[2022] 2022 Hearthstone Masters Tour: Murder at Castle Nathria | Day 2 | Hearthstone Dev Tracker

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950s	okay i can rest this problem now i'm
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965s	the cleric is still alive the pyro ready
968s	to whirlwind the amulet of the undying
970s	coming down the boar is getting it done
972s	drovo can see and pocket train is the
976s	winner of masters tour for sheer water
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989s	hello everyone and welcome to day two of
992s	hearthstone masters tour murder at
994s	castle nathria not the shortest name for
997s	a masters tour in the world but
998s	definitely been a good one so far i'm
1000s	raven and joining me is edelweiss now we
1002s	are ready to kick off the day but how
1004s	did you enjoy yesterday
1007s	you know i had a blast watching all the
1009s	matches yesterday we had one with fury
1011s	hunter where i got to feel vindicated
1013s	that school teacher belongs in naga
1015s	priest
1016s	it's it's been great yeah i think
1019s	it's always fun to see what people have
1022s	been
1023s	hiding and holding out on us we saw that
1025s	as well with lambie's rogue that has
1027s	made its way
1029s	made itself known in this tournament and
1031s	i think is going to become one of my
1032s	favorite decks going forward
1034s	yeah the deck's definitely been making
1035s	an impact with a lot of players actually
1037s	uh saying that on paper it didn't look
1040s	great but they gave it a try and they're
1041s	actually been impressed by even players
1043s	who aren't even playing in this masters
1044s	tour so excited to see how many of those
1047s	can make it potentially to that top 16
1050s	and but we have got a lot of action
1051s	coming up today but let's just go over
1053s	the format for anyone who wasn't with us
1055s	yesterday he's maybe just catching up at
1057s	the beginning of the weekend and we are
1059s	of course going to be playing out
1060s	conquest the go-to competitive format
1063s	for hearthstone of course there's eight
1065s	total rounds of swiss we had four played
1067s	out yesterday we have four more today
1070s	and then by the end of that we're going
1071s	to work out who's finishing in that top
1073s	16 cut it's gonna be played out tomorrow
1075s	and then we'll crown our winner so still
1077s	tons of hearthstone uh coming right up
1080s	but uh it's been a pretty spicy weekend
1083s	so far even though we're only one day in
1085s	with a lot of players of course at that
1087s	4-0 mark so excited to see how they can
1090s	do a little bit later on uh but for now
1093s	it's uh we'll have to wait just to see
1094s	what the first match of the day is going
1096s	to be but before we do let's check out
1098s	the prize pool and see what these
1099s	players are competing for and not only
1102s	prize pool of course but uh potential
1104s	points to go towards that uh
1106s	championship that will be coming up in
1108s	the near future
1110s	yeah this is the end of an era we don't
1113s	know what hs esports is gonna look like
1115s	next year but we're gonna
1117s	you know take it out with a bang and
1119s	we've got first place 14 thousand second
1122s	place ten thousand and i think these pay
1125s	out pretty far down even below what is
1127s	being shown here so
1130s	lots of prize money available to all our
1132s	competitors and yeah hopefully a chance
1135s	to qualify for you know the very last of
1138s	our known events for this year
1140s	yeah it's going to be a big deal isn't
1141s	it especially when we start to see who
1143s	makes that top 16 cut of course it's
1145s	done by wins overall when we talk about
1148s	the championship qualification so that
1150s	will be interesting not to say that you
1152s	have to make top 16 to have a chance is
1154s	based on the three masters tours but
1157s	without diving too much into that for
1158s	now let's take a look at what happened
1159s	yesterday we kicked it off with a maybe
1162s	one of the most stressful times i've
1163s	seen fury hunter have in this series
1166s	quite
1167s	well described by the the imagery of his
1169s	camera there it was a really really
1170s	close series very back and forth but
1172s	capernaum got the job done and got a
1174s	very nice win there and then things
1176s	started to speed up just a little bit
1178s	didn't they
1179s	yeah we've got our very
1181s	expressionless dryer phone trying to get
1183s	there with a hunter against the druid
1186s	but just not able to present a fast
1188s	enough threat and ends up getting
1190s	overrun by topiar just a very powerful
1193s	tool for druids these days and here you
1195s	see the topiar on the side of gia
1199s	not you know
1200s	unfortunately for us as casters pulling
1203s	for her but
1204s	not quite able to get there against
1205s	soteg sotek played very well the whole
1208s	series uh hope maybe we'll see both of
1210s	them later on and then we saw donkey
1213s	versus sx wl uh going up here in a quick
1217s	3-0 win donkey doing fantastic i think
1220s	we'll be uh maybe checking in with
1222s	donkey in the very near future once
1224s	again on stream because he seems to be
1225s	having one of those just very very good
1228s	runs indeed we did then jump over to
1230s	swan versus incaro where swan managed to
1233s	take the series at 3-2 and with yet
1235s	again any shaman shown on these replays
1237s	but there's that rookie we were talking
1239s	about with monsanto piloting it and
1240s	they're looking very very strong indeed
1243s	just overrun enticed on the celestial
1245s	druid and not really able to get the
1248s	benefit of the alignment going off there
1250s	is monsanto just having enough damage to
1252s	close it out in a good amount of time
1255s	yeah and then a surprise fast win from
1258s	the shaman here where the evolve just
1260s	rolls battleground battlemaster and
1262s	zolchi is able to just take a win
1264s	against the hunter out of nowhere uh
1266s	sort of accidental nice positioning for
1269s	the battle master there
1271s	and the devil matt had a really good
1273s	series against reimu overall but this
1275s	game was exactly what he wanted to see
1276s	with his hunter he got a very strong
1278s	start with one drop into buff buff and
1280s	so on with wild spirits and it was just
1283s	too much to handle for the warlock and
1285s	then their impact versus reliquary was
1287s	one of the later matches we had
1289s	yesterday with reliquary just about
1291s	finishing off impact couldn't quite get
1293s	enough done even though weirdly enough
1295s	he was the shaman as the tavish but
1298s	maybe go back and watch the vodka
1299s	understand how that happened and then we
1301s	had this amazing ending to the to the
1303s	day for us because we cast this one of
1306s	c8 just absolutely demolishing construct
1309s	in that final game getting a win with
1311s	that curse wall up and really popping
1313s	off with one of the new legendaries yeah
1316s	i think it shows just the power of lady
1318s	dark vayne and how many curses you can
1320s	get rolling now brandly darkvane there
1323s	giving four curses immediately for
1325s	lethal and curse warlock i think has
1327s	been surprisingly strong performance
1330s	over the weekend when you do look at the
1332s	stats
1334s	and where's shaman
1335s	you know still strong it's being banned
1338s	i think 41 percent of the time it's it's
1341s	the top ban for the tournament
1343s	yeah it's always difficult is that when
1344s	there's one class or you know one or two
1347s	decks that you everyone knows is good
1349s	everyone knows that a lot of people are
1350s	going to bring it like it's win
1353s	win rate might not look as impressive
1355s	but that's normally because the only
1356s	people leaving it up are generally
1358s	people who have a plan against it that's
1361s	normally how this sort of overall
1362s	strategy goes in at conquest but before
1364s	we dive into the first match of the day
1366s	on stream let's take a look at the
1368s	standings and see where everyone is
1369s	going into day two as i said take a look
1372s	at those four o's and see the players
1374s	who have i guess just simply the best
1377s	chance of making it to top 16 as of this
1379s	moment in time uh i do believe as a
1381s	slight spoiler i think donkey's already
1384s	won his his round five match saying he's
1386s	currently sitting 5-0 already but this
1389s	was coming into today so a lot of great
1391s	names on that 4-0 score edelweiss
1393s	yeah reliquary who we saw went over
1395s	impact yesterday with that quest hunter
1398s	and uh yeah monsanto coming out in the
1401s	15 spot there i think we'd be cheering
1404s	for him as well but lots of new players
1407s	additionally
1409s	so
1410s	everyone has you know an opportunity
1412s	here and of course the three ones are
1414s	still in it as well and there are very
1415s	very many three ones who have the
1417s	opportunity to win out and claim their
1420s	spot in the top eight yeah i'm sure
1422s	there'll be plenty of cheers for
1423s	monsanto and a few other players of
1425s	course than the masters tour because uh
1427s	there might be the glimmer of hope for
1430s	the rarest of all creatures
1432s	and america's masters tour winner uh in
1434s	the wild we might see it one day
1437s	one one day
1439s	there's got to be hope until the day
1441s	that masters tours don't exist anymore
1443s	there's still going to be hope but let's
1445s	take a look at who we're going to kick
1446s	off the day with it's going to be
1447s	thunder versus love storm love storm a
1450s	previous winner of a masters tour
1452s	winninger and nixie's light a while back
1455s	now i think at the start of the year and
1456s	he's going to be going up against
1458s	thunder and this is a pretty mixed bag
1460s	kind of line up here love storm uh
1462s	bringing the you know the 40 card
1464s	chairman 40 card alignment druid but
1466s	then curse warlock with some imps in
1469s	there as well uh and then the mine rogue
1472s	going up against thunder who has the
1474s	lambie rogue face hunter the um
1478s	oh yeah this is just the the imp lock
1480s	sorry i was just trying to get so many
1482s	different cards in these lists and the
1484s	shaman himself so two very different
1487s	lineups actually going against each
1488s	other with the hunter and chairman
1490s	bandai
1491s	yeah we'll sort of get to see which
1492s	rogue is going to reign supreme here i
1494s	don't believe we've seen a mine rogue
1496s	yet today on broadcast but it's one that
1499s	i've heard can perform well against
1501s	these lambie rogues we'll have to put
1503s	that to the test uh as you say though
1506s	imp warlock it almost is
1508s	a misnomer sometimes when there's curses
1511s	mixed in there or they're doing kale
1514s	fast and atheist things it's sort of
1516s	riding on the strength of sort of the
1519s	imp package and then filling it out with
1521s	whatever other strategy you is to your
1524s	liking right
1526s	and here we look at some of the key
1527s	parts about love storm of course as i
1529s	said the masters tournix is layer winner
1532s	and a great record this year 67.5
1536s	win rate uh in in obviously competitive
1539s	hearthstone is something that i would be
1541s	very happy with myself and and also a
1544s	fellow caster so not uh g not the only
1546s	caster who's playing in the tournament
1548s	today you'd love to see it
1550s	hey language hacker is playing in the
1551s	tournament too so you know we can maybe
1554s	include him as well
1557s	yeah it becomes very interesting doesn't
1559s	it where where do we draw the line
1561s	between a caster and someone who has
1563s	cast before because suddenly we'll have
1565s	to like think about putting hunt
1567s	into race in this list and i'm not sure
1569s	how i feel about that we'll have to i'll
1570s	speak to casper on that one uh but for
1572s	now uh we are gonna see what the players
1575s	are gonna queue into that game number
1577s	one i'm really excited for this just
1578s	because the lineups are so so different
1580s	both players as you mentioned having
1582s	access to those rogues we are going to
1584s	see thunder kick it off with lambie
1585s	rogue first and also just these warlocks
1588s	as well they're going to be pretty cool
1590s	to see who comes out on top but this
1592s	list taking the world by storm at the
1594s	moment otherwise
1596s	yeah you do still have shadowcrafters
1598s	scabs at the top there but otherwise
1600s	it's really all about the early game you
1602s	know that's just kind of a backup you've
1603s	got the sinstone graveyard door of
1606s	shadows i think has really impressed me
1609s	you know if you can infuse it which it's
1611s	only infused too so it's often not that
1614s	hard with just
1615s	you know a couple of early minions but
1617s	even uninfused just drawing a spell can
1619s	be fine
1620s	it feels fantastic though when you dwarf
1622s	shadows into step and get an extra step
1624s	or same thing with preparation those are
1626s	the turns you really get to pop off and
1628s	make a massive necro-lord draco weapon
1631s	or uh stealth ghost
1634s	yeah it's it's a deck that i'll honestly
1637s	say when i first looked today i was like
1639s	okay you just play stuff and get them
1641s	you know like this that's a level one
1643s	strategy there but the more you play it
1645s	and the more you well i lose with it you
1648s	quickly realize that it's a it's a lot
1650s	about planning taking a step back
1653s	instead of having two okay turns it's
1656s	normally better to sit back and and have
1658s	a weaker turn into a very strong turn
1661s	and that's actually often way better for
1663s	your overall game plan but tricky to
1665s	actually master because to do that i do
1667s	feel like you need a good amount of
1668s	experience and i would be very
1670s	interested to know how much uh all the
1673s	players who have submitted this list
1675s	have actually you know how many games
1676s	they've got under their belt because i
1678s	think there's a lot of that just
1679s	experience that's required knowing okay
1682s	how many cards is too many how often do
1684s	you actually just dump a prep to kind of
1686s	do nothing except above your turn so to
1689s	speak and things like that so it could
1691s	be interesting to see that play out and
1693s	it's going to be the rogue mirror but
1695s	definitely not in archetypes
1698s	yeah this has been another deck that's
1700s	taken some transformations where
1702s	initially it was just all about mines
1705s	and and going face very quickly and then
1707s	it shifted over to throwing in a burning
1709s	blade acolyte and going for swift scale
1712s	trickster plus smoke screen which
1714s	when it hits with the graveyard active
1716s	can be
1717s	quite powerful i mean getting the draw
1719s	five on turn you know four or three with
1722s	coin obviously strong on its own but if
1724s	you do manage to pull out a couple of
1726s	five eight taunts or you know eight
1728s	damage to the face quite thrilled about
1730s	that and yeah sometimes even without the
1733s	smoke screen you can just do snowfall
1735s	into sketchy information into
1737s	counterfeit blade and the damage just
1739s	ramps up very very quickly i would have
1741s	thought this deck would be harder to run
1744s	into a lot of the 40 health lists right
1746s	now but perhaps the burning blade
1748s	acolytes are able to shore up
1750s	some of the extra damage that you need
1752s	to to get through against them yeah it's
1754s	very interesting isn't it because a lot
1756s	of the 40 health lists they don't
1757s	actually have access to that much
1759s	healing so although they obviously have
1760s	a natural plus 10 health going into the
1763s	game which you'd never want to see as
1764s	mine rogue it's not like there's ton
1766s	it's like everyone's playing forty
1767s	health paladin right and they are priest
1770s	and has endless healing right now so i
1772s	do think it's a it's a good plan a
1774s	followed by some of that more late game
1776s	that you were talking about so very
1777s	interested see how this one pans out so
1780s	far we are getting into it thunder
1781s	versus love storm game one snowfall
1785s	graveyard kept
1788s	i think for both decks the graveyard is
1790s	gonna tend to be a keep it's just such a
1792s	powerful card in each obviously in
1794s	different ways but
1796s	even if
1797s	you are wanting to hit the draw in this
1800s	mine rogue graveyard just increases your
1803s	threat potential by by so much that it's
1805s	it's worth keeping but
1807s	both minds is
1809s	not what you're hoping for as this deck
1811s	you really want to pull those
1813s	off of your your draw spells so uh
1817s	yeah a bit unfortunate there for love
1819s	storm in terms of this opening just
1820s	having to
1821s	dagger up and swing
1823s	gonna be looking for a smoke screen on
1825s	that turn four with the trickster but if
1828s	we don't find something quick it's it's
1830s	really not going to be there it's
1832s	thunder's hand on the other hand
1835s	just kind of all the juice warlock hero
1837s	power as well dangerous into something
1839s	like a mine rogue but the resources can
1842s	uh be quite helpful
1844s	yeah it's gonna be interesting to see
1845s	how thunder actually approaches this
1848s	because you know while paul just
1850s	throwing it out there is fine there's
1852s	not tons of ways it actually dies with
1854s	that health but to choose to go for the
1856s	life tap because again
1858s	you know that outside of those potential
1861s	taunts
1862s	that this rogue doesn't really stop you
1865s	doing anything though the rogue's very
1867s	focused on themselves a lot of the time
1869s	right very selfish class um so
1872s	thunder knows if he can wait and then
1874s	have one of those big pop off turns
1876s	there's nothing that really stops him
1879s	just swinging face either with the uh
1881s	the big dagger or with the big stealth
1883s	minions so i do actually like utilizing
1885s	the live tap especially after not really
1887s	seeing too much come out from love storm
1889s	so far but he doesn't like he's going to
1891s	take this turn to activate the graveyard
1893s	that's going to last a few turns and
1895s	hopefully for his sake
1897s	it gets some damage through at least
1900s	yeah i like this you sort of need to
1901s	take advantage of as much mana
1903s	efficiency as possible on something like
1905s	the mine rogue so doing the three mena
1907s	spell now
1908s	so that you can get down forsaken
1910s	lieutenant and maybe a naval mine on the
1912s	same turn swing into something like this
1914s	and all activate your counterfeit blade
1917s	it's not quite gonna line up in terms of
1920s	being able to
1921s	double the death rattle on the
1922s	counterfeit blade unless you are able to
1925s	break it yourself somehow but uh still
1928s	getting in the double damage this turn
1930s	you know they're not able to clear the
1932s	other mine without taking double damage
1934s	as well
1936s	furthering that game plan
1937s	just how you want to as the mine rogue
1939s	and that's why i'm a little surprised to
1941s	have seen that tap previously from
1943s	thunder because you could have just gone
1945s	with a coin
1946s	shroud of concealment and be able to
1948s	play the knoll for free
1953s	yeah we'll see if it punishes thunder or
1955s	not but he's making a big play on to the
1957s	board now
1958s	love storm did get because that death
1960s	threat went off he does get to
1961s	counterfeit blade if he really wants to
1964s	does have now double tooth
1966s	there's an alternate option here to
1967s	clear up some of this
1970s	and i think love storms may be
1972s	considering just
1973s	trying to use this graveyard while it's
1975s	still there maybe thinking about using
1978s	tooth on his own
1980s	mind
1981s	you know you can't do that on both minds
1982s	but you can sort of get one in play and
1984s	kill one and then use the counterfeit
1986s	blade on the next turn yeah he can
1988s	always start by using a tooth on the
1990s	null
1991s	right unless he's thinking about saving
1992s	it anyway
1995s	yeah of course i do think it's worth
1996s	just seeing what you can fish out here
1998s	it kills a null very cleanly you get the
2000s	discover yes it maybe doesn't strictly
2003s	accelerate your own game plan but
2006s	it it does something i think anything
2007s	else might be a little bit
2010s	awkward but love storm looks like he's
2012s	gonna say you know what actually
2013s	i might just equip the dagger and hit
2015s	them in the face because that's what
2017s	that does and i can respect it i don't
2019s	know if it's the play i would make but i
2020s	can definitely respect it
2022s	i mean you definitely are on you know a
2024s	bit of a race here to to get them killed
2027s	so equipping the weapon now gives you
2029s	the most time to get the value out of it
2032s	even if you lose the graveyard uh it's
2034s	another you know four damage to face
2036s	plus the four from the death rattle uh
2038s	so that is a setup here in terms of
2041s	having six damage from hand
2043s	with the two
2044s	tooths
2046s	could just be enough
2051s	yeah it's just actually going to have
2052s	enough right yeah just a two-turn set up
2055s	yeah i actually just did nothing expect
2056s	the damage from the second west wing for
2058s	some reason
2060s	you know four damage weapons in rogue
2063s	are just
2064s	they tend to be powerful one way or
2066s	another all the time and this one is in
2069s	some ways
2071s	an extra four damage right almost an
2073s	extra durability because of how
2075s	frequently it just gets the mayan death
2076s	rattle so very quick game for love storm
2079s	there and uh from my understanding that
2081s	is just how it goes sometimes like like
2084s	you say no healing from the other rogue
2086s	so 30 health able to get taken care of
2089s	very quickly
2090s	yeah definitely a tough one and again
2092s	it's one of those match-ups where even
2094s	though love storm didn't strictly get
2096s	the nuts opening i do think him getting
2099s	the forsaken lieutenant saved him in
2102s	that game because then he could okay pop
2104s	that death rattle great and then the
2106s	weapon becomes much stronger because it
2108s	gains that death rattle and then from
2110s	that point he could do the face hunter
2111s	thing right how much health does my
2113s	opponent have how much damage do i do
2115s	how likely are they to burst and again
2117s	something about this rogue on
2119s	thunderside
2120s	although we like the deck a lot it
2122s	hasn't really got
2123s	any consistent burst right
2126s	outside of exactly a big dagger out of
2128s	nowhere which is unlikely on this turn
2130s	with the cell and it doesn't really have
2132s	that guaranteed huge damage
2135s	so lovestorm felt pretty confident that
2137s	he was living that
2139s	yeah absolutely i mean wicked stab at
2141s	that turn only does four you know they
2144s	do have tooth but it's really just not
2146s	the same level of
2148s	out of nowhere damage that the mind
2150s	rogue is able to produce so sometimes
2152s	you just have to
2154s	resist the urge to say oh i've got to
2156s	clear some of this stuff you know what
2158s	if they have
2159s	something to put in the way but no
2161s	reconnaissance i think in in this
2163s	version of the lambie rogue so
2166s	no potential taunts out of nowhere i
2168s	think love storm is feeling pretty
2170s	confident in that two-term lethal setup
2172s	and then next up i do believe that love
2174s	stop is going to jump over to his druid
2176s	which is the 40 card alignment
2179s	version and again this one a little bit
2181s	spicy because
2183s	this is one of the decks that might
2185s	struggle just a little bit against this
2187s	rogue because thunder is going to stick
2189s	on this lambie rogue uh if like uh and
2192s	they said if lambie now that's my
2194s	frustration with the name oh no i
2196s	started calling everyone
2197s	um but if
2199s	if thunder can actually get one of the
2201s	openings like with the double knolls get
2203s	an early sin stone and do that it looks
2206s	great but you aren't really guaranteed
2209s	that opening as the rogue so it could
2211s	get a little bit tricky because the the
2213s	fear factor with druid it's not like the
2214s	old days where if you stick a couple of
2216s	minions you feel great like lust on one
2219s	has 40 health and two is playing druid
2221s	today which means that the access to
2224s	ramp is ridiculous he's also running
2226s	double earthen scales which means
2228s	even late game as long as he's not dead
2230s	if he gets to land one big minion and in
2232s	earthen scales suddenly
2235s	the druid becomes very quickly out of
2237s	reach of the rogue
2239s	yeah it really is going to be important
2241s	to snowball the early game from this
2245s	rogue and we saw that happen against
2247s	tice earlier but sometimes the draws are
2250s	a little more awkward you do have to
2251s	wait a little while to get a payoff and
2253s	if the druid is ramping during that time
2256s	they're just going to
2258s	take full advantage to be able to
2260s	put out you know enormous minions it's
2263s	one of the weird things you notice when
2264s	you start playing this roguelist is
2266s	there actually aren't that many minions
2268s	in the deck right like you actually
2270s	quickly realize a lot of the deck i mean
2273s	two prep shadow steps cutlass door of
2276s	shadows uh gun fishing extortion that's
2279s	like you know i'm already getting to the
2280s	point where that's nearly half the deck
2282s	it's just all those like sort of cheap
2283s	spells that are good for achieving your
2286s	goal but not good on their own right you
2288s	need that sin stone uh to be able to
2290s	utilize those and a lot of those cards
2292s	don't actually achieve much versus druid
2295s	specifically because they're not playing
2297s	that many minions that like extortion
2300s	yeah or even the um bone spikes are
2303s	really gonna have an effect versus right
2305s	they're not just dumping out little
2306s	minions all the time so we'll have to
2308s	see how this one goes but i do feel like
2310s	thunder's gonna need something
2312s	really good to actually get going maybe
2314s	even a start similar to the previous
2316s	game
2317s	yeah i think that one of the reasons
2319s	something like a filet fighter is in the
2321s	deck is not just because it's a very
2322s	cheap thing to play that does damage but
2325s	also because it's a thing you can kill
2327s	on your own with bone spike to get the
2329s	combos rolling if your opponent doesn't
2331s	have uh minions for you to be hitting so
2334s	it kind of serves that double function
2336s	you know the lack of minions is sort of
2339s	a double-edged sword because it does
2341s	allow you to take full advantage of
2342s	shroud of concealment
2344s	so that card is able to fairly reliably
2347s	draw you the very few but very powerful
2350s	minions within the deck so you can find
2352s	something like an edwin or a draka to
2354s	really get your win condition rolling
2357s	but
2358s	here's one of those awkward hands
2359s	krabatoa and shadowcrafter scabs not
2362s	exactly what thunder's looking for in an
2364s	opener
2366s	also just look at love storm's hand what
2369s	else do you want in life apart from this
2372s	hand what he had jerry rigg turned to
2375s	wild growth into golf into whatever part
2378s	of nourish he wants to cast he has the
2380s	northern scales already which means as
2382s	soon as he just has the option of one of
2384s	many of the large minions in the deck he
2387s	can just gain a million armor at the
2389s	moment thunder's considering the air the
2392s	weird choice i've thought about a few
2393s	times is sin stone on two feels
2395s	fantastic but you also reveal yourself
2398s	as rogue which means the wild paws don't
2400s	really get any cheaper so it's kind of a
2403s	weird juggling thing i played the game
2405s	earlier where i actually waited another
2406s	turn and ended up going sin stone wild
2409s	paw wild ball which paid off a lot but
2411s	it's very tricky to decide
2413s	oh and to immediately pick up the shroud
2416s	you know you obviously couldn't have
2417s	known that would happen but waiting one
2419s	more turn would have meant the null goes
2421s	down to two and then zero once you play
2423s	the shroud so
2425s	maybe a little bit of a punish there for
2427s	thunder but you can just play the null
2429s	for three and a three and a three five
2430s	rush is still a good rate just not
2433s	exactly what you're looking for and i
2434s	think more importantly the other null is
2436s	also going to be yeah
2438s	i'm just sorry just look at that i was
2440s	waiting for thunder's response and it
2442s	was the correct one
2443s	yeah a unhappy laugh if such a thing
2447s	exists from thunder there seeing the gov
2449s	get played on curve and now there's even
2451s	more that came from oh no even the
2454s	innervate to get out the hero power to
2456s	be on eight ready for this alignment
2459s	next turn uh followed by all of the
2462s	nourishes and another wild growth
2464s	honestly i i don't know what you do
2466s	about that it's all over
2468s	even if the hand were better you don't
2470s	quite get going this quickly as the
2472s	rogue most of the time so
2475s	unless thunder is able to present you
2477s	know a very strong board right now and
2480s	and love storm just sort of draws dead i
2483s	i don't know how far you're getting i i
2487s	guess
2487s	never bring us krapatoa and scabs are at
2490s	least great things to have going into an
2493s	opposing alignment because they get
2494s	cheaper
2496s	but saving this coin is rough i think
2499s	that turn honestly would have had to
2501s	have been like shadow step prep door of
2505s	shadows something else and then end with
2507s	the sin stone and uh
2509s	uh dagger and necrolord um you know
2512s	something that silly right like that
2514s	many things to really pop off to have
2516s	any chance i'm not even saying that
2518s	would win i'm just saying that'll give
2519s	thunder a chance but now with all of the
2522s	ramp available the scale of enyxia as
2525s	well just to laugh
2527s	why not
2529s	yeah i mean i think you tend against
2532s	this 40 car druid to sort of say okay
2535s	well we we don't just play around all
2537s	the things because it's 40 cards they
2539s	they they don't just have it right and
2541s	then to get a discovered alignment
2544s	sort of is just extra salt in the wound
2546s	here and yeah as you say i think we
2548s	would have had to get
2550s	at least some semblance of a stealth
2552s	minion off of the cemetery already
2554s	because now
2555s	you're never really getting anything too
2557s	high maybe a 4-4 if you go
2560s	you know coin door prep something
2565s	oh it's a big ask and honest honestly i
2568s	wouldn't be too surprised if we saw a
2571s	swift concede from sunday if
2573s	thunder was blise right now we'd already
2576s	be in the next game uh because he does
2578s	not mess about yeah there we go i
2580s	thought so yeah
2581s	because there's just no way he just
2583s	can't do anything he's barely even
2585s	scratched lovestorm's health total
2587s	we knew that there was plenty more
2589s	health where that came from and
2592s	the second love storm pops off with not
2594s	only the alignment but then multiple
2596s	sort of nourishes he had available as
2598s	well and then to finish the turn with
2601s	raid boss and nixia it's like well
2603s	uh thunder's never getting back on board
2605s	again and you can't win the game as that
2608s	rogue without being on board so yeah
2610s	really really rough series so far
2612s	thunder probably a little bit frustrated
2614s	right about now but he's gonna have to
2616s	keep his cool because he's still got a
2618s	chance
2619s	yeah and that's what separates you know
2621s	sort of the best players from the the
2623s	pretty good players is if you're able to
2625s	keep that mental game rolling say okay
2627s	i'm down two but i'm just gonna pretend
2629s	it's zero zero pull myself together and
2631s	we can still come back and get the
2633s	reverse sweep uh you know it's
2635s	heartbreaking to to just get blown out
2637s	like that but i think sometimes if
2639s	you're able to get your head on straight
2640s	you're able to say okay that happens
2643s	it's not my fault you know i did what i
2644s	could uh we weren't gonna win that one
2647s	and just move on
2649s	yeah i mean that's the thing uh in a
2650s	perfect world and this obviously isn't
2652s	necessarily the case but you take the
2654s	very logical approach of right well the
2657s	game's over it's done it doesn't matter
2659s	anymore right that the game's lost let's
2661s	move on to the next game because what's
2663s	happened already just doesn't matter in
2665s	any way because thunder's plan is still
2668s	the same he needs to win with each of
2669s	his decks like that's plan hasn't really
2671s	changed yet so uh yeah got to keep his
2673s	head on straight and keep us cool for
2675s	this but it looks like now of course
2677s	love storm gonna have this warlock uh
2680s	left to go with and it is a
2682s	predominantly the curse lock and again
2684s	there are some imps in there but again
2686s	it's mainly for that air for that car
2689s	draw from impending catastrophe as
2691s	something that we've seen you know who
2693s	would have thought warlock likes card
2694s	draw and so it is gonna have the
2697s	impending catastrophe some of the imps
2699s	and again because of that
2700s	if you've got space you sort of go well
2702s	if i'm playing any games i should
2704s	probably play vowel library and then it
2706s	sort of beefs itself out into this i
2708s	wouldn't even call it a 50 50 deck
2710s	mainly a 60 40 deck for curses and then
2713s	imps
2714s	yeah this is a little bit different than
2715s	the one we saw yesterday yesterday it
2717s	was an xl deck so 40 cards and uh still
2720s	running things like bran etc to go all
2723s	in on the curses this is you're sticking
2725s	to the three cards you still have your
2727s	your flame imps and things it's not just
2730s	shipment and circle to go with impending
2732s	catastrophe uh kind of much more hybrid
2736s	sort of feel where you're you're wanting
2738s	to get that early in start to kind of
2741s	put pressure on your opponent with the
2742s	vile library being so powerful but then
2744s	the curses act as
2746s	sort of an awkward burst that you have
2749s	access to yeah you know maybe gives you
2752s	a little bit of edge against some other
2754s	import locks as well because you
2756s	actually do have a comeback in the form
2758s	of things like abyssal wave but yeah
2761s	sometimes
2762s	if you're the imp deck you just lose
2764s	board and you're like well but i got
2766s	enough damage in we'll we'll throw some
2767s	curses your way and just you know draw
2770s	it out especially with the prevalence of
2772s	freeze decks right now looking at
2774s	shaymin and mage specifically of course
2775s	like if your board gets frozen with pure
2778s	imps there's almost nothing you can do
2780s	you just pass right so at least with
2783s	curses there are options there and
2785s	basically what this does for lovestorm
2787s	is it sacrifices the normal healing and
2789s	removal from a lot of older curse locks
2792s	and replaces it saying well i won't need
2794s	the healing removal if i just have imps
2796s	on the board to fight anyway so we'll
2798s	see how this one plays out starting off
2800s	with again a couple of hips down right
2802s	now thunder yet again with a null in his
2805s	opening hand one thing that has been
2806s	going right for him is that those nulls
2809s	seems to get them every single game so
2811s	far
2813s	yeah and i think there's a decision here
2815s	in terms of do you play the filet
2816s	fighter or keep discounting that null
2818s	this time going for the extra discounts
2820s	but
2821s	vile library could just come down and
2824s	start
2825s	you know hitting with some pretty chunky
2826s	minions i think you go for that over the
2828s	draw
2829s	yeah i'm even staring at this coin and
2833s	librarian coin obviously valuable in
2835s	this deck because you aren't just
2837s	running imps
2838s	but it's an extra you know i guess three
2841s	three at this moment in time
2843s	difficult to work out if it's worthwhile
2845s	though
2846s	yeah i'm not sure i mean you could just
2849s	play it next turn with an impending
2850s	catastrophe you know it's not the crazy
2853s	amount of draw that you see sometimes
2854s	out of that card but i think just two
2856s	mana draw two is a really solid rate
2858s	when you think about it
2860s	and uh not having to you know take the
2862s	time to tap but
2864s	looks like love storm likes your line
2866s	yeah i like this because what love storm
2868s	wants to draw next turn probably is
2870s	circle right but if you draw a circle
2873s	next turn this turn looks insane because
2875s	you just pre-load all the damage so i do
2878s	like this a lot actually there are a lot
2879s	of cards that are just imps in the deck
2882s	and even if it draws zero imps as you
2884s	said there's impending catastrophe and
2886s	also there's just you get a 3 3 on board
2889s	to attack which i think is worth
2890s	something itself
2892s	oh and the second all picked up for
2894s	thunder so i think we're going to see
2897s	one of these go into the 4-4 plus the
2900s	fillet fighter or
2902s	okay this was another another option
2904s	right so you just eliminate the lower
2906s	health ones and then try keep a stealth
2909s	so you can use that damaged null to
2912s	finish up the
2914s	4-4
2917s	can you imagine if these locations
2919s	didn't have that one-turn cooldown i
2921s	just think that was
2923s	i mean the hunter one would still be bad
2925s	but all the others will be discussed in
2926s	here oh i i think the only reason the
2929s	hunter one looks bad is because hunter
2931s	has so many good cards
2933s	that he just has no opportunity it's bad
2935s	because it's not a minion and a hunter
2937s	not playing something like onto spending
2940s	two mana and passing is never a good
2941s	thing
2943s	but okay but say you just play something
2945s	on one and you give it to attack and you
2947s	hit him in the face
2948s	you know i tried out some games where
2950s	you just play a click clocker give it
2952s	plus two attack you hit them it doesn't
2953s	have to hit a beast every time
2958s	i will agree to disagree i'm very
2961s	into location but anyway uh this little
2964s	viral library is going to be able to pop
2965s	off and also love storm gets the
2967s	opportunity to use grandma if he really
2969s	wants to i think a pretty good
2971s	opportunity honestly you know they're
2973s	just one ones you
2974s	you're kind of fine with sacrificing a
2976s	one one you just use the vile library
2978s	first to get the most stats
2980s	uh yeah now you're contesting that null
2982s	and
2983s	powering up
2984s	your uh king rafam
2987s	now i've done that right
2989s	yeah i'm curious here if you were to
2992s	curve out lady dark vayne so he would
2994s	have two grimoires but they don't
2996s	sacrifice anything right they would just
2997s	do the two damage
3002s	oh that's a good point i've not done it
3005s	yet so i don't know
3007s	is that how it works it just deals two
3009s	i'll take your word for it you sound
3010s	more knowledgeable than me i mean it's
3012s	not like it's going to bring up a menu
3014s	to pick something to sacrifice so i got
3016s	it
3017s	i didn't know if it just it did pick
3019s	something to sacrifice do you know what
3021s	i mean the game well something or not so
3023s	that would certainly be a reason not to
3025s	play later
3026s	i really want him to do it now i we need
3029s	for science
3031s	i think the dark vein is there for extra
3033s	curses so i'm sure it's much more likely
3035s	that love storm will go for something
3036s	like the wicked shipment plus vial
3038s	library plus just to get the vial
3041s	library down now so it'll be active
3043s	again the turn after you play in the
3045s	king rafam sort of threatening lethal i
3047s	think is pretty powerful you can weave
3049s	in a tap as well
3051s	justine i was actually just looking
3053s	where the dark veins just an okay tempo
3055s	play
3058s	i think that's true but the the threat
3060s	of imps on board is always just that
3063s	something like an m king reform on curve
3066s	gives them plus two plus two
3068s	yeah that is very very fair
3071s	this is still very good of course gets
3073s	to
3074s	push some damage as well
3077s	stomp
3078s	incredible this series is not doing the
3080s	best to promote this lambie air rogue i
3083s	could already hear lambie just put foul
3085s	in a request to rename the deck after
3086s	this
3088s	to remove his name from it
3090s	yeah but edwin you know maybe turning
3092s	things around a little bit here if you
3094s	pick up a key
3096s	key thing off the top dagger will finish
3099s	up that 5-2 and uh i don't think you
3101s	want to play a step at this point i
3102s	think you won a 12-12
3105s	agreed
3108s	oh
3109s	i suppose the question is whether to
3111s	bother hitting the imp or just go face
3118s	you need three damage
3122s	he goes space right
3124s	because then
3124s	[Music]
3126s	what can you
3128s	oh there's only ever
3130s	plus two plus two to these right
3132s	in terms of
3133s	either inking or foam or i guess
3135s	bartender isn't even in the deck to make
3137s	room for curses right
3141s	wait there's
3145s	well that's going to be one off if
3147s	there's a wicked stab
3148s	oh i guess if he
3150s	pulls shadows
3152s	yeah but if i guess if your dark shadows
3154s	miss and naturally draw a wicked stab
3156s	it's just not lethal
3158s	well you can attack with the edwin
3161s	and then step it it's done its 12 damage
3164s	and so now you can create another chain
3167s	of draws to sort of look for that extra
3168s	damage yeah that is fair
3176s	just wondered whether that like
3181s	you know what i mean like yeah i think
3184s	there's a tendency to be afraid of the
3186s	damage but but as as you say you're
3188s	taking it whether you're killing the
3189s	minion or not so it's about the extra
3191s	two
3192s	from it being on board and
3196s	that might be oh was that double oh oh
3199s	you got it double two
3202s	wow
3202s	i thought this was going to be a very
3205s	very quick 3-0 but
3207s	thunder finally gets a win on the rogue
3210s	thanks to good old edwin van cleef he's
3212s	been grabbing rogue wins for years right
3216s	now and it's uh going to continue into
3218s	the future by the looks of things as
3219s	well uh but yeah thunder a bit of a
3221s	recovery moment there well needed
3224s	honestly because one thing no one wants
3226s	to do is go on stream at the start of
3228s	their day and get destroyed 3-0 in about
3231s	15 minutes so yeah i'm glad for him he's
3234s	got the win there it does mean he's got
3236s	that shaymin and his own warlock left to
3239s	go with i'm going to take a quick quick
3241s	look i'll let you know when i see what
3243s	he's going to actually queue up but yeah
3245s	pretty crazy game and uh some
3246s	interesting decisions for both players
3248s	here
3249s	yeah very razor's edge for both of them
3252s	i think that was gonna be decided one
3255s	way or the other the rogue really has no
3257s	way of dealing with an imp king rafam
3259s	board i think
3260s	that would be one of the highest win
3262s	rate cards in that matchup just because
3264s	what do they do unless they have already
3266s	one board right it's it's gonna come
3268s	down to one of you winning on that turn
3270s	or the other and i'm i'm kind of happy
3272s	to see that it's an infused door of
3274s	shadows that gets there i think that's
3277s	probably my favorite road car that they
3278s	printed in nathria uh it just has so
3281s	many possibilities in terms of
3283s	duplicating spells
3285s	looks like we are going to be going into
3287s	the warlock mirror but again not
3289s	strictly a mirror we've got the curses
3291s	and imps from love storm but from
3293s	thunder going for more of a pure imp
3296s	build and he does however have the
3298s	tamzin in there uh the kale fast gigafin
3301s	and atherius i do feel like more and
3304s	more lists are leaning more towards this
3306s	kind of uh
3308s	not quite as one-dimensional list we saw
3310s	like on day one right where the curve
3312s	stopped at five or something and uh
3315s	whereas this gives you options in the
3317s	slightly late game if things keep it a
3319s	little bit even gives you some cheese as
3321s	well with the kael'thas and donathrius
3323s	so interesting list uh who do you
3325s	think's got the edge here do you think
3327s	this sort of pure imps are going to be
3328s	too strong for the imp and curse from
3331s	love star
3332s	so i think that the pure imps might have
3334s	a little bit of an edge in the early
3336s	game just because there are more minions
3339s	to
3340s	you know get that imp ticker going and
3342s	maximizing the utility of file library
3346s	it also has a little bit of healing in
3348s	the form of not only denatures but
3351s	molecular and these key cards here i
3354s	think are a nice feature because
3356s	molecular once you get it infused it
3358s	costs zero so you can potentially do
3360s	something like chao those murlocula
3363s	denathrius or kale or kale those
3365s	molecular gigafin another card that
3368s	could swing things very heavily in
3371s	[Music]
3372s	thunder's favor against most warlocks
3374s	but then the curses are able to deal
3376s	with something like a gigafin so there
3378s	might be a lot of back and forth in this
3379s	match
3380s	yeah actually one of the few decks in
3382s	the meta right now that can just kill a
3384s	gigafin in a
3386s	variety of ways right a lot of decks
3388s	just don't really have a guaranteed like
3390s	yes i can
3392s	deal that damage doesn't really happen
3394s	too often without having tons of minions
3396s	and like the odd removal on board anyway
3398s	but
3400s	thunder now gonna have to face down
3402s	early imps love storm going first is a
3404s	bit of a big deal just getting those
3405s	imps down early
3407s	although
3409s	this two-five is also quite a big deal
3411s	it's just sort of the best early game
3413s	tool for controlling the board so yeah
3416s	love storm just gonna go face here you
3418s	know it does have the drawback of every
3420s	time they swing they take two but
3422s	usually that's well worth it to be able
3424s	to just
3425s	win the early game board and have this
3427s	minion that's really never going to go
3429s	down and trade with another minion every
3432s	single time
3433s	i don't yeah i was going to say i don't
3435s	think you use the library there although
3437s	uh
3439s	it does leave it vulnerable to something
3440s	like some of these versus the deal for
3442s	damage
3444s	yeah it's interesting as well thunder
3445s	had to blink first by trading it looks
3448s	like he's going to try and set up a big
3450s	buff turn though
3452s	with this wicked shipment and the second
3454s	location is he going to spread the buffs
3456s	i imagine so was he going to dump them
3459s	all no i think at this point you're just
3461s	looking to end the game quickly and say
3463s	okay i've made you know a warlock edwin
3467s	and you've got the wide board i've got
3468s	the tall board let's see who gets there
3470s	first
3473s	okay so love storm knows he's almost
3476s	certainly not dead next turn
3479s	how can he best prepare here does he
3481s	want an impending doom
3484s	i believe he will right wants to get
3486s	dragged below potentially
3488s	yeah so just making some space in the
3490s	hand first with this touch and then you
3492s	can also you know maybe pick up another
3494s	touch that is something you have the
3496s	opponent doesn't is a bit of life steal
3498s	that smothering starfish is going to be
3501s	huge though
3507s	a bit of a strange interaction that will
3508s	happen is all of the damage taken
3512s	by this you know original e25 when you
3514s	silence it it will go back down to a 2-5
3518s	kind of a weird thing when you buff
3519s	stuff beyond their normal health once it
3522s	gets silenced the damage they've taken
3524s	effectively is mitigated
3526s	so it will still be a big thing to trade
3528s	on board but it won't be
3530s	you know as lethal
3531s	yeah i think that's why i actually like
3533s	this wicked shipment getting played even
3534s	just for another two amps because it
3536s	just gives luxdom knows he has the
3538s	silence now so it gives him the
3540s	potential power to either remove the
3542s	board or keep pushing damage
3544s	also
3545s	reform is going to be getting there
3547s	infused very quickly
3549s	oh absolutely i mean i think that is
3551s	kind of the threat of this many imps as
3553s	well is that you can't just let them be
3555s	because so many cards have been drawn by
3557s	love storm that it's very likely he has
3559s	his own library or you know in king
3561s	rafam to take advantage of this wide
3564s	board and thunder just doesn't have the
3566s	tools to to deal with it really looking
3568s	for a grimoire of sacrifice and it has
3570s	not come up
3575s	very huge though great start by thunder
3577s	i do
3579s	like the pure aggression play because
3581s	the second that starfish isn't there
3583s	this is still a rough turn for love
3585s	storm but he did get hold of the
3586s	starfish with the help of impending
3589s	it's to silence all of this away
3591s	suddenly only seven
3593s	uh health on board and
3597s	i think you have to clear right i think
3600s	you can just kill the two five right
3602s	doesn't have to clear the one three
3604s	right you know the one three
3606s	you've sort of gotten lucky in being
3608s	able to silence a weights effect whereas
3610s	the two five is an imp so you kind of
3612s	need to deal with that uh maybe play
3614s	your own librarian and
3617s	not the flame imp because you're just
3619s	too low
3621s	these books are ruined yeah you've got
3623s	to be very very afraid right of
3626s	just
3628s	even circle double and then the
3630s	double buff
3632s	i mean spicy
3633s	with two library or two file libraries
3636s	in play
3638s	you're basically dead to circle every
3641s	time
3642s	so maybe you just play the flame imp and
3644s	say they don't have it er you you're not
3646s	that right because circle double would
3649s	be plus eight and that's only nine
3652s	oh yeah you're right oh if he empty
3654s	would be dead
3655s	to that but i think this is good
3657s	actually just don't do anything just
3659s	hold on and rely on either a farm or
3662s	abyssal wave to uh sort of recover just
3664s	a little bit
3667s	drawing three
3669s	that's one in
3673s	just the one
3675s	yeah i don't know that this is enough
3676s	i'm honestly surprised we're still going
3679s	face and not killing the two three
3681s	because at this point you're fairly low
3682s	yourself
3686s	this is actually so close because now if
3689s	this goes face
3691s	yes love storms on two
3694s	can you even deal with this
3697s	i mean so reform uses
3700s	full board oh my goodness
3704s	wait i the curses aren't very high
3706s	though right is that even
3708s	enough
3709s	oh we can't clear enough
3713s	if you trade the starfish so that it
3716s	dies
3718s	and then well maybe you don't even need
3719s	to do that but how much is imp king
3721s	rafam
3723s	gives
3724s	plus two to the imp that we have in play
3726s	it fills our board with
3728s	a good number of imps
3731s	love storm can't leave uh
3733s	basically any minion on board this turn
3736s	and there's no way even if he went tams
3738s	in and then double drag below
3741s	that wouldn't be enough
3749s	yeah not even enough life
3750s	there's just one too many minions like
3754s	one of those one ones not being on the
3756s	board would change everything here
3759s	haven't heard of me yeah go go in for
3762s	the curses but even if you clear the big
3764s	minion
3766s	not
3767s	quite well there's still going to be two
3769s	power left right yeah that's all i'm
3771s	trying to work out here am i just stupid
3773s	or is is love so i'm just doing this to
3775s	just do it i guess i i think it's sort
3777s	of like well there is nothing uh
3779s	let me double check that i'm not
3781s	mentally doing the math um by going
3783s	through the motions but yeah it is not
3786s	quite there so
3787s	working our way towards that comeback
3789s	right we're on game five
3791s	yeah but this is the worry now actually
3793s	because thunder done a great job to
3795s	fight back now of course two very close
3797s	games as well but he does now have the
3800s	shaymin left i believe yeah going up
3803s	against this warlock and this is where i
3804s	think it gets a little bit scary
3806s	actually because suddenly i think the
3808s	curses get so much better the curse
3811s	package versus the shaman than they do
3813s	versus a lot of the other decks he's
3814s	played against so far because again as
3816s	we saw like there isn't really if you're
3819s	playing dragged below against an implod
3822s	killing a minion for three mana right
3824s	that doesn't really sound like it
3825s	achieves much and then abyssal wave
3828s	again if on turn six they've not got
3830s	something big on board well you were
3831s	probably winning anyway whereas versus
3834s	the shame and i think it's much more
3835s	likely the curses kick in and the imps
3837s	do a good enough job to sort of uh beat
3839s	up on that elf total in general so this
3842s	one and this next one sorry i feel much
3844s	more winnable for love stop but by no
3846s	means over for thunder
3849s	yeah i mean one thing is that it's going
3851s	to be very important for love storm to
3853s	get that early damage in with the imps
3855s	and the vile library because it is not
3857s	the same curse lock as we saw yesterday
3860s	where you are able to brand dark vein
3862s	and take these curses up very quickly
3864s	you know it's just sort of a regular
3866s	curse pace uh as an added form of burst
3870s	for the import lock so you're still
3873s	looking to get that imp damage in early
3876s	and then finish with the curses and if
3878s	you're not able to get that ip damage in
3879s	early it could be hard to get over the
3882s	line with just curses with the way that
3884s	this deck is built
3886s	yeah we do take a look at thunder's list
3888s	does have those wild poor caverns the
3890s	usual suspects basically in shaman and
3893s	we'll have to see if it pays off if then
3895s	maybe these mukpools can pull out some
3897s	crazy shenanigans like we saw from
3899s	yesterday but again uh just a reminder
3901s	if you join us a little bit late this is
3902s	the first match on stream of round five
3905s	even if uh these uh one of these well
3907s	one of these players will lose but
3908s	whichever player loses still got time to
3911s	fight back right it's not like this is a
3912s	winning in situation here or a losing
3915s	out situation i guess um
3917s	so the a loss here isn't the end of the
3919s	world but of course after how much these
3921s	two players have fought for this going
3923s	all the way to game five a win would
3925s	mean a lot putting them up at five zero
3927s	going into round six
3929s	yeah i think every round you can
3931s	progress yourself keeping us zero losses
3934s	it just makes you
3936s	taste the the top plays
3939s	like so much more and and uh and the
3942s	losses are a little rough no matter what
3943s	because then you've gotta win it in but
3946s	uh yeah it's it's really a nail biter it
3949s	looked like it was going to be a 3-0 but
3951s	now this shaman might just be able to
3954s	steal it away really
3955s	doesn't have any
3957s	terrible matchups and schooling is
3959s	definitely one of the better things to
3960s	have in the hand for dealing with the
3962s	name warlock oh yeah that's exactly what
3964s	you want to see came in just to the
3966s	right time as the first draw of the game
3968s	for thunder and now lovestorm already
3971s	knows that if he plays any sort of small
3974s	limps or leave some hips on board
3976s	it's going to be difficult it's going to
3978s	be easy sorry
3979s	the thunder to clear up if wanted i
3981s	actually really like
3982s	that play with the location just make it
3984s	a 5'4 hit them and now 2 piranha don't
3988s	actually kill this
3991s	yeah and this is something that uh from
3993s	you know what we've seen from from devs
3996s	on twitter this is not going to be
3997s	sticking around this
3999s	plus one plus one and then repeat for
4001s	each imp it seems it's going to just
4003s	be plus one plus one for each imp so uh
4006s	with the change upcoming these will be
4008s	able to kill that play uh sort of
4011s	utilizing the power while it's there to
4013s	get a 5'4 you know we'll at least get
4015s	one swing in before it goes down
4018s	yeah let's say thunder's going to commit
4019s	the coin don't blame him here why not
4021s	just kill it and the piranha's still
4023s	doing their job one gets to stick around
4025s	as well and still plenty of plays to
4028s	follow up with has mukpools and ballner
4030s	next turner or cookie if he so chooses
4033s	so still got plenty of options for that
4035s	turn three so even though it does lose
4037s	the coin means you can't get command of
4039s	neptulon out quite as early i think well
4041s	worth it
4043s	yeah and so forcing the coin out is you
4046s	know no small thing uh it so happens
4049s	that thunder has kind of the perfect
4050s	curve follow-up but that isn't always
4052s	the case and there can be some some
4054s	pretty rough things that happen when
4056s	your opponent
4057s	is able to coin them out so still think
4059s	it's worth it even if there wasn't a
4061s	turn three follow-up i think uh love
4063s	storm would have liked to have something
4065s	like a fiendish circle to play on three
4068s	kind of follow that up and take
4069s	advantage but uh you know you take what
4071s	you can get still working her way
4073s	towards uh infusing this imp king reform
4076s	where you just kind of pray the opponent
4078s	doesn't have snowfall
4080s	and go in
4084s	yeah thunder now working out exactly
4086s	what he wants to do he knows there's a
4088s	potential location park next turn
4093s	i'll just go for the ocarina on curve i
4095s	wouldn't hate the three drop into
4097s	potential milk pools though just to
4098s	spend the money on mock pills now
4101s	yeah getting it down you know the thing
4102s	with locations is since they do have you
4104s	know usually two or three uses the
4107s	earlier you get them down the earlier
4108s	you can start using them with that one
4110s	cool down in between you know you want
4112s	to try and get them down
4114s	as fast as you can
4116s	and just cleaning up as much as possible
4117s	i think cookie is one of the best cards
4120s	you can have against aggro i mean it's
4122s	it's so much uh utility in terms of just
4125s	clearing a little bit of minions getting
4127s	in a little bit of lifesteal it really
4130s	particularly is one of the few sources
4131s	of lifesteal for the shaman helps you in
4134s	some of these matchups against aggro
4136s	decks yeah even though it doesn't like
4138s	much it does start to add up love storm
4141s	now has a few more imps to play for
4143s	himself that's the librarian as well
4147s	really
4148s	think it's worth looking at the grimoire
4152s	you know the grimoire doesn't do much i
4154s	imagine you play the librarian just
4156s	because you're trying to infuse this
4158s	reform so more minions in play is kind
4160s	of better for that
4162s	yeah also knows there's no clean
4164s	snowfall right so i'm not really getting
4165s	punished for playing the extra minion
4167s	ruined
4171s	and then i imagine you just sort of
4173s	library and go face try and
4176s	lower that life total a little bit oh
4178s	okay taking away the value traded
4180s	potentially
4182s	not too bad right because on the surface
4184s	it means that thunder has to swing in
4186s	with his weapon to kill this sevenfold
4188s	with that piranha
4191s	yeah and then you know it protects your
4193s	4-3 which is also a source of of high
4196s	damage if they don't deal with it
4198s	particularly on the turn that you play
4200s	in king rafam
4204s	i think it's always a question of like
4206s	do you clear the imps themselves or do
4208s	you clear the librarian right which one
4210s	are you more afraid of
4215s	yeah a little bit bigger thank you gonna
4217s	go for
4218s	value trades okay
4221s	i'm a little surprised we're not
4222s	preserving
4224s	our life total a bit there uh taking the
4227s	seven and leaving the librarian so i
4230s	think this was
4231s	sort of the nod with that value trade
4233s	was like okay so this is most likely
4236s	leave the library enough
4237s	oh
4238s	never mind what the one trade infused
4241s	care in kangaroo
4243s	i i forgot that we needed the last
4245s	infuse so you do have to trade it in
4248s	still a huge swing you know so many
4251s	times you get one ones off this that
4253s	become three threes this is actually one
4255s	of the higher stat lines of kanger farms
4258s	you can get
4261s	oh simply just not a lot to do here
4265s	well thunder might have to roll the dice
4267s	on the evolve has a chance to go from
4270s	five to six to seven
4272s	well seven not the best
4275s	seven
4276s	instead
4277s	yeah sevens are are really uh a gamble
4281s	there are a lot of really bad sevens
4283s	there are some quite good ones that
4285s	people are always telling me ramornia i
4286s	think is a very notable
4288s	uh strong seven
4290s	but uh i think on the whole they are not
4294s	really worth it
4301s	clears up a fair bit
4307s	so we've got
4309s	two of these to clear and then
4312s	i guess the muck pools are getting down
4314s	just to get down because it doesn't look
4316s	like thunder is
4317s	taking any of all chances it's a spongy
4319s	amount of kind of situation isn't it
4321s	yeah
4323s	beefing up daenerys as well it's going
4324s	to be a little bit of a while away
4326s	though without a kale fast and now all
4328s	the piranhas are used up
4329s	means that there's nowhere
4332s	and not another cheap way to do it right
4334s	with uh kel'thas and then piranha in two
4336s	directions
4338s	well i think there's just not quite
4340s	gonna be enough time here right because
4344s	you go for the famished fool next turn
4346s	maybe even boldner famished fool
4349s	and because of this second library that
4351s	love storm has once that comes down i
4354s	don't think there's really any shot for
4356s	thunder to make a recovery it has to be
4358s	sort of a top deck snowfall to buy time
4362s	i guess the main thing you're looking
4363s	for is primordial waves
4365s	possibilities
4367s	hey even then though it's so tricky
4369s	isn't it because this this library
4371s	library is going to be really good and
4373s	then the fact that there's silence for
4375s	love storm means that even though he
4377s	would remove stats
4379s	ill he gets to attack yeah if there was
4381s	no snowfall but even if everything's
4383s	frozen for every reason he can't attack
4386s	he can start just popping off with the
4387s	curses
4388s	that's what that's the sort of side
4390s	benefit of this list right yeah exactly
4393s	i think the prevalence of freezes is one
4395s	of the reasons people have gone for
4396s	those curses as you say and
4399s	you're completely right that
4401s	the silence on these doesn't set them to
4403s	one ones it sets them to you know a
4406s	couple of three threes and and three two
4407s	so still a lot of power
4409s	uh even if there's a freeze followed by
4412s	silence
4413s	it's under down to eleven
4415s	two mana to play with and a couple of
4418s	evolves it's a long shot he's gonna go
4421s	for it
4422s	again it's not good enough go again
4424s	definitely not good enough the seventh
4427s	strike again love storm after what
4430s	looked like was going to be a very quick
4431s	3-0 had a bit of a struggle versus
4434s	thunder as he started to fight back but
4435s	in the end lovestorm takes it and goes
4438s	5-0 round five
4440s	yeah i think it really is only a ten
4443s	drop that can save you in a situation
4445s	like that getting something like the
4446s	stormborn general uh that eight eight
4449s	rush deathrattle summon another eight
4451s	eight rush maybe you take a value trade
4452s	and evolve that again for another 10
4454s	right right that's the only way that a
4456s	double muk pools would have saved you
4458s	and just not enough cards in hand if
4460s	even if a gnaw was picked up
4462s	yeah really really tough one there
4464s	thunder like i said did well to fight
4466s	back some very strong games from his
4468s	side as well but this just wasn't meant
4470s	to be uh love storm got the benefit of
4472s	having a strong
4473s	opening
4474s	and then had the curses as a backup that
4476s	he actually didn't really need in the
4478s	end but that's exactly how you want
4480s	these kind of decks to go right if
4482s	you're going to run kind of two packages
4484s	you want your aggro package first and
4486s	then the burn later and it paid off air
4489s	pretty well for him there so love storm
4491s	looking to be on track to maybe make it
4493s	twin or the finals of a masters tour but
4496s	that was our first match on stream for
4498s	the day we've got plenty more coming up
4499s	for the rest of the day and we have got
4501s	more coverage from round one coming
4503s	right up so don't go anywhere and we'll
4505s	be right back
4518s	[Music]
4528s	so
4530s	[Music]
4569s	so
4573s	[Music]
4586s	hmm
4602s	[Music]
4626s	so
4629s	[Music]
4677s	uh
4682s	[Music]
4697s	[Music]
4705s	hello everybody and welcome back to
4707s	master short murder at castle nathria my
4709s	name is tj and i'm joined with a dabber
4711s	looking uh image of derek brown who just
4715s	so happens to sound
4717s	like derek brown as well derek how you
4719s	doing today buddy
4721s	good man uh still haunted by this image
4724s	i think four five years later i
4728s	remember it as if it was yesterday my
4730s	second ever event being bustled into a
4733s	small side room to take publicity
4734s	pictures in a uh
4737s	a size that i didn't think existed uh in
4739s	china uh of clothing and uh
4742s	was a little tight but yeah
4745s	excited to custom hearthstone here at
4746s	the masters tour as well moving swiftly
4748s	on from that one uh with some of the
4750s	other games filling in from round five
4753s	as we're now reaching that halfway point
4755s	right starting to see who's really in
4757s	with a shot of uh clutching that top 16.
4761s	that's right that's right uh we are
4764s	starting to get to the point where you
4766s	know the pack is going to separate
4768s	itself into players that have a chance
4770s	of qualifying for the top 16 and players
4773s	that
4774s	i don't know don't
4776s	no there's not a creative way to say
4778s	that
4779s	they just don't nailed it uh nailed it
4782s	uh we're gonna be uh jumping into
4784s	uh some more round five matches we're
4786s	gonna have chaos
4788s	draniko
4789s	versus wd g3 woods
4793s	uh-huh
4795s	they have long names long names um and
4799s	you got to see the the little rogue list
4801s	there from castronica
4804s	yeah that's right starting to see more
4806s	of it pop up uh
4808s	as the uh
4810s	the meta settles more and more i mean we
4811s	talk about the meta settling it's not
4813s	necessarily gonna uh continue to be so
4816s	with the balance patch having been uh
4819s	maybe not willingly but announced
4821s	nonetheless uh by the uh hearthstone
4823s	development team meaning that things are
4824s	gonna be shaken up a little bit this
4826s	deck that we see here may not continue
4828s	to exist in the form that we currently
4830s	see at the snowfall guardian even in a
4832s	40 card list is just such a key
4834s	component to lock down these board-based
4836s	strategies uh which now that it's not
4838s	going to get bonus stats for freezing
4841s	the entire board just be a baseline 5-5
4843s	i believe
4844s	will definitely weaken the power of the
4846s	deck i'm not sure if it kills it
4848s	entirely maybe you just have to adapt to
4850s	a uh a more dense board-based strategy
4853s	rather than trying to go for pure freeze
4855s	it'll be interesting to see because
4857s	shaman is definitely for me uh right up
4859s	there at the top of the tier list right
4861s	now
4862s	oh yeah um and uh it's also
4867s	pretty high up there in win rate
4869s	and you know it currently is fifth in
4872s	overall deck win rate but that tells a
4874s	little bit of a different story right it
4876s	is by far the most banned deck in the
4879s	format everybody knew that mostly
4881s	everybody was going to be bringing
4882s	control shaman
4884s	um and so if you're leaving up control
4886s	shaman that means you have a plan to
4890s	deal with it
4891s	and so the lineups that control shaman
4894s	is going up against it are the decks
4896s	that hey i don't mind
4898s	leaving up control shaman despite it
4899s	being quite obviously one of if not the
4902s	strongest deck in the meta games so i
4904s	feel like
4905s	it having a 52-53 win rate
4908s	is even better considering the fact that
4912s	it was an expected bring in the field
4915s	ej why do players do this
4918s	ks dra necko it's just dragon man he's
4922s	been a grand master before i know i've
4924s	cast him in apac what it's dragging me
4926s	no it's dragon man just dragon man
4931s	no way second place in a masters tour
4933s	already before and he's just completely
4936s	rebranding he just changed his name i
4939s	mean i know that the chinese players do
4942s	it quite often but i haven't seen it so
4944s	much in the uh the other regions but i
4946s	don't know man why like 0 out of 10 for
4949s	branding it's so hard to keep up with
4951s	these players
4958s	wait a second
4964s	okay yeah yeah no uh so i i was
4966s	wondering i i didn't scroll down far
4968s	enough because i looked him up on
4969s	donkey's website and he had a bunch of
4971s	stats on it
4972s	i was like wow competing a lot of
4974s	masters tours but masters or undercity
4976s	the uh match toward that he actually
4978s	finished second in
4980s	you actually have to scroll down to see
4981s	and i just did a quick glance
4983s	if i had seen that i would have known
4984s	but i would have known
4986s	i'm not dragon man i'm dragon man's twin
4988s	brother chaos draniko
4992s	i have the exact same backdrop and face
4997s	identical twin brother and we play right
4999s	next to each other
5002s	well either way he's got himself a
5004s	pretty nice starting hand joked aside
5007s	with what will be
5009s	uh
5010s	not necessarily
5012s	zero mana knolls but one man and alls is
5014s	still more than good enough to swing
5015s	back the board but none of the miracle
5017s	cards right now the fact that he's going
5018s	for a double vessel build is uh very
5021s	interesting
5022s	and in this instance could actually work
5025s	out pretty well for him right he's got
5026s	the full package of just prep vessel
5028s	gone fishing to dredge up them pirates
5030s	as well
5032s	yeah i i think that this is a
5035s	a pretty good approach to the deck
5037s	because in a lot of matchups you really
5039s	do just want the tempo like with your
5041s	your graveyards you're just making small
5043s	stealth things anyway why don't you just
5044s	play a card that does that without
5046s	having to
5048s	get the graveyards down play a bunch of
5050s	cards etc etc so
5052s	um from woods aside here i think that
5055s	just kind of going super wide on the
5057s	board
5058s	makes a lot of sense um obviously you
5060s	know a lot of these little health
5062s	minions gives targets for
5064s	uh you know the
5066s	serrated bone spike the
5069s	tooths to try and get that card count up
5072s	there on an individual turn
5074s	but
5075s	most of the time they're not going to be
5077s	able to deal with everything yeah
5078s	however
5079s	yeah i mean this man's gonna be able to
5081s	deal with most of this exactly this is
5083s	the power of rogue right now this is
5085s	really what is so
5087s	broken about this class is like overall
5090s	in the metagame whether you're playing
5091s	this version with boats the lambie
5092s	version that just runs the miracle plus
5094s	my extra package
5096s	you're not
5098s	often gonna be beating the druids the
5100s	shamans uh the the long control decks
5103s	that can gain a lot of health because
5104s	they just outlast you they have good
5105s	removal but in any kind of board-based
5108s	battle i do think rogue is the new king
5110s	like shaman had that title
5113s	last expansion i think when it was a 30
5115s	card list and just a little bit more
5116s	consistent in that early game with the
5118s	uh the clownfish the caverns the command
5120s	of neptulon as well but just look at
5122s	this like franco didn't have an
5124s	especially good starting hand like it
5126s	was fine but he just sat there for a few
5129s	turns and then did this and now he's
5130s	winning board and has an excellent mid
5132s	game to back it up too
5138s	oh okay
5141s	guitar off the top get another
5144s	insta-thea
5147s	and then uh you know
5150s	next turn steal whatever else is in the
5152s	hand or just get your card back
5156s	give me that
5158s	is theater a character in in world of
5160s	warcraft is it a reference to an
5162s	established i don't think so
5164s	i think so
5165s	maybe i'm wrong though um because i
5167s	didn't play shadowlands that much and
5168s	this expansion was themed around
5169s	shadowlands oh okay
5171s	uh actually it is
5174s	it is
5175s	the atar is a deer in one of the soul
5177s	binds for the ventier covenant
5179s	oh
5180s	okay sinful revan draft
5183s	oh and sinful revenge well why didn't
5185s	you say
5186s	yeah
5189s	yeah i didn't go to robin drive much
5194s	yeah i'm not much i didn't visit the
5195s	lands of raven dress
5199s	nearly as often as an adventurer should
5206s	ah in the depths of the shadowlands
5210s	you know how to feel comfortable as a
5211s	brit playing tj
5213s	all right
5214s	that was a raven dress accent
5218s	but you know
5220s	named after reverend dress shire here
5225s	all right things looking a little scary
5226s	now for janiko as uh the uh guardian uh
5230s	stouffer guardian as we've talked about
5232s	many times is the card that is just
5234s	soloing this mid game for woods right
5236s	now but a temporary band-aid for this
5238s	solution in the snap freeze for dranko
5240s	isn't going to win him the game of
5242s	course uh but it's going to keep him in
5244s	it for the moment as he is going aggro
5246s	sending that tooth to the face when his
5248s	opponent is at 38 is a very bold play
5254s	he's doing the math
5256s	all right
5257s	38 minus three that's 35
5260s	i got this
5264s	ah that's gonna do it yeah
5267s	and i thought he was winning that one
5268s	like that that pop off turn was so
5270s	strong
5273s	yeah but
5274s	[Music]
5275s	snowball guardian like
5278s	and 40 health um
5280s	you know it
5282s	when you play those decks with 30 health
5284s	like snowfall guardian just hurts that
5285s	much more because you have no
5286s	opportunity to stabilize and
5288s	when you when you go for these these uh
5290s	pop-off turns with you know these types
5293s	of rogue decks you're spending so many
5295s	resources
5296s	that there's not a great way for you to
5298s	sort of come back in the game and you
5300s	can't afford to just take multiple hits
5302s	from a big snowball garden like that so
5304s	as soon as the call came down easy there
5305s	was just absolutely no chance even if
5307s	his deck drew perfectly from that point
5309s	right
5309s	um
5310s	it was didn't even have enough mana for
5313s	like a scabs
5314s	uh
5316s	to be able to defend himself against
5317s	that so
5318s	uh woods just the mage left remaining
5322s	just the mage let's take a peek at what
5325s	he is playing in that one it looks to be
5327s	40 card
5329s	uh
5331s	gelatin mage but with double rune in
5334s	there so it's kind of like a hybrid of
5335s	big spell
5337s	uh
5338s	and the skeleton mage he's not running
5340s	belinda obviously but he's got the
5341s	parrots uh as we can see here to make it
5343s	much more simple
5345s	uh
5345s	double broon oh no this is true
5347s	cosmetics okay okay yeah you
5349s	noob
5352s	well this is an interesting list in its
5353s	own right the double spell coiler i
5355s	haven't seen that before
5358s	uh yeah but
5360s	it makes sense it makes sense yeah
5363s	especially with 40 cards you just need
5364s	to make fine like
5367s	little slots that could potentially make
5370s	you
5370s	stronger in some cases i don't know
5373s	i
5374s	i feel like you just pick 30 cards and
5375s	you just put in 10 other random cards
5379s	so you get 40 health
5383s	yeah
5384s	i'm like i'm right on the brink with
5386s	mage like every deck is i initially say
5388s	there's no way you make this a 40 card
5390s	version it just doesn't make sense like
5391s	i said it was shaman i said it with
5393s	hunter originally i don't know
5395s	i just didn't see it working at all and
5397s	mage i was thinking the same thing i
5399s	still am personally on team 30 cards
5401s	from age i would rather guarantee i get
5404s	a stronger start find the location more
5406s	frequently find my one drops find the
5408s	wildfire find dawn grasp as well very
5410s	importantly is a very very key card you
5412s	want to hit in
5414s	pretty much every single mid game and
5415s	then find the frozen touches to round
5417s	out the game at the end with a little
5418s	bit more consistency
5420s	but i will admit in like the mirror if
5422s	both players are running a lot of burn
5424s	the extra 10 health makes an enormous
5426s	difference uh same deal with pretty much
5429s	every version of rogue every version of
5431s	hunter
5432s	there are a lot of matchups where that
5433s	10 health is the difference between life
5435s	and death
5437s	would you rather have spell coilers or
5441s	double rune of the arc major double
5443s	power i mean come on
5445s	yeah but there's no way to
5447s	like ever make it cheaper
5450s	what so you have to pay
5452s	for 20 mana's worth of spell
5455s	oh yeah okay
5457s	you go coin brand double sorceress
5461s	and then it's five mana
5466s	oh look the combo's there
5468s	unless they're both in your hand
5471s	i think you have a pulse
5473s	oh
5474s	oh yeah that's true
5476s	oh that's a good curve
5478s	ah not the parrot
5482s	all right
5483s	80 health
5486s	in this match of
5490s	it just hearthstone the top deck's the
5491s	root again he gets the exact same
5492s	starting hand
5495s	the universe is like trust me mate
5498s	you put these cards in your deck for a
5499s	reason play them
5503s	oh
5505s	is he just gonna top deck the perfect
5507s	card on curve every turn up until roon
5509s	on eight i think he might
5511s	all right what would be next sanctum
5514s	nightclub victim frostwolf dungeoneer
5516s	yeah any of the three drops cold case
5519s	there's no five drops in the deck it's a
5521s	disaster
5523s	so here the arcane intellect into uh the
5525s	second amplified snow flurry
5530s	we saw it
5536s	yeah kind of hard to predict right now
5538s	actually like if
5540s	woods can pick up a decent mid game just
5542s	to see him through uh roon can obviously
5544s	do a lot of work but if i had to wager i
5546s	don't think roon is the game-winning
5549s	card in this instance uh because
5551s	straight up 40 health it's a lot less
5553s	likely that you just burn them down with
5556s	the rune jobs frozen touches fireballs
5557s	pyroblasts whatever
5559s	and also there's just dawn grasp on the
5561s	other side which on its own can really
5563s	really hurt your chances
5565s	of finding all of that however dawngrass
5568s	might be about to betray its alliance
5571s	see
5572s	he's no excuse
5577s	is it coin
5580s	i would say it's reckless apprentice
5583s	coin rune into parrot
5585s	oh death born okay trying to bust in
5589s	uh
5591s	well you're taking the deathborn so just
5592s	give the parrot
5602s	i think it's blizzard i think it's just
5604s	the worst part in this instance
5613s	coin brand spell coin
5615s	that's reckless apprentice
5620s	uh
5620s	yeah
5622s	it depends how much you care about
5626s	belcoyla with
5628s	drawn grasp i i think i agree it's not
5631s	worth keeping enough but it it it can
5632s	equal a huge amount of extra burst
5635s	damage if you find a uh a wildfire or
5637s	even just one honorable kill at any
5639s	point along the way
5641s	yeah don grass being in the hands
5646s	it doesn't feel like there's uh enough
5648s	other plays going on for a grade to be
5651s	super relevant
5653s	agreed now it gets trickier once again
5656s	because you really really don't want to
5658s	use the coin here but i really really
5660s	don't want to use this reckless
5662s	apprentice either
5663s	but yeah i'm kind of coming down
5665s	fast here as well yep
5682s	this commander
5683s	is gonna be
5688s	in terms of raw value just absurd
5691s	yeah but in terms of
5692s	clunkiness
5694s	also i'm serious yeah
5697s	oh it didn't kill the parrot he would
5698s	have got an extra skeleton if it killed
5700s	the parrot
5702s	oh yeah because it waits until deathborn
5704s	waits until the entire whole exact
5706s	resolve and then however many minions
5708s	died after the board result
5711s	yeah yeah
5713s	which does mean there's four again back
5714s	on the other side for dranko again or
5718s	dragon man or whatever it doesn't matter
5720s	it's roon time let's see what woods has
5722s	got
5725s	okay fine so far six
5729s	that's good 11
5733s	14
5735s	that's 14 completely neutral
5743s	17. i want to send with the counter
5745s	spell
5748s	exactly over drawing
5753s	i mean that's okay it's a lot of mana it
5756s	does cost an awful lot of mana doesn't
5758s	it
5759s	which is
5760s	i mean when you have dinathrius in hand
5762s	not necessarily a bad thing because
5765s	even with just like 10 lifesteal that
5767s	buys you a lot of time oh my god
5770s	you can guess the card sure but
5773s	you're not getting it
5778s	this uh do you know because the
5780s	the alchemist you know it has like the
5782s	little active ability thing at the
5784s	bottom like the it looks kind of like
5785s	the spellburst symbol at the bottom of
5787s	the card if you kill it before the end
5789s	of uh before the end of your go do your
5791s	opponents still get to discover or is it
5793s	an active effect
5795s	that's a
5796s	good question i'm not sure i imagine no
5800s	if it has the if it has that little
5801s	effect yeah exactly but it's not the
5803s	lightning bolt like lightning bolt means
5805s	active effect i don't know what that
5806s	little
5808s	trip
5809s	it looks like the spellburst
5812s	it doesn't like spellburst yeah
5814s	or
5815s	oh my gosh okay
5817s	let's go let's do some bugs then let's
5819s	worry about the intricacies of
5821s	hearthstone mechanics afterwards
5829s	oh yeah
5831s	he's just gonna die
5839s	dude come on oh that's good
5843s	something crazy is happening right now
5846s	no that's number two that's from the
5848s	brand oh that's from the brand we knew
5850s	that was the guide so yeah
5852s	oh
5854s	that's it right with your score mana
5857s	okay okay there we go
5864s	okay not a bad turn all things
5865s	considered
5876s	[Music]
5881s	eight eight so that's gonna be eight
5883s	one off
5887s	uh no it's gonna be awesome three off
5889s	three on six so
5891s	yeah it's awkward ordering
5893s	yep
5897s	he's got a pyroblast in hand uh
5900s	he doesn't know it's not counter spell
5901s	right now though right oh maybe he does
5903s	he testifies the coin
5905s	oh okay it's from a priest the turn that
5907s	it was played so my bad is that it's uh
5916s	huge swing turn though as i was talking
5918s	about even with a big clunky hand sire
5920s	denaturius can solve all those problems
5923s	for you magic
5925s	because right now it's only a six damage
5928s	ping that's not getting honorable kill
5930s	anytime soon
5932s	that's a single drop
5937s	he's only cast a deathborn right that's
5939s	the only spell that he's actually cast
5941s	because pyroblast this turn
5944s	just to juice up the multicast who
5945s	killed the dinatrius with pyrogenathrius
5951s	instead so we have a level uh sorry a
5953s	two damage ping
5957s	i believe here
5961s	me tusks won't stop shattering oh you
5967s	[Music]
5970s	oh no you had to use the first flame to
5971s	kill off the uh
5973s	the minion to get it i was looking if
5974s	there was litha with like double second
5976s	flame on your skeletons but
5978s	it wasn't there
5979s	yep
5981s	by my calculations you need to chill out
5984s	oh this is such a sad term
5988s	well i mean this pig has six damage just
5990s	does set up for lethal if these minions
5992s	survive
5995s	but this
5996s	should this is lethal on the other side
5998s	you
5999s	us
6000s	second flame
6002s	or just reckless apprentice and then
6003s	deathborn it's lethal a million ways
6005s	yeah yeah
6007s	but it was a lethal setup for
6009s	uh dranko there um with
6012s	the power block
6014s	if
6015s	like one of those minions had to rot but
6017s	support his face yeah hard to believe
6019s	that your opponent can't find a way to
6020s	deal three damage with you know four
6023s	skeletons on board so
6025s	uh there you have it woods going to
6026s	defeat
6028s	dragon man aka trenecko
6031s	3-0 and move up to 5-0 uh draco move
6035s	down to four and one but you know
6038s	still a good start still in contention
6040s	for that top six team usually it's
6043s	uh two losses that that you take
6046s	somewhere before the final round of play
6048s	uh makes it so it's very difficult for
6051s	you to make it to the top 16 because
6052s	very few players that have two losses
6054s	actually making it was like three
6058s	three players
6059s	yeah yeah
6060s	it depends on the number of players and
6063s	how the matchups even work how many
6064s	individual players are etcetera etcetera
6067s	so we shall see i hope for a good result
6069s	for trineco you know he didn't have an
6071s	especially great run in grand masters he
6074s	didn't get on stream all that much uh
6076s	and when he did you know there were a
6077s	couple of uh shaky moments uh but you
6079s	know second place in a masters tour
6081s	alone i think solidifies him as a strong
6084s	player and i want to see him
6086s	show us what he's got in the rest of the
6088s	tournament so hopefully he can win on
6089s	out from here and uh represent uh hong
6092s	kong and the asia pacific region in
6094s	general in still fighting for that first
6098s	masters tour victory i still believe
6100s	that it's possible uh one day
6103s	especially it's like looking down the uh
6105s	the top players right now there's a lot
6107s	of a lot of south korean players at the
6109s	top of the leaderboard uh in terms of
6111s	the score line which is really really
6112s	cool to see
6113s	because i was going on a
6115s	long uh boring monologue yesterday i
6118s	think it's time for south korea to come
6120s	back on top in the apac region
6123s	a lot of america's players up there as
6124s	well
6126s	uh really
6128s	a two
6129s	hey
6130s	more than normal but you got monsanto
6132s	right
6136s	yeah if no one else got me i know
6138s	monsanto got me
6139s	yeah
6141s	all right uh but speaking of that we
6144s	actually do have uh in america's player
6146s	where we're going to continue on
6149s	with our coverage of round number five
6152s	here as we uh wait for all the matches
6154s	to finish and round number six to be
6156s	ready so we're gonna jump into uh a
6158s	match in progress of chewy
6161s	versus gamer rvg uh chewie from sweden
6166s	and gamer rpg from the old usma
6169s	[Music]
6170s	which is an often for forgot about
6173s	region in competitive hearthstone
6175s	subregion i guess you could call it
6178s	not many players from the old us bay
6180s	have a success recently despite it being
6183s	one of the
6185s	countries with the most representatives
6187s	in defending play very early on
6191s	yeah
6193s	back in the day
6194s	tough one
6197s	the the old muzzy saiyan one-two punch
6203s	firebase victory the 2014 hearthstone
6205s	world championship is all that's keeping
6207s	the moral fiber of america together
6209s	right now you'd be
6211s	a flame right now if he hadn't won that
6214s	yeah i know
6216s	oh okay two is gonna be playing wig
6218s	priest
6220s	and uh all right so we got one school
6222s	teacher one and ninja hexan included
6226s	um
6228s	this is
6229s	uh a cut
6231s	chart of the naaru list
6236s	oh no it's not just kidding it's still
6238s	there
6241s	good test there tj
6243s	did i pause
6247s	yeah it's an interesting list of honor
6249s	now i i this is
6252s	this is like quote-unquote standard
6254s	i guess if you you want to call it that
6256s	this is like the
6257s	weak priest that has the largest sample
6260s	size on
6261s	uh
6262s	on hs replay besides the partner crime
6265s	like minus one teacher plus one partner
6267s	crime
6268s	and then this one is second
6270s	[Music]
6272s	even though you will make some
6273s	convincing arguments for cutting the
6275s	partnering crime i just cannot bring
6277s	myself to do it it's just wrong i can't
6280s	believe if if cutting uh
6282s	crime is wrong i don't want to be right
6284s	[Laughter]
6286s	uh well you know
6288s	there's a lot of different lists that
6290s	are having success bunny hoppers
6292s	currently four and one and he has two
6293s	partners in crime i'm not four four of
6296s	them actually
6298s	i'm seeing double
6299s	partners in crime
6301s	yeah so um
6303s	what do i know
6305s	maybe partner crime is is just good i i
6308s	feel like the core of the deck is what
6310s	matters more
6312s	than what you put in that four slot or
6313s	sometimes three slot with a crush claw
6316s	enforcer
6317s	um and match-up dependent as well but uh
6320s	game rbg going to be queuing up the big
6322s	spell mage this is 30 card
6325s	big spell mage
6326s	a classic
6328s	[Music]
6331s	yeah you can't beat the uh the classics
6334s	and i think for gamer rvg here he will
6336s	be very happy that he's playing the 30
6337s	card version because
6339s	aside from the
6341s	obvious power spikes that we talk about
6343s	very very frequently belinda and
6345s	possibly barbaric sorceress although
6347s	that's an interesting talking point in
6348s	its own right there's a lot of early
6350s	game cards that you really want to be
6352s	hitting at very specific timings pelican
6355s	on one very often starfish on turn three
6358s	snow flurry on turn two just making sure
6360s	you're hitting these key break points in
6362s	mana allows you to keep up and actually
6365s	play belinda without dying
6367s	and right now i'd say he's doing
6369s	decently well in these early game tests
6371s	right he's got two drop far watch post
6373s	probably even better uh and knight cloak
6376s	sanctum to be able to protect that as
6378s	well and then all he needs now is to
6380s	just curve into some way to bulk out
6382s	this mid game and gabriel gamer rvg is
6386s	uh looking good
6388s	god did i miss that bunk bed
6391s	[Laughter]
6394s	what was the uh the story who was on the
6396s	top bunk fled's on the top book
6403s	because in flint's background there's
6404s	also a bunch
6406s	that looks exactly like this bunk bed
6409s	like you just piece it together
6411s	so
6412s	rumor has it
6414s	when gamer rpg is playing his match
6416s	fled's sleeping in the top bunk
6420s	blessing some kind of teleporting dog
6422s	bed as well
6424s	[Music]
6427s	oh a tempo pelagos behind the taunt
6433s	is this worth a silence on its own
6436s	doesn't feel like it
6440s	um
6441s	i think i feel like you could i wonder
6445s	get away with playing a four here and
6446s	then next turn maybe going like starfish
6448s	plus a two
6450s	uh between which fours i'm not sure i'd
6452s	guess the atar just to take away the
6454s	possibility of like a serpent weight
6455s	just to get the serpent wig out right
6457s	now yeah i like it you can
6459s	take wig radiant handmaiden there's a
6462s	lot of good outcomes
6465s	yeah that's awakened for sure insta wig
6468s	the parrot give the parrot
6471s	by the ascended
6475s	and uh one of the
6477s	upsides of this board with starfish is
6479s	that it lets the watch post attack
6482s	hmm
6489s	man chewie looks disinterested in this
6491s	game of hearthstone i've got to be
6493s	honest i don't think he wants to keep
6495s	playing this one
6497s	yeah i mean wig priest is one of those
6499s	decks where
6500s	no matter if you're winning or losing
6502s	you're really only having fun for like
6504s	30 seconds
6505s	yeah
6507s	but that 30 seconds is so great
6510s	it's a fleeting high yeah
6514s	that you you just keep playing it over
6516s	and over again you're like oh
6517s	i'm going to get that 30 30 pellet goes
6519s	this game
6520s	[Laughter]
6523s	see right there three seconds of fun
6526s	yeah
6526s	[Applause]
6528s	type into the guides on discord as well
6530s	i'm about to do something so sick
6532s	[Laughter]
6534s	never mind
6536s	oh wow
6537s	this reckless apprentice
6539s	is juicy
6542s	you don't even need to use a starfish
6544s	oh with the wig as well you could go wig
6546s	trade into pelicos
6549s	what to do
6551s	oh wait you don't need it because it
6552s	damages it as well my bad yeah yeah you
6554s	just put the wig on the apprentice yeah
6557s	yeah
6558s	that's what i meant by weak trade
6563s	send it out order that's fine
6569s	i wonder
6572s	yeah i don't know i mean to be honest
6574s	this hand doesn't move towards anything
6576s	else that's especially more impressive
6578s	than that right now there's no way to
6580s	tutor out belinda barbara uh if you were
6583s	to shoot her out one of the big spells
6584s	with deep water it's like two turns away
6586s	before you're even playing with it if
6588s	it's like uh
6590s	coin into
6592s	the
6593s	roon
6594s	and so i'm just very happy here taking
6596s	it nice and slow
6607s	yeah i guess there's no point in putting
6609s	the uh wig on a minion yet because you
6611s	don't know what you want to
6612s	trade into you don't know how the break
6613s	points are going to work so
6616s	i'm going to trade the coin for another
6618s	coin with mailbox dancer spread out as
6620s	much power on board as possible
6624s	[Music]
6626s	[Laughter]
6638s	yeah that's a uh
6640s	that's not what you want to be doing as
6641s	weak nope
6643s	nope nope
6644s	no spells in hand so
6647s	hey maiden is kind of stranded
6654s	hey can you get a coin
6664s	i would be fine with like trade off the
6666s	board and then evoke a snow flurry set
6669s	up for
6670s	uh the ping
6672s	uh for the following turn
6675s	i would be fine with this as well you
6677s	don't really need the snow flurry
6678s	pre-loaded next turn because you'll have
6680s	man as a player and you have the
6681s	location coming online anyway
6688s	okay
6690s	gets a boon
6697s	nothing really to boon here though
6699s	um
6700s	oh yeah
6702s	man i play a seven drop
6705s	ah just get straight into so easily on
6707s	the board because of the pelican
6710s	yeah you could target the opposing
6712s	three four and take a three six but that
6715s	just dies
6716s	yeah
6717s	you want this like looking for like
6719s	shadow or devour
6721s	uh to be able to
6722s	uh but the scribe is
6725s	by the pelicans but still you're looking
6727s	for
6728s	power oh
6734s	this uh
6737s	there might be a read that there's no
6738s	spell in hand though
6741s	well you can trade him with the coin
6743s	right and and then
6744s	oh yeah
6745s	yeah but
6747s	but then okay yeah you can go coin dump
6750s	the coin yeah yeah
6752s	okay
6753s	but my question is interaction again
6756s	does boon of the ascended actually cost
6758s	three right now or is it just like
6761s	saying it costs three for ui easiness
6764s	sake because the aura is like the next
6765s	spell you cast across one less not like
6769s	all your spells in hand cost one less
6771s	until you cast a spell i don't know
6774s	apparently it does
6777s	yeah didn't take the coin trade
6781s	no good though
6784s	it was a risky play wasn't it
6786s	um well if
6788s	let's see here
6790s	if
6791s	chewie casts the spell
6794s	then the drink firearm that goes back up
6796s	to four
6797s	[Music]
6800s	okay game rubbishy takes the win
6803s	um
6804s	i feel like that's a unless you get
6807s	off to a really good start as the
6809s	preset's a tough matchup
6811s	um because you oh you're almost always
6814s	going to have like a cheap spell in hand
6816s	unless you go all in with your wigs like
6818s	really yeah radial elemental
6820s	and there's so much disruption in the
6822s	early game from big spell mage uh
6824s	assuming they hit anything right you
6826s	still have to freeze with snow flurry
6828s	plus nikola sanctum
6830s	um
6831s	and
6832s	uh it like roon is very likely to at
6835s	least disrupt your board and stop your
6838s	win condition so barbaric sorceress is
6840s	always going to destroy you
6842s	um
6843s	it's
6844s	it's just tough uh you do have to get
6847s	like that crazy early start that wasn't
6848s	a terrible start
6850s	chewie obviously didn't have the
6853s	the stone cold nuts but
6855s	having like wig in the opening with you
6857s	know able to make a big pelagos pretty
6860s	early on good stuff just a lot of times
6862s	it's not enough
6864s	against big spell page
6866s	agreed but i think he's got himself a
6868s	nice uh
6870s	maybe a couple of matchups one matchup
6871s	in particular against the druid
6873s	i still think especially against the 40
6876s	card version as the wig priest you are
6878s	owed a good match up by the universe you
6881s	should not as the druid be drawing
6883s	consistently enough ramp enough removal
6886s	uh to be able to keep up with any kind
6888s	of a decent wig pre-starting hand like
6890s	one drop into buff kind of just ends it
6892s	most of the time
6894s	um
6894s	in my experience as player madrid shaman
6897s	though is a lot lot closer you have
6900s	plenty of early game plays to be able to
6902s	fight back on board both uh reactive and
6905s	proactive uh in terms of uh knoll can be
6909s	a very good reactive tool the schooling
6911s	for piranhas can be a good reactive tool
6913s	primordial wave is the ultimate trump
6916s	card against wig priest that can really
6918s	just shut them down
6919s	and then even just proactively you have
6921s	again the uh the
6923s	sorry the clownfish all that goodness uh
6926s	if you're playing it caverns command of
6928s	neptune on so many cards that just lock
6930s	down uh wig priests plays so i'm feeling
6933s	good again for our boy rvg straight from
6936s	the bottom bunk
6938s	yeah this is usually the matchup uh when
6940s	i'm playing the naga priest that
6943s	i hate the most
6945s	just because it feels like they always
6946s	pull an answer from
6948s	from somewhere
6951s	uh to my board yes whether it's freeze
6954s	or you know the uh
6957s	the pools
6959s	um it's it
6961s	it's a very difficult matchup to
6963s	navigate you just kind of have to make a
6965s	giant board as early as possible and
6968s	then
6969s	hope that they don't have the ball
6970s	effect i see you've got to get rid of it
6973s	um another way you can approach it is by
6976s	from chewie's perspective is by
6978s	like
6980s	dating out i guess
6983s	uh the devolve effects
6985s	and
6986s	then going all in on a board but
6989s	unless you have just so many cards early
6992s	on it it just doesn't work right uh
6996s	you have to be able to start off with
6998s	like
6998s	slither spear plus wigs
7000s	keep rolling with wigs have double
7001s	handmade and draw your whole deck and
7003s	then just have a wealth of options but
7005s	that rarely happens
7008s	interesting to see gamer ravi g holding
7010s	off on the
7012s	uk pool uh in the starting hand because
7015s	it kind of works like even in terms of
7017s	manner that you're saving with gold
7019s	shire knoll where
7020s	you know you have an extra card in hound
7022s	in hand to reduce it by one but you have
7023s	to play it on the turn you're playing
7024s	the null as well
7026s	um but it does look like next turn if he
7028s	wants it with the way all the mana works
7030s	out he's got himself a rusher and a ten
7033s	drop uh which
7035s	i think we can agree priest is gonna
7036s	struggle to deal with
7038s	oh yeah
7039s	oh yeah
7043s	oh yeah
7045s	that mug pool's real tough to deal with
7046s	yeah
7054s	yikes
7057s	[Music]
7060s	what's in the box
7062s	hopefully not another knoll and gamer
7065s	ovg should be good i mean even if it's
7067s	another knoll he's still winning
7070s	he's still good yeah cj we'll take it
7074s	that's no no
7083s	oh this is a sad game of thoughts then
7094s	[Music]
7096s	you need to take a long hard look in the
7097s	mirror as the weak priest player and say
7099s	is this really what i want with my life
7111s	i mean the obvious play is fish fish but
7113s	i i wonder if you even need to do that
7115s	like is that the one where you lose
7116s	where they have double
7118s	devour in hand and they uh
7122s	i don't know like radiant double devour
7124s	boon exactly yeah
7126s	um
7129s	they have
7131s	a giant taunt with two attack
7134s	okay there's
7136s	uh there's
7137s	plays here right you have radiant
7141s	devour
7145s	recess double wig
7149s	you could just go handmade yes
7151s	handmaiden
7153s	priestess bless handmaiden does that
7155s	work
7157s	bless handmaiden oh sorry
7160s	yeah so you raid the elemental devour
7163s	then you priestess so now you have four
7165s	mana
7166s	then you wig bless handmaiden yes yes
7168s	yes yes yeah
7170s	and then hope you find the second devour
7174s	oh this gives one more mana if you bless
7177s	first okay you just have less stats on
7180s	your radio
7181s	but i think that's fine and so yeah this
7183s	is it right this is the out you find
7185s	second devour and i think you have
7188s	a chance
7190s	wig
7192s	devour oh okay okay
7199s	this is not over keep the priestess
7200s	alive
7204s	play it dude play it what are you doing
7206s	please
7208s	okay
7209s	yeah that's fine
7210s	both of them are surviving the c giant
7212s	right now
7222s	though having the uh the double upgrade
7224s	on the sea giant is a pretty big deal as
7227s	well because there's a few rushes that
7229s	you can hit
7230s	uh on 10 in lockholla
7233s	the new eight eight the death rattles
7235s	into itself i can't remember the
7237s	the name of it
7238s	knoll as well like would not be terrible
7241s	in this instance just to clear off
7242s	another
7258s	whoa
7262s	ah snowfall guardian in hand oh yeah
7268s	now we're talking
7274s	so next turn you legos
7276s	you can't play renathol right because
7279s	you want to have the option of knoll
7281s	plus
7282s	mockpool
7284s	yeah i
7285s	i do agree with the tomb
7301s	probably priestess yeah yeah
7303s	you have enough spells to work with
7305s	that's a lot of damage this is a lot
7308s	dude
7311s	you can even just play one on your
7312s	pelagos as well and then you instantly
7313s	have another massive minion
7319s	drive first yeah you still love the mana
7321s	boom
7324s	and you could play boon as well because
7326s	of
7327s	the
7329s	discount priestess
7330s	yup
7334s	because this would be three spells cast
7336s	right now so priestess would
7339s	go back up
7341s	perfect
7344s	it's actually perfect
7348s	oh man whether or not it's going to win
7349s	though is another question because gamer
7352s	rbg obviously has lethal on board he
7355s	just has no way right now to uh to get
7357s	the damage facing honor i guess you can
7358s	hold it but you know he's close the
7360s	snowfall guardian alone can offer enough
7362s	damage and there's the primordial wave
7367s	oh my goodness
7369s	so it's it's good but the
7372s	uh boon is a ten drop
7375s	uh which is stats okay as soon as it
7378s	reaches ten like average 10 between
7382s	health and
7383s	attack at least this is a complete
7385s	theory based on my boons okay um it it
7388s	goes up to a 10 drop so it would go down
7390s	to a 9.
7392s	but this is going to be a wave
7394s	and he's going to throw renathol out
7395s	there first
7397s	and that's the problem here is that if
7398s	you go snowfall guardian into wave you
7401s	can't attack face because it evolves
7403s	your snowfall guardian into something
7405s	much worse oh no it's
7409s	no that's the smallest nine drop ever
7414s	oh that's a disaster what does that two
7416s	three do that doesn't draw your cards
7418s	does it does it gain you health
7421s	i can't even remember
7425s	look it up
7427s	i don't know what it's called
7430s	2-2
7431s	jade
7432s	oh not the jade the the 2-3 i think that
7435s	the two two gains plus one plus two
7437s	floors reduces the cost of a nature
7439s	spell in hand at the end of the turn
7441s	okay it doesn't that's a florist
7443s	the tutu i don't know i think it's just
7445s	tavern tipper right from vg's it's the
7447s	same thing
7451s	ah
7454s	yeah
7455s	must do the same thing
7457s	because we all know what that does
7459s	tavern tipper
7462s	yep
7466s	i think if you have spare mana at the
7468s	end of your go it gets plus one plus two
7470s	okay
7473s	[Music]
7475s	yeah
7477s	oh there we go
7482s	good old muty yeah not right now i think
7485s	this is a
7486s	a nice easy null
7488s	smash in and hope for a good ten drop
7490s	yeah no
7492s	trade pools and then you have snowfall
7494s	guardian into devour which is
7500s	should be enough
7501s	i think that'll win
7503s	yeah i don't think mutinous is a good
7506s	play here because you know two of the
7507s	cards in hand are wigs
7511s	more bones to knock on and i'm pretty
7514s	sure a minion would have been played
7517s	by so
7518s	okay another eight fine or is he going
7521s	again he wants better
7523s	ah you leave it as an eight here surely
7525s	yeah
7528s	like there's a couple of real you know
7531s	insta winners as i said like lot coli
7533s	anything with rush
7535s	but i'm not taking the risk to hit and
7537s	all i don't think
7542s	this is why america's hasn't done
7544s	anything in faster
7547s	okay
7565s	i'll face boon the 88
7567s	you
7575s	hope you draw a naga next turn so you
7577s	can go naga wig wig handmaiden
7579s	yeah okay all right
7584s	deviating
7587s	trying to feel like these wigs
7589s	yeah i just feel like too far away in
7590s	health
7592s	i mean he's trying to win back board
7593s	right he's he's not going face
7598s	he goes wig wig wig
7602s	he can take a vt
7606s	he loses everything it's completely all
7608s	in at that point
7611s	but i
7612s	think he's kind of committed to that
7614s	line now
7616s	really okay
7622s	wow okay
7626s	he does get to keep double wiggin hand
7628s	with this play even though he ends up
7629s	with the worst board which i respect you
7631s	know it does give you a lot more
7632s	longevity if you get
7635s	quite specific draws
7638s	okay so that is a 5 8
7642s	13 stats divided by 2 6 and a half i
7645s	think that's a seven drop
7647s	okay
7648s	i like your theory
7652s	and it doesn't just go off the attack or
7654s	the health it's like some combination of
7656s	the two here
7661s	oh radiant that's not the one is it
7667s	you just play it right now
7669s	like the wigs matters
7671s	yeah i guess and
7673s	devour
7678s	bless you
7680s	i was doing an impression of chewie
7682s	who's
7684s	by name and nature apparently
7689s	now that's branding that's what dragon
7690s	man needs to realize call yourself
7693s	chewie and you chew on stream
7696s	it's simple but it works uh in the the
7699s	dreamhack bg event there was a guy named
7702s	popcorn
7704s	literally the whole tournament he was
7706s	eating popcorn
7708s	it was like for hours
7710s	[Music]
7712s	like i don't even know how he had that
7713s	much popcorn just hours
7716s	every time this camera was on
7718s	just popcorn non-stop like that is
7721s	branding
7722s	like chewing okay that's easy but a very
7724s	specific thing you call yourself popcorn
7727s	every time you appear on stream you have
7728s	to be eating popcorn the entire time
7731s	that's dedication
7732s	what uh what hearthstone player would
7734s	that be the worst for if you had to
7737s	do whatever your name meant on cam
7739s	every time you were on camera for
7742s	branding
7743s	uh
7745s	love storm
7746s	[Laughter]
7752s	just an absolute storm of love on camera
7754s	just instantly banned from hse's foot
7761s	[Music]
7767s	bunny hopper would be pretty hard too
7769s	yeah that's true
7770s	you have to get on like his uh
7773s	i don't know what do you do bunny ops on
7774s	his bicycle just do bunny hops
7777s	yeah i mean to be fair no hands gamer
7779s	has been doing it for years that's true
7782s	that's good branding
7783s	yeah
7784s	[Music]
7786s	language hacker i'd be talking in
7787s	tongues the entire time
7796s	i'm literally looking through the
7798s	standings right now to see oh dead draw
7801s	would be he wouldn't be nearly as good
7808s	wet goose
7809s	[Laughter]
7813s	these are mean if he had to have a wet
7815s	goose in his background the entire time
7821s	attacking him
7823s	okay
7824s	uh game five uh final game of round
7828s	number five
7830s	between gamer g and chewie chewie trying
7833s	to get
7834s	this wig priest across and this is the
7836s	matchup to do it with
7838s	your gee i like that i like that hand uh
7840s	it's bold
7842s	yeah
7843s	uh
7845s	if he can get to nourish safely
7850s	then
7851s	[Music]
7853s	okay chewie's got a pretty good start
7854s	because we
7856s	an early minion to be able to pop that
7858s	wig on and another naga to reset boone
7861s	is also fantastic
7864s	take a look at the uh
7868s	list for game ravi g because this hand
7870s	is the kind of hand that really wants to
7872s	be
7873s	ahead going into turn four like akane
7875s	can be such a clutch card in this match
7878s	up if you just pick minion all of a
7879s	sudden they can't renew their serpent
7881s	wig uh and they really fall behind
7883s	because they just want to play one
7884s	minion a turn basically
7886s	uh but if you're behind going into the
7888s	akani it basically does nothing uh
7891s	or apart from forcing them to trade but
7894s	he's running very few of these early
7895s	game cards that allow you to be ahead
7897s	there's no living roots there's no
7899s	um
7900s	planted evidence uh no natural causes
7904s	so realistically i think he's just
7906s	expecting to go into turn four behind
7908s	and then praying that ramp into
7910s	alignment will be enough
7917s	that's uh
7919s	oh i think that's nothing actually i
7920s	think
7921s	nourish is the only two uh choose one in
7923s	the deck it is yep
7928s	druid's okay right with a hero power
7933s	just bring it down to one health or is
7936s	it too big now is it up to five
7938s	it's up to five yeah because should we
7940s	use a devour last turn to get rid of the
7942s	jerry carpenter otherwise it would be
7944s	good
7945s	big difference i mean it's the only
7946s	thing that you actually draw right now
7948s	so you pull it out of your deck
7957s	yeah it feels like scale is worth it
7961s	just as to have off the top
7964s	i don't think sure he's got a comeback
7966s	mechanism
7967s	yeah agrees
7969s	i think the plane might be like pick
7971s	druid of the reef and pray that you
7973s	top deck druid of the reef as well next
7976s	turn so that you can actually kill
7977s	something
7978s	um
7979s	like you could pick widow bloom seeds
7981s	obviously and then just play it next
7982s	turn
7983s	but that doesn't really help your curve
7985s	all too much right now does it
7989s	yeah interesting
7990s	chewie knows three cards in hand
7992s	probably those four cards cause there's
7993s	a card kept
7997s	that could be just be the nourish but i
7999s	don't think you wouldn't keep nourish
8000s	and jerry carpenter in them
8003s	yeah i mean it could be guff i think
8005s	it's the other big one right that you're
8006s	expecting to come down
8011s	uh but no such luck for gamer rpg as it
8013s	pretty much just has to be blade master
8015s	akani
8019s	weirdly enough it's probably spell here
8021s	even though i usually prefer minion
8023s	verse naga priest as i said just because
8025s	it means they can't go
8029s	up and wig uh to be able to kill it off
8032s	instantly
8033s	and it denies boon as well on this term
8038s	but maybe they expect that's hugo minion
8040s	so if they just like play school teacher
8043s	then uh or play nadjak
8047s	then you catch them out with that it's a
8048s	lot of mind games here
8050s	you just close your eyes pull your mouse
8052s	on a circle
8055s	if you don't know then there's no way
8057s	your opponent could know
8060s	i like it let's go
8070s	boy picks minion
8073s	i'm pretty sure that's the uh that's the
8075s	bluff pick right like that's the
8077s	the one you'll they wouldn't expect you
8079s	to go for
8081s	but then obviously if they think you're
8082s	gonna try to double bluff them they
8084s	might triple bluff you and end up back
8086s	on the correct result it's so difficult
8087s	to guess
8089s	but as we can see a single wig here
8091s	uh just puts chewie back miles in the
8093s	lead yep
8098s	and i believe this handmaiden would be
8100s	active
8102s	uh after this wig
8106s	coin devour and wig
8111s	no way
8113s	that's such a sick play from rvg
8121s	okay and all of a sudden it's not
8124s	that bad for rvg right he's got
8127s	ramp into either alignment scale or
8130s	miracle growth depending on what the
8131s	situation calls for
8137s	looking okay for him
8151s	but a
8153s	radiant elemental okay this didn't make
8155s	the hand made now it doesn't activate
8157s	wow how it must be
8159s	yeah i think i thought that was
8161s	because it was on coin so i thought it
8163s	was coin devour plus
8165s	the first wig that went on the scribe
8167s	but i guess the handmaid was drawn after
8169s	that yeah i think so
8171s	uh after the initial coin so
8175s	all right the big question here right
8177s	the card kept in the mulligan
8179s	can we get away with it how bad can
8181s	things go wrong
8183s	uh
8184s	if you put a wig priest down to one
8185s	manner what disasters can they pull off
8194s	yeah i guess that's about it right like
8196s	boone would be
8198s	boone would be pretty bad actually if
8200s	you go alignment and they just play boom
8202s	for one mana
8204s	you're in trouble
8205s	yeah
8206s	i mean i'd be too worried to miracle
8208s	growth here because
8212s	yeah
8213s	uh i don't know
8214s	you get there'd be value trades on board
8217s	you wouldn't have alignment down
8219s	he's able to just build up the board and
8221s	get through the miracle growth taunt
8223s	i think it is just alignment
8225s	you have ramp
8227s	be able to get that mana back up you can
8229s	so you can alignment this turn then
8232s	i think that was an alignment man i
8233s	think i would have slammed that there
8235s	like i appreciate it's bad if there's
8237s	radiant or boon
8239s	but
8240s	you had both halves of nourish scale as
8243s	well
8245s	i think you could have clutched that one
8246s	back
8248s	yeah look at the cards that were drawn
8249s	if you could have just gone devour or
8251s	like brand of our even if it's not
8253s	activated like non-infused you double
8255s	the stats you steal and then just kind
8257s	of kill them next turn
8264s	alignment and then
8266s	right not jamming on eight with ramp in
8269s	hand and not being dead i don't know
8271s	like this is a very expected board to
8273s	see around turn five or six right this
8275s	is not massively high rolly versus druid
8279s	yeah
8280s	so it is possible that
8282s	um game rpgs was trying to like dig for
8286s	lady anacondra right with uh
8289s	uh miracle growth first but yeah like
8291s	this pla this play was still possible
8293s	next turn
8294s	right you go celestial alignment then
8297s	you nourish for crystals and miracle
8298s	growth with the crystals that you have
8300s	yeah
8302s	um
8315s	right i see what you're saying what he's
8317s	going for here in terms of
8319s	uh
8320s	you make an a8 uh you you might draw
8323s	some better cards in anacondra but for
8325s	me the the real clincher here is all the
8327s	things that are bad for you if you do
8329s	alignment are still just as bad for you
8331s	if you don't alignment right like if you
8333s	don't play it here and they go boon of
8335s	the ascended or they have a radiant
8337s	elemental and play like five weeks on
8339s	that turn you're losing the game anyway
8340s	you're not going to be able to beat that
8342s	whereas i think the celestial alignment
8344s	beats a lot of other plays because you
8346s	just pop off massively next turn
8349s	yeah
8349s	and what this does with the miracle
8351s	growth it means you're never playing
8354s	alignment
8355s	[Music]
8357s	unless you like
8359s	guff survive get enough mana crystals
8362s	and then play
8364s	anacondra and
8366s	the same turrets
8368s	it's coming out so
8369s	uh this play is not
8373s	it's not gonna be able to clear the
8374s	board but it will be able to clean up a
8376s	lot the two bigger minions right you
8379s	could go uh earthen scales uh to clean
8381s	up the five three and then trade the
8382s	rest of the scribe
8384s	and you are
8385s	uh infusing the devour the next turn
8388s	oh because he fuses the bauer he's going
8391s	to trade off but this does mean that
8392s	he's leaving a bigger minion on board so
8394s	it's more likely to be lethal on the
8396s	backswing
8397s	uh for chewie
8400s	oh my god say a lot
8403s	it could just be a boon turn or it could
8404s	be a
8407s	oh this gotta be uh
8409s	handmaded into what priestess and
8411s	radiant elemental is like
8416s	the draw
8418s	i can just see this game branching out
8420s	before me all the possible lines like
8422s	it's going to be a big insatiable
8424s	devourer a big nadjak a big starfish to
8427s	to deal with that as well it just goes
8429s	back and forth back and forth and i
8430s	think right now
8433s	i'm kind of still favoring rpg right
8436s	like he just needs
8437s	again if he was in alignment form it
8439s	would be so so much easier here but
8441s	without guff and alignment
8443s	if the pan now is devourer nadjak
8446s	starfish at that point it's really close
8449s	and a good draw like uh onixia off the
8452s	top for rvg could just clutch it out
8454s	maybe even just scale of the next year
8456s	would get the job done but unless
8457s	there's a big top deck in the next
8459s	couple turns i
8460s	i don't know maybe chewie just about
8462s	gets there with just the raw stats of
8464s	minions on board even if they're
8466s	silenced by the starfish
8470s	it's really close why is the cathedral
8473s	there definitely supposed to be in the
8475s	middle there though yeah
8477s	or wait maybe maybe it's bait it's bait
8487s	he was just like oh i hope nobody eats
8489s	my scribe
8490s	[Laughter]
8494s	smothering mustard on it oh no
8496s	don't devour it
8516s	and now gabriel reggie's probably
8517s	thinking the same thing
8519s	he put the cathedral in the middle
8522s	it makes no sense though like
8526s	you're still just supposed to do it if
8527s	you're beating me
8531s	i mean the the thing you're thinking
8532s	here i think it's that obviously but
8534s	it's also just do we go starfish by
8535s	scale here is the other question because
8537s	that does clear the board it puts you
8539s	ahead
8540s	um
8541s	it leaves a lot of one health minions on
8542s	the board which is very scary because of
8544s	devour you never really want to do that
8546s	against priests and so i do favor just
8548s	going for this line here because
8550s	because he gets a bigger boon he gets
8552s	the boon as well he gets a bigger food
8555s	and even the starfish comes down the
8556s	boots take the same stats and just
8559s	oh that's that was 100 intentional
8561s	because this top wait no he didn't play
8563s	around it because boone's responds to
8565s	the right okay
8569s	can you kill nadjak
8572s	there's nothing in the deck that does it
8573s	right park panther needs to attack
8575s	through
8577s	again he's not
8578s	it doesn't matter he's just dead
8581s	he's gonna be there no matter what i
8583s	mean it would be like kill nadjak draw
8585s	earthen scales right that's that's the
8587s	way you survive but ah
8591s	it's not there
8594s	where's uh where's starfire when you
8596s	need it starfire into draw earthen
8598s	scales whoo
8609s	theater something
8613s	anything's anything that saves you
8614s	though
8615s	they played both boons so you couldn't
8617s	get another boon of yourself
8639s	what a sick game
8641s	yeah that was uh
8644s	very bizarre i i
8648s	still think that game would have looked
8649s	a lot differently maybe would have had
8651s	the same result
8652s	um if uh celestial line was put on it
8655s	instead of miracle growth yeah
8657s	um
8659s	if we want to be results oriented
8660s	obviously there was no raiden elemental
8662s	picked up in like the next eight cards
8664s	so uh there there would have been not
8666s	even a chance for chewie to really
8668s	capitalize on any board
8671s	um
8672s	so i think that's the big turn to look
8675s	at in that game as something that gamer
8677s	rbg could have done differently
8680s	uh but it is a tough matchup right
8682s	there's a lot of things to to consider
8685s	you never really can fully comprehend
8687s	the reach
8689s	that the
8691s	uh naga priest is capable of yeah
8694s	a single minion sticking on the board
8696s	could almost always be lethal if there's
8699s	double wig in hand
8700s	because of great elemental
8703s	uh and priestess you can have infinite
8705s	man on a turn and then end with a bless
8707s	right that can always happen
8710s	but you have to think like like you said
8713s	those turns
8714s	are going to kill you whether you're
8715s	alignment or not it's just alignment
8717s	makes that
8718s	happen slower or uh
8722s	you take more damage now but your
8724s	opponent's potential is a lot less over
8726s	the next three or four turns
8728s	if it just feels like you give yourself
8730s	more time to work with and
8732s	make the cards in your hand actually
8733s	more worthwhile right uh his hand it was
8736s	incredibly expensive bran was completely
8739s	useless without alignment being played
8741s	in that deck unless like kale thoughts
8742s	was picked up but
8744s	come on
8745s	um
8747s	not even a kale toss on the deck because
8748s	it's a lineman so lady anaconda is the
8750s	only six
8751s	but
8752s	alas
8754s	alas it's just one of those turns where
8755s	every player who sees it will have a
8757s	strong opinion one way or the other you
8758s	can argue back and forth forever i think
8761s	it was probably an alignment there but
8763s	he could come up with a million reasons
8764s	why that's wrong i could come up with a
8766s	million reasons why it's right it's just
8768s	so so difficult to work through he made
8770s	his choice and in this instance he got
8772s	booned
8776s	the old devour bait gets him every time
8780s	oldest trick in the book
8782s	yep and now chewie is going to go to all
8784s	his friends yeah that was intentional i
8785s	wanted a bigger boon
8788s	never play around never play around but
8790s	uh that does conclude round five of
8793s	swiss uh here at the mattress tour so we
8796s	are gonna go to a break but when we come
8797s	back we're going to kick off round six
8799s	only three swiss rounds left remaining
8802s	before uh we cut to that top 16 and look
8804s	forward to our championship sunday uh so
8806s	don't go anywhere plenty more
8807s	hearthstone actually to come right after
8809s	this
8819s	[Music]
8833s	um
8837s	[Music]
8863s	[Applause]
8865s	[Music]
8897s	so
8904s	[Music]
8909s	[Music]
8933s	[Applause]
8941s	[Music]
8954s	so
8959s	[Music]
9007s	hello everyone welcome back to the
9009s	masters tour castle nathria we have
9011s	round five ready to go i'm raven and
9013s	joining me for this one is larinda for
9015s	his first time on stream today uh
9017s	welcome lorinda how's it going so far
9019s	yeah going good again just checking
9021s	through how things are going in this
9022s	tournament but also keeping an eye on
9023s	the cast at the same time and it looks
9026s	like the vogue deck is doing pretty well
9028s	i haven't seen the stats exactly but it
9030s	looks like the people who brought it
9032s	have had an advantage over those who did
9033s	not so well done to lambie series and
9035s	the people that he let in on this yeah
9038s	again i i've not looked at the sort of
9040s	detailed stats but for me even just at a
9042s	glance it feels like if that's your
9044s	fourth deck then it's a pretty good one
9046s	so i think it's fine uh but here though
9048s	we are looking at mati and mero both
9050s	players who aren't bringing rogue here
9053s	and they're very similar if not
9054s	identical classes both players on the
9057s	naga priest which said that you know i
9060s	uh i've been liking a lot recently and
9062s	then also just a bit of a mixture
9064s	between the the two warlocks the two
9066s	shermans and mages of course so uh some
9069s	differences mainly larinda in the bands
9072s	in the band yeah the shaman has been
9074s	banned for mero and uh mati's warlock
9077s	has been banned but there's some
9078s	differences in the builds as well
9080s	uh mati's warlock was
9082s	the the hybrid with the curses and the
9084s	imps which is interesting to see that
9086s	band because it comes across as quite
9088s	inconsistent sometimes
9090s	um but also matty's mage i've gone with
9093s	ping mage it's a very aggressive mage
9095s	build but it's basically got the ping
9096s	mage components in there so i've gone
9098s	with calling it that there's his record
9100s	and i don't think that says it all he's
9102s	kind of gone missing the last two or
9104s	three tournaments but towards the end of
9106s	last year he was one of the players we
9107s	were talking about as
9109s	this person will get a very very good
9112s	result very soon
9114s	but that result has yet to really
9116s	materialize for matty but very solid
9118s	play on his day yeah he was one of those
9120s	players that his name kept popping up
9122s	right in masters tours right we kept
9124s	seeing him appear i feel like we've cast
9126s	him a fair amount of times as well uh so
9128s	yeah looking forward to seeing we can do
9130s	this time around he is going to be on
9131s	this mage you talked about here uh which
9134s	again it does have cold case it does
9136s	have the um
9138s	you know like the obviously the location
9140s	as well because i think that's just a
9141s	given in pretty much any mage deck right
9143s	now it's so strong but it's not focused
9146s	on all that late game stuff with the
9147s	skeletons as you mentioned it really is
9150s	more focused on the pings and also the
9152s	the nice little combo and not a combo
9154s	with the two cards but solid alibi and
9157s	frozen touch frozen touch a card i like
9159s	a lot and solid alibi especially in
9161s	mirrors can really change up the way the
9164s	game works it works almost like an ice
9167s	block but in this instance you're
9170s	playing an ice block in your deck when
9171s	most of the mages like don't choose to
9174s	play it right so it's actually a
9176s	potential huge advantage
9178s	yeah i haven't i can't claim to have
9179s	seen this build in action yet i must
9181s	admit but
9182s	it looks to me like you just race them
9184s	like make my things and mess around with
9186s	you while i'm just hitting you with
9188s	stuff um it's even gone as far as to
9190s	cook you know not include cars like
9192s	death born and so on so yeah really is
9194s	going to try and go fast and at you and
9197s	mero's deck on the other hand is far
9199s	more regular version of what we call in
9202s	spooky mage
9203s	um but with cards like murloc homes with
9205s	kel'thus it's going to be a lot slower
9207s	out of the blocks
9208s	yeah that's the thing i think with matty
9210s	he's removed all the sort of conditional
9213s	effects right like uh deathborne and
9216s	cards like that and has gone for more
9218s	just i will damage you and again 40
9221s	cards so 40 health for the spooky mage
9223s	for mero but as you said a little bit
9225s	less consistent a little bit slower kind
9227s	of trundles along a little bit sometimes
9229s	of course you get the draw that just
9231s	pops off you have to kill fast and then
9233s	you do the big things
9235s	but without that i i am leaning towards
9237s	matty for this mage mirror right now
9239s	yeah that's what my instincts say as
9241s	well um also has that several which is
9243s	going to reload stuff so you can do it
9246s	all again and if members waiting to get
9248s	to turn six to start to stabilize that
9250s	might be too late i think this might
9251s	come out really quick from matty or i
9253s	might just prove once again like a bit
9255s	of an idiot find out very soon that's
9258s	the thing right if matty just gets hold
9260s	of just some of the tools required for
9262s	the soft pink package it's kind of hard
9265s	to stop right with mage because
9268s	there's no real healing there's some arm
9270s	again of course fine but if your
9272s	opponent's just relentlessly pinging you
9274s	in the face and atherius i guess now it
9276s	mero's head
9278s	isn't there to pop off and and heal then
9281s	yeah there is going to be trouble but
9282s	let's see how it goes as we get into
9284s	game number one and also preemptively
9287s	slight apologies about the dogs you can
9288s	probably hear we've just had two turn up
9290s	at the house so they'll be loud for
9292s	about two minutes and then they'll be
9293s	quiet knocked on the door so hi is this
9296s	this uh the house um no turned up for a
9298s	visit coming in yeah
9300s	um that low curve of matthews didn't
9302s	allow him to keep magister dawngrass
9304s	here which is one of the lovely things
9306s	when you've got a deck full of things
9307s	that top out at four is you know you're
9309s	gonna draw okay so you can keep your
9311s	seven drop and move on with your life
9312s	um obviously ripping the theater off the
9315s	top as well theater this is where you go
9317s	to watch a movie okay
9318s	um
9319s	it's going to allow him to
9321s	steal some of the opposing cards we're
9323s	talking about murrow's going to hang on
9325s	till turn six if he gets theode he might
9328s	lose his ability to do nice things to
9330s	the deck that's already curved out so
9333s	matty's still in a decent spot
9336s	yeah it's looking pretty good and
9338s	yeah it's interesting right now that you
9339s	mentioned it i didn't really
9341s	click that apart from modresh and don
9343s	grasp the deck does just curve out at
9345s	four
9345s	very excited to see how this deck
9347s	continues to do because it does look
9349s	like more my kind of mage just get him
9352s	although i will confess mero is playing
9354s	the strictly correct portrait here
9357s	okay i can go with that yeah if raven
9359s	was ever going to play a deck that
9360s	wasn't a face hunter deck this is it
9362s	this is just a face major it looks very
9364s	much like it it's the hunter
9366s	morphed into a mage
9372s	and this is what the deck's doing it's
9373s	just maximum you know just the instant
9375s	ping freeze there he spent a bit of time
9377s	wondering if there's anything else he
9378s	wants to please like no this is this is
9379s	for more damage if that's frozen
9382s	use my minions to hit you as i'm
9383s	interested to see how much stock he pays
9386s	to this potential value trade on the
9388s	board and that sort of thing and how
9389s	much he just goes i'm going to hit you
9390s	because 40 is a lot of damage to do
9392s	we've talked about it a lot already yeah
9394s	i think the only thing he's gonna
9396s	consider is the fact that his opponent
9398s	does run deathborn and there's no need
9400s	to like give your opponent a great
9402s	deathborn if you don't have to right
9405s	yeah i think that's the only thing to
9406s	bear in mind like i'm a fan of face
9408s	damage as much as the next person but if
9410s	you give your opponent a really good
9412s	turn six when you just didn't really
9414s	have to
9415s	i think that's what matty doesn't need
9416s	to keep an eye out faster
9423s	so that he's at the stage now where he's
9425s	got to start planning ahead for his
9427s	magister how much
9429s	the draw how much damage does he want in
9431s	there and how much does he just want to
9432s	still be putting more minions on the
9433s	board this is going to get awkward
9434s	balancing your spells and your minions
9436s	because it's where it diverges from face
9438s	hunter right face until you play all
9440s	your minions and you hit him with spells
9442s	and that's kind of the formula
9444s	this
9445s	you sort of want to keep it coming in
9446s	between a bit as well i think matty can
9449s	start with theotar and then adjust from
9452s	there
9454s	depending on what he gets offered right
9456s	i think that's where where i would look
9458s	right now because he still has theoton
9460s	and the one drop
9461s	which will currently reduce arcane
9463s	intellectual two
9465s	yeah
9466s	we have the advantage of being able to
9467s	see murray's hand but he hasn't done
9469s	much so matty can read that
9471s	there's a good chance there's some of
9472s	those sixes and sevens hanging around in
9474s	there and if he hits this deathborn
9476s	things could get
9477s	very tasty for him
9483s	[Music]
9494s	lucky at least he's gonna do some trades
9496s	if he's putting one in he's putting two
9498s	in yeah
9500s	you like trading away the third i think
9502s	he he's got the goods right like he
9504s	doesn't need to give his opponent
9506s	something huge here he's going to leave
9508s	it up so that's going to be a decent
9510s	death bomb here for merrow
9513s	i think they just don't grasp just in
9515s	hand i think he could have gotten even i
9517s	think you can see there he's not really
9519s	happy and he knows it was a bit of a
9520s	risk
9521s	i think for me like with dawn grasp just
9523s	don't die and then you'll win would be
9526s	my view that's how i felt as well and
9529s	now the game will be interesting because
9531s	memo
9532s	has resisted the opening
9536s	that could have been hasn't taken much
9539s	damage
9540s	and now he's going to have more powerful
9541s	things he can do compared to matching
9543s	even though he'll be doing fewer things
9545s	a turn
9546s	mattie is still just going to plop
9548s	things
9553s	face there so he avoids the um
9556s	the weird skeleton
9559s	trade war
9564s	stay where you are
9576s	go again yep another bad deathbomb once
9579s	more from the pirate here going to start
9580s	stacking that damage and also
9582s	really juicing the kel'thuzad right like
9584s	that's going to be huge as well as that
9587s	to nathrius but that's why i'd really
9588s	like to see this theo tar get played
9591s	there's a lot of cards i think matty
9592s	would be okay giving over to merrow
9595s	and the gain is huge because as we said
9598s	mattie doesn't run donathius doesn't run
9600s	you know this sort of extra late game
9603s	stuff like roon like amulet that mero
9605s	does i think there's a lot of upside to
9607s	casting theotar right now
9609s	yeah i can see it um
9611s	i think he's still gonna try and sort of
9613s	hit you freeze you hit you freeze you
9615s	repeat
9616s	uh i think that's the plan but
9619s	the theo does look very very tempting
9625s	doesn't feel like this is progress at
9627s	the moment
9628s	yeah if he's worried about the donation
9631s	specifically he does have time yes
9634s	absolutely
9639s	yeah he's probably just giving it
9640s	maximum chance to catch something
9641s	obvious
9643s	and still develop his board
9652s	get some tempo
9667s	i still have solid alibi so you know
9669s	there's a turn where
9671s	he can almost certainly not die as long
9673s	as he plays it early right you obviously
9675s	play it on like four health and you can
9677s	still very much die you doesn't reduce
9679s	all damage just reduces damage down to
9681s	one per hit
9684s	now you can see what the deck's trying
9685s	to do it's got so much freeze in here
9686s	but
9688s	it's no use if you haven't got the board
9690s	the idea is you freeze their stuff and
9691s	you hit them
9693s	freezing their stuff and passing your
9694s	turns not quite as good
9696s	strangely enough
9699s	yeah i mean
9700s	what matty wants to look at now is what
9703s	six mana plays can he make right because
9705s	he wants to hero power
9707s	yeah
9708s	but again there was just theota solid
9710s	alibi hero power but looks like he's
9712s	gonna go a little bit different here
9714s	gonna go frozen touch
9716s	again try and just uh make the skeletons
9718s	high five each other i imagine
9720s	look at merrell just mayor just being
9721s	nodding like he just he's like yeah this
9723s	is an acceptable play i'm okay with this
9727s	yeah he got excited when the the
9728s	skeleton chain left up for the deathborn
9730s	that went his way but yeah he's just
9732s	been yeah okay sure you're not doing
9734s	anything that scares me anymore
9736s	i've weathered the first eight turns now
9737s	i have good cards
9739s	rooney roone at donathius as i even
9742s	pointed out
9744s	[Music]
9750s	a reminder both players are five and oh
9752s	so if you're saying well this deck
9753s	doesn't seem to play though yeah this
9754s	deck's been doing fine off stream it
9756s	must have been or he wouldn't be five or
9757s	no right
9761s	now
9773s	i'm not bad honestly
9776s	oh cold case as well okay i'll chop that
9778s	up as a good one from there it starts
9780s	off badly right didn't the first
9782s	10 man or so were pretty garbage but
9785s	yeah okay
9786s	is it time finally
9793s	if he's not doing it now why is it in
9795s	the deck that would be my question
9798s	yeah
9801s	and again although it's easy to say oh
9803s	well we can see denaturius yes but there
9806s	are a lot of good cards you can steal
9809s	and as i said earlier matty has a lot of
9811s	cards he can be okay with giving to his
9813s	opponent
9817s	yeah absolutely like his whole deck is
9819s	fours and under as we've discussed a lot
9821s	since the start of the cast so
9824s	matty absolutely has that option but
9825s	picking up this brand has made the turn
9827s	a lot more interesting there's a lot of
9829s	stuff going on now for him
9831s	yeah parenthood
9832s	[Laughter]
9836s	oh theater
9841s	war mana steal good stuff got to be a
9844s	fan
9850s	he's working out like the likelihood of
9852s	just dying if he does that he's going to
9853s	take a lot of damage
9855s	yeah i mean i don't think it's bran
9857s	theotar i think i theotar like farden
9860s	would be good theota alibi would be fine
9862s	as well if he wants to fit opinion
9864s	instead
9866s	he actually misses the infuse here does
9868s	buff the pink though so that's huge just
9870s	get the clean kill so it's gonna be six
9872s	now
9873s	now like how much is this denaturius at
9876s	it feels like it's a reasonable sun it's
9879s	just a big thing you see
9881s	you do care but you know what i mean you
9883s	do have five full heal as well straight
9885s	to the heel
9887s	hurt your opponent
9889s	even with half those numbers would have
9890s	been fine no he's loving it
9892s	and also he got the ignite from not the
9894s	ignite the wildfire sorry from the rune
9897s	so actually his hero powers dealing too
9899s	as well now
9901s	so
9902s	too bad at all can gain a ton of armor
9905s	with the deep water as well with bran if
9907s	he really needed to
9909s	a lot of options now for mero
9912s	a lot of options and they're all
9914s	game-winning options i think right now
9920s	that's the thing
9922s	like if he makes a mistake here he's
9923s	going to lose he's just
9926s	how does matthew get out of it he's got
9927s	to do 44 with this and remember he's got
9929s	no big stuff just in case we haven't
9930s	mentioned that a lot so
9934s	how does he now assemble the board to do
9936s	that much damage let's have two turns of
9938s	solid alibi uh the second turn might not
9941s	quite get him there but the first turn
9942s	could
9946s	thank you survive this turn if he can
9947s	survive this turn
9953s	sure good luck with that
9961s	only one damage at a time but it's
9963s	nearly lethal
9964s	usually that speed
9974s	tickle mattie to death through these
9976s	alibis
9979s	and there's a chance there's just five
9980s	damage spells coming out here right
9982s	excuse me yeah one is it gonna go face
9985s	nope
9989s	wait is meryl won somehow oh no he
9991s	pulled him off that's what he's laughing
9992s	at
10005s	i redraw the hand makes sense honestly
10007s	because nothing there ends the game and
10010s	i believe his hair power is still on oh
10012s	he's on three now actually yep three now
10018s	i'm more just there so the second
10020s	there's no alibis the game will end i
10022s	think i always assume they're active
10023s	it's not always active surely it is hey
10027s	time for
10028s	bran now
10031s	brand theater
10033s	get two more dresses
10038s	uh he needs to play alibi he needs to
10040s	play alibaba and kill some things
10041s	because he's dead yeah
10043s	yeah i thought it was going to be just
10044s	uh alibi modrash not that any of these
10047s	players i think particularly win mattie
10049s	the game
10060s	clear the board with apprentice and
10062s	alibi that way okay
10065s	[Music]
10068s	if the brand sticks next turn he does
10071s	have
10073s	more dress
10075s	the problem is he's just dead in two
10076s	turns time right
10078s	is he going to turn
10082s	maybe actually pink
10084s	oh yeah he can't ping
10087s	he's just
10088s	but he might choose not to he might if
10090s	he pings he might actually win
10094s	because if he pings he deals seven right
10099s	and then if the brand lives he gets 20.
10102s	it's
10104s	maybe it's still fine actually he still
10106s	wins advice yeah i think it's fine this
10109s	doesn't win through freeze right
10117s	no
10118s	just a casual 20.
10123s	it's closer than it felt like it was
10125s	going to be i would admit
10128s	after like four or five turns like matty
10130s	had no chance but turns out that
10132s	sticking a brand on the board is quite a
10133s	big deal with mordred
10136s	yeah
10137s	it is
10138s	close
10139s	because we can see obviously there's 20
10141s	damage from modresh but i didn't think
10143s	it needed to be this close
10147s	yeah i agree
10149s	and again the self polymorph was a
10152s	little bit rough for mero taking out his
10154s	denathrius
10157s	i think you just kill off this brown and
10158s	then what can really happen to you
10163s	it doesn't even need to ping face right
10167s	that's the motor she isn't actually
10170s	okay i mean he's gonna silence it right
10172s	it's a spy yeah science is the brand it
10174s	it's fine it should be fine
10178s	do they need steel that could
10182s	not money that was theoretically unlucky
10184s	yeah
10190s	now he's trying to work out if he can
10191s	die
10194s	and yeah there's only 24
10197s	yeah that's all i can see
10199s	just the 24 though that's a heck of a
10201s	lot but yeah
10205s	yeah i think
10206s	oh
10207s	yeah he can't win right
10211s	i see theo toss something
10215s	i don't even know what he could get from
10217s	merrell's deck that would allow him to
10218s	win as well
10221s	did he have thin lead into cold case
10229s	and then kill everything and not die
10230s	next turn somehow
10233s	so yeah does he
10235s	wait he doesn't have a cold case
10238s	does he use it both
10240s	i believe so
10241s	he's got multicaster
10244s	vara
10247s	he's not used
10249s	i was any sound
10250s	he's not helped has it yeah
10252s	that was rough and again i think like
10253s	there was options there that matty had
10256s	uh there was the theotop earlier and
10259s	when i think he had time to play it
10261s	there was also the problem that very
10264s	similar to you know timeout do you
10265s	remember time out the party card like
10268s	people were using it when they were on
10269s	like five health and all it meant was
10272s	you buy that one turn but then you did
10274s	anyway the turn after whereas the people
10276s	who used it to actually just reduce the
10278s	most damage
10279s	uh you know got the better end of the
10281s	stick there and although of course that
10284s	the daenerys came down on the turn i
10286s	would have used it it just means that
10288s	donations would have could have come
10289s	down the turn after instead to deal what
10291s	10 15 damage whatever it was um
10294s	it's not as easy to say that oh well if
10295s	he alibid earlier would have been fine
10297s	but i think alibi on higher health when
10300s	there's minions on board and you don't
10301s	have a way to clear them it's maybe a
10302s	little bit better
10304s	than saving it till the last second
10306s	so yeah bit of a rough game there for
10308s	matty i think he had the opportunities
10310s	uh but mero played it cool and just
10312s	stayed on top of the game throughout and
10314s	the silence on the brand and made him
10316s	very very comfortable indeed
10318s	yeah he got a bit unlucky matty with the
10320s	the death bomb being so big because the
10322s	skeleton went face but yeah that's going
10324s	to happen even if one dies then that can
10326s	go facing again so eventually your one
10328s	in three is gonna hit a face
10330s	deathborn is allowed to get something
10331s	there yeah and also bear in mind mero uh
10334s	mass polymorphed his own dinathias which
10336s	mattie didn't really have a way to stop
10338s	a 10-10 yeah right so like there were
10340s	still things that went a little bit
10341s	funky both ways there but mero is gonna
10344s	take the lead 1-0 with the mage and i
10347s	believe now he's going to jump over to
10348s	his warlock uh to go up against matty's
10350s	mage once again let's have a quick look
10353s	at the wall like i'm pretty sure it's a
10354s	standard building
10356s	one c giant
10357s	and one battle master which i would uh
10360s	guess it's not quite standard
10362s	yeah i've seen battlemaster in a cursed
10364s	deck somewhere
10365s	it's testing around but yeah you don't
10367s	see many battle masters they are they do
10368s	kill you quick
10370s	oh yeah batman is one of those cards
10372s	that not everyone runs it but it's not a
10374s	card i'd be shocked by if i saw it on
10376s	ladder you i wouldn't be like whoa why
10378s	are they running this card well because
10379s	you can die
10381s	with it so yeah not too bad at all a
10383s	little bit um
10385s	uh one of everything there's like the
10387s	one grimoire the one silence the one
10389s	okani of course uh the battlegrounds
10392s	battle master one of c giant one of you
10394s	know subtle would hate it but salt's not
10396s	here so we're fine um
10398s	so yeah it's good here
10400s	it's gonna be an interesting one isn't
10401s	it whether they're made that sounds like
10404s	it should be able to be competitive
10406s	actually can be versus this warlock
10408s	because yep you think of reckless
10410s	apprentice and you think of freezing
10412s	stuff it all sounds good but how does
10415s	matty actually kill the big imps is my
10418s	question i i think this time around we
10422s	might see a lot better of how it's
10423s	supposed to work which is you don't
10426s	you kill the small ones and you freeze
10428s	the one or two big things you just keep
10430s	hitting with your things because the
10432s	warlock doesn't have the same way of
10434s	being able to remove the board if it's
10435s	minion to froze and that the opposing
10437s	mage had
10438s	so as long as matthew can get something
10440s	on board you know maybe he'll actually
10441s	draw the sanctum this time so he can
10443s	take care of anything huge even the snow
10445s	flow he's got freeze you know i know
10447s	that's obvious but he is allowed to do
10449s	some damage
10451s	let's see how it goes as we get into
10453s	game number two mero seems to be happy
10456s	with his opening it looked okay to me
10459s	yeah he's got imps yep looks good no
10461s	circle though no circle no win this deck
10467s	well no library
10468s	ah library two yeah library two
10472s	you can't stop
10478s	they are but if you ask me which card
10479s	i'd rather have in this hand circle or
10481s	library it would be library every time
10484s	we don't have anything i disagree with
10487s	incredibly silly it's the reason people
10489s	built this deck
10492s	okay decision point here do you want to
10494s	get this sanctum on the board
10496s	i actually like the draw because if
10498s	these one ones pop out i'm feeling very
10501s	good about life
10503s	how do you trade the one one
10506s	and honestly you don't mind the blood
10508s	bound him hurting his own hero to some
10510s	extent
10512s	you're not too slow yourself every time
10514s	that attacks and does two yeah you can
10515s	take two go for it
10522s	the downside certainly aggro versus
10524s	aggro of taking two for what is these
10526s	days
10527s	not a particularly huge minion a two
10530s	five or two mana
10531s	might be painful to say that but it's
10533s	not massive anymore is it like it used
10534s	to be oh yeah i mean let's be honest it
10537s	wouldn't be played if it wasn't an imp
10539s	right like it wouldn't it wouldn't make
10540s	the list it's not quite the right shape
10542s	but it is the right shape in you know
10544s	cut matchups like the mirror and the
10546s	fact that you can buff it where suddenly
10549s	it's not a 1-1 being buffed right it's
10551s	it's already got that sort of high
10553s	health total to go against it so they're
10555s	not looking too bad it's going to go for
10557s	the okani and they're only trying to
10559s	block something but also the ability to
10561s	just soak a lot of hits from these
10563s	minions
10564s	yeah the bloodbound imp is the the first
10566s	card that gets killed this is why people
10568s	want to play curses in their in block
10570s	it's there's a couple of them like imp
10572s	gang boss blood bound him and
10575s	there's one other kind of medium slow
10577s	imp that you think yeah really oh just
10579s	cut those and put some nurses in
10581s	i don't know lauren i think i agree with
10583s	your sentiment but do not put imp gang
10585s	boss in there i think him
10587s	gang boss is insane it's really good in
10590s	the deck he's got a lot of synergy but
10592s	it it is only a two four for three mana
10594s	in 2022. but it's more imps that's the
10597s	trick and you make a big imp gang boss
10599s	and then you have never ending him just
10601s	get it i understand
10603s	but it is one of the cards you want to
10604s	cut to put curse well you want to cut
10606s	blood boundaries we agreed on that if oh
10608s	in your world you put a different pin so
10609s	people put a curse in for it then they
10611s	say what else can i cut oh what's this
10613s	thing yeah it's got synergy let's cut
10615s	that as well and end up with a curse
10616s	deck which
10618s	for some reason just ends up being
10620s	inconsistent anyway so you go back to
10621s	this and just put them back in and get
10622s	on with your life
10630s	okay
10631s	moment of truth now for matty can he
10633s	deal with this
10636s	let's get to potentially freeze too
10638s	needs to test the ocarina of course
10641s	or at least not test but get through
10648s	again the issue of not really being able
10650s	to connect that much damage through
10652s	these even if you do freeze them or
10655s	whatever
10656s	yes a really good hand for this okay
10659s	though right sorcerer's first to test
10661s	minion and he can still reckless after
10664s	and then he has if he want if that
10666s	didn't pan out he could also use the
10668s	flurry if he really needed to
10670s	[Music]
10674s	amazing but it's fine
10676s	i like this the tutu gets to make a
10677s	trade and maybe kills two imps and then
10680s	the freeze little element oh no just to
10682s	get some work done
10685s	this is still okay
10688s	this is what happens when you get an
10689s	optimist with pessimists casting
10691s	together
10693s	i still think this was a solid turn
10695s	uh-huh it was okay
10702s	this is gonna be more okay though
10707s	khan is still active
10712s	oh
10713s	even here comes all this stuff
10717s	definitely stuff
10720s	with the farm next turn as an option
10723s	afford to be sort of wasteful here
10727s	yeah rafan won't be infused though right
10729s	or is unlikely to be infused
10732s	it only got drawn this turn yeah sure
10736s	that's fair
10740s	is doing so much work just by existing
10746s	i was going to trade away one of the
10747s	bigger minions so that reckless going
10749s	down
10751s	means uh it's prepared to fight for the
10752s	board a little bit longer
10757s	again 26 health and matty means there's
10759s	a lot of work still to be done
10762s	yeah and he's going to want to play a
10763s	lot of spells this time around matthew
10765s	so that he can get the magister down
10767s	maximum so he's gonna have to
10769s	do the akani thing this time i have an
10771s	idea
10775s	i was shaking his head but
10778s	at some point in two games
10784s	alibi because then he gets another alibi
10786s	a lot of the time to turn after
10797s	first up next turn i think here is the
10799s	main problem that's why he's pausing
10805s	i think alibi is fine
10807s	an alibi play the uh amplified but he's
10811s	he would like to get double alibi right
10813s	so when he plays manchester united gets
10814s	another but that's not an option now
10820s	i mean it can still happen right yeah
10823s	yeah that's what the pause is i think i
10825s	think it's just worth the matter right
10826s	he's gonna probably take some damage
10828s	this turn this means he can go face play
10830s	a little bit more aggressive because and
10832s	mero is um more inclined to trade with
10835s	these imps now because of solid alibi
10838s	and matty gets to go a little bit more
10839s	aggro gets his more safely land dawn
10842s	grasp and maybe gets the high roll as
10844s	well with the spells so yeah looks good
10846s	to me
10850s	this is where the mage starts to look
10852s	good because it's quite well protected
10854s	you're forcing the imps to trade into
10855s	yours right described
10857s	and also you've just got a little bit of
10859s	sort of your own chip damage the wallet
10861s	doesn't want to tap really it doesn't
10863s	want to flame him really
10865s	i do wonder though if it is either
10866s	flaming or void walker and then shady
10868s	bartender this turn
10872s	although i went to getting anything out
10873s	of that i wonder if
10876s	you're not waiting for circle are you
10878s	with your bartender that's miles oh yeah
10880s	and the thing as well is you
10882s	maro will want matty to think this
10884s	board's a threat and kill the board
10886s	which means that there were farms ready
10888s	to go as refill
10890s	oh do we go into the game of chicken now
10892s	where he just hits matty in the face and
10894s	says okay i'm not trading your go oh
10897s	hundred percent trades here right i
10900s	don't know kill two minions or deal two
10903s	damage
10904s	i hm
10906s	there's one
10911s	which makes sense because now these
10912s	three minions go in in theory into a
10915s	three-five that's not ideal
10922s	a lot of good work here i feel i have an
10925s	idea including another five health of
10926s	course
10944s	i'm laughing because the decisions here
10946s	are so weird
10948s	yeah he got the alibi right yes you got
10950s	the alibi
10951s	yeah then just attack the skeleton see
10953s	where it goes and make a decision yeah
10954s	yeah yeah go from there
10958s	i think in general if you've got the
10959s	alibis so get through the void walker
10962s	however you can and go all fakes right
10965s	yeah or try and get the you've got zero
10967s	amount of hero power so try and get the
10969s	honorable kill somewhere
10978s	there
10979s	that makes a lot of difference when your
10981s	opponents for 17.
10983s	[Music]
10985s	i like this
10987s	yeah it does have that pardon as well
10988s	ready to freeze out the board if needed
10991s	yeah vardon then wildfire and ping on
10994s	five to get to seven
10996s	and then the other wildfire to go to
10998s	eight
10999s	frozen touch and you're just about there
11001s	right
11002s	wondering if that's a little bit too
11003s	fancy
11005s	i mean times you've spent pinging
11007s	minions what if you just pinged face and
11008s	won
11009s	yeah it might be it might just be face
11011s	face
11013s	the numbers pan out but yeah
11016s	don't call me fancy raven
11020s	not being fantastic ketchup sandwich
11022s	with the rest of them
11026s	here though
11028s	a lot mero can do
11030s	nothing to trade into bored a little bit
11032s	too full does get to use the uh library
11035s	to open up a space but
11040s	look at the uh
11041s	the one drop here honestly
11044s	the gang boss
11049s	cycling away the bartender because it's
11050s	not enough in that slot
11058s	this is librarian
11060s	all the hallmarks of somebody who
11062s	knows they're up against it hasn't it
11064s	it's like what do i play how do i clear
11065s	my board what do i do in that one slot
11069s	yep varden wildfire wildfire ping face
11072s	next turn pink face frozen touch
11075s	right yeah yeah yeah yeah
11077s	that works
11078s	is that the best order not that it
11080s	really matters i think it's the best
11081s	order as well
11084s	yeah i mean with the location gone mero
11086s	literally can't do anything right oh
11088s	sorry he runs one grandma of sacrifice
11098s	by my calculations you need to chill out
11101s	nine nine just to be technically correct
11112s	it's gonna hit for six and there's
11114s	pretty much nothing mero can do about it
11116s	with the whole board frozen
11119s	and that looks like it's gonna be game
11121s	number two going to matty series is
11124s	evened up and the mage looked pretty
11126s	good and honestly in both games the
11128s	baits look pretty good right you just
11129s	didn't quite get there in game one
11131s	yeah absolutely i'd like to see that
11133s	mage versus the
11135s	the more regular spooky mage a few times
11137s	to see how it pans out over a series of
11139s	games but against the warlock there
11142s	you can see exactly what the deck was
11143s	supposed to do just
11145s	be a very efficient streamlined version
11147s	of the mage we know
11149s	taking out some key cards the deathborn
11152s	yeah
11153s	there's some stuff there that isn't
11154s	there but streamlined it to do the job
11156s	that it's meant to do without all the
11159s	things that i'm willing to call a little
11161s	bit of clutter in the maid i'm not
11163s	saying they're bad just yeah yeah things
11165s	you might not need yeah like i said you
11168s	just streamlined the deck and there are
11169s	negatives to doing that and positives
11171s	right it's just uh with the way matty's
11173s	gone and it's looked pretty smooth
11176s	overall so
11178s	looking good there for matty does only
11180s	even it up though there's still plenty
11181s	of time for merrell or matty to take
11183s	this and very quickly now that the mages
11186s	are done with we're gonna jump into a
11188s	naga priest mirror
11190s	oh how priest mirrors have changed over
11193s	the last 12 months
11195s	imagine 12 months ago we said we're
11197s	going into a priest move and we'd be
11198s	like okay well just put your feet on the
11200s	table just get ready to talk about boxes
11203s	and now it's just going to be bam this
11205s	is going to be very interesting as well
11206s	because matty is playing i think card
11210s	for card the list i've been playing on
11212s	ladder i'm not saying he got it for me
11213s	by the way
11214s	i'm just saying it's the list with the
11216s	one partner in crime and i believe mero
11219s	is playing a list with a school teacher
11221s	and no partner in crime so it's pretty
11224s	much gonna be edelweiss versus me
11227s	in terms of which version of the tech we
11229s	like more so i'm very excited to see
11231s	this is definitely going to be a a best
11232s	of one for for the bragging rights and
11235s	if i lose it's not best of one and we
11237s	have to carry on later
11238s	yeah well we just that's how we've done
11240s	it in the americas region for years
11242s	raven been doing it for absolute years
11244s	we just keep going till we win one then
11246s	say yep that's the one that mattered
11248s	um
11249s	i don't know partner in crime
11252s	i am i
11253s	played first with two of those in and it
11256s	was rubbish i'm not sure about the one
11258s	of them it's
11260s	it feels like it's the 30th card either
11262s	way so just put up whatever you want and
11264s	i hope you don't draw it
11265s	that's mine yeah i i i like it as a
11267s	one-off just because it does give you
11269s	that air sort of board in a box that has
11271s	like relevant health again uh joking
11274s	aside i do see the value of school
11276s	teacher like 100
11278s	it's just for me it's a card that procs
11280s	wig but it's not an actual like
11284s	that relevant a minion on board whereas
11287s	the uh the partner in crime obviously
11288s	can get a little bit crazy so uh we will
11292s	see how it goes i do like these matchups
11294s	though and not only do they have that
11297s	sort of variable length because
11298s	sometimes
11299s	you could just one player pops off and
11301s	it happens but the the decks can
11303s	actually play pretty late if they keep
11305s	things even uh but this opening for
11308s	matty double radiant slither spear
11310s	probably ends up throwing the boon away
11312s	maybe of one of the radiants but pretty
11314s	solid open overall you you're always
11316s	happy to see slither spinner
11318s	yeah absolutely oh my goodness though
11320s	look at me look what they've both done
11322s	what's happening this is gonna be nutty
11323s	this game is gonna last like three turns
11325s	i just don't know who wins
11327s	it oh the tempo
11330s	oh do it
11331s	love it
11334s	yes who needs mana just naught man of
11336s	one one
11338s	there's not to be a naught man or two
11339s	three off we go
11341s	oh my goodness
11343s	david what's happening
11348s	who needs any form of late game control
11350s	priest when you have this
11354s	this is absolutely nutty he's just got
11356s	to decide whether he wants to hold on
11357s	until turn two so he can get
11361s	off and pellet goes onto the board he
11363s	just makes me even more nutty
11365s	my bloody how much nutty you are
11373s	gonna go again i imagine with the wig
11376s	oh my goodness make it stop tell me you
11379s	know
11380s	you've done it where's he gonna put the
11382s	other one though okay he's going all the
11383s	way on the slyther swear reasonable
11386s	you're just basically this basically
11388s	sacrifices the one one if merrell wants
11390s	to kill it
11391s	and then
11393s	just leaves the slit the spare in a much
11395s	better position overall so i do like it
11401s	yeah probably going to be scribed romero
11404s	not quite having the pop-off tony once
11406s	but he's ahead on minions which is
11407s	something to bear in mind
11410s	how long for
11412s	real question here
11413s	i think you just play the radiant but do
11415s	you play the radiant wig then
11418s	anymore do you do nothing do you trade
11420s	heal i think you trade heal
11422s	okay
11423s	if you play raging you know radians dead
11427s	right
11428s	do you get nothing
11429s	i mean
11431s	you know there's a wig in hand and
11432s	there's very likely there's available
11434s	yeah but both of them got incredible
11436s	good hands or even like as you can see
11438s	like devour bless like the the radiant
11441s	very likely to die so i do like just the
11444s	trade heal and weight
11446s	because matty's very ahead right now
11451s	yes
11454s	i don't know how stable the very ahead
11456s	is but he is very ahead
11460s	because mario's got such a powerful hand
11461s	himself might not stay very ahead right
11465s	[Music]
11466s	radiant
11467s	and then dig for devour
11471s	eventually sure
11477s	he's running to the problem now where a
11480s	lack of naga is a little bit of an issue
11483s	but very they're both in the same spot
11485s	now it's funny yeah it has some time
11487s	there's also like the
11489s	the
11490s	interesting play of trading the slythers
11493s	spear into the 4 3 and then just playing
11496s	pelegoes and seeing what your opponent
11498s	does
11499s	a little bit spicy but if pellego sticks
11502s	then you can do very silly things yeah
11504s	it's close right it's definitely
11506s	tempting because if it does stick you're
11507s	in a great spot also got to decide how
11510s	you want to use this samurai because
11512s	that could just be a crazy crazy board
11514s	swing
11515s	if it gets one hit in with i know three
11517s	attack your opponent just might never
11519s	get back in the game so a lot to talk
11521s	about as najak comes off the top giving
11523s	memo even more
11525s	stuff
11528s	this devourer's going to be pretty
11529s	devourers from here yeah ghost devours
11532s	like yeah quite strong
11540s	reasonable
11547s	with nigec as well is this just coming
11549s	up to the end or does matty actually
11551s	have a way to deal with this i think
11554s	there's ways right samuro is in hand and
11556s	now there's a naga to activate serpent
11559s	so he could play the slow game and go
11561s	like thrive now
11563s	then play naga then have serpent at zero
11567s	and then look at you know if you draw
11568s	bless next turn you can samurai bless
11570s	that deal's eight and hope that's enough
11573s	and there's bless so
11575s	an option he's too far away to consider
11578s	like samurai pelegos yeah that devourer
11581s	which is it's a great play but it's not
11583s	gonna happen but i do like the look of
11585s	this bless and then you play the uh
11587s	the um
11590s	scribe i wanted to call it sea witch for
11591s	some reason there but it looks like
11593s	seaweed
11597s	but yeah it says place scribe and then
11599s	just have the a and hope that there's no
11602s	naga to buff the pelicans
11604s	and even if there is right there's it's
11606s	still you get to deal eight damage to
11608s	the peligos it's not gonna have that
11610s	much more health left
11612s	oh
11618s	surprised at that honestly
11623s	he's got something planned for next turn
11624s	by the looks oh
11626s	how do people cut boone
11628s	madness
11631s	isn't it just the best card in the day
11634s	it feels look at this how do people not
11636s	play this card just won the game
11641s	yeah it's madness look at it it's just
11643s	an extra 1012 for no good reason
11645s	whatsoever
11647s	and yeah by the way just buff something
11649s	else like i'm gonna copy you but first
11650s	of all i'm gonna make you bigger like
11652s	really yeah
11654s	how much matter oh four okay you know
11656s	we'll take some of that then
11660s	a little bit
11665s	here's the thrive that matty set up last
11667s	turn
11668s	yeah not gonna matter though
11671s	i just didn't know what the second
11672s	thrive was going to do obviously the
11674s	bless wouldn't have done anything either
11676s	because the minions ended up being too
11677s	big but i didn't really know what the
11680s	plan was for matty it looked like like a
11683s	three turn plan and i think assuming
11685s	that
11686s	more health isn't going to get dropped
11687s	down in three turns is a bit a bit
11690s	grander than assuming there's one turn
11692s	gap that you can maybe get away with but
11694s	it does mean mero takes the victory
11697s	there uh looking good and uh does get
11700s	the win uh with the school teacher that
11702s	had zero impact along with the uh
11705s	the um partnering crime that also had
11707s	zero impact so that was a avoid the game
11709s	in terms of who's who's uh
11712s	wearing the better version does this
11714s	mean almer's only got that warlock left
11715s	and uh it's in pluck you've got to say
11718s	he's got to be feeling confident
11720s	yeah
11720s	absolutely um
11723s	two goes at it to go six and oh
11727s	uh gonna
11728s	probably struggle against the shaman
11730s	gonna probably struggle against the naga
11732s	priest but the thing is he's only going
11733s	to win one of them and we have this
11735s	discussion every time this comes up it's
11737s	very hard
11738s	you think oh no i'm 40 60. well that
11741s	means you're like 70 something percent
11743s	to win the match from here because the
11745s	chances are you're not going to lose 240
11746s	percenters even though you're unfavored
11748s	each time
11750s	yeah it's interesting right because
11752s	although the shaman has tools to deal
11754s	with zoo i feel like if the shaman
11756s	doesn't get schooling early
11758s	then zoo could just overrun them right
11761s	it's not like it's a a done and dusted
11763s	match-up right i do think the shaman
11765s	needs the good early draws to be able to
11767s	deal with it so we'll see how it goes
11769s	it's going to be the priest once again
11771s	though
11772s	and this i think is a good match up for
11774s	for the priest
11775s	i agree absolutely devour being probably
11778s	the key card well devour and having a
11780s	minion
11782s	being the the key combo there against
11784s	this warlock so let's see how it goes
11786s	radiant good pickup as well
11788s	yeah the second you get one minion
11789s	established as a a seven seven one eight
11792s	eight you're almost there aren't you
11794s	because it just keeps getting bigger and
11796s	bigger and
11797s	it just never gets dealt with you get
11799s	the choice either just kill them in two
11800s	turns or pick things off until you're
11802s	ready to kill them in two turns and it's
11804s	fine right
11806s	you should be good
11808s	we're actually wondering
11810s	well she's really staring at this coin
11812s	wicked shipment here as well
11816s	there's a slight fear
11817s	yeah because of the curve but again i
11820s	think there is the fear that with like
11821s	coin wicked shipments
11823s	a radiant devourer is insane
11827s	sure
11829s	but the other side of it this doesn't
11831s	happen so it's still awkward to work out
11833s	what you want to do
11834s	with nadjak in hand for matty matty's
11836s	set pretty well obviously doesn't have
11838s	that devour
11840s	but as a devourerless hand this is about
11842s	the best you could hope for
11848s	oh okay
11850s	i really like just playing more minions
11852s	honestly
11854s	sorry we don't have any
11856s	really powerful thoughts
11861s	they like to pick up something else you
11862s	can
11864s	yes it's just like this turn
11867s	could have killed both minions right
11869s	sure
11880s	i just want to trade into the three two
11881s	and just jam a pentagon on the board and
11883s	say the game's over if you don't deal
11884s	with this right now i mean i can't argue
11886s	with that polygons pretty hard to kill
11890s	especially because there's no location
11891s	there's no library for mero yeah
11894s	without if library got played that turn
11897s	i would be a little bit more worried
11899s	about it but i agree with no library you
11901s	get the trade there's two attack there's
11903s	going to be
11905s	with coin
11907s	maximum plus three that's still only
11909s	five right
11911s	yeah with corrections if it was location
11913s	coin wicked
11919s	but more likely he'll draw something and
11921s	just play
11923s	a couple of weeks priestess
11925s	have a giant pelagos
11927s	yeah sure good luck have fun
11931s	not over yet though
11934s	memo has the decision to make whether he
11936s	wants to even
11937s	worry about devour here he's so far
11940s	behind he might just decide to jam a
11941s	circle and see what happens
11946s	yeah i keep staring at the sea giant
11948s	trying to work out what the setup for
11950s	the sea giant will be
11952s	because with fiendish circle um and
11954s	everything to just beef it up a little
11956s	bit you start to make a very wide board
11958s	very quickly and see giant is one of the
11960s	few minions there without library of
11962s	course they can actually fight some of
11965s	the big priest minions once they're
11967s	buffed up
11968s	well slither spear off the top mattie's
11970s	just gonna take time to order this for
11971s	maximum efficiency but this is going to
11973s	be absolutely ridiculous turn
11978s	because the pillow goes because of the
11979s	priestess he just leaves himself just
11981s	plays everything ends up with a knife in
11982s	hand
11990s	oh okay i'm fine with this as well steal
11992s	the two five trade into the two one and
11994s	do all that next turn with even more
11995s	cards sure
11998s	i've got i think actually just wants to
12000s	remove any threat whatsoever yeah
12005s	it's better
12009s	these books are ruined
12021s	okay can he do everything
12023s	oh he can barely
12025s	just radium boom the palagos
12031s	i mean it's not
12033s	oh i'd even yeah he can do a lot of
12035s	things yeah he could just sneak into
12037s	pieces
12039s	yeah
12040s	i think he can right yeah he just
12043s	priestess wig boo and yeah it's just to
12046s	get out the game kind of turn
12048s	just get out of the game
12050s	set him up for game number five to see
12052s	who's going 6-0 in a very strong chat
12054s	top eight and who isn't yeah now like
12056s	wake the pelagos
12058s	and boom i mean just press buttons
12062s	that's my um
12064s	official stance here just press button
12068s	can you play the other wig as well you
12070s	can if you want honestly press buttons
12076s	just take your time let the rope burn
12078s	quite near to the end and hope your
12079s	opponent concedes you don't have to
12080s	bother working out the exact optimal
12082s	turn
12094s	yeah i think maui got a little bit lost
12096s	there
12097s	again i was wondering
12098s	what was
12101s	going on in that turn it looked a little
12103s	bit strange in places but most
12105s	importantly he played all his cards
12107s	which was definitely the uh
12109s	on a simple level the thing to do
12111s	carney this hand gone i dare you
12116s	i wonder any spells or any minions raven
12119s	how does that work it does have a c
12121s	giant though
12123s	not quite gonna do the job but he does
12125s	have one exactly but he's facing down
12127s	237 damage yeah he can't do that 37
12130s	defense so he gives it
12132s	to all
12134s	what a weird series both players won
12137s	with their mage
12138s	in one game than game two now both
12140s	players have won with their prese game
12142s	three game four
12144s	and also in both instances mero has been
12147s	winning the mirror matches yeah which is
12149s	just it's just an odd series to look at
12151s	when it's on the spreadsheet linda but
12153s	it does mean that it is going to be uh
12155s	the wait what shaman versus yeah the
12158s	shaman versus now you're going to play
12160s	here they they have got slightly
12161s	different lineups so slightly different
12163s	bands aren't unexpected entirely
12166s	but when you get down to what you just
12168s	said where the two mirror matches have
12169s	happened
12170s	and you're in this spot then the band
12173s	starts to matter and shaman
12175s	is it a decent spot against warlock if
12177s	it would if you're not in a decent spot
12178s	against warlock you can't thrive on
12180s	ladder so you've got to be pretty decent
12182s	and obviously yeah
12184s	it's just in a decent spot against
12186s	everything
12187s	yeah it's definitely looking okay um
12190s	just looking at the build here
12193s	there's nothing too crazy kind of the
12196s	usual suspects in there it is the greedy
12198s	shaming version so
12199s	it's got the uh the primordial wave in
12202s	there it's still got the kale fast combo
12204s	with daenerys as you can see now and and
12207s	kind of yeah all the usual stuff
12209s	basically but the key cards to look at
12212s	for any of the cheap murlocs uh bolner
12216s	as well i think is quite good versus uh
12218s	the imps
12219s	if you can play it out on curve and most
12221s	importantly schooling is the absolute
12224s	nuts versus this warlock just push them
12226s	off board once and it gets pretty
12228s	difficult for them to keep up with you
12230s	after that yeah fleurgal exists as well
12233s	if you need a sort of fairly quick just
12236s	get rid of some imps before they get too
12238s	big
12239s	and then you've got snowfall guardians
12241s	and all everyone's favorite cards
12242s	further down the list so
12244s	become if you really get that far just
12246s	for some heal
12247s	you're fine
12249s	that is i guess the one
12251s	slight weakness of the deck against some
12252s	decks where is that lack of heal but
12256s	warlock isn't going to be throwing
12257s	things to your face other than minions
12259s	so you're okay
12261s	yeah looking forward to this one going
12262s	to be a crazy game a lot on the line
12264s	here as again as you i think you
12266s	mentioned right the player will that
12268s	wins this will be going 6-0
12271s	uh into the next round of swiss and once
12275s	you hit that 6-0 something has to go
12278s	very very wrong
12280s	yeah you have to notice twice and go
12281s	into and it'd be bad
12283s	yeah yeah yeah so
12286s	um so yeah you get into sort of
12289s	i think i'm there but i better win
12291s	another one territory at that point
12294s	game mccall's an okay start oh okay this
12297s	is fun
12298s	both players have great openings matty
12301s	will be happy to see schooling of course
12303s	but mero has like the opening too right
12306s	choice of one drops vial library i guess
12308s	the thing missing is a uh a multi uh imp
12312s	card uh whether that circle or the uh
12314s	shipment or anything like that but yeah
12316s	shake it head for mero
12318s	he knows that's the one thing
12320s	the one fish he didn't want to see
12324s	and matty's looking a little bit sort of
12325s	you know well look at my luck i'm i'm
12328s	sorry but also matt he's had his fair
12329s	share of bad luck on streams with the
12331s	occasional accident thrown in over the
12332s	last
12333s	12 months he's a louder a lucky one
12337s	yeah this is a play i've already seen
12339s	today actually the insta library proc on
12342s	a flame imp means that uh the coin would
12345s	have to be used here
12346s	from uh from matty to be able to
12348s	actually kill it uh we saw it earlier uh
12352s	it was thunder versus love storm and i
12355s	believe
12356s	uh thunder did choose to coin he ended
12358s	up losing the game uh but he did choose
12361s	to coin to actually answer the emp
12362s	straight away and then the turn with the
12364s	fish still on board
12366s	i'm happy not to here yeah
12370s	because they can't punish you because
12371s	their library's closed for renovations
12374s	ruined yep the internet's ruined
12376s	everything hasn't it yeah absolutely
12386s	and now you've still got a coin
12387s	and you've taken five damage but
12390s	really what threats
12395s	yep this is still a full clear right if
12398s	everything trades down a little clear
12399s	and coin next one in hand
12401s	yup
12403s	just in case
12406s	with this order in as well nice clean
12408s	play from matty meaning he gets to
12411s	retain the three one which is huge the
12413s	difference between having a minion and
12414s	not
12416s	able to trade is absolutely massive good
12418s	follow-up though from mero i guess to
12420s	decide whether he wants to use the
12421s	library i feel like yet again just cr
12424s	using that up is going to be worthwhile
12428s	yeah um maggie still got it to do here
12430s	even though you saw the sort of slight
12432s	shake at the head it's like really
12433s	you're gonna make me work for this one
12435s	after this start come on it's not fair
12439s	could
12440s	play even slower if you really wanted to
12444s	here he could take a trade into a 3-3
12447s	um
12448s	wind chill the seven seven and just play
12450s	cookie
12452s	because it means you'd have calling for
12453s	glug because glug versus implod is
12456s	actually pretty nuts sure i really
12458s	wouldn't have hated
12461s	this is it though he's assuming that
12463s	member kind of has to go face here
12466s	i mean he doesn't have to he can trade
12467s	but if you trade sure you'll three one
12468s	trades back
12470s	and then he's still got the um job done
12472s	the wind chill for next time with the
12473s	two no your play but kind of different
12475s	order no one of grimoire for mero off
12478s	the top which would have been insane
12480s	sacrificed to three three to kill the
12482s	whole board
12484s	yeah
12486s	yeah some people are playing he's
12487s	playing one but yeah some people are
12489s	playing that as a two i've seen in this
12491s	tournament which is really
12492s	where you start getting into you might
12494s	as well play cursed territory
12500s	have the episode using the old muk
12503s	to uh evolve one of these five ones as
12506s	well
12515s	and what's he gonna do next turn that's
12517s	how he works out what he's going to do
12518s	with his muck
12520s	next turn is the hard turn right because
12522s	he can't do the coin glug which you
12524s	would go to try and do with a saved
12531s	manner coming i'm coming
12536s	i feel very safe for all the time being
12540s	fairly so you can go wrong quickly again
12546s	you trade i think you do i'm 14 though i
12550s	guess yeah but with
12552s	what aggro like what damage has matty
12555s	got right 12 on the board that's that's
12557s	what he's working with he's saying well
12559s	he's gonna have to trade into him he's
12560s	got seven but yeah
12562s	because the trade would just happen
12563s	right if you make this out of this push
12565s	a trade happens
12566s	um
12568s	i guess it's just i'd be a little bit
12570s	worried if this gets cleared up
12573s	what kind of trouble you could find
12575s	yourself in with that kind of weird turn
12576s	six play that matty doesn't really have
12580s	there's also a weird play if you're the
12581s	battle master and then you get to trade
12583s	into cookie and a five one with your
12585s	three
12586s	yeah that's not bad there's also the
12588s	silence play which yes you lose the 7-7
12591s	section of it yeah you get to silence
12593s	and play an imp
12595s	and you get to clear off both minions
12598s	they're both big minions
12603s	gets rid of the negative of the two five
12606s	oh
12607s	oh really wait what
12611s	i'm already shocked it wasn't the five
12613s	ones that got traded
12616s	well one was a value trade which makes
12618s	some sense with the three to face
12620s	this is only 16 with battle master if
12623s	everything lives
12625s	yeah
12627s	something went wrong here
12629s	i don't know raven
12631s	i don't like these five ones just
12632s	pointing at my face
12634s	i would have preferred to see a battle
12635s	master
12638s	yeah if you're going to do this i think
12640s	i agree
12641s	roll the evolve first has command of
12643s	neptulon to clean up
12646s	he's reading it
12648s	it's the deal one right yeah
12653s	i love it when players just obviously
12655s	alike wait what's that card
12658s	the king of that of course being pavel
12660s	with rogue scenes oh that was the best
12662s	like in this case matty probably has an
12664s	idea what he does and just wants to
12665s	double check
12666s	in the case you're talking about with
12668s	pavlet so he just didn't know rogue had
12670s	secrets let alone what they did like why
12671s	both playing a secret the look on his
12673s	face
12675s	we have a shout out as well a little bit
12676s	of a promo that match is one of the
12678s	matches featured in hearthstone the
12680s	legends pavel edition uh on their the
12683s	arsenal youtube channel so check it out
12684s	absolutely let's check out the whole
12685s	series they've been really good well
12687s	good work from raven have to admit it in
12689s	front of him which is horrible but yeah
12690s	very nice stuff
12692s	oh
12694s	that's kind of hilarious
12704s	get to push uh what's this push 10
12706s	then clear the majority of the board
12709s	okay and then get glued
12712s	yeah that's true but i think meow's in a
12714s	much better position than he thought he
12715s	was going to end the turn in
12717s	true
12720s	yeah you've come this far now you have
12721s	to do it
12723s	you're here now
12724s	yeah literally dead if you don't
12736s	that
12737s	just ends it right
12739s	yeah hits
12741s	there's no charge
12743s	um
12744s	there's no
12745s	dinathrius there's no way the silence
12748s	has been used which i think is the key
12750s	factor here uh so silence has been used
12753s	from mero which means this he's got
12755s	absolutely no way in his deck to deal
12756s	with this that's gonna be live tap
12758s	that's gonna be a game and matty
12760s	goes to a six zero score in swiss so far
12765s	and i think uh you know i do understand
12767s	it these are long days the players are
12768s	gonna be stressed especially when you
12770s	can almost taste that top 16 spot but
12773s	matty did not really look comfortable
12776s	during that series i think he played all
12778s	right overall but there were moments
12780s	where you could tell he was kind of
12781s	getting lost in his own mind working out
12783s	what turns to play um but still
12786s	regardless of that matty was the winner
12788s	takes the win and uh he's looking good
12791s	to make him top 16. yeah and i think the
12794s	lack of sort of comfort zone comes from
12797s	the way that this meta works a lot of
12799s	the time you can go one zero down you're
12801s	like oh yeah but that's the deck that's
12803s	supposed to lose or that's the deck
12804s	that's supposed to win
12805s	but this meta
12807s	uh the decks as submitted nearly
12810s	everything apart from some alignment
12812s	match-ups are
12813s	reasonably close to 50 50
12815s	you know within
12816s	some license to
12818s	argue
12820s	and so you're not really the positive
12821s	one oh yeah well that one's lost so if
12823s	you want a zero down
12825s	you've just one zero down there's no
12827s	messing about and sort of pontificating
12829s	you're just behind so it was always
12832s	playing from behind in that series just
12833s	under a lot of stress and yeah just got
12835s	it done at the end
12836s	yeah pretty crazy series overall but as
12839s	usual there's plenty more where that
12841s	came from we are going to go to a quick
12843s	break but there's more coverage from
12845s	round six coming right up so don't go
12847s	anywhere we'll be right back
12859s	so
12887s	so
12890s	[Music]
12901s	[Music]
12910s	foreign
12915s	[Music]
12926s	foreign
12940s	[Music]
12958s	do
12960s	[Music]
12977s	[Music]
12982s	[Music]
12986s	so
12992s	[Music]
13010s	[Music]
13025s	[Music]
13044s	welcome back everybody to masters tour
13046s	murder at castle nathria we're finishing
13049s	off the rest of the action at round six
13052s	here getting through to the really spicy
13054s	rounds now
13055s	uh how have you been enjoying your time
13056s	though adelbeis joining me here on the
13058s	casting desk uh here so far at the
13060s	masters tour
13062s	yep been having a blast i'm excited to
13063s	see that monsanto is 6-0 and i'm
13067s	very excited for this round where we've
13069s	got
13070s	wirer who is just an excellent deck
13073s	builder you know i try and build decks
13075s	myself i don't usually have as much much
13076s	success as some of these players but i
13078s	try everything so i'm a huge fan of wire
13081s	and john bray who just have some really
13083s	creative deck builds and i think the
13085s	druid is the spiciest one that we're
13087s	going to see in this matchup
13089s	yeah poorer poor wiry spends his entire
13091s	hearthstone career correcting people
13093s	because it's like no he's not jamboree
13095s	but he plays a lot of the same decks no
13097s	he's not german he's from luxembourg
13098s	even though you know he
13100s	hangs out with a lot of the german
13101s	players his name and discord i believe
13103s	is actually not german
13104s	right now so just to remind people uh in
13107s	case they forget uh but yeah i agree
13110s	really really big fan of wyra and he's
13112s	brought the spice this tournament as
13114s	well no surprises there with a couple of
13116s	spicy tech cards and most importantly
13118s	this druid deck which i think is
13122s	very similar to a deck that jambray
13124s	invented himself brought it to the
13125s	solari party
13127s	last weekend
13128s	uh and he's made a couple of key tech
13131s	decisions but basically this is just
13132s	some weird kind of
13135s	box druid where you try and like tutor
13138s	out convoke the spirits as much as
13139s	possible i have no idea how to describe
13141s	it but it is gorgeous to watch it in
13143s	action
13144s	yeah you've got convoke the spirits and
13146s	then nightshade bud as an option to
13149s	if you don't have convoke you cast it
13151s	and you look at the spells in your deck
13153s	and can pick convoked cast so
13156s	really all in on that strategy has a bit
13158s	of the feel of sort of big spell mage in
13161s	terms of playing uh barbaric sorceress
13164s	even and green thumb gardener so taking
13166s	advantage of those big spells and then
13168s	the top end is just all beef right
13170s	you've still got dinatharius raid boss
13172s	neptulon
13174s	insatiable devourers so it's a really
13177s	interesting deck looking forward to that
13178s	one but first we got some good old face
13180s	hunter from pharath over here uh pretty
13183s	traditional wild spirits are very strong
13186s	and then
13187s	got twin boat
13188s	collateral damage although you don't
13190s	really want a twin bow collateral
13191s	anymore unless your opponent has like
13193s	six minions in play
13196s	no longer doing crazy amounts of damage
13198s	i think twin bow is still just good
13200s	enough to go with wild spirits
13203s	agreed yeah yeah yeah i think that twin
13205s	bow is just really uh a gorgeous
13207s	inclusion in the deck allowing you to
13209s	ramp up your damage your board control
13211s	it does everything you want to do
13212s	depending on which which mode you're in
13214s	face hunter uh but fuyra on the other
13216s	side on le quest hunter i think things
13220s	could get a little bit trickier right
13222s	because
13223s	uh quest hunter generally does very well
13225s	against board-based decks is what is
13227s	your your bread and butter is a deck
13229s	where you're trying to clear all their
13230s	minions off and then you just burst them
13231s	down in the late game when your hero
13233s	power is way outpacing anything they can
13234s	do
13235s	but is it the same case against face
13237s	hunter where they also have a lot of
13239s	over-the-top burn
13242s	so i mean quest hunter i think the main
13244s	thing
13245s	going against the face hunter is you
13247s	have a lot of removal so it'll be really
13250s	interesting to see if barath can just
13252s	get so many wild spirits down so quickly
13255s	that it's too much to remove all at once
13258s	and so wire won't be able to keep up but
13260s	of course if as the quest hunter you're
13262s	just able to keep removing and keep
13264s	removing you give yourself plenty of
13266s	time to
13267s	just complete the quest and eventually
13269s	get there with you know a bunch of face
13271s	damage
13272s	[Music]
13274s	interesting thing though is of course
13275s	talking about uh
13277s	30 verse 40 on both sides i do like the
13280s	wire is again going with the uh the 40
13282s	card prince aren't allowed this is
13283s	really the uh the perfect distribution
13286s	for quest hunter where you want to play
13287s	it yourself so that you can survive a
13289s	little bit longer but you really don't
13290s	want your opponent to be playing
13291s	renaissance because it gets a lot harder
13293s	to kill them uh and so here unless we
13295s	see a really really fast start to the
13297s	game which farth does admittedly have
13300s	with click clocker into doggy biscuit uh
13302s	wire should be able to uh
13305s	have too much health to burst down and
13306s	then i think have time to get tavish
13308s	down as well
13311s	yeah click clocker is actually one of
13312s	the better turn one minions here i think
13315s	just because if your opponent wants to
13317s	play the quest
13318s	they don't actually get any credit
13321s	for popping the divine shield it'll be
13322s	interesting to see if wire just
13325s	okay it's still going to play the quest
13327s	i think you might be willing to take it
13328s	slow and
13330s	play the one one rush just to prevent
13332s	something like a doggy biscuit coming
13334s	down
13335s	it was very very tempting just because
13337s	it's such a clean play but i think with
13339s	the freezing trap in hand you'd be fine
13341s	with just letting them play doggy
13343s	biscuit here and then clearing up
13345s	whatever other minions they play on
13346s	following turns uh the k9 of tron i do
13348s	think is a a very welcome uh deviation
13352s	away from this line though uh of just
13354s	the doggy biscuit
13356s	yeah tough choice right do you play
13358s	around something like just freezing trap
13360s	on curve usually the quest
13363s	hunter wants to get something like the
13365s	uh objective down dunbalder bunker to
13368s	start drawing
13369s	secrets but this is a matchup where they
13371s	wouldn't really have the breathing room
13373s	to do that
13374s	so i think you're right that that
13376s	freezing trap was the reason why i felt
13378s	comfortable playing the turn one quest
13381s	but uh k90tron complicates things just a
13384s	little bit
13388s	a fine start to the game before our boy
13390s	awira getting to as you said actually
13392s	get the quest completion because for the
13394s	moment he's just ignoring the click
13395s	clocker which is uh i think fine this
13398s	one point of damage return is not going
13400s	to be
13402s	anything especially threatening i think
13403s	you should be able to still quite
13404s	handsomely outpace the rest of the
13406s	damage
13407s	bear as well being presented uh
13410s	usually i find the one i'm least happy
13412s	to see most of the time because rather
13414s	just the immediate attack of the uh the
13416s	lynx or the bow which is now getting
13419s	nerfed it's so powerful uh but in this
13421s	instance the bear i think you know
13422s	you're kind of still expecting it to die
13424s	and it doesn't even push that much
13426s	yeah like with the two five stat line it
13430s	is a little bit challenging to clear
13431s	sometimes but usually you only want it
13434s	if it's sort of amongst a bunch of other
13437s	minion like wild seed minions uh airline
13441s	is coming down soon but turn five is
13443s	pretty late for face hunters so i feel
13446s	like this isn't exactly the sort of
13448s	start that pharath was looking for um
13451s	maybe he's wishing he would have played
13453s	the doggy skit but at the same time you
13455s	can't have known that there's freezing
13456s	trap there
13458s	but things are just slow enough wire i
13460s	suspect we'll be able to comfortably
13462s	clear all of this
13465s	another barb nest it's really nice this
13467s	is
13468s	zero mana hero power available on this
13471s	turn
13472s	and uh
13473s	potentially actually tavish on turn five
13476s	right if he goes wound prey barbed
13478s	barbed coin explosive and all of them
13481s	get their effect uh i think that's just
13483s	tavish next turn
13485s	yeah might be willing to just present
13487s	that threat too
13489s	and it it makes your hero power free
13491s	which at this point is dealing for you
13492s	can just hold on to that because yeah
13494s	such a great removal tool once it can
13497s	target i think this is a match where
13499s	certainly early on you're happy to have
13501s	a hero power that can just help you
13502s	remove things
13506s	oh it's so tempting isn't it like it's
13509s	probably more responsible to just uh
13512s	save the coin until post tavish because
13515s	you don't actually have any card draw in
13517s	hand right now there's no way to
13518s	guarantee you're gonna have a whole
13519s	bunch of quest procs uh
13521s	so i do like the line it looks like he's
13523s	leaning towards it just going freezing
13525s	trap and slowing down a little bit on
13526s	the quest completion
13528s	yeah i mean i almost wonder if you go
13531s	explosive
13533s	and and
13534s	not coin out the barb nets just kind of
13536s	okay bait the opponent right so they
13538s	don't know what you've got
13540s	it could be a freezing so perhaps that
13543s	holds them off but if they do just
13544s	attack into it like you see here
13548s	you can
13549s	play barbnet's coin and play the quest
13551s	reward in the same turn still got the
13552s	four damage hero power back up
13555s	and this does still actually allow for
13559s	tavish here right i believe with uh yeah
13562s	bob next coin tavish and
13566s	uh i think he even has an upgraded hero
13568s	power in terms of the damage right from
13570s	the aimed shot uh so i think this is
13572s	ball as well which would allow him to
13574s	yeah clear off the bear as well so all
13576s	things considered as long as he doesn't
13578s	draw completely dead from here on in
13580s	this is such a good start to the game
13582s	for wyra like turn five tavish is so
13585s	rare
13586s	yeah very rare and very nice to have
13588s	against a face hunter still sitting
13590s	comfortably at 27 even if you look at
13593s	six facing you down the board here i
13595s	think there's plenty of opportunity to
13598s	get great top decks multicaster
13600s	currently drawing at least two cards
13602s	which is reasonable of course a furious
13605s	howl would be an incredible top deck at
13607s	this point
13613s	just flooding the board for a hunter or
13617s	well they're both hunters but pharah
13619s	collateral damage not really doing
13621s	anything in this matchup so wire
13624s	probably gonna have a a pretty strong
13626s	read on that card
13628s	i think so and mark's shot
13630s	is one of the better top decks i think
13632s	you could be finding it's no howl but
13634s	it's uh very much the next best thing
13639s	yeah not even bothering to use any hero
13641s	powers on the one one i think just gonna
13643s	put the freezing trap down
13645s	oh
13646s	dragon bane is bad but is it that bad
13650s	i
13651s	think it's probably too bad i'm just
13654s	thinking yeah yeah am shot is reliable
13657s	good chunk of damage
13659s	what a fall from grace dragon bane shot
13661s	was such a sick card
13663s	i you know i think it had to be done
13666s	because it was just it was just such a
13668s	powerhouse right i mean you don't
13670s	usually think of two mana deal two as as
13673s	that big a deal but when you could just
13675s	clear entire boards with that and your
13678s	hero power it was getting out of hand
13686s	okay so ice trap is the pick here
13688s	instead of freezing it makes sense the
13691s	one one comes down again pretty easily
13692s	but you can use ice to still
13695s	you know bounce any spell that would
13697s	buff it such as a doggie biscuit or you
13699s	know a ramming mouth that could come
13700s	down
13702s	looking like a pretty solid position you
13704s	know the stag wakes up soon but
13707s	i gotta imagine without having any
13709s	targets for collateral damage it'll be
13711s	very tough for pharath to get the burst
13713s	to close things out
13714s	yeah so i do think you have to trade
13716s	here i
13717s	think the only draw that can pull him
13719s	back into the game now is
13722s	oh my god off the top
13726s	okay now we're talking all of a sudden
13728s	the race is back on
13731s	yeah and this freezing trap is not
13734s	looking too great at this point so i
13737s	think wire is maybe just going to go
13739s	into full race mode and say okay you've
13740s	drawn some things
13742s	the weapon wakes up next turn but we
13745s	want to try and close things out before
13747s	they get two swings of it that would be
13750s	my thinking if i rewire right here
13751s	tracking great tool to do that because
13754s	it's huge one refresh and finds you
13756s	another
13759s	all right so what are we looking for
13760s	multicaster
13762s	furious howell barrett cotto bain even
13764s	just another like uh
13767s	quick shot aim shot like anything that
13769s	just does a little bit more damage
13770s	you'll have to yeah i just want another
13772s	aimed shot right this freezing you're
13775s	just using to maybe save you a little
13777s	life but
13778s	i think you take any damage you can find
13780s	to just increase that clock speed
13784s	and do we have enough with just this
13786s	turn can we set it up you got
13788s	two four six eight ten
13790s	[Music]
13791s	another five off the aimed shots
13796s	you can set it up a two turn yeah i
13798s	count we're not dead
13801s	i think it's
13804s	a pretty safe bet you're not dead they
13807s	have six on board four from the weapon
13809s	that i think wakes up this term as well
13814s	so they have to find 14 from hand i
13817s	think that's just a bit out of range
13820s	yeah i mean we're staring at aim shot is
13823s	five quick shots three barb nets two
13826s	so that's just ten
13832s	i don't think it's
13833s	enough i mean obviously farrath right
13835s	now is thinking this is explosive trap
13837s	and i've lost the game but you know you
13838s	don't play in that universe anyway
13840s	because
13841s	you've lost no matter what if it's
13842s	explosive traps so
13844s	i mean you lost no matter what anyway it
13845s	doesn't matter the game is over because
13846s	it just doesn't have enough damage
13849s	yeah the twin bow if you had a little
13851s	more time would be great because that
13853s	unaided shot is just an insane amount of
13855s	damage but it's just a little
13858s	too late in terms of the draw there
13861s	collateral damage
13863s	being a little embarrassing in hand but
13865s	what can you do
13867s	and
13867s	you know hunter v hunter always closes
13870s	out relatively quickly because of the
13871s	burst
13877s	a valiant effort but falling down to
13879s	wires quest hunter uh attack but i'm
13882s	still kind of undecided on to be honest
13884s	against decks like this where it's
13886s	mainly a bit of a board battle uh i'm
13888s	fully on board with quest hunter i think
13890s	it's doing exactly what it should be
13891s	doing there but against the likes of
13893s	druid shaman uh where there's a little
13895s	bit of healing even mage now with the
13897s	cold case and the
13898s	uh the hero card as well it's still very
13901s	much undecided but wire made a super
13904s	convincing case
13905s	for the deck there
13907s	yeah i think it's just one of the few
13909s	from hand decks currently available to
13911s	players which is why we've seen so much
13913s	of it
13914s	i'm not quite sure how it's been
13916s	performing overall but that i have to
13918s	guess is the thinking obviously not very
13921s	great against druid because they just
13923s	start going into two powerful things
13925s	that you're unable to clear
13927s	couple hunters have added
13929s	urchin spines as sort of a nod to those
13932s	bigger minions perhaps from vile library
13934s	as well
13935s	but for the most part i think you're
13936s	just hoping to get a little bit more
13938s	percentage points against stuff like
13940s	shaman and mage even if they have more
13942s	life the healing in general i think in
13945s	this meta is relatively low just because
13948s	the one priest is naga priest and
13950s	there's really no paladins to be
13954s	[Music]
13959s	seen all right heading over to the uh to
13962s	the next game
13963s	we can see uh
13966s	all right what is leftover for wire now
13968s	he's got his uh mage and druid uh i
13970s	believe the druid one that i'm really
13973s	really excited to see but the mage first
13975s	of all i think is just the much more
13977s	uh standard 40 card version of mage with
13981s	uh actually i will admit a couple of
13983s	spicy picks in there for uh for big
13985s	spell mage
13987s	yeah absolutely it's that wire spice
13990s	dispossessed soul both in the the big
13992s	spell mage and in the shaman it's just
13996s	i don't know how this plays it makes
13998s	some sense to me if you've got a three
14000s	durability location it does actually
14001s	stick around for quite a while so with
14004s	two of them you know that's sort of
14007s	i guess 12 total turns you could have a
14009s	location in play if they're not in play
14012s	at the same time at all and discovering
14014s	a copy of a card in your deck can be
14017s	quite powerful particularly if you're
14018s	looking for say an extra copy of
14020s	mordrish or denathrius in the shaman
14024s	i really want to see how this plays
14026s	because it's a card i've definitely had
14028s	my eye on
14031s	i wonder like i'm kind of thinking in my
14033s	head if they printed a four man of four
14035s	or five
14036s	discover a copy of a card in your deck
14038s	like yeah i guess that would probably
14040s	seem play in some decks but like i
14042s	wouldn't be ecstatic about playing that
14043s	card right it's still a four minute four
14045s	five which in today's hearthstone is a
14047s	little
14048s	a little underwhelming overall but i
14049s	guess i guess if it's giving you
14051s	consistency in finding uh barbara
14054s	barbara
14055s	belinda the hero card as well
14058s	i can see the thinking but i'm very much
14060s	yet to be convinced
14062s	it's sort of odd right you both
14064s	you don't really run it unless you're a
14066s	40 card deck
14067s	and if you're a 40 card deck you're less
14069s	likely to consistently see any given
14071s	thing so
14074s	i don't know my thinking is that it
14076s	would in at least increase consistency a
14078s	little bit but if it's just turned off
14080s	because you don't have your location
14081s	anyway
14082s	then maybe not
14084s	we'll see whether it comes up or not in
14086s	this match-up but the curve otherwise
14087s	looks pretty solid just in terms of
14089s	night cloak sanctum deep water evoker
14092s	up here ready for later it's just a
14094s	matter of can you endure this
14096s	early pressure from the wild seeds
14100s	which currently right now is a uh a very
14102s	good question it's not really clear one
14104s	way or the other he has a lot of the
14106s	very good cards that you want to see in
14108s	the starting hand nike looks like a
14110s	fantastic apprentice especially if you
14112s	can find the wildfire can just solo you
14114s	the early game
14116s	uh but farath is not slowing down with
14118s	another wild spirits to follow up this
14121s	is a lot of pressure
14123s	yeah the bears are going to wake up
14124s	right away and i think pharath is hoping
14126s	that at least one of these spirits
14128s	summoned is going to be the stag
14131s	you know a lot of why hunter doesn't
14133s	really run the weapon in the face deck
14135s	anymore is just because you get them off
14138s	the wild seeds half the time so it
14140s	messes with things if you're actually
14142s	running a natural weapon as well
14149s	i'm curious why you freeze the trog here
14152s	can you think of something
14154s	i guess the trug is the more likely to
14156s	be buffed
14157s	uh and it also means that
14160s	uh
14161s	you trade him with a two two kill off
14163s	the troll yeah i think it's mainly just
14164s	so it can't be hit with
14166s	ramming mountain and uh traded in that
14168s	way
14171s	and so that you know next turn if they
14172s	hit the other thing with rounding mount
14174s	then you have ping plus apprentice to
14175s	kill it off
14176s	right right
14178s	yeah i mean not the most effective card
14181s	against big spell mage they do run
14183s	you know
14185s	some spells but not a ton to be
14187s	proliferating the trog i think the
14189s	biggest thing it's doing here is keeping
14191s	that coin sort of in check
14194s	although uh if a
14195s	deathborn comes up i forget if that is
14197s	in this list i guess this isn't the full
14200s	big spell mage is it right it's just
14201s	sort of
14203s	somewhere in between
14208s	yeah it's true
14211s	oh no we have we have got
14213s	this you know it's just that wire spice
14215s	all over again you've got
14217s	gold shire nulls in here i guess his
14219s	extra cleanup tool you do have the
14221s	belinda barbaric rune all that stuff
14225s	uh but then
14227s	suspicious alchemists to find early game
14229s	spells
14232s	couple cops yeah starfish
14234s	i do like the knot i think that's
14236s	actually a bit of a throwback i think
14237s	habigabu was playing ram commanders and
14239s	knolls towards the start of big spell
14241s	mage's uh
14244s	lifespan which was obviously before
14245s	renethal but when you have renathal in
14247s	there
14249s	i guess it makes sense you have a lot of
14250s	extra card slots to work with and you
14253s	know null is just a really strong
14256s	card when you're not playing many cards
14257s	at the start of your game like wire is
14260s	and a lot of them discover you extra
14262s	cards anyway like the uh the mailbox
14264s	dancer let's give you an extra coin it
14266s	makes sense to me uh and i think if it
14269s	was drawn at any point here you'd be
14270s	very happy to see it
14273s	yeah i think this tournament has kind of
14274s	messed with all our brains in terms of
14276s	what are considered which archetype
14278s	because we have so many hybrids floating
14280s	around we have both big spelmage and
14283s	spooky mage and then few people have
14286s	done a strange mixture of the two where
14288s	you don't have some of the chidi cards
14290s	like barbaric and belinda but you are
14292s	still running rune of the archmage and
14295s	blizzard i guess so it's kind of all
14298s	kinds of mixed up uh imp warlock
14301s	sometimes having curses sometimes not as
14304s	well this has been a
14306s	very strange tournament in terms of what
14309s	we're supposed to call any given deck
14312s	very true
14314s	but for right now i think this is just
14316s	starting to spiral out of control for
14320s	pharah he's got one final push here from
14322s	the looks of it he can click ignite
14324s	because it's the only one he wants but i
14326s	don't think he's going to get it because
14328s	wyra wouldn't even take a chance
14330s	of giving him ignite
14332s	but then from there you have one final
14334s	push as i said ramming mount doggy
14335s	biscuit barb nets get that damage in
14337s	while you can push it face but at 26
14339s	with the hero card yet to come roon
14341s	mordresh all these powerhouse plays
14343s	coming down i think verath is uh
14346s	approaching the end of this game
14350s	yeah the wild spirits are you know great
14352s	early but the later and later you go the
14355s	more you're sort of frustrated with that
14357s	dormant time period
14358s	and uh you know mages even on the
14361s	controlling side of things can get
14362s	pretty aggressive as soon as magister
14365s	dawngrass comes down and just by the
14367s	nature of the volatile skeletons
14374s	probably the best role there i think
14375s	you're glad not to have another bear
14387s	yeah i agreed
14392s	ramming mount is nice but you can't even
14394s	afford to take advantage of its trading
14396s	utility
14398s	yeah not at all clock is ticking
14400s	i mean it almost makes me wonder if it
14402s	was just more worth it to go hero power
14404s	there plus click clocker i i guess this
14406s	is just a slightly stickier board
14407s	overall so it
14409s	does make a decent amount of sense uh
14411s	but it's certainly not going to be
14413s	winning him the game right now
14416s	how still a fair amount of stats in play
14419s	you know between four seven three five
14422s	you gotta imagine if something is
14423s	sticking to then land this doggie
14425s	biscuit next turn uh this is a ton of
14427s	armor though
14428s	i think that's
14430s	really not what ferrath wanted to see
14432s	just picking up the drake fire amulet
14434s	even if it gets traded right away you
14436s	know it's done its job 10 armor
14438s	uh we can
14441s	how close are we to mordrish
14444s	because the reckless apprentice was
14445s	played but there's been no wildfires
14448s	i think we're like three or four away
14449s	still it's uh
14451s	yeah because there were like three or
14453s	four minions here he's pinned a couple
14455s	times yeah i don't think that's a win
14457s	condition quite yet
14459s	that is an
14460s	interesting top deck though right
14464s	yeah i like trying to set up for that
14467s	you can
14469s	i mean so you won't get the nag
14471s	activation with barb nets i feel like
14473s	that never right
14474s	um
14475s	but you can
14476s	you pick up let's see we never want to
14479s	double the coin either
14481s	i feel like you have to trade the donkey
14482s	biscuit that's just for you
14486s	okay okay double doggy okay yeah yeah
14488s	yeah
14489s	it's all in
14491s	here i wonder i i kind of
14495s	maybe that was supposed to be you just
14496s	pray that you draw the best card ever
14498s	off the top and you get to double that
14500s	like maybe
14502s	i don't know like say collateral damage
14503s	doesn't really work anymore but aim shot
14505s	could have done something
14507s	in the end though he's just going all
14509s	all in here and it's relying on the rune
14512s	of the arc page for wyra of course to
14515s	swing this one back
14517s	it all comes down to this inevitably
14519s	when you're a big spell mage polymorph
14521s	probably the worst target there
14524s	um
14525s	all these spells are required to hit
14527s	opposing minions which is what has made
14529s	this card a bit better than
14531s	the
14532s	yog boxes of old where you truly had no
14535s	idea where they were gonna land
14537s	uh counterspell pretty great pick up
14540s	there
14542s	even if it does nothing else you get to
14544s	freeze the remaining minion
14548s	i really like trading away the 1-1 there
14550s	as well just to play around collateral
14551s	damage like i think he's realizing this
14553s	game is very approach uh very rapidly
14556s	approaching him winning uh so we just
14558s	need to play around any outs whatsoever
14560s	and he should be fine
14561s	as uh
14562s	[Music]
14563s	right now we're on for a uh
14565s	another go just parrot and box number
14568s	two
14570s	maybe you could also just try and get
14571s	the barbaric sorceress down knowing your
14573s	opponent has no spells there's
14575s	effectively no downside so you could put
14576s	a taunt in the way but yeah it's not
14579s	really high enough value with only one
14581s	freeze available so
14583s	go again
14585s	the barrier is massive and cold case as
14588s	well
14594s	extra counter spell so that's that's
14595s	face up now
14597s	oh my god the freeze every time pharah
14600s	you poor man
14603s	i mean this is just kind of
14605s	what happens right rune of the archmage
14607s	is
14608s	so very likely to do something that you
14611s	know
14611s	maybe gives you a couple secrets clears
14613s	a bit of the board at the very least
14615s	freezes things
14617s	it's just turned out to be
14619s	so powerful for these mages to the point
14621s	that some of the skeleton mages that are
14624s	going 40 cards are just running rune
14625s	without barbaric or belinda
14632s	okay
14633s	oh the counter spell as well like it's
14636s	the best top deck in his deck but it's
14637s	still just not good enough is it
14639s	when he knows that there's a counter
14641s	spell because it was rolled over both
14643s	runes
14644s	so you know
14645s	sad news i mean
14647s	maybe you even just don't cast it until
14650s	you can cast it with something else
14654s	i feel like this is always sort of an
14656s	odd spot to be in as something like a
14657s	face hunter where
14660s	you know they're not going to kill you
14661s	for a while
14662s	but you're also just sort of like well
14664s	but where do i go from here
14667s	it's it's just at what point do you
14669s	finally decide it's too much and you've
14671s	got to concede
14673s	i think right about now
14678s	oh the uh
14680s	lesser spotted re-damage ping as well
14683s	you don't see that but yeah why are
14685s	finally throwing it down as i struggle
14686s	for anything interesting to talk about
14687s	in that end game that was thoroughly
14689s	over at that point in the series why are
14691s	two games up to zero uh and at the uh
14695s	the four one score line we believe both
14697s	our players are rocking right now here
14699s	in round six
14701s	uh a loss pretty much puts them out of
14703s	contention uh to making it through to
14705s	the top 16. very very unlikely at the
14707s	very least you have to get some really
14709s	good tie breakers uh to be making it
14711s	through at which point it's fully out of
14713s	your hands and so for wire a single
14715s	extra win puts him through to a very
14717s	good position for top 16 but for pharath
14719s	he is on his final lifeline right now
14722s	one more loss and his hopes of the top
14724s	16 are pretty much dashed
14728s	yeah and that's always the thing you
14729s	hoped for but at that point you can sort
14730s	of say all right well we're not making
14733s	top 16 we'll do our best to qualify
14735s	for the final master's tour of the year
14738s	and that's what you've got to go for in
14741s	terms of winning out end of 6-2
14744s	uh
14744s	not not the dream but
14746s	something to still play for
14747s	[Music]
14750s	all right so now finally just the druid
14752s	left over and i gotta say when i saw
14754s	this deck in uh over solari party which
14757s	as i said jambre brought a very similar
14759s	list subtly different i think there were
14761s	a couple of less spells he was playing
14764s	to get a little bit more consistency in
14766s	going nightshade bud in to convoke the
14770s	spirits
14771s	but the same core of the deck was very
14773s	much there where you run basically no
14775s	spells almost all minions
14778s	and then you try and hit the combo of
14780s	green thumb gardener which refreshes
14783s	mana crystals equal to the most
14785s	expensive card in your hand so in this
14787s	deck you pretty much always get a zero
14789s	mana four or five whatever it is on the
14791s	turn you play it five five sorry and
14793s	then you play kale fast and then you
14795s	play something really really big and you
14797s	hope to win the game you've got a lot of
14798s	them in the deck alex devourer and nyxia
14801s	neptulon and danathrius as well all
14804s	would do absolutely fine it's such a
14807s	cool deck i don't even think he was
14808s	running barbaric sorceresses in there
14810s	which uh wyra has now tossed in as well
14813s	just for a little bit of extra high roll
14814s	potential uh but yeah trust me this deck
14817s	is just pure it's a content machine
14820s	you're never going to run out of clips
14821s	if you're playing this on stream
14823s	it's it's a little bit of extra hyrule
14825s	and it's a little bit of disruption
14826s	right because convoke the spirits you
14828s	know 10 mana sometimes you just make
14831s	something important for your opponent
14832s	costs 10 and that's card they're unable
14834s	to use the rest of the time
14836s	so really excited to see this i uh did
14838s	not watch soldiery party early so this
14840s	is very fresh and new for me
14845s	up against face hunter though
14849s	doubts severe doubts i've got to be
14851s	honest there's no ramp there or much
14853s	more limited ramp in the the start turns
14856s	yes you're running a much more dense
14858s	minion package at the uh the start you
14861s	have as we can see a druid at the reef
14863s	jerry mailbox uh brand starfish park
14866s	panther
14867s	it can be good enough but it's only like
14870s	a quarter of the deck maybe less
14872s	actually that is uh these really really
14874s	cheap plays so you're far from
14876s	guaranteed to find them uh even though
14879s	right now wyra has actually got a decent
14881s	enough starting hand
14884s	mean the deck doesn't run wild growth
14886s	like you said you know limiting the
14888s	total spell count to increase
14889s	consistency of fine and convoke the
14891s	spirits but uh lots of early game
14895s	minions they're not sort of the most
14897s	premium early game minions but it's
14899s	something to do against face hunter
14900s	which is sometimes more than most ramp
14902s	druids can save themselves park panther
14904s	especially just such a great tool for
14906s	clearing the board
14908s	uh i almost wonder if you'll see
14910s	starfish come down on three just to
14913s	be a two-four i don't know
14917s	often the silliest thing i've ever heard
14920s	having casted with raven before
14923s	[Laughter]
14925s	well
14927s	if there is just enough time because of
14929s	being 40 life etc and barbaric sorceress
14932s	is a three seven taunt
14935s	we've got that nightshade butt in hand
14937s	we may well see
14939s	barack cotibane come down
14941s	and then it's followed by a sorceress
14943s	from wire and and
14945s	[Music]
14946s	you know
14947s	we'll see what the spirits have to say
14948s	about this game i guess
14952s	oh that'd be so sick i'm just gonna have
14954s	a one more look through the list i can't
14955s	remember if it's guaranteed that you get
14958s	a bud because how many spells are
14960s	there's nourish
14961s	scale
14964s	innovate miracle growth
14966s	and convert so there's a chance that
14969s	uh juarez misses on the nightshade bud
14971s	but he's only running one bud uh which
14973s	means that he can't hit the same one
14975s	again
14976s	well and if you hit
14978s	scale
14979s	are you are you that sad about it right
14982s	if you get barbaric sorceress three
14984s	seven taunt and and now you've got a
14986s	scale of enyxia i don't think you're
14987s	that unhappy agreed
14989s	uh what does make you quite unhappy is
14991s	uh rapping mount on turn three when they
14993s	already have a pretty much unbeatable
14995s	board that is gonna push a lot of damage
14999s	face and not even lose one uh one iota
15002s	of the current board presence
15004s	yeah gonna have to use that park panther
15006s	just to clear up the mounts uh
15008s	potentially both sides of the mount
15011s	true yeah
15016s	i think you you want as much trade
15018s	potential as possible
15021s	maybe
15022s	value so that they have to kill the
15024s	panther right you can actually take more
15026s	damage off the board by just ignoring
15029s	the
15030s	mounted minion
15034s	leaves yourself vulnerable to a few
15035s	things but but
15037s	yeah i guess that is the case sometimes
15039s	you could take advantage of the fact
15040s	that people
15041s	want to get the value out of the immune
15043s	attack and just use it as a way of
15045s	gaining life
15048s	i
15049s	think you're supposed to trade into the
15051s	4-4 here because even though
15053s	mitigating the damage is very very
15055s	important in this match-up you're
15056s	actually looking to win back board right
15059s	in the near future it's it's not about
15061s	just stalling out forever
15063s	and trying to ramp up to infinity and
15065s	then you know play uh and nyxia and
15067s	denaturius on the same turn or whatever
15069s	like you're doing the ramp versions of
15070s	druid you need to be a little bit more
15072s	honest about it for the moment you're
15073s	just playing one or two minutes a turn
15077s	clearly wire disagrees it might save him
15078s	a lot more health in the long run but it
15080s	means there's a very very tough to kill
15082s	minions sticking around on the board
15086s	and
15088s	nothing really to do this turn i guess
15090s	it's theater
15091s	what do you even take i guess
15095s	to get rid of the wild spirits you sort
15097s	of want them to have a spell
15099s	they've so much they don't have much
15101s	room on board though right like
15104s	i guess they could trade a couple of
15105s	them in and then go for arrow
15108s	it's it's risky to take the barb nets i
15110s	think is the main thing because you want
15112s	that to be in their hand no matter what
15114s	they do
15121s	jerry rigg of course does nothing for
15123s	any other class since they have no
15125s	choose one cards
15132s	i mean
15133s	i i like getting a stack sooner rather
15135s	than later great
15140s	oh yeah look at that so clean the full
15143s	distribution all of them
15145s	well it's dad coming soon but uh yeah
15148s	all the spirits on board there
15150s	and
15152s	now we get we get to see the barbaric
15154s	sorceress and and find out if it's going
15156s	to be enough to save wire here because
15159s	uh we're falling behind
15162s	extra 5'5 for good measure yeah except
15165s	he knows right because the the barb nets
15167s	was played uh like it turns out the
15169s	counter to bob was was just bob all
15172s	along because
15173s	uh he knows the two cards in hand
15175s	because he spied the hand he gave the
15176s	jerry rig as well so it's just not an
15179s	option this is the only play available
15180s	and just has to pray that by some
15183s	miracle he can survive until turn eight
15185s	and then just hard cast it
15187s	well the boomkin pickup is actually
15189s	quite good for that right either using
15191s	it for four damage on the 5-4 or for the
15194s	eight healing
15195s	um you know airline was not a terrible
15198s	pickup in that way as well because the
15200s	3-1 rush comes comes into effect of
15203s	course you know four or five to fight on
15205s	board it's not great but it is you know
15207s	something
15208s	uh might be able to just buy enough time
15210s	to play the nightshade on eight
15213s	and i believe this is every hearthstone
15215s	player's least favorite phrase to hear
15217s	one damage off lethal because if i count
15220s	it correctly he is uh
15223s	yeah the closest you can be without
15225s	actually getting there which should be
15227s	enough it should be close enough here to
15229s	be the difference maker but like you
15230s	said the boomkin and i don't know what
15233s	else you could you get there's no
15236s	uh
15239s	sorry there's no earthen scales of
15240s	course which is the one you'd really be
15241s	looking for innovate i guess was the top
15243s	deck right to go nightshade bud into the
15246s	box
15248s	yeah i think just with the hunter hero
15250s	power and that weapon there's really no
15251s	outs you're forced to heal off the boom
15253s	kin and then you just can't clear enough
15255s	of the board so really heads up play
15257s	from fair out making sure to get rid of
15260s	the barb nets you know it's not a
15262s	guarantee that they have the sorceress
15264s	in hand although i think you can kind of
15265s	take the signal of the barb nets not
15268s	having been taken that that's what your
15269s	opponent is trying to do because it
15271s	otherwise looked pretty clean to take
15273s	the barb nets and use it immediately on
15275s	the board
15278s	interesting game
15280s	and i think probably the best deck out
15282s	of the way for
15284s	barra in terms of the rest of his lineup
15286s	uh the
15288s	warlock that he has is
15292s	a little bit more of a weird one it's
15293s	like half imp warlock but it has just a
15295s	very clunky top end with
15298s	uh chao that's gigafin and atherius uh
15302s	yes to close out at the top but it is
15304s	essentially just still the imp package
15305s	which should as well actually i guess be
15307s	pretty good against the druid um
15310s	really only
15311s	oh that was banned away sorry okay so is
15313s	the hunter uh the rogue and the uh the
15316s	shaman left over apologies uh which i
15318s	think both have me talking about this
15320s	new development in warlock that so many
15322s	are doing which is using
15324s	kale those to get out some top end
15325s	either gigafin or denathrius murlocula
15328s	is there as an infuse you can get to be
15330s	zero mana so you can actually play kale
15332s	those on curve and then a zero mana
15334s	molecular to get out one of the big
15336s	things kind of a new development in the
15339s	poor lock space but it is going to be
15341s	that
15343s	tempo rogue i think was the best thing
15345s	from our options but we've been calling
15347s	it lambie rogue the creator of the deck
15349s	a really sweet list
15351s	shroud of concealment specifically
15352s	targeting drawing you know wild pawn
15354s	knolls or necklord or
15357s	edwin as a main source of card draw and
15360s	then it's just make a big minion or a
15362s	big weapon with sin stone graveyard
15365s	go in there
15366s	it's a deck i'm not necessarily going to
15368s	say is
15370s	really top tier but it's definitely a
15372s	deck i really like it suits my style of
15374s	play very very much so it's got a really
15376s	nice mix between uh combo and tempo
15379s	between saving up your resources for one
15382s	big burst versus just playing cards
15384s	every single turn both strategies
15386s	depending on the match up have a lot of
15388s	merit uh and it'll be interesting to see
15391s	which way pharah goes about it does keep
15394s	tracker in the starting hand which i
15396s	don't know about you but that's a card
15397s	that i've been kind of going back and
15399s	forth on whether or not i like actually
15401s	keeping it in the starting hand
15404s	yeah it's interesting if you have the
15405s	tools to go with it it can just sort of
15407s	solo some matches uh the warlock hero
15410s	power is massive pickup oh yeah for
15413s	making that happen because you're able
15415s	to just draw some cards on those early
15418s	turns uh we might even so still see
15422s	something like a coin shroud
15424s	up against a druid maybe you've got some
15426s	more breathing room to kind of just take
15428s	it slow save your coin tap
15431s	shroud next turn
15433s	even if you get a zero man and all you
15435s	just don't play it and kind of go all in
15437s	on that drakka play
15439s	i think the problem is if you go coin
15441s	shroud your nulls cost
15443s	one which is a very very very big
15446s	difference when compared to zero uh
15448s	which is of course what you want them to
15449s	cost whereas here zero man and all
15451s	perfect yes you have to play it instead
15453s	of being able to use it to juice up that
15455s	drakka a little more the next turn but
15457s	that's uh that's okay that's not a
15459s	disaster uh the main problem with this
15461s	hand right now is
15463s	it looks like it's like two turns away
15466s	from really popping off with that
15468s	tracker on the same turn which is the uh
15471s	the two turns that wire needs to really
15473s	get moving on the other side of the
15475s	board
15476s	yeah absolutely no wild growth in the
15478s	deck but there's still nourish and the
15481s	uh four new new four drop
15484s	uh
15485s	widow bloom seeds man oh yes there we go
15487s	with those picked up for why are able to
15490s	get out either just this wild growth
15492s	naturally or just go in on the barbaric
15494s	sorceress because you know a rogue
15496s	opponent is going to have some very
15498s	cheap spells for you to swap with
15504s	setting up the simstone graveyard
15506s	presumably for some kind of pop-off next
15508s	turn
15510s	or maybe making a minion this turn we'll
15512s	see
15514s	man the options available to wire here
15516s	though a low key just kind of disgusting
15518s	like whether you hit growth or convoke
15520s	the spirits you're gonna be in a great
15522s	position but this i think is the
15524s	absolute nuts this is the power of this
15527s	deck
15529s	or is it what are these spells
15531s	what is this it's something it's uh it's
15534s	ted's what are these
15535s	they could be anything oh
15537s	oh no that's five
15542s	there we go it's it's got it got better
15545s	oh two innervates though not really what
15548s	you're looking for but probably still
15550s	just enough i think if pharath was
15553s	looking to go in on a necro-lord draka
15555s	that possibility is uh
15557s	no longer looking very good in the face
15559s	of multiple seven health taunts
15562s	yeah that was pretty below average but
15564s	it's still more than good enough to win
15566s	this game like you say you you'd kind of
15568s	just pay eight mana for a uh best in
15570s	shell there and be pretty happy about it
15574s	and then uh probably won't matter but
15576s	the druid of the wreath oh wait druid of
15578s	the reef doesn't even keep the buffs
15579s	right because it transforms
15581s	so those gardens that got played don't
15583s	even do anything
15586s	they're actively bad in fact right if
15589s	if there were
15591s	reg yeah well there's if you pick up the
15594s	eight mana to discover a spell from your
15596s	deck now you've got a chance of
15597s	discovering the sunken gardens oh that's
15600s	true yeah
15605s	edwin picked up with a spare shadow step
15608s	here that i imagine is going to get
15609s	played
15614s	i really don't want a shadow step here i
15615s	hate shadow stepping edwin but
15617s	i guess you're right like the problem is
15619s	that shadow stepping edwin in the old
15621s	rogue deck was okay because you had mr
15622s	smite right you could set up for
15624s	a huge 20 damage burst combo against
15627s	some of the slower decks especially if
15628s	they didn't run torn
15630s	here though it's just so brutally slow
15634s	are you going to play it again next turn
15635s	play some more spells again at the end
15637s	of it you have like an 8 8 10 10 best
15639s	case scenario
15641s	terrible
15643s	yeah i honestly might have been willing
15645s	to just burn there rather than use the
15647s	coin as well because i feel like if you
15648s	are gonna step edwin then what you've
15650s	got to do is work your way towards a
15652s	coin scabs to kind of reset get that
15655s	hero power rolling and hope you can just
15657s	make a massive edwin that they can't do
15659s	anything about and having gotten the
15662s	taunts out of the way sort of force them
15663s	to be replayed if they want to stop a
15666s	large dagger
15668s	this location has been here for multiple
15669s	turns and has not been activated clearly
15672s	not what you want is the rogue
15674s	yeah and just look at these powerhouse
15676s	cards coming in danathrius scale
15679s	insatiable devourer all incredibly
15680s	powerful cards forcing farath into
15684s	finding
15685s	scabs pretty much exclusively here like
15688s	oh sorry he has it in hand which
15689s	apologies he can go for right now very
15691s	clever play as well to hold on to the uh
15694s	the bone spike last turn which allows
15697s	him to play this six mana scabs
15699s	yeah prep bone spike makes for some
15702s	really interesting interactions the fact
15703s	that you can basically turn your prep
15705s	into prep anything i think very very fun
15709s	uh still may not be enough just because
15711s	of the sheer
15712s	quantity of taunts wire is still sitting
15715s	at 40 life
15716s	and the ability to play denathrius at
15720s	some point could even just use starfish
15723s	plus scale if you want to make sure you
15726s	can clear these minions
15728s	oh you just play your edmond don't you
15730s	it's an 80.
15732s	i don't think you want to get any
15733s	greedier than that sizzle
15737s	yep i can't hold on but that edwin play
15741s	opens up
15742s	devourer right
15744s	it does yeah um i'm looking at people
15748s	out a little bit more
15749s	uh because with scale coming down now uh
15752s	and then the other silence as well yeah
15754s	i mean
15755s	it's just the line he finds it straight
15756s	away right it juices up to nathrius
15758s	juices up the devourer uh chao that's
15761s	being burned hurts a little because bran
15764s	danatharius is now a long way off you'd
15766s	have to find guff and then ramp a bit
15768s	first as well uh but the headline is
15770s	still very much that wire is just
15772s	sitting at 40 health right and uh look
15775s	at his hand
15778s	yeah it's all juice in there you know
15780s	honestly
15781s	barring hitting exactly the spell that
15784s	you already debuffed to 10 mana you
15786s	could just sorceress again and figure 5
15788s	mana swap is going to be more expensive
15791s	than any spell that the rogue
15793s	runs just as a little bit of a
15795s	disruption
15802s	so many resources having to be committed
15804s	here maybe you just need to tooth and
15806s	find something
15811s	i like that plan let's just hope for a
15813s	miracle
15816s	i mean that is the other uh name of the
15819s	archetype as you know in a sense the
15820s	miracle rogue not full in on gadgets but
15823s	it is sort of just
15825s	do stuff and hope it's enough
15828s	but do stuff rogue thanksgiving
15837s	[Music]
15838s	gold
15839s	yeah coat of cold is the best one but
15841s	not exactly what you're looking for
15844s	here powered tracker that doesn't even
15846s	do that much it's not like a four four
15848s	attack weapon i think
15850s	yeah
15853s	yep just more more minions uh you do
15858s	ah that might have been a misplacement
15860s	on
15861s	location because it does always summon
15864s	to the one side so
15866s	you could have placed the location so
15868s	that
15869s	not all of these could have been eaten
15871s	but as it stands devour just coming in
15874s	massive there uh not that you're even in
15876s	huge dangers hitting at 35 as is the
15879s	druid um
15880s	but
15881s	you know one attack of that thing
15884s	you can prevent it with the cone of coal
15885s	but it's it's still coming
15888s	and i think we're just going to see
15890s	devourer plus an atherius ending up
15892s	being the
15893s	closing line of this match
15896s	if nothing else i gotta say farah's
15898s	facial expressions have been so
15899s	perfectly representative of how i felt
15901s	every time something like this happened
15903s	to me he's just nailed it exactly like
15905s	oh i just made a huge misplay
15907s	but i'm just kind of getting high rolled
15909s	so i'm gonna yeah you know whatever it
15912s	happens
15913s	not my fault
15915s	yeah 40 life sneaky
15918s	bunch of big minions what do you get
15921s	and there it is the series goes to wyra
15923s	and i do want to mention as well not
15926s	that it's definitively right or wrong at
15928s	all but just another interesting point
15929s	in the uh the debate i was having there
15931s	at the start dracker kept in the
15933s	starting hand wasn't played for the
15935s	entire game just sat there in hand doing
15938s	absolutely nothing and yes he missed out
15941s	on a couple of those key
15943s	early cards that activate it the uh the
15946s	cutlass to be trading away and cheapen
15947s	your spells i don't know a couple of
15949s	preps maybe uh in order to get more down
15952s	at the same time but it still was just a
15954s	completely useless card here and uh not
15957s	a card that i personally favor keeping
15960s	yeah i have to agree you know if you can
15962s	find stuff like the cutlass early and
15964s	just get those trades then you're not
15965s	worried about
15966s	playing an early shroud right because
15969s	your nulls are discounted so it maybe it
15971s	just shifts the dynamic of the game and
15973s	all comes down turn earlier i do think
15975s	with the ramp that wire had that it may
15978s	not have mattered but absolutely i think
15981s	keeping something like necklace renekal
15983s	or draca is is very risky in the deck
15988s	indeed indeed uh and so with that said i
15992s	believe
15993s	um we have a little bit more uh to come
15997s	from this round uh unless i'm very much
16000s	mistaken uh before we get round seven
16003s	ready approaching the end of the uh the
16005s	day's action here uh but taking a look
16007s	at the match we have now i think it's
16009s	gonna be
16010s	cheesehead
16012s	goose
16013s	yeah cheesehead and wet goose man what a
16015s	couple they would make
16017s	if we were to further the discussion
16018s	from earlier with cheesehead about
16020s	people embodying their names this would
16022s	be quite the strange one
16024s	yeah indeed just the
16026s	block of gouda on top of his shoulders
16030s	but yeah not a player that i'm overly
16032s	familiar with wet goose uh i have come
16034s	across a few times before mainly just
16035s	facing him on ladder he's one of those
16037s	players not to shame him too heavily
16039s	that floats around the same rank as me
16042s	uh when i'm on the the higher side of my
16044s	uh my range he is i think one of those
16046s	uh overall very very strong ladder
16048s	finishes i think he's actually
16050s	i'm sure someone uh listening will be
16052s	able to correct me but i think wet goose
16054s	has like one of
16055s	the best
16057s	ladder win rates of uh he's got some
16060s	stat where he's right up at the top of
16061s	ladder like he's got the most like close
16063s	to the most rank one finishes or top ten
16065s	finishes some kind of claim to fame is
16067s	for some reason popping up in my head i
16069s	have no idea if it's correct or not but
16071s	i think basically the point is he is a
16072s	player you see a lot on ladder just
16074s	because he plays an awful lot of ladder
16076s	as his main attribute
16078s	i just can't get out of my head the
16080s	image of you know the aflac mascot as as
16083s	a head and then for cheesehead
16086s	have you ever seen in wisconsin how some
16089s	people have these cheese head hats just
16091s	because it's it's a very big dairy state
16094s	in the u.s
16095s	it's uh it's really something
16097s	i i know that wisconsin is the dairy
16100s	state because roz from frasier is from
16103s	uh wisconsin and she makes a joke about
16105s	it that's
16106s	the closest i've ever come to wisconsin
16108s	i think and the closest i'd like to be
16110s	for that master as well uh but yes as we
16113s	get settled in here we can take a look
16114s	at both of these players decks the
16115s	control sharpen the mid-range shaman
16117s	whatever you want to call it here uh is
16119s	going to be for cheesehead the pretty
16122s	much standard list here one famished
16124s	full slotted in there as well which i'm
16125s	a big fan of one smothering starfish as
16128s	well it's just a good deck right now and
16130s	i think we're going to be seeing it a
16131s	lot uh towards the top uh 16 as well
16134s	yeah i think it's really the fours that
16136s	have sort of been the flex are you
16137s	running crud caretaker caverns or one of
16140s	okani
16141s	there's not a lot of flex slots but
16144s	those have usually been where people
16146s	mess about
16148s	starfish like you mentioned sometimes
16150s	you don't care about how big things are
16152s	but in the mirror if you can just throw
16154s	that down and your board actually gets
16155s	to attack it's better than it
16157s	not getting the q attack even if you get
16159s	rid of the stats so
16161s	starfish i think just has a lot of
16163s	utility in this meta due to the
16165s	prevalence of all the snowfall guardians
16167s	and even from the mages there's a lot of
16169s	freezes on that side as
16171s	well uh also i do want to bring up as
16174s	well that i think for wet goose let me
16177s	look at his score line uh i do want to
16179s	bring up as well because i had a little
16180s	look at his twitter to see if he would
16182s	have uh
16184s	any indication to his ladder stats and
16186s	in his bio it says uh top 16 finishes
16189s	every month since may 2020. no idea when
16191s	that was last updated but whenever it
16193s	was that's pretty gosh dang impressive
16195s	if you ask me uh and also that he is uh
16198s	on his way out from competitive
16199s	hearthstone i believe was just riding
16201s	the last couple of mts that he had
16203s	garnered himself an invite to
16206s	uh but it's one of those things that
16207s	always seems to happen when players say
16209s	they want to quit hearthstone is as soon
16211s	as they stop letting the uh the pressure
16214s	get to them they stop wanting it so much
16216s	and they're just like uh whatever will
16218s	happen will happen they just start
16219s	winning they just get out of their own
16221s	heads and they just play the best
16222s	hearthstone of their lives like fino
16225s	twitchcon into uh the solari party back
16229s	to back just nailed both of them winning
16231s	both tournaments playing some incredible
16232s	hearthstone all the way along the way
16234s	because like he said you know he's just
16236s	a streamer now he's just enjoying the
16238s	life and because of that he played some
16240s	of the best hearthstone of his career
16243s	yeah absolutely i think it's very easy
16245s	to get inside your own head and so once
16246s	you kind of relieve that stress you can
16248s	just move on i think also you know if
16251s	you are this good at hearthstone
16254s	it makes sense that at some point you
16255s	might make a decision of hey you know i
16257s	can do this but also i've i'm really
16259s	smart i've got a lot of other things i
16261s	could get into i've been doing this a
16262s	long time maybe i'm interested in
16264s	putting those talents elsewhere you know
16266s	a lot of folks move on to do some really
16268s	impressive things bunny hopper of course
16270s	being a doctor as well oh yeah needy
16272s	another doctor so
16274s	lots of very very uh smart folks in the
16277s	hearthstone community
16279s	meaty honestly i'm starting to doubt
16281s	whether he's a doctor like i feel like
16283s	we might all just be being bamboozled in
16284s	like the biggest con of all time like
16287s	i i know he's a super smart guy but like
16290s	i don't know man
16291s	just just some of the tools what are the
16292s	takes the meat man really i don't see it
16298s	oh well i'll stop i'll stop flaming our
16300s	players and jump into the this series
16303s	here uh what goes on the quest hunter
16305s	verse uh the uh the control charm the 40
16308s	card mid-rangey style of shaman a
16311s	matchup that i was talking about a
16312s	little bit earlier that i think uh quest
16314s	hunter can kind of struggle in i don't
16317s	know why you come down on this but i
16318s	think it's just uh your opponent has so
16320s	much health and so many ways to gain
16323s	health in the later game as well so many
16324s	ways to wreak havoc with your hand
16326s	uh that it just takes a little bit too
16329s	long and your game plan is a little bit
16330s	too shaky for me as the uh the quest
16332s	hunter
16333s	i think it really comes down to sort of
16335s	the quest completion
16337s	area of the game right is how awkward
16340s	does it end up being to delay until you
16342s	can complete the quest and play the
16344s	reward in the same turn if it's not
16346s	awkward at all i think the hunter has a
16348s	pretty
16349s	solid chance at winning because
16352s	apart from the barucon hero i don't
16354s	think there's a ton of healing available
16357s	so you're really just hoping to dodge
16358s	something like an early 10 drop off of
16360s	wild pawn mukpools
16363s	you hope not to get anything too serious
16365s	stolen from a theater
16367s	and we saw cheesehead even just throwing
16369s	away mutinous because as the shaman you
16371s	almost expect that the hunter is going
16373s	to try and play the reward in the same
16375s	turn
16376s	so
16376s	it's much more important to use
16378s	something like a piatar to take one of
16380s	their damage spells than it is to
16383s	usually go for a mutinous onto the
16385s	tavish so rarely does a hunter feel
16388s	comfortable just completing the quest
16390s	and then having the rewards sit in hand
16392s	for one turn because uh you know that's
16394s	an insta lose the game if it gets taken
16399s	cheesehead right now hoping to uh
16403s	put his name into action by cheesing
16405s	this game with a null off the top he's
16407s	got the full hand he's got the muck pull
16408s	he's got everything he needs
16410s	uh except for the null itself which
16413s	would obviously massively catapult him
16415s	into the lead so for right now he has to
16417s	make do with what is generally like the
16419s	second best thing you can do in this
16421s	matchup against quest hunter uh you know
16424s	the knoll pop off being number one uh
16426s	but doing lots of stats all at once is
16429s	what you want to do i think against
16430s	quest until like a little bit turn after
16432s	turn is perfect for them they play one
16435s	or two spells a turn they get the hero
16436s	power down to zero and every single
16438s	thing dies whereas here one or two
16440s	minions are pretty likely to actually
16442s	survive and get some damage face
16445s	yeah i'm actually a little bit surprised
16447s	at that first war leader pickup of
16448s	course not knowing he was going to be
16450s	offered a second but the finley had to
16453s	be pretty interesting there that being
16455s	the finley of old which changes your
16457s	hero power so maybe hesitated for so
16459s	long on that decision just because of
16461s	the option to pick up either the priest
16463s	hero power or the warrior hero power
16465s	which could give you just enough life to
16467s	kind of keep you going until you find
16468s	something like a a brew con that can
16470s	offer even more healing but i i think
16473s	i see where his head's at right just
16475s	okay big border murlocs we'll play some
16477s	war leaders and try and
16479s	get in early damage
16485s	okay
16486s	leader here
16488s	a card that always
16491s	phases the two realities the two halves
16493s	of my brain between bgs and standard
16495s	like whenever i see it pop up in uh in a
16498s	regular hearthstone like wait a second
16499s	this isn't right there must be some kind
16501s	of mistake but yeah in this instance
16504s	pretty damn good for cheesehead to just
16506s	ratchet up the pressure i actually
16509s	wonder if it was ever worth it to just
16510s	take the pools evolve on the clownfish
16512s	there anyways because you have to know
16515s	that a deck built of entirely damaged
16516s	spells is going to be able to clear the
16518s	war later
16525s	now there's just no minions left in play
16527s	for good evolves
16529s	that's so sick look at this
16533s	you really need something big now like i
16534s	said the null would be the absolute
16536s	dream like i don't know maybe a brand to
16538s	go along the theater for a couple turns
16541s	time could be good enough but man she's
16543s	head not even trying to snipe the uh the
16546s	tavish in a couple turns time saying
16548s	realistically is my opponent ever gonna
16550s	give me the opportunity to actually
16552s	steal it
16553s	uh and just letting rip with uh the
16556s	theater and being met with some pretty
16558s	bad news honestly it's just a handful of
16561s	damage spells
16563s	yeah i think it's a tough choice there
16565s	right the spring the trap is something
16567s	that uh is not good for you but it is
16569s	good for the hunter no secrets having
16571s	been drawn yet with the honorable kill
16573s	could pull two of them out of the deck a
16575s	wound prey honestly may be a good option
16577s	to steal just because cheap damage is
16579s	the most flexible for that final leg
16582s	where you want to get the quest
16583s	completed and played in the same turn
16587s	on the decision here in terms of what to
16589s	give yeah starfish does the least for
16592s	your opponent
16598s	okay sure
16600s	kind of high health at least
16602s	kind of
16603s	kind of
16610s	so the big concern here for wet goose is
16613s	because your opponent played theater
16617s	does that give you any kind of read on
16619s	them having mutinous like
16621s	are they trying to lull you into a false
16623s	sense of security with what was pretty
16625s	obviously not going to be a good theater
16628s	do you want to get tavish into your hand
16630s	this turn or do you just need to wait an
16632s	extra turn and do it all at once
16636s	yeah it's it's always that question
16638s	right it's sort of uh rock paper
16640s	scissors of you know who who is assuming
16642s	which scenario we saw jesus had throwing
16645s	back the mutinous and playing the
16647s	theater out early
16648s	sort of as a respect that well i'm never
16651s	going to get the opportunity to use
16652s	these anyway to take the reward but then
16655s	how much does what goose kind of
16658s	assume the opponent is going to think
16660s	that way i
16661s	i think everyone's just going with the
16663s	worst right so what goose is going to
16666s	try and make sure that he can play
16668s	the quest reward on the same turn and
16670s	she said is just going to assume that
16671s	that's going to happen and just focus on
16673s	putting stats on board
16682s	football guardian pretty good amount of
16684s	stats that's pretty good yeah
16690s	uh to the point where now
16692s	is he one activation or two away from
16695s	[Music]
16696s	rubbish
16698s	i think we must be pretty close because
16701s	of the hesitation to do something like
16703s	trap
16705s	yeah
16706s	okay yeah yeah that does make sense
16708s	otherwise you would have always played
16709s	one of the uh the quick shots last turn
16711s	uh so yes i concur i'm happy with this
16714s	play
16715s	and now uh we're reaching an interesting
16717s	mid game right wet goose oh i suppose
16719s	late game actually for quest hunter uh
16721s	where wet goose has no card draw in hand
16724s	but a few damage spells dumbledore i
16726s	guess technically card draw and quick
16728s	trot as well technically but with the
16730s	way this is going that all looks way too
16732s	slow
16732s	because cheesehead is turning up the
16735s	pressure now upgrading the knoll hoping
16737s	for something big oh boy does it deliver
16740s	that is
16742s	monstrous
16744s	only response for that is something like
16746s	a freezing trap and with the wound prey
16748s	having been taken
16749s	there's a really easy answer unless uh
16752s	you're able to get your own board clear
16754s	so
16754s	wet goose is just gonna have to ignore
16756s	that for a while and take it and that's
16758s	not really something you can do for
16759s	terribly long
16766s	i think the question is whether to
16767s	bother rushing in or not
16770s	i don't even think you bother i think
16772s	you just want the most survivable minion
16774s	possible you have primordial wave next
16776s	turn if you need to to uh just deal with
16778s	most of the stats from tavis anyway i
16780s	like it
16784s	and i think actually interestingly as
16785s	well the para is
16787s	still no full guardian right because you
16789s	didn't actually play a
16793s	right
16794s	last turn
16795s	null and piranha do not have a battle
16796s	cry so yes yeah it is
16798s	still snowfall
16800s	interesting
16806s	no way to get the
16807s	honorable kill on the spring trap
16812s	and you also just can't
16814s	really justify going face here can you
16816s	even if you go
16818s	like uh
16821s	you know piercing shot on the uh the
16823s	snowfall guardians say for example to
16824s	take out most of the damage i i think
16826s	you do just have to be all on clearing
16827s	the board here which wet goose is
16830s	dutifully doing even if it feels
16832s	absolutely terrible
16834s	yeah trying to bluff a freezing i mean
16837s	not even really just sort of a hope
16839s	right you both know that it was randomly
16841s	out of the deck
16842s	i would expect to see wound prey used to
16844s	check
16852s	it gets the all clear
16855s	so now you're just expecting
16857s	freezing and i suppose the question is
16860s	whether or not you worry about this
16861s	tavis at all maybe just freeze it
16863s	another turn
16868s	i do like the attack overall i've got to
16870s	say i think this game it looks good for
16872s	cheesehead but the quality of his hand
16874s	is very very low right now uh this could
16877s	very very rapidly swing out of his
16879s	control so i think you need to attack
16880s	into something
16882s	and i think that something is still face
16886s	well so you could make the attack into
16889s	the tavish just so you don't have to
16890s	deal with it anymore you play a couple
16892s	of minions to flood board and then
16894s	expect that you're going to be playing
16896s	a primordial wave
16900s	to sort of you know refresh your 10 drop
16905s	yeah i don't mind this
16907s	just make
16908s	wide board the totem roll is actually
16911s	well i suppose not that nice when a hero
16913s	power invalidates it no matter what but
16915s	you know that with the death rattle it
16917s	should at least be somewhat challenging
16919s	and might involve trading the 77 to
16921s	actually deal with the stormborn
16924s	so yeah
16925s	more i think about it the more i like to
16926s	face it as well and you do have a fairly
16929s	easy clear here there's a couple ways
16931s	you can go about you could go obviously
16932s	piercing shot you could have got an aim
16934s	shot on the murloc and the 2 damage and
16937s	4 damage hero power to take out the
16939s	other 10 drop
16940s	but all of this works essentially the
16942s	same right you're able to clear the
16943s	board keep the tavish alive and
16945s	cheesehead's expression in all its
16948s	pixelated glory says it all right now
16950s	because he is starting to lose this game
16953s	and there aren't that many good top
16955s	decks left to him in all honesty
16957s	i think the best one honestly would be
16959s	bru khan for six damage and six heal
16962s	into
16963s	rolling another fireball that's pretty
16965s	much what you're looking for maybe even
16967s	just have to bolner
16969s	one of these right you know it's not ice
16971s	trap so you bowler
16974s	dungeoneer and then just use the wave
16976s	because most five drops are not seven
16978s	sixes
16979s	yeah i i think
16981s	fours rather
16982s	agreed yeah yeah you have to go with uh
16985s	ulna plus the uh the dungeoneer here
16987s	right like your hand just needs more
16989s	value you need to thin your deck even if
16991s	it doesn't draw you brew can obviously
16994s	it increases your chances of drawing
16995s	brucon which is really a win condition
16997s	here
16999s	and anything you get in play is still
17001s	something that dressed deal with on nine
17003s	life you can't really afford to let too
17005s	much stick around so
17008s	yeah i very much like to see the the
17010s	bolner dungeoneer and actually
17012s	you wouldn't even have to wave if you do
17014s	draw elemental right and pick up the
17016s	other sleep breaker
17024s	schooling is the first there it is oh
17026s	there we go
17028s	that's strong that's really strong turn
17030s	actually
17032s	yeah fills the hand back up
17034s	freeze the seven six one more turn you
17036s	can even involve the dungeoneer
17041s	and absolutely chock full once again for
17044s	uh cheese head wet goose though is gonna
17047s	have a refill turd of his own because he
17049s	gets furious howl
17051s	uh off the top which is like the best
17053s	card he could find right now
17056s	yeah it's still just gonna have to be a
17058s	little bit of chip damage as you do
17060s	clear the board so that'll be the real
17062s	test is how efficiently can wet boost
17064s	clear while still getting in just enough
17067s	damage to get over the finish line i i
17069s	don't think you can leave bolner up
17077s	multicaster with the arcane
17079s	yeah i guess you probably can't leave it
17081s	up can you uh but yeah multicaster
17083s	absolutely enormous here
17087s	i've heard
17088s	cheesehead may be wanting to make sure
17090s	that these piranhas always rush in
17091s	because any one one in play could just
17094s	mean a ton of damage from
17095s	the end of a piercing shot
17105s	do you just devour the seven six
17110s	probably not right
17112s	i don't think so yeah the problem is of
17113s	course the secret that's really scary
17115s	otherwise i'd love to go command of
17117s	neptulon this is kind of why i think he
17119s	was maybe supposed to hold on to the
17120s	schooling uh at the end of the last turn
17122s	i didn't get an opportunity to talk
17123s	about it but it's just a much much
17125s	better spell to deal with
17127s	uh ice trap than commander neptulon or
17130s	the wild poor uh caverns
17133s	yeah absolutely and with no null in hand
17135s	and one already used it's not providing
17138s	a ton of utility
17141s	uh so the last battle cry is now
17144s	uh
17145s	the sleep breaker i think right to give
17147s	another freeze off the parrot which is
17149s	something you can consider for sure uh
17153s	but i think you'd much rather try and
17154s	get command of neptune down but she said
17156s	looks
17157s	very surprised at that which
17160s	honestly he shouldn't
17163s	yeah what's happening i've seen an ice
17165s	and an explosive i'm i'm very surprised
17168s	uh
17169s	this isn't exactly what you want you
17171s	know wind chill
17172s	would have been the better thing to
17173s	bounce back if you were going to go in
17174s	on this line i think there may have been
17176s	a bit of panic there even playing the
17177s	one one which as i said before dangerous
17180s	in the face of piercing shot that's
17182s	right yeah i think we just
17184s	kind of had a bit of a brain delay there
17185s	like he clearly had something in mind
17188s	that he was convinced would happen and
17190s	those are the most disorienting points
17192s	in hearthstone when you're just
17193s	completely thrown
17195s	uh
17196s	by uh you know reality not matching up
17198s	to your expectations uh as now wet goose
17201s	is just finding an awful lot of damahe
17205s	stag charge piercing shot barb nets
17209s	is this lethal it's it's like it's kind
17211s	of close right it's it's very close i
17213s	think if it's not lethal this turn it's
17215s	uh it's
17216s	really getting there
17217s	yet
17218s	you know stag charge was the pickup i
17220s	don't know if the hesitation was what he
17222s	was just doing a bit of math but i i
17223s	think with the three from the
17224s	multicaster it's just enough
17227s	oh it's exact oh my god that's so sick
17230s	or okay maybe two over with the
17232s	explosive trap yes even so
17235s	yeah uh you hate to see it but a little
17237s	bit of um
17238s	[Music]
17240s	awkward turn for chee's head there
17242s	playing into the the ice trap uh but
17246s	well played for wet goose and you know
17248s	some of that latter experience showing
17250s	just how strong of a player he is you
17252s	know the quest hunter
17255s	can really just look like it has no
17257s	cards and then out of nowhere just has
17259s	all of these tools furious how of course
17261s	draws you a ton quick shot is an extra
17263s	card when you have an empty hand
17265s	so it can really jump back in out of
17267s	nowhere even if it looks like they're
17268s	out of resources
17270s	which means with that said and done we
17272s	are all finished up with our matches
17275s	from round six
17278s	i believe
17279s	yes all done going on to round seven
17281s	after this and so the players at the top
17283s	of the scoreboard in round six at the
17285s	six and o score and we have chewie woods
17289s	matty monsanto and love storms so uh
17293s	some decent representation from uh all
17296s	the regions except asia pacific i
17298s	believe uh at that top score line but
17301s	i'm sure they're they're just behind
17302s	right in uh the five on one score line
17305s	there's a good few apac players uh with
17308s	uh some pretty notable names at that
17310s	score line actually uh we have donkey a
17312s	real favorite of the casters for all his
17313s	stats work of course bonnie hopper glory
17317s	soros a player who i've casted with a
17320s	fair bit
17321s	a fair bunch
17322s	way back in the day fury hunter managed
17324s	to claw his way back to five and one
17326s	after losing on stream first round it's
17328s	expected from fury hunter yeah yeah even
17331s	possessing creeping in at five and one
17333s	as well after his world championship
17335s	victory last year so it's looking to be
17336s	a good masters tour actually in terms of
17338s	the top 16. i'm liking a lot of the
17340s	diversity we have at the top of the
17341s	field both in terms of uh region
17344s	representation uh player
17347s	um notoriety i guess would be the way to
17350s	put it that we have there as well i'm
17352s	feeling pumped
17353s	[Music]
17355s	me too yeah really looking forward to it
17358s	all right with that all said and done
17360s	let's go to a quick break and then when
17361s	we come back round seven of masters tour
17364s	murder at castle nathria will begin
17375s	[Music]
17379s	so
17381s	[Music]
17409s	so
17411s	[Music]
17446s	you
17460s	[Music]
17484s	[Music]
17499s	so
17503s	[Music]
17516s	foreign
17517s	[Music]
17556s	right
17565s	hello everyone and welcome back to
17567s	masters tour murder at castle nathria
17570s	i'm raven and joining me is a very uh
17573s	jiggly tj i guess we're gonna go for
17576s	here welcome my friend i've not cast
17577s	with you yet this weekend so it's the
17579s	first time here how's it going how you
17580s	enjoying the masters tour
17582s	ah it's been good it's been good um i
17584s	mentioned at the very beginning that i'm
17585s	a fan of this meta game we're not going
17587s	to meet it for very much longer
17588s	apparently
17590s	based on what happened yesterday but
17592s	uh still i like the decks that have rose
17595s	up in popularity and some of these cool
17597s	decks and players lineups that
17600s	we may not have expected outside of you
17601s	know the druid shaman so
17604s	i've been enjoying it raven i've been
17605s	enjoying it and i was just copying you
17607s	uh nobody at home knows but uh the year
17610s	i can see you and you're doing it too so
17613s	very true i'm upset you've revealed my
17616s	secrets tj of uh what i do when people
17619s	are or viewers can't see me but here are
17621s	the two players we are going to kick it
17622s	off with with this round seven match up
17625s	and it's gonna be two uh previous
17627s	players we have a lot of experience
17628s	casting tj uh a rock versus language
17632s	hacker uh coming right up we are gonna
17634s	have a double shaymin ban as well so
17636s	we're not gonna get any uh i would say
17638s	for me sharon feels like the deck that
17640s	can play the most drawn out games right
17642s	it does feel like it's just 40 high
17645s	value cards and it's just who burns out
17647s	more or which deck sort of opens that
17649s	window to finish the game with uh but
17651s	instead yeah they're gonna be banned
17653s	away and we're gonna
17654s	look like we're on track for a more bit
17656s	more fast paced set of match ups than we
17658s	used to
17660s	yeah um you know we've seen similar
17662s	lineups to these but uh you know they
17666s	still fit within in the mold and i'm
17668s	just excited to see the north american
17671s	players do well so i'd say american
17672s	players do well but language hackers
17674s	only an honorary american is this the
17676s	masters tour tj is this the day or the
17679s	weekend it happens no absolutely not
17682s	oh
17684s	a rock coming up here with the uh yeah
17686s	you know pretty strong previous
17688s	performances uh in gm he did okay he did
17691s	decent it wasn't you know the best run
17693s	ever he was improving over time uh but
17696s	didn't really make a huge impact i would
17699s	say but seem to be doing them pretty
17700s	well so far
17702s	overall it's going to be rocking that in
17704s	warlock the face hunter and the ramp
17706s	druid going into this series so like i
17708s	said even though you look at ramp druid
17710s	and may not think it's a fast deck uh it
17713s	definitely is it has very high game
17715s	ending potential especially with the
17716s	help of danathias
17719s	uh yes it does um and you know we've i
17722s	feel like we haven't seen those like
17725s	those juicy genathrius's that much so
17727s	far in this tournament um that's kind of
17730s	what i expected to be the case with how
17731s	many shamans and druids there are uh but
17734s	we haven't seen like
17735s	i don't think have we seen once on
17737s	stream just like a brand kael'thas did
17739s	atheists
17740s	i i haven't i've not watched every
17743s	second i don't think we're sorry but i
17744s	don't think we have no
17746s	i will say though as well for the druids
17748s	at least uh it's a lot of the builds are
17750s	very unlike the day one and two builds
17752s	where people are in like flipper friends
17754s	and like literally everything that can
17756s	stack at an atherius because as soon as
17758s	people started running theo tower
17760s	everyone was like oh i should probably
17761s	play more than one wing condition that
17763s	can be stolen
17764s	from from my hand and one of the reasons
17766s	as well a lot of decks aren't running
17768s	cold tooth mine
17769s	right because it's just a signifier that
17771s	you have daenerys in hand um and if you
17774s	don't if you try and use it to not pull
17776s	don't atheist then yeah you may as well
17778s	not include it so it's gonna be pretty
17779s	interesting but i believe we are gonna
17781s	start with hunter from a rock uh going
17783s	up against the warlock from language
17785s	like a bit of a tricky matchup for both
17787s	players honestly
17789s	yeah it's uh um very it lives on a
17793s	knife's edge in the early game right you
17795s	know
17796s	it only takes a little bit for one of
17798s	the players to kind of blow the game out
17800s	of the water
17801s	um and but most of the time that's the
17803s	import lock uh but hunter b because of
17806s	you know wild spirits
17808s	bag charge things like that can have
17810s	like these big swing turns especially if
17812s	the hunter's able to be on the play
17814s	they can you know use doggie biscuit
17816s	rimmy mount to kind of uh stay in the
17818s	lead on the board right um but
17821s	very
17822s	interesting as well zero masters torp
17825s	has language hacker was he unhappy with
17826s	his previous win rate and he's like a
17828s	zero that's a lowercase o well it's just
17831s	a small zero okay
17834s	but maybe he's just unhappy with his win
17835s	rate previously so he's like you know
17836s	what no no wipe it we're starting from
17839s	now
17840s	yeah he's gonna go for it to add it on
17841s	but yeah uh
17843s	very interesting here three fridays in a
17845s	row uh i think there are more than
17848s	fridays in a row from my understanding
17850s	but who knows how these crazy america's
17853s	players count time
17855s	it's saturday
17860s	oh i love it
17862s	i love it these guys these graphics are
17864s	my favorite thing in the world because i
17865s	know for a fact
17867s	that lorenzo works incredibly hard on
17870s	stats to get them out
17872s	um
17873s	but there's always one per broadcast
17876s	that slips to the cracks and i love it
17878s	though i love the body yeah it is a
17880s	treat i think the only thing correct on
17882s	that whole image was the picture of
17884s	language hacker that's the only thing i
17886s	could confirm yeah but but anyway
17888s	it doesn't matter
17890s	as we check out a rock's face hunter
17892s	list now how do you feel about face
17895s	hunters specifically in zoo
17897s	because it's a very different matchup
17899s	than say for example quest hunter
17902s	uh yes yes it's uh
17904s	incredibly different because you live
17906s	and die by
17907s	the early game board right if you can't
17909s	stick early game damage and then damn
17911s	warlock's just going to run you over
17912s	there's no comeback mechanisms you can't
17914s	keep the board under control with spells
17915s	with secrets
17916s	um
17918s	but
17919s	i've
17920s	i don't know
17921s	i've the
17923s	face hunter we're gonna call it face on
17925s	it right the face hunter play style
17927s	currently is so like
17930s	when more lose more right
17933s	even more so than it was previously
17936s	you're either
17937s	winning games by a lot and this is like
17940s	ninety percent of the time right there's
17941s	ten percent of games that are close back
17943s	and forth where you know you top deck
17944s	legal to turn before you put on kills
17946s	etc but um
17948s	it does feel like you either get really
17949s	far ahead and just steamroll your
17951s	opponent right you get you know
17953s	uh
17954s	spirit poacher into stag charge into wow
17958s	you know wild spirits or twin bow tear
17960s	coral and then wild spirits or you know
17962s	you don't have a one drop
17965s	they play wicked shipment and then
17967s	library boom you lose yeah um that
17970s	that's what it feels like to be honest
17972s	that's the thing isn't as we head into
17973s	game one
17974s	a lot of attention needs to be on these
17977s	openings right literally what the first
17979s	three turns maybe i'm even being
17981s	generous saying three actually define a
17984s	lot of the outcome of the game and there
17987s	are certain things that can help for
17988s	example language hacker is running the
17989s	dreadlitch tamzin that we can see in
17991s	hand right now which is useful if things
17994s	don't go well initially uh tamzin can
17997s	help out later on as an emergency button
18000s	but again much more preferable to be
18003s	ahead and i think tj both players
18005s	probably pretty happy with their
18006s	openings this is mine
18009s	is
18011s	language hacker in super fake's house
18013s	ruined
18014s	that's a good point
18017s	that looks exactly like super fake's
18019s	background even like the way the books
18021s	are placed yeah that's just a standard
18023s	way to place books but you know it's not
18025s	language hacker's background or at least
18027s	not the last one i saw him on anyway i
18029s	oh tj what if his big brain does what if
18032s	he's
18033s	both other players backgrounds and it's
18036s	on his screen he's like now you've got
18038s	to guess whose house is it today
18041s	that sounds like something i would do
18042s	well played language hacker i think
18044s	we've seen this background from lego
18045s	tracker once before it might be like a
18047s	visiting family's house from something
18049s	like that okay um
18051s	or at the library i don't know
18054s	one of the two
18055s	but um this is a
18058s	an interesting uh early game for
18060s	language hacker because
18061s	he does have bio library uh feed to
18063s	circle but the big thing here is he's
18066s	got the grimoire sacrifice
18068s	um so he he could opt to like say play
18072s	this slow
18074s	uh just let the dominions trade over
18076s	this librarian and then next turn go
18078s	like feed the circle coin grimoire
18081s	and clean up all of the
18083s	uh
18084s	uh
18085s	troggs that he he's creating and things
18088s	like that
18089s	um he might
18092s	have been worried about like a buff
18093s	whether it be ramming mouth or dogs
18095s	situation yeah
18097s	and so i
18098s	think that this play is perfectly
18100s	reasonable
18101s	yeah i think this is not what language
18102s	hacker would have liked to have done but
18105s	i think he got to the conclusion that
18106s	annie buff makes this horrendous if he
18108s	doesn't go for the clean now on the
18110s	truck arock does follow up with a
18112s	slither spear and gets that bear spirit
18114s	locked loaded and ready to go
18117s	what
18119s	does he still go for the grimoire it
18121s	still does a decent job of clearing the
18123s	two tutus uh on board and still leaves a
18126s	couple of imps there or do you think he
18128s	stares a lot of this imp gang boss
18130s	because it's very difficult for hunter
18133s	to actually clear imp gang bus up in a
18136s	sort of tidy manner and this could
18138s	really set him up for a strong circle
18140s	and then library the turn after
18144s	the only thing is i think that language
18147s	hacker really wants uh to hold on to the
18149s	coin
18150s	because of the dreadlitch champion
18152s	pickup
18152s	or at least have the option for dredlich
18154s	damson
18157s	just because of how powerful it can be
18159s	in these early games the problem is
18162s	you know not protecting himself from
18164s	this damage this is going to be a lot of
18166s	damage come at the face and a rock's
18168s	hand this is basically what it said i
18170s	think language hackers plays he was
18171s	worried about buffs he wanted to make
18173s	sure that he could hold on to the coin
18174s	for dredlich thampson but eros was like
18177s	sure whatever i'll
18179s	i'll just go face
18181s	works out fine
18182s	i just get to clear everything but the
18184s	slither spare or one of the slither
18186s	spares right if he does go for the uh
18189s	circle of criminals
18190s	i didn't see what this murlocky low was
18192s	at but um it only it could be maximum
18196s	one because the librarian's the only
18198s	minion on language hacker's side that
18199s	has died
18202s	but it will be able to come down soon
18204s	maybe the merlocky look could be enough
18207s	to
18209s	just get him to tamzin get him to
18211s	tampson or at least you know post
18214s	hampson just be able to come down but
18216s	now tamsen's a little bit awkward
18217s	because it will clear off his
18219s	stuff
18221s	or a lot of his own stuff
18223s	just thinking about where to use this
18225s	library on before he remorse yep thank
18227s	you i like this
18229s	just make a huge gang boss and the
18230s	benefit of this is well this one gets to
18232s	attack right so i like the buff on that
18236s	yep
18238s	oh
18242s	okay
18243s	that's quite good
18245s	it
18246s	is
18248s	i would have preferred more raw damage
18250s	though
18251s	yeah it doesn't really fit what he chose
18253s	as his game plan last year his plan was
18256s	probably to just dump whatever card came
18257s	off the top quick shot
18259s	and then uh try and roll through with
18261s	this damage because this hero power does
18262s	have the aim shot buff loaded up so just
18264s	four
18265s	there's currently seven from hand for
18267s	just four mana
18269s	very resilient to tamsin though
18271s	to be fair you can't uh damage dormant
18273s	minions take some of that but uh yeah
18276s	i will say as well a rock did favor
18278s	aggro throughout uh the majority of the
18280s	gm career uh for him so he's very used
18283s	to playing these kind of matchups
18286s	what do you think was the ooh for seeing
18288s	the bartender
18290s	yeah but
18291s	i feel like you just
18293s	trade twice over the
18295s	grizzly spirit
18297s	[Music]
18298s	i guess this is the the top shelf
18302s	okay
18303s	i feel safe
18304s	yeah this gets molocular down too
18307s	because yeah there will be two more
18308s	minions traded in rocky it comes down
18310s	it's a big board
18312s	does it set up lethal if only one thing
18315s	is cleared it's 18
18318s	21
18320s	so not quite but the miraculous pretty
18322s	scary
18325s	funnily enough oh wow oh yeah quick shot
18328s	now that's some damage oh yeah
18331s	definitely going to help outpace the
18333s	molecular
18341s	yeah there's no way he's dealing 11.
18346s	might be time to tamzin
18349s	coin voidwalker as well
18352s	sure
18353s	he could probably just go all face pass
18354s	and still win
18359s	i'm not getting any younger
18364s	girls gonna start stacking up
18366s	there is the uh
18369s	the dreaded collateral damage in the
18371s	deck for a rock which always wins when
18374s	you play on tourney
18376s	yep
18377s	the problem is getting to turn eight in
18379s	a situation like this i'm not getting
18380s	anything
18383s	the grizzly spirit will emerge next turn
18384s	so provide five health worth of taunt
18386s	but the stag is not it could if a wild
18389s	spirit is picked up off the top
18394s	but that's still only adds a little bit
18396s	of damage
18397s	what do you think language echo is
18398s	thinking about this term because is
18400s	there really that much to consider
18404s	i know the tamzin there's some drawbacks
18407s	to it but does he really not want
18413s	listen okay i'm a little bit surprised i
18416s	thought tamsin coined voidwalker looked
18418s	pretty strong
18420s	yeah
18421s	it it takes away power from the board
18423s	maybe that's what he's worried about
18426s	but you gain health but there's no way
18427s	that he deals
18428s	yeah that's like the thing is like what
18431s	is
18432s	i guess what's going to come out of this
18434s	it's going to be a big problem here he
18436s	did get the wild spirits as well so he
18437s	does get the weapon and the three one to
18440s	push through so not a bad outcome at all
18443s	it's not gonna be good enough
18446s	early game one gonna go for language
18448s	hacker in there i think
18450s	a pretty good display of what the match
18453s	up looks like right is that the warlock
18455s	can just go a little bit too wide too
18458s	often and even though it was very very
18460s	close indeed a language hacker obviously
18464s	ended the game with tamsin in hand he
18466s	could have gained even more armor right
18467s	so even though a rock got off a little
18469s	bit the the inclusions of these grimoire
18472s	of sacrifice which were not in like the
18474s	sort of day one builds
18475s	are actually pretty huge
18478s	yeah they certainly are and
18480s	we're seeing so many uh more techs
18483s	because i think players are just
18484s	realizing that just having
18486s	the core
18487s	strong imps you know just like blessed
18490s	librarian file library feature speed of
18492s	circle and this is him like you can
18495s	fit a lot of other stuff around that and
18498s	it's still going to be powerful when it
18500s	happens and you're still just as likely
18501s	to hit them but having more support so
18504s	you're not just all in on having an
18505s	early board
18507s	makes the deck feel
18509s	you know a little bit more smooth you
18511s	get like sort of multiple
18513s	uh wind conditions in that regard um so
18517s	definitely been liking these uh
18519s	different inclusions um but
18522s	that's kind of what we talked about with
18523s	the hunter you know
18525s	it seemed close for a second but
18528s	it it at the end of the day it really
18530s	wasn't that close uh still a lot of
18533s	damage off and could have been even more
18535s	damage off
18536s	if uh language hacker
18538s	had opted to play like tamsen
18541s	that would matter you don't get extra
18542s	bonus points for being
18545s	higher health and you could have been
18547s	you don't get like 1.1 wins in the
18549s	series no you get one win no matter how
18551s	it happens i'm glad because i don't
18552s	really want to work with those kinds of
18554s	numbers uh we do see language hacker is
18556s	moving over to his priest and uh he's
18558s	dipping his toe in there both pools here
18560s	honestly tj one school teacher one
18563s	partner in crime i know you and i have
18564s	been playing a lot of uh this style of
18566s	priest and i know you like the one
18569s	teacher and i believe the crush claw is
18572s	your weapon of choice uh for the other
18574s	slot
18575s	my most recent list
18577s	has been no shard of the naaru
18583s	one crush claw one schoolteacher and
18585s	magic hexson still playing hatchet
18587s	uh language hacker to make room for that
18589s	second four drop has cut naja kexin
18592s	right um it is very situational in a lot
18594s	of matchups it can end up just dead in
18596s	the hand and it's expensive
18598s	um
18599s	but i feel like the matchups where it's
18601s	good it's it's very good
18603s	um so
18604s	yeah i think weirdly i found myself
18606s	using it the most to um like just not
18610s	get my minion traded into for a turn
18612s	right even if hexa goes down if your
18614s	main target isn't hexan as in your buff
18617s	target then you have a big minion you
18619s	just protect it for an extra turn and i
18621s	think that's more than good enough to
18622s	warrant it in the list but hey rock
18625s	gonna be sitting on the hunter once
18626s	again
18628s	yep
18629s	knows his stuff wild spirits on three
18631s	it's all part of the plan
18632s	all part of the plan
18634s	um so for language hacker uh i oh
18638s	throws away blademaster samuro
18641s	um
18642s	blademaster samuro can be good in this
18644s	matchup but only if your opponent hits
18646s	that side of their deck right right
18648s	heavy side of their deck and
18651s	he wouldn't you he wouldn't be
18653s	guaranteed to have support with blade
18654s	master samurai by itself it's not good
18657s	if you have like cathedral and blade
18659s	master samurai sure you can argue that
18660s	you can keep both of those so you have
18662s	three and then four to clear up the
18663s	board and then your blade master summer
18665s	was already pretty big uh to get things
18667s	rolling lego tracker had no support for
18669s	it so opted to keep the radiant
18671s	elemental and the this matchup is pretty
18674s	much just about one big swing
18676s	right if if you can find a turn
18679s	relatively early on before you've taken
18680s	too much damage where you can just go
18683s	okay i
18685s	dealt with my opponent's board in summer
18686s	guard or i built a giant minion
18690s	or multiple giant minions that's what
18692s	you want to go for it's hard to do have
18695s	like incremental power spikes in this
18697s	matchup because the hunter is just going
18698s	to go right past it right they don't
18700s	care if you have like one medium sized
18702s	minion if they have
18703s	three four
18705s	small minions that are constantly
18706s	attacking face usually they're going to
18708s	win them
18709s	one big moment yeah very simply stick
18712s	aboard um and then make it stay there
18714s	there is oh pardon crime as well
18718s	oh that is interesting because i i do
18721s	find this location
18724s	very fun to use and interested to work
18726s	out how to use it because now the easy
18729s	idea is okay treasure card press the
18732s	location button on it because that makes
18733s	a big minion
18735s	yes but what if now language hacker
18737s	waits and does it in partnering crime
18739s	instead right because that is an option
18741s	he didn't go for it but it's something
18743s	he could have done because currently uh
18746s	this does just insta die to pretty much
18748s	the fox and any other card in the hand
18751s	right now so yeah uh just worth
18753s	considering i think there's a lot of
18754s	flexibility with that location
18759s	the fox is so clutch in this match up
18761s	normally the fox is one you're
18763s	you know not as happy to see over some
18765s	of the others if you get like just the
18766s	one but there yeah in this matchup you
18768s	just want absolute high impact damage
18770s	all the time
18772s	and language hacker
18774s	is quite dead they're not bored right
18780s	oh yeah the weapon procs this turn right
18782s	yeah this stag emerges next to it
18785s	um
18786s	there's got to be heel face needs to
18788s	happen
18789s	yeah double then
18791s	the a-rock doesn't have a single spell
18794s	always hold it
18800s	and he has it
18801s	yep
18810s	wow okay well um
18813s	that was that was close
18815s	yeah and i think that's something i
18816s	didn't really say earlier but the hunter
18819s	versus zoo matchup obviously you never
18821s	want to lose the game of hearthstone in
18823s	the tournament but the hunter you never
18825s	going into that matchup expecting to win
18828s	right because it's very very tough as
18830s	the hunter but
18831s	again aarock took the loss there but
18833s	suddenly hunter well that hunter
18835s	specifically versus priest well you do
18837s	that pretty often actually though the
18839s	priest needs a very specific strong
18841s	opening to be able to survive that and
18843s	it wasn't there so a rock again evens
18845s	the series up gets the hunter out the
18846s	way with not really any trouble and now
18849s	yeah we're at that one on one score now
18851s	tj priester is obviously available again
18853s	for language hacker but a rock now has
18855s	the druid hence the warlock so uh could
18858s	get very interesting with that priest
18860s	indeed
18862s	yeah i think uh the game plan here for
18866s	uh language hackers probably gonna be to
18868s	have to corner the druid
18871s	um
18873s	just based on the matchups that are left
18876s	um i i i
18878s	mage is still sort of an anomaly to me
18880s	especially this mage the
18882s	uh like 30 card
18884s	uh solid alibi skeleton page list
18887s	because i feel like that's one of the
18888s	decks that can just sort of steal
18891s	i've on my break between there when uh
18894s	derek and edelweiss were filling i was
18896s	playing matty's version of this list and
18898s	he doesn't run deathborn doesn't run
18900s	kel'thuzad but it just runs like it's
18902s	like four cost and below with mode dress
18905s	in magister and i was playing i was like
18907s	wow
18908s	this deck's sick you just get him so
18910s	yeah very excited to see more of at
18912s	least that style of mage overall but for
18914s	now we do have the warlock versus the
18916s	priest and again matchup that's very
18919s	focused on a couple of cards from the
18921s	priest they're obviously having playable
18923s	minions but most importantly for me that
18926s	devour is clutch in this matchup you
18929s	just win if you get to devour a board
18932s	yeah um the
18934s	only issue that i've run into with the
18936s	devourer is like you know let's say they
18939s	feed your circle right and you play like
18941s	really elemental to power
18943s	and then they play mischievous because
18945s	it gets auto infused yeah
18947s	and then you you need to have the
18949s	follow-up for it uh it's not as simple
18951s	as that but it's
18952s	crazy how you look at like mulligan win
18955s	rates how like shadow devour is really
18957s	not that high of a of a win rate card
18959s	when kept in the mulligan in in any
18961s	matchup except for this one
18963s	and this one it's like oh my god i got
18965s	devour and i'm gonna win
18967s	yeah it's uh
18969s	pretty ridiculous
18971s	um but oh okay
18974s	this is
18975s	uh in it
18976s	oh it threw away the imp
18978s	king
18980s	it's also a matchup i feel where you're
18982s	much more free as the priest to just go
18984s	face if you have a big minion because
18987s	zoo cannot really sustain itself a lot
18989s	of the time right uh there is dan
18991s	atherius in a rock's version but you're
18993s	not planning on worrying about turn 10
18995s	as this priest so yeah we'll have to see
18997s	how it goes double handmade and devour
19000s	elegos here for language hacker
19003s	definitely would like to get something
19004s	to fill that gap because pelagos devour
19006s	on turn four and maybe even turn three
19009s	with the naga is gonna be huge
19014s	got to get there first and erock's going
19018s	and i'm a wicked shipman and there's a
19019s	vile library to follow it up this is uh
19023s	oh oh
19026s	that's
19027s	good that's the that's the exact nugget
19030s	he needed
19033s	you really have to think hard if you
19035s	want to go for this but i think it makes
19036s	sense so
19038s	hold right you hold
19041s	hold it no i think you were he coined
19043s	out a wicked ship and i think you're
19044s	worried about bile library because bio
19046s	library would make it so that the
19048s	uh devourer would do next to nothing
19051s	right
19052s	and now this allows for the
19054s	scribe to trade over i think this was
19056s	good so now you get to play pelagos on
19058s	an empty board yeah it's just nowhere
19060s	near as cool though is it tj and that's
19062s	what i was here for i wanted the the big
19064s	pelicans play but yeah this is pretty
19066s	nice does have the uh cathedral next
19068s	turn as well
19071s	i will find the truth this is an uphill
19073s	climb now for a rock
19076s	it's a good setup from him and i think
19077s	at the absolutely correct set up from a
19079s	rock
19080s	again the devour we talked about it and
19082s	it happened
19085s	no spell though for language which means
19087s	this pelagos is looking a little bit uh
19089s	meager
19091s	i do like the cathedral though
19099s	what is elune's will ah i've also
19102s	decided
19104s	the pillar goes up to seven
19106s	let's say a rock went fiend a circle
19109s	draw
19110s	a cob now though right play it
19117s	yeah probably you play right just take
19119s	the nine nine
19124s	and just punch him in the face
19129s	holy right it's actually really hard
19131s	it's really hard i feel like it's way
19134s	too greedy to hold if pelicos dies your
19136s	next turn is kind of trash right
19140s	yeah i think this is worth
19145s	all right it's just a 99 this was talked
19147s	about earlier i think in this match up
19148s	if you do get a big minion
19151s	it's too messy to try and deal with the
19152s	imps so just punch them in the face and
19154s	race them because a lot of the time you
19156s	know you hit them pretty hard
19160s	this is a three turn setup and he gets
19162s	to protect the pelego's next turn with
19164s	the treasure guard so
19166s	yep oh yeah three
19168s	rockies
19170s	oh i wondered if he was gonna go for a
19172s	machocula there to actually try and
19174s	survive and heal a little bit out of
19176s	this like perfect range
19179s	yeah
19180s	oh we just get
19193s	tj i've seen lists in this tournament
19195s	that don't run boon imagine
19199s	there's no way there is
19201s	it hurts
19203s	once you go boom you never go back
19205s	exactly becomes the best card in the
19207s	deck no matter what you could have no
19208s	minions on board or in hand and boone's
19210s	still the best card
19211s	yeah
19214s	now you have to think about whether or
19215s	not to trade um i'd be might be worried
19218s	about a second buff
19220s	on this murlocula
19223s	but
19224s	a rock was obviously fishing for
19227s	something it kills the boon the the
19230s	taunted boon on board if you go face
19234s	he traded an imp gang boss in for one
19236s	imp right and then infuse i think that
19238s	uh reeks of desperation
19242s	okay though there's an atheist is
19244s	getting buffed
19247s	yep
19258s	the handmaiden has uh
19261s	some lethal outs
19265s	right if you hit let's say serpent wig
19269s	serpent wig that's
19270s	right or devour yeah serpent wig or
19272s	devour
19273s	are both lethal i mean he always wants
19276s	to location the palace right so start
19279s	with that uh the only thing
19282s	yeah i guess okay oh
19284s	never mind i told you
19286s	well the reason for that is he's never
19289s	dead right
19290s	yeah and if he plays treasure guard that
19293s	turn then
19296s	the one one probably wants two minions
19299s	have to go into it which means one he's
19301s	never dead and two if he actually does
19303s	buff the peligos the pelagos is almost
19305s	certainly never dead either so then it
19307s	always just feels better to buff the
19309s	pelicans made the one big minion
19310s	language hacker takes game number three
19314s	and again that was just exactly what you
19316s	want to do with priest and guess what he
19318s	won the priest versus zoo matchup when
19320s	he drew both devours makes sense
19324s	makes a lot of sense they came at the
19326s	perfect times as well
19328s	yeah there were a lot of tricky turns
19330s	though for both players tough decisions
19331s	right even though it was a short game
19333s	yeah i i
19335s	like if you even have a whiff
19340s	uh smell that they might
19342s	uh have the
19345s	always forgive me
19347s	uh vile library there you go it's a
19350s	library i always want to say graveyard
19351s	but the graveyard is the
19353s	uh it's the rogue yeah
19355s	um oh my god i'm so bored
19357s	uh if you even have a whip that a buff
19360s	is there you you want to go for the
19362s	devourer as soon as possible right and
19364s	and then just go from there right yeah
19366s	in those situations you
19368s	can't hope that your opponent
19371s	in what situation would you flame a coin
19373s	wicked shipment if you didn't have
19374s	violet library so i like i like the
19376s	the play that he ended up going for and
19378s	it worked out in the end so took the win
19380s	now it's just that mage left
19382s	for lego checker and it is the
19384s	30 card
19385s	um
19387s	solid alibi spooky
19389s	age
19390s	and
19391s	as i was saying before i was playing
19392s	matty's list which doesn't run the
19394s	deathborns or kel'thuzad
19396s	and i felt like it was very smooth you
19399s	were almost just playing burn mage uh
19401s	with some control tools and it was great
19403s	it felt it felt amazing uh i'm very
19405s	interested to see how this version looks
19407s	because again there were just clunky
19410s	potentially clunky cards added right to
19413s	the version i was playing with
19415s	kel'thuzad to deathborns so we'll see
19417s	how it turns out only one alibi as well
19420s	so we'll see what happens there but also
19422s	it looks like a rock is jumping over to
19424s	his ramp druid uh yeah this might be a
19426s	bit of a tough one as well a ramp druid
19429s	of course capable of crazy things but
19431s	with both players playing theo
19433s	yeah things can get a little bit wild
19436s	oh yeah oh yeah i feel like we've seen
19439s	some nasty theaters throughout the
19440s	weekend so far but
19443s	um i
19444s	have liked this version of ramp druid a
19447s	little bit more than like say the
19449s	celestial
19450s	uh variations
19452s	this one has a lot more options in the
19454s	early game right in terms of
19457s	what you can do
19458s	there's only one of dozen kelp keeper
19460s	but playing that plus druid three plus
19462s	planted evidence
19464s	like amalgam if you just desperately
19467s	need a minion on board like it's very
19470s	uh sort of low curve
19472s	uh acknowledges the fact that it can do
19475s	something against aggressive decks that
19477s	get onto the board fast even a spammy
19479s	arcanist
19480s	thrown in there but it still keeps its
19483s	top end in there and instead of playing
19485s	like alignment you
19488s	play kazakhstan and that's what the
19489s	amalgams are for right so you have that
19492s	super
19493s	late game tech for to to just be able to
19496s	get there against some of the decks that
19497s	go super slow yeah for druid just look
19500s	in the decklist it has a surprising
19502s	amount of the deck uh space giving over
19504s	to three drops and less versus some of
19507s	the other druids we've seen that pretty
19508s	much start at four
19510s	uh or three even uh but yeah looks like
19512s	we are going to get straight into it
19514s	here language hacker
19515s	night cloak sanctum extremely powerful
19519s	card but one that i don't think is
19520s	necessarily a keep in this matchup but
19523s	language shack are choosing to only keep
19525s	that card i'm a just a little bit
19527s	surprised
19528s	it's just way too good like it's just
19530s	always good like it's just a fantastic
19532s	way to spend three mana yeah that's
19534s	better when
19535s	you're just like what the game state is
19537s	on turn three i'm going to bank this
19539s	banner now so i don't have to spend it
19541s	later
19542s	that's fair enough
19559s	hacker could ping it but it doesn't die
19562s	so now you cannot target me with your
19564s	hero power
19569s	checker second do i wanna save one
19571s	health like i'm probably gonna ping this
19573s	next turn to trade over it anyway yeah
19576s	so i might as well because also as well
19578s	it's not like he can ping next turn uh
19580s	if if he pinged like somewhere else
19583s	anyway because he'd be just night
19585s	cloaking or drawing cards regardless so
19586s	why not just do the thing you're always
19588s	gonna do now get it traded and give
19590s	yourself some more options
19592s	yep and gets to freeze and then trade
19595s	and get this
19596s	skeleton
19597s	[Music]
19600s	things are looking up
19603s	um well
19606s	could coin innovate nourish for crystals
19610s	it would only bring up to six mana next
19611s	turn
19613s	uh so no options to like prance the atar
19617s	there wouldn't even be any cards left
19619s	in this hand
19620s	but i give you the ramp out of the way
19622s	opens up the options for uh upcoming
19624s	turns so it's like do you want to make a
19626s	trade yeah yeah sure sure okay i'll take
19627s	this card okay what can i take nothing
19631s	there's nothing left
19636s	which i oh
19637s	he's playing for himself i know this is
19639s	just
19641s	just a very clean curve
19644s	and a deathborn to follow it up but you
19646s	know assuming these uh
19648s	uh these minions stay alive okay planet
19650s	evans is good
19652s	uh nice but not cast bull uh
19655s	capture cult in mind pick up a decided
19657s	an atheist go into a scale turn
19665s	i mean it's probably just the best card
19666s	there anyway right even just
19669s	removing everything else it's just
19671s	better it does get the silence off to
19673s	remove i'll reduce some of this damage
19675s	uh language hacker looks like he's
19677s	setting up to be very very uh well this
19679s	game the only thing i'm worried about tj
19681s	is this
19683s	because it looks like he's playing on a
19684s	tablet or phone
19686s	i know
19687s	that
19688s	tomorrow that's going to be hurting
19690s	like once it has to be by choice because
19693s	he obviously has a computer
19695s	available
19697s	because
19698s	there's a webcam it could be his phone
19701s	and then that's his tablet
19704s	i guess you can't yeah i guess yeah it
19706s	could be yeah yeah okay yeah you're
19708s	right
19709s	just oh it worries me just to watch as
19711s	someone who's had
19712s	been working on their posture for a
19714s	while now um it pains me to see someone
19716s	like hunched over that much
19721s	hey rock it's going to be able to clear
19723s	this up
19724s	let's scale over next year
19727s	old faithful
19729s	also start to juice after matthew as you
19731s	said we haven't seen anything big
19733s	dinatrius wise this tournament so far
19736s	but
19737s	he rocks putting himself in a position
19739s	to and there's no
19740s	uh theotor from language shaka so far
19744s	not yet
19745s	still a while before danatherius
19747s	can come down and there's also the
19749s	question of well do you want to just
19752s	wait till you get guff or kale those to
19755s	brand it out to try and get a little
19757s	sneaky lethal
19759s	i'm a big fan of if you don't have it
19762s	obviously set up by turn 10 just play
19766s	danatrius get it played so it doesn't
19767s	get stolen you do the damage you put a
19770s	1010 on the board because it's also
19772s	something that
19773s	outside of moderate
19775s	uh this
19776s	deck doesn't really deal with big health
19779s	minions right it takes a while they can
19781s	freeze them but to actually kill them
19783s	off it is uh quite the commitment and
19785s	daenerys with lifesteal does require
19787s	dealing with at some point
19789s	oh
19790s	whoa
19792s	love stuff
19793s	guff stuff
19797s	even language i cannot kill us oh no i
19799s	need to stretch my neck
19806s	well that looked like a manner as well
19810s	oh uh oh no you drew with that so
19814s	now tj how
19816s	greedy you become
19820s	is the denathrius
19823s	is not lethal levels of bran right
19827s	yeah
19829s	it's that i think it's about like 12
19831s	because it's just the starfish plus six
19834s	um welps that have died
19837s	yes i i was around that number just over
19839s	10 was the number i was there bouncing
19842s	around in my head
19854s	what if you want to freeze these
19856s	deathborns
19858s	are not these deaths freeze these
19859s	skeletons for the possibility of death
19862s	just get more
19864s	maybe use one just to have one next turn
19866s	in case uh big minion comes out
19870s	now
19871s	again i'm a big fan of just doing the
19874s	play because you have it
19877s	like it's a threatening board in itself
19879s	kind of difficult to deal with i don't
19882s	think language hack is really pinged
19883s	that much
19885s	no i feel like he if he you ha if he had
19887s	theater he would have played it though
19889s	right because he saw you
19891s	play
19892s	oh yeah but the problem is that's fine
19895s	that's why it's not happened yet but
19896s	what if he just draws it next to him
19899s	i guess that you know i mean he has the
19901s	whole debt at the whole deck he has the
19903s	play it puts tons of stats on board and
19906s	it deals a lot of damage like these are
19908s	ticking all the boxes
19910s	yeah
19913s	this commander savara has
19915s	a death born an arcane intellect and a
19918s	wildfire i believe oh is it wildfire
19922s	casts a wildfire
19924s	did he not have savara when he oh he
19926s	didn't have survival when he cold case
19927s	right that was yeah okay okay
19947s	seems good
19959s	all right we're getting into uh
19962s	big siren atheist territory
19967s	are we though because the thing here is
19969s	like
19971s	how
19972s	much more is a rock gonna realistically
19974s	juice than atheists
19979s	unless he's really planning on waiting
19981s	till the very very very last second here
19983s	and getting like second scale raid boss
19986s	you know what i mean which feels like a
19988s	little bit overkill as you can tell i'm
19990s	a fan of just playing it as i've said
19992s	and i'm just scared for a rock
19996s	throwing amalgam on the board here
19999s	oh i mean
20001s	i guess
20005s	it's burning again
20008s	i think
20009s	in any other deck
20012s	or if i explained this to someone and
20013s	said you can have this board or you can
20015s	clear the board and have two and a half
20018s	minions that are pretty large on there
20020s	instead what would you rather do
20027s	i don't know
20028s	i'd rather kill my opponent
20033s	well not yet
20037s	so wildfire and reckless is an option
20039s	though for language hacker oh yeah to be
20041s	able to get his modric upright as well
20043s	oh no
20044s	it gets his more jar shop
20046s	just by itself because it's gonna be
20051s	that disconnect looks like the ping is
20052s	too high
20054s	from this reckless
20057s	hey
20058s	that was a good one that look at all
20060s	those ping
20062s	look at all those pink
20065s	sounds like a cheat code from our old
20066s	rts
20069s	all your ping pong belong to me
20077s	now we're at what 15.
20082s	you're the uh official death race
20083s	counter tj
20086s	could get it up to 16 with the emerald
20089s	sky talent
20091s	thanks for that
20093s	you're doing a good job
20103s	oh nixia
20113s	like this is no bias whatsoever but i
20115s	would love language hacking to just rip
20117s	theoton now and just steal the
20119s	not bring us
20122s	22. okay
20127s	uh so solid alibi does
20130s	protect against sire denathrius yep does
20133s	it deal this damage in a chunk
20136s	also would allow him to just play
20138s	modresh right and save the freeze on the
20140s	location for next turn
20143s	because if you alibi and just clear the
20145s	raid boss like just
20154s	probably looking for that theater
20158s	oh surely it's alibi
20163s	what what did i say 21 so it's 42 2 i
20166s	think you said right oh 22. okay
20169s	that's 44 is there 44 health
20173s	with the stuff there's six seven eight
20176s	nine ten eleven plus thirty five oh he's
20178s	alive
20182s	but he still just does it right
20184s	who knows
20186s	i think he's alive my best cannot change
20189s	35 what did i say 11.
20192s	46.
20194s	about this no it's exactly 46. oh is it
20199s	it's exact
20200s	it was 23. hi i was off the whole time
20203s	it was exactly thought no way
20205s	what a game oh geez
20208s	hey rock takes it the greed paid off i
20211s	was worried for him all game though but
20213s	he got away with it so good job to a
20215s	rock there gonna partake this series all
20218s	the way to game number five it's gonna
20220s	be the mage again for language hacker
20222s	against the warlock but oh that was so
20225s	close wasn't it tj and and this is
20227s	something i do want to ask you because i
20228s	think it will be relevant with this mage
20230s	deck going forward um
20232s	in a match up with dinathias in your
20235s	opponent's deck
20237s	when like is there a way to play alibi
20240s	or is it completely by feel and you've
20243s	just got to hope
20244s	yeah complete my feeling just gotta hope
20246s	like
20248s	you can kind i guess you gotta you can
20251s	kind of count how many if you expect
20254s	cyrodinathias
20255s	they saw cold tooth right he saw coats
20257s	with it and then he saw raid boss onyxia
20259s	come off the top
20261s	right
20262s	and there's only two tents
20264s	so it had it it had to have been in hand
20266s	so it was guaranteed to be in hand
20269s	and it was guaranteed to be the first
20270s	card so if he was counting he
20272s	he could have counted and known that
20273s	that would have been exactly though
20275s	yeah on
20277s	but he wouldn't have known about the
20278s	world to expect but wouldn't have known
20280s	about the brand right right
20282s	yeah that was a
20284s	pretty crazy but still does mean that we
20287s	have one more game to go before we work
20289s	out who's going to take this series as i
20291s	said it's the warlock now for a rock
20294s	back in the old imps with another
20295s	dinathrius
20297s	deck
20298s	against this mage but again i do think
20300s	this mage has got a lot of game versus
20302s	this warlock for me
20304s	i think
20306s	i'm going to keep talking about this
20307s	matty version of the deck that was
20308s	playing but for me again another reason
20311s	why the lack of deathborne and
20314s	kel'thuzad is a positive because in
20316s	these kind of matchups well are you
20318s	really expecting to just get to turn six
20320s	and then that wins you the game and
20322s	maybe not but we'll see how it pays off
20324s	but regardless the freeze the ping
20325s	effects reckless and so on all good
20329s	things to go against warlock with oh
20331s	yeah oh look at this just about
20333s	oh my gosh
20335s	oh my gosh he's gonna out minion the
20338s	import look at this right filthy
20342s	this is the good stuff right here look
20344s	and the curve just works out perfectly
20346s	too because the shipping sources will
20348s	reduce one of the cold case so you can
20349s	go shipping sorceress coin
20352s	either sanctum or cold case
20355s	yeah just whatever's better right
20356s	yeah
20360s	in this case probably oh my gosh it's a
20363s	part of two
20365s	savara will have what coin cold case
20367s	cold case yeah or maybe even coin cold
20370s	case i can intellect depends on how far
20372s	ahead language hacker is right
20374s	yeah
20375s	obviously heavily depends on how the
20377s	turns work out but still go gonna go
20379s	sanctum
20381s	yeah that's fine
20382s	start using it right the earlier he uses
20384s	the first one the earlier you can use
20386s	the second crop and so on
20388s	don't mind this
20399s	all right
20405s	even just dog grass just
20407s	in there ready to go
20409s	probably because that's the thing as
20411s	well if you get to dawn grasp safely the
20414s	hero power just destroys warlock right
20416s	because they're normally quite low at
20417s	that point anyway
20419s	yeah i mean this is a pretty good curve
20421s	for a rock though he gets to go
20422s	mischievous imp
20424s	into
20426s	bartender into
20437s	it's like really good hands for both
20438s	players
20440s	we want to see
20443s	i like i honestly think a rock comes out
20446s	on top of this one i think he has way
20447s	too many minions way too much minion
20448s	pressure for language hacker to deal
20450s	with
20452s	what to do another bartender is going to
20454s	be so many stats even with one minion
20456s	traded over even if this skeleton trades
20459s	over
20460s	the blood bound and it hits a 1-1
20463s	and then freezes a mischievous imp
20466s	that's still
20467s	a ton of power on board that's still 13
20470s	damage that's going to be going
20473s	yeah
20474s	there's no world in which uh language
20475s	hacker freezes with amplified right now
20478s	i didn't think so
20479s	something you know it's going to be a
20480s	much better term next term with
20482s	amplified i think
20483s	yeah the top shelf is
20487s	bartender into reform this is
20491s	outside of like that library coming down
20493s	at some point this is like
20495s	oh idea oh
20503s	i thought you could still amplify this
20504s	turn i thought it was on six mana i was
20506s	like does he freeze first and kill one
20513s	hmm
20514s	it's tricky
20516s	like
20519s	oh what
20521s	trades and stuff this turn
20524s	very awkward because of where the
20525s	skeletons may or may not go with the
20527s	death rattles
20529s	could go savara coin amplified
20538s	oh okay
20539s	good little ping
20540s	pickle up one extra
20542s	yeah gee i like holding up on the vardin
20547s	yeah i'm on board with you tj coin
20550s	amplified now freeze one
20552s	on me
20553s	gets to save the fight because the
20554s	bargain is
20555s	pretty much just a hard stop right to
20558s	warlock there's just nothing you can
20560s	really do if your whole boards froze
20565s	finally minions
20569s	oh
20570s	didn't take long for language hacker to
20572s	turn into language clapping
20581s	there any way you can lethal over two
20584s	turns
20587s	um you push all face you freeze and
20589s	minion and then you dawn grass i think
20591s	you freeze after dawn grasp so you don't
20595s	like
20595s	kill a minion because you don't want to
20597s	leave board space up i guess
20599s	no he
20600s	he could
20603s	[Music]
20605s	he could freeze and put the imp king to
20607s	low right it wouldn't kill it oh or this
20611s	here or the big one yeah yeah that yeah
20612s	yeah all that whatever yeah
20614s	freeze a big one put him to low and then
20616s	make him a little bit more killable but
20618s	i think in this world he would need like
20622s	already you've played wildfire and then
20624s	like exactly bran reckless or something
20627s	stupid
20628s	there's there's ten
20632s	on board
20633s	oh we got the wildfires
20635s	um dawngrass does not achieve much
20641s	you have to frost frost weave dungeoneer
20644s	into no it's not enough man off right
20648s	into frozen touch what about double
20650s	frozen touch arcane elected to double
20652s	frozen touch or uh arcane intellect
20657s	arcane intellect into solid alibi and
20659s	then you kill two things
20662s	but then you're not getting any closer
20663s	to
20665s	lethal i think i think i can intellect
20668s	in a double touch
20670s	oh it wasn't touch oh like this oh okay
20673s	one mana
20675s	off lethal
20682s	there's nothing else right
20686s	you can
20688s	do a few trades but there's simply too
20690s	many large
20692s	mp boys on the board
20701s	quick touch phase pink and uh hope for
20703s	the concede
20704s	well
20705s	why these disconnects happen exactly
20707s	when they ping or when they try to
20712s	he rocks like let me win don't don't
20715s	give me this kind of suspense a-rock
20717s	genuinely does not know whether he's
20719s	dead or not
20726s	not dead buddy
20739s	oh you'll probably see the hero power
20740s	now
20742s	there's a curse of agony in the deck
20744s	from left field out absolutely nowhere
20748s	and that's going to be the game there
20749s	for a rock and the series yeah wipe that
20753s	sweat from your brow that was a close
20755s	one multiple games in that series that
20758s	came down to the wire a stressful one no
20761s	doubt but it does mean that a rock's
20763s	gonna be sitting at six one going into
20767s	the final round of swiss next so uh
20769s	really really good victory for him
20771s	they're gonna put him in a great
20773s	position to make it that top 16.
20775s	yeah and uh language hacker is still a
20778s	very small chance his second loss came
20780s	late enough to where if he does win the
20782s	final round and his tiebreakers are good
20784s	enough
20785s	um then uh
20788s	he does have a shot at making top 16
20791s	but a lot of the time top 16 the players
20795s	that have two losses that go to the top
20796s	16 are players that took their second
20798s	loss in the final round right
20801s	we've seen in the past players that have
20803s	taken a second loss earlier but just had
20806s	the the players that they were beating
20808s	earlier on the tournament ended up like
20810s	winning out a lot right so
20812s	um yeah
20813s	based on the tiebreaker rules so it's
20815s	possible uh it's not out of the question
20817s	but it's going to be unlikely from this
20819s	point yeah that's the thing for me uh we
20822s	can talk about how likely or unlikely
20823s	things are but we find out for sure when
20825s	round eight eight is finished and the
20827s	actual placements are confirmed uh so we
20830s	get all that sorted soon that is it for
20832s	the first match from around seven we do
20835s	have a little bit more coming up though
20836s	but me and tj are gonna go for a little
20838s	break before we set out to end the day
20840s	so don't go anywhere we'll be back with
20841s	some more hearthstone
20843s	right after this
20847s	[Music]
20854s	[Music]
20887s	[Music]
20898s	[Music]
20913s	[Music]
20921s	what's up
20936s	[Music]
20954s	[Music]
20966s	so
20973s	[Music]
20979s	[Music]
20988s	[Music]
21007s	[Music]
21019s	so
21021s	[Music]
21041s	welcome back everybody to round seven
21044s	here at masters tour murder at castle
21045s	nathria and i'm with adolf ice who gets
21048s	another chance to show off her
21049s	hearthstone skills and casting ability
21052s	you having fun today and yesterday so
21054s	far
21055s	yeah you are my last
21057s	new pairing right so excited to talk
21059s	some hearthstone with you and
21061s	continue the trend of me casting with uh
21064s	someone cosplaying as creepy portrait
21066s	from this expansion hey this is a very
21068s	good portrait i'll have you know
21071s	been hours working on this back in 2014
21073s	it's fine
21074s	um we're getting you one at some point
21076s	i'm sure but the candles kind of you
21078s	know they set off my cheeks quite well
21079s	so i'm quite happy with this
21081s	but we are going to go into a match
21082s	between oh and plastic now plastic uh
21086s	top eight in the last tournament at
21088s	masters tour this year um four
21090s	tournaments ago went one and something
21093s	five or something horrible and has just
21095s	been getting better and better
21097s	throughout resulting that top eight and
21099s	somebody i think we should be paying
21101s	attention to because when people get
21102s	that good that quickly
21104s	uh it can be lucky if they do it once
21106s	but here's plastic again doing it a
21108s	second time oh for all i can find this
21111s	is their first masters tour so
21114s	we'll see how this continues and opening
21117s	up here with a 1-0 lead i believe we're
21119s	going in but play the warlock in this
21122s	one
21124s	yeah you always hope that when it's
21126s	someone's first time at an event like
21128s	this first time on broadcast that
21130s	they're not going to break under the
21131s	nerves that can sometimes catch people
21133s	by surprise even right they think
21135s	they're going to be fine but then just
21136s	the thought of having so many people
21138s	watching them just a little bit of extra
21140s	pressure on all the plays maybe it slows
21141s	you down just a little bit you don't
21142s	finish a turn so we'll see how her is
21145s	able to handle it
21146s	one oh to lead though certainly a good
21147s	start
21149s	you've played in incredibly high level
21151s	events
21152s	multiple times of course on camera
21155s	how terrifying is it like what is it
21157s	that's scary is it is it just the nerves
21159s	in general or is there this fear that
21160s	people are going to be judging how badly
21162s	you play or
21164s	yeah if you make a silly mistake what
21165s	actually leads to all these nerves
21168s	you know i think it's really the second
21169s	one right just sort of the the thought
21171s	that oh there's so many people watching
21172s	and it's just gonna be so front and
21174s	center if i make a mistake uh pretty
21177s	much
21178s	it's like i'm fine the rest of the
21179s	tournament that you know there's always
21180s	some pressure in terms of how well
21182s	you're performing but when you're on a
21184s	broadcast there's there's just that
21185s	added level of oh gosh you know
21188s	everyone's gonna see me if i screw up so
21191s	and part of the mark of a season player
21194s	is how well you're able to just kind of
21195s	get over that over time and and just get
21198s	used to it say hey i'm here because i
21199s	deserve to be here and just not let it
21201s	affect you
21202s	yeah and i like the way you worded that
21204s	as well for what i've done speaking to
21206s	other top players about getting used to
21208s	it a lot of people never actually get
21210s	over it they just learn to deal with the
21212s	fact it's there
21213s	um i've spoken to several of the the
21215s	very top players who still get nervous
21217s	they say but now i'm used to being
21219s	nervous so it's okay but they don't not
21221s	get nervous anymore it seems to never go
21223s	away for some of them and then there's
21224s	people like blizz who looks like he's
21226s	never nervous just sits there and plays
21228s	hearthstone and goes home
21230s	[Music]
21231s	kind of reminds me of that saying right
21233s	that it's it's bravery isn't about not
21236s	being afraid it's about being able to
21238s	face your fears and deal with them so i
21240s	imagine it kind of is a similar dynamic
21244s	okay well plastic will be feeling a bit
21246s	nervous right now one zero down in this
21249s	round seven encounter both of them i
21251s	think are five and one yet confirmation
21253s	there on screen thank you
21255s	um so
21257s	a big game between the warlock and the
21259s	the naga priest obviously we've spoken a
21261s	lot about shadow word devour today but
21263s	if you don't get it i'll never mind we
21264s	don't need to talk about if you don't
21265s	get it because he's got
21267s	it you can go there if you want what
21269s	happens if you don't get the devourer in
21271s	this matchup while we watch it kill some
21272s	m's
21275s	you know if you don't get the devour
21277s	then you're just sort of hoping that
21278s	they don't have something like a
21279s	fiendish circle right or or wicked
21281s	shipment i think you just
21284s	are
21285s	wanting to hit into some of the bigger
21287s	minions maybe make something big enough
21288s	to trade into imp gang boss without them
21291s	generating any
21292s	uh one ones
21294s	but uh yeah usually you're almost happy
21297s	to see them have those wider boards
21299s	because of shadow word devour so that
21301s	you can take advantage just make some
21303s	kind of minion they're not going to be
21304s	able to clear i think both shadow wear
21305s	devour and blademaster samurai are two
21308s	very important tools for this matchup
21309s	just to set up swing turns
21311s	yeah and he's gonna need them because
21313s	has managed to get that
21314s	sort of start we've seen a lot of
21316s	flaming interlibrary to just make a
21318s	thing that's big enough that it can
21319s	survive
21320s	and so plastic gonna have to just be
21322s	patient take some damage and try and set
21325s	up a decent samurai to clear this
21329s	although with the library activation i
21332s	don't know how possible that's gonna be
21334s	i think the intent here was being able
21337s	to hold on to a
21339s	uh
21340s	samuro coin valeesh
21343s	bless
21344s	and
21345s	that's no longer an option when the
21347s	minion buff is is so large so
21351s	uh just having to make a taunt here i
21353s	don't know how well this is going to
21354s	hold up
21356s	you can coin the leash bless just to
21359s	sort of force the opponent to trade in
21362s	yeah he's looking at it i think he's
21364s	calculating
21365s	do i have to do this or what can i do
21367s	with a samurai next turn
21369s	with coin priestess and wig but yeah
21373s	your play or variant of it at least is
21376s	you do what he has to do
21381s	yeah i like this getting the wig in is
21382s	effectively free because of the leash uh
21386s	so you can just get that add a little
21388s	bit of extra stats hope they're not able
21390s	to punch through and the fact that this
21391s	is one of your few naturally taunted
21394s	minions
21394s	unless they're able to pick up a
21396s	starfish it's just no getting through it
21399s	right so then you don't even need to
21401s	rely on something like summoner or bless
21402s	you can just have the big taunt buying
21404s	you time and now you've got a fully
21406s	juiced handmaiden as well if they choose
21408s	to
21409s	not trade in and wait then you're able
21411s	to do something like boon to the
21412s	ascendant so i'm not surprised to see
21414s	these trades go in just to avoid that
21417s	scenario and also to infuse this reform
21420s	just to come down next turn
21422s	now do it again go on plastic
21425s	no bless available this time though so
21427s	it will just be um
21428s	a blocker for a turn whilst looking for
21431s	other stuff this time around
21434s	yeah see giant not really what you want
21436s	to see on the other side of your
21437s	opponent's clear turn and imp king or
21439s	farm even more so
21441s	i think
21442s	that was sort of the all-in play from
21444s	plastic and
21446s	unless a bless is picked up off the top
21448s	here
21449s	there's not really going to be any
21451s	chance to pull back in the game
21453s	yeah and this time as well with
21455s	bartender in hand it's just going to get
21457s	worse and worse
21461s	you can do double wig and sort of
21463s	sacrifice your wig
21466s	just to
21467s	get the samuro up to three attack
21470s	lets you deal with everything but the
21472s	sea giant
21476s	okay
21477s	[Music]
21492s	yeah you just end up leaving up a five
21494s	two or five one right
21496s	any which way you do this
21498s	yep yep yeah this is better i
21500s	miscalculated a little bit sort of
21501s	forgot about the slither spear attack
21503s	buffs uh so yeah much much safer
21506s	although
21507s	still was a lot of pressure
21510s	impending catastrophe could draw two
21512s	cards here for uhuru
21515s	lots of the toughest boards out of the
21517s	way i suppose but anything that does
21519s	manage to stick could
21521s	get buffed by something like a shitty
21523s	bartender
21524s	i think this matchup is so interesting
21526s	because it's just a high density of back
21529s	and forth board tension between the two
21532s	sides over the course of you know
21534s	usually no more than eight or so turns
21537s	yeah and with a wig gone now i mean it
21540s	was it needed to we've gone a bless gone
21542s	it's going to be harder and harder for
21544s	for plastic to hang in there the devour
21546s	gone as well so this is allowing ahu
21548s	just to ignore the mini minion on the
21551s	board and just go face it's looking
21553s	really really good maybe plastic can do
21556s	something with the boom next term but
21558s	it's going to need some help to do that
21562s	yeah there was a decision there on
21563s	whether to just go face and inch towards
21566s	lethal further that way but i think
21568s	having the shady bartender in hand uh
21571s	uhuru more feeling like well if i clear
21573s	this minion then i keep four demons in
21575s	play it still sets up a lethal
21578s	very important not to have traded the
21579s	bartender at all on that last turn to
21582s	have that potential out
21583s	so uh unless something very silly is
21586s	generated here uh to bring up eight
21589s	i think it's just
21592s	he went looking for the devourer from
21593s	the thrive and missed that would have
21594s	been quite good because he had been able
21596s	to boon as well um but by missing means
21599s	he doesn't get to get a taunt he still
21600s	gets a monstrous
21602s	a minion but not quite safe yet although
21606s	definitely a long way towards it there
21610s	now he's got the boon next turn
21613s	does work towards stabilizing got to
21616s	start with a tap here
21620s	double librarian is not quite it huh i
21623s	mean would you take the buffs and just
21625s	sort of go go face or or just
21629s	trade and look for something better
21631s	i just hope that
21633s	your opponent eats through your minions
21634s	one or two at a time and you somehow get
21636s	there
21637s	it's horrible but i think just take the
21639s	buffs where you've got them
21642s	i think this is one of the reasons why
21643s	so many people have included something
21645s	like curses even though i i know you're
21647s	not a fan and honestly i'm not a fan
21649s	either in the mixture that we have seen
21652s	but it does provide some source of sort
21654s	of burst damage um awkward as it may be
21657s	and uh yeah it looks like we are just
21660s	taking the bartender as many stats on
21662s	board as possible
21663s	and hoping that enough things stick to
21666s	be able to get there
21668s	i have noticed looking free
21670s	like the four matches we have lined up
21671s	each round with the backups included
21675s	there are more and more curse decks
21676s	appearing as we get towards the end of
21678s	this tournament in those lineups each
21680s	time so it does look like the curse
21681s	decks are the ones that are rising to
21683s	the top in fairness um these i don't
21686s	like them is cause they seem to be
21687s	inconsistent but again
21689s	like you've just described these
21690s	situations come up far less frequently
21692s	if you have got the curses you've got a
21694s	bit of finishing power
21697s	ah
21700s	being picked up here and with the
21703s	you know free uh thing we could have
21705s	gone for
21706s	shard but
21709s	i'm a little
21710s	surprised we didn't go for a shard there
21712s	you could have removed some of the stats
21714s	and then taken a trade over the 4-4 just
21716s	put yourself in a little bit better
21717s	position but i suppose plastic thinking
21720s	with the 516 taunt not much really gets
21722s	through that anyways
21724s	yeah would have still been able to do
21726s	everything if he does end up cutting his
21728s	own minion as well uh well uh shard is
21732s	not
21732s	symmetrical right so
21735s	just silences oh yeah i'm being
21737s	okay it's that time of day
21739s	yeah radiant in play just reduces all
21742s	your ones to zeros so you can kind of do
21744s	whatever you want yeah ghost of course
21746s	being picked up means
21748s	next wig turns into a bless so
21751s	very high potential for just lethal on
21753s	the side of plastic on the next turn
21756s	maybe assess the the farm was the only
21758s	way he loses
21760s	rafale has already played so yeah so
21763s	running out of ideas gigafin is the only
21765s	way he loses that doesn't work either
21766s	because then you silence it don't get
21767s	them back um
21768s	[Music]
21770s	don't know yeah and uhuru does have this
21774s	just straight up implod that was kind of
21776s	seen earlier on but so many have shifted
21779s	away from
21780s	where it's got
21781s	double c giant you know double bartender
21784s	the one of starfish a couple of grimoire
21786s	of sacrifice
21788s	so it is just all in on that early
21790s	pressure with library etc and i think
21794s	naga priest is just even more able to
21796s	deal with that because as soon as you're
21797s	able to take hold of the board you just
21799s	kind of keep it under your control yeah
21801s	very traditional aggro deck obviously
21804s	yeah things have got more powerful over
21805s	time but basically the same as usual if
21807s	you stop the flow there's very little
21810s	way for it to get back into it so as
21812s	soon as you set up a
21814s	the game
21815s	obviously you have to play it out things
21817s	can happen but
21818s	it's basically over the second you stop
21820s	the damage coming in
21821s	especially
21822s	you can heal a bit if you're really
21823s	desperate
21825s	i think it's realized just as lethal you
21827s	know pelegos making each wig into a
21829s	bless both of the large minions survived
21832s	you just get to
21833s	punch through with the shard and finish
21834s	that one up
21836s	yeah i guess by saving i'm just curious
21838s	now about why
21839s	he did actually save the the shard but
21843s	if there's more taunts played i think it
21844s	just meant that he always had lethal
21845s	this turn so maybe that was his
21847s	reasoning knowing that he was safe don't
21849s	know
21849s	but i do know he's got it to one game
21852s	all and that looked very very
21855s	clean like it's not an easy deck to play
21857s	well and he seems like instantly know
21859s	all the decisions he wanted to make each
21861s	time
21864s	yeah i think wig priest is one of those
21866s	where it you know it feels really really
21868s	good when you're able to make it work
21870s	and then the games where it doesn't
21871s	you're just like why am i playing this
21873s	pile of cards together they don't seem
21875s	to do anything
21876s	and it seemed very very dire straights
21878s	for quite a while they're
21880s	honestly very impressed to see plastique
21883s	pick that one up had just the right
21885s	tools able to you know put off using the
21887s	samuro and then have it for that big
21890s	swing turn pretty much the only card
21892s	that's able to save you when im king
21894s	rafam comes down on curve fully juiced
21896s	as it was in that case
21900s	and so have a look what they're going to
21902s	queue up next but i believe it's going
21904s	to be the rogue for plastic and we're
21906s	going to get a chance to look at
21908s	i've been calling it tempo vogue in the
21910s	stat in the
21911s	sheet but it's miracle vogue isn't it
21913s	basically
21915s	the name that everyone's using
21917s	i think it's a bit of a debate right
21918s	there's no gadgets in auctioneer which
21920s	is really the iconic card for miracle
21922s	rogue because then it's all about
21923s	playing spells and drawing cards and
21926s	this doesn't quite have as much of that
21927s	i suppose there's an argument to be made
21929s	that
21930s	edwin sort of serves that role edwin
21933s	defies kingpin and since you get him so
21936s	reliably off of shroud of concealment
21938s	maybe that's just what we should focus
21940s	on just call it miracle rogue um
21943s	you know we've been calling it
21945s	lambie rogue just amongst ourselves
21946s	because we know who made it but that
21948s	doesn't really help people in terms of
21950s	how it plays out right
21952s	yeah i'm never sure we we talk about
21954s	this way too much off stream but not so
21956s	much on stream like what to call decks
21958s	in terms of do you want to describe a
21960s	deck for what it does so
21962s	mid-range hunter great thrilling tells
21965s	viewers and people are like what it does
21968s	but god it's boring or do you have
21969s	something like zoo which just means what
21971s	does that mean i want to see what a zoo
21973s	does that sounds exciting where do you
21975s	stand on naming decks well we just wait
21977s	to see this weak priest because we've
21978s	seen this a million times
21980s	you know i do sort of prefer the more
21982s	interesting names i know when i'm just
21984s	building decks in my collection that
21986s	don't really have anything particular
21988s	i'll come up with with wacky names that
21990s	of course are too long to really use as
21992s	an actual archetype name in some kind of
21994s	stats but i think something like spooky
21997s	mage is is really ideal right people
21999s	know what you're talking about they know
22001s	they're excited about taking a look at
22003s	the list because uh well there's no card
22006s	called spooky that doesn't actually tell
22007s	you anything about the deck but he gets
22009s	you excited about it right whereas
22011s	skeleton mage is more descriptive but
22013s	you know a little less exciting still
22015s	better though then
22017s	control class
22018s	aggro class right which we have
22021s	vogue yeah here we are yeah exactly
22023s	that'd be my argument for calling it
22026s	lambie or miracle or somebody'll come up
22028s	with a funny name that makes sense at
22029s	some point as well and we haven't had to
22031s	see it that many times on broadcast yet
22034s	and what interests me about this deck is
22035s	the decisions you need to make as to how
22038s	big how greedy do you go
22040s	because a lot of the time just just
22042s	using your stuff making
22044s	small enough minion but really early is
22046s	often just the way to win the game
22049s	yeah we've seen how sort of waiting to
22052s	pop off in a massive way can end up
22055s	punishing you if you wait too long
22057s	because it just gives the opponent more
22059s	time to build things up to roll you over
22061s	shroud of concealment is a really
22064s	powerful draw tool in this deck because
22066s	of how few minions there are
22068s	but in the early game that is a pretty
22069s	big mana investment so
22071s	it's always tricky to find that balance
22073s	of when is the right moment to pop off i
22076s	think particularly against something
22078s	like wig priest that can snowball so
22081s	heavily in the early game although
22083s	perhaps not with this hand
22086s	yeah no minions at all not ideal as you
22090s	can see from a who is rather confused
22092s	perplexed look like give me something
22095s	okay that's something
22098s	giving me some memories of a certain
22100s	fury hunter game earlier uh yesterday
22104s	and
22105s	yeah plastique may just
22108s	take the trade it's gonna reduce your
22110s	nals more second shroud you know it's
22112s	it's a slower hand from plastique but
22114s	it's still shaping up i almost wonder if
22117s	with a hand like this as a guru you just
22118s	coin out the pelagos
22121s	i think you might yeah i just say okay
22122s	my opponent's going slow we know they're
22124s	going to explode because that's what
22125s	this deck does i think that might be
22127s	quite a good thing to do
22129s	it shouldn't be destroyed on six it
22131s	might be but
22134s	well the slither spear pickup is quite
22137s	welcome i think particularly with the
22139s	wig found from thrive in the shadows uh
22142s	certainly rogue does have a cap on how
22146s	much damage it can deal so i imagine
22148s	you're wanting to work towards some kind
22150s	of you know very massive minion they
22152s	won't be able to deal with
22154s	but finally some some nagatop decks here
22157s	uh working out a little better for uhuru
22160s	i
22161s	think you could just
22163s	make a couple of small boards but that
22164s	does leave you vulnerable to bone spike
22169s	yeah
22170s	is there much you can do about it though
22172s	if you don't present an argument on the
22174s	board your opponent's just going to be
22175s	able to do what they want anyway
22180s	it's kind of a who's going to blink
22181s	first situation in terms of yes starting
22184s	to go in on their their combo term
22188s	remember when we used to cast shade of
22190s	next farmers back in the day the the
22192s	caster thing to talk about was always
22195s	why if they just died with a 13-13 shade
22197s	they played on turn two that they never
22199s	attacked with
22201s	oh i remember those days
22205s	i don't know like you do that helps so
22207s	much yeah exactly it is like okay well
22210s	why didn't you just attack with it when
22211s	it was a six six and win the game nope
22213s	one to the 13 13 so i could lose the
22215s	game
22216s	this deck is going to remind me of that
22217s	a lot you'll hear me say that again at
22218s	some point i'm sure
22222s	well in the double knull pickup is quite
22225s	nice for this turn the bone spike can
22227s	clean up the scribe and then play the
22229s	sin stone graveyard onto the board then
22232s	you drop both knulls which will remain
22234s	stealthed
22236s	oh
22237s	wow this is the full greed
22240s	oh my
22245s	i don't know if i like it or not but
22246s	it's going to be exciting
22249s	i mean it's going for a big draco weapon
22251s	right which i i guess i don't hate when
22253s	you know you've gotta have big things to
22256s	remove
22257s	but
22258s	oh i don't know i might have just taken
22260s	the
22261s	the minions on board that last turn
22264s	it does also though
22266s	withhold some information from your
22267s	opponent
22269s	in terms of they might make mistakes on
22271s	sizing of their minions if they don't
22272s	know you've got double knoll they know
22274s	they know you've got at least one i
22275s	think from how things have gone but they
22277s	might make mistakes and
22279s	underrated aspect of hearthstone
22281s	sometimes
22283s	yeah maybe they think you just picked up
22285s	you know krabatoa edwin something like
22287s	that some of the more clunky minions but
22291s	thinking about this next turn
22293s	how big can we make this right you've
22295s	got
22296s	bone spike location
22299s	null null one drop draca
22302s	you could even step the null if you like
22304s	yeah you can also kill the 88 in the
22306s	process
22310s	probably losing gold but just just get
22312s	rid of like a 10 10 but i think you
22313s	still get rid of it three six
22317s	yeah and and this has to be the turn
22319s	right
22321s	yeah
22322s	yeah you have to spike
22325s	you have to spike one of the minions
22327s	that can die right
22328s	made that mistake before right you don't
22330s	actually get the discount unless it
22332s	kills a minion
22334s	do that then you read the card you're
22336s	like oh i see what the card does now
22338s	yeah i've done that twice once when i
22340s	you know didn't read the card and when
22342s	it was stupid and awful
22356s	is it actually enough to clear
22360s	oh i see with the ordering here so
22363s	utilizing the serrated bone spike
22366s	for killing
22369s	bellicose oh we're going to use the
22370s	weapon yeah we're just going to take
22372s	10 and not
22373s	okay
22375s	very good see i always lose track of how
22378s	big the weapon in even is so uh very
22380s	well thought out keeps the most power on
22382s	board and still a very large weapon to
22386s	clear things from the side of uhuru a
22388s	little bit awkward in terms of
22390s	not
22391s	like we're going into potentially
22393s	crabatoa turns so that's not great in
22395s	terms of weapon use i imagine it'll just
22397s	be
22398s	maybe an edwin played
22400s	but with this much in
22403s	like board presence for plastique it's
22406s	okay to have a slow follow-up turn
22409s	absolutely and you know worst case i
22410s	don't know i had to use a crabatoa to
22412s	win the game losing my weapons sure
22415s	um just keeping the police off the board
22416s	we all know that that's usually
22419s	you know easier said than done now but
22421s	with your opponent having quite a
22422s	powerful term the term before the
22424s	likelihood is you're through the worst
22428s	this is just
22429s	forcing a response from the priest that
22431s	they probably don't have
22437s	even
22438s	stepping at the edwin here for
22441s	further draw next turn where you still
22444s	have one last charge of this so you can
22446s	go for a massive edwin turn use the
22448s	location and follow that up with a
22450s	kravitoa
22451s	looking pretty solid for the side of the
22454s	road right now i think uhuru is
22456s	wanting to pick up something like
22458s	asamiro
22459s	are you okay with not using the location
22461s	last turn i know it's going to be a lot
22462s	bigger next turn but having something
22464s	down now seems kind of moisture
22468s	uh it's also important for getting card
22470s	draw right when you're sort of
22472s	this starved for for resources and a way
22475s	of actually swinging the board like you
22478s	need you basically need to find blade
22480s	master somebody so i i think that would
22482s	have been a way to try and come back i
22484s	mean the taunt is nice i'm sorry i meant
22486s	to play jack pick up this
22488s	oh i made just like a four four or five
22490s	five and just had it
22492s	oh
22493s	yeah i i agree with that i think people
22496s	do sometimes tunnel vision on the sides
22498s	and ends up being a 4-4 anyway
22503s	but yeah now it's all set up obviously
22505s	um some of those you were talking about
22507s	before i cut you off so rudely does
22509s	appear
22510s	no it's it's uh it's not a full clear
22513s	but it's a really good one
22516s	very good
22517s	location stop you dying yeah
22522s	seems important right about now
22528s	well maybe that's why uh plastic didn't
22530s	use the location last time playing
22532s	around samurai
22534s	yeah that's that's you see from the look
22535s	on his space that's exactly what he did
22536s	last turn that's why he didn't make the
22538s	minion before so he had um
22543s	i assumed it wasn't there and of that of
22545s	course yeah comes up off the top
22547s	okay that woman
22548s	is still
22550s	pretty solid follow-up though
22553s	you're not bad and wicked stab it's it's
22556s	all coming together
22559s	time to start counting but i can't see
22560s	the board
22563s	i believe it's one off this turn
22567s	fine
22568s	take the stab
22574s	yeah one off because if we had perhaps
22576s	the stab it would be dealing with before
22578s	so
22581s	but shadowcraft for scabs
22583s	quite good for a reset and then having
22585s	two stealth minions uh particularly with
22588s	samuro being used
22590s	it would just be double devour that you
22592s	would be worried about
22594s	and
22595s	all the taunts are gone as well
22597s	naturally barring
22602s	pretty good steel here
22605s	yeah this is
22606s	an attempt to come back say this steel's
22609s	nice
22611s	it takes away the krabatoa from the
22613s	rogue in terms of bounce as well but i'm
22616s	not sure
22619s	this just gets there now with the two
22621s	damage from the
22623s	insert
22628s	plastic you
22629s	run two games to one in pretty quick
22632s	time after going one zero down
22635s	and only the one that left with that is
22637s	going to be
22639s	[Music]
22642s	the warlock
22645s	which is we'll get there in a minute
22647s	[Music]
22649s	uh a regular block
22653s	yeah it's got the
22655s	kale those package i guess we would say
22657s	molecular when it's fully infused costs
22659s	zero mana which lets you go kale thus
22661s	murlocula into whatever you please in
22663s	this case the top end is gigafin and
22666s	cyrodinathrius i don't know how often
22668s	that actually happens but it is a sort
22670s	of fun interaction and many players seem
22672s	to have brought it so it must be
22673s	performing reasonably well
22676s	yeah uh again we've gone into this
22679s	tournament with a weird situation where
22681s	there's not many deck archetypes but
22683s	within those archetypes there's a
22684s	million different builds
22686s	because people said okay this is the
22688s	sort of thing that i want to do
22690s	how is everyone else doing it how can i
22691s	do it better
22693s	but there wasn't enough time for
22694s	everyone to build every available
22696s	archetype in these matters i just
22697s	finished up to the tried and trusted
22699s	stuff and hoped they could out tech
22701s	their opponents and so far
22703s	i think that the imps that are doing the
22704s	best are people who are probably the
22706s	ones with curses in which
22707s	is interesting to me
22709s	[Music]
22710s	interesting to me as well it you know it
22712s	messes with the stats a little bit
22713s	because i think anything with curses is
22715s	just showing up as curse lock so it's
22717s	hard to say how a fully cursed warlock
22720s	is actually performing if we have so
22723s	many imp curse locks and you know
22726s	whatever weird in between space
22729s	but yeah as you say i mean between these
22731s	two players even three classes shared
22735s	in in the shaman warlock and priest and
22739s	then each of them has picked a different
22741s	fourth
22742s	with made for uhuru and rogue for
22744s	plastique
22746s	but yes then between those shared
22749s	classes there's still certain card
22751s	choices different etc uh so
22755s	really a game of edges this whole
22757s	tournament i think
22759s	yeah gigafin might be quite important
22760s	here because one of the decks remaining
22762s	for a hero is that priest
22764s	um it's kind of uh okay
22766s	uh we lose to peace don't we because we
22768s	get devoured let's what can we do about
22770s	that i know let's just eat all those big
22772s	minions off the board and reset all of
22774s	their stuff
22777s	well and dredlich champson as well is
22780s	kind of uh
22781s	goofy you know usually you'd think i'm
22783s	an aggressive deck why would i want to
22784s	include a card that just deals three
22786s	damage to my board too but it turns your
22789s	hero power into this thing where you
22791s	just generate imps randomly it gets rid
22794s	of the downside of two life
22796s	and uh
22798s	i don't know about you but i always feel
22799s	like at least one gets drawn off of the
22802s	three cards oh yeah of course especially
22804s	well for my opponents of course yeah
22806s	yeah i think i did one of those things
22807s	where you shout at your imaginary
22809s	opponent the first time they played
22810s	tamsu how can you play that card you
22812s	idiot then of course they destroyed me
22814s	and i realized he was a good deck after
22815s	all and i felt like the idiot which was
22817s	probably true
22820s	so choosing to keep this one two in the
22824s	hand because it's one and two obviously
22826s	absolutely not the one two start you
22828s	want but
22830s	you know
22831s	malignant on going first you might as
22833s	well have something to do
22838s	yep plastic even doing a little bit of
22840s	chip damage there just because health on
22842s	minions is so relevant um i'm curious to
22846s	see if this is just going to be an early
22849s	you know coin pelagos priestess devour
22853s	to make a very massive minion that would
22856s	be one way to try and just cut
22858s	like take control of the board very
22860s	early another route you could take would
22862s	be to just coin out the
22864s	location and kind of get that rolling
22866s	fight for board a bit take a more
22871s	relaxed approach i guess
22873s	knowing that the location will be back
22875s	online for the turn that you play blade
22876s	master samurai which can be a nice clear
22880s	yeah i'm a big fan of the pedo ghost but
22882s	we saw him not do that last time in fact
22884s	he's taking an even slow about just
22886s	healing up wow
22888s	okay i don't know about this oh
22893s	i think plastic is is as a nod to shadow
22896s	where devoured not playing that fiendish
22898s	circle off the top uh which is
22901s	very heads-up play uh just keeping the
22904s	board clear
22905s	providing a little bit of incentive for
22907s	a devourer to be played but not wanting
22910s	to get fully blown out by that card i
22912s	will find him here comes the pelagos as
22914s	saved for this situation a plastic sort
22916s	of
22917s	you know rolls the eyes is like how can
22919s	i put you on having this when you didn't
22920s	do it but okay
22923s	nine nine to deal with now
22926s	does mean that the mischievous imp is
22928s	fully infused though so in terms of raw
22930s	stats on board
22932s	quite a lot on plastic side boon to the
22934s	ascendant though this has been
22937s	i think this is really what put the deck
22939s	over the edge for me it was pelegos and
22942s	bunny ascended just
22944s	so many stats out of nowhere
22948s	yeah over the edge in terms of it in
22950s	terms of now a super strong deck or in
22952s	terms oh my goodness hang on i'm just
22953s	gonna ignore everything
22955s	yeah one of those down straight away
22959s	you can continue sorry
22961s	i do
22963s	no no it's worth noting um but
22966s	here we see just sort of the power of
22969s	boone
22970s	not being fully blown out because
22973s	this boon minion is
22975s	definitional stats so it remains a 9 11.
22978s	i think we're so used to
22981s	things giving you know green numbers
22982s	which means that they can be silenced
22984s	away
22985s	but uh this just sticks around as a 911
22988s	so not uh you know crazy in terms of but
22993s	it lets you have fewer blowouts and
22996s	still be able to fight somewhat for
22997s	board uh after getting hit by something
23000s	like a starfish
23001s	interesting to see plastic's thought
23003s	process you can almost see it the way
23004s	he's hovering over the cards he's trying
23006s	to decide between
23008s	racing for victory which can get very
23010s	very
23011s	messy against a priest that can just
23012s	make their things twice as big in 30
23014s	seconds
23015s	or holding on and just playing gigafin
23017s	he was hovering over that multiple times
23019s	in that weird little thought process
23021s	there
23022s	uh it's gonna be interesting to see
23023s	which one he picks it will depend a lot
23025s	on what he draws next of course
23028s	yeah i think if if you get the library
23031s	like i guess you sort of have freedom to
23033s	do either plan right race or just start
23036s	taking some trades because you have that
23038s	value oh that may not be a library on
23041s	its own but it does draw four
23044s	yet
23045s	two five if you want to commit yeah draw
23048s	lots depending on who you want to go
23049s	trade in kill the thing
23052s	and now you've got plenty of juice to
23053s	survive for two turns to play the
23055s	gigafin and
23056s	that should be
23057s	[Music]
23058s	a lot of the cases will lock things out
23060s	depending exactly on the priest's hand
23062s	of course
23064s	i think it has sort of given plus leak
23067s	the go-ahead to be more defensive here
23069s	as well get the full value of the
23071s	intercircle i think we could have
23074s	maybe
23075s	i don't know if it was a hand space
23077s	issue to not have one more imp
23079s	on board there but
23081s	uh now
23083s	if you're a huru you basically expect
23085s	everything is there imking reform file
23087s	library i mean it's just the juice and
23091s	in catastrophe with how much it draws i
23093s	think is the reason that it works to
23095s	have something like denathrius and and
23098s	kale floss in the deck because uh
23102s	you know you hardly ever play it on 10
23104s	but with kale floss and with molocula
23107s	and other cheap minions you're able to
23109s	get it down early and get it infused
23112s	from big hands like this
23115s	this is going to be really irritating um
23118s	for her well he's not because he's got
23119s	the shard but next term plastic looking
23121s	at you know voidwalker and
23124s	the farm and just saying okay that's my
23126s	seven deal with that don't kill me and
23128s	then gigafin into anything you like into
23131s	the mathias
23136s	yeah it really is a solid setup just
23138s	sort of paving the way here uh so many
23141s	cards at once demonstrating uh just how
23144s	powerful impending catastrophe is
23148s	it's not it doesn't really matter what
23150s	imps you bring back either because of
23152s	that plus two plus two
23155s	no exactly uh gonna have to start off
23157s	with drawing cards here one way or
23159s	another
23164s	needs to win right now i know we know
23166s	about the gig of him but you know he
23167s	knows that everything's there as you've
23169s	just said he knows the hand is full of
23170s	stuff so next turn is not going to be
23172s	pretty for him
23175s	yeah i mean how close are these
23176s	handmaidens to getting charged up if you
23178s	play shard right now
23180s	does that get one of them ready
23183s	uh i mean
23185s	until i saw the green border i assumed
23187s	they were already ready i must admit
23189s	like last turn and then they came back
23190s	green like it must be one to go
23194s	maybe it's not
23198s	taking that initial draw
23201s	oh no jack is all right on some boards
23204s	but not so much this one
23206s	yeah you're expecting this ball to kill
23207s	your next turn if you leave it up or at
23209s	least win the game if it doesn't
23211s	actually physically
23213s	officially win the game
23217s	and this is what can kind of happen when
23219s	you just don't have wig right you're not
23221s	able to juice up your handmaidens and
23223s	then you're stranded on draw
23225s	relying on top deck spells to bail you
23227s	out and
23229s	plastique meanwhile has
23231s	all the cards in the world to work with
23232s	i think bartender plus vile library may
23235s	not be lethal this turn but it's
23237s	certainly working towards it
23240s	and by not gigger finning now he does
23242s	have just gigafitting into an atheist
23244s	over the next two turns as a way to win
23246s	the game i'm only looking for that
23248s	because that's what i had my heart set
23250s	on the second i saw the gigafin but
23251s	there's a lot he can win this game any
23253s	way he wants to from here as far as we
23255s	can see obviously in his head there's
23256s	there's ways to lose but
23260s	maybe difficult
23261s	trying to make
23262s	exact trades
23265s	getting the eight attack minion to kill
23266s	the eight health minion
23268s	uh doesn't really matter how much damage
23270s	you push
23271s	and just use the minions left over and
23273s	there's enough stats here for a lethal
23275s	setup yeah nice split as well so nurjac
23278s	isn't sort of some sort of weird punish
23282s	now jacking to boon or something like
23283s	that would be kind of scary but he's
23285s	managed to make that as
23288s	unterrible as possible he's always got
23290s	the gigafin if it goes wrong anyway of
23291s	course but yeah i like how he
23294s	made like you said made economical trade
23296s	and also
23298s	didn't make any minion too big that it
23300s	was expendable was not expendable
23305s	at this point shadow word devourer just
23307s	does not do enough the wig
23309s	has to be expended to even activate the
23313s	handmaidens and uh no friendly minions
23316s	to play it on unless you just play the
23318s	leash
23318s	i i don't really see the lines here
23324s	no i don't think he does either but if
23326s	you don't see it you play the card and
23327s	see what comes just in case there's
23329s	something that you've missed
23333s	the amalgam into another leash but even
23336s	then not that much matter refreshed
23340s	drawing another from the location
23341s	there's malcolm
23343s	no time though good luck with that
23349s	i can respect practicing the apn you
23351s	know
23353s	can always be getting better
23355s	yeah and
23357s	unfortunately for herbert who took a 1-0
23359s	lead that we didn't see
23361s	plastic continues
23363s	for the second masters toy in a row to
23365s	look very impressive indeed with that
23368s	3-1 victory going to six and one and
23370s	in a win and in situation for the next
23373s	round i don't know which round he lost
23374s	he might already have a very good
23375s	tiebreaker but it's unlikely that six
23377s	wins will get in but if he wins his
23378s	final round he'll get into his second
23380s	consecutive finals day which will be a
23382s	fantastic performance
23385s	yeah still a chance to make it in and
23387s	also pretty good chance to qualify to
23389s	the final masters tour of the year so i
23392s	think some players are setting their
23394s	sights on that as the next target yeah
23396s	in his case of course because he reached
23398s	the top eight last time picking up six
23400s	wins here is a lot of points towards
23402s	getting into the championships as well
23404s	uh presumably he has eight nine ten that
23407s	sort of order already
23409s	plus another six from here that's sort
23410s	of let's say 15-ish i don't know his
23412s	exact record last tournament
23414s	he would only need two or three more
23416s	points to be in the sort of scores that
23418s	would get you in so
23420s	every win putting him very close to
23422s	getting to that championship event with
23423s	a chance to go to the world
23424s	championships or you can just bypass all
23426s	that and win the tournament and then you
23427s	don't have to mess around
23431s	yeah always the dream everyone looks for
23433s	is getting a chance to make it to worlds
23435s	even if you don't win worlds i think
23437s	that is every hearthstone player's dream
23439s	and really card players dream no matter
23441s	what game you're playing
23443s	we are going to have a look at one more
23445s	match before we cut into round eight um
23448s	it looks like it's going to be between
23450s	w.e stone and suris
23453s	a stone a player
23455s	a chinese player who
23457s	has been very close to the world
23459s	championships twice i believe being one
23461s	match away thanks to rice bowl for that
23465s	information on twitter and also this
23467s	time around came third in the first
23469s	attempt this year so regarded now as one
23472s	of china's very best players has about a
23474s	60 win rate in masters tours which is
23477s	very strong um against this sort of
23479s	field over a long time and service who
23482s	is a player i followed very closely in
23484s	2018 in particular who
23487s	was just so close to picking up points
23489s	every tournament in top 16 never quite
23492s	really getting that break the sort of
23494s	player who you can say is unlucky
23496s	constantly went 6-2 5-3 6-2 6-2 5-3 and
23501s	has continued that ever since so i would
23503s	love to see service get a win and get
23505s	into a a top 16 i think maybe he made
23507s	one i think he did make one some time
23510s	ago but really
23512s	do a breakout performance with those
23513s	consistent wins so let's have a look
23515s	what this is going to be game five and
23517s	it's a druid from stone have a look at
23519s	that for us
23521s	ah yes the alignment druid a final send
23524s	off to the card for
23526s	those who may not be aware this is among
23529s	the listed nerfs that we have had
23532s	told to us by twitter it's going to no
23535s	longer be symmetrical but still be able
23537s	to give you those power turns in terms
23539s	of making all of your things cost one
23542s	i think it is a pick for this tournament
23544s	for a lot of folks because it is one way
23546s	you can kind of mess with the shaman
23548s	they do have a couple of high-end cards
23550s	and a few things to do but for the most
23551s	part celestial alignment very very
23553s	disruptive to your opponent's game plan
23556s	and very very impactful for the druid
23558s	who can start ramping their mana up very
23560s	quickly again and kazakhstan as well uh
23563s	making its presence known again i think
23566s	for a while people were sort of happy to
23568s	cast it aside and just do dinathias but
23570s	as things have developed they decided
23573s	you know what that's still a pretty
23574s	solid wooden condition and you need to
23576s	have multiple in the face of mutinous
23578s	and theater these days
23580s	yeah absolutely you say that like jury
23582s	cards don't all cost one anyway
23585s	like every druid card just costs one by
23588s	turn seven or eight because they've got
23589s	200 mana they just yeah it doesn't
23591s	matter what they cost to that point so
23593s	be interesting to see where that goes a
23595s	service on the big spell mage
23598s	[Music]
23600s	yes it is so i couldn't see the drake
23601s	fire i mean it for a minute it's
23604s	clearly there um
23606s	this deck obviously
23608s	not quite as popular as it was in the
23610s	previous masters tour it has that
23612s	inconsistency problem
23614s	um but obviously when it does its thing
23616s	it just wins games and with the
23618s	inclusion of nightclub sanctum it is now
23620s	able to get to turn six uh very safely
23624s	compared to how it used to
23627s	yeah one of the weaknesses previously
23630s	was just having no tools to clear up the
23632s	early game because you could not run
23634s	those early spells so you might look to
23636s	maybe discover some kind of spells in
23638s	the early game to shore up that weakness
23640s	but you didn't want to run anything
23642s	because you want to draw off of
23645s	deep water evoker i believe it is to
23647s	gain you that 10 or 9 armor or off of
23650s	belinda to get them reduced so
23653s	uh as you say less popular this time
23655s	around but still a good number of
23657s	players deciding to bring it i think in
23659s	part because of the disruption element
23661s	of barbaric sorceress swapping one of
23664s	your high spell high cost bells with
23667s	something cheaper on the opponent's side
23671s	let's have a look at this particular
23673s	mage hand well
23675s	we've seen a lot of this so far just
23677s	none of the good six drops none of the
23678s	early six rocks no belinda no barbaric
23681s	and when you don't get those games get
23683s	really messy because you have to start
23685s	wondering whether to cycle your drake
23686s	fires and ah stuff just gets grim
23689s	because your your other cards really are
23691s	just
23692s	an assembly of rubbish for the most part
23695s	as you can see
23698s	i was wondering if cyrus might go for
23700s	this uh something that i feel is
23702s	happening more and more in this meta is
23704s	just tempo brand tempo bowler these
23707s	otherwise utility tools that you expect
23709s	to get immediate value from in the late
23711s	game
23712s	because so many decks kind of build to
23714s	something later on
23716s	particularly mage shaman and druid you
23719s	can just play it out on three as a
23722s	threat that needs to be dealt with and
23724s	even if you get a little bit of value
23726s	from doubling a deep water of ochre
23727s	you're kind of fine with that
23729s	yeah do you want to double a deep water
23732s	evoker
23733s	because you know that the second you do
23735s	it you're just going to draw a belinda
23736s	right
23737s	sorry though
23740s	worst case scenario then you trade both
23743s	amulets and you still have two spells in
23745s	your deck to find with the belinda so i
23748s	think that's part of what makes this
23750s	deck so viable is unlike other you know
23753s	big fill in the blank decks uh such as
23755s	you know big demon hunter or big warrior
23758s	in the past
23759s	where you can get punished for drawing
23762s	the targets that you want to pull out of
23763s	your deck here drake fire ambulance you
23765s	just trade it back and then you can
23767s	still get a 10 10 belinda no problem
23769s	yeah and with a turn to spare on turn
23772s	five where
23773s	let's face it next turn or this turn now
23776s	for service
23777s	um
23778s	yeah next term for service is just gonna
23780s	be a mess so time to trade a couple of
23782s	things
23783s	play a watch post play a pelican it's
23785s	just just a turn of just sorting your
23787s	stuff out because at the moment it needs
23789s	sorting around
23791s	and then you've got to see and the guff
23793s	coming down
23795s	here power immediately to be on
23798s	nine nana so it could be devour could be
23801s	malygos
23804s	that is spicy but just to turn off
23808s	yeah
23809s	all the cheap stuff's gonna be gone by
23811s	stone by next turn
23813s	this is the power of druid
23815s	it's got so much mana that it just can
23817s	get rid of one and two mana spells so
23819s	easily without even inconveniencing
23821s	itself a lot of the time
23825s	i'm wondering
23826s	if it might even just be
23829s	wash post pelican ping
23834s	because you imagine that now that
23836s	they've ramped they're gonna be looking
23837s	to draw a bunch of cards of course we
23840s	can see the hand that there is indeed
23841s	quite a lot of card draw in the form of
23843s	miracle growth in malygos but the
23845s	pelican as well if they are going to
23847s	miracle growth
23849s	certainly doesn't hurt in order to clear
23851s	the large minion at the end of it
23854s	yeah and he sees it and again he hasn't
23857s	got the advantage of seeing the opposing
23858s	hand he's had to imagine that and yeah
23860s	fair play
23862s	at least buying a bit of time here
23871s	[Laughter]
23876s	yeah the scale nope
23879s	40 card decks
23881s	you kind of just hope the scale isn't
23882s	there right no no real card draw has
23885s	been spent yet so i think sir is a
23887s	little bit disappointed with that result
23889s	but it did
23891s	delay things otherwise
23893s	an easy malygos or miracle growth could
23896s	have come down if cirrus hadn't
23898s	committed stuff like the wash post and
23900s	uh yeah
23902s	yeah you can in the early game
23904s	50 50 of hitting that wild growth when
23906s	he swaps casts so
23908s	by slowing it down that has brought him
23909s	that and let's face it that ball against
23911s	druids never getting there
23913s	so not a total disaster you force them
23915s	to waste a turn doing this
23921s	[Applause]
23927s	okay
23929s	yeah you've earned this 50 50 if you hit
23931s	it get in there
23933s	nice
23934s	nope not nice missed oh it
23937s	oh the rune is well yeah yeah i was
23939s	looking at the same as you was like wait
23940s	hang on they both still cost 10. but
23942s	yeah i got them
23943s	[Laughter]
23946s	a rune's probably not what you want
23948s	though right i imagine the dragons are
23951s	sort of better for for snowballing
23953s	although grey sage doesn't allow you to
23956s	pick what dragons you refresh anyway
23959s	you might not mind a roon now as things
23961s	have transpired
23963s	apprentice first if you want
23965s	is in time
23969s	theater first if you want as well
23971s	i don't think you want to give anything
23973s	in your hand
23975s	i don't either because it's drooling
23976s	they just cast it
23978s	what to do
23981s	apprentice moon i think then is the
23983s	conclusion from that
23985s	i can't take it yeah otherwise you're
23987s	relying on mass polymorph you know
23990s	onyxia can still get hit by the random
23993s	spells from roon even while it's immune
23995s	i think to some extent i'm not entirely
23997s	sure how that works so if you didn't
23999s	roll something on like a mass polymorph
24001s	you could struggle i think it makes
24002s	sense to just get rid of all the one
24003s	ones it charges up through mordred for
24005s	later if you find it
24007s	and uh yeah you're hoping for just a
24009s	clear here and
24011s	something extra honestly probably a
24013s	counterspell or something
24016s	that would be nice
24019s	wildfire always welcome ignite can be a
24021s	little awkward sometimes
24025s	yeah it goes forever against some decks
24027s	you wouldn't mind it but not against
24029s	this deck
24031s	[Music]
24034s	alignment is interesting
24042s	taking the discover first
24045s	makes sense
24047s	to get set to one
24051s	yeah i think he feels that what why do
24053s	it
24055s	sort of going with the meme i said
24056s	earlier all my cards cost one anyway
24058s	because i'm druid doesn't really matter
24059s	why i help out the expensive debt
24063s	yeah fair enough fair enough
24069s	explosive taken off some of the health
24072s	you know there wasn't even that many
24073s	cards drawn from the malygos was it
24077s	compared to some we've seen
24080s	yeah i think he feels pretty comfortable
24081s	here
24085s	that's why he's not aligning i think the
24086s	hero powers keep ramping
24088s	yeah
24090s	yeah i feel like the alignment
24092s	is a closer against some of the cheaper
24095s	decks but against this you're just
24096s	giving them a chance to cast a drake
24098s	fire naturally and see what happens
24099s	whereas i think he thinks he's in such
24101s	control just play it like a vamp drawing
24102s	now and the alignment's always there if
24104s	you need it
24107s	debating now this cold tooth mine you
24109s	know of course it finds you danathis but
24111s	it also signals that you have genathrius
24115s	yep
24118s	i think that's always
24120s	the debate is
24122s	oh right there are so many tens you
24124s	don't always hit it
24129s	maybe that's even what you want right
24131s	play called tooth and then hope the
24133s	opponent takes that opportunity to
24134s	theater well it's not actually there
24137s	sure yep okay
24142s	what do you do
24145s	all the big spells available for cirrus
24147s	could just take another rune off of gray
24149s	sage parrot which
24151s	probably the best line honestly
24155s	followed by a third hard cast next turn
24158s	in an amulet amulet
24160s	yep sounds good when you say it quickly
24165s	yeah it's it's going okay
24171s	decision for stone weather now he wants
24173s	to align next turn
24176s	i don't think he can
24179s	that's the second ignite added to the
24181s	deck
24185s	stone's actually pretty low now i mean
24188s	yeah got to be hoping for a top tech is
24192s	i think there's morderish in the deck
24194s	you could be wrong on that
24197s	yeah there is a mordred
24202s	thought there's everything
24205s	with these 40 card decks you know it's
24207s	it's more of a wonder of what isn't in
24209s	the deck than what is
24215s	yeah he hasn't got any of the good stuff
24217s	really i mean he's got an atheist now
24218s	but that's not going to
24220s	he is going to save him quite likely but
24222s	not immediately he's got to do some
24223s	other stuff first
24231s	hey
24234s	double knolls nice although
24237s	i almost wonder if you don't devour this
24239s	board just to be able to
24242s	birth in scale
24247s	especially after seeing that roon
24250s	i think it wants to serve the scale
24251s	because 12 uh 11 even is pretty
24253s	terrifying
24259s	and the mana just works out here
24261s	null
24263s	devour ton of honor
24266s	yep and suddenly
24269s	now you're ready to start playing an
24271s	alignment because you're so far ahead
24273s	your opponent doesn't do something about
24274s	it
24277s	oh that's an x i forgot we had a
24281s	this four mena spell played from the
24284s	previous rune so
24285s	two more runes to go if cyrus just
24288s	believes he has to roll the dice
24290s	i think
24291s	i i think he has to what else
24294s	what else are you gonna do
24295s	yeah
24299s	nothing that a lucky boo won't fix
24302s	but he needs to get you know some good
24304s	stuff because he is dead in two or three
24307s	turns himself you know it doesn't look
24308s	like that right now
24315s	okay loads of armor there's the polly
24317s	yeah
24318s	another runes another big night
24322s	that's three no you always hope to get i
24324s	think at least one secret just so that
24326s	the opponent has to think about it this
24328s	must be the way
24330s	agree
24335s	this must be the way
24337s	don't do the very good job keeping his
24338s	hand size up while still
24341s	playing powerful things every turn
24345s	yep yep of course keeping hand size up
24347s	means you are much less vulnerable to
24349s	theater and most people have theater but
24352s	not
24353s	mutinous
24354s	so
24356s	just keeping a full hand means less
24358s	likely to get sniped by that although
24361s	plenty of other things to do in the case
24363s	of this alignment druid even if your
24365s	donathias does get stolen it takes away
24367s	a valuable life gain tool and finisher
24369s	but there's still lokolar there's
24373s	kazakusan alexstras the lifebinder it's
24376s	not like you don't have ways of closing
24377s	out the game otherwise
24379s	i wonder if he feels that scale might
24381s	just be game closing here with
24382s	donathious in hand
24385s	yeah
24386s	you know that thought was
24388s	this scale is going to make dramatically
24390s	just so much health and if i get back up
24391s	to a sensible health total i'm
24392s	definitely safe because i'm the druid
24394s	why wouldn't i be safe
24400s	seven more mana a turn than my opponent
24403s	yeah
24404s	yeah yeah
24406s	just don't die for a turn or two and
24407s	everything's well
24410s	even though the mage is on 54 their life
24412s	total doesn't matter so much
24415s	just look at the difference in mana
24417s	gonna be 18 to 10 crystals that's just
24421s	effectively you have two turns for each
24423s	one of your opponents i want to try
24425s	explaining to a regular sports fan well
24428s	i'm losing
24429s	54-23 but i fancy my chances from here
24436s	i take a while
24440s	reasons that life totals are not ways of
24442s	determining who is winning
24445s	absolutely
24449s	well this certainly sets mordress online
24452s	once it's picked up if it wasn't already
24454s	it was
24455s	uh i think we're gonna follow up with
24457s	theatar finally
24464s	i guess the miracle growth
24468s	probably
24472s	in fact definitely
24475s	i could see his little brain thinking do
24477s	i want to take the alignment here and
24479s	lock them out but yeah that was what the
24481s	thought process was right it's like
24483s	actually if my opponent's not playing
24484s	alignment does that mean it's good for
24485s	me
24486s	oh no i have no mana at the time i play
24488s	it no it's not good for me
24489s	[Laughter]
24490s	i think it's it would be more about
24492s	making sure that stone doesn't play it
24494s	right that
24495s	with how much
24496s	headstone is they could play
24499s	anything and then alignment afterward to
24502s	try and lock out cirrus um
24504s	so potentially you remove but you figure
24507s	if they haven't played at all this time
24510s	that's not really the way i'm gonna go
24513s	however another scale coming this turn
24517s	with mana to play donathia's apples
24519s	immediately if he wants to
24526s	exactly
24529s	there is no bran in the list
24533s	okay
24534s	so we can't get into those really crazy
24537s	numbers that we see out of druid
24538s	sometimes in terms of their genethrous
24540s	plays
24541s	so
24541s	as you say it might just come down as
24543s	heal you know shore up any possibility
24546s	of dying in the near future and then
24549s	focus on drawing cards and working
24551s	towards that kazakhstan
24553s	[Music]
24555s	unknown hill
24557s	plays around the explosive rooms as well
24559s	so absorb some more
24562s	fancy um
24564s	explosive runes
24566s	yeah well one more time with feeling
24567s	right
24569s	it seems this fourth time
24571s	yeah at least i could remember four i
24574s	think it has to be four
24581s	one of these days it'll just double
24583s	pyroblast the opponent right it's
24594s	because there was another power i think
24595s	this might be the fifth i've lost that
24597s	it's a lot of it's a lot of boxes
24601s	take two take six oh no we could have
24604s	got the honorable oh wait no we couldn't
24605s	because it only targets ponies take two
24607s	of my stuff's cheat
24609s	oh my god
24611s	and a pilot so much damage
24616s	another put in a ping at the end in a
24617s	weird business
24620s	yeah
24620s	yeah we're just creating amulet looking
24622s	for those ignites
24626s	mordor should be really handy as well
24633s	i forgot about the ignites we just have
24635s	two three damage ignites right one in
24637s	the hand one in the deck
24639s	more drift
24640s	there's two more in the deck i think he
24642s	got three in the end
24644s	i thought oh my goodness
24646s	they forced the genetics unfortunately
24648s	for service and yeah he knows
24653s	too close for comfort gotta go in now
24658s	and you gotta do it all again
24659s	and that was one heck of a box that last
24661s	box by the way
24663s	it was i i think that was the best one
24665s	yet
24676s	here we go
24677s	alignment turns off the possibility of
24680s	shenanigans with those ignites so it
24682s	really is just the big stuff you're
24683s	looking for as the mage
24685s	um
24686s	no opportunity to sanctum and something
24688s	else for example
24690s	uh so it is probably just gonna be
24692s	another rune to be honest and we'll see
24697s	but in the face of this much stuff all
24699s	at once actually very clever there from
24701s	stone using the amplified snow flurry to
24704s	get a zero meta hero power before
24706s	playing the alignment i really like that
24712s	yes
24715s	once you
24717s	get a a filled mana crystal from guff
24720s	from the hero power it plays anything in
24722s	your deck so uh
24727s	really great to be able to bank one of
24728s	those from snow flurry
24730s	dawn grasp a little too late here i
24732s	think
24735s	oh so many just
24743s	what to do and honestly a cirrus hasn't
24745s	played
24746s	the miracle growth so i do wonder if he
24748s	should have taken the alignment to
24750s	prevent something like this
24754s	possibly is he in a much i mean he is in
24755s	a better spot if he doesn't get aligned
24757s	there but he's in a much better spot if
24758s	he doesn't get aligned there the turn
24760s	might still just be well box for nine
24762s	anyway
24763s	obviously this maybe not a much better
24764s	spot but it leaves you with more options
24767s	right you can nightcloak sanctum freeze
24769s	the 1010
24770s	at the same time as playing the dawn
24772s	grasp you know lets you have a little
24774s	more flexibility
24776s	no absolutely
24778s	like so he didn't play the card that he
24780s	took
24782s	but at the time he did look like maybe
24784s	hunting for three cars to be really
24786s	useful and that's no longer the case
24790s	or maybe it still is the case maybe that
24791s	was his thinking
24794s	get three cars next turn played in the
24796s	turn after
24800s	yeah the mana differential now even
24802s	greater than what it was
24804s	yeah
24806s	it was double before now it's six times
24808s	the amount that's pretty terrifying
24813s	it looks like stone is going to get to
24814s	close this out bombing something
24816s	ridiculous from the box like three fiber
24818s	blasts or something
24822s	which is not possible so you know
24826s	boxes maybe
24828s	yeah old yog box you know maybe we're
24830s	still in business but uh roon
24833s	not gonna get you there in that front i
24835s	think the best role is still mass
24836s	polymorph and
24839s	something else to clean things up i
24840s	guess mass polymorph into
24842s	deathborn is probably the best role
24847s	sounds good yeah that's quite a lot
24850s	burning again and you still need another
24852s	turn for that to actually
24854s	function really
24859s	this is just stone going through the
24860s	motions now of a very strong player
24862s	wrapping up a decent game of hearthstone
24866s	one of those situations where i feel
24867s	like if it were a ladder game
24869s	service might have conceded by now but
24872s	you know just kind of doing everything
24874s	you can
24876s	going to cast that last rune
24878s	honestly if it doesn't do enough could
24880s	just see the concede afterwards
24882s	especially in your service you're always
24884s	five and one at this stage of a
24886s	tournament and just get so few top
24888s	eights and top 16s like
24890s	you just need to get one extra win
24892s	somewhere one day and possibly even get
24894s	into that top eight top four winner
24896s	tournament
24898s	oh there is a deathborn
24903s	not quite the polly into deathborn that
24905s	we were talking about but honestly
24908s	uh certainly could have been worse
24910s	although the board space now bit of an
24912s	issue if you wanted to go for drake fire
24915s	there's just not enough room so i
24917s	suspect you would
24919s	kill the five one instead
24922s	yeah the trouble is you're dying in two
24924s	turns yourself now this is where it's
24925s	different from earlier right so yeah
24927s	gotta kill the five what i feel okay
24941s	what do you kill it with
24942s	you know as embarrassing as it is to use
24945s	a second flame when all your stuff costs
24948s	one and this costs one before it is just
24950s	sort of the tool for the job
24959s	[Music]
24961s	so many cards my eyes are going
24962s	cross-eyed looking at this trying to
24965s	work out exactly what to do with this
24966s	eight mana just play eight cards and see
24969s	what happens
24971s	i don't know there's options you could
24974s	uh
24976s	starfish silence away these pesky death
24979s	rattles cherry rig spammy
24981s	clears them up your minions stay alive
24987s	for some damage as well
24989s	oh there's lady anacondra because that
24991s	matters
24994s	well
24995s	one hard remaining
24998s	hey like in the deck every time i see it
25000s	it's just like
25001s	a shadow of her former self
25004s	there's kazakhstan into the last one
25009s	pick fast we're on the rope
25012s	pure cold looks good
25015s	i think that was a wax rager maybe
25017s	banana split embers for sure oh yeah
25019s	those are good enough
25021s	all right you do this
25023s	the alignment
25024s	uh
25025s	feel like you maybe would could have
25028s	spammy there but let's be honest you're
25030s	at 40 life you're never dying
25034s	all the runes have been spent even the
25035s	extra two
25040s	and staying alive for one more turn
25043s	looks difficult staying alive for two
25044s	more turns or killing stone in two more
25046s	turns looks impossible
25050s	and after that it's into the um
25053s	extra cards
25055s	and this is where i have to wonder again
25057s	lorendo that if we had taken that first
25060s	alignment just to prevent you know being
25063s	messed with in that way the second
25065s	alignment was second from the bottom i
25067s	think or near bouts and then kazakhstan
25070s	the bottom card maybe there was a real
25072s	chance there if you prevent yourself
25074s	from getting disrupted so heavily as you
25076s	say it
25077s	it's may not have mattered the meta
25079s	differential was already pretty
25081s	intense by that point but
25084s	yeah it's it gets so dramatic after
25087s	alignment is played and particularly the
25089s	second alignment where they're able to
25091s	reduce the treasures to one it certainly
25093s	made your point that you made at the
25094s	time very clear on the board how yes it
25097s	doesn't matter but yet it does matter
25099s	so
25100s	like we've seen the things that
25103s	service has been struggling to be able
25104s	to do
25105s	because of the alignment i mean we all
25107s	know that to some extent but that the
25109s	number of times he could have squeezed
25110s	in one extra card for next a couple of
25112s	mana here and there
25114s	were significant and stone
25116s	you know does the professional job here
25118s	gets through to six and one service five
25121s	and two yet again
25124s	um but yeah well played i think we might
25127s	see stone now in another top 16.
25132s	yeah well played from both i think that
25133s	can be a tough matchup to navigate you
25136s	saw stone holding on to the alignment
25138s	for so long waiting until he could come
25140s	right back into it in terms of ramping
25142s	up the mana crystals i think one of the
25144s	dangers of doing something like just
25146s	ramping up and playing alignment as soon
25148s	as you're able is that it allows the big
25150s	spell mage to take advantage of that and
25153s	follow immediately with a dragonfire
25156s	amulet and stone kept that scenario from
25158s	ever arising choosing not to play
25160s	celestial alignment until there was
25162s	already a board established just for
25164s	disruption element
25166s	and that gives china three of the top
25169s	four players in the tournament at the
25171s	end of round number seven
25173s	wdg three woods and love storm both on
25175s	seven and oh stone in fourth place on
25178s	tie breakers with six and one and the
25180s	other player in that top four
25182s	which will delight a lot of people to
25184s	hear with one more game to go is donkey
25187s	on six and one and then there's a
25189s	million other people on six and one as
25190s	well which i'm deliberately not reading
25192s	out because it would take all day
25194s	um but yep
25196s	uh
25197s	very exciting time to see donkey go from
25199s	a person who really wants to play a
25200s	masters tour into person who forgot to
25202s	sign up for master's forgot to check
25204s	into a master's tour
25206s	into
25207s	yeah first ever masters tour that they
25209s	qualified for they um
25212s	didn't check in because they didn't know
25214s	that's what they had to do and so missed
25216s	the event
25217s	um but here we are three or four
25219s	tournaments later donkey right up there
25221s	with a shot of reaching that top 16
25223s	which would be i think something we
25225s	would all love to see happen apart from
25226s	whoever they end up playing against in
25228s	the next
25229s	round um
25231s	but that is around number seven in the
25232s	books and we're going to go on to round
25235s	number eight the final round of the day
25238s	so don't go anywhere we'll be back in
25240s	three
25245s	[Music]
25254s	[Music]
25291s	do
25294s	[Music]
25303s	so
25309s	[Music]
25345s	do
25353s	[Music]
25362s	[Music]
25387s	so
25389s	[Music]
25439s	hello and everyone and welcome back it's
25441s	time for the eighth and final round of
25444s	swiss for this masters tour i'm raven
25447s	joining me for this one is derek i will
25449s	ever be able to
25451s	take off the achievement of casting with
25453s	everyone today one after the other so
25455s	i'm happy with that but derek how's it
25456s	going as we draw to the end of day two
25458s	it is going great man i am having a lot
25461s	of fun in the tournament seeing all
25463s	these different decks all the subtle
25464s	differences that you can uh
25467s	change your lineup with which have been
25468s	having pretty big implications this mt i
25470s	think uh and also i am uh
25473s	a terrible caster in that i let my mood
25475s	be entirely judged by how my games have
25478s	been going mid-cast and uh i'm glad to
25480s	report really good so it's going to be a
25483s	good one yeah same i'm off the back of
25485s	an 8-1
25487s	score in there while i've been on the
25488s	break between the match so i met yeah
25490s	i'm great as well we're all having a
25492s	good day let's go
25494s	as long as we're happy
25496s	we are going to check in though with the
25498s	first match of round eight with ton soku
25500s	and devil matt uh devil matt a play we
25503s	saw briefly at the end of yesterday as
25506s	pretty cool uh end of game at least uh
25508s	but then uh ton soku a player we've uh
25511s	been the scene for quite a long time now
25513s	when you realize how many years we've
25515s	been casting ahem tonsoku was one of the
25517s	uh
25518s	early players out of japan that really
25520s	started to put out performances at least
25522s	for me i don't know about you but
25524s	definitely a name that said it feels
25525s	like one of the originals
25527s	yeah for real he's been playing
25528s	hearthstone for a long long time both in
25530s	and uh and out of masters tours before
25533s	uh of course in the other previous
25535s	systems as well and he's had a decent
25537s	time in masters tours i think he's just
25539s	rocking pretty close to a 50 win rate in
25542s	masters tours overall unless i'm very
25544s	much mistaken but he is uh very much
25546s	leading the charge this masters tour in
25548s	another great performance for japan they
25551s	always bait me every time into thinking
25554s	that this is the one but i mean maybe
25556s	raven this could be the one right we've
25558s	got tan soku glory and possessi on the
25561s	six one score line which uh obviously
25563s	it's not the the classic trifecta of
25566s	glory possesses
25567s	but
25568s	it's pretty good because as you say
25570s	tanzoku has been knocking about for a
25572s	long time
25574s	and in this series he's got himself in a
25575s	bit of a close one i think actually very
25577s	very similar lineups from both our
25580s	players uh devil matt on the other side
25582s	of course uh representing italy uh the
25585s	only difference really that i can see
25586s	being uh
25587s	face hunter versus this new lambie rogue
25591s	yeah and just quickly go into your point
25593s	no matter how uh many times you get a
25595s	little bit baited by the japanese
25597s	players and maybe taking a victory uh
25600s	your hopes are never going to be as low
25602s	as some of the other casters hoping for
25604s	an america's winner so it's as always
25606s	you know you always at least one step
25608s	above but yeah you are right very
25610s	similar overall lineups and it's
25612s	something that's interested me a lot how
25614s	just slight variations on lineups really
25618s	seem to decide whether players are
25619s	banning shaman or not as shaman does
25622s	feel like the the terror of this masters
25624s	tour this weekend uh still i think last
25626s	time i looked at least a a couple of
25628s	hours ago posting very good uh win
25630s	percentages across the board uh but yeah
25633s	but been very interesting to see
25635s	like why players don't ban it versus
25637s	some players seem to be banning it a lot
25639s	and i think in this meta it's very
25641s	difficult to sort of spin exact reasons
25645s	why right cause i don't feel like
25646s	anyone's running a lineup that's like oh
25648s	yeah i'll three oh shame and no worries
25650s	i feel like a lot of the matchups feel
25652s	very very close indeed
25654s	exactly i i fully agree with you there
25656s	it's like when you're when you're a kid
25659s	and you you look at growing ups and
25660s	you're like okay these people have their
25662s	lives together they're going around
25665s	being grown-ups they know exactly what
25667s	you're doing and then you know you
25668s	realize now me i am a grown-up i don't
25671s	know what the heck i'm doing with my
25672s	life everything's spiraling out of
25674s	control maybe getting a little too deep
25675s	into it for cast but basically the same
25677s	thing happens with players you think
25678s	they have this master plan where they
25680s	figured out every single pick every band
25682s	every tech card but you talk to them
25684s	about it beforehand and they're like
25686s	yeah i went like 3-1 on ladder with this
25688s	deck 10 minutes before submission i just
25690s	submitted it and you're like what
25691s	where's all the testing where's the
25693s	science in this i love it because
25696s	like
25697s	talking to players and coming out with
25698s	answers like that from players is one of
25700s	the few ways i can actually relate with
25703s	a pro
25704s	player it's not in play you know not in
25706s	knowledge it's just the fact that
25708s	sometimes you do stupid things and i do
25710s	a lot of stupid things as well so it's
25712s	great for me at least it gives me some
25713s	relatable factor uh but here tonsoku
25716s	already decided his mulligan keeping
25718s	wildport keeping shroud uh definitely
25720s	two great openers there uh the the bone
25723s	spikes uh
25726s	definitely a mixed bag for me i think
25728s	like you you 100 know why they're in the
25730s	deck but some matchups the card feels
25732s	fantastic like this one and then other
25735s	match-ups you think oh i really need to
25737s	find a minion so i can bone spike it
25739s	right you know you're really struggling
25741s	to actually make that card get work done
25744s	but not going to be the case here
25745s	because tonsoku will have plenty of
25747s	targets
25749s	yeah it's gonna be a really interesting
25750s	start to the game here because
25752s	uh with the standard pan out where you
25755s	draw one two three cards by turn three
25757s	and then go shroud on turn three as well
25759s	because every card in the deck is a
25761s	rogue card you are guaranteed to draw
25763s	nothing but rogue cards and so pass past
25766s	shroud on three means your nulls do cost
25768s	zero uh but now already to be fair there
25771s	are some more interesting options than
25773s	just hero power pass yeah i'm even
25775s	looking at just bone spike and equip is
25777s	that madness
25778s	[Music]
25780s	because you have no lung curve next turn
25782s	anyway
25786s	so this goes to the heart of the deck
25788s	right this is really the the balance you
25789s	have to strike it's the player i was
25792s	thinking of immediately which is build
25793s	up all your resources for a big pop off
25795s	or immediate tempo uh which you could
25798s	get with the null line
25800s	my instinct is to say having played a
25802s	few games of the deck you're supposed to
25803s	wait here you're supposed to just chill
25805s	because having a zero mana knoll versus
25807s	a three-man and all makes such a big
25810s	difference i think you just lose in the
25811s	long game with that play
25813s	uh but it's very interesting it's uh
25816s	yeah something i would have considered
25817s	for sure i do think it's the uh
25820s	this rogue deck is deceptively difficult
25823s	officially it's not about oh well can
25826s	you play a million cards in a turn and
25828s	get a big dagger you know like it's not
25830s	even about that it's about planning
25832s	exactly how and when to use each single
25836s	resource and i think it's very difficult
25838s	to do well so again i would have
25841s	probably wussed out and played the bone
25843s	spike and then just uh equipped dagger
25845s	killed in him and then said you know
25846s	what this'll get me there with a null
25848s	next turn but it's very likely i would
25851s	have been quite wrong and would have
25852s	lost the game because of it so we'll see
25854s	how a much better player than me it's
25856s	gonna play this one out
25858s	well the problem is though that in this
25859s	instance you are in some pretty big
25862s	trouble in terms of that six six
25863s	punching you in the face every single
25865s	turn
25866s	um but i i think you don't really have
25868s	any choice so you have to go shroud you
25870s	can't go prep first or you will de-cloak
25872s	and the knob will cost two instead
25875s	uh but picking up the second knoll here
25878s	boy that makes things interesting worth
25880s	the sacrifice of a null to kill the uh
25884s	oh hold again
25886s	oh
25887s	i play way too safe
25889s	i'm an idiot i should stop playing this
25891s	rogue
25895s	i mean it could be a great payoff i mean
25897s	look how good the necrolord is going to
25899s	be
25900s	yeah and i think this is like
25903s	just the right level of that that
25905s	balance that i talk about of holding
25907s	back for bigger pop-offs first going in
25909s	as quick as you can i think tan soku is
25911s	this turn you know now he's dying now he
25913s	needs to do something on this play
25915s	something this
25917s	come on
25919s	just pass again you know what i think i
25921s	can make this dagger bigger pass
25929s	you have to be careful definitely the
25931s	type of turn where take a second
25934s	work out order because it could go very
25936s	wrong if you don't think about it
25939s	and it's a really tough turn like you
25941s	could start with trade dagger because
25942s	you actually have a lot of mana to work
25944s	with with like
25945s	knoll trading to the librarian
25948s	uh prep
25950s	bone spike as well like right that gives
25953s	you way more mana to work with
25956s	okay it's infused now because of the
25958s	paladin hero power that's very nice
25960s	yeah you'd probably need to prep bounce
25963s	by glass though right because if he
25965s	wants necrolog on anyway
25967s	which i'm pretty sure he will
25969s	you'd hope soon
25973s	ah the numbers are just a little awkward
25974s	you'd have loved a
25976s	one cost spell uh like extortion there
25979s	oh but wow okay now we're talking oh my
25983s	goodness back in the game
25986s	and this is going to be fair
25988s	yeah this looks like uh you know very
25991s	convenient that second uh bone spike was
25994s	drawn uh tonsoku choosing not to go for
25997s	it though but
25998s	again this sort of reward was what
26001s	tanzoku set up for right like this was
26003s	given to him uh because he decided to
26006s	hold he's been punished because he's on
26008s	14 health but now this has to be
26011s	worthwhile for him to win this game
26016s	interesting because he had
26018s	the ability to go for
26020s	infused imp i think he would have had to
26022s	have traded one of these one one imps in
26025s	in on the board with the
26027s	full three threes but instead he's just
26029s	saying getting the damage face is more
26030s	worth it you get a little bit less tempo
26032s	now but this second one will still be
26034s	ready to go next turn
26036s	and it means there's a lot of damage
26038s	coming through here
26040s	yeah it's looking quite good because
26042s	these trades simply have to happen right
26045s	like there's no real way
26047s	uh tansoku can leave anything up maybe
26049s	he gets away with leaving the one one up
26053s	if he needs to if he feels he needs to
26055s	leave anything but right outside of that
26058s	i don't think you can take three
26060s	yeah i think you just full trade the
26061s	board here the question is what would
26063s	you rather get bone spike or tooth
26066s	activated
26068s	or sorry both can you
26070s	yeah this the downside is you lose the
26072s	null here whereas you could have traded
26074s	it into the 3-3
26075s	uh but he values both a spell and a bit
26077s	of extra tempo uh
26080s	or a bit of extra mana than a 3-2 on
26082s	board honestly it's kind of too quick to
26084s	figure out properly but it makes sense
26086s	to me and final gasp is a pretty good
26088s	one to get
26093s	yeah oh that's his crap
26097s	big king crab oh
26099s	[Music]
26101s	life steals pretty good too
26103s	wow tonsoku
26104s	holding gone
26106s	just here
26107s	just
26109s	the whole voidwalk is gonna be a bit of
26111s	a pain though that's just awkward right
26113s	to actually punch through he's got the
26115s	crab claws but
26121s	okay so you have 11 that can go face
26123s	here
26124s	uh no way to boost that with crab
26126s	obviously because
26127s	you'll have already attacked
26129s	it won't be 11 though right
26132s	right
26133s	yeah good point sorry yeah
26136s	he could actually just trade with the
26139s	um with the three four instead push six
26143s	yep and then crab
26146s	and i'm even wondering
26148s	what the potential of
26151s	epping the crab looks like
26159s	just because you know there's always
26161s	going to be
26162s	the trades for the clause right so in
26164s	this way you get to push for this turn
26166s	and you step the crab and push forward
26168s	again next turn
26170s	at minimum or push uh yeah but uh i
26173s	think with this and with the build that
26175s	devilmatt's got there's not
26177s	really a way to punish this crab without
26180s	losing to the rest of the board so i do
26182s	like holding on to it on there on board
26184s	here
26185s	yeah really really nice last couple
26187s	turns for tan soku here the the pen
26189s	ultimate turn that we saw there on turn
26190s	five i was still a little unconvinced of
26193s	because he did sacrifice away a null
26195s	that i thought at the time he didn't
26196s	have to but i think because of how few
26198s	minions there were in the deck because
26200s	he cleared the board and then had the
26202s	mana to play the shroud he was very very
26205s	likely to hit crab on the following turn
26207s	which was the real uh you know full stop
26209s	at the end of this game as tan soku with
26212s	his uh adorable uh demeanor and very
26215s	infectious happiness uh takes the win a
26218s	very very well played example of this uh
26220s	very new version of rogue and even
26222s	though it's just game one it's kind of
26224s	understandable like the mini pop off
26225s	there right because he cut that close
26228s	right we were talking about almost every
26230s	turn from turn two onwards like oh what
26233s	about this player what about that play
26235s	that he could have done he decided to be
26237s	as greedy as possible and it did work
26239s	out but there were many ways where it
26241s	wouldn't have worked out for him there
26243s	so again i think he played well and how
26245s	you should play with the deck but it
26247s	does feel like you have to cut it close
26249s	an awful lot of times
26253s	yeah this was the turn right this was
26254s	nice though because you still have three
26255s	mana spare for a potential spell as well
26258s	right and that you'd get from the tooth
26260s	so even though he sacrificed a null
26262s	there i do like the overall game plan
26264s	yep looking at it uh cohesively uh i am
26268s	a big fan of this line and with the
26270s	rogue out of the way as a potential weak
26272s	spot uh i guess against warlock and
26274s	hunter i think it was probably going to
26276s	be pretty good overall but major i'm not
26277s	so certain uh as uh i wouldn't like to
26281s	be the rogue so much against the mage i
26282s	should say uh but now with just shaman
26284s	and mage of his own left over for tan
26287s	soku i very much like his position
26289s	because shaman vs warlock is uh a bit of
26292s	a close one one where i think you do
26295s	suffer by transitioning over to the 40
26297s	card list because it's not really about
26300s	health in this matchup in my experience
26302s	like having an extra turn with the extra
26304s	10 health can help of course but it's
26307s	about finding the uh the immediate board
26309s	control the clownfish pop-offs uh the uh
26312s	the sleep breaker the wild core cabin
26314s	whatever it is in these starting turns
26316s	that you need to just lock down that
26317s	board
26318s	yeah i think there are two levels to
26319s	this there's definitely the early start
26321s	you're really happy if you get hold of
26322s	schooling early on and i think the
26325s	health kicks in if you are in a
26327s	situation where you need to snowfall
26329s	guardian right i think that's the only
26332s	real
26333s	place where the extra 10 health could
26335s	kick in it might get you from turn five
26337s	to turn six
26338s	whereas 30 health wouldn't and then you
26339s	can freeze and then go from there but
26342s	devil matt is running double starfish in
26344s	the list
26346s	which is again
26347s	maybe another nod to why tonsoku gets to
26349s	play shaymin
26351s	in in this match because uh with that
26353s	double starfish it means he is able to
26355s	just say okay well it might debuff some
26357s	of my imps
26359s	but i got get to attack get to interact
26362s	uh with the board so again tonsoku will
26364s	have to be a little bit wary which means
26366s	he will of course be wanting the strong
26369s	opening as opposed to relying on freezes
26371s	for his life
26372s	very true i have never seen that skin
26375s	before for thrall i am a
26378s	used
26379s	yeah man i i use that i i know i
26382s	shouldn't but on ladder whenever i see a
26383s	skin that i rarely see i'm like
26386s	i think that's a rogue i smell something
26388s	fishy i'm suspicious yeah
26391s	like what big robo fists thrall or
26394s	whatever this is no i'm not buying it
26398s	that's not the thrall i know
26399s	yeah back in my day
26404s	you know decent start for devil matt of
26407s	course whenever you've got a turn one
26409s	play and circles
26411s	um you're you're very very happy here
26414s	especially not seeing us schooling on
26416s	one or two devil matt going to be pretty
26419s	okay with this doesn't have any of the
26421s	big payoffs yet and i wonder whether
26424s	this lee ever leans to a play of holding
26426s	the coin because he has the uh uh the
26428s	bartender and rafam
26432s	go for the double circle i think might
26434s	have pushed him over the edge there
26438s	yeah i think the curve is just too
26439s	smooth like you say you don't want to
26440s	mess up reform but that shady bartender
26442s	if there's any chance that you can
26444s	activate that with like three or four
26446s	demons on board you're going to
26447s	absolutely jump at it
26451s	okay wave not bad at all one of the
26454s	other sort of
26455s	emergency buttons you can play in this
26458s	matchup
26464s	do we need to make this more complicated
26465s	than just uh
26468s	trade the flame and play the fiendish
26470s	circle the problem is of course that
26471s	you're
26473s	not playing bartender next turn so then
26475s	what does next turn look like
26480s	it's trade and tap this turn
26490s	okay yeah i was going to say do you have
26492s	a trade thirdly and then just recircle
26494s	again sure yeah
26497s	okay that makes sense it gives you a bit
26498s	more board space for next turn as well
26500s	in case they don't start fighting for
26501s	board yet
26503s	yeah
26505s	i like it
26510s	i'm looking great is it
26513s	just going to be okani here from tonsoku
26515s	just
26516s	purely because it said 2-6 that
26519s	might stop something and the devil might
26521s	is unlikely to want to trade all of his
26524s	minions more or less into it
26526s	yeah i like it
26529s	the big fear on turn for his mischievous
26531s	imp right and this does shut that down
26533s	pretty hard
26534s	so i'm fully on board with it
26537s	just at this stage in the game as good
26538s	as it's going to get isn't it
26542s	minion i imagine
26558s	i believe
26566s	yeah he took his time deciding and
26570s	again because we assumed it would be
26571s	minion going into turn four there's not
26573s	that many turn four spells
26576s	to worry about right that maybe he's
26578s	thought you know what if he thinks it's
26580s	minion he's gonna try and play a spell
26581s	and if he plays a spell i'm gonna laugh
26586s	oh yeah like you can stop them from
26589s	going for impending doom uh
26591s	like
26593s	maybe to be honest if they play that and
26594s	it gets counted they're probably fine
26596s	like and more likely they're just gonna
26598s	play
26599s	uh one small minion like a couple small
26601s	minions on that turn
26603s	it's always tough with akane there's
26604s	never a strictly right or wrong answer
26606s	at all but my instincts say i preferred
26609s	minion there
26610s	does devilman actually
26612s	trade this shipment now because he with
26616s	his hand doesn't particularly need
26618s	spells for the near future he could
26620s	spend the managers to bust okani anyway
26622s	but it's likely he kills the ocarina
26624s	regardless i'm just wondering if he gets
26626s	the trade in now spend the manner and
26627s	just get a better card
26629s	agreed i think i like the trade
26632s	worried about needing refill for
26636s	i don't know what because he has him
26637s	king rafam and he can't even play the
26639s	shipment and bartender in the same turn
26640s	anyway next time yeah i guess he's more
26643s	cheap enough for c giant the way he sees
26645s	it
26646s	or or an akani counter that could be
26648s	relevant later
26654s	on okay
26656s	those are not
26657s	demons yeah i mean that's the benefit
26659s	right and
26660s	i say it's an odd play because this
26662s	stops bartender yeah but other than that
26666s	everything else is worse right like
26668s	because there's no both being committed
26671s	there's no imp king rafam played on an
26672s	empty board for example so like this
26675s	does stop stuff but a bit limited here
26679s	yeah it's uh it's a good play on this
26682s	turn undeniably but it does mean tan
26683s	circus kind of tipping his hand here uh
26686s	devil matt has all the go-ahead he needs
26688s	to go pretty all in here like uh
26691s	impending catastrophe for three more
26693s	cards you have the c giant as well
26696s	this is gonna be big though actually the
26698s	more i look at this i kind of love it
26700s	because one doesn't overload him so he's
26702s	got snowfall uh-huh he's just got parrot
26705s	that's true that is does he just win
26707s	that's my next question i do like this
26709s	though opening up some space because
26711s	again he has the starfish
26714s	although i like definitely the setup
26716s	here from tonsoku i think devilmatt not
26719s	falling into the trap of like no i need
26721s	the most minions possible on board at
26722s	all times
26724s	problem is though for devil matt here is
26726s	because he did trade everything in you
26729s	don't really have to go for snowfall
26731s	here maybe tansoku wouldn't have any way
26734s	because there wasn't all too much attack
26735s	with everything being a 1-1 uh but
26737s	either way uh tanzo can get tansoku
26740s	sorry can get away uh with just a
26742s	windchill here
26743s	meaning that for next time once in king
26745s	comes down this guardian is
26748s	perfect oh my goodness
26751s	yeah still going to be a good chunk of
26753s	damage coming out here uh even with the
26756s	fish they're the starfish true yeah
26760s	obviously making them play it is a lot
26762s	better than not making them play it and
26764s	dying so uh still looking good does have
26767s	the parrot as the backup as
26769s	well right okay so if you go face here
26772s	and freeze
26773s	they say they silence
26777s	or lethal gets a bit weird cause i was
26779s	gonna say do you die to silence plus
26782s	location
26783s	uh and i don't think you do but there
26785s	wouldn't be boards based then anyway so
26787s	the more reasons i come up with it uh
26789s	the more reasons i think yeah you just
26790s	go face and freeze if they silence it's
26792s	not that bad you just go parrot it would
26795s	be silenced trade location right so
26798s	there's a space to do both losing imp
26800s	still though do you lose yeah
26803s	yeah i think basically nothing can go
26805s	that
26806s	wrong here for tan soku uh they only
26809s	play one
26810s	uh starfish i'm guessing as well and no
26812s	devil matt plays two oh two starfish
26815s	okay yeah yeah i think again like i said
26817s	i think that's one of the reasons
26819s	shaymin is even allowed to be played in
26821s	this series from devil matt because it
26823s	looks like he is running
26825s	you know some levels of tech against it
26827s	as a starfish in his mage as well uh so
26830s	yeah i think there's just some nods
26832s	towards what are the biggest problems
26833s	gonna be freezes against him okay i'll
26835s	run double uh silence
26838s	and in that case you do really want to
26839s	find it so i think uh impending
26842s	catastrophe becomes a pretty high
26843s	priority play on this turn
26846s	i like it a lot yeah especially because
26848s	he can still load their location right
26850s	like it's true fine oh
26853s	boy
26857s	your c giant still costs zero nice if we
26860s	trade again and then go location
26864s	okay yeah he sees the lines
26866s	matt knows what's up you're gonna buff
26869s	the
26871s	is it oh it's just it's gonna hold it's
26873s	gonna hold okay
26875s	okay sure
26878s	oh
26879s	oh
26880s	so close
26882s	because
26883s	han soku
26884s	there's ten cards left in the deck devil
26886s	matt just drew a million
26888s	yeah oh they played two starfish
26891s	is it crazy
26893s	that i'm looking at rakan because then
26895s	you still have parapro khan afterwards
26899s	i'm looking at parrot theater i'm
26901s	slamming that and just yoinking the uh
26903s	the starfish right from their hand
26906s	then you're not dead on board
26910s	uh no you freeze with parrot right and
26912s	then and then oh sorry sorry sorry
26915s	yeah yeah you know the order yeah yeah
26917s	you know it's a it's been a long and
26919s	quite warm day in this room when i'm
26921s	like yeah derek really loves stealing
26923s	cards
26925s	he wants both he wants starfish and the
26927s	air the one drop oh wow okay
26930s	this slamming brute cam
26933s	you ever die if you go for this line
26935s	go taunts and field two right yeah
26939s	okay
26942s	and you gain the armor and then like i
26943s	said oh oh heel
26946s	yields oh
26947s	the other two it's better okay
26951s	oh the only thing i would have liked
26952s	tomorrow is just push the three
26954s	oh yeah 100
26956s	put some with they can't tap not that
26957s	they need to and puts them in range of
26959s	the deal two hero power oh
26961s	okay so 18 on board right now you're at
26965s	30 health so they need 12.
26969s	four imps oh sorry three imps being
26971s	played it does not offer lethal is there
26973s	a second location and two imps being
26976s	played i still don't think that offers
26979s	lethal right there's just not enough
26980s	board space yeah
26985s	and the thing it oh
26988s	yeah
26989s	i don't think working out can die i was
26991s	working out if he did push the three is
26993s	it guaranteed lethal next turn
26997s	because the arab picks two randoms
26999s	that's a 50 chance at lethal anyway
27002s	and then the hero power re-rolls
27006s	you ever die if you leave the six you're
27008s	you're at 24 health then so six damage
27010s	kills you but there's one less board
27012s	space so like
27014s	i think interesting either way actually
27017s	i
27018s	think you always survive i might be able
27021s	to
27021s	let's go yeah but now we just pray
27025s	all the prakhan
27027s	all right
27028s	fire me one time
27031s	there we go six straight away no messing
27032s	around ponsoku wins game number two and
27036s	another tricky one uh from both players
27039s	actually some difficult choices there
27041s	again tonsoku uh really uh uh bringing
27045s	it close there could have gone either
27046s	way but i think the setup overall did
27049s	look good and i think once we sat and
27051s	worked it out yes the pro khan line did
27054s	look like he was pretty much just
27056s	actually maybe never going to actually
27058s	lose that next turn and with bran parrot
27061s	and still a go at the next prakan hero
27063s	power it was so likely that he wins
27066s	right
27067s	yep absolutely i think it was a very
27069s	very clever line from hansoku
27071s	again like i said napkin mats i think
27073s	whether he traded or not he was always
27074s	surviving there right uh but the line it
27077s	worked out massively in his favor and
27079s	with shaman and rogue
27081s	over the finish line now just the mage
27083s	left to do it which i think just puts
27085s	him in a great spot i like mage against
27087s	most
27088s	decks right now like druid i think is a
27090s	little bit shaky uh face hunter
27094s	we can talk especially if you have uh
27096s	some of the weirder tech cards that tan
27098s	soku has access to but for the most part
27100s	uh against the the zoo fantastic face
27103s	hunter i i don't even mind it that much
27105s	in shaman yeah sometimes you just hit
27107s	the nuts go face and they just die
27109s	yeah my one loss during the break was
27112s	versus a hunter but it was a face hunter
27114s	that popped off and i did not have a
27117s	good draw so yeah one slight weakness i
27119s	think uh one thing to point out though
27120s	with tonsoku's mage is he is running a
27123s	couple of uh sort of clunkier cards i
27126s	would say there's double blizzard
27129s	there's a mass polymorph in there as
27131s	well along with all the sort of spooky
27134s	tech
27134s	and two runes of the archmage it's uh
27138s	it's definitely a lot of cards that do a
27139s	lot of things but are they going to do
27141s	the right things uh still i think he's
27143s	favored right he's got three goes at
27144s	this to get one win but i i do think
27147s	this particular build has yet to impress
27150s	me
27151s	yeah i will agree uh i know that you you
27153s	were saying you're playing the list that
27155s	uh matty was playing broadcast right
27157s	which does run solid uh double solid
27159s	alibi yeah a card
27161s	it's just so difficult to judge right
27163s	because you're saying it's the absolute
27165s	nuts it allows you to just go face a
27166s	whole bunch stall out the game which is
27169s	exactly what you want to do especially
27170s	in a 30 card version of the deck but
27172s	then we see gia playing double solid
27174s	alibi on stream drawing both of them
27176s	starting hand and it just looking like
27178s	one of the most one-sided games of
27179s	hearthstone we've ever seen the only
27181s	good use it had was swapping it with uh
27184s	with theater to give it to your opponent
27186s	i i will say though um i can't quite
27189s	remember the bill geo was playing uh but
27192s	because the build i was like matty's
27194s	list was he's very sort of burn
27196s	dependent then it works more like just
27199s	well give me one more turn and i win the
27200s	race as opposed to any sort of you know
27203s	if for example the double solid alibi in
27205s	this deck uh
27207s	isn't
27208s	for me quite as strong because it
27210s	doesn't necessarily mean your next turn
27211s	is going to be good whereas in the burn
27214s	list i feel like it gives you that one
27217s	extra turns worth of you know big hero
27219s	power some uh more like frozen touch or
27222s	anything like that right to just push
27223s	some extra damage through so yeah we'll
27225s	see i do think the card is very
27227s	interesting though because it's about as
27229s	near an ice block as we've had for a
27230s	very very long time so we'll see how it
27233s	pays off but you can see there just some
27235s	of the potential bad draws like if the
27238s	opening hand it has a couple of these in
27240s	it uh you're feeling pretty bad about
27242s	life
27242s	yeah you really are like there's a
27244s	reason
27245s	like i think matty's list that you were
27246s	talking about that does cut kel'thuzad
27248s	on the deathborn death one maybe not so
27250s	much but cutting kel'thuzad was
27251s	inevitable like players have been
27253s	whispering about that since it came out
27255s	like it makes sense at first you're
27257s	playing a bunch of skeletons it's the
27259s	payoff card right it's the card that the
27260s	designers want you to pick and they made
27262s	it strong because of it
27264s	but it's just eight mana it's so
27266s	expensive and it takes so much setup
27268s	whereas mordresh you know you get the
27270s	wildfire and that kind of does it alone
27272s	an apprentice just instantly uh wins you
27274s	the game that's it as well like in a
27276s	weird way at that stage of a game that
27279s	kel fazad's going to be active for you
27281s	know
27282s	a full board maybe a bit more on a full
27284s	board
27285s	pinging them with for two mana is
27287s	probably better right he probably deals
27289s	more direct damage that given turn so
27292s	definitely a tough one maybe it does uh
27294s	continue to be popular but for now we're
27296s	going to jump into that game number
27297s	three devil matt definitely against the
27299s	ropes now uh in this mage mirror i'm
27302s	gonna quickly jump over uh he has got a
27304s	little bit more of a concise decklist of
27307s	course we're only running the 30 cards
27309s	and uh yeah this is looking good this is
27311s	much closer to the list i've been
27313s	talking about
27314s	yeah man this deck for tan circular i've
27316s	been full on team tan soka here with his
27319s	reactions on camera but this build of
27321s	mage
27322s	i don't know if i see it like it's just
27326s	with the initial build of 30 card mage
27328s	that ran uh what was it like first flame
27331s	and fire sale it was kind of a middle
27334s	range between aggro and control it
27336s	didn't really know what it wanted to be
27338s	and it branched into two separate paths
27340s	right it like evolved uh into different
27342s	uh species
27344s	i prefer the aggressive version i think
27345s	that's definitely the way you want to
27346s	specialize which is why i really like
27349s	the what you're talking about with max
27351s	version going over here with like deep
27353s	water evoker in a deck that plays
27355s	wildfire flurry solid alibi playing
27359s	double solid alibi in a list with no
27361s	burn like i just don't think that's what
27362s	the core of the deck does
27364s	so well i think it just wants to be a
27366s	bit more burn based
27368s	you should call it amazon mage
27370s	there's packages everywhere in this
27372s	checklist too many packages going on
27374s	here but yeah we'll see how it played
27377s	now so far at least tons of managed to
27379s	get hold of a decent curve right double
27381s	location has cold case you know it's not
27384s	terrible but again looking at this it it
27387s	feels like a control deck that wants to
27390s	burn them as well and that doesn't
27391s	really mesh and but we'll see how it uh
27394s	plays out devil matt looking like he's
27396s	got a much greater plan here already
27399s	dominating the board for now has
27400s	reckless apprentice has the modresh
27402s	already locked and loaded just needs to
27404s	beef it up a little bit and their worst
27406s	case if devilmat decides and gets in a
27408s	pinch can just press finley to uh sort
27410s	of reset that
27412s	oh okay you know what take it back i'm
27415s	sorry for doubting you evoker because
27417s	that is pretty insane
27423s	just checking the hand
27425s	there is an alibi in tonsoku's hand and
27428s	there's a theotory devilmets not quite
27429s	the uh the way round you want it to go
27431s	but uh
27434s	yeah it's got to be a five minute
27435s	deathborn here it's so sick six whole
27438s	skellies
27439s	uh and that's the good thing is that
27440s	like death boarding
27443s	uh well actually no it's kind of close
27445s	death warning second kind of ends up
27448s	worse a lot of the time because
27450s	you uh
27451s	you take all the damage face whereas you
27453s	don't necessarily get to deal all the
27455s	damage face but because tansoku is at 40
27457s	health instead of 30 taking 12 to the
27459s	face is it's bad obviously but it's not
27461s	necessarily as game losing as it would
27463s	be on the other side
27466s	yeah i think again the health is the big
27469s	key here isn't it yeah is able to just
27471s	do that just get a the option as well
27474s	for freezing his own minion oh no sorry
27476s	this is going to be full apologies
27477s	something
27478s	forgot a location takes up a slot for a
27480s	second who cares um
27483s	oh devil matt without a wildfire
27487s	on the back foot here
27489s	this is disgusting
27493s	hey now what you've got to think about
27495s	is if devil matt
27497s	did not run deathborn
27500s	he wouldn't be in this situation right
27501s	now
27504s	think about it that way around hey
27507s	sure let's go with that you can't get
27509s	counter death bond if you just don't
27511s	play it in the first place
27514s	i mean all the minions would be left on
27515s	board but yeah sure trade them away
27517s	trade them away
27518s	you don't need minions where we're going
27522s	ping to the face that's all you need
27525s	and a skeleton with an axe
27528s	i mean pink to the face is all that tan
27530s	soku is going to need here like i say
27532s	he's not playing the burn package but if
27534s	we ignore the double solid alibi and
27537s	even kale fast in hand like the rest of
27538s	the hands boston oh yeah double what
27540s	wildfire let's go yeah
27542s	double mat finds his own wildfire but
27546s	i think it might be a turn too late
27548s	right you've got uh apprentice next turn
27551s	and then you're gonna tank a lot of
27552s	damage after just taking 12 on this turn
27555s	even ignoring any damage they may be
27557s	able to do from hand you put that arcade
27559s	interlect down and you double wildfire
27561s	ping them face like a man
27563s	you know what the old saying is two
27565s	wildfires are better than one
27567s	that's true disappointed in tonsoku
27570s	overall but he did
27571s	get dawn grasp so i'll uh let him off to
27574s	some extent
27576s	back on the christmas card list
27586s	does he need to ping
27590s	or should he just consider just playing
27592s	an alibi
27593s	to be ultra safe
27595s	oh you just send it upstairs right what
27597s	do you think so i think so i'm just
27599s	saying like
27602s	are we just gonna start talking about
27603s	does alibi make him one percent more
27606s	chance to win the game you know what i
27608s	mean like that sort of thing right
27609s	what's the worst that could happen here
27612s	oh if you're gonna do this there's no
27614s	way it was worth playing ai i would much
27616s	rather have dealt damage this turn no
27618s	cap
27622s	now i want to see alibi ping gala by
27624s	ping from tonsoku to win the game
27627s	that's what i'm talking about
27629s	i mean if you're deathborn you're one
27630s	damage off dying right you take 12 and
27633s	they have three damage in hand
27635s	you can't even play it uh finley death
27637s	born to try and soak it because that
27640s	doesn't work
27642s	is he actually playing it
27645s	i mean every place sucks like i'm saying
27647s	you can't play it what else can you do
27648s	though you can go apprentice to try and
27650s	soak up a couple more hits it activates
27652s	the more dress obviously for next turn
27654s	but then what you're still not killing
27656s	them and you're tanking so much
27658s	it might actually just be the play
27660s	though right because i think anything
27661s	else just doesn't really work does it
27664s	yeah i think i think apprentice hope it
27666s	tanks six
27668s	and then more dressed next soon and hope
27670s	your opponent has finally hit the bad
27672s	cards because that's one thing i'll say
27673s	i was talking about a lot of the whiffs
27675s	that tonsoku has in the deck uh he's
27677s	just not drawn them so yeah who who knew
27681s	you can just choose to not draw the bad
27682s	cards and win
27684s	i mean the thing is he kind of has drawn
27685s	some of the bad cards but the rest of
27687s	his hand was so good it didn't matter
27688s	that's what i mean like yeah yeah
27690s	alibaba
27691s	we could we'll probably end up talking
27693s	about alibi till till the end of time
27695s	right or at least rotation i suppose uh
27697s	but kel that's not good
27700s	everything else has felt fairly solid
27702s	honestly oh yeah
27705s	even now there's there's that level
27706s	where you can just ping freeze one and
27709s	play cold case or just play alibi like i
27712s	said like with alibi he just never dies
27714s	he pings twice wins the game
27716s	yeah is there that much to think about
27718s	that's my question
27719s	yeah i mean the one thing that goes
27721s	wrong is they play uh
27722s	dawn grasp that's how you potentially
27724s	don't win so we need to consider what is
27726s	the best play if they have that in hand
27728s	uh in which case the dawn grasp of your
27730s	own could theoretically be the way to go
27734s	don't you still just win if it's ping
27736s	this turn with alibi
27738s	ping next turn with alibi and then
27740s	dawngrass ping again
27743s	maybe yeah
27745s	i guess they could have cold case as
27746s	well to follow up like it's getting
27748s	super fringe but
27753s	is she a little bit scary
27756s	this is a little bit scary isn't it just
27758s	a little that's what todd's probably
27760s	working was like wait do i go to 10 if i
27762s	do this because my opponent just has
27763s	moderation it's like but he knows it's
27765s	not active because there wasn't the
27766s	reckless played last turn so it's still
27768s	going to be safe devil matt definitely
27770s	going to take a quick look at kel'thuzad
27773s	but uh that's more likely to kill him
27775s	than it is his opponent at this point
27778s	if you go
27781s	maybe okay
27782s	so that out is thinly
27784s	into
27785s	flurry plus dawn grasp
27789s	and then you're still dead hurry
27797s	and you could freeze enough but i don't
27799s	think that actually
27800s	is he hoping to just get the kill here
27802s	are we just playing skeleton tennis for
27804s	the win
27805s	oh
27805s	because look even if they all went off
27807s	it would be 12 not 30 uh not 14. yeah
27810s	true oh yeah he was always going to be
27812s	off there tonsoku ends the series 3-0
27815s	and he is going to go 7-1
27818s	in the swiss and that means that i hate
27820s	to say this because i'm never sure until
27822s	it happens but i'm pretty sure it's
27824s	through to top 16.
27826s	i think very much so it's a good day for
27827s	tan soku a uh a good day for japanese
27830s	hearthstone overall because i believe
27832s	given that he's not in any of our backup
27834s	matches i can say possessee also i think
27836s	gone 7-1 through to the top 16.
27840s	uh i didn't get word on how glory
27843s	uh finished i think he's also 7-1 so we
27846s	actually have at least three
27847s	representatives i have another uh
27849s	glory seven and one possesses seven and
27851s	one
27852s	um
27854s	those are the end of obviously tonsoku
27856s	now as well but yeah those three seven
27858s	and one and of course uh a rough series
27862s	i think for devil matt on soku just kind
27864s	of got him there were some interesting
27866s	choices throughout the series to make it
27868s	wasn't you know one-sided in a way that
27870s	a player didn't really get to play the
27871s	game uh but still a rough one for devil
27874s	matt still he's going to be 6-2 i think
27876s	there's a chance he gets through
27878s	of course
27879s	but we'll have to see how that one plays
27881s	out with a cool series and uh happy to
27884s	see tonsoku happy derek
27887s	yeah big time i think it was very very
27889s	well played from start to finish from
27890s	santoku like you know i arrived on this
27892s	man
27893s	oh yeah that road game was so sick that
27895s	was very very cool
27897s	yeah
27898s	great series overall but as usual i
27901s	believe there will be a more coverage of
27903s	round eight before we wrap up the day
27905s	and they're are able to confirm the top
27907s	16 for you guys a little bit later on
27909s	but for now me and i are gonna be done
27911s	for the day but we've got a two more
27913s	coming up for you to uh end out who is
27916s	it oh it's the it's the chuckle brothers
27918s	it's tj and lorinda they're gonna be
27920s	ending the day so stay tuned and you've
27922s	got those guys gonna be filling out some
27923s	more matches from round eight
27928s	[Music]
27934s	[Music]
27979s	[Applause]
27981s	[Music]
27996s	[Music]
28011s	do
28013s	[Music]
28020s	so
28025s	[Music]
28048s	[Applause]
28057s	[Music]
28121s	hello everybody and welcome back to
28123s	mattress tour murder at castle nathria
28126s	my name is tj i'm joined by neil aka
28128s	lorinda aka bond and we're gonna bring
28130s	you some more round eight action before
28132s	we close out the day and get that nice
28135s	sweet top 16 cutting how you doing buddy
28138s	doing great these candles don't seem to
28140s	be going down any so yeah that's good i
28143s	can still see which is also helpful uh
28145s	yeah been a good day's action so far
28148s	really looking forward to seeing
28150s	um who gets into this top 16 because
28153s	as things were bubbling up it looked
28155s	like we might get a fairly
28157s	new set of players but over the course
28159s	of today
28160s	i think the better players that we know
28162s	and love are starting to rise to the top
28164s	so we shall see by the end of the end of
28166s	this round how that ends up
28168s	and the players that are rising to the
28170s	top that aren't the ones we know and
28172s	love may soon become the ones we know
28176s	and love yes
28177s	and that's the beauty of the bastard's
28179s	tour
28181s	is that that's simple fact
28183s	absolutely a plastic for instance player
28185s	who went top eight last time around
28187s	didn't know anything about him checked
28189s	out his stats hadn't done particularly
28190s	great doing it again backing it up and
28193s	that's what i like to see
28194s	um not a one-hit wonder and
28197s	not many of them are these days if you
28198s	see somebody make a top eight top 16
28200s	they tend to repeat it
28203s	so good to see pocket train had a bad
28204s	one but he'd had multiple good
28206s	tournaments on the road before his win
28207s	we all knew that pocket train was likely
28209s	to win an event sometime
28212s	yeah
28213s	it was uh just needed a little bit of
28216s	help from a combo meta you know what i'm
28217s	saying
28220s	it took to push a pocket train over the
28221s	edge another combo meta comes around
28223s	pocket trains right up in there
28225s	um but uh we have you saw the match on
28227s	our hands uh we're actually going to be
28229s	coming into this series fresh gonna be
28231s	starting series over from scratch it's
28233s	between donkey
28234s	and uh for the sake of ease we will call
28236s	him c8
28238s	uh even though his full name is c8763
28242s	i thought you know him well enough to
28243s	say that
28244s	has he you know
28246s	teach
28249s	no i don't i don't know him at all but
28252s	for the sake of ease for us all right
28254s	fine the every single time
28257s	what have i done
28261s	oh you really shouldn't put your pin
28263s	numbers your username by the way kids
28265s	pro tip
28267s	uh out for a second i thought it might
28270s	be um
28271s	battle tag right but you're not assigned
28273s	a valentine until after you create a
28274s	username i guess you can change your
28275s	username because on hearthstone i used
28277s	to be
28278s	azimo cutie and now i am just my my full
28281s	name just tj sanders is my host
28284s	that's so boring that's so very derek
28286s	brown of you
28287s	i know
28288s	i know it really is um
28291s	like how dare i use my real name
28294s	imagine just what i cast is j your
28297s	middle name like is it first name t
28299s	or is it tj one word my first name is
28302s	thomas and my middle name is just the
28304s	letter j yep
28306s	just thomas j
28307s	yep i'm just neil no middle name just
28310s	eight letters neil bond get it over with
28312s	sign the form easy
28314s	bond
28317s	yeah that's the first time anyone's ever
28320s	done that in my entire life
28322s	so uh whoever makes the town rotation
28324s	made a mistake by putting me and you as
28327s	the uh
28329s	the final cast of the day yeah that
28331s	person you know along with the stats
28333s	person who obviously messed up in the
28335s	last match so that we talk about how
28337s	many fridays somebody had played
28339s	hearthstone this year
28340s	um they should just fire the both of
28341s	them i think i know
28344s	it's just just ridiculous because uh
28348s	after about eight hours
28350s	um
28351s	my hearthstone braid still functions but
28353s	the the rest of it doesn't so anything
28356s	other than hearthstone just comes out as
28357s	nonsense
28358s	which is a shame because you're casting
28360s	with me last thing of the day so yeah
28363s	all right
28364s	let's go there's a game on our screen
28365s	they must have shown the decks and
28366s	everything while we were talking about
28368s	that okay it's going to be donkey
28370s	on the mage and
28373s	c8763
28374s	on the curse warlock which we've talked
28376s	about a lot we haven't seen that much of
28378s	actually on broadcast so gonna be
28380s	interesting to see if this is
28381s	inconsistent as i've been pretending for
28383s	the last two days
28385s	what curse warlock
28387s	yeah
28388s	build the highest win rate deck in the
28389s	masters tour
28390s	yeah we've seen more and more them sort
28392s	of as we're doing the key cards as the
28393s	days have gone by they've risen to the
28396s	top
28396s	as we tend to do the key cards for the
28398s	people who are doing well because then
28399s	we might have to show them
28401s	um so yeah he's been doing well and this
28403s	is a 40 card version i believe yes it is
28407s	yep certainly is all sorts of cards in
28410s	this deck
28411s	yeah um i mean
28414s	you name it you got it right it can draw
28417s	a ton of cards and has an answer to just
28421s	about every situation
28422s	it's got heal in the form of spice bread
28425s	baker it's got disruption in the form of
28427s	theotar
28428s	and some other starfish i suppose it's
28430s	also disruption it's got the insane draw
28432s	engine of fiendish circle plus impending
28435s	catastrophe
28437s	uh it's got small aoe in grimoire of
28440s	sacrifice medium aoe an abyssal wave in
28442s	large aoe in a title customer and just
28445s	in case all of that isn't enough you
28447s	have gigafit which wipes the
28449s	board and then all the while it's
28452s	dealing damage to you
28455s	when i pitch it like that right like a
28457s	salesman who's who wants you to buy
28459s	something like i'll take three i curse
28461s	warlock yeah uh it sounds like something
28464s	that you can't refuse and you know it
28465s	shouldn't be a surprise why it's the
28467s	highest win rate deck especially
28468s	considering
28470s	that a lot of the field especially once
28472s	you get to
28473s	the higher win rate um
28475s	decks are very slow they take a while to
28477s	win the game they do have ways to win
28479s	the game sooner i'm talking about shaman
28481s	druid
28482s	um mage to an extent
28484s	uh they take a while to get their game
28486s	plan rolling you know when i get your
28487s	downtrend will be down that fast you
28488s	have time to put the curses the curses
28490s	themselves are also disruption and the
28493s	fact that if your opponent's sitting on
28494s	a full hand sometimes you can fill their
28496s	hand up with curses make it really
28498s	awkward for them
28499s	uh
28500s	they might overdraw a key card something
28502s	like that it's another form of
28503s	disruption so
28505s	yeah plenty going on um i think this one
28509s	isn't what we're seeing many of curse
28510s	warlocks either we're seeing the thing
28512s	we're calling a lot of curse warlock is
28514s	just the imp deck with some curses
28516s	thrown in but this is full on as you've
28518s	just beautifully described absolutely
28521s	cursed warlock
28523s	the absolute max
28525s	control warlock with some curses thrown
28527s	in
28530s	all this but
28532s	okay
28533s	we have a cool little situation here um
28536s	donkey has set up both mailbox dancers
28538s	which means that
28540s	if c8 wanted to play around the possib
28543s	oh no
28545s	i missed one key element of this play
28548s	what's the key that would have been
28549s	great he hasn't got a spell in his hand
28551s	he has to guess his hand to swap with
28553s	barbaric sorceress oh no
28556s	yeah he's got curses as well to deal
28558s	with first that one's gonna go but it
28560s	could be there could be more
28561s	yeah so gonna just use the coin to get
28563s	impending catastrophe if anything if
28565s	there's a trade and the coin is in hand
28567s	if you pick up a more expensive spell
28568s	it's not as damaging but
28571s	there you go
28572s	deal hasn't gone
28574s	i mean there's not that many in the deck
28577s	so it's not crazy to think
28579s	that if you don't mulligan into a spell
28581s	plus barbaric sorceress um
28584s	that you wouldn't find one
28585s	uh because
28587s	outside of deepwater evoker
28590s	not really a way to to to fetch him
28593s	very easily
28594s	it's even worse than that he can't even
28595s	coin it out sort of just to get
28596s	something on the board because the coin
28598s	the other coin would suddenly become a
28600s	three mana coin which sounds like a
28602s	terrible hearthstone card yeah this is
28604s	just going to have to be try and get
28606s	some incremental damage in most likely
28608s	so probably going to freeze one of these
28610s	zips
28613s	uh the three one here and then maybe you
28616s	can play watch post and
28618s	you know hope that spell's gonna
28620s	come pretty soon right not trade in the
28622s	mailbox the answer to preserve the
28624s	ability to
28626s	give your opponent a coin then barbaric
28628s	sorcerers to make sure that they can't
28629s	play around it
28631s	it's such a relief to see a real watch
28633s	post in play i've seen the big square
28635s	flat watch posts twice so far this
28638s	tournament
28640s	no it's cool square flat the one that
28643s	isn't the crossroads just other watch
28645s	posts
28646s	i don't know what his actual name is
28647s	watch post
28648s	it's just called other watch posts as
28649s	far as i'm concerned yeah
28652s	because there's also the other other
28654s	ones
28657s	there's the other other ones crossroads
28659s	yeah it's not the crossroads it's the
28661s	other
28662s	one that isn't the crossroads the other
28664s	one that makes two twos
28669s	okay
28670s	okay
28671s	i'm just gonna call it other watch posts
28674s	i probably could have said any word i
28676s	wanted and then followed up with a watch
28677s	post and it would have been like yeah
28678s	just sounded sort of vaguely you know
28681s	warcrafted like this
28683s	allen guard
28684s	watch post yeah that's great
28691s	who's allen why does he need cardigan
28693s	but the whole watch post to guard maybe
28695s	he was you know one of the the kings
28697s	under anduin's friends mums
28700s	brothers sisters
28702s	yep legion of allen guard
28704s	yeah yeah only is he called down and
28706s	he's guarding but his area is also
28707s	called allenguard just to confuse people
28709s	so they get lost
28711s	fair enough that's why they let me name
28713s	things tj they never have and they never
28715s	will
28720s	but i keep trying
28723s	all right
28724s	this game is progressing
28726s	fill up the hand
28730s	c8763 is going to lose a card
28734s	however
28737s	does it really matter
28740s	what what's one card that you couldn't
28742s	afford to lose in this situation i guess
28743s	danatherius might be like one of the
28745s	worst but even then like that's just a
28747s	secondary win condition the main win
28749s	condition is just curses
28751s	um there's already a brand um maybe
28754s	school teacher
28757s	could be one i don't know school or
28759s	theater
28761s	i'm looking at donkey's hand what's he
28764s	supposed to do
28767s	what are you supposed to do with
28768s	absolute mess of our hand
28772s	the coins are actively hurting you at
28774s	this point
28777s	i think pink is the answer
28781s	and float five
28786s	oh
28788s	not like this donkey
28802s	like a donkey um oh just playing 88.
28808s	[Applause]
28810s	okay with the full hand the pending
28812s	attachment is probably the one card
28813s	you're like
28815s	you wouldn't want anyways just be taking
28817s	that space so anybody
28819s	donkey having to to label his clothing
28821s	so he does have to get dressed by a
28822s	little bit donkey top he's got donkey
28824s	trousers donkey socks
28828s	what's up every morning what's my name
28830s	comes down oh donkey okay yeah this is
28832s	my top so i'll be on the top
28834s	excellent
28839s	still nothing to at least you get
28841s	something out of the palette here but i
28842s	think you just hold still
28845s	you get
28846s	anything out of the parrot
28854s	it's not very
28855s	good just
28857s	freeze
28859s	yeah worry
28860s	yeah
28864s	you can't stop this
28869s	only floated four man at this time he's
28870s	getting better
28875s	he's got a stage now he's got like a one
28877s	in five chance better than one in five
28879s	chance of actually drawing a spell each
28880s	time so you know the hopes brings it up
28897s	not ideal we've got to do something
28899s	surely
28902s	[Music]
28905s	and it casts
28908s	nothing i mean a lot of the times in
28911s	big spell mage it doesn't really cast
28913s	anything unless you cast a drink
28915s	there's a fire spell yeah
28917s	well
28920s	these pings are
28921s	nearly got c8763 down to normal starting
28925s	health total right
28926s	this is uh five and six
28930s	and he's back to 40.
28935s	uh in this here power's still at two so
28938s	no minions on board that can get
28939s	anything deep water evoker there we go
28943s	so soon
28944s	yep deep water evoker
28947s	and then
28948s	but he's got to get rid of the curses
28951s	yeah you
28953s	can't let's just dive don't get rid of
28955s	the curses you die no you don't die
28957s	because you're going to get an arm
28958s	but you can't like barbaric sources here
28960s	because you could just end up swapping
28962s	the cost of the abyssal curses
28965s	and also you don't even have a good idea
28968s	of what your opponent can have in their
28969s	hand in terms of spells
28972s	so
28972s	[Music]
28975s	counterpoint you're so dead you might as
28977s	well
28979s	to be honest yeah i mean we could see
28981s	the hand so it's a little bit easier for
28982s	us like yeah
28984s	um it it could have worked out it would
28987s	have been a one and three
28990s	and then a 50 50. right a one and three
28992s	to swap the 26
28994s	and then no no one in four because he
28997s	has a coin too so one and four to swap
29000s	the his rune and then a one in three
29004s	two to swap with the grimoire then you
29006s	can coin out
29008s	then you've got a box which might go
29010s	wrong anyway
29012s	yeah yeah yeah yeah it's it's uh it's uh
29015s	it definitely should have done it
29017s	yeah he's just got pirate blasts all
29018s	over the place
29020s	ooh so all of these nogglings are
29023s	well the second knuckling doesn't matter
29025s	because it doesn't come into the hand
29026s	but both of these nogglings i'm i'm
29028s	pretty sure just
29029s	garbage
29030s	uh touch of nathrezim sure
29033s	and grimwar of sacrifice
29035s	okay at least there's a brand so you
29038s	know
29040s	[Applause]
29042s	now
29045s	box
29046s	what's in the box
29049s	here comes we've seen some pretty crazy
29051s	boxes today so far but now i've actually
29053s	swung the game more than you'd expect
29055s	tiny little pieces good start
29058s	order
29059s	stay where you are no
29061s	okay yeah
29063s	no sweet
29075s	all right solid alibi is not bad
29078s	and this is another box
29093s	all right well
29096s	oh
29099s	well there it is
29101s	good luck with this next box
29103s	[Music]
29105s	just say something
29107s	oh because the touch was not okay i see
29110s	it okay the touch was cast from the uh
29116s	uh noggling
29118s	that's just it
29120s	no it's only oh yeah because
29123s	[Music]
29124s	yep okay well
29128s	nice
29129s	wrecking
29133s	ignition
29135s	there you go see i told you it's only
29136s	hearthstone that my brain functions
29138s	after i've been cast at the eight hour
29139s	mark it's only in hearthstone
29142s	like english no only hearthstone words
29145s	um
29146s	and for some reason the lyrics to
29148s	[Music]
29156s	um have you tried listening to it that
29158s	usually works
29160s	i i did
29161s	multiple times and it just made it worse
29163s	oh no
29165s	okay well
29166s	why is recognition not the name of a
29168s	hearthstone card i thought we ran out of
29170s	names for cards ages ago that's why
29171s	we've got cards like
29173s	entitled customer
29174s	or gigafield
29176s	recognition would be what we do
29179s	draw your cards wouldn't it or steal
29181s	cards
29183s	um
29184s	one mana look at your opponent's hand
29189s	okay didn't we have that and it wasn't
29191s	called recognition
29194s	we had that really what was it i can't
29196s	remember i mean
29198s	it was mind renderer lucia you looked at
29200s	your opponent's hand because you got it
29203s	you never got to see your opponent's
29204s	hand because they conceded when you
29206s	played it
29208s	many times
29209s	well you you talk about something moving
29211s	on i'm going to fight what this card was
29213s	yeah
29215s	control shaman i think it existed
29219s	but maybe
29220s	i'm sure it existed
29222s	because i've been casting hearthstone
29223s	since the very beginning of person
29226s	right but your brain's fried and you
29228s	can't remember anything so you could be
29230s	wrong and i make things up all the time
29232s	i've actually cast at least once
29235s	in every single
29239s	bet
29240s	that has ever existed in hearthstone
29241s	including three next
29245s	the esl i can't see the
29251s	that was released no i was playing at
29253s	the time but i wasn't casting at the
29255s	time i was still playing lots of arena
29257s	close i can find is envoy of lizal which
29259s	just looks at three cards but i'm sure
29261s	there was something that let you look at
29262s	the hand
29264s	i'm going mad aren't i this doesn't
29266s	exist if you say it doesn't exist it
29268s	probably doesn't exist but
29270s	that would be recognition i don't even
29272s	know if it'd be played it's hard to take
29273s	a card slot it doesn't do anything you
29274s	just get to look maybe though i don't
29277s	know that combined with theater it's
29279s	like do i want a theater now let me play
29282s	recognition real quick
29284s	all right i recognize your hand now
29288s	and then you can decide if you do it are
29289s	i know what i'm thinking of i think of
29291s	that camellias thing where it turned
29293s	into one of your opponent's cards it
29294s	turns into a card in your opponent's
29296s	hand yeah the beginning of each turn
29298s	sure you were sort of looking at your
29300s	ponytail but very slowly
29302s	yeah and every time a new car gets added
29305s	like it it reduces the
29307s	chance that you're gonna get to see
29308s	every card and it can it can't change it
29310s	to the same thing twice in a row i don't
29312s	think but it could swap back and forth
29314s	between two over and over again that's
29316s	definitely what i was thinking of
29317s	because it's one manner and you never
29318s	play it you just keep in your hand
29320s	yeah unless it's up really good all
29322s	right let's get into it
29325s	versus mage
29327s	uh taking a look at this this mage
29330s	uh from the side of c8 it is a
29334s	uh 30 card
29336s	skeleton mage
29338s	the solid aggro solid aggro
29341s	solid alibi frozen aggro version i like
29344s	to call it aggro because it does seem
29345s	like you're just trying to
29348s	get as much many skeletons kill them off
29350s	as fast as possible and then
29352s	get a bunch more and then
29354s	deathborn them and get about and get
29355s	more and you do that repeatedly i quite
29358s	liked mati's take on this where he he
29360s	even cut the deathborns and just went if
29361s	i'm going to hit him i'm going to hit
29362s	him
29363s	oh yeah he just played more minions so
29365s	you get more frozen
29367s	he literally just he just literally did
29369s	that yeah and just just skimmed it all
29371s	down so that four was the top end apart
29373s	from the two obvious cards whatever they
29375s	might be
29377s	but they weren't death pawns he took
29378s	them out
29382s	which has worked pretty well for him so
29383s	far i think
29385s	yep
29387s	uh
29389s	i'm kind of a
29390s	big fan of the tempo brand here
29394s	with clownfish in hand i like it just go
29396s	see if you can hit if it doesn't die you
29398s	kind of look so good
29400s	yeah well with like dungeoneer guess
29402s	it's not worth it just for a dungeon if
29404s	you had a higher payoff like if there
29405s	were more murlocs in hand and you could
29407s	go super wide with clown fish
29410s	then maybe
29413s	nature waits for no one
29419s	it's made of neptulon
29421s	so gets together draw an elemental as
29423s	well
29425s	which also happens to be a murloc
29428s	and a demon and a beast and an imp and a
29431s	total
29433s	demon
29435s	not yet
29438s	ah now how are you liking um trying to
29440s	set up next turn
29443s	round clown
29446s	and
29447s	then
29448s	seven you need seven mana
29450s	the problem is now it's like uh see it
29453s	would just have to have a frozen touch
29455s	and a ping wouldn't have to use the coin
29457s	in order to kill it off
29460s	um
29461s	you go the other way right you dump
29463s	everything over the next two or three
29464s	turns and set up a crazy murloc turn
29467s	seven
29471s	okay how do you like that
29475s	that's fine i'd get
29480s	more simply
29481s	just like clownfish piranha
29491s	i wanted to see exciting stuff but yeah
29494s	next turn we could anyway
29498s	yep
29499s	sadly this makes sense
29502s	get it on the board
29508s	that's piranha merlot
29511s	cause this needs dealing with otherwise
29513s	the game might end really quickly
29516s	yeah
29518s	ah there's a coin deathborn
29521s	next turn there's the see it's got a lot
29524s	of stuff no
29534s	if you read those cards the plan is
29536s	fairly straightforward as well
29542s	a lot of things to be done here uh
29544s	potential things to be done
29547s	um command of neptulon i don't like
29549s	because you're going into coin
29551s	deathborn so if you just
29554s	go ahead and double
29558s	but
29558s	at the same time there's not really much
29560s	else that
29562s	plays around it you could go prana
29564s	piranha and then gorlock
29568s	i feel like you don't want to neptune as
29569s	well because next turn six mana just
29571s	seems like an important number right now
29572s	you've got a lot of threes in your hand
29575s	he's up to six so i don't think you're
29577s	too overloaded right now
29581s	all those factors
29583s	all told i think yeah
29591s	there's a amalgam
29595s	yep okay
29599s	just making sure he's got stuff
29607s	i think donkey may have thought the last
29609s	battle cry was uh the
29611s	clownfish possibly yes
29627s	oh wow this is some good stuff
29634s	yeah the exact opposite half of the deck
29636s	to what he just had he had the sort of
29638s	comboy parts of the deck and now he's
29639s	just got the stuffed part of the deck
29641s	slow you down
29643s	yeah all again
29645s	and donkey needs slowing down right now
29646s	because
29648s	the eight seven six three is down to 28.
29652s	now to take another chunk the ball sort
29653s	of
29655s	big enough to be annoying from donkey's
29657s	side the next few turns so yeah c8 needs
29659s	this game to slow down
29667s	random numbers
29669s	38 763.
29673s	i'm always fascinated when people put
29674s	like strings of numbers in where it
29676s	comes from and the other question is
29678s	like what happened 762
29683s	this is the lowest number you could get
29685s	to go with your name let's see
29692s	i'm gonna go what solid out by wildfire
29695s	here
29699s	this is still getting a little awkward
29701s	though for c8 because this is still
29705s	damage
29706s	that he's taking right um
29709s	yeah this actually might be a good
29711s	opportunity for theater seeing you
29713s	seeing a lot of cards drawn
29723s	okay no theotar so just gonna go
29726s	max pressure and play things that are
29728s	not
29730s	really susceptible to it
29733s	i'm just looking at this board of cards
29735s	it's just
29736s	ridiculous just absurd selection of just
29740s	things
29741s	i don't even know
29746s	okay so commander is wildfire or kenyan
29749s	elect and
29752s	it fleury
29752s	oh the alibi oh the alibi played the
29755s	alibi last that's right
29762s	okay
29765s	but how are you going to kill anything
29773s	he's in trouble isn't he like clearing
29776s	this stuff up it's just difficult he can
29778s	stall for a turn or two but it's
29779s	actually just not going away
29788s	there's no cheese your opponent to death
29789s	version because you know donkey's still
29791s	on 40 yet
29797s	yeah i was just a whatever there from
29799s	donkeys shrugged it off
29803s	i feel the need to play four cards to
29805s	freeze my board and kill a minion to
29806s	make me a slot sure
29808s	yeah do that
29814s	well this is uh
29818s	sort of problematic for donkey but at
29820s	the same time not really
29822s	uh there's no way to avoid
29826s	or there's way you just have to
29828s	sacrifice a bunch of piranhas
29832s	[Laughter]
29845s	i want to sacrifice see
29847s	this is still going to fill up the hand
29850s	those are like real cards take one of
29853s	those
29855s	i like it
29857s	yeah
29858s	what a mech
29860s	smack
29861s	you thought that was never getting
29863s	buffed ever in this game
29868s	donkey done
29869s	something he thinks he's silly
29873s	uh he filled up his hand
29875s	and he's bored he just maxed out
29877s	everything you can do just needs a
29878s	weapon now
29883s	donkey don't worry you played great on
29885s	stream earlier you're playing great in
29886s	the tournament
29895s	c8763 got rid of earlier
29899s	they'll probably want a solid i'll buy
29901s	in a macbook sanctum
29904s	i think so
29909s	in positions that your deathborn
29910s	actually can win you this game somehow
29912s	because this game is slipping away from
29914s	c8763
29920s	which is funny because
29922s	ducky's just playing like a 2-3
29925s	every turn that's it that's the game oh
29929s	macaw okay
29931s	that's a little unfortunate but at least
29933s	now donkey's got some board space to
29935s	work with
29937s	um
29938s	brand theater
29941s	i want to see a theater now as well yeah
29945s	it's got to the point now where c8763
29947s	was digging for cards earlier with
29948s	finley you can expect the hand to be
29951s	contained only one or two ounces yeah
29958s	and
29960s	pick the piranha back
29962s	for yellow one
29967s	uh which is it it's probably cold case
29970s	but you can tell uh i would say frozen
29972s	touch because see it's kind of gonna die
29976s	and there's also a lot of minions so
29978s	donkey could get this infused
29984s	i'm loving the part here where these
29986s	absolute garbage minions have just been
29989s	coming in for one each
29990s	several turns well the alibis and
29992s	they're still getting the job done
29994s	yep
29996s	they can this turn with some armor
30005s	[Music]
30008s	oh that is actually a card
30012s	yeah
30013s	that is a full clear with the two
30014s	swarmers in hand because this is double
30016s	wildfire
30019s	not all of them
30020s	that's the rubbish dealt with now
30023s	welcome to neptune online
30026s	yeah oh sorry nearly all clear we're
30028s	still going to be two too long
30031s	oh wait there's there's a swarmer to
30032s	clear up some of this stuff another is
30034s	kings you're fine yeah
30036s	even just
30038s	thank them
30045s	because it's useless
30050s	problem for c8 though completely out of
30052s	cards or nearly out of cards and donkey
30054s	still at 37 life with a lot of good
30057s	stuff
30059s	yeah donkey can do what they like in
30060s	this game i think
30063s	37 health as well so there's no
30066s	there's no backup plan for c8763 here
30069s	of like just somehow getting the damage
30072s	over the line or something
30074s	actually got to find a way to win back
30075s	forward i guess
30080s	i guess set up some
30082s	[Music]
30083s	incredible
30086s	luck turn
30088s	there there just haven't been enough
30089s	celtics
30093s	or dresser is active but it summons an
30094s	88 which
30096s	oh you could mordresh and then
30099s	no flurry and ping the 88 that pops out
30101s	of this
30105s	thing that i played in the deck that i
30107s	got baited by habigaba to play the demon
30109s	hunter deck
30111s	have a go it does not bait people people
30114s	just play the decks badly
30115s	those are paid no they're texas
30121s	honestly every day that happy field
30123s	wakes up
30124s	grounds demon hunter
30126s	putting these cards in my deck today and
30128s	then he plays it to rank one legend
30130s	and they can't all be perfect first time
30133s	but they just can't
30136s	but because he's had bugaboo it doesn't
30137s	matter
30139s	yeah
30141s	i think it's neptulon time
30151s	he's like
30152s	fixed
30161s	i need to elaborate i guess of course
30162s	you've gone quite like jumbo will just
30164s	play cards and decks for fun really well
30166s	do really well with them they'll be
30168s	creative and enjoyable
30169s	and happy does the same thing and wins
30175s	hey jabra wins
30176s	he's really good but
30179s	enjoys the
30181s	challenge sometimes though i've been
30182s	playing
30183s	the most awful vogue deck that he
30185s	insists on trying to win a game with
30190s	it was the one where he played the
30191s	importer and there's only two or three
30193s	cards you could possibly hit and it
30195s	combos turtle rogue was it called oh the
30199s	infinite yeah
30201s	okay yeah he just insisted on playing
30203s	sort of 700 games of that until he
30205s	finally won one
30207s	yeah
30208s	and haboo doesn't do that he just peels
30209s	decks that win from the start rather
30210s	than like
30213s	force them to work yeah this wave makes
30214s	sense from donkey just looking at the
30216s	game
30217s	make sure there's no skeleton accident
30219s	waiting to happen
30222s	and draw a card and draw a card yeah
30225s	that's what he needs right now
30237s	oh
30238s	nice
30251s	[Music]
30252s	i think if you showed this situation to
30254s	someone who'd never played hearthstone
30256s	before but you know an idea about how
30257s	gaming works it says
30259s	which one of these players is winning
30261s	every single person in the world first
30263s	asked what are those brown square things
30265s	in the middle of the board
30266s	and then they would say okay they don't
30268s	do anything then donkey has won
30276s	just by all of the numbers all of the
30278s	number of cards everything donkey has it
30280s	completely
30283s	locked well dawn grasp is probably the
30286s	best draw off the top
30288s	but it's still not enough
30290s	even if it
30292s	flurries uh the rank two flurries both
30295s	death wings
30298s	oh
30299s	maybe
30301s	i think even if it more dresses due to
30303s	something that shouldn't even happen
30306s	it might still be hard from here
30309s	stay where you are
30311s	so flurry we need to hit the deathwings
30313s	okay did not so that'll be it
30316s	unless there's a miracle from the arcane
30317s	intellect
30319s	frozen touch
30322s	that's a big ping though that's four
30324s	wildfires plus the upgrade plus another
30326s	wildfire cast that's a what a seven
30328s	damage ping
30329s	i guess a couple of turns of freezing
30331s	maybe could get there i guess
30334s	yeah but probably not right
30337s	delayed reaction
30339s	[Music]
30340s	i will allow myself
30342s	to feel an ounce of joy
30345s	now back to business uh all tied up 1-1
30349s	down to
30351s	asian peace versus mage and druid uh
30354s	something that's interested me a little
30355s	bit this tournament is how little we've
30357s	seen of druid in these matches
30360s	i thought it might be a bit of a go-to
30362s	date for some people
30364s	not really seeing lots of druid
30367s	yeah because it's it's not being banned
30369s	that often if you take rampant anaconda
30372s	druid and their band rates and add them
30373s	together it's like close to 20 percent
30378s	um
30379s	between 15 and 20
30381s	so it's not being banned like that often
30383s	uh but
30385s	yeah i don't know
30387s	i think people might have been scared of
30388s	it a little bit because it's quite
30390s	targetable in this matter like if you
30392s	walk into
30394s	four aggro decks which is a thing you're
30397s	very likely to walk into if you count
30398s	weak priestess an aggro deck which it
30400s	definitely is
30402s	then
30403s	yeah maybe you just lose with the druid
30405s	three times and if you don't walk into
30406s	that then maybe they ban it anyway so
30409s	yeah i might have put people off
30411s	but
30412s	it didn't put off
30414s	the 8763
30418s	all right
30421s	wig priest nagis buff priest boon priest
30426s	i like this deck by nicole starting to
30428s	run out of things to say about it
30431s	yeah
30432s	play a minion with high health put a wig
30434s	on it attack
30438s	[Music]
30440s	yeah sounds about right
30444s	i mean the interesting part comes about
30446s	when you don't get the early board and
30447s	you've got to work out
30449s	how long you go before you make four
30451s	things in one turn wise man taught me
30452s	that yesterday but
30456s	other than that
30470s	double frozen touch
30471s	okay
30473s	[Music]
30484s	this is oh wow that's a thing i thought
30486s	he might just kill it
30488s	yeah
30489s	coin is a
30491s	pretty valuable resource start the
30493s	frozen touches uh but with no minions in
30496s	hand
30497s	are you really gonna wait till they're
30498s	induced
30501s	i don't know good point yeah okay
30504s	thrive
30512s	[Music]
30520s	this makes far more sense
30528s	when do you want to play it this is this
30530s	is one of the
30532s	tougher decisions in this deck in
30533s	general i think
30535s	is it's your game-winning card but if
30536s	you just jam it too early it's not
30538s	anymore sometimes but sometimes it still
30540s	is
30541s	i mean it's it's not like that much of a
30543s	game-winning card it's a game-winning
30544s	card in the sense that it's like
30546s	a lot of pluses
30547s	but the truth like it's a key i think
30550s	the biggest game-winning aspect of
30552s	pelego's is just when you play it on
30555s	curve
30557s	because that's how it's going to win you
30558s	more games than if you try and hold on
30560s	to it and greet for it until you're
30562s	going to get like oh yeah i'm gonna wait
30564s	two things for sure
30565s	huge it's gonna be an eight eight or
30567s	something next turn already so yeah
30571s	oh no
30573s	just order this right and everything's
30574s	huge
30580s	well so there's two options here one you
30582s	just leave the pellet ghost as is and
30583s	you just play school teacher and then
30585s	next turn your pelagos gets massive
30588s	um the other option is you just play an
30590s	amalgam don't get anything serpent wig
30593s	now and then just go right that's what i
30596s	wanted to do
30598s	i want to get out of range of any sort
30599s	of weirdness that the mage might throw
30602s	at me and just hit them for 18 times
30603s	yeah they can freeze it but it's still
30605s	on the board doing its thing if it's
30607s	frozen so
30608s	yeah
30611s	okay well theater would normally be a
30613s	good guard on curve against a weak
30615s	priest that thrived but
30618s	um
30619s	you can't afford to take 10 even if
30620s	you're stealing a wig like
30624s	all in due time
30629s	is that the
30630s	standard punishment for stealing a week
30632s	these days
30634s	yep
30637s	okay so this is
30639s	uh just the tube check
30641s	the caster i've heard of it
30644s	okay though the hands okay so
30648s	oh it's three hang on
30651s	on fire
30652s	intellect
30654s	oh okay and the doesn't touch forget
30657s	about the enemy sure that's three then
30658s	yeah
30659s	game's working as intended
30667s	but now c8 has
30671s	infinite freezes it feels
30673s	yup as the amplified snow flurry has the
30677s	nightclub sanctum
30679s	has a another flurry
30682s	um you can space it out to where you
30684s	have
30685s	a good amount of freezes the next
30687s	three ish turns at least freezing the
30690s	higher power stuff
30692s	that cloak sanctum also has a benefit
30694s	that it's just putting a minion on board
30695s	that you can use to
30698s	trade and try and get this power down
30700s	quickly
30701s	it's gonna need them though
30703s	because this is some large things
30715s	like this board's not going away by
30716s	being frozen so really going to need to
30719s	get the tempo together too
30722s	you freeze repeat make threats repeat
30724s	which he could definitely do
30744s	yep
30765s	all right this is good this is good
30770s	he just now has like freeze solid alibi
30773s	next turn as a way to sort of bridge the
30775s	gap you could do that and play a cold
30777s	case
30778s	so then you're not going to die you have
30780s	a ton of options
30781s	moving forward
30783s	ooh deliverance
30786s	you just make another minion on the
30788s	board
30789s	yeah sure
30791s	yeah just circumvent something
30794s	and then uh play the noggin link
30796s	deliverance on the amplified snow flurry
30798s	because at this point you kind of you
30799s	kind of just want number a number of
30801s	minions that are
30803s	not susceptible to
30804s	deathborn or reckless apprentice so in
30806s	this case it'd be
30809s	just more than two health
30811s	take me pick me yeah and you don't want
30813s	to be susceptible to being frozen either
30815s	so you don't want anything particularly
30817s	large you just want exactly what donkey
30818s	is doing right just a whole bunch of
30820s	tools
30822s	yeah a whole bunch of mediums
30831s	yeah i kind of like uh solid alibi
30835s	uh ping something you don't even have to
30838s	ping the pelagos just because
30841s	um it is only gonna be dealing one with
30843s	solid alibi
30845s	um you could ping something that might
30847s	die to a death board next turn
30851s	like the other spear i suppose you could
30854s	save the game
30857s	oh you can save the ping as well because
30858s	you're behind an alibi for now but next
30859s	turn you've got to start freezing again
30861s	so
30863s	saving the the ping seems decent here
30884s	if you don't care if the snow flurry
30885s	dies so you're just kind of seeing where
30887s	these go fine sharpening can be used as
30890s	a heel as well with pelvis on the board
30893s	it just sets the attack in health to
30894s	equal
30896s	so for example we'll
30899s	bring the health of vicious sort of
30901s	spirit up to
30902s	x
30904s	and then zero and four and then back to
30906s	six again
30908s	as it went through all the different
30909s	things
30923s	stuff
30932s	i don't even know what the safari is
30934s	it's probably like
30936s	yeah it might have some um flowies in
30937s	there followed out by flurry and
30940s	wildfire
30943s	i have no idea
30947s	help cold case okay
30949s	we've got two earth we've got one each
30950s	and we let c8 763 have the other one so
30953s	it's fine
30961s	all right
30962s	this is
30964s	oh
30968s	i even called it ice block yesterday and
30970s	i i'm starting to agree with him i don't
30972s	know these hallucinating ice blocks
30976s	anybody door park aid station oh my god
30981s	that's insane it's actually really good
30986s	takes everything out of range
30990s	yeah so you just heal up that trade in
30992s	doggling heal up something else probably
30994s	your six three
30996s	oh
30998s	take me pick me wow that is so good
31006s	what's the response going to be here
31009s	freezes he thinks it's bars yeah just
31012s	keep freezing and hope
31018s	[Applause]
31022s	why is it so difficult for these 11 11s
31024s	and 88s to do
31026s	oh solid alibi you're silly
31032s	all right what's left in the deck oh
31034s	geez
31035s	um
31037s	can you swap
31039s	there's another flurry right
31040s	um
31046s	yes it was last game where he used them
31048s	or wasn't it yeah it was this game is a
31049s	new game yes there's another flowy
31053s	are you flurry
31055s	then
31056s
31059s	to that close no dawngrass
31063s	but it could cast a cold case
31066s	yeah i've seen the dawn girls play but
31068s	that feels i mean is it it is an
31069s	emergency but is it that much of an
31071s	emergency it is
31072s	emergency measures
31075s	cold case probably just loses right
31082s	stay where you are worry okay so now you
31084s	get another flurry
31088s	and you get to freeze and your hero
31090s	power also freezes so he can freeze
31092s	everything he can freeze literally
31093s	everything
31095s	and wildfire
31096s	stay where you are and he held that hero
31098s	power for two or three turns
31100s	yeah
31102s	that paid off
31103s	yeah in spades
31106s	this is
31107s	i mean
31108s	this stuff is like not going anywhere
31110s	because the storm pike aid station is
31111s	still there
31114s	so it's just going to get even higher
31115s	health and donkey's still at 30.
31118s	yeah i don't know the hero power count
31122s	let's assume it's enough but i don't
31123s	think it might not be there's a reckless
31125s	in hand anyways it'll be enough soon
31132s	i'll work it backwards
31134s	he held it for two turns i think
31137s	i i don't think it's enough
31139s	but it is worth three
31142s	yeah but it's only been worth for three
31144s	since last turn
31146s	it's probably on nine
31148s	or was four i don't know
31153s	this is why he's called c8763 because
31156s	that's how many
31157s	more direction numbers are we don't know
31159s	it's just eight seven six or three it's
31160s	one of those
31162s	quickly pick one
31165s	here
31173s	just continuing about this process of
31176s	okay well
31177s	we've gone from having all medium sized
31179s	six sixes now look the game's gone let's
31181s	just have all ten tens instead
31185s	wardrobe is not active but another three
31187s	might well activate it joking aside
31191s	because if it's on seven for the three
31192s	and two twos seems quite likely
31195s	yeah they're i don't know there can't be
31197s	enough here right like
31207s	oh no the hero powers at five
31211s	oh
31212s	yeah
31213s	oh so it's gonna get
31215s	buffed
31217s	and then can flurry and leave one minion
31219s	up
31222s	and can ping and buff it to nine
31226s	oh no there's not going to be any
31227s	minions up and another flurry oh my gosh
31230s	this is stay away starting to get out of
31232s	this
31233s	tj what is happening
31237s	is active
31239s	how
31241s	how
31243s	i don't know
31244s	i do not know c8763 has found a way to
31248s	get this
31250s	turn around i would say with the hero
31251s	power doing 9 and active mordress
31254s	how
31258s	i don't know
31259s	the board has been full of massive
31261s	minions the whole game
31264s	the donkey can heal these up
31268s	a lot
31269s	yeah that will this will heal it up to
31271s	12 and heal the other one up to 11
31274s	and then there's still one more turn of
31275s	storm by gate station there's also a
31277s	hand maintenance there's gonna be a lot
31278s	of circuit wings
31280s	there's gonna be a lot of health on
31281s	these minions
31283s	it needs to be because
31285s	d8763 can do 19
31289s	one of them if he wants to
31291s	i suspect he does want to because that
31292s	sounds like a lot of damage
31294s	my place
31298s	this pelagos is on the board on turn
31300s	three right and it's live
31303s	and it hasn't mattered
31310s	and that's
31312s	the ping will clear up one the nightclub
31314s	sanctum will freeze another
31316s	oh my double ping next turn face pings
31327s	this
31328s	is
31331s	probably the end of
31334s	and by probably the end i mean
31336s	that was a valiant effort i think that
31338s	donkey played that very well but ca just
31342s	fighting his time
31344s	with the freezes
31346s	like treasure that was how many turns
31348s	was that
31350s	six turns six turns off solid alibi plus
31353s	freezes
31355s	a massive board seven because pedego
31357s	came down and turned three and now
31358s	donkey has ten mana
31360s	well polygons did attack so yeah
31363s	the pellet goes oh that's what we mean
31366s	six turns of actual freezing
31368s	yeah
31371s	the queen's
31393s	[Music]
31399s	[Music]
31401s	ah doesn't matter i think that's yeah
31403s	that's the reason why it doesn't matter
31405s	yeah
31407s	um but it's valiant effort but that is a
31410s	tough game like that is
31414s	uh
31416s	i would cue a different deck
31419s	if
31420s	i lost like that
31422s	um or like on ladder where you have yeah
31424s	yes insurmountable board
31426s	and it just gets frozen and
31429s	solid alibi
31431s	for six turns in a row
31434s	until like a perfect like
31437s	ping reckless apprentice freeze clear
31440s	you just don't want to look at peace
31442s	minions anymore at that point right it's
31443s	like let's just kill the other deck
31444s	because i do not want to look at any
31446s	more priest minions for a good 20
31448s	minutes
31452s	why would you ever want to look at them
31453s	again
31460s	okay that was that was actually a really
31461s	good game of hearthstone to watch it's
31463s	just
31464s	brutal how it went down
31466s	yeah i think both players played very
31468s	well
31469s	um i think that
31471s	donkey understood having
31473s	a lot of big targets on the board
31476s	is better in the matchup than just
31478s	having a single massive threat
31481s	yeah played around all of the pieces of
31484s	like aoe removal
31486s	that c8 could could have
31488s	and tried to go as wide as possible with
31490s	as big as men as possible to play around
31492s	the possibility of multiple minions
31493s	getting frozen
31495s	but c8 just
31497s	solved the puzzle right or after turn of
31500s	all right how many resources do i need
31501s	to expend here just to stay alive
31504s	and hope that everything comes together
31507s	yeah that's right like the plan
31509s	obviously
31510s	magister don grasp casting the
31513s	the flurry
31514s	is the biggest one there if a cascoll
31516s	case
31519s	ea dies
31520s	there was that sort of
31522s	uh flip there in the mid game it did
31524s	have to go right but he played to his
31526s	outs which is what you need to do with
31527s	that situation you can't control the
31529s	outcomes of everything you just need to
31530s	try and give yourself the best option to
31531s	win and that was 100
31533s	the best odds to win so
31535s	uh nicely done there was also like the
31538s	panic
31538s	uh
31541s	the if you needed to desperately you
31543s	could don grasp if it hits cold case you
31545s	flurry then thinly and look for the
31548s	second flurry that was still in the deck
31550s	right and see if it's on the bottom so
31552s	there was that out too
31554s	uh available but now see it moving over
31556s	to his final deck which is the ram druid
31559s	it's the uh no celestial alignment lady
31562s	in the conjurer ramp druid
31564s	um everything we're going to see from
31566s	next week on wisdom right because yeah
31570s	as we
31571s	will if the the rumors are correct and
31574s	there's no celestial alignment you just
31575s	you just play this
31578s	yeah
31578s	i i
31579s	because of
31581s	have they released the full ones i know
31583s	alex teased it
31585s	but if there's buffs to deck classes
31587s	that like to be aggressive
31590s	i don't know if this deck's gonna
31591s	survive
31592s	i mean we'll see but
31595s	like if enraged warrior gets more
31597s	support oh i see what you mean if you're
31601s	yeah yeah and we've already discussed
31603s	how druid kind of dies to a lot of decks
31605s	already so yeah good point ah druid
31608s	always finds a way
31611s	and if it doesn't there'll be a card
31612s	come out at christmas it's like naught
31614s	manor start the game with seven mana
31622s	this car starts in your hands
31628s	it's not about him for c8 go coin growth
31630s	into season
31632s	and then insert
31634s	random turn here and then topiar
31637s	yeah and we've seen this before from
31639s	donkey already in this match
31641s	all the stuff and no spell
31643s	[Music]
31645s	there's people dancing on mailboxes
31649s	there are three twos i'll take a three
31651s	two
31653s	into
31654s	theo
31656s	here we go
31658s	amulet off the top nope
31660s	deal something good slow the druid down
31663s	just jam the guitar right like yeah
31666s	you've got to
31672s	insanity is no excuse for bad manners
31677s	oh no oh my goodness that's just the
31680s	worst three
31696s	i think when you see those three you
31699s	know you've whiffed as well somehow yeah
31702s	uh see it already had an innervate
31704s	topiar right so it wasn't that big of a
31706s	deal
31715s	and then you just
31716s	you can't hit mana because you can keep
31718s	rushing into
31719s	the three twos to get a coin
31722s	oh this is disgraceful behavior
31730s	and then you can maybe get another
31732s	innervate then you get another coin and
31734s	then you could wild growth
31737s	oh my what this is disgusting
31740s	[Music]
31745s	make them stop
31747s	yeah i feel the same donkey just
31749s	watching it's even worse to receive it
31752s	[Applause]
31756s	oh
31757s	and then just one final coin to just
31759s	play around the perfect sorcerer's
31762s	butt spell came off the top
31764s	yeah
31765s	it didn't
31767s	yeah yeah
31768s	it's gonna cost them a chance at the top
31770s	16 but what can you do when this happens
31773s	like you know you played your best in
31774s	this match
31775s	like yeah
31777s	sometimes you sometimes it just happens
31782s	and every time we see donkey it's
31784s	happening at later and later stages it
31786s	won't be long before we see them in the
31787s	top 16 i'm sure but i don't think it's
31790s	going to be today
31793s	no
31799s	this just uh that's a heel six
31803s	that's what then oh connie did
31806s	yeah
31807s	like in the old days when you just jam a
31809s	doomsayer and you know full well it's
31811s	just going to get eaten
31815s	okay discover a dragon
31817s	malagos seems pretty good no innervates
31820s	left to the deck though
31822s	but that is
31825s	16 damage being represented on board
31828s	i probably would have actually like set
31829s	up lethal there instead of going for
31830s	amalgam go gone for earthen scales
31834s	notice something three three instead i
31835s	guess one of the three ones getting
31836s	kicked out but
31840s	none of it
31842s	makes any difference
31860s	well
31862s	well there's still a small chance
31866s	[Music]
31868s	barbaric sorceress
31870s	if the runes picked up off the top nope
31872s	if roon was picked up off the top
31874s	it could be barbaric sorceress you hit a
31876s	50 50 to trade the rune with the
31878s	composting okay skills and then you
31881s	could coin out the rune
31883s	and the rune would clear the board right
31886s	summon a bunch of stuff
31889s	and then you pair it next turn and then
31891s	until they play who's the board against
31893s	damage yeah
31895s	yep there was a chance i agree i'll
31897s	accept it because you're technically
31899s	right which we all know is you know the
31900s	tj
31901s	sort of right
31903s	okay oh
31905s	we have a chance
31910s	let's do it
31911s	go on
31914s	survive this turn first
31923s	you know what you could do with right
31924s	about now is none of those
31927s	clear your own board
31928s	play a one drop
31932s	be its own treasure thus
31941s	the 8763 like we've talked about
31943s	donkey's side i think c8 has played
31945s	incredibly well 763 in this game
31950s	this match sorry he's going to play
31952s	cards
31953s	[Applause]
31958s	it all comes down
31961s	to this
31963s	six-figure
31966s	the miracle rune
31972s	the room to end all runes
31977s	yeah go on moon
31984s	ruin your opponent's day wound orb
31991s	blurry there's a pirate in hand now tj
31994s	that must make our house even better
31997s	blurry
32001s	stop
32002s	oh
32007s	with a
32008s	very good win see your donkey fingers
32010s	crossed for donkey
32012s	six and two could get in
32015s	and i would love to see them in that top
32017s	16 but
32019s	there's going to be a million players on
32021s	six and two and probably two or three
32022s	would get into that top 16 so
32025s	probably not going to see donkey get in
32027s	this tournament but we might
32029s	um but even if we don't we'll see them
32031s	again in the next one absolutely sure
32033s	because they're just getting better and
32034s	better each time
32038s	yeah i would agree uh it's a pretty
32040s	solid player overall uh from both
32042s	players to be honest there was a couple
32044s	of like uh
32046s	flubs i think from on on both sides but
32049s	overall like macro game plans on point
32052s	the naga priests versus uh skeleton mage
32055s	game was
32057s	just a nice display from both players i
32059s	thought um
32060s	of uh understanding
32062s	how to win
32064s	in any given situation and it
32067s	just got the better that of donkey
32069s	that's it in that game but i thought it
32071s	was a pretty cool one to watch
32075s	um and with that with c8 taking that win
32077s	uh we are we've had we finished we
32080s	finished all the games i'm looking we
32081s	just finished the tournament's over we
32083s	could all go home that's it we finished
32085s	all the games so we've cut to our top 16
32088s	and that's it tournament's over
32089s	congratulations to the top 16.
32092s	if we're not going to show you we're
32093s	just going to go
32094s	and
32095s	based on
32097s	based on my calculations these are my
32100s	personal calculations okay no
32102s	third-party website that tracks these
32104s	things my personal calculations donkey
32106s	has made it into the top 16. oh those
32109s	are my
32110s	those are my personal cats we're into
32111s	the phone i don't think he's made it i
32113s	don't think they're going to make it
32114s	through i think we have to wait till
32115s	next tournament and continue the
32116s	narrative of the improving donkey
32119s	um i've been told
32121s	uh
32122s	we might be able
32126s	we do we're going to be able to and
32128s	bracket oh my talk for a little while
32131s	longer to stall out so i'm disappointing
32133s	you tj because you said at the start of
32135s	that match
32136s	that you were going to say c8763's full
32139s	name every time
32141s	and you didn't
32143s	and i did i avoided saying his name
32145s	as much as i could all right we have the
32148s	bracket
32149s	we have the top 16 bracket
32153s	let us rejoice
32155s	donkey has made it he is the top seed at
32158s	six and two the highest tiebreaker 6-2
32160s	player so
32161s	uh wasn't even close but this is a great
32164s	top 16. uh one because japan showed up
32168s	we have our two previous world champions
32170s	and glory and possessing in the top 16.
32172s	a game
32173s	who was one of the uh og
32176s	japanese representatives in competitive
32178s	hearthstone we have love storm at the
32180s	number one seed 8-0
32182s	going for another master short victory
32184s	a storm of love throughout this master's
32187s	tour
32189s	last time when he won by the way as well
32192s	yeah that's that is correct that is
32194s	correct and the meta gives me similar
32196s	vibes but we also have
32199s	as is tradition
32201s	our one american player in the top 16.
32205s	gamer rpg
32210s	every time we just sit here every time
32212s	go this is gonna be the one in 16 and
32214s	then we've got eight left and we're
32215s	cheering for
32216s	japan because all the americans region
32219s	players are out
32220s	and we don't want europe to win because
32221s	sottle gets excited
32224s	yeah as americans have it tough tj
32228s	but
32229s	also looking at stone and looking at
32231s	matty over there on the right
32233s	yep maddie
32236s	maddie um
32238s	he was pretty big at the end of last
32240s	year um went missing a bit sort of early
32243s	this year i think but he's back he was
32245s	somebody we're billing as you know
32246s	player who might win soon stone
32249s	very close to the world championship
32250s	once again last week
32252s	um didn't quite get there but one of the
32255s	favorites to get there from the
32257s	the second round when it comes up of the
32259s	the chinese tournaments
32261s	so
32262s	really good looking top 16.
32266s	and uh as is edition
32269s	we have to uh
32270s	uh give shout outs uh to the six to play
32274s	the the i'll say notable but i don't
32276s	want to take anything away from any of
32277s	the other 62 players these are just 60
32279s	players that you know we we've watched
32282s	um from time
32283s	over the course of competitive arsenal's
32285s	history uh lakewood hacker monsanto
32289s	banter face bunny hopper fury hunter
32294s	i rock
32296s	yeah
32298s	wet goose shouty
32301s	deads
32302s	always making a run up there
32304s	never count deads out
32308s	uh yeah so oh tianming
32312s	a melody as well he's somebody that
32313s	isn't necessarily
32315s	one that we see very much but always
32317s	seems to be six too
32320s	i think a bunch of others as well i'm
32321s	sorry if you didn't get shouted out then
32323s	we went through about half
32325s	yeah
32327s	well we uh got a pretty solid top 16 i
32330s	feel um i i know we always say that but
32333s	uh like from what we've seen from
32335s	players on stream at least the players
32337s	that have made it
32338s	and uh
32340s	the players that we didn't know right
32343s	yep uh that we've seen on stream as well
32345s	as you know these players with a huge
32347s	amount of history behind them like you
32349s	know our previous two world champions in
32351s	the top 16
32353s	at this master store which is uh pretty
32355s	incredible uh enough we have a chance
32358s	for a player to win
32359s	another master store right a master
32361s	store
32362s	uh second make it to another yes yeah
32365s	there you go
32366s	thank you
32367s	though um isn't french who isn't french
32371s	yep that's right we also have probably
32373s	about as good of a chance as we're ever
32376s	gonna get for an asia pacific master
32378s	tour champion
32380s	uh with
32382s	one two
32383s	three
32385s	four
32386s	five
32388s	wow what should what's going on in the
32390s	top 16
32392s	uh which is
32394s	cool a lot a lot of representation we
32396s	have representation for every every
32397s	region but it's majority european and
32400s	chinese but uh
32402s	asia pacific and americas are there
32405s	okay we're we're going on too much neil
32407s	this is why they can't let us in the
32408s	show because we will we will never stop
32410s	but uh we are done we have nowhere
32413s	matches broadcast today neil do you have
32415s	any last words before
32416s	[Laughter]
32419s	uh before i close out the sheet no i
32421s	think i've said enough words for one
32423s	broadcast day again so i'm gonna let you
32425s	do your thing tj with the style of which
32428s	we are all accustomed
32429s	okay if my words will actually escape my
32432s	mouth
32432s	all right uh we are done we will return
32435s	tomorrow at the same time we've been
32436s	starting uh over the course of the last
32438s	uh two days which is 11 a.m uh eastern
32443s	time
32444s	uh 8 00 a.m pacific time
32447s	um
32449s	p.m central european standard time 5 pm
32452s	central europe summertime
32454s	4 p.m whatever time the uk is in
32458s	uh
32459s	and we are in british summer time and
32461s	boy can't we feel it
32463s	there you go and all the other times as
32466s	well that i'm forgetting so make sure
32467s	you tune in because top 16 is going to
32469s	be great we're going to crown champion
32471s	one other cool thing about tomorrow and
32472s	this happens year after year is
32474s	tomorrow's my birthday so it's going to
32476s	be a top 16
32477s	it's going to be tj's birthday it's
32479s	going to be a lot of great hearthstone
32480s	to watch it's going to be fantastic
32483s	so you're not going to want to miss it
32484s	but that's it for myself from the rinda
32486s	the other casters in the broadcast crew
32488s	thanks for watching and we'll see you
32489s	tomorrow for more masters tour action
32494s	[Music]
32500s	hello
32506s	[Music]
32530s	i am
32534s	[Music]
32546s	give me
32553s	sneaky
32557s	[Music]
32564s	[Music]
32583s	[Music]
32594s	[Music]
32602s	[Music]
32635s	[Music]
32640s	[Music]
32648s	[Music]
32672s	okay i can rest this problem now i'm
32674s	much happier having seen this happen pew
32677s	pew pew pew
32687s	the cleric is still alive the pyro ready
32689s	to whirlwind the amulet of the undying
32692s	coming down the boar is getting it done
32694s	drove open scenes and pocket train is
32697s	the winner of masters tour this year
32700s	what a performance
32702s	[Music]
32711s	[Music]
32727s	do
32745s	i

[2022] 2022 Hearthstone Masters Tour: Murder at Castle Nathria | Day 2

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