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| 890s | hello everybody and welcome to day |
| 893s | number two the final day for the |
| 895s | Hearthstone Masters Tour spring |
| 896s | Championship my name is TJ and kicking |
| 899s | off the show with me today is no letter |
| 900s | then Edelweiss how you doing today I'm |
| 903s | doing well got up bright and early and |
| 905s | I'm ready for a long day of hearthstone |
| 907s | matches |
| 908s | yeah me too we had a fun day yesterday |
| 910s | we got to see you know which uh lineups |
| 912s | Rose to the top which players were able |
| 914s | to make it into that top eight uh and |
| 917s | which players were eliminated very |
| 918s | quickly some uh without even uh getting |
| 921s | to have a match on stream which is uh |
| 924s | always unfortunate but that's the way |
| 926s | that's the way tournaments work right |
| 928s | you can't always win them all I'm |
| 930s | talking to you know going back a little |
| 932s | bit uh yesterday uh real quick what |
| 934s | anything uh stand out to you in terms of |
| 937s | like which dicks had success which dicks |
| 938s | failed |
| 940s | yeah well it seemed to me like it was |
| 943s | all about those fourth decks you know in |
| 945s | terms of did you bring Druid did you |
| 947s | bring Shadow priest did he bring Mage |
| 949s | and |
| 951s | a bit of a mixed bag in general only |
| 953s | three Druids made it out but there |
| 955s | weren't too many to begin with |
| 956s | two Mages and three Shadow priests so |
| 959s | honestly pretty even distribution I feel |
| 962s | like I personally like the Mages over |
| 965s | stuff like the shadow priest but for |
| 968s | some people it has been performing and |
| 970s | in terms of the demon Hunters there are |
| 972s | far more relics that made it through |
| 974s | than Outcast but again pretty close four |
| 977s | to three |
| 978s | yeah it was uh it was a pretty mixed bag |
| 981s | of of results going to the day yesterday |
| 983s | and I'm excited because some of the |
| 984s | players that had |
| 985s | um sort of out there lineups uh did end |
| 988s | up making to the top eight so uh that's |
| 990s | something that we're going to be talking |
| 991s | about throughout the day but for now |
| 993s | um if you weren't here at the start of |
| 995s | the show yesterday or if you're |
| 996s | unfamiliar with how the system works |
| 998s | this year uh for Hearthstone Esports |
| 1001s | don't worry we're here to explain it for |
| 1003s | you uh the the program for the year |
| 1005s | culminates in the world championship |
| 1006s | which will take place at the end of the |
| 1007s | year with a prize pool of 350 |
| 1010s | 000 so still a big prize pool for our |
| 1013s | World Championship uh throughout the |
| 1015s | year we'll have three seasonal |
| 1016s | championships spring summer and fall |
| 1018s | obviously we're in spring right now with |
| 1020s | fifty thousand dollars each uh at stake |
| 1023s | uh one thing to note everybody that's |
| 1024s | made it to this stage in the tournament |
| 1026s | has guaranteed 3 000 and it'll go up |
| 1028s | from there as they win throughout the |
| 1029s | day each seasonal Championship has 16 |
| 1032s | total competitors which consists of the |
| 1035s | top four point earners uh per region |
| 1038s | based on their ladder finishes for |
| 1039s | America's Europe and Asia Pacific and |
| 1041s | then the remaining four invited players |
| 1043s | are the four top Point earners that |
| 1046s | didn't fit into the top four within |
| 1048s | their region which does happen to be a |
| 1050s | lot of European players has this |
| 1052s | tradition here but |
| 1054s | um that's the the last four and then of |
| 1056s | course the winner of each seasonal |
| 1058s | Championship will automatically qualify |
| 1060s | to the world championship |
| 1062s | along with five other players which are |
| 1065s | the three highest point earners for the |
| 1067s | year uh in each region plus the two |
| 1070s | highest uh Point earners outside of of |
| 1073s | of the uh the top uh from each region so |
| 1077s | um it's a much different system than |
| 1079s | what we're used to it's based a lot |
| 1080s | around ladder and grinding and getting |
| 1082s | those finishes but it's been cool to |
| 1084s | watch because players can stream that |
| 1085s | Journey so it's been nice to follow |
| 1087s | along and of course the advice we'll be |
| 1088s | playing Conquest which is the big thing |
| 1091s | in the world to do is explaining how |
| 1093s | Conquest Works something that may be |
| 1096s | familiar for everyone unlike this latter |
| 1098s | qualification system is the conquest |
| 1101s | format if not if this is your first time |
| 1103s | tuning in to a Hearthstone Esports |
| 1106s | stream uh Conquest is a format where |
| 1108s | each player brings four decks that have |
| 1110s | to be four unique classes uh even for |
| 1113s | Death Knight with their Rune system |
| 1114s | still can only bring one of that class |
| 1116s | each player bans one of their opponent's |
| 1119s | decks and you cannot win with the same |
| 1121s | deck twice so |
| 1124s | one win and you move on and then it's a |
| 1127s | best of five match so with Ford X One |
| 1129s | band that means maximum you know |
| 1132s | win once with each check that goes to |
| 1133s | best of five it's sort of a natural fit |
| 1136s | yes I know we've had some foray into |
| 1139s | like last year was standing and I don't |
| 1141s | even remember like what the other |
| 1143s | formats were called Trio and and you |
| 1146s | know the the pools of classes but there |
| 1149s | wasn't what has been the staple a brief |
| 1151s | period of one deck |
| 1154s | nope |
| 1156s | nope nobody remembers specialists |
| 1160s | yeah nobody remembers Specialists but um |
| 1162s | talking about uh what happened yesterday |
| 1165s | um and uh some of the the highlights for |
| 1167s | the day we had some uh very big names |
| 1170s | fall early on in the tournament uh you |
| 1173s | saw surrender there big banner face here |
| 1175s | uh both out O2 uh and those were players |
| 1179s | that uh had big fan bases behind them |
| 1182s | and uh didn't have the success that they |
| 1184s | were looking for but then we had other |
| 1185s | stories like Casey who you saw in that |
| 1187s | first clip you're gonna see again here |
| 1188s | uh who had a fantastic day along with |
| 1191s | his practice partner in in wreck them uh |
| 1195s | pocket train who's a rising star so |
| 1197s | um it was a it was a pretty fun day to |
| 1199s | watch yesterday |
| 1200s | yeah so unfortunately we did have to say |
| 1203s | goodbye to eight players you Saudi |
| 1206s | tansoku yarla week you surrender and big |
| 1209s | banterface and lastly meaty all of those |
| 1212s | players have been eliminated but they |
| 1214s | will be going home with a bit of prize |
| 1215s | money |
| 1217s | to 13 through 16 1000 and 2 9 through |
| 1220s | 12th 1500 and that leaves us with top |
| 1224s | eight of wreck them Casey Walder me |
| 1228s | smile gamer rvg levik Hemlock and pocket |
| 1232s | train |
| 1234s | yeah it's a pretty pretty stack top |
| 1236s | eight I feel also a fun random fact |
| 1238s | about this top eight is there's eight uh |
| 1241s | individual countries represented from |
| 1243s | all these players not a single player uh |
| 1246s | from the the same country which is cool |
| 1250s | the regional uh distribution here is |
| 1254s | very much in favor of Europe but that's |
| 1257s | something that we've come to be used to |
| 1258s | as the tournament as a whole was more |
| 1261s | favored towards Europe with the four |
| 1262s | invited players so |
| 1264s | um coming up first we are going to have |
| 1265s | Casey versus rectum which is uh I think |
| 1268s | probably the match of the day I think |
| 1272s | that these would be two of my favorites |
| 1274s | coming into the tournament um rectum's |
| 1277s | been on fire Casey basically yeah so |
| 1280s | many of the Decks that not only he's |
| 1283s | playing that but you've seen throughout |
| 1284s | the tournament he was the player that |
| 1286s | was the driving force behind the |
| 1288s | creation of many of these or at least |
| 1289s | the idea behind it maybe not Frost at |
| 1292s | night because that's just existed |
| 1294s | uh but the other stuff uh and then |
| 1297s | rectum uh you know it's just been on the |
| 1300s | grind right streaming the whole way |
| 1302s | through and uh I've been at the the top |
| 1306s | uh of my players to watch and since the |
| 1308s | year began |
| 1310s | yeah Rex then we got to see that reverse |
| 1312s | sweep yesterday overcoming a dab curse |
| 1315s | so able to pull that off versus Levick |
| 1318s | but Levick has still made it through so |
| 1320s | if wreck film is able to take this win |
| 1322s | and Levick later versus gamer RPG they |
| 1325s | aren't opposite sides of the bracket |
| 1326s | that could be a rematch we see in the |
| 1328s | finals maybe uh they get a little bit of |
| 1330s | Revenge there |
| 1332s | I do wonder if there was a bit of a |
| 1334s | Caster curse for levik when we were |
| 1336s | talking about that match Raven told us |
| 1338s | to to say who we thought was favored and |
| 1340s | uh |
| 1342s | yeah work out so well for our pick |
| 1345s | no it was the blood DK that was the |
| 1347s | ultimate demise you mentioned it was a |
| 1349s | reverse sweep and it was three straight |
| 1351s | losses with the blood DK and Lubbock is |
| 1354s | the only bloody K in the top eight the |
| 1356s | rest of the players in the field do have |
| 1358s | death knight in their lineup but they're |
| 1359s | all Frost triple Frost so |
| 1362s | um we'll see if uh levick's favorite |
| 1364s | able to overcome the odds and actually |
| 1366s | be uh make it far with that blood decay |
| 1369s | in the lineup it didn't even look like |
| 1370s | he was like enjoying playing it |
| 1372s | yesterday uh maybe if he could go back |
| 1374s | he would he would switch it up but |
| 1375s | talking about the decks for this matchup |
| 1377s | we have |
| 1378s | um The Relic Demon Hunter from uh |
| 1379s | reckman uh pretty standard stuff and |
| 1381s | Relic demon Hunter's been a deck that's |
| 1383s | been performing well despite uh the |
| 1386s | split of outcast versus Relic |
| 1388s | um Relic is uh the majority of uh Demon |
| 1391s | Hunter Decks that we're seeing in the |
| 1392s | top eight |
| 1394s | yeah and this looks uh pretty familiar I |
| 1398s | think this is the Casey list right that |
| 1400s | most people have brought |
| 1403s | Harper card just works out well |
| 1406s | yeah and |
| 1409s | um next up uh the miracle Rogue |
| 1411s | um which is actually in all eight |
| 1413s | players lineups in the top eight it's |
| 1415s | the this is the third deck I feel like |
| 1418s | uh you talked about the fourth deck |
| 1420s | being the Difference Maker the split |
| 1421s | between priest Mage Druid and me Smiles |
| 1424s | case Paladin |
| 1425s | um Rogue would be the third deck I don't |
| 1427s | think it's quite as strong as the demon |
| 1429s | hunters or the death Knights uh but it's |
| 1431s | been performing pretty well from what |
| 1432s | we've seen on stream it's got sort of |
| 1434s | that X Factor and looking at requiems in |
| 1437s | particular he's one of the players that |
| 1438s | did include Draka in the list and don't |
| 1440s | be fooled by the uh the key cards there |
| 1443s | the tracker still costs four in the key |
| 1446s | cards |
| 1447s | uh it has it it has since the beginning |
| 1450s | it's correct in the list but not in the |
| 1452s | key cards |
| 1453s | um don't think you're missing out on |
| 1454s | anything I know there's probably like at |
| 1456s | least a couple players that were like |
| 1458s | draka's four let's go Q some games |
| 1462s | yeah and you see the cult neophyte there |
| 1464s | I think a nod to the mirror match as |
| 1465s | well as stuff like Relic Demon Hunter |
| 1467s | that have a lot of spells I could come |
| 1470s | into play just one in this list there's |
| 1472s | a lot of variation in terms of tech |
| 1474s | cards in people's Miracle Rogue lists |
| 1476s | but you say it was the third pick I |
| 1478s | think it's the first in a lot of these |
| 1479s | players Hearts because Miracle Rogue is |
| 1481s | a deck that many many pro players just |
| 1484s | have experience with and love the play |
| 1486s | style |
| 1488s | yeah we'll see how uh the miracle Road |
| 1490s | performs today because it did have some |
| 1491s | shaky points but moving on to the next |
| 1493s | one uh we got the Frost death knight uh |
| 1495s | once again uh pretty uh standard list I |
| 1499s | think one of the cards we talked about |
| 1500s | at the beginning of the day yesterday |
| 1501s | was pausic but we didn't really see |
| 1503s | posit come into play uh very often |
| 1505s | throughout the day despite it being in |
| 1507s | many of the players uh in in a few of |
| 1509s | the decks mostly in the death knight |
| 1513s | um but Frost dead just seems like it's |
| 1515s | it's taking wins such a powerful deck |
| 1518s | and in the right hands it feels like it |
| 1521s | can beat just about everything |
| 1524s | yeah absolutely they're just probably |
| 1526s | the most powerful deck surprise we |
| 1528s | haven't seen it banned more often but |
| 1529s | then rexham has here that fourth deck |
| 1532s | the undead priest and uh you know this |
| 1535s | has had some some highs some lows every |
| 1537s | once in a while someone I believe it was |
| 1539s | tonsoku dredged and you don't hit an |
| 1542s | undead on the rotting Necromancer and |
| 1544s | your bird plan is gone but uh slight |
| 1546s | variations in these lists wreckfum has |
| 1548s | the bone flinger in the undead priest |
| 1551s | over in amalgam so maybe a little bit |
| 1553s | less uh discover potential in terms of |
| 1556s | generating value getting a surprise card |
| 1559s | but a little eat better at fighting for |
| 1561s | the board |
| 1562s | yeah yep |
| 1564s | um it's one of the Decks that is very |
| 1567s | feast or famine I feel in terms of his |
| 1570s | play style but uh moving over to |
| 1572s | rectum's opponent which is going to be |
| 1574s | Casey and uh Neil keeps bugging me again |
| 1577s | even though I mentioned it he says |
| 1580s | remind everybody that these two play |
| 1581s | tested together |
| 1584s | um which is cool to see and I said the |
| 1587s | beginning uh both players I would say |
| 1589s | would be two of my if I had to pick like |
| 1591s | four players to make into the top four |
| 1593s | casing record will both be in that list |
| 1595s | of four so I'm fortunate that they have |
| 1597s | to play together this early on in The |
| 1599s | Knockout stage in the top eight |
| 1601s | um and I think Casey tweeted earlier |
| 1604s | um I mean it was not even that long ago |
| 1608s | that he's playing against requim in that |
| 1611s | whoever uh wins will win the the whole |
| 1614s | tournament this matchup and I wouldn't |
| 1616s | be surprised if that happens that may be |
| 1618s | and I think you know we don't have to |
| 1619s | spend too much time on these lists they |
| 1621s | are uh if not card for card the same |
| 1624s | very very similar in terms of their |
| 1626s | build uh here's the Casey since as you |
| 1629s | say they test together so I know when |
| 1632s | I've tested with people going into you |
| 1634s | know whether it be magic events |
| 1635s | Hearthstone events it's always tragic to |
| 1637s | face each other on your side of the |
| 1638s | bracket but at least you can you know |
| 1640s | lose to a friend and hopefully the other |
| 1643s | one is able to make it through |
| 1645s | yeah I I think they are |
| 1647s | um uh one card different in the fact |
| 1649s | that Casey does not have Draka in the |
| 1651s | Rogue |
| 1652s | uh which has been a big point of debate |
| 1655s | you talked about it yesterday uh the the |
| 1657s | five drop |
| 1658s | right it's a deck that wants to have |
| 1660s | cheap things and go fast and play multi |
| 1663s | a lot of cards per turn and having to |
| 1666s | make the choice between Queen and uh |
| 1668s | Draka sometimes you can get caught with |
| 1671s | these hands where Draco just doesn't |
| 1673s | make any sense uh and Casey kind of |
| 1676s | agrees with that and has omitted it from |
| 1678s | the list well and something that can |
| 1681s | happen is if players know their groups |
| 1684s | ahead of time maybe you make a guess of |
| 1687s | someone else's play style you know |
| 1689s | perhaps there was a venture that a new |
| 1691s | Levick would bring something like a |
| 1693s | blood DK and so Rec from decided to |
| 1695s | include that Draka as a tech there we |
| 1697s | saw it come into play swinging for what |
| 1699s | 36 damage so at times players May sort |
| 1704s | of make a card choice just to go based |
| 1707s | on what they expect people in there |
| 1710s | yeah and in in this field in particular |
| 1713s | in terms of this matchup obviously I |
| 1716s | think it would make the matchup against |
| 1717s | Relic Demon Hunter better |
| 1720s | um but against some of the other stuff |
| 1721s | Draka may not be good enough uh in the |
| 1724s | acro matchups sure you can |
| 1727s | uh get a big Draka to try and race your |
| 1731s | opponent when talking about against |
| 1732s | Frost death knight or priests but |
| 1734s | um that usually means that you're not |
| 1736s | playing as much for Tempo earlier uh |
| 1738s | because you're you're holding on to |
| 1739s | resources so |
| 1742s | um we'll we'll see how in terms of this |
| 1744s | particular matchup when we're talking |
| 1745s | about the mirror if it lines up well I |
| 1748s | think Rogue versus Rogue it could be |
| 1750s | good uh but we'll see um it's time to |
| 1752s | jump into the first game both players |
| 1754s | came in The Relic Demon Hunter uh to |
| 1756s | kick things off and we're underway with |
| 1759s | our top eight yeah and both players as |
| 1761s | well Banning the frost TK so finally |
| 1764s | that deck getting the respect it |
| 1765s | deserves in terms of getting banned out |
| 1771s | foreign |
| 1773s | I think it's always looking pretty good |
| 1776s | if you've got relic of dimensions in the |
| 1778s | opener even though you know it is a |
| 1780s | heavier card thinking in the mirror it's |
| 1782s | one of the cards that matters most vault |
| 1785s | is I believe the top card for the |
| 1788s | Mulligan just because it ramps up the |
| 1790s | relics so quickly |
| 1791s | but if you know you're gonna have a |
| 1794s | little bit of time Dimensions is |
| 1795s | probably next on the list |
| 1797s | yeah |
| 1798s | and |
| 1801s | um |
| 1802s | these are the types of hands from reclam |
| 1804s | side that I really don't like |
| 1806s | uh Taste of chaos is is it could be good |
| 1809s | to you know |
| 1812s | find an X Factor but you're not going to |
| 1815s | really be able to play it early and the |
| 1817s | longer you wait for Taste of chaos the |
| 1819s | harder it's going to be to get that |
| 1820s | finale |
| 1822s | um especially since at certain point in |
| 1823s | the game mana's your pan expenditure is |
| 1826s | going to be pretty tight there it's it's |
| 1829s | like a a switch that flips |
| 1832s | um it's easy at the beginning hard in |
| 1834s | the middle |
| 1835s | and then the hardest at the end because |
| 1837s | all when you're playing Dimensions all |
| 1839s | of your cards cost like zero |
| 1841s | so it's impossible to even spend all |
| 1843s | your mana on every turn because your |
| 1845s | cards cost zero if you like vaulted |
| 1847s | dimensions and then it's almost |
| 1848s | impossible to get the finale on Taste of |
| 1850s | chaos yeah I find myself at times |
| 1854s | confusing in my head with honorable kill |
| 1856s | and saying oh okay you can exactly do |
| 1858s | two damage to that thing and oh wait no |
| 1860s | that's a different mechanic |
| 1862s | yep and also |
| 1865s | um sort of the opposite with finale |
| 1868s | I tunnel so hard on finale that I forget |
| 1871s | that the cards actually have effects |
| 1873s | outside of the finale the biggest one |
| 1875s | for me is flower child and Druid like it |
| 1878s | still draws you to cards the finale just |
| 1880s | discounts them so like sometimes it took |
| 1883s | me a long time when I was learning to |
| 1885s | play the like Tony Druid or armor Druid |
| 1888s | that even if it I can just play flower |
| 1891s | child even if I can't get it finale |
| 1892s | because it'll still in my deck they just |
| 1895s | won't be discounted uh so finale is very |
| 1898s | interesting as a as a mechanic in that |
| 1900s | regard |
| 1901s | yeah another interesting thing is |
| 1903s | because of the undead tag Edition to |
| 1906s | these Spirits although on release they |
| 1908s | were not Undead with Marshall Lich King |
| 1910s | The Relic summons are Undead and so when |
| 1914s | they die off you can get discounted |
| 1915s | spells from Ruby and vizier that's been |
| 1918s | an interesting shift in the composition |
| 1920s | of this deck Casey able to |
| 1923s | get a discounted relic of phantasms and |
| 1925s | play it immediately there leading up to |
| 1928s | I think it's a discount of three now if |
| 1931s | he wants to go for this coin dimensions |
| 1933s | yeah |
| 1934s | another thing to think about though is |
| 1936s | is it worth you know waiting a turn |
| 1939s | maybe you find Relic ball and also |
| 1941s | holding on to the coin for xymox because |
| 1943s | with fantastic played a few minions |
| 1945s | played earlier next turn |
| 1948s | um uh could uh point it out and yeah it |
| 1951s | looks like that's going to be the the |
| 1953s | game plan for Casey is to look for that |
| 1955s | coin uh zymox to |
| 1957s | really ramp up the relics and uh have |
| 1961s | the big dimensions and phantasms when |
| 1963s | they're played hopefully find it really |
| 1964s | fault uh before the actual ones are |
| 1967s | played since imox obviously can't use |
| 1970s | the Relic Vault with it |
| 1974s | as IMAX |
| 1976s | you know whether you play it where it's |
| 1979s | already doing big stuff or you use it to |
| 1980s | ramp up all your relics very quickly |
| 1983s | always really feels solid |
| 1985s | to jam out there so understand wanting |
| 1988s | to save the coin make that happen as |
| 1989s | early as possible |
| 1991s | yeah |
| 1992s | oh geez that's the first Relic the the |
| 1995s | dimensions a non-vaulted dimensions for |
| 1998s | the first Relic it just doesn't feel |
| 2000s | great A Team Hannah Rowdy fan and a |
| 2002s | one-man immolation Aura |
| 2004s | um Brody fan I guess any discount on it |
| 2006s | is good because once you get to the |
| 2008s | later stages and you're looking for a |
| 2010s | potential uh ladies phenol lethals being |
| 2013s | able to have that one additional Mana is |
| 2015s | is good and all but |
| 2019s | um oh uh he's gonna have to dump |
| 2021s | predation here it looks like just to |
| 2024s | keep the handful of the bloodmage |
| 2025s | thousands is killed off doesn't want |
| 2027s | that full hand needs all the resources |
| 2028s | that he can get |
| 2032s | yep there's a lot of hand size |
| 2034s | Management in this meta I found both |
| 2036s | with things like Outcast eh with uh |
| 2041s | The Relic pH you see here you know |
| 2044s | without cast at times if you've got a |
| 2045s | wretched Exile going and you have the |
| 2048s | weapon equipped you just end up in the |
| 2049s | situation where you're generating more |
| 2051s | and more Outcast cards and eventually |
| 2052s | you have to swing with the weapon and |
| 2054s | you draw a full hand |
| 2055s | yeah I've overdrawn |
| 2059s | so many cards |
| 2060s | uh with the outcast Demon Hunter just |
| 2063s | because |
| 2065s | you just get rolling right like |
| 2068s | sometimes I don't even look at the count |
| 2070s | I'm just like yeah you know I've played |
| 2072s | a bunch just keep playing Outcast |
| 2073s | cartoon look at it's like okay draw nine |
| 2075s | cards well I have four cards in my hand |
| 2077s | that I can't dump so and they're all |
| 2079s | Outcast cards so if I dump them it's |
| 2081s | just gonna make me draw more |
| 2085s | in case you just cruising right along a |
| 2088s | free sofeno free Relic vault |
| 2091s | dump the Vault just to make hand space |
| 2095s | and the I I would say the perfect order |
| 2097s | uh for zymox in that case to get the |
| 2100s | phantasms uh last and Extinction first |
| 2103s | uh with a very minimal sized board uh |
| 2108s | from from requim that's a solid order |
| 2109s | three steno it's looking pretty good the |
| 2114s | only thing is now needs to find ways to |
| 2117s | keep going through the deck because |
| 2118s | what's in the hand right now is not |
| 2119s | quite enough maybe a Rowdy fan could we |
| 2122s | could uh start looking at potential |
| 2124s | lethals not that many cheap spells and |
| 2126s | you know a couple more immolation orders |
| 2128s | so but we're close for Casey I feel |
| 2132s | and for rec foam it's looking like this |
| 2134s | has to be some kind of a silver moon |
| 2135s | Arcanist clear |
| 2138s | just enough Mana to clear at least the |
| 2141s | six sixes and then you can either throw |
| 2144s | out the relic of Extinction or just sort |
| 2145s | of prey on the mark that it is a spell |
| 2149s | yeah so the extinction would be what two |
| 2151s | instances of four damage because there's |
| 2155s | only that was this will be the second |
| 2157s | Relic or five damage |
| 2159s | yeah five damage |
| 2162s | yeah so maybe something you want to save |
| 2164s | if you can |
| 2167s | all right |
| 2171s | wasn't too many minions left in the deck |
| 2173s | I think it was just the Steno in one |
| 2176s | Arcanist that's actually left in the |
| 2178s | deck so very likely to hit a spell there |
| 2181s | would have been unfortunate if it hadn't |
| 2186s | Casey in a position of just wanting to |
| 2189s | yes clear up spell damage but mostly |
| 2191s | just free up hand space |
| 2193s | yep |
| 2196s | okay I'll strike very good draw plus a |
| 2201s | little bit of damage as well |
| 2204s | um and |
| 2206s | now |
| 2207s | it's still not enough with just the |
| 2210s | Steno if Rowdy fan came off the top it'd |
| 2213s | be pretty close but couldn't couldn't |
| 2215s | use more than the one immolation Aura |
| 2218s | which is |
| 2220s | unfortunate |
| 2226s | okay |
| 2228s | rip him getting close though if there's |
| 2232s | still one Dimensions left in the deck |
| 2235s | and it looks like Dimension second so |
| 2237s | it's going to be reduced by four does |
| 2240s | have the ball next turn with Phantasm so |
| 2242s | can start |
| 2243s | what's that last card |
| 2246s | school teacher okay awesome school |
| 2248s | teacher left in the deck is minion two |
| 2249s | for the market score |
| 2252s | anybody another Unleashed fell |
| 2254s | potentially |
| 2255s | when Mark of scoring for draw |
| 2260s | there's so many swings in this mirror |
| 2263s | match that it's it's hard to ever say |
| 2264s | who's in the lead |
| 2266s | yeah like the last piece that you need |
| 2269s | for the damage |
| 2270s | which is like Steno a Rowdy man or like |
| 2273s | enough spells to to get that done |
| 2277s | um is is the big thing |
| 2279s | um and honestly |
| 2281s | Casey is I guess just Relic ball plus |
| 2285s | Extinction is enough to clear up this |
| 2287s | board completely |
| 2289s | um but that's cheap spells that are |
| 2291s | dumped uh still needs a little bit more |
| 2294s | time in order to find the pieces |
| 2296s | necessary I think or just steno lethal |
| 2301s | yeah it's sort of been almost there for |
| 2303s | a little bit but keeps having to use |
| 2305s | these cheap spells for to clear stuff |
| 2307s | off and so I wonder if there's really |
| 2309s | enough fuel left to close this out |
| 2312s | before rectum just pops off |
| 2314s | I think that's enough needs what five |
| 2318s | hits total so five spells uh is all that |
| 2322s | would be needed and with illidari |
| 2324s | studies if it finds cheap spell there it |
| 2326s | is spectral site and then the Relic plus |
| 2329s | the uh I-beam that should do it wow huge |
| 2334s | back and forth you know it looked like |
| 2335s | Casey had the better opener but in the |
| 2337s | end Rick from just able to |
| 2339s | pull things together and save enough |
| 2341s | spells and yeah massive amount of damage |
| 2344s | from that sethano plus Rowdy fan so very |
| 2346s | well played holding his composure there |
| 2349s | not worried about the you know Rocky |
| 2352s | start and wreck if I'm able to pull off |
| 2354s | a 1-0 lead |
| 2356s | yeah you said it best it's you you |
| 2360s | really never know who's ahead right all |
| 2363s | it takes is a single draw because uh |
| 2366s | Casey was doing quite well in terms of |
| 2368s | ramping up the relics had xymox on curve |
| 2372s | um was able to play dimensions and |
| 2375s | phantasms early uh but never hit a relic |
| 2378s | ball with like that big uh dimensions |
| 2381s | for uh for draw and when that happens |
| 2385s | it's all about |
| 2387s | who has sort of the last say on the |
| 2389s | board and that ended up being rectum was |
| 2392s | able to build the big board with the |
| 2393s | zymox a little bit later on |
| 2396s | Casey had no draw in hand had to just |
| 2399s | React to what the the uh the board was |
| 2402s | and Requiem was able to pick up the |
| 2404s | combo pieces |
| 2406s | uh and enough cheap spells to get the |
| 2408s | job done with Lady Seno plus erratic fan |
| 2412s | and we'll see with these you know exact |
| 2415s | specifically the same lineups |
| 2418s | hopefully we won't see straight up |
| 2420s | mirrors across the board you know I |
| 2421s | imagine Casey May queue this reality |
| 2424s | Demon Hunter again but uh |
| 2427s | hopefully no one's feelings are hurt at |
| 2430s | the end I know it can be tough when you |
| 2432s | have exactly the same tax going into |
| 2435s | each other |
| 2436s | yeah and looks like was it that night |
| 2439s | bands yes death knight bands for both |
| 2442s | all right that's not bands for both that |
| 2444s | makes sense so |
| 2447s | um I I think it's a relic Demon Hunter Q |
| 2450s | again I think it's fine enough against |
| 2451s | priest and Rogue yeah priests can get a |
| 2453s | little sketchy sometimes if you're not |
| 2454s | finding your |
| 2456s | unleash Fells early in your arcaness |
| 2459s | early but if you can keep the board |
| 2461s | under control like piece by piece with |
| 2463s | just like extinctions early or even just |
| 2465s | like immolation or a taste for chaos |
| 2468s | uh you can ramp up pretty quickly and |
| 2470s | all it takes is like one medium-sized |
| 2472s | phantasms like just enough to be out of |
| 2474s | range of shadowboard undeath and you can |
| 2477s | turn the table really quickly with the |
| 2478s | deck and particularly it can be all |
| 2481s | about just surviving a turn six where |
| 2483s | that lifesteal comes online for the |
| 2485s | Unleashed foul and you can just swing |
| 2487s | things back over with Arcanist on leash |
| 2489s | now that very frequently is a clear and |
| 2492s | a Reno Jackson for the religion Hunter |
| 2494s | yeah it's crazy uh what was on unleash |
| 2498s | Fell's initial release was it fourth |
| 2501s | there's three for the life sales four |
| 2502s | okay |
| 2505s | insane and so basically as soon as you |
| 2507s | could arcan this like with the coin |
| 2510s | aside you know as soon as you could |
| 2512s | Arcanist unleash Phil it was lifesteal |
| 2515s | so uh a little bit weaker now but still |
| 2520s | can get the job done like you said as |
| 2522s | long as you can survive |
| 2524s | uh up until that point |
| 2527s | yeah Manna thirst is an interesting tool |
| 2530s | in the in the Box for the balancing team |
| 2532s | you know we saw how astalar just going |
| 2534s | increased manifest from four to five on |
| 2538s | the first stage and then from seven to |
| 2540s | eight on the second stage was very |
| 2542s | impactful in terms of the you know |
| 2544s | playability of that card mostly from a |
| 2547s | defensive standpoint you know it |
| 2549s | mattered quite a bit when on turn four |
| 2551s | you could use the first stage to Ping |
| 2553s | something off and then second stage to |
| 2555s | gain armor on turn seven or do both on |
| 2558s | turn seven at the same time and get the |
| 2560s | the benefit of each |
| 2562s | yeah yeah |
| 2563s | it's still |
| 2566s | it still made its way into quite a few |
| 2568s | decks but I I feel like it just doesn't |
| 2571s | have quite the impact that it once did |
| 2573s | obviously it's in Rogue because |
| 2575s | it's the ultimate value machine because |
| 2577s | you can Shadow step it uh even even one |
| 2581s | Shadow step is enough |
| 2583s | oftentimes to just get the value that |
| 2585s | you need to ensure that you're going to |
| 2587s | win sort of that that long game right |
| 2589s | you're always going to have access to |
| 2591s | these big threats with a lot of damage |
| 2592s | so |
| 2593s | [Music] |
| 2594s | um yeah and uh |
| 2598s | I feel like the last few mechanics that |
| 2600s | have been added over the last couple |
| 2602s | sets have been pretty cool in terms of |
| 2605s | like finale being |
| 2608s | like both that have manipulation aspects |
| 2612s | to it where man there's you're kind of |
| 2613s | waiting for the right moment trying to |
| 2615s | find a balance between if you should |
| 2617s | play it with or without manothers |
| 2618s | weighing the pros and cons and the same |
| 2620s | with finale |
| 2622s | right trying to see okay well can I get |
| 2624s | away with just playing this without the |
| 2625s | finale do I have to wait for it how does |
| 2627s | my turn look when uh I need to have this |
| 2630s | much Mana left over |
| 2632s | uh to get the effect it's pretty neat |
| 2633s | and sometimes even you know it's |
| 2635s | preferable to play without the finale I |
| 2638s | know this is something comes up with |
| 2639s | volume up and Mage quite a bit is oh |
| 2641s | yeah playing it and intentionally not |
| 2643s | you doing the finale because well the |
| 2646s | extra copy is nice you will otherwise |
| 2648s | burn a card and quite frequently |
| 2651s | you just need to play it on finale to |
| 2654s | keep from burning cards you don't want |
| 2655s | to get in the automatic mindset of doing |
| 2658s | finale all the time |
| 2661s | Casey as you said re-queuing that Relic |
| 2664s | DH and up against the undead priest |
| 2670s | [Music] |
| 2673s | didn't see did rexham already select |
| 2677s | what cards to throw back and then these |
| 2678s | came I don't think so |
| 2681s | I would hope not because that's not good |
| 2685s | I mean Through The Mulligans |
| 2688s | um to make sure I like arm Steeler |
| 2693s | especially on the on the coin because |
| 2696s | you can get immediate value with say |
| 2698s | like an egg double undying allies |
| 2701s | uh not the best but |
| 2705s | it diminishing returns there |
| 2707s | yeah |
| 2709s | it gives them reborn twice |
| 2713s | Ultra Reborn |
| 2715s | yeah |
| 2718s | oof |
| 2721s | I was gonna say if if uh drop the Top is |
| 2724s | like an egg you could just right off the |
| 2727s | bat undying allies arms to a coin egg |
| 2730s | have a very sticky board just to kick |
| 2733s | things off but just has to play out the |
| 2734s | arm dealer and Casey can get on the |
| 2738s | board with a non-outcast wayward stage |
| 2740s | but it it's a Naga so it act or |
| 2742s | activates the predation and gets to |
| 2745s | clear off the extinction so staying on |
| 2746s | the board I maybe even like a Rowdy fan |
| 2749s | next turn plus a predation to stay out |
| 2751s | and stay for Tempo and start pushing |
| 2753s | damage it's not not terrible |
| 2755s | yeah Lorinda was telling us how Rowdy |
| 2759s | fan just just Tempo card just sometimes |
| 2762s | you just play it uh for the effect if I |
| 2766s | imagine |
| 2769s | wow even Jessica one to five yeah I can |
| 2772s | expect that I might have held back on it |
| 2774s | just so I had Rowdy fan Taste of chaos |
| 2777s | next turn for uh finale |
| 2779s | sure |
| 2780s | um but there's a potential that another |
| 2782s | card can be picked up uh this is quite |
| 2785s | strong though oh |
| 2788s | immolation off the top plus takes to |
| 2790s | chaos because with the hero power can |
| 2791s | get it finale this is pretty good as |
| 2794s | long as Casey can find something that's |
| 2795s | playable for next turn |
| 2804s | the hand sizes I mean you see how fast |
| 2807s | they're playing but also they're just |
| 2808s | burning through all these cards so the |
| 2810s | refill off of relica Dimension is going |
| 2812s | to be very important for Casey to see |
| 2814s | what was picked up |
| 2816s | relicable less good for the priest |
| 2819s | needs another psychic conjure into like |
| 2821s | dimensions |
| 2824s | [Music] |
| 2825s | wow |
| 2828s | all right this is good good stuff from |
| 2831s | Casey you're gonna be able to get the |
| 2832s | dimensions so the hits on the dimensions |
| 2834s | is specifically without a vault is going |
| 2836s | to be pretty big in terms of you know |
| 2838s | Casey's plan moving forward because you |
| 2841s | would assume that rectum should be able |
| 2843s | to clean up this board quite well |
| 2846s | um going into the actual dimensions turn |
| 2848s | and there's been a good amount of damage |
| 2850s | that's been pushed mostly due to the |
| 2852s | reborn shadowed Spirit able to uh deal |
| 2855s | six |
| 2856s | um but it's big it's Relic bolt Arcanist |
| 2860s | okay |
| 2862s | Arcanist can help to clear with |
| 2864s | immolation Aura but it's still not |
| 2867s | exactly ideal and this is something that |
| 2869s | happens occasionally with Relic DHS if |
| 2872s | you are just under constant pressure |
| 2874s | that you can't conserve your resources |
| 2876s | you have to keep throwing them out there |
| 2877s | you can't you know wait for bigger |
| 2880s | payoffs you're just in an awkward top |
| 2883s | deck mode and then you finally pick up a |
| 2885s | relic Vault but you have nothing to use |
| 2886s | it with it can get uh |
| 2888s | you know very frustrating |
| 2891s | yeah |
| 2893s | he's like oh hot |
| 2896s | and I think okay crucial for rec from |
| 2899s | there is being able to resurrect the egg |
| 2902s | as well so now even if Casey clears this |
| 2905s | there's going to be tons of stuff left |
| 2907s | over |
| 2909s | yeah |
| 2911s | um |
| 2913s | could go |
| 2920s | yeah Taste of Chaos |
| 2923s | It's Gonna Leave three power-up |
| 2924s | regardless |
| 2927s | um whether you do it before leave the |
| 2929s | egg and uh Taste of chaos oh no we can |
| 2932s | actually clear this off yeah yeah |
| 2934s | doesn't get to be saved for finale but |
| 2938s | only eight life and uh here's six |
| 2942s | uh so just to survive needs uh xymox |
| 2947s | with Relic into philorin |
| 2951s | but I been oh okay I know I've been |
| 2956s | and yep that will do it and it was going |
| 2961s | to be tough going into a rotting |
| 2963s | Necromancer for five either way and |
| 2966s | raccoon quick |
| 2968s | 2-0 lead over Casey |
| 2972s | you could tell |
| 2974s | um |
| 2975s | still very stressful especially given |
| 2978s | that the last deck is the Rogue |
| 2980s | I feel like the Rogue is always the |
| 2984s | I don't want to call it a weak point |
| 2986s | that seems a little bit aggressive you |
| 2988s | know sorry Rogue but in terms of like |
| 2990s | looking at the rest of the lineup it |
| 2992s | feels like Relic Demon Hunter and um the |
| 2994s | undead priests have been |
| 2996s | uh having an easier time getting wins |
| 2998s | for most players |
| 3001s | copy that for most players and the Rogue |
| 3003s | has been the deck that that takes a |
| 3005s | couple tries |
| 3006s | uh for the most part because you can get |
| 3009s | those hands where you just have no |
| 3011s | payoff |
| 3012s | um you're not getting the the good |
| 3015s | potion belts uh you don't hit your like |
| 3019s | graveyard or queen ashara those types of |
| 3022s | things but |
| 3023s | uh we shall see I imagine Keisha just |
| 3026s | gonna keep going with the Relic Demon |
| 3027s | Hunter considering |
| 3029s | um I feel like overall that's the |
| 3030s | strongest deck in the lineup you want to |
| 3032s | start building momentum back in your |
| 3034s | favor |
| 3034s | but we see it's all the psychology of it |
| 3037s | doesn't really matter at the end of the |
| 3038s | day you have to be Rogue with all three |
| 3040s | decks to win the series so could |
| 3042s | switch it up a little bit you know maybe |
| 3044s | uh get a quick priest win out of the way |
| 3048s | that could be again it all just comes |
| 3051s | down to mindset and you know what is |
| 3053s | your preferred play style getting tough |
| 3055s | match up out of the way first or just |
| 3057s | squeezing in an easy one to settle back |
| 3059s | and yeah Casey's just like nope I have |
| 3062s | to win with israelic Demon Hunter |
| 3064s | feel comfortable with it just gotta make |
| 3066s | that happen but if I'm wreck film I'm |
| 3068s | feeling pretty confident in having three |
| 3070s | attempts to get away with the Rogue oh |
| 3072s | yeah |
| 3075s | full toss for both players |
| 3077s | looking for the goods and this is the |
| 3079s | matchup where I feel like Draka |
| 3082s | is the good stuff having that repeatable |
| 3085s | weapon damage uh against Demon Hunter so |
| 3089s | strong because they rely on their |
| 3092s | opponents having boards in order to |
| 3094s | swing their life totals back up uh with |
| 3097s | um with arkiness plus unleash fell so |
| 3100s | um if rectum can get a good Draka in |
| 3103s | somewhere in the middle of this game as |
| 3106s | long as there's not too much pressure on |
| 3107s | the other side from Casey too much Relic |
| 3109s | uh sorry ramp up plus phantasms just the |
| 3112s | expressions from Wreck them right there |
| 3114s | with the sins tone graveyard draw I |
| 3116s | think he's feeling |
| 3118s | pretty good being on coin with potion |
| 3121s | belt with sinstone graveyard now a |
| 3124s | concoctor at a Shadow's death there's a |
| 3127s | calm down there's a lot coming together |
| 3129s | for him |
| 3131s | yeah |
| 3132s | uh double hazy |
| 3136s | after a very large ghost yep I think |
| 3139s | double hazies probably |
| 3142s | the play there |
| 3144s | um you could think Dreadful but that |
| 3147s | would be like thinking more towards the |
| 3148s | future |
| 3150s | um when phantasms start coming out but |
| 3151s | like the first one here to try and like |
| 3153s | you said beef up that graveyard would be |
| 3155s | double hazy okay we gotta we got a fault |
| 3157s | we got a vault a vault very important |
| 3159s | for being able to clear those very large |
| 3162s | ghosts particularly with the spell |
| 3164s | damage off The Arcanist uh there could |
| 3166s | be a very large ghost that comes out on |
| 3170s | turn four but Casey can answer with |
| 3172s | Arcanist Unleashed fell and then doubled |
| 3175s | relic of Extinction so we'll see just |
| 3178s | how much of a high score a rectum can |
| 3180s | get on the ghost to try and get out of |
| 3182s | that range |
| 3184s | looks like graveyard this turn and then |
| 3186s | look for next turn does have the option |
| 3188s | to go concoction like coin neophyte |
| 3191s | Shadow step Neo fight or something to |
| 3192s | try and block some of the potential |
| 3193s | removal |
| 3195s | um but it all depends on what these |
| 3197s | hazies give because they're not always |
| 3198s | going to give cheap stuff |
| 3200s | um that's the shadow step |
| 3203s | oh so you start with hazy and see what |
| 3207s | and see where you go where it goes |
| 3213s | gosh |
| 3214s | or not okay |
| 3218s | pose Maybe reckons |
| 3220s | it's kind of slowing this down a bit to |
| 3224s | maximize the size of the ghost |
| 3226s | [Music] |
| 3229s | yeah |
| 3231s | it is triple neophyte so that will make |
| 3233s | quite a few things challenging to play |
| 3236s | yeah |
| 3238s | oh no |
| 3240s | well actually that |
| 3245s | may not be so bad you know they are both |
| 3247s | cheap and playable the one threes won't |
| 3250s | ultimately make much of a difference |
| 3252s | because they'll just get taken away by |
| 3255s | the unleash fell |
| 3257s | but they could protect from Extinction |
| 3259s | they can if you're playing in a turn |
| 3262s | with neophytes |
| 3268s | this has to be the pop-off turn right |
| 3271s | yeah |
| 3274s | I'm a little surprised to see this being |
| 3278s | used on the concoctor having waited this |
| 3280s | extra time you know you'd think that |
| 3282s | colt neophyte is what you want to be |
| 3285s | stepping and replaying as many times as |
| 3287s | possible uh two is pretty good |
| 3291s | but |
| 3292s | three would be even better and these are |
| 3294s | going to be some monstrously large or a |
| 3297s | monstrously large ghost I suppose the |
| 3299s | concern is without the additional |
| 3301s | concoctions you could run out of gas but |
| 3305s | there is another potion belt in the |
| 3306s | wings |
| 3317s | just uh |
| 3319s | interesting and saving the neophyte to |
| 3323s | go just one tax on another turn |
| 3326s | I don't know about that |
| 3329s | [Music] |
| 3333s | yeah because it would have prevented the |
| 3335s | clear |
| 3337s | um because the extinction would not have |
| 3338s | been playable at the end |
| 3340s | uh so |
| 3342s | Casey had that calculated |
| 3344s | from the moment the only question was |
| 3346s | Casey just had to do the math on whether |
| 3348s | or not the Wayward Sage had to go into |
| 3350s | the 4-1 they guarantee to clear but with |
| 3352s | the spell damage and The Relic Vault the |
| 3353s | extinction wasn't enough to clear both |
| 3354s | to keep the two two alive so that was |
| 3357s | the only pause in Casey's turn was just |
| 3359s | ensuring that didn't have to make the |
| 3361s | trade with the 2-2 everything else was |
| 3363s | was uh pre-calculated but that good |
| 3365s | concoction for refill uh off the potion |
| 3367s | belt so that's good and picks up both |
| 3371s | Draka and Queen ashara no spells get |
| 3374s | played for the queen of Shara but that's |
| 3376s | going to be good for longevity in this |
| 3377s | game |
| 3378s | uh but Casey's going in Rowdy fan played |
| 3381s | going wide on board yeah pushing damage |
| 3390s | I like it good stuff |
| 3396s | starting off with the near fight I |
| 3398s | imagine you want a cheap spell here but |
| 3400s | none to be found |
| 3408s | yeah unless this is prep |
| 3414s | bone Spike number two that could do it |
| 3417s | yeah it's gonna be a ghost no Draka if |
| 3420s | it was prep there could have been |
| 3422s | uh like a |
| 3424s | prep bone Spike something |
| 3428s | um |
| 3428s | snog for Draka turn potentially |
| 3433s | uh but this is good enough these are two |
| 3435s | very large ghosts uh gonna be in eight |
| 3438s | eight and a nine nine so still putting |
| 3440s | on the pressure but the hand is this is |
| 3442s | not it because there's still a queen |
| 3444s | ashara but it'll be eight Mana so it |
| 3447s | won't be Queen ashara plus horn plus |
| 3450s | um uh plus colossal |
| 3457s | okay so you're just opting to take |
| 3459s | as much power off as possible |
| 3462s | then write some power of his own and |
| 3464s | then get this finale I think that makes |
| 3466s | a lot of sense rather than going for a |
| 3468s | snap double Dimensions also gets these |
| 3470s | minions in play to infuse the zymox or |
| 3473s | very nearly |
| 3474s | I'm surprised that there wasn't a |
| 3477s | metamorphosis pick |
| 3479s | with breakfast being at 11 |
| 3482s | that means if two minions stick you're |
| 3484s | threatening lethal which |
| 3488s | because they're from the uh last uh the |
| 3490s | taste of chaos discovered there was a |
| 3491s | metamorphosis option which is just that |
| 3493s | extra four burst damage |
| 3496s | could be the Difference Maker maybe |
| 3497s | worried about this the board being |
| 3499s | cleaned up and the Damage being pushed |
| 3502s | for Unleashed fell |
| 3504s | um but |
| 3505s | uh that was a very snap pick of unleash |
| 3508s | unleash Phil |
| 3509s | well you know I think that unleash |
| 3511s | valves still can represent three to the |
| 3513s | face in its ideal situation where Casey |
| 3516s | picks up another Silver Moon Arcanist |
| 3517s | and metamorphosis is just a little |
| 3519s | clunkier to use you know for Mana It |
| 3522s | ultimately doesn't fit into the turns |
| 3524s | that he's gonna want to be doing here |
| 3526s | with dimensions and with zymox so |
| 3529s | Unleashed spell just kind of keeps going |
| 3531s | with the same strategy and has the added |
| 3533s | benefit of you know clear and healed |
| 3537s | yeah that makes sense and the way this |
| 3540s | turn worked out the metamorphosis would |
| 3542s | have been well I don't know maybe not |
| 3543s | useless but |
| 3545s | uh close to it okay |
| 3554s | Steno uh |
| 3556s | Extinction |
| 3559s | uh |
| 3561s | sinful brand |
| 3563s | is |
| 3569s | oh no it is extinction |
| 3571s | yeah I'm gonna go for the clear if the I |
| 3573s | was like simple brand with big stuff and |
| 3575s | Steno like I don't know maybe |
| 3578s | clear the way first right yeah and this |
| 3582s | also puts uh Minions on the board uh in |
| 3585s | order for the zymox to uh keep getting |
| 3587s | Juiced up and it's things that Requiem |
| 3589s | has to deal with so cleaning the board |
| 3590s | up and forcing |
| 3593s | um the breakfast to have to answer this |
| 3594s | stuff or die |
| 3597s | oh do you play it now or do you hold it |
| 3600s | [Music] |
| 3603s | I block me and you die if you don't play |
| 3605s | it now right |
| 3606s | yeah I guess you have to yeah yeah you |
| 3610s | can't leave the Steno up |
| 3617s | well what the relics have to be had |
| 3619s | enough to to clear these uh with xymox |
| 3622s | so the extinction |
| 3624s | uh could be quite impactful but there's |
| 3626s | some pressure |
| 3628s | going on here |
| 3630s | yeah a bit of a gamble in terms of what |
| 3632s | the extinction part of zymox is going to |
| 3634s | hit |
| 3641s | oh well not getting the sithano back but |
| 3644s | that is the taunt cleared |
| 3647s | yeah but the two highest power |
| 3651s | uh minions left on board |
| 3656s | Casey playing very quickly here in terms |
| 3659s | of |
| 3660s | the discoverers and able to pick up the |
| 3664s | last clear on this gigafen |
| 3667s | yep breakfast knows he doesn't have the |
| 3669s | gas doesn't have the clears anymore |
| 3674s | Casey gets on the board with that Relic |
| 3676s | Demon Hunter |
| 3678s | yeah it's crazy like because Casey plays |
| 3681s | so quickly like it |
| 3683s | uh obviously knowing Casey and having |
| 3686s | cast him for for so so long like the |
| 3688s | matches are hugely impactful for him but |
| 3691s | because of his pace of Blade like you |
| 3693s | watch him and it just feels like another |
| 3694s | day |
| 3696s | um like another day of grinding harston |
| 3698s | on the ladder and then it but then it |
| 3700s | all hits him at the end right like his |
| 3702s | demeanor in game is always the same no |
| 3705s | matter what he's doing no matter what |
| 3706s | he's playing no matter the the stakes of |
| 3708s | the game and then there's like that five |
| 3711s | seconds at the end of a game where you |
| 3713s | can see so the emotion come through of |
| 3715s | all right oh I got it got the win with |
| 3718s | Relic Demon Hunter across the board it's |
| 3720s | just funny that it doesn't match what |
| 3722s | his his play is like in the game just |
| 3724s | whipping cards around but that's how he |
| 3727s | plays this is how he's played since he |
| 3729s | first made his debut back in |
| 3731s | 2015 in a in a in a big big tournament |
| 3734s | so |
| 3736s | um crazy that he's just kept that up for |
| 3738s | this long |
| 3739s | yeah it's funny as well how you know the |
| 3741s | fast-paced gameplay can sometimes sort |
| 3743s | of turn us into almost shoutcasters |
| 3745s | right we're just trying to keep up with |
| 3747s | what they're they're doing in terms of |
| 3749s | the plays the discoveries and you know |
| 3753s | how they're gonna play it all out |
| 3754s | because we can't think that fast we're |
| 3756s | just seeing stuff you know yeah Casey |
| 3759s | you can never analyze as it's happening |
| 3760s | you have to analyze after it's happened |
| 3765s | well still has I think a pretty good |
| 3768s | shot at uh pulling through with the |
| 3770s | Rogue here but maybe that Casey reverse |
| 3773s | sweeps rectum just as rexham did Levick |
| 3775s | earlier so the light shall bring Victory |
| 3778s | a little bit of rattle maybe after the |
| 3780s | first loss but still have that |
| 3781s | comfortable lead uh we'll see if he can |
| 3783s | pull it off against the shadow |
| 3786s | Undead priest |
| 3789s | yep |
| 3796s | oh wow okay |
| 3800s | um I'm a pretty big fan of reclin's |
| 3802s | opening hand here |
| 3807s | this could be an all-in |
| 3810s | um turn three if he so chooses |
| 3814s | you'd hope to pick up some kind of |
| 3816s | resource generation though oddly enough |
| 3818s | it is the priest with some extra |
| 3820s | resources here getting the reborn on |
| 3822s | that mind eater it's a fair number of |
| 3825s | Road cards you'd be happy to pick up |
| 3837s | so you could girl |
| 3840s | coin |
| 3842s | prep bone Spike Alchemist |
| 3847s | concoction |
| 3849s | graveyard |
| 3853s | wait oh because of the prep phone Spike |
| 3856s | yeah and I guess that is the |
| 3859s | question here whether pop off now you do |
| 3862s | have the |
| 3864s | door of Shadows for refill so there's an |
| 3866s | expectation that the ghoul in one two |
| 3868s | will die and you'll be able to get that |
| 3870s | Infuse off |
| 3871s | oh |
| 3873s | but yeah I think it lines up quite well |
| 3876s | you know not the maximum size but using |
| 3879s | all the resources generating a huge |
| 3882s | board pretty difficult for freeze to |
| 3885s | recover from at this early stage |
| 3888s | oh got Dreadful |
| 3891s | that's a big deal and the ghoul as well |
| 3894s | to make it free |
| 3895s | [Music] |
| 3896s | that is uh |
| 3900s | uh very very good |
| 3902s | very very good |
| 3905s | Casey was clapping like oh you're going |
| 3907s | all in you know great but six six |
| 3910s | like it's not he's not huge but this is |
| 3914s | going to be a massive turn can play The |
| 3915s | Shadow ascendant alongside of it and |
| 3918s | start pushing like |
| 3921s | rectum's not happy to see that one come |
| 3924s | out and notably this ghoul isn't Undead |
| 3927s | so even if there's some kind of full |
| 3929s | clear here for wreck from high cultist |
| 3931s | basilat for uh bazzi as I like to call |
| 3933s | him |
| 3934s | just comes down and and puts it all back |
| 3936s | out there again |
| 3938s | yeah this is a very solid uh follow-up |
| 3942s | for Casey on each of these turns it |
| 3944s | ended up being a good opening and my |
| 3947s | leader coming in |
| 3949s | clutch like just super clutch the reborn |
| 3952s | on it getting two cards uh with Synergy |
| 3955s | and then hitting the right |
| 3958s | concoction from it too oof and then here |
| 3961s | that Draka coming in again not so great |
| 3964s | in a matchup like this and something |
| 3966s | very aggressive |
| 3970s | Xmas to choose between ways of clearing |
| 3973s | up the board or generating more |
| 3974s | resources because he's pretty starved |
| 3977s | himself |
| 3978s | yeah I feel like |
| 3980s | I guess he doesn't see the bazzi |
| 3984s | uh but I may be in like hazy territory |
| 3988s | to Define find like some X Factor to |
| 3991s | like pull me out |
| 3993s | um but it looks like reckon doesn't feel |
| 3994s | that desperate yet so just going with |
| 3996s | the consistent |
| 3997s | uh concoction here with uh deal damage |
| 3999s | for some board pressure |
| 4001s | um and the and the the cards so |
| 4005s | then plenty of time for Casey to get |
| 4008s | down this location you know sometimes |
| 4010s | when you're not able to drop it on curve |
| 4012s | It's just tough to find a space to weave |
| 4014s | it in but perfect turn there just |
| 4017s | play the location weave in a hero power |
| 4019s | and get those hits in |
| 4033s | nothing to be done this turn and I just |
| 4036s | wonder when do you have to make a ghost |
| 4038s | and say that size is good enough |
| 4040s | yeah |
| 4042s | it's probably gotta be |
| 4045s | uh oh pick Shadow step |
| 4050s | I was thinking maybe gassy strike to |
| 4053s | help clean up uh board a little bit in |
| 4055s | combination with fan of knives but |
| 4057s | Shadow steps interesting because both |
| 4059s | stenographer I guess sonographer can can |
| 4062s | be used as well but I just don't know if |
| 4063s | Rick has the cards to be able to get the |
| 4066s | sonographer |
| 4068s | cheap enough to play trade and then |
| 4069s | Shadow zip it back but we'll see yeah |
| 4071s | ghoul picked up to make this concoction |
| 4073s | free that's a pretty big deal and the |
| 4076s | Sprint as well so could be a very |
| 4078s | powerful turn here the only thing is |
| 4080s | you're at 11 life and two four cost |
| 4083s | Minions that does not allow you to |
| 4085s | Shadow step sonographer to clear them |
| 4087s | both |
| 4089s | oh |
| 4092s | ask to Laura Shadow step could be nice |
| 4099s | yeah clear up the two Minions that can |
| 4102s | attack play the stenographer |
| 4106s | here it's |
| 4108s | yeah exactly what you talked about |
| 4109s | earlier that was coming into play can't |
| 4111s | gain the armor next turn but have to |
| 4113s | wait until eight Mana in order to do |
| 4114s | that in order to start gaining life |
| 4117s | and maybe that's just not enough undeads |
| 4119s | would have will have died so it's going |
| 4121s | to be |
| 4122s | with the cathedral I think that's going |
| 4125s | to be lethal damage presented from Casey |
| 4127s | yeah no way to clear up both sides of |
| 4130s | the egg so Shadow word undeath plus the |
| 4133s | hero power and location is exactly eight |
| 4136s | damage |
| 4138s | [Music] |
| 4141s | foreign |
| 4149s | that is going to tie it up so we will |
| 4151s | see a game five here |
| 4154s | you know it's always tough when you see |
| 4157s | someone go 2-0 and you wonder oh wow is |
| 4159s | this just gonna be a quick series but |
| 4160s | then uh we have still a quick series |
| 4163s | it's just going to be a quick five game |
| 4165s | series because all of these decks are so |
| 4167s | fast but I imagine as practice Partners |
| 4169s | you know they're happy that they get to |
| 4170s | you know Play the full set |
| 4173s | yeah and I also think it's fitting that |
| 4175s | it's going to come down to a mirror |
| 4176s | match of the one deck |
| 4179s | that they had different opinions on |
| 4182s | a single different opinion on |
| 4186s | um which is the Rogue and Draka in the |
| 4188s | list for requim and no Draka uh in there |
| 4192s | for Casey |
| 4194s | um it's the it's kravatoa |
| 4196s | that's the card so both weapon Focus |
| 4198s | both more expensive |
| 4202s | um kravatoa obviously much better when |
| 4205s | played with minimal resources |
| 4207s | because you get that consistent damage |
| 4208s | you also get removal |
| 4211s | but the highs of Draka are very high as |
| 4214s | we've seen from rectum throughout this |
| 4216s | tournament |
| 4218s | um I think two times now we've seen him |
| 4220s | play Rogue and get massive Draco weapons |
| 4222s | that have won a game that may not have |
| 4226s | been won otherwise so we'll see it's |
| 4229s | going to come down to that the two |
| 4231s | Rogues uh facing off and this isn't like |
| 4234s | yesterday where at the beginning of the |
| 4236s | group stage if you lost your match you |
| 4239s | had a chance in the lower bracket |
| 4240s | there's no lower bracket here it's a top |
| 4242s | eight single elimination winner moves on |
| 4244s | to the semi-finals |
| 4246s | loser is out of the tournament they do |
| 4248s | go away with three thousand dollars for |
| 4250s | making it to the top eight but that's |
| 4251s | not what these players want they want |
| 4253s | that spot at the world championship and |
| 4255s | locking it in this early would be a |
| 4257s | pretty big deal |
| 4259s | um give them some some breathing room to |
| 4261s | play Hearthstone at their own Leisure |
| 4262s | knowing that they're going to be |
| 4263s | competing at Worlds later on in the year |
| 4265s | and we see necro Lord Draka in the |
| 4268s | opener but being a five Mana card these |
| 4270s | days not so much a keep looking for |
| 4272s | those potion belts cinstone graveyard |
| 4275s | ghoulish Alchemist all that good stuff |
| 4277s | wreck them perhaps slightly favored here |
| 4280s | of being on the coin uh coin very |
| 4283s | important for Rogues just in terms of |
| 4286s | humbo and got huge pop-off turns you |
| 4289s | know it's one extra spell sometimes you |
| 4290s | get a second coin from your shadow of |
| 4293s | demise and you know that's a perfectly |
| 4295s | welcome use just for that bit of extra |
| 4297s | Mana |
| 4303s | just gonna think how to space this out |
| 4305s | here |
| 4315s | ah full Tempo I could do yeah okay full |
| 4319s | Tempo |
| 4321s | um what's in the box |
| 4326s | interesting oh now I wonder if Casey |
| 4330s | will do this could trade the ghoul and |
| 4332s | then Shadow step this 3-2 and make two |
| 4335s | more |
| 4336s | yeah that's you're you're killing off |
| 4339s | you're up two more uh nope gonna hold on |
| 4342s | to it |
| 4344s | you could say the same from murloc homes |
| 4346s | right I suppose if if the if it's |
| 4351s | resources I mean oh no oh no the |
| 4355s | difference in concoction he wasn't even |
| 4357s | offer a car drawing wreck from gets the |
| 4359s | double |
| 4360s | yeah that fabled zero Mana Sprint Casey |
| 4363s | already clapping is uh she's a bit |
| 4366s | concerned about the results here |
| 4371s | and even having the potential to have |
| 4374s | gone for a couple of extra three twos |
| 4376s | you know those are easily cleared up by |
| 4377s | a bone Spike by a fan plus ghostly |
| 4379s | strike so I think Casey just assessed |
| 4382s | that like yes this could be good Tempo |
| 4384s | could be a little bit of aggressive |
| 4385s | start but uh just lines up so well into |
| 4389s | the removal tools that Rogue has |
| 4392s | available so ultimately just giving your |
| 4395s | opponent more targets for their spells |
| 4402s | um so Requiem is in an awkward spot here |
| 4406s | it's probably gonna have to be |
| 4409s | oh could just be burn a car to be honest |
| 4411s | 10. okay I was thinking maybe this he |
| 4414s | wanted to try and find a way to get the |
| 4416s | stenographer down |
| 4418s | um |
| 4419s | the trade all right it's Shadow step |
| 4421s | we're all calms time every time there it |
| 4423s | is all right let's see |
| 4425s | you've been paying attention Casey |
| 4428s | well you've been paying attention |
| 4430s | sometimes this one is |
| 4432s | oh no those are D hasn't seen any of |
| 4435s | those oh geez |
| 4437s | absolutely that's the toughest when |
| 4440s | murlocum's First Choice gives you uh |
| 4443s | oh no |
| 4445s | uh to give to you uh cards that you |
| 4448s | haven't seen |
| 4453s | okay it's it's Tempo that's it's yep now |
| 4457s | is the time |
| 4458s | double stenographer go |
| 4461s | yep |
| 4463s | please slow down script stenographer |
| 4465s | says I don't think raccoon has any |
| 4467s | intention of following that order |
| 4469s | [Music] |
| 4483s | foreign |
| 4486s | this is a little bit surprising |
| 4491s | using so many of those tools and then |
| 4494s | not being able to get the location in |
| 4497s | play I suppose Requiem was hoping to |
| 4499s | draw into a bone Spike but without one |
| 4502s | picked up now there's no way to play the |
| 4507s | graveyard this turn I think |
| 4513s | is that future side |
| 4517s | interesting |
| 4519s | and it's going to clean up with |
| 4520s | sonographer with no location though |
| 4523s | but it is going to get a full potion if |
| 4525s | this is Double Draw again holy moly |
| 4527s | you know I suppose rectum is seeing what |
| 4530s | Casey has done here and said |
| 4532s | yes I could be patient and just play the |
| 4535s | graveyard and pop off next turn take the |
| 4537s | damage but actually if I can just clear |
| 4540s | your board you're in top deck mode and |
| 4543s | you know majority of the time I clear |
| 4545s | that board and I just win the game |
| 4550s | all right we're all in again I mean this |
| 4553s | damage is coming through and Requiem |
| 4554s | hasn't made any Headway in terms of like |
| 4557s | pushing back too much on Tempo it's |
| 4560s | still a 20 though but but Casey's got no |
| 4563s | hand |
| 4564s | yeah but like let's see krabatoa is to |
| 4566s | draw off the top and you trade for |
| 4568s | Temple and start pushing damage again |
| 4569s | like maybe |
| 4573s | and then a second potion belt into |
| 4575s | Double Draw or astalor even I don't know |
| 4578s | it's possible it's just with this |
| 4580s | resource battle it's |
| 4582s | very difficult |
| 4586s | okay yeah that's uh graveyard not doing |
| 4588s | much silence on sound |
| 4591s | all right and this is a valiant effort |
| 4594s | from Casey but he knows even with you |
| 4597s | know these awkward clears from Wreck |
| 4598s | them that ultimately his resources are |
| 4601s | are dwindling and in the face of that |
| 4603s | many cards it's |
| 4604s | gonna be tough to get over the finish |
| 4606s | line |
| 4610s | um so could go for |
| 4613s | what |
| 4615s | um I don't know it wouldn't be that good |
| 4616s | I was gonna say graveyard prep bone |
| 4617s | Spike uh Draka |
| 4620s | but that would not be that |
| 4623s | um big of a ghost or big of a Draka kind |
| 4625s | of splitting the difference there so it |
| 4626s | looks like it's going to be one or the |
| 4628s | other |
| 4632s | he hasn't got to to do very much here I |
| 4637s | mean I think you just get down whatever |
| 4638s | threats you can start counter pressuring |
| 4641s | yeah |
| 4645s | built me a fight on hand of zero cards |
| 4649s | I mean it blocks any sort of comeback |
| 4651s | like if he wouldn't be able to go |
| 4655s | pushing belt into potion |
| 4658s | in this case because the they would yep |
| 4661s | yeah and there's the exact situation |
| 4662s | draw and draw see like it worked out |
| 4665s | perfectly given the situation absolutely |
| 4667s | that was the best best draw with the |
| 4670s | best concoction polls but not able to |
| 4672s | spend them |
| 4673s | yeah |
| 4675s | but breakfast had decided to go for for |
| 4678s | something different than Nicole nearby |
| 4680s | Chavez that play we've been looking at |
| 4681s | it much different uh game State here |
| 4683s | because Casey would have been able to |
| 4684s | get those draws last turn yeah be able |
| 4687s | to bank some Mana for this turn to try |
| 4689s | and |
| 4690s | um uh go for a push so |
| 4692s | I I kind of think on this turn |
| 4695s | maybe you just play the azshara take the |
| 4697s | knife food that's 10 guaranteed damage |
| 4699s | you just have to play five spells |
| 4703s | laughs |
| 4705s | you're trying to fit it in make it work |
| 4707s | I mean this is the One Singular |
| 4709s | situation where I can see it oh no |
| 4713s | oh tidestone not a staff I suppose when |
| 4715s | you have it's a rock |
| 4718s | you have draca that's your weapon but |
| 4725s | I believe what is that that is a one |
| 4728s | Mana of the Druid legendary spell |
| 4730s | oh the secretly summon trance or right |
| 4736s | so really it's just a one Mana combo |
| 4738s | activator |
| 4740s | yeah |
| 4742s | because there's no way this game is even |
| 4743s | going two turns let alone four turns |
| 4748s | oh |
| 4752s | can't play that and then the bones Pike |
| 4754s | got a bone Spike first |
| 4756s | [Music] |
| 4763s | [Music] |
| 4769s | just gonna play him and then step |
| 4771s | perhaps |
| 4783s | nope |
| 4786s | all right seven seven sticks I think |
| 4790s | it's got a face yeah yeah |
| 4795s | and a shield block yeah throw it all in |
| 4798s | there with the one man of spells spikes |
| 4801s | the stenographer it's it's a big enough |
| 4804s | weapon for sure |
| 4808s | uh actually it's awkward with double |
| 4810s | bond Spike because you can't play the |
| 4812s | stenographer first with the amount of |
| 4815s | Mana I don't know you would be able to |
| 4820s | foreign |
| 4821s | ographer then you double bone Spike |
| 4825s | oh you can't double bone Spike because |
| 4826s | only one gets the discount |
| 4831s | yeah okay should be enough yep it only |
| 4833s | needs to be eight |
| 4837s | wait |
| 4838s | oh there we go okay yeah |
| 4842s | with the trade from the sonographer and |
| 4844s | that's it and there you have it wreckfum |
| 4846s | takes the Rogue mirror match up almost |
| 4849s | gets Reverse sweeped by Casey |
| 4851s | we brought it back all the way to uh |
| 4853s | bring it to a game five but reclin's |
| 4855s | gonna be moving on to the semifinals and |
| 4856s | that ends Casey's run |
| 4859s | in the spring championship |
| 4861s | yep made made it into the top eight but |
| 4864s | you know at least for me if I'm gonna |
| 4866s | lose to someone I'd rather it be my |
| 4868s | practice partner I did see the Draka |
| 4871s | kind of come in at the end there not |
| 4873s | sure it was the differentiator I think |
| 4875s | there was a bit of a disparity in terms |
| 4877s | of the draws but at least you get to |
| 4878s | kind of finish with some Flair |
| 4882s | yeah yeah it's |
| 4884s | um |
| 4885s | uh I like the way that Casey tried to to |
| 4888s | play that at the end right that if you |
| 4891s | don't hit draw from those potion belts |
| 4894s | um you gotta try and find a different |
| 4896s | way but it has to be like um |
| 4899s | uh cohesive right like your gameplay |
| 4902s | can't just be like this segmented thing |
| 4904s | where you're trying to go halfway and so |
| 4905s | Casey's like well with what I've been |
| 4907s | given my best chance to win is just to |
| 4908s | go Tempo and try and help that my |
| 4910s | opponent doesn't have answers because |
| 4913s | sometimes you know they they don't have |
| 4915s | answers and those yeah minions get in |
| 4917s | enough damage when you made a very good |
| 4919s | point that while I was thinking oh why'd |
| 4920s | they even bother playing you know double |
| 4922s | neophyte into an empty hand uh that was |
| 4925s | the perfect top deck of potion Bell into |
| 4927s | the perfect pull of Double Draw and uh |
| 4931s | it made a big difference the case he was |
| 4932s | not able to do both halves in in the one |
| 4934s | turn |
| 4936s | so that he's going to put wreck them |
| 4937s | forward and potentially up against the |
| 4940s | winner of either Walder or me smile so |
| 4944s | uh we'll be back with that match up next |
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| 5354s | hello everyone and welcome back we're |
| 5357s | ready to dive into our next match up |
| 5359s | here today I'm Raven and joining me for |
| 5360s | this one is Lorinda and Lorinda it's |
| 5363s | been there I feel like even just with |
| 5364s | that one match being played out so far |
| 5366s | of requiem and Casey it's turned into a |
| 5368s | crazy day already because that series |
| 5370s | looked like it was going to lean one way |
| 5372s | and there was a chance for recovery but |
| 5374s | it didn't quite get there but now we |
| 5376s | have me smile versus Walder coming up as |
| 5378s | our next match and it's going to be |
| 5380s | another spicy one before we even get to |
| 5382s | plays because the lineups and bands |
| 5384s | themselves have led us to a bit of a |
| 5386s | weird place in this matter |
| 5387s | yeah they really have we're not going to |
| 5390s | have a Demon Hunter on display for you |
| 5392s | in the second quarter final of the day |
| 5395s | just isn't going to be there one player |
| 5396s | didn't bring it |
| 5398s | that's me smile and the other one just |
| 5400s | banned it so that's where we're at now |
| 5403s | we're going to end up with what is that |
| 5405s | it's a priest |
| 5407s | um I don't think it is a priest actually |
| 5409s | it might be a paladin though there's um |
| 5410s | the frost yeah okay there's the Druid |
| 5412s | and there's the paladin on one side and |
| 5414s | there's a frosty K there's a druid on |
| 5416s | the Rogue on the other and you'll have |
| 5418s | heard me say this in at least three |
| 5421s | matches so far it's gonna be all about |
| 5423s | The Druids in my opinion Raven It's just |
| 5425s | such a interesting |
| 5427s | um |
| 5428s | class to talk about in this whole event |
| 5430s | where The Druids such a powerful deck |
| 5433s | but so targetable and yeah well |
| 5436s | destroyed yeah especially when we look |
| 5438s | at the builds as well because there's |
| 5439s | like the street sweeper here the Etc in |
| 5442s | there as well |
| 5444s | which um you know you can choose to |
| 5445s | whether you want to run these cards or |
| 5447s | not but they are very different to me |
| 5448s | Smiles lineup where oh New South Druid |
| 5451s | which is a little bit more uh closed |
| 5453s | down in terms of the deck list so be |
| 5455s | pretty interesting to see how these pan |
| 5456s | out but yeah that is the Demon Hunter |
| 5457s | that's going to be banned away and you |
| 5459s | are quite right it's going to be that |
| 5460s | Druid Rogue uh death knight uh going up |
| 5464s | against the Druid Rogue palette uh yeah |
| 5467s | drude Road Paladin that's right isn't it |
| 5468s | oh no no you saw this last night with me |
| 5470s | Smiles lineup yeah his Paladin is |
| 5472s | rubbish |
| 5473s | match-up wise not he hasn't anything |
| 5475s | wrong with building the Paladin unless |
| 5477s | it runs into the opposing Druid in which |
| 5479s | case it's almost a free win I mean it's |
| 5481s | it's 70 or 75 it's not nothing's a free |
| 5484s | winning Hearthstone but it's a massively |
| 5486s | favored matchup and the other two are |
| 5488s | massively unfavored |
| 5490s | um but he queued into the drill and got |
| 5492s | through last night against yala and so |
| 5494s | that's how his lineup is built obviously |
| 5496s | there's a lot more intricacies we can |
| 5497s | talk about as we go but that is the |
| 5499s | thing if he can get that Paladin queued |
| 5501s | into the Druid he's in a good spot if he |
| 5503s | can't he's not |
| 5504s | um me smile representing the Americas |
| 5507s | region from Canada so I'm a big fan uh |
| 5510s | was one of the lower Point Getters in |
| 5511s | this tournament which is still a huge |
| 5513s | amount of points two top tens are the |
| 5515s | top 20. |
| 5516s | um |
| 5517s | and he he showed last night just how |
| 5520s | powerful a player he is Walder rank one |
| 5523s | EU last season in March |
| 5526s | yeah I think you don't get better |
| 5528s | I mean all the players who made it are |
| 5530s | obviously very impressive I do think |
| 5532s | they'll just touch on the Paladin that |
| 5533s | that is that the key point of me smile's |
| 5536s | whole run so far is the only Paladin |
| 5539s | there a deck that not that many players |
| 5542s | respect so it'll be pretty interesting |
| 5544s | to see how far uh these Falcon gam |
| 5546s | already impressed with him getting this |
| 5548s | far uh so yeah we'll see how it goes we |
| 5551s | can see some highlights here of as you |
| 5553s | said earlier new smile versus yala where |
| 5554s | the power didn't go over the line we saw |
| 5556s | the jury come down as well and I think |
| 5558s | like the Druid as you mentioned is such |
| 5561s | a it's such a weird deck because it's |
| 5563s | even though it's got its weakness it's |
| 5566s | got its strength it still does druid |
| 5568s | things even with the rotation happening |
| 5570s | right the Druid will forever just do or |
| 5573s | have the ability to do some very broken |
| 5575s | things because the amount of times I've |
| 5576s | gone against Druid |
| 5578s | um on ladder I think I'm winning and |
| 5580s | then they just pop off on turn seven or |
| 5582s | eight and then I'm like oh I couldn't be |
| 5584s | losing more right now and then you just |
| 5586s | fall away it's very very difficult but |
| 5587s | check out music is there anything big to |
| 5590s | sticks out for you here Lorinda or is |
| 5592s | this looking as stand as it is as it |
| 5594s | needs to be I mean the actual lists |
| 5596s | themselves seemed pretty straightforward |
| 5597s | there was a note I have that I can't |
| 5599s | find on one of them that'll turn up at |
| 5601s | the most inconvenient moment when I go |
| 5602s | oh yeah by the way this is a thing |
| 5604s | um oh it's Wilder's list actually just |
| 5606s | to go back to Wilder he he's playing Etc |
| 5608s | and plating but he's not playing the the |
| 5611s | Masha in in welder's list which is yeah |
| 5614s | sounds interesting let's go so that's a |
| 5616s | big thing right you can see the two |
| 5617s | mishmash at the top there but um in the |
| 5619s | in the other list it's just uh more sort |
| 5621s | of tech cards instead so that'll be |
| 5623s | pretty interesting to see but now we get |
| 5625s | a look at the frost DK as well which is |
| 5627s | gonna be pretty spicy a little bit later |
| 5629s | on too so a lot of I guess like the way |
| 5633s | the lineups and again I don't want to |
| 5634s | take anything away from Druid but I just |
| 5636s | think like if I was submitter lineup I |
| 5639s | probably wouldn't have brought Druid so |
| 5640s | the fact we're seeing like two Druids |
| 5642s | and a paladin with these bands as well |
| 5645s | I'm pretty excited to get into this one |
| 5646s | and see who can who can take it because |
| 5648s | I'll tell you Lorinda I was playing the |
| 5651s | other day playing this Paladin list |
| 5654s | it did not go well |
| 5656s | it doesn't I think it was like wasn't |
| 5658s | going or something it was so but it |
| 5661s | beats Druids |
| 5662s | yeah yeah yeah you're right |
| 5664s | just want to pick the Highlight what is |
| 5666s | for the Highlight for my whole run and |
| 5668s | it was a terrible run was I played the |
| 5670s | Countess then I got three anubricants so |
| 5675s | I got to go a new bikini which was kind |
| 5678s | of hilarious yeah |
| 5679s | in history oh my God yeah look I got off |
| 5683s | with it and they were actually my best |
| 5684s | choices so I took them but yeah this is |
| 5686s | the Paladin list there that you can see |
| 5688s | all the standard stuff I think as always |
| 5690s | with pure Paladin since it it was |
| 5693s | created there's never that many changes |
| 5696s | because I think when you only have |
| 5697s | access to class cards there's not |
| 5699s | normally too many cards especially at |
| 5701s | the start of a rotation right because |
| 5702s | there's just less to choose from that |
| 5704s | they're going to really step out there |
| 5705s | so again we'll see how this piling goes |
| 5707s | I'm pretty excited to see how it air if |
| 5709s | we can get a win easily or if it's going |
| 5710s | to go on the struggle a little bit |
| 5711s | something else I'm looking forward to |
| 5713s | seeing uh we saw it twice last night and |
| 5715s | we're gonna see it a lot today is the |
| 5718s | battle between Frost DK and Druid |
| 5720s | because it's one of those you look at it |
| 5722s | you go well Rusty cases just win it's |
| 5724s | gonna make a whole bunch of things that |
| 5726s | Drew's gonna sit there and just get |
| 5727s | damaged and the game's gonna end |
| 5729s | but what happens is the first Decay |
| 5731s | normally it runs out of steam on turn |
| 5733s | six or seven it carries on it starts |
| 5734s | firing stuff at your face |
| 5736s | when Druid gets to that point if you |
| 5738s | haven't done enough damage they just |
| 5740s | press a two Mana hero power gain five |
| 5742s | armor and they just shut down everything |
| 5744s | you're doing and put a load of two |
| 5746s | like two twenties in front of it so |
| 5748s | nothing can attack face anymore |
| 5750s | shut the problems down so it's really |
| 5753s | interesting and we are going to start |
| 5754s | with it Raven yeah I'm ready for this |
| 5756s | because you are right I think the weird |
| 5759s | thing about Druid is it looks like it's |
| 5761s | losing until it has that one good turn |
| 5764s | and then you wonder how it was ever in |
| 5766s | danger right because like you said |
| 5768s | there's like a full Board of huge |
| 5769s | minions huge Health totals on some of |
| 5772s | those minions as well uh with Zuck of |
| 5774s | course and and a lot of armor and |
| 5776s | Armor's key because even though Frost DK |
| 5779s | puts out a ton of damage it doesn't do |
| 5781s | all that often it doesn't do like |
| 5783s | Miracle damage right it's not doing like |
| 5785s | 20 damage in one turn a lot of the time |
| 5788s | it's just consistent damage it throws |
| 5791s | out and that's how it can overpower |
| 5792s | decks uh so because it's not going to be |
| 5794s | hard like big spiky damage there's often |
| 5797s | enough time for the Druid to at least |
| 5799s | attempt to stabilize |
| 5801s | yeah I always do the sheet always talk |
| 5802s | about my little sheet that I do for each |
| 5804s | match in my first DK versus Druid |
| 5806s | percentage is 50 with a question mark on |
| 5808s | either side just to say I don't know |
| 5809s | nobody knows |
| 5814s | because it's a good little selection of |
| 5817s | minions the horn is well able to just |
| 5819s | accelerate the game plan in the early |
| 5821s | game |
| 5823s | absolutely and is he just gonna yeah I |
| 5826s | like it just Chuck it all down |
| 5830s | I think it's good to do this before the |
| 5832s | hero power starts to get silly right |
| 5834s | because Walder can trade hero power but |
| 5837s | then there's no additional minions |
| 5838s | coming down this turn so then you know |
| 5841s | meanwhile is going to be that one step |
| 5842s | ahead |
| 5843s | yeah we just talked about it you've got |
| 5845s | six turns if you're me smile maybe seven |
| 5848s | to to hit Wilder really hard really fast |
| 5850s | and then everything stops you have to do |
| 5852s | the rest from hand so the more you can |
| 5854s | do in that time the better obviously |
| 5855s | it's easy said the hard bit is making |
| 5857s | sure you do do the maximum that time |
| 5859s | because |
| 5860s | when you look at this end it's pretty |
| 5861s | straightforward when you start getting |
| 5863s | um the six drops in your hand and the |
| 5866s | weapon and stuff like that we saw last |
| 5867s | night you can get incredibly complicated |
| 5869s | and really hard judgment calls on what |
| 5871s | to do next even though it looks like a |
| 5873s | curved deck you know do you want your |
| 5874s | weapon in early do you want to in late |
| 5876s | there's a lot to worry about with this |
| 5877s | deck and um |
| 5881s | like yeah I think I'm a bit too silly |
| 5883s | with these things but I was even looking |
| 5885s | at what like horn hero power achieves |
| 5886s | there uh just because it's just such a |
| 5889s | curve like Rowdy fan into whatever's |
| 5891s | going to stick around and then follow up |
| 5893s | with whatever you draw that's Frost |
| 5894s | strike so I was just wondering is that |
| 5895s | is that too extra Mana just pushing more |
| 5898s | damage and getting a corpse gonna be |
| 5900s | worthwhile |
| 5901s | yeah absolutely and a lot of that is is |
| 5904s | feel right if you play the deck a |
| 5905s | thousand times you just know it doesn't |
| 5907s | work or you have a good idea yeah the |
| 5909s | Horn's far more valuable than that if |
| 5911s | you've played it 17 times or something |
| 5913s | like I have you look at you go I quite |
| 5914s | like the look of that that seems to get |
| 5916s | me a lot of stuff on board and then I'll |
| 5917s | turn seven suddenly you don't have a |
| 5919s | horn that you need for something really |
| 5920s | important right |
| 5925s | start with frost strike here yep |
| 5930s | just to see what's there in the box so |
| 5931s | to speak I |
| 5933s | fan yeah played shut the damage didn't |
| 5936s | go oh yeah absolutely it's not a card I |
| 5938s | think we've talked about more and more |
| 5940s | it's becoming more and more obvious to |
| 5941s | me as it goes on I had a lot of help |
| 5943s | sort of playing this card and the point |
| 5945s | of it is it does a lot of damage put it |
| 5947s | on the board no matter what you're |
| 5948s | playing just just hit them with it |
| 5951s | but it's easy to say that I struggled I |
| 5953s | held it back of important moments well |
| 5955s | you know what's an important moment I |
| 5957s | can hit you for seven well for five four |
| 5959s | extra damage right now let's do it bam |
| 5969s | bam |
| 5971s | well it's kind of interesting right I |
| 5972s | think mismo might be thinking which one |
| 5974s | do I paint on because the one two of |
| 5976s | course uh is the most likely to be the |
| 5978s | Target to get killed so then |
| 5981s | if he plays Rowdy on the 2-2 even though |
| 5984s | it's pushing all the power onto one |
| 5985s | minion it's not actually the most |
| 5987s | important minion so there's like a a |
| 5989s | weird choice now for Walder of what uh |
| 5992s | he thinks is the the most dangerous card |
| 5994s | on the ball and again no surprise but um |
| 5997s | because these are all fantastic players |
| 5998s | but me smile last night did show a lot |
| 6000s | of the a lot of the little decisions he |
| 6001s | made like this were just right yeah they |
| 6004s | were shown to be like three turns later |
| 6006s | a lot of the time there was one point um |
| 6008s | as a druiding it's Demon Hunter for |
| 6010s | instance he did three damage with his |
| 6012s | face into opposing face |
| 6013s | fairly early in the game rather than |
| 6015s | taking down a 3-3 and that just proved |
| 6017s | to be the right decision not necessarily |
| 6019s | an instinctive attack to the face unless |
| 6020s | you practice it a lot and you're |
| 6022s | comfortable in your plays |
| 6025s | three priority targets weirdly or like |
| 6027s | two and a half I guess you could say |
| 6030s | um for this so Walter has to make a |
| 6032s | decision and that's if he can kill |
| 6034s | something right that's you know |
| 6036s | obviously me smile thinking well if |
| 6037s | there's a removal tool if there's a way |
| 6039s | to actually kill these off |
| 6041s | looks like it's going to be innovate |
| 6042s | nourish |
| 6045s | yep |
| 6050s | nice amount of armor but |
| 6053s | all the doing the thing you've got to do |
| 6054s | is Druid sometimes and say okay I'm |
| 6056s | gonna take a huge hit now so I can do |
| 6058s | something impressive later and these |
| 6060s | drawers are not it for me smile this is |
| 6063s | how about yeah chat you can make this |
| 6066s | play right chat you can go horn of |
| 6068s | winter into marrow manipulator yeah |
| 6071s | let's do that |
| 6073s | I expect many yeps |
| 6075s | thank you that's what we want |
| 6079s | Chapman or chat play |
| 6084s | Robins as well like me as well |
| 6086s | almost certainly need something not even |
| 6089s | playable but something probably good |
| 6091s | next turn right yeah there's still |
| 6093s | plenty of whiffs |
| 6096s | yeah absolutely in a |
| 6099s | very awkward spot now just to give you |
| 6101s | an update as well sorry because I |
| 6103s | probably should have mentioned this but |
| 6104s | in ETC there's crazed Alchemists |
| 6106s | smithering starfish and Deathwing the |
| 6108s | Destroyer |
| 6111s | you never give them that easy you never |
| 6113s | give that information up that easily |
| 6117s | you have to wait till they've asked |
| 6118s | what's in ETC at least a thousand I |
| 6120s | wanted to throw it out there because you |
| 6122s | know obviously there's a chance it gets |
| 6123s | played because it's just starting now I |
| 6125s | think it's something it's reasonable to |
| 6126s | inform people of what's in ETC people |
| 6128s | people do tend to want to know what's in |
| 6130s | Etc |
| 6131s | what is an Etc |
| 6134s | I'm not telling you you told me not to |
| 6135s | give it up okay see he learns he's |
| 6138s | evolving |
| 6139s | all right |
| 6142s | not the best pickup you're talking about |
| 6144s | the good pickup that he needed this is |
| 6146s | not it does this have to be like trade |
| 6149s | the six two no but it might be base |
| 6153s | what do we gain out of trading the six |
| 6155s | two |
| 6160s | positive trade |
| 6163s | is it was it four or five threatening |
| 6167s | well disagreeing I'm sort of I'm scared |
| 6170s | yeah I mean if so basically if the kill |
| 6172s | goes on the Rowdy fan next turn then the |
| 6174s | six two's not six two little touches |
| 6177s | yeah |
| 6182s | don't get me wrong there's always the |
| 6184s | option of just well just throw epic |
| 6186s | interface and just do it which is fine |
| 6189s | that's what uh missile wants to go for |
| 6193s | yeah I I'm going back to the sort of the |
| 6195s | the intro where it's |
| 6197s | you can't miss a beat against the Druid |
| 6200s | and he already has kind of missed |
| 6201s | Eternal too so I think he's |
| 6204s | got to get that damage especially with |
| 6206s | the flower chart being played |
| 6208s | it's just damage that he can't afford to |
| 6210s | not do even though he what you said all |
| 6212s | makes sense to me but I think yeah I |
| 6215s | guess like it's one of those tough ones |
| 6216s | right if the assumption is because the |
| 6218s | flower child uh this part's going to be |
| 6221s | in trouble right Health life then |
| 6224s | is doing the six to face actually Gonna |
| 6226s | Change much with this hand right this |
| 6228s | manipulator in a hand that's probably |
| 6229s | not going to achieve much and there's a |
| 6231s | frost ones fiori and that's all of the |
| 6233s | damage which wouldn't get there whether |
| 6234s | you do the six two to face or not I mean |
| 6237s | either way obviously these hands are |
| 6239s | like a big problem now because me so I |
| 6241s | was just almost certainly already fallen |
| 6244s | too far behind in the world where this |
| 6246s | didn't get cleared for instance he'll |
| 6248s | have enough corpses for the manipulator |
| 6249s | to be okay the flower child probably |
| 6251s | have to steal trade into something the |
| 6253s | flower child get killed by manipulator |
| 6254s | maybe six Ghost Face maybe eight goes |
| 6257s | face maybe you get that I mean missile |
| 6259s | wouldn't have liked any of this but yeah |
| 6261s | yeah of course of course |
| 6264s | but as it is I mean we can see now that |
| 6266s | he's really up against it there's still |
| 6268s | a little bit of play left but |
| 6279s | and now the manipulator just |
| 6284s | does it do anything right it's just |
| 6286s | lethal coming the other way just go face |
| 6289s | four times manipulator you got this |
| 6293s | I think that's the play by the way |
| 6295s | I mean |
| 6298s | well if he goes phase four times he wins |
| 6302s | oh wait wait what oh sorry yeah they had |
| 6305s | the hole in the hole with the hero power |
| 6306s | just just yeah just take the million to |
| 6307s | one shot into space honestly consumer |
| 6311s | talked about the whole winter so much |
| 6312s | earlier on I just forgot it was there |
| 6314s | and I was like well hang on a minute |
| 6315s | where's the extra damage coming from |
| 6316s | yeah we both played that horn like six |
| 6318s | times in this game so yeah it shouldn't |
| 6321s | be there in our in our world yeah I mean |
| 6324s | that's the only thing to do right |
| 6329s | it's trying to see any world where |
| 6332s | there's a better thing maybe he's |
| 6333s | working five with hero power so do you |
| 6337s | hear a power first and take out the two |
| 6339s | one does that make any difference I |
| 6341s | don't think it does but that's probably |
| 6342s | something he's making sure doesn't make |
| 6343s | a difference |
| 6348s | oh |
| 6354s | okay |
| 6360s | so I think Walden needs one |
| 6363s | yeah |
| 6364s | he's still at one attack right |
| 6366s | it must be yeah otherwise he wouldn't |
| 6368s | have made this play after counting for |
| 6370s | an hour I assume |
| 6375s | but you should just do it right |
| 6380s | yep that'll do it well World it gets |
| 6384s | through with the Druid and the big |
| 6386s | problem here and one of the things I was |
| 6388s | going to ask you as well is like |
| 6390s | how much of a problem is it for me smile |
| 6393s | if Walder gets through with the Druid it |
| 6396s | is a massive problem because the Paladin |
| 6398s | is now stranded |
| 6400s | well this is one of the things as well |
| 6402s | where |
| 6404s | prepare yourself I don't feel like I've |
| 6406s | asked dumb things enough this weekend so |
| 6409s | far |
| 6410s | um well I |
| 6412s | if he was even if he's solely targeting |
| 6415s | through it right and it's like right I'm |
| 6417s | gonna be up through it my opponent has |
| 6419s | it perfect everything's going to plan |
| 6421s | and you made that Paladin like every |
| 6425s | game so you can make sure you hit |
| 6426s | through it because like you said The |
| 6428s | Druids the druid's gone over the top of |
| 6429s | the death knight now and now it's like |
| 6431s | well what does this Paladin even do |
| 6433s | I don't think he's we had this |
| 6434s | discussion last night his lineup's a bit |
| 6436s | weird because |
| 6437s | if he's targeting Druid why is he |
| 6440s | playing Druid and giving them a 50 50 to |
| 6441s | get out of there |
| 6443s | um it's a soft target of sorts but it's |
| 6445s | not it's not overly powerful against his |
| 6447s | drill it's just so yeah I just don't |
| 6450s | know what part what else piled him beats |
| 6453s | not that I like talking about Q order |
| 6455s | but for me if your deck only really |
| 6457s | beats one other class and your opponent |
| 6459s | has that class I would cue that deck |
| 6461s | every time just to try and like hit it |
| 6464s | because if you miss like like these fans |
| 6466s | missed now I I genuinely hope we see |
| 6469s | like |
| 6470s | you know obviously for me as well Sake |
| 6471s | One pounding game at least well you know |
| 6473s | maybe a couple just to see because I'm |
| 6476s | not confessing to be the best piloting |
| 6477s | player in the world but the deck seems |
| 6479s | extremely linear in what it can do |
| 6482s | outside of uh Countess of course because |
| 6485s | counters kind of just throws the fire up |
| 6487s | in there and sees where it lands but in |
| 6489s | general like if any of these decks just |
| 6492s | hit I just push you off board you're |
| 6494s | going to struggle but we are gonna have |
| 6496s | to wait to see the Paladin instead our |
| 6498s | world is going to be on Rogue and me |
| 6500s | smile's gonna jump over to their druid |
| 6502s | yeah and |
| 6505s | me Smiles Druid is it's not too horrible |
| 6507s | this matchup this this particular game |
| 6510s | isn't good but the overall lineup isn't |
| 6513s | too terrible for history on either side |
| 6515s | but again we're getting that Paladin |
| 6517s | but it's still the weak link and he has |
| 6521s | queued into the worst of the three I |
| 6522s | think the rogue's pretty good against |
| 6524s | druid |
| 6526s | yeah I think nobody yeah yeah I think |
| 6530s | means files just again this is probably |
| 6532s | what you do again think against Rogue no |
| 6534s | matter what but especially for me in |
| 6536s | this matchup means if I was just sat |
| 6537s | there thinking just don't get sin Stone |
| 6541s | because without drawing sinstone on |
| 6543s | curve and popping off |
| 6544s | should we can get there right because |
| 6546s | they just do the big turn |
| 6548s | and then go from there right and that's |
| 6549s | not made of the most matchups but the |
| 6551s | Sims zone is a huge problem for the |
| 6553s | Druid yeah |
| 6557s | um but also you know those things Wilder |
| 6559s | could do to change around if he gets |
| 6561s | potion belts I mean you almost always go |
| 6563s | for the the free zero Mana Sprint |
| 6565s | because why wouldn't you but as soon as |
| 6567s | you just put three two three drops on |
| 6569s | the board or generate stuff with the |
| 6570s | hazies |
| 6572s | um oh sure but I think there's lots of |
| 6574s | ways to put things because of like the |
| 6576s | rakes and stuff like that that is even |
| 6578s | in nisswa's hand right now Chewie could |
| 6581s | deal with a couple of small minions but |
| 6582s | how do they kill a big one right yeah I |
| 6585s | think that could be really difficult |
| 6586s | whereas you look at some of the other |
| 6587s | classes there's freeze there's just |
| 6590s | better removal or hard kills you know |
| 6593s | like in the mirror you can get the |
| 6594s | concoction to just kill so that there's |
| 6596s | ways whereas Druid is just like oh I |
| 6598s | hope I don't die to this 10 10. |
| 6602s | and I'll be down to anything at the |
| 6604s | moment |
| 6605s | that helps them |
| 6606s | it does |
| 6610s | but it's so slow like next turn |
| 6615s | I want to jam it and just hope next turn |
| 6617s | turns out okay |
| 6620s | you probably shadow step your Alchemist |
| 6622s | just to |
| 6623s | there's some worlds where you end up |
| 6625s | playing potions twice next turn they're |
| 6626s | not very likely but it's a thing that |
| 6629s | could happen |
| 6630s | and I do want to ask you because I know |
| 6631s | you've played a good chunk of Rogue you |
| 6633s | know pre and post air rotation but what |
| 6636s | do you think about some Fury uh clergy |
| 6638s | in this |
| 6639s | I mean I had no idea about post rotation |
| 6642s | really until this tournament uh I sort |
| 6644s | of steered clear because I played so |
| 6646s | much before the rotation |
| 6648s | um but what we've seen are the clergy |
| 6651s | I'm not going to argue with it it seems |
| 6653s | fine we've seen it do a lot of work |
| 6656s | um yeah |
| 6657s | right yeah my gut says it's probably too |
| 6661s | cute okay that's one of those cards that |
| 6663s | when it does its thing it's amazing and |
| 6665s | the rest of time it's a sun Fury clergy |
| 6667s | but I'm not gonna fight anybody over if |
| 6670s | they want to play right we've seen no |
| 6672s | I'll stick with it yeah I don't hate it |
| 6674s | it's fine okay |
| 6676s | [Music] |
| 6679s | and now Walt is just uh doing what they |
| 6682s | can here not the biggest in stone |
| 6684s | graveyard product we've seen this |
| 6685s | weekend but still it's a minion |
| 6687s | nonetheless |
| 6691s | yeah there's gonna be no ghosts made |
| 6693s | next turn so you might as well push the |
| 6695s | button now and then the turn after if |
| 6697s | such a thing happens you you hope to pop |
| 6700s | off a game with your Shadow demise |
| 6702s | yeah and even though there's no big turn |
| 6704s | from me smile even just the fact that he |
| 6708s | isn't dead yet is an achievement in |
| 6709s | itself right and I think there are the |
| 6712s | two under Kings the two rakes still |
| 6714s | available I imagine these rapes might |
| 6716s | get thrown around now just a very |
| 6718s | cleanly tidy up this board he does have |
| 6720s | nine mana and his opponent has five as |
| 6722s | well yeah yeah that's what I mean like |
| 6724s | the fact that he's a 27 and has like |
| 6728s | basically 10 Mana next turn |
| 6730s | is huge right let's exactly the start |
| 6732s | and look at the the hero power now I |
| 6734s | actually didn't even realize it was that |
| 6735s | high |
| 6737s | oh it just sneaks up like it's just yeah |
| 6740s | it just suddenly is crazy |
| 6742s | and I love love yeah okay |
| 6747s | I love clearing up some of this but it |
| 6749s | looks like I'm gonna push the five to |
| 6750s | face not bother killing the ghost or |
| 6751s | anything |
| 6753s | this is very similar to how he played it |
| 6754s | yesterday against the the Demon Hunter |
| 6756s | he just he pushed his face more often |
| 6758s | than you would imagine just to put |
| 6759s | pressure on his opponent it's very |
| 6761s | interesting to be fair if you know when |
| 6762s | they're dying that hero power starts to |
| 6764s | get dangerous right like that is an |
| 6766s | unfair hero power in such respect |
| 6769s | yeah |
| 6770s | and every two man is spent now with that |
| 6772s | hero power is just gonna stack so much |
| 6774s | armor and just basically negate stuff |
| 6776s | like these weapon swings from the |
| 6777s | krabatoa |
| 6778s | oh |
| 6780s | a world of options here I love the |
| 6783s | mishmash |
| 6785s | it is a very Raven card it really is you |
| 6789s | just get him it's awesome |
| 6791s | [Music] |
| 6793s | well gonna have to get him now because |
| 6795s | that's a whole selection of mishmash |
| 6803s | flame strike look at it |
| 6806s | another five to face he's just getting |
| 6808s | him yeah I think this is showing just |
| 6810s | how comfortable me smile is I would have |
| 6812s | definitely been more on the defensive |
| 6814s | but uh you know I'm not as good as me as |
| 6816s | well so great you know it's conversation |
| 6819s | over so I think this is pretty nice so I |
| 6821s | mean it's about really sort of a certain |
| 6822s | dominance Edge getting his hair powers |
| 6824s | to face and he knows he has these |
| 6826s | mishmashes in hand which are going to be |
| 6828s | very good against this kind of board |
| 6832s | you know just gonna highlight um I'm |
| 6834s | assuming other casts are gonna do the |
| 6836s | same thing clergy did nothing here it |
| 6837s | was just a three Mana thing to get in |
| 6840s | the way it didn't do nothing come on and |
| 6842s | heal this face all right cool well done |
| 6845s | clergy |
| 6847s | you can stay |
| 6849s | hey look when you're getting smacked in |
| 6851s | the face for five returns from a druid |
| 6852s | hero power I'll take the heal |
| 6855s | I mean we did use play Earth and ring |
| 6857s | fast here in Rogue I guess exactly |
| 6858s | because Rogues can't heal says the |
| 6861s | casters yeah okay |
| 6865s | you can have |
| 6867s | it I'll get you next |
| 6871s | [Music] |
| 6875s | and yeah |
| 6877s | goodbye bored |
| 6882s | it's actually ridiculous yeah it's so |
| 6885s | strong like look at this |
| 6888s | and the first time I played against this |
| 6891s | it's like wait it keeps attacking and |
| 6894s | then I read the card the game was like |
| 6896s | oh yeah it does |
| 6898s | along the lines of gosh I'm very |
| 6901s | impressed by this opponent to play when |
| 6903s | my opponent first did it to me |
| 6907s | pretty sure that's exactly what I said |
| 6909s | [Music] |
| 6913s | because I've never tilted in the face of |
| 6915s | something new terrifying me ever |
| 6922s | well just kind of out of stuff |
| 6925s | as out of stuff as Rogues get me there's |
| 6927s | no shower would have gone fishing that's |
| 6928s | quite good but |
| 6930s | it's not nothing but it's not something |
| 6933s | um |
| 6935s | don't know what that means but I |
| 6936s | definitely agree |
| 6939s | yeah I think either way me smells just |
| 6940s | like yep two Mana five armor have |
| 6942s | returned seems good yeah I get that |
| 6945s | under King out now another attorney |
| 6947s | number two for |
| 6950s | the time he might need that one day |
| 6958s | just hitting |
| 6962s | it all right a shower |
| 6964s | do your thing that you do make make you |
| 6966s | have to be prepared |
| 6968s | yeah |
| 6971s | so I think that was two spells left to |
| 6972s | activate |
| 6976s | at the earth I think he played a spell |
| 6977s | last chance |
| 6980s | yeah there we go |
| 6982s | didn't even see the choice it was so |
| 6983s | fast |
| 6984s | okay |
| 6990s | everybody |
| 6994s | yeah |
| 6996s | and here we go |
| 6999s | okay okay |
| 7004s | not the worst but he is the definition |
| 7007s | of all in now |
| 7014s | to be formed to look for new Barack |
| 7020s | yeah |
| 7022s | a little bit unfortunate actually like a |
| 7024s | new break being so low right like bottom |
| 7026s | 10. |
| 7027s | yep very much so |
| 7030s | um |
| 7032s | should be fine though like the flower |
| 7034s | yeah TJ Sanders camp Camp of um yeah the |
| 7037s | flower child draws two cards and I |
| 7039s | forget you don't have the finale like |
| 7041s | you just you just play it yeah |
| 7044s | I think it's very easy well I think |
| 7046s | that's the thing there as we see our |
| 7047s | Muse fail obviously take the win there |
| 7049s | completely controlling the majority of |
| 7051s | that game but I think that's the thing |
| 7052s | with finale that you learned pretty |
| 7054s | quickly is yes some of the finale cards |
| 7056s | like you almost need to finale them to |
| 7060s | really be good but some of them are |
| 7062s | completely fine right like completely |
| 7064s | acceptable with them not getting that |
| 7065s | effect off but that Druid match up okay |
| 7069s | you know that was nice that was uh it |
| 7070s | got away with that one considering the |
| 7072s | sinstone was there but there was none of |
| 7073s | those big pop-off turns like the first |
| 7075s | ghost being a 3-3 against Druid |
| 7077s | especially with these sort of new hero |
| 7080s | power slash removal abilities like rake |
| 7082s | and the hero power itself a 3-3 very |
| 7085s | very reasonable against Druid whereas if |
| 7088s | that first one was just bigger you know |
| 7089s | one to pop off uh sort of ghosts things |
| 7092s | would have looked very very different |
| 7094s | I'm lost driving they've ruined my |
| 7095s | narrative it's all about the Druid says |
| 7097s | Lorinda they just they just won |
| 7099s | I'm done I don't have a storyline |
| 7100s | anymore oh yeah the Paladin the |
| 7102s | Paladin's rubbish yeah that's where |
| 7103s | we're at now how is the planet there's |
| 7106s | always the Paladin to speak about don't |
| 7107s | you worry but I do think that me smile |
| 7110s | there really just honed in on the fact |
| 7113s | that there wasn't the big aggression |
| 7115s | from from the Rogue so yeah I'll just |
| 7118s | push damaged face I'll become the |
| 7119s | aggressor the armor game was there and |
| 7121s | then the fact that you could ramp so |
| 7123s | much freely like you don't normally get |
| 7125s | to ramp like that when a rogue has drawn |
| 7127s | sinstone on curve right no he's not |
| 7129s | normally you can't just go oh nourish |
| 7131s | it'll be fine uh but yeah it managed to |
| 7134s | get away with it so it's a pretty huge |
| 7135s | there from me smile evening up at the |
| 7137s | series but again so what is left they've |
| 7140s | both got Frosty Kayla |
| 7143s | has the Paladin and there's the road on |
| 7147s | welder's side has Rogue yeah and then |
| 7150s | it's powered in and then |
| 7153s | okay |
| 7156s | yeah that's it yeah |
| 7158s | here we go it's the piled in time |
| 7160s | against the DK oh look at the DK hand |
| 7164s | and it's not amazing amazing but stuff |
| 7166s | on board it's been movable versus |
| 7167s | Paladin it's exactly the sort of things |
| 7169s | you want it'll do |
| 7171s | yeah there is sinful and then air Boogie |
| 7176s | as well which is going to be pretty |
| 7177s | strong yeah it's about it's about as |
| 7178s | strong as you're really gonna get but my |
| 7181s | problem is like the follow-up has to be |
| 7182s | so good with Paladin |
| 7186s | vote mediocre stuff at you for hours |
| 7192s | but you die because you're playing |
| 7194s | mediocre stuff at them yeah |
| 7197s | there's just one thing to note here I'm |
| 7198s | just going to triple check before I make |
| 7200s | myself sound stupid |
| 7203s | um |
| 7204s | yeah so Walder isn't running the cultist |
| 7208s | right so there isn't the AOE |
| 7210s | um okay some players are running so that |
| 7212s | is a very important against specifically |
| 7215s | Paladin right because that AOE |
| 7217s | especially on turn three can get a lot |
| 7219s | of work done |
| 7222s | blood matriarch as well so |
| 7224s | yeah into Boogie |
| 7229s | I mean it's all you can hope for is it |
| 7231s | is get your cards green and put them on |
| 7233s | the board and see if there's any Synergy |
| 7235s | when you get to the end of it |
| 7239s | is going to be the coin into Bone |
| 7241s | Breaker |
| 7242s | oh wow never mind okay no I thought they |
| 7246s | would be two |
| 7248s | so is this because Walder doesn't want |
| 7250s | to give me smile a good turn too |
| 7252s | yeah he's saying you have your teardrop |
| 7256s | yeah you've kept you've kept two cards |
| 7259s | one of them might be a three Because |
| 7260s | You're Gonna Keep boogie down have a two |
| 7262s | drops if you don't I'm not gonna give |
| 7263s | you the two one drops to play right |
| 7266s | and he's got the two drops so now he's |
| 7269s | gonna carry on with life |
| 7272s | that's how I seem to be able to buff the |
| 7274s | egg |
| 7275s | that's such a big deal because here like |
| 7278s | without the buff it's not like this |
| 7280s | Paladin's looking to AOE the board down |
| 7282s | right so the egg would have just sat |
| 7285s | there until Walder did something about |
| 7287s | it so the Buffon had been able to use it |
| 7289s | to trade absolutely huge gaining that |
| 7291s | board control now there is boogie down |
| 7293s | but against the wall they're already |
| 7295s | having this board established already |
| 7297s | having a weapon equipped this is so much |
| 7300s | weaker it is |
| 7303s | yeah these babies just get bombed right |
| 7306s | yeah they just they just they just |
| 7308s | vanish from the board oh now this is |
| 7311s | going to be interesting right the choice |
| 7312s | between this hero power and re-equip the |
| 7315s | weapon |
| 7316s | as coin school teacher and leave a |
| 7319s | minion alive on the other side yeah or |
| 7321s | there's coin to drop hero power yeah I'm |
| 7325s | still clear so this good options here I |
| 7327s | don't hate any of them honestly I think |
| 7329s | so I think good players point out the |
| 7331s | school the school teacher if it was me |
| 7333s | I'd calling out the harbinger and hero |
| 7335s | power but I think good players might |
| 7336s | even look after their coin here oh so |
| 7339s | he's with you |
| 7341s | it's literally this proves I'm just |
| 7344s | equal footing with all these players |
| 7346s | that have qualified it does absolutely |
| 7352s | actually like graveyard shift |
| 7354s | I always listening |
| 7357s | but graveyard shift is nice even dark |
| 7360s | transformation |
| 7363s | because again all you need to do against |
| 7365s | the Paladin is push them off board |
| 7367s | anything that helps with that whether |
| 7369s | it's a transformation to the the big boy |
| 7371s | or the the two one ones with reborn |
| 7373s | anything that helps with that if you |
| 7375s | want like the four damage is is nowhere |
| 7377s | near as good in this matchup I didn't |
| 7379s | see what was taken I like the graveyard |
| 7380s | shift because it's just four Divine CLG |
| 7382s | truck |
| 7383s | yeah that's I think you go one of two |
| 7385s | ways right you either try and have a big |
| 7387s | thing to beat up a big thing on the |
| 7389s | other side or you go wide to be able to |
| 7391s | do things like Divine Shields kill the |
| 7393s | recruit so either one of those I think |
| 7395s | is a fantastic choice the other the |
| 7397s | other thing he could have done is take |
| 7398s | dark if he thinks he's a long way in |
| 7400s | front which we do |
| 7401s | you take dark transformation |
| 7404s | because the only thing that beats you is |
| 7406s | like if he gets a 12 12 Divine Shield |
| 7408s | thing from this weapon and then you just |
| 7409s | transform it into a four or five and |
| 7410s | saying yeah you're four or five style |
| 7413s | doesn't bother me I'm fine |
| 7418s | because we did get transformation we did |
| 7422s | yeah and this is the uh it's the sort of |
| 7425s | immediate Tempo game option or style uh |
| 7428s | with this one let's just say well now |
| 7430s | there's two four fours on the board what |
| 7432s | does Paladin even play |
| 7435s | I wouldn't even hate the kill on the one |
| 7437s | one here even though it's a horrible |
| 7438s | trade from an aggro player but just just |
| 7441s | don't let him have many without minions |
| 7443s | they've got nothing |
| 7444s | yeah it takes the weapon away from them |
| 7449s | yeah and now we're in but some of your |
| 7451s | cards don't do anything after turn two |
| 7453s | mode |
| 7457s | as well as being sort of pushed off the |
| 7460s | board he's actually snuck down to 15 |
| 7463s | Health after this attack as well |
| 7472s | job's done |
| 7474s | oh there's actually a |
| 7476s | potentially good school teacher |
| 7478s | follow-up here right |
| 7480s | yep |
| 7484s | anybody |
| 7487s | again picked so fast I didn't even see I |
| 7490s | didn't see it |
| 7494s | and I didn't really process what the |
| 7496s | good option was either in time so I |
| 7497s | really haven't got a clue |
| 7498s | [Music] |
| 7506s | okay sure that just gets rid of it |
| 7507s | that's absolutely fine |
| 7514s | yeah not rushing either it's fine |
| 7521s | and now every turn that me smiled |
| 7523s | doesn't get those light rays down |
| 7526s | he's taking lethal damage every time he |
| 7528s | does get them down they're just going to |
| 7529s | get popped yeah they're gonna come down |
| 7531s | this turn right yeah this looks fine |
| 7534s | it's about as good it's going to be but |
| 7535s | I think now for Walter I'll just have to |
| 7538s | think right if I get through these |
| 7539s | libraries |
| 7540s | it's probably game because there's a |
| 7542s | whole turn of playing Countess yet right |
| 7545s | and Countess is yeah you know one of |
| 7547s | those you buy it it's basically a pass |
| 7551s | Pig |
| 7556s | Pagan hero power and things just gets |
| 7559s | through one of the light Bays yeah |
| 7567s | the other trades kind of suck though |
| 7575s | can actually retain the naggling right |
| 7577s | if arms dealers played |
| 7582s | uh |
| 7584s | uh yes |
| 7588s | it might not look like much but again |
| 7589s | just having more stuff on board than the |
| 7591s | Paladin is very very useful |
| 7598s | like again outside of weird Countess out |
| 7601s | face tanks and stuff against powered and |
| 7603s | if you're clearing the board is |
| 7604s | absolutely fine and it's what you said |
| 7606s | it's like well play your counters now I |
| 7607s | don't mind I win exactly so it's one of |
| 7610s | those cards that we've had a few times |
| 7611s | in Hearthstone where it's very very |
| 7613s | powerful but the playing of it is the |
| 7616s | hard bit because you have to just play |
| 7617s | basically a nothing card and pass and |
| 7619s | hope you don't die so Savannah hi main |
| 7622s | then yes Savannah highway for a new |
| 7625s | generation cost seven and generates |
| 7628s | three legendaries instead of two two |
| 7629s | hyenas you know okay yeah |
| 7632s | [Music] |
| 7635s | remember this day for you are braced |
| 7639s | with my presence |
| 7641s | I was gonna say just words I was there |
| 7646s | thinking |
| 7647s | well I know how Countess works |
| 7649s | I can add up these trades and that does |
| 7652s | not look like there's a way to deal with |
| 7654s | this it's a world are going to take a |
| 7655s | victory over the Paladin and I think yes |
| 7658s | it was you know the Frost death knight |
| 7660s | versus the Paladin but I think just what |
| 7662s | we were talking about was just a very |
| 7664s | accurately displayed on screen there |
| 7666s | where the Paladin didn't get mega ahead |
| 7670s | so it lost right that's kind of just the |
| 7672s | way it goes it got pushed off board |
| 7674s | enough uh for pounding not to really be |
| 7676s | relevant there and that might be what |
| 7679s | the rest of the series looks like |
| 7680s | because in this format you have to win |
| 7682s | with all of your decks which means be |
| 7684s | smart has to get that Paladin across the |
| 7686s | line and we saw even though the opening |
| 7688s | was fine Waldo's opening was pretty |
| 7690s | decent too and again it was just enough |
| 7693s | right just push these small minions off |
| 7695s | the board I did really like the kind of |
| 7697s | just go to the chipping ball the early |
| 7699s | run it's just gave him options yeah |
| 7701s | forward and it was just fine and like |
| 7702s | when you turn five on loud and even with |
| 7705s | the weapon swing is this it's a big |
| 7707s | problem and I think the actual frenzy |
| 7708s | from Walder was probably the the final |
| 7711s | nail in the coffee and being able to |
| 7712s | just bat aside that time and still |
| 7714s | retain forward control was huge |
| 7717s | yeah every new set I get terrified the |
| 7720s | Paladin will get just a little toy that |
| 7723s | tweaks it a small amount better because |
| 7727s | that would just be the most murderous |
| 7728s | deck in the history if it ever gets that |
| 7730s | I don't know what that small toy would |
| 7731s | be but just yeah |
| 7733s | something tiny that just happens to keep |
| 7735s | it all together keeps you on board one |
| 7737s | extra turn and Paladin would be |
| 7738s | Unstoppable by everything it'll be |
| 7740s | simple right it would be kind of the |
| 7742s | Life part in her cultist and minion that |
| 7744s | deals or you know I can clear other |
| 7746s | meals right yeah I think that would be a |
| 7748s | big deal because then they can just have |
| 7751s | get Tempo which in board control which |
| 7752s | is what you need while still playing |
| 7754s | minions because you go back in the days |
| 7756s | of like oh if you're in an aggro matchup |
| 7758s | you can equality consecrate we both |
| 7760s | right but you've just spent all the |
| 7762s | amount of clearing the board and then |
| 7763s | your opponent just plays more stuff you |
| 7765s | know like so |
| 7766s | um I need something crazy like that and |
| 7768s | maybe oh it's good that they don't have |
| 7770s | that as you said but we are going to go |
| 7771s | into maybe the final game of this series |
| 7774s | uh world are going to be rocking the |
| 7775s | road because his last deck me smile |
| 7777s | jumping over to the death knight |
| 7780s | and same deal we've got to say a lot |
| 7782s | about we're going to see a lot of this |
| 7783s | Frost deck today I think |
| 7785s | um |
| 7788s | this feels tough for the road for me |
| 7790s | because the early damage is going to |
| 7792s | come in the egg is an annoyance for |
| 7794s | stuff like bone Spike and |
| 7797s | you still have that I freeze your ghost |
| 7800s | I freeze your ghost I freeze your ghost |
| 7803s | thing when you get to turn six seven |
| 7804s | eight uh you've inserted damage into |
| 7808s | them if or you've wasted their cards |
| 7810s | force them to clear up your stuff they |
| 7812s | have a pop-off turn yeah you might take |
| 7814s | eight from their eight eight ghost then |
| 7815s | you just start freezing it it's a tough |
| 7818s | one it's not quite that simple obviously |
| 7820s | um if the Rogue does have a pop-off on |
| 7822s | turn two or turn three they have every |
| 7825s | chance |
| 7826s | but |
| 7828s | the basic bit of you make a big thing it |
| 7830s | gets frozen is is very scary for the |
| 7833s | Rogue |
| 7836s | hey though me smile has a pretty nice |
| 7838s | opening with this egg and getting his |
| 7840s | arms dealer down right again you always |
| 7842s | feel a little bit weird about just |
| 7844s | playing arms dealing with this because |
| 7846s | it's so killable by the Rogue but you |
| 7850s | still want to get that pressure down |
| 7851s | yeah |
| 7852s | [Music] |
| 7854s | yeah there's some worlds here where |
| 7855s | you're just giving your opponent a |
| 7857s | complete clear and a seven seven |
| 7859s | but if you don't play the cards you've |
| 7861s | brought with you why are you playing |
| 7865s | it's something you talked about |
| 7867s | yesterday it's like you just have to do |
| 7869s | your game plan and I hope they don't |
| 7870s | have the 100 |
| 7874s | actually quite like coin here |
| 7879s | okay |
| 7881s | because there's still uh skeletal and |
| 7884s | cultist that has a like easy finale |
| 7886s | right with the cultist |
| 7888s | yeah so why not just coin this out |
| 7890s | utilize the coin there's nothing bigger |
| 7892s | in hand to waiting for that coin to be |
| 7894s | used so to just get the sorry now |
| 7898s | yeah and outside of you know |
| 7901s | it's not a meme but outside of the small |
| 7903s | amount of heel that Rogue has Rogue |
| 7904s | doesn't have any heel we yeah we don't |
| 7907s | we don't care about clergies in these |
| 7909s | parts |
| 7910s | so the damage is permanent |
| 7911s | [Music] |
| 7920s | never draw four when you want it is it |
| 7923s | [Music] |
| 7924s | oh my |
| 7926s | trick is to not want it and then you'll |
| 7928s | get it offered and then you'll get it |
| 7929s | yeah and then you have a car you only |
| 7931s | ever get it you've got nine cards in |
| 7933s | your hand already which is fine because |
| 7934s | that means you've got nine cards in your |
| 7935s | hand already so |
| 7937s | is it hazytown |
| 7944s | test our knowledge of all the |
| 7945s | Hearthstone cards ever made |
| 7947s | [Music] |
| 7957s | this is such a pain like look how many |
| 7959s | resources |
| 7961s | still getting Damage Done you know what |
| 7963s | that's how strong the card is well the |
| 7965s | strength of the card ghost is gonna come |
| 7967s | down there and be a little bit annoying |
| 7969s | but only a little bit like I said |
| 7970s | earlier there's uh oh even more options |
| 7972s | now |
| 7974s | yeah I think so this is something that |
| 7976s | um subtle and I were talking about last |
| 7977s | night in in me smells final series of |
| 7979s | the day |
| 7980s | is such a hard card to know when to play |
| 7983s | because |
| 7985s | people like me are just gonna jam it on |
| 7987s | curb because it's blowing nicely and it |
| 7990s | does a thing that's really powerful but |
| 7992s | sometimes you need that when they make |
| 7994s | their second ghost alongside a five home |
| 7996s | and you just freeze them out and kill |
| 7998s | them or yeah you'd rather develop your |
| 8000s | board and fight yeah |
| 8001s | I actually like they look like psychic |
| 8003s | and uh Frost strike here honestly yeah |
| 8010s | as you said hold them out of menethil |
| 8013s | and I just drop a cultist |
| 8016s | cook your own egg |
| 8018s | the graveyard's not open next turn which |
| 8021s | means if you do have Minions on board |
| 8023s | you're not inviting the Rogue to clear |
| 8024s | it and make a big thing is kind of nice |
| 8030s | standard 13 Raven |
| 8034s | yeah leaving the the ghost as well |
| 8036s | it's turned four |
| 8039s | yeah Frost DK doesn't mess around |
| 8043s | I'm just getting him |
| 8046s | the problem is how much of this you'll |
| 8049s | understand what I mean even though it |
| 8050s | sounds stupid but how much of this even |
| 8052s | matters because for me of course |
| 8054s | moosebound needs to win a game with each |
| 8056s | deck but the Paladin's the big question |
| 8058s | mark is compiled and deal with this |
| 8060s | Rogue I mean it's not 90 so you go for |
| 8065s | it right you you just leave it till last |
| 8067s | hope that something happens to your |
| 8069s | opponent's internet connection I don't |
| 8072s | know like |
| 8076s | you've got to go for it you've got to |
| 8077s | play each game as they come and hope you |
| 8078s | win the unfavors unfavorables have been |
| 8080s | one time and time again in Hearthstone |
| 8083s | there's always a thing on your side |
| 8084s | where how many people prepped hard |
| 8088s | against a calendar okay Walden will have |
| 8089s | overnight because he knew his opponent |
| 8091s | today I guess |
| 8093s | for some parts of the tournament yeah |
| 8094s | you're going to play with matchup you |
| 8096s | know the matchup better because you |
| 8097s | brought it for a reason and you knew you |
| 8099s | were bringing it |
| 8101s | so sometimes |
| 8103s | because this gets some people down now |
| 8106s | and then um does have it for the uh the |
| 8109s | extra bonus next turn as well |
| 8112s | next turn |
| 8115s | but yeah |
| 8118s | there will be a next turn but there |
| 8120s | might not be one after that Raven |
| 8122s | lethal's represented on board one Mana |
| 8124s | heals six into Shadow step one Mana heal |
| 8126s | six okay |
| 8130s | I'm not saying it's gonna win wall to |
| 8131s | the game but the game's not over true |
| 8135s | oh second since though |
| 8140s | yeah this is the situation that um |
| 8144s | is why Menthol was difficult it wasn't |
| 8146s | difficult because you put your opponent |
| 8147s | to seven and hit number seven and force |
| 8149s | them to spend their shallow steps on |
| 8150s | there they're healing McGee but |
| 8157s | no situation with him but might have |
| 8159s | been awkward |
| 8165s | like zero manner how easy to try and |
| 8167s | save the day and make a huge board |
| 8170s | it's one turned crucially between before |
| 8173s | first worms Fury so make a huge board |
| 8175s | now gets one one big hit in |
| 8183s | with caressia's blessing I will find the |
| 8186s | truth |
| 8188s | quite a lot of stuff to be fair and a |
| 8191s | lot of help like I said back up to 19. |
| 8193s | we can see of course double Frost strike |
| 8195s | isn't gonna |
| 8196s | achieve too much |
| 8198s | in terms of damage obviously no Raven |
| 8200s | wins the argument again I'm disappointed |
| 8202s | in myself |
| 8205s | I'll never live it down Raven hmm |
| 8208s | and again you spoke about those |
| 8210s | something you did bring up the might of |
| 8212s | Mayfield timing right yes it froze out a |
| 8214s | ghost I'm not saying me smile did |
| 8215s | anything wrong I imagine if it was |
| 8217s | turned right right so deadly the impact |
| 8221s | of that weapon that's what you were |
| 8222s | talking about right the weapon isn't |
| 8224s | just oh just play it in swing face right |
| 8226s | yes because it has such a strong |
| 8228s | additional side effect |
| 8231s | but the thing that's hard about the deck |
| 8233s | is but sometimes it is played in swing |
| 8236s | face exactly exactly I mean it's eight |
| 8238s | damage of course you want to do it right |
| 8240s | yeah and you've got another one and |
| 8242s | you've got other freeze effects later |
| 8243s | but again as you've just made the point |
| 8245s | like God he'd love to be able to equip |
| 8247s | it now |
| 8249s | now weirdly enough it's like is this egg |
| 8253s | going into the like the pericos yeah |
| 8257s | okay gonna hear a power to do this |
| 8259s | I didn't know whether me smile wanted |
| 8261s | the Mana three |
| 8266s | marrow doesn't get there does it no |
| 8268s | Prime fact okay so we start just taking |
| 8271s | the guaranteed damage it's of course the |
| 8273s | marrow as you just mentioned can can and |
| 8276s | will most likely hit minions |
| 8283s | oh potion belt uh he doesn't have a |
| 8287s | banked Alchemist right now though |
| 8289s | because he used it on the |
| 8292s | the hazy concoction last turn |
| 8295s | and to make the huge ghost it was fine |
| 8297s | still a good amount of Mana though and |
| 8298s | also there's because with the bone Spike |
| 8301s | this is an easy trade right if he wants |
| 8303s | to |
| 8304s | yep because he I imagine Waldo will not |
| 8307s | enjoy making more damage from this egg |
| 8310s | this one's interesting |
| 8312s | like do you want do you want the hazy |
| 8314s | that you're gonna have one Mana to spend |
| 8316s | or |
| 8318s | do you want the slimy and guarantee of |
| 8320s | three drop |
| 8321s | yeah I think I would have just gone for |
| 8323s | the minion personally because for me |
| 8324s | it's just anything I'll do at this point |
| 8326s | because Walden needs to |
| 8328s | dramatically accelerate the game plan |
| 8330s | right |
| 8331s | I think you're like 70 or something |
| 8333s | crazy to be able to play this card |
| 8334s | though |
| 8337s | because they're four drops |
| 8341s | wow that is a problem |
| 8344s | any Furies any any Fury fans |
| 8349s | oh my I mean that's surely |
| 8353s | no frostworms fiori |
| 8357s | and I think that's just done it for |
| 8359s | Walder wow that was looking so good for |
| 8362s | me smile but it just wasn't quite enough |
| 8364s | to get over the line and look at that |
| 8366s | just an army of taunts standing in the |
| 8368s | way and don't get me wrong because I'm |
| 8371s | negative but like it's like punished me |
| 8372s | smells weapon choice now right because |
| 8374s | means I picked a weapon to guarantee |
| 8377s | face damage and then suddenly three |
| 8379s | taunts just chill yeah they weren't |
| 8382s | great options right yeah oh no it was |
| 8384s | another Mario |
| 8387s | yeah and there we go just like that |
| 8389s | Walter takes the game and moves on huge |
| 8393s | congratulations to him and unfortunate |
| 8395s | there for me smile but and what a |
| 8397s | victory there and again and for me at |
| 8398s | least Lorinda Walter definitely one of |
| 8401s | the the Dark Horses of the tournament |
| 8402s | suddenly looking at a top four spot |
| 8404s | gonna make it to the semi-finals at an |
| 8406s | absolute worst now so super impressive |
| 8409s | there I think uh Walter's lineup is very |
| 8412s | good again |
| 8413s | um the Druid seems to be doing well |
| 8416s | enough we've just cast in top eight two |
| 8418s | Druid players so druid's doing something |
| 8420s | right and then of course the outcast |
| 8422s | Rogue DK ticking those boxes so yeah |
| 8425s | really cool series then I think uh |
| 8426s | Walder although doing nothing |
| 8428s | mind-blowing just playing very very |
| 8431s | solid indeed yeah I want to highlight |
| 8433s | two things about welder I mentioned it |
| 8434s | briefly at the start but we have people |
| 8436s | joining all the time he was rank one |
| 8438s | Legend in Europe last season which is |
| 8442s | probably one of the toughest seasons in |
| 8444s | a very long time in ladder in the |
| 8447s | toughest region because that's the way |
| 8448s | everyone's battling for points and he |
| 8451s | qualified in one of the Natural Four |
| 8453s | slots each region has four slots to |
| 8456s | qualify in Europe took the four extra |
| 8458s | slots for the people with the most |
| 8460s | points like all of them as we do world |
| 8462s | are qualified in the natural slot he was |
| 8464s | the fourth qualifier for Europe so we're |
| 8466s | saying he's a bit of an unknown quantity |
| 8468s | which which he is we haven't seen him |
| 8469s | that much on stream before and but rank |
| 8472s | one Legend and did it |
| 8474s | without the bonus slots he's he's good |
| 8476s | yeah and of course like I say by Dark |
| 8478s | Horse I mean in comparison to some of |
| 8480s | the other players in this tournament the |
| 8482s | likes of yala for example right you know |
| 8484s | he plays Red fam next you know everyone |
| 8486s | knows who Rick bam is yeah exactly |
| 8488s | regardless we've got plenty more |
| 8490s | Hearthstone coming up for you guys |
| 8492s | throughout the day we are going to go to |
| 8493s | a quick break while we get the next |
| 8494s | match ready so don't go anywhere we'll |
| 8496s | be right back |
| 8498s | nine |
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| 8778s | outside |
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| 8869s | thank you |
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| 8891s | Hello everybody welcome back to the |
| 8892s | Hearthstone Masters Tour spring |
| 8894s | Championship my name is TJ I'm joined |
| 8896s | for this next quarterfinal |
| 8898s | by saddle hey sottle |
| 8901s | wow sudden the air of disappointment |
| 8903s | flooded your voice when you have to say |
| 8905s | my name honestly so much enthusiasm |
| 8908s | you're bringing the hype and am I gonna |
| 8909s | guess Souls here as well |
| 8913s | that was the air of a of a gentle |
| 8917s | of a gentle soul |
| 8919s | that's what you are subtle yeah thanks I |
| 8922s | appreciate it |
| 8923s | just a gentle being existing in |
| 8926s | soddle's ethereal world |
| 8930s | petting cats and enjoying games |
| 8935s | criticizing Hearthstone players and |
| 8938s | football players yep just such a gentle |
| 8941s | world soddle what do we got going on |
| 8944s | right now you did just describe my ideal |
| 8946s | day which is you know me very well TJ |
| 8948s | but we are looking for an ideal day for |
| 8950s | one of these eight players two |
| 8952s | progressed halfway there at least we're |
| 8954s | halfway through quarterfinals requam and |
| 8956s | volda making it uh through to top four |
| 8958s | at the very least we have two more |
| 8959s | quarterfinals to play out uh starting |
| 8962s | with the gamer RPG versus levik which is |
| 8965s | the match of that me and TJ will be |
| 8968s | covering uh followed up by Hemlock |
| 8970s | versus pocket train uh good performances |
| 8973s | so far I think for both of the players |
| 8974s | that have gone through Casey versus |
| 8976s | wreck band I think it's a very cool |
| 8977s | series indeed I think this one could be |
| 8980s | a really really high level game a series |
| 8983s | of hearthstone Levick has been |
| 8985s | incredibly impressive since we've really |
| 8988s | started to see him get a great deal of |
| 8989s | camera time and game RPG honestly has |
| 8992s | had that kind of uh banterface style |
| 8994s | rise to fame right where you come into |
| 8996s | the Americas region no one's really sure |
| 8999s | whether you're actually good at |
| 9000s | Hearthstone because you're playing in |
| 9001s | the Americas region |
| 9003s | I told you to keep it clean here subtle |
| 9007s | um but I think gamer RPG has really |
| 9009s | started to make a name for himself now |
| 9011s | really part of the core practice group |
| 9013s | of the Americas players who really are |
| 9015s | on a very high level with uh some of the |
| 9017s | best players in the world and I think |
| 9019s | it's so far put a very strong |
| 9020s | performance in this tournament as well |
| 9022s | yeah Last Hope of the Americas as a |
| 9025s | region left in the tournament with me |
| 9026s | smile uh going out in that last series |
| 9029s | uh still you know top eight but uh all |
| 9033s | the hopes rest on the shoulders |
| 9036s | of gamer rvg still in the same spot oh |
| 9039s | it brings me back I miss it from when |
| 9041s | gamer RPG was in America's grandmaster's |
| 9043s | plan from the bottom bunk of the bunk |
| 9046s | bed |
| 9047s | it is demon cave yeah |
| 9052s | um but yeah we're gonna be uh rolling |
| 9054s | through some of the decklists here for |
| 9056s | game RPG it's uh you know what this is I |
| 9059s | think it's close to standard I guess |
| 9062s | within the top eight I think this lineup |
| 9065s | in particular uh as four decks is the |
| 9067s | most common four decks represented in |
| 9069s | the top eight which is Frost death |
| 9071s | knight Relic Demon Hunter uh the shadow |
| 9073s | Undead priest uh and the Miracle Rogue |
| 9076s | um and levix got some different stuff |
| 9079s | going on uh we actually have uh for one |
| 9083s | well not one of the first times because |
| 9084s | I think the last series was pretty |
| 9086s | diverse as well but three completely |
| 9088s | different decks |
| 9089s | um coming from uh Levick side they only |
| 9092s | share one archetype in common which is |
| 9094s | the Rogue |
| 9095s | yeah Rogue on both sides uh two |
| 9098s | different demon Hunters one being |
| 9099s | Outcast one being Relic Levick being on |
| 9102s | the outcast Demon Hunter specifically uh |
| 9105s | you can see some of levick's route to |
| 9106s | get here which I think it's fair to say |
| 9109s | Levick had one of the more arduous |
| 9110s | routes to make it to this point um |
| 9112s | because of that inclusion in his lineup |
| 9115s | specifically the blood DK kind of |
| 9117s | stretched out his series to a length |
| 9120s | that not on many other players had to |
| 9122s | deal with which made his route through |
| 9124s | yesterday feel like more of a grind and |
| 9126s | I don't know if we will see the absolute |
| 9128s | winning moment where Levitt qualified |
| 9130s | now you just started to see it there but |
| 9131s | then we had a close-up shot of Levick |
| 9133s | where he was just collapsed backwards |
| 9136s | exhausted in his own chair after the |
| 9138s | length of the couple of series that he'd |
| 9140s | had to play so I whether we're in for |
| 9142s | that again remains to be seen But there |
| 9144s | is the main culprit for that I would say |
| 9146s | the uh the blood death knight that |
| 9148s | Levick relied on to get himself through |
| 9149s | yesterday |
| 9150s | yeah it is the 30 card blood death |
| 9153s | knight uh none of the the fancy stuff |
| 9155s | just straight up consistent consistently |
| 9159s | refined uh finding the you know natural |
| 9161s | copies of vampiric blood of the removal |
| 9165s | um so let's see if we can get the job |
| 9167s | done but taking a look at some of the |
| 9169s | other decks has the miracle Rogue which |
| 9171s | is present in all eight players lineups |
| 9173s | uh that are in the top eight so every |
| 9174s | player remains does have it pretty |
| 9176s | standard version top end is uh well no |
| 9179s | not standard version no Queen ashara |
| 9180s | does have to kravatoa in there but the |
| 9183s | sun Fury clergy is the tech there as we |
| 9186s | saw at the end of the last series coming |
| 9187s | in clutch for Wilder |
| 9189s | yeah some Fury clergy I think has been a |
| 9191s | very smart addition for the people that |
| 9193s | have brought Rogue I think there was a |
| 9195s | little bit of fear of the burn based X |
| 9198s | um particularly the frost DK right on |
| 9201s | the other side which is the matchup we |
| 9202s | saw it specifically have a big impact in |
| 9204s | in the series previous but just |
| 9207s | generally as a bit of extra security |
| 9208s | against aggro and a bit of extra |
| 9210s | security against say bird Mages and |
| 9212s | frost Decay that ability to pair any |
| 9215s | powerful Battle Cry like that with the |
| 9217s | card Shadow step that you have in your |
| 9218s | deck and then shadow of demise on top of |
| 9220s | that as well it's just another great |
| 9222s | high value Target to get repeated value |
| 9224s | out of not a universally strong card |
| 9227s | there will be some meta games where it's |
| 9229s | entirely useless but I think the people |
| 9232s | who have included it which has been a |
| 9233s | large number of people have prepped for |
| 9235s | the right meta game coming into this |
| 9237s | tournament because we've seen it on |
| 9239s | multiple occasions just being super |
| 9241s | super clutch for for health stability |
| 9243s | for Road |
| 9244s | yeah it it has been and uh one of the |
| 9247s | other uh cards that I want to call out |
| 9249s | in terms of tech cards is the hawk |
| 9251s | Strider rancher in the outcast Demon |
| 9253s | Hunter |
| 9255s | um so I I it's sort of a tough card to |
| 9259s | judge because it actually hurt Lubbock a |
| 9262s | lot in one of the series you played |
| 9263s | because he was against the Frost death |
| 9264s | knife yeah and the Hawks trying to |
| 9267s | Rancher was board locking him so he |
| 9268s | couldn't play like most of the cards in |
| 9271s | his hand because they kept getting |
| 9273s | Frozen and even with the like trades on |
| 9275s | the board it was still replacing the |
| 9276s | minion with itself with the one one so |
| 9280s | um but it is an interesting card when |
| 9282s | you're playing a bunch of minions in the |
| 9284s | same turn with Hawk strata Rancher it |
| 9286s | just UPS your power level increases your |
| 9288s | uh stability with |
| 9291s | um avoiding like Mass AOE removal and |
| 9295s | gives you Minions on board to be able to |
| 9297s | capitalize with like how various so |
| 9299s | we'll see but right off the bat we're |
| 9301s | gonna get a uh death knight mirror match |
| 9303s | however it's the Frost death knight for |
| 9305s | gamer RPG who looks tired and it's just |
| 9310s | we just started |
| 9311s | um and loving playing the blood DK |
| 9315s | yeah I do wonder you know how much |
| 9317s | homework people will have put into this |
| 9319s | particular matchup against levix this is |
| 9322s | kind of one of the advantages that you |
| 9323s | get uh Levitt does do this a little bit |
| 9325s | and brings slightly Off the Wall lists |
| 9328s | or slightly different card inclusions |
| 9330s | than other people |
| 9332s | um I've seen levik or spoken to Levick |
| 9335s | sort of secondhand through a few stream |
| 9336s | chats or whatever and one of the things |
| 9337s | that often comes up is Levick is one of |
| 9339s | those people where even if everyone is |
| 9341s | playing the same list Levitt will go why |
| 9343s | don't we try this card in it and then |
| 9345s | just go away and do that right just some |
| 9346s | random card that pops into his head that |
| 9348s | might be good in a deck and he'll just |
| 9349s | go Jam like 20 games with that card in |
| 9351s | there and see if it was good so when you |
| 9353s | encounter that in a tournament scenario |
| 9355s | you as levik know all the match-ups with |
| 9358s | your weird decks and weird tech cards |
| 9360s | because you've played them a million |
| 9361s | times you as gamer rvg don't necessarily |
| 9364s | know anything about how to play against |
| 9366s | 30 card blood death knight or what |
| 9368s | hawkstrider Rancher does in Outcast |
| 9370s | Demon Hunter so the onus is then on you |
| 9372s | to have to put in the grind to test the |
| 9374s | matchups and find out exactly what |
| 9376s | strategies you're supposed to enact to |
| 9378s | get over the line |
| 9379s | [Music] |
| 9383s | I'm trying to think of an example but |
| 9385s | I'm coming at blank but he did it even |
| 9387s | like at Worlds so |
| 9392s | yeah levick's just that dude |
| 9394s | yep that's what he does just what he |
| 9397s | does |
| 9398s | um yikes |
| 9403s | yeah |
| 9405s | start pushing some damage |
| 9407s | uh levix just playing a vanilla two six |
| 9411s | next time have you noticed |
| 9413s | uh |
| 9417s | I I wouldn't even have been upset if |
| 9420s | Lubbock coined it last turn but I there |
| 9424s | is like manipulators that could come out |
| 9427s | but I think you're |
| 9428s | maybe okay with that considering the |
| 9431s | alternative is letting it deal a bunch |
| 9434s | of damage right from hand on on six |
| 9437s | right I'm I'm curious if it's going to |
| 9440s | be that or the hematurge uh has kept the |
| 9443s | options open with the uh tour guide |
| 9446s | played last turn |
| 9448s | um but it looks like that is just gonna |
| 9449s | be the amateurs |
| 9464s | in a weird way the fact your opponent |
| 9466s | hasn't curved out at all is uh kind of |
| 9469s | detracting you from the dirty rat line a |
| 9471s | little bit it's like you say it could be |
| 9472s | marrow manipulator is in hand or even |
| 9474s | this drawer right like if they just sat |
| 9475s | with a chill force balance Baron in |
| 9477s | their hands you kind of want them to |
| 9479s | just pay the Mana for doing that right |
| 9480s | like dirty rat not actually a |
| 9483s | particularly useful Tech card in this |
| 9485s | matchup there's no real minion based win |
| 9488s | condition that you can tear away marrow |
| 9490s | manipulator is kind of the closest to |
| 9491s | that I would say |
| 9493s | um but now with the extra security on |
| 9495s | board and having picked up heart strike |
| 9497s | on the previous turn uh levix ready for |
| 9500s | any eventuality that comes out of this |
| 9502s | dirty route on this turn I think which |
| 9504s | makes a big difference from last turn |
| 9506s | yeah unfortunately there's going to be |
| 9507s | another chill falling bear in which I |
| 9509s | think game RPG will be pretty |
| 9511s | pretty happy about you get one less draw |
| 9514s | but |
| 9516s | you don't have to spin the three Mana |
| 9518s | exactly yeah |
| 9519s | so |
| 9521s | um but pretty much pigeonholed into the |
| 9524s | mind of meta film next turn unless |
| 9525s | something's picked up but I don't know |
| 9527s | if anything will |
| 9529s | change this because it actually does |
| 9530s | line up |
| 9531s | reasonably on the board Frost strike |
| 9534s | could be |
| 9536s | your power or trade see what it is if |
| 9540s | nothing hero power Frost strike on the |
| 9541s | dirty rat so that way the might of |
| 9543s | midith Hill can actually start hitting |
| 9545s | face yeah I don't think you're ever |
| 9546s | delighted to be equipping my menethil |
| 9549s | and then attacking a minion with it |
| 9550s | right it's not really what the card is |
| 9552s | designed to do |
| 9555s | but I think whatever you do it does |
| 9557s | start with this trade |
| 9560s | huh |
| 9565s | well if you're going to be spending |
| 9568s | Corpses |
| 9569s | on the might of menethil I can imagine |
| 9572s | that a hero power Frost strike feels |
| 9574s | pretty good here because you also get |
| 9576s | one additional corpse loaded up so that |
| 9578s | way yes |
| 9579s | uh mirror manipulator can maybe even |
| 9581s | come down first if you can find |
| 9582s | something to fill the turf next turn or |
| 9584s | get the swings from the Bone Breaker out |
| 9587s | of the way so yeah I think the hero |
| 9589s | power Frost track makes sense |
| 9598s | ooh |
| 9602s | Syrian is something to do next turn |
| 9604s | which I think is very much the business |
| 9606s | gamer rvg is in it's also another couple |
| 9607s | of corpses which goes very nicely with |
| 9610s | the two cards in hand the gamer RBG is |
| 9612s | gonna have to use to kill his opponent |
| 9614s | at this point |
| 9616s | subtle |
| 9617s | harmonic metal you wait for it to swap |
| 9620s | to two minions and then you nail the no |
| 9622s | muncher |
| 9624s | yep oh wait does it swap or is it stay |
| 9627s | safe |
| 9628s | you're just gonna apply it to get the |
| 9630s | buff anyway yeah still fine if you pick |
| 9634s | up a minion off the top you get more |
| 9636s | Buffs so |
| 9637s | not too shabby |
| 9644s | spawnbreaker the school teacher |
| 9647s | who cares about damage |
| 9652s | who cares about taking damage I should |
| 9653s | say everybody cares about damage |
| 9660s | oh yeah |
| 9663s | oh yeah |
| 9671s | clean |
| 9674s | vampiric blood first I would imagine |
| 9676s | again looking for another Minion to buff |
| 9678s | with the darkling |
| 9681s | if at all possible doesn't find it |
| 9686s | but the living cannot |
| 9688s | yeah it gets that |
| 9690s | uh do you want to discover an undead or |
| 9692s | a Naga |
| 9698s | probably Undead right |
| 9700s | I would imagine |
| 9702s | I don't know |
| 9704s | okay screaming bitching yep nope that's |
| 9706s | pretty good |
| 9707s | that's the one |
| 9708s | yep |
| 9713s | posic |
| 9716s | actually pausing |
| 9718s | with a frost strike here and then attack |
| 9720s | on the amalgam isn't terrible |
| 9723s | [Music] |
| 9726s | yeah that looks decent |
| 9728s | [Music] |
| 9731s | I guess you'd see obviously what's in |
| 9732s | the frost Trek first |
| 9735s | but it would sort of force Levick into a |
| 9738s | position where |
| 9740s | you have the decision to play the three |
| 9743s | threes going into a potential frostworm |
| 9745s | Fury turn and having them Frozen up yeah |
| 9747s | I also like a lot because so the way |
| 9749s | levix deck works the the third card |
| 9752s | version is is actually kind of a curved |
| 9754s | deck right he just wants to play Minions |
| 9756s | on curve on most turns until he gets to |
| 9758s | the the hyper late game he really really |
| 9761s | wants to just slam no muncher on six a |
| 9763s | lot of the time with this deck right |
| 9764s | which he can't really do if you just |
| 9766s | play positive on curve it's a pretty |
| 9768s | terrible play at that point |
| 9772s | well you're still playing Minions on |
| 9773s | curve |
| 9779s | got him |
| 9785s | see boom perfect oh yeah just play the |
| 9788s | two three threes |
| 9789s | it's playing Minions on curves yeah no I |
| 9792s | mean that is true but also significantly |
| 9794s | worse than just jamming a no punch |
| 9801s | I actually took the Colossal there |
| 9803s | [Music] |
| 9807s | I was thinking it was going to be a big |
| 9809s | old fridge but |
| 9814s | just for like resource |
| 9817s | yeah potential yeah |
| 9822s | because right now the hand is like not |
| 9825s | bad right it's um but gonna start |
| 9828s | running out of things to do because this |
| 9830s | game is |
| 9831s | most likely going to go long |
| 9834s | um just because didn't have any type of |
| 9836s | early board stick it's gonna have to be |
| 9839s | consistent damage |
| 9845s | all cops is gone but good mechanical |
| 9847s | Knowledge from Levick the way corpse |
| 9849s | explosion Works obvious kind of by |
| 9852s | design it has to check for Resolutions |
| 9854s | between every proc of what it does |
| 9856s | because if any Minions on your side die |
| 9858s | that ticks up the corpse counter mid |
| 9861s | Activation so it has to check for death |
| 9863s | resolutions therefore it checks that the |
| 9865s | death rattle goes off and then continues |
| 9866s | to kill the three threes afterwards so |
| 9868s | Levick does get the full clear and as I |
| 9870s | was saying can now go back to doing what |
| 9872s | he wanted to do which is just playing |
| 9874s | Minions on him |
| 9876s | yep |
| 9878s | and colossal is actually going to be |
| 9880s | pretty big here to be quite honest uh |
| 9883s | limits the healing and you get to push |
| 9886s | at least through the healing of the the |
| 9888s | one hit that's gonna happen uh into the |
| 9890s | no muncher |
| 9893s | uh with the centragosa so you still get |
| 9895s | to push the eight afterwards so so |
| 9898s | putting Levick down to 21 which uh |
| 9902s | you know there's uh no muncher Death |
| 9904s | Strike |
| 9907s | all lifesteal cards in hand |
| 9913s | the more I look at this deck from |
| 9914s | leather the more I do Wonder |
| 9918s | why people are making their decks so |
| 9921s | much worse for the sake of five extra |
| 9922s | Health when you can just draw vampiric |
| 9925s | blood more consistently anyway do you |
| 9927s | know I mean like that immediately |
| 9928s | eclipses all advantage that you had in |
| 9930s | the first place it seems strange when |
| 9932s | you frame it like that as to why this is |
| 9934s | even a 40 card deck to begin with |
| 9937s | people just like to have |
| 9940s | 75 Max health |
| 9951s | it still fits in like the important |
| 9953s | stuff too it's like |
| 9955s | yeah I think like what are you in the 10 |
| 9958s | extra cards yes |
| 9960s | probably the best card you're not |
| 9962s | playing outside of that I don't really |
| 9964s | care about any of the other cards you've |
| 9966s | cut from them |
| 9972s | start getting these weapon swings in |
| 9974s | here I suppose |
| 9976s | because it's just like it's just like |
| 9978s | body bagger right and all the little |
| 9980s | filler nonsense cards that you don't |
| 9982s | actually oh yeah |
| 9985s | yeah you do maybe run into some curve |
| 9989s | problems like if you're not on the coin |
| 9990s | and you have a hematurg in hand |
| 9992s | bodybacker and the hematurg is sure yeah |
| 9994s | like you can't do that you can do tour |
| 9997s | guide TJ forbidden Tech |
| 10000s | coin hero power into hematouch |
| 10007s | nice |
| 10008s | soft someone literally did that to me |
| 10011s | I'm telling you people really want that |
| 10015s | those discovered vampiric Bloods like I |
| 10017s | need more and then you know they can't |
| 10020s | even play the vampire blood on curve |
| 10022s | because they use their one and only |
| 10024s | corpse that they coined for |
| 10031s | oh that's actually fits in perfectly |
| 10033s | because you can take out the cindergosa |
| 10035s | and the manipulator uh with these two |
| 10039s | hits get the likes you at the end of the |
| 10040s | turn |
| 10043s | back up to 17. |
| 10045s | back up to 17 still has another no |
| 10047s | muncher in place still has that |
| 10049s | screaming banshee |
| 10051s | which can come down once the health is |
| 10053s | already stabilized and absolutely locked |
| 10055s | the game out this is looking really good |
| 10057s | for levix DK so far |
| 10064s | so let's see here best draws in the deck |
| 10068s | for gamer RPG busier's probably are up |
| 10072s | there |
| 10073s | both natural uh bra strikes are gone I |
| 10077s | suppose school teacher could do |
| 10078s | something |
| 10080s | um a fridge overseer Frigidaire |
| 10091s | it's |
| 10096s | oh I know that face I know that face |
| 10099s | from gamer rvg that was I'm pretty sure |
| 10101s | the rope's about to appear and I have |
| 10103s | not yet thought of a single way to win |
| 10105s | this game of Arthur |
| 10112s | let's keep shipping |
| 10120s | guess what levick's gonna do TJ let's go |
| 10123s | places |
| 10125s | oh |
| 10133s | yeah even frostborn was Fury at this |
| 10134s | point would wouldn't be good enough to |
| 10136s | stop this no muncher she doesn't really |
| 10139s | achieve anything |
| 10140s | yeah just no muncher once you've lost |
| 10143s | board definitively as Frosty K is an |
| 10146s | absolute nightmare |
| 10155s | okay |
| 10157s | Blu-ray sure |
| 10159s | take it |
| 10168s | [Music] |
| 10172s | all right next turn uh Lubbock has the |
| 10175s | screaming banshee into vampiric blood |
| 10176s | which is nuts |
| 10180s | I've just noticed by the way have you |
| 10181s | seen levick's to-do list |
| 10186s | win yeah I just noticed that yeah |
| 10190s | he's doing great this is a great episode |
| 10192s | right now for being organized and |
| 10193s | setting clear goals because it seems to |
| 10195s | be working brilliantly |
| 10203s | I was about to say wait where did he |
| 10205s | post his to-do list did I miss something |
| 10209s | oh God I'll make it stop doesn't have |
| 10212s | enough I can't have enough corpses |
| 10214s | actually with uh some trades |
| 10218s | yeah yeah yeah yeah is this even correct |
| 10221s | I don't even like it's Facebook it's |
| 10223s | correct isn't it just better to ship the |
| 10225s | damage face I guess it doesn't matter |
| 10227s | you're putting what 23 damage in play |
| 10230s | anyway yeah yeah okay fine fine fine |
| 10232s | fine fine |
| 10237s | oh Rowdy fan ah so close |
| 10241s | only 21 damage off |
| 10246s | uh gamer rvg is all of us |
| 10250s | yep just straight up tapping out of that |
| 10253s | game and rightly so I think in the end |
| 10255s | but yeah I mean like I said it's been |
| 10258s | kind of a rocky road for Levick through |
| 10261s | to this point a bit of a mixed bag in |
| 10263s | terms of performance of his decks |
| 10265s | overall and with that uh the DK list in |
| 10267s | particular but it it looks really |
| 10269s | impressive when it gets into the the |
| 10271s | right spot the right match up right like |
| 10273s | very very consistent in what it's able |
| 10275s | to do every turn strong curve of minions |
| 10279s | um and just an incredible amount of |
| 10280s | sustain you know there was that moment |
| 10282s | we looked at you know three cards in |
| 10284s | hand from gamer rvg that all dealt |
| 10286s | damage and then four cards in hand for |
| 10288s | levig they're all healed for |
| 10289s | significantly more than any of the cards |
| 10291s | did damage it's gonna create some |
| 10293s | hopeless situations |
| 10296s | yeah I was just sort of brutal to watch |
| 10300s | um even without you're trying to like |
| 10302s | count like okay well |
| 10304s | even if my opponent doesn't heal at all |
| 10307s | I'm still like hurting a tiny bit for |
| 10308s | damage gotta |
| 10311s | nearly on curve it was on turn seven |
| 10312s | paired with a foul egg but a full 10 |
| 10315s | damage manipulator to the face and still |
| 10318s | ended the game with 30 Health like |
| 10320s | that's how insane uh the deck can be |
| 10323s | when uh when the stars align but that's |
| 10326s | also a big deal for Levick because you |
| 10328s | talked about it the blood Death Knight |
| 10330s | seems like it's been the deck that's |
| 10332s | struggling the most for Levick |
| 10333s | throughout the series we've been able to |
| 10335s | watch of his |
| 10336s | and now gets to just get that out of the |
| 10339s | way and and move on to one of these uh |
| 10343s | one of these other decks and it's also |
| 10344s | kind of crazy that |
| 10346s | obviously the vast majority of players |
| 10347s | in in the top eight have bras death |
| 10350s | knight and Relic Demon Hunter |
| 10352s | um in their lineups and those are the |
| 10354s | ones we sort of see cute first because |
| 10356s | those are the ones that we've seen |
| 10358s | winning the most often Lubbock doesn't |
| 10360s | have either of those so it's like well |
| 10363s | what do you turn to next you know all of |
| 10366s | his decks feel like |
| 10368s | um you know specifically geared towards |
| 10370s | some matchups with the exception of |
| 10372s | outcast Stephen Hunter but it's going to |
| 10374s | move over to the Rogues for this one |
| 10379s | and sticking with the frost Death Knight |
| 10381s | on gamer rvg side this is generally |
| 10384s | agreed upon to be a very very good |
| 10386s | matchup for the frost DK uh obviously |
| 10388s | we've talked about the impact of some |
| 10390s | Fury clergy and what that can mean and |
| 10393s | probably does gain in a percentage point |
| 10394s | or two for the Rogue in this matchup but |
| 10396s | uh generally the old uh the old idea of |
| 10399s | damage permanence against Rogue is one |
| 10402s | of the exploitable ways to consistently |
| 10405s | beat Rogue and has been for quite some |
| 10406s | time right they are very incapable of of |
| 10409s | stabilizing Health totals if you can |
| 10411s | just ignore what they're doing on board |
| 10413s | which is usually very impressive |
| 10416s | but uh often not good enough against |
| 10418s | freeze decks |
| 10425s | you keeping anything |
| 10428s | I was cheating if you say gamer yeah I |
| 10431s | mean Levick was always keeping potion |
| 10433s | Bell |
| 10434s | RBG I think it's got one of those hands |
| 10437s | that |
| 10438s | there's some cars like okay these are |
| 10440s | good cards I can hold on to them but I |
| 10441s | think against Rogue you want to very |
| 10443s | specifically be making that aggressive |
| 10445s | early board you want to be playing eggs |
| 10447s | buffing eggs playing Rowdy fans because |
| 10448s | if you can get through any chip damage |
| 10450s | it almost counts double against Rogue |
| 10452s | right because you put them under so much |
| 10454s | pressure then uh coming into their turns |
| 10456s | where they want to start playing |
| 10458s | locations and building up for their big |
| 10461s | miracle turns if you've already put four |
| 10463s | five six power in play by that point |
| 10464s | they take such a beating in the early |
| 10466s | terms |
| 10473s | the students actually |
| 10475s | surprisingly difficult |
| 10478s | um has the option to just hear a power |
| 10480s | trade could just play off curve and go |
| 10482s | with Bone Breaker which is what game |
| 10485s | barbecue is going to do |
| 10487s | um and it's just consistent pushing of |
| 10488s | damage I don't think you really want to |
| 10490s | leave that concoctor on board and just |
| 10491s | hear a pattern to trade off feels a |
| 10493s | little slow with what you're trying to |
| 10494s | do in the matchup yeah I agree |
| 10501s | so this will be paired with the Dreadful |
| 10504s | um |
| 10508s | could take pick damage and then next |
| 10511s | turn go put your side prep |
| 10514s | foreign |
| 10516s | to keep a board clear yeah get back if |
| 10520s | you kill two minutes with it which |
| 10522s | you're very likely to you get back |
| 10524s | basically the Up full concoction's worth |
| 10525s | let's go pig face |
| 10531s | less about TJ uh gamer rvg's turn |
| 10534s | um |
| 10536s | oh yeah you play the pig and you go face |
| 10537s | right that makes sense |
| 10544s | so funny thank you thank you blows me |
| 10548s | away thank you |
| 10553s | was really funny today |
| 10559s | and today is going to be one of those |
| 10560s | days |
| 10574s | um |
| 10575s | awkward isn't it yeah I want a busier |
| 10579s | because it's it's glowing orange yeah |
| 10582s | then you leave the future Side Up in |
| 10584s | some situations |
| 10586s | uh you could hit with Bone Breaker and |
| 10589s | frost strike |
| 10590s | and see what happens |
| 10598s | here power Frost strike and hold on to |
| 10601s | the weapon swing God it's orange I mean |
| 10603s | come on |
| 10614s | I mean |
| 10616s | defrost you can use right now it's free |
| 10618s | but you need to kill the future side |
| 10620s | yeah I mean that's the big question |
| 10622s | right is do you need to kill the huge |
| 10624s | inside it was glacial Advance or it |
| 10625s | wasn't dying and the big question is how |
| 10627s | much that actually hurts you and I don't |
| 10630s | think gamer rbg's hand is necessarily |
| 10632s | good enough |
| 10634s | that he can because sometimes against |
| 10635s | Rogue you can say spend three as many |
| 10637s | iterations of three mana on as many |
| 10640s | concoctions as you want that's too slow |
| 10641s | it's not gonna beefy but I don't think |
| 10643s | RPG has that hand right I think he is |
| 10645s | gonna have to respect the uh the power |
| 10647s | of those concoctions yeah |
| 10653s | oh it's a slow hand |
| 10655s | s |
| 10655s | and there's so many weird turns like |
| 10659s | I I I would want to just smack this |
| 10662s | concoctor and play something like |
| 10664s | proactive |
| 10666s | but |
| 10667s | if you like smack it and then play |
| 10669s | Mighty menethil then you don't have any |
| 10671s | corpses for manipulator on curve |
| 10673s | you could just Frost strike and hold |
| 10675s | your Bone Breaker swing again and then |
| 10678s | like hero power I guess to add another |
| 10680s | corpse for the manipulator |
| 10686s | rhyme sculptor for curve next turn for |
| 10689s | corpses I suppose I don't know death |
| 10691s | chill if you play it this turn it's not |
| 10693s | great might have metaphor actually could |
| 10695s | be because then you just put a clock in |
| 10697s | swing four times and you win okay yeah |
| 10700s | sure yeah I think it's the one that |
| 10702s | makes the most sense again you're so |
| 10704s | sure on corpses that has a good chance |
| 10706s | that the the second mic just doesn't |
| 10707s | even really do any significant freezing |
| 10709s | but it might just be that extra swing of |
| 10712s | full damage that gets you over the line |
| 10713s | at this point right because a couple of |
| 10715s | swings of one weapon plus a frostworms |
| 10717s | fury that's your freezing done at that |
| 10719s | point and then maybe you just need that |
| 10721s | extra source of damage to get yourself |
| 10722s | over the line because Mara manipulator |
| 10725s | won't be able to be relied upon firstly |
| 10727s | because you're super low on corpses this |
| 10729s | game secondly by the time you're trying |
| 10731s | to kill the Rogue there's a good chance |
| 10734s | that um they just have a bunch of big |
| 10736s | Minions on board from the location and |
| 10738s | the mara manipulator damage might not go |
| 10740s | phase yeah also the argument now of just |
| 10743s | jamming this eight face from the mirror |
| 10744s | manipulator now while you have it |
| 10747s | yeah |
| 10749s | but ponzik |
| 10753s | ah now it's manipulator it's manipulator |
| 10755s | I think yeah plastic is so fun |
| 10763s | but on an empty board knowing that the |
| 10767s | way levick's been playing and |
| 10770s | getting down the graveyard without |
| 10772s | hitting the ghost button |
| 10774s | uh like this is the most face damage |
| 10776s | that you're ever going to be able to |
| 10777s | cash in it's reasonable to assume that |
| 10779s | gamer RPG could go manipulator the next |
| 10783s | turn frostworms Fury and then I might |
| 10785s | have benefit after that |
| 10787s | look for that to be Game ending damage |
| 10790s | so I think I think up here is a pretty |
| 10792s | clear setup that wins the game an awful |
| 10794s | lot if they don't draw some Fury clergy |
| 10797s | I think gamer RPG is spending his time |
| 10799s | like considering worlds where he |
| 10801s | encounters the cards on Fury clergy |
| 10803s | because that is going to be difficult to |
| 10805s | be if he just goes straight up like Mara |
| 10807s | manipulated this turn into frostwam's |
| 10809s | Fury next turn into my menethil because |
| 10811s | he's just not operating any kind of |
| 10813s | board State at that point right so he |
| 10814s | will run out of damage if Levick is just |
| 10816s | able to heal and Shadow step a couple of |
| 10818s | times |
| 10820s | holy screwed he's cruising we're |
| 10823s | cruising |
| 10835s | and the tempo of the music picked up as |
| 10837s | well I did yeah |
| 10840s | but it didn't slow down when he slowed |
| 10842s | down so unlucky can't win them all |
| 10847s | ruined my immersion |
| 10854s | okay it's gonna be step after law fine |
| 10858s | I was wondering if you could go the |
| 10859s | other way clear this without the step |
| 10862s | and then hold on to the step for the |
| 10864s | stenographer instead |
| 10866s | to be able to double clear up the three |
| 10868s | threes oh but you have the damage okay |
| 10869s | yeah this makes perfect sense because |
| 10871s | you have three damage in the potion it's |
| 10873s | absolutely the way to go about it |
| 10877s | all that draw as well is huge |
| 10884s | huge gonna hold on to it because now |
| 10886s | he's not taking five damage from the |
| 10888s | five five next turn love to see this |
| 10890s | from Levick this is really really good |
| 10892s | recognition frostwings Fury comes face |
| 10894s | the difference between 11 11 and a 12 12 |
| 10896s | is borderline irrelevant because it's |
| 10898s | getting Frozen anyway but now he has a |
| 10900s | super clean potential clear for the five |
| 10902s | five if he needs it |
| 10909s | yeah and honestly boss from Fury seems |
| 10912s | pretty good on this board but I think we |
| 10913s | might be in territory of hero power down |
| 10915s | the 4-1 and then might have menethil and |
| 10917s | take the chances with three you need to |
| 10919s | start swinging yep I think so too |
| 10925s | there we go |
| 10926s | all it needs to do is hit the 11 11 |
| 10928s | which was pretty likely in that scenario |
| 10934s | and this is pretty well counted assuming |
| 10937s | that the sun Fury clergy doesn't come |
| 10939s | out which we're starting to get pretty |
| 10940s | low on the deck |
| 10943s | um |
| 10944s | uh but there's double ostler too so |
| 10949s | so yeah the uh can come down and it's |
| 10951s | pretty expensive uh to play so right the |
| 10955s | Manifest enough all nastolol has turned |
| 10957s | out to be so impactful there's so many |
| 10959s | times where I have an astler at my hand |
| 10961s | on seven just going you know what if |
| 10962s | this gained armor right now I'd be in |
| 10964s | such a better position |
| 10966s | yeah |
| 10972s | if there's no minion played here we may |
| 10975s | be in the uh second might have menethil |
| 10977s | equipped territory |
| 10980s | foreign |
| 10984s | [Music] |
| 10991s | or perhaps that no okay |
| 11008s | it's just not there |
| 11010s | yep |
| 11012s | double bone Spike astolore |
| 11022s | [Music] |
| 11026s | and this is why I think you see |
| 11028s | frostworms Fury coming down that turn as |
| 11030s | opposed to the Maya menethil coming down |
| 11032s | that turn right because he wanted the |
| 11034s | 5-5 in play on this turn eight to make |
| 11037s | it as awkward as possible for Levick to |
| 11039s | play the game five armor versions of |
| 11041s | estilor because he would have to deal |
| 11042s | with a five five on the other side as |
| 11044s | well and just fortunately for Levick he |
| 11047s | had the uh the Double bone Spike |
| 11049s | which allowed him to do it but still |
| 11051s | nowhere close to a good position |
| 11054s | yeah |
| 11056s | I was pretty risky though because before |
| 11060s | that uh Horn of winter draw gamer RPG's |
| 11063s | turn |
| 11064s | if he was just playing might of menethil |
| 11066s | then would not have been well I guess it |
| 11069s | could have been like might have menethil |
| 11070s | swing the equipment might have metaphell |
| 11072s | right |
| 11074s | and it was also it was also guaranteed |
| 11076s | right because he had he played one Fury |
| 11078s | already so he knows he's plays fridge |
| 11080s | that turn he's guaranteed to hit at |
| 11081s | least one horn |
| 11083s | has played the yeah Frost strike as well |
| 11096s | so many options |
| 11100s | it's a flute solo |
| 11104s | this is what I've been doing all day as |
| 11106s | well like I played the game on mute so I |
| 11108s | haven't really heard much of the sound |
| 11109s | design from this set yeah I've come into |
| 11112s | this toilet I'm like you know what I |
| 11113s | might unmute my game this is all kind of |
| 11115s | a Vibe it is it really is |
| 11120s | wait |
| 11121s | he's gone he's gone |
| 11126s | he's flying out the bed hey fled did you |
| 11128s | see that that game was sick |
| 11131s | nobody no understands |
| 11134s | and now we're on Twitch too so like the |
| 11136s | crossover between videos |
| 11139s | a thousand people watching this that |
| 11141s | never watched a single minute of |
| 11143s | America's Grandma I would say maybe even |
| 11146s | more yeah who knows |
| 11149s | [Music] |
| 11151s | I don't even want to explain it because |
| 11153s | I always do a terrible job when I |
| 11155s | re-explained funny things |
| 11159s | everyone loves it he jokes that they're |
| 11161s | not a part of right it's everyone's |
| 11163s | favorite thing yeah |
| 11166s | so inclusive |
| 11168s | uh let's let me do the tldr |
| 11171s | um no no we're moving on |
| 11174s | um fled and game RPG we're both part of |
| 11176s | America's Grandmasters game RPG played |
| 11178s | at the plays at the bottom of the bottom |
| 11180s | of the bunk bed fled played with a bunk |
| 11182s | bed in his background that looked very |
| 11185s | similar with the same ladder orientation |
| 11186s | this gamer gamer RPG |
| 11189s | so the joke was that they were roommates |
| 11192s | in that RPG played from under the bunk |
| 11194s | bed while fled played from in front of |
| 11196s | the bunk bed in the top Uncle splits and |
| 11198s | so every time game RBG won or lost he |
| 11200s | would go up until they would high five |
| 11201s | or commiserate or do whatever and uh now |
| 11207s | that I'm explaining it just sounds |
| 11210s | like something that few normal |
| 11213s | Hearthstone players might do yeah |
| 11215s | [Music] |
| 11222s | will you high five every time you win a |
| 11224s | game of hearthstone because that sounds |
| 11225s | great let's do it yeah |
| 11228s | uh you get top bunk because I probably |
| 11230s | uh |
| 11232s | pull right through it and crush your |
| 11234s | setup genuinely there is a Turf War |
| 11236s | amongst all other Hearthstone casters |
| 11237s | right now as to who gets to live with |
| 11239s | social they're all fighting it's a real |
| 11241s | thing |
| 11245s | yeah Neil lives the closest already so |
| 11248s | watch |
| 11249s | that right |
| 11257s | yeah who died sorry I don't know figment |
| 11261s | of my imagination something just like |
| 11263s | leapt through the cosmos and entered my |
| 11265s | brain from an alternate timeline and I |
| 11266s | it's gone now I can't grasp it again |
| 11269s | yeah I mean there was one time where I |
| 11271s | had a dream that I was casting with a |
| 11272s | giant baby |
| 11274s | um |
| 11276s | with just a small tuft of hair on the |
| 11279s | top of its head in a massive forehead |
| 11281s | but then you realize that you just |
| 11283s | watched the film boss baby right before |
| 11285s | you went to sleep and that's why you're |
| 11287s | having weird dreams yeah |
| 11290s | yep that's right |
| 11293s | all right |
| 11295s | let's play some Hearthstone gamer RPG |
| 11297s | clean up the priest now |
| 11299s | um the car carts are the same I was like |
| 11301s | wait you can't re-cute Demon Hunter or |
| 11303s | death knight but the opening's just just |
| 11306s | the same just good stuff so |
| 11309s | um this is another one of those matchups |
| 11310s | where |
| 11311s | uh traditionally broken struggle because |
| 11314s | usually they don't have ways to bounce |
| 11316s | their life total back up they don't tend |
| 11319s | to uh there's sometimes where their hand |
| 11321s | can be more value oriented not Tempo |
| 11323s | oriented and that means that the early |
| 11325s | damage from the priest is gonna stick |
| 11327s | maybe we'll see the Sun for your clergy |
| 11329s | come into play but |
| 11330s | if you don't have the board under |
| 11331s | control it doesn't really matter uh is |
| 11334s | the big thing so number one situation is |
| 11337s | get the board under control |
| 11340s | yeah because that is the big difference |
| 11342s | for sure against Frost DK you probably |
| 11344s | stopped the board pressure after a point |
| 11346s | with Miracle Rogue uh against Shadow |
| 11349s | priest it can just keep on coming which |
| 11352s | means that the uh the some Fury clergy |
| 11354s | is not going to do anything if you're |
| 11355s | just sort of like Shadow stepping a |
| 11357s | bunch of healing into a full board over |
| 11358s | and over again so I like this from |
| 11360s | Levick just playing for Tempo |
| 11362s | essentially using the uh bone Spike as a |
| 11365s | backstab in that position backstabs a |
| 11367s | very good card sometimes particularly |
| 11368s | against acrodex so getting really really |
| 11370s | good usage out there just to essentially |
| 11372s | win Tempo on turn one which is a great |
| 11374s | position to be in because now especially |
| 11377s | with the putro side in play |
| 11379s | oh in hand sorry I think this play was |
| 11381s | good regardless of hand stay almost from |
| 11384s | Levick but because he has the putricide |
| 11386s | in hand he now has the ability to just |
| 11388s | trade off uh the two minions in Play and |
| 11391s | play a future side the next turn if |
| 11392s | gamer RPG just plays minions into this |
| 11394s | on the other side so really really |
| 11396s | strong start I think from Levick |
| 11403s | and the other side I was thinking is it |
| 11405s | worth it to like just hear a power of |
| 11407s | this down make a powerful play but |
| 11409s | normally there's going to be follow-up |
| 11411s | uh if your opponent coin bone spikes |
| 11415s | um you want to put something on the |
| 11417s | boards that way they can't like potion |
| 11419s | belt into full draw and just have |
| 11420s | basically like a free turn of |
| 11422s | of uh like resource Generation |
| 11425s | Um ended up being the future side in |
| 11426s | this situation yep but this is still an |
| 11429s | awkward spot because if you start |
| 11431s | trading over this Alchemist then you're |
| 11435s | just gonna give more potions over which |
| 11437s | you know that the next one's free and |
| 11439s | there's nothing in hand that allows |
| 11441s | gamer RPG to deal with the the uh the |
| 11443s | future side so it's gonna stick around |
| 11444s | for a bit |
| 11446s | [Music] |
| 11451s | thank you |
| 11452s | [Music] |
| 11455s | foreign |
| 11460s | my uh my initial instinct which is |
| 11463s | probably incorrect |
| 11464s | it's just to sink a hero power into the |
| 11467s | future side it's all so bad isn't it |
| 11470s | it's all so bad |
| 11472s | if you just play minions trade with the |
| 11475s | ghoul like yeah that's the most raw |
| 11477s | Tempo that you can make and in terms of |
| 11479s | like if you just looked at the vanilla |
| 11481s | stats that you then had in board uh you |
| 11483s | what you make in comparison to a 1-4 is |
| 11485s | well worth doing but you then just give |
| 11488s | your opponent a double concoction that |
| 11490s | they get to play for free and leave |
| 11492s | future side on the board at that point |
| 11493s | like this play sucks and you're not in a |
| 11498s | good position but that's not a criticism |
| 11500s | because I don't think there was a better |
| 11501s | play possible for you to make on that |
| 11503s | turn |
| 11506s | [Music] |
| 11513s | oh God |
| 11516s | come on solo reach to the knowledge Bank |
| 11520s | [Music] |
| 11522s | for what Coral keeper |
| 11524s | yeah it's uh it's it's like three threes |
| 11528s | for spell schools or something like that |
| 11529s | right |
| 11532s | sure yeah |
| 11533s | fine like you don't actually know I |
| 11535s | think it's Summoner three three for each |
| 11537s | spelled I think no no I do okay |
| 11540s | you're the arena player you're supposed |
| 11542s | to know all these cards |
| 11544s | that's no no you drafts that an arena |
| 11546s | spell schools kidding me nobody cares |
| 11548s | about spells yeah that's a good point |
| 11550s | it's about stats raw stats |
| 11557s | yep nailed it I mean it |
| 11560s | that is pretty that is did have the |
| 11563s | shadow spell played yeah |
| 11566s | it's good just winning on tempo |
| 11569s | yeah |
| 11570s | [Music] |
| 11572s | honestly like this is a thing that you |
| 11573s | really have to process about playing |
| 11575s | Hearthstone at a very high level is that |
| 11577s | low-key every deck is a Tempo deck you |
| 11579s | know you could argue about whether |
| 11580s | things are controlled or combo or |
| 11582s | whatever all the only difference between |
| 11585s | aggro Tempo control and combo in |
| 11588s | Hearthstone is when you do your Tempo |
| 11591s | turns they just happen at different |
| 11593s | points in different versions of deck to |
| 11595s | play Hearthstone well you play for Tempo |
| 11597s | that is just a universal fact of life |
| 11599s | [Music] |
| 11601s | foreign |
| 11605s | has been blurred over time |
| 11612s | different types of decks |
| 11615s | [Music] |
| 11619s | but it's why I'm starting to be |
| 11620s | converted to this Levick school of |
| 11621s | thought of uh blood DK right it's just |
| 11623s | like okay well I blood Decay is a good |
| 11626s | control deck but actually a lot of the |
| 11627s | time even 40 car blood DK just wins by |
| 11630s | playing minions every turn right and |
| 11632s | then they sort of overwhelm the opponent |
| 11634s | and they heal out of range or whatever |
| 11635s | else |
| 11636s | just do that but better just make it a |
| 11639s | better Tempo deck and then it's probably |
| 11640s | a better hearthstone deck it's just kind |
| 11642s | of the way Hearthstone works |
| 11651s | pick the grave digging |
| 11655s | I mean what's five |
| 11656s | at this point |
| 11660s | like what |
| 11662s | the longer this game goes I feel like |
| 11663s | the less of a chance gamer over G has |
| 11665s | yep |
| 11669s | because there there was a mightier in |
| 11671s | terms of like Undead |
| 11673s | actually |
| 11676s | crap |
| 11679s | crab arrive |
| 11682s | [Music] |
| 11685s | [Laughter] |
| 11689s | I mean cool game RPG was never gonna |
| 11692s | play that anyway he's like it's just a |
| 11694s | free fall for it |
| 11696s | yeah |
| 11698s | oh just get positive |
| 11705s | how many more turns do you think gamer |
| 11707s | rvg stays in this game |
| 11709s | none none okay no none more turns |
| 11719s | but was a very dismissive hand gesture |
| 11721s | just then |
| 11722s | I mean oh this is this is the perfect |
| 11726s | curve you get to grave D and shower |
| 11734s | okay I think you can wait for the |
| 11736s | shadowboard on death now |
| 11740s | and just play psychic Contour plus |
| 11742s | Cathedral this turn |
| 11744s | what are you looking for looks like |
| 11745s | Condor that's still left in the deck it |
| 11747s | can't be pushing belt |
| 11749s | okay |
| 11751s | oh I mean that card's kinda good |
| 11754s | [Music] |
| 11755s | everything is relative obviously |
| 11758s | [Music] |
| 11762s | can't remember she's just gonna deck out |
| 11764s | this game |
| 11772s | we've reached the point in this game |
| 11775s | where if you are playing on ladder you |
| 11777s | would be accusing your opponent of bming |
| 11779s | by still being in this game and wasting |
| 11781s | your time right like |
| 11783s | foreign |
| 11789s | child draws nothing |
| 11795s | it is a two-manner yet |
| 11798s | yes |
| 11799s | it's true |
| 11810s | [Music] |
| 11816s | foreign |
| 11824s | Bell to |
| 11826s | oh try and look at something huge |
| 11829s | let's go straight |
| 11834s | ER would have been could have been sick |
| 11837s | huh |
| 11839s | It's gotta be in |
| 11842s | you just you just become a control |
| 11844s | priest |
| 11848s | I think his phone wasn't Undead |
| 11855s | so many of them |
| 11859s | apparently it is yes |
| 11863s | nice |
| 11877s | worth noting by the way the Levick is |
| 11879s | what 10 cards away from the bottom of |
| 11880s | his deck now and his deck has really |
| 11882s | done nothing up until this point like he |
| 11884s | just I don't know he just hardcore |
| 11886s | tempo'd on turn one and he's been |
| 11888s | slightly ahead ever since and that is |
| 11890s | good enough to make this game borderline |
| 11892s | unwinnable for gamer rvg throughout but |
| 11895s | levick's draw has also been pretty |
| 11897s | terrible |
| 11900s | yeah no graveyards |
| 11903s | right yeah I don't think there's been a |
| 11906s | graveyard |
| 11909s | wait there was a sonographer look |
| 11913s | huh |
| 11914s | you play two stenographers |
| 11917s | was one a copy from something |
| 11919s | I might well so gamer rvg played one |
| 11921s | that came from Mindy too right |
| 11924s | yeah but then there was two there was |
| 11926s | two stenographers on the board at once |
| 11928s | was there not maybe I'm |
| 11930s | not thinking |
| 11932s | uh I'm probably just thinking of the |
| 11933s | other stenographer uh that was uh picked |
| 11936s | up for gamer review they were mentioning |
| 11940s | but looks like there's gonna be uh |
| 11943s | shadowboard on death turn |
| 11947s | and probably a hero power just to keep |
| 11949s | the removal options open going forward |
| 11951s | uh the first points of damage that game |
| 11954s | RPG has been able to do to Levick so far |
| 11955s | this game |
| 11963s | yeah that's still getting some full team |
| 11964s | damage minions in hand this makes sense |
| 11966s | to me |
| 11974s | maybe this is old which is easy |
| 11977s | maybe this is all just absolute genius |
| 11979s | from gamer RBG he's deliberately dealt |
| 11982s | zero damage the whole game to play |
| 11984s | around sun Fury clergy do you ever think |
| 11985s | about that oh wow |
| 11987s | genius move no |
| 11993s | well that breaks back up here she |
| 11996s | [Music] |
| 12003s | [Music] |
| 12008s | will not be a mess |
| 12019s | thank you |
| 12027s | a graveyard |
| 12050s | foreign |
| 12056s | ERS online next turn |
| 12059s | should be looking at a game over okay |
| 12061s | Marvin you can clear but can't put |
| 12063s | enough Health on the board to block the |
| 12065s | weapon swing plus the or so |
| 12067s | yeah annoyingly you can put literally |
| 12069s | four in play don't keep yourself suppose |
| 12072s | you're using the reborn |
| 12074s | yeah and put five |
| 12079s | I mean you might as well Shadow stepper |
| 12081s | right no you have to right you know |
| 12083s | about the escalore you need something |
| 12086s | oh |
| 12095s | yeah cause there's 16 health |
| 12097s | and 16 damage |
| 12103s | with the weapons |
| 12107s | so |
| 12108s | that'll do it finally uh game Marvel |
| 12112s | down to Chris 25 life |
| 12115s | close |
| 12116s | one |
| 12119s | um but yeah there are some times |
| 12122s | Miracles that can happen with uh Undead |
| 12125s | priests because they do have mind eaters |
| 12128s | psychic counters amalgams you can steal |
| 12131s | or discover wind conditions from time to |
| 12132s | time but |
| 12135s | um that's one of those games where even |
| 12136s | if you manage to steal like the best |
| 12138s | possible card that get the best possible |
| 12140s | result from a discoverer |
| 12142s | there's just too much value that's been |
| 12143s | generated from Lubbock up until that |
| 12146s | point and the inevitability of the |
| 12147s | multiple asteroids was just always going |
| 12150s | to be a possibility so |
| 12154s | um it just took a while for Levick to |
| 12155s | get there because the hand uh it just |
| 12158s | didn't have any of the payoff cards I I |
| 12160s | don't even think there's a in ashara in |
| 12162s | the deck so it's really just the |
| 12163s | graveyards that Levick was looking for |
| 12164s | in terms of big maintenance I could end |
| 12166s | the game quickly did have to just wait |
| 12168s | it out and wait for the Aston Lord to |
| 12170s | come online in order to win the game |
| 12171s | yeah yeah and as much as like I don't |
| 12174s | know eight turns or so of that was the |
| 12176s | most pointless game of hearthstone |
| 12177s | anyone has ever watched there is a great |
| 12179s | lesson there in the early turns I think |
| 12181s | a lot of people play Miracle Rogue and |
| 12183s | would look at a bone spike in the |
| 12184s | opening hand like okay this bone spike |
| 12186s | is supposed to be used on my location |
| 12188s | turn or on my draca turn if there's a |
| 12190s | Tracker in your deck as well right like |
| 12192s | understanding particularly in matchups |
| 12195s | against decks more aggressive than yours |
| 12197s | Tempo is the number one thing you're |
| 12199s | looking for so that term one of just |
| 12200s | bone Spike play your own Minion again I |
| 12203s | want to stress I think that play is |
| 12204s | universally good even if you're not |
| 12206s | following it up with the uh with the |
| 12208s | potions afterwards because Levick |
| 12210s | basically had the perfect hand for it |
| 12211s | which made it really obvious but I think |
| 12213s | recognizing using uh bone Spike as a |
| 12216s | backstab essentially in a position like |
| 12217s | that is a key to winning a lot of these |
| 12220s | really heavily Tempo based matchups and |
| 12221s | it was a very well played game from |
| 12222s | Levick overall |
| 12224s | um and you look at it the other way if |
| 12225s | he tried to be greedy with the bone |
| 12227s | Spike waiting to draw some kind of win |
| 12229s | condition to pair with his boat Spike he |
| 12230s | would have been waiting all day because |
| 12232s | he never drew one the entire freaking |
| 12234s | game so just played it out played for |
| 12236s | Tempo won the game very very easily yeah |
| 12238s | nice stuff |
| 12240s | yep and now only deck left remaining is |
| 12242s | the outcast Demon Hunter uh for Levick |
| 12244s | so going against the Green here well not |
| 12247s | really because there was a lot of |
| 12248s | players at the beginning of the |
| 12249s | tournament that had a outcast Demon |
| 12251s | Hunter but in regards to the players |
| 12252s | remaining uh left in the uh in the |
| 12255s | tournament uh Relic Dean Hunter was the |
| 12259s | uh beat it out slightly so we'll see |
| 12263s | there's still pocket training with |
| 12264s | Outcast DH in our uh fourth quarterfinal |
| 12267s | and we have Boulder who had Outcast |
| 12269s | Stephen Hunter who moved on uh in the |
| 12271s | previous series to the semifinals so uh |
| 12274s | we could be seeing like a a split here |
| 12276s | and it might even be majority outcasting |
| 12279s | owner in the semi-finals uh after after |
| 12282s | the dust is settled yeah it's |
| 12284s | interesting it's something that I was |
| 12286s | looking forward to talking about |
| 12287s | actually because |
| 12289s | um there's been a weird kind of |
| 12290s | Dimension flip on the two demon Hunters |
| 12293s | where so day one everyone was jamming |
| 12295s | out cast Demon Hunter right because it |
| 12297s | was the really obvious aggro deck really |
| 12299s | obvious aggro deck is going to be |
| 12301s | powerful day one because it doesn't need |
| 12302s | to be super well refined to punish other |
| 12305s | unrefined decks it's just kind of how |
| 12307s | day one of new metas go |
| 12309s | then over time you know Casey comes out |
| 12312s | with the Relic build and everyone's like |
| 12313s | okay us as people of culture us refined |
| 12317s | Souls out here we all understand |
| 12319s | actually that Relic Demon Hunter is the |
| 12322s | deck for geniuses right if we if you're |
| 12324s | if you're a high IQ Hearthstone |
| 12326s | connoisseur you play Relic Demon Hunter |
| 12329s | and you have much higher win rate with |
| 12330s | it but now I think a couple of days |
| 12333s | before this tournament people started to |
| 12335s | realize actually Outcast Demon Hunter is |
| 12338s | a lot harder to play perfectly than |
| 12340s | people think it is and a lot of very |
| 12342s | very high level players pocket train |
| 12344s | included is dying to believe that some |
| 12346s | of the reported stats on Outcast Demon |
| 12348s | Hunter are being understated because |
| 12350s | people play Outkast Demon Hunter |
| 12352s | terribly and so Outcast DH actually has |
| 12355s | much better stats in the hands of a top |
| 12357s | 20 player than it does when you're |
| 12359s | looking at our top 1000 Legend stats so |
| 12361s | I'll be really interested once we get |
| 12363s | down to top four and top two exactly |
| 12365s | what the makeup of Relic Demon Hunter |
| 12367s | versus Outcast Demon Hunter is |
| 12371s | it's going to give us something to talk |
| 12373s | about at the very least |
| 12375s | because I love talking about |
| 12377s | skill caps skill ceilings skill floors |
| 12380s | and decks because you never really know |
| 12383s | no you don't no |
| 12386s | um |
| 12392s | [Music] |
| 12395s | generally all claims along those lines |
| 12397s | just run into problems with being |
| 12399s | falsifiable it kind of devolves into you |
| 12402s | know the the many a tree Scotsman thing |
| 12404s | where it's like oh you know this deck's |
| 12406s | the best deck in the game it played |
| 12407s | perfectly well okay why isn't it winning |
| 12409s | every tournament well because they're |
| 12410s | not playing it perfectly well okay but |
| 12413s | okay we got to like the world |
| 12414s | championship finals the highest possible |
| 12416s | level of hearthstone and those players |
| 12418s | aren't playing that deck either yeah |
| 12420s | they're still not playing the deck |
| 12421s | perfectly okay so who is playing the |
| 12423s | deck perfectly well I am okay why aren't |
| 12425s | you in the world championship finals you |
| 12427s | know like it never ends there's always a |
| 12429s | further excuse for for why the thing's |
| 12432s | not happening as soon as that belief |
| 12433s | comes out be it ball priest freeze Mage |
| 12436s | whatever deck it was historically that |
| 12438s | is quote the best deck in the game when |
| 12440s | played perfectly the people who believe |
| 12442s | that will always believe that and you'll |
| 12443s | never change their mind yeah I think |
| 12445s | board piece board priest is probably the |
| 12447s | best example because that deck was like |
| 12450s | nearly impossible to play perfectly and |
| 12452s | there was only a couple players in the |
| 12453s | world who even got close to that little |
| 12456s | thing though I think it's a very bad |
| 12458s | example because with ball priest Fury |
| 12461s | Hunter and pocket train were winning |
| 12463s | tournaments with Valkyries and no one |
| 12465s | else could do it so I think that |
| 12466s | actually kind of proves the point to the |
| 12468s | contrary that sometimes that is true |
| 12473s | I didn't see a good example of |
| 12476s | proving it I just said it's a good |
| 12479s | example oh that's fair yeah it's a good |
| 12481s | example of something that's what it is |
| 12483s | yeah it's a yeah it's a good example of |
| 12486s | disproving it yeah |
| 12491s | sometimes TJ you're just so many levels |
| 12493s | Beyond me that it takes me a while to |
| 12495s | catch up with you know how many synapses |
| 12498s | have fired simultaneously in your brain |
| 12500s | you know sometimes you just get too far |
| 12502s | ahead in the conversation it takes me a |
| 12504s | while to catch up yeah it's like the the |
| 12506s | five head bell curve yes yeah |
| 12517s | um so pretty sure this glove tower has |
| 12520s | like |
| 12523s | a hundred draws in it |
| 12528s | yeah which might begin to present a |
| 12530s | slight issue because there aren't too |
| 12532s | many playable cards that won't replace |
| 12534s | themselves in hand anyway |
| 12537s | yeah |
| 12539s | gamer RPG here I like just the coin |
| 12542s | Dimensions he does have good discounts |
| 12545s | on his Dimensions without the Vault and |
| 12547s | I think he's pretty chill with just |
| 12550s | leaving this board up because he does |
| 12552s | already have the security of Silver Moon |
| 12554s | Guardian unleash Val in hand uh we |
| 12556s | haven't talked about much about this |
| 12558s | actual matchup in detail yet this is |
| 12560s | generally a good matchup for The Relic |
| 12561s | DH uh just because of the sheer ability |
| 12564s | to |
| 12565s | um resist the amount of boards he can |
| 12567s | make Outcast DH quite often wins by just |
| 12569s | being able to make too many boards but I |
| 12571s | don't think there is such a thing |
| 12573s | against this deck because there's |
| 12574s | there's two unleash fails there's two |
| 12576s | immolation auras there's like Vault |
| 12578s | relic of Extinction and then you have |
| 12580s | your two Taste of chaos which there's I |
| 12584s | think the number is nine fell spells but |
| 12585s | one of them is Taste of chaos so there's |
| 12587s | only eight Fel spells you can discover |
| 12589s | and one of those is unleash fell and one |
| 12592s | of those is immolation Aura so you can |
| 12594s | just have infinite aoes over the course |
| 12597s | of the game to be able to clear these |
| 12598s | boards away |
| 12600s | so with one of the only real threats |
| 12602s | against you becomes direct damage and |
| 12604s | since a lot of outcast demon Hunters |
| 12606s | have started cutting the Rowdy fan combo |
| 12608s | piece for this then oh it's a lot harder |
| 12610s | to then kill you with burst damage as |
| 12612s | well so I think in general this is a |
| 12614s | very good matchup for the uh The Relic |
| 12616s | DH but Levick does have a very high |
| 12619s | damage hand overall right now with |
| 12621s | double glaive Tower already so it's kind |
| 12622s | of nice |
| 12626s | [Music] |
| 12628s | gotta get this swing in at some point |
| 12630s | right yeah juicing it |
| 12633s | it might be six straw right now |
| 12637s | yeah I think the dispose of evidence |
| 12639s | specifically allowed Levick to be okay |
| 12641s | with the way that this has been played |
| 12643s | dispose of evidence very useful card for |
| 12644s | these kind of spots |
| 12646s | let's see it could be five but I think |
| 12649s | we might see an overdraw here |
| 12658s | oh no it was exactly five wow okay |
| 12660s | perfectly done |
| 12662s | yeah and knew that the rest of the turn |
| 12665s | was most likely just going to be |
| 12666s | re-equipped the second Glade tar so yup |
| 12669s | just goes ahead and gets the hero power |
| 12670s | in for the extra damage and now we're |
| 12673s | looking at |
| 12675s | um |
| 12675s | lethal sort of set up for next turn |
| 12678s | there's 11 from hand with dispose of |
| 12680s | evidence predation plus a hero power |
| 12683s | um and if any of these minions stick |
| 12685s | which I doubt they will because game RPG |
| 12687s | has to respect uh |
| 12689s | well maybe not has to respect healthier |
| 12691s | because it doesn't play any minions |
| 12693s | there's no natural Rush minutes on board |
| 12695s | so they wouldn't be able to be extra |
| 12696s | damage from there but it has to respect |
| 12698s | the minions for their damage regardless |
| 12699s | because 12 health is way too low exactly |
| 12701s | I think I think realistically if your |
| 12704s | opponent has Silver Moon Guardian |
| 12705s | unleash Val in hand silk Moon Guardian |
| 12707s | Unleashed foe is getting played this |
| 12708s | turn like a million percent of the time |
| 12710s | Levick could perhaps have a read because |
| 12713s | last time from gamer RPG was coin relic |
| 12715s | of Dimensions which is a fairly panicky |
| 12718s | looking play for someone to make uh as |
| 12721s | it happens gamer Ravi G did it because |
| 12723s | he had Arcanist Unleashed fell in hand |
| 12726s | so he knew this turn he would need to |
| 12728s | Arcanist unleash fell and they would |
| 12730s | therefore be unable to dimensions on six |
| 12732s | but you could also read it the other way |
| 12734s | around right they'd coined Dimensions |
| 12736s | because they're panicking they don't |
| 12738s | have Silver Moon Guardian Unleashed |
| 12744s | oh the ranch are coming into play I |
| 12747s | think this is one of those matchups |
| 12748s | where it's actually very good |
| 12751s | um just because it makes it almost |
| 12752s | impossible to fully clear everything off |
| 12756s | um you need like multiple layers of AOE |
| 12758s | actually it's a good thing that this was |
| 12760s | picked up because game RPG had maybe |
| 12763s | even potential lethal outs next turn |
| 12765s | with steno plus the free |
| 12768s | um |
| 12769s | Rowdy fan there you go Rowdy fan |
| 12773s | um to be able to let go ladies Dental |
| 12774s | rally fan Emily nowhere to clean up the |
| 12776s | board and then Extinction illidarity |
| 12778s | studies into a spell you're getting |
| 12779s | close in that in that sense |
| 12782s | dominions in my borders so I think as |
| 12784s | soon as you can stick one minion through |
| 12786s | one immolation Aura it becomes |
| 12788s | impossible uh fortnite impossible if not |
| 12790s | impossible for gamer RBG to do with |
| 12792s | seven Mana uh unless the dimensions hood |
| 12795s | here exactly Sterno and Rowdy fan right |
| 12797s | for the two cards |
| 12801s | but yep you're absolutely right being |
| 12802s | able to stick minions here is a huge |
| 12804s | deal to be able to resist them |
| 12807s | three emulation auras in hand for gamer |
| 12809s | RBG currently means he will be able to |
| 12811s | clear all this up no problem |
| 12818s | it's a lot of stuff to be using on a |
| 12820s | single board though |
| 12821s | [Music] |
| 12832s | [Music] |
| 12837s | could look for card draw from illidari |
| 12840s | studies to look for blood Mage or second |
| 12843s | Silver Moon which would then preserve |
| 12846s | some of the aoes in your hand at that |
| 12847s | point |
| 12849s | I don't know how worth it that is though |
| 12852s | you could also just look for a uh like |
| 12854s | an I-beam from the illidari studies |
| 12856s | which gives you options for partial |
| 12858s | clears and not just dumping all of your |
| 12860s | cards into this |
| 12861s | that's none of those though |
| 12863s | oh this car drop |
| 12877s | now you can just hear a power and fierce |
| 12880s | Outsider and preserve one in Malaysian |
| 12881s | Aura and the relative Extinction yeah |
| 12883s | okay yeah pretty good |
| 12885s | yeah I think lesson to be learned that |
| 12886s | turn is the illidari studies was always |
| 12888s | going to give you something useful to |
| 12890s | preserve some of your cards there so |
| 12891s | yeah I like it oh second Rancher |
| 12896s | come on |
| 12899s | get the poor guy a break |
| 12902s | and now it's probably gonna have to be |
| 12904s | Seno to help clear |
| 12906s | history |
| 12909s | very possibly yes |
| 12912s | but it's also |
| 12914s | [Music] |
| 12916s | there's been a good chunk of outcast |
| 12918s | cards played |
| 12920s | maybe I don't even know I'm not even |
| 12922s | bother County |
| 12925s | there's three played this turn so and I |
| 12927s | think three-ish played last turn two |
| 12929s | maybe four demons |
| 12932s | demons what are we getting rid of the |
| 12935s | security to say board space |
| 12941s | uh predation is probably the most |
| 12943s | valuable card in your deck right now |
| 12944s | because even elviria you can never |
| 12947s | guarantee that you're sticking balls |
| 12948s | like even with two Hawk Strider ranchers |
| 12950s | and halveria and your opponent having |
| 12952s | used two immolation Oreos the previous |
| 12954s | turn you absolutely cannot guarantee |
| 12956s | that you are sticking a border oh wait |
| 12961s | left |
| 12966s | lady Steno predation predation |
| 12969s | oh it was I didn't see the second |
| 12970s | predation yeah you're absolutely right |
| 12972s | it was |
| 12973s | yeah because played Rasta stage for a |
| 12975s | full three Mana yeah it's exactly 10. |
| 12978s | [Music] |
| 12984s | [Music] |
| 12987s | don't think it matters |
| 12990s | not currently it doesn't no |
| 12993s | and I don't think there's a way to chain |
| 12995s | the uh |
| 12997s | not currently the relics aren't big |
| 13000s | enough to like say xymox into Vault plus |
| 13003s | Dimensions |
| 13004s | right exactly that's the only possible |
| 13007s | out is so you use xymox four dimensions |
| 13010s | and then you hit exactly Vault and |
| 13012s | dimensions so that you can Dimension |
| 13014s | four more cards one of those is blood |
| 13017s | Mage and one of those is unleash fell |
| 13019s | plus some other stuff but yeah I don't |
| 13020s | think the relics are at six to be able |
| 13022s | to make that first Dimensions that comes |
| 13024s | off the zymos uh end up costing zero |
| 13026s | anyway so |
| 13031s | God that's such a creating noise |
| 13034s | awful Isn't it the hawk Strider noise |
| 13036s | it's I hate it so much |
| 13046s | that'll do it |
| 13049s | I think Levick uh just maybe didn't see |
| 13051s | all the draws in time and just wanted to |
| 13053s | play the first card that cost three Mana |
| 13055s | that came into the hand yeah in the |
| 13057s | previous turn but not gonna matter at |
| 13059s | the end of the day as Lubbock is gonna |
| 13060s | lock this one up the hawk Strider |
| 13063s | Rancher coming in clutch here making it |
| 13065s | very difficult for gamer RBG to continue |
| 13067s | continuously remove forwards the player |
| 13070s | around the Glade tar two and getting the |
| 13072s | perfect sort of sequence of draws and |
| 13074s | reload |
| 13075s | uh just a an expert class on uh his own |
| 13080s | variation of outcast Demon Hunter for |
| 13082s | Levick and that's gonna net him a spot |
| 13083s | in the semifinals |
| 13086s | yeah I think that hulks try to rauncher |
| 13089s | might just be enough single-handedly to |
| 13091s | flip that match up |
| 13094s | um Outcast DHS is Relic DH because |
| 13095s | imagine the world where you know Levick |
| 13099s | off to a very good start that game very |
| 13100s | playable opener glavtar on three Wayward |
| 13102s | Sage discounted Glade tie played |
| 13104s | glaivetar on three about as good a start |
| 13105s | as you could possibly hope for but then |
| 13107s | fast forward that game to the point |
| 13109s | where he started drawing hawkstrider |
| 13110s | branches if he wasn't drawing |
| 13112s | hawkstrider ranchers his term would have |
| 13113s | been just play some one ones and two |
| 13115s | ones or whatever else that would have |
| 13117s | been the whole board that he generated |
| 13118s | that turn and in response to that gamer |
| 13121s | RBG goes okay cool one immolation aura |
| 13125s | a Steno zero Mana Rowdy fans start |
| 13127s | playing other cards and he's just |
| 13129s | dealing 18 damage to you on that turn |
| 13132s | and is ahead on Tempo and you then have |
| 13134s | to clear his board instead |
| 13136s | um because of the amount of pressure |
| 13137s | that came from the Rancher |
| 13139s | gamer RPG never had any breathing room |
| 13140s | to do anything proactive which is |
| 13143s | incredibly impressive so I think Levick |
| 13146s | again can't really say enough good |
| 13148s | things about the way he plays the game |
| 13149s | and the way he builds his deck do have |
| 13151s | to throw in that caveat though you know |
| 13153s | we're playing a very high level of |
| 13154s | hearthstone if you're going to miss |
| 13155s | lethal in that situation we're going to |
| 13157s | have to call you out for it but still uh |
| 13159s | very very nicely done from Levick in a a |
| 13161s | very fitting competitor in our top four |
| 13164s | that's right and so that's three out of |
| 13166s | our four spots booked into the |
| 13168s | semi-finals and that just leaves us with |
| 13170s | one quarterfinal lap that's going to be |
| 13172s | uh pocket train versus Hemlock I believe |
| 13174s | to determine our last spot we could have |
| 13176s | four out of four uh for Europe um |
| 13178s | representation uh in that top four so it |
| 13181s | should be fun but before we jump into |
| 13182s | that last quarterfinal we are gonna have |
| 13184s | to go to a break but don't go anywhere |
| 13186s | plenty more action to come here from the |
| 13188s | Hearthstone Masters Tour spring |
| 13189s | Championship don't go anywhere |
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| 13453s | thank you |
| 13469s | shine |
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| 13529s | thank you |
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| 13578s | foreign |
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| 13587s | we are nearly done with our |
| 13589s | quarterfinals we have one more in the |
| 13591s | bank and it means they get to do two |
| 13593s | things I've been looking forward to all |
| 13594s | tournament one is cast of pocket train |
| 13596s | series and the other is caster series |
| 13598s | with Edelweiss how are you doing |
| 13600s | I'm doing quite well and I also have |
| 13602s | been looking forward to Casting pocket |
| 13604s | train I think perhaps my favorite player |
| 13607s | of the remaining set will see if he can |
| 13609s | make it into this top four we've got |
| 13611s | here rounded out with wreck them Walder |
| 13614s | and Levick Levick the one bullet BK |
| 13618s | remaining in the event so that was a bit |
| 13621s | of a change of pace from what we've seen |
| 13622s | so far |
| 13624s | yeah I noticed you didn't say you were |
| 13625s | also looking forward to casting with me |
| 13627s | but that's okay that's fine we'll move |
| 13628s | on uh yeah Hemlock versus pocket train |
| 13630s | is our last quarterfinal |
| 13633s | um I think pocket train does have a real |
| 13634s | wave of momentum behind him right now I |
| 13637s | think since his level of competitive |
| 13640s | success in the system over the last year |
| 13642s | or so he's now transitioned that into a |
| 13644s | very successful stream as well which has |
| 13645s | a great Vibe I think he's got a lot of |
| 13647s | fans rooting for him in this tournament |
| 13649s | and as TJ mentioned does also have the |
| 13652s | opportunity to round out the old |
| 13654s | European top four which would be uh |
| 13656s | great to see as well wouldn't it |
| 13659s | well you know of course gotta pour one |
| 13661s | out for the final America's player gamer |
| 13664s | rvg getting eliminated there but you |
| 13666s | know we're just used to it at this point |
| 13667s | you can't can't really beat us down any |
| 13669s | further I'm from Cleveland and uh our |
| 13672s | football team is the Browns and they |
| 13675s | they are kind of like being an America's |
| 13677s | fan for Hearthstone |
| 13686s | American equivalent being a top fan I |
| 13688s | would presume but we can take a look at |
| 13690s | what Hemlock is working with here in |
| 13692s | terms of decks uh Miracle Row a couple |
| 13695s | of twists in here firstly uh highlighted |
| 13697s | there in the key cards copy a break |
| 13698s | dance do you have any thoughts on that |
| 13700s | in particular there's an inclusion in |
| 13702s | Miracle work |
| 13703s | yeah it's a bit of an odd one you know |
| 13705s | people thought when this was revealed |
| 13707s | that it might mean that shadow step was |
| 13709s | not going to be coming back into the |
| 13710s | core but Shadow step it is not you know |
| 13713s | not unable to get those discounts in |
| 13716s | terms of replaying the minion it is |
| 13718s | reasonable tempo-wise though |
| 13720s | particularly if you are |
| 13722s | using it on something like uh even the |
| 13725s | scribbling sonographer just an extra |
| 13726s | instance of The Rush Minion and you get |
| 13729s | to replay it so I see how it could be |
| 13731s | good it just hasn't made its way into |
| 13732s | most players lists yeah there was a list |
| 13735s | I saw a few people experimenting with I |
| 13738s | tried a few games of it myself I just |
| 13739s | couldn't find anything to work |
| 13741s | um the kind of more combo uh card based |
| 13743s | Miracle deck where you you have the the |
| 13745s | death rattle weapon you're playing a |
| 13747s | bunch of combo cards you have the Rush |
| 13748s | Minion that gets bigger as you play |
| 13750s | combo cards as well that seems to fit a |
| 13752s | little bit better uh with the break |
| 13754s | dance |
| 13755s | inclusion but that version of the deck |
| 13757s | just doesn't really seem consistent |
| 13759s | enough to make the cut but Hemlock kind |
| 13761s | of doing Hemlock things with a few of |
| 13763s | his decks here as well I know you were |
| 13765s | commenting the other day when we were |
| 13766s | prepping and looking at deckless this |
| 13768s | murmy inclusion in the uh the aggro |
| 13770s | death knight as well is a is a very |
| 13772s | welcome inclusion I think because we |
| 13774s | have seen numerous players really |
| 13776s | struggling for corpse generation |
| 13778s | throughout their games with Frost death |
| 13779s | knight so far |
| 13781s | well it is pretty good at generating |
| 13783s | corpses helps you potentially get some |
| 13785s | of those more aggressive starts with |
| 13788s | arms dealer with skeletal sidekick just |
| 13790s | really hitting the ground running but it |
| 13793s | has come in here for the two drop that |
| 13795s | draws Frost spells so potentially you |
| 13797s | could see Hemlock running out of gas a |
| 13800s | little sooner you know not having access |
| 13801s | to that picking up you know extra Frost |
| 13804s | strike out of the deck or just that |
| 13807s | incidental card draw building up to |
| 13809s | frigidara |
| 13811s | and again the the weird tech cards come |
| 13814s | to fruition again with the prosecutor |
| 13816s | meltronics hanging out in the Relic |
| 13818s | Demon Hunter I'm sure there is at least |
| 13820s | one person out there right now that is |
| 13822s | absolutely delighted uh there was |
| 13824s | someone in lorinda's stream who was |
| 13826s | insisting to me that meltronics was the |
| 13828s | nuts in Relic Demon Hunter and I was |
| 13829s | just like no no absolutely not under no |
| 13832s | circumstances and then they started |
| 13834s | adding me every time they like won a |
| 13835s | game against Druid because they couldn't |
| 13837s | play their anubricants they had a |
| 13838s | miltronics which I imagine by the way is |
| 13840s | largely what that inclusion is in the |
| 13842s | deck for and I do think it is |
| 13843s | potentially effective in that one |
| 13844s | particular matchup so as we now do take |
| 13847s | a close-up look at pocket train uh |
| 13850s | pocket I think yesterday had a bit of a |
| 13852s | mixed bag by his high standard so that's |
| 13854s | the perfect moment to come into it on uh |
| 13857s | I think this game maybe just got a |
| 13859s | little bit unfocused perhaps over traded |
| 13862s | a little bit as well and you could see |
| 13864s | on his face pocket train sets very high |
| 13866s | standards for himself when he plays at a |
| 13868s | competitive level and wasn't 100 happy |
| 13871s | with the way it was going |
| 13873s | yeah I think it's really representative |
| 13875s | just how these players are all their |
| 13878s | harshest critics so even if they win a |
| 13880s | game if they feel they haven't performed |
| 13882s | their very best they're going to be the |
| 13883s | first to you know hold themselves to |
| 13885s | account for that and pocket train if you |
| 13887s | catch his streams at the end of the |
| 13889s | month you know when the stress is high I |
| 13891s | think you can really see that |
| 13893s | yes it is I think that's one thing you |
| 13896s | know if you want to be looking for |
| 13897s | positives with competitive Hearthstone I |
| 13899s | think the last week of the competitive |
| 13901s | season of the latter season uh with the |
| 13904s | players that are streaming it the likes |
| 13905s | of meaty pocket train banterface for |
| 13907s | example in this tournament uh who stream |
| 13910s | uh large portions of their end of season |
| 13912s | climbs it is scintillating content even |
| 13916s | if essentially what you're watching is |
| 13917s | people emotionally torturing themselves |
| 13920s | for hours on end it is still incredibly |
| 13923s | entertaining uh we just skipped past the |
| 13925s | outcast Demon Hunter there I did want to |
| 13928s | ask you do you have any thoughts on the |
| 13929s | The Relic versus Outcast uh dichotomy in |
| 13932s | this tournament and any thoughts on |
| 13933s | which of the two you would favor bring |
| 13936s | well I would normally say Relic but I |
| 13940s | gotta admit that Levick has me maybe a |
| 13942s | little bit converted particularly with |
| 13944s | his variation of the list having those |
| 13946s | Hawk Striders seems like then you can |
| 13948s | get a few extra sticky boards and if you |
| 13951s | stick a couple of minions hellveria is I |
| 13954s | mean bloodlust and sometimes even better |
| 13958s | yeah absolutely I think just the |
| 13960s | fragility in general in terms of |
| 13962s | thoughts about Stephen Hunter is one of |
| 13964s | the big turn-offs for me specifically it |
| 13965s | feels like you have two five fives and |
| 13968s | that's the contents of your deck at that |
| 13970s | point in terms of being able to stick |
| 13972s | aboard against some decks obviously just |
| 13974s | the Relentless flood of a bunch of one |
| 13976s | ones and two ones every term will get |
| 13978s | there but I think that added security |
| 13979s | from the hawkstrider Rancher has had a |
| 13981s | really really big impact for Levick so |
| 13984s | far and I think a lot of similarities to |
| 13986s | be made between levik and Hemlock that |
| 13989s | we're seeing in this series you know |
| 13991s | nothing absolutely meta breaking |
| 13993s | completely off the wall in terms of |
| 13994s | archetypes that we've never looked at |
| 13996s | before but certainly just interesting |
| 13998s | individual twists in terms of tech cards |
| 14001s | and inclusions making the list just very |
| 14004s | unique to their own flavor |
| 14007s | so jumping into this first game here we |
| 14009s | see the mermaids do come out making that |
| 14012s | very early board |
| 14013s | and Mage you know not exactly wanting to |
| 14016s | throw out a ping on turn two so |
| 14019s | and pocket looking suitably unimpressed |
| 14022s | by the double mommy star uh there is as |
| 14025s | you mentioned though now the opportunity |
| 14026s | that Hemlock could gas out with this |
| 14028s | hand but I think if pocket train could |
| 14030s | pick a nightmare hand to have to deal |
| 14032s | with after this start it's two cards |
| 14034s | that generate resources in hand for |
| 14036s | hemlock which is exactly what he has |
| 14038s | right now |
| 14040s | and that may be one of the calculations |
| 14042s | with these mermaids is saying well you |
| 14045s | know you've got the vizier you've got |
| 14047s | school teacher there's plenty of ways of |
| 14049s | generating resources if you can |
| 14051s | sort of shift the way that you discover |
| 14053s | cards prioritize things like defrost or |
| 14056s | stuff that generates additional |
| 14058s | resources then maybe it's fine and you |
| 14060s | just want to hit the ground running |
| 14063s | [Music] |
| 14067s | yeah I think this makes sense as a |
| 14069s | discover choice no real Merit for |
| 14071s | repulsive gargantuan it can be |
| 14073s | incredibly clutch against uh Relic Demon |
| 14076s | Hunter and a couple of other decks |
| 14077s | sometimes but this mage deck is only |
| 14078s | really going to gain armor which does |
| 14081s | not qualify as healing so no real Merit |
| 14083s | I think just has to be the the good card |
| 14085s | pick the cards in your deck |
| 14088s | yep absolutely I think for pocket train |
| 14091s | here he's just trying to navigate how to |
| 14093s | stall long enough to get to that coin |
| 14096s | deathborn turn I think that's where |
| 14099s | you're able to really turn things around |
| 14101s | although it does come with a risk which |
| 14102s | is that if your board is full it's going |
| 14105s | to be a lot harder to |
| 14107s | you know just play things like a cult |
| 14109s | Neil fight or anything you want to |
| 14111s | squeeze in alongside those minions |
| 14113s | especially to get this artificer down to |
| 14115s | game armor do you have any thoughts on |
| 14117s | cult near fight because I don't think |
| 14119s | it's a particularly common ladder card |
| 14121s | still but I think many many people have |
| 14123s | been have been playing two and in some |
| 14125s | cases four copies of cold near fight in |
| 14127s | their lineups overall in this tournament |
| 14129s | it seems to me a nod to the prevalence |
| 14132s | of Rogue at the highest levels of play |
| 14135s | Rogue is a class that I feel like |
| 14138s | everyone if they can bring it they will |
| 14140s | and when you see that every single |
| 14143s | lineup in this top eight has concoction |
| 14145s | Rogue |
| 14146s | and then on top of that Relic Demon |
| 14148s | Hunter |
| 14149s | rounds off another four players |
| 14151s | those are both Decks that rely very very |
| 14153s | heavily on spells and if people were |
| 14155s | expecting that then cult neophyte is an |
| 14157s | excellent pick |
| 14163s | Hemlock has continued to draw the |
| 14165s | resource generation here very very nice |
| 14167s | curve so far has kept that pressure up |
| 14169s | but of course now when you're playing |
| 14171s | against Mage every iteration of plays |
| 14175s | that you have in your head will be |
| 14176s | tempered by that okay but what happens |
| 14178s | if they coin deathborn me this turn |
| 14180s | right like that is your number one |
| 14181s | concern what is my best player around |
| 14183s | that car |
| 14199s | yep howling blast pretty reasonable |
| 14201s | pickup just an extra three damage and |
| 14204s | you know without the resources I think |
| 14206s | is just the decision here I guess we go |
| 14209s | all face and that's just how it has to |
| 14210s | be |
| 14215s | good shot good Target very good Target |
| 14218s | [Music] |
| 14224s | but probably the best Target |
| 14228s | I think so that has rated about as close |
| 14231s | to a full clear as you can get although |
| 14233s | still just enough power here |
| 14237s | yeah the skeleton shot breaking open the |
| 14239s | visarium was a real nightmare it has to |
| 14242s | be said |
| 14243s | I mean I wonder |
| 14245s | it's just lethal with the naggling right |
| 14248s | I think Hemlock almost like failed to |
| 14249s | counter as well he was good he was |
| 14251s | reaching for the vizier at the start of |
| 14252s | the term but with that howling blast in |
| 14254s | the nuggling it's just going to be |
| 14255s | straight off lethal turn six for hemlock |
| 14259s | and these games are going crazy fast but |
| 14262s | I almost wonder if pocket train had gone |
| 14265s | for the deathborn and then Frozen |
| 14266s | afterward you get one fewer skeleton you |
| 14268s | don't get that shot off but it does mean |
| 14270s | that the Syrian guaranteed will not be |
| 14272s | able to attack that is a great Point uh |
| 14275s | you you pulled me out for the opposite |
| 14277s | of that while we were in testing on |
| 14279s | Friday where I missed a skeleton for no |
| 14281s | reason whatsoever by doing that in the |
| 14283s | other order but in that instance you are |
| 14286s | right you do then remove that extra |
| 14287s | source of two damage that can break open |
| 14289s | the the Cesarean but again you're |
| 14293s | playing around a niche sequence of |
| 14294s | events right it's a one in three that |
| 14297s | the uh skeleton pops open with this area |
| 14300s | I suppose it is then guaranteed that the |
| 14302s | Syrian hits you in the face though right |
| 14304s | like the damage from the death rattle |
| 14306s | would then hit you in the face because |
| 14307s | it happens before your skeletons appear |
| 14309s | so yeah maybe that is you know maybe |
| 14311s | that does happen often enough that it is |
| 14313s | worth playing around for the sake of one |
| 14314s | skeleton I think that's a good |
| 14315s | observation so regardless uh headlock |
| 14318s | after nearly making a little bit of a |
| 14320s | mess of the lethal setup at the end does |
| 14322s | spot the three damage in the nogling is |
| 14324s | able to get over the line and I do think |
| 14327s | as well I know following uh depth tech |
| 14329s | on Twitter he's been constantly |
| 14331s | commenting and updating on the status of |
| 14334s | Mage Believers or Mage deltas and |
| 14336s | whether or not they are in shambles I do |
| 14338s | think the the aggro Mage debate will |
| 14341s | rage on right it does seem to be a very |
| 14343s | feast or famine type Tech remake of uh |
| 14346s | we have two players playing aggro Mage |
| 14348s | in this series |
| 14351s | I like it I prefer it over something |
| 14354s | like the shadow priest just because it |
| 14356s | has a little bit more flexibility you |
| 14358s | know you have defensive tools and Cold |
| 14359s | Case and solid Alibis you can play that |
| 14362s | game you've got the seemingly infinite |
| 14365s | damage from Frozen touch |
| 14366s | and you know it's just not quite as |
| 14369s | linear as some of these other aggressive |
| 14370s | decks but that being said you know it's |
| 14372s | low on early plays so if they are able |
| 14376s | to snowball effectively against you |
| 14379s | before you can play something like |
| 14380s | deathborn which while powerful costs six |
| 14383s | Mana |
| 14384s | you can just get it run over sometimes |
| 14388s | I think we have had a real blessing in |
| 14390s | this tournament uh three players in our |
| 14392s | top eight now uh wreck Vamp Casey and |
| 14395s | now pocket train just extremely |
| 14397s | expressive faces wear their hearts on |
| 14399s | their sleeves with every drawer every |
| 14401s | play the opponent makes every top deck |
| 14403s | every RNG roll it makes things a little |
| 14405s | more exciting to watch if your eyes |
| 14407s | gravitate towards the webcams uh does |
| 14409s | have pocket though uh Cosmic keyboard in |
| 14412s | hand I did run a few iterations of this |
| 14415s | match up in testing and found the cosmic |
| 14417s | keyboard into Cold Case as an opening |
| 14420s | curve was really the kind of thing that |
| 14422s | I was marketing for uh even going as far |
| 14425s | to throw away one and two drops to try |
| 14427s | and make that happen because getting |
| 14428s | those large mid-ranging minions down |
| 14431s | early against Demon Hunter is so so key |
| 14434s | I think Cosmic keyboard is easily the |
| 14436s | best card that Mage got in this last |
| 14438s | expansion alongside volume up and the |
| 14441s | two particularly work well together so |
| 14444s | something I'm definitely always looking |
| 14446s | for it's just so great on a face value |
| 14449s | you think oh this is for big spells you |
| 14451s | can get big minions alongside but it |
| 14453s | really is just extra stuff for doing |
| 14456s | what you already wanted to do |
| 14459s | all right |
| 14467s | we use the predation for Tempo here |
| 14469s | didn't necessarily see what the |
| 14471s | selection was from hemlock but Abyssal |
| 14473s | depth was available |
| 14474s | Abyssal depth will draw your blood Mage |
| 14477s | plus A3 drop in this deck uh that free |
| 14480s | drop of course can be Silvermoon |
| 14481s | Guardian which when you already have |
| 14483s | unleash fell in hand would be very |
| 14484s | beneficial |
| 14486s | very nice draw yeah volume up on curve |
| 14489s | just what you want although |
| 14491s | sometimes you prefer not to play that |
| 14494s | three drop going in just because it does |
| 14496s | leave you in the situation where you're |
| 14497s | gonna burn a card but that's a lot of |
| 14500s | burn damage coming together with an egg |
| 14502s | win on The Following turn |
| 14503s | [Music] |
| 14505s | yeah I think that was a position in one |
| 14507s | of pockets previous Series where he had |
| 14509s | the option to finale a volume up or not |
| 14511s | and chose to do so when it may have |
| 14513s | actually been better not to forehand |
| 14515s | side's concerns I think that was one of |
| 14517s | the things that he called out himself as |
| 14519s | a criticism of his play on the the |
| 14520s | previous term finale being a new |
| 14522s | mechanic there's always that thing you |
| 14523s | have to get used to if sometimes it's |
| 14525s | better to not use the mechanic and just |
| 14527s | get on with it |
| 14530s | yeah what's missile depth no great |
| 14532s | surprise |
| 14534s | oh there's a Finley in his deck as well |
| 14536s | I'm sorry I apologize completely forgot |
| 14538s | about the film |
| 14540s | a bit of a unique inclusion there |
| 14546s | yeah |
| 14546s | what I've done there is made the |
| 14549s | catastrophic mistake of assuming that |
| 14550s | Hemlock plays standard lists which we |
| 14552s | have already well established Hemlock |
| 14554s | does not do |
| 14557s | and I can always appreciate that in a |
| 14558s | player by myself when I'm on ladder tend |
| 14561s | not to play metadex had to do bit more |
| 14564s | of it going into this event but I like |
| 14566s | to brew myself something special |
| 14571s | all right how much self-respect do we |
| 14573s | have this turn are we ever trading all |
| 14575s | of these minions into this five five to |
| 14577s | play around deathborn I mean yeah it's |
| 14580s | pretty scary it is |
| 14583s | [Music] |
| 14588s | I think you can take your draw and feel |
| 14589s | pretty good about it and just ditch the |
| 14591s | board you know they're they're really |
| 14592s | just here |
| 14593s | to uh |
| 14595s | fight for board and upgrade your relics |
| 14600s | I think a question here is whether you |
| 14602s | want a spectral and hope to hit zymock |
| 14604s | so you can start infusing it or just not |
| 14607s | draw the cards to be able to Dimensions |
| 14608s | next turn |
| 14610s | that's the issue right I don't think |
| 14611s | spectral say is necessarily a |
| 14614s | particularly playable card here because |
| 14616s | of the hand space concerns I think there |
| 14619s | was even a debatable argument of just |
| 14622s | throwing out Taste of chaos at the start |
| 14624s | of the turn so you could get rid of it |
| 14625s | without its replacing itself to create |
| 14627s | that space for you |
| 14632s | nice nice cheap spell damage |
| 14635s | and not the juiciest deathborn but you |
| 14637s | do get a six six which feels pretty good |
| 14639s | there |
| 14641s | which arguably more important than any |
| 14644s | amount of skeletons because you're |
| 14645s | always fearing the the three damage AOE |
| 14648s | specifically although to be fair I think |
| 14650s | you'd fear four damage AOE specifically |
| 14652s | in this instance because you know for a |
| 14654s | fact blood Mage Thanos is in their hand |
| 14656s | at this point |
| 14658s | [Music] |
| 14662s | at a certain point as the Mage you're |
| 14664s | really just getting minions in play to |
| 14666s | feed your Frozen touches yep |
| 14674s | but it's still The Balancing Act Right |
| 14675s | like yep getting a few minions in play |
| 14677s | might get you another Frozen touch which |
| 14679s | gains you three damage over the course |
| 14680s | of the game but arguably every minion |
| 14682s | you play might be healing your opponent |
| 14684s | for three over the course of the game so |
| 14685s | it's a really really fine tight rope to |
| 14687s | walk I think and that's where I think |
| 14690s | aguin is so important in the matchup |
| 14693s | because you can you know Whittle away |
| 14696s | with frozen touches but also you can |
| 14698s | just save up for a massive burst turn |
| 14700s | and I think that's what pocket trains |
| 14702s | can be looking to do not playing any of |
| 14704s | these Arcane spells since they are |
| 14706s | cheaper and still five damage once Mana |
| 14708s | Thurston with the spell damage |
| 14711s | and you can build yourself your own |
| 14713s | little otk |
| 14717s | [Music] |
| 14718s | I |
| 14722s | do you display it |
| 14725s | oh oh wait how does that work |
| 14729s | does that |
| 14735s | I mean yeah it means the next minion |
| 14737s | that gets drawn will have the spell |
| 14739s | damage on it twice I believe |
| 14742s | that is going to be very challenging for |
| 14745s | hemlock to deal with almost to the point |
| 14747s | of maybe just hoping that a minion isn't |
| 14749s | drawn for a little while |
| 14750s | yeah because I think so shallow grave is |
| 14752s | super premium there for that reason I |
| 14754s | think if there wasn't a super premium |
| 14756s | option just making a Ragnarok for that |
| 14758s | turn against Demon Hunter looked pretty |
| 14760s | damn good honestly yeah I did forget |
| 14762s | that it was these buffed minions so |
| 14765s | obviously you wouldn't want to transform |
| 14767s | that's true you're a death battle into |
| 14769s | an aid as good as it is you can't expect |
| 14772s | it to stick around |
| 14773s | did he have enough Mana to do with the |
| 14775s | artificer instead |
| 14778s | uh you know because of the discount you |
| 14780s | would but I don't believe you would get |
| 14782s | the armor |
| 14785s | I'm not sure actually I think he would |
| 14787s | right it's when so it'd be the same |
| 14789s | interaction as the deathborne |
| 14790s | interaction right right |
| 14792s | [Music] |
| 14799s | anyway relative dimensions time |
| 14802s | questions over the last two turns like |
| 14804s | last term was fine because the hand dump |
| 14806s | was mandatory to sell for this turn so |
| 14808s | you were kind of wanted to use some |
| 14810s | cards inefficiently weirdly enough |
| 14814s | whether the hand could have been dumped |
| 14816s | to turn quicker so that this could have |
| 14818s | happened a turn quicker I think is |
| 14820s | perhaps worth looking at in this spot |
| 14822s | that is a two meta Dimensions now I |
| 14826s | think if cathino is picked up there's a |
| 14828s | lot of situations where Hemlock just can |
| 14831s | have a lethal out of nowhere |
| 14835s | very fortunate for hemlock though that |
| 14837s | there was not a cheap minion picked up |
| 14839s | here or that would have just been the |
| 14840s | end |
| 14845s | yeah here is that exact situation finale |
| 14849s | deliberately being chosen not to be used |
| 14852s | in this spot for the hand size concerns |
| 14854s | I think this is the exact spot the |
| 14856s | pocket train missed yesterday and is now |
| 14859s | recognized today so if anything |
| 14860s | congratulations if you've you've gone |
| 14863s | away you've you've reviewed the tapes |
| 14865s | and you've stepped it up on the next day |
| 14866s | so why not and particularly important in |
| 14869s | this spot because the card burned if it |
| 14871s | is a minion would be that double spell |
| 14874s | damage buff so really cannot afford to |
| 14878s | lose the minion in that position |
| 14882s | yeah let's go |
| 14885s | oh oh hello really okay fine just using |
| 14890s | zymox I suppose yeah and also just cards |
| 14893s | being dumped right because he wants to |
| 14895s | he wants the dimensions again |
| 14896s | immediately so he's trying having to |
| 14898s | figure out what his least valuable cards |
| 14900s | in hand are right now |
| 14903s | all the mailtronics |
| 14906s | has to be outcast but that's not hard to |
| 14909s | do when nothing costs Mana |
| 14921s | search Within Me |
| 14924s | [Music] |
| 14928s | wow Enchanted really feels themselves |
| 14931s | when they're coming into play huh that |
| 14932s | was some real Pomp and Circumstance in |
| 14934s | The Voice |
| 14935s | I think I've ever heard that before oh |
| 14937s | we're feeling good about the draw |
| 14940s | double spell damage with the deathborn |
| 14944s | but |
| 14946s | [Laughter] |
| 14953s | well for a moment there Hemlock had me |
| 14956s | as a believer in the meltronics but uh |
| 14959s | not quite enough there and now big |
| 14962s | security for pocket train right because |
| 14964s | this would still be a scary world if he |
| 14966s | hadn't have just seen the Rowdy fan and |
| 14968s | the Sterno be used on the previous term |
| 14970s | because this is still just a matter of |
| 14972s | immolation Aura and then you're dead |
| 14974s | right if the combo is in hand uh still |
| 14976s | at this point for zero Manor cards so I |
| 14979s | think uh pocket train will be feeling |
| 14980s | pretty comfortable now |
| 14982s | definitely 24 is or 23 in this case is |
| 14986s | just enough where they only need four |
| 14988s | spells after the clear with Rowdy Spano |
| 14991s | and that's not very difficult for this |
| 14993s | deck to achieve |
| 14996s | pocket Train's got this look on his face |
| 14998s | like yeah go to 30 it doesn't really |
| 15001s | matter at this point |
| 15004s | well that's the thing about deathborn is |
| 15006s | like even if they get that clear you |
| 15009s | still get your damage in afterwards so |
| 15011s | as soon as pocket draws a minion here |
| 15014s | it's just you know three frozen touches |
| 15016s | you're dead |
| 15033s | is that good enough with the double |
| 15036s | spelled image I think it's one off |
| 15042s | uh right 21 yeah yep I think so |
| 15050s | presuming the mechanics will work as I |
| 15051s | expect them to and the double death row |
| 15053s | continues to recur over time which I |
| 15055s | expected does |
| 15056s | it's not something I have specifically |
| 15058s | seen |
| 15077s | well you can technically |
| 15079s | Finley to avoid fatigue but I think |
| 15081s | that's the least of the concerns right |
| 15083s | now |
| 15084s | [Music] |
| 15088s | yeah I have questions about this game |
| 15091s | from hemlock it firstly it felt like he |
| 15093s | perhaps went to turn too slow with the |
| 15095s | relative dimensions by not dumping cards |
| 15096s | earlier and then the decision to just |
| 15099s | full commit uh throwing away his |
| 15101s | off-board win condition |
| 15103s | just left pocket train in such a secure |
| 15106s | position to be able to as long as he |
| 15107s | could clear that board somehow it seemed |
| 15110s | like he was in business but I guess |
| 15111s | Hemlock will have much more experience |
| 15113s | as a mailtronics player than I do so I |
| 15115s | would imagine From hemlock's perspective |
| 15117s | his game is Just well if I play |
| 15119s | meltronics here they just die right like |
| 15121s | there's no way they can clear this |
| 15123s | forward through mailtronics conditions |
| 15124s | which I think is a relatively Fair |
| 15127s | assessment on average right in that spot |
| 15129s | so who knows right but barring that you |
| 15133s | know |
| 15134s | if you hold on to a zero Mana Rowdy fan |
| 15137s | that gives you a lot of potential lethal |
| 15139s | outs when you do pick up so Thanos so I |
| 15141s | might have looked to throw away |
| 15142s | something else just to hold on to that |
| 15144s | possibility |
| 15153s | 14 life I think Hemlock knows is not |
| 15156s | going to do it here |
| 15158s | um |
| 15160s | time to wash away the film |
| 15164s | in fact I believe 100 of the time I |
| 15167s | think he has all the information he |
| 15168s | needs to know he's dead because you |
| 15170s | actually see the uh the trigger go off |
| 15172s | when your opponent draws a minion right |
| 15175s | with the spell damage as they drive so |
| 15177s | with that information plus the fact that |
| 15179s | you saw two frozen touches get cast on |
| 15181s | the previous turn you actually know for |
| 15183s | a fact you are dead |
| 15185s | but still nothing Hemlock could really |
| 15187s | do about it and that means the series is |
| 15189s | going to be squared up at one game to |
| 15191s | one pocket comes back into the series uh |
| 15194s | Mage Delta status now back in shambles |
| 15198s | as pocket stream is able to get it over |
| 15200s | the line and Mage is not going to be the |
| 15203s | problem deck now in this series at least |
| 15204s | for uh pocket train although we are |
| 15206s | still awaiting seeing it from hemlock I |
| 15209s | believe |
| 15210s | yeah I think that Mage there may have |
| 15213s | been a few people's picks here |
| 15214s | specifically because of Relic Demon |
| 15216s | Hunter since it is a deck that relies on |
| 15219s | the opponent having a big board for you |
| 15220s | to unleash fell heel back up Mage is |
| 15223s | able to hit a certain point where okay |
| 15225s | you play a few minions but it's really |
| 15227s | just persistent burst damage from Frozen |
| 15230s | touches and even though the double egg |
| 15233s | win buff was flashy at the end there |
| 15235s | pocket would have had it all the same |
| 15236s | with just replaying pros and touches |
| 15247s | on ladder for quite some time |
| 15250s | um particularly early days of the |
| 15251s | expansion the only Mage he played |
| 15253s | against were people messing with like |
| 15255s | light show or Milhouse kind of builds |
| 15257s | right which is a similar deck to this in |
| 15260s | terms of the stalling package with cold |
| 15262s | cold cases and solid Alibis and those |
| 15264s | kind of things but much much slower and |
| 15267s | less pressure in terms of burst damage |
| 15269s | and that matchup for Relic Demon Hunter |
| 15272s | like they just played 15 solid Alibis |
| 15275s | and still die that's how that matchup |
| 15276s | tends to go most of the time whereas |
| 15278s | when you switch gears from that versus |
| 15280s | the more aggressive version of the Mage |
| 15282s | the difference in the pressure and the |
| 15284s | difference in the faster level of burst |
| 15287s | output once they drop the eight win |
| 15289s | really makes that night and day but now |
| 15291s | we are going to move on and this is a |
| 15293s | matchup I'm excited to watch as many |
| 15295s | times as we possibly can in the |
| 15296s | remainder of this tournament uh the |
| 15298s | outcast Demon Hunter going up against |
| 15300s | The Relic Demon Hunter because I do |
| 15302s | think narratively this is one of the big |
| 15304s | cruxes of this tournament is the clash |
| 15306s | between these these two individual decks |
| 15308s | yeah absolutely and it I do not |
| 15311s | believe has that special Tech that |
| 15313s | Levick has in the Hawks Rider so or is |
| 15317s | it going to be a little bit more fragile |
| 15318s | vulnerable to unleash fell and |
| 15320s | immolation Aura we have seen some |
| 15322s | players kind of play around that and |
| 15324s | specifically just get out there five |
| 15326s | fives to try and rush her that way you |
| 15328s | know if you stick any number of minions |
| 15329s | sometimes you can just Outcast some |
| 15332s | rushers with hellveria get big damage |
| 15334s | and call it a day |
| 15338s | not the best matchup for the enchanter |
| 15340s | it has to be said |
| 15341s | [Music] |
| 15344s | yeah enchanter is |
| 15346s | an interesting pick |
| 15349s | I guess it functions best with |
| 15351s | immolation Aura is the best explanation |
| 15353s | I can come up with because well Arcanist |
| 15357s | and if you immolation Aura it does too |
| 15359s | and then kills it and then the second or |
| 15361s | sorry does three kills it and then the |
| 15363s | second tick is just the one enchanter |
| 15365s | you |
| 15366s | I suppose it's the same difference it's |
| 15368s | just four by another message yeah |
| 15372s | if you can get them both out at once I |
| 15374s | suppose it makes the Unleashed fell |
| 15376s | extra special |
| 15378s | I think also I think enchanter leans |
| 15381s | towards Miracle Rogan Druid match up |
| 15384s | specifically because a lot like with |
| 15387s | with the Druid matchup it allows you to |
| 15389s | actually fight back against that zoc |
| 15391s | board that comes down at the end of the |
| 15392s | game if you don't have straight UPS then |
| 15393s | I'll lethal through it |
| 15395s | um and then enchanter like click Relic |
| 15397s | Vault Relic Extinction will actually |
| 15400s | kill kill most ghosts on the other side |
| 15402s | of the board against Miracle Rogue so I |
| 15404s | think that's largely what the inclusion |
| 15406s | is for uh when your opponent just has a |
| 15408s | bunch of one ones and two ones on the |
| 15410s | other side of the board though kinda |
| 15411s | pointless as an inclusion |
| 15416s | well you know unleash Val is still just |
| 15418s | a one damage clear so every once in a |
| 15420s | while you do need a Thanos or Enchanted |
| 15423s | pair with clear for sure but uh yeah I |
| 15426s | see what you're saying a little more |
| 15428s | effective with the Relic extinctions |
| 15430s | [Music] |
| 15444s | you know something I love about this |
| 15446s | Outcast Demon Hunter as well is that |
| 15448s | it's made fellerin playable and there's |
| 15450s | there's a couple of things as well that |
| 15453s | are not technically new cards but they |
| 15455s | feel like new cards because this |
| 15458s | expansion breathed breathe life into |
| 15460s | them and that is both Valor and the |
| 15462s | Forgotten and the vengeful walloper that |
| 15465s | five five payoff card that I believe can |
| 15468s | come down right now sorry sorry I'm |
| 15470s | gonna have to stop you right there this |
| 15471s | is not a bit are you telling me fella |
| 15473s | River was already in the game before |
| 15474s | this expansion because I genuinely did |
| 15477s | not know that |
| 15478s | so Feller and the Forgotten signature |
| 15480s | card is |
| 15482s | monochromatic it is black and white |
| 15485s | oh my goodness okay you're right I |
| 15488s | genuinely did not know that I did not |
| 15490s | know that was a card up until this deck |
| 15492s | of it |
| 15493s | you know I can't really blame you for |
| 15495s | that |
| 15499s | [Music] |
| 15502s | |
| 15505s | very well done keeping the board clear |
| 15507s | although |
| 15509s | no lifesteal to worry about just yet but |
| 15512s | I think maybe just trying to make space |
| 15513s | for playing the rushes that's one thing |
| 15515s | that can happen with this outcasting and |
| 15517s | Hunter is you do run out of board space |
| 15520s | in a lot of the ways that you you can is |
| 15521s | made sometimes with the skeletons |
| 15526s | dog |
| 15529s | currently extremely minimal value in the |
| 15533s | hand for hemlock though which uh this is |
| 15535s | generally considered to be a favored |
| 15537s | matchup for The Relic Demon Hunter I |
| 15538s | have to caveat that because I do |
| 15540s | acknowledge there is a great deal of |
| 15542s | dispute among top players as to some of |
| 15545s | the outcast Demon Hunter numbers as |
| 15547s | reported by like top 1000 Legend |
| 15549s | statistics uh these are lorinda's words |
| 15552s | not mine by the way I'm just repeating |
| 15554s | how Lorinda phrases this Lorinda plays |
| 15557s | in top 1000 Legend that's how you know |
| 15560s | those stats are useless okay that's not |
| 15562s | me that's not me they said that not me |
| 15564s | okay it's making that clear but yes the |
| 15567s | argument being uh the uh top 20 Level |
| 15570s | which is largely what we're operating |
| 15572s | with this tournament uh Outcast Demon |
| 15574s | Hunter performs better than the stats |
| 15576s | would argue if you just look at HS |
| 15577s | replay or whatever else |
| 15579s | and I think that's a nod to just the |
| 15582s | number of lines that exist within this |
| 15584s | Outcast even on a deck yeah in terms of |
| 15588s | being careful not to overdraw with this |
| 15590s | weapon in terms of when to commit |
| 15591s | something like wretched Exile and start |
| 15593s | generating a bunch of extra value you |
| 15595s | know we've seen Puckett hold on to these |
| 15598s | Rush minions for a little while just |
| 15601s | saying hey they don't really do much in |
| 15603s | play they're easy to get rid of so I can |
| 15606s | just wait uh to brush them in later on |
| 15609s | they're still going to upgrade the |
| 15610s | weapon doesn't matter if they're |
| 15611s | outcasts themselves to upgrade the |
| 15613s | weapon |
| 15618s | and yeah it means to finish the point I |
| 15620s | started before I got distracted by |
| 15623s | Secondhand flaming Lorinda the fact |
| 15626s | there's not that much value in hemlock's |
| 15628s | hand especially like this illidari |
| 15630s | studies is whiffed on card draw there is |
| 15631s | a spectral site in Hand of course which |
| 15632s | is very nice and appreciated sometimes |
| 15635s | the outcast Demon Hunter can just win by |
| 15637s | Out valuing The Relic Demon Hunter if |
| 15639s | they never draw Vault Dimensions over |
| 15641s | the course of the game because the |
| 15642s | weapon just draws so many cards and then |
| 15645s | Wayward Sage starts happening and never |
| 15649s | mind ignore everything |
| 15651s | USA involved Dimensions yes I was |
| 15660s | [Music] |
| 15662s | something that is important to track is |
| 15664s | any discounts that helveria or sepeno |
| 15666s | get because while this is I think first |
| 15670s | and foremost a board-based deck |
| 15673s | sometimes you just kill them with sebeno |
| 15676s | and whether it's buffing sethano from |
| 15679s | elveria plus a security or from I |
| 15683s | believe there's a single copy of Rowdy |
| 15685s | fan in most lists |
| 15687s | you occasionally can just do the same |
| 15688s | thing that The Relic Demon Hunter |
| 15689s | sometimes looks to do and just kill them |
| 15691s | from hand with Stefano yeah most lists |
| 15694s | in this tournament have cut the Rowdy |
| 15696s | fan from the outcome and I believe |
| 15698s | pocket is among the people that have cut |
| 15700s | it yes yeah there's no Rowdy fan In |
| 15702s | Pockets list |
| 15704s | um but you are absolutely right to point |
| 15706s | out the hell barrier interaction |
| 15707s | particularly now that they are that are |
| 15708s | both discounted because predations are |
| 15711s | just going to end up costing zero and |
| 15713s | you put on so much pressure that if you |
| 15715s | get a slightly buffed uh sveno and get |
| 15717s | to play double predation that can end up |
| 15719s | being lethal a lot of the time |
| 15722s | foreign |
| 15728s | actually going to do something this turn |
| 15730s | it looks like |
| 15733s | well there's no other way of buffing |
| 15735s | them so |
| 15736s | [Music] |
| 15740s | yeah your alternative is what actually |
| 15743s | are the relic's still at zero you can't |
| 15745s | even click dimensions and just say |
| 15747s | you're hitting Silver Moon no matter |
| 15749s | what because I think that would be |
| 15750s | outrageously ambitious |
| 15756s | so it looks like it has to be an |
| 15758s | enchanter term |
| 15759s | I think the question is how much you |
| 15760s | want to heal and how much you want to |
| 15762s | play relic of Extinction to juice the |
| 15764s | dimensions for the following terms I |
| 15766s | think it's always an enchanter turn it's |
| 15768s | just a matter of which removal spells |
| 15770s | are going to be used |
| 15778s | trying to think if there was a way I |
| 15781s | guess you could double |
| 15782s | Extinction and dimensions but then you |
| 15785s | you don't get to double the dimensions |
| 15787s | so yeah exactly |
| 15791s | one of these used alongside the grade |
| 15796s | uh I think |
| 15798s | did we take extra damage there |
| 15801s | [Music] |
| 15805s | it looks like Hemlock hit the the |
| 15807s | walloper instead of the |
| 15810s | SE two he hit the Wayward Sage right I'm |
| 15813s | sorry would say uh wretched Exile that's |
| 15815s | twice I've done that now uh with the |
| 15817s | Exile was alive at the end of that on |
| 15818s | this |
| 15820s | oh okay got got bumped into it I guess |
| 15822s | prioritizing keeping the 2-2 in play |
| 15825s | uh perhaps to |
| 15827s | be mindful of something like a lady |
| 15829s | Savannah oh sure yeah yeah sorry yes the |
| 15832s | the minion attacked The Wretched Sage |
| 15834s | the face attacked the five five right |
| 15836s | which I think is fine yeah just protect |
| 15837s | it keeping the minion on board but yes |
| 15839s | you could have taken less damage but I |
| 15841s | think it was a deliberate choice not to |
| 15843s | as opposed to a mistake |
| 15846s | I think on pocket side |
| 15849s | He is building towards that setheno |
| 15852s | hellveria turn we've gotten another |
| 15854s | discount on the susano so it's now just |
| 15856s | a four Mana play |
| 15857s | to get those down and I think it's just |
| 15860s | gonna be looking to |
| 15863s | find big enough minions to rush into |
| 15866s | phantasms would be the absolute nuts |
| 15868s | draw here no okay no phantasms that |
| 15870s | ability to just load Relic Vault |
| 15872s | phantasms into play this turn it'd be so |
| 15875s | insane to counteract this uh steno combo |
| 15877s | that hockey train is trying to set up |
| 15880s | but even if you do the way hilveria |
| 15882s | works with these Rush minions I'm not |
| 15885s | sure it would matter good point that's a |
| 15886s | great point |
| 15889s | [Music] |
| 15892s | in a sense pocket almost needs big stats |
| 15896s | to to rush the one ones into and they |
| 15899s | can honestly clear the path between |
| 15901s | their attacks this two ones attack |
| 15904s | and then the hellveria and then you you |
| 15906s | send face with the predations and |
| 15907s | sethena would be up to I don't know |
| 15909s | upwards of six attack right |
| 15915s | yeah you have to play the security first |
| 15918s | or else the tutu will just get killed by |
| 15920s | the Thanos you can't play Steno first |
| 15922s | this allows you to then trade twice I |
| 15924s | think this means it's enough because I I |
| 15926s | trust that Puckett's done the math and I |
| 15928s | think that's what the delay was was |
| 15931s | trying to think about how much this |
| 15933s | would be maybe the odds of picking up |
| 15935s | dispose |
| 15937s | exactly that yeah I think this was |
| 15939s | Lethal as long as you drew the oh no as |
| 15942s | long as you drew the dispose of evidence |
| 15944s | you were actually able to get there in |
| 15945s | the end so yeah yeah very very good |
| 15947s | pocket shake at the head so that was the |
| 15948s | calculation as to whether you could fit |
| 15950s | in the spectral site because as soon as |
| 15952s | you can do that he hit the uh dispose of |
| 15955s | evidence already and you need to do it |
| 15957s | before you swing the weapon right you |
| 15959s | can't swing the weapon and then draw |
| 15961s | dispose of evidence because then you |
| 15963s | miss the three damage having already |
| 15964s | attacked with the weapon so really |
| 15967s | really down to the wire there for pocket |
| 15969s | as to be able to get that lethal across |
| 15971s | the line but good recognition as well uh |
| 15974s | not making the mistake that I'm sure |
| 15975s | many people would have done there and |
| 15977s | going oh wow it's lethal and then |
| 15978s | playing sveno first and then jamming the |
| 15980s | security straight afterwards and |
| 15982s | immediately losing a million damage from |
| 15984s | those so yeah very nicely done and I |
| 15986s | think a big win for the series as well |
| 15989s | right Outcast Demon Hunter again |
| 15991s | according to ladder stats is unfavored |
| 15994s | quite heavily against Relic Demon Hunter |
| 15996s | so being able to |
| 15997s | reverse that in the shape of the series |
| 15999s | I think is a big big win in terms of the |
| 16002s | context of Conquest |
| 16004s | and you know some of that |
| 16007s | in terms of pockets Victory could be due |
| 16009s | to Hemlock straw but a lot of it is just |
| 16010s | you know knowing how to exploit |
| 16012s | weaknesses how to you know present just |
| 16015s | enough Minions that they have to be |
| 16017s | cleared and then holding on to key |
| 16019s | pieces like setheno and elveria for a |
| 16022s | big finish there |
| 16024s | having just seen that on the replay |
| 16025s | small correction I believe he swung |
| 16028s | seven face at the end with opponent of |
| 16030s | four so the dispose of evidence didn't |
| 16033s | necessarily need to be disposed of |
| 16035s | evidence it just needed to be a playable |
| 16037s | spell the three damage from the dispose |
| 16039s | of evidence actually didn't end up |
| 16041s | mattering uh which makes the lethal so |
| 16044s | much more likely right because then you |
| 16046s | can swing the weapon and play illidari |
| 16048s | studies at the end for example to get |
| 16050s | yourself over the line which makes it or |
| 16051s | even play a dispose of evidence right if |
| 16053s | you don't yeah yeah true yeah great |
| 16056s | point |
| 16059s | [Music] |
| 16061s | so yeah I think that goes to show the |
| 16063s | decision to go in there from pocket |
| 16064s | train probably correct in the end they'd |
| 16066s | have to be an incredibly unlikely pan |
| 16068s | out to uh not find lethal there if it |
| 16070s | was even possible |
| 16073s | now here's what we're all here to see |
| 16075s | pocket train on Miracle Rogue |
| 16084s | pocket Shake of the head like pipe down |
| 16087s | stop playing ball on two this is |
| 16089s | unacceptable |
| 16091s | opponent is being an absolute rotter |
| 16093s | right now |
| 16100s | foreign |
| 16102s | ly nothing to pair with the Vault except |
| 16105s | another Vault and |
| 16107s | it doesn't work the way you want to |
| 16108s | literally pair with the Vault yes |
| 16115s | you imagine if you |
| 16117s | vaults and then vaults in it and it |
| 16119s | quadrupled to your next reality yeah |
| 16122s | it's the same thing people have like oh |
| 16124s | why doesn't Baron stack well like why |
| 16126s | didn't Old Baron said why doesn't bran |
| 16128s | stack because twice means twice it |
| 16130s | doesn't matter how many times you read |
| 16132s | the word twice it still means twice |
| 16135s | sorry you've activated one of my bug |
| 16137s | bears |
| 16139s | sorry I'm not saying it should work that |
| 16142s | way I'm just saying can you imagine how |
| 16144s | ridiculous it would be I know it just it |
| 16147s | just rolls me up I just invent the other |
| 16149s | side of the argument to rage at even if |
| 16151s | it doesn't exist that's how much it |
| 16152s | annoys me they've had to make an |
| 16154s | entirely new card in Battlegrounds to |
| 16157s | allow that to work correct exactly yeah |
| 16164s | things coming together here for pocket |
| 16167s | but no payoff besides taraka and he'd be |
| 16171s | happy to see something like a ghoul or a |
| 16174s | bone Spike here just to make things a |
| 16176s | little smoother |
| 16179s | pocket one of the holdouts with dracker |
| 16181s | as well not necessarily a common |
| 16184s | inclusion in Miracle rope these days a |
| 16186s | lot of people slim down to just the |
| 16188s | locations in terms of payoff and then a |
| 16191s | little bit more Tempo focused uh with |
| 16193s | the things like Queen ashara and |
| 16194s | everything else that you have in the |
| 16195s | deck |
| 16196s | um so pocket train having the draca is I |
| 16199s | think a boon to the matchup against |
| 16201s | Demon Hunter I did comment yesterday |
| 16202s | about how the Demon Hunter matchup got |
| 16205s | better for Demon Hunter because the |
| 16206s | dracas are less big with the uh uh |
| 16210s | mailbox dancer rotating out but I think |
| 16212s | still having draca as opposed to not |
| 16214s | having tracker is a distinct advantage |
| 16216s | and matchup |
| 16218s | yeah absolutely it we've seen even |
| 16221s | without that dancer these weapons |
| 16222s | getting quite large wreck film with that |
| 16224s | 12 attack weapon yesterday and you know |
| 16226s | plenty of you know six attack weapons |
| 16229s | which is still 18 damage ultimately |
| 16231s | can we talk about this setup for a bit |
| 16233s | because it is wonderful place One Colt |
| 16237s | near fight on this turn Shadow steps it |
| 16239s | back to hand which means relic of |
| 16241s | Dimensions is unplayable on this turn he |
| 16243s | can then replay the Colt near Fight |
| 16245s | Shadow step it again on the next turn |
| 16248s | replay it again and then have a full |
| 16251s | pop-off turn uh with whatever he wants |
| 16253s | at that point Draco location everything |
| 16255s | else and that will once again make relic |
| 16258s | of Dimensions unplayable for that turn |
| 16260s | for hemlock this is supremely well done |
| 16263s | from pocket train |
| 16265s | and I think that just demonstrates the |
| 16266s | intimate knowledge of not only the deck |
| 16268s | but the the match-up specifically and |
| 16271s | draca |
| 16273s | very strong because again all that |
| 16275s | healing has to come from your opponent |
| 16278s | having some minions for you to unleash |
| 16280s | Vel so |
| 16282s | hemlock's gonna be just you know biting |
| 16284s | his nails for a couple of turns here |
| 16286s | just not |
| 16288s | sure how to uh approach this and you |
| 16291s | know a ghost on top of it but I'm not |
| 16293s | even sure the ghost will be necessary |
| 16294s | with depending on the size of this |
| 16295s | weapon |
| 16301s | no hesitation from pocket as mentioned |
| 16303s | this is planned out in advance he knows |
| 16306s | everything that's happened this turn |
| 16307s | because he thought of it last time the |
| 16310s | ghoulish Alchemist off the top though is |
| 16312s | such a great addition to this happen oh |
| 16314s | yeah |
| 16315s | laughs |
| 16318s | gets that other concoction in play to |
| 16321s | clean up this uh |
| 16323s | two three get a random minion and end |
| 16326s | with Draka and the location |
| 16331s | this is why people love playing this |
| 16334s | deck because it turns like this |
| 16342s | unleash fell unleash fell Silver Moon in |
| 16346s | hand but there is that double nearby |
| 16347s | which means only one Unleashed fell is |
| 16349s | going to be castable here it is a |
| 16351s | million healing but it is does not |
| 16353s | really address the problem on the board |
| 16355s | now I don't actually know how the |
| 16358s | noggling works here if the predation |
| 16360s | will become free or if it will become |
| 16362s | two |
| 16366s | I suppose it doesn't matter we didn't |
| 16368s | see the extinction in there oh it's an |
| 16371s | Extinction that's so huge |
| 16375s | that is a big deal for hemlock I think |
| 16378s | we you know not knowing there was an |
| 16380s | Extinction in there where a little |
| 16382s | less certain about how a clear would |
| 16385s | come out and importantly with that one |
| 16388s | swing of the weapon gone now 14 damages |
| 16391s | a lot but |
| 16392s | with no board to support it |
| 16395s | I'm sorry never mind we're back |
| 16401s | crucially the near fight lockdown has |
| 16404s | ended and relic of Dimensions can be |
| 16406s | cast on this turn after being Juiced by |
| 16409s | the extinction on the previous turn this |
| 16412s | does need to hit and hit hard though |
| 16417s | so thano could maybe do something |
| 16421s | xymox absolutely not it |
| 16424s | makes nice |
| 16425s | not everything it could be |
| 16430s | it's gonna have to be the Seno Unleashed |
| 16432s | predation turn though I think |
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| 16440s | not even sure that really does enough |
| 16442s | because you can't |
| 16445s | clear all of it and again in a sense the |
| 16447s | the minimal damage is if one hand is |
| 16449s | still alive |
| 16451s | true actually |
| 16454s | which is now impossible |
| 16457s | uh you could use it on the azshara and |
| 16461s | try to win the 50 50. |
| 16463s | okay yeah it's fair |
| 16467s | that's 28. the afterlore in hand is 28. |
| 16472s | sometimes all you need is uh two extra |
| 16475s | damage |
| 16478s | pocket train gets over the line three to |
| 16482s | one and it has to it has to be said I |
| 16484s | think Hemlock went into that last turn |
| 16486s | without really thinking too hard about |
| 16489s | the implications of his actions because |
| 16491s | weirdly ended up adding damage to the |
| 16493s | board by uh making the partial clear |
| 16496s | that he ended up doing in that gay |
| 16497s | pocket train those exact lethal outs |
| 16500s | that could have come from The Astor law |
| 16501s | uh other potions as well if you'd have |
| 16503s | found three damage from the potion |
| 16504s | coming out a couple of ways it could |
| 16506s | have been done so a uh an inauspicious |
| 16508s | end to that series but I think a very |
| 16511s | well played and very entertaining series |
| 16513s | overall between the two players and |
| 16515s | particularly from pocket train |
| 16517s | yeah we were a little surprised to see |
| 16520s | that full clear come out and I think |
| 16522s | maybe even Hemlock was thinking all |
| 16524s | right we we cleared that big board a lot |
| 16525s | of times when you clear something like |
| 16527s | that against the Rogue you see they |
| 16528s | don't have many cards left you think uh |
| 16530s | we're we're cruising from here they're |
| 16532s | just top decking and then to see the |
| 16534s | neptulon come down it's not a card |
| 16536s | people have to play against very often |
| 16538s | since it's not typically run in decks it |
| 16540s | was now that volgin's rotated out so uh |
| 16544s | not everyone's thinking about how to |
| 16546s | keep the the damage to a minimum |
| 16549s | yeah but I think very very well played |
| 16551s | from pocket overall and it leaves us |
| 16552s | with a top four that I think is |
| 16554s | absolutely stacked so before I let you |
| 16556s | go I'm gonna have to have you put |
| 16558s | yourself on the line who are you picking |
| 16560s | for the the eventual winner of this |
| 16562s | tournament |
| 16562s | uh well you know after that display I |
| 16565s | think I have to pickpocket train I think |
| 16566s | he's my favorite for the event |
| 16569s | sounds good welcome to team pocket at |
| 16570s | advise I think you were here all along |
| 16572s | but regardless we are now gonna fire |
| 16574s | straight ahead with the semi-finals so |
| 16576s | do not go anywhere we're gonna take a |
| 16578s | very very quick break and then |
| 16580s | semi-finals action will be coming right |
| 16582s | at you stay tuned |
| 16592s | thank you |
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| 16949s | hello everybody and welcome back to the |
| 16951s | Hearthstone Masters Tour spring |
| 16953s | Championship my name is TJ and I'm |
| 16955s | joined by the one the only Neil AKA Neil |
| 16959s | Bond AKA Neil Lorinda Bond you know how |
| 16962s | you doing buddy I'm doing great TJ TJ TJ |
| 16966s | I've never had a decent answer that ever |
| 16968s | you've done it to me for three years I |
| 16969s | still don't know how to reply to it so |
| 16970s | yeah I'm doing great and this |
| 16973s | tournament's doing great and I'm having |
| 16974s | a great time everything's great TJ sound |
| 16976s | I'm gonna keep doing it to you until you |
| 16978s | find the perfect way to respond to it |
| 16980s | and then I'm not gonna do it anymore |
| 16982s | so but it's never the perfect way to |
| 16985s | respond is it because it you'll just |
| 16986s | Define it as that's not perfect do it |
| 16989s | again and then you just you just string |
| 16990s | me along like you've done for years oh |
| 16992s | come on let me just do this one thing |
| 16993s | and then we'll do the bit and then |
| 16994s | you'll go no the bit's not good enough |
| 16997s | but what is good enough TJ is this top |
| 16999s | eight because this is a stellar lineup |
| 17003s | it's now down to top four |
| 17005s | we got our semi-finals in place it's all |
| 17009s | Europe all the time always and for us |
| 17013s | Americans uh that's pretty disappointing |
| 17015s | but it's not a disappointing lineup of |
| 17017s | players we have breakfast Boulder which |
| 17020s | is going to be the first semifinal it's |
| 17021s | going to be coming up uh next and then |
| 17023s | after that we're gonna move into Levick |
| 17025s | versus pocket |
| 17027s | uh that one I'm particularly excited for |
| 17029s | um because uh Levick and pocket train |
| 17032s | probably |
| 17034s | um two of can I call them breakout stars |
| 17038s | of 2022 would that would that be in uh |
| 17042s | description yeah because pocket train |
| 17045s | even though pocket train didn't put up |
| 17046s | results behind the scenes was was uh |
| 17050s | gaining respect among the peers and |
| 17052s | Levick was the opposite where Levick |
| 17054s | just put up results after results after |
| 17055s | results well Levick had the problem that |
| 17058s | Raven said he thought Levick was good so |
| 17060s | we just all ignored Levick for the |
| 17061s | longest time because I don't want to |
| 17064s | live in a world where that makes sense |
| 17065s | to be perfectly honest so |
| 17073s | I think this guy's good |
| 17076s | yeah |
| 17078s | uh while I wonder what Raven thinks of |
| 17080s | Rackham because uh I think rack room's |
| 17083s | very good |
| 17084s | um and we haven't seen too much of |
| 17086s | Walder except for what we've seen on |
| 17087s | stream uh but um Walder has been like |
| 17092s | playing well and just like kind of |
| 17095s | intimidating to watch |
| 17097s | uh because every other player they had |
| 17100s | some like more like celebration yeah |
| 17101s | come I made the quarter five yeah one |
| 17104s | the court boss made the semifinals what |
| 17105s | it was like you know another day at the |
| 17107s | office yeah like was just like punching |
| 17109s | numbers into a spreadsheet uh like that |
| 17112s | type of energy uh given off uh when |
| 17115s | Boulder uh won the the quarterfinal to |
| 17117s | get to this point so |
| 17119s | uh hard to read but uh should certainly |
| 17122s | be a good matchup |
| 17124s | another thing just because subtle may |
| 17127s | not even have notices himself but soft |
| 17128s | has been saying how we have the best of |
| 17130s | the best here and how it's a million |
| 17132s | game sample size the way they're doing |
| 17134s | on ladder this year |
| 17135s | three of this top four are in the top |
| 17138s | four point earners |
| 17140s | pocket train is the most points earners |
| 17143s | requolder equal second and Levick is |
| 17146s | always levick's terrible he's in eighth |
| 17148s | place yeah oh so whatever |
| 17153s | but yeah yeah even the best of the best |
| 17155s | as it happens this massive sample size |
| 17158s | of one Tournament of double elimination |
| 17161s | we have ended up with even the best of |
| 17163s | the best I've got to this top four from |
| 17166s | that so we don't need the 8 000 games we |
| 17168s | just need we just need three apparently |
| 17170s | just C3 that's it that's all we need and |
| 17173s | we've solved it |
| 17175s | um but uh we got Walder on camera right |
| 17177s | now and uh one of the interesting things |
| 17180s | about older sign up that we'll see in a |
| 17181s | second is the druid |
| 17184s | um we also have a druid on the other |
| 17186s | side of the bracket and some files for |
| 17188s | Levick so uh we have some uh deck |
| 17192s | diversity uh going on across the board a |
| 17196s | mage |
| 17198s | snuck into the top four as well with |
| 17200s | pocket train so uh it's hard to say like |
| 17203s | the the |
| 17204s | the end-all be-all lineup the one thing |
| 17206s | that we can say is that Outcast Demon |
| 17209s | Hunter ended up |
| 17211s | um sort of just being being the pick uh |
| 17214s | it feels |
| 17216s | yeah I guess I have listened to meaty |
| 17220s | and pocket train to talk about Mage and |
| 17222s | they talk about it in a world where I |
| 17223s | don't live |
| 17225s | that they say it's favored against this |
| 17227s | it's favored against that I'm looking at |
| 17228s | Stats I'm you know sort of way the point |
| 17230s | so I'm top thousand not top 20. but look |
| 17233s | at the stats and look at my results I |
| 17234s | look at what I've seen I'm like |
| 17237s | don't know what they did in their play |
| 17238s | testing but it wasn't play the Mage that |
| 17241s | I've been playing so |
| 17244s | um it's either an incredibly High skill |
| 17245s | cap deck which it doesn't seem to be but |
| 17247s | you know managing |
| 17249s | defensive resources might be a big thing |
| 17251s | in that deck or they're wrong which it |
| 17253s | doesn't seem to be because pocket trains |
| 17255s | in the top four once again |
| 17259s | it is that I feel like it is very |
| 17261s | difficult to Pilot I feel like you need |
| 17263s | a lot of games under your belt in order |
| 17264s | to kind of understand the patterns of |
| 17266s | the deck and what like one that the |
| 17269s | switch needs to be flipped for like |
| 17271s | throwing burn to face right and like you |
| 17273s | said managing defensive resources but I |
| 17275s | think we're uh stealing the Thunder of |
| 17277s | whoever's casting the second semifinal |
| 17280s | um but it's got to look at welder's |
| 17281s | decks again I feel like the Highlight is |
| 17283s | the druid |
| 17285s | um taking a look at uh the bands we do |
| 17289s | have what's it like |
| 17291s | [Music] |
| 17298s | I was going to do today is shout out the |
| 17301s | coast Dreams by the way if you're sick |
| 17303s | of hearing our opinion on majors and |
| 17305s | Druids and you've heard it all before |
| 17307s | there's a wealth of different people |
| 17309s | including some who played this |
| 17310s | tournament co-streaming this if you want |
| 17311s | to have a look around twitch and find |
| 17312s | them there you don't have to listen to |
| 17314s | us I'd rather you did because we're |
| 17315s | great but in the world where you want to |
| 17318s | listen to different boys have a look |
| 17319s | around see I was just streaming it I |
| 17320s | think the drop shot's been all of the |
| 17322s | things I might be wrong yeah Lorinda and |
| 17324s | I can just uh make our voices different |
| 17326s | that's another option |
| 17328s | yeah but then we get in trouble |
| 17332s | um |
| 17335s | we could do it slightly different we |
| 17337s | could just kind of like you know go up |
| 17339s | an octave like up here a little bit like |
| 17341s | we're always inquisitive we're very |
| 17343s | interested |
| 17345s | a little bit of an inquisitive tone just |
| 17347s | one octave up and we'll just like |
| 17350s | cast kind of like that you know what |
| 17352s | about what about really really slow and |
| 17355s | D yeah |
| 17359s | has decision to make he's looking at a |
| 17362s | whole selection I can't do that |
| 17365s | yeah I do it sometimes but only when I'm |
| 17369s | in deep and thought this is my deep and |
| 17370s | thought voice down here I don't have one |
| 17372s | of those I've never been deep in thought |
| 17376s | I just have mouth open or I'm asleep |
| 17378s | they're the two modes of speech |
| 17381s | oh I know that firsthand |
| 17385s | like a like a what like a wind-up toy |
| 17388s | that's broken |
| 17390s | wind up Merchant more like yeah it's |
| 17393s | broken but it's just always wound up it |
| 17395s | never winds it's just always wound up |
| 17397s | yeah yeah it's just |
| 17399s | perpetual motion machine has been |
| 17401s | discovered it's yeah |
| 17403s | and and uh it's one of those old school |
| 17406s | ones that doesn't have a battery |
| 17412s | all right um so I I would say not the |
| 17417s | best opening hands for both players but |
| 17419s | at least breakfast has like things to do |
| 17422s | like that's that's the the upside |
| 17426s | um and has like eggs into cathedral |
| 17429s | which makes it really awkward you need |
| 17431s | to start getting in that damage uh early |
| 17433s | from the minions |
| 17435s | before like the Perpetual freezes come |
| 17437s | out but the eggs are always going to be |
| 17438s | good because |
| 17439s | um like when Frigidaire comes out or the |
| 17442s | manipulator the those eggs are going to |
| 17445s | be soaking damage and |
| 17447s | and threatening uh to have more damage |
| 17450s | inside of them once you break them open |
| 17452s | so |
| 17454s | um we'll see but I wouldn't even mind |
| 17456s | just foul leg Minds uh mine Seer yeah |
| 17460s | face next turn you roll into Cathedral |
| 17461s | on the non-buffed egg and you're cooking |
| 17463s | cooking with gas cooking with eggs |
| 17466s | cooking with eggs yeah gas eggs |
| 17471s | cooking eggs on a gas range gas omelette |
| 17474s | please that just sounds disgusting |
| 17477s | it is a ballet |
| 17478s | he's a phallic amazing scenes here |
| 17482s | um the shadow piece lines up really well |
| 17484s | into welder's lineup as does the the |
| 17487s | first decade I think the weirdest thing |
| 17489s | that doesn't line up well is The Relic |
| 17491s | DH that great ground has |
| 17493s | um well this seems to have brought a |
| 17495s | lineup that doesn't count to it but it's |
| 17497s | pretty powerful against that if you |
| 17500s | believe that Relic is only 40 against |
| 17502s | Frost DK which isn't a thing that I |
| 17505s | personally believe but I think the good |
| 17506s | players do believe that |
| 17508s | Druid can get dicey from time to time |
| 17513s | yeah you can |
| 17522s | yeah you look at it you go well I'm |
| 17524s | making minions and they've just drew it |
| 17526s | like that's how you beat Druids |
| 17528s | but you can't get through the wall of |
| 17530s | four attack and 27 Health minions yeah |
| 17534s | you can all you do is you hold on to |
| 17537s | your immolation Aura and your Unleashed |
| 17539s | spells and then at some point in the |
| 17541s | game you pick sinful brand from a school |
| 17543s | teacher uh-huh that's exactly what I do |
| 17546s | I'm not even going to argue with you |
| 17548s | because that's what I try and do |
| 17550s | alternatively you play for Tempo you |
| 17552s | make sure that the opponent's uh Hero's |
| 17555s | life total is lower than the giant |
| 17557s | taunts so that way when you play Lady |
| 17558s | steno it hits the face instead of the |
| 17560s | giant taunts Bingo guess where TJ turns |
| 17563s | out he has a bit of spare time in the |
| 17565s | mornings |
| 17567s | uh |
| 17569s | usually |
| 17571s | it's true yeah |
| 17574s | I feel like I'm forced to go there it's |
| 17576s | like this weird force that like propels |
| 17578s | me to twitch.tv slash Orinda no good |
| 17582s | um spent the money in the right place |
| 17584s | all right so pause it comes down uh on |
| 17587s | curve which is the most awkward time for |
| 17589s | positive to come down for the opponent |
| 17591s | of whoever played posic because |
| 17593s | you really don't want to play just a |
| 17595s | vanilla 3-3 it it just doesn't feel |
| 17598s | great and |
| 17600s | um |
| 17601s | uh yeah especially this situation I |
| 17604s | suppose you could just ignore it and |
| 17608s | like play double twos and hope the |
| 17610s | shadow ascendant doesn't buff the 3-3 so |
| 17613s | posit can't be traded over and then play |
| 17615s | out for his next turn but it looks like |
| 17616s | it is going to be that and I mean I |
| 17618s | guess breakfast does have a huge damage |
| 17620s | lead but |
| 17623s | um yeah he has to waste a murder and |
| 17624s | play a 3-3 and it's just a dancing robot |
| 17628s | not dead it's like it's all just a bit |
| 17630s | yeah |
| 17634s | obviously one of the advantages of this |
| 17636s | deck compared to many others in the |
| 17638s | format really is the amount of direct |
| 17640s | damage it has so being frozen isn't the |
| 17642s | end of everything |
| 17653s | so this is the last turn of like |
| 17655s | meaningful board presence for wreck them |
| 17658s | before the frostworms fury uh makes its |
| 17661s | way into the fold or the potential for |
| 17664s | it at least |
| 17665s | so |
| 17667s | I wonder if it's just |
| 17670s | um |
| 17672s | like shadowed Spirit to try and net that |
| 17674s | the death rattle damage from that before |
| 17677s | it gets frozen in perpetuity |
| 17680s | yeah and then just play out of two |
| 17682s | alongside I don't think you're really |
| 17683s | worried about the second audio clock you |
| 17685s | just want to put as much power on the |
| 17686s | board as possible yep |
| 17689s | I'd hope they don't have it but welder |
| 17693s | has a lot of it right now |
| 17695s | yeah |
| 17696s | it looks like it's got to be |
| 17698s | [Music] |
| 17700s | um |
| 17702s | trade deposit over to get the bot on the |
| 17704s | Shadow on |
| 17706s | uh not the Shadow Spirit the egg the 44 |
| 17708s | egg |
| 17709s | hero power for the corpse |
| 17711s | again |
| 17714s | hear me out how about you just hit him |
| 17717s | in the face with everything |
| 17719s | for the marathon |
| 17721s | I guess two |
| 17725s | death yeah cool yeah you need to yeah |
| 17728s | okay |
| 17729s | yeah I was thinking two cups because you |
| 17731s | put one into the minions but yeah okay |
| 17733s | this makes more sense sadly |
| 17735s | yeah I think you gotta uh go Max freeze |
| 17738s | here because you got a lot of damage |
| 17740s | lined up |
| 17744s | because then you go frostworms Fury next |
| 17746s | turn |
| 17748s | um and and swing so that's you know nine |
| 17750s | damage and then you should be able to |
| 17752s | connect or find the last piece of damage |
| 17754s | you need with maybe like off the top I |
| 17756s | guess Rowdy fan is there so just hear |
| 17758s | power Rowdy fans should be enough to end |
| 17760s | it so now it's gonna be |
| 17762s | effectively up to wreck them and I |
| 17766s | wonder if there's a world where just to |
| 17770s | try and preserve the amount of damage |
| 17773s | or not take too much damage from older |
| 17775s | side if you just trade the Shadow Spirit |
| 17776s | into the 3-3 to net the damage can we |
| 17779s | dual Cod first and see what we're doing |
| 17781s | yeah but not on the Shadow Spirit |
| 17783s | because you want it but not on the |
| 17784s | spirit |
| 17786s | does that make sense to me |
| 17787s | I think |
| 17791s | thank you |
| 17796s | looking for damage oh that well |
| 17801s | I've got three corpses I think he has so |
| 17803s | he's gonna be four spiritually through |
| 17806s | uh so and you want to weave in a hero |
| 17809s | power here so you're gonna put water |
| 17811s | down to 12. |
| 17814s | it's gonna be close |
| 17816s | oh he wants stuff he doesn't oh okay |
| 17831s | and the easiest turned in the history of |
| 17834s | turns yeah |
| 17836s | even though I can play this turn |
| 17838s | yep and that's just lethal from hand |
| 17840s | next turn with the uh hero power plus |
| 17841s | Rowdy fan uh and the weapon swing so the |
| 17845s | Mario manipulator not even a chance uh |
| 17848s | for lethal and didn't even kill the |
| 17852s | presented on board |
| 17854s | and there you have it cross that Knight |
| 17857s | in a nutshell freeze |
| 17859s | freeze |
| 17861s | into death |
| 17863s | one zero double quick time for Waldo |
| 17865s | who's just getting it done here that's |
| 17867s | his excited face |
| 17872s | we haven't seen his sad face yet because |
| 17874s | he's been winning so much yeah I uh |
| 17878s | away from pump off you know |
| 17882s | you know it's like hits it off |
| 17884s | thrown into the wall |
| 17886s | like one of one of one of these right |
| 17889s | here |
| 17890s | [Music] |
| 17891s | why don't I just just go chill win the |
| 17894s | tournament and then use all the energy |
| 17895s | for like one ginormous pop-up |
| 17899s | like you've never seen before like |
| 17907s | let's pop it up |
| 17911s | for seven history |
| 17914s | um but yeah so uh I I think that that's |
| 17917s | a pretty |
| 17919s | a rough game for breakfast I feel like |
| 17921s | the opening was not terrible right uh |
| 17923s | there were some good things about it |
| 17925s | it's just |
| 17926s | nothing that had really any impact on |
| 17928s | board the posit I feel like was like |
| 17931s | so annoying so frustrating because I had |
| 17935s | to sort of play off curb not play as |
| 17938s | much power and then you look up and all |
| 17940s | of a sudden you know you spent the whole |
| 17942s | turn playing a 3-3 and doing nothing |
| 17943s | else and then your board's Frozen until |
| 17946s | you lose like yeah I wonder if he's |
| 17949s | supposed to dodge that in hindsight like |
| 17950s | a full Mana three three |
| 17953s | is basically what he had to play |
| 17955s | attendant |
| 17960s | which would have put an additional |
| 17962s | meaning on board so the freeze wouldn't |
| 17963s | have been wouldn't have been as much but |
| 17965s | if you play The Shadow attendant and it |
| 17967s | hits the the the popped egg at that |
| 17970s | point uh that's a 4-4 and uh Boulder |
| 17973s | would have got an immediate trade-off |
| 17975s | uh to pull up three threes |
| 17978s | so I don't know it was worth considering |
| 17980s | and I'm sure rexham considered it and |
| 17982s | just decided that playing the 3-3 out |
| 17984s | was enough pressure on the board and Up |
| 17987s | Tempo and he wouldn't have gotten swung |
| 17989s | back if things had not gone his way with |
| 17991s | the shadow attendant buck so I think it |
| 17994s | was fine it's just sometimes just get |
| 17996s | locked up uh from pretty early with |
| 17998s | double mid though and uh in the frost |
| 18001s | from security and didn't find like sort |
| 18003s | of closing active tools necessary to get |
| 18006s | it done the manipulator was exciting at |
| 18008s | the end |
| 18009s | um but not exciting enough |
| 18013s | we doing it he's going back to the the |
| 18015s | well for more whatever you get in Wells |
| 18019s | priests |
| 18021s | and Batman on the right hand side there |
| 18023s | look |
| 18028s | the whole movie about Batman getting |
| 18030s | stuck in it well |
| 18032s | is there kind of |
| 18036s | which one is that |
| 18038s | the Batman The Well Dives Batman Begins |
| 18043s | yeah it's that one I think |
| 18047s | it's half the movie stuck in a well |
| 18049s | so |
| 18051s | let them ditches that like everybody |
| 18052s | else did and decides to go for a new |
| 18054s | hand |
| 18055s | yeah I'm pretty sure you could just add |
| 18057s | like pretty much any verb after Batman |
| 18060s | and it was probably a movie that was |
| 18062s | made |
| 18063s | yes |
| 18065s | man Heats it up |
| 18067s | Batman Begins Batman runs Batman flies |
| 18072s | all movies look it up Batman jumps |
| 18075s | Batman jumps ah that was the one about |
| 18078s | the well it was Batman jumps came out in |
| 18081s | 97. |
| 18083s | he jumped right into the well I did do |
| 18086s | they all star like really um old like |
| 18089s | famous people who weren't famous anymore |
| 18090s | by the time they starred in it |
| 18095s | essentially like Lassie the dog or |
| 18098s | something |
| 18102s | you're talking about the uh |
| 18104s | uh Batman Pets the Lassie the Dog Batman |
| 18107s | crossover |
| 18109s | yes they won yeah and then then let's |
| 18113s | have to tell people that he's stuck down |
| 18114s | the well and yeah that works yep |
| 18117s | ah these are pretty good pickups from |
| 18119s | Wrecking the Shadow Spirit ends up |
| 18121s | working out perfectly off the top |
| 18123s | with the undying allies in the next turn |
| 18125s | you go into the Necromancer |
| 18127s | you slamming Undead from The Dredge boom |
| 18130s | there it is |
| 18132s | have you seen how welder has adjusted |
| 18133s | himself he's ready to do 73 actions next |
| 18136s | turn and make a 72-72 goes look at him |
| 18139s | he's all he's primed ready to go he's |
| 18140s | got 75 seconds to play 73 he's pretty |
| 18143s | crazy went from only forehead showing on |
| 18145s | the camera to now the forehead is the |
| 18148s | only thing not showing on the camera |
| 18149s | that's how much he jumped up in his seat |
| 18152s | uh it's still gonna be tough because |
| 18154s | this is a lot of damage that's just |
| 18156s | gonna be pouring in so we have the |
| 18158s | damage from the minions already the |
| 18160s | shadowed spirit is essentially six extra |
| 18162s | damage to the face |
| 18164s | so basically clear |
| 18169s | probably not but he gets to basically |
| 18171s | clear |
| 18174s | I'm taking it one turn at a time T Jeff |
| 18175s | I can't do this multi-turn action thing |
| 18178s | okay it's gotta be what |
| 18182s | Queen ishara yeah |
| 18185s | or not okay is going for just the full |
| 18187s | clue then I guess yeah oh it gets to |
| 18190s | draw cards so might find some magician |
| 18192s | threats |
| 18193s | under normal circumstances this turn |
| 18195s | would be absolutely ridiculous look at |
| 18197s | it go look at this turn oh the clergy |
| 18200s | the clergy |
| 18202s | how many championships he's got all of |
| 18204s | the Shadows Reno next turn if if he gets |
| 18207s | that far |
| 18211s | yeah it does need to not die |
| 18214s | not dying is key right now |
| 18217s | I think he cannot die |
| 18221s | [Music] |
| 18223s | will he die what's your name what's on |
| 18224s | the other hand yeah |
| 18227s | like mine's here off the top and |
| 18231s | I might say it wouldn't work because it |
| 18233s | wouldn't kill the minions |
| 18242s | get the more I see it |
| 18246s | okay he's digging grave digging bone |
| 18249s | flinger |
| 18253s | he's got prep for the minds it doesn't |
| 18256s | matter |
| 18257s | uh you can go |
| 18259s | yeah it doesn't matter |
| 18262s | this is some Hearthstone TJ I'm excited |
| 18265s | oh wait wait |
| 18269s | send Fury clergy though is uh uh Manor |
| 18272s | six |
| 18273s | it still heals three |
| 18275s | it's fine |
| 18278s | next turn |
| 18283s | flicking bones |
| 18285s | yeah nine |
| 18287s | hey you've got to kill him because he's |
| 18288s | hitting you for 15. |
| 18291s | oh I need both you can bounce back away |
| 18293s | in push 15 uh-huh |
| 18296s | kill me or lose that's what he's gonna |
| 18298s | say to him to his face I don't think you |
| 18300s | feel for nine I think you heal for six |
| 18302s | and then hold on to the clergy for |
| 18304s | additional heal next turn right okay |
| 18309s | well I don't know I mean probably |
| 18314s | [Applause] |
| 18317s | [Music] |
| 18318s | yeah |
| 18320s | I'm sure I'm happy with this to be fair |
| 18322s | it makes sense |
| 18324s | so now rectum has to hero power |
| 18327s | Minds here |
| 18332s | right |
| 18333s | yeah just to stay alive it's ridiculous |
| 18337s | and then yeah |
| 18340s | play the uh prep Minds here load up the |
| 18343s | board |
| 18344s | [Music] |
| 18347s | uh-huh |
| 18349s | but it's not gonna be enough unless this |
| 18351s | mind eater picks up something good I |
| 18354s | feel oh my potion belt |
| 18359s | so you bone Spike potion belt you want |
| 18361s | to push this 11th face |
| 18363s | missed |
| 18368s | wait no it's lethal oh no it's not quite |
| 18372s | he hasn't got the kid dagger you need a |
| 18375s | double beds |
| 18382s | he could try and draw into |
| 18384s | um Gusty strike |
| 18398s | um I hope it was there |
| 18403s | foreign |
| 18408s | because he wins anyway this way but yeah |
| 18411s | oh man so much damage too |
| 18415s | unfortunate yeah that was uh |
| 18418s | a very good opening for wreck them dealt |
| 18422s | so much damage well there was down to |
| 18423s | Seven health on turn five |
| 18425s | but was able to find the clergy and even |
| 18428s | though it wasn't Mana Thursday there was |
| 18429s | enough Health with the giant ghost on |
| 18431s | board to put rexham on a clock and now |
| 18434s | it's just down to the Druid from older |
| 18437s | a a druid is all that stands in the way |
| 18440s | of uh getting a win with it uh between |
| 18443s | going to the finals so |
| 18446s | this we haven't really had many of these |
| 18448s | quick series like no like quick blowout |
| 18451s | sweeps thus far on the day it would be a |
| 18454s | shame if it was in this first semi-final |
| 18456s | uh that it would happen but better now |
| 18458s | than in the finals I suppose well I |
| 18460s | don't say it's Druid but we can't stress |
| 18462s | enough this is a druid that now has to |
| 18464s | win a game of hearthstone in this |
| 18467s | interesting matter where you know the |
| 18471s | the prevailing thought amongst most of |
| 18473s | these players was that Druid was going |
| 18474s | to get counted so don't bring it but it |
| 18477s | was always against his backdrop of but |
| 18479s | true it's good |
| 18480s | always sort of that little feeling in |
| 18483s | the back of the brain that we're not |
| 18484s | bringing one of the good decks because |
| 18486s | it might get counted here |
| 18488s | and we're one game away from Druid |
| 18490s | reaching the final |
| 18492s | and we won't match away after that from |
| 18494s | Druid being the final on both sides |
| 18500s | all right let's get into it so taking a |
| 18503s | look at welder's Druid individually |
| 18504s | there is a street sweeper in there so |
| 18506s | has some sort of anti-aggro |
| 18509s | some type of antiagara tool |
| 18512s | against the undead priests sometimes |
| 18514s | street sweeper can still just be dead |
| 18516s | because there's a lot of reborn and |
| 18518s | there's the eggs and |
| 18520s | etc etc there is an Etc that has crazed |
| 18523s | Alchemists smothering starfish and |
| 18524s | Deathwing the Destroyer none of which I |
| 18527s | feel are particularly good in the |
| 18529s | matchup uh crazed Alchemist is usually |
| 18532s | for finding lethals to end games when |
| 18534s | you make uh giant zoc boards uh some |
| 18537s | other starfish is essentially for frost |
| 18540s | at night |
| 18541s | to unfreeze your board uh to be able to |
| 18543s | hit |
| 18545s | um and then Deathwing is for uh Relic |
| 18549s | Demon Hunter or yeah the mirror or Relic |
| 18551s | Demon Hunter if it goes long and you |
| 18553s | need to kill a board of Phantasm sure |
| 18554s | yeah |
| 18557s | um so uh this hand is I mean because uh |
| 18562s | Boulder is not playing the uh mishmasher |
| 18565s | uh attorney at mall combo has the luxury |
| 18567s | of being able to play like the ETC the |
| 18569s | street sweeper and the kindness plating |
| 18572s | so it's a little bit a little bit extra |
| 18573s | armor gain but there's not that big |
| 18576s | sweeping board clear with the mishmasher |
| 18578s | that I sometimes find I mean these draws |
| 18581s | off the top are really saving Boulder |
| 18583s | right now |
| 18585s | what's the plating called |
| 18587s | Fitness |
| 18589s | I'm in a world of trouble TJ I've been |
| 18591s | saying it wrong all this time oh my |
| 18592s | goodness no I'm 100 sure I'm saying all |
| 18594s | right I think it's kindness plating okay |
| 18596s | I've definitely but I've heard people |
| 18598s | call it Nest plating and I've heard |
| 18600s | people call it uh height in this plating |
| 18602s | so I find a middle ground to a peaceful |
| 18605s | parties you know so I call it kittness |
| 18608s | because it's got the word kitten in it |
| 18610s | so it's one of those kittens yeah yeah |
| 18614s | so the decision Point finally for older |
| 18616s | does he want to just innovate out the |
| 18619s | flower child |
| 18622s | spread the word most likely yep |
| 18632s | perfectly oh this is so good |
| 18636s | it's good stuff right here |
| 18639s | gone |
| 18640s | it's the juice look at this curve |
| 18644s | it's curvy but it's not is it that curvy |
| 18648s | how are you curving tell me |
| 18650s | flowers child and then you slam a |
| 18655s | discounted an ubercon and an underking |
| 18658s | and you just go |
| 18660s | under King the turn after under King |
| 18663s | sugar King |
| 18665s | okay |
| 18666s | that's assuming him yeah you'd have |
| 18668s | enough armor because the under Kings |
| 18669s | would replace most of the armor you gain |
| 18670s | eight you'd have a perfect perfect |
| 18672s | enough armor and then you have a full |
| 18673s | then you have a massive board |
| 18674s | alternatively you could |
| 18677s | I don't know if you hit like an ubercon |
| 18678s | sock |
| 18681s | [Music] |
| 18684s | how long does he have though |
| 18686s | not long it's basically got to be |
| 18687s | exactly that or yeah this is going to be |
| 18690s | way too much damage that's gonna be |
| 18692s | coming okay and an ubercon |
| 18695s | okay |
| 18697s | he's cooking |
| 18701s | he's really cooking actually ah but if |
| 18704s | you can't trade off the under King |
| 18708s | no it doesn't matter |
| 18709s | as long as um how much face damage is |
| 18712s | I'm going to be able to oh is this just |
| 18714s | lethal |
| 18715s | oh it could be uh bone funnier and then |
| 18719s | uh hero power |
| 18722s | and then five plus four yep |
| 18724s | it's so close |
| 18726s | yeah it's so far |
| 18729s | five little |
| 18730s | okay I mean it was really exciting |
| 18734s | really excited because he was so close |
| 18736s | to a pop-up turn it actually would have |
| 18737s | been a pretty big swing actually it |
| 18739s | wouldn't have been that big of a swing |
| 18740s | to be honest because uh the taunts would |
| 18743s | have been massive but it would have |
| 18744s | chewed through all the armor and even if |
| 18746s | rectum didn't kill Boulder on that turn |
| 18748s | would have certainly put him at at low |
| 18751s | Health right |
| 18753s | um and then it doesn't matter how big |
| 18754s | your taunts are the hero power the |
| 18755s | shadow were not dead they could all go |
| 18756s | through |
| 18758s | um so there was there wasn't a Target on |
| 18760s | the board that under King could have |
| 18761s | traded over so if you're a newbercom |
| 18763s | under King and then sock there goes your |
| 18765s | armor you're not really left with |
| 18767s | anything and then Shadow word on death |
| 18769s | mind see her uh hero power bone fling or |
| 18772s | whatever come over the top and and |
| 18773s | potentially kill you anyway so |
| 18776s | um |
| 18777s | but there was something there there was |
| 18779s | something cooking in there right it was |
| 18783s | a dab doesn't he normally dab when he's |
| 18785s | 2-0 wins a game |
| 18787s | because if he forgot then now surely the |
| 18791s | curse is back let's see let's see let's |
| 18794s | see nope didn't unless you may Gotta |
| 18796s | Give him benefit the doubt it may have |
| 18797s | been off camera off camera dab okay yeah |
| 18800s | we'll |
| 18801s | um we'll take it we'll take it he's |
| 18803s | still okay |
| 18805s | [Music] |
| 18806s | there's two more Hearthstone games |
| 18809s | what's the best way to win two games of |
| 18810s | hearthstone do you think teaching |
| 18817s | Fury Hunter used to do it all the time |
| 18819s | when he had to win two games of Houston |
| 18821s | or three games |
| 18822s | the best way to win two games for |
| 18824s | Firestone is |
| 18826s | with passion |
| 18827s | with passion so Fury Hunter when he was |
| 18830s | 2-0 down what he did was he'd win one |
| 18832s | game at a time |
| 18835s | he'd or he'd go to a different floor on |
| 18837s | his elevator |
| 18839s | laughs |
| 18841s | just changed it up a little bit you have |
| 18844s | much to answer for |
| 18846s | only 90s kids will get that one |
| 18849s | so when he also definitely wouldn't get |
| 18852s | it |
| 18854s | I don't understand anything |
| 18857s | just here I don't know how or why or |
| 18859s | where even I am I'm just I'm just here |
| 18861s | TJ |
| 18863s | you're just living in the moment yeah |
| 18865s | understandable just living in people's |
| 18867s | televisions |
| 18870s | yep |
| 18872s | all right we got a lot of spit for scary |
| 18874s | movie |
| 18877s | oh what |
| 18879s | I know the Poltergeist lives in people's |
| 18881s | television or something and then |
| 18883s | something else happens |
| 18884s | that's the premise for a lot of scary |
| 18886s | movies I think I was never very good at |
| 18888s | scary movie writing I I that's why I |
| 18890s | went into Hearthstone casting instead |
| 18891s | which sometimes is terrifying but yeah |
| 18895s | all right the Druid is back |
| 18899s | um |
| 18901s | this is his spot right this is this is |
| 18903s | yeah a very very good spot for the world |
| 18906s | to try and get through |
| 18909s | yeah this is innervate nourish for |
| 18911s | crystals into |
| 18913s | draw whatever you know |
| 18915s | this is a very good start |
| 18918s | uh for Walter and I like to hold on to |
| 18921s | The Groovy cat because getting this ramp |
| 18923s | out early just opens up options and |
| 18926s | you're not really going to be hero power |
| 18927s | anyway so it doesn't really matter for |
| 18928s | the damage you're just trying to get to |
| 18930s | those big big turns oh through the |
| 18933s | snapshots |
| 18937s | didn't play the photographer to get it |
| 18940s | to get the snapshot because it doesn't |
| 18942s | matter the game doesn't usually go long |
| 18944s | enough for that to matter he played it |
| 18946s | because against Druid if you don't stick |
| 18948s | numbers on the board and just get a a |
| 18951s | minion on Minion advantage in the first |
| 18953s | four or five turns you lose |
| 18955s | and all you could do is make a 3-3 he'd |
| 18957s | probably have buffed it up with the pig |
| 18959s | and running for a lot of damage the next |
| 18961s | turn instead what happened is he just |
| 18963s | drew the snapshot with his really bad |
| 18965s | hand already and it's just wasted a draw |
| 18968s | and that's why he's like why now he's |
| 18970s | hurting a match up and you do me like |
| 18973s | this |
| 18974s | yeah oh no and there we have a finale uh |
| 18978s | flower child here discounted stock plus |
| 18980s | a different kind |
| 18983s | um |
| 18984s | it's time for the slow people like have |
| 18987s | we seen the Tony combo on stream sorry |
| 18989s | uh I don't think we have I I haven't on |
| 18991s | stream incredibly can you pick me okay |
| 19004s | sure |
| 19005s | so the snapshot has another Rowdy fan a |
| 19007s | silver moon Arcanist |
| 19009s | credation relic of Dimensions I believe |
| 19016s | yes I mean he just has the hand that we |
| 19018s | can see and write up to deal with the |
| 19019s | devil or slug people as they are no |
| 19028s | good girl here park and then spread the |
| 19031s | word |
| 19035s | foreign |
| 19046s | there was a buff right because it's a |
| 19048s | it's a three attack hero power yeah okay |
| 19050s | so it's just it would have been a free |
| 19052s | spread the word yeah that's what I |
| 19054s | thought okay cool you said it I thought |
| 19056s | it was right and then he didn't do it |
| 19057s | I'm like who do I trust the rank one |
| 19059s | player in Europe or my long-term casting |
| 19062s | partner TJ Sanders |
| 19064s | in that situation just minus five health |
| 19067s | because the rake would have uh |
| 19070s | killed the school teacher |
| 19072s | actually minus six health because you |
| 19074s | well not really depends as well |
| 19078s | or would have |
| 19079s | yeah just one there hasn't been any game |
| 19083s | but still yeah but four damage from the |
| 19085s | school teacher plus the extra armor game |
| 19086s | says five |
| 19088s | um |
| 19089s | all right |
| 19091s | I think that was processing why did my |
| 19094s | opponent just do all that I think he's |
| 19095s | just saying what we just said except in |
| 19097s | in Vietnamese |
| 19100s | that's that's the whole why that's the |
| 19102s | handout there is is holding an imaginary |
| 19104s | skull of gutan |
| 19106s | he's talking to him |
| 19108s | yep slug people look at him |
| 19114s | having to put something on the board to |
| 19116s | try and generate some pressure but he |
| 19118s | knows this is really downhill from here |
| 19132s | um |
| 19139s | world is not far at all here if I'm able |
| 19143s | to just just put the Jailer on the board |
| 19147s | and end of the game that's what he wants |
| 19148s | to do next oh yeah for sure the kindness |
| 19151s | plating will lock it up |
| 19153s | because you pre-bake the Armor so could |
| 19156s | go like tighten This Plane cutting his |
| 19157s | plating |
| 19158s | and then you have you can do whatever |
| 19160s | you want with the uh the next turn an |
| 19163s | ubercon next turn do you have enough |
| 19164s | Mana to play out whatever minions you'd |
| 19166s | like |
| 19168s | yeah and he'll have enough Health to |
| 19170s | ride it out as well just in case and he |
| 19173s | gets another card draw which you know |
| 19176s | is nice when you go into Jailer mode |
| 19178s | he's doing it now |
| 19183s | yeah he's just doing it |
| 19188s | sure |
| 19197s | [Music] |
| 19200s | starting to look like world is going to |
| 19202s | be one match away TJ it's not lethal yet |
| 19205s | though |
| 19207s | and you can sometimes set up a situation |
| 19209s | where you just kill the Druid over two |
| 19211s | turns here because they have no taunt |
| 19213s | anymore |
| 19217s | yes but how |
| 19220s | um it involves an incredibly good |
| 19221s | relative dimensions |
| 19224s | so are are you like because you have |
| 19227s | Minions on the board are you like Rowdy |
| 19228s | Fanning now or oh that's not the worst |
| 19232s | example ever is it |
| 19235s | like chaos strike Rowdy yeah yeah I like |
| 19238s | it because you're never getting to do |
| 19240s | anything ever again are you |
| 19243s | yeah and then do you play Blood Mage |
| 19245s | thou knows |
| 19250s | because there's a kindness planing on |
| 19253s | the other side |
| 19255s | at the beginning of next turn plus |
| 19257s | another eight armor over the next two |
| 19259s | turns yeah I I like I like to play |
| 19261s | anyway just get the damaging that you |
| 19263s | can see oh you see he's remember |
| 19264s | something in the snapshot that we're |
| 19265s | forgetting but yeah sure |
| 19268s | that was a predation but that's it okay |
| 19280s | okay well |
| 19282s | a couple fatigue points that are going |
| 19284s | to come in as well also puts older into |
| 19286s | an interesting spot where it has to sort |
| 19287s | of trade into stuff |
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| 19296s | yeah but if you don't trade |
| 19304s | yeah take one |
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| 19316s | are you the numbers don't work out yeah |
| 19320s | requiem's gonna cut tap out of this one |
| 19322s | in Boulder |
| 19324s | it's gonna take the series move on to |
| 19326s | the finals |
| 19328s | feel like that was just the very first |
| 19331s | glimmer of nerves from water the last |
| 19334s | two or three turns in that game where he |
| 19335s | started to realize I'm going to the |
| 19337s | finals I want to double check I want to |
| 19338s | triple check I want to check it again |
| 19340s | and if he does get to match point in the |
| 19342s | finals I want to see if he does that |
| 19344s | again but so far other than me being an |
| 19347s | incredibly picky old man |
| 19350s | that was fantastic for Wilder so far |
| 19352s | he's looking really good in this |
| 19353s | tournament |
| 19355s | yeah just a little tiny bit of potential |
| 19358s | Miss sequencing there um but I like the |
| 19361s | saying go on that turn right because it |
| 19363s | puts the a definite clock on to wreck |
| 19365s | them |
| 19366s | um a lot of players they would have said |
| 19368s | all right I I can hold for now and just |
| 19370s | like way to turn and go a little bit |
| 19372s | bigger right make a bigger board with my |
| 19373s | newer calm by setting up my kindness |
| 19375s | plating get one more card out of my deck |
| 19377s | and then go off next turn but |
| 19380s | understanding that |
| 19381s | riflem really didn't have a lot going on |
| 19383s | and allowing him one additional turn of |
| 19386s | setup |
| 19387s | could have made the difference right |
| 19389s | with like a big relic of Dimensions hit |
| 19391s | so |
| 19393s | um I I definitely liked uh how he |
| 19396s | navigated that at the end |
| 19398s | yeah yeah just like I said just yeah he |
| 19401s | looked a little bit more uncertain he |
| 19402s | wasn't making mistakes he's just double |
| 19403s | checking everything a bit more don't |
| 19405s | blame him I would too there's a lot on |
| 19407s | the line it's not just a ten thousand |
| 19409s | dollars first prize out of this fifty |
| 19410s | thousand dollars prize ball |
| 19412s | it's also the right just to not have to |
| 19414s | panic at the end of every single month |
| 19416s | to qualify for worlds to just get to |
| 19419s | world championships your job's done |
| 19421s | still gonna ladder because that's what |
| 19422s | these players do but ah yeah one match |
| 19426s | away yeah |
| 19427s | yeah yep won't match away for wreck them |
| 19430s | put up a good fight but that'll be the |
| 19431s | end of the Run uh for breakfast in a |
| 19435s | good spot though being grinding the |
| 19436s | ladder uh expect great things to come |
| 19438s | for the rest of the year for rectum but |
| 19440s | that's it for our first semi-final of |
| 19442s | the day we only have two more matches |
| 19443s | left on the weekend we have second |
| 19444s | semi-final and then the final so coming |
| 19446s | up next we are gonna have pocket train |
| 19448s | versus Levick this one should be |
| 19451s | fantastic so we're gonna go to a break |
| 19453s | uh but when we come back plenty more |
| 19455s | Hearthstone action still to come so uh |
| 19457s | don't go anywhere |
| 19459s | a what |
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| 19893s | ER awaits in the final for one of our |
| 19896s | next two semi-finalists it's going to be |
| 19899s | pocket train or Levick three rank one |
| 19902s | finishes between them already this year |
| 19905s | two for pocket train one for Levick a |
| 19907s | top four in the world championships last |
| 19909s | year more than makes up for that for |
| 19910s | Levick with me to cast it is our device |
| 19912s | and out of ice I've got to ask you I |
| 19914s | know you're pocket train fan but is he |
| 19915s | gonna get this one done do you think oh |
| 19917s | I sure hope so not just for pucker trans |
| 19919s | sake but for all the Mage fans out there |
| 19921s | who really could use a win |
| 19924s | yep absolutely it's gonna be a good one |
| 19927s | because |
| 19928s | um some of the discussions I've heard |
| 19929s | about Mage I don't believe |
| 19931s | I want to see you prove me wrong |
| 19934s | um apparently Mage beats everything and |
| 19935s | never loses a Hearthstone game and |
| 19937s | pocket trains doubling down on that or |
| 19939s | he was this morning at least and he's |
| 19940s | won another match since so what do I |
| 19942s | know |
| 19943s | um but the stats say that Mage is not |
| 19944s | very good the best player in the world |
| 19946s | says that Mage is good |
| 19949s | you believe me and the stats right yeah |
| 19951s | I mean that's just how it goes right |
| 19953s | it's a skill diff |
| 19955s | skill issue I think is probably the |
| 19958s | problem I think pocket train who used to |
| 19960s | just annoy Everybody by saying boar |
| 19962s | priest was rubbish it was good and it |
| 19963s | was like you're wrong and then he just |
| 19964s | wins tournaments with it it's like okay |
| 19966s | maybe you know what you're talking about |
| 19967s | after all here's how it's gone down so |
| 19969s | far Wilder |
| 19971s | cruising at every stage into this finals |
| 19974s | uh one match a game to go to get to the |
| 19976s | world championships and Levick and |
| 19978s | pocket train levix made a grind of it |
| 19981s | really you know playing that blood DK |
| 19983s | slows everything down so much |
| 19986s | um and pocket train I know he always |
| 19988s | seems to make it look easy he's like |
| 19990s | he'll win a game 3-0 and then just shake |
| 19992s | his head as if he's made 14 catastrophic |
| 19994s | errors that are going to cost him |
| 19995s | everything |
| 19997s | I can't wait |
| 19999s | all these players definitely their |
| 20000s | harshest critics we do see that blood EK |
| 20003s | left up |
| 20005s | so it's gonna get played and I guess |
| 20008s | that means that pocket train is just |
| 20009s | feeling confident of course Outcast |
| 20011s | Demon Hunter not so great into the blood |
| 20013s | but uh I think he's feeling good like |
| 20016s | you say about that Mage and then also |
| 20018s | the Frost death knight |
| 20020s | I'm also interested have you changed any |
| 20023s | opinions on Druid in this tournament we |
| 20025s | felt it was the the deck that you didn't |
| 20028s | bring because you get targeted there's |
| 20030s | already one in the final and there's one |
| 20031s | in this semi-final any any opinions on |
| 20033s | that |
| 20034s | so Druid is kind of in a strange spot |
| 20038s | right now it still suffers the same |
| 20040s | weaknesses that Druids do in terms of |
| 20043s | armor or having to ramp and so |
| 20047s | aggressive decks in the early game are |
| 20049s | are beating you down and just making it |
| 20052s | hard for you to develop and you do have |
| 20054s | to ramp or you're just gonna fall behind |
| 20056s | but with these new hero power tools |
| 20059s | they're at have access to all kinds of |
| 20061s | armor gain and Levick with this version |
| 20064s | of Druid that has the kindness plating |
| 20065s | has even more armor gain so a certain |
| 20069s | point if they're able to make the big |
| 20071s | taunts or uh you know play just a huge |
| 20076s | anubricon swing turn they start gaining |
| 20079s | Armor after armor and it's not a whole |
| 20081s | lot aggressive decks can do certainly |
| 20083s | burn based ones like Mage and frost just |
| 20086s | a quick look at this Blood DK some |
| 20089s | people don't say very often about blood |
| 20090s | DK list but it's a nice sort of tight |
| 20092s | looking list it looks fairly compact |
| 20094s | everything's doing a thing the curve |
| 20096s | looks quite good did you are you are you |
| 20098s | a fan of this list |
| 20100s | you know it's a very different list it's |
| 20101s | no more grain I think it's very focused |
| 20104s | on expecting people to bring aggro and |
| 20107s | then kind of taking advantage of that to |
| 20109s | go fully removal based so 30 cards for |
| 20113s | consistency to hit your clears uh hit |
| 20116s | your heels there's no screaming banshees |
| 20118s | even though that's been a very powerful |
| 20120s | card from this new expansion for blood |
| 20121s | DK uh it's primarily focused with just |
| 20125s | clearing the board and you know running |
| 20127s | your opponent out of resources |
| 20130s | we have a bit of a look at how Pocket |
| 20131s | Change day has gone uh just gonna talk a |
| 20134s | little bit more about Levick though |
| 20135s | because the season when everybody played |
| 20139s | um velocity cake for the entire season |
| 20140s | apart from me because I was playing |
| 20143s | because I'm like that |
| 20145s | um we did see Levick at the end of that |
| 20148s | season along with Saudi to some degree |
| 20151s | create the |
| 20153s | the quest Druid that was starting to |
| 20155s | dominate and then Frost DK got nerfed |
| 20157s | and everything changed we never saw it |
| 20159s | again well we did but it wasn't anywhere |
| 20160s | what it was and I'm just listening to |
| 20163s | you talk about how that the process of |
| 20165s | making that blood DK was made |
| 20168s | levick's an innovator right he's he's |
| 20170s | going to get there at some point this |
| 20172s | year even if it's not today just because |
| 20173s | he's capable of bringing a really good |
| 20175s | lineup and really good decks |
| 20178s | but we may see if |
| 20180s | pocket train is correct about the burn |
| 20182s | Mage you know if it's able to go the |
| 20184s | distance against something with that |
| 20186s | much heal Etc Frozen touches if you get |
| 20189s | them running especially an extra copy |
| 20191s | off of volume up could just be way too |
| 20193s | much damage for the blood DK to overcome |
| 20195s | and |
| 20197s | keyboard is a great way while you're |
| 20199s | still developing as the Mage to get |
| 20201s | those extra minions and aegon I mean we |
| 20203s | saw just how huge it can be in terms of |
| 20206s | the spell damage earlier today |
| 20208s | this major is so weird it's not your |
| 20210s | common and garden damage burn mage deck |
| 20213s | turn two Miss ago |
| 20216s | turn eight you can't hurt me like it's a |
| 20219s | bit of an accurate burn deck and half |
| 20221s | the time it's doing other things it |
| 20223s | terrifies me it's so weird |
| 20225s | yeah Mage has gotten these sort of mixed |
| 20229s | packages over the past couple of years |
| 20231s | where |
| 20233s | no single package has sort of stuck |
| 20235s | around and hit it's not like we see you |
| 20237s | know Mech Mage or Naga Mage just |
| 20239s | sticking as their own certainly not |
| 20241s | Arcane Mage as a whole but each new bit |
| 20245s | has sort of brought together its own |
| 20247s | piece to this deck so there's a little |
| 20250s | bit of skeletons in Cold Case in the |
| 20252s | deathborn but no kel'thuzad there's a |
| 20255s | little bit of the new cards and volume |
| 20257s | up and Cosmic keyboard but no light |
| 20259s | shows just everything sort of comes |
| 20262s | together into this bizarre amalgamation |
| 20265s | of a mage deck that just has tons of |
| 20267s | damage |
| 20268s | yeah I |
| 20270s | we're gonna not see it in this game but |
| 20271s | I'm looking forward to seeing it at some |
| 20273s | point in this match meanwhile we just |
| 20275s | get to see the first UK taking on the |
| 20278s | Rogue to start it off |
| 20280s | this first UK deck |
| 20283s | like turn six seven eight seem to be |
| 20285s | almost set in stone they're not |
| 20286s | obviously but they're pretty similar a |
| 20288s | lot of the time so the first five turns |
| 20291s | always seem to be so huge and I'm |
| 20292s | looking at this hand and I'm thinking |
| 20294s | I'm Gonna Keep a lot of messages how |
| 20296s | much a lot is |
| 20298s | thank you |
| 20300s | yeah I think it really really comes down |
| 20304s | to just how much damage you can push in |
| 20306s | those early turns like leading up to the |
| 20309s | ones that are set in stone in terms of |
| 20310s | freezing the opponent's board because if |
| 20313s | you can get you know halfway through |
| 20315s | their life total once you get those |
| 20316s | freezes going with my medical frostworms |
| 20319s | Fury there's not a whole lot that |
| 20322s | certain decks can do |
| 20328s | got every chance of having a monster |
| 20330s | turn in a moment he's gonna have to |
| 20332s | because pocket Train's got coin into two |
| 20335s | of the best fours in Hearthstone |
| 20338s | um |
| 20339s | but levix got the card draw the zero |
| 20342s | Mana setup ready to go you can find |
| 20344s | yourself something to do with this he's |
| 20346s | gonna delay and try and find an extra |
| 20347s | half this concoction |
| 20349s | there there is craziness ready to go in |
| 20351s | the moment |
| 20354s | and remember Levick is one of those |
| 20355s | players with sun Fury clergy in the |
| 20357s | Rogue so while a lot of times when you |
| 20360s | get an early start against Rogue burst |
| 20362s | them down you can expect them to not |
| 20363s | have any healing until turn eight |
| 20365s | whereas the Lord's manifest comes online |
| 20367s | but there is a possibility that we'll |
| 20369s | see another instance of you know Sun |
| 20371s | Fury clergy Shadow step shenanigans |
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| 20377s | deal with this |
| 20381s | this damage is coming in you you do have |
| 20383s | to trust this deck to draw its stuff |
| 20386s | like the first deck I mean |
| 20387s | um but there's so many ways of doing |
| 20389s | that you just you just it's like Druid |
| 20390s | used to be in the olden days you just |
| 20392s | trust the top of your deck to be fine |
| 20394s | and get on with what you can see in |
| 20396s | front of you |
| 20397s | and that's what he's doing |
| 20400s | I mean time and time again we've seen |
| 20402s | uh you know with the even the mermaid |
| 20405s | version of the frost DK where you'd |
| 20407s | think oh there's not as much draw |
| 20409s | they're gonna run out of cards but |
| 20411s | things like the novelings of school |
| 20413s | teacher or the nerubian vizier discovers |
| 20416s | just kind of keep it filled with gas |
| 20419s | until you get to those crucial six seven |
| 20421s | Mana turns |
| 20425s | considered as always Levick |
| 20429s | yeah not wanting to do this no one ever |
| 20432s | wants to do this but it seems to be the |
| 20433s | thing you have to do oh my |
| 20437s | no corpses as of yet but does present a |
| 20441s | pretty substantial threat later on yeah |
| 20444s | if there's no corpses then you'll be |
| 20446s | fine with that |
| 20448s | the Jackie's about to build or the board |
| 20450s | he's about to build |
| 20457s | a ghost |
| 20459s | absolutely it used to be the only way |
| 20461s | you could deal with a ghost back when |
| 20462s | they had stealth |
| 20463s | oh right yeah that makes sense actually |
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| 20469s | you see from the other side the school |
| 20471s | teacher on like blood DK dealing with |
| 20473s | massive phantasms but |
| 20477s | this way around works too |
| 20479s | it turns out School teaches just an |
| 20480s | incredibly powerful Hearthstone card |
| 20483s | who knew |
| 20485s | yeah I'd managed to see considerable |
| 20487s | play over pretty much all of last year |
| 20490s | and once you get into four set metas |
| 20492s | like this one where you can be fairly |
| 20494s | certain of what you're going to discover |
| 20496s | I think all the Discover Cards and |
| 20499s | particularly in DK become very very |
| 20501s | powerful |
| 20503s | I I was uh sad because I assumed it was |
| 20507s | rotating and I was like asking people it |
| 20509s | rotates right they're like no but we've |
| 20511s | had it forever why is it going away |
| 20514s | so now I play it and it's fine |
| 20519s | can't beat him |
| 20522s | and over here Levick has quite the |
| 20525s | pop-off turn but no payoff besides the |
| 20528s | sonographer so |
| 20530s | although this is a pretty reasonable |
| 20533s | board swing there's no massive ghost no |
| 20535s | big Draco weapon no draca in the deck |
| 20537s | even so |
| 20539s | might not quite be a beginner push |
| 20542s | against the frost decay |
| 20544s | no but Sunny Sotter was talking about |
| 20546s | yesterday is coming into play here it's |
| 20548s | this is made the turn five off the train |
| 20551s | he needs to get this stuff off the board |
| 20552s | but levick's populating the board going |
| 20555s | into turn six which means a marrow |
| 20557s | manipulator is |
| 20559s | really going to struggle to do anything |
| 20562s | too powerful |
| 20565s | I mean we might clear the board but it's |
| 20567s | going to protect the face which is a big |
| 20569s | deal |
| 20570s | yeah there is a possibility of maybe |
| 20573s | playing this naggling first to get rid |
| 20577s | of anything large on the board and then |
| 20579s | you can refresh Mana crystals to play |
| 20581s | the mirror manipulator afterwards |
| 20584s | yeah that would make sense so the large |
| 20585s | thing is going to well five five is that |
| 20587s | large can we call that large still |
| 20589s | not as large as it would have been last |
| 20591s | turn but it's a decent size |
| 20594s | Bone Breaker kind of perfect pickup here |
| 20598s | fit in with the rest of the turn |
| 20602s | I want to see Punky train and Casey play |
| 20604s | like a best of nine and some tour it |
| 20607s | would take like five minutes are you |
| 20609s | sure we could get a word in edgewise I |
| 20611s | mean don't get a word measures when I'm |
| 20613s | talking anyway so what difference |
| 20616s | but yeah we'd be talking about turn one |
| 20618s | it'll be on to turn to seven |
| 20625s | oh |
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| 20631s | Levick just |
| 20633s | hoping for some kind of healing gonna |
| 20636s | have to find that uh Sun Fury clergy but |
| 20639s | not enough time to do it |
| 20643s | fun turns out plus four damage when |
| 20645s | you're you've got charge on your side is |
| 20648s | absolutely so insane |
| 20650s | yeah |
| 20651s | I wonder if people should have been |
| 20653s | playing that instead of construct |
| 20655s | quarter before the Nerf |
| 20658s | oh |
| 20661s | yeah they probably should right I mean |
| 20665s | it's just it's so much damage and as you |
| 20667s | say with the charge based hero power |
| 20670s | it just makes so many more top deck |
| 20673s | first potential odds |
| 20675s | I'm always a fan of cards as well not |
| 20677s | always but something I like is a card |
| 20679s | it's a one five so it's built to work in |
| 20681s | pairs if you draw both of them I've got |
| 20683s | a one five ready to to just do it again |
| 20685s | next turn where some cars like the |
| 20687s | concert quarter in particular actually |
| 20688s | you draw them both you're not |
| 20690s | complaining you've got a construct water |
| 20691s | but |
| 20693s | it's a little bit messy and clunky |
| 20694s | sometimes but yeah definitely rowdies |
| 20697s | just just work well together |
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| 20701s | to say that there are some instances |
| 20703s | where Rowdy fan is clunky but it comes |
| 20705s | up far less frequently |
| 20709s | yeah it's just not expensive enough to |
| 20710s | be a problem worst case you wait for |
| 20712s | eight mana and hit them for a million |
| 20714s | that's the worst case who lost the board |
| 20716s | a million being nine but you know it's |
| 20718s | like a million sure sure |
| 20721s | Nine's just about a third of the way |
| 20723s | there |
| 20725s | yeah and that was all of the way there |
| 20727s | pocket train taking an incredibly quick |
| 20729s | one zero we were expecting this to |
| 20731s | potentially be a a slower match but if |
| 20734s | pocket train is going to play at that |
| 20735s | pace and Win Every Game it might not be |
| 20737s | it might just whiz by |
| 20739s | well we've still the blood DK yet to |
| 20742s | come out and if anything's going to take |
| 20744s | its time it is that deck with you know |
| 20746s | loads of empiric Bloods to gain life and |
| 20749s | blood boils and all that assortment so I |
| 20752s | think pocket train may just be trying to |
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| 20756s | get certain decks out of the way and |
| 20758s | this is not the matchup he wanted to hit |
| 20761s | no absolutely not |
| 20764s | um this is where you really wish it |
| 20766s | brought the other the other Death Note |
| 20767s | the other definite the other Demon |
| 20769s | Hunter why do I get those two classes |
| 20770s | mixed up every single time I was fine |
| 20771s | until they released two things that |
| 20773s | sounded vaguely similar I know I'm |
| 20775s | broken |
| 20777s | particularly the abbreviations right |
| 20779s | just one one letter difference |
| 20781s | yeah |
| 20784s | it's just just disaster honestly |
| 20789s | uh you played a lot of high level very |
| 20791s | high level Hearthstone in a semi-final |
| 20794s | like this would you rather go first or |
| 20795s | second like would you rather be sat |
| 20796s | there Walder just waiting would you |
| 20798s | rather play two in a row if you're going |
| 20800s | to get to the final |
| 20803s | oh |
| 20804s | that's what you mean I thought you were |
| 20805s | talking about specifically being on the |
| 20807s | play or the draw here and I'm no no |
| 20808s | sorry just just in general in a |
| 20810s | tournament like world has sat there done |
| 20812s | the job got time to relax got time to |
| 20814s | refresh got time to look at the um the |
| 20817s | possible matchups he's gonna play but |
| 20819s | he's also got time to start thinking or |
| 20821s | would you rather just play two matches |
| 20822s | on the road really quickly |
| 20824s | I think I would rather have the break |
| 20826s | you know particularly going into that |
| 20828s | final you just want to be fresh for |
| 20830s | whoever you're gonna face and uh yeah |
| 20832s | you can get a chance to maybe watch your |
| 20835s | opponent's match see how they play I |
| 20837s | think I would much rather be the one at |
| 20839s | the break |
| 20840s | so for me that would be the logical |
| 20842s | answer but I'm not sure I want the time |
| 20843s | to start using my brain to start |
| 20845s | thinking well I might win just just |
| 20847s | might want to play tuner but yeah The |
| 20848s | Logical answer is what you gave that's |
| 20849s | interesting |
| 20853s | getting a big close-up of pocket trains |
| 20856s | here look at it there we go |
| 20859s | this is a very interesting play from |
| 20862s | pocket here just saying you know what I |
| 20864s | don't think you have removal |
| 20866s | throw this two three and then with the |
| 20868s | fella in follow-up |
| 20871s | oh that stings the expectation was to |
| 20875s | get at least one playable card here but |
| 20878s | two ID pieces just about one of the |
| 20881s | worst things that could happen |
| 20885s | I hear the the rotter from here |
| 20887s | being mouthed |
| 20890s | absolutely nothing |
| 20892s | I wonder it would have to be a coin |
| 20895s | corpse explosion that is a lot of |
| 20897s | resources to use |
| 20898s | but leaving up The Wretched Exile when |
| 20903s | you know there's two Outcast cards in |
| 20905s | hand I mean just about the whole deck is |
| 20906s | Outcast cards but yeah |
| 20911s | but you also know roughly what they are |
| 20913s | right there's only seven is it oh class |
| 20916s | cards |
| 20918s | so |
| 20920s | if your opponent does what pocket train |
| 20922s | does and then doesn't play any of them |
| 20923s | you've got a pretty good feel for what's |
| 20926s | going on there see |
| 20927s | what I'm saying is it making the coin |
| 20930s | play is not necessarily quite as scary |
| 20931s | as I normally be right right I mean if |
| 20935s | you have |
| 20936s | an idea that it's I-beam then just not |
| 20939s | having targets could be good enough but |
| 20941s | it's not much of a turn without uh |
| 20944s | yeah without making any Targets |
| 20954s | which is Levick have Levick has |
| 20957s | kind of everything they always do have |
| 20959s | kind of everything at this stage because |
| 20960s | pocket train has not been able to push |
| 20962s | because of that low roll a minute ago |
| 20965s | yeah that has been a pretty massive |
| 20968s | setback to what I think Parker train was |
| 20969s | looking to do in this matchup you're |
| 20971s | hoping to force the blood DK's hand I |
| 20975s | think when you're up against a bad |
| 20977s | matchup particularly aggro versus |
| 20979s | control you really want to just force |
| 20981s | them to have things because the more |
| 20984s | time you give them the more likely they |
| 20985s | are to find the answer |
| 20988s | yeah it's a bad matchup because they |
| 20990s | have the answers so yeah that makes a |
| 20991s | lot of sense just try and find a spot |
| 20993s | where they haven't got it well that spot |
| 20994s | is turn one |
| 20996s | oh |
| 21009s | I love house he's so cute the disposers |
| 21012s | in this deck |
| 21014s | so such a really cool purpose |
| 21017s | yeah it is quite fun being able to sort |
| 21019s | of reposition cards in your hand like |
| 21021s | that |
| 21023s | [Music] |
| 21030s | maximum card draw here his hand is empty |
| 21033s | whatever will he do |
| 21037s | and yeah this makes sense just saying |
| 21040s | hey it doesn't matter that it has |
| 21041s | lifesteal if you're gonna be a full |
| 21043s | health anyway |
| 21049s | just an absurd amount of cards I mean |
| 21052s | you even seen some people I don't think |
| 21054s | it's good but some people have been |
| 21055s | playing Tony in this deck |
| 21057s | because you get to a certain point where |
| 21060s | you've got a nine card draw weapon what |
| 21063s | do I do well I guess I'll just burn a |
| 21064s | bunch of my opponents cards |
| 21067s | at least logical sense even if it's not |
| 21069s | good |
| 21070s | that's the hard thing for people on my |
| 21073s | level and probably people lower than my |
| 21075s | level as well in deck building it's like |
| 21077s | this thing looks good yes and then you |
| 21078s | do it and you're like I was right that |
| 21080s | thing is good |
| 21081s | but it's not consistent and you've |
| 21084s | wasted a slot that you don't see what |
| 21085s | happens if you change that slot for |
| 21087s | something that's just better the more |
| 21089s | good |
| 21095s | but didn't look away from the game state |
| 21100s | he knows he knows what's going to happen |
| 21101s | in the next 10 seconds |
| 21103s | gotta be in the zone Linda he has he has |
| 21109s | he's also one of these players that um |
| 21111s | when you watch him stream he's always |
| 21113s | looking at his deck tracker not the |
| 21114s | board because he wants to know what the |
| 21116s | top card is that he's drawn before it |
| 21117s | appears on screen because it appears as |
| 21120s | it's drawn on the right hand side the |
| 21121s | deck tracker usually logs it on your |
| 21124s | on the deck tracker immediately so you |
| 21126s | see you've always you'll say oh yeah |
| 21127s | I've drawn so-and-so and you're like how |
| 21129s | do you know |
| 21131s | well and it also loads up with all kinds |
| 21134s | of other information that can be quite |
| 21135s | helpful in terms of percentage chances |
| 21137s | of drawing specific cards you know we |
| 21139s | saw pocket make a play on this deck |
| 21142s | previously where it was you know |
| 21144s | calculated out of or what are my odds of |
| 21146s | drawing |
| 21147s | I'll spell that I'm gonna need for this |
| 21149s | extra subpoena proc |
| 21151s | ESS |
| 21153s | here we see again discounting |
| 21156s | elveria |
| 21159s | so I wonder if you may be going for |
| 21161s | something similar in this instance to |
| 21163s | try and get a ton of from hand damage |
| 21166s | potential which thano plus half Aria |
| 21169s | yeah I think that's all he has but will |
| 21171s | it be enough and it might be very doubt |
| 21174s | it |
| 21175s | excuse me |
| 21180s | but he's doing exactly what you're |
| 21181s | describing he's he's making Levick have |
| 21183s | it as many times as he can and then |
| 21185s | maybe Mrs beaten doesn't have it one |
| 21187s | time |
| 21193s | and may come down to wretched outcasts |
| 21196s | generated cards as well |
| 21208s | I think being very careful making good |
| 21211s | use of the blood boil not having any |
| 21213s | minions in play to rush into |
| 21217s | they will never catch me |
| 21221s | is it is this setup |
| 21224s | what's he gonna be |
| 21230s | I think unfortunately you know being up |
| 21232s | against blood DK rather than the Relic |
| 21236s | Demon Hunter that he was up against |
| 21238s | previously yeah a little bit different |
| 21241s | situation opponents at 40 life instead |
| 21244s | of uh |
| 21246s | I don't know something like what was it |
| 21248s | 4 14 before maybe more than that but all |
| 21250s | the same not 40 anything not 40. |
| 21253s | significant difference |
| 21257s | that he does it again it amuses me every |
| 21259s | time |
| 21268s | and at this point I wonder when Levick |
| 21270s | feels like he is it's time to dirty rat |
| 21273s | because that dirty rat could ultimately |
| 21275s | decide |
| 21276s | the outcome of the match on its own |
| 21280s | right yeah |
| 21281s | dirty rat Kill Center game over |
| 21283s | [Music] |
| 21285s | or kill any of these to be honest |
| 21288s | [Music] |
| 21294s | could well be where he's at right now |
| 21300s | not easy to do right away though |
| 21303s | yeah well it doesn't actually pull |
| 21305s | anything on this full board so you have |
| 21307s | to like make some space |
| 21316s | I like this |
| 21318s | saying hey |
| 21320s | that free one can stay up I'll just |
| 21323s | casually go to 46. |
| 21329s | nothing to rush into means no hell area |
| 21332s | Buffs oh no |
| 21343s | that dirty rat's just a foregone |
| 21345s | conclusion particularly able to come |
| 21347s | down alongside the soul stealer pretty |
| 21349s | sure that's gonna wrap this one up |
| 21351s | you know what I want to do and having |
| 21352s | seen this setup I want to put Viper in |
| 21355s | my Etc there's blood DK and just kill |
| 21358s | one of these people I'm making the door |
| 21359s | 20 cards |
| 21365s | yep |
| 21366s | like it was ready for that one don't |
| 21368s | think you really expected to uh pull |
| 21371s | that one through after the opponent went |
| 21373s | up to grand total of 46 life there but |
| 21376s | uh did the best he could |
| 21378s | yeah and living have decisions to make |
| 21380s | there I I sometimes pick on control |
| 21382s | players saying they don't have decisions |
| 21383s | but it's all it's all nonsense of course |
| 21385s | they do |
| 21386s | um but the the early coin there is a |
| 21388s | corpse explosion was a lot of resources |
| 21390s | to use on turn four to clear the board |
| 21393s | but he identified this is it this is the |
| 21395s | board I need to clear this is the this |
| 21397s | is where this is best spent I'm going to |
| 21399s | probably have to struggle for a turn or |
| 21401s | two afterwards but I trust that I'll get |
| 21402s | out of it from that point on and after |
| 21405s | that it was really easy but that |
| 21407s | decision itself was definitely not an |
| 21409s | easy choice for a Layman like myself |
| 21414s | yeah you have to weigh sort of okay yes |
| 21418s | I could get a bigger value clear if I |
| 21421s | use this later but at the same time I am |
| 21422s | giving my opponent more value by letting |
| 21425s | something like The Wretched Exile stick |
| 21426s | around |
| 21429s | and that's why he's a top four world |
| 21431s | champion player and I'm talking about |
| 21433s | him so |
| 21435s | um one game of peace that leaves Levick |
| 21437s | with the Rogue and The Druids remaining |
| 21441s | I believe and pocket train on the Mage |
| 21445s | which we haven't had a chance to talk |
| 21446s | about |
| 21447s | and the outcast which again two Decks |
| 21450s | that he and miti both think are |
| 21452s | practically unbeatable outside of the |
| 21454s | blood DK but again they didn't expect to |
| 21456s | see that so that's that's fair enough |
| 21459s | right now if something is potentially |
| 21461s | able to pick up a match against this |
| 21463s | Mage I actually would have rather run |
| 21465s | the Mage into the blood DK than the |
| 21467s | druid just because if the Druid is able |
| 21470s | to ramp up they just have so much armor |
| 21474s | and as a mage you can't handle Jailer |
| 21479s | right Jailer just means yeah you have to |
| 21482s | have something other than damage based |
| 21483s | removal to remove their minions and so a |
| 21485s | certain point you're you're not able to |
| 21488s | deal with the threats and the threats |
| 21489s | escalate very very quickly |
| 21491s | is this your sort of deck to play for |
| 21493s | fun for getting strength to play I know |
| 21495s | I know obviously you're capable of |
| 21496s | playing the best decks in the world but |
| 21497s | I know you like to mess around a bit |
| 21498s | with Hearthstone as well is this your |
| 21500s | sort of deck the mage deck the mage deck |
| 21502s | oh definitely yeah pretty much anything |
| 21504s | that can run egg when I'm a fan of |
| 21507s | I know again I'm going back to all the |
| 21509s | moving parts we talked about earlier |
| 21511s | there's so many different themes running |
| 21513s | through this day that's why I asked I |
| 21514s | thought maybe it's a little bit a little |
| 21516s | bit weird all over the place as a deck |
| 21523s | it's just you know it's uh |
| 21527s | it's sort of like a Ratatouille or or |
| 21529s | something like that you know it's a stew |
| 21531s | right it's just like it's got all these |
| 21533s | pieces they don't necessarily look like |
| 21535s | they work together but you know all the |
| 21537s | flavors come together make something |
| 21538s | that's uh delicious that's probably yeah |
| 21541s | it's probably why I struggle with this |
| 21543s | sort of thing because I take all the |
| 21544s | peace out and sort of lay them on one |
| 21545s | side and suddenly they don't have the |
| 21547s | taste anymore it's just like here's a |
| 21549s | piece of stuff |
| 21551s | this has now been removed from all its |
| 21553s | Synergy and I don't like this piece of |
| 21555s | stuff and I do that three times I'm like |
| 21556s | I don't like any of this I just put it |
| 21558s | away again and go back to playing Relic |
| 21560s | d h because I understand it if it's got |
| 21563s | the word Relic on it it's synergized |
| 21564s | with other cars that say the word Relic |
| 21566s | on them |
| 21568s | not even giving an opportunity for the |
| 21570s | card to come into the hand just go |
| 21572s | straight under the field |
| 21577s | yep |
| 21580s | flame guys are an interesting card |
| 21582s | actually one that I believe one of the |
| 21584s | other Mage players was running in the |
| 21587s | main deck uh probably taking up the spot |
| 21589s | that the Prismatic Elemental was for uh |
| 21594s | and I was pretty impressed to be honest |
| 21598s | what's so what do you like about it |
| 21599s | what's so good about it so pros and cons |
| 21602s | what I like is that sometimes it can be |
| 21605s | difficult to get off your finale if |
| 21607s | you're not able to volume up on curve |
| 21609s | and so having one Mana plays to to line |
| 21612s | that up is nice it also just helps you a |
| 21615s | bit in matchups versus other aggressive |
| 21617s | decks having something you're willing to |
| 21619s | spend earlier on as a removal tool and |
| 21622s | then it gives you a minion to infuse |
| 21624s | your Frozen touches so kind of like we |
| 21626s | were talking in terms of that stew it |
| 21628s | just has this interesting Synergy with |
| 21630s | the whole rest of what the deck is |
| 21631s | trying to do |
| 21633s | downsides is I don't think you |
| 21635s | particularly want to see it in a volume |
| 21636s | up to get a copy but generally you don't |
| 21639s | have like you've got options in terms of |
| 21641s | what you want to copy there right not |
| 21643s | too big a deal |
| 21644s | so what's your prediction going forward |
| 21646s | next week when people have had a chance |
| 21648s | to watch this Masters Tour and see what |
| 21650s | happened will will it be played or will |
| 21651s | it not be played in this deck when |
| 21653s | people start playing it on ladder oh |
| 21654s | Flynn gliser I yeah I would still expect |
| 21657s | that that people would not be playing |
| 21658s | flame guys right I think especially |
| 21660s | people like something like Prismatic |
| 21662s | Elemental a little bit more |
| 21664s | just because discovers are fun |
| 21667s | [Music] |
| 21668s | okay yeah they are |
| 21672s | I don't understand fun |
| 21675s | it's a concept I struggle with mightily |
| 21679s | all right |
| 21680s | so pocket train obviously like we've |
| 21683s | talked about a million times trying to |
| 21684s | do as much as possible early in the game |
| 21687s | against druid |
| 21690s | does have a tasty looking death born but |
| 21693s | it's just too finicky for at least one |
| 21695s | more turn |
| 21699s | and one more turns a lot of turns |
| 21701s | because levick's just got everything |
| 21703s | almost |
| 21704s | yeah if zoc comes into the hand here we |
| 21708s | could see some fairly massive stats and |
| 21710s | if I recall correctly Etc does have that |
| 21713s | uh Alchemist to swap them |
| 21718s | that's so funny to me I actually went |
| 21720s | with it on the theory crafting day I was |
| 21722s | like look at me I'm clever I know how to |
| 21724s | use an alchemist I'm gonna put that in |
| 21726s | my deck yeah it was great fun |
| 21728s | just gotta be grateful that they didn't |
| 21729s | bring back void rip |
| 21732s | just boys we put two behind me because |
| 21735s | I'm terrible at card names it flips all |
| 21737s | minions attacking hell oh that would be |
| 21740s | hilarious yeah let's do that |
| 21746s | spell damage on spell damage |
| 21749s | it's gonna be a plus three |
| 21757s | okay |
| 21759s | do what he can but he knows he's not |
| 21761s | anywhere fast here |
| 21763s | yeah I think the tough spot here for |
| 21765s | pocket is that there's only the one |
| 21767s | Frozen touch not a lot of other burn |
| 21770s | going on and that's where you really |
| 21772s | want to hit those volume UPS so that you |
| 21775s | are able to take full advantage of every |
| 21777s | time you are making minions |
| 21784s | oh he knows it's there because there's |
| 21787s | so few big minions and there's the sock |
| 21790s | the sock comes off the flower child |
| 21793s | foreign |
| 21803s | just going for the Jailer here could |
| 21805s | even do the the Tony first and then the |
| 21807s | jailer although it doesn't |
| 21809s | really matter |
| 21811s | no I think |
| 21813s | in this case it's better |
| 21818s | in this case it's better to do the |
| 21819s | Jailer first because then you get to |
| 21821s | draw your opponent's cards and not be |
| 21823s | fatiguing |
| 21824s | yeah since Mage has no way of clearing |
| 21827s | this the only possible out would have |
| 21829s | been Prismatic Elemental and we already |
| 21831s | saw both of those |
| 21832s | yeah most regular matchups you can do it |
| 21834s | the other way around because if the Tony |
| 21835s | dies you get it back if it doesn't die |
| 21837s | you win but yeah Mage can maybe hurt you |
| 21840s | so yeah |
| 21843s | alibias can stall a little bit but |
| 21846s | there's |
| 21847s | not enough damage here |
| 21858s | add insult to injury the skeletons have |
| 21861s | pretty high odds of hitting the immune |
| 21864s | minions and wasting that damage |
| 21867s | yeah that annoys me so much imagine if |
| 21870s | the immune just couldn't be touched by |
| 21872s | anything apart from destroy effects and |
| 21874s | then you can just win with astalor or |
| 21876s | something at least have a chance in life |
| 21878s | you know |
| 21878s | [Music] |
| 21884s | bucket says nope nope we're not doing |
| 21887s | this no need |
| 21890s | that was convincing from Levick um |
| 21892s | something I'm always impressed about |
| 21893s | with all of these players but Levick |
| 21895s | even more than most is |
| 21899s | very clean understanding of exactly how |
| 21902s | it needs to look to make it work I mean |
| 21904s | a lot of the players can do that but he |
| 21906s | just makes it look so easy when the game |
| 21907s | is over you think oh yeah he just knew |
| 21909s | that from turn through he was just going |
| 21910s | through the process |
| 21913s | I think there's a lot of sort of math |
| 21915s | that we don't enjoyed in terms of you |
| 21917s | know how you ramp when you ramp when to |
| 21920s | play flower child know what to get I |
| 21923s | think it could have been easy to sort of |
| 21926s | just |
| 21927s | rip the zoc play on that turn and but he |
| 21930s | says no actually I've got enough life I |
| 21933s | can just jail her not a whole lot that |
| 21935s | can be done |
| 21938s | so here's down to just the Rogue now |
| 21942s | he's gonna is that right is it just the |
| 21945s | phone am I going crazy yeah he's one |
| 21948s | with drilled in blood so it's got to be |
| 21949s | the road yeah |
| 21950s | you want to have to beat multiple times |
| 21954s | yeah and Pokemon still has the Mage |
| 21956s | which |
| 21958s | I like intervogue in the old iterations |
| 21961s | of both decks I'm not quite sure how the |
| 21962s | changes have have mattered but Alibi |
| 21965s | sounds like it's going to be a good card |
| 21966s | against Rogue to me at least in some |
| 21968s | iteration and the damage but |
| 21972s | curing this first this is |
| 21974s | definitely the better of the two |
| 21976s | right sorry I think this is the better |
| 21977s | of the two |
| 21980s | that's interesting I personally would |
| 21982s | would be more stressed about the outcast |
| 21984s | Demon Hunter in this matchup just |
| 21986s | because you care a lot more about sort |
| 21989s | of early minion damage and |
| 21992s | Rogue to some extent wants a certain |
| 21995s | number of minions in play to be able to |
| 21997s | activate their |
| 21999s | serrated bone spikes Etc and they have a |
| 22001s | lot of one damage elements in terms of |
| 22005s | ghostly strike which we see there and |
| 22007s | the reinvigorated fan of knives now at |
| 22010s | two Mana |
| 22012s | yeah I'm going to admit that it was |
| 22014s | probably somewhere on day one here that |
| 22016s | I suddenly realized oh people are |
| 22017s | playing fan of noise because it cost two |
| 22019s | now |
| 22020s | yep because I played so much Rogue I |
| 22022s | looked at lists and thought okay this |
| 22023s | makes sense I understand I don't really |
| 22024s | need to practice Rogue because I played |
| 22026s | a lot of it yeah a fan of knives that |
| 22028s | makes sense at some point on day when |
| 22030s | I'm like that costs two hang on what's |
| 22033s | happening here it's once again you can |
| 22035s | prep fan of knives and it costs zero |
| 22038s | Mana |
| 22039s | and all is well with the world yeah okay |
| 22043s | I think that's the primary reason it's |
| 22045s | you know made its way back into lists |
| 22047s | right being able to prep it for zero |
| 22049s | mana and I think that's also why Thanos |
| 22051s | is in levick's list here because uh |
| 22053s | every once in a while you need that |
| 22054s | extra bit of damage and the almost fan |
| 22056s | is a very nostalgic clears |
| 22060s | it really is especially again with |
| 22062s | outcasts having so much two Health stuff |
| 22064s | going on I know I know there's a five |
| 22066s | five on the board and there's some two |
| 22067s | threes in the deck but there's a lot of |
| 22069s | two health and one Health stuff in this |
| 22070s | deck |
| 22074s | yeah this is |
| 22076s | you know in |
| 22078s | nice to have the five fives here for |
| 22080s | pocket but he doesn't have a whole lot |
| 22083s | of refill going on so it's going to be |
| 22085s | very dependent on some some top decks in |
| 22089s | terms of no either the weapon but even |
| 22091s | then |
| 22092s | you need some outcasts to to fill that |
| 22095s | up so |
| 22096s | I kind of wonder if the Exile would be |
| 22099s | the best top deck to go with this I-beam |
| 22102s | I was going to say there's not much |
| 22103s | going on for Levick here was a problem |
| 22105s | but this future side is going to just do |
| 22109s | so yeah look at pocket trainees oh not |
| 22112s | happy to see that one Jeremy fight of |
| 22115s | what's going to happen here |
| 22118s | and the shadow steps allow Levick to use |
| 22120s | the potions twice so if he gets damaged |
| 22122s | or removed off the first one he can use |
| 22124s | it and then just just go again |
| 22127s | well and now the stenographer is free as |
| 22130s | well that can trade in |
| 22133s | three damage all the killer random |
| 22136s | minion though so it might end up being |
| 22138s | long Pages like you say the sonographer |
| 22139s | is going to pick him up one more potion |
| 22141s | bam |
| 22143s | oh there we go there's card draw |
| 22146s | it's just infinite a device it's just |
| 22149s | infinite stuff |
| 22154s | this is going to be a massive ghost |
| 22159s | this is one large ghost I agree with you |
| 22162s | entirely |
| 22164s | it's turned five |
| 22167s | and let's go the thing about Miracle |
| 22170s | Rogue is it just keeps going sometimes |
| 22172s | will you stop living he's already dead |
| 22178s | yeah change like Words goodbye |
| 22184s | 16-16 ghosts |
| 22188s | there's 27 damage on the board |
| 22194s | I think that is the largest ghost of the |
| 22197s | tournament |
| 22198s | Pocket toys like I've got a one one |
| 22200s | you've got a 16-16 I'm sure there's |
| 22202s | something I can do |
| 22204s | yeah I think not how pocket wanted to |
| 22207s | close out his run here but uh you know I |
| 22210s | think in some respects not one you can |
| 22212s | feel too bad about don't really think |
| 22214s | there was a whole lot more he could have |
| 22216s | done on at least that particular game |
| 22218s | I'm sure he'll have a look back at the |
| 22220s | vods of the other matches but I think |
| 22222s | pocket overall can be very proud of his |
| 22224s | performance at this event |
| 22231s | as well and the |
| 22233s | SE after he's recovered from this |
| 22235s | setback is that means that we can |
| 22237s | selfishly have three more months of |
| 22240s | pocket train streams |
| 22242s | but I am gutted for him that being said |
| 22244s | Levick last year top four in the world |
| 22246s | uh was Raven's early pick as well like |
| 22249s | going back 18 months two years before |
| 22250s | that he played fantastically last year |
| 22252s | he got very very close in Worlds he's |
| 22255s | one match away from going back there |
| 22258s | this year so he has been the primary |
| 22262s | innovator that isn't Casey this year |
| 22264s | with new decks and stuff in fact he |
| 22265s | might be the primary innovator |
| 22268s | apart from Jumbo but I don't talk about |
| 22270s | John but he encourages him |
| 22272s | this year so Levick with his own build |
| 22274s | of blood DK with the stuff he's been |
| 22276s | doing on ladder I'm excited to see |
| 22278s | Levick have a chance to go back to World |
| 22279s | Championships yeah absolutely you know |
| 22282s | it's |
| 22284s | always a bold choice to differentiate |
| 22287s | yourself in terms of lineup from |
| 22288s | everyone else and doesn't always work |
| 22290s | out but Levick does have one of the more |
| 22292s | unique lineups here with the blood DK |
| 22294s | with the Druid and so being able to take |
| 22298s | that choice and and bring it all the way |
| 22300s | to the finals uh it's Gotta feel |
| 22302s | fantastic and going into these finals it |
| 22307s | is a perhaps charged matchup we do have |
| 22310s | Russia versus Ukraine finals so I think |
| 22314s | there will be loads of excitement going |
| 22317s | on for all the fans either direction we |
| 22320s | are going to pop over fluids on either |
| 22322s | side after saying all tournament Druid |
| 22324s | was the wrong thing Druid was the wrong |
| 22326s | bring |
| 22327s | Drew is the bring it's in the final on |
| 22329s | both sides I will have that final for |
| 22330s | you in about 10 minutes see you very |
| 22333s | soon stay tuned |
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| 23158s | and welcome back we are ready for the |
| 23161s | final here subtle it's all come down to |
| 23164s | this we are going to find out our first |
| 23166s | player who's booking a spot at the world |
| 23168s | championship are you ready for this one |
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| 23180s | made it all the way to the finals Raven |
| 23183s | without me being muted on vmix I was |
| 23184s | waiting for this to happen but we've |
| 23186s | done it it's fine hello everyone uh yes |
| 23189s | am I ready no is clearly the answer |
| 23191s | because I forgot to unmute myself but |
| 23193s | other than that I heard you though so |
| 23195s | it's fine exactly uh we were just having |
| 23197s | our special little moments together as |
| 23199s | always Raven but yeah I think it's been |
| 23201s | a long road to get here both in terms of |
| 23203s | the tournament obviously with whittling |
| 23205s | 16 down to two it's been a much longer |
| 23208s | Road for these players to get to this |
| 23210s | point so I think the more important |
| 23212s | question than whether I'm ready whether |
| 23214s | you're ready whether anyone watching at |
| 23216s | home is ready is where the Walden Levick |
| 23219s | are ready because those are the ones who |
| 23221s | have three months of accumulated |
| 23224s | pressure stacked up on their shoulders |
| 23226s | now at this point and it's a single |
| 23227s | series of hearthstone that they have |
| 23229s | between them and their goal for the year |
| 23232s | which is championships yeah and and |
| 23234s | don't get me wrong getting this far is |
| 23237s | an incredible achievement in itself as |
| 23239s | you said you know basically three months |
| 23240s | worth of work to just qualify then you |
| 23243s | have to fight your way through group |
| 23244s | stage and then top eight in a incredibly |
| 23247s | stacked tournament but there's still one |
| 23250s | more left right this is for basically |
| 23253s | all the marbles right when we're talking |
| 23255s | about the true prize of a world |
| 23257s | championship spot uh both players there |
| 23259s | aren't going to be on Demon Hunter of |
| 23261s | course but we are looking at the two |
| 23263s | players we're gonna see it's gonna be |
| 23264s | Walder versus Levick and then Walder |
| 23267s | again |
| 23268s | all right those have past achievements |
| 23270s | in Hearthstone of course and is |
| 23272s | incredibly game but going into this |
| 23274s | tournament looking at the all 16 players |
| 23277s | was definitely one of the Dark Horses |
| 23279s | for me subtle but has been very |
| 23281s | impressive not only due to the clear |
| 23283s | practice in the finals but just from a |
| 23285s | gameplay right just from turn by turn |
| 23287s | game by game he's looked very very |
| 23289s | strong indeed yeah agreed on all fronts |
| 23292s | I think if you were to come into this |
| 23294s | just based on popular opinion looking |
| 23296s | for favorites I think you'd see people |
| 23298s | talking about pocket train I think you'd |
| 23301s | see people talking about meaty honestly |
| 23303s | because of his increasing popularity as |
| 23305s | a streamer now as well I think you'd see |
| 23307s | people looking at Casey and then even I |
| 23309s | think if you went to the next tier down |
| 23311s | I think you'd see you'd be hearing names |
| 23312s | like banterface and requam for example |
| 23314s | before the the likes of Boulder and even |
| 23316s | Levin came in I think if you followed |
| 23319s | the last few years of competitive |
| 23320s | Hearthstone closely Levick is on your |
| 23323s | list for this tour yes like a hundred |
| 23325s | percent of the time but I don't think he |
| 23327s | has that that wide reaching penetration |
| 23329s | into the the Hearthstone Zeitgeist that |
| 23331s | some of these other players do so to |
| 23333s | many people this might be an unexpected |
| 23335s | final to see but I think uh Levick in |
| 23338s | particular if you've been paying |
| 23339s | attention has clearly laid the |
| 23341s | groundwork for this for in quite some |
| 23343s | time in advance and that's the thing you |
| 23345s | just named a lot of well-known very good |
| 23347s | Hearthstone players and didn't name yala |
| 23349s | and surrender |
| 23352s | the list just goes on right and that |
| 23354s | just shows how stacked this tournament |
| 23356s | was uh but yeah unfortunately we did |
| 23358s | very recently uh wave goodbye to pocket |
| 23361s | train but it does mean as you can see |
| 23362s | Levick made it and I'm really happy for |
| 23364s | Levick I think um he is just extremely |
| 23367s | good at the game levick's one of these |
| 23368s | players who I would have loved to for |
| 23371s | him to like pop up like a few years like |
| 23373s | a couple of years before he did you know |
| 23375s | what I mean just so we can see more and |
| 23377s | more play but you are right these two |
| 23379s | players have uh put a ton of work to get |
| 23381s | here and this final is gonna be a big |
| 23384s | one and we are going to see let me just |
| 23387s | triple check so I don't forget |
| 23389s | um yeah levick's blood DK has actually |
| 23391s | been banned away and Walder has lost uh |
| 23395s | his Rogue I believe for this series and |
| 23398s | just before we dive into this Rogue |
| 23400s | obviously we've seen a lot of Rogue over |
| 23401s | the course of this weekend but what do |
| 23403s | what we would talk about this uh before |
| 23405s | we came on uh for this match of course |
| 23407s | but what have you made of this Blood DK |
| 23409s | because I think going into after seeing |
| 23411s | the lists everyone was like yeah Frost |
| 23413s | was the way Frost was the way but levix |
| 23415s | made it work |
| 23418s | he has and I honestly I think we're |
| 23421s | gonna see a good deal more of this style |
| 23424s | of deck in the coming week or so I think |
| 23427s | one or two people will now dip their |
| 23429s | toes into the water of 30 card blood DK |
| 23432s | because it does make a lot of sense to |
| 23435s | me now that I look at the list I kind of |
| 23437s | looked up a conventional 40 car blood |
| 23439s | Decay and compared it like for like as |
| 23441s | to which cards you're missing there |
| 23442s | aren't too many cards in there that I |
| 23444s | think well these are essential these |
| 23446s | have to go in my deck like I think |
| 23447s | you've certainly hit the point of just |
| 23449s | needing to play some cards to fill out |
| 23451s | fill out your deck and then the five |
| 23453s | Health Advantage you have for the the |
| 23456s | drawback of inconsistency of drawers I |
| 23458s | mean it's it's half a vampiric blood |
| 23461s | right like it's nothing in in the ground |
| 23463s | it's not quite the same in Death Knight |
| 23464s | is it they can just do that anyway |
| 23467s | and you know I was making this point |
| 23470s | earlier but I think honestly in |
| 23472s | Hearthstone |
| 23474s | control decks are largely just Decks |
| 23476s | that are failing to play for Tempo |
| 23478s | effectively so if you can take a control |
| 23480s | deck like blood DK and just make it so |
| 23483s | that you get to play a minion every turn |
| 23485s | that's probably made it better right |
| 23488s | like you actually then get to play Tempo |
| 23490s | with your control deck and still have |
| 23491s | really good control cards in there as |
| 23493s | well so I know we're talking an awful |
| 23495s | lot about a bad deck in before we're |
| 23497s | going into the series but I do think |
| 23499s | it's it's a Cornerstone of why Levick |
| 23501s | has made it to this point but we will |
| 23504s | now get on with things and I guess uh |
| 23506s | for other things to talk about Raven I |
| 23507s | brought this up earlier as well as to |
| 23509s | what the final score would be if you |
| 23511s | like between Relic Demon Hunter and |
| 23513s | Outcast Demon Hunter and now that we've |
| 23516s | reached the final you can very clearly |
| 23518s | see the answer to that can't you yeah I |
| 23521s | just want to apologize actually I didn't |
| 23522s | think the first matchup was double Demon |
| 23524s | Hunter and it is it's me being the idiot |
| 23526s | great uh back to normal I suppose uh |
| 23529s | here but it's looking good so far here |
| 23531s | and you can see just walled it with the |
| 23534s | globe I do think that's a such a big |
| 23537s | card to have I I found when I've been |
| 23539s | playing this deck the games I'm |
| 23541s | struggling more and more in are the ones |
| 23543s | where I haven't drawn the weapon and I |
| 23545s | think it makes such a huge impact on |
| 23546s | just how much juice you can really you |
| 23548s | know get hold of |
| 23550s | it does and normally in just straight up |
| 23554s | ladder Outcast the DH versus lcast DH |
| 23558s | this is the kind of thing you'll see |
| 23559s | happen right trading back and forth Rush |
| 23562s | minions into Rush minions uh and then if |
| 23564s | one player has weapon and the other one |
| 23566s | doesn't it's just a straight up resource |
| 23567s | fight right and you lose |
| 23569s | Levick does have the X Factor though he |
| 23571s | can actually make boards that the |
| 23574s | opponent is unable to answer with |
| 23575s | hawkstrider Rancher which can make a |
| 23577s | huge huge difference because then it |
| 23580s | doesn't really matter how many extra |
| 23581s | cards your opponent has if they're |
| 23583s | unable to clear your board because of |
| 23585s | all the extra layers of stickiness that |
| 23586s | you've thrown in there right |
| 23590s | maybe he's won too many this early in |
| 23593s | the game I-beam as an option though is |
| 23595s | going to help a lot this turn |
| 23597s | yeah gotta be the I-beam here you would |
| 23599s | have it's has to die right |
| 23602s | yeah there we go |
| 23609s | get a hero power for free here |
| 23612s | okay he's gonna do it this way and hold |
| 23614s | on to the fierce Outsider doesn't make |
| 23617s | sense you essentially waste your |
| 23618s | illidari studies discount this way but |
| 23620s | Wilder is saying he'd rather have the |
| 23623s | extra Outcast card in hand for after the |
| 23625s | glaive top than to play Mana efficient |
| 23628s | on this term which does make sense yeah |
| 23629s | and it works out well with the Curve |
| 23631s | going forward as well right it's going |
| 23632s | to juice the glaive tower a little bit |
| 23634s | um and still the curve is just going to |
| 23637s | be fine anyway and these are already big |
| 23639s | decisions because I spoke about this I |
| 23642s | think early yesterday but a lot of them |
| 23644s | match-ups especially in this tournament |
| 23646s | matter because of how I grow heavy is is |
| 23648s | a lot of well who's going to decide to |
| 23651s | go face first because we see a lot of |
| 23653s | you know minion and like hyper |
| 23655s | aggressive trading on board in a lot of |
| 23657s | these match-ups but Walter then could |
| 23659s | have killed off a 2-2 but decided you'd |
| 23661s | rather cash in four to face what do you |
| 23663s | think |
| 23665s | yeah I think that's reasonable it's uh |
| 23667s | it's a vanilla tutu as well in terms of |
| 23670s | this matchup and in this matchup by |
| 23671s | Vanilla I mean not a Rush Minion and |
| 23674s | therefore less dangerous to you in the |
| 23676s | long term because multiple Rush minions |
| 23678s | sticking to the board for a couple of |
| 23679s | turns can obviously turn into colossal |
| 23681s | amounts of damage uh when halveria then |
| 23685s | comes down you just get these massive |
| 23686s | bloodlust effects but yeah for me I |
| 23688s | think while they're in a position where |
| 23690s | four damage to face is very much the |
| 23693s | business he's in the problem right now |
| 23695s | is that his wallopers are very expensive |
| 23698s | and if he's been keeping track he knows |
| 23700s | that levix wallopers are very cheap |
| 23702s | so I mean if if the board of five fives |
| 23705s | were to come down on the other side he |
| 23707s | wouldn't necessarily have enough Mana |
| 23709s | efficiency to be able to deal with it |
| 23711s | coming back the other way |
| 23713s | yeah I I yes but then it's a weird one |
| 23717s | where if Levick played them first |
| 23720s | then Walder has almost an extra turn to |
| 23723s | help out right because then you could |
| 23724s | potentially play the cards to reduce |
| 23726s | them down in that response turn itself |
| 23728s | yeah |
| 23730s | but it is tricky obviously you never |
| 23731s | want to be that one step behind no and |
| 23734s | it's only really like Fierce Outsider |
| 23737s | that gains you Mana in those situations |
| 23739s | so you know if your opponent has played |
| 23741s | two zero mana wallopers and you start |
| 23743s | the term with two four Mana wallopers in |
| 23745s | your hand for example yeah you're gonna |
| 23748s | yeah yeah it's rare you're gonna have a |
| 23750s | enough Mana to have an explosive turn |
| 23752s | coming back the other way uh what Levick |
| 23754s | appears to be doing here by the way is |
| 23756s | holding on to his wallopers as actual |
| 23759s | combo pieces in this situation and |
| 23761s | trying to get a combo kill put together |
| 23763s | with ladies then oh potentially because |
| 23765s | now you can see all possible in one turn |
| 23768s | is halveria double walloper with Zeno |
| 23772s | and at least one of those dispose of |
| 23774s | evidences despair depending on what else |
| 23775s | can get thrown away uh looks like he |
| 23778s | might just be trying to divert from that |
| 23780s | now because of the pressure that came |
| 23781s | down on the other side but there was |
| 23783s | Mana floated last turn and nothing being |
| 23785s | played very interesting with that combo |
| 23788s | being built |
| 23789s | yeah I feel like dot Ravens are such a |
| 23792s | tricky card to get a good handle on |
| 23794s | because |
| 23796s | I especially early on when I was messing |
| 23798s | around with this deck I found myself I |
| 23800s | was trying to get too good of a turn out |
| 23802s | of it right and this wasn't with satano |
| 23804s | this was more just you know the usual I |
| 23806s | have Rush Minions on board let's go and |
| 23808s | kill my opponent but um but it can be |
| 23811s | really difficult to say like what's a |
| 23813s | good enough number to do the thing right |
| 23815s | especially against a class that can |
| 23817s | potentially heal as well |
| 23818s | foreign |
| 23826s | not to just like pop your head to this |
| 23829s | music |
| 23832s | I don't know if you're a |
| 23834s | the same wavelength for this no I have |
| 23836s | for large parts of this tournament yes |
| 23838s | whenever I'm not talking I am just sat |
| 23840s | in my chair vibing |
| 23843s | having a full-blown wide Vibe |
| 23847s | do that oh yeah we could do that now |
| 23854s | yes absolute Pac-Man |
| 23859s | oh what a world who would have thought |
| 23862s | who would have thought we have the |
| 23865s | technology |
| 23866s | you know what to do chat uh okay |
| 23870s | number two equipped well the I think at |
| 23874s | this point with this health lead it you |
| 23876s | play a dangerous game but I do think it |
| 23878s | continued he can continue to swing his |
| 23880s | weapon face if he wants to but just |
| 23882s | leaving one okay I do like this |
| 23884s | especially with the predation and the |
| 23886s | disposing hand |
| 23890s | uh |
| 23894s | so no not that much additional damage |
| 23898s | possible because there's nothing to rush |
| 23900s | into you do get to attack face once with |
| 23903s | the one Rush Minion |
| 23905s | so you could get this thano buff by one |
| 23908s | call me crazy here so oh |
| 23911s | could Levick go for like security |
| 23914s | well it's a thano security |
| 23918s | with maybe a swing and then say well |
| 23921s | unless Walder can literally 13 me |
| 23924s | I |
| 23926s | the weapon probably has to go into |
| 23927s | setheno that heals and then have helvara |
| 23930s | like afterwards with hopefully the one |
| 23932s | ones alone |
| 23933s | I think if you're playing Sterno this |
| 23935s | turn you just play it all and do the max |
| 23937s | damage |
| 23941s | uh like sveno helviria lady Seno attack |
| 23945s | with the 5-4 which has rush so the Sono |
| 23947s | gets one more attack and then just do |
| 23949s | this okay okay so leave the security |
| 23951s | right that's the thing you sacrifice yes |
| 23953s | okay dispose of evidence you Shuffle the |
| 23956s | security yes the other dispose of |
| 23958s | evidence you deal a million |
| 23959s | I think it's either do that or don't |
| 23961s | play the Steno I think those are the two |
| 23963s | options in my house |
| 23965s | foreign |
| 23967s | well either way this ended up being a |
| 23969s | fairly aggressive board again there's |
| 23971s | the weird flip side of well yes levix |
| 23974s | board looks a lot better than walders |
| 23976s | but now there are things to rush into |
| 23978s | with these cards that you know that |
| 23980s | Walter may have obviously world doesn't |
| 23982s | really have them but for all Levick |
| 23984s | knows there's you know security coming |
| 23985s | back that way against him |
| 23999s | all right |
| 24001s | starting with the dispose of evidence |
| 24003s | okay means he's probably just going to |
| 24005s | straight up attack and look for answers |
| 24007s | from the drawers |
| 24010s | yeah play out this for the outcast track |
| 24011s | to stack one if three rights |
| 24016s | yeah it's this versus one manner after |
| 24019s | the fact and one extra card is probably |
| 24021s | better than one I mean you might get two |
| 24023s | better out of it because you've got |
| 24024s | predation first of course and then play |
| 24026s | the Wayward Sage depending on what |
| 24028s | sequence of drawers you get |
| 24036s | high beam okay dead |
| 24040s | absolutely dead |
| 24042s | yeah and that's it's so scary to leave |
| 24045s | minions upright and this is how brutal |
| 24047s | it is because there's a hover and |
| 24050s | yeah I'm pretty sure we counted this |
| 24054s | oh yeah trust me this is this is to get |
| 24057s | to the World Championships |
| 24059s | the rules of never count will be waived |
| 24061s | in many situations you never count in |
| 24065s | that spot that is so much damage it's |
| 24068s | one of the things outrageous level of |
| 24070s | damage like unreleased the first time I |
| 24072s | played against this uh against like the |
| 24075s | car the DAR Raven I was like oh okay |
| 24077s | that doesn't sound too bad and then they |
| 24079s | started attacking I was like oh my God |
| 24081s | this is millions of damage I was like |
| 24084s | yeah I did not respect that card enough |
| 24086s | and I it took me all of one game to lose |
| 24089s | to it to be terrified of it going |
| 24091s | forward so yeah the damage gets truly |
| 24093s | ridiculous but a really good start there |
| 24096s | for Levick just getting that one zero up |
| 24098s | winning the mirror and |
| 24101s | it wasn't even though it didn't look |
| 24103s | closer with the amount of damage at the |
| 24104s | end it was actually extreme extreme |
| 24106s | closed right living sitting on five |
| 24107s | health |
| 24108s | yeah yeah for sure |
| 24111s | um obviously it gets a little bit |
| 24112s | awkward where the when you're going for |
| 24116s | lethal on your second swing of the |
| 24118s | glaivetarter it always feels closer than |
| 24121s | it is right because you have to swing |
| 24123s | that weapon first to then draw the |
| 24126s | whatever three four five six seven cards |
| 24128s | that you have Juiced up on it from the |
| 24129s | outcast cards and then you draw dispose |
| 24132s | of evidence which deals zero damage at |
| 24133s | that point because you can't attack |
| 24135s | again so unless you can then get lethal |
| 24138s | through like steno play the steno and |
| 24140s | you're just using dispose of evidence as |
| 24142s | a zero Mana spell to get across it's |
| 24144s | sometimes you know so close but so far |
| 24146s | away is kind of the vibe that you get a |
| 24148s | lot of the time but I do want to praise |
| 24150s | the way Levick played that game in |
| 24152s | particular because he showed a lot of |
| 24154s | flexibility in how to navigate the game |
| 24157s | I think there were moments there where |
| 24158s | he pivoted from straight up board battle |
| 24160s | to I'm gonna hold these cards to combo |
| 24162s | to okay now my opponent's gone hard |
| 24164s | Tempo so I need to switch back and go |
| 24166s | Tempo myself and then in the end it was |
| 24168s | just a straight up resource battle you |
| 24170s | out resourced the opponent before |
| 24171s | anything else at the end of it so really |
| 24173s | really nice to play from Levick overall |
| 24175s | something that we are getting very used |
| 24177s | to saying right yes very quickly we are |
| 24179s | moving moving on of course to game |
| 24180s | number two and we've already touched on |
| 24182s | this subject but we're about to because |
| 24184s | it's the perfect time uh two Druids in |
| 24187s | the final subtle not something I think |
| 24189s | most people were expecting but uh Jared |
| 24191s | at least from what we've seen of it |
| 24193s | clearly has looked alright better than I |
| 24195s | think we thought |
| 24197s | yeah I had this conversation with |
| 24200s | multiple players in this tournament with |
| 24202s | multiple other well-renowned lineup |
| 24205s | Builders and top tournament Players who |
| 24207s | I was talking to about things as well |
| 24208s | and during every single one of those |
| 24211s | conversations I heard some variation |
| 24214s | either coming from them to me or I said |
| 24216s | it to them and they went yeah exactly |
| 24219s | the fourth deck either sucks or has to |
| 24221s | be Druid and you don't want it to be |
| 24223s | either of those things |
| 24225s | I like that was the theme throughout and |
| 24227s | yet here we are with two Druids in the |
| 24229s | final and I don't understand it at all |
| 24231s | like I have no faith in this deck to be |
| 24235s | a lineup from the other side there's so |
| 24237s | many like there's so many like 20 and 30 |
| 24241s | match-ups for Druid in Hearthstone right |
| 24243s | now that I just struggle to see how we |
| 24245s | got here but here we are can't hold on |
| 24248s | the results I guess or TJ will get mad |
| 24250s | at you I think it really is just the |
| 24254s | power of yes Druid is a bit wonky but if |
| 24258s | you could just hit the enuba actor in |
| 24261s | every game right like yeah you're |
| 24264s | probably gonna win more often than not |
| 24265s | and I think that's what we've seen |
| 24267s | happen well if they're not on stream so |
| 24269s | I'll have to see if this happens again |
| 24270s | of course we've been babbling on the |
| 24272s | game has progressed air while they're |
| 24274s | putting a lot of pressure on board but |
| 24275s | Levick has managed to get the ramp out |
| 24278s | and these are the scary moments levix |
| 24280s | wrapped and is still on a reasonable |
| 24282s | Health total for eight mana and there's |
| 24284s | an Uber rack |
| 24289s | hmm okay |
| 24296s | go for more card draw does have that |
| 24298s | innovate |
| 24299s | okay finds it under King that was the |
| 24301s | big deal is that he didn't have enough |
| 24303s | armor to actually do anything Game |
| 24306s | ending with with the anubricant up until |
| 24307s | this point but now having found an |
| 24309s | underking under King is kind of the |
| 24311s | cheat code for your Noob turn because |
| 24313s | you actually get to gain armor with it |
| 24315s | if it's able to just call me |
| 24318s | [Music] |
| 24320s | I thought I was pretty clear honestly |
| 24323s | well |
| 24325s | so you weren't talking about the card oh |
| 24327s | my joke failed my Frost will splint |
| 24332s | there'll be a lot of damage coming out |
| 24334s | and do you think this is |
| 24336s | yeah it probably can't be right it's I |
| 24339s | find it always tricky to work out when |
| 24340s | jail is going to be worthwhile or not |
| 24342s | you know on the New Black turn |
| 24345s | yeah I mean it's it's also the the thing |
| 24347s | I was talking about right is you can't |
| 24349s | people sometimes underestimate you can't |
| 24351s | just Jam Jayla at will right you |
| 24353s | actually yeah you need the armor yeah |
| 24355s | yeah yeah yeah of course yes which |
| 24356s | wasn't possible last heard it's barely |
| 24359s | possible here |
| 24362s | think in the most literal sense of the |
| 24363s | word it just is possible but that's it |
| 24367s | yeah |
| 24369s | dropping the hero power |
| 24372s | yeah you could play Jayla but it would |
| 24374s | evolve playing zero other defense this |
| 24376s | term which sounds like a recipe for |
| 24378s | defeat so yeah 422 taunts instead seems |
| 24381s | good yeah |
| 24382s | just a smooth 22 health and this is what |
| 24386s | I was talking about right where |
| 24388s | especially I've seen this a few times |
| 24390s | this weekend but against Frost DK yes |
| 24393s | they have the damage spells but it's not |
| 24395s | like Miracle Burn it's not like a you |
| 24398s | know like the Mage Bird right where it |
| 24400s | can be so much damage from hand in the |
| 24402s | same turn so God damn it drew it |
| 24409s | you annoy me this is what I said exactly |
| 24412s | what I was talking about right where |
| 24413s | it's like that turn in itself just in |
| 24416s | isolation is so strong and so many of |
| 24420s | these decks in the tournament cannot |
| 24422s | beat it because even you look at the |
| 24424s | likes of like Paladin right paladins |
| 24426s | would struggle to deal with that the |
| 24428s | frosty chaos I was saying has a lot of |
| 24430s | damage but none of it's crazy burn it's |
| 24433s | like five six a turn sort of thing it's |
| 24436s | not gonna do 15 out of hand so for me |
| 24439s | there's only really the Mage that has |
| 24441s | the ability to say oh you played Zuck |
| 24443s | okay I lethal you anyway from like 15 |
| 24446s | Health right and just not care and I |
| 24448s | think that's a big factor because |
| 24450s | I don't know the odds on being able to |
| 24452s | maneuver an Uber I can like turn eight |
| 24454s | or nine or eight Mana should I say |
| 24456s | online |
| 24457s | um each game well we've seen it happen a |
| 24460s | lot on stream with these Druids yeah I |
| 24463s | mean and in reality it's happening on |
| 24466s | turn six or seven pretty existently in |
| 24468s | in this tournament on Druid time right |
| 24470s | which is kind of disgusting |
| 24472s | um that isn't gonna happen unless you're |
| 24474s | flower childing on curve for example it |
| 24477s | probably has to be exactly ramped into |
| 24478s | flower child in to do the thing which |
| 24480s | drew it as a class has increased levels |
| 24483s | of consistency ever since what Moonlight |
| 24486s | guidance when that card first appeared |
| 24488s | ever since then until now obviously |
| 24490s | guidance is gone but we still have |
| 24491s | aquatic form there's always been various |
| 24493s | cards that tutor various things from |
| 24495s | your deck which increases the overall |
| 24497s | level of consistency of the class but |
| 24500s | still it just feels like it's happening |
| 24502s | an abnormal amount of the time |
| 24506s | it's uh it's definitely been surprising |
| 24508s | we are going to see Druid again but now |
| 24510s | on Walter's side |
| 24512s | of the ball going up against the road |
| 24513s | from lavik and honestly so |
| 24516s | the last time I cast was in the world |
| 24519s | championship final where I felt like I |
| 24521s | cast one game and it lasted an eternity |
| 24523s | we could blink and this could already be |
| 24525s | over if Levitt can steal this one |
| 24530s | there's no other like major Global |
| 24533s | sporting events that are going on at the |
| 24535s | same time as this one though right we |
| 24536s | should be okay the Newcastle match |
| 24538s | happened earlier today |
| 24540s | the weekly battering of Tottenham has |
| 24543s | already happened we're good |
| 24549s | since don't graveyard coming down nice |
| 24550s | and early though and this is yeah I |
| 24552s | think you just saw Walter sit up and go |
| 24554s | okay uh right since Stone the one card I |
| 24557s | did not want to see Uncle |
| 24559s | does have the Widow Bloom now into those |
| 24563s | uh flowers would you look at this here |
| 24565s | are power buff minions into ramp into |
| 24567s | flower chart into stuff |
| 24569s | whoa the innovates for the extra armor |
| 24572s | from the the plating as well yes |
| 24578s | and then on the other side for roguez |
| 24581s | would you look at this sinstone |
| 24583s | graveyard |
| 24584s | full stop |
| 24585s | [Music] |
| 24588s | I asked Lorinda this earlier but have |
| 24590s | you formed any particular strong opinion |
| 24591s | about some Fury in this deck so do you |
| 24593s | are you a fan I I like I actually think |
| 24596s | so you know me right like my default |
| 24600s | stance is yeah unfortunately I do |
| 24603s | um my default stance is tech cards are |
| 24606s | stupid don't play them you're dumb right |
| 24608s | like we all know this to be known as the |
| 24610s | crane |
| 24611s | yes correct |
| 24613s | um the I think this tournament the tech |
| 24615s | card usage has been very very well done |
| 24618s | from all the players I'm even gonna come |
| 24621s | really really close to praising people |
| 24624s | putting Etc in their deck now I would |
| 24627s | argue that The Druids could cut the ETC |
| 24629s | and just play starfish in their deck and |
| 24632s | it would function exactly the same as it |
| 24634s | has been in this tournament |
| 24636s | um but the the little Etc kill you in a |
| 24639s | variety of ways package that's in the |
| 24641s | Druid has been very good as well but I |
| 24643s | think there's some Fury clergy to make |
| 24645s | the Rogues more resilient against Frost |
| 24647s | DK and aggro Mage specifically has been |
| 24650s | a great call to allow players to a |
| 24653s | they're expecting agromage which not |
| 24656s | everyone was that's a great read and |
| 24658s | then B it allows them to leave up Frost |
| 24660s | DK because they have that additional |
| 24662s | Tech to try and survive some of those |
| 24663s | burst turns so I think the tech card |
| 24665s | usage and some Fury clergy in particular |
| 24667s | has been really really smart from the |
| 24669s | players that have brought in it's crazy |
| 24670s | yeah for just one card swapped out your |
| 24673s | deck you can actually just play that new |
| 24674s | altitude but yes precisely Raven yeah as |
| 24677s | as you have always said I know but for |
| 24680s | the price of just one car I threw that |
| 24683s | out there just for you because I feel |
| 24684s | like out of everyone there's just you in |
| 24685s | the world that would have appreciated |
| 24687s | that yes yeah |
| 24689s | oh |
| 24691s | yeah they don't let me just going wide |
| 24693s | at 12 12 dropping down now and again |
| 24696s | well it's just another matchup where |
| 24699s | druid |
| 24700s | hand |
| 24701s | kind of do something against big ghosts |
| 24704s | because they have like a |
| 24705s | a rake for example right depending on |
| 24708s | how that early game has gone with the |
| 24710s | hero power buff minions but 1212 is a |
| 24713s | little bit much |
| 24714s | we all exist in harmony |
| 24722s | of course just the enubarak there though |
| 24724s | and double |
| 24726s | and |
| 24730s | then gonna go Vape Vape plate just to |
| 24733s | get the security and a little bit of |
| 24734s | extra armor for armor at the start of |
| 24737s | the turn is huge |
| 24739s | this kitten is plating by the way has |
| 24741s | come in in replace of the uh immune |
| 24744s | minion this build kind of referred to |
| 24745s | more as like turbo Druid because that |
| 24748s | four this four armor that's here now |
| 24750s | ignore that that's not what it's for the |
| 24752s | reason the card's in the deck is the |
| 24753s | four armor you get at the start of the |
| 24755s | turn that's so huge because it allows |
| 24758s | you to do your nubricant pop-up turns so |
| 24761s | much earlier when we sort of had the |
| 24762s | half addressing the subject of how it's |
| 24765s | awkward to play Jailer on some turns if |
| 24767s | your opponent's being aggressive and |
| 24768s | chasing you down and removing your armor |
| 24770s | uh getting that four armor at the start |
| 24772s | of the turn is a potentially really |
| 24774s | really huge for making things happen |
| 24775s | yeah you do forego the um the marshes |
| 24779s | though which is a card I do love but you |
| 24781s | can definitely see why |
| 24785s | now is this going to be enough I mean |
| 24788s | it's all there for Walter right like |
| 24790s | it's literally what the deck does |
| 24792s | the Levick is looking great and now |
| 24794s | Walder has to consider it as artists |
| 24802s | nice GC 1212 to be traded into as well |
| 24805s | to make sure you can get full value out |
| 24807s | of these underkings |
| 24809s | yeah it's an awkward situation sometimes |
| 24811s | isn't it where oh I've got under King |
| 24813s | okay yeah uh wait a minute |
| 24815s | please don't die I need the help yeah or |
| 24819s | the situation I actually made this |
| 24821s | mistake on air uh either yesterday or |
| 24823s | earlier on today where you you play |
| 24825s | Jailer and you want to get additional |
| 24827s | armor from your under King oh you're |
| 24830s | absolutely incapable of trading them off |
| 24834s | funny thing as well I've I've had a |
| 24836s | someone do this and then play Jayla with |
| 24838s | zoc and it's like you needed those |
| 24841s | taunts friends you did need those tools |
| 24848s | I love it gonna see if you can dig |
| 24850s | himself out of this because again it's |
| 24852s | just the sheer power of this turn |
| 24854s | from Walder just at least Buys in one |
| 24858s | whole extra turn with these taunts |
| 24861s | what was uh Levick looking for there so |
| 24863s | we hope we all heard the oh no |
| 24866s | uh presumably more destroys than he |
| 24869s | ended up with deal three Destroyer as a |
| 24872s | concoction is fine because he started |
| 24874s | with the the weird half in hand like the |
| 24876s | floating halves and combined halfway |
| 24878s | through |
| 24881s | and he did hit one of the taunts that's |
| 24883s | like |
| 24884s | pretty reason yeah it's huge |
| 24892s | uh uh |
| 24897s | is the hero is the hero power plus one |
| 24899s | is it is it two attack |
| 24902s | but that's just lethal then right yeah |
| 24904s | he just needs to test for ice barrier |
| 24905s | and now he has crazed Alchemists for for |
| 24907s | lethal in the in the ATC oh yeah the |
| 24910s | crazed Alchemist versus nine yeah |
| 24912s | wow really nice see couldn't just be |
| 24915s | starfish could it couldn't just yeah as |
| 24917s | soon as I said what's all on about what |
| 24919s | what does he know that's all I'm saying |
| 24921s | because obviously without without the |
| 24924s | crazed Alchemist lethal that turn that |
| 24926s | game was lost for wellness I know 100 oh |
| 24930s | tough one |
| 24931s | yeah I mean what would the starfish have |
| 24933s | done lost his minion taunts all how |
| 24935s | ridiculous is that may as well played |
| 24937s | the jailer |
| 24938s | but Walder is not going to be swept at |
| 24940s | 3-0 in his finals and I am very happy to |
| 24943s | see that and not only for Walter's sake |
| 24945s | but for our sake because like I said |
| 24946s | this series was going way too fast for |
| 24948s | me I want to savor the finals of this |
| 24950s | tournament because unfortunately we |
| 24951s | don't get to air have as many |
| 24953s | tournaments this year so you may as well |
| 24954s | make the most of the ones we do have and |
| 24957s | I'm excited to see this there's Druid |
| 24958s | does it again subtle clearly the best |
| 24960s | deck in the game |
| 24961s | clearly yeah indisputedly uh |
| 24964s | indisputedly that's not even close to an |
| 24967s | English word indubitably indubitably |
| 24970s | what we have established is that putting |
| 24973s | efficiency in your deck is an entirely |
| 24975s | promulent strategy in the game |
| 24977s | [Music] |
| 24979s | could not agree more |
| 24983s | so now it's going to be Levick still has |
| 24986s | Rogues a world of one with the turret |
| 24989s | system as Demon Hunter and frost DK |
| 24992s | right |
| 24993s | tell me I'm doing this correct uh I |
| 24996s | think that's what's left over here so |
| 24997s | again |
| 24998s | another situation I didn't foresee where |
| 25001s | we're in the finals and we're like Yeah |
| 25003s | The Druids are out the way that's all |
| 25004s | done and dusted now let's get to the |
| 25006s | harder classes to win with the DK and |
| 25009s | the Demon Hunter it's like what what are |
| 25011s | we what we what world are we living in |
| 25013s | right now so |
| 25014s | it is very very bizarre indeed but I |
| 25017s | think this is a fitting way to go now we |
| 25020s | did just talk about how |
| 25022s | uh people kind of found a way to bring |
| 25025s | Miracle Rogue to the tournament with the |
| 25027s | the sun Fury Tech allowing them to |
| 25029s | compensate for some of their bad |
| 25030s | matchups because |
| 25032s | I don't think you want to be in a |
| 25034s | position I know you talked about a lot |
| 25035s | coming into the tournament right like |
| 25036s | you just ban DK and forget about it |
| 25038s | right but rarely do you want your |
| 25041s | strategy to be that linear where in a |
| 25044s | conquest tournament you think you know |
| 25046s | 90 to 100 of the field are going to |
| 25049s | bring one deck and you're gonna ban it |
| 25050s | every time right because you would you |
| 25053s | kind of want to exploit that whole it's |
| 25055s | like okay they're all doing one thing |
| 25057s | I'm gonna maneuver my lineup in a way |
| 25059s | that gains a little bit of edge against |
| 25061s | that and that's what people have tried |
| 25062s | to do with frost DK it's why we've seen |
| 25065s | so much of it being left up whether you |
| 25068s | agree with that or not and I know there |
| 25070s | are varying opinions amongst the amongst |
| 25072s | the cast of people whether this is a |
| 25074s | good idea or not to leave up Frost DK as |
| 25076s | much as people have but certainly it's |
| 25078s | those little Tech inclusions like the |
| 25080s | sun Fury clergy that is allowing these |
| 25082s | kind of things to happen right yeah |
| 25084s | really clever because honestly I I'll |
| 25086s | just say I didn't think Rogue was going |
| 25088s | to be you know like a super strong |
| 25090s | performer and just be because of how |
| 25093s | dominant death knight doing the NFL but |
| 25095s | it's been making it it's been getting |
| 25096s | the job done so far |
| 25100s | yeah weirdly I think unless you actually |
| 25102s | know the stats or have played the match |
| 25104s | up a lot I think people would assume |
| 25106s | Outcast Demon Hunter had a good match up |
| 25108s | against Miracle Rogue and it just |
| 25110s | doesn't like brogue is just favored even |
| 25112s | on ladder stats |
| 25114s | um I think largely because they put the |
| 25116s | card fan of knives in their deck now |
| 25117s | since he came back into the quarter |
| 25119s | which makes a huge huge difference but |
| 25121s | in general they just have enough right |
| 25123s | like generally they can dagger on two |
| 25125s | and then do some sort of play with fan |
| 25127s | of knives on four or five with their |
| 25129s | location coming down on three and then |
| 25131s | they just win right like dude they just |
| 25133s | have like an 88 or a nine nine on board |
| 25135s | from that point and they just kind of |
| 25136s | win the game it's also similar to what |
| 25138s | we're seeing now and what we've seen |
| 25139s | with Rogue and it's many similar |
| 25142s | iterations in the past is these types of |
| 25145s | decks like this DK to an extend but |
| 25147s | definitely the outcast Demon Hunter is |
| 25149s | you're give you're providing the Rogue |
| 25151s | targets for their Shenanigans right and |
| 25154s | and it kind of just helps them because |
| 25156s | there's always something to Target |
| 25157s | something to to mess with so we'll see |
| 25160s | how this continues to go so far it's |
| 25163s | Levick is uh |
| 25165s | it's a little tricky with Rogue but I |
| 25166s | guess this is more true going all in on |
| 25169s | this turn right empty hand on turn four |
| 25171s | obviously there's a lot of cards that |
| 25172s | can you know generate more resources for |
| 25174s | Levick here but all in all just going |
| 25176s | all in on this 11 11. |
| 25179s | no |
| 25183s | this is looks like Walter's gonna try |
| 25185s | and just cut down as much of the board |
| 25187s | as possible to settle for that might |
| 25189s | have metaphor next turn right |
| 25191s | yeah just thinning the board out |
| 25193s | allowing him to go my menethil on the |
| 25194s | follow-up which is a big big deal indeed |
| 25197s | yeah because there's a coin frostworm |
| 25199s | afterwards right |
| 25202s | it's coin from Fury afterwards as well |
| 25204s | yeah and it's not even like Walder could |
| 25206s | take uh an RNG role |
| 25209s | on the uh the might of menethil on a |
| 25211s | previous turn because I believe he only |
| 25212s | has two corpses it's a little bit cut |
| 25214s | off there but it looks like that's what |
| 25215s | that number is so he has to get it down |
| 25218s | to two Minions on board to be able to |
| 25221s | take the one extra damage to swing the |
| 25223s | weapon in but he'll take it for freezing |
| 25226s | out the 11-11 consistently of course |
| 25228s | yeah |
| 25229s | oh door Shadows |
| 25231s | [Music] |
| 25234s | awkward I mean you're just sit in stone |
| 25237s | yeah at worst it's like force is a hero |
| 25240s | power right which is great |
| 25244s | the dagger will get there eventually |
| 25246s | right |
| 25247s | yeah |
| 25249s | levick's gonna need what ghostly strike |
| 25252s | potion belt something of the sort off |
| 25254s | the top to be able to come out of this |
| 25257s | one |
| 25260s | fan of knives to an extent potentially |
| 25263s | as well right would help |
| 25265s | oh okay some Fury clergy is at least a |
| 25269s | Hearthstone card yeah that's exactly |
| 25270s | what it's in there for playable keep on |
| 25273s | chipping away wait that six is so |
| 25275s | significant a lot of the time I don't |
| 25277s | know if it's just the metal ring but |
| 25278s | that's six Health often adds a whole |
| 25281s | extra turn |
| 25282s | uh six ten thirteen Seventeen a horn of |
| 25287s | winter is actually lethal |
| 25289s | oh no yes skeletal psychic anyway okay |
| 25290s | okay |
| 25292s | I thought it opened up uh horn hero |
| 25295s | power but he just had the skeletal |
| 25296s | anyway for the exact suit remember when |
| 25298s | I've seen it fires another turn not in |
| 25300s | this case we're gonna even up the series |
| 25302s | and that means we're going all the way |
| 25304s | to game five in an absolutely marvelous |
| 25307s | match here and honestly soul |
| 25310s | I'm so happy with this matter I'm so |
| 25313s | happy I feel like we've not had a good |
| 25316s | old-fashioned just aggro punch each |
| 25318s | other in the face until someone wins |
| 25320s | better for a while at least or not this |
| 25323s | consistently anyway so I'm happy with |
| 25325s | this final so far and I'm glad we're |
| 25326s | going into game five |
| 25328s | yeah and it hasn't really been that on |
| 25332s | ladder there's been glimpses of that I |
| 25334s | think there's there's kind of this weird |
| 25336s | uh bell curve with Outcast Demon Hunter |
| 25338s | where you see it quite a lot on low |
| 25340s | Legend and then you see it at top 20 |
| 25342s | Legend there's a big chunk in the Middle |
| 25344s | where you do see it but it's not super |
| 25346s | common they do seem to be like polarized |
| 25348s | towards the extreme edges Shadow priest |
| 25350s | is much more common in this tournament |
| 25352s | than it has been on there the same with |
| 25353s | the aggro mage |
| 25355s | um so I think you know if anything this |
| 25357s | tournament might just create a |
| 25359s | significant shift on ladder with what |
| 25360s | decks we are seeing because |
| 25362s | people |
| 25364s | this morning I was PL I was seeing a lot |
| 25366s | of aggro Mage or whatever we want to |
| 25368s | call that deck on ladder more than I |
| 25370s | have been over the last few days so I |
| 25372s | think already as you said |
| 25374s | um you know people just need to see it |
| 25375s | work the once right on stream and that's |
| 25378s | what you've had all weekend so far so |
| 25380s | I'm excited to see because if this is |
| 25382s | the kind of meta we have at first the |
| 25384s | immediate future I mean |
| 25386s | did you catch the spoilers Raven |
| 25389s | uh I did not we uh we came into this |
| 25392s | series and it was three two to Levick |
| 25394s | sorry I mean I hate to break it to you |
| 25397s | but we already know the result of this |
| 25398s | game okay I'm worried we'll see how it |
| 25402s | goes |
| 25409s | the key thing here we were just talking |
| 25411s | about this of course but like you were |
| 25413s | saying like Rogue just does it dumpster |
| 25416s | this uh demon oh no or is it just it's |
| 25419s | just it it wins yeah it's like 55 56 |
| 25423s | okay something like that yeah it's it's |
| 25425s | a good matchup so it's not like one of |
| 25427s | those Nip Tuck really close matchups it |
| 25429s | is a good matchup for rogue be happy |
| 25430s | with it but it's not it's not you know |
| 25432s | Paladin against Druid or something like |
| 25434s | that yeah you're not cruising like okay |
| 25440s | recent resources available here for |
| 25441s | Wilder and whenever there's an exile in |
| 25443s | hand things can happen not quite yet of |
| 25446s | course but just in general like there's |
| 25448s | options there for Walder |
| 25459s | imagine as well in this matchup it's |
| 25461s | more like the Exile gets hold on to just |
| 25464s | a little bit |
| 25466s | this is twice I believe it was Levick |
| 25469s | previously as well that has gone with |
| 25471s | the bone Spike uh ghoulish Alchemist |
| 25474s | turn and then immediately been rewarded |
| 25477s | for it I think previously there was the |
| 25478s | putress I turned follow up straight away |
| 25480s | to generate potions this time it was |
| 25483s | trusting the deck a little bit but now |
| 25485s | with the concoctor you get to pre-load |
| 25487s | the location on three and now you have |
| 25488s | concocter step concocter to get a fully |
| 25491s | juice concoction that will cost zero |
| 25493s | because the Alchemist Aura is still in |
| 25494s | play and if you get some card draw in |
| 25496s | there you throw some bones in baby we |
| 25498s | got a stew going here |
| 25500s | Samsung |
| 25501s | this and let him cook |
| 25510s | okay fan of knives definitely not |
| 25511s | terrible |
| 25517s | call me Jay White for I am a fan of |
| 25519s | knives |
| 25522s | it's just disgusting how much stuff can |
| 25525s | be done here |
| 25528s | how much is Levick going to be able to |
| 25531s | clear as well because there's a chance |
| 25533s | that uh dark Raven can come down and |
| 25535s | help out a little bit if Rush minions |
| 25537s | stick around but there's only oh it's |
| 25539s | gone it's gone |
| 25542s | it's all gone yeah I'll be honest |
| 25545s | which uh probably a thing |
| 25552s | it is simply all gone |
| 25556s | so much and and again the problem now is |
| 25559s | oh that helps but with the Exile gone |
| 25562s | you can't even say I'll get a couple of |
| 25565s | i-beams because it's just not there |
| 25568s | anymore yeah |
| 25569s | yeah this might be scary how how like |
| 25571s | consistently you can play Exile like a |
| 25574s | couple of outcast cards and just say you |
| 25576s | will get i-beams and you get them |
| 25579s | and sometimes Raven I know you Marvel at |
| 25581s | the accuracy of my analysis but did I or |
| 25584s | did I not say that you killed a couple |
| 25585s | of things you played a location and then |
| 25587s | you did a turn involving Phantom knives |
| 25589s | then you had an eight or a nine nine |
| 25590s | down and you just kind of won the game |
| 25591s | did I not say exactly that don't try and |
| 25595s | take credit for the um you know the |
| 25597s | outcome we already know so ah true true |
| 25599s | yeah this is pre-recorded |
| 25605s | we have to clear it up a lot of pressure |
| 25607s | but the problem is this is pretty much |
| 25609s | everything Walder has and we can see |
| 25611s | even though Levick won't be happy that |
| 25614s | the ghost got cleared Levick is not out |
| 25616s | of juice right now |
| 25617s | levick's not our juice you can clear |
| 25619s | this up no problem this is going to be a |
| 25621s | slow turn for him but then he is |
| 25623s | straight into crab people next turn |
| 25628s | and even just having that prep bone |
| 25630s | spike it might not only be gravity next |
| 25633s | turn depending on what's off the top |
| 25635s | right because yeah that is a lot of Mana |
| 25639s | spectral site's a great draw still no |
| 25641s | glave tar though |
| 25643s | he absolutely needed to equip weapon |
| 25646s | this turn I think if he was going to be |
| 25648s | able to fight back into this I've been |
| 25650s | made a liar before |
| 25651s | but it looks like Walter's grip on this |
| 25654s | game is slipping away and I I do think |
| 25657s | doubles well not double security okay I |
| 25660s | thought this was just going to be double |
| 25661s | and say don't have another fan of knives |
| 25663s | you need weapon juice though right like |
| 25665s | oh what like you need to draw a weapon |
| 25667s | and what good is drawing weapon if you |
| 25669s | don't have the outcast cards in your |
| 25671s | hand to be able to juice the weapon |
| 25672s | afterwards |
| 25673s | I guess but then I suppose |
| 25679s | you could say play double security and |
| 25681s | then I'm gonna top deck halveria well no |
| 25683s | you're not that's already gone what what |
| 25685s | is your owl at this point you know |
| 25688s | yeah I guess it's the same frag sale |
| 25690s | right |
| 25691s | second Exile yep yep same thing yeah |
| 25711s | and these are probably gonna look like |
| 25712s | very |
| 25714s | silly trades |
| 25717s | that's what I respect |
| 25720s | no need for Levick to leave up anything |
| 25722s | on board right now right |
| 25727s | studies okay |
| 25732s | has to be weapon |
| 25736s | isn't weapon also |
| 25740s | is not wretched exile |
| 25743s | so it has to be hand dumped now right |
| 25746s | because I think you'll retain the face |
| 25749s | Outsider again for the same reasons |
| 25753s | one card in hand to start the chain I |
| 25757s | think you have to |
| 25760s | oh I'm wincing |
| 25763s | think everyone's wincing |
| 25766s | some combination between a winch and a |
| 25769s | clench is the state everyone is |
| 25770s | currently in everyone is full-blown |
| 25772s | wenching right now |
| 25774s | it's gonna say that was the easy one |
| 25776s | that one wasn't it easy to get to but |
| 25778s | deal three draw two I think Walder was |
| 25781s | hoping against hope there wasn't any |
| 25783s | more juice left for Levick and now |
| 25785s | there's an aster lore as well |
| 25787s | [Music] |
| 25790s | at this point yeah |
| 25793s | it's all waiting it's never hazy |
| 25795s | actually |
| 25801s | no Exile number two |
| 25806s | that's what's crazy if there was a |
| 25807s | especially Exile this turn right like |
| 25810s | things can happen with that much mana |
| 25812s | and an outcast card absolutely yeah |
| 25816s | there's still time he's not quite dead |
| 25818s | yet but it's just not looking good so I |
| 25820s | imagine this isn't worse it's going to |
| 25822s | be a double asteroid turns 11. |
| 25825s | precisely um our gift of the Arcane |
| 25828s | enlightened himself yeah you just you |
| 25830s | just drop the second one right since |
| 25831s | don't come down later if necessary oh |
| 25834s | absolutely yeah I mean even if it wasn't |
| 25836s | a five five you'd be playing it just to |
| 25837s | get the other minion in your hand for |
| 25839s | lethal yeah right it's another five five |
| 25842s | for Tempo it's just an added bonus I |
| 25845s | think I've seen Hearthstone before this |
| 25847s | will be the weapon okay |
| 25849s | and there it is Levick is going to be |
| 25852s | your champion |
| 25854s | that is a mixture of happiness and no |
| 25857s | doubt relief after a long weekend of |
| 25860s | playing a long journey to even get to |
| 25862s | this tournament in the first place and |
| 25865s | there is your Champion crazy last series |
| 25869s | really close so shout out to Walter as |
| 25871s | well as it was done amazingly well and I |
| 25874s | have no doubts we're going to see more |
| 25875s | of them going forward but Levick he's |
| 25878s | just good so I said this a long time ago |
| 25880s | I'll say it again today just good |
| 25882s | [Music] |
| 25884s | I've been what a player they're well |
| 25887s | well deserved he's one of those players |
| 25889s | that frustrates me because my life is a |
| 25893s | Perpetual cycle of wanting to look for |
| 25896s | people's mistakes and pointing them out |
| 25898s | to them and Levick just doesn't give me |
| 25900s | anything to feed on you know it's a very |
| 25902s | frustrating experience but at the same |
| 25904s | time very very very satisfying to watch |
| 25907s | and what a contrast right did you see |
| 25911s | the emotions of Levick at the end of the |
| 25913s | day yesterday when he just stepped back |
| 25915s | in his chair exhausted from the long |
| 25918s | series he'd been playing and the blood |
| 25920s | BK marathons he was putting himself |
| 25922s | through and then contrast with a look |
| 25924s | that was somewhere between shock Elation |
| 25927s | surprise and a person unwenching after |
| 25930s | 33 minutes of being fully tensed up uh |
| 25934s | yeah incredible stuff from Levick it's |
| 25936s | been an incredible tournament up until |
| 25937s | this point and you can take a little |
| 25938s | look now at at least half of the road of |
| 25941s | how we got to this point with Levick |
| 25943s | taking home the crown yeah and that's |
| 25945s | half of the road just from this weekend |
| 25947s | all of these players uh compete |
| 25949s | basically at the highest levels across |
| 25951s | months of hearthstone play to even |
| 25954s | qualify to this Air Masters Tour spring |
| 25956s | Championship so a huge Journey there for |
| 25960s | Levick but now you can continue of |
| 25963s | course to play HearthStone for the rest |
| 25965s | of the year practice getting some work |
| 25967s | but he has a spot on the world |
| 25969s | championship you know what Saul if if |
| 25971s | we're gonna pick a player to just lock |
| 25973s | in there I am very happy that it's |
| 25976s | Levick I'm I'm already hyped and already |
| 25978s | might be seeing my pick for a World |
| 25980s | Championship win later on |
| 25984s | historically I believe I've done pretty |
| 25986s | well at identifying very talented |
| 25989s | Hearthstone players early and saying you |
| 25991s | know within six months this person will |
| 25993s | be at the top of the the tournament |
| 25994s | field next year this person will be |
| 25996s | taking a run of the world championship |
| 25997s | and that coming true this one I |
| 26000s | absolutely have to give to you you |
| 26001s | identified Levick as a really really |
| 26003s | good player very very early on and he |
| 26006s | absolutely is that and is you know |
| 26009s | making the late run now |
| 26011s | trying to get his name in there with |
| 26013s | some of the the great competitors that |
| 26015s | we have had through various systems |
| 26016s | leading up until this point and a |
| 26018s | extremely well deserving World |
| 26020s | Championship competitor and I do believe |
| 26023s | we are just going to go uh getting |
| 26024s | Levick ready for an interview uh I just |
| 26027s | don't think he's quite ready yet uh so |
| 26029s | just before we get into that settle now |
| 26031s | that we're the end of the tournament uh |
| 26033s | any big takeaways because obviously |
| 26035s | we've just had rotation we've just had a |
| 26037s | brand new expansion to the game as well |
| 26038s | it's a one of the with what's on the |
| 26041s | line so soon after an expansion it's a |
| 26043s | bit of a crazy tournament but you know |
| 26045s | any surprises any big takeaways do you |
| 26048s | think the meta is just going to |
| 26049s | completely shake after this weekend |
| 26051s | I think it shows that there are |
| 26054s | iterations still to be had in the meta |
| 26057s | what we ended up with here wasn't |
| 26058s | necessarily what I was expecting uh just |
| 26061s | from my experience of what is popular on |
| 26063s | ladder and what you see in meta reports |
| 26065s | and what you know stat tracking Services |
| 26067s | provide as the best X we certainly saw a |
| 26069s | little bit of uh wiggle room outside |
| 26072s | that with Dex proving they can be |
| 26074s | effective within certain things |
| 26075s | obviously there is the danger of uh |
| 26078s | extending Tournament results to ladder |
| 26080s | because having a ban at your uh having |
| 26083s | access to a band makes a big big |
| 26084s | difference as to which decks become |
| 26086s | playable which don't and which tech |
| 26087s | cards are right or whatever but largely |
| 26090s | the field had took me by surprise that |
| 26093s | like I can just list things that I would |
| 26094s | have got wrong coming into this |
| 26096s | tournament more uh Outcast the H than I |
| 26099s | would have thought I would have thought |
| 26100s | I thought we were extremely dominated by |
| 26102s | Relic Doom I think we were both in on |
| 26103s | that weren't we we were both in The |
| 26105s | Relic Demon Hunter camp and that just oh |
| 26108s | yeah was surprised me as well I would |
| 26110s | have under predicted blood DK I didn't |
| 26112s | think blood DK was going to be dominant |
| 26113s | but I would have thought that four to |
| 26116s | five players would have brought blood |
| 26117s | and it was less than that in the end |
| 26120s | um how the success of Druid I thought |
| 26123s | people would bring Druid and do badly |
| 26125s | specifically but here we are with the |
| 26127s | champion and the defeated finalists both |
| 26130s | having Druid in their deck uh but in |
| 26132s | their lineup sorry so again for me you |
| 26134s | know I don't mind holding my hands up |
| 26135s | because you know next tournament will be |
| 26137s | back and I'll be right about everything |
| 26138s | again that's how this works but this |
| 26140s | time I would have got an awful lot of |
| 26141s | things wrong uh coming into this so it |
| 26143s | goes to show you I think if anyone feels |
| 26145s | like they have an absolute handle on |
| 26147s | this meta game uh that isn't named |
| 26150s | Levick they're probably lying to you and |
| 26152s | there is still some some wiggle room to |
| 26154s | have yeah and with them basically just |
| 26156s | for those of you who are either joining |
| 26158s | late today or just you know new to the |
| 26160s | system because of course we have a |
| 26162s | completely different system this year |
| 26163s | for Esports like these players get to go |
| 26167s | again basically we've got two more of |
| 26169s | these tournaments throughout the year |
| 26170s | it's basically a rinse and repeat of |
| 26172s | this but with you know potentially new |
| 26174s | sets of players that are going to |
| 26175s | qualify through uh the I know it's early |
| 26178s | song I know it's a lot to do but is |
| 26180s | there any names that you would put down |
| 26182s | to let's make it fair maybe not |
| 26184s | necessarily just make it to Worlds but |
| 26186s | any names that are going to make |
| 26187s | splashes in the next one so roughly a |
| 26191s | lot of it is going to depend on |
| 26192s | mentality right because I think the |
| 26195s | players that we saw here I think pocket |
| 26197s | train banterface uh wreck bam Casey |
| 26200s | these are players that showed that they |
| 26202s | are very dedicated to grinding ladder |
| 26203s | and getting to this point but there is |
| 26207s | there's a branch between okay I feel |
| 26209s | like I have unfinished business let's |
| 26211s | start again I'll get back there in which |
| 26212s | case any of those players that I just |
| 26214s | named if they will probably make it back |
| 26216s | but the mentality could shift right it's |
| 26218s | actually like nope you know what that's |
| 26220s | broken me I don't want to go again I'm |
| 26222s | not interested in which case we won't so |
| 26224s | it is really going to be a mentality |
| 26226s | check for a lot of these players as |
| 26227s | opposed to who we see well I believe |
| 26229s | it's time and we do have Levick standing |
| 26231s | by so hopefully we can welcome onto the |
| 26234s | lovely screen so we can ask a few |
| 26236s | questions of our champion uh Levick can |
| 26239s | you hear me |
| 26239s | yeah |
| 26241s | oh perfect fantastic so first off |
| 26244s | congratulations on the win uh it's been |
| 26247s | a long weekend of course and a long |
| 26249s | journey to even get to this point but do |
| 26252s | you just want to tell us how you're |
| 26253s | feeling right now after booking a spot |
| 26255s | at the world championship |
| 26257s | yes thanks a lot guys I think I won't |
| 26259s | surprise anyone if I'll tell that I'm |
| 26262s | very exhausted but I'm okay so for sure |
| 26267s | thanks once again |
| 26271s | sorry uh can you talk to us specifically |
| 26274s | about 30 card blood death night and why |
| 26277s | why that deck was uh in your lineup how |
| 26280s | you how you arrived at it |
| 26281s | [Music] |
| 26283s | it's like if it's against blood a |
| 26285s | different but without 10 bad cards I |
| 26288s | think so you basically grow your good |
| 26292s | Cards Against ugly Braxton you don't |
| 26294s | need uh alexandros and uh all the other |
| 26297s | lucky stuff if everyone plays agaro so |
| 26302s | it's just a better uh at that night |
| 26307s | and uh just uh looking at your lineup |
| 26309s | overall uh were there any other decks |
| 26313s | you were close to submitting or were you |
| 26315s | just very happy very quickly with the |
| 26317s | lineup you did submit |
| 26320s | I was really struggling even with |
| 26323s | looking for four decks uh so |
| 26326s | I I wasn't close to submit anything else |
| 26329s | but I |
| 26331s | I wasn't sure about my druid but it |
| 26333s | performed kinda well I'd say uh and all |
| 26337s | the other stuff I tested like a priests |
| 26340s | that uh some guys uh have brought and I |
| 26344s | didn't even try this much this image |
| 26347s | that I I've met a few times like a |
| 26350s | pocket Train played it and the media |
| 26352s | played it I think uh |
| 26356s | as always I tested every possible deck |
| 26360s | and none of them were even close to |
| 26363s | being submitted to this a tournament so |
| 26366s | I I think the short answer is no |
| 26370s | [Music] |
| 26373s | can you uh can you do me one quick favor |
| 26375s | can you hold up your cup to the to the |
| 26377s | camera and show everyone what it says |
| 26380s | wait a second |
| 26383s | huh |
| 26386s | wait what |
| 26387s | it's okay like this |
| 26395s | yeah very simply just win right uh so uh |
| 26400s | just before we wrap it up do you have |
| 26402s | any final words to any you know your |
| 26404s | fans or any shout outs to anyone you |
| 26406s | practiced with or anyone who helped you |
| 26407s | get to this point |
| 26409s | oh it's it's a difficult commission uh |
| 26413s | I'm very exhausted so I I so once again |
| 26416s | I want to uh |
| 26418s | say sorry if I'll I'll forget anyone uh |
| 26422s | but uh |
| 26424s | first of all I want to |
| 26427s | thank I I want to say I think it to |
| 26431s | Walder because you've actually prepped |
| 26433s | with him and we both came to the finals |
| 26436s | so it was kinda |
| 26439s | said to beat uh my friend in the finals |
| 26442s | so I hope he will make it to the world's |
| 26445s | uh |
| 26446s | in the next attempts I believe in him |
| 26450s | I'll help you maybe yeah |
| 26454s | so yeah and of course thanks everyone |
| 26457s | the rooting for me thanks everyone |
| 26459s | spamming all the good words I hope good |
| 26462s | words uh in chat |
| 26466s | uh thanks to all my friends who also |
| 26470s | helped me with prep |
| 26472s | uh and yeah I still everyone's |
| 26476s | supporting me on my journey |
| 26479s | well you've earned it and again just |
| 26481s | before we go ahead congratulations on |
| 26484s | the win I cannot wait for the world |
| 26486s | championship already to see you play |
| 26488s | again so great job and we'll see you |
| 26490s | soon |
| 26491s | guys see you soon |
| 26495s | well played |
| 26497s | now really cool to hear from that and |
| 26499s | also like I said um then he just he was |
| 26502s | practicing with Walder preparing for |
| 26503s | this so you just got to think well world |
| 26506s | is going to be scary if he gets it gets |
| 26508s | here next time right because if levix |
| 26510s | doesn't have to play and qualify well |
| 26511s | that's uh extra power going over there |
| 26513s | towards so what a great pair then to |
| 26516s | prepare for a tournament together this |
| 26518s | stacked and you both just make it to the |
| 26520s | finals like it's about as good as it |
| 26522s | gets yeah we didn't talk about it too |
| 26524s | much but a lot of the players did pair |
| 26526s | off in terms of preparation I think |
| 26528s | requam and Casey prepared together and |
| 26530s | obviously they uh played against each |
| 26532s | other very late into the tournament |
| 26534s | um pocket trainer meaty I believe and I |
| 26536s | think banter facing gamer RBG as well |
| 26538s | there's a few little pairings going on |
| 26539s | just to help each other prep with the |
| 26541s | various levels of success but that's one |
| 26543s | that hadn't really been brought to my |
| 26545s | attention of them to both make it to the |
| 26547s | final is absolutely incredible |
| 26549s | especially after both arriving on Druid |
| 26551s | and still making it to the final as well |
| 26553s | no no I'm not gonna let it go no I won't |
| 26555s | you can't make me |
| 26557s | um but yeah I mean hats off to Levick |
| 26559s | finally and now honestly one thing I |
| 26561s | probably should have asked him about |
| 26562s | which is only just entered my mind is he |
| 26565s | gets to play HearthStone for fun for the |
| 26567s | next like nine months now like that's |
| 26569s | got to be a novelty right |
| 26571s | yeah 100 or knowing him he'll just keep |
| 26574s | competing even though he doesn't have to |
| 26576s | because that's I think just what a lot |
| 26577s | of these players want to do uh so we'll |
| 26580s | see how that one pans out going forward |
| 26581s | but we are at not only the end of the |
| 26583s | day but the end of the weekend so we are |
| 26586s | going to wrap it up I just want to say |
| 26588s | thank you to production thank you to my |
| 26590s | fellow casters obviously as well and uh |
| 26593s | also a huge thank you to you guys |
| 26595s | watching in twitch chat and we are back |
| 26597s | on Twitch we have made you know our |
| 26599s | slightly delayed return to Hearthstone |
| 26601s | Esports this year we really hope you |
| 26603s | enjoyed it uh thanks a lot for coming |
| 26605s | out and watching it it means a lot to us |
| 26607s | and we appreciate it and we'll be back |
| 26609s | soon for another one so make sure you |
| 26612s | tune in then but from myself so all the |
| 26615s | other Casters in production you hope you |
| 26616s | had a good time and we'll see you next |
| 26617s | time |
| 26626s | [Music] |
| 26650s | foreign |
| 26667s | [Music] |
| 26697s | thank you |
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