything you now |
| 22588s | know the entire hand of your opponent |
| 22590s | which is a really big deal |
| 22594s | i think fell right is the right pick |
| 22595s | right the odds on punch drawing exactly |
| 22597s | a naga |
| 22598s | uh i think |
| 22600s | low-ish with just one draw |
| 22603s | if they're gonna use the predation then |
| 22605s | make them spend three three mana for it |
| 22607s | seems reasonable to me |
| 22612s | and i think do you think punch should |
| 22614s | use it |
| 22619s | i think so |
| 22620s | yeah i mean |
| 22622s | like the idea of all you know i might be |
| 22624s | able to play it for zero later well if |
| 22626s | you don't play it you're floating three |
| 22627s | mana this turn anyway right so getting |
| 22630s | to play it for zero later is just right |
| 22632s | net equal in terms of mana expenditure |
| 22635s | so i think taking care of it does make |
| 22637s | sense |
| 22638s | yeah the upside of us is the fennel |
| 22640s | potential but 22 cards in the deck where |
| 22643s | you really need you're just playing top |
| 22645s | deck walls right at the moment or at |
| 22646s | least on fun side he is then i think |
| 22648s | yeah i completely agree just spend the |
| 22650s | manning out get it cast |
| 22654s | obviously judgment saw the kurdras on |
| 22656s | the previous turn so we'll be very much |
| 22658s | expecting said curtris to come down on |
| 22660s | this turn if nothing superior is found |
| 22664s | that's quite hard to do |
| 22667s | the bone glave is close to superior in |
| 22669s | my opinion |
| 22673s | i think the null being on board probably |
| 22676s | pushes pun into playing the curtris but |
| 22679s | that board was any smaller i would take |
| 22681s | some serious looks at bone glaive and |
| 22683s | fell barrage |
| 22685s | it's interesting actually right because |
| 22687s | you could potentially |
| 22689s | get your opponent into a spot where fel |
| 22691s | barrage goes face through without |
| 22693s | hitting minions right by getting damaged |
| 22696s | to go face uh depending on what you |
| 22698s | dredge with the bone glaive these aren't |
| 22700s | really the options you were looking for |
| 22702s | fossil fanatic is okay |
| 22704s | but it's just kind of the type of card |
| 22706s | you were looking for with an extra step |
| 22708s | right you would have rather just picked |
| 22710s | up one of those cards straight away |
| 22712s | it costs more mana therefore it's not as |
| 22714s | good because you have to spend two first |
| 22716s | yeah |
| 22717s | but i do like the bone glaze play |
| 22720s | i actually think it |
| 22721s | it gives him a higher chance of just |
| 22723s | stealing the win here |
| 22725s | the other way to go about this of course |
| 22727s | would just be to throw the fel barrage |
| 22729s | out and play for a jace line instead |
| 22732s | that does look like what is uh what pun |
| 22734s | is going to go for here which means |
| 22736s | probably invested in controlling the |
| 22737s | board a little bit more |
| 22739s | also keeps this hand nice and empty for |
| 22743s | barbara things which again going back to |
| 22744s | the uh predation debate is a yet another |
| 22748s | reason to continue to do that right |
| 22749s | keeping that hand nice and empty for |
| 22751s | those big spells |
| 22755s | yeah i i like this play from pun a lot |
| 22757s | and it's really uh |
| 22758s | propelled him into a good way to win the |
| 22761s | game and it was looking pretty grim |
| 22762s | early on just with all the the potential |
| 22764s | pressure that judgment had yeah judgment |
| 22766s | definitely has to slow down now does |
| 22768s | have the snow flurry to be able to |
| 22770s | freeze and just forget about the bone |
| 22772s | glade for a turn at least uh although he |
| 22775s | does know that curtrice is there so this |
| 22777s | is kind of forcing a curtrus i think |
| 22780s | one's okay with that i think i think |
| 22782s | this makes sense i think both players |
| 22784s | have navigated this out very well and |
| 22785s | this is the dynamic that you would |
| 22787s | expect because the aggro player is |
| 22790s | playing aggro and the control player in |
| 22792s | this situation knew the contents of the |
| 22795s | aggro player's hand exactly so the |
| 22797s | dynamic where they've both gone back and |
| 22798s | forwards with plans and counter plans |
| 22800s | against each other is exactly what you |
| 22802s | would expect to be seeing |
| 22804s | and because that set up where pun chose |
| 22806s | to hold on to the curtrous for an |
| 22808s | additional turn so he wanted to use |
| 22809s | curtris to deal with the taunt that's |
| 22811s | very smart but judgment feels very |
| 22814s | comfortable because he has a whole other |
| 22816s | snow flurry to be able to use this turn |
| 22818s | not to mention the deep water evoker |
| 22821s | that's just been picked up as well |
| 22822s | yeah so i'll freeze you make you play |
| 22825s | curtris and then be okay basically is |
| 22828s | the general plan here does have roon is |
| 22830s | going to be a little bit ways away |
| 22831s | unless he plays mailbox dancer but the |
| 22834s | problem is if he does oh no he can still |
| 22836s | do that right |
| 22839s | you think he's in that kind of |
| 22840s | desperation level on 18 |
| 22842s | what do you want to do like dance coin |
| 22844s | snow flurry ping is that what you're |
| 22845s | suggesting |
| 22846s | uh i was thinking dance |
| 22849s | play the um |
| 22851s | ram double trade into the seven two |
| 22854s | i see and then have coin rune next day i |
| 22856s | think if you're so |
| 22858s | it's probably better in if you're making |
| 22860s | that sort of play to do this then play |
| 22861s | the snow flurry and then freeze the |
| 22863s | remaining minion as opposed to going |
| 22864s | with mailboxes dancer you do leave the |
| 22866s | face vulnerable to attacking of course |
| 22868s | which is scary um but they'd have to do |
| 22871s | a lot with their hand to represent more |
| 22874s | than seven and freezing that minion |
| 22877s | represents cutting away two damage from |
| 22879s | face anyway because of the way the hero |
| 22880s | power attack works so i think |
| 22883s | yeah i think for me it was just about |
| 22884s | potentially setting up the rune next |
| 22886s | turn right yeah sure just |
| 22889s | if judgment felt he was at a point where |
| 22891s | he needed big things to happen uh |
| 22893s | obviously he can't do that now but of |
| 22895s | course gets benefits he just doesn't |
| 22896s | take as much damage in the first place |
| 22903s | i think i'm okay with just |
| 22905s | in jace let's turn on this thing |
| 22913s | multi-strike rank one fury there's a fel |
| 22916s | barrage in there as well |
| 22918s | doing a lot yeah and then a random |
| 22920s | predation target |
| 22923s | i do think just a quick a little bit |
| 22926s | more juicing well is it though |
| 22933s | okay glad we had this talk |
| 22942s | i've never agreed or the metamorphin |
| 22945s | gotta be draw three right all draws one |
| 22948s | okay oh okay i mean that's the draw yeah |
| 22951s | if you're gonna do it that's the draw |
| 22953s | absolutely |
| 22961s | does have the silence and there's no |
| 22963s | real drawback on his end for playing it |
| 22965s | right the minions have done their jobs |
| 22968s | make the board much more manageable and |
| 22970s | less scary |
| 22972s | they'll come follow up with the treasure |
| 22974s | guard as |
| 22975s | well how perplexing yeah and this |
| 22978s | treasure guard will be significantly |
| 22980s | more difficult to deal with than the |
| 22981s | previous one because of the lack of |
| 22983s | curtris available now |
| 23000s | this dance is time to shine right no |
| 23002s | point plainly ram this turn can't |
| 23004s | squeeze in a pink |
| 23005s | [Music] |
| 23006s | sense |
| 23013s | that's all we might be edging to that |
| 23015s | point where it's just going to be roon |
| 23016s | of the archmage go |
| 23018s | it may well be yes this has not been the |
| 23021s | kind of the second time we've seen on |
| 23023s | stream a very awkward draw for the big |
| 23025s | spell mage um just kind of drawing all |
| 23028s | the weird anti-agro cards that are at |
| 23030s | the start of their curve and not really |
| 23032s | hitting any of the bombs that they |
| 23034s | actually want to end the game |
| 23036s | it has been a little bit awkward it's |
| 23038s | given pun a bunch of additional time to |
| 23040s | be able to get there here but this is a |
| 23043s | very awkward jace positioning the |
| 23045s | multi-strike is huge though because it |
| 23047s | does allow chewing through that treasure |
| 23049s | guard and getting some damage to go face |
| 23051s | that's a big deal |
| 23053s | it does have two hero powers as well if |
| 23056s | he wants them right because of that coin |
| 23058s | he got so he can actually swing and then |
| 23060s | you know push the damage and hero power |
| 23062s | twice this turn which |
| 23064s | i think's just worth banking i'm not |
| 23066s | sure what a need for greed trade would |
| 23068s | actually get him that's worthwhile over |
| 23070s | hero power agreed |
| 23074s | yeah the positive for judgment |
| 23078s | is that he has low enough air hand size |
| 23082s | enough cards in the deck to make sure |
| 23085s | that rune of the archmage doesn't like |
| 23087s | fatigue him out right like he just isn't |
| 23089s | going to be fatigued from this rune |
| 23095s | you know what to do judgment |
| 23101s | question is so do you push the two or |
| 23103s | trade |
| 23106s | i'll not attack at all first and then |
| 23107s | play roon |
| 23109s | can |
| 23110s | also clear straight up with |
| 23113s | ram and arcanist |
| 23116s | but i guess the bigger question is do |
| 23118s | you just have to bet on an ice barrier |
| 23120s | plus clear in your room of the arc mage |
| 23122s | at this point it's so likely you just |
| 23124s | die right on four health the hero power |
| 23127s | does half of it |
| 23129s | well good start |
| 23132s | 11 ice barrier oh get out what do you |
| 23135s | mean |
| 23139s | and then how is that okay |
| 23141s | perfect |
| 23146s | [Music] |
| 23148s | actually wonder if he's at the point |
| 23150s | where he could just finley |
| 23153s | i thought you said all the bombs have |
| 23155s | not been drawn right yeah exactly just |
| 23158s | redraws five cards like yeah not redraws |
| 23161s | you know what i mean right pulls the |
| 23162s | five but still |
| 23164s | seems fine to me |
| 23166s | yeah here they all are para belinda para |
| 23169s | akani barbra yep there's the team |
| 23171s | welcome squad |
| 23177s | good playing the little minions out as |
| 23179s | well because it means that fell barrage |
| 23180s | doesn't necessarily uh oh oh |
| 23184s | oh |
| 23184s | that's lethal uh |
| 23188s | predation fell brush boom |
| 23192s | what |
| 23193s | judgment got so close and was pretty |
| 23196s | much on the recovery plan there with |
| 23199s | that ice barrier but pun ends up getting |
| 23202s | the win with the help of a few |
| 23204s | additional card draws and they're |
| 23206s | remembering exactly how fell barrage |
| 23208s | works which any good demon hunter player |
| 23209s | does know and that was a big win that |
| 23211s | could have been stolen away from him |
| 23213s | very very easily sultan |
| 23215s | yeah it was a huge win um huge win for |
| 23217s | me because i personally have some |
| 23219s | questions about demon hunter and as part |
| 23221s | of lineups coming into this tournament |
| 23224s | and again this is why i've been very |
| 23225s | careful with my wording right say that |
| 23227s | like |
| 23228s | demon hunters done okay i haven't been |
| 23229s | that impressed with it so far because |
| 23231s | it's been winning games but like it just |
| 23233s | won a game against like the worst |
| 23235s | possible big spell mess draw you know |
| 23237s | and it just got there so i am a little |
| 23240s | bit concerned for it going forward we'll |
| 23242s | see how things work out but you know |
| 23244s | results are results scoreboard is |
| 23246s | scoreboard and for now at least demon |
| 23247s | hunter seems to be doing okay |
| 23249s | but i would just like to keep an eye on |
| 23252s | it as the week progresses |
| 23253s | it's one of those decks isn't it that |
| 23255s | we've seen multiple times throughout the |
| 23257s | the history of hearthstone metas where |
| 23260s | if you want to play an aggressive uh |
| 23263s | sort of strategy |
| 23264s | there's often a fourth aggro deck right |
| 23268s | that you know isn't as good but it's |
| 23270s | okay enough to fit your strategy and |
| 23273s | maybe that's what demon hunter is at |
| 23274s | this point in time uh pun of course uh |
| 23277s | keeping with the overall aggro three |
| 23279s | theme sorry gonna be jumping over to |
| 23281s | that boat rogue again extremely standard |
| 23284s | list nothing really to write home about |
| 23286s | here as as most roguelists actually do |
| 23289s | get to that point very quickly because |
| 23291s | of how seriously the uh the rogue |
| 23293s | players take deck building they're |
| 23294s | probably more than every other class |
| 23297s | specialist in the game |
| 23299s | yeah a very clean list at this point two |
| 23302s | orbs and legendaries there are a lot of |
| 23304s | legendaries in there but no additional |
| 23307s | room uh whereas judgment on the other |
| 23309s | side is going for a slightly different |
| 23312s | builds uh build with the jackpots thrown |
| 23315s | in there as well sacrificing a little |
| 23317s | bit of that early game uh to make room |
| 23319s | for a little bit more scan potential a |
| 23321s | little bit more late game power |
| 23323s | um interesting how you know these decks |
| 23326s | evolve going forwards as well obviously |
| 23327s | we do have a new expansion on the |
| 23329s | horizon i think potentially jackpot is a |
| 23331s | a card that has a little bit of support |
| 23333s | but now at the same time |
| 23335s | like aggressive aggro secret tempo rogue |
| 23338s | has also got a whole new bunch of toys |
| 23340s | to play with as well so i think this |
| 23342s | eternal debate as to what the rogue deck |
| 23344s | is will continue to march on from this |
| 23347s | point you've seen some of the |
| 23348s | screenshots saw of what rogue is capable |
| 23351s | of doing to people on like turn four |
| 23353s | oh with like 14 14 weapons and a 10 10 |
| 23356s | 10 stealth in play like that kind of |
| 23357s | thing yeah yeah i have it's filthy what |
| 23359s | i have enjoyed so far about this series |
| 23362s | uh is that each player like pun played |
| 23365s | aggro demon hunter it's like yeah okay |
| 23366s | you know i'm gonna be aggressive and get |
| 23368s | him here's my deck you know very clean |
| 23370s | very straightforward then plays boat |
| 23373s | rogue it's like yep same thing play |
| 23375s | aggro go get him judgement's like i'm |
| 23377s | gonna open some mage boxes and then he's |
| 23379s | like i'm gonna open some rogue boxes |
| 23384s | it's just the complete polar opposites i |
| 23386s | love it |
| 23387s | true |
| 23387s | meanwhile whichever side of that debate |
| 23389s | you fall on i think we can all agree |
| 23391s | that anduin needs to stop showing up no |
| 23394s | one wants him here |
| 23397s | oh but people do want knolls and |
| 23398s | judgments just got hold of one he's |
| 23400s | gonna pick it up with the jackpot though |
| 23407s | eek |
| 23419s | yeah not really the juice in this |
| 23421s | situation is it gardens grace with full |
| 23423s | cost when you're not a paladin |
| 23428s | contraband stash well that's not gonna |
| 23430s | get played for a while |
| 23440s | okay that helps that helps enormously |
| 23443s | trickster was absolutely the card that |
| 23445s | needed to be found to turn this into |
| 23448s | something playable |
| 23451s | it's very |
| 23453s | interesting though isn't it because |
| 23457s | casting gardens grace on the trickster |
| 23460s | isn't |
| 23462s | that good it's fine but it's not good |
| 23465s | and again topple is also not the best i |
| 23468s | guess it's fine if you're falling behind |
| 23469s | right and you can hit a big enough |
| 23470s | minion |
| 23471s | yeah but it's also like you know once |
| 23473s | you get out there like |
| 23474s | taking the example of gardens grace |
| 23476s | right once you get out there cast once |
| 23478s | you have then set it up for your |
| 23479s | contraband stashes at the very least |
| 23481s | which can you know pay you off then in |
| 23483s | the future |
| 23486s | still something that you will need to be |
| 23487s | careful with of course |
| 23490s | now there's the option of null and |
| 23492s | wicked stab to really get hold of the |
| 23494s | board |
| 23503s | i do like i think it's worth sticking |
| 23505s | these minions we know how important the |
| 23507s | board control is in these matchups |
| 23510s | which just used tooth instead okay fine |
| 23514s | i just like the extra million on board |
| 23515s | right |
| 23518s | always say the way inside the wicked |
| 23519s | stuff instead of the wicked stab yeah so |
| 23521s | like i'm just thinking your hand right |
| 23522s | now is you have a little bit of early |
| 23524s | board you're gonna push some early |
| 23526s | damage and then your hand is damage |
| 23527s | damage smite so |
| 23529s | by using the tooth and waiting for the |
| 23531s | stabs to upgrade to four you do |
| 23533s | technically do a little bit more damage |
| 23534s | face over the course of the game if you |
| 23536s | do start chucking it all i think it's a |
| 23537s | very minor thing but |
| 23539s | i think yeah |
| 23541s | the other side of that sort of thought |
| 23543s | pattern is the tooth can get you |
| 23546s | something else to do to fill out the |
| 23548s | turns right so it's like that sort of |
| 23550s | like same overall outcome is just have |
| 23552s | better turns but different ways together |
| 23557s | what shall i do |
| 23560s | judgment now just staring at this hand |
| 23561s | and thinking what have i done |
| 23565s | no topple |
| 23574s | jackpot time's ticking |
| 23576s | ah |
| 23581s | welp |
| 23583s | i mean it's just jackpot right to just |
| 23584s | try and get something else |
| 23587s | it was the one thing we didn't want to |
| 23590s | happen |
| 23595s | insta cycle there for the cutlass for |
| 23598s | pun oh |
| 23599s | that'll do |
| 23600s | that will do indeed |
| 23604s | and pressure at a maximum |
| 23607s | and a little bit surprised it wasn't |
| 23609s | jackpot honestly |
| 23611s | question mark spend all no okay fine |
| 23614s | it's fine your opponent won't draw two |
| 23616s | cards if you spend all your mana it's |
| 23617s | okay it's fine it's okay for though |
| 23621s | i'm just gonna hard ignore that secret |
| 23622s | when it comes |
| 23625s | you'll take the approach of if i believe |
| 23626s | it doesn't exist it doesn't |
| 23632s | go contraband to do topple again |
| 23635s | and |
| 23637s | [Music] |
| 23640s | i like this |
| 23646s | it could not be worse |
| 23649s | oh i mean the worst part is sorry |
| 23652s | doesn't even need a prep next turn |
| 23654s | hearthstone is like what eight years old |
| 23657s | at this point and we're still finding |
| 23659s | new ways to prep concedes like is this |
| 23662s | is insane |
| 23672s | sun's like |
| 23673s | going through |
| 23675s | his mine just thinking okay |
| 23677s | i'll this i'll be so embarrassed if i |
| 23679s | lose this game |
| 23681s | how |
| 23682s | can i |
| 23689s | well i got lose |
| 23690s | if he just played everything this turn |
| 23692s | right |
| 23695s | yep |
| 23697s | and |
| 23699s | 50. |
| 23702s | should pun be afraid of like shadow step |
| 23704s | from this i feel like the answer is no |
| 23710s | uh |
| 23712s | no right because |
| 23714s | you would assume that they played their |
| 23715s | best spell on that turn and if that was |
| 23718s | their best spell if prep not scared |
| 23721s | yeah yeah i mean |
| 23723s | what do you want from me |
| 23728s | i'm way way too early for any real |
| 23731s | levels of shenanigans i think so |
| 23733s | judgment's gonna go for it with tooth |
| 23736s | and find |
| 23738s | nothing right far sight i can't even |
| 23741s | think of anything that would really help |
| 23743s | he can prep it |
| 23745s | gives him a few more options |
| 23749s | but i don't think he's going to find |
| 23750s | anything from his deck that is going to |
| 23752s | beat the mr smite in the opposing hand |
| 23755s | at a bare minimum |
| 23757s | yeah there it is |
| 23758s | very very quick game we had our fun with |
| 23761s | it judgement even had a smile but i'm |
| 23763s | sure deep down he is feeling utterly |
| 23765s | miserable about the way that game panned |
| 23767s | out yeah i guess it is important to |
| 23769s | remind everyone as well the first two |
| 23770s | games uh saw myself cast on stream were |
| 23773s | basically elimination games and this is |
| 23776s | not this is an initial match from air |
| 23779s | from group b so the loser is not done |
| 23782s | they just get knocked down into the the |
| 23783s | lower bracket of the group so even if |
| 23786s | let's say judgement just gets three owed |
| 23788s | and just like that he's done for that |
| 23790s | match uh he still plays a little bit |
| 23792s | later on so if you're a judgement fan |
| 23794s | don't worry this isn't the uh it for the |
| 23796s | week for him uh but still rough way to |
| 23798s | start |
| 23799s | a series with their two very brutal wins |
| 23802s | they are on their front |
| 23805s | yeah i mean right from the beginning |
| 23807s | right absolute trash off the initial |
| 23810s | jackpot and then the low roll just |
| 23813s | needed any card three or above of his |
| 23815s | own choosing right any of the three |
| 23817s | cards shown doing three or above and he |
| 23819s | would have been able to get the initial |
| 23820s | board clear and then of course the prep |
| 23822s | being the one randomly chosen by the |
| 23824s | contraband stash was just a disgusting |
| 23828s | pan out but as you said right one of |
| 23830s | these players is just playing cards |
| 23832s | going face having a consistent curve |
| 23834s | doing things very similar every game and |
| 23837s | the other player is choosing to opening |
| 23838s | some boxes so this this can happen |
| 23841s | when that happens |
| 23843s | those boxes are empty uh here though |
| 23845s | just looking at the uh hunters uh we are |
| 23847s | going to have i believe a hunter mirror |
| 23849s | to maybe finish the series if uh punk |
| 23852s | can take a win uh again overall style of |
| 23855s | the deck is the same it is just the 30 |
| 23856s | card beast hunter unless i'm blind and |
| 23859s | can't see a certain rental in there but |
| 23862s | they do have some differences so for |
| 23864s | example uh we see judgement here with |
| 23866s | the iron deep troggs |
| 23868s | um |
| 23869s | and a few other additions in there as |
| 23871s | well and then the big one or the one the |
| 23874s | big differences is pun is playing uh two |
| 23877s | peasants in the list instead which |
| 23880s | again have very different jobs in the |
| 23883s | deck right so the trog of course to be |
| 23885s | annoying against spell casting heavy |
| 23886s | decks and give you a very good one drop |
| 23888s | the peasant is a good one drop week to |
| 23890s | certain classes but it's about drawing |
| 23892s | cards keeping that cycle high |
| 23895s | both players are still playing |
| 23896s | ambassador failing as well obviously |
| 23898s | fantastic and i've uh i've heard the |
| 23900s | complaints of harpoon gun and um |
| 23903s | people want it when it nerfed it's all |
| 23906s | oh yeah oh no they're not coming for |
| 23908s | your hunter cards are they raven |
| 23911s | when druid exists |
| 23913s | how dare they happen there are so many |
| 23916s | shag nerf guards that's the response to |
| 23918s | everything let's go |
| 23919s | yep until the day it's nerfed |
| 23922s | um no but seriously the the harpoon gun |
| 23925s | is |
| 23926s | the backbone of the deck right even |
| 23928s | though i'm saying it's fine it is the |
| 23930s | key card of the deck in my book right it |
| 23932s | does so many things not only opens up |
| 23934s | sort of |
| 23935s | semi-combos but also just opens up |
| 23938s | strong curve plays off the back of |
| 23940s | harpoon gun itself so seeing that pun |
| 23943s | has access to it as well as having a one |
| 23945s | drop available to him then revive pet |
| 23947s | looks like a very strong curve indeed |
| 23949s | for fun and judgment all i'm going to |
| 23952s | say is all for his first time on grand |
| 23954s | master stream at least he's chuckling |
| 23956s | away at these things because it's a |
| 23957s | horrible opening hand but the trick is |
| 23960s | when this happens |
| 23962s | laugh it laugh along right because we |
| 23964s | all know it's kind of funny |
| 23965s | yeah for sure i don't know if you caught |
| 23967s | it but i think he just sort of like he |
| 23968s | lifted his head up as if he was having a |
| 23970s | brief conversation with someone else and |
| 23972s | wherever he's at and i can only imagine |
| 23974s | how that went as i did you plan your |
| 23976s | match how's it going uh awful thanks for |
| 23978s | asking word we cannot say on stream yeah |
| 23983s | you'd pick up the truck though so that |
| 23984s | is something at least |
| 23988s | weirdly enough has seemingly stopped the |
| 23991s | uh the coin harpoon gun |
| 23993s | yes |
| 23997s | i would be honest though i i don't even |
| 23999s | think it would be a losing play to coin |
| 24001s | harpoon good anyway in this instance |
| 24003s | yeah i mean very fair |
| 24006s | definitely justifiable |
| 24007s | havish as well |
| 24010s | nothing to do this time |
| 24013s | yeah it means this truck is 100 dead |
| 24016s | next turn |
| 24019s | oh no |
| 24021s | double mountain bearing |
| 24025s | and land one at least he can revive pet |
| 24028s | true |
| 24029s | and seven and turn eight are sorted |
| 24032s | we're getting there |
| 24033s | and six as well with tavis right and got |
| 24035s | a minute we've got a curve all right all |
| 24037s | right |
| 24047s | just letting you know |
| 24052s | yeah a couple of thought you do have to |
| 24054s | plan for a couple of things from your |
| 24056s | opponent i would say though blademaster |
| 24058s | okani being the big one and not just |
| 24061s | because it is in hand right now but |
| 24063s | certainly influenced by the fact that |
| 24064s | judgment has not curved out this game it |
| 24066s | is the sort of card that you will start |
| 24068s | thinking about i mean you could |
| 24069s | potentially set up a board that uh is |
| 24072s | able to deal with it but i think just a |
| 24074s | little bit short with the uh a9 |
| 24077s | uh yeah i think the way um to deal with |
| 24079s | it is just the fact that uh pun has a |
| 24082s | puppetron right like it it's probably |
| 24085s | going to be minion from an okani so you |
| 24087s | just play the two drop into and say okay |
| 24097s | dutchman fights back |
| 24104s | sacrifice the okani into the ogani |
| 24121s | it's rough though as well because i |
| 24122s | think pun was hoping to coin out pet |
| 24124s | collector and they'd try and get a |
| 24128s | uh them their |
| 24129s | saber to rush and die and then swing |
| 24132s | yeah |
| 24133s | that's definitely the uh the general |
| 24134s | sort of combo you try and go for |
| 24137s | if you have access to it of course |
| 24142s | and we know for a fact that is shut down |
| 24144s | one way or the other either with the |
| 24146s | coin or the pet collector itself |
| 24153s | quickly |
| 24155s | oh |
| 24156s | it's very interesting now |
| 24161s | but just the nature of failing and the |
| 24163s | harpoon gun right you're like hang on a |
| 24165s | minute i could do something pretty cool |
| 24170s | oh bagel tron raven |
| 24172s | yeah |
| 24174s | clown it's fine |
| 24176s | okay |
| 24180s | every time thanos gets defeated in |
| 24182s | comics right it's just a clone the whole |
| 24183s | time yeah |
| 24188s | it really it's thanos right in the |
| 24189s | comics it was always safe |
| 24199s | [Music] |
| 24200s | comes through |
| 24209s | yep insta pig and now fireworks for next |
| 24212s | turn but judgment does have tavish |
| 24215s | if he wants it and setting up those |
| 24217s | secrets he's gonna |
| 24219s | at least make pun pause a little bit and |
| 24221s | think we noticed that on every turn that |
| 24224s | judgment has actually had one of his |
| 24226s | clunky cards to play he's drawn a one |
| 24228s | drop |
| 24229s | rub salt in the wound |
| 24232s | yeah it's fine the one drops are just |
| 24234s | filler content for the rest of the turns |
| 24236s | now that's right yeah |
| 24239s | got to be maneuvers i don't think |
| 24241s | anything else is as powerful here yeah |
| 24244s | maneuvers is just too thick particularly |
| 24246s | in this deck unfortunately there is a |
| 24248s | trog on the board |
| 24250s | wait i've already forgotten the board |
| 24252s | state you can't clear the board right |
| 24254s | now in a 4-4 |
| 24255s | [Music] |
| 24258s | the old truck and a 4-4 |
| 24261s | yep |
| 24262s | what have we here otherwise freezing |
| 24264s | trap would have actually been great |
| 24266s | wouldn't it be waiting for |
| 24268s | oh if you could empty the board |
| 24270s | completely to set up yeah because then |
| 24271s | you just block the saber you just know |
| 24273s | is there right |
| 24274s | yeah for sure |
| 24276s | especially because it's plus four it's |
| 24278s | super freezing trap |
| 24281s | right off the trog i would presume |
| 24283s | because of the emergency maneuvers yep |
| 24284s | makes sense |
| 24288s | are you ready for the um |
| 24290s | the slog now subtle of mountain bears |
| 24292s | and emergency maneuvers |
| 24294s | yeah let's go |
| 24296s | for it |
| 24304s | want any extra potential damage from the |
| 24306s | explosive trap to hit the minion |
| 24309s | of course this could summon |
| 24311s | all right |
| 24312s | always the best outcome |
| 24316s | this is the best outcome of drawing the |
| 24319s | hydraulidin though because you don't |
| 24321s | need rush because there's nothing on |
| 24323s | board right because that's the big |
| 24324s | downside when you summon this you don't |
| 24327s | give that other heads rush so |
| 24329s | it's just the stats you see but on an |
| 24331s | empty board you don't need it so it's |
| 24332s | okay |
| 24333s | such an optimist |
| 24335s | all i'm doing is looking at that and |
| 24337s | thinking how much of not a king crusher |
| 24339s | is |
| 24339s | yeah well look when this happens to me |
| 24342s | every game |
| 24343s | you've i'd go crazy if i didn't at least |
| 24345s | make kind of silver lining |
| 24351s | it has to have been minion right i |
| 24353s | didn't actually catch which the pick was |
| 24355s | on this turn uh |
| 24358s | yes it has to be i can't say it |
| 24361s | definitely is because i also didn't |
| 24362s | catch it but it has to be |
| 24366s | no mountain bear for judgement though |
| 24369s | i respect the role for |
| 24375s | will be hoofer counter there we go |
| 24379s | gets rid of that nicely |
| 24381s | yep and that means that through that |
| 24383s | minion counter from pun he's now able to |
| 24385s | bypass the mountain bear emergency |
| 24387s | maneuvers which is why i was so adamant |
| 24389s | it absolutely has to be minion counter |
| 24391s | in that position |
| 24393s | oh this starts getting disgusting right |
| 24395s | for |
| 24396s | fur pun |
| 24397s | he has another weapon another harpoon he |
| 24399s | has double revive and devouring swarm |
| 24403s | yes endless power here |
| 24408s | yeah this is looking like it might |
| 24411s | become a bit of a quick one |
| 24415s | bowing swarm is great you can proc the |
| 24417s | suspected emergency removers |
| 24420s | emergency removers |
| 24422s | emergency maneuvers on the smaller |
| 24424s | target |
| 24429s | bringing back the sabre right yeah can |
| 24432s | cross now this one's a king crush right |
| 24435s | every time |
| 24437s | you mean it should be i know not |
| 24438s | literally there is another mountain yeah |
| 24440s | i was like yeah that's loose |
| 24444s | but it is really isn't it well exactly |
| 24450s | yeah this is actually it's good yeah |
| 24452s | yeah |
| 24458s | yeah because i always think as well like |
| 24460s | in other matchups that's not necessarily |
| 24462s | meaningful because so many other decks |
| 24465s | just laugh at three ones but yeah in |
| 24468s | hunter it's not the case in the mirror |
| 24470s | in the mirror like a whole extra three |
| 24472s | one is huge |
| 24476s | well judgement welcome to grandmasters i |
| 24478s | hope you had a good time uh this is what |
| 24480s | it's like up here |
| 24482s | yeah um |
| 24484s | obviously had the good opening i'm not |
| 24487s | saying that you know he wasn't helped by |
| 24489s | the opening |
| 24490s | but decision making wise he's ticking |
| 24492s | all the boxes here with this hunter yeah |
| 24494s | i'm pretty solid from what we've seen so |
| 24496s | far in the series obviously he has not |
| 24498s | had as difficult a test as he could have |
| 24500s | king crush for sure this time |
| 24503s | there it is |
| 24505s | that's the nice uh clean trade with the |
| 24508s | account |
| 24512s | and get out yeah wow |
| 24514s | really big win there for pun if you |
| 24517s | start off a grand master season with a |
| 24519s | 3-0 in your first on-stream game that's |
| 24522s | what you're talking about and i think |
| 24524s | pun played really well i i |
| 24526s | also agree judgement got a little bit |
| 24528s | unlucky throughout that series at |
| 24530s | different moments as we saw but pun |
| 24533s | built his lineup as i said right at the |
| 24535s | start built his lineup fairly |
| 24537s | straightforward lineup three good or |
| 24540s | arguably good decks if you want to talk |
| 24541s | about demon hunter he was allowed to |
| 24543s | play um and he just got the job done |
| 24545s | right he went up against a lineup that |
| 24547s | was a little bit more tricky a little |
| 24548s | bit potentially like fancier in that way |
| 24551s | but that lineup got punished and uh yeah |
| 24553s | big 3-0 win for pun is going to move on |
| 24555s | into the winner's side of group b |
| 24557s | already yeah i wasn't expecting a three |
| 24559s | oh sorry i'll be honest |
| 24561s | i mean all i can really take away from |
| 24562s | that series is that in order for dna to |
| 24566s | beat the uk the uk has to roll so low |
| 24569s | that they're actually penetrating |
| 24570s | through the earth's crust underneath our |
| 24572s | feet |
| 24573s | that's all i'm taking away from this |
| 24574s | series i don't know about you yeah |
| 24576s | they're actually going to start founding |
| 24577s | some kind of civilization in the center |
| 24579s | of the earth that's right yeah yeah |
| 24581s | that's like that's where we won't see |
| 24582s | judgment again uh but yeah it's probably |
| 24585s | cooler down there than it has been the |
| 24586s | last few days in the uk to be fair so it |
| 24588s | does make sense the worst part is i had |
| 24590s | a double-edged sword of my window my car |
| 24592s | breaking when it's been super hot so i |
| 24594s | couldn't put the window down and now |
| 24596s | because the windows put permanently down |
| 24598s | a little bit it started raining so it's |
| 24600s | a lost loss for me it's great sorry i |
| 24602s | know this is my fault again but we are |
| 24604s | just talking about the weather again |
| 24606s | yeah look we're about to be done for the |
| 24607s | day for us all so we're allowed this is |
| 24609s | our sign off but congratulations again |
| 24612s | to pun on the wind at judgement still in |
| 24615s | of course doesn't mean he's just knocked |
| 24616s | out straight away he's in that lower |
| 24618s | bracket so still got a chance to move on |
| 24620s | there but as i said it's going to be me |
| 24622s | and settle done and sort of new format |
| 24624s | because it's one league |
| 24627s | all the casters are basically gonna jump |
| 24629s | in throughout the day to cover some |
| 24630s | matches for you guys so we hope you |
| 24632s | enjoyed it i the time flew by for me so |
| 24634s | i think we had the mixture of some great |
| 24635s | games and some quick games which always |
| 24637s | helps but uh i believe now we do have |
| 24640s | another guest caster to bring you to |
| 24643s | cover with tj so uh we apologize and it |
| 24647s | is gonna be idol vice they're gonna be |
| 24648s | joining tj to round out the day and |
| 24651s | finish up the show with plenty more |
| 24652s | matches so make sure you stay tuned but |
| 24654s | from sort of myself we're done for the |
| 24656s | day so see you later |
| 24663s | [Music] |
| 24672s | [Applause] |
| 24672s | [Music] |
| 24677s | in the darkest of seasons |
| 24679s | where ruthless eyes gawk for horrific |
| 24683s | reasons for a hidden hand has struck me |
| 24687s | down |
| 24688s | with such ruthlessness |
| 24691s | so deep and profound |
| 24695s | then he comes with |
| 24698s | [Music] |
| 24708s | the anima drifts across the floor |
| 24712s | highlighting the creatures who walked |
| 24714s | through my door |
| 24716s | the motives are as black as night |
| 24720s | avarice power revenge |
| 24723s | and blight |
| 24726s | watch the hero |
| 24728s | uncover the clues |
| 24730s | that lead to the truth |
| 24733s | behind this dark blues |
| 24737s | join us here with |
| 24743s | without heavenly bias |
| 24746s | for at the end |
| 24748s | they will burn in the fire |
| 24751s | when it is known whose slave tenacious |
| 24755s | [Music] |
| 24772s | [Music] |
| 24780s | [Music] |
| 24786s | [Music] |
| 24828s | so |
| 24829s | [Music] |
| 24898s | do |
| 24899s | [Music] |
| 24927s | so |
| 24929s | [Music] |
| 24996s | so |
| 24998s | [Music] |
| 25011s | [Music] |
| 25015s | [Applause] |
| 25017s | [Music] |
| 25023s | hmm |
| 25025s | [Music] |
| 25045s | [Music] |
| 25062s | foreign |
| 25073s | [Music] |
| 25114s | [Music] |
| 25124s | do |
| 25129s | [Music] |
| 25192s | so |
| 25202s | [Music] |
| 25213s | bye |
| 25221s | [Music] |
| 25239s | [Music] |
| 25247s | hello everybody and welcome to the |
| 25249s | kickoff day for hearthstone grand |
| 25251s | masters last call we're going to |
| 25254s | continue group b here uh for day number |
| 25256s | one momentarily but first my name is tj |
| 25259s | and i'm joined by very special guest |
| 25261s | edelweiss |
| 25262s | uh how are you doing today are you |
| 25264s | excited to |
| 25265s | cast some hearthstone |
| 25267s | yeah i'm doing great it's really awesome |
| 25269s | to be a part of this |
| 25271s | last piece of history in in gm's we have |
| 25274s | no idea what the competitive system is |
| 25276s | going to be next year but uh just |
| 25278s | excited to catch last call here and wow |
| 25281s | that was a lightning-fast series we just |
| 25283s | had i feel like i blinked and just about |
| 25285s | missed it |
| 25287s | yeah um you know as was expected uh you |
| 25290s | as a a fellow of america's region uh |
| 25294s | competitor and ancaster uh should know |
| 25297s | that america's is the greatest |
| 25298s | hearthstone region uh especially of |
| 25301s | course directly compared to |
| 25303s | uh that of players from the uk |
| 25306s | which is definitely at the bottom of the |
| 25308s | the total of competitive hearthstone |
| 25311s | regions so i think uh most people would |
| 25313s | have expected that to go exactly how it |
| 25315s | did quick 3-0 for the americas player |
| 25318s | and uh judgment going down to the |
| 25320s | elimination bracket |
| 25322s | but coming up next we do have |
| 25324s | another america's region versus europe |
| 25327s | match up it is going to be dimitri |
| 25329s | kazoff versus bly's and i think this one |
| 25332s | will be a fast one too |
| 25334s | maybe not so much in terms of uh you |
| 25337s | know just |
| 25338s | patrols uh just running away with it but |
| 25341s | the fact that we have blize who just |
| 25342s | plays fast |
| 25345s | yeah i mean blize has been an incredible |
| 25348s | player you know there's really a |
| 25350s | disparity in terms of games that we've |
| 25352s | seen from each of the players |
| 25354s | just recently judgment we don't really |
| 25357s | have that much information on uh being |
| 25360s | that he just got into last call from |
| 25362s | masters tour performances whereas |
| 25364s | dimitri kazov and blize we we've |
| 25367s | seen them throughout gm so we've got you |
| 25369s | know all kinds of data on them blize |
| 25371s | with a 64 and 50 record throughout gms |
| 25375s | kazakh with the 22 and 20. so both of |
| 25378s | these very seasoned players it should be |
| 25381s | a different kind of match but as you say |
| 25382s | bly's plays fast so he could go just as |
| 25384s | quickly |
| 25388s | yeah take a look at the lineups there um |
| 25391s | there's some similarities |
| 25393s | in lineups but |
| 25395s | not so much really the only |
| 25398s | amazing thing is kind of big spell mage |
| 25400s | but uh even then both players uh |
| 25403s | building it very differently uh with |
| 25406s | renethal being played on the side of |
| 25407s | blyze uh so the the xl version |
| 25411s | and dmitri castle playing standard but |
| 25413s | bly's going with a a shaman-less lineup |
| 25416s | which is interesting since shaman i |
| 25417s | believe was one of the uh the top picks |
| 25420s | uh going into this week at least for |
| 25421s | conquest |
| 25423s | yeah shamans all around we saw just how |
| 25425s | effectively |
| 25428s | super fake was able to create a counter |
| 25430s | lineup to shaman that may end up being a |
| 25433s | really good line for him given |
| 25436s | the prevalence of these shaman decks |
| 25438s | throughout the 16 |
| 25441s | players uh |
| 25443s | press store a little bit different druid |
| 25445s | choice i think that's a riskier choice |
| 25447s | of druid because sometimes you just end |
| 25450s | up losing to yourself in terms of what |
| 25452s | dragons you're able to roll and |
| 25454s | thief can be similar there you're |
| 25456s | looking for high rolls off of |
| 25459s | the |
| 25460s | uh gosh i'm blank the jackpot right |
| 25462s | those big spells that you get rune of |
| 25464s | the archmage and mage as well control |
| 25466s | shaman's really the the least |
| 25468s | uh |
| 25470s | rng reliant deck list of these four that |
| 25473s | dimitri has |
| 25475s | this is a casino lineup for sure |
| 25479s | with the three decks and even shaman can |
| 25482s | sometimes be |
| 25483s | uh kind of crazy with the things that we |
| 25485s | can do we saw abu kapoor able to get |
| 25488s | a randomly generated 33 damage frostbite |
| 25492s | uh |
| 25493s | in the the series earlier against super |
| 25494s | fake with the |
| 25496s | bran |
| 25497s | double noggling with bioluminescence on |
| 25500s | nearly a full board uh which was pretty |
| 25502s | cool so shaman can also uh do some uh |
| 25505s | some pretty nasty things but dimitri |
| 25507s | kaza going to be opening with the big |
| 25508s | spell mage as we said this is the uh non |
| 25512s | uh rhythm version so |
| 25513s | um |
| 25515s | pretty |
| 25516s | standard across the board obviously |
| 25518s | there's some flexibility in like the one |
| 25519s | and two slot uh not running like uh |
| 25523s | the |
| 25524s | ram commander knoll |
| 25526s | uh variation of the list |
| 25528s | but has like pelican diver |
| 25531s | double smothered starfish |
| 25533s | so there's some differences but the core |
| 25534s | package of big spell is still there |
| 25537s | yeah and then we can see here blize with |
| 25540s | three xl decks you gotta get an xxl on |
| 25543s | the mage here uh and then for priest you |
| 25547s | know our second board priest player we |
| 25549s | saw possess he |
| 25551s | go a little closer earlier but still get |
| 25553s | the win with it earlier and bly as we |
| 25555s | know is another player who can execute |
| 25557s | on this kind of list boar priest was |
| 25559s | really the name of the game when it came |
| 25560s | to the finals for that last mt |
| 25563s | so we'll |
| 25565s | see how it performs over here in last |
| 25567s | call |
| 25569s | looking at this quest hunter |
| 25572s | i really like how multicaster has made |
| 25575s | its way into these lists now with the |
| 25577s | potential to draw four cards off of |
| 25580s | having the nature spell |
| 25582s | in |
| 25583s | shell shot |
| 25584s | uh |
| 25585s | it's it's been kind of nuts to see how |
| 25588s | even a 40 card deck because of that |
| 25590s | edition and multicast you're drawing so |
| 25592s | much and conscious call drawing a couple |
| 25593s | of cards it kind of doesn't matter |
| 25595s | you're still able to draw through your |
| 25597s | deck so quickly as a 40 card quest |
| 25599s | hunter |
| 25600s | it's just 10 extra health for no |
| 25602s | downside that's what it feels like |
| 25603s | sometimes |
| 25604s | that quest hunter |
| 25606s | obviously you know that i've been |
| 25609s | playing that deck you sometimes just run |
| 25610s | out of gas but |
| 25612s | it's a lot harder to uh with uh so much |
| 25614s | card draw thrown in there but it looks |
| 25616s | like we're going to be getting underway |
| 25617s | uh so it is going to be the quest hunter |
| 25619s | for blize and the big spell mage |
| 25622s | uh for dimitri kazoff |
| 25624s | and uh belinda in the opening hand |
| 25628s | yeah belinda very high win rate card for |
| 25631s | the big spell mage you know it's really |
| 25633s | those six drops as awkward as it is |
| 25635s | normally you don't think of keeping six |
| 25637s | drops but there's such power spikes for |
| 25639s | the big spell mage a belinda of course |
| 25641s | giving you two five cost big spells and |
| 25644s | the barbaric sorceress being able to |
| 25646s | swap a spell in your hand with an |
| 25648s | opponent's typically yours are more |
| 25650s | expensive than theirs so it works out |
| 25652s | now you see the sorceress coming in as |
| 25654s | well |
| 25655s | i've always thought it's a little risky |
| 25657s | to go xl with the mage just because you |
| 25660s | do need such crucial cards |
| 25663s | early on so |
| 25665s | uh |
| 25666s | happy to see that |
| 25668s | i think |
| 25670s | kaza was in agreement here right that is |
| 25671s | a 30 card xl mage |
| 25678s | uh blize is the one from the uh uh 40 |
| 25680s | card mage and yeah i i it does seem like |
| 25683s | uh in the the |
| 25686s | um prince renathol version that uh you |
| 25689s | can sometimes struggle with |
| 25691s | finding like the the the key pieces |
| 25694s | uh to get things going because it does |
| 25695s | seem like a somewhat of a lack of card |
| 25697s | drill |
| 25699s | in the deck so yeah you're just playing |
| 25702s | reasonable |
| 25703s | neutral minions in the early game until |
| 25706s | you find it |
| 25708s | well you have 40 help to work with so |
| 25709s | there you go |
| 25710s | there's there's only so many reasonable |
| 25713s | neutral minions you can have in a four |
| 25715s | set meta |
| 25717s | so you know i thought it was really |
| 25718s | interesting watching super fakes take |
| 25720s | where instead of a big spell it was just |
| 25722s | more of a |
| 25724s | control mage with spells of all |
| 25726s | different costs and that seems to fit |
| 25728s | the bill a little bit better for for 40 |
| 25730s | cards but you know i mentioned |
| 25733s | multicaster for the hunter i i do feel |
| 25735s | you almost have to mulligan a bit |
| 25737s | differently with these 40 card lists |
| 25739s | sometimes because the card draw is so |
| 25741s | important and blize |
| 25743s | could have a little bit of struggle here |
| 25745s | if he is not able to find either a |
| 25746s | multicaster or |
| 25749s | a furious howl off the top after |
| 25752s | clearing these out of the hand just |
| 25753s | something to sort of reload |
| 25757s | yeah |
| 25759s | it's uh looking |
| 25761s | pretty dry in the hand right now one |
| 25762s | though is |
| 25765s | it's got some time and |
| 25767s | already has a decent amount of damage |
| 25770s | lined up |
| 25771s | all right there's the cash call um |
| 25774s | but the with the i can being quick shot |
| 25776s | there's a |
| 25778s | just throw everything to face and hope |
| 25780s | that you get there right with the the 40 |
| 25782s | health playing renethal uh you can win |
| 25784s | races a little bit easier um and there's |
| 25787s | really not that much power on the board |
| 25789s | but yeah we're just going to see |
| 25791s | um |
| 25792s | the the concert hall come out and |
| 25794s | uh hold these uh |
| 25796s | this damage until |
| 25798s | uh after there's |
| 25799s | more threat on the board really any |
| 25801s | reason to address these uh treasure |
| 25803s | guards for the moment |
| 25805s | yeah i think there are certain matchups |
| 25807s | where you do want to get the |
| 25810s | hero online before you complete the next |
| 25812s | phase of the quest but i think in this |
| 25814s | one you're pretty happy to just be |
| 25816s | sending damage hero powers at the mage's |
| 25818s | face |
| 25820s | and particularly with this loaded up |
| 25821s | kraken bane school teacher reasonably |
| 25824s | likely to find additional damage as well |
| 25826s | i mean |
| 25827s | we saw earlier in the day where |
| 25829s | the quest wasn't even complete and and |
| 25832s | the game was over so you can definitely |
| 25834s | just get there on the damage for the |
| 25836s | hunter uh without even getting the |
| 25839s | repeated hero powers over and over |
| 25841s | and that might be sort of the name of |
| 25844s | the game here for blize that 10-10 bit |
| 25845s | of an issue though could uh could |
| 25848s | present a problem |
| 25853s | yeah |
| 25855s | it's just gonna ship more damage to this |
| 25857s | though this also brings the blinded down |
| 25859s | to uh the two health with the explosive |
| 25861s | trap up so it should be good interesting |
| 25862s | decision last time from dimitri kazoff |
| 25864s | whether to go for the sorceress or the |
| 25865s | belinda belinda obviously you know uh |
| 25870s | uh consistent what it does the barbaric |
| 25872s | sorceress with the the rune of the |
| 25874s | archmage in the hand |
| 25875s | uh could have been fantastic and it |
| 25878s | would have been |
| 25879s | uh based on the hand from bly's but |
| 25881s | dimitri castle had no idea what was in |
| 25883s | uh what what blize had or or could have |
| 25886s | at that point there was nothing that was |
| 25888s | really giving me any reads so just what |
| 25889s | for the consistency uh the massive |
| 25892s | minion in belinda plus the possibility |
| 25894s | to follow up with the massive minions |
| 25896s | from the drake fire amulet |
| 25900s | yeah and i can respect trying to just |
| 25902s | put on that pressure you know it's at |
| 25904s | least going to be an i9 or |
| 25906s | 10 9 or what have you |
| 25908s | so if it lives and is able to get a |
| 25910s | swing in you're pretty happy uh and of |
| 25912s | course now being able to pump out these |
| 25914s | dragons you know dealing with the |
| 25916s | belinda is one thing but now these |
| 25918s | dragons are going to be a little too big |
| 25919s | to deal with and that kalaghos |
| 25921s | represents just a free rune of the |
| 25923s | archmage if dimitri wants to say hey i |
| 25925s | need some kind of random secrets random |
| 25927s | answers to just pull me out of this one |
| 25929s | because we're sitting at uh |
| 25932s | looks like it's gonna be |
| 25934s | 15 here that's not a healthy life total |
| 25937s | if you're a mage staring down a quest |
| 25940s | reward |
| 25942s | oh |
| 25943s | yeah |
| 25945s | and there's |
| 25946s | the crack and paid in hand uh furious |
| 25949s | howl picked up |
| 25950s | just i guess bob's just kind of doing |
| 25952s | the math realizing that just an arcane |
| 25954s | shot's not enough so |
| 25956s | wants to be able to find some correct |
| 25957s | damage but here's another drake fire |
| 25960s | ambulance so i the race is on all the |
| 25962s | aids at this point yup yeah |
| 25966s | all the eight eights and the hero coming |
| 25968s | down for a little bit of healing |
| 25970s | i don't oh i guess it replays an amulet |
| 25973s | so we just we get more random dragons |
| 25975s | you know you don't get too much replayed |
| 25977s | off of the hero but uh |
| 25980s | it's it's enough |
| 25985s | thirty-two try to set up board yeah |
| 25988s | trying to set up that two turn and and i |
| 25990s | think it's maybe gonna get there i don't |
| 25992s | really |
| 25993s | see an answer here for blize you know |
| 25995s | things really turned on the dime there |
| 25997s | that extra five armor giving dimitri |
| 25999s | kazav more of a cushion to feel safe and |
| 26002s | even without it it would have been a |
| 26004s | little bit challenging with the |
| 26006s | cards and blize's hand here being a bit |
| 26008s | more expensive that school teacher |
| 26009s | really taking up space for furious |
| 26012s | howell not to have its full effect |
| 26015s | yeah |
| 26017s | so blize can stay alive on board uh with |
| 26021s | uh |
| 26022s | here power into the onixia and then take |
| 26024s | out one of the other eight eights with |
| 26027s | cracking bait plus two more hero powers |
| 26028s | on the two spell resets that would draw |
| 26030s | two cars from furious howl too |
| 26033s | um oh that would leave 12 |
| 26037s | uh |
| 26040s | no |
| 26040s | would it be enough no i think it would |
| 26042s | be enough 16 20 24. |
| 26046s | yeah i just got a full commit to killing |
| 26048s | two eight eights here and at that point |
| 26050s | are you really shipping enough damage |
| 26052s | face to to get there in the end it |
| 26054s | really is going to depend on these two |
| 26056s | cards here |
| 26058s | multicaster is great but there's just |
| 26060s | not enough time |
| 26063s | you know that belinda really just |
| 26065s | allowing the mage to put on the gas and |
| 26067s | i think that's something we see in most |
| 26069s | of the control decks that we have |
| 26071s | barring you know say quest priests uh |
| 26074s | they have some way of ending the game |
| 26077s | and for the mage that is either rune of |
| 26079s | the archmage or just constant big |
| 26081s | dragons as we saw there just annual it |
| 26084s | after amulet beat you down |
| 26087s | yeah and that kind of comes down to that |
| 26090s | turn six opted to go for the belinda |
| 26092s | over the barbaric sorcerers um barbaric |
| 26095s | sorceress could have produced the |
| 26097s | archmage down to one uh and disrupted |
| 26100s | blize and changing the cost of the |
| 26101s | tracking but i feel like the board |
| 26103s | presence in that situation was worth a |
| 26105s | lot more knowing that the drake fire |
| 26107s | ambulance would be the two spells drawn |
| 26109s | uh from the belinda |
| 26111s | that going with that play was a more |
| 26113s | consistent way to win the game unless |
| 26115s | you hit terrible dragons along the way |
| 26116s | but that's very unlikely |
| 26118s | um |
| 26119s | like all four attacks |
| 26122s | so |
| 26124s | nicely done and able to put on enough |
| 26126s | pressure and heal just enough to be able |
| 26128s | to get the job done so now dimitri cows |
| 26130s | off going to move over to the |
| 26131s | prestor druid and |
| 26134s | uh |
| 26135s | every time i play against this deck |
| 26138s | i i get rolled |
| 26140s | and every time i play the deck |
| 26141s | i |
| 26143s | get rolled so it's the |
| 26146s | i uh i i hate the deck |
| 26149s | not in what it does but in how it |
| 26152s | affects me |
| 26153s | because i can never seem to be as good |
| 26156s | at lady prestor stuff |
| 26158s | as the people that i play against on |
| 26160s | ladder |
| 26161s | it's definitely a tricky balance you |
| 26163s | know |
| 26164s | much the way that ramp druid is trying |
| 26167s | to go to kazakhstan lady prestor druid |
| 26169s | is secretly trying to ramp into |
| 26170s | kazakhstan as well it just it puts this |
| 26173s | facade of being a token deck early let |
| 26175s | me put out all these dinky minions and |
| 26178s | keep you distracted until uh okay we |
| 26180s | cold tooth mind we press door on five or |
| 26182s | six and then you're just waiting for the |
| 26184s | kazakhstan to happen |
| 26186s | you know after you've gotten the lady |
| 26187s | press store then your your next mine |
| 26189s | guaranteed finds guff and so i think |
| 26192s | that is where really the strength of the |
| 26193s | deck lies is getting guff down being |
| 26195s | able to ramp up with all these cheap |
| 26197s | battlecry effects from the dragons but |
| 26199s | it really is important to get the |
| 26201s | dragons |
| 26202s | with those effects that don't care about |
| 26204s | the size of the minion because if you |
| 26205s | don't and you're just stuck with fairy |
| 26207s | dragons and twilight drakes and |
| 26210s | nosdormus then you do end up whiffing |
| 26213s | and as you say you can you can get |
| 26214s | rolled pretty easily |
| 26218s | yeah |
| 26220s | but |
| 26220s | i love the idea behind the deck i think |
| 26223s | it's very uh very cool something unique |
| 26225s | uh obviously lady pressure has been |
| 26227s | around for a while before it was played |
| 26229s | and constructed |
| 26230s | uh one of my favorite cars to play with |
| 26232s | in arena |
| 26233s | yes i'm a i'm an arena enjoyer and i'm |
| 26236s | not afraid |
| 26238s | to admit it um you know my start was in |
| 26241s | arena as well it's a great way to just |
| 26243s | get into the game build up some cards |
| 26245s | learn the fundamentals i highly |
| 26248s | recommend arena particularly now that |
| 26249s | they've been |
| 26250s | giving it a little more attention in |
| 26252s | recent times |
| 26257s | yep a lot of set rotations so it stays |
| 26260s | fresh um |
| 26262s | but |
| 26263s | alas this is a constructed stream |
| 26265s | grandmaster's last call |
| 26267s | play arena there used to be some fun |
| 26269s | arena forwards okay i'm done talking |
| 26270s | about arena no more arena |
| 26273s | yeah well and this deck you know without |
| 26276s | the press store it just looks a little |
| 26278s | bit like an arena deck those peasants |
| 26281s | are pretty good against non-ping hero |
| 26283s | power classes unless someone's entire |
| 26286s | deck is made of damage spells so it's |
| 26287s | going to be pretty challenging to stick |
| 26289s | a peasant against the quest hunter |
| 26292s | looking |
| 26293s | much better this time compared to |
| 26294s | previous uh the explosive |
| 26297s | explosive trap could do some real work |
| 26299s | against some of the early plays that the |
| 26301s | druid has to offer |
| 26304s | and yet no |
| 26306s | jerry rigged carpenter or cold tooth |
| 26308s | mine or prestor in the hand for kazov so |
| 26311s | it's really just going to be |
| 26312s | digging until any of those show up and |
| 26314s | sort of the real game can begin |
| 26319s | that's an aquatic warranty kind of |
| 26323s | dig |
| 26324s | for |
| 26326s | potentially something that could help |
| 26328s | with the game plan |
| 26330s | uh but |
| 26331s | until then it's just hoping that |
| 26333s | whatever comes off the top is |
| 26335s | reasonable um |
| 26337s | frog is okay considering that blize has |
| 26340s | not completed |
| 26342s | uh the first portion of the quest so it |
| 26344s | can't just be here powered down |
| 26346s | um and there's the jerry recar |
| 26349s | yeah so it's probably going to have to |
| 26351s | be the explosive trap from bly's to deal |
| 26354s | with that trog i'd be surprised if we |
| 26357s | don't see trogg plus carpenter this turn |
| 26360s | from kazov |
| 26361s | it seems like a pretty good thing to get |
| 26364s | down |
| 26365s | might wanna just play the three ones as |
| 26367s | well you know you don't have to get the |
| 26369s | the carpenter down right away as long as |
| 26372s | you can get it and the mayan played in |
| 26374s | time to coin out that lady press store |
| 26376s | which i suspect is what kazov is going |
| 26378s | to be looking to do |
| 26384s | yeah with the |
| 26386s | uh the bunker played the triple one i |
| 26389s | think makes a lot of sense because |
| 26391s | blize's way to deal with it might be an |
| 26393s | explosive trap it's more likely for him |
| 26395s | to have it considering the bunker |
| 26398s | uh the bunker's effect previous turn and |
| 26401s | then he has a pretty nice plate lined up |
| 26404s | uh next turn if explosive trap is played |
| 26406s | to try and |
| 26408s | counter this board with |
| 26410s | kerry ray carpenter plus composting i |
| 26413s | guess you'd want to play the mine in |
| 26414s | that instance |
| 26416s | um |
| 26419s | but it's a possibility |
| 26420s | but i do like the triple one |
| 26423s | well and this is good recognition from |
| 26426s | blyze here |
| 26427s | in some respects i think it's a little |
| 26429s | questionable going into composting but i |
| 26431s | think just knowing that hey i've got the |
| 26433s | explosive it always deals with the |
| 26435s | troggs because this is not in fact a |
| 26438s | nature token druid deck so there's no |
| 26440s | way to buff these troggs out of range of |
| 26443s | the explosive uh it's just trying to |
| 26446s | utilize the mana curve better |
| 26449s | rather than if you play explosive trap |
| 26451s | that turn |
| 26452s | what else do you have really just a hero |
| 26454s | power you're not doing that much |
| 26455s | so |
| 26456s | getting a lot more value out of the |
| 26457s | explosive trap here also giving the |
| 26459s | opponent a lot more value in terms of |
| 26462s | the composting so |
| 26465s | you know i think 40 cards splies was |
| 26467s | willing to take the risk that well |
| 26469s | composting hopefully not there |
| 26471s | unfortunately does get unfortunately for |
| 26473s | blize does get punished |
| 26475s | and i suspect we're gonna see from |
| 26477s | kazav on the next turn a |
| 26480s | uh |
| 26481s | just |
| 26482s | trade and then coin press store |
| 26485s | it is awkward because you'd really want |
| 26487s | to draw the cards after you've played |
| 26488s | prestor |
| 26492s | yeah it's also awkward |
| 26497s | oh wait i'm sorry i missed that |
| 26499s | it hasn't been drawn yet |
| 26502s | somehow in my head |
| 26505s | there's six compost minions |
| 26508s | five are five that will die to an |
| 26510s | explosive trap if he thinks that this is |
| 26512s | an explosive trap which is even more |
| 26513s | likely now and smart implies to not even |
| 26516s | play it so if you did think it was |
| 26517s | explosive trap when he attacked in |
| 26521s | there's there would be a petrol for an |
| 26523s | an overdraw um because his hand is too |
| 26525s | full |
| 26526s | uh so he'd have to dump cards and it's |
| 26527s | hard to dump cards because the card the |
| 26529s | spells that he can dump draw cards |
| 26532s | yep and there's no board space to be |
| 26534s | able to draw minions so from his |
| 26536s | perspective it just seems like he's kind |
| 26537s | of stuck |
| 26538s | uh and has no way to kill off his own |
| 26541s | minion and it's an awkward situation to |
| 26544s | be stuck with this full board |
| 26547s | it's really this sort of game of chicken |
| 26549s | that happens sometimes with |
| 26551s | the druid setting up potential car draw |
| 26553s | but not having played a press store yet |
| 26555s | because as we see bly is not getting the |
| 26557s | explosive trapped down |
| 26559s | you know |
| 26560s | it's it's tough do you want them to draw |
| 26562s | the cards before the press store after |
| 26564s | the press store you'd think before so |
| 26566s | that they're not dragons yet but |
| 26568s | sometimes that just means that uh |
| 26570s | they're able to pick up something like |
| 26572s | uh the starfish that has been there |
| 26574s | since the beginning but blaze doesn't |
| 26575s | know that i know i've lost to completely |
| 26578s | forgetting about starfish |
| 26580s | letting a peasant live for that very |
| 26582s | reason in terms of |
| 26584s | well then they draw things more things |
| 26586s | that aren't dragons and |
| 26588s | what happens you've got a board full of |
| 26589s | small dragons you think you're safe and |
| 26591s | the starfish comes down suddenly they're |
| 26592s | full sized and you just get obliterated |
| 26595s | by the high power there |
| 26603s | and in this instance i wonder if blize |
| 26605s | is |
| 26606s | i mean at some point he he has to |
| 26608s | address the board uh but i was curious |
| 26611s | or play a minion right for things to be |
| 26613s | traded into |
| 26614s | but i was curious if there was ever a |
| 26616s | world where he could just hold again |
| 26618s | and say all right keep drawing cards if |
| 26620s | you're not going to attack you think |
| 26621s | it's explosive keep drawing cards and |
| 26623s | i'm just going to keep here powering |
| 26625s | face and using like damaging spells |
| 26628s | um but uh it |
| 26630s | does pick up tavish |
| 26633s | so uh now the plan can change |
| 26637s | um |
| 26639s | i honestly don't know if this is a |
| 26641s | match-up where we want to tavish or not |
| 26643s | i mean it's always powerful when you can |
| 26646s | get it played before completing phase |
| 26648s | two of the quest because |
| 26649s | zero mana refreshing animal companion is |
| 26652s | just powerful sort of regardless of what |
| 26654s | you roll |
| 26655s | uh i could see a world where it is just |
| 26659s | sort of the most powerful thing to do |
| 26661s | and sometimes you're just forced into |
| 26662s | that position because you need the |
| 26663s | secrets |
| 26665s | but i almost wonder if some of the time |
| 26668s | just the direct damage is better i mean |
| 26671s | kazov is never running out of cards it |
| 26673s | almost seems like so |
| 26675s | maybe you're just hoping uh to get the |
| 26678s | animal companions rolling and just get |
| 26680s | huffers because the potential for out |
| 26682s | damaging your opponent is much higher |
| 26685s | when you can just roll hoppers and leox |
| 26691s | [Music] |
| 26692s | improved explosive the snap pick there |
| 26694s | advances the quest and deals with these |
| 26696s | minions in play |
| 26706s | i'm curious that |
| 26708s | represented as a 10 minute deathwing i |
| 26710s | guess that's just because it burned i |
| 26712s | don't think it should have |
| 26713s | shown as 10 mana |
| 26717s | it's probably just because it burned |
| 26720s | yeah yeah |
| 26722s | it would it would have to be uh but |
| 26723s | there's no yeah there's no |
| 26727s | cars |
| 26728s | i don't know if i've ever burped them |
| 26732s | before so |
| 26736s | i think just looking to |
| 26739s | destroy some extra stuff get out of the |
| 26741s | hand you know we want to be able to draw |
| 26743s | off of |
| 26744s | these last three death rattles |
| 26746s | but i think we may just be forced to to |
| 26749s | burn again i mean there's not really a |
| 26750s | whole lot to be done |
| 26753s | full board the whole deck is basically |
| 26755s | minions and what aren't minions draws |
| 26757s | cards |
| 26760s | so kazoo kind of has to just play the |
| 26762s | jank before we can start playing the uh |
| 26765s | the the real stuff the the reasons that |
| 26768s | this this deck is built the way it is |
| 26772s | and there's a good roll and nyxia |
| 26777s | board in a box i think |
| 26780s | that might have been played in part just |
| 26782s | for expediency there with the rope |
| 26784s | rolling |
| 26786s | because there is so much mana being |
| 26788s | floated |
| 26789s | and i i think |
| 26791s | knowing that with the finley there |
| 26794s | that can at any point come down and just |
| 26796s | turn into a handful of dragons but the |
| 26797s | animation is long |
| 26805s | lies now going for |
| 26807s | a little bit of clearing on your own for |
| 26809s | a moment as my my feet is frozen oh no |
| 26812s | oh i'm so sorry well we'll we'll hold |
| 26815s | down as best we can i think we're just |
| 26817s | all in on the race plan as flies here |
| 26820s | we've got the uh maybe a kraken coming |
| 26822s | down or the aimed shot it's always |
| 26824s | unfortunate when you play an aim shot |
| 26826s | post |
| 26829s | tavish hero because you don't get that |
| 26831s | extra bit of damage but it is what it is |
| 26834s | you do need to complete the quest here |
| 26837s | and start getting those huffers rolling |
| 26841s | uh |
| 26842s | like i said before just you on hunt uh |
| 26844s | huffer leock and and that's pretty much |
| 26846s | it because |
| 26848s | the druid is looking to be pretty scary |
| 26851s | here and i wonder if we might see the |
| 26853s | the spinly as he's |
| 26856s | lovingly referred to in the diamond |
| 26858s | version coming down here to swap for an |
| 26860s | entirely new hand of dragons or we could |
| 26863s | just sort of ride this out a little |
| 26864s | longer |
| 26866s | with the |
| 26867s | you know amalgam maybe the sleepy dragon |
| 26870s | like i said before having that starfish |
| 26872s | can present uh sudden |
| 26875s | damage in terms of silencing |
| 26877s | your reduced |
| 26879s | size dragons and turning them into |
| 26881s | full-sized dragons |
| 26883s | so that anexia could at least survive |
| 26885s | the explosive |
| 26887s | but for we're for sure seeing these |
| 26889s | whelps coming in to clear up |
| 26892s | the naga uh improved emergency maneuvers |
| 26896s | triggering on that naga might be able to |
| 26899s | scan something here i mean the tavis |
| 26901s | hero does still have to come down |
| 26904s | uh here we see that silence for the |
| 26906s | full-size |
| 26907s | minions as i was mentioning |
| 26911s | so that clears up the whelps but |
| 26914s | 18 life and double |
| 26916s | uh |
| 26918s | double lady here is pretty spooky |
| 26923s | watch post coming down you know |
| 26925s | in some respects nice in some respects |
| 26927s | just means you're taking more damage |
| 26929s | because the shell shot costs more |
| 26932s | so i actually wonder if you even |
| 26935s | consider just foregoing playing the |
| 26937s | quest reward here |
| 26938s | because that shell shot is eight damage |
| 26942s | or the other one is |
| 26944s | six and then you play the ancient kraken |
| 26946s | could just be |
| 26948s | all the spells right to take advantage |
| 26950s | of |
| 26951s | these two minions in board i is that |
| 26954s | i think that's just lethal |
| 26957s | because this is six and then the secret |
| 26958s | is four |
| 26960s | what a game from bly's |
| 26963s | coming through with the improved |
| 26965s | explosive activation |
| 26968s | so powerful on that naga |
| 26971s | so really really well played |
| 26974s | it's always exciting to see stuff like |
| 26975s | that you know we mentioned games or |
| 26978s | decks that even have |
| 26979s | minimal rng levels sometimes can can |
| 26982s | really come in clutch so |
| 26984s | improved explosive maneuvers just very |
| 26986s | very powerful there |
| 26990s | so we are experiencing some slight |
| 26992s | technical difficulties oh |
| 26995s | are we back |
| 26999s | uh i'm i i've been here i've been |
| 27002s | listening it's just i haven't been able |
| 27004s | to watch the game |
| 27006s | but your your narration was |
| 27009s | fantastic |
| 27010s | so |
| 27012s | i feel like what's going on |
| 27015s | you know i try to paint a picture with |
| 27016s | words the only thing that i saw the |
| 27018s | screen was |
| 27019s | my own camera um |
| 27024s | so |
| 27029s | uh |
| 27031s | but yeah was that so uh blize ended up |
| 27034s | taking that one |
| 27036s | yeah yeah am i on the screen just myself |
| 27038s | is that what's happening |
| 27040s | uh well uh it's |
| 27043s | for me |
| 27046s | yep okay |
| 27047s | i'm just this is okay |
| 27051s | because i couldn't see am i just bri is |
| 27053s | it just me just breaking everything is |
| 27055s | that what's happening like i'm just in |
| 27056s | uh |
| 27057s | you're in be right back i'm i'm over |
| 27059s | here so you know you're casting from the |
| 27061s | void it's all right you know |
| 27063s | from the abyss |
| 27068s | so we've got |
| 27069s | now here the shaman from dmitry kazav |
| 27072s | coming out um |
| 27074s | it's it's one of the more popular brings |
| 27077s | here you know just centered on those big |
| 27079s | power plays with clown fish |
| 27084s | and |
| 27085s | wild paw caverns and then of course |
| 27087s | snowfall guardians is very powerful |
| 27089s | against anything that's trying to build |
| 27091s | a board |
| 27093s | and |
| 27094s | yeah the |
| 27095s | bloodlust here in kazov's list does |
| 27098s | create situations where the opponent |
| 27100s | just always has to be thinking about it |
| 27103s | you know it it can just represent lethal |
| 27105s | out of nowhere i think |
| 27107s | super fake |
| 27109s | really had this deck in mind when he was |
| 27111s | building his lineup with all those |
| 27113s | clears but i don't know if too many |
| 27115s | people |
| 27116s | have really decklis like that so |
| 27119s | if kazuov can find an opening to just |
| 27121s | get a big board that sticks that |
| 27122s | bloodlust can close a game real fast |
| 27135s | uh and |
| 27136s | yeah i think |
| 27138s | it's you know that wasn't quite as fast |
| 27141s | as uh we maybe would have expected but |
| 27144s | uh considering that these are some you |
| 27148s | know 40 card lists and things |
| 27151s | uh |
| 27152s | i think that's sort of to be expected |
| 27155s | looking at blyze's deck over here we've |
| 27157s | got rather than the lady press storage |
| 27159s | road we've got the xl alignment druid |
| 27163s | and this one |
| 27164s | just trying to use that renethal for a |
| 27167s | little bit of extra healing |
| 27169s | keep you alive in the early game |
| 27171s | sometimes that can affect your |
| 27172s | consistency with hitting the keycards |
| 27174s | your wild growth your nourish your |
| 27176s | alignment of course and guff |
| 27179s | but a card that i think can sometimes be |
| 27182s | a little bit of a rock star uh is this |
| 27185s | uh i think it's raid negotiator i might |
| 27188s | be getting that name wrong but |
| 27190s | the discoverer choose one card and it |
| 27193s | gets both copies or both halves |
| 27197s | uh can be quite powerful if you're able |
| 27199s | to discover something that you weren't |
| 27201s | able to hit such as a nourish or even |
| 27203s | the otters for six six otters and an |
| 27205s | orca can be a powerful pull as well |
| 27209s | getting into the early game here we've |
| 27212s | got blize has a really beautiful looking |
| 27215s | hand |
| 27216s | with |
| 27217s | jerry rig carpenter and wild growth and |
| 27219s | then keeping that scale of enyxia |
| 27222s | knowing that the ramp is already spoken |
| 27224s | for that's going to be fine |
| 27226s | having that scale very important to be |
| 27228s | able to clear up whatever |
| 27231s | board presence the shaman has developed |
| 27235s | in this case we can also see |
| 27237s | sleep breaker totally fine two drop |
| 27239s | amalgam reasonable as well |
| 27242s | i don't know if these are going to be |
| 27244s | kept you might just be looking for the |
| 27246s | wild paw caverns if you're kazov |
| 27249s | or even |
| 27251s | clownfish to try and do some really |
| 27252s | scammy early game stuff |
| 27255s | yeah so we do see only the sleep breaker |
| 27257s | being kept |
| 27259s | command and epsilon coming out second |
| 27260s | sleep breaker as well the only thing |
| 27263s | with sleep breaker is that windshield |
| 27265s | against a druid really doesn't have much |
| 27267s | to freeze on your opponent's side uh in |
| 27270s | that sense i guess it's kind of nice |
| 27272s | that the |
| 27274s | that there's early minions here for |
| 27276s | blize because now you do have a |
| 27278s | windshield target |
| 27280s | uh you see blize recognizing there's no |
| 27282s | kind of pings to mess things up so just |
| 27284s | uprooting |
| 27285s | that uh |
| 27287s | for that three one be able to deal with |
| 27289s | the first minion |
| 27292s | very uh very well read and then getting |
| 27294s | this carpenter down on two |
| 27298s | absolutely uh important to set up that |
| 27300s | nourish you know it's just it's just the |
| 27302s | nuts curve here for plies i mean wild |
| 27306s | growth i suspect we'll see |
| 27309s | nourish next and then the scales is |
| 27311s | really just exactly the kind of stuff |
| 27314s | that you're looking for as this druid |
| 27318s | i mean |
| 27319s | dimitri great curve as well normally but |
| 27321s | i think |
| 27322s | the |
| 27323s | the unfortunate nature of the situation |
| 27326s | is typically the nuts druid curve is |
| 27328s | gonna be able to win out against the |
| 27331s | nuts shaman curve i i guess maybe |
| 27333s | there's some clownfish things that could |
| 27335s | could get there more quickly but |
| 27338s | having the 40 life |
| 27340s | really makes it challenging for the |
| 27343s | shaman to present enough pressure to |
| 27346s | snowball the game out of control before |
| 27349s | the druid is able to deal with the board |
| 27351s | with |
| 27352s | you know the double scales we see here |
| 27354s | from bly's i mean that's going to be |
| 27356s | really bad news for kazov i'd |
| 27359s | be surprised if we don't see some kind |
| 27361s | of reaction once that happens |
| 27363s | the |
| 27365s | snowfall guardians can be nice the okani |
| 27368s | is probably |
| 27369s | a |
| 27370s | more important pick i think given that |
| 27374s | those scales don't usually stick around |
| 27376s | the whelps are going to attack in and |
| 27378s | usually there's just not going to be |
| 27379s | anything left to freeze |
| 27381s | so i would expect you'd be looking for |
| 27385s | connie there |
| 27389s | off that dredge |
| 27392s | wild paw nals coming out but yeah it's |
| 27394s | just scale |
| 27396s | just scale clean it up |
| 27399s | i think this has been one of the biggest |
| 27401s | boons to ramp druid |
| 27404s | having success in recent times is just a |
| 27407s | very flexible board clear 14 damage that |
| 27410s | you can split up seven ways |
| 27412s | just really shores up some of druid's |
| 27414s | weaknesses you know typically druid |
| 27416s | struggles with big minions um |
| 27420s | and uh |
| 27421s | all you used to have to clean up wide |
| 27423s | boards was something like starfall a |
| 27425s | scale of enyxia doesn't care about all |
| 27427s | that rushing minions are totally |
| 27428s | flexible in terms of where you put |
| 27430s | damage some things get affected by taunt |
| 27432s | what have you |
| 27433s | but |
| 27434s | yeah i mean just all kinds of ways even |
| 27436s | with this okani to to play around it we |
| 27438s | can see |
| 27440s | wow just |
| 27441s | full disrespect |
| 27443s | just says nope you definitely picked |
| 27445s | minion we're just gonna play the scale i |
| 27448s | am not so bold i would have played coin |
| 27450s | first just to check for spell you never |
| 27452s | know sometimes people get you with |
| 27454s | strange stuff |
| 27455s | but uh yeah it works out and there's one |
| 27459s | welp left over again no no board to be |
| 27462s | taken advantage of with a snowfall or |
| 27464s | anything |
| 27464s | and uh kazuo really needs to find a way |
| 27467s | to |
| 27468s | to make some presents here uh another |
| 27471s | wild paw caverns could be a way to start |
| 27473s | that it might just be the command of |
| 27475s | neptulon though just to get that |
| 27478s | immediate pressure of two five attack |
| 27480s | minions |
| 27481s | looks like we're going for another draw |
| 27482s | makes sense you've got the mana to do it |
| 27484s | anyway |
| 27485s | and we will see the cavern uh |
| 27487s | particularly with that bloodlust draw to |
| 27489s | do a more |
| 27491s | slow measured development so next turn |
| 27494s | with the command you can at least have |
| 27497s | you know two three fours and two five |
| 27500s | somethings after they rush in |
| 27502s | but uh oh |
| 27504s | the double null here really |
| 27507s | uh not well i guess it's not double |
| 27508s | because you can't can't play both but |
| 27511s | i am struggling to see and out here the |
| 27514s | mutinous is quite powerful so that could |
| 27517s | be one |
| 27518s | uh i i think you would almost rather |
| 27521s | bolner in the situation because |
| 27523s | bolner gets the buff himself and has |
| 27526s | more of a chance of sticking but you got |
| 27528s | to use what you've got and this brand |
| 27530s | mutinous if that is the play that comes |
| 27532s | down |
| 27534s | seems like a nice hail mary out here |
| 27538s | to try and hit really you want to hit |
| 27540s | two eight eights that's what you're |
| 27541s | looking for we want to hit this enyxia |
| 27543s | we want to hit the kazakhstan null is |
| 27545s | not good enough the index here is nice |
| 27547s | that is that is a large minion |
| 27549s | uh and that ping from the fleurgal i |
| 27552s | think the |
| 27553s | the delay there was demetrium making sir |
| 27555s | that |
| 27557s | we still had two instances of the |
| 27559s | clownfish discount to work with that |
| 27561s | playing the fleurgal wasn't going to get |
| 27563s | rid of the discount and then he wouldn't |
| 27564s | be able to play the mutinous |
| 27567s | but now uh even if the brand gets |
| 27569s | cleared up 1716 mutant is that's that's |
| 27572s | quite large |
| 27573s | are we back back for like four minutes |
| 27574s | now but uh oh well |
| 27577s | he did you didn't even need me honestly |
| 27580s | yeah like that was just you you were |
| 27582s | just flowing i didn't want to interrupt |
| 27583s | your flow |
| 27585s | uh but uh i i feel bad if i didn't |
| 27588s | interrupt you for the whole game because |
| 27589s | uh |
| 27590s | i i don't think your flow would have |
| 27591s | ended until the game was over |
| 27594s | um |
| 27595s | but well |
| 27602s | i mean |
| 27603s | any other person in that situation |
| 27605s | literally first match |
| 27607s | of casting grantmasters might have |
| 27609s | frozen up so |
| 27611s | uh well done uh i swear i didn't do that |
| 27614s | on purpose to test you i swear |
| 27616s | um that was just honestly it's okay |
| 27618s | difficulties that happens from time to |
| 27620s | time when we're doing this stuff |
| 27623s | well getting back into this game though |
| 27626s | i i said the brand easily cleared up but |
| 27628s | because that miracle growth was gone for |
| 27631s | uh and and i guess there wasn't really a |
| 27633s | good arcanist or anything |
| 27636s | you know i have to take back my earlier |
| 27638s | statements about saying that it looked |
| 27640s | pretty grim for for dimitri because that |
| 27643s | mutinous pole just turned things around |
| 27646s | i mean removing raid boss inyxia which |
| 27648s | is both a powerful minion and just a |
| 27650s | powerful clear for the druid and then |
| 27652s | now this macaw getting rid of kazakhstan |
| 27655s | as well |
| 27656s | how the tables have turned i don't think |
| 27658s | we even you don't want to play |
| 27662s | celestial alignment now looking for |
| 27665s | other ways of clearing up this board |
| 27667s | yeah starfish is good uh it's going to |
| 27669s | return it's really good |
| 27671s | but there's still a lot of power on |
| 27672s | board it's only renethal |
| 27674s | so we have 15 |
| 27676s | plus 15 yeah |
| 27679s | blize is still dead but at least the |
| 27680s | starfish makes it so he's he's not as |
| 27683s | dead |
| 27684s | as he would have been otherwise yeah |
| 27687s | i i highlighted that bloodlust before |
| 27689s | the game and a little surprised to be |
| 27691s | honest not to see the rushing 3-1 there |
| 27695s | to take out the macaw at least |
| 27698s | just to reduce the size of the board but |
| 27700s | you know that's castor vision right we |
| 27702s | get to see both hands |
| 27705s | really well played from dimitri and and |
| 27707s | blaze both uh they they both had strong |
| 27710s | hands and those are the really exciting |
| 27712s | games to see right when both players |
| 27714s | their decks are doing sort of what |
| 27715s | they're supposed to do uh fully |
| 27717s | activated with strong draws a mutant is |
| 27719s | a very good pick up there for dimitri to |
| 27721s | swing things back around |
| 27724s | yep |
| 27724s | even had the double discount still left |
| 27726s | from the clownfish uh like you mentioned |
| 27728s | to fit in the the floor goal which uh |
| 27730s | uh |
| 27731s | just clearing up a little bit more stats |
| 27733s | from the board to make it so that things |
| 27735s | could stick |
| 27737s | for additional turns able to get still |
| 27738s | get the double muteness |
| 27740s | on the next turn have a a better shot at |
| 27743s | at hitting that kazakhstan taking away |
| 27744s | the win condition from fly so |
| 27747s | nicely done and now dimitri uh 2-1 up in |
| 27751s | the series |
| 27752s | and |
| 27754s | uh because i had to restart i lost |
| 27756s | [Music] |
| 27757s | what the |
| 27759s | final deck was for dimitri kazoff which |
| 27761s | is gonna be |
| 27762s | the druid not the druid |
| 27766s | the druid |
| 27767s | no it is the uh |
| 27769s | yeah yeah the presser druid the one that |
| 27771s | that lost the presser druid yeah yeah |
| 27773s | i do oblige just played the druid i was |
| 27775s | like okay |
| 27777s | sure because that was the game that i |
| 27778s | was trying to figure out why i couldn't |
| 27779s | see anything going on yeah the press |
| 27781s | store drew it uh which |
| 27784s | probably the least consistent deck in |
| 27785s | the lineup |
| 27787s | uh i would say |
| 27790s | but it's funny it's very consistent at |
| 27793s | playing prestor now whether you win the |
| 27796s | game from there |
| 27797s | is sort of |
| 27799s | up in the air but it's it's got five |
| 27802s | cards dedicated to making press store on |
| 27805s | five or six happen |
| 27807s | uh |
| 27809s | then you you sort of leave it to the |
| 27811s | face |
| 27817s | action for blize going on |
| 27820s | right off the bat four players |
| 27822s | 40 car deck started at 40 life |
| 27825s | yeah yup just uh you know classic |
| 27828s | classic hearthstone going on here right |
| 27832s | how uh how the game has shifted now 40 |
| 27835s | cards 40 life |
| 27837s | and the games still don't take that long |
| 27840s | yeah i know |
| 27842s | so once a player pulls ahead like the |
| 27844s | difference in 10 life it matters |
| 27845s | sometimes but |
| 27848s | uh a lot of times it doesn't um |
| 27851s | but right off the bat do get the jerry |
| 27853s | carpenter for both players so dmitri |
| 27854s | kashov is going to be able to pull that |
| 27856s | lady prestor like you said very |
| 27858s | consistently uh be able to being able to |
| 27861s | find it and play it on six |
| 27863s | uh now it's going to be about finding |
| 27865s | the card draw and hitting the right |
| 27867s | dragons |
| 27868s | that have a good effect uh blize has a |
| 27872s | guff ready to go nourish for ramp ready |
| 27874s | to go as well so he's going to be able |
| 27875s | to hit those high mana totals and |
| 27877s | potentially be able to uh |
| 27879s | get the alignment out as long as he |
| 27881s | doesn't fall too far behind on the board |
| 27883s | things looking uh up for both players |
| 27886s | yeah and pretty crucial difference |
| 27888s | having gus burfs not having guff i mean |
| 27890s | blya has had the ramp before but without |
| 27892s | the guff it's not helping you once you |
| 27894s | hit 10. so you don't get to do those |
| 27895s | crazy things like |
| 27897s | moonlight guidance for an eptilon and |
| 27899s | now you've got another one in hand still |
| 27902s | so having that gotcha is very crucial |
| 27905s | particularly you know post alignment |
| 27907s | it's suddenly you can hear power to |
| 27909s | start ramping again while your opponent |
| 27911s | doesn't have that same luxury |
| 27913s | uh alignment when your opponent is |
| 27915s | intentionally playing cheap stuff to do |
| 27917s | a bunch of you know wonky dragons |
| 27920s | pretty powerful i think uh you know it |
| 27922s | that's why it's so strong against |
| 27924s | something like boar priest right if |
| 27925s | someone's already intending to play a |
| 27927s | bunch of cheap stuff and you alignment |
| 27929s | you know your things that cost one are |
| 27931s | generally more powerful than their |
| 27932s | things that cost one |
| 27938s | unless that thing is supposed to cost 10 |
| 27940s | originally |
| 27942s | well sure like a rate boss inixia even |
| 27944s | if it's uh even if it's a a one man a |
| 27946s | one one |
| 27948s | um |
| 27949s | still pretty powerful but |
| 27950s | but not as much power there right you |
| 27952s | know the eight eight's important |
| 27954s | yeah it is we could |
| 27956s | we could see that starfish coming into |
| 27958s | play again just to do that although |
| 27961s | spinly as well you know that's i think a |
| 27963s | very |
| 27964s | very common thing is to go lady press |
| 27966s | store and now i'm going to swap my hand |
| 27968s | with the bottom because i just want |
| 27969s | dragons although aquatic forms also |
| 27971s | pretty good for |
| 27973s | you know choosing dragon's post-press |
| 27975s | store you'd hope to top deck and |
| 27977s | innervate here |
| 27980s | i think we're going to aquatic form 4 |
| 27982s | and innervate yep |
| 27989s | and so now at least we'll be able to get |
| 27991s | um |
| 27992s | um |
| 27993s | dragon action online before celestial |
| 27996s | alignment's uh able to be played oh no |
| 27998s | wait i'm just kidding it's not that |
| 27999s | there's a coin plus double innervate |
| 28003s | wow and then squeezing in the aquatic |
| 28005s | form just to to make it happen before |
| 28009s | before it goes up to costing one |
| 28014s | all right and there it is |
| 28017s | i mean |
| 28018s | knowing you've got that nourish i i |
| 28020s | really like this play from blize you |
| 28021s | know i think it's easy to get in the |
| 28023s | zone of oh i'm just gonna keep ramping |
| 28025s | right we've got the guff we've got the |
| 28028s | the split up nourish well if you play |
| 28030s | the alignment first you just make it |
| 28032s | happen and now that nourish gives you |
| 28034s | two full mana crystals which means just |
| 28038s | you play it and get two additional plays |
| 28040s | so and you get a buy back off the guff |
| 28042s | we're gonna see a huge power spike from |
| 28044s | blize uh once it circles back over to |
| 28046s | his turn |
| 28049s | yeah dimitri is |
| 28051s | going to |
| 28052s | play a far watch pose |
| 28055s | which i guess is breathable considering |
| 28057s | that bly's is not really going to be |
| 28059s | able to kill it and is going to want to |
| 28061s | ramp plus draw cards and everything's |
| 28062s | going to cost two which when you're |
| 28064s | working with this little mana |
| 28066s | is quite bad but |
| 28068s | he's going to be able to just get the |
| 28069s | the flipper fronts out and clear the far |
| 28071s | watch post and then |
| 28073s | uh move along on uh actually uh ramping |
| 28077s | uh plus drawing |
| 28079s | yeah i really like that far watch post |
| 28081s | play a little unfortunate for dimitri |
| 28083s | that it couldn't |
| 28085s | do a little more work i think he was |
| 28086s | hoping that there wouldn't be the answer |
| 28088s | in hand uh you know that |
| 28092s | choose a choose one and get both effects |
| 28094s | really coming in clutch with the flipper |
| 28096s | friends so |
| 28098s | i mean this is just big it's a six-six |
| 28100s | killer whale like what what do you do |
| 28102s | about that |
| 28104s | um |
| 28109s | nothing |
| 28111s | sarah is i guess you can dream it |
| 28114s | i guess yeah make it unplayable |
| 28117s | like all the rest of the dream cards are |
| 28119s | going to be playing like one a turn |
| 28121s | because they're not reducing costs so |
| 28122s | they're still going to be full cost |
| 28124s | um yep |
| 28128s | the sarah i don't even |
| 28130s | see what stat line it is but |
| 28132s | the biggest it could possibly be would |
| 28134s | be what a three for |
| 28137s | uh yeah if it was |
| 28141s | indeed |
| 28143s | okay it's a 3-2 is it a mailbox dancer |
| 28146s | yeah yeah probably probably yeah |
| 28150s | above average as far as uh what what |
| 28152s | he's working with in the rest of the |
| 28154s | deck with both doesn't even give the |
| 28157s | opponent a coin i mean talk about value |
| 28160s | yeah i i like this we're just yep we're |
| 28163s | gonna get some dreams we're gonna swap |
| 28164s | it with the bottom and we're gonna see |
| 28165s | what happens because that that ain't it |
| 28169s | so |
| 28170s | oh but the acorns not considered drawn |
| 28175s | so that's pretty weird there that |
| 28178s | interaction since spindly |
| 28180s | what he actually does is |
| 28182s | not draw cards but just swap your hand |
| 28186s | with the bottom of your deck so the |
| 28187s | acorns don't trigger the cast when drawn |
| 28190s | and they're just sitting in hand |
| 28192s | i |
| 28193s | and |
| 28194s | in other circumstances playing them to |
| 28196s | draw a card get the two one wouldn't be |
| 28198s | so bad but in the post alignment world |
| 28202s | that's not really a powerful thing you |
| 28203s | want to do |
| 28204s | wild heart golf does help a little bit |
| 28207s | in terms of getting that |
| 28208s | buy back and letting you ramp a bit |
| 28211s | yourself |
| 28212s | although uh when the second alignment |
| 28214s | comes down from bly's that could could |
| 28216s | still be a lockout |
| 28218s | yeah it's basically what boss is looking |
| 28221s | for at this point to just say all right |
| 28223s | lethal's presented on board and second |
| 28225s | alignment and you are now locked out of |
| 28228s | the game and that's coming as soon as |
| 28231s | next turn so |
| 28232s | reaching not much to do could make a |
| 28234s | giant twilight drake and by giant i mean |
| 28237s | a lot of health |
| 28239s | probably not very much attack |
| 28241s | um |
| 28243s | i guess the primordial drake is |
| 28245s | reasonable in this situation because it |
| 28247s | does take a ton of power off the board |
| 28251s | um it's two months |
| 28253s | yeah |
| 28255s | not big enough to protect something like |
| 28257s | the |
| 28258s | uh the holy dragon over there the bright |
| 28262s | no not bright wing that's a different |
| 28263s | one |
| 28264s | bronze wing brass wing brass wing so |
| 28267s | many different colored wings here with |
| 28269s | with the dragons |
| 28270s | uh ooh |
| 28272s | uh lady anacondra not nearly as good for |
| 28275s | us as them |
| 28276s | but it is still picked here |
| 28279s | i suppose this seems like more of a |
| 28281s | scare tactic than anything else i might |
| 28283s | have gone for the |
| 28285s | uh spammy just to maybe deal with some |
| 28288s | of the large things coming down although |
| 28290s | you know if you're doing spammy i guess |
| 28292s | how are you really getting there |
| 28293s | yourself in the end |
| 28300s | so much man to work with |
| 28303s | and now the malagos so |
| 28306s | six spells drawn to the hand of blize |
| 28310s | and |
| 28311s | that's uh that's gonna be pretty rough |
| 28313s | miracle growth draws nourish draws or |
| 28316s | probably ramps actually |
| 28318s | and |
| 28318s | i think |
| 28320s | it is not long for us to find |
| 28323s | a way to just sort of lock things out of |
| 28325s | course |
| 28327s | uh |
| 28328s | okani it's very powerful in this meta i |
| 28331s | think this is this is gonna be it |
| 28334s | tj we're just seeing yep well full |
| 28336s | pressure and we're going to end on that |
| 28338s | alignment and it's a board lock |
| 28341s | and call it a day and to me she's just |
| 28343s | waiting in the game just to see just to |
| 28345s | make sure that alignment is actually |
| 28347s | there |
| 28350s | and i guess even if alignment |
| 28353s | does come out like could still just pick |
| 28355s | up a deathwing off the top |
| 28358s | yeah but i mean |
| 28360s | then there's still kazakhstan to contend |
| 28362s | with um you know |
| 28365s | so you do the best you can and remember |
| 28368s | the oconee really seals the deal because |
| 28370s | you're protected even from a deathwing |
| 28373s | so |
| 28376s | wise gonna take that one |
| 28382s | i always thought that blize just had a |
| 28383s | really dark background but he actually |
| 28385s | has a really light background he just |
| 28386s | has a black blanket hanging down from i |
| 28389s | saw in the corner there was light |
| 28391s | so he actually does have lights on he |
| 28392s | doesn't have his lights off he just |
| 28394s | blocks off his computer from the rest of |
| 28395s | this room okay secrets being revealed |
| 28397s | here incredible see look right there |
| 28399s | brought him right over his camera look |
| 28400s | you can see |
| 28401s | just a blanket hanging down |
| 28405s | yup yup got you know you gotta you just |
| 28407s | gotta create a vibe right you gotta get |
| 28409s | in the zone no distractions just |
| 28412s | full |
| 28413s | compete mode gotta gotta be able to make |
| 28415s | sure you are on point all the time |
| 28418s | uh |
| 28419s | you know i just finished up dark souls |
| 28421s | recently and so i'm just in my head i'm |
| 28422s | like a biss walker blize over here right |
| 28424s | just living in darkness |
| 28428s | and uh get down far enough today that's |
| 28431s | it yeah |
| 28432s | talk about a deck that sends me to the |
| 28435s | abyss |
| 28436s | boar priest you know |
| 28437s | love it hate it it's uh it's very |
| 28440s | powerful and blize is a top player on a |
| 28444s | deck like this you know it's certainly |
| 28446s | something |
| 28447s | i have not had the courage to try and |
| 28449s | learn i just feel like i would plummet |
| 28451s | my mmr working on it i've never been one |
| 28454s | for high apm decks |
| 28456s | but |
| 28457s | this one |
| 28459s | it it can just pull things out of the |
| 28461s | bag so we'll we'll see if wise can can |
| 28464s | make that happen and very happy i'm sure |
| 28468s | to be seeing prestor druid for his |
| 28470s | opponent rather than the alignment druid |
| 28472s | that he brought because that is a rough |
| 28474s | match up for the priest |
| 28476s | yeah presser druid still takes some time |
| 28478s | to to ramp up |
| 28480s | the maintenance that they play in the |
| 28481s | early game are usually very easily swept |
| 28483s | up at some point in the game with uh |
| 28485s | wild pyromancer cyrilla |
| 28488s | um |
| 28488s | it's just about you know trying to |
| 28491s | maximize draw potential |
| 28494s | trying to be efficient with trading your |
| 28496s | amulets early on |
| 28498s | obviously you know the the combo itself |
| 28501s | for this deck is is not like the most |
| 28504s | difficult right it's not like the old |
| 28506s | boar priest back from |
| 28509s | like 2000 and what was it 17 |
| 28513s | oh you're talking topsy turvy |
| 28517s | different bore for a different age yes |
| 28522s | one one charge |
| 28524s | yeah now that deck was |
| 28526s | just all apm right uh whereas this deck |
| 28529s | you know it's it's mostly about |
| 28532s | being as efficient as possible to make |
| 28534s | sure your combo can happen as soon as |
| 28537s | possible right efficient with your card |
| 28538s | draw |
| 28539s | uh making sure that you're calculating |
| 28542s | um how how many trades |
| 28545s | how |
| 28546s | big your amulets actually are |
| 28549s | and then performing the combo is as |
| 28552s | early as possible and then the actual |
| 28554s | combo itself is not particularly |
| 28556s | difficult |
| 28557s | just going through the motions |
| 28559s | um |
| 28561s | this is awkward though the far watch |
| 28563s | post that's going to put a wrench in the |
| 28564s | game plan for blyze that's going to |
| 28565s | delay things uh especially when you you |
| 28568s | consider that |
| 28569s | uh actually got multiple cards that are |
| 28572s | increasing costs |
| 28574s | but yeah i mean himself is pretty set up |
| 28576s | for a good game plan |
| 28578s | absolutely watch post one of the better |
| 28580s | things i think to have in the mulligan |
| 28582s | there is only the one holy smite for the |
| 28584s | boar priest so |
| 28585s | not having that in hand bly's just |
| 28587s | forced to draw three and and take the |
| 28589s | tax and and keep taking it and there's |
| 28592s | really not going to be much to be done |
| 28594s | about this watch post until we go for |
| 28597s | the |
| 28598s | pyromancer turn to clear things up |
| 28601s | so we see here the highlight card elwynn |
| 28603s | boar that is how this deck uh for for |
| 28606s | those viewers who may not be familiar |
| 28608s | that is how you're winning you get two |
| 28610s | of these in your graveyard and you've |
| 28612s | got two amulets of the undying where you |
| 28615s | want to |
| 28616s | trade one to get to resurrect two |
| 28617s | minions trade another to resurrect three |
| 28619s | minions once all seven have died you get |
| 28623s | sort of a thousand truths for any south |
| 28625s | park fans out there who may be familiar |
| 28628s | uh swing for 15 get rid of your |
| 28630s | opponent's mana crystals and usually you |
| 28632s | never need to do the following swings |
| 28634s | because once they have no mana what can |
| 28636s | they really do |
| 28637s | as you say much easier combo to actually |
| 28640s | pull off than the old |
| 28642s | topsy-turvy boar priest |
| 28644s | i could go back and watch videos of dog |
| 28646s | playing that deck all day uh |
| 28648s | truly a a marvel |
| 28651s | but uh here i think the apm is usually |
| 28654s | in terms of your board clear and card |
| 28656s | draw turns more than anything else yes |
| 28658s | yeah um and it's also |
| 28661s | you know deciding on |
| 28663s | how to do the turn efficiently and then |
| 28665s | executing it in time like it's multiple |
| 28667s | stages |
| 28669s | of the turn that's the where the the |
| 28671s | difficulty lies not over drawing |
| 28673s | maximizing your car draws |
| 28675s | bidding in amulet trades |
| 28677s | uh it can get tough there's a lot going |
| 28678s | on |
| 28679s | uh but yeah the top i remember sorry |
| 28681s | small tangent this side i remember uh |
| 28683s | knob lord brought the opposite turkey |
| 28686s | priest to a an hcc championship event |
| 28689s | back then |
| 28690s | uh and everybody thought it was the |
| 28691s | coolest thing people had been |
| 28693s | complaining about for so long and then |
| 28694s | someone brings it to like a top tier |
| 28696s | competitive event and then everybody |
| 28697s | changed their mind and started loving |
| 28698s | them |
| 28700s | pretty funny uh dynamic that some of |
| 28702s | these |
| 28703s | polarizing combo decks can bring |
| 28706s | yeah we see the holy smite finally |
| 28709s | picked up for blize |
| 28711s | after he has paid his fair share of |
| 28714s | taxes it doesn't even matter at this |
| 28716s | point gonna do it just to be able to uh |
| 28718s | make sure these cars at least aren't |
| 28720s | taxed as we do the gift of the naaru |
| 28723s | usually you want to do this on a turn |
| 28725s | where you're going to be |
| 28727s | you know clearing more of a wide card |
| 28729s | and drawing but uh |
| 28732s | do the best with what you can when |
| 28733s | you're heavily attacked like this and |
| 28734s | there is still the handmaiden to draw a |
| 28736s | bunch |
| 28737s | you know some trading is going to happen |
| 28738s | with this amulet |
| 28740s | i think blize is just hoping that uh the |
| 28742s | dragons that are pulled here for kazov |
| 28745s | aren't |
| 28745s | too game breaking before he can uh get |
| 28749s | all that card draw taken care of |
| 28751s | but no more watch post to deal with |
| 28753s | because it'll just be a 2-3 dragon now |
| 28757s | yeah |
| 28758s | above average size |
| 28760s | for tracking for the deck |
| 28762s | yeah sleepy dragon not the best |
| 28766s | deathwing |
| 28767s | also not very good considering it |
| 28771s | it's not much stuff that |
| 28773s | you absolutely have to kill there's not |
| 28775s | really wide boards that you're gonna |
| 28776s | need to deal with from flies |
| 28779s | i mean you like it if it's a 12 12 |
| 28782s | but |
| 28783s | it's it's definitely not |
| 28785s | [Music] |
| 28787s | you know these are must kills the pyro |
| 28790s | and the cleric so |
| 28791s | we do see the trades coming out here |
| 28794s | uh but that just means you know what |
| 28796s | we're at 30 as the priests yeah there's |
| 28798s | a 6'5 in play not a big deal |
| 28801s | i think blize was hoping to hit the |
| 28803s | amulet again off of that illuminate to |
| 28807s | try and discount it since it is costing |
| 28809s | four presently |
| 28811s | but also just activating the handmaiden |
| 28814s | and |
| 28815s | we're gonna have to see |
| 28817s | probably that |
| 28818s | some kind of spell will come out here to |
| 28819s | not overdraw |
| 28822s | yeah |
| 28824s | this repair does make the most sense |
| 28826s | obviously |
| 28827s | nothing else has much use shadow or |
| 28829s | devour could still be useful for clear |
| 28832s | flash shields the same as desperate |
| 28834s | prayer but it can be targeted it could |
| 28835s | end up being card draw but actually okay |
| 28837s | i'm going to go with the flash shield |
| 28840s | yeah this makes some sense to me like |
| 28843s | the desperate prayer i think is |
| 28847s | sometimes easier to play i don't know on |
| 28850s | the off chance that although it does |
| 28851s | seem pretty improbable that uh guff is |
| 28854s | gonna get damaged from this point but |
| 28856s | sometimes the advantage to the prayer |
| 28857s | over the flash heal is that |
| 28859s | since it's not targeted it just does |
| 28861s | both your life totals you can get some |
| 28863s | really high healing for a xyrella clear |
| 28866s | although both players currently at full |
| 28868s | life so |
| 28869s | i wonder why it was the flash hill |
| 28872s | instead of the desperate prayer in in |
| 28873s | this particular situation |
| 28878s | maybe flipped a coin |
| 28881s | yeah probably in the grand scheme of |
| 28883s | things not a big deal |
| 28884s | [Music] |
| 28886s | oh |
| 28888s | pride's fury |
| 28890s | ah well maybe that's what blize expected |
| 28893s | a giant a giant board with pride's fury |
| 28896s | and needing to get giant live totals of |
| 28898s | death repair but as you mentioned like |
| 28900s | fascia would have served a similar |
| 28901s | purpose because |
| 28903s | uh dimitri's not damaged and probably |
| 28905s | not going to be damaged |
| 28907s | for a little bit of time until the sort |
| 28908s | of a thousand juice does |
| 28910s | does pop out |
| 28915s | yeah and i think this is definitely a |
| 28918s | game where kaza would have wished to |
| 28920s | have the |
| 28921s | uh starfish because getting to play that |
| 28924s | on a board like this suddenly everything |
| 28926s | is 12 health and that's pretty rough for |
| 28928s | the priest to be able to clear |
| 28930s | uh we do have if this kalagos is cleared |
| 28934s | which it |
| 28935s | is going to be the second kalagos is |
| 28937s | able to come down and play that pride's |
| 28939s | fury |
| 28941s | couldn't do it last turn because the |
| 28942s | spell had already been played |
| 28951s | well starting with the moonlight |
| 28952s | guidance though means not being able to |
| 28954s | take advantage of the caligo's battle |
| 28956s | cry |
| 28958s | wonder |
| 28960s | what the thinking is there if we're just |
| 28962s | saying hey i need two of something |
| 28963s | ridiculous this turn |
| 28966s | and |
| 28967s | caligos is not a big enough threat |
| 28971s | double cobalt a lot of power but i think |
| 28974s | with this |
| 28975s | toughness of minions |
| 28977s | uh it's not really |
| 28980s | that much that that was a starfish |
| 28983s | so a pair of these |
| 28984s | [Laughter] |
| 28987s | oh man these are |
| 28989s | these are terrible yeah these are not |
| 28992s | really the ones you're looking for |
| 28994s | powerful effects if your opponent cared |
| 28996s | about the board but |
| 28998s | yeah |
| 29000s | and it's gonna see two of the same ones |
| 29003s | i don't even know what mirazon does in |
| 29005s | this situation |
| 29008s | but we're gonna gonna find out i guess |
| 29010s | you get you get a 4-4 at minimum it's |
| 29012s | just sort of more stuff and then i guess |
| 29014s | uh what do you end on |
| 29017s | not even the pride's fury because you |
| 29018s | want to get more things in play |
| 29024s | yeah just hoping that there's not |
| 29025s | another clear but i |
| 29028s | oh |
| 29029s | oh that's got to hurt that was |
| 29031s | probably the one thing you didn't want |
| 29032s | to see go |
| 29035s | yeah |
| 29037s | all right six cards left in deck four |
| 29040s | flies still has an amulet and a boar |
| 29044s | uh |
| 29044s | and this |
| 29046s | does have to be traded once yes or is oh |
| 29048s | no it's already a two oh |
| 29050s | yeah one is two and i believe the other |
| 29052s | one is three |
| 29053s | uh and there's the board that's in the |
| 29056s | deck |
| 29058s | um |
| 29059s | just have to make sure yeah the other |
| 29061s | one is three |
| 29062s | so it does have the |
| 29064s | completed amulet |
| 29067s | um |
| 29070s | yeah however there's now no way to |
| 29073s | kill it off oh no it can just use the |
| 29074s | priestess so it just needs to be able to |
| 29076s | draw then priestess then amulet amulet |
| 29083s | yep just only tradable cards remaining |
| 29085s | in the deck |
| 29087s | shards and amulets uh you know it makes |
| 29090s | sense because you're always throwing |
| 29091s | them back when you find them |
| 29092s | and |
| 29093s | yeah even though the life total is |
| 29096s | is high so it'll take a few turns |
| 29099s | this is just going to lock dimitri out |
| 29102s | of the game |
| 29104s | uh a couple more swings over turns and |
| 29107s | then these eye relative out is there |
| 29110s | just in case someone is able to |
| 29112s | armor out of 45 damage which can happen |
| 29115s | on occasion |
| 29116s | uh |
| 29117s | you know getting another sword to be |
| 29120s | able to uh close out just 90 total |
| 29123s | damage available there for the board |
| 29124s | priest |
| 29126s | well played you know |
| 29128s | it's |
| 29129s | you do the best you can as the press |
| 29130s | tour druid but like we were saying this |
| 29132s | those just were not the hits i think |
| 29134s | would have liked to see a kazakhstan or |
| 29137s | or sometimes i think dragon queen |
| 29139s | alexstrasza is the best because if you |
| 29142s | just get a bunch of those going |
| 29144s | especially off of a moonlit guidance |
| 29146s | i mean that damage stacks up quickly |
| 29151s | yeah it was good recognition by blize at |
| 29154s | the end uh |
| 29155s | it was almost certainly |
| 29157s | uh sort of a thousand truths there was a |
| 29160s | small scenario where as he went along |
| 29163s | that he could have kept trading shard |
| 29165s | into chard and never hitting the amulet |
| 29168s | he took the extra mana from priestess |
| 29170s | um but uh hit the amulet before he even |
| 29173s | hit one of the sharks because the two |
| 29175s | cards left remaining in the deck as you |
| 29176s | showed the double shards so |
| 29179s | um very unlikely uh to hit that |
| 29182s | um |
| 29185s | actually no because had the no no didn't |
| 29187s | have |
| 29187s | would have he had enough made up for the |
| 29189s | thrive if he had preached this then |
| 29191s | thrived then hit amulet i don't know i |
| 29194s | didn't see how much man he had after he |
| 29195s | played the priestess i i told you tj i i |
| 29198s | just this is not the deck for me i |
| 29200s | cannot keep track of all those elements |
| 29202s | going on when you're when you're playing |
| 29203s | it and and you know like and you're |
| 29206s | counting but when you have to look at |
| 29208s | both players perspectives you lose like |
| 29209s | the little amount of details but i just |
| 29211s | know that there was a very small chance |
| 29213s | that there could have not been a hit |
| 29215s | there um or maybe he could have fit in |
| 29217s | the thrive earlier after trading the |
| 29219s | second amulet away but the important |
| 29221s | part was both amulets were where they |
| 29224s | needed to be one was at two when was |
| 29225s | that three hit that crucial seven mark |
| 29227s | um and so |
| 29229s | uh bly's gonna take the series a long |
| 29231s | buy series from what we've become |
| 29234s | accustomed to yeah |
| 29235s | for his gameplay it was a reasonably |
| 29237s | long series um but really showing his |
| 29240s | experience there um |
| 29243s | yeah looking forward to the next one |
| 29245s | yeah um but uh that was just an initial |
| 29248s | match dimitri kaszoff not eliminated |
| 29250s | bliss is going to move on to the winners |
| 29251s | match uh where he's going to be facing |
| 29253s | pun and then dimitri kazuo is going to |
| 29255s | go down to the elimination match of the |
| 29256s | group where he's going to face judgement |
| 29259s | um but before we jump into the next |
| 29261s | match we have three more matches left on |
| 29263s | the day before we wrap up for day number |
| 29265s | one of grandmaster's last call before we |
| 29267s | jump into the next one we are gonna have |
| 29268s | to go to a quick break so don't go |
| 29270s | anywhere plenty more grand masters |
| 29271s | action right after this |
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| 29286s | [Applause] |
| 29287s | [Music] |
| 29289s | welcome to ravendraft in the darkest of |
| 29292s | seasons where ruthless eyes gawk for |
| 29296s | horrific reasons |
| 29298s | for a hidden hand has struck me down |
| 29303s | with such ruthlessness |
| 29305s | so deep and profound |
| 29309s | then he comes with his mullockian scowl |
| 29317s | to uncover the truth |
| 29319s | of murder most foul |
| 29323s | the anima drifts across the floor |
| 29326s | highlighting the creatures who walked |
| 29328s | through my door |
| 29330s | the motives are as black as night |
| 29334s | avarice power revenge and blight |
| 29340s | we watch the hero |
| 29342s | uncover the clues |
| 29344s | that lead to the truth |
| 29347s | behind this dark bruise |
| 29352s | join us here with the grimm and empires |
| 29356s | choose your power without heavenly bias |
| 29360s | for at the end |
| 29362s | they will burn in the fire |
| 29365s | when it is known who slayed |
| 29368s | tenacious the sire |
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| 29407s | hmm |
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| 29597s | uh |
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| 29701s | so |
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| 29758s | do |
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| 29787s | do |
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| 29797s | so |
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| 29890s | hello everybody and welcome back to |
| 29892s | grand masters last call today is the |
| 29895s | kickoff day it's friday uh of week |
| 29897s | number one of grand masters last call |
| 29899s | and uh we're about to |
| 29901s | have some continued matches from group b |
| 29904s | jumping to the winners match first which |
| 29905s | is going to be pun versus blize my name |
| 29907s | is cj joined by edelweiss once again |
| 29910s | very special guest who had to solo cast |
| 29914s | the first cast of the day for like 10 |
| 29916s | minutes |
| 29917s | but did great how you feeling |
| 29920s | yeah i think this is the one situation |
| 29921s | where being a nervous talker is a bit of |
| 29923s | an asset so we just sort of kept things |
| 29926s | rolling and then you were able to join |
| 29928s | back i i had a little bit of my own |
| 29929s | issues visually briefly but uh you know |
| 29932s | we reigned it back in and i think we're |
| 29934s | excited to dive into this winner's match |
| 29936s | for group b |
| 29938s | so |
| 29939s | blyson pun |
| 29940s | two very different experience levels |
| 29942s | when it comes to gm's bly's been it for |
| 29945s | the long haul i mean |
| 29947s | what i think what this is 64 and 50 over |
| 29950s | the course of gm's that's a lot of gm |
| 29952s | games |
| 29954s | has |
| 29955s | an impressive resume of uh back-to-back |
| 29958s | masters tour wins |
| 29960s | uh which was just insane back in |
| 29964s | i don't even know the years blend |
| 29965s | together now |
| 29966s | 2020 was it |
| 29968s | yeah i think it was 20 20. it was the |
| 29969s | first year that we did online no no |
| 29971s | because he he won |
| 29973s | the texas one that i was in person i |
| 29975s | don't remember but it what whatever it |
| 29978s | was it was nuts |
| 29980s | um and uh pawnee's had some pondy's |
| 29983s | actually been around for a while just |
| 29984s | not at the very highest level |
| 29987s | uh of competitive play um |
| 29990s | but has been in a lot of practice groups |
| 29992s | i've heard him mentioned |
| 29993s | uh many times by players in terms of oh |
| 29996s | this is somebody that i practice with or |
| 29998s | this is somebody that helped set up |
| 30000s | practice that i was a part of uh that |
| 30003s | type of thing so it was only a matter of |
| 30004s | time uh before pun broke through |
| 30007s | and uh made it to the the highest level |
| 30010s | of competition that we have to offer |
| 30012s | which currently is grandmaster's last |
| 30013s | call uh in the future |
| 30016s | who knows who knows |
| 30018s | and i like |
| 30020s | this bring here from pun the fell demon |
| 30023s | hunter i don't know if it's well |
| 30024s | positioned but i like the deck |
| 30026s | and you know it's just got that really |
| 30028s | feels good curve all kinds of early game |
| 30031s | stuff in your metamorphin slithersphere |
| 30033s | vanguard uh going into |
| 30036s | fossil fanatic for car draw blademaster |
| 30039s | akani just in so many lists right now in |
| 30041s | terms of just being powerfully |
| 30043s | positioned |
| 30044s | and then |
| 30045s | that one of bone glaive to sort of round |
| 30048s | things out going into your big power |
| 30050s | turns of curtris g lag and then chase to |
| 30053s | to really close out the game so i'm a |
| 30055s | big big fell demon punter fan excited to |
| 30058s | see that someone brought it only two |
| 30059s | people yeah |
| 30061s | yeah i'm a failed even hunter fan as |
| 30063s | well i just |
| 30064s | i'm and i'm fine with uh like other |
| 30066s | nerves like sure battleborn vanguard |
| 30069s | whatever to health one health |
| 30070s | care |
| 30072s | um but the |
| 30073s | carrier and sherlock like oh |
| 30077s | that combo i mean obviously it's |
| 30080s | can still happen but |
| 30082s | uh just curving one into the other was |
| 30085s | uh or having it being able to come down |
| 30087s | right on the turn |
| 30089s | um right on turn six you know |
| 30092s | when we've got a barnes card it just |
| 30094s | can't stick around for too long you just |
| 30096s | you can't have that kind of win rate |
| 30098s | card staying the game okay |
| 30101s | turn four and turn six are different |
| 30104s | i yes and |
| 30106s | it was still putting up the the numbers |
| 30109s | in terms of i know mulligan win rate i |
| 30110s | know |
| 30111s | i know |
| 30113s | i i'm not saying that i don't agree with |
| 30115s | it i'm just saying that i miss it |
| 30117s | yup that's fair that's fair well we'll |
| 30120s | see how it puts up against blyze's xxl |
| 30123s | uh mage uh we've learned the xx is |
| 30126s | because it is both 40 cards and a big |
| 30128s | spell mage which is uh a bold move uh |
| 30131s | like we were saying in terms of you've |
| 30134s | got 40 cards but then you still have |
| 30135s | those specific synergies that you're |
| 30137s | looking for in terms of belinda or |
| 30140s | the barbaric source risk plus having a |
| 30143s | big spell in hand to actually discount |
| 30145s | so uh we'll see if it's able to hold up |
| 30147s | against the onslaught from the foul the |
| 30149s | age |
| 30153s | i'm gonna get that matchup started |
| 30155s | taking a look at the bands real quick |
| 30158s | the quest hunter banned away |
| 30160s | from bly's |
| 30162s | which i i feel like makes sense |
| 30165s | it does tend to have |
| 30167s | more of that sort of uh |
| 30169s | early game board control which seems to |
| 30171s | be what can stop pawn in his tracks more |
| 30174s | so than some of the other decks |
| 30177s | um i would think a priest might also be |
| 30180s | somewhat of an option |
| 30182s | for a ban in that regard always having |
| 30184s | access to |
| 30185s | a ton of removal |
| 30186s | uh at some point in the game maybe not |
| 30189s | super early right maybe not to |
| 30192s | stop the snowball cards and then the |
| 30194s | boat rogue i think it's just a boat |
| 30195s | rogue |
| 30196s | uh normal boat rope being banned away on |
| 30199s | the side of pun um which i guess is the |
| 30202s | deck that could |
| 30203s | besides demon hunter that could have the |
| 30205s | most damage from hand |
| 30207s | which is what blize would be worried |
| 30209s | about i don't know |
| 30210s | i mean if you do get a sunken vessel and |
| 30214s | a filet fighter and you're going turn |
| 30216s | nine with smite uh |
| 30219s | gone fishing like you could make |
| 30220s | something happen there and it just it |
| 30222s | runs wicked stab that is the state of |
| 30224s | from hand damage these days in the |
| 30227s | forest set i think that's gonna change a |
| 30229s | little bit come |
| 30230s | castle nathria we'll see oh yeah |
| 30233s | yeah |
| 30234s | [Laughter] |
| 30237s | but uh yeah we've got pretty good start |
| 30241s | from from pun hero although it really |
| 30244s | just shut down immediately from |
| 30246s | the pelican |
| 30247s | uh you know in some respects i guess |
| 30250s | just having the 40 life |
| 30253s | even if you're a little bit inconsistent |
| 30255s | as the big spell mage it does buy you |
| 30257s | time to just |
| 30258s | play the rune although yeah sure uh |
| 30262s | just draw what you want and that |
| 30264s | barbaric sorceress is gonna be online |
| 30266s | might even be coining it out if we can |
| 30268s | afford to wait |
| 30272s | yeah and judging by pun's hand it seems |
| 30274s | like |
| 30275s | lies might have the the time to wait um |
| 30279s | the only real option here is either just |
| 30282s | a hero power on the the space rock in a |
| 30286s | pass just to get the extra damage or to |
| 30288s | just temple out |
| 30289s | uh the uh lady steno |
| 30292s | um |
| 30293s | which |
| 30295s | i mean i guess with how this hand is |
| 30297s | ladies if you're not just tempoing out |
| 30299s | the steno in this instance it would just |
| 30301s | be sitting in hand for quite a while |
| 30305s | uh and if your turn is gonna be pretty |
| 30307s | poor |
| 30309s | regardless you might as well just get it |
| 30311s | on the board or else you're going to |
| 30313s | have some weak turns and that's not what |
| 30314s | this deck can afford to do |
| 30316s | yeah so i like this play from blize uh |
| 30319s | trading in with the submerged space rock |
| 30321s | first see if you can pull an arcane |
| 30322s | spell that finishes the ladies athena |
| 30324s | off because then at least you have an |
| 30326s | arcane spell played for the hero later |
| 30328s | on doesn't find what he's looking for so |
| 30330s | just plays the starfish |
| 30333s | and now that's very important because |
| 30334s | the |
| 30335s | starfish would have been something we |
| 30337s | maybe used to proc this ocani i guess |
| 30339s | now renthal pretty pretty good use there |
| 30342s | but |
| 30343s | okani definitely something you want to |
| 30345s | play going into this uh |
| 30348s | turn of the mage i wonder if it might |
| 30350s | have been worth holding it for the turn |
| 30353s | fives and that's since that's when a |
| 30355s | coin six could have come out and six is |
| 30357s | really |
| 30359s | the play you want to deny if you're the |
| 30361s | demon hunter here |
| 30362s | but |
| 30363s | there wasn't much else going on in terms |
| 30366s | of stuff to do for pun there you know we |
| 30368s | we haven't |
| 30370s | played any need for greeds or fossil |
| 30371s | fanatics so the tank is a little bit dry |
| 30374s | here |
| 30376s | yeah and now pun has to make the |
| 30378s | decision of if he wants to play around |
| 30380s | barbaric sorceress uh |
| 30383s | uh on six uh coined out next turn by |
| 30386s | just dumping the hand could end up just |
| 30388s | playing everything fury hero power fell |
| 30391s | barrage |
| 30392s | and then just equipping a dread prison |
| 30395s | glaive just completely emptying the hand |
| 30398s | putting on some damage |
| 30400s | um |
| 30400s | obviously it wouldn't play around like a |
| 30402s | coin belinda in that instance but it |
| 30405s | could shut off one of the ways that |
| 30407s | blize can uh power up and it's gonna go |
| 30409s | ahead and just |
| 30411s | dump the fury in preparation |
| 30414s | yeah i mean what else are you really |
| 30416s | doing this turn if you're not gonna be |
| 30418s | spending that mana you may as well |
| 30421s | play around something your opponent |
| 30423s | could have that would really blow you |
| 30425s | out |
| 30425s | while uh |
| 30427s | pushing damage you know you want the |
| 30429s | foul spells played for a |
| 30432s | top deck jace later on in the game |
| 30434s | anyways so i think this is a really good |
| 30436s | push from pun just like hey your 40 card |
| 30439s | deck i don't know if you have it but |
| 30441s | just in case let's make sure that we |
| 30444s | don't have to deal with any barbaric |
| 30445s | sorceress shenanigans and uh |
| 30448s | you know it is still a 3-7 taunt so that |
| 30452s | is going to present some problems |
| 30454s | although that reckless apprentice draw |
| 30457s | oh my goodness it is very good the pun |
| 30460s | even |
| 30461s | puts the pre-trade in with the ladies |
| 30465s | to put it in range of reckless |
| 30467s | apprentice so |
| 30468s | um pun |
| 30470s | imagine if that pick up off the top |
| 30471s | wasn't vanguard and was instead |
| 30473s | multi-strike being able to take out both |
| 30475s | guards getting the honorable kill damage |
| 30478s | and pushing the poor to face uh so |
| 30481s | that's kind of one of the things that i |
| 30482s | like about the uh the fell deep hunter |
| 30484s | is that |
| 30485s | even when you have nothing sometimes |
| 30488s | the numbers just work out with dread |
| 30490s | person glaive |
| 30491s | uh in multi-strike to where you can push |
| 30493s | obscene |
| 30495s | uh amounts of damage |
| 30496s | um |
| 30497s | but |
| 30499s | it sort of run out of gas blize is |
| 30501s | quite low 17 especially considering the |
| 30503s | starting health was 40. |
| 30505s | it's just knows that |
| 30507s | there's a lot that blaz can do with |
| 30509s | seven mana |
| 30510s | uh even like you said the barbaric |
| 30512s | sorcerers it is just a big taunt has the |
| 30514s | deepwater evoker now too uh to be able |
| 30516s | to gain a good amount of life |
| 30518s | and blademaster akane when your opponent |
| 30520s | has a relatively empty hand it's just |
| 30522s | that much more disruptive |
| 30525s | yeah when there's nothing really to test |
| 30527s | for and you know you're going to be able |
| 30528s | to just kill this fossil fanatics you |
| 30530s | won't have to deal with it |
| 30532s | oh pun |
| 30534s | this was a tough choice and |
| 30536s | i could honestly go either way you know |
| 30539s | you played around the source race |
| 30541s | earlier so i get it and you you do get |
| 30544s | to draw another card for playing the |
| 30546s | multi-strike that that stings i mean you |
| 30549s | you know that there's still a spell that |
| 30551s | you're getting that they'll be able to |
| 30552s | swap so i think it was more about like |
| 30554s | hey if i draw another foul spell that |
| 30557s | means maybe i can play it it |
| 30559s | increases my probability of hitting a |
| 30561s | need for greed or a g-lag or a jace just |
| 30565s | something relevant in this position um |
| 30568s | you know i'm not even sure it's fair to |
| 30570s | say that this is a punish the barbaric |
| 30572s | sorceress being there because if pun |
| 30574s | hadn't attacked there would still be the |
| 30576s | multi-strike in hand |
| 30578s | so |
| 30579s | yeah it wouldn't have i guess in this |
| 30581s | situation pun hit |
| 30583s | the absolute worst card in the deck at |
| 30585s | one mana spell because it let blize play |
| 30587s | the sorceress and the rune of the arc |
| 30590s | mage in the same turn and if it was |
| 30591s | multi-stroke oh no it would have had to |
| 30593s | wait a turn |
| 30594s | [Music] |
| 30595s | right still would have been devastating |
| 30597s | but yeah you know |
| 30599s | whatever but now obliged should be able |
| 30601s | to just run away with this game uh drake |
| 30603s | fire amulet is the only spell that's |
| 30605s | left in the deck i believe oh no wait |
| 30606s | there was ignite |
| 30608s | uh |
| 30609s | oh off the rune but yeah it did get the |
| 30612s | ten so let's get the towel this is gonna |
| 30615s | have to be a big draw |
| 30617s | and that's not it even even attacks jace |
| 30620s | i don't think would have done it you |
| 30621s | know i i respect players staying in |
| 30624s | games given that you know this is last |
| 30626s | call this is their |
| 30628s | big opportunity to to try and make it |
| 30630s | into the global finals but uh |
| 30634s | i can say honestly i i don't see a line |
| 30636s | here for for pun |
| 30640s | maybe curtris |
| 30642s | into like chase i don't know |
| 30645s | it's got to be |
| 30647s | really good and blize has to basically |
| 30650s | have drawn |
| 30651s | all of the |
| 30653s | garbage early game minions like mailbox |
| 30656s | dancers and starfishes on empty boards |
| 30659s | things like that |
| 30661s | but is running out of turns even just |
| 30663s | these |
| 30664s | measly minions on the board are still |
| 30666s | pushing enough and this the blademaster |
| 30668s | okani |
| 30669s | again with an empty hand is so |
| 30671s | disruptive okay kircher's it's not a |
| 30673s | spell or a minion so it can still be |
| 30675s | played that's the the beginning of |
| 30677s | possibilities |
| 30678s | uh for pawn and now fury is upgraded to |
| 30681s | rank three so it is now nine mana deal |
| 30684s | four |
| 30686s | and a deal three |
| 30688s | yeah i don't think we're ever gonna take |
| 30691s | nine mana for for four damage that's |
| 30694s | it's not a great deal but uh but but hey |
| 30697s | you get the cool art to look at at least |
| 30700s | so |
| 30702s | oh you just watched pun is going to win |
| 30704s | this game with exact lethal with just |
| 30706s | absolutely nine mana fury it's gonna the |
| 30708s | jace is gonna be played it'll clear the |
| 30710s | board magically and set blize to four |
| 30713s | health |
| 30715s | and then root of the archmage will you |
| 30717s | know get a counter spell and and you |
| 30719s | can't play around it because it's nine |
| 30720s | mana fury |
| 30721s | yeah |
| 30723s | i'm actually surprised this mordrish is |
| 30725s | not turned on to the second reckless |
| 30728s | apprentice i guess didn't do much |
| 30731s | yeah i think it's at eight |
| 30734s | it's so close |
| 30735s | two left yeah it's it yep yep what good |
| 30738s | good call there i mean look a gaia is |
| 30741s | still a pretty good play where did that |
| 30743s | even come from |
| 30745s | uh |
| 30749s | is it in the deck is it just in the deck |
| 30751s | did we miss that i mean it's 40 cards so |
| 30759s | i'm trying to look over yeah gaia just |
| 30762s | in the deck look you know |
| 30764s | it's all right it does two damage to to |
| 30766s | the opposing board and and their face so |
| 30769s | good card if if you're running 40 uh |
| 30772s | yeah sorry i i feel like i should have |
| 30774s | had that known but uh these are the |
| 30776s | things you have to concern yourself with |
| 30778s | when players are running 40 card lists |
| 30781s | in a four set meta we're really uh |
| 30783s | pulling some some unexpected plays but |
| 30785s | it it does the job right a clear is a |
| 30787s | clear and it does some face damage as |
| 30789s | well fly is able to pull out the wind |
| 30791s | with the xxl mage |
| 30794s | against the demon hunter certainly the |
| 30796s | extra 10 life coming in handy there and |
| 30800s | a little uh unfortunate for |
| 30804s | for pun in terms of |
| 30805s | some of those top decks there really |
| 30807s | would have |
| 30808s | liked to see a need for greed or |
| 30810s | something i think for some reload |
| 30812s | yeah |
| 30813s | i'm just |
| 30816s | pretty awkward hand did have enough |
| 30818s | a good amount of damage early on but |
| 30820s | never found really the follow for it so |
| 30822s | uh and of course |
| 30825s | not a punish |
| 30826s | as you said but an unfortunate situation |
| 30829s | of fury being the card that was picked |
| 30831s | up off the top allowing flies to go |
| 30833s | barbaric sorcerers into |
| 30835s | a one mana rune of the arc mage on seven |
| 30838s | um which just gave flies options uh for |
| 30841s | the next few turns cleared up the little |
| 30843s | bit of damage on the board cut down what |
| 30845s | pun could do |
| 30846s | on the following turn so |
| 30848s | flies off to |
| 30849s | [Music] |
| 30850s | a nice little start here 1-0 in the uh |
| 30854s | this is the winner's match so the loser |
| 30856s | of this match is not out they'll go down |
| 30858s | to the decider match for our last match |
| 30860s | of the day |
| 30861s | but the winner of this match just goes |
| 30862s | uh straight on into the into the top |
| 30864s | eight um for this group so um for those |
| 30868s | who may not have tuned in at the very |
| 30869s | beginning of the broadcast |
| 30871s | graham asher's last call is the 16 |
| 30874s | players the the top four performers |
| 30877s | uh from each of the last previous season |
| 30879s | of grand masters from asia pacific |
| 30881s | americas and europe and then the top |
| 30884s | four uh performers from uh the masters |
| 30887s | tours uh uh for for so far this year |
| 30890s | which just ended happened to be four |
| 30892s | european players |
| 30893s | not gonna stick on that point very long |
| 30895s | but that's just what it |
| 30896s | ended up being if you gave us a couple |
| 30898s | more masters tours americas and asia |
| 30900s | pacific we would have been up there |
| 30901s | don't worry |
| 30902s | absolutely and |
| 30904s | they get separated into four four player |
| 30906s | groups the double elimination groups |
| 30908s | which we're going to play through two |
| 30910s | today two tomorrow and the top eight are |
| 30912s | going to move on |
| 30913s | to sunday where they're gonna play that |
| 30916s | out and we're gonna do that for uh three |
| 30918s | weeks and then have a playoff week which |
| 30920s | it with a rotating format uh coming in |
| 30923s | uh uh each week uh where we're gonna |
| 30925s | have trio and last year are standing in |
| 30928s | subsequent weeks after this week of |
| 30930s | conquest and i heard rumblings that |
| 30932s | we're gonna have best of seven conquests |
| 30935s | yeah best of seven something |
| 30937s | i don't think we've seen since |
| 30939s | gosh was it pavel's world championship |
| 30942s | it i believe so |
| 30944s | a long time |
| 30946s | yeah and i i think we |
| 30948s | me |
| 30949s | no |
| 30950s | did we do it there was a |
| 30952s | a uh it was a last call also um i |
| 30955s | remember this because uh |
| 30957s | um i remember frozen |
| 30960s | to that last call bringing a |
| 30963s | uh what was it a target |
| 30965s | [Music] |
| 30967s | he brought like a full control lineup he |
| 30969s | brought a target strategy which when |
| 30971s | you're playing best of five conquest |
| 30973s | target strategies can work |
| 30975s | right because usually in a diverse |
| 30978s | relatively diverse meta game there are |
| 30980s | three decks or four decks that you can |
| 30982s | use to counter something specific you |
| 30984s | mentioned earlier we saw something um |
| 30986s | akin to a target strategy with a |
| 30989s | super fakes |
| 30991s | target shaman uh lineup which worked |
| 30994s | incredibly well against habu gabu who |
| 30996s | couldn't get a win with his shaman and |
| 30997s | best of seven conquests that becomes |
| 30999s | more difficult because you have to have |
| 31001s | an entire extra deck |
| 31003s | that's good enough against a specific |
| 31005s | archetype in order to be classified as a |
| 31008s | counter strategy |
| 31009s | so usually you just end up with the good |
| 31011s | decks um |
| 31013s | so uh |
| 31014s | should be interesting but we're getting |
| 31016s | ahead of ourselves that's still three |
| 31017s | three weeks away right now we're just in |
| 31018s | good old |
| 31020s | uh best of five conquest |
| 31022s | tried and true |
| 31024s | good old park panther gameplay what what |
| 31026s | a card |
| 31027s | uh you know getting to put this into a |
| 31030s | ramp through it not really the typical |
| 31032s | ram shrewd card you would expect but |
| 31033s | when you have to go to 40 cards again |
| 31035s | these are things you do other things you |
| 31037s | do |
| 31038s | keep alignment in the opener because you |
| 31041s | don't know how quickly you're going to |
| 31043s | find it if you don't when it comes to a |
| 31045s | 40 card list so a little bit bold saying |
| 31048s | hey i only have two alignments i have |
| 31051s | five ramp cards i feel like i'm more |
| 31054s | likely to hit the ramp in time than i am |
| 31056s | to hit the alignment in time so bly's |
| 31058s | keeping that eight mana celestial |
| 31060s | alignment in the opener and he is |
| 31062s | rewarded with the nourish pickup |
| 31067s | still has nothing for turn four |
| 31071s | uh the null will only go down to five |
| 31073s | mana um |
| 31075s | but it doesn't look like that's going to |
| 31076s | be too much of an issue because pawn is |
| 31078s | just on cleanup duty here uh |
| 31080s | trading away the need for greed getting |
| 31081s | the sigil set up |
| 31083s | uh so could have a powerful oh another |
| 31085s | park panther that's that's nothing |
| 31087s | before you say |
| 31090s | flies begs to differ |
| 31092s | again that lightning play i think it was |
| 31095s | almost down before we saw it drawn |
| 31097s | visually |
| 31100s | so now pun gonna have to clean this up |
| 31102s | again that's not a minion that can be |
| 31104s | allowed to stick the multi-strike |
| 31106s | glaive is |
| 31108s | quite nice for doing that uh |
| 31110s | unfortunately just a mana shy without |
| 31112s | the glaive being pre-equipped from being |
| 31114s | able to get the vanguard down as well |
| 31117s | which should be |
| 31118s | really nice |
| 31119s | we can see there's an arcanist in hand |
| 31121s | for blize so it you know would end up |
| 31124s | being fine but uh that's really the kind |
| 31127s | of play you like to make if you're the |
| 31128s | demon hunter is push eight damage |
| 31131s | make a board of you know four one ones |
| 31133s | in the vanguard |
| 31134s | uh but yeah a bit of decision making to |
| 31136s | be done here it may just be the glaive |
| 31140s | multi-strike push or |
| 31142s | uh |
| 31143s | i could see an argument as well for for |
| 31145s | just the vanguard multi-strike uh to |
| 31148s | make a big board vanquished yeah |
| 31151s | i think i like making a big board |
| 31153s | because a lot of times |
| 31155s | um there there was the the slushy |
| 31158s | alignment which was kept in the mulligan |
| 31159s | but that could very well be like a guff |
| 31162s | um |
| 31163s | that would have been kept in the |
| 31164s | mulligan as well |
| 31165s | since it hasn't been played up until |
| 31167s | this point so setting up a big turn |
| 31169s | going into five when you expect uh |
| 31171s | some form of ramp like nourish or guff |
| 31174s | to be able to swing back |
| 31176s | uh with the additional minions uh so i |
| 31179s | like that the setup from pun there but |
| 31181s | it is going to be taken out by the uh |
| 31184s | spammy arcanist instead so |
| 31187s | again not a punishment because i liked |
| 31188s | puns play i think given the information |
| 31191s | that he had |
| 31192s | uh it was the right call to try and go |
| 31194s | wide on the board |
| 31195s | uh expecting maybe a little bit of a |
| 31197s | dead turn from bly's |
| 31199s | um but now it's just |
| 31202s | all right full cost |
| 31203s | predation here |
| 31205s | not the best but does have a jace and |
| 31208s | probably wants to just get that |
| 31209s | uh played on eight with the way this |
| 31211s | hand is dump the remaining fell spells |
| 31213s | next turn |
| 31214s | and then json eight and try and push as |
| 31216s | much as you can |
| 31218s | yeah a little surprised not to see |
| 31220s | you know the fury come down rather than |
| 31223s | the fel barrage to be able to at least |
| 31226s | get some face damage for killing that |
| 31228s | 3-4 because using the fel barrage means |
| 31231s | that you're not taking advantage of the |
| 31233s | text on the glaive |
| 31235s | so uh |
| 31236s | maybe missed a little bit of damage |
| 31238s | there unless there's something i'm not |
| 31239s | thinking of but yeah we're just fully |
| 31241s | juicing the jace uh whether or not |
| 31244s | uh alignment comes down and i'm sorry |
| 31246s | did did blize not play the nurse last |
| 31248s | term what's what was going on with that |
| 31250s | it's just here setting up for alignment |
| 31252s | i guess wants to have nourish for post |
| 31254s | alone okay sure sure i guess seeing the |
| 31258s | hands mostly empty |
| 31260s | uh |
| 31261s | feeling relatively safe yeah okay see |
| 31263s | these are the kind of players that i |
| 31265s | would not personally think to make i |
| 31267s | would say oh we want to ramp into the |
| 31269s | alignment but why says no you know what |
| 31271s | we're almost there i would rather |
| 31273s | alignment and then nourish where it |
| 31275s | gives me a refund and i can play two |
| 31277s | more cards immediately |
| 31279s | so this is |
| 31281s | a little bit scary uh in terms of the |
| 31283s | jace coming down but |
| 31286s | i think |
| 31287s | might not be enough yet the null |
| 31289s | immediately becomes zero mana |
| 31291s | to cleanly take care of this seven five |
| 31294s | which would have been the the hope of |
| 31296s | pun that at least the turn alignment |
| 31298s | comes down nothing is to be done |
| 31300s | uh and |
| 31304s | i |
| 31305s | i don't know here tj i guess you can |
| 31307s | take this sigil to try and set up a |
| 31309s | power turn later on because reducing |
| 31310s | something by one sets it to zero but |
| 31314s | yeah i need for green looking pretty |
| 31315s | rough |
| 31316s | dredging the need for greed is not what |
| 31319s | you want to do um because the cost will |
| 31321s | actually |
| 31323s | plop up increase |
| 31324s | yeah it'll increase um |
| 31327s | so i guess if he hated those choices he |
| 31330s | could leave the other cards at the |
| 31331s | bottom and just |
| 31332s | select the need for greed and trade it |
| 31334s | hoping to find something different |
| 31336s | um then you're |
| 31338s | you're uh |
| 31339s | guaranteed putting something like uh |
| 31343s | setting aside half your mana for next |
| 31345s | turn for no benefit just to |
| 31347s | trade um and yeah this should block up |
| 31350s | the game for blaze i don't think there's |
| 31352s | a way out for a pun 15 damage on board |
| 31354s | blaze is plenty healthy even if curtis |
| 31356s | was picked up here off the top or she |
| 31359s | logged then still wouldn't be enough and |
| 31361s | a 2-0 uh |
| 31364s | nice little uh game plan there from him |
| 31366s | i think the the space spammy arcanist |
| 31368s | was big having the knoll post alignment |
| 31371s | as well |
| 31372s | knowing that he he had a way to defend |
| 31375s | himself on the alignment turn to clear |
| 31377s | off something on the board if need be |
| 31379s | the patience paid off so |
| 31382s | yeah it's these little plays on on |
| 31384s | crucial turns not playing the nourish |
| 31387s | because you know it's more powerful post |
| 31389s | alignment saving the null so that the |
| 31391s | turn that you play alignment you do have |
| 31393s | a defensive tool at your disposal uh |
| 31396s | these kinds of things are you know what |
| 31398s | make players like flies |
| 31400s | best the best and i think that was |
| 31401s | really put on display here |
| 31404s | you know |
| 31405s | these players like pawn like judgment |
| 31407s | are really |
| 31408s | trying to |
| 31410s | fight up against these sort of more |
| 31412s | established players and i'd love to |
| 31415s | to |
| 31416s | see them be able to show off but so far |
| 31418s | it seemed like a bit of a struggle for a |
| 31420s | few of them |
| 31421s | yeah |
| 31423s | and last deck |
| 31425s | uh remaining for blize is going to be |
| 31427s | the priest the boar priest |
| 31431s | though and uh based on his clean play of |
| 31434s | the the boar priest |
| 31436s | uh in the the first series that we saw |
| 31438s | uh from bly's the last series against |
| 31439s | dimitri kazoff |
| 31441s | uh pun could be |
| 31442s | it for hard times all three decks |
| 31444s | remaining has the uh shaman left |
| 31447s | the this beast hunter |
| 31449s | uh left remaining uh which actually |
| 31452s | can sometimes be |
| 31453s | a |
| 31454s | problematic |
| 31455s | for the uh the board priest uh because |
| 31458s | you can get big meetings out really |
| 31460s | early that can be tough to remove |
| 31464s | um |
| 31465s | and uh |
| 31466s | you know the |
| 31468s | upgraded secrets from be stock or |
| 31469s | tabbish can also |
| 31471s | be pretty difficult |
| 31472s | to deal with that times obviously |
| 31474s | there's just one card |
| 31476s | um but |
| 31477s | that can sometimes be a difference maker |
| 31479s | in the series and then pun would have to |
| 31480s | win with the demon hunter as well with |
| 31483s | all the healing that's in the deck and |
| 31484s | all the board clears for small stuff |
| 31486s | uh and we've seen that one go the way of |
| 31488s | board priests a good amount of times |
| 31490s | yeah the shard of the naaru i think very |
| 31492s | important against the |
| 31494s | hunter because it's so death |
| 31495s | rattle-heavy being able to do things |
| 31497s | like you know turn off uh mountain bear |
| 31500s | or something that would otherwise be a |
| 31502s | frustrating minion to clear if you're |
| 31504s | able to weave in a shard of the naaru |
| 31506s | before you you finish off your |
| 31509s | xyrella turn or big pyromancer turn that |
| 31512s | lets you actually get the board clear |
| 31514s | instead of having to deal with all this |
| 31516s | crazy nonsense |
| 31517s | but sometimes if you're able to just get |
| 31519s | the harpoon gun down and |
| 31521s | stick the minion and they don't have the |
| 31524s | response yet because they haven't been |
| 31525s | able to establish their card draw you're |
| 31527s | able to as a hunter to sort of |
| 31530s | keep them from having enough time and |
| 31531s | and beat them down so |
| 31533s | we'll sort of see who can get the the |
| 31535s | better of that tug of war |
| 31537s | k9 otron could potentially be a pretty |
| 31540s | nice start if it is able to pull a one |
| 31542s | drop |
| 31547s | i didn't even see what blize picked |
| 31549s | nope don't even try |
| 31551s | [Laughter] |
| 31554s | don't eat or on one |
| 31557s | the only uncurved play you can make as |
| 31559s | the boar priest |
| 31561s | ah the click clocker slightly out of |
| 31564s | order |
| 31565s | uh yeah the clue clacker was picked up |
| 31567s | first it would have been a little bit |
| 31569s | more |
| 31570s | uh power on the board with the canino |
| 31571s | tron uh it does hit a one drop with the |
| 31574s | peasant |
| 31575s | but because the boar so easily trades |
| 31578s | into it |
| 31579s | maybe pun wants to pick something |
| 31582s | different |
| 31584s | just to be able to have it in hand for |
| 31586s | uh next turn to you know guarantee be |
| 31589s | able to pull a tavish up up from the |
| 31590s | bottom |
| 31592s | but yeah whatever |
| 31596s | yep yeah that is a bit of a bummer since |
| 31598s | usually the priest does not have that |
| 31600s | turn one but it comes in clutch there uh |
| 31602s | we do see |
| 31604s | azsharan sabre into pet collector |
| 31606s | normally very strong but you do need |
| 31608s | something to kill the saber off into and |
| 31612s | that's not typically something that the |
| 31613s | priest is doing until they play |
| 31615s | something like a handmaiden |
| 31617s | so |
| 31619s | could happen i mean |
| 31621s | you can do that stuff in the same turn |
| 31622s | but we saw blize picking the shard of |
| 31625s | the naaru off of that |
| 31628s | discover earlier uh i mentioned how |
| 31630s | crucial it can be in this matchup |
| 31636s | i'm a little |
| 31637s | surprised by that i guess |
| 31640s | nothing to |
| 31643s | trade into so maybe blyze is saying hey |
| 31645s | then they'll they'll pull out the other |
| 31647s | one and i can get a nice board clear |
| 31648s | here while silencing |
| 31650s | the sunken |
| 31654s | they're concerned about the life total |
| 31656s | potentially uh but |
| 31658s | um |
| 31659s | yeah it's just gonna silence the suck in |
| 31662s | has hand space now |
| 31664s | for the handmaiden to be able to fill up |
| 31666s | two minutes a spare |
| 31668s | and |
| 31670s | if there is |
| 31672s | a |
| 31673s | if the narrow not picked up |
| 31676s | though |
| 31677s | doesn't have ads |
| 31680s | not refreshing our mana crystals here |
| 31682s | are we uh maybe |
| 31685s | i feel like you got to decide soon one |
| 31688s | two |
| 31689s | two spells played so if you desperate |
| 31691s | prayer |
| 31693s | and then refresh you gain the mana |
| 31695s | crystals back to be able to play zyrella |
| 31697s | yeah clear |
| 31700s | yeah that could be it |
| 31702s | i think that's that's consideration here |
| 31705s | is do i want to spend zyrella now or |
| 31706s | save it for something bigger later |
| 31710s | it's actually a reasonable reasonably |
| 31713s | sized board too |
| 31715s | for blize yeah that's the case |
| 31718s | a 3-1 a one-two and i don't think |
| 31720s | cyrella wasn't the oh it wasn't the |
| 31722s | switch okay so yeah it is just gonna be |
| 31724s | a two-health |
| 31730s | but now pun's in a bit of an awkward |
| 31732s | spot i mean you can go for the barack |
| 31734s | and then tray the doggie biscuit to give |
| 31736s | it rush to at least clear off one of |
| 31738s | these minions |
| 31739s | but that sets up almost sort of the |
| 31742s | perfect board for the boar priest to go |
| 31744s | for |
| 31745s | some kind of pyro |
| 31747s | peel card draw turn |
| 31749s | bly's doesn't have the gift of the naaru |
| 31751s | yet so it won't be too crazy uh but he |
| 31755s | can still |
| 31756s | just look for it with uh you know one of |
| 31759s | these north shore pliers and |
| 31761s | click north clerics uh hero power and |
| 31763s | flash heal |
| 31765s | oh or just get a handmaiden that works |
| 31768s | too is someone injured |
| 31779s | oh okay here's the gift yep yeah |
| 31784s | gift for next turn handmaiden is now |
| 31788s | what once uh no that was the only spell |
| 31790s | uh played that turn so still two spells |
| 31792s | needed for a handmaiden but it'll be a |
| 31794s | nice |
| 31796s | uh chain here of |
| 31798s | a pyro plus cleric turn |
| 31801s | and uh that with gift of the gnar into |
| 31804s | handmade and however |
| 31808s | hydraulic is spooky yeah |
| 31811s | we just traded away |
| 31813s | the second shard so i think |
| 31816s | uh pun feeling a little bit confident |
| 31819s | that hey maybe this hydraulidon |
| 31821s | lives although if you're able to do |
| 31823s | enough instances of damage anyways which |
| 31826s | it looks like is |
| 31828s | relatively |
| 31830s | easily gonna happen here |
| 31832s | is it |
| 31833s | [Music] |
| 31835s | uh well you've got the shadow word |
| 31836s | devour at the oh i guess since you're |
| 31838s | healing the hydraulidon |
| 31840s | yeah yeah |
| 31841s | not quite as clean as one would hope |
| 31844s | yeah there's |
| 31846s | there's enough zero meta spells here at |
| 31847s | the end |
| 31848s | okay yeah yeah and there's the shard |
| 31850s | anyway |
| 31854s | you might be able to save the shard now |
| 31860s | oh yeah with devour devourer will have |
| 31861s | no then zero spells okay yeah oh |
| 31864s | 311 pyro that's |
| 31867s | that's rough because that's pretty tough |
| 31869s | for the |
| 31870s | the hunter to clear and things just |
| 31872s | escalate so quickly when a pyro sticks |
| 31876s | for the board priest |
| 31880s | this is |
| 31881s | can you imagine if there was like a |
| 31882s | denathrius in hand i mean you'd never |
| 31884s | get to play it as a hunter but |
| 31886s | these are the things that i get excited |
| 31888s | for with infuse is something like a |
| 31890s | hydraulidon |
| 31892s | all those infuses happening |
| 31895s | oh my gosh how many would that have been |
| 31897s | there were there were five dying with |
| 31899s | every spell plus the three that died |
| 31902s | initially |
| 31903s | and it healed for four health so five |
| 31906s | times |
| 31907s | seven 35 yeah the initial four 39 |
| 31913s | plus the two extra minions 41 |
| 31917s | yeah the the dream scenario and and then |
| 31919s | you wake up because 10 mana is too far |
| 31921s | away but |
| 31923s | it's uh |
| 31925s | you know really fun to think about how |
| 31927s | infused can uh |
| 31929s | change things we do hit the main body |
| 31932s | wow |
| 31934s | getting to trade in wait how |
| 31938s | uh trading the doggy biscuit gives kids |
| 31940s | a rush |
| 31941s | no no no but uh |
| 31943s | the |
| 31945s | each instance doesn't count it multiple |
| 31948s | times |
| 31952s | right |
| 31953s | i don't know that's even able to be |
| 31955s | proved |
| 31957s | because like the heads died |
| 31959s | like seven i think but it does i think |
| 31961s | they're still considered different |
| 31963s | minions yeah yeah it's not as low |
| 31966s | probability as you would expect because |
| 31969s | yes the there's two different types of |
| 31972s | heads in the in the pool |
| 31974s | and then the main hydraulidon body uh |
| 31976s | and but i think the only other beast we |
| 31978s | had were |
| 31980s | the two sides of the the 4-3 rusher so |
| 31984s | it's like |
| 31987s | a one in five which isn't horrible |
| 31990s | yeah because the two heads are are |
| 31993s | almost gonna are gonna be there a |
| 31994s | hundred percent of the time so even if |
| 31996s | you |
| 31996s | think it you're |
| 31998s | you're discovering one choice from the |
| 31999s | other two bodies it's you can even |
| 32001s | almost bring it closer like one and |
| 32003s | three odds |
| 32005s | considering two of their choices are |
| 32006s | almost always going to be the head |
| 32008s | and the last choice is going to be the |
| 32010s | main body or the two enemies |
| 32013s | oh my gosh it's happening again |
| 32015s | it's happening again and this time pun |
| 32018s | gonna get set to zero mana on the end of |
| 32020s | it pyro devour once again showing just |
| 32023s | how powerful it is on a big board like |
| 32025s | that uh being able to stay alive to |
| 32027s | finish off the main body in the end |
| 32030s | uh |
| 32031s | that's i think just gonna be lights out |
| 32033s | here |
| 32035s | [Applause] |
| 32037s | let's concede |
| 32038s | upon experiencing uh both sides |
| 32042s | of this type of series uh today with um |
| 32046s | a 3-0 over judgment where it felt like |
| 32049s | judgment couldn't do anything in the |
| 32050s | games uh in his first match and now in |
| 32052s | uh getting three owed by blize in a |
| 32055s | match where |
| 32056s | it felt like he really couldn't do |
| 32058s | anything so |
| 32059s | um |
| 32060s | that just means that in his decider |
| 32063s | match or in his uh |
| 32065s | match final match later on today he's |
| 32067s | going to have the most back and forth |
| 32070s | close series of all time |
| 32072s | to the side that's how that works right |
| 32073s | he's out of the group yep exactly it's |
| 32076s | just karma right you go full circle you |
| 32078s | get the 3-0 and the o3 and then uh |
| 32080s | things meet in the middle somewhere |
| 32083s | but first we're going to have to |
| 32085s | show the |
| 32086s | first match of the lower bracket |
| 32089s | between |
| 32091s | judgement and dimitri |
| 32094s | yeah |
| 32095s | yeah and blize uh we'll be moving on to |
| 32097s | the top eight so we're going to see |
| 32098s | blize again uh play on sunday first |
| 32101s | player to move out of group b |
| 32103s | um for those of you who didn't tune on |
| 32105s | earlier in the day group a consists of |
| 32107s | possessing super fake uh habitable and |
| 32109s | mighty possessing and super fake with |
| 32111s | players that don possessing first and |
| 32113s | then super fake winning that decider |
| 32115s | matchup at the end against habukabu to |
| 32117s | move on and now group b we have blize as |
| 32120s | the winner of the group so he'll get |
| 32121s | that |
| 32122s | uh number one group seed uh going into |
| 32126s | uh the playoff round on sunday |
| 32129s | and second will be between one of these |
| 32131s | three players judgment dimitri kazoff or |
| 32134s | pun |
| 32135s | uh to determine who's gonna also move on |
| 32139s | uh from group b so i'm very impressed by |
| 32142s | blize uh in this this first series |
| 32144s | brought up absolutely no shaman lineup |
| 32146s | which was pretty unique as far as the |
| 32148s | whole field went |
| 32150s | and uh had a close series to start |
| 32152s | things off but then this one against pun |
| 32154s | just felt like everything was |
| 32156s | everything was rolling um so well done |
| 32159s | to blinds uh but we need to move on as |
| 32162s | we solve two more matches on the day |
| 32165s | left uh so coming up next we're gonna |
| 32167s | have that lower bracket match between |
| 32168s | dimitri kazoff and judgement but before |
| 32171s | we jump into that we are gonna have to |
| 32172s | go to just a quick break but again don't |
| 32175s | go anywhere more grandmaster's action |
| 32177s | right after this |
| 32182s | [Music] |
| 32191s | [Applause] |
| 32192s | [Music] |
| 32196s | in the darkest of seasons where ruthless |
| 32199s | eyes gawk for horrific reasons |
| 32203s | for a hidden hand has struck me down |
| 32208s | with such ruthlessness |
| 32210s | so deep and profound |
| 32214s | then he |
| 32217s | [Music] |
| 32228s | the anima drifts across the floor |
| 32231s | highlighting the creatures who walked |
| 32233s | through my door |
| 32235s | the motives are as black as night |
| 32239s | avarice power revenge and blight |
| 32245s | we watch the hero |
| 32247s | uncover the clues |
| 32249s | that lead to the truth |
| 32252s | behind this dark rooms |
| 32257s | join us here with the grimm and empires |
| 32261s | choose your power without heavenly bias |
| 32265s | for at the end |
| 32267s | they will burn in the fire |
| 32270s | when it is known who slayed |
| 32273s | danathrius |
| 32274s | [Music] |
| 32291s | so |
| 32294s | [Music] |
| 32304s | [Music] |
| 32310s | [Music] |
| 32317s | [Music] |
| 32324s | do |
| 32345s | [Music] |
| 32358s | [Music] |
| 32375s | hello everybody welcome back to |
| 32376s | grandmaster's last call we're |
| 32378s | trucking along with uh group b here on |
| 32381s | day number one moving into the |
| 32382s | elimination match between dimitri kazoff |
| 32385s | and judgement my name is cj joined by |
| 32388s | edelweiss once again |
| 32390s | and |
| 32391s | this one should be interesting uh |
| 32393s | judgment did not have |
| 32395s | the greatest start the start that you |
| 32397s | would hope for as the beginning of uh |
| 32400s | your grand master's foray let's say |
| 32403s | getting threw by pun in one of the |
| 32404s | fastest series we've seen |
| 32407s | yeah i really feel for judgment uh just |
| 32410s | the draws were not there |
| 32412s | you know you really can't fault him too |
| 32415s | much looking at some of those hands uh |
| 32417s | in those games um |
| 32420s | but i'm kind of wondering we're building |
| 32422s | a |
| 32424s | a sort of odd storyline here in terms of |
| 32426s | the players that have been in gm's the |
| 32428s | longest are the ones who are are pulling |
| 32430s | out some of the wins so now we see pawn |
| 32433s | and judgment some of the newer players |
| 32434s | facing off to see |
| 32436s | who is going to be eliminated |
| 32439s | tough spot to be in for sure |
| 32442s | yeah so we can use that to develop a |
| 32444s | story as we move forward in the |
| 32446s | remainder of the groups where the player |
| 32448s | that's been in grand masters the longest |
| 32450s | is the favorite |
| 32452s | and uh the other players is the underdog |
| 32454s | so in this one dmitry kazoff we're not |
| 32456s | even going to look at the lineups |
| 32458s | uh he's he's had what three seasons of |
| 32461s | grand masters under his belt which means |
| 32463s | that he's definitely |
| 32465s | uh the favorite based on the outcome of |
| 32466s | right right the group so far |
| 32469s | yes i got things mixed up i said |
| 32471s | judgment and pun but that's that would |
| 32473s | that would only happen if judgment is |
| 32474s | able to get this win over dimitri uh so |
| 32478s | that would be uh i guess the hope right |
| 32480s | to see some of our our newer players |
| 32482s | shine shine through a bit but uh yeah i |
| 32485s | think as things currently stand |
| 32487s | judgment coming in as the underdog here |
| 32490s | yep |
| 32491s | judgment uh banning away |
| 32493s | uh the shaman from dmitry kazoff |
| 32496s | and demetrius kazlov banned away the |
| 32498s | mage |
| 32500s | uh from judgement so we have hunter |
| 32501s | rogue shaman left for judgment and then |
| 32504s | uh for dmitry mage druid and rogue and |
| 32506s | demetrius is going to be opening with |
| 32508s | the |
| 32509s | the thief brogue |
| 32511s | um with jackpot and the swiftscale |
| 32514s | trickster |
| 32516s | uh contraband stash tess |
| 32518s | uh |
| 32519s | dimitrije we said earlier sort of |
| 32521s | playing the |
| 32522s | the jackpot lineup uh yep |
| 32525s | so to speak with lady prestor druid with |
| 32528s | a big spell mage |
| 32530s | and with the the thief rogue so beholden |
| 32534s | to the |
| 32536s | the random randomly generated aspects |
| 32539s | of the current meta of hearthstone love |
| 32542s | it praise yog all hail |
| 32546s | it's uh |
| 32547s | gonna be the thief rogue for both |
| 32548s | players here though uh running the |
| 32550s | contraband stash the blood in the water |
| 32553s | uh made its way into lists in large part |
| 32556s | because sometimes you just need |
| 32558s | something to hit with naga trickster and |
| 32561s | you don't always get the best pulls off |
| 32563s | of the jackpot so if all else fails |
| 32566s | being able to say coin |
| 32568s | swift scale trickster into a blood in |
| 32570s | the water |
| 32571s | as we see |
| 32572s | potentially an option here can be some |
| 32574s | pretty high tempo in the early game |
| 32577s | yeah |
| 32582s | he really doesn't want to give up |
| 32584s | the paladin yet |
| 32586s | okay he's going to hear a power instead |
| 32588s | he mouse over the maestra but |
| 32590s | obviously |
| 32591s | you know he'd pop out back into rogue |
| 32593s | form |
| 32594s | whatever you want to call it out of |
| 32596s | paladin form |
| 32597s | and even though it does have a nolan |
| 32599s | hand it would |
| 32600s | uh you know reduce his overall uh power |
| 32603s | level once he does pick up those knolls |
| 32605s | they'd be stuck at what three |
| 32607s | and that instance since he picked up two |
| 32609s | row spells actually no two |
| 32612s | um |
| 32613s | so |
| 32614s | uh holds on to a little bit longer |
| 32617s | there are two tooth of nefarians in hand |
| 32620s | so |
| 32620s | you could make an argument that like |
| 32622s | well just get the maestro down so you |
| 32623s | have something in play and then you can |
| 32625s | use your tooths to discount the nulls |
| 32628s | later on it's not like the rogue has no |
| 32630s | way of discounting them once you've |
| 32632s | taken away the mask from uh maestra but |
| 32636s | i i can understand wanting to at least |
| 32638s | get it discounted one more so that if |
| 32641s | the only burgles that you play before |
| 32642s | you get a null are both of these tooths |
| 32644s | that they are going to cost zero |
| 32647s | additionally if we do play the maestro |
| 32649s | and our opponent has a null |
| 32651s | it's left with two health which is not |
| 32653s | gonna put it in a position to be |
| 32655s | honorably killed by the tooth of |
| 32657s | nefarian anyway so |
| 32659s | uh |
| 32660s | yeah still not a great start for dimitri |
| 32663s | but things can take a little while for |
| 32667s | these rogue decks to to build up a board |
| 32670s | yeah |
| 32673s | oh um |
| 32675s | a couple options here for dimitri the |
| 32678s | trickster plus blood in the water is |
| 32680s | probably the most power that you can |
| 32683s | make on the board right now this was |
| 32685s | essentially exactly the scenario that |
| 32687s | you'd mentioned |
| 32688s | no jackpot in hand or we could |
| 32691s | substitute that with got jackpot but |
| 32693s | terrible spells |
| 32694s | and just a way to |
| 32697s | build up a board some nice tempo make |
| 32699s | some minions clear minion |
| 32702s | feels good |
| 32703s | yeah i think you generally prefer to be |
| 32705s | able to |
| 32707s | kill something with the three damage and |
| 32708s | then have a healthy five-five shark on |
| 32710s | the |
| 32711s | uh the other side of things but |
| 32713s | unfortunately that null |
| 32716s | not being reduced in size |
| 32718s | very much by the one one uh is going to |
| 32720s | have to be cleared up by the rush and |
| 32722s | this okani is just hey uh |
| 32725s | let's let's try and gain a little bit of |
| 32727s | life because it is dead on board |
| 32730s | yeah |
| 32732s | dmitry could even |
| 32735s | oh |
| 32738s | would you want a double tooth to keep |
| 32740s | these minions alive |
| 32742s | uh yeah you know if your opponent didn't |
| 32744s | immediately clear them up before i think |
| 32747s | stands to reason that you think they |
| 32748s | won't have another |
| 32750s | answer on the following turn so |
| 32752s | playing double tooth here uh using the |
| 32754s | prep to check |
| 32756s | you don't get both discovers but you've |
| 32758s | got a reconnaissance in hand so that's |
| 32760s | still something and you get to keep your |
| 32762s | board pressure so i like the aggression |
| 32765s | yeah |
| 32767s | pushes some damage |
| 32769s | and uh getting this mana spent too since |
| 32773s | uh even though there's not guaranteed |
| 32774s | man expenditure over the next couple |
| 32776s | turns |
| 32777s | uh getting this mana out of the way to |
| 32779s | be able to potentially play |
| 32782s | the spell from uh tooth plus the minion |
| 32785s | from reconnaissance going into like turn |
| 32787s | seven where he could replay test and go |
| 32789s | for |
| 32790s | like that that tempo test that may not |
| 32792s | be massive but gets enough stuff going |
| 32794s | for you to win the game makes sense too |
| 32796s | so |
| 32797s | all things considered i really do like |
| 32799s | this play |
| 32800s | yeah and then going for the protect the |
| 32802s | innocent here uh i think a bit of a |
| 32805s | toss-up between the imp swarm and |
| 32807s | protect the innocent we obviously don't |
| 32809s | have a natural way of healing in rogue |
| 32812s | to be able to activate protect the |
| 32813s | innocent but it is just a five-five |
| 32815s | taunt uh which is non-curved play for |
| 32817s | this turn uh and the proactive you know |
| 32821s | spells that make minions are definitely |
| 32822s | the things you want to be replaying off |
| 32824s | your contraband stashes your tesses etc |
| 32828s | so i like the pickup i think the imps |
| 32830s | would have been okay as well just |
| 32831s | because you get to also play the |
| 32833s | reconnaissance and it would be rank two |
| 32836s | given that we just hit five so you would |
| 32837s | have a pair of three two imps and maybe |
| 32840s | a death rattle off the reconnaissance |
| 32842s | but uh yeah just |
| 32844s | five five is solid |
| 32847s | yeah |
| 32850s | oh |
| 32855s | i mean it's definitely not the squirrel |
| 32856s | right |
| 32857s | najak has some |
| 32859s | serious utility particularly when you |
| 32861s | know your opponent has a colossal next |
| 32863s | turn |
| 32864s | although we might just play it here to |
| 32866s | steal the five-five for tempo yeah for |
| 32868s | tempo |
| 32869s | um |
| 32871s | the whole breaker would have been |
| 32873s | interesting in terms of like maximum |
| 32876s | power on board but i guess the najic |
| 32879s | hexane means that |
| 32881s | if nodric hexan's dealt with then you |
| 32883s | have less power but if it's not then you |
| 32885s | have more power |
| 32887s | and then when test comes down you're |
| 32888s | sacrificing a little bit of power |
| 32890s | because the nod jackson |
| 32892s | obviously wouldn't have its battlecry |
| 32893s | effect so just come back as the one for |
| 32896s | um |
| 32897s | but offering a |
| 32899s | a little bit of disruption and then was |
| 32901s | about to go with the gone fishing but i |
| 32902s | think he just wants to play the maestro |
| 32904s | here just for maximum power because he's |
| 32907s | sort of running out of resources but |
| 32908s | does have ways to sort of build back up |
| 32910s | this board and he's gonna put judgment |
| 32912s | down to 15 with a pretty menacing board |
| 32916s | and i mean it's quite obviously |
| 32918s | uh horn that you should expect here so |
| 32921s | just hoping that the quality of the |
| 32923s | colossal minion is |
| 32925s | not a |
| 32928s | game breaking game losing i guess yeah |
| 32931s | no no gigafin please |
| 32934s | really no gigafin uh you're not |
| 32936s | particularly thrilled to see something |
| 32938s | like the leviathan either |
| 32943s | oh |
| 32944s | i caster cursed it i i have spoken it |
| 32948s | into existence my my least favorite |
| 32950s | thing to see it doesn't come down though |
| 32953s | well |
| 32954s | he can |
| 32955s | clear off this with the claws plus the |
| 32958s | when we get the five five back yeah yeah |
| 32960s | yeah you get the five five back and you |
| 32962s | can |
| 32963s | save uh the gigafin four uh potential |
| 32966s | tests which is |
| 32968s | very likely going to come out this term |
| 32969s | yeah yeah you can have a read that |
| 32972s | anything specific was picked up |
| 32975s | from the uh from the horn |
| 32978s | i don't know if he can afford to play |
| 32980s | around it i guess you could |
| 32982s | open with contraband stash and and and |
| 32985s | see or |
| 32986s | you know trade with the cutlass first |
| 32989s | if that makes a play any more enticing |
| 32992s | and then contraband stash afterwards |
| 32995s | yeah and one thing about the najak is |
| 32997s | it's high tempo when you play it but |
| 32999s | it's not so great off things like stash |
| 33002s | and tess you know the whole breaker |
| 33004s | would have been sort of more interesting |
| 33005s | in that sense in terms of board presence |
| 33007s | but then you run the risk of drawing |
| 33009s | things like contraband stash or blood in |
| 33011s | the water and just dealing yourself a |
| 33013s | ton of damage out of nowhere it's not |
| 33015s | like your typical miracle rogue where |
| 33017s | all you have are cheap spells and so |
| 33018s | hole breaker is great because it picks |
| 33019s | you up |
| 33020s | shadow step and wicked stab and all that |
| 33022s | you know you can maybe get some of those |
| 33024s | cheaper cards but |
| 33025s | this thief rogue has a few more |
| 33027s | expensive things that you'd be taking a |
| 33028s | hit for and now because of that gigafin |
| 33032s | save |
| 33034s | judgment in a very strong position here |
| 33041s | labor's not gonna do much these are |
| 33043s | pretty mediocre pics i would say i might |
| 33046s | just take |
| 33047s | the taunt |
| 33048s | there's there's no beasts with krabatoa |
| 33050s | having been played |
| 33052s | yeah |
| 33054s | it does it is rush so it could help |
| 33057s | judgment clean up the board a little bit |
| 33060s | uh better on this turn but if |
| 33063s | ego fins what's on his mind then |
| 33066s | yeah the taunt seems to be more |
| 33067s | reasonable it's also cheaper for the |
| 33069s | same stat line even though it doesn't |
| 33070s | have rush |
| 33072s | um |
| 33074s | yeah so it is going to be the taunt okay |
| 33077s | yeah gigafin and then |
| 33081s | plenty of mana to still work |
| 33083s | with i mean we could full commit |
| 33087s | and just say |
| 33089s | stash is you know |
| 33091s | play another gigafin i don't think |
| 33093s | that's necessary i think you can you can |
| 33095s | save it and just get a dagger in yeah |
| 33098s | but uh |
| 33099s | that's going to be a pretty massive |
| 33101s | board in terms of another gig of finn |
| 33103s | being resurrected plus the 4-3 taunt i |
| 33105s | mean gigafin even without the clear is |
| 33108s | just a lot of stats |
| 33111s | yep |
| 33112s | this is lethal represented on the board |
| 33116s | and dimitri doesn't really have a way |
| 33121s | to do anything uh the shroud is just |
| 33125s | minions |
| 33126s | um |
| 33128s | so for dimitri we're looking at oh geez |
| 33132s | uh |
| 33135s | prep shroud into crabatoa would only be |
| 33138s | a little bit of power taken off the |
| 33140s | board |
| 33141s | and to queen ashara |
| 33143s | what doesn't have the time to play |
| 33145s | spells doesn't even have the amount of |
| 33146s | spells |
| 33148s | no |
| 33148s | no a little bit late it is zero but |
| 33151s | that's uh |
| 33153s | not doing it contraband stash only going |
| 33155s | to give us an ajax and a five five taunt |
| 33158s | and |
| 33159s | uh one other thing |
| 33162s | but |
| 33162s | just not really |
| 33165s | not really enough to pull it through |
| 33167s | there and that's kind of the nature of |
| 33169s | these |
| 33170s | uh what can i generate kinds of decks |
| 33173s | because sometimes it comes down to who |
| 33175s | generates the more powerful thing |
| 33177s | quickly um |
| 33178s | but uh |
| 33180s | yeah that gigafin really coming in |
| 33182s | clutch for her for a judgment uh even |
| 33184s | though he didn't need it on that very |
| 33186s | turn i |
| 33187s | i i got over eager the krav ato just |
| 33190s | perfect to get the queen azshara back |
| 33192s | and |
| 33193s | uh put himself in a very dominant |
| 33196s | position |
| 33197s | yeah with the way dimitri's hand was i |
| 33199s | feel like even without the gigafin |
| 33202s | uh yeah |
| 33204s | many other colossal minions would have |
| 33206s | likely cemented the game for judgment |
| 33208s | just maybe not as quickly dimitri didn't |
| 33210s | have any way to fight back on the board |
| 33212s | just had ways to sort of build up |
| 33215s | a mediocre board once again |
| 33218s | uh which wasn't really doing much |
| 33221s | wouldn't have been able to even have |
| 33222s | activated that the the |
| 33224s | queen ashara for quite some time without |
| 33227s | any other spells at hand so |
| 33229s | um |
| 33230s | yeah it was |
| 33232s | just the horn itself was |
| 33234s | uh pretty much the nail in the coffin or |
| 33236s | dimitri casual in that game but judgment |
| 33238s | is going to move over to the beast |
| 33239s | hunter |
| 33240s | uh a devouring swarm thrown in there i |
| 33243s | feel like a lot of players |
| 33244s | uh opted to not go for devour swarm |
| 33247s | uh this is a this |
| 33249s | list is a little bit more |
| 33251s | uh |
| 33253s | light i don't know |
| 33255s | there's |
| 33256s | more stuff in the one to two cost than |
| 33259s | we normally see in the beast hunters |
| 33261s | you know i think uh shout out to hat |
| 33264s | trick who's kind of established that you |
| 33267s | have six one drops for k9 notron to |
| 33270s | get down early i think that's kind of |
| 33272s | like it's not too many that you have a |
| 33274s | bunch of dead draws later on in the game |
| 33276s | but it's like enough that you have a |
| 33277s | reasonable chance of hitting them on two |
| 33278s | if you play canadotron |
| 33281s | but the devouring swarm is a little bit |
| 33283s | unique i personally like it because the |
| 33286s | hunter can struggle to deal with things |
| 33289s | like a gigafin and where situations |
| 33291s | where there's a taunt in the way and you |
| 33293s | just need some damage to do the thing |
| 33296s | and and take care of a minion on board |
| 33298s | without |
| 33300s | your own minions um |
| 33302s | so |
| 33303s | devouring swarm if there is another |
| 33305s | gigafin uh generated by the rogue could |
| 33309s | come into play there and in general |
| 33311s | you've got a lot of |
| 33312s | value minions so uh the way that |
| 33315s | colossals work is since the body is |
| 33317s | always summoned first you're never going |
| 33319s | to be hitting with the appendages |
| 33322s | until the main body is attacked so it |
| 33324s | can be a good way of generating an |
| 33325s | additional colossal |
| 33332s | tough choice here for judgment |
| 33334s | do you ramming match or do you get the |
| 33336s | harpoon online because you have phalin |
| 33338s | coming up |
| 33339s | i don't know ramming mount just feels uh |
| 33342s | just feels too clean it's a lot of |
| 33344s | pressure on the board um but yeah the |
| 33347s | uh harpoon gun into ambassador phelan i |
| 33350s | don't know |
| 33355s | the the like kid in me wants to go |
| 33357s | harpoon gun into phalen because |
| 33360s | like oh but but we could get something |
| 33362s | crazy right we get to we do one swing |
| 33364s | this turn to clean up the board and then |
| 33366s | we play failing and we get to put a a |
| 33368s | beast on top and and reduce it it could |
| 33371s | be so good but i i feel like ramming |
| 33373s | mount is is just the the stronger tempo |
| 33376s | play you know you can always wait one |
| 33378s | extra turn still play the phalen on four |
| 33381s | and then follow it up with the harpoon |
| 33382s | gun |
| 33385s | it's so hard to pass up this mount |
| 33388s | on your logic it's the more |
| 33389s | mature play is the uh i |
| 33392s | i guess i didn't mean to frame it like |
| 33394s | that but |
| 33395s | really it is |
| 33397s | uh |
| 33398s | you know it's it's it's different lines |
| 33400s | right do you want to go for just oh my |
| 33403s | goodness now this i would not have |
| 33404s | expected |
| 33405s | we are just |
| 33408s | going face and holding i guess judgment |
| 33410s | is saying hey you know what we're both |
| 33414s | playing to some potential high rolls so |
| 33417s | i'm gonna |
| 33418s | i'm gonna fail in and then try and get |
| 33419s | two reduced beasts |
| 33421s | uh that feels like a punish if i've ever |
| 33423s | seen one |
| 33425s | yeah |
| 33426s | and uh |
| 33427s | uh bauer 40 is actually quite cheap |
| 33430s | obviously this this uh deep road deck is |
| 33433s | mostly spells |
| 33435s | uh there's what like six six minions |
| 33438s | seven minions in the entire deck so |
| 33440s | um it's relatively likely to be pretty |
| 33443s | cheap but obviously you don't expect it |
| 33445s | to be there in the first place |
| 33448s | there aren't even two beasts to discount |
| 33451s | tj |
| 33452s | oh no so the hold is just omega punished |
| 33455s | here in terms of the harpoon gun swing |
| 33458s | because we can't clear off this null |
| 33462s | i guess you take the nelly there but |
| 33464s | nelly |
| 33465s | is not what it once was after the nerf |
| 33468s | you know that that affected this deck as |
| 33470s | well no more one mana smites no more uh |
| 33474s | blast fisher for one mana which could be |
| 33476s | pretty juicy as a hunter that is the one |
| 33479s | hunter pirate |
| 33480s | five men of three two battlecry deal two |
| 33482s | damage for each beast |
| 33484s | in play under your control let me just |
| 33486s | look at the field where are the warriors |
| 33490s | there aren't any yep |
| 33492s | yeah |
| 33492s | it's |
| 33493s | pretty tough |
| 33495s | this attack from the harpoon gun will |
| 33497s | have one additional non-colossal option |
| 33500s | which could be |
| 33501s | it's true although with both mountain |
| 33504s | bears in hand |
| 33506s | uh it's going to be a bit of a struggle |
| 33507s | i guess your best hit is hydraulic on |
| 33509s | galactic glutton there is a beast in |
| 33511s | play but we don't have the uh glutton to |
| 33513s | play immediately |
| 33515s | oh maybe you expect that kravito on six |
| 33517s | still could be a reasonable pickup |
| 33520s | yeah yeah |
| 33522s | um oh all these things that are normally |
| 33525s | you know great picks like gangplank |
| 33526s | driver is great at one less good at four |
| 33531s | still still could be the pick there's |
| 33533s | the blast fisher i mentioned |
| 33536s | amalgam as well |
| 33539s | it's just it's such an awkward value |
| 33541s | card now uh i i understand why they |
| 33544s | why they had to do it but it really uh |
| 33548s | really |
| 33549s | took that card out to the back and uh |
| 33551s | put it out of this misery i mean |
| 33553s | oh yeah |
| 33559s | i didn't even see it peter is the |
| 33561s | breeder's the only playable card |
| 33564s | okay well i guess you |
| 33566s | breeder for |
| 33568s | has the uh |
| 33570s | saber been played dude can we get a |
| 33572s | sunken saber |
| 33574s | is that what we're hoping uh no |
| 33576s | um |
| 33579s | wait does he only play one shot in |
| 33581s | sabrina |
| 33582s | generally it's just the one saber |
| 33584s | because then you're you're guaranteed to |
| 33586s | hit the sunken out of a pet collector |
| 33589s | right yep |
| 33590s | so has not played the savory yet just |
| 33593s | though |
| 33595s | and the bash pick up just |
| 33597s | three damage face we |
| 33599s | have set up even if the board is cleared |
| 33601s | at this point hunter not known for its |
| 33603s | healing and |
| 33605s | as we can see in kazov's hand the |
| 33607s | wicked stab and bash lining up |
| 33611s | uh |
| 33612s | plenty of damage |
| 33615s | yep and no tavis in hand to |
| 33619s | gain any life |
| 33621s | but can have some fun with the |
| 33625s | black crawler here that's cool |
| 33627s | yeah just you know what you say bad |
| 33630s | nelly uh we're just gonna eat the nelly |
| 33632s | and then |
| 33633s | maybe press that bottom right uh it's |
| 33637s | not looking good here |
| 33639s | are there any discovers off of amalgam |
| 33642s | that can find us healing definitely not |
| 33644s | in pirates but we've got a beast in play |
| 33646s | i don't think the beast discovers are |
| 33648s | particularly great right now |
| 33651s | um |
| 33654s | i have no time for games we want vicious |
| 33656s | scale heights |
| 33658s | the mount |
| 33664s | now you can't because |
| 33666s | it is a pirate |
| 33668s | it is a pirate but it's a mage pirate |
| 33669s | and you can't discover out of class yeah |
| 33672s | i don't think if the spells would |
| 33677s | yeah the spells aren't very much anyway |
| 33679s | game three |
| 33682s | that's case scenario you could also hit |
| 33684s | tracking in game one so uh but yeah |
| 33688s | um it is a mage |
| 33690s | uh but yeah to meet you guys i'll tying |
| 33692s | up the series |
| 33695s | in a pretty one-sided game it feels like |
| 33697s | uh when we're talking about |
| 33700s | the thief rogue many of the games do |
| 33702s | feel one-sided |
| 33704s | one way or the other |
| 33706s | yeah you you hit the good stuff or or |
| 33708s | you don't |
| 33709s | uh very rarely you find those games |
| 33711s | where you hit mediocre stuff and you |
| 33713s | have this back and forth battle and then |
| 33715s | you're testing your contraband stash |
| 33717s | later on the game just get |
| 33718s | absolutely ridiculous |
| 33720s | uh but this was not one of those games |
| 33723s | dimitri kazoff |
| 33725s | um |
| 33725s | i mean we could bring this back to just |
| 33728s | sort of the uh |
| 33730s | face attack uh with the k9 tron early on |
| 33733s | and leaving the goal up |
| 33735s | onto the board and it was still alive at |
| 33738s | the end of the game i think it dealt |
| 33739s | with 18 damage had the potential to deal |
| 33742s | 24 damage if |
| 33743s | judgment had even stayed in the game |
| 33746s | absolutely |
| 33747s | but i guess |
| 33749s | you did yeah very different game if you |
| 33752s | clear that minion whether it's with |
| 33754s | the ramming mount or the weapon you know |
| 33757s | you can still play the weapon but i do |
| 33758s | think the clear has to come out there um |
| 33762s | you know it's it's just it's usually the |
| 33765s | safe thing to do make sure stuff is |
| 33767s | clear i know rogue doesn't naturally run |
| 33770s | any buffs but these are the things you |
| 33772s | have to consider with the thief deck is |
| 33774s | hey i don't know they could have |
| 33776s | something if you know you're going to do |
| 33778s | a low tempo play that is |
| 33780s | playing ambassador phelan on 4 i think |
| 33783s | you generally want to sort of be as safe |
| 33786s | as possible going into those low tempo |
| 33788s | plays |
| 33789s | but uh |
| 33790s | yeah kazov now coming out with uh |
| 33793s | another heavy generation deck the |
| 33794s | prestor |
| 33795s | druid |
| 33796s | was not able to perform in his previous |
| 33800s | match but uh perhaps it'll |
| 33802s | have better luck against the hunter here |
| 33804s | although canine o'tron harpoon gun |
| 33806s | pretty good start there |
| 33808s | yeah if there's a click clock picked up |
| 33810s | in this opening hand and then a one drop |
| 33812s | found from cana okay i saw one and i was |
| 33815s | like oh geez |
| 33816s | drunk's still great though it's one one |
| 33818s | two three curve |
| 33820s | uh if another one's able to be found by |
| 33822s | canaan in nanotron |
| 33824s | then uh judgments uh looking quite good |
| 33827s | uh in this early game so |
| 33830s | i mean it's nice if only because |
| 33834s | you actually get to clear up this |
| 33835s | peasant you know that's not typically |
| 33837s | what you want to do with your trog once |
| 33839s | again we see click clocker showing up |
| 33842s | one turn late but uh do we do find the |
| 33844s | slither spear so |
| 33846s | able to pick up that on-board play uh do |
| 33850s | you clear the peasant or do you make |
| 33851s | them do it |
| 33855s | yeah |
| 33856s | there was the option though uh from the |
| 33858s | canaanotron that was an ambassador |
| 33860s | phelan |
| 33862s | we could do it all over again with |
| 33864s | harpoon gun in hand i don't know uh but |
| 33867s | yeah uh it came back to buy them last |
| 33869s | game with nelly as the only beast |
| 33872s | um but |
| 33874s | you know you can kind of set that up |
| 33875s | anyway and still get one discounted |
| 33878s | colossal because you can dredge here |
| 33880s | pick up that phelan for next turn or six |
| 33882s | mana king crush tough choice there |
| 33884s | honestly um if you do pick the phalen |
| 33887s | you have your next turn spoken for and |
| 33889s | then you know you're gonna be able well |
| 33891s | i guess you could roll all non-beasts |
| 33893s | but you have the opportunity to once |
| 33895s | again go for a discounted colossal |
| 33897s | minion but that six meta king crush has |
| 33900s | got to be looking pretty tasty |
| 33902s | yeah pet in hand as well |
| 33905s | yeah |
| 33906s | knowing you have some time as well |
| 33909s | um both powerful plays however uh |
| 33912s | ambassador phelan does give you a |
| 33913s | reasonable curve |
| 33915s | but i guess judgment doesn't have a |
| 33917s | terrible curve as is because has minions |
| 33919s | that are going to stick on the board |
| 33921s | plus ramming mount |
| 33923s | i didn't even see the choice there uh to |
| 33925s | be quite honest i was looking at the |
| 33926s | board but oh we'll find out at the start |
| 33928s | of next turn i mean another beautiful |
| 33930s | thing about dredge |
| 33932s | you don't have to wait long |
| 33934s | another way you could play this is to |
| 33936s | take the phelan but then what you do is |
| 33938s | you actually attack first with the |
| 33940s | weapon to put the six men a crush on top |
| 33943s | and then |
| 33945s | you've still got those colossal minions |
| 33947s | either to get pulled out by |
| 33949s | uh |
| 33950s | you know a |
| 33951s | second harpoon gun if you find it or |
| 33954s | maybe |
| 33955s | uh you're able to discover them off |
| 33957s | tracking because tracking goes from |
| 33958s | anywhere in your deck um but we will see |
| 33961s | going for the colossal and that was a |
| 33963s | snap pick so i gotta imagine it was |
| 33965s | something powerful |
| 33967s | yeah |
| 33969s | i didn't see it either but again we |
| 33971s | don't have to wait long did we gloss |
| 33973s | over a turn of three press door is that |
| 33976s | really what just happened we were |
| 33977s | talking about something else but you |
| 33978s | know it's not the craziest thing in the |
| 33980s | world |
| 33982s | i |
| 33983s | you know i i thought we were a little |
| 33985s | further along here and then i went and |
| 33987s | took a look at the mana crystals and saw |
| 33989s | this press drawer and play and i'm like |
| 33990s | huh that's um that's earlier than i |
| 33992s | would have thought just gonna do the |
| 33995s | discover chain here |
| 33998s | yeah could just go amalgam discover |
| 34000s | anything and then |
| 34002s | probably sir finley uh |
| 34005s | store spindly at the end because i don't |
| 34007s | know if you want the full cost |
| 34010s | whatever's in hand i guess it depends on |
| 34012s | the pick it does give options yeah |
| 34014s | oh there you go kazakhstan for |
| 34017s | eventually maybe yeah yeah and |
| 34021s | then liam all back and then yeah draw |
| 34023s | kazakhstan on eight after you played the |
| 34024s | dragons and |
| 34026s | you're miraculously still alive somehow |
| 34029s | and haven't killed the opponent yeah and |
| 34031s | haven't killed your opponent already |
| 34032s | yeah |
| 34033s | so one of those things |
| 34036s | it's one of the other |
| 34037s | uh usually not both you've either killed |
| 34039s | them you died or |
| 34042s | it's |
| 34044s | could win you the game |
| 34046s | uh |
| 34049s | okay |
| 34050s | bad bad |
| 34052s | okay |
| 34054s | yeah still not really the hits you're |
| 34055s | looking for there's the nelly again |
| 34058s | not what i anticipated as a snap pick |
| 34060s | but certainly better in this situation |
| 34062s | than it was last time |
| 34066s | blast fisher could represent a fair bit |
| 34069s | of damage |
| 34072s | although amalgam gives us some value as |
| 34074s | this hand is running a tad dry i'm |
| 34078s | honestly |
| 34080s | i don't know like this this nelly is |
| 34083s | is reasonable but i i'm still i'm |
| 34085s | thinking about that six mana king crush |
| 34087s | tj and how we've got this revive pet in |
| 34090s | hand i i just yeah |
| 34093s | nelly's not nearly as good of a revive |
| 34095s | pet target as that can crush |
| 34097s | yeah |
| 34099s | the the game |
| 34100s | state would have been a bit different |
| 34102s | last term probably would have been like |
| 34103s | click clock a ramming mount there'd be |
| 34105s | like more power on board |
| 34107s | ramming mount with the slither spear is |
| 34109s | actually |
| 34110s | nuts |
| 34112s | just that combination alone can win so |
| 34113s | many games because it it becomes very |
| 34115s | difficult to remove |
| 34117s | even though the deck doesn't play a ton |
| 34119s | of spells it has enough to where you can |
| 34121s | get its attack |
| 34123s | uh buffed up sometimes |
| 34125s | so again invested a lot into |
| 34128s | uh or sacrificed a lot of just straight |
| 34130s | up power on board |
| 34133s | to to get a potential |
| 34135s | uh discounted colossal million both |
| 34136s | times it's been nelly and both times |
| 34138s | it's been |
| 34140s | sort of underwhelming but speaking of |
| 34142s | underwhelming two track and draws are |
| 34144s | just atrocious nothing |
| 34146s | double sleepy dragon nazdormu primordial |
| 34149s | drake sure but |
| 34151s | with the way this board is primordial |
| 34153s | drake oftentimes just clears up your own |
| 34156s | dragons |
| 34157s | because of how small your your minions |
| 34159s | usually are |
| 34160s | with the the way that this press door |
| 34162s | deck is built so |
| 34164s | um |
| 34166s | this is not looking too good for dimitri |
| 34168s | here |
| 34170s | yeah i mean what we can attack the two |
| 34172s | two and the two three in |
| 34174s | play primordial drake |
| 34176s | spinley finishes up the 1-1 |
| 34178s | uh you're still giving your opponent the |
| 34180s | minions out of the boat you honestly |
| 34182s | might just want to hold |
| 34184s | to not give judgment the pirates on this |
| 34187s | turn yeah kind of wait things out a |
| 34190s | little bit longer |
| 34195s | there's the pet collector for the vessel |
| 34197s | we |
| 34198s | are not vessel |
| 34199s | saber |
| 34200s | a jar and saver into sunken saber |
| 34203s | it's not going to die to anything on the |
| 34205s | board but it does thin the deck and if |
| 34208s | there are any beasts left among the |
| 34210s | colossals that were shuffled you could |
| 34212s | hit one of those and and then of course |
| 34214s | there's the mountain bear the king crush |
| 34216s | all that fun stuff |
| 34217s | if we are able to |
| 34220s | get either second weapon or the other |
| 34222s | pet collector |
| 34224s | oh |
| 34226s | now there's something |
| 34229s | i can clear up |
| 34231s | most of this i think because of the |
| 34233s | taunt you still can't get at the main |
| 34234s | five-five body with enough damage |
| 34237s | well you can |
| 34239s | uh trade with no |
| 34240s | three and then primordial drake then |
| 34242s | trade the finley over the |
| 34244s | uh the nelly and then brass wing |
| 34247s | and that's a there you go |
| 34250s | yep gotta be |
| 34252s | gotta be the play here uh there's just |
| 34255s | not |
| 34256s | a ton else going on really waiting on |
| 34258s | the sarah's the malygos |
| 34261s | raid boss and nyxia |
| 34263s | i think we would win middle slam |
| 34264s | kazakhstan in this situation just |
| 34266s | because these top decks have been so |
| 34267s | rough |
| 34276s | honorable kill gonna heal dimitri up a |
| 34278s | little bit here |
| 34280s | yeah |
| 34281s | hey |
| 34282s | take it go back to full life |
| 34288s | i think this is a card that i loved but |
| 34290s | like just hasn't really had a place oh |
| 34292s | sorry not full life full life is 40 |
| 34294s | right heels up to 31. |
| 34296s | but uh yeah |
| 34298s | brass wing uh end of turn does two |
| 34300s | damage to the opposing board and any |
| 34303s | honorable kills give you for life so |
| 34307s | pretty solid consecrate it does go face |
| 34310s | which can be very relevant in some |
| 34313s | situations not quite yet here but uh it |
| 34316s | it has come up |
| 34319s | so we see |
| 34321s | another nelly coming down there's |
| 34322s | nothing in this boat it's just there for |
| 34324s | stats |
| 34325s | uh we could do this on another revive |
| 34327s | pet |
| 34328s | just to get a bunch of stuff in play |
| 34331s | before the pool gets too diluted uh i |
| 34333s | expect we will see that come down |
| 34337s | just |
| 34338s | stuff a lot of power |
| 34341s | and |
| 34342s | yeah the top deck i mean this is the |
| 34345s | danger that comes with bringing lady |
| 34347s | prestor druid is |
| 34350s | when it hits it it hits hard but when |
| 34352s | you miss oh gosh does it feel bad |
| 34354s | because |
| 34356s | uh you're like i did the thing i played |
| 34358s | the press store we played prestor on |
| 34360s | turn |
| 34361s | three |
| 34362s | turn three tj we've had plenty of draws |
| 34365s | even finley to pick up more chances uh |
| 34368s | and just not hitting the stuff we need |
| 34370s | to now |
| 34371s | that being said things could change on a |
| 34374s | dime here |
| 34375s | there are times where you top deck a |
| 34377s | moonlit guidance and that's a little bit |
| 34379s | better because you can discover then |
| 34382s | you pick a dragon from three options and |
| 34384s | you get two of them so something like |
| 34387s | moonlight guidance into raid boss inyxia |
| 34389s | could really turn things around but it's |
| 34391s | going to take a big top deck like that |
| 34394s | at this point because |
| 34396s | you know even a composting isn't going |
| 34398s | to be doing anything for you anymore |
| 34400s | nope |
| 34403s | but |
| 34404s | with prestor played you're just one draw |
| 34406s | away from turning the game around so |
| 34409s | well you're one draw away from |
| 34411s | stabilizing and then a second draw away |
| 34413s | from turning the game around |
| 34414s | right like deathwing into |
| 34418s | yasera kazakhstan etc |
| 34424s | is the raining mount finally gonna come |
| 34426s | down |
| 34428s | just for uh |
| 34429s | just for some stats |
| 34432s | and then |
| 34433s | emerald sky talon i suppose clears up |
| 34435s | the two one |
| 34436s | that would be my guess here |
| 34440s | it's a shame no no weapon to to utilize |
| 34443s | the puffer fist fully |
| 34445s | uh given the one harpoon gun has already |
| 34447s | been played you have to find the second |
| 34448s | one here just pushing as much damage as |
| 34451s | possible weaving in the hero power |
| 34453s | although |
| 34455s | i don't know i feel like maybe you play |
| 34456s | this little sphere there because |
| 34459s | it's gonna be a few hero powers before |
| 34461s | it adds up to enough anyway |
| 34464s | yeah but uh |
| 34467s | yeah those dormu off the top i mean it's |
| 34469s | it's just |
| 34471s | lady prestor is laughing at dimitri here |
| 34474s | and and |
| 34475s | you know glad to see he can at least |
| 34477s | laugh about it as well uh it's some some |
| 34481s | tough beats i don't know what the count |
| 34482s | is on dragons drawn so far but uh we've |
| 34486s | got to be at least 10 in and it's just |
| 34489s | not the hits you're looking for |
| 34491s | yeah |
| 34493s | for judgment saucy scoundrels just like |
| 34497s | like is there even a reason |
| 34502s | because you could have just nine dragons |
| 34504s | in |
| 34505s | yeah |
| 34506s | nine dragons and none of them have been |
| 34508s | well the brass wing was |
| 34510s | decent but |
| 34512s | um |
| 34513s | nothing else has been good oh |
| 34515s | no it's something it's a little too late |
| 34519s | but uh it it does a thing |
| 34522s | you can kill one of the nellies |
| 34525s | yeah and survive it one if you kill the |
| 34528s | non-ramming mount nelly because |
| 34531s | then you would hear a power and |
| 34534s | take two |
| 34536s | so there'd be 12 damage represented with |
| 34538s | the hero power and you're your 13th |
| 34541s | well uh there's a possibility here that |
| 34544s | judgment could find a lethal with the |
| 34545s | scoundrel |
| 34547s | if he's able to |
| 34548s | discover say |
| 34550s | another alex right you could just get |
| 34553s | lethal there a bit risky because you do |
| 34555s | give your opponent a card uh if you have |
| 34559s | is lethal |
| 34560s | 66 of the time you hear power first and |
| 34563s | then tavish and then hero power again |
| 34566s | yeah that's probably higher odds right |
| 34568s | oh just hope you don't know the misha |
| 34570s | and actually even if it's the way |
| 34572s | dimitri's been drawing |
| 34574s | the rest of his dick has got to be |
| 34576s | really good dragon gotta be good |
| 34578s | pretty high up there in terms of lethal |
| 34580s | potential |
| 34581s | but yeah just |
| 34583s | pick the best secrets i don't even know |
| 34585s | the bored ones emergency maneuvers sure |
| 34588s | snake trap sure |
| 34590s | so close |
| 34591s | and then uh hero power again and unless |
| 34594s | it's misha it's game over there it is |
| 34596s | yep yep |
| 34597s | and even if it was misha i mean |
| 34600s | something like the the improved |
| 34602s | maneuvers there right just means no |
| 34604s | deathwing is going to come down and |
| 34606s | clear your board completely so |
| 34609s | yeah i i think this is really just that |
| 34612s | case of |
| 34614s | prestor comes with a a risk |
| 34617s | comes with a fine print that says hey we |
| 34619s | are we're not liable if you don't get |
| 34621s | enough dragons to |
| 34623s | to actually win the game because |
| 34626s | uh yeah those those were some rough top |
| 34629s | decks for dimitri um |
| 34632s | i |
| 34634s | yeah i don't know what else to say it's |
| 34636s | sometimes the deck just |
| 34639s | doesn't do what you want |
| 34640s | yep |
| 34642s | but maybe we'll have one more try we'll |
| 34644s | see if she decides to cube the press |
| 34646s | door |
| 34647s | drew it once again |
| 34649s | um but take a look final deck four |
| 34651s | judgment is gonna be the shaman that's |
| 34653s | the last one remaining |
| 34655s | uh same type of shaman that |
| 34657s | every other player has been bringing |
| 34658s | nobody brought the uh |
| 34661s | uh the full murloc shaman |
| 34664s | everybody decided to go with the no |
| 34666s | brave souls out there |
| 34668s | yeah |
| 34669s | which is reasonable of the two shamans |
| 34673s | like if you expect other people to also |
| 34675s | bring shaman and they're gonna have |
| 34677s | snowfall guardian and you're playing |
| 34679s | murlocs you better kill them before turn |
| 34681s | six because then you're not hitting them |
| 34682s | anymore so |
| 34684s | uh and that's where we've seen |
| 34687s | super fake taking advantage of targeting |
| 34688s | this deck um i think the only player to |
| 34691s | have done that |
| 34693s | now as i understand it there are a |
| 34696s | couple players who have bioluminescence |
| 34698s | naturally in the list but i think most |
| 34700s | of them do not |
| 34702s | most are like judgments list here |
| 34704s | yep |
| 34706s | two two bioluminescence |
| 34708s | uh shamans i believe and the majority of |
| 34711s | players do have shaman |
| 34714s | uh in their lineup |
| 34716s | though |
| 34717s | um it was one of the decks that has the |
| 34720s | highest representation among the 16 |
| 34722s | players that are playing here in week |
| 34724s | one |
| 34729s | well we've got the carpenter again as |
| 34731s | kazov so we are |
| 34733s | going to find the press store that won't |
| 34735s | be an issue |
| 34739s | oh tiny finn i didn't even realize that |
| 34742s | was in there for the zero mana dragon |
| 34744s | i know it's |
| 34746s | 40 cards |
| 34748s | you start running out of cheap minions |
| 34751s | you know and i think |
| 34753s | against shaman you're probably very |
| 34755s | happy to see a starfish coming into hand |
| 34758s | prior to transforming your deck because |
| 34761s | uh |
| 34762s | those snowfall guardians oh oh boy |
| 34766s | that can be really tough when snowfall |
| 34769s | guardian comes down and |
| 34770s | not only does it silence the freezes |
| 34773s | but it makes the dragons big so |
| 34776s | i would not be surprised if that is how |
| 34779s | this game ends it's going to depend on |
| 34780s | whether judgment can put on enough |
| 34783s | pressure before then |
| 34785s | something that this lady pressed or draw |
| 34787s | does though |
| 34788s | is that jerry rig carpenter then means |
| 34790s | cold tooth mine will draw guff |
| 34793s | and i don't think we've seen kazov have |
| 34796s | a game yet where he had both guff and |
| 34799s | lady prestor the press store is at the |
| 34801s | top of the curve so it's the thing you |
| 34802s | always hit with mine but once it's |
| 34804s | already been acquired you're able to hit |
| 34807s | guff off cold tooth mine as your highest |
| 34809s | cost card and that is where power can |
| 34813s | really spike considerably i mean imagine |
| 34815s | if he were drawing two cards a turn |
| 34817s | instead of one in that last game just |
| 34819s | total game changer |
| 34821s | yeah |
| 34826s | oh jeez the double watch post |
| 34830s | yeah |
| 34831s | buying time for press store to be able |
| 34833s | to come down plenty of time to acquire |
| 34836s | dragons acquire guff |
| 34839s | and build up a big board that can |
| 34841s | be |
| 34843s | darf fish |
| 34844s | bothered by starfish the smothering |
| 34850s | yeah the tempo macaw last turn from |
| 34853s | judgment just to have some kind of |
| 34854s | response to the first watch post and |
| 34857s | then the second one coming down this |
| 34858s | bollner going up to four pretty rough i |
| 34862s | almost might have played the bowler just |
| 34864s | because two watch posts in play can't |
| 34866s | attack so if you get to stick a boulder |
| 34868s | you can start popping off with some |
| 34870s | pretty silly stuff with the school |
| 34872s | teacher but now we see |
| 34874s | lady prestor coming down |
| 34877s | not even doing the carpenter yet just |
| 34879s | getting it in play as we can start |
| 34881s | getting those dragons we can always |
| 34883s | jerry rig for for guff later on |
| 34886s | yeah |
| 34888s | and it's a six seven |
| 34890s | like it's just a big body on turn four |
| 34893s | it does get frozen out but still |
| 34895s | it's large |
| 34899s | large and in charge and now wild paw |
| 34901s | cavern is going to start |
| 34902s | creating some board presents for |
| 34904s | judgement here fine |
| 34907s | well it had to happen eventually tj |
| 34910s | reid bostonixia definitely the kind of |
| 34912s | thing you're looking for |
| 34914s | yep it's a four one it's a pelican |
| 34920s | the pelican is feeling good |
| 34923s | yeah 4-1 is actually |
| 34926s | perfect stat line too to be able to |
| 34928s | trade off these minions so |
| 34932s | this is quite good and now can |
| 34934s | guarantee have guff in hand |
| 34938s | uh you you could even draw lowest and |
| 34940s | get a zero mana dragon |
| 34942s | right |
| 34943s | i guess sometimes you hit innervate |
| 34946s | yeah there's only one innervate in the |
| 34947s | deck so it'd be a 50 50 because there's |
| 34949s | only one tiny fin and oh so we could do |
| 34951s | this we got tiny fin |
| 34953s | okay yeah |
| 34954s | there's aquatic four of two oh i see |
| 34956s | yeah one of each remaining okay not so |
| 34959s | great odds one in four all right fair |
| 34961s | enough yeah i was just thinking good |
| 34964s | you know you're gonna get guardian to |
| 34965s | this turn right |
| 34966s | yeah probably you could hit aquatic form |
| 34969s | and then aquatic form into |
| 34971s | the tiny fin that is now a dragon there |
| 34974s | you go there there's the the real next |
| 34976s | level play |
| 34977s | yeah |
| 34980s | so is starfish worth it now it's pretty |
| 34984s | good |
| 34985s | like it's not the most insane thing but |
| 34987s | you can play the sleepy dragon first and |
| 34989s | then you've got a 412. |
| 34992s | uh you know board space |
| 34995s | oh true right right right yeah yeah of |
| 34998s | course |
| 35000s | yeah i might just wait actually oh |
| 35005s | as i'm saying no it's it's good enough |
| 35007s | good enough to just get an 8-8 |
| 35009s | yeah it does reduce the guardian as well |
| 35012s | i i might have like played the acera and |
| 35014s | just dreamed it and said hey do it again |
| 35016s | or something uh or yeah yeah i don't |
| 35019s | know and then nightmare or something so |
| 35020s | you'll have the board space |
| 35022s | yeah but |
| 35024s | yeah it's still pretty good right you've |
| 35026s | made it a 3-3 so it's not so concerning |
| 35028s | you can |
| 35029s | trade off so you've got your board space |
| 35031s | back you've got a six seven and an eight |
| 35033s | eight good enough |
| 35036s | yeah i think the board space is probably |
| 35038s | the biggest factor there uh just because |
| 35040s | if you wait a turn you still only have |
| 35042s | one board space left the next turn if |
| 35045s | like say another one comes out i guess |
| 35047s | it would reduce more power and get |
| 35049s | another resource i don't know if if |
| 35051s | dimitri kazan had said you know what i'm |
| 35052s | gonna wait |
| 35054s | i wouldn't have minded |
| 35056s | that either just because he's got a lot |
| 35057s | of health to work with he would have |
| 35058s | gotten guff online got the man out of |
| 35060s | the way |
| 35061s | uh being able to draw |
| 35063s | probably two more cards because i don't |
| 35065s | think it's necessary to ramp |
| 35067s | at this point with the guff hero power |
| 35070s | because everything's |
| 35072s | two |
| 35072s | two or less essentially |
| 35075s | uh and then holding back the zero mana |
| 35078s | is sarah just saying hey you know what |
| 35080s | uh that extra one one board presence not |
| 35083s | super helpful i would rather hold back |
| 35085s | this information that i have at yasera |
| 35088s | and wait to be able to catch my opponent |
| 35090s | by surprise with a nightmare or a dream |
| 35092s | or a sarah awakens what have you so uh |
| 35095s | makes sense to me just not freely giving |
| 35098s | that information to your opponent when |
| 35099s | it's only one one worth of stats anyways |
| 35106s | oh wow |
| 35107s | this is gonna be |
| 35110s | a lot of draw |
| 35112s | uh yeah i mean i guess |
| 35115s | yeah repeating the far sight pretty |
| 35117s | intense but you do need to deal with |
| 35120s | stuff i feel like we maybe needed to |
| 35123s | start this turn quicker because oh my |
| 35125s | goodness i mean |
| 35127s | i think we saw a banter face clip of |
| 35129s | this at one point like hey this is how |
| 35131s | you play |
| 35132s | shaman just get farsight off your |
| 35134s | noggling and then have boulder rinse |
| 35137s | repeat |
| 35139s | uh do we oh that's just lethal there it |
| 35141s | is yep |
| 35144s | uh alex is gonna give the eight |
| 35146s | and then is sarah coming in we don't |
| 35148s | have enough mana for the 16 but we don't |
| 35150s | need it the eight is good enough |
| 35153s | [Music] |
| 35160s | yep |
| 35162s | good display of how the presto druid |
| 35163s | like yes it can have some bad games but |
| 35166s | it can have some pretty crazy good ones |
| 35167s | too and didn't even need the guff for |
| 35169s | that game |
| 35171s | [Music] |
| 35173s | yeah no and |
| 35177s | plenty of uh uh power still left even |
| 35179s | like alex strauss wasn't hit hit that |
| 35182s | turn |
| 35183s | at guff it was looking good judgment had |
| 35185s | a very awkward hand after that last turn |
| 35188s | had a full hand with a bunch of stuff in |
| 35189s | hand that drew |
| 35192s | too many cards right |
| 35194s | um yep caught the only battle cry at him |
| 35197s | was like the other clown fish or |
| 35200s | uh the ravager uh so it was like okay |
| 35203s | well you're gonna fill your hand or |
| 35205s | you're gonna make your murlocs cheaper |
| 35208s | to be able to fill your hand and dump |
| 35209s | murlocs yeah not really not really a |
| 35212s | high power level hand so to speak |
| 35215s | it's the kind of play that you you |
| 35216s | always wish that you're making when |
| 35217s | you're you know ahead on board or at |
| 35219s | least at parody but when you're having |
| 35221s | to make that kind of play from behind |
| 35223s | then it's sort of a hail mary to find |
| 35225s | additional freezes etc and it's just not |
| 35228s | really the position you want to be in as |
| 35230s | the shaman |
| 35232s | so |
| 35232s | dmitry finally finally getting that |
| 35234s | press door win and now over to the big |
| 35237s | spell mage |
| 35238s | and this one is 30 cards unlike |
| 35241s | uh blyze's list |
| 35243s | but that just means we're all the more |
| 35245s | likely to hit that uh belinda and |
| 35247s | barbaric sorceress |
| 35249s | yep |
| 35250s | still a lot of because you |
| 35253s | were still in a a meta where there's not |
| 35255s | that many cards to choose from um |
| 35258s | uh |
| 35259s | with the less cards in the total pool |
| 35261s | since we're at the beginning of a set |
| 35263s | rotation or |
| 35264s | relatively at the beginning of a set |
| 35266s | rotation |
| 35267s | and because you can only play you're |
| 35269s | playing mage and you can only play two |
| 35270s | spells there's a lot of weird one drops |
| 35273s | in the deck |
| 35275s | or a lot of weird cheap cost minions in |
| 35277s | the deck but i think they get the job |
| 35280s | done you gotta pel some pelican divers |
| 35282s | in there good early game board control |
| 35284s | some bail box dancers they're fine |
| 35288s | well and even the 30 card list you do |
| 35291s | have double star fish and i think |
| 35292s | starfish has been sort of the neutral of |
| 35295s | the moment uh for for the meta right now |
| 35298s | because it's just so flexible like |
| 35301s | there's all kinds of things that you |
| 35302s | want to silence even minimal value like |
| 35304s | silencing a lady satino is fine i mean |
| 35306s | there's just so many things that are |
| 35308s | worth hitting if someone played out an |
| 35310s | early bowler that would be worth the |
| 35311s | silence and certainly in this matchup |
| 35314s | situation where hey i've emulated a few |
| 35316s | times i've got a bunch of big dragons in |
| 35318s | play and the shaman's only response is |
| 35321s | to play snowfall guardian hey guess what |
| 35323s | smothering starfish i still get to |
| 35324s | attack with all my things |
| 35328s | yeah and even mailbox dancer right it |
| 35330s | just puts your opponent in this awkward |
| 35332s | situation where sure you're giving them |
| 35334s | a coin |
| 35335s | but uh |
| 35336s | a lot of times they just dump it right |
| 35338s | away and sometimes they don't have |
| 35340s | cards to do anything with that coin |
| 35342s | they're just dumping it because |
| 35344s | they don't want you to get a zero mana |
| 35346s | drake bar amulet of room the archmage so |
| 35349s | um the downside is |
| 35352s | uh lessened |
| 35353s | uh when you're playing mailbox dancer in |
| 35356s | the big spell mage because |
| 35358s | uh your opponent is exceptionally afraid |
| 35361s | of |
| 35362s | keeping that coin in their hands |
| 35365s | yeah and we see that dimitri did not |
| 35368s | keep the barbaric sorceress in the |
| 35370s | opener here |
| 35371s | giving full respect to the potential |
| 35373s | early game of the shaman |
| 35375s | wanting to make sure that is shored up |
| 35377s | so that he can actually live to that |
| 35379s | turn six to play something like a |
| 35381s | barbaric sorceress or a belinda top deck |
| 35384s | uh and deepwater evoker or connie can |
| 35387s | maybe help towards that as well |
| 35390s | but uh it it sometimes can backfire |
| 35392s | because that is such an important card |
| 35395s | to be able to sort of pull off your |
| 35397s | scammy mana fixing sort of stuff uh |
| 35400s | we'll see |
| 35401s | if that comes into play later on this uh |
| 35403s | this is a very cute car draw engine |
| 35405s | though with deep water evoker and drake |
| 35408s | fire amulet getting the 10 mana and then |
| 35410s | you can trade it back and look for |
| 35411s | something else we've seen that in a few |
| 35413s | versions of mech mage run drake fire |
| 35415s | amulet and deep water of ochre and |
| 35417s | belinda just to be able to draw the |
| 35419s | amulets and send them back |
| 35422s | yeah so when you |
| 35424s | pare down the amount of spells |
| 35426s | in your list to just include the the big |
| 35428s | spells which |
| 35429s | big spell mage and then mech mage runs |
| 35431s | barely any |
| 35432s | sometimes you run a c4 |
| 35434s | c4 gateway |
| 35437s | yeah that is i can always keep in that |
| 35439s | deck |
| 35440s | yeah even if you pull it |
| 35442s | you're fine like if if you get three |
| 35445s | armor you still got your gateway |
| 35447s | exactly yeah so it's it it's so it's a |
| 35450s | win-win because you're not playing any |
| 35451s | many other spells in mech mage so you |
| 35454s | either get the card that you really want |
| 35456s | or you get 10 armor and have another |
| 35458s | chance for one mana to get the card that |
| 35460s | you really want so |
| 35462s | uh it just makes sense |
| 35468s | and some nice clears here again that |
| 35470s | pelican very strong into these three |
| 35472s | four staggereds uh the naga just gaining |
| 35474s | us some life drawing as a card trying to |
| 35476s | look for those power turn six plays we |
| 35479s | got two shots at something and can buy a |
| 35481s | little more time with the smaller |
| 35484s | dawn grasp the minion |
| 35486s | this frost fight though |
| 35488s | pretty powerful against the mage given |
| 35491s | the lack of spells played |
| 35494s | i'm a little curious to see the second |
| 35496s | one coming down for just some face |
| 35498s | damage but i guess we're trying to open |
| 35500s | up |
| 35500s | hand space for the second ravager |
| 35510s | so we can clean up one of these with the |
| 35512s | pelican |
| 35513s | and then |
| 35515s | ping okani i think is probably the line |
| 35518s | yep |
| 35523s | it's like not incredible but it's fine |
| 35525s | and judgment baby feels a little bit bad |
| 35528s | about |
| 35529s | playing that second frost bite oh we do |
| 35531s | have uh |
| 35533s | so |
| 35535s | i think that uh we're we're probably |
| 35538s | gonna see you know |
| 35539s | either a schooling or |
| 35542s | uh you know cheap minion to check |
| 35545s | the okani here uh but it's not a |
| 35548s | position you love to be in as |
| 35551s | the shaman here uh even though |
| 35553s | you do have like reasonable board |
| 35555s | presence potential okay you do dodge the |
| 35558s | counter so that's nice |
| 35560s | and piranha is a great thing to |
| 35562s | sacrifice |
| 35564s | yep |
| 35566s | it's kind of awkward for both players |
| 35568s | though |
| 35569s | it really is doesn't have frostbite is |
| 35571s | brutal for dimitri uh and judgment just |
| 35575s | doesn't have |
| 35577s | that many super powerful plays obviously |
| 35579s | has a ton of value in him clownfish and |
| 35582s | like amalgam and |
| 35583s | and uh poacher and start getting more |
| 35586s | like piranhas in hand but |
| 35588s | floor goal |
| 35590s | it's not really a board for it to |
| 35591s | contest the damage is pretty irrelevant |
| 35594s | at this point |
| 35595s | um |
| 35596s | not not not any high power plays to be |
| 35599s | made just going a little bit wide on |
| 35601s | board is the only thing that judgment |
| 35602s | can really do here |
| 35604s | and i want to make a correction i i know |
| 35606s | now why judgment made that play with the |
| 35608s | the second frostbite of course it was |
| 35609s | going into that turn six so if a |
| 35612s | barbaric sorceress had come down |
| 35613s | judgment wanted to make sure that there |
| 35615s | were no spells in hand to get swapped |
| 35618s | which would be very important um |
| 35620s | particularly with the effect of the |
| 35622s | first frostbite in play which means |
| 35624s | whatever it hit of judgment's spells |
| 35626s | would just be completely unplayable |
| 35628s | because the temporary buff i think just |
| 35630s | becomes a permanent uh debuff and and so |
| 35634s | uh it would just make the frostbite cost |
| 35636s | 11 or 12 or whatever |
| 35639s | yeah |
| 35640s | and now dimitri is essentially playing |
| 35642s | the waiting game to try and find |
| 35646s | belinda i guess |
| 35648s | belinda or |
| 35650s | you know the |
| 35651s | mailbox dancer that we talked about |
| 35653s | earlier is gonna be our best way of just |
| 35655s | getting rid of this frostbite debuff i |
| 35657s | mean it's it's really really tough as |
| 35660s | the mage here you would normally be |
| 35662s | looking to to just okay i'll buy some |
| 35664s | time until we can naturally play roon on |
| 35667s | nine mana can't naturally play any of |
| 35670s | our big spells it's just |
| 35672s | gotta find some way of |
| 35674s | playing something else first so whether |
| 35676s | that's a coin off of |
| 35679s | a mailbox dancer or |
| 35681s | as you say belinda reducing a drake fire |
| 35683s | amulet and then you play it for seven |
| 35687s | years like |
| 35692s | that also would unlock the rest of the |
| 35694s | the spells to to be able to be played |
| 35697s | um right well once that first one is |
| 35699s | played we've got double gray heart sage |
| 35701s | like it really unlocks the rest of the |
| 35703s | game but i think this frostbite is just |
| 35706s | putting in the work |
| 35708s | and uh |
| 35710s | we're not even playing these sleet |
| 35711s | breakers i think on the off chance that |
| 35714s | you know there is a |
| 35717s | barbaric source wrist in hand i guess |
| 35718s | you could play a sleep breaker and then |
| 35720s | immediately play the windshield |
| 35728s | can we can we play enough murlocs to |
| 35730s | just clear here i think |
| 35732s | not |
| 35733s | white |
| 35735s | nearly |
| 35737s | uh but can just but this warmers clean |
| 35740s | it up |
| 35742s | and getting more piranhas every turn |
| 35744s | from |
| 35745s | that murloc i think started in lists and |
| 35748s | then they took it out but you generate |
| 35750s | it sometimes still this two five end of |
| 35752s | your turn gives you a piranha swarmer oh |
| 35755s | second rune it's it's really it's really |
| 35759s | tough and |
| 35760s | no wildfire in this deck because you're |
| 35762s | all in on the big spells so that mordres |
| 35764s | is not happening without a hero played |
| 35767s | or a reckless apprentice played |
| 35769s | um |
| 35770s | you know we can freeze for one turn and |
| 35772s | normally that would be good enough but |
| 35774s | frostbite really uh showing its quality |
| 35778s | yeah |
| 35779s | and even if something were to be picked |
| 35781s | up next turn like a blend it'd still be |
| 35783s | a full |
| 35784s | extra turn before anything could even be |
| 35786s | played with both runes in hand belinda |
| 35788s | would hit the drake fire amulet which is |
| 35791s | not as much like a media board reset |
| 35793s | also |
| 35794s | the floor goal sticks |
| 35796s | and |
| 35798s | uh well there's no board space well no |
| 35802s | board space and only the ravager as far |
| 35804s | as murlocs go so |
| 35806s | uh i guess this is just a |
| 35809s | nearly a pass turn for no it should be |
| 35813s | exact right with the starfish or no am i |
| 35815s | miscounting we've got 10 |
| 35817s | oh yeah starfish 16 |
| 35820s | i m my count is exact but uh you know |
| 35823s | very high pressure situation this is no |
| 35826s | i wish it would match it would |
| 35829s | uh the four three so it's one off oh |
| 35831s | there you go it's one off silence is the |
| 35833s | fourth three on the floor go still |
| 35834s | setting the opponent to one i gotta |
| 35836s | imagine is something you're interested |
| 35837s | in |
| 35843s | and could find direct damage from the |
| 35845s | school teacher on the next turn |
| 35848s | uh that's assuming dimitri could even |
| 35850s | answer anything on the sport |
| 35853s | but he just can't i guess he could ping |
| 35854s | off one thing the the self ping you know |
| 35857s | honorably kill concede |
| 35860s | uh from dimitri and well played to |
| 35862s | judgment it's gotta be |
| 35863s | gotta be tough underdog wins uh you know |
| 35866s | we as we were saying earlier it's um |
| 35869s | you know judgment's first appearance in |
| 35872s | grand masters here with the last call |
| 35874s | and so being able to take on a player |
| 35876s | like dimitri kazov is a pretty big deal |
| 35878s | he's got to be feeling good about that |
| 35879s | one |
| 35880s | yeah that's a a nice little win there |
| 35882s | and dimitri kazoff's uh casino lineup |
| 35885s | not really paying off |
| 35887s | uh at the end of the day |
| 35888s | with |
| 35890s | some fun games |
| 35891s | uh to get to watch |
| 35893s | but a lot of losses with the prestor |
| 35896s | druid across both of his series i think |
| 35899s | um out of a potential what six losses |
| 35903s | four of them were with prestor druid uh |
| 35906s | looking back at the at the games so |
| 35909s | uh a big weak point in the lineup just |
| 35910s | not hitting the dragons quick enough the |
| 35913s | good dragons |
| 35914s | quick enough in order to make a dent but |
| 35917s | uh he'll be eliminated uh not out of |
| 35920s | like grand masters last call it's just |
| 35923s | week number one we're gonna play three |
| 35924s | weeks of tournaments before we cut to |
| 35927s | playoffs but it does put him at a |
| 35929s | significant deficit |
| 35931s | in terms of uh |
| 35933s | sort of those points to move on so |
| 35935s | really has to have a big week in weeks |
| 35937s | two and three in order to have a good |
| 35940s | shot at uh turning a season around |
| 35942s | [Music] |
| 35944s | yeah and |
| 35945s | as we mentioned before trio and last |
| 35947s | hero standings so some very different |
| 35949s | formats i'm honestly i'm pretty happy |
| 35951s | that i get to cast the conquest because |
| 35953s | that's the one i'm most familiar with |
| 35954s | i've played a couple of dreamhacks the |
| 35956s | last year would be okay but trio is just |
| 35958s | like a whole other ballpark |
| 35961s | lots of moving parts in in that format |
| 35964s | so you know good luck to dimitri in the |
| 35967s | following |
| 35969s | weeks |
| 35970s | for that but for now |
| 35971s | we're going to be moving into pun and |
| 35973s | judgment the sort of fresher faces from |
| 35976s | this group |
| 35977s | going to face off against each other see |
| 35979s | who is going to make it out of this |
| 35980s | decider or make it into the top eight |
| 35983s | for sunday |
| 35984s | yeah we're guaranteed one of the uh sort |
| 35987s | of newcomers pun does have a season of |
| 35989s | uh |
| 35990s | that season fgm under his belt which did |
| 35992s | perform incredibly well and obviously |
| 35994s | because he made it to this point uh made |
| 35996s | it to grandmaster's last call |
| 35998s | uh but yeah the good thing about trios |
| 36000s | as an aside is that the players know |
| 36002s | about as much as the casters going into |
| 36004s | hey |
| 36005s | have about as much time because the the |
| 36008s | pools of classes aren't even released |
| 36011s | until you know not that long before they |
| 36013s | have to prep |
| 36015s | so |
| 36016s | uh that's a just an interesting takeaway |
| 36018s | it's always crazy to see uh what's gonna |
| 36021s | uh come out of it and what pools they're |
| 36023s | gonna choose yeah um but that was our |
| 36026s | second to last match of the day we have |
| 36028s | uh one more match left on the day it is |
| 36030s | gonna be that decider match that you |
| 36032s | mentioned which is pun |
| 36033s | versus judgment to round off uh group b |
| 36037s | uh before we jump into that though we |
| 36038s | are gonna have to go to a quick break |
| 36039s | give judgment a chance to reset and get |
| 36041s | ready for his final match so uh don't go |
| 36043s | anywhere conclusion today number one of |
| 36045s | grandmaster's last call |
| 36047s | right after this |
| 36052s | [Music] |
| 36062s | [Applause] |
| 36062s | [Music] |
| 36067s | in the darkest of seasons where ruthless |
| 36070s | eyes gawk for horrific reasons |
| 36074s | for a hidden hand has struck me down |
| 36079s | with such ruthlessness |
| 36081s | so |
| 36082s | deep and profound |
| 36085s | then he comes with his mullockian scowl |
| 36093s | to uncover the truth |
| 36095s | of murder most foul |
| 36099s | the anima drifts across the floor |
| 36102s | highlighting the creatures who walked |
| 36104s | through my door |
| 36106s | the motives are as black as night |
| 36110s | avarice power revenge and blight |
| 36116s | we watch the hero |
| 36118s | uncover the clues |
| 36120s | that lead to the truth |
| 36123s | behind this dark blues |
| 36128s | join us here with the grimm and in pious |
| 36132s | choose your power without heavenly bias |
| 36136s | for at the end |
| 36138s | they will burn in the fire |
| 36141s | when it is known who slayed |
| 36144s | daenerys |
| 36145s | [Music] |
| 36163s | [Music] |
| 36170s | [Music] |
| 36177s | [Music] |
| 36268s | do |
| 36269s | [Music] |
| 36294s | so |
| 36296s | [Music] |
| 36309s | so |
| 36314s | [Music] |
| 36392s | so |
| 36401s | [Music] |
| 36405s | so |
| 36407s | [Music] |
| 36433s | so |
| 36435s | [Music] |
| 36492s | so |
| 36493s | [Music] |
| 36504s | [Music] |
| 36520s | do |
| 36522s | [Music] |
| 36604s | so |
| 36611s | [Music] |
| 36660s | [Music] |
| 36667s | hello everybody welcome back to |
| 36668s | grandmaster's last call my name is tj |
| 36671s | joined once again by special guest for |
| 36673s | week number one edelweiss and i just |
| 36676s | want to say |
| 36677s | i'm gonna throw it out there you've been |
| 36678s | doing a great job |
| 36680s | oh thank you i appreciate it tj |
| 36682s | particularly from a |
| 36683s | established caster such as yourself |
| 36685s | means a lot |
| 36688s | establishes probably the |
| 36690s | the |
| 36691s | nicest praise you could give me because |
| 36693s | i think we |
| 36694s | we all know me you the casters and |
| 36697s | everybody that watches that uh |
| 36699s | uh established is the most positive word |
| 36702s | you could use for my casting over the |
| 36704s | last six years |
| 36706s | hang on i want to say here that |
| 36708s | i think |
| 36710s | if you're not sorry let me rephrase |
| 36712s | sorry from getting if you're pleasing |
| 36714s | everyone |
| 36715s | if you're just fine then you you can't |
| 36718s | be amazing to anyone right so unless |
| 36721s | you're making somebody upset probably no |
| 36724s | one is loving you and i'm sure there are |
| 36726s | some tj stands out there for whom you |
| 36729s | are their favorite caster |
| 36731s | yeah lorinda that's it |
| 36734s | he's he's the only one and half the time |
| 36736s | he's casting with me or not even half |
| 36737s | the time this these days 90 of the time |
| 36739s | he's casting with me so |
| 36741s | um |
| 36742s | uh i cater to the the one percent that |
| 36744s | understands what i'm talking about in |
| 36746s | any given scenario but that aside |
| 36749s | um we have our last match of the day |
| 36751s | coming up it's going to be the decider |
| 36753s | match for group b it's going to be pun |
| 36754s | versus judgement uh two players |
| 36757s | relatively new at least to the hot the |
| 36760s | highest level play that we have in the |
| 36761s | ecosystem right now which is hearthstone |
| 36762s | grand masters uh judgement very first |
| 36765s | match pun did have one season for |
| 36767s | america's grand masters early on this |
| 36769s | year where he did well enough to earn |
| 36771s | himself an invite back uh to the last |
| 36774s | call |
| 36774s | uh looking to uh have a good week one |
| 36777s | because |
| 36778s | uh actually just making it to that top |
| 36780s | eight and having a chance to earn more |
| 36782s | points |
| 36784s | much better than going out second to |
| 36785s | last in your group barely collecting |
| 36787s | anything |
| 36788s | and uh being stressed out of your mind |
| 36790s | going into weeks two and three that you |
| 36792s | need to |
| 36793s | you need to do a lot better so looking |
| 36795s | forward to this one because it's even |
| 36797s | though it's early on it's high stakes |
| 36799s | yeah absolutely an early loss can |
| 36801s | snowball your mindset into struggling in |
| 36803s | future weeks so definitely looking to |
| 36806s | pick up that initial top eight to not |
| 36808s | feel totally safe but you know somewhat |
| 36810s | secure going forward and we're seeing |
| 36813s | pun with the boat rogue here uh none of |
| 36817s | that jackpot nonsense he says we're just |
| 36819s | gonna play some stealth minions and hit |
| 36820s | you in the face |
| 36823s | yeah so uh there was a time |
| 36826s | small suicide |
| 36828s | one thing is you're you're you have so |
| 36830s | much analysis and so many good things to |
| 36832s | say |
| 36833s | that |
| 36833s | all these anecdotes that i have i have |
| 36835s | to save them all to the end of the |
| 36836s | broadcast so forgive me um there was i i |
| 36840s | took a i went on vacation i took a break |
| 36842s | like right as uh |
| 36843s | this the mini set with the uh the boats |
| 36847s | came out and that was around the time |
| 36849s | where it changed from |
| 36852s | uh |
| 36852s | like noel was nervous so it changed from |
| 36854s | like thief rogue to was basically just |
| 36856s | you you play maestra and and noel and |
| 36859s | that's real there's no thief package in |
| 36860s | there and i came back and uh people |
| 36863s | started talking about boat rogue |
| 36865s | and i had no idea what boat road meant |
| 36868s | because i didn't make the connection |
| 36869s | that uh the a shard vessel was a boat |
| 36873s | and that you're picking up another boat |
| 36875s | when you dredged the asharan vessel |
| 36877s | so it was one of those situations where |
| 36879s | i don't know what boat road is and i'm |
| 36880s | too afraid to ask |
| 36882s | i was like googling around but it was |
| 36884s | like |
| 36884s | knew enough of a name to where nobody |
| 36886s | was calling it boat rogue like hs replay |
| 36889s | wasn't calling it boat rogue and all the |
| 36890s | other casters was like oh yeah boat |
| 36892s | rogue it's so good i didn't know what |
| 36893s | boat rogue was until the first time that |
| 36896s | i cast a match it was like the very next |
| 36898s | masters tour and i didn't cast the first |
| 36901s | game and thought i was like okay we're |
| 36903s | gonna have boat road coming up first and |
| 36905s | then i watched and i was like why is |
| 36906s | cobble road why is it called boat road |
| 36907s | and then a sharon vessel was played it |
| 36909s | clicked boom that's the story of tj not |
| 36911s | knowing what boat rogue does but now |
| 36913s | knows what boat road does all right i |
| 36915s | got an anecdote out of the way i'm good |
| 36917s | we can continue |
| 36919s | well i can expand upon that though i |
| 36921s | think it was confusing for me as well |
| 36923s | you'd think oh wouldn't we just call |
| 36925s | this pirate rogue but i think what |
| 36926s | people realized is that a jar and vessel |
| 36929s | even though it's a five drop in rogue |
| 36931s | has such a high mulligan win rate we see |
| 36933s | pun keeping it in the mulligan |
| 36936s | in spite of it being a five drop |
| 36938s | normally rogue known for you know |
| 36940s | getting bored on |
| 36941s | early with sort of whatever size minions |
| 36944s | and it just you get in that chip damage |
| 36946s | because you're able to use your spells |
| 36948s | etcetera to hold on to the board |
| 36951s | pun |
| 36952s | keeping that ajar and vessel in the |
| 36953s | opener we don't even have a prep to get |
| 36955s | it out early we don't have a cut list to |
| 36957s | reduce it but we might find those things |
| 36959s | and it's important to have the boat for |
| 36961s | that now we see the tap giving the |
| 36963s | preparation to be able to play that |
| 36964s | azure and vessel on three and the |
| 36966s | stealth is very important to be able to |
| 36968s | get favorable trades |
| 36970s | yeah |
| 36972s | however |
| 36974s | this is all big however there's a big |
| 36977s | frog um yeah |
| 36980s | that's gonna put a bit of a wrench into |
| 36982s | those plans and we do see the ramming |
| 36984s | mount can come down as well |
| 36986s | i'd be surprised if |
| 36988s | judgment doesn't go for it this time |
| 36991s | over the harpoon gun last time there was |
| 36993s | a choice i think |
| 36995s | it wasn't quite as in your face a great |
| 36997s | play but |
| 36998s | uh this time seems like pretty solid to |
| 37002s | keep that trog down |
| 37004s | going up to five seven stats |
| 37008s | it's tough |
| 37010s | judgment |
| 37011s | he seems like the kind of player that's |
| 37013s | gonna harpoon gun hit face pick |
| 37015s | ambassador phelan play ambassador |
| 37017s | feeling on four hit face and then get a |
| 37019s | nelly again |
| 37021s | uh because that's happened the other two |
| 37023s | games that we watched him play this day |
| 37025s | why wouldn't it happen a third time in a |
| 37028s | row uh but yeah it's just gonna and also |
| 37030s | spread the love a little bit here with |
| 37032s | the ramming mountain the smaller one |
| 37033s | make it more difficult |
| 37035s | uh for pun to deal with still no no |
| 37037s | picked up for punt as well so his |
| 37039s | ability to fight back on this board is |
| 37041s | pretty limited gonna have to go with the |
| 37042s | tooth |
| 37043s | and try and find something impactful |
| 37046s | because his health totals dwindling |
| 37047s | already already down to 19. |
| 37049s | yeah and i think these are not the picks |
| 37052s | i mean barb nets kind of the best one |
| 37054s | but you were really hoping for some kind |
| 37056s | of transform or a big aoe something |
| 37058s | that's going to be able to clean up a |
| 37060s | bunch of troggs at once because after |
| 37062s | this finishes it's discover animation |
| 37064s | another one-two trog is going to be |
| 37066s | summoned here |
| 37067s | and so pun well it looked initially like |
| 37071s | a pretty good hand it just did not line |
| 37072s | up into this trog play from from |
| 37075s | judgment and that can be the strength of |
| 37077s | having trog over |
| 37080s | peasant in you know matchups like this |
| 37082s | one |
| 37091s | they're really not great i mean when you |
| 37092s | consider |
| 37094s | like i guess you have prep |
| 37096s | i'm not not sure there's a winning pick |
| 37099s | there you really just want to be able to |
| 37101s | play krabatoa next turn but you've gotta |
| 37103s | wait |
| 37104s | again |
| 37106s | another trog picked up could could |
| 37108s | really just make it impossible to |
| 37111s | ever play any spells without activating |
| 37113s | drugs |
| 37115s | yeah and this is just getting close to |
| 37117s | like lethal setup |
| 37120s | uh |
| 37121s | no beasts |
| 37125s | well an azar and saber in hand so pet |
| 37127s | collector is not gonna summon anything |
| 37130s | yeah so none of those seem particularly |
| 37132s | impactful at least for next turn but |
| 37133s | looks like he picked tavish |
| 37135s | to have plays lined up |
| 37137s | for following turns if the game even |
| 37138s | lasts that long right because uh |
| 37141s | punt is going to be all the way down to |
| 37143s | 12 health with plenty of power showing |
| 37145s | on board |
| 37146s | and |
| 37149s | uh |
| 37151s | yeah |
| 37152s | there's |
| 37154s | not a lot to add i think that first |
| 37157s | shroud of concealment was played to look |
| 37159s | for maybe a double null to bail pun out |
| 37162s | of this |
| 37164s | but |
| 37164s | going for that now there's going to be |
| 37166s | six trogs on the other side it's really |
| 37169s | just trogs all the way down |
| 37171s | and uh i expect this one will be ending |
| 37174s | pretty soon hunter doesn't always get |
| 37176s | these aggressive starts but who boy when |
| 37178s | it does they can snowball out of control |
| 37181s | very quickly |
| 37183s | yeah and |
| 37185s | keep in mind this series is a rematch |
| 37187s | those who didn't watch uh |
| 37189s | at the beginning of this group i |
| 37191s | wouldn't blame him because you know |
| 37192s | saddle raven casted it um |
| 37195s | but uh pun did have a very |
| 37201s | uh clean match uh to open things off uh |
| 37204s | with a 3-0 sweep |
| 37206s | over judgment uh it did feel like it was |
| 37208s | a lot of just pretty poor draws for |
| 37210s | judgment and not necessarily like a bad |
| 37212s | matchup overall |
| 37214s | so now i guess we're seeing the other |
| 37216s | side while paul knowl is just there to |
| 37220s | keep pun alive |
| 37221s | um |
| 37223s | and then just throw the fly fighter into |
| 37225s | the 3-5 just to |
| 37227s | put a stealth three one on board and |
| 37229s | maybe fight back but this is what eight |
| 37231s | no this is lethal showing on board |
| 37233s | is it six seven eight nine ten eleven |
| 37235s | twelve thirteen yeah it's one over yep |
| 37238s | yeah it's enough you know i i think pond |
| 37241s | didn't bother counting because it's like |
| 37243s | well it'll attack for lethal if he has |
| 37244s | it anyway um but |
| 37247s | i think the intent with that filet |
| 37248s | fighter is to set up for a krabatoa on |
| 37250s | the following turn but just not enough |
| 37252s | life there totally different story from |
| 37254s | last time where judgment just had double |
| 37256s | mountain bears sitting in hand rotting |
| 37258s | and |
| 37259s | watching as he got beat down so very |
| 37262s | much flipping the script in terms of |
| 37265s | this |
| 37266s | rematch |
| 37269s | already uh sort of the opposite of what |
| 37271s | we saw uh but a lot of series left to |
| 37273s | play that's only one win for judgment |
| 37274s | 1-0 up |
| 37276s | uh in terms of decks remaining |
| 37279s | still the mage and the rogue uh for |
| 37281s | judgment |
| 37283s | uh it is the |
| 37285s | uh it's big spell |
| 37291s | i can't remember i lost the |
| 37294s | necklace i can't remember if it's the 40 |
| 37296s | carter or 30 card variation and then i |
| 37298s | also believe you got that elise was the |
| 37300s | only one with the 40. i was the only one |
| 37302s | with 40 okay i knew there was there was |
| 37304s | zero at least one player in the group |
| 37306s | with 40 and that blize was one player |
| 37308s | but i can't remember for anybody else |
| 37309s | all right yeah it's uh not the xl uh |
| 37312s | version of the deck it is just the big |
| 37314s | spell mage but a couple of uh |
| 37316s | uh text thrown in there like the coil |
| 37319s | fang constrictor |
| 37321s | um pretty unusual one i've seen that |
| 37324s | more as a card where you want to be on |
| 37325s | board |
| 37326s | and you use it to kind of |
| 37329s | disrupt your opponent as you're trying |
| 37331s | to establish pressure and maybe |
| 37332s | preventing them from playing it clear |
| 37334s | but i guess it can go the other way |
| 37335s | right as the mage if you just want to |
| 37337s | say hey that's your best on curve play |
| 37339s | don't do that |
| 37340s | or pretty great next level |
| 37344s | you play it |
| 37346s | and you pick their cheapest spell |
| 37348s | and then you curve into sorceress |
| 37351s | ah |
| 37352s | there's the big brain thinking yeah that |
| 37354s | could be it |
| 37356s | yeah so you have coin you play the |
| 37358s | constrictor |
| 37360s | you pick their cheapest spell because |
| 37361s | they're gonna dump it going into the |
| 37363s | sorcerer's turn and then you coin out |
| 37365s | the sorceress guaranteeing that you hit |
| 37367s | their |
| 37368s | cheapest spell obviously a lot of things |
| 37369s | have to align for that to happen one |
| 37371s | they have to not dump their cheap spell |
| 37373s | earlier on |
| 37374s | uh two you have to be on the coin for |
| 37376s | you to have enough time to actually play |
| 37378s | it before you have enough mana for |
| 37380s | barbaric sorceress |
| 37382s | and three you actually have to be |
| 37384s | offered their cheapest spell |
| 37386s | in the discover effect from the |
| 37388s | constrictor so but hey you know |
| 37390s | gotta think outside the box look at |
| 37393s | these tech cards and |
| 37395s | in uh different ways |
| 37397s | these things do happen but we see both |
| 37399s | power cards for the mage in hand uh not |
| 37402s | necessarily what you want right at the |
| 37403s | start but you are |
| 37405s | comfortable having them belinda and |
| 37407s | barbaric sorceress uh ram commander for |
| 37410s | something to do on two few rushes to go |
| 37412s | with the ping maybe clear stuff up early |
| 37415s | pun doesn't have the greatest start but |
| 37418s | uh |
| 37419s | might be able to get the okani down |
| 37422s | in time yeah |
| 37426s | and uh |
| 37428s | it's also very difficult at times for |
| 37430s | rogue to fully play around barbaric |
| 37432s | sorceress because they play a lot of |
| 37434s | cheap spells in the deck uh absolutely |
| 37436s | not all of which |
| 37438s | can be easily just played um or at least |
| 37442s | not for any sort of value like you know |
| 37444s | anti-tempo by playing shadow steps or uh |
| 37448s | non-combo gone fishing or like a two |
| 37451s | damage wicked stab uh rank one wicked |
| 37453s | stab things like that so |
| 37455s | um this is and because there are so many |
| 37458s | cheap spells uh mate has an easy time of |
| 37461s | just saying i'm just gonna play barbaric |
| 37463s | sorceress and it's most likely gonna hit |
| 37465s | something that's going to make my spells |
| 37466s | cheap obviously not in this situation |
| 37467s | because he doesn't have any spells |
| 37469s | but can curve like belinda into |
| 37471s | sorceress and then discount the spells |
| 37473s | make belinda huge and then discount the |
| 37475s | spells even further who knows |
| 37477s | yep we see getting that okani down into |
| 37480s | what would be the coin coin sorceress |
| 37483s | potential turn uh the shadow step off of |
| 37486s | gone fishing last turn normally you |
| 37488s | would think hey gone fishing after |
| 37492s | uh wild pawn gnaw no mana left probably |
| 37494s | not going to draw anything but that |
| 37495s | shadow step pickup does allow this null |
| 37497s | to go face and then get replayed clean |
| 37500s | up the tutu |
| 37501s | very nice uh it's still |
| 37503s | you know it's a reasonably powerful |
| 37506s | position for pun but it's not knocking |
| 37508s | it out of the park it's it's just |
| 37510s | delaying a little bit |
| 37512s | you can pretty easily just coin to check |
| 37517s | and of course you know it's minion and |
| 37519s | you've got a 1 1 rusher to activate the |
| 37521s | okani so |
| 37523s | without a shadow step to replay the |
| 37524s | okani it just slows things down for |
| 37526s | judgment by one turn |
| 37535s | which is fine i guess i'm there there's |
| 37538s | a reasonable amount of pressure on board |
| 37540s | but |
| 37541s | you could always play |
| 37543s | ah |
| 37545s | what do you do with the four mana i |
| 37546s | guess is the biggest question |
| 37550s | yeah i mean judgment could play his own |
| 37552s | okani just |
| 37554s | again to to force a hero power or |
| 37556s | something following up this it's just |
| 37558s | sort of good utilization of the mana and |
| 37560s | and yeah it's fine you're happy to just |
| 37562s | sort of |
| 37564s | gain six life off the oconi here if |
| 37566s | that's what ends up happening with the |
| 37568s | double attack and the hero power |
| 37570s | i'm not sure whether you pick many in |
| 37572s | your spell i guess you pick spell |
| 37573s | because it's the thing most likely to |
| 37576s | kill |
| 37577s | it but of course you know there's a coin |
| 37580s | so |
| 37585s | i wonder |
| 37587s | if you just |
| 37588s | use the extortion here |
| 37591s | while it's available |
| 37595s | just play every spell i don't know |
| 37598s | the azshara defector is actually pretty |
| 37601s | cool here fell soul jailer is another |
| 37603s | consideration because if you do hit |
| 37606s | something like the belinda or barbaric |
| 37608s | sorceress that's a way of sort of |
| 37609s | holding your opponent's game plan |
| 37611s | hostage yeah that is that is the pick |
| 37613s | extortion and null cleanup |
| 37616s | uh yes there's a battle ram you just |
| 37618s | hope you hit something important ah |
| 37620s | that's a good one |
| 37622s | but belinda's still there and i think |
| 37623s | that's probably gonna be the play here |
| 37625s | is coin belinda |
| 37628s | yeah joke's on pun because uh judgment |
| 37630s | didn't even have any spells in hand to |
| 37631s | swap so |
| 37632s | [Laughter] |
| 37634s | wanted to play the belinda anyway |
| 37637s | yeah exactly |
| 37641s | it's funny to say that's a low tempo |
| 37643s | turn in terms of just making a 910 with |
| 37645s | no keywords but |
| 37648s | the high tempo turn is to come with the |
| 37650s | rune of the archmage potentially uh |
| 37653s | doing something very silly to clean up |
| 37654s | the board it's really going to be up to |
| 37656s | the fates |
| 37657s | whether or not |
| 37659s | he gets the right spells to |
| 37661s | kind of climb back on board here |
| 37664s | yeah |
| 37665s | i mean there's a lot of damage loaded up |
| 37667s | for pun but |
| 37668s | uh |
| 37670s | a lot in the ways of disruption that |
| 37672s | could come out |
| 37673s | from the room of the arc made for for uh |
| 37676s | for judgment mr smite's still a ways |
| 37678s | away um |
| 37680s | i guess wicked stab is the only direct |
| 37681s | damage that's currently in the handcraft |
| 37683s | can sometimes be |
| 37685s | if you have things that you can |
| 37686s | immediately trade into which is very |
| 37688s | likely in this instance |
| 37692s | yeah and kind of rough here you know the |
| 37694s | 910 is just hard to deal with so |
| 37697s | it looks like pun is going for the hey |
| 37699s | i'm just going to play some stuff draw |
| 37701s | some cards try and set up a lethal |
| 37703s | before you can do anything silly uh |
| 37705s | there is a wicked stab in hand i |
| 37707s | wouldn't be surprised if the thing that |
| 37709s | was |
| 37710s | uh |
| 37711s | gone fishing is |
| 37714s | maybe a wicked stab |
| 37717s | or or no we saw it was the fillet |
| 37718s | fighter sorry flay fighter to go with |
| 37720s | smite so |
| 37721s | lining this up is what maybe |
| 37724s | oh |
| 37727s | yeah |
| 37730s | oh there's some pics yeah yeah |
| 37735s | it's interesting seeing |
| 37737s | the |
| 37738s | discover of dragons coming down instead |
| 37741s | of |
| 37742s | the rune |
| 37743s | and |
| 37745s | i'm not sure it works out for the most |
| 37748s | part in this situation |
| 37750s | because you are just setting up a |
| 37752s | two-turn lethal |
| 37754s | yeah |
| 37755s | but i feel like most players inclination |
| 37757s | would be hey i'm at pretty low life |
| 37759s | total i want something to clear the |
| 37760s | board i'm going to play rune of the |
| 37761s | archmage uh judgment really uh |
| 37766s | surprising me with that amulet but the |
| 37768s | the picks work out well |
| 37772s | yeah is there a way for pun to stay |
| 37775s | alive on board is the big question here |
| 37779s | this can chew through the uh |
| 37781s | uh sleepy dragon by itself |
| 37784s | um |
| 37786s | and then there's seven eight nine damage |
| 37788s | left on board everything would have to |
| 37790s | be traded into belinda plus the filet |
| 37792s | fighter |
| 37793s | billet fighter fellaini would have to be |
| 37794s | played on to kill off the belinda |
| 37797s | ah yeah i mean you have to |
| 37799s | swing your face into the four eight so |
| 37802s | you're still taking |
| 37803s | four damage there i mean and then you |
| 37806s | give them back the |
| 37808s | uh sorceress |
| 37811s | by having to oh we're going to use the |
| 37813s | yeah okay there you go |
| 37815s | making it so you can't |
| 37816s | they don't get the sorceress filet |
| 37818s | fighter of course there you go |
| 37820s | finishes it up |
| 37822s | we're just barely alive but roon could |
| 37825s | find lethal |
| 37827s | i'm i'm kind of digging the just go face |
| 37829s | for 12 play roon line here |
| 37834s | there's also |
| 37842s | like a safe play of i don't know |
| 37846s | reckless apprentice bram commander trade |
| 37848s | into the fel soul and then go face you |
| 37850s | lose six power on board |
| 37853s | yeah yeah |
| 37854s | well and it does |
| 37856s | maybe work towards powering up your |
| 37858s | mordress for activating that |
| 37862s | um |
| 37863s | yeah probably a safer line would be to |
| 37865s | go with the reckless apprentice but nope |
| 37869s | i have the opportunity to end it here uh |
| 37872s | we're just gonna play the rune and see |
| 37873s | what happens |
| 37874s | you know he figures worst case it it |
| 37877s | clears the board hopefully ice barrier |
| 37879s | not a bad pickup |
| 37881s | uh that's interesting the spell damage |
| 37883s | if it lives could be bad oh no we |
| 37885s | buy by 12 12. |
| 37888s | and that is always the concern you |
| 37889s | generally want to make your attacks |
| 37891s | first |
| 37892s | ignite is something |
| 37896s | i almost wonder if you don't save the |
| 37898s | ignite and weave in a ping there |
| 37901s | yeah because if you ping |
| 37903s | next turn you go ping ignite reckless |
| 37904s | apprentice and it's lethal |
| 37907s | yeah |
| 37908s | and you have exact mana for that no i |
| 37909s | think that's that's right um because you |
| 37912s | have plenty of health courses just |
| 37913s | trying to set up a guaranteed next turn |
| 37914s | lethal |
| 37916s | well and of course grace age period for |
| 37918s | roon is lethal one hundred percent of |
| 37920s | the times oh pushy oh yeah obviously you |
| 37923s | know it doesn't really matter |
| 37930s | we're just we're setting up the ignite |
| 37932s | in the deck so if you low roll and you |
| 37935s | get the objective it'll cast ignite face |
| 37939s | at the end of the turn |
| 37941s | yeah |
| 37943s | well i don't know though it like because |
| 37945s | if judgment isn't able to find lethal |
| 37947s | that turn like next turn it would have |
| 37949s | been a a near guaranteed setup right up |
| 37952s | whatever |
| 37957s | i guess that's not that good |
| 37958s | yeah |
| 37959s | i don't know |
| 37960s | we are currently one off uh and and we |
| 37964s | would have had that from saving the |
| 37966s | united but |
| 37967s | there's a very real possibility that uh |
| 37969s | judgment is still able to pull out the |
| 37971s | win with the |
| 37972s | parrot |
| 37974s | yeah could also finley to try and find |
| 37976s | the other ignite i don't know |
| 37978s | that's true i wonder if that was maybe |
| 37980s | the thinking was oh we can |
| 37983s | finley and and get the other ignite that |
| 37985s | way |
| 37986s | um |
| 37987s | free is pretty good everything's green |
| 37989s | so he won |
| 37992s | two mana left and the uh don grass is |
| 37994s | green which means that uh |
| 37999s | very crucial text on rune of the |
| 38001s | archmage is that uh everything is |
| 38004s | guaranteed to hit |
| 38005s | something on the opponent's side of the |
| 38007s | board |
| 38008s | so that makes it a little bit more |
| 38010s | consistent uh it is pretty funny that we |
| 38012s | do see the objective coming out but it |
| 38014s | doesn't matter both burn spells went |
| 38015s | face |
| 38016s | uh winner and judgment |
| 38018s | yep |
| 38019s | and uh a 2-0 |
| 38021s | so a couple of predictions being broken |
| 38024s | uh not even predictions but one i |
| 38026s | figured pun had |
| 38028s | uh |
| 38029s | a stomp in one direction where he three |
| 38032s | oh judgment then another one in the |
| 38033s | other direction where he got three owed |
| 38035s | and i figured this one would be a crazy |
| 38037s | close series where it'd go all the way |
| 38039s | to game number five which still can |
| 38041s | happen we can't count it out yet |
| 38042s | uh but so far |
| 38045s | yeah so far it looks like it's gonna be |
| 38047s | uh |
| 38048s | uh an unfortunate repeat of the last |
| 38050s | series for pond where it feels like he |
| 38053s | despite playing well it seems there's |
| 38056s | not many things that we can point out in |
| 38058s | this play that are just clearly |
| 38060s | obviously obvious mistakes just |
| 38062s | uh it's running into you know tough |
| 38065s | situations where |
| 38066s | um he was able to get the failsale |
| 38069s | jailer which was a nice pickup for |
| 38071s | disruption hit the barbaric sorceress |
| 38073s | but judgment had the the backup |
| 38076s | power six drop in the belinda uh to |
| 38079s | really snowball things out of control |
| 38080s | and now puns on his last life |
| 38083s | yeah and i think a really crucial turn |
| 38085s | there from judgment was playing that |
| 38087s | amulet first instead of the rune |
| 38090s | you just don't know what the ruin's |
| 38092s | going to do so he decided to go for the |
| 38095s | aggressive line and just set up a couple |
| 38096s | of big things and |
| 38098s | you know it ended up working out getting |
| 38100s | a death wing and a taunt to protect it |
| 38102s | very powerful for setting up a two-turn |
| 38104s | lethal when you've seen that your |
| 38106s | opponent couldn't clear the 910 belinda |
| 38108s | from before |
| 38113s | now we've got my favorite dog again |
| 38116s | oh your favorite this is probably my |
| 38117s | least favorite deck |
| 38119s | really |
| 38120s | yeah i just like |
| 38122s | i don't know |
| 38123s | the the power of okay this and and i |
| 38126s | just like swift scales trickster like |
| 38128s | mine rogue as well i i find fascinating |
| 38131s | like |
| 38132s | we haven't seen any of those for for us |
| 38134s | but there will be a few later on |
| 38137s | yeah possession has it in his lineup he |
| 38138s | too owed his group so uh a possession |
| 38141s | there you go we'll be in the top eight |
| 38143s | and then uh there's what were there |
| 38145s | three in the tournament |
| 38148s | more than i anticipated to be honest |
| 38150s | yeah |
| 38152s | um but i have the thing right up here |
| 38154s | mine rogue i'm morocco |
| 38157s | i i i much prefer the scenario of my |
| 38160s | opponent casting the big spell that they |
| 38163s | put in their deck rather than the big |
| 38164s | spell that they got off of jackpot |
| 38166s | i understand it is a for the people kind |
| 38169s | of card it's you know it's just not my |
| 38172s | cup of tea so |
| 38174s | but fun over here with the double |
| 38177s | reconnaissance not keeping either just |
| 38178s | gonna go with the si7 extortion |
| 38180s | double null for judgment oh my |
| 38186s | side question |
| 38187s | back in the uh uh |
| 38190s | uh grand tournament uh metagame was your |
| 38193s | favorite deck jessica trueheart control |
| 38195s | warrior |
| 38197s | oh man i it's hard to remember |
| 38201s | back then but that does did you play a |
| 38202s | lot of just a car true heart control |
| 38204s | warrior |
| 38205s | i i played a lot of jester car true |
| 38207s | heart period i've always been a fan of |
| 38209s | like upgrading hero powers uh whether i |
| 38212s | was doing the control warrior i don't |
| 38214s | know i didn't have as much of a |
| 38216s | collection back then but i remember |
| 38219s | watching the |
| 38220s | jessica trueheart warrior |
| 38223s | like control c'thun mirror in some big |
| 38227s | tournament and just being |
| 38229s | fascinated i i loved watching those |
| 38232s | games with like you play c'thun and it |
| 38234s | dies and then you want to shuffle |
| 38236s | another one in and trying to do tink |
| 38239s | master over spark on your opponent's |
| 38240s | c'thun so that they couldn't get it back |
| 38242s | it was really something it was wild |
| 38247s | back when uh like shield block was the |
| 38249s | was the only cycle you had as control |
| 38251s | warrior like oh yeah i drew shield block |
| 38253s | i can draw further into my deck it's |
| 38255s | amazing yep |
| 38257s | acolyte of pain which act like a pain in |
| 38260s | core uh we may be seeing some more of |
| 38262s | that card after nathria comes out |
| 38265s | because |
| 38266s | it uh plays very well with some of the |
| 38268s | enraged cards |
| 38270s | oh yeah oh yeah lots to look forward to |
| 38273s | um but the power level outside of that |
| 38275s | is |
| 38276s | much higher so we'll see if that color |
| 38278s | paint makes the cut |
| 38280s | uh but just based on your opinion on on |
| 38282s | uh |
| 38283s | the frog i was like |
| 38285s | probably just like consistent |
| 38288s | powerful |
| 38290s | pun you gotta feel for him |
| 38292s | you know a hand over the face body |
| 38295s | languages this is not what he wanted to |
| 38296s | see the double wild pawn all on two |
| 38299s | uh is able to make the aegwin get uh |
| 38303s | discarded but there's just trades on |
| 38304s | board for that that would cost |
| 38307s | eight |
| 38308s | hp worth of stuff though so that might |
| 38310s | not be worth it maybe you'd rather say |
| 38313s | like yeah i'll have you do the trades |
| 38314s | we'll go face for six and just draw and |
| 38317s | that seems like judgment's assessment as |
| 38319s | well |
| 38320s | very much uh |
| 38322s | a man of the smork |
| 38324s | yep |
| 38327s | damage permanence is something big with |
| 38328s | rogue you know |
| 38331s | not very many ways to to gain life once |
| 38334s | it's been lost obviously |
| 38337s | on judgment side |
| 38339s | defro can find ways but a boat rogue |
| 38344s | scabs and that's it that's only |
| 38345s | sometimes |
| 38348s | now it does give up the |
| 38350s | clean opportunity of getting that |
| 38352s | aegwynn back though you know being |
| 38353s | discounted it could have come down on |
| 38356s | that turn |
| 38357s | yes you reduce the health of your |
| 38358s | minions by a lot but now judgment's just |
| 38360s | behind on board and with the aegwynn |
| 38364s | sealed away we don't have access to that |
| 38366s | plus two spell damage this wicked stab |
| 38368s | having to come down to clear a null just |
| 38370s | feels pretty terrible |
| 38372s | uh aegwynn if you get that death rattle |
| 38374s | rolling and then you play a contraband |
| 38376s | stash and a test |
| 38378s | you know maybe we could have seen |
| 38380s | saving that wicked stab for some kind of |
| 38382s | crazy lethal later in the game with like |
| 38384s | plus six spell damage on a minion |
| 38387s | yeah it's got nothing on plus 30 spell |
| 38389s | damage oh my goodness |
| 38392s | that was quite a game |
| 38394s | just like respectable can't take the |
| 38396s | game at least gonna flex |
| 38398s | yeah |
| 38400s | just like raven solver this isn't 40 |
| 38402s | right |
| 38404s | i had no idea i had no idea i wasn't i |
| 38407s | was counting |
| 38410s | um |
| 38410s | so |
| 38412s | minion or |
| 38413s | going into five |
| 38415s | um |
| 38418s | the minion and spell both play around |
| 38420s | trickster in a sense |
| 38422s | and the more impactful cards i feel are |
| 38424s | minions |
| 38428s | yeah i mean |
| 38430s | this is how the tables have turned you |
| 38432s | know i i i reacted strongly when we saw |
| 38435s | the double null in hand but uh faustol |
| 38437s | jailer just coming down as a big pile of |
| 38439s | stats taking away the best tempo play |
| 38441s | from judgment if it had hit the |
| 38442s | trickster totally different story i |
| 38444s | think the aegwynn just comes down then |
| 38446s | and you keep keep applying the pressure |
| 38448s | but now |
| 38449s | just |
| 38450s | you know you don't always get too many |
| 38453s | cards |
| 38454s | back from contraband stash and tests so |
| 38456s | once you've lost the one like |
| 38459s | minion from your reconnaissance to to |
| 38461s | replay |
| 38462s | all of this is just kind of jank that |
| 38464s | doesn't do anything |
| 38468s | it sure is |
| 38472s | that's why it's my favorite |
| 38476s | sometimes it does everything and |
| 38477s | sometimes i think it does everything |
| 38479s | it does nothing |
| 38481s | yep we do see this menu pop up which |
| 38483s | means that it was not minion right |
| 38485s | because this would just get countered i |
| 38486s | think that's how that works yeah it |
| 38488s | wouldn't get to battle cry if it got |
| 38490s | countered so that means not even a |
| 38492s | jackpot into swift scale trickster will |
| 38494s | be saving a judgment here |
| 38501s | second tooth coming out for a discover i |
| 38503s | expect |
| 38504s | yup maybe |
| 38506s | i'll say so we can then to turn on |
| 38509s | uh maestro and still be feeling okay |
| 38512s | about the state of the board oh okay |
| 38517s | ah trout's not bad either |
| 38520s | although you could save it for next turn |
| 38522s | and still do the |
| 38524s | the tooth play |
| 38527s | yeah |
| 38528s | you could go cutless |
| 38530s | and then tooth and then cutless away |
| 38534s | to cycle |
| 38536s | yeah i mean there's no guaranteed |
| 38538s | discount then though you are running a |
| 38540s | bit dry on resources |
| 38542s | i gotta imagine it's either the smite or |
| 38545s | the shroud here this might to just kind |
| 38547s | of say hey my opponents had some weak |
| 38548s | turns let's just pile on the pressure |
| 38551s | and the |
| 38553s | wow okay well it is the cutlass i need |
| 38555s | to get the discount on the spell true |
| 38558s | true but you don't know what that spell |
| 38560s | is going to be |
| 38562s | you don't know what that spell is going |
| 38563s | to be like you know what |
| 38565s | right we just we get the shroud anyway |
| 38567s | it was it was |
| 38568s | it was planned all along |
| 38571s | yep |
| 38572s | and you get a one mana rock weapon also |
| 38574s | just a bonus |
| 38575s | and your minions are healthy your connie |
| 38577s | is safe |
| 38580s | yeah i mean stash there's nothing in |
| 38582s | stash we |
| 38584s | our aegwin is still rotting in jail it's |
| 38587s | so tragic |
| 38592s | did i miss something is there one thing |
| 38594s | no well it's just getting countered |
| 38596s | yeah |
| 38597s | no he's just using it to |
| 38600s | proxy |
| 38601s | oh connie that's a big yikes i mean i |
| 38604s | guess you're looking for getting it out |
| 38606s | of the way |
| 38607s | to then maybe top deck of jackpot answer |
| 38611s | yep |
| 38612s | or |
| 38613s | i don't know |
| 38616s | what in the water maybe could help |
| 38619s | something you get your aegwynn back |
| 38622s | oh what about a prep |
| 38623s | not not prep |
| 38626s | yeah prep |
| 38627s | coming in to say hi |
| 38629s | uh |
| 38631s | is that gonna be i don't think that's |
| 38633s | gonna be lethal on board uh nope it's it |
| 38636s | is with the rock biter weapon |
| 38637s | what shall i do |
| 38640s | so that's gonna end up being just the |
| 38643s | normal weapon |
| 38644s | oh is it it's exactly 16. i can count |
| 38647s | that's |
| 38649s | that's how math works |
| 38651s | well you go for rock by the weapon for |
| 38652s | style |
| 38654s | exactly exactly just to show even if you |
| 38656s | killed something |
| 38658s | we had it anyway |
| 38659s | yeah |
| 38660s | i mean i've been trying to think like |
| 38662s | but i don't know what there's not much |
| 38664s | to think about here there's not a |
| 38667s | a single way to kill anything on board |
| 38669s | yep just gonna double check triple check |
| 38672s | make sure and |
| 38673s | uh get on out of the game so this won't |
| 38675s | be a sweep in either direction for pun |
| 38677s | maybe i was right all along it is gonna |
| 38679s | be a close one as uh we're gonna move to |
| 38681s | a game four |
| 38683s | with judgment still just needing to find |
| 38686s | a win with that thief rogue |
| 38688s | uh yeah and we see |
| 38690s | the little bit more consistency from the |
| 38692s | boat rogue in terms of being able to |
| 38695s | develop early pressure yes you still |
| 38696s | have reconnaissance you still have two |
| 38698s | we still have null uh for those |
| 38700s | discounts but having the azsharan |
| 38702s | vessels to |
| 38703s | give you some early minions and pressure |
| 38705s | and and just |
| 38706s | uh sort of more consistent draw and and |
| 38710s | fewer cards like contraband stash and |
| 38712s | tess which |
| 38713s | don't do anything unless you you get the |
| 38715s | good hits earlier |
| 38717s | and so |
| 38718s | yeah we could end up having that close |
| 38720s | series that you were talking about tj |
| 38722s | there's still a chance fun gets the next |
| 38724s | one we'll have our uh our five game |
| 38727s | match |
| 38729s | oh yeah |
| 38730s | which is all we could ask for |
| 38732s | in terms of the last |
| 38734s | last match of the day last match of the |
| 38737s | kickoff day |
| 38738s | for grand masters last |
| 38741s | call |
| 38742s | i'm not gonna say last anymore |
| 38745s | i'm gonna try not to |
| 38747s | last okay that was the last one wait i |
| 38749s | said it again and this when i said it's |
| 38751s | the last |
| 38752s | okay i'm |
| 38753s | done |
| 38755s | oh we've got this demon hunter for pun |
| 38758s | and i think if it's going into the the |
| 38760s | thief rogue |
| 38761s | um |
| 38762s | i feel pretty good about that one i mean |
| 38764s | again it does come down to the rules to |
| 38766s | some extent but it's sort of the kind of |
| 38769s | deck that you want to see as a demon |
| 38771s | hunter it's got enough minions for you |
| 38773s | to dread prison glaive multi-strike into |
| 38775s | for some damage |
| 38778s | it doesn't have healing so if you are |
| 38780s | able to push enough damage throughout |
| 38782s | the course of the game you can finish up |
| 38784s | with something like chase not worry |
| 38786s | about the opponent healing out of range |
| 38789s | uh but yes there is always that that x |
| 38791s | factor of jackpot of reconnaissance so |
| 38795s | just uh i think pun is going to be |
| 38797s | hoping for |
| 38798s | some some low rules i mean |
| 38800s | it's uh it's always rough but uh when |
| 38803s | you're playing a deck that's just trying |
| 38804s | to consistently do the thing |
| 38807s | you don't like dealing with unknowns |
| 38811s | yeah |
| 38812s | that's tough |
| 38816s | oh |
| 38820s | keeping this athena interesting |
| 38823s | uh |
| 38824s | probably |
| 38825s | yeah i i don't usually think of satino |
| 38828s | as a turn three play kind of card uh and |
| 38831s | i usually look for a little more card |
| 38834s | draw i mean need for greed not something |
| 38835s | you want in the opener or something you |
| 38837s | want to top deck later on |
| 38838s | but we do still have you know best curve |
| 38841s | you could ask for in terms of slither |
| 38843s | spear into vanguard although vanguard a |
| 38845s | bit worse going into rogue now that only |
| 38847s | has one health although they do have to |
| 38850s | decloak first which is happening |
| 38853s | right out the gate here for judgment so |
| 38855s | gonna have access to that dagger to |
| 38857s | clean things up or the gnaw if he so |
| 38859s | chooses |
| 38862s | flanking maneuvers pretty nice oh feral |
| 38864s | spirit okay yeah |
| 38868s | um i kind of like the flanking maneuver |
| 38870s | because feral spirit seems like uh |
| 38872s | like a dread prison glaive multi-strike |
| 38875s | uh fodder like |
| 38877s | it |
| 38878s | feels like it's just no immediate impact |
| 38881s | yeah yeah um |
| 38883s | whereas flanking maneuver at least you |
| 38885s | can use it as a reactive tool to sort of |
| 38887s | trade in and and uh |
| 38890s | or you know double trade or |
| 38893s | leave one up at the end of it and it's |
| 38894s | not as vulnerable because it only has |
| 38896s | the two health so |
| 38898s | uh the dread prison glaive can't quite |
| 38900s | get as much damage off of it but |
| 38902s | uh maybe you wanted just to play to make |
| 38904s | next turn so feral spirits could line up |
| 38907s | quite nicely but now if upon a |
| 38909s | multi-strike and he played for all |
| 38910s | spirits right now the game would just |
| 38913s | end like that'd be it |
| 38916s | yeah that that'd be pretty rough nudjak |
| 38919s | might do something maybe |
| 38921s | tyrion as well for a later game taunt |
| 38924s | certainly tyrion is the better pull back |
| 38928s | off contraband stash if you get to that |
| 38930s | point in the game |
| 38931s | and i think another reason i like the |
| 38933s | flanking strike |
| 38935s | is because of contraband stash because |
| 38937s | something about picking overload cards |
| 38941s | is |
| 38942s | just because you're not a shaman doesn't |
| 38943s | mean you don't overload so |
| 38946s | the turn you play feral spirits you're |
| 38947s | going to overload one the turn you play |
| 38949s | contraband stash you're gonna overload |
| 38951s | during play tests like it doesn't matter |
| 38952s | how it's played you're still overloading |
| 38955s | and |
| 38956s | uh |
| 38957s | flanking strike in instead you you just |
| 38959s | get a 4-2 and then another 4-2 if you |
| 38961s | have something to rush into so i i |
| 38963s | understand in some respects like wanting |
| 38966s | taunts and more board presence that way |
| 38967s | but uh yeah i probably would have liked |
| 38970s | the flanking strike a little bit better |
| 38973s | especially with so many must-kill |
| 38976s | minions |
| 38977s | that demon hunter has i mean look at |
| 38978s | this now this fanatic we have no way of |
| 38981s | cleaning it up |
| 38982s | yep |
| 38987s | and that's |
| 38988s | really the only play that makes a lot of |
| 38991s | sense |
| 38993s | it does overload so next turn judgment's |
| 38995s | going to kind of be right back in the |
| 38996s | same spot with uh four mana available a |
| 39000s | couple three mana spells that are |
| 39002s | proactive at all on the board |
| 39004s | um |
| 39006s | a chaos strike here giving a potential |
| 39009s | you know three damage face with the |
| 39011s | glaive |
| 39012s | uh i might otherwise have |
| 39015s | i just plain you know |
| 39016s | fell barrage and that's pretty fine as |
| 39018s | well for cleaning up some of this we can |
| 39022s | yeah maybe get this vanguard down i mean |
| 39025s | you do end up having to trade away the |
| 39027s | fanatic then which i don't love and if |
| 39029s | your opponent didn't deal with it on one |
| 39030s | turn i kind of want to keep this fanatic |
| 39032s | in play to keep juicing |
| 39036s | yeah the judges gonna have the exact |
| 39037s | same manner he did last turn and didn't |
| 39039s | kill the fanatic |
| 39040s | but maybe that's a reason to play the |
| 39043s | battleborn vanguard because now there's |
| 39045s | still a |
| 39046s | uh like a |
| 39049s | a must kill threat on the board that |
| 39051s | needs to be dealt with or can get out of |
| 39052s | control |
| 39053s | i don't know |
| 39054s | i mean it is awkward and judgment does |
| 39056s | go for uh this car draw instead of the |
| 39059s | hero power but i kind of like just |
| 39061s | protecting the fanatic when you know |
| 39063s | that a potential hero power can clear up |
| 39064s | the 2-1 so easily |
| 39067s | now it does end up working out here with |
| 39070s | the |
| 39071s | the concealment that this 2-1 now sticks |
| 39075s | and we can play |
| 39077s | fury plus |
| 39078s | metamorphin and just make this massive |
| 39081s | board protect the ladies athena so it |
| 39084s | doesn't die to any you know null rushes |
| 39087s | or anything probably kravito would be |
| 39089s | the best pickup from judgment but |
| 39091s | because of no hero power to clear off |
| 39093s | that two one uh it's just creating a |
| 39095s | pretty |
| 39096s | crazy snowball situation |
| 39098s | blood in the water not quite good enough |
| 39102s | um what about looking like we're gonna |
| 39104s | get that to game five tj |
| 39107s | yeah |
| 39108s | very likely |
| 39110s | trickster plus blood in the water plus a |
| 39112s | hero power clears off complicated not |
| 39116s | enough |
| 39118s | i mean it clears off the |
| 39121s | uh |
| 39122s | cytheno and the metamorphin because you |
| 39125s | you hit the satheno with the three |
| 39127s | damage you use the rush to kill the |
| 39128s | three four and then your hero power |
| 39131s | takes care of the remaining one hp on |
| 39133s | this athena |
| 39135s | but you still left the snowball minion |
| 39137s | up last turn so |
| 39139s | that's representing a ton of damage |
| 39140s | there's not even board space for pun to |
| 39142s | get this g-lag down |
| 39145s | i mean he could almost just play a five |
| 39148s | mana need for greed and say well you |
| 39149s | haven't been doing anything i'm just |
| 39151s | going to take a turn off to draw cards |
| 39152s | to find lethal |
| 39154s | yeah |
| 39155s | time's ticking |
| 39158s | the other option i guess would be to |
| 39159s | just play tyrion and hope but i don't |
| 39162s | even know what you'd be hoping for at |
| 39163s | that point |
| 39166s | one glaive scene does reduce the odds |
| 39169s | that you're going to just you know die |
| 39170s | for having a taunt which can sometimes |
| 39172s | happen where you play a taunt to protect |
| 39174s | yourself against the damon hunter and |
| 39175s | then dread prison glaive just means you |
| 39177s | get wind fury attacked |
| 39185s | i think that |
| 39187s | um oh it's not quite lethal right |
| 39190s | because the |
| 39191s | fel barrage |
| 39192s | has to hit the lowest minion or lowest |
| 39195s | health thing so the fel barrage never |
| 39198s | hits face even if you |
| 39200s | go full face with everything first but |
| 39201s | you could start with chaos |
| 39203s | strike just to see what you pick up |
| 39209s | yeah i mean you could still just you |
| 39210s | know maybe the trade spear here power |
| 39212s | and actually you don't even need this |
| 39214s | slither spear because you're |
| 39216s | pretty good minions |
| 39218s | maybe in that case you trade off all the |
| 39219s | minions too |
| 39221s | to make room for g-log |
| 39224s | and it fell barrage yeah to go face face |
| 39226s | damage |
| 39227s | yeah yeah just trade in all the one ones |
| 39230s | open up some board space for for g lag |
| 39233s | but still get the oh the predation |
| 39235s | pickup off the trade |
| 39238s | wow i think enough that actually might |
| 39241s | do it right now |
| 39243s | uh |
| 39244s | it's certainly close |
| 39248s | i do not do quick maths but it is yeah |
| 39251s | it is exactly yeah |
| 39253s | yep guarantees the hit so it overkills |
| 39256s | but it it's important to set to one |
| 39258s | first because it guarantees that it hits |
| 39260s | face |
| 39262s | funnily enough pun could have just hero |
| 39264s | powered instead of uh fell barraged uh |
| 39266s | with the extra mana |
| 39268s | and uh that would have been lethal with |
| 39270s | the the predation so uh he was at 12 |
| 39273s | there was six damage on board so |
| 39274s | predation chaostrike here power uh would |
| 39277s | have been enough by itself but the last |
| 39279s | result is still the same pun |
| 39282s | i guess we were profits after all |
| 39284s | because it's close series time yeah |
| 39286s | we're gonna get that five game |
| 39292s | yeah we'll see which of these two |
| 39294s | fresh er as you said pun does have a |
| 39297s | season of gms but fresh er players it's |
| 39299s | going to make it into that playoffs |
| 39310s | yep this rogue just struggling to get a |
| 39312s | win i mean it it really it just like |
| 39315s | that prestor druid i think it can |
| 39317s | sometimes be a deck where like yes it |
| 39319s | can beat anything it has that potential |
| 39322s | but it also can just lose to anything |
| 39325s | because it's really losing to itself so |
| 39328s | uh gonna depend a lot on |
| 39330s | you know what those early game roles are |
| 39332s | gonna be i mean we saw judgment have |
| 39334s | double gnaw on two and it still was not |
| 39338s | enough and |
| 39340s | uh you said hunter's remaining just |
| 39342s | another deck that is excited for its |
| 39344s | opponent to not be doing any healing |
| 39347s | so if there's another aggressive start |
| 39350s | it could just be lights out for the |
| 39351s | rogue |
| 39353s | yep |
| 39354s | and uh devouring swarm uh the peasant |
| 39358s | over |
| 39359s | the trog which i believe uh we've seen |
| 39363s | kind of 50 50 in terms of like trogs or |
| 39366s | peasants |
| 39367s | uh in the beast hunter list |
| 39369s | both sort of have this snowball effect |
| 39371s | just in different matchups one draws you |
| 39373s | more cards one |
| 39375s | makes you more minions |
| 39378s | yeah i mean we saw the power of the trog |
| 39381s | verse rogue specifically on the flip of |
| 39384s | this match up with uh |
| 39387s | judgments hunter right so now peasant |
| 39390s | much weaker into rogue given their hero |
| 39392s | power that can just clear it up very |
| 39394s | easily are you still happy to see it off |
| 39396s | a k-9 o-tron just because it's an extra |
| 39398s | one drop that you get into play but not |
| 39400s | as powerful going into the rogue as that |
| 39403s | truck can be truck can also just die to |
| 39406s | a couple hero powers or an early null or |
| 39408s | something it's not like it's always a |
| 39410s | knock out of the park like the way it |
| 39411s | ended up being previously but certainly |
| 39414s | if it gets buffed up like that it can |
| 39415s | snowball an early game state to a pretty |
| 39419s | easy win |
| 39420s | yeah |
| 39422s | well |
| 39423s | let's get into it pun one drop |
| 39427s | and harpoon gun boom |
| 39429s | k nanotron and this hand is perfect |
| 39433s | yup |
| 39433s | we haven't seen it yet today but click |
| 39436s | clocker into |
| 39437s | gay nine oh tron every once in a while |
| 39439s | you get to show that off get your two |
| 39441s | men a three four and then if you're |
| 39443s | you're really fortunate also pull a one |
| 39445s | drop off the bottom |
| 39447s | it'll have to uh come off the top though |
| 39449s | for pun here |
| 39451s | not no hand currently |
| 39453s | nope that's okay |
| 39456s | can't win them all |
| 39458s | yeah maybe next time |
| 39462s | oh that's a pretty nice discount if |
| 39465s | you're judgment because |
| 39467s | the way that maestro's mask works is it |
| 39470s | doesn't reveal until after that first |
| 39472s | card you've played takes effect so |
| 39474s | playing the shroud if it draws two rogue |
| 39477s | minions |
| 39479s | will give you those two null discounts |
| 39481s | now the queen azshara pickup is a |
| 39484s | nice and not so nice it's nice in that |
| 39486s | it starts getting pre-loaded now so that |
| 39488s | judgment can maybe get it out on five or |
| 39491s | uh maybe even four |
| 39493s | but |
| 39494s | uh it also is a neutral minion which |
| 39496s | does not discount the null but i i think |
| 39498s | we're not going to have any problems |
| 39499s | with playing cheap nulls this game |
| 39505s | hey ninotron showing up eternally |
| 39510s | also got oh he's got mountain bear from |
| 39512s | harpoon gun |
| 39514s | uh but it looks like connie's gonna come |
| 39516s | out here to try and block this |
| 39520s | yup yeah i mean |
| 39522s | most of the time that turn for mountain |
| 39524s | bear is just like |
| 39527s | how do you deal with that but you gotta |
| 39529s | know |
| 39530s | hey i just dredged the bottom of my deck |
| 39533s | they're always gonna pick minion here so |
| 39534s | you take a turn off in that respect |
| 39536s | having the canine caninotron actually |
| 39538s | works out right because there was no |
| 39540s | other good minion to |
| 39542s | uh activate the okani otherwise |
| 39544s | yeah it would have been uh essentially a |
| 39547s | past turn |
| 39549s | uh if |
| 39550s | that wasn't |
| 39552s | uh picked up the turn prior i don't |
| 39554s | think you can afford to throw the |
| 39555s | mountain bear into it just have to kind |
| 39556s | of wait until you do get a smaller |
| 39558s | minion |
| 39560s | a second shroud played and still no |
| 39562s | knolls |
| 39563s | uh picked |
| 39565s | knolls are out yeah |
| 39567s | the only two minions left in the deck |
| 39570s | are the |
| 39572s | that does sting but double trickster |
| 39575s | does mean you can play blood in the |
| 39576s | water uh |
| 39578s | or if you pick up that jackpot you're |
| 39580s | definitely gonna be able to do something |
| 39581s | there uh queen azshara might come down |
| 39584s | next turn although how are we on hand |
| 39586s | side |
| 39587s | uh cutting it a little close so |
| 39591s | i think there would not quite be you'd |
| 39593s | have to burn a card if you want to play |
| 39596s | queen azshara on curve here |
| 39601s | come down now so the question is do you |
| 39603s | play the pet collector because it's |
| 39604s | better on curve |
| 39606s | or do you play the mountain bear |
| 39609s | kind of feel like you play the mountain |
| 39610s | bear and save |
| 39612s | the weapon swing for like when the pet |
| 39614s | collector can actually or sorry when the |
| 39616s | ajar and saber can actually die rushing |
| 39619s | into a minion and then you get the |
| 39620s | sunken |
| 39622s | yeah |
| 39622s | um |
| 39624s | so the question now is uh |
| 39627s | because you have the second harpoon gun |
| 39628s | as it were to just swing for damage |
| 39630s | purposes since judgment's already down |
| 39631s | to 20 |
| 39635s | and sort of forget about the possibility |
| 39636s | of the combo with pet collector and the |
| 39639s | saber and just play the mountain bear |
| 39641s | and push face again |
| 39643s | i guess the man after the next few turns |
| 39645s | is somewhat accounted for with uh b |
| 39648s | stalker tavish |
| 39651s | and the colossal which i yeah |
| 39654s | i think it's still |
| 39657s | hydraulic |
| 39658s | i think it's still just the safe line to |
| 39660s | hold the charge because you might want |
| 39663s | it to clean up some minion and you don't |
| 39665s | know if you're going to be going for the |
| 39666s | pet collector play or the tavis play on |
| 39668s | your next turn certainly if the mountain |
| 39670s | bear lives the tavish looks pretty juicy |
| 39672s | because you could get |
| 39675s | emergency maneuvers i always blank on |
| 39677s | that for a second because getting two |
| 39679s | copies of a mountain bear is just oh |
| 39682s | that's pretty tough to deal with from |
| 39684s | from any circumstance without having |
| 39685s | transform effects |
| 39687s | but |
| 39688s | saving the weapon means you still have |
| 39689s | that option of if your opponent does |
| 39691s | something crazy which is totally |
| 39693s | possible against rogue at any given |
| 39694s | point you can just rush in the saber and |
| 39697s | pick up the sunken and then recruit |
| 39699s | something out of your deck |
| 39705s | time's ticking |
| 39708s | interesting |
| 39711s | cleaning up the mountain bear |
| 39714s | yep it does mean this actually plays |
| 39717s | pretty nicely around both of those |
| 39719s | things right the tavish no longer has |
| 39722s | great hits in terms of the secrets i |
| 39724s | mean still solid to be clear |
| 39726s | maybe you pick snakes or something over |
| 39728s | in emergency maneuvers but you do get to |
| 39731s | dodge if your judgment |
| 39732s | the emergency maneuvers on mountain bear |
| 39735s | nightmare scenario |
| 39737s | and then a |
| 39739s | pet collector like yeah i can |
| 39741s | find the rush but it has nothing to die |
| 39743s | into so i think the swing will just be |
| 39745s | held again |
| 39755s | yeah that's fair that's really fair |
| 39757s | i want to swing because i want to equip |
| 39759s | the second gun and keep swinging |
| 39762s | well you know wing and then get a king |
| 39764s | crush |
| 39766s | it could happen i'd there's always that |
| 39769s | uh you know one additional card you get |
| 39771s | to look at |
| 39773s | no king crush but the revive pet's still |
| 39775s | pretty solid get that mountain bear back |
| 39778s | yeah |
| 39780s | and now if the saber dies you can pull |
| 39782s | the saber back out with the |
| 39785s | harpoon gun |
| 39790s | judgments had 11 also so |
| 39793s | yeah not that much more than classes |
| 39796s | no healing |
| 39797s | yeah |
| 39802s | i'm thinking too much for value here i |
| 39804s | get it |
| 39810s | oh this azshara just still has not had |
| 39813s | the opportunity to be played you know |
| 39815s | that can be a way you can swing things |
| 39817s | around and it it might have to be |
| 39819s | a hail mary going for something like an |
| 39821s | azshara |
| 39822s | prep out the find a colossal and then |
| 39824s | play a one-man colossal |
| 39826s | might be sort of a last-ditch effort |
| 39829s | yeah |
| 39834s | maybe get the uh i always forget the |
| 39836s | name oh the priest collapsed or that |
| 39839s | pick uh |
| 39842s | pick your slot machine here do you want |
| 39843s | to go for the jackpot or do you want to |
| 39845s | go for the colossal |
| 39848s | i i don't know the odds on these |
| 39851s | no there are no |
| 39853s | or |
| 39854s | reconnaissance for najak |
| 39858s | okay |
| 39859s | that would be huge |
| 39862s | um |
| 39863s | i guess there's no way to reach the |
| 39872s | uh actually it would be like a devouring |
| 39874s | swarm could reach the magic hexagon |
| 39876s | actually |
| 39880s | like if you yeah got nachokex and took |
| 39883s | it |
| 39884s | you could play a minion |
| 39887s | devouring swarm and then |
| 39889s | take the mountain bear back i suppose |
| 39892s | i don't know |
| 39893s | i guess that's just a one-off but this |
| 39895s | is good enough to at least bide some |
| 39897s | time however |
| 39898s | pun is incredibly close to just winning |
| 39900s | the game |
| 39903s | [Music] |
| 39906s | i i don't know is it caster curse just |
| 39908s | saying all the possible options i |
| 39911s | yeah that is uh pretty savage |
| 39924s | and no |
| 39925s | um |
| 39926s | no devouring swarm here i mentioned that |
| 39929s | as a card that can sometimes be used to |
| 39932s | to get around things like this from |
| 39935s | stuff like naja stuff like |
| 39937s | the uh |
| 39939s | the murloc |
| 39941s | flanking on the name colossal murloc you |
| 39943s | know these things that are just tricky |
| 39945s | to deal with as the hunter without |
| 39946s | direct damage uh that's what devouring |
| 39949s | swarm is there for but it's just not |
| 39952s | around here |
| 39954s | okay |
| 39956s | not a mountain bear which is solid |
| 39960s | and we'll be able to uh eat through one |
| 39962s | of these cubs |
| 39965s | and have a bunch of heads |
| 39972s | not too shabby |
| 39975s | yeah |
| 39976s | seems you know both some pretty good |
| 39979s | boards here uh |
| 39981s | it's |
| 39982s | these games usually take a while just |
| 39984s | because of the sheer quantity of |
| 39987s | mountain bears being played setting up |
| 39991s | taunt after taunt after taunt now we've |
| 39993s | got a couple roles here from judgment to |
| 39995s | look for |
| 39996s | something crazy here scale's pretty good |
| 39999s | although you do need to free up board |
| 40001s | space first |
| 40002s | yeah |
| 40004s | um |
| 40007s | so |
| 40008s | not enough |
| 40009s | and azara |
| 40012s | well if you trade in huh i mean you can |
| 40014s | get five |
| 40016s | oh no the mini died okay |
| 40020s | if you kill off queen azshara and najak |
| 40022s | on the bear |
| 40024s | uh then you get five rushes |
| 40026s | so it at least lets you kill the |
| 40028s | hydraulidon but then |
| 40029s | you still can't i don't know if you can |
| 40031s | clear enough after that |
| 40034s | looking pretty tough with the |
| 40036s | weapon in hand yeah i gotta dig for |
| 40037s | something else second kravito is good |
| 40040s | but i i don't know if you have six |
| 40041s | attack |
| 40045s | because there's double kravatoa |
| 40048s | is that lethal it's lethal oh yeah |
| 40049s | because there's not enough board space |
| 40051s | for the second cup to spawn |
| 40053s | there's not even anything that you have |
| 40054s | to get |
| 40058s | double kavatoa means you get that extra |
| 40061s | attack on the weapons wow well spotted |
| 40063s | uh from a pretty |
| 40065s | crazy board state there from judgement |
| 40069s | that was uh impressive yeah a couple |
| 40071s | things because uh i didn't realize at |
| 40073s | first that |
| 40075s | only one of the cubs would spawn uh |
| 40077s | because the board was locked |
| 40079s | um so only one of the cubs could spawn |
| 40082s | so there was only four health that |
| 40083s | needed to get through after that and the |
| 40084s | closet sticks out so they lined up |
| 40086s | nicely into the first mountain bear plus |
| 40088s | the weapon had six attack |
| 40091s | at the same time so it was like four |
| 40093s | damage over lethal at the end of the day |
| 40096s | just because how everything just |
| 40097s | compounded |
| 40098s | on top of each other so |
| 40100s | um well we got ourselves a close series |
| 40103s | and at the end of the day uh third tries |
| 40105s | the charm for judgment finally getting |
| 40108s | the win |
| 40110s | uh with the |
| 40111s | the thief rogue |
| 40112s | and |
| 40113s | i i knew i shouldn't have done it i knew |
| 40116s | it |
| 40117s | first thing i did when we came on camera |
| 40119s | today the first thing i did |
| 40121s | was talk was hype up america's region |
| 40124s | and how you know we got two players in |
| 40126s | this group and just come off a 3-0 |
| 40129s | against judgement i knew it as soon as i |
| 40132s | said it they were going to bottom two |
| 40134s | both of the players that are eliminated |
| 40135s | from this group part of the americans |
| 40138s | i cursed it again oh yeah we've got to |
| 40141s | hold ourselves back and you know not |
| 40143s | not pass judgment until the end but yeah |
| 40146s | well played from judgment i it's |
| 40148s | i think easy to get caught up in like oh |
| 40150s | how do i clear the board to not die or |
| 40152s | at least i know for me i have this sort |
| 40154s | of abc mindset always be clearing and uh |
| 40158s | you know sometimes you can just go for a |
| 40160s | cheeky lethal and and |
| 40163s | that's going to be higher percentage so |
| 40165s | uh congrats to judgment and blize are |
| 40168s | two players advancing from group b |
| 40170s | uh really excited to see how things play |
| 40173s | out on sunday for the top eight but |
| 40175s | tomorrow we've got two new groups to |
| 40178s | take a look at |
| 40180s | yeah |
| 40180s | and two new groups with uh a lot of |
| 40183s | exciting players i feel like um |
| 40186s | uh we have uh well let's take a look |
| 40188s | schedule we'll figure it out ourselves |
| 40191s | um |
| 40192s | but group c has lord grujin chunsu fury |
| 40195s | hunter uh okasinskiy group d has |
| 40199s | two america's players again the four |
| 40201s | americas players are split between two |
| 40203s | groups specifically |
| 40205s | um pascal fled bunny hopper levick uh in |
| 40209s | group d but uh that's what we're going |
| 40211s | to be broadcasting today we finished |
| 40212s | group and group b |
| 40214s | uh where we had possession and super |
| 40215s | fake come out of group a and then of |
| 40217s | course we just showed you bly's and |
| 40219s | judgment out of group b then tomorrow |
| 40221s | we're going to have groups c and d |
| 40223s | played the exact same we did today uh no |
| 40225s | matches off stream uh all five matches |
| 40228s | for the group just rolling on throughout |
| 40230s | the day and then sunday is a top eight |
| 40232s | single a limb keep in mind the players |
| 40234s | are fighting for points uh over the next |
| 40236s | three weeks |
| 40238s | we have conquest and last year standing |
| 40240s | and then trio as formats |
| 40242s | and the final week is going to be |
| 40244s | all about playoffs so uh we're kicking |
| 40246s | off uh a ton |
| 40248s | of hearthstone over the next four |
| 40250s | actually there's a master's tour in |
| 40251s | between weeks two and three i believe |
| 40254s | so there's a ton of mansion coming out |
| 40257s | in an expansion it's insane |
| 40260s | [Music] |
| 40262s | yeah very excited to see the all-new |
| 40264s | cars in the hand of these players |
| 40267s | yeah uh i am also a little bit stressed |
| 40270s | out about it |
| 40271s | because |
| 40272s | it's like so much new stuff there's so |
| 40274s | many creative cards in in castle and |
| 40276s | athlear like cards that we've never seen |
| 40279s | mechanics for before |
| 40283s | i mean we get new mechanics specifically |
| 40284s | like keywords every expansion but as far |
| 40286s | as like |
| 40287s | what these cards do |
| 40289s | um |
| 40290s | craziness so i have a headache there's |
| 40293s | some cards in this new expansion that as |
| 40296s | you say not new mechanics but certainly |
| 40298s | new in terms of just |
| 40299s | bizarre i think probably my top pick on |
| 40302s | that front is like creepy painting |
| 40304s | three mana zero six become the copy of a |
| 40307s | minion when it dies like |
| 40309s | i don't know what's going to happen with |
| 40310s | that maybe nothing but it seems like it |
| 40312s | could be powerful and |
| 40314s | i don't know if anyone's talking about |
| 40316s | it it's just |
| 40317s | i'm excited to see what these top |
| 40319s | players |
| 40320s | do when it comes to deck building uh |
| 40323s | with new cards that we're all just kind |
| 40324s | of figuring out |
| 40326s | yeah there's hard counter tech cards |
| 40328s | there's location i don't know i i feel |
| 40330s | like i'm just like hyping it up like um |
| 40332s | i'm not they didn't tell us to advertise |
| 40334s | this by the way i i just |
| 40337s | i'm more |
| 40338s | like i'm more nervous than excited let's |
| 40340s | put it that way to make sure that you |
| 40342s | you know i'm not just |
| 40344s | uh selling out but uh |
| 40346s | uh but yeah but we have reached some |
| 40348s | fans too yeah exactly exactly exactly uh |
| 40351s | but we are done for the day uh in vice |
| 40354s | once again good job did you enjoy your |
| 40356s | your first day of grand master's casting |
| 40360s | absolutely excited to to get into days |
| 40362s | two and three it's only uh |
| 40365s | only more exciting games from here right |
| 40367s | just gets better and better |
| 40368s | i hope so but you know we've had cash |
| 40370s | recursions all over the place so it's |
| 40372s | just gonna go downhill from here first |
| 40374s | it um and that seems like a perfectly |
| 40376s | good spot to end the day uh that to say |
| 40379s | that we have less exciting things coming |
| 40380s | up no uh just kidding but we are done we |
| 40383s | are in fact done i'm gonna stop talking |
| 40385s | right now so that's day one in the books |
| 40387s | we got two more days left uh to go so |
| 40391s | for myself from the caches i cast |
| 40392s | earlier on the day in edelweiss thanks |
| 40395s | for watching and we'll see you tomorrow |
| 40396s | for more grand masters action |
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| 40418s | now |
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| 40429s | foreign |
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| 40485s | so |
| 40488s | [Music] |
| 40499s | now |
| 40505s | [Music] |
| 40509s | it's a blast off the top pesco a 2-0 up |
| 40513s | in the finals |
| 40515s | it looks rough for him for a moment the |
| 40518s | shard of the naaru was so clutch |
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| 40524s | who says he tried so hard he set up a |
| 40526s | lethal himself with the void chart and |
| 40529s | shadow form on the next turn even if his |
| 40531s | ethic got cleared it was as good a plan |
| 40533s | as any |
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| 40541s | there it is |
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| 40578s | hmm |
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