[2023] 2023 Hearthstone Masters Tour Championships I Day 1

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3s	[Music]
647s	an Epic Quest has been
652s	underway as the Festival of Legends
654s	illuminated azero one headliner
657s	delivered a finale for the ages there is
659s	it is levic is going to be your
663s	[Applause]
665s	Champion then above the Raging crowd the
668s	skies burst
670s	aunder the Titans once thought to be
673s	myth descended to leave their mark on
676s	the world amongst the masses two keepers
679s	sought to forge their own destiny Q is
682s	the Master's tour summer Champion pocket
685s	trade you are just seeing the emotion of
687s	everything Dawn on this player these
690s	three card slinging Champions are joined
692s	by an imposing party tracked to the
695s	Badlands the best in harstone have come
698s	to collect the ultimate Bounty the time
701s	for the final showdown has arrived get
704s	amped up for the performance of the ages
707s	the pantheon of hearthstone world
708s	champions
711s	[Music]
716s	awaits hello everyone and welcome
719s	welcome to the Hearthstone World
721s	Championship I'm Raven and joining me to
723s	kick off the show and kickoff the
725s	weekend is subtle welcome my friend um
728s	like a child on Christmas Eve I heard
731s	you couldn't even sleep being this
733s	excited for this tournament yeah look at
735s	you exposing my business all over the
737s	broadcast immediately yeah I mean I
738s	can't sleep at the best of times and it
740s	was a weird feeling last night to not be
742s	able to sleep but have earned it um to
745s	to know that the reason I couldn't sleep
746s	was I was excited as to what I got to
748s	wake up and do the next day
749s	um and earning it I think is kind of the
751s	story of this world championship in
753s	general because the task put before the
755s	players this year was arduous it was
758s	intense you know there's been a lot of
760s	grinding for the players to get here but
762s	I think absolutely without a shadow of a
764s	doubt say what you will the eight
766s	players who are here have absolutely
769s	earned it and you are looking at
771s	arguably the eight best players in the
773s	world this year yeah 100% the Pinnacle
776s	of hearthstone as the World Championship
778s	uh often is is H but we are not just uh
781s	us two going to be doing it across the
783s	weekend of course we do have more
785s	casters joining us so we can uh welcome
787s	them and uh get them to give a bit of a
789s	hello before we get into the first match
792s	of the day so we can see what they
800s	haveen hi I am super excited I also had
804s	a lot of trouble sleeping last night
806s	just being so excited to be here to see
808s	these players and uh to share their
811s	stories as well because it's kind of
813s	interesting we have some players who you
816s	know kind of did really well or popped
818s	up in the early tournaments and then
821s	kind of just chilled on ladder and we
823s	have some players who kind of did the
824s	opposite so I'm really curious to kind
826s	of see how that plays out how that might
829s	uh be different for those players across
832s	this tournament now after having those
834s	different experiences throughout the
835s	year and I'll tell you what is also
837s	quite different are these lineups
839s	compared to what we were expecting to
841s	see so I was doing a little bit of
843s	testing last night with some of these
845s	decks in particular levik's fake Reno
848s	deck I guess we're calling it I I I
851s	understand a little better the intent uh
854s	we'll have to see if he can wow us again
856s	like he did with the blood DK in that
858s	first championship and and pull
860s	something out of the hat but that one uh
862s	definitely had question marks on paper
864s	for
866s	me yeah uh I'm just here so I don't get
870s	fined no I'm just kidding um yeah I'm
873s	super excited for this weekend uh as ad
875s	said there's a lot of
877s	weird which is going to be interesting
879s	to see but uh I'm just curious if pocket
881s	Train's going to be able to uh continue
883s	this sort of streak of domination um
885s	he's the player that I'm going to have
886s	my eyes on throughout the course of the
888s	weekend and if you look at like his sort
891s	of track record like top four into
893s	finals appearance into win curious to
896s	see if he's going to just continue that
898s	momentum or if that means he now has to
900s	reset from the beginning cuz he went top
903s	four then second then a win I think now
907s	he has to reset and go back to top eight
910s	and then top four and then second and
912s	then win so uh
914s	that's that I'm keeping my eyes on this
917s	weekend yeah and I'm just going to see
919s	who looks the most relaxed pocket train
920s	set after his win last time around that
922s	it he was finally able to relax cuz he'
924s	already qualified um and then he won the
927s	tournament they put in so much time is
929s	subtle alluded to and I think whoever
932s	can just treat it like another day
933s	grinding on ladder is probably going to
935s	be one who comes out on top here so
936s	let's see if they can do
937s	[Music]
942s	that shake hands in the center of the
944s	image a oh lucky I really wanted to
947s	humiliate the no yeah we should have
949s	tried to set that up there but they
951s	couldn't let them know to practice but I
953s	will just Echo some of the thoughts
954s	there I'm I'm super excited to see these
956s	players as World Championships is it's
959s	that special moment right where we know
961s	especially how hard these players have
963s	worked to get here you were talking
964s	about a little bit before sttle but the
967s	the the challenge these players have had
969s	has been truly incredible and uh all of
971s	them have really really earned their
974s	spot in this and it's going to be a
976s	brutal weekend for some as they battle
978s	it out over the course of their groups
980s	and then obviously the top matches on
982s	the final day so a lot to play for we
985s	can just che check it sorry take a look
987s	at the road they've gone on to get here
990s	as well as what the this weekend is
992s	going to be looking like because there's
994s	a lot going on it feels like there's
996s	only um a limited number of players but
998s	a lot of hearthstone is going to be
1000s	played out so yeah it is and you can see
1004s	the the long and uous road that people
1006s	have taken to get here we've talked
1007s	about it a lot already but by right only
1011s	three winners of three seasonal
1013s	championships made it to this point and
1015s	then uh the remainder of those spots
1016s	filtered down to top ladder performance
1019s	so what we've seen over time is not only
1021s	this incredible grind and these
1023s	incredibly dramatic Legend finishes at
1025s	the end of the month with people
1026s	scrapping out for basically the top five
1029s	places on ladder on each server being
1031s	the relevant ones we've seen that be a
1033s	massive factor for each of the seasonal
1035s	championships and qualifying for those
1037s	but then coming into this last month
1039s	after pocket train won the last
1041s	championship and locked in his
1043s	space that qualifies we're going to look
1048s	shootout for
1050s	example and Casey
1053s	where a rank one Legend finish and then
1056s	Casey just had to grind dozens of games
1059s	on rank two Legend trying to match that
1061s	and narrowly missed out by the skin of
1063s	his teeth so incredible standards of
1066s	what it took for people to get to this
1068s	point yeah and we're going to see all on
1070s	the line across the weekend we'll check
1072s	out the format of course and what this
1074s	weekend is going to look like as usual
1076s	is going to be the conquest format there
1078s	it's been some recent balance changes to
1080s	the game as well so players did have to
1082s	as usual uh or or historically usual
1085s	with Hearthstone keep on their toes in
1087s	terms of what lineups to bring and if
1089s	there was ever ever an amount of
1092s	pressure put on these players to submit
1093s	a strong lineups it it's for that you
1096s	know that tournament called the world
1097s	championship so a lot of players I think
1100s	put a ton of time had their practice
1102s	groups help out as well and I think even
1105s	then there were ex sort of kind of
1108s	external fact actors in what lineups
1110s	were put in as well H to the extent of
1112s	like who is even in your group things
1114s	that have happened in the past and have
1116s	no doubt had an impact on what's
1117s	happened this weekend yeah even a level
1119s	deeper than that I believe the opening
1120s	round matches were seeded so you'd also
1122s	be able to work out who your opening
1124s	round match was you could specifically
1125s	go for like a player Target if they're
1127s	known for more being more of a
1128s	controller or a combo player or whatever
1130s	else um but there are many many things
1133s	on the line for this world championship
1135s	but you can see there at least a digital
1137s	representation of the fine trophy that
1140s	has been handed down to each of our
1142s	world championship world champions over
1144s	time uh beautiful beautiful little uh
1147s	piece of art I think that has really
1149s	carried with us over the years of the
1151s	World Championship uh become as
1153s	associated with worlds as as any of us
1155s	or any of these players or Hearthstone
1157s	itself at this point ra 100% And the
1160s	fact that you know there's not that many
1161s	out there right so you know that trophy
1164s	doesn't just go to anyone there's not
1166s	tons of them knocking around so
1167s	definitely a pre just additional prize
1170s	but we've talked a lot about the
1172s	tournament as a whole and we've talked
1173s	about the players road to get here but
1176s	let's take a look at what they're going
1177s	to have to do to make it all the way
1179s	let's take a look at the groups and see
1180s	how they are going to line up and who's
1182s	going to start off playing First We Take
1185s	a look at group a with gu Rec vam levic
1188s	and Hemlock and then Group B pocket
1190s	train CJ Kaka Wu and mey and this is a
1194s	tough one sot only two groups with
1196s	players that are incredibly strong but
1199s	which one do you think's the stronger
1201s	which group would you want to be in to
1203s	maybe dodge the other four it's very
1206s	very difficult to say um group a has the
1210s	double seasonal winner in it right with
1212s	gu and levik whereas Group B only has
1214s	pocket train as a seasonal winner in
1216s	there so by that sense you could argue
1217s	maybe the group a is a little stronger
1219s	um but pocket train is pocket train and
1222s	pocket train is in group b so kind of if
1224s	you are a nonp pocket trained human you
1227s	kind of want to be not in the group with
1228s	pocket train I would imagine because he
1230s	has been probably run away the best
1232s	player in the world this year with the
1234s	consistency of groups that he's gone
1235s	into but that is taking nothing away
1238s	from who we have in group a and I think
1240s	particularly gu was not a player really
1243s	on my radar for this sort of top eight
1245s	top five level in the world Echelon
1247s	because I am very protective of players
1249s	that I put in that grasp right I think
1251s	sometimes when you're commentating Elite
1253s	level Hearthstone all the time it's very
1255s	easy to fall in the Trap of like oh this
1257s	guy's top 10 in the world this guy's top
1258s	10 in the world this person's top 10 in
1259s	the world whatever suddenly there's 50
1261s	top 10 players exctly and then it then
1263s	it's all meaningless so I'm very very
1264s	protective over it and I didn't really
1265s	have you in that conversation until this
1268s	year um where it's I I think he's really
1272s	going gone to show that he is absolutely
1275s	right up there and perhaps outside of
1276s	pocket train has played the best most
1278s	consistent Hearthstone that we' have
1279s	seen this year yeah and just to give you
1282s	uh just an overall heads up if you're
1283s	not used to seeing you know if this is
1285s	maybe one of the tournaments you've just
1287s	tuned in for for Hearthstone if new to
1289s	competitive play the idea of the group
1291s	phrase is basically a player has to win
1293s	twice to get out of it and if you lose
1295s	twice you are out double elimination
1298s	group so something to keep an eye on and
1300s	um make sure that by the end of today at
1303s	least we will know at least you know one
1304s	or two players for the groups that are
1305s	going to be uh sorry one player from the
1307s	group that's going to be looking good to
1308s	make it to the next day and then we'll
1310s	have those final decid matches tomorrow
1313s	so uh we'll have a good idea of at least
1315s	some people who are going to make it to
1317s	that special final day let's take a look
1319s	at our first matchup specifically Sol
1322s	which is going to be the one we're going
1323s	to cast a kick off today which is going
1325s	to be gu versus
1327s	rean indeed and I already touched on uh
1330s	gu significantly for this tournament I
1332s	think he is a real favorite one to to
1334s	keep an eye on in general but it's been
1336s	great to see that some of these players
1338s	that we haven't
1339s	necessarily uh considered an upper
1341s	echelon top tier competitive Hearthstone
1343s	player really break out uh this year um
1346s	because honestly this is a year with
1349s	less variance in it than we have seen in
1351s	previous years right because the overall
1353s	sample of games that are factored into
1355s	whether you make it to the World
1356s	Championship is so massive because it
1358s	includes basically every Ladder game
1360s	that you play over the course of a year
1362s	as well in a weird way literally year
1364s	worth of games right like without any
1366s	real
1367s	exaggeration um and it it's it goes to
1369s	show that you know some people who've
1370s	been consistently very good but haven't
1372s	necessarily spiked that big win which
1374s	you kind of needed in previous systems
1376s	you needed that Big MT win you needed
1378s	that big seasonal Championship win or
1379s	whatever to progress forward in a lot of
1381s	Senses you need to hit a top four or
1383s	whatever the qualifying cut off was this
1385s	year is just all about consistency and
1387s	gu has been shown to be one of the most
1388s	consistent players um naming the
1391s	favorite deck as in Rage Warrior for
1393s	this one as well and not bringing it to
1395s	the tournament I think is very Worth
1396s	showing out um lineup wise in general
1399s	like this will be a theme of my time on
1402s	this broadcast I have a lot of issues
1404s	with a lot of lineups in this tournament
1407s	um I've never quite felt so disconnected
1409s	from the overall Vibe of decks that
1412s	people have brought to a tournament but
1413s	gu for me is one of the people where I
1416s	look at the lineup I'm like okay I might
1417s	not necessarily brought those exact four
1419s	decks but like I get the plan and I feel
1422s	like you're executing a plan well
1424s	overall in the tournament with a a very
1426s	very strong aggro lineup yeah I was just
1428s	going to say let's take a look at a deck
1430s	I think you do agree with and and have
1432s	been talking about in terms of your your
1434s	own sort of preparation for worlds like
1437s	we uh we want to do it as a uh as
1439s	casters which is the mech Rogue and it's
1441s	a deck we've seen historically do very
1444s	well but what made you think of this and
1446s	what do you think gu is thinking in
1448s	terms of this specific sort of pocket
1450s	meta for worlds so yeah I mean I could
1453s	take up the entire length of the the
1454s	rest of the broadcast talking about
1456s	various levels of of thought that go
1458s	into this because generally like the
1459s	players will put tens of hours into
1461s	lineup preparation and trying to break
1463s	it down right but to me my idea was that
1466s	the the the top eight Elite best players
1468s	in the world aren't necessarily going to
1470s	over rely on Highlander decks because
1472s	they'll feel that they can get more
1473s	agency out of two of decks and then
1475s	because of that everyone will understand
1477s	that and mean that plague plague DK for
1479s	example won't be a a big performer so
1482s	you end up with a kind of mid-range or
1484s	combo heavy meta where something like
1486s	Mech Rogue that can just play one minion
1488s	and just spiral it to Oblivion can
1490s	punish those kind of decks before they
1491s	can really get established on board and
1493s	there wouldn't necessarily be the big
1495s	control tools existing in The Meta um to
1498s	on that so for me Mech Rogue was a deck
1500s	that made my line up as I was uh role
1502s	playing that I was actually still good
1503s	enough to play at the World
1505s	Championships o still good enough not
1508s	like me I knew I was never good
1510s	enough end of 2015 I reckon I was about
1513s	there I'm just saying all right come on
1515s	for a split second I thought you were
1516s	going to be like no no about 2015 I
1518s	think we were both good enough no none
1520s	of that s's just talking about himself
1521s	of course um his opponent of course is
1525s	going to be Rec vam a player that we've
1527s	known for a long time now and uh kind of
1529s	the opposite of what you talk about of
1531s	like sort of newer players to to high
1533s	level competitive we've not W them for a
1535s	while but I feel like this year has been
1537s	such a big one for
1541s	recan it has so I was just mystified for
1543s	a second looking at the recap there
1545s	going you have lethal just attack face
1547s	with the thing what's going on just
1549s	absolutely frows me in my boot not start
1551s	casting yet yeah I know uh bref though I
1554s	think very very popular player has grown
1557s	as a content creator and a streamer
1558s	recently as well and really built up a a
1561s	following of his own um is a good friend
1564s	as well as you see here of pocket train
1566s	as they went head-to-head in a previous
1567s	Master's tour I believe actually
1569s	prepared together uh with pocket train
1572s	and mey now pocket train and mey ended
1574s	up bringing the same lineup uh recam on
1577s	the other hand feared um a heavy control
1580s	strategy from gu as far as I understand
1582s	it and didn't necessarily feel that he
1584s	could bring the same lineup as pocket
1586s	and mean it goes into that thing we
1588s	talking about earlier where you know
1589s	your initial matchup you know a big
1591s	there is a real realistic chance in your
1593s	group that you can just beat the same
1595s	player twice and get out of the group
1596s	right if you if you even if you lose to
1598s	everyone else so prepping for that
1600s	initial opponent does have a lot of
1602s	Merit to it and recam I think felt if he
1605s	went with the lineup that pocket trainer
1606s	meat he went with was just going to
1608s	suffer on percentage to q but actually
1610s	has ended up getting that read wrong and
1612s	gu has gone with something completely
1614s	different than they expected him to go
1616s	with so pretty interesting Stu yeah and
1618s	even when we just look at just the the
1619s	headlines for these decks obviously
1621s	Paladin guess what you'll see Showdown
1622s	Paladin quite a lot over the course of
1624s	this weekend in terms of its in the
1626s	lineups maybe not so much in actual
1628s	games but I think this one's the
1630s	surprise factor which you know is this
1632s	Warrior you sort of touched on in terms
1633s	of how the deck building and the aspect
1635s	of it but what do you think of this
1637s	Warrior um I think overall maybe outside
1640s	of the of the box that is this one group
1644s	but what do you think of this deck
1645s	overall do you think Ream's in for in
1647s	for some trouble
1650s	it remains to be seen like so here's the
1653s	thing with tournament preparation right
1655s	like if you get the lineup like me uh
1658s	where you're like okay people aren't
1659s	going to bring Reno decks and heavy
1661s	control so we can just play like these
1662s	Naga priest Mech Rogue style decks right
1664s	and beat people up Suddenly the people
1667s	who call the bluff on that right and say
1669s	no no no I'm bringing the control stuff
1670s	suddenly those have the advantage
1672s	because they've gone the one level
1673s	deeper right which is where Rec vam has
1675s	kind of ended up in this position the
1677s	problem is within Rec Bam's lineup Odin
1680s	Warrior is an outlier it's not like Odin
1683s	Warrior is part of an overall strategy
1685s	where it's a hard control lineup because
1687s	actually that might be in a decent spot
1688s	against what G is doing it's the fact
1690s	that Odin Warrior is this one solitary
1692s	slow control deck in a lineup that
1694s	otherwise has a very fast combo deck in
1696s	nature Sharman and then two very
1697s	aggressive decks with Sharpshooter DH
1699s	and the Paladin so it's the one kind of
1702s	standout deck that maybe just doesn't
1704s	necessarily fit in with the overall
1705s	theme um but I think Rec bam has a lot
1708s	of faith in it he's messed with the
1710s	build a little bit in terms of um he
1712s	said cutting some of the bad cards and
1714s	just replacing them with two of of the
1715s	good cards now uh this is a debate which
1718s	we will hear endlessly throughout this
1720s	tournament I am sure about how many two
1722s	ofs you are allowed to play in Areno
1724s	deck I don't like it I think one two of
1727s	at most um is is as far as you can go
1730s	with it um looking at like Splish Splash
1732s	welp in Druid or um I know like Highland
1734s	Hunter isn't something that's made it to
1735s	this tournament but Buzzard in Hunter
1737s	for example same kind of thing one of of
1739s	the best cards that you Canter out of
1741s	your deck in some way kind of fine if
1743s	you can you can at least listen to the
1745s	argument um but five two ofs or whatever
1747s	Rec vam has cooking in this deck just
1749s	seems a little bit excessive to me but I
1751s	do also kind of vibe with the theory of
1754s	like Highlander decks play too many bad
1756s	cards so I'm going to take some of them
1758s	out and just play two of the good cards
1759s	and be happy with my my reduced
1762s	consistency of Reno particularly in a
1763s	solitary payoff deck but just when they
1765s	get up to 10 yeah but you best believe
1770s	that the first time you see a big board
1772s	on the opposite side and a non-active
1774s	Reno in someone's hand with eight Mana
1776s	we are going to be talking about it that
1778s	will be happening okay well here we go
1780s	it's the first game of the Hearthstone
1782s	World Championship Rec vam on the bottom
1785s	on that Warrior we've been discussing
1787s	and there's re nice and early and G on
1790s	the top on the nature Shaman so Reno and
1793s	Odin in the opening hand just locked
1795s	loaded and not quite ready to go for the
1798s	Reno I would say but uh at least some of
1800s	the key pieces available there for recr
1803s	meanwhile gu has a pretty solid opening
1806s	with the fish and having the Jazz Bas as
1809s	well yeah Jazz Bas actually not ideal
1813s	really to have in your opening hand
1814s	there's a couple of matches like maybe
1816s	you could argue quip combo is kind of
1819s	what you're interested in in this
1820s	matchup I think Sharman mirror as well
1822s	Jazz Bas is okay but in general um you
1826s	want to draw Jazz Bas a little bit later
1828s	than this because you don't want to
1829s	waste early turns on you know playing a
1831s	three Mana weapon which really only has
1834s	one charge in terms of impacting the
1836s	board right cuz generally you then sit
1837s	on the second charge to then juice it up
1839s	a little bit with the overload cards
1842s	yeah it was just interesting just have
1843s	it available was my thought and you know
1845s	just just get it equipped and then let
1847s	it sit there a lot of the time
1848s	potentially but uh anyway regardless the
1851s	panas are getting ready to go if needed
1854s	yeah G's in a decent spot so far just
1857s	having access to to a a good chunk of
1859s	the early game which is really what you
1860s	want to do we've spoken about this you
1861s	know previous Masters talk plenty of
1863s	times about this nature Shaman and the
1865s	idea has not really changed too much you
1867s	still just want to play out on curve put
1870s	some pressure on while you build up to
1872s	those disgusting high damage combos yeah
1875s	and that is definitely the point that's
1876s	the difference between you know the
1878s	mediocre Shaman players who will win the
1880s	game where they draw fast combo and lose
1883s	the games where they don't and the
1884s	really really good ones who can squeak
1886s	out that 65% win right that you're
1888s	really looking for to be an elite level
1890s	player um is just playing for tempo
1892s	right the deck is such an underrated
1894s	Tempo Deck with uh how it can abuse the
1897s	overload mechanics to just Chuck stats
1898s	out early that other decks can't
1900s	necessarily compete with and even
1901s	schooling as you see here right like Rec
1903s	bam forg the bellowing flames you says
1906s	all right well you better use it on this
1907s	or you're going to be taking six every
1910s	turn and and that's a significant number
1912s	right that that's the big deal like six
1915s	is um or like three damage per turn it
1918s	does stack up when you against this kind
1920s	of matchup so we do see ream just
1922s	respect the
1923s	[Music]
1924s	fish become very quickly right cuz next
1926s	turn you drop the one fish down and
1928s	you're pushing three and two with the
1929s	two you already have in play and then
1930s	that leaves six damage in play that the
1932s	r b would have to deal with it just
1933s	absolutely has to respect it use one of
1935s	the best removal cards in his deck on
1938s	two generated Little Fishies from go and
1941s	there's still one more in the tank yeah
1944s	and yeah this is what I'm talking about
1946s	right like you might think oh Jazz Bas
1948s	play jazz base start juicing it up with
1950s	the overload cards no I love this from
1952s	gu he saying nope Jazz base is zero
1954s	Tempo this is lots of tempo I'm doing
1957s	this one instead I think that is
1958s	absolutely correct this one especially
1960s	after seeing the flames right it just
1962s	it's just even better cuz it's just
1964s	where you've just used that removal you
1965s	better have something
1975s	else it's going to drop a knowledge this
1977s	turn
1979s	okay sure what the other two options
1985s	were hopefully we can get that looked at
1987s	but interesting just see gu taking a
1989s	more value based approach with the turn
1991s	four after the the tempo push on turn
1993s	three how how much of the like you's
1997s	sort of overall strategy will alter now
2001s	that Titan's available for him right
2003s	like you know does that say well okay
2005s	now I can start building more
2007s	aggressively towards some combos or do
2009s	you think the game plan isn't massively
2011s	affected by this other than managing
2013s	overload turns yeah I think so the so
2015s	you call out one which I think has a big
2017s	impact is you want to manage overload
2018s	turns you want to be you want to be a
2020s	have access to six mana on turn six
2021s	whether with coin or without right so
2023s	you need to be careful with your
2024s	overload going into that the other thing
2026s	that becomes a big factor is you kind of
2028s	want to fight even more aggressively for
2030s	Tempo because firstly you can afford to
2032s	dump cards because you know you can draw
2034s	more with the Titan secondly you want to
2036s	be ahead against a control deck you want
2038s	to be significantly ahead when you play
2041s	Titan because you want to use the draw
2043s	three right that's the best option um
2046s	because that was what you know maximizes
2048s	your damage up to the 48 plus range that
2051s	you might actually need against control
2052s	Warrior when you start stacking up those
2054s	overload cards if you play a little bit
2055s	too slowly and fall behind you might
2057s	actually have to end up using the AOE
2059s	option um but ideally you really really
2062s	want to be going for that draw as
2063s	aggressively as possible and you see
2065s	here this is basically exactly what I
2067s	just cribed right clear up the board
2069s	drop some minions in play use the coin
2070s	dump three or four cards from the hand
2072s	and make some space this is about as
2074s	clear a setup for that Titans you're
2075s	ever going to
2080s	see and it's it's not something that's
2083s	going to be a huge surprise to rec vam
2085s	either I think whenever you if you've
2087s	ever played against nature Sharman
2089s	before then you know okay hang on
2091s	they're not overloaded going into turn
2093s	six you have to be prepared to deal with
2096s	gogen because if you don't at least have
2098s	some form of plan you can find the game
2101s	really spiraling out of control the
2103s	second that lives for more than one turn
2105s	you start to get into some extra
2106s	troubles so now it'll just be about
2109s	recir um just working out exactly how he
2112s	wants to set up for this yeah I think if
2114s	you leave uh ganf alive against nature
2117s	Shaman and you don't then immediately
2120s	die the Sharman player probably messed
2122s	up quite horribly on the other side it
2125s	just be interesting where like where and
2128s	if a weapon swing even flies this turn
2130s	right because you might think oh well
2131s	you need to take these out because their
2134s	minions hitting you for damage but then
2136s	there's you kind of three less damage
2138s	available for the next
2140s	turn he going to clear up the board
2146s	though yeah it's the other great fear
2148s	against a deck right like little small
2149s	insignificant minions control Warrior a
2151s	lot of the time would say oh those are
2152s	small insignificant minions I don't
2154s	really care about them but uh a minion
2156s	isn't just a two that's going to attack
2158s	you against Shaman right it's a minion
2159s	that can have bioluminescence dumped on
2161s	it and suddenly the the damage of the
2163s	deck goes through the
2165s	roof I don't think uh Rec vanan would be
2168s	too worried about that right now not
2169s	under like flash of lightning conditions
2171s	this turn I don't think there would be
2172s	any real threat but there is the Jazz
2173s	base in play of course uh which you do
2175s	always have to be scared
2178s	of now there's not many moments that
2180s	make you not want to play goer on six
2183s	and I think G was just thinking about
2185s	the turn but he's just like yeah it's
2187s	just too good so uh not too much of a
2191s	surprise here it's going to take the
2192s	card draw of course and now we'll easily
2194s	be able to clear up the board um if he
2196s	so chooses yeah the hard part of the
2198s	turn is working out what the card you
2201s	play using the discount is right because
2203s	this now draws up to 10 cards so you
2206s	need to you can't play ancestral
2207s	knowledge you can't play flash of
2208s	lightning unless you want to risk
2209s	burning a card which is very possible
2212s	now particularly with this hand is
2214s	immensely possible because you uh have
2217s	everything you need in your hand to be
2218s	able to threaten lethal here so I'm
2220s	actually well on board with this but if
2222s	you'd have drawn into a very different
2223s	hand with those three overload cards
2225s	then suddenly you'd have to be thinking
2226s	oh I might need second bio off the top I
2229s	can't really flash here cuz it might not
2230s	be lethal so I think all the planning
2232s	from the start of the turn there from
2234s	you was just to say okay let's just work
2236s	out what happens if I draw like feral
2238s	Spirit turn the tides ancestral as my
2240s	three cards right
2244s	right you're going to make me count on
2246s	you
2251s	if you're asking me then yes I always
2252s	make you
2256s	count yeah re vams turn a little bit
2259s	simpler a lot of the times just yep okay
2262s	I'll clear this off and uh do what I can
2263s	do and now you's going to have to uh
2266s	work out how confident he is with this
2267s	damage or at least counting
2272s	it let have ins available as
2276s	well yeah not quite there novice zappers
2279s	I think are massive in terms of juicing
2282s	the Jazz base like you can basically
2283s	play out I think four minions and still
2286s	get the bioluminesence down to zero uh
2289s	but with the crash being burned off the
2291s	top obviously not coming into hand I
2294s	don't think quite there with the 39 with
2296s	the extra armor gain that re bam has
2298s	been able to piece together on the other
2300s	side even with that snake oil of course
2301s	which is really when we talked about how
2303s	the deck hasn't changed that much snake
2304s	oil is kind of the one new big addition
2306s	to the deck in terms of think people
2308s	will be a lot more used to seeing it in
2310s	Mage than perhaps they are in nature
2312s	Shan but very much that same idea just
2314s	an additional zero mana burn spell that
2316s	can represent phenomenal amounts of
2318s	damage there was one thing I was going
2319s	to bring up as well but we kind of moved
2321s	off as when you know oh do you have to
2322s	dump cards to empty your hand it's like
2324s	well snake oil sounds like a card you
2326s	would dump not really in this deck
2328s	though because that's just
2331s	damage ream getting that Odin down
2334s	finally still on a significant amount of
2337s	Health now and now suddenly this is
2339s	where Odin Warrior flips from becoming a
2342s	kind of defensive deck to a highly
2344s	aggressive deck and then we'll see how
2346s	that one turns out so far but feral sp's
2348s	going to go down and you is this the
2351s	turn ancestral knowledge looking for
2354s	lightning reflexes probably does hit the
2356s	lightning reflexes okay so you have
2358s	plenty of overload your bioluminescence
2360s	cost zero for sure with the the Jazz
2362s	base at this point your overload is
2364s	absolutely
2365s	chilling um so you can get four minions
2368s	two of them being uh novice zappers for
2370s	plus six spell damage currently have
2373s	three burn spells in hand one of them is
2375s	minus three so you need both sides of
2377s	the lightning reflexes to hit I think so
2379s	yeah actually ends up being a good
2380s	decision trading that
2382s	away does get
2386s	crash this is always the interesting
2388s	question isn't it is like if it's not
2391s	lethal how hard do you go in
2394s	anyway he crashing this board is
2396s	relevant right like just getting rid of
2398s	an 88 is a pretty big deal assuming the
2400s	spell damage comes down of course for
2402s	sure and you know as well very
2404s	irritatingly your opponent just played
2406s	Odin next last turn so the Odin coming
2409s	down is a big deal because not only can
2411s	they now threaten lethal back the other
2412s	way but you know they're extremely
2414s	interested in just gaining armor on this
2416s	turn right which is the number one thing
2418s	you do not want them to do yeah and the
2421s	Reno follow up as well absolutely huge
2426s	yep I don't know why SLE and I don't
2428s	know if you're with me on this but when
2430s	I first started playing Reno my brain
2432s	just told me it would get rid of the
2434s	whole board and not just opponents so
2437s	time I play I was like I was like oh
2439s	yeah I still have a board this is this
2440s	is insane yeah I think so many people
2442s	had to go through that Vibe because it's
2444s	just there's something in the back of
2445s	your brain like well there's no way I
2447s	get to keep a board that would be
2449s	ridiculous surely at this
2455s	point and the problem now is you only
2458s	has one board slot so suddenly B
2460s	luminescence doesn't look that cool
2461s	anymore yeah so talking about what the
2464s	Odin actually did um specifically this
2466s	is something that I was going to call
2467s	out uh was a it got rid of the snake oil
2471s	right it it does not kill the minion and
2473s	activate the death rattle it just
2474s	outright vaporizes it from the board so
2476s	no snake oil went to hand for the extra
2478s	damage and also only one board space
2480s	means only one spell damage or two spell
2483s	damage with bioluminescence if can drop
2484s	it down on a spell damage minion um so
2487s	as something that we are going to have
2489s	to keep out a look a lookout for in
2491s	those matchups of the the Decks that are
2493s	playing Reno that we can't even really
2495s	call Highlander decks going up against
2497s	nature Sharman is sometimes it might
2500s	just be correct to play Reno not even to
2502s	remove a board just play Reno purely for
2505s	The Showdown effect because it's the the
2507s	number one most guaranteed way that you
2510s	can buy yourself an extra turn against
2511s	nature Sharman specifically right like
2513s	they just cannot kill you with one board
2515s	space it's just never going to happen
2516s	happen so yep step one Reno in the
2519s	opening hand Rec bam Drew enough of the
2520s	two ofs for it to be active on on curve
2523s	got the job done one Z ream and how
2526s	relieved do you think rfam is because
2528s	obviously this Warrior there's a reason
2531s	there's one in the whole tournament
2533s	right
2534s	so how much pressure do you think this
2537s	lifts from ream obviously he's nowhere
2538s	near winning the series yet he's W one
2540s	he still needs to win two more things
2542s	can still go wrong but do you think this
2544s	puts him mentally in a great spot
2547s	I think so yeah I think um particularly
2550s	with some of the Dynamics that I talked
2552s	about going into this series where you
2554s	know ream thought gu was going to go one
2556s	way and kind of put a lineup together
2558s	with that in mind and then gu kind of
2559s	dodged left and didn't go quite go with
2561s	the thing that Rec vam had predicted so
2564s	rvan maybe had a little bit of bias
2565s	remorse with the uh with the lineup
2569s	um that can be a big big deal
2572s	overall uh so having then got the one
2576s	deck which seems a little bit sketchy
2578s	overall a little bit of a left field
2579s	deck through straight away I think is a
2582s	huge uh bonus for re Van's mental game
2585s	now for the rest of the series and for
2586s	the rest of the tournament right because
2587s	we can talk about future series as well
2589s	like if you suddenly go 03 in your first
2591s	series with this uh this risky deck that
2594s	you've brought suddenly your confidence
2595s	in it just gets shattered for the rest
2597s	of the tournament right of course yeah
2599s	and now recf famam is going to have
2600s	nature Shaman his own H and of course
2603s	the Demon Hunter left over with to get a
2605s	win and gu still again like I said by no
2608s	means out of this race yet is just a
2610s	single game this is best of five which
2612s	means H the player has to take three
2614s	decks over the line to be able to move
2617s	on and we talked about this we touched
2619s	on it a little bit at the um at the
2622s	start just saying that um the way that
2626s	some players could potentially prep for
2628s	exactly their first opponent of what
2630s	they thought they were going to bring
2631s	like we talked about rean um is the win
2634s	even just winning one match your first
2636s	match for example in double elimination
2639s	groups is such a big deal like your
2642s	chances of going through just Skyrocket
2645s	at that point right because like you
2647s	said there's a chance that even if
2648s	things go badly in match two for you you
2651s	have the um the possibility of playing
2653s	the person you beat in the first round
2655s	again which means well if you beat them
2657s	once obviously you know you you probably
2659s	got a good chance of beating them again
2661s	so this first victory in these um in
2664s	these double elimination groups is often
2666s	very vital to their chances to get
2669s	through yeah
2672s	absolutely um we have nature Sharman
2675s	still left on re vam side as well
2677s	interested to see if we will end up with
2678s	a mirror because that can be an
2680s	incredibly uh explosive match up overall
2683s	um but it's well no okay looks like
2685s	redam is going to go onto this Naga DH
2687s	instead so yeah as mentioned uh Ram's
2690s	decks are actually very very fast U not
2693s	necessarily aggressive as as being the
2695s	right word to use but nature Shaman pure
2697s	Paladin and Naga DH or Sharpshooter DH
2700s	as the three decks outside of the one
2702s	that we just saw win as well so that
2705s	slower deck even though it kind of just
2706s	one on eight if you really want to
2708s	describe that as slow is does stick out
2710s	in re Van's lineup like a sore tharm and
2712s	the rest of this series I would predict
2714s	will be uh pretty rapid from this point
2717s	yeah goo is going to be jumping over to
2718s	the mech Rogue for game two and recam on
2721s	this Demon Hunter and this Demon Hunter
2723s	I mean I I was playing it up until
2726s	probably 5 minutes before we went live
2727s	for today um and it's a deck that I feel
2731s	like you you slip once and you probably
2735s	just throw right obviously these players
2737s	a lot better than I am uh but in general
2740s	I feel like it's a deck that is
2741s	incredibly powerful but also incredibly
2744s	punishing um because the you you do have
2748s	what even though it feels like you have
2750s	unlimited damage you do have to manage
2752s	your resources from what I feel turn one
2755s	onward
2756s	and if you mismanage that you can find
2758s	yourself in trouble yeah and you suffer
2761s	massively with Demon Hunter against
2764s	Decks that can play for the board better
2767s	than you can right so we're looking at
2769s	decks like Mech Rogue decks like Naga
2771s	priest which we'll see a little bit
2773s	later on from pocket train and mey those
2776s	are Decks that can explode on the board
2777s	much much quicker than you and just get
2779s	ahead in the early turns and as soon as
2781s	your opponent has made this big board
2783s	where they have three minions with you
2785s	know four to six Health on each suddenly
2788s	the size of the pop off you need to even
2790s	you know clear that board and make them
2792s	have an answer just becomes so much
2794s	greater than it is if you're playing
2796s	against more of an AFK deck that's just
2798s	drawing cards or forging things in the
2800s	opening
2801s	turns see a very early mimon as well
2805s	from
2806s	you recam leans back in the chair
2809s	thinking right okay there's a uh 36 on
2812s	the board I'm going to start using
2815s	resources and this is where where things
2816s	get get painful uh even this early
2820s	on yeah actually recam may have felt
2824s	okay with this coming down like I think
2826s	with this particular hand ream would
2828s	have been a little bit more scared of a
2830s	stealth minion than the uh the 36 mimon
2832s	coming down right cuz didn't really have
2834s	much to do this turn apart from shoot
2836s	some removal Spells at a minion so
2838s	actually not the worst thing in the
2839s	world I guess with exactly ferin in hand
2844s	right like that's something cuz
2845s	otherwise hands looking pretty dry and
2847s	of course this Demon Hunter deck can
2848s	draw cards in a very rapid State um
2851s	especially if they get hold of the sigil
2853s	um but until you have those cards you
2855s	don't have them right so this could be
2857s	pretty dangerous but again that uh the
2859s	ferin is going to be able to do at least
2861s	some recovery but there's your stealth
2862s	minion with the spider coming down so
2864s	rram now needs to once again hope to get
2867s	some answers pretty
2870s	soon okay that's always nice yeah that's
2872s	always nice to
2875s	see Rush as well on the uh on the
2878s	dogger
2880s	yeah three Mana two six6 rushes coming
2884s	out next turn
2891s	you oh there sigil as
2894s	well and because you saw Scourge
2898s	Illusionist specifically come down here
2901s	you may be a little tempted to just draw
2903s	the cards instead yeah looks like he is
2905s	going to do it yeah
2907s	is this I think the thing is I I feel
2911s	like if you don't do this now it feels
2915s	unlikely you're going to play it and
2917s	it's going to matter whereas I think
2919s	this is going to really matter next turn
2921s	like Sigil of time popping off is like
2923s	so huge for this deck but I think if
2926s	that board that you saw from gu was like
2928s	four Health Mech three Health Mech right
2930s	you would have just played the Wolves
2931s	traded in value traded been ahead had a
2933s	massive board and just gone okay I am so
2935s	far ahead now I'll play Sigil of time
2937s	next turn right and we'll we'll go from
2939s	there but because it was specifically
2941s	The Scourge Illusionist you're just like
2943s	okay well all I'm really doing by double
2945s	trading with the rush minions now is
2946s	accelerating my opponent's game plan of
2948s	of drawing the broken death rattles and
2950s	going from
2952s	there so let's not do that let's draw
2955s	cards instead I like drawing cards and
2957s	so does Demon
2965s	Hunter
2968s	you know is going to try and piece
2971s	something together this is a little bit
2972s	tricky nothing huge to build on right
2975s	now which is again what you really want
2978s	to be doing especially in this match up
2979s	what what gu doesn't want to do is give
2981s	Demon Hunter time especially with these
2982s	triple card draw coming out now it's
2984s	going to be huge and potentially very
2986s	very scary here as recam sees what he's
2989s	going to get rewarded here momentum
2991s	pretty good
2995s	pickup
2997s	this time does have to take the clear
2999s	though yeah it's too much
3004s	yep as you can
3006s	see double six sixes clear that up
3012s	nicely and this is now very scary
3015s	because having this kind of power on
3018s	board doesn't happen that often with de
3020s	to in this kind of match up right you
3022s	have just two six attack minions as well
3024s	as obviously the Naga like that is
3026s	significant and like one good draw or
3029s	one uh uh one Sharpshooter and this
3033s	could be done right especially seven
3035s	Mana like for all G knows there's a
3036s	sharpshooter potentially in hand and
3038s	then there's a pop off turn and go yeah
3040s	I think Greg bam is in an absolutely
3042s	phenomenal position here just by
3045s	delaying that one turn right allowing
3047s	you to just have the board in a pretty
3049s	ins significant position for one extra
3051s	turn and then taking it this turn that
3053s	now means okay the Thunder Brer is
3055s	coming down this this turn well the
3056s	Thunder Brer would have been down last
3057s	turn and then the result of the Thunder
3059s	Brer would have been at play this turn
3061s	which would have been a significantly
3062s	scarier so now bre bam just praying for
3066s	a sharpshooter off these next three
3069s	draws oh okay oh oh okay Sharpshooter
3074s	double one drop Naga with obviously the
3076s	um the mistake in the back already Meed
3079s	up earlier on like this
3081s	is this is good this is when I when I
3083s	just assume it's lethal SLE oh it's
3089s	lethal but again I think it's like the
3092s	two six Powers is just it's just so
3094s	strong just having that extra damage
3096s	like preloaded the fact they've been
3098s	allowed to live is such a bonus for rean
3101s	makes these turns so much
3103s	easier my blood boils for war oh hang on
3109s	hang on we would quite like two damage
3111s	to uh to go to the horsey if at all
3113s	possible I guess you do have got the
3115s	rush yeah
3117s	and there's still the zero spells right
3119s	so that's going to get the work
3124s	done and 6
3127s	12
3128s	16 oh wait a pration still got disposed
3134s	disposed right should be enough right
3135s	yep think so okay yeah okay I was
3137s	confused I was like well I did a quick
3139s	head count and it looked plenty
3141s	but now just lock in the attacks right I
3144s	don't know if there was like a ordering
3146s	mistake where by playing dispose first
3148s	you could have maybe seen three cards
3150s	that screwed you up for the like three
3152s	like if you see the exact three cards
3154s	you needed I I don't you needed exactly
3156s	all three of those I'm not sure uh all
3158s	happening a little bit fast at the end
3160s	I'll be honest halfway through that turn
3161s	I just eyeballed it and went yep that's
3163s	me thought I'm going to stop thinking
3164s	now because I'm not actually playing in
3165s	the World Championships I don't have to
3167s	get all of this stuff right but Rec bam
3169s	of course does and Rec vam at least got
3172s	enough of it right that he now goes up
3173s	to a two lead in the series which is
3176s	absolutely massive and now Raven now is
3181s	nature Shaman for recat and we have to
3183s	talk about this right because for the
3185s	last three events now if you include
3187s	this one I have been a big fan of nature
3190s	sham and in the last three events or the
3193s	last two events cuz we can't include
3195s	this one we don't know the results yet
3197s	uh sh nature Sharman was quite bad and
3200s	then pretty mid in the two events that
3202s	we watch now you could make the argument
3204s	that it was in the winning lineup of one
3205s	of those tournaments which is a big deal
3207s	of course um but I think there are still
3209s	question marks nature Sharman exists in
3212s	that space where all data being reported
3215s	says that it's a pretty mid deck but
3218s	even the people who are just stringent
3220s	data hounds also then con see that it's
3223s	one of the most skill intensive deck
3224s	decks in the game right and you can see
3226s	the in you can see the trend in win rate
3228s	as you go up the reported curve of skill
3230s	level of people playing it um and that
3233s	you you can project that curve out to
3235s	then the very best players in the world
3237s	with the deck and how good their win
3238s	rate will be with it however outside of
3241s	moments from pocket train we haven't
3243s	really seen the deck perform to that
3245s	level right like we've seen similar to B
3248s	priest right with exactly the same
3250s	caveat outside of pocket train we never
3253s	really saw that deck perform to the
3255s	level that people debated that it might
3256s	be able to so here we go big test number
3258s	one for rec bam or nature Shaman yeah
3261s	and I think there's something important
3262s	as well where of course nature Shaman's
3264s	been in with lineups
3267s	but cuz I I think we were talk about
3269s	before we went live today where I was
3271s	like I feel like the deck isn't bad by
3274s	any means it just feels very mid but I
3277s	think a lot of it is perception based
3279s	because when it loses it feels like very
3281s	flimsy and like it's not really achieved
3283s	anything relevant in the game but when
3285s	it wins it seems like it's wielding the
3287s	power of gods because you just die right
3290s	so I think a lot of it is one of those
3292s	things we know people do like to talk
3294s	about sometimes with yes on one hand
3296s	there's the statistics but on the other
3298s	hand there's like the emotional reaction
3300s	to decks and how they win or lose and I
3303s	think sham is definitely one of them
3304s	where as you said when you watch pocket
3306s	play and pocket's you know winning
3308s	things and it's like looking these crazy
3310s	turns these big setups it it looks
3313s	fantastic but then when you look at
3314s	those you know either on ladder or even
3316s	just other other competitive players um
3320s	even just taking losses which are
3321s	completely reasonable losses you can't
3323s	win every single game of hearthstone but
3325s	the deck just looks like it doesn't
3327s	really achieve any anything like we saw
3329s	it earlier where had a decent setup
3332s	Areno came down and then gu died you
3335s	know it just didn't it looked like it
3337s	had all the setup and no no outcome
3339s	right um and I think a lot of that is
3341s	perception based but I think the bigger
3343s	question is when you wind it back to
3345s	what we talk about at the start of the
3346s	show which is it feels like and from
3349s	what I understand from you know seeing
3351s	what the players have spoken about
3352s	lineups were kind of hard for this
3354s	tournament so
3356s	not take theck that if it's at worst you
3358s	think it's mid with AIT of extra spice
3360s	on top that's probably in some responses
3363s	then people rolling the dice with oh
3366s	this this deck might be good that I've
3368s	not had time to test that much because a
3370s	lot of these plays that are bringing
3371s	nature Shaman as we've mentioned the
3374s	deck's not changed too much in recent
3376s	history so then suddenly they're very
3378s	comfortable with the play patterns of
3379s	the deck yes but that is a great point
3381s	to leave it on Raven because the small
3384s	changes that have been made are actually
3387s	incredibly relevant in this series
3389s	because as we mentioned before uh two
3391s	copies of Miracle salesman have come
3393s	into basically everyone's build of
3394s	nature Shaman now right for that zero
3396s	Mana spell that can represent extra burn
3398s	damage can also be used as emergency
3400s	cycle when you're digging for those big
3401s	pieces that you need to win the game
3403s	cards have had to be cut to make room
3405s	for that we also play jazz base now
3407s	which was not the case to Masters TOS
3410s	ago before the bioluminescence Nerf
3412s	right cuz we sometimes need that extra
3413s	Mana some of the cards that have been
3415s	cut to make room for those additions are
3418s	for example lightning storms which were
3421s	in initial builds of the deck some time
3423s	ago uh gu's lineup in case you need a
3426s	refresh is treant Druid that's an aggr
3429s	Druid Mech Rogue that's an aggro Rogue
3431s	pure Paladin that's an aggro Paladin
3433s	okay it's banned um and then the nature
3434s	charman mirror on the other side so
3436s	against two of the three matchups
3437s	remaining uh outside of the band Paladin
3440s	lightning storms a real good card to
3442s	have in your deck and quite rightly by
3445s	the way recam is not choosing to include
3447s	that because the build has just moved
3448s	past it but this is where some of 's
3451s	lineup building can just perhaps give
3453s	him an advantage in the series and
3455s	speaking of Q's lineup and and this
3457s	Druid specifically you know that I'm a
3459s	two of dragon Druid gamer personally as
3463s	my druid of choice at the moment but
3465s	what do you make of not only this
3468s	specific match up but this trient Druid
3470s	ring in total from gu CU I know you
3472s	you've not been the biggest fan of Druid
3474s	in general in this current meta as far
3476s	as I've heard but uh but this one I feel
3478s	like you're warming towards a little bit
3481s	I
3482s	think so there are I would have rather
3486s	gone all the way to a Highlander Druid
3488s	right with so I think this is a very
3490s	weird topic to get into when there isn't
3492s	a Highlander Druid on the screen but I
3494s	think you can play maybe three two ofs
3497s	in in Highlander Druid of the cards that
3499s	specifically cheor each other right the
3500s	forge card uh the nourish and then welp
3503s	because welp is absurd it's one of those
3506s	highest win rate opening hand cards in
3508s	Hearthstone you it's one of those you
3510s	can play two of it and make the argument
3511s	sure I'll listen to you I'll respect
3513s	your opinion um but for me I would have
3516s	gone either pure Highlander um with just
3519s	like two welps or um a Allin two of more
3524s	uh aggressive Druid right which calling
3526s	them an aggro deck is a little bit
3527s	misleading but this triand Druid and the
3530s	version of dragon Druid which is just
3532s	two ofs everything with dragon Golem
3534s	right like they're quite similar in what
3536s	they try to execute fast ramp a little
3539s	bit of setup and then a wildly explosive
3542s	massive board very very early on in the
3544s	game and I do think there is room in
3546s	this tournament for those kinds of
3548s	strategies well so far in the early
3550s	turns gu has gotten some ramp off the
3553s	splish Flash coming down as well and
3555s	these that's going to be really nice H
3557s	recam though does have the Piranhas out
3559s	and going to be able to at least deal
3561s	with these but can he deal with the
3563s	sheer volume of Mana that will be
3566s	available to G now especially with a
3568s	Topia in the hand potentially for the
3571s	followup yeah topio in hand Cactus
3574s	construct in hand as well and all topped
3576s	off with the uh The Avenge card as well
3580s	sorry the infused card it's the uh the
3582s	Battlegrounds player in me coming out it
3584s	always takes me a second to readapt back
3586s	to uh talking about
3588s	constructed oh looks like you glitching
3590s	a little bit there he's back H it's just
3593s	too much caffeine happens to me
3594s	sometimes
3596s	I'm so
3598s	hyped it's freaking W I'm
3605s	vibrating now is this could be a a a
3610s	coin coming out here for Ream can land
3614s	the Goan Earth doesn't seem too terrible
3617s	yeah I think this was I think you were a
3618s	lot more excited about the coin ganth
3620s	play before you saw your opponent go
3622s	exactly ramp ramp into topio this game a
3625s	little more upset but I I guess My worry
3628s	is
3629s	like when is is ganth getting better
3633s	right like yes it could help clear a
3636s	board but I think like I think the
3639s	problem is then you're waiting for them
3641s	to build a board right whereas I just
3643s	think just play the Goan death now help
3645s	deal with this and you have it on board
3648s	now and then can follow up with things
3649s	especially with crash in hand right and
3652s	I do think that is the concession right
3654s	is where you have to say okay I kill my
3658s	opponent before they do anything that's
3661s	immediately lethal to me on the other
3663s	side if you're throwing away your gget
3664s	you don't have lightning storms in the
3665s	deck anymore right so crash becomes the
3668s	only AOE that you have available so if
3671s	they do make that massive tree and
3672s	cultivation blah blah blah board um
3675s	particularly with soul of the forest
3676s	dropped on there as well you're kind of
3678s	just saying okay I don't clear that
3680s	board when it appears I kill my opponent
3682s	when it appears or hopefully before um
3685s	but you do have to be comfortable in
3686s	your own mind uh that that's kind of the
3689s	line you're now committing to at this
3692s	[Music]
3694s	point oh did we Cactus construct a cult
3697s	NE fight by the way is that legal can we
3700s	uh can we get a St construct legal s
3703s	because it's such a good card like why
3706s	is it so
3708s	good every time I play Druid I draw that
3711s	on one I'm like I feel like I've already
3713s	won the game for one
3723s	you can just SOL of the forest this
3724s	board right yeah I kind of like this
3726s	honestly I mean it's good enough right
3729s	it's threatening also gets the Neil
3731s	fight
3738s	down plus two on the Spells means your
3741s	opponent gets to do basically
3743s	nothing
3746s	oh sorry is only plus one I'm just
3748s	looking at two cult NE fights on the
3749s	board and going well it must be plus two
3751s	but that's not how how that works at
3753s	all imagine yeah let's buff C's
3756s	construct yeah yeah yeah can it just
3758s	activate battlecries as well please
3760s	thanks and and what does what does recam
3763s	really do at this point I'm just looking
3766s	at his hand thinking well Neil fight's a
3769s	good
3773s	card
3778s	okay hear me outa I'm hearing what if re
3785s	famam does nothing this turn can hero
3788s	power or whatever but doesn't try to do
3791s	anything crazy and set and just say next
3794s	turn we'll go we flash right like it's
3797s	not doing nothing I mean like for
3800s	example could have played a crash could
3802s	have tried to draw more cards could have
3804s	whatever but I think like just just say
3806s	this this go board sticks accept it and
3811s	then say you'll recover the next
3815s	turn yeah I think the flash was the
3817s	right decision I think if you went into
3820s	uh second flash immediately there you
3822s	might have actually just been in
3823s	business in terms of trying to threaten
3824s	lethal going back the other way
3827s	yeah imagine it would just be the uh goo
3830s	smile down to a frown if it's saw flash
3832s	flash just like oh oh can I have my NE
3836s	fights back please
3841s	thanks the five is looking really nice
3843s	here it's just healing armor I think
3845s	right this board represents lethal so
3847s	you just make your opponent have the uh
3850s	the what first three that they're going
3851s	to
3854s	need yep I respect
3860s	it second then I thought recr was going
3862s	to overdraw but he doesn't right he's on
3864s	nine
3868s	crash oh those are nothing though you
3871s	have to pay Mana for something that does
3873s	not really affect your lethal at all in
3875s	order to get the second card
3879s	here opportunity number two is just to
3882s	bail and just
3884s	say tumble weed crash this
3888s	turn yeah re vam didn't come to worlds
3890s	to be a
3893s	coward flush
3898s	again feral comes down
3901s	now he flashes he can no longer bio this
3904s	turn okay who
3911s	okay I
3914s	mean there has to be something right he
3917s	knows asels in hand
3920s	yep so something has to be
3922s	done is little time
3928s	it just double
3929s	crash yeah
3931s	sure
3938s	triple now finally the life from Death
3940s	gets
3946s	Juiced that so much potential
3950s	damage from W just used to just not die
3953s	this turn
3956s	even then it's still not looking great
3958s	is
3958s	it innovate innovate oh no yeah it's
3963s	enough you now have because of the two
3964s	innovates you now have uh this to go
3966s	face it's one over you have 14 instead
3969s	even then you have the hero power still
3971s	to
3972s	go okay well gu fights back he's not
3975s	going to be swept in the first match of
3977s	the world championship and the TR
3979s	looking very very powerful and and you
3982s	mentioned it right like uh with
3983s	lightning start not really being in the
3985s	deck anymore and it did mean that reir
3988s	had to fall back onto using what he's
3990s	normally big combo pieces just to try
3992s	and stabilize and live even though that
3994s	was a bit of a long shot in itself and
3997s	just shows the capability of Druid right
3999s	now whether it's Dragon Druid Reno Druid
4002s	trient Druid but just having access to
4004s	those um splashes you know the welps is
4007s	like is so strong because being able to
4009s	just ramp as well as Tempo out is
4012s	incredible like it's one of the the best
4014s	cards in the game right now and it just
4017s	showed that if even if there wasn't like
4019s	the double ramp that came down like that
4022s	could have maybe given recam just a
4024s	little bit more time but just said no
4027s	not enough not for me yeah if it wasn't
4029s	exactly double ramp then uh recam could
4032s	have coined Titan into a board that a
4035s	didn't have a 66 topio on it already and
4037s	then also the Topo just wasn't played so
4039s	the nature spells did not get three3
4041s	rushes that came out and just bar traded
4043s	all his stuff and then got Sol forested
4045s	so I think he actually may very well
4047s	have been favored with just one split
4048s	spash we with that exact hand being the
4050s	same otherwise and the rest of the hand
4052s	was fantastic um I think also um I
4055s	didn't count the exact number but I
4057s	think if the first um lightning reflexes
4060s	had offered bolt or crash then he was
4063s	very much in business of being able to
4064s	find a lethal that turn immediately he
4066s	had enough nature spells so that a
4068s	discovered crash could get easily get
4070s	down to zero before he had to play it in
4072s	the first place and then you can maybe
4073s	pick up another lethal spell off that on
4075s	the second one so a lot of things going
4077s	against Rec ban but Raven I feel like
4080s	this is what I've done for three
4082s	straight tournaments now is come up with
4084s	excuses for why nature sh isn't winning
4088s	it shows I mean we've been doing this
4090s	together for a long time now right let's
4092s	be honest but it shows how Instinct we
4094s	are was my exact Fallout was so um
4097s	Shaman's lost every time it's been on
4098s	screen so far yep and uh you know will
4102s	it continue there's only one way to
4104s	fight find out guys ni to keep watching
4105s	the hone World Championship H because it
4108s	will be hilarious if we we fast forward
4112s	and we like did we just pretend Shaman
4114s	was good for a
4116s	year is that what happened in 2023 we
4119s	just thought Shaman was good when it
4120s	wasn't well okay here we go one has to
4123s	win right now because we're going to go
4124s	into a mirror match so ream uh if he
4128s	loses this one he will be going up
4130s	against that Mech Rogue and I do think
4132s	you is just thinking okay let's try and
4133s	get this one out the way because this is
4135s	the the trickier one I would say in
4137s	terms of matchup just down to the nature
4139s	of being a mirror so do you remember
4141s	that one year where we all thought flare
4143s	jeans were cool it got worse we thought
4145s	nature Sharman was good for an entire
4147s	year Y and it'll be great because the
4151s	rest of the casters will just be like
4153s	what you want about that that was just
4155s	you Saul don't P into this that was
4157s	literally just you we all kept saying it
4160s	was
4163s	trash
4165s	here though goo starting off with the
4167s	Piranhas though so the schooling in the
4168s	opening hand is going to be fantastic
4171s	especially when learned that recam does
4174s	not have access to the fish yet so
4176s	already gu is going to be getting off to
4178s	a great start cuz I imagine we are going
4180s	to see these fish just thrown
4182s	out uh yeah I oh okay wow uh things have
4187s	progressed very rapidly since uh five or
4189s	six seconds ago um re famam picking up
4192s	Jazz base and then you picking up Jazz
4193s	base and and I know I mentioned that you
4195s	don't really want Jazz base super early
4198s	in a lot of matchups but I think against
4200s	Sharman specifically it is such a combo
4203s	race that having that jazz base
4205s	available nice and early means that you
4207s	can just scam out a very very quick
4209s	combo so both players having it here
4212s	does uh level up the playing field quite
4217s	significantly is this going to be coin
4219s	as well cuz if it is I love
4221s	it yep
4226s	get all the Piranhas
4229s	out already though recarm would turn the
4231s	tides is going to be able to
4236s	answer takes the valley trade as well
4238s	takes one extra damage to preserve the
4240s	31 in
4242s	play love to see o second set of fishies
4247s	now but double burn spell in hand
4250s	already no sign of a bioluminescence
4252s	does have some card draw and it overload
4255s	card draw as well you does have to just
4257s	take a moment here stop and think okay
4260s	if I play a jazz base now with what like
4263s	an average distri distribution of card
4265s	draw looks like from this point when do
4267s	I kill my opponent and is that something
4269s	that I'm interested in trying to do or
4271s	do I actually just keep fighting for
4273s	Tempo sounds like a mass question on a
4275s	test I have no interest in
4279s	answering but Jazz Bas is equipped 5:00
4283s	p.m. on a Saturday please find X and
4287s	Raven just circles the X in the question
4289s	and goes there it is found it and then I
4292s	laugh because technically I'm right y
4295s	That's the only thing that
4297s	matters oh recam no
4301s	hesitation complete opposite fashion
4303s	inst although ream did not have access
4305s	to piranhas so maybe that would have
4306s	helped but we'll see how this one
4310s	goes see you could just still go for raw
4314s	Tempo and just play the F Spirit piranha
4316s	r or something you know just just say no
4319s	you will keep swinging this and if you
4320s	don't I get to hit you in the face with
4322s	the dogs
4325s	MH which I think there's Merit to right
4328s	because Rec bam did not overload on the
4330s	previous turn right that's the turn
4332s	before overload that's now unlocking so
4335s	you has to think about one of the kind
4337s	of slow and inflexible turns that Shaman
4339s	has there's not many of them but this is
4340s	one of them where you just want to jam a
4342s	five five on turn five
4344s	I just think like
4347s	ream can't not swing this weapon you
4350s	know like it's not like the game won't
4351s	let him swing the weapon but I feel like
4353s	it's unlikely in a lot of instances and
4355s	then if rean does decide to try and
4357s	defend then
4360s	great this is a hand Raven don't know if
4363s	you've
4364s	noticed but it's a
4366s	hand there are
4368s	cards in this
4371s	hand I'd hope so
4379s	now is this the turn where it's
4381s	ancestral
4388s	knowledge or is this just get the base
4390s	equipped now just cuz the trade exists
4393s	if you want to hear me out on weird
4395s	lines there's also uh Bolt the fire five
4397s	and play thorum to draw two and unlock
4401s	this turn then just trade one two three
4402s	in
4404s	lands a three four on the board against
4406s	the uh the Titan turn as well which is
4408s	kind of
4410s	appealing
4413s	oh played this deck
4415s	before you call down the
4420s	th going to be nice self there going be
4423s	pretty resilient just get the oh very
4425s	nice draw as well actually find
4427s	something to do with the the one Mana
4429s	that you unlock as well really really
4430s	nice and even if you're expecting that's
4433s	potentially going to get AOE away just
4435s	great whatever it's not not a big deal
4438s	it means they' not drawn tons of cards
4439s	with
4447s	[Music]
4449s	G is just that solitary three4 that's on
4451s	the board now is just annoying recam so
4454s	much right because a lot of this matchup
4456s	is just damage swings and so what gu did
4459s	is yes he used a lightning bolt right
4460s	which can be a massive amount of damage
4462s	I understand but the plays that we were
4465s	looking at otherwise involve you
4466s	smacking your face into a 55 right or
4469s	your board getting cleared and that 55
4471s	still existing and then smacking you in
4473s	the face for multiple turns instead of
4475s	that happening he's just pushed a bunch
4477s	of damage to rec vam and that means that
4479s	if rean wants to drop Titan here he has
4481s	to AOE and then he also has to commit
4483s	further cards just to clear up the board
4485s	so now the card draw hasn't
4492s	happened he's going to take the Tempo
4494s	turn here I believe get the double
4495s	discount on the feral Spirit yep big fan
4498s	of this well pretty much has to while go
4500s	is way too susceptible to just dying
4502s	right there's just there's so many more
4504s	cards that kill it if you don't get
4505s	these feral spirits up so yeah I like
4507s	this from recan because Ream's key
4510s	priority now is getting that card draw
4512s	locked in and Gogan not dying for at
4514s	least one
4517s	turn and I've got some good news for the
4520s	rec vam
4521s	fans I don't think it's dying
4529s	can we buff snake oil to deal one you
4531s	know
4532s	maybe s was very good do you really want
4535s	to buff it you fan of a more Mage
4538s	S no I thought that' draw you
4549s	back so frustrating Right double turn
4551s	the tides double Rush take out the two
4553s	three six attack so
4556s	close what if you just aim the snake o
4559s	at goth and just
4561s	hope just hope the game bugs yeah just
4564s	or hope it just distracts them cuz it's
4566s	snake oil
4571s	M yeah reg fam's eyes widen yeah oh it's
4574s	living oh it's
4577s	alive reflex as
4581s	well okay
4584s	still no bio in
4587s	hand so when I said earlier that if you
4589s	leave a goth alive against Sharman and
4592s	you don't die immediately the shaman on
4594s	the other side has done something very
4595s	very badly wrong uh that thing that Rec
4597s	bam has done wrong is stupidly failed to
4599s	draw
4605s	bioluminescence this is going to be a
4607s	good setup though at
4609s	worst Flow Rider that has to find it
4613s	surely
4614s	go with
4616s	the
4621s	no is this just lightning again it's
4625s	reflexes right yeah you're under flash
4627s	next turn so seems
4629s	good so you got have even if you don't
4632s	draw either copy of the bioluminescence
4634s	you then have four shots to find it with
4635s	the lightning reflexes went for
4638s	overdraft oh there's B okay yeah
4640s	actually not entirely sure how many
4641s	cards are left in the deck right now
4643s	which does F that choice as well because
4644s	you are guaranteed to see a certain
4646s	number of cards from this point with the
4647s	ancestral knowledge and the natural draw
4649s	at the start of the turn Etc so that
4651s	will influence which card you want to
4653s	pick up in that
4665s	spot yeah ream senses it he knows this
4668s	is close he knows he's in an
4670s	overwhelmingly positive position
4676s	Rec's just
4678s	confused that was a mistake and he like
4680s	wait was was that a mistake or was
4682s	itting the mistake I just don't think re
4684s	vanan realized he had two Mana left at
4685s	the end of the turn I think he thought
4686s	he had one because of the the overdraft
4689s	I think I probably thre him for Lo the
4691s	end
4693s	yeah oh yeah cuz he was on yeah yeah
4696s	yeah yeah yeah
4697s	yeah go with
4702s	theow
4704s	okay those options so I can see the
4706s	discovers I was going to try and read
4708s	them out but but CU is getting off with
4710s	the good pick he's picking way too fast
4712s	for me to see the
4715s	cards all right that's a lot of Z
4719s	execute all you have to do is play the
4722s	cards in the right order and you are one
4724s	step closer to a world
4726s	championship so all giv Rec F the the
4729s	big advice we've all heard in our
4730s	careers which is just win that's what
4733s	he's about to do big bioluminesence on
4736s	the board here lightning bolts for 11
4739s	the crashes are there plenty of damage
4741s	and that is ream taking a win with the
4744s	shaman and taking a win in his first
4746s	match of the world championship moving
4748s	on that winnner match in the group and
4751s	there you go first job subtle done for
4754s	rean absolutely and first job done for
4758s	the best deck in the game nature Sharman
4760s	um see yes uh the story of course coming
4763s	out of uh of series number one is yes
4766s	big win for rec vam uh big loss for GU
4769s	I've kind of hyped gu up going into this
4771s	one as perhaps uh second favorite for me
4773s	behind pocket train I think I've been
4774s	incredibly impressed with him as a
4776s	player I like the lineup um it may look
4779s	a little unconventional but I kind of
4780s	you know like the overall full aggro
4782s	idea that he's going for with with
4783s	nature charman thrown in there as well
4785s	which is a deck I'm a big fan of however
4788s	we're already going to be asking those
4789s	nature Sharman questions right like
4791s	nature Sharman lost twice in that series
4794s	three times if you include the mirror
4796s	that it's lost and but I think the the
4798s	cleaner way to put it is the only game
4800s	that nature Shaman won in that series
4802s	was of course the mirror so something
4804s	that we will have to keep an eye on as
4806s	things progress but I don't think Rec
4808s	bam will care too much about that right
4810s	now I think he will just be delighted to
4813s	have advanced through the bracket one
4814s	step closer to that world championship
4816s	yeah as long as you get over the line
4818s	doesn't really matter how how that's
4819s	achieved overall and I do think that
4822s	another deck I will be keeping my eye on
4824s	is that Odin Warrior because we saw it
4826s	and it kind of just happened in a blink
4828s	of an eye game one won with it played
4831s	Odin played Reno go and okay job done
4834s	but will that continue for recam because
4836s	that's sometime very interesting cuz the
4838s	deck idea is cool I personally like like
4840s	the style overall but it's just will it
4842s	be good enough it pass the first test
4844s	with flying colors but just like Shaman
4846s	definitely going to be something I'm
4847s	going to be keeping an eye on um and and
4850s	just uh cuz I know you've looked at all
4851s	the lineup all uh with goo dropping down
4853s	to Low's goo just for those of you at
4855s	home that don't realize he not out of
4857s	the tournament but is effectively on his
4859s	last life um what what do you think his
4861s	chances are do you think recr was a
4863s	tough one and the rest of the group's
4864s	looking okay or do you think he's in big
4866s	big
4867s	trouble I do like the lineup overall so
4871s	I think it's he's still in a reasonably
4873s	good position um the other lineups are
4876s	significantly different there's nothing
4877s	like that Odin Warrior that he's going
4878s	to have to deal with um levik for
4881s	example has plague DK which I think
4883s	levic will struggle to get a win against
4885s	this lineup with PL DK at all like every
4888s	deck is just going to play minions and
4890s	then you die if you're playing plague DK
4892s	which is a problem and I think nature
4893s	Shaman will just get there very quickly
4895s	unless you draw like seven Frost plagues
4897s	over the course of the game then I think
4898s	you'll be fine so I think he still has a
4901s	lot to say in this tournament I'm still
4903s	expecting him to put in a decent showing
4904s	and I absolutely would not be counting
4906s	him out yet let's take a look at who
4908s	we've got coming up next though cuz we
4910s	are going to still continue with group
4913s	group a we've just seen ream take the
4914s	victory over gu and as you kind of
4916s	touched on for a second there we've got
4918s	levic and Hemlock coming up for our next
4921s	match and of course we will do the
4923s	majority of each group today the final
4926s	deciders match uh matches will be
4929s	tomorrow for both groups A and B so uh
4932s	nothing's done until it's done so make
4934s	sure to tune in both days we are just
4936s	going to go to a break while we get that
4937s	next match set up for you so don't go
4939s	anywhere and be right back with some
4940s	more Hearthstone World Championship
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5146s	hello everyone welcome back to the first
5149s	day of the hearstone Masters Tour World
5151s	Championship I am Dragon Rider joined by
5155s	adal Vice and adal vice how are you
5158s	doing are you ready for our first
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5172s	match
5181s	yeah
5185s	yeah so we're going to go ahead and look
5188s	at uh levik's uh Player information here
5192s	talk about levik because he is going to
5194s	be in our first matchup uh versus
5197s	Hemlock here but levic was our first
5201s	Champion so let's switch over and look
5205s	at some of these replays on how levik
5208s	got to this point
5211s	here
5214s	we definitely see a couple of classes
5217s	that have already been talked about
5218s	we've talked about levic we've talked
5221s	about uh some of these decks we saw
5224s	there was some Demon Hunter I know adal
5227s	Vice was mentioning Demon Hunter uh
5229s	before we got into the broadcast but uh
5233s	let's take a look even more in depth at
5235s	levik and look at some of the
5237s	information the lineup here for levic is
5241s	this plague death night uh this kind of
5244s	dragon Druid this Demon Hunter that
5247s	we're kind of calling this aggro Demon
5249s	Hunter and Showdown palen which of
5251s	course is definitely uh been banned but
5255s	what do you think of this lineup and of
5257s	levic overall here adal
5260s	face yeah it's an unusual lineup I think
5264s	you know sdle and I have agreed that you
5267s	and mey and Pockets lineups look the
5269s	best and that's because some of these
5271s	lineups just really have a scratching
5273s	her head such as this Dragon Druid out
5276s	of levic which has uh quite a few
5279s	duplicates I I did manage to play a bit
5282s	with it and and if we see it later on I
5285s	will go through some of what I think is
5287s	the intended uh strategy with getting
5289s	rid of those duplicates but yeah was
5291s	seeing here as well levic won of only a
5293s	couple of plague decays I don't know if
5296s	people were expecting more Highlander
5298s	decks uh it is of course kind of funny
5301s	when you play bring plague DK to deal
5304s	with Highlander decks and they of course
5305s	just have duplicates in in the list
5309s	themselves so we'll see uh how that pans
5312s	out I really like though in in this
5314s	particular list Le brought in the Flint
5316s	firearm which got buffed recently and uh
5320s	that is a very fun card to play so maybe
5324s	maybe we'll see some impact of that
5326s	today yeah the plag Decay is definitely
5329s	a very interesting one uh I'm looking
5331s	forward to talking about that one
5332s	because it's kind of as you mentioned
5335s	one of the only few that we have but
5337s	we're going to get into that a little
5339s	bit later because we also have on the
5341s	other side the opponent here with
5344s	Hemlock now let's talk about Hemlock a
5347s	little bit more here who we're going to
5348s	be seeing and again his path getting
5351s	here you see him actually playing
5353s	against levic and closing out a game
5356s	there against levik in a previous uh
5358s	tournament in a previous Series so maybe
5362s	hemlock looking to repeat that and
5365s	hopefully and you know get the full uh
5369s	sweep potentially or get just we'll see
5372s	we'll see how it goes we saw 3-1 in the
5374s	first series uh we're not sure here but
5377s	again The Showdown Paladin also uh
5381s	coming into these lineups for all of
5383s	these players but being banned out and
5385s	Hemlock also bringing in that aggro DH
5388s	but the other two decks are a little bit
5392s	different here so we're going to take a
5394s	look at that nature Shaman which I know
5396s	Raven and sdle hit on a lot in that
5398s	first matchup but also the rainbow DK uh
5402s	this is another really interesting onat
5403s	Vice that we've seen a lot over these
5406s	last few tournaments we've seen a lot
5407s	throughout the year just as we have with
5409s	the nature Shaman and this miracle
5412s	salesman specifically kind of coming in
5415s	as a card that really is kind of pivotal
5419s	to a lot of these Decks that we're
5420s	seeing we're going to talk about it in
5422s	da
5422s	I know Raven andle talked about it a lot
5424s	with that nature Shaman and it's
5426s	appearing here in this rainbow Mage as
5429s	well yeah uh rainbow Mage has gotten a
5433s	lot more aggressive starts between
5434s	Miracle salesman no uh train operator
5437s	this in this list sometimes people
5439s	include that as a quick way of getting a
5441s	f spell but regardless I mean you see
5444s	the Mage can just do a whole bunch of
5446s	stuff early on drop an artificer a worm
5449s	salesman geyser like they they just sort
5452s	of play a bunch of junk in the early
5455s	game and and somehow get that chip
5456s	damage in I've noticed a lot more often
5459s	recently that uh the Mages are not
5461s	always doing these big 30 damage turns
5464s	anymore they they get that chip damage
5466s	in and then really are hitting you for
5468s	you know 18 to 25 or something with the
5471s	CF later
5473s	on yeah and that salesman providing a
5476s	zero Mana spell to add to that damage is
5479s	definitely fantastic unfortunately I I
5482s	guess unfortunately we'll say it doesn't
5484s	actually have a spell School of itself
5486s	but I think that would be just
5488s	absolutely too too powerful if it did
5492s	have a spell School uh but who do you
5495s	feel like is favored going into this
5497s	match as they get ready to jump into
5499s	game number
5501s	one so I would probably throw my weight
5504s	behind Hemlock just because I mean
5506s	Hemlock has made it into the playoffs of
5510s	every single event you know just really
5513s	has shown that consistency and I I just
5517s	I don't have faith in a couple of these
5519s	lists from levic the the plague DK and
5523s	and the dragon Druid both have me a
5525s	little bit
5526s	nervous so uh we we shall see and uh
5531s	quick update it would seem that while
5535s	levik's Paladin is banned hemlocks
5538s	Shaman is actually the ban here so we
5541s	may actually see Paladin
5543s	game yeah I I think one uh one thing
5546s	that a lot of us are expecting I know a
5549s	lot of us uh behind the scenes the whole
5551s	like casting crew kind of has talked
5552s	about the fact that we've really
5554s	expected uh B bands just kind of across
5557s	the board for Paladin yeah we do have a
5560s	little bit of a change up here with that
5562s	uh Shaman getting to actually be banned
5565s	that nature Shaman uh pretty interesting
5568s	decision there and the uh Paladin here
5572s	we will get to see I know it has been
5575s	very very strong across a lot of ladder
5577s	games a lot of play for these players
5581s	and we're going to see if Hemlock can
5583s	get a swift win with it and get to lead
5585s	off in this very vital first game in
5589s	these group stages with this uh that
5591s	showdown in hand one of the new cards
5594s	that's really been uh providing a lot of
5596s	different uh different play options for
5600s	these Paladin decks the down can be used
5603s	to uh get on board early against the
5606s	kind of other aggressive decks you can
5609s	use it in combination with the Prismatic
5612s	Beam for incredible removal which is
5615s	something that Paladin uh has not always
5617s	had as a strong suit um do you think
5621s	that The Showdown is actually going to
5622s	be something important here in this
5625s	matchup against the plague Decay from
5629s	levic so Showdown is is it's a very
5633s	versatile card but when it's just on its
5636s	own like this it's really awkward uh you
5639s	know you really got to combo it with
5640s	either beam or sometimes even a keeper
5644s	strength uh play you can make is to you
5647s	know use The Showdown on six Mana uh
5650s	trade the three three rushes into
5653s	something that's a little bit bigger on
5655s	the opponent's board and then use keeper
5658s	strength to kind of just clear the way U
5661s	and and there it is Prismatic beam is
5664s	you know I think the the go-to way of
5667s	actually getting to play Showdown so you
5669s	get to keep your own three threes and
5670s	clear away theirs but uh I think it's
5674s	just enough Mana to to do that this
5678s	turn I wonder yeah the kind of
5682s	interesting thing here as well for
5684s	hemlock is looking at this if he decides
5686s	to go for it which honestly it feels
5689s	likely because the rest of the hand is
5691s	just so close clunky here uh there's not
5694s	a lot of options and this is not I think
5698s	the hand that is typical of the Paladin
5700s	games that we're used to seeing this is
5702s	this is very slow it's very clunky and
5705s	not when Hemlock wants if he does go for
5708s	The Showdown Prismatic it's only going
5710s	to be dealing three damage to everything
5712s	on the other side which does mean uh
5714s	he'll have to send one of those one ons
5718s	into the Helia if he wants to have kind
5720s	of that clean trade
5722s	or you can just use one of the rushers
5724s	on the board and keep one of the one
5726s	ones uh to send to face to push an
5728s	additional damage but I I like the
5731s	option here of just sending in the
5732s	smaller thing keeping more on board
5735s	especially against a deck like play DK
5738s	uh because there's really only one
5740s	removal option for big white boards and
5743s	unfortunately for hemlock levic has that
5745s	exact answer with that tomb Trader in
5748s	hand yeah I think that's really what the
5751s	hesitation came down to is you know that
5753s	as a paladin plague DK is going to be
5755s	looking to keep the uh tomb Trader in
5758s	their opener and this living Horizon
5761s	just is very awkward to play if you have
5765s	thrown down two cards on that last turn
5767s	so I think Hemlock was kind of weighing
5770s	the options of well do I risk my next
5772s	turn being just hero power or do I take
5776s	a little bit worse turn four so that I
5779s	can get living Horizon down can always
5780s	do The Showdown play later once living
5783s	Horizon is down then tier starts looking
5785s	a little bit appealing and I think
5787s	Hemlock just decided hey one of the
5788s	turns is going to be awkward no matter
5790s	what and if the tomb Trader isn't there
5793s	I might just win so uh bit of a risk
5797s	reward and yeah recovery
5802s	afterwards I I completely agree with you
5804s	as well there it's it's that give and
5806s	take especially with these more
5807s	aggressive decks right sometimes you
5809s	just kind of have to make the play and I
5811s	think is as well with the context of
5813s	hemlocks hand just being so expensive he
5816s	really just kind of hedged the bet there
5817s	that hey I am going to try to make that
5819s	board get out and just kind of hope that
5822s	levik doesn't have it and if he does I'm
5825s	forcing him to have it at that point but
5828s	being able to at least get the counters
5829s	down on curve here not again not the
5833s	most aggressive uh wideboard kind of
5837s	Paladin play that this Hemlock is
5840s	looking for in any of these matchups but
5843s	with this deck specifically but on the
5845s	other side levic has actually been able
5847s	to start piecing together this wider
5849s	board
5851s	and that resa is incredibly discounted
5857s	now because this is a matchup where
5860s	there has been so many minions that have
5862s	been able to die because of uh levic
5865s	getting on board Hemlock clearing that
5867s	board with The
5869s	Showdown and that pris Matic beam and
5872s	then levic being able to make trades
5874s	take advantage of that hero power and
5877s	even though Hemlock has been able to now
5879s	take this CEST is starting to generate
5881s	these legendaries which aren't doing a
5884s	ton of work for him yet yet yeah yet
5890s	operative word there being yet because
5892s	we just saw two of the most insane picks
5895s	that aren't you know something for right
5896s	now but uh lady seeno ladyo can be an
5901s	otk as can alakir I don't think you
5905s	necessarily want two
5907s	sienos but uh yeah yeah being able to
5912s	just throw down some pressure for a
5914s	little bit to recover uh and then you
5919s	know Force levic to use something like
5922s	aresca and then reload with seeno and
5926s	Gardens Grace the only problem is those
5928s	Gardens Graces aren't discounted at all
5931s	yet once you play the first one the
5933s	second one is always going to be
5935s	free and Hemlock just opting to is this
5938s	going to burn a
5940s	card yeah yeah it
5943s	will but even though there's going to be
5947s	uh a card burned I do think that Hemlock
5949s	has some really great Tools in hand
5951s	right now I'm looking specifically at
5953s	it's like deputization Aura uh along
5956s	with things like this alakir or the lady
5960s	steno that he picked up as well but on
5963s	the other side though Lev getting that
5965s	Primus being able to put out these
5968s	reborn taunts is an incredibly impactful
5972s	uh board presence now for levic and it's
5975s	this has been such a weird game this is
5977s	like the opposite I think of what we
5979s	would have originally expected this
5981s	matchup to look like where we would
5983s	think the Paladin would be the one to be
5985s	able to get on board to be pushing this
5987s	early pressure and Hemlock hasn't even
5989s	done a single point of damage yet to
5993s	Le but this is a thing that can happen
5996s	with these pure paladins is like you you
5998s	get your early pressure dealt with and
6001s	in Hemlock case there was no uh boogie
6004s	down or any of these other early cards
6006s	that you usually expect but countis has
6009s	just provided sort of combo options such
6013s	that I think what he's really going to
6014s	try and end on is just alakir double
6018s	gardens Grace and so using the seeno
6021s	here now with keep her strength to clear
6023s	up a bit deputization Aura will gain
6025s	back some life and finish off the Titan
6028s	here we play these other free cards into
6031s	draa start getting that damage down and
6035s	now even though levic has sort of an
6037s	additional clear that's not always
6039s	available to plague decays in this uh
6042s	yog Titan plus Resa there's just massive
6046s	damage from alakir double gardens Grace
6048s	next
6049s	turn yeah absolutely
6053s	absolutely now on the other side though
6055s	for
6057s	levic is the yog the answer because the
6060s	the resca is completely discounted at
6063s	this point there's a four Mana chained
6066s	uh that you could use to Rush In And
6069s	there's actually some decent bodies on
6071s	the other side that you can trade
6073s	into uh there's unfortunately not as
6077s	much uh leeway with maybe playing every
6081s	everything that levik wants to go for
6083s	here because he is only at n Mana I'm
6086s	looking at things like capitalizing on
6087s	the salvanas with uh potentially the
6090s	chained as well but there's there's
6094s	options but oh levik's just going to go
6096s	for the yog and there is a chance in
6100s	some of these boards that not everything
6102s	actually gets cleared as well as when
6106s	the mechs attack here they're actually
6109s	dealing additional damage so
6111s	not everything getting fully cleared but
6115s	again Lev has this Resa that is zero
6118s	Mana at this point very very good
6121s	utility tool to just bring in at the end
6124s	of the turn but as you mentioned the
6126s	gardens's grace just so good so much
6130s	damage Titan as well were it not
6131s	necessary uh none of the damage before
6134s	needed didn't even need the draa weapon
6136s	just an otk here with alakir double
6139s	gardens Grace and of course the
6141s	deputization aura
6143s	so this is the strength of Paladin you
6145s	know even if you are willing to leave it
6148s	up feel like you could be kind of strong
6150s	against its regular game plan there's
6152s	still the count count as high rules that
6155s	uh you just can't really be prepared for
6158s	yeah and you know in these Conquest
6159s	settings as well it doesn't matter how
6162s	good it is or how much it high rolles
6165s	you you just needed to do it once and
6167s	that's good enough uh so that's I think
6170s	going to be a storyline and as Raven and
6171s	Sol were're talking about in that first
6172s	series with that nature Shaman which is
6175s	banned out in this matchup for hemlock
6178s	but okay get that quick early win with
6181s	the Paladin get that out of the way say
6183s	yep the the good decks doing the good
6185s	things we're going to get that win on
6188s	the board and leaves him a little bit
6191s	more room to kind of sit back breathe
6194s	he's got that first game under his belt
6197s	and now going into this second game how
6201s	do you feel about uh his chances here
6204s	with the other two decks with this Mage
6207s	and the Demon
6210s	Hunter so the Mage seems like it has
6213s	been sort of the target of some people's
6216s	lineups in this event uh certainly gu's
6219s	lineup with the full aggro is very
6222s	targeted against Mage and uh I don't
6225s	know how death knight necessarily
6229s	performs against it but certainly Naga
6231s	DH can get under and nature Shaman can
6235s	or sorry not nature the dragon Druid can
6237s	just present too many stats to quickly
6240s	uh that being said this Dragon Druid uh
6243s	is a little bit differently I mean it's
6246s	it's the fake Reno version right so
6249s	we'll have to see if uh you know a topor
6252s	gets online quickly or something like
6254s	that and presents too many stats for the
6255s	Mage to deal with but uh in this present
6258s	game looking at hemlocks Naga DH uh
6261s	versus that Druid
6263s	and I'm usually looking with nagh to win
6266s	by turn
6269s	six yeah that that sounds about right uh
6272s	there is the potential depending on uh
6277s	what things come into hand of course if
6279s	you're looking for that Sharpshooter
6282s	you're looking for those kind of combo
6284s	pieces you're if you don't find draw
6287s	that's going to Super HT it's it's not
6290s	going to be able to get there all the
6291s	way
6292s	but look at this hand the momentum's a
6296s	little bit clunky at this point but
6297s	there's the oscillator for hemlock to
6300s	start with he did find that sigil to be
6303s	able to draw and there is the the one
6307s	Mana Naga for a pop off turn uh still at
6310s	this point still only turn one but
6313s	missing some of those pieces uh I do
6316s	kind of like this Choice by Hemlock to
6317s	just go in on the Slither spear when
6320s	seeing that uh that Cactus construct on
6323s	the other side try to keep the board a
6325s	little bit especially against the like
6327s	you said The more Dragon based Druid
6329s	that's uh going to have a little bit
6330s	more board presence and now on the other
6333s	side Hemlock can follow up on this turn
6336s	with a one drop and uh getting a hero
6339s	power in to just be able to actually
6342s	clean up the board and actually get to
6343s	keep both minions instead of throwing
6345s	out that oscillator on turn one losing
6348s	it and really not getting to capitalize
6350s	on the higher health of the Slither
6353s	spear we do see a Splish Splash welp
6356s	coming into the hand though for levic
6357s	levic with we've been calling it fake
6360s	Reno Druid because while the top end
6363s	looks like your run-of-the-mill
6365s	Highlander Druid list there are 10
6368s	duplicates uh and that is really on the
6372s	bottom half of the curve so you know
6374s	double n Nest matron double Splish
6376s	Splash welp which is one of the highest
6377s	win rate cards in the list uh double WID
6380s	bloom seedsman so a really big focus on
6382s	you know hitting ramp early and having
6384s	things like Cactus construct to combat
6388s	the uh early aggression out of decks
6390s	like Demon Hunter and perhaps Paladin as
6392s	well given that levik opted to leave it
6395s	up you know that Cactus construct uh
6398s	when it rolls something like the loot
6400s	hoarder there drawing a couple of cards
6402s	I I think is kind of a stealth power
6405s	outlier in Druid right
6408s	now yeah the one downside that I see in
6411s	this hand right now for levic though is
6414s	you can ramp all you want but if you
6416s	don't have great things to play or you
6418s	don't have a lot of uh kind of that that
6422s	higher top end
6424s	followup you know yeah well look I I
6427s	started that point before he started
6429s	getting all this draw here but to to
6432s	your point as well of the all of the
6434s	duplicates we now see Ray draza and now
6436s	the Reno picked up uh so even though
6440s	levic did manage to find that ramp still
6442s	has a seedsmen in hand as well to follow
6444s	up with more ramp uh there's these cards
6448s	in hands are not going to be active Reno
6451s	still without being a board clear uh or
6454s	or setting the board to just one board
6457s	slot still does provide some armor still
6459s	does provide
6461s	a you know a pretty decent hero power
6465s	for the most part I I think that's
6467s	probably going to be a better hero power
6470s	more often than not uh over this just
6472s	basee hero power that he has but the yog
6475s	is going to be pretty good uh but on the
6477s	other side Hemlock has this huge handful
6480s	of all of these nagas now and still
6484s	no
6486s	Sharpshooter there this would be a good
6488s	turn to at least maybe potentially start
6490s	going in on that first Sharpshooter
6492s	going in for that first pop off yeah no
6495s	Sharpshooter no Finley to even you know
6497s	Flip Flip the hand with the bottom of
6499s	the deck to try and look for a
6501s	sharpshooter and uh honestly I think
6504s	this is sort of the approach levic has
6507s	taken for for trying to deal with some
6508s	of these aggressive decks is okay my
6510s	Reno cards are not turned on but I
6514s	played double double 3 five taunts and
6519s	and just puking stats onto the board is
6521s	you know one of the ways that that Druid
6522s	can deal with something like a nagh uh
6526s	the big card I think levic would have
6528s	liked to have in the early game is the
6531s	frost Lotus seedling to to play that for
6534s	you know draw and armor because what
6536s	you're really looking to do is you know
6538s	draw through your deck fill up your hand
6540s	maybe you still have some duplicates
6541s	remaining but you play fizzle and then
6545s	Finley so you you fizzle a snapshot of
6548s	your Highlander payoff cards and all
6550s	these these big top end things and then
6554s	when you play Finley you swap that hand
6557s	which you make sure there's no
6559s	duplicates in the hand with whatever's
6561s	remaining of your deck so any duplicates
6563s	that you had in your deck go into your
6565s	hand all your Highlander stuff is active
6568s	and you can play the snapshot to get
6570s	those things back now into your hand um
6573s	was messing around with it it is it is
6576s	clever but it it's also got a little bit
6579s	of setup and requires having that card
6581s	draw which has been a little bit absent
6584s	until malagos pick up
6587s	here uh speaking of card draw hem block
6591s	is going full in on that draw with the
6594s	top deck of the Sharpshooter this turn
6596s	uh which is absolutely amazing for him
6600s	this is this this deck is sometimes even
6602s	just called Naga it it really leans into
6605s	the Sharpshooter you want these pop off
6606s	turns uh and the fact that it's able to
6609s	continue to draw the cards that it needs
6612s	to just continue the chain uh makes it
6615s	so so powerful even after the more
6618s	recent uh change the Nerf changing it
6621s	from 5 Health down to three we see the
6624s	power of it here just absolutely going
6627s	off uh that alternating between Naga
6630s	spell Naga spell and and drawing into
6633s	the next one that you need now there
6635s	still is some nagas in hand the second
6638s	Sharpshooter also picked up here but uh
6642s	there kind of was a lot of those low
6644s	cost spells and coins and things already
6647s	used for the first one the Sharpshooter
6649s	lives
6651s	okay okay it's okay we got a
6653s	pounce it's all right you know that
6657s	that's the power of yog can uh can give
6659s	and it can take uh there's that Finley
6661s	that you were mentioning which is
6663s	actually a kind of interesting pickup
6665s	after that imilate just uh went
6669s	off I don't think that ulate is going to
6672s	be terribly relevant as the game will be
6674s	over one way or the other here but a
6676s	cute thing you can do with the Finley is
6678s	go Sharpshooter and
6680s	uh you know Finly away any nagas that
6684s	you would like to
6685s	draw back into your deck don't think
6687s	that's an issue in this particular game
6689s	but every once in a while that's that's
6691s	something you can do when you've you
6692s	know run your deck out of nagas you can
6694s	just throw some back in uh would be a
6696s	way also of getting rid of the imilate
6698s	debuff
6700s	but yeah we're just kind of going in for
6702s	as much damage as possible
6704s	here yeah which makes a lot of sense
6707s	here as well discovering another Naga uh
6712s	the school teacher or the
6717s	banaga are interesting I I think the
6720s	baban Naga and the death scale having
6722s	the ability to actually deal additional
6724s	damage are very enticing in a deck that
6727s	already wants to be dealing this damage
6729s	here uh the kind of downside for hemlock
6732s	okay six damage here but does he
6734s	actually want to kill off the yog it
6736s	looked like he really was thinking about
6737s	it but does decide to go for the face
6739s	damage which honestly I I really like I
6742s	think that's your game plan anyways and
6744s	this uh Sharpshooter on the board that
6747s	we that we see y steel was the second
6749s	Sharpshooter as well so those kind of
6751s	big swing turn big payoff turns uh not
6755s	really going to be around now so Hemlock
6758s	just pushing that damage face
6760s	capitalizing on as much damage as as
6763s	possible as you mentioned uh plus
6764s	there's this momentum in hand too so I
6766s	really respect that just sending it all
6768s	face and hoping that he can kind of put
6770s	together enough damage on the other the
6773s	next turn or the next two turns
6776s	potentially if it if it continues to go
6777s	that
6778s	long and we're seeing now although levik
6781s	discovered this malagos thinking to you
6784s	know get some
6785s	draw N9 health is not where you want to
6788s	be and so now it seems like it's going
6790s	to be perhaps just an inactive Reno for
6792s	the armor here uh to try and heal out of
6797s	range of course you know had the Reno
6800s	been active where this a normal
6802s	Highlander deck on that after that
6805s	previous pop off turn could have used it
6807s	to sort of prevent a a follow-up pop off
6810s	since typically the first Sharpshooter
6812s	does draw the second um but uh was able
6817s	to just we've already seen both
6818s	Sharpshooters as well right
6820s	so uh you know even even still this is
6824s	one of those cases where it doesn't
6827s	actually really matter as much if the
6829s	Reno is active or not uh because in this
6832s	matchup you've already seen both
6834s	Sharpshooters sure I guess Hemlock can
6836s	try to put together some nogas put
6838s	together a couple things and and kind of
6840s	try to go wide on the board afterwards
6843s	and okay fine because now again you have
6846s	this extra five armor you've already
6848s	seen both of those key cards and how
6851s	does hemlock get through this health and
6854s	the Armor Plus potential added armor
6857s	from a you know an additional her power
6860s	from Reno or added discover uh
6864s	discovered spells and as well picking up
6866s	that anr now levic can just go ahead and
6869s	go in on that next turn and use it to
6872s	heal back up to full and that's just
6875s	going to close out the game hemla cannot
6877s	come back from
6878s	that yeah it's it's really I think going
6881s	to come down to uh the the what does the
6883s	Finley rule cuz there's not presently
6886s	enough
6887s	damage and uh
6890s	yeah I not enough time at this
6893s	point were it not for the an anr I think
6897s	klock would would be able to squeak out
6899s	a win here since there are no dragon
6901s	Golems for taunts in levik's list
6904s	but getting in that Finley at the end of
6907s	last turn finding exactly anr there's
6911s	just uh no way to get through all that
6914s	health for a second time yeah and we see
6917s	there Hemlock agrees as well knows that
6919s	it's over just going to go ahead and and
6922s	give it up but that does mean levik's
6924s	going to get a point on the board there
6927s	he's not
6928s	getting he's not going to you know get
6931s	swept here in that first series so uh
6934s	he's on the board
6936s	and there there is this debate we're
6938s	going to hear about it all weekend of
6942s	this duplicates in these Reno decks and
6945s	here was one of those cases for the
6948s	argument of it doesn't really
6950s	necessarily matter and this is the
6952s	matchup where yeah okay sure it's
6955s	inactive fine I'm still going to do the
6958s	thing but I I don't think that
6961s	necessarily the the playing the Reno
6963s	there was was was the thing that got it
6967s	yog I think was the was the VIP in that
6969s	in that uh game and then the follow-up
6972s	pickup of an anr was was where it really
6975s	came down to the the Reno was just kind
6979s	of a a bonus a stall one additional turn
6981s	to get to thatr I do want to highlight
6985s	though you know L's play there of okay I
6989s	I want Areno for the
6991s	health other options could have been I
6993s	you know hero power first so you know
6996s	you're getting an additional armor from
6997s	the Druid hero power or try and high
7000s	roll the armor hero power and he said
7003s	okay I'm going to play the Reno didn't
7005s	get the armor hero power well I I'm
7008s	going to fin lean now because is if you
7011s	save Finley to try and go the next turn
7013s	then you're not going to have the 10
7014s	Mana for anr so really ends up paying
7018s	off that you know sequencing and yeah
7021s	five armor was just enough to keep him
7024s	alive until he
7027s	could I I was going to say Reno back up
7030s	but we you know that's the old Reno
7032s	effect is restore your health yes the
7037s	full well but uh no Renos in this game
7042s	adce as we get into game number three
7044s	levic bringing in his Demon Hunter and
7048s	Hemlock switching over to this rainbow
7051s	Mage that we did get to highlight a
7052s	little bit earlier uh some interesting
7056s	cards and interesting changes for this
7059s	rainbow Mage that we've kind of seen uh
7062s	in some of these other lists again that
7064s	have they they're small
7067s	changes but they're huge as well which
7070s	sounds weird but if you look back over
7074s	some of the history of some of these
7075s	decks you can see things like tour
7078s	guides in the one Mana slot in in some
7080s	of these or you know those lightning
7082s	storms that were talked about with
7084s	nature Shaman uh just some of these kind
7086s	of additional minions but the
7088s	salesman just being such a pivotal new
7092s	card for a lot of these decks and in
7095s	this rainbow Mage that is going to be
7097s	one of the cases where uh once Hemlock
7100s	finds those you really kind of do want
7102s	to save those for a zero Mana additional
7105s	damage you can send to face once you get
7107s	on board with CIF uh but in the meantime
7111s	getting to that point building up some
7114s	of these other tools with the keyboard
7116s	the followup of the Cold Case uh finding
7119s	Tempo with putting things on the board
7122s	and just starting to chip away a little
7124s	bit of that damage as you mentioned
7126s	earlier it's not necessarily on the
7128s	rainbow Mage about just going in on huge
7132s	huge you know 30 35 damage all in one
7135s	turn but getting more of that chip
7137s	damage in this might be a matchup where
7140s	Hemlock can start to do that a little
7143s	bit but also on the other side there is
7148s	the turns where you can do huge amounts
7151s	of
7153s	damage with yeah Sharpshooters I I think
7157s	it's a little bit more of you know full
7160s	defensive mode up up in this particular
7163s	match since I did not have the early
7166s	snake oil salesman or the worm to get
7168s	down we're just going to be sort of
7171s	playing stuff to to to be defensive
7174s	until this turn four which turn four is
7176s	where Mage can have some of its most
7179s	aggressive plays just because with
7181s	keyboard you get a four4 as you're doing
7185s	the kinds of things that you want to be
7186s	doing anyway see Cold Case coming down
7189s	and and you know were Hemlock to have
7192s	like a volume up there you're getting a
7193s	44 while you're drawing additional
7195s	spells
7197s	so bit of a slower start than than usual
7200s	but keyboard really turns things around
7202s	going into that turn
7203s	four yeah definitely especially with the
7206s	Cold Case in hand as well to follow up
7208s	it's it's such a just a solid Tempo play
7211s	and defensive play all at the same time
7214s	uh just fantastic uh on the other side
7218s	though levic here starting to build some
7220s	of these pieces uh the momentums being
7224s	very discounted uh being only at one
7227s	because there's been so much draw this
7228s	turn but is this a turn where he
7232s	actually wants to use those looks like
7235s	not he's actually uh going to go ahead
7238s	and clear up the minion on the other
7240s	side but I like this choice to just go
7243s	ahead and use this through felon Flames
7246s	for the finale and get another trade
7248s	unfortunately for Le that skeleton did
7251s	just go ahead and finish the minion off
7253s	after that value trade um but through
7256s	felon Flames for me has been one of the
7257s	really interesting cards in this deck
7259s	because again it's another zeroc cost
7262s	card I think zero cost cards and and the
7265s	combination of what you can do with the
7268s	zero cost cards in a lot of these is a
7271s	story we've talked about a lot uh but
7273s	through felon Flames is interesting
7275s	because you can use it on those pop off
7278s	turns you could use it on either maybe a
7282s	minion that you have played that now
7283s	you're just going to give rush and trade
7285s	in to allow some of that Sharpshooter
7287s	damage to go directly into face instead
7290s	of those keeping things on board but if
7294s	you don't play it for the finale effect
7296s	you're not getting the buff uh and so
7299s	there's kind of that give and take of
7300s	sometimes you actually do want to play
7302s	it for a finale effect to get that buff
7305s	uh pick me pick me yeah I think
7308s	typically you know you play it for the
7309s	finale uh when you are trying to push
7312s	more know face damage or or get some
7315s	kind of value trade or something but
7317s	very frequently I find just playing it
7320s	earlier in the pop off before your
7322s	Sharpshooter has taken care of all their
7324s	minions so that you can rush in
7326s	something and clear more of the board uh
7329s	you know allows more of the Sharpshooter
7330s	damage to actually go face rather than
7333s	getting getting soaked up by the
7335s	opposing board
7338s	right
7340s	Le here searching for any draw possible
7344s	going for the runic ad dorant hitting
7346s	Mark of scorn but uh kind of grasping it
7349s	straws and this is the
7351s	one downside to the nagh sometimes is it
7355s	it can be very potent it can win by turn
7358s	six it can can really get under things
7360s	but if you don't draw
7363s	Sharpshooter you're kind of dead in the
7366s	water a lot of the time with the the
7368s	current builds
7371s	yeah and that that last turn was really
7373s	interesting too with the Discover
7376s	options uh there was the potential of
7379s	just taking the sigil and setting that
7381s	up to get that additional draw in the
7383s	next turn right kind of just set that up
7385s	for the future levic opted for going for
7389s	uh kind of clearing up the board and
7391s	getting you know uh an additional one
7394s	draw this turn unfortunately didn't draw
7397s	into any of the additional draw
7400s	sometimes in these decks like this these
7402s	kind of otk big Power swing decks you
7405s	you really want to draw into your
7406s	additional draw to keep that going in
7408s	the future turns kind of missed on that
7410s	but it does dig a little bit deeper
7412s	hopefully you can draw into that um but
7415s	for hemlock here he's just kind of he's
7418s	just doing his thing he he's got some
7420s	setup on the other side he's drawn into
7422s	these Elemental Inspirations and
7425s	honestly I think for the Mage here as
7427s	well to be able to have have the time to
7430s	start building up some of this armor to
7432s	be able to build up a board set up for a
7435s	bigger Health Board with those
7437s	Elementals going on curve on seven
7440s	against the deck that hasn't killed you
7443s	yet and it's turned seven has to feel
7445s	very good oh yeah no no fear here from
7448s	hemlock he he knows all right
7450s	Sharpshooter is not there it has to be
7452s	top deck not even going to worry about
7455s	the 44 school teacher in play just
7457s	running out the the double
7460s	Arcane
7461s	artificers you know sitting at this High
7464s	Life total and now being able to make a
7466s	massive board like this you're feeling
7468s	pretty confident against naged and levic
7473s	it looks
7474s	like doesn't even hit the Sharpshooter
7478s	on that Finley and and I don't know that
7480s	there's really much time left to even
7483s	make something happen here able
7486s	to get some damage into or clear off the
7490s	the seven power minion to to buy another
7493s	turn but you know if a SI were in hand
7496s	you'd be worried about just being dead
7498s	here right yeah
7503s	and sometimes when you get these
7506s	Inspirations you get these Elementals
7508s	you can just build a board especially in
7510s	a matchup like this that really doesn't
7511s	have an answer for these wide boards you
7514s	don't even need cth who even needs it
7517s	it's at the bottom of the deck it's fine
7518s	it's always at the bottom of the deck
7520s	but you just you just get to hit him
7522s	with these big things these big
7524s	Elementals and turn after turn now we
7527s	have seen levic just having to try to go
7529s	for these draws to try to replace the
7532s	hand finally finding a sharpshooter but
7536s	is it a little too late at this point
7537s	with all of this damage on the board
7540s	that just is so likely to soak up a lot
7543s	of these Sharpshooter
7544s	hits yeah and just you know not thrown
7547s	away turn eight is way longer than this
7551s	deck wants to allow things to go and and
7554s	Elemental inspiration is just far too
7556s	many stats for a nagh so I think you
7560s	can't feel too bad about that one you
7562s	just sort of chalk it up to draw
7563s	variance and play out the turn just to
7566s	you know make sure you get your reps in
7568s	for next time
7569s	but there's
7572s	there's I don't think even if every shot
7576s	had gone face I don't think it would be
7578s	enough damage for leic
7581s	here yeah I I don't even think there's
7585s	anything that he could hope to generate
7588s	or discover here at this point either
7591s	there's really not a lot of discover or
7594s	generating left in hand anyways at this
7597s	point he did have to kind of use a lot
7599s	of those resources in the first half of
7601s	the game when he still wasn't finding
7603s	those
7604s	Sharpshooters but yeah we're we're going
7607s	to see it here as you mentioned just
7609s	just still not enough I mean that's the
7611s	power of that deck though as you see at
7614s	the very end still a huge board that was
7617s	generated that was a very very big turn
7620s	but in this situation it came many turns
7624s	too late and especially against the big
7628s	board that Hemlock was able to put up
7630s	with all of those Elementals it just it
7632s	didn't stand a chance so at that point
7635s	it was by far to to too late turn eight
7641s	no no no they should have been dead on
7642s	turn five for six uh but now we're going
7646s	to see Hemlock needing to get a win on
7649s	this Demon Hunter and very much like we
7652s	saw with the nature Shaman in that first
7655s	matchup we're kind of seeing the same
7657s	thing happen here with this Demon Hunter
7660s	every time it's been on stream so far
7661s	from either side it has not managed to
7664s	get a
7665s	win yeah and so whether that is you know
7669s	just just the draw variance or you know
7673s	this deck is perhaps not as powerful as
7675s	it's been hyped up to be or or people
7678s	have just brought things that seem to
7680s	work well against it I mean the
7682s	disadvantage to this Naga DH and why it
7684s	wants to try and win so quickly is
7686s	because you really rely on your opponent
7688s	not having that many stats in play
7691s	because the fewer stats they have in
7693s	play the more likely you are to just go
7695s	face with the damage from the
7697s	Sharpshooter and I think that may be
7699s	part of why you know this Mage has opted
7703s	for a a build with the elemental
7705s	Inspirations and not the excavates I'm
7708s	sure there are other other reasons as
7709s	well but it certainly is one of the big
7710s	advantages you can feel pretty safe
7712s	running out a bunch of stats from
7714s	Elemental inspiration uh rather than you
7717s	know the excavate cards which can be a
7718s	little clunky don't have a bunch of
7720s	stats uh they can be a little more
7722s	aggressive but you're you're relying on
7724s	a little bit of RNG in terms of what
7726s	things you're going to pull out of the
7727s	excavates
7730s	yeah um we're going to see Hemlock have
7733s	to bring in this third deck this Demon
7737s	Hunter is up two Z at this point so
7740s	again with Conquest having to get a win
7742s	with each deck really needs to to
7744s	solidify but if for some reason it
7746s	doesn't go well this game does have that
7748s	game number five to try to close things
7750s	out levic here bringing in this plague
7754s	uh this plague
7756s	excavates uh death knight which honestly
7759s	I I kind of like the switch over to this
7762s	plague DK here uh going into the Demon
7765s	Hunter I think putting in a lot of those
7768s	uh plagues into the deck where the deck
7772s	on the other side wants to kind of Turbo
7774s	draw and is just going to likely draw
7777s	into a lot of those flags uh very very
7780s	strong and also I want to mention
7782s	Hemlock did not have but found that
7785s	slither spear which was such a good
7788s	pickup there to just get on board start
7790s	applying some of this damage and this is
7794s	a pretty early Desperado sometimes
7796s	Desperados can be kind of used in those
7797s	pop off turns but these this is uh
7800s	really panned out well for hemlock so
7803s	far yeah the plagues can be an annoyance
7806s	as this Demon Hunter uh particularly the
7809s	frost plague which can mess with your
7812s	pop off turns in terms of know taxing
7814s	your Mana in the middle of it but plague
7818s	DH can struggle to deal with some of
7820s	these early boards so you often are able
7822s	to get in significant chip damage before
7824s	your pop off turn and Hemlock like levic
7828s	before no no Sharpshooter to speak of so
7833s	looking like he's just going to
7835s	continue this push uh killing the 44
7838s	hoping for no no tomb trador to clear
7842s	this up and trying to get as much chip
7844s	damage as possible so that there's not
7846s	as much of a need for
7849s	the big Sharpshooter pop
7851s	off yeah and I think it's a really good
7854s	decision too as well they're definitely
7857s	could have been an argument there for on
7858s	turn three just going for the Sigil of
7860s	time again setting up for that draw but
7864s	with everything that's going on in the
7866s	hand as you mentioned no slyther spear
7869s	there's really not the kind of tools for
7871s	creating a pop off turn yet finally but
7874s	again where's the rest of it it the the
7877s	Sharpshooter is definitely important but
7879s	you also need the other things and uh
7881s	the biggest important thing to at least
7883s	get it started is one of those one cost
7885s	nagas and there's not one of those in
7887s	hand uh but the way that Hemlock ordered
7889s	this uh these last couple of turns
7893s	instead of just going for that draw
7895s	setting up the draw for the next turn on
7897s	turn three as you mentioned went in
7899s	killed that Helia and just kept things
7902s	on board to continue pushing some of
7904s	that chip damage and I think this is
7907s	also very much against this plague Decay
7909s	what we saw him loock do uh with the uh
7914s	Paladin in the first game as well right
7915s	just kind of get on board and say okay
7918s	this death knight doesn't really have a
7919s	wide board removal except for Tomb
7922s	Trader and if if levik doesn't have the
7925s	tomb Trader I'm in a very good spot uh
7928s	and as we see already down to nine
7930s	Health on levik's side and a again kind
7933s	of a clunky hand on the other side yeah
7936s	didn't work with the the Paladin as as
7938s	there was the tomb trador but this time
7940s	no tomb Trader and Sharpshooter not not
7944s	necessary just double dispose is going
7947s	to clean it up here because of all that
7949s	damage Hemlock was able to get in during
7952s	the early game so that is going to to
7955s	wrap up the match uh finally we get to
7957s	see the nagh win in something not the
7960s	mirror
7962s	and we'll have to keep an eye on the the
7965s	Naga dhes going forward see if it's
7967s	another sort of natur Shaman thing or or
7970s	if it's just been struggling to get some
7972s	of the draws starting out but really
7974s	really love emlock play there and just
7977s	taking the aggressive line not even need
7980s	combo yeah I think for the Naga DH the
7984s	Sharpshooter Demon Hunter specifically
7987s	uh one thing that I'm really interested
7989s	in is the slight difference that we're
7991s	going to see in some of the lists over
7993s	the course of group a and Group B
7996s	because uh a couple of the lists have
7998s	maybe slightly more draw focused uh and
8002s	a couple of the lists have uh maybe an
8004s	additional Minion or two so there is
8006s	going to be a a slight difference in
8008s	those and I'm curious to see if that
8010s	ends up making a difference or if it
8013s	doesn't but as you mentioned Hemlock
8016s	going to get that third win I loved the
8019s	just kind of uh a pressure applying
8022s	pressure and just the recognition of
8025s	needing to push that damage on Hemlock
8027s	side and it got him that very crucial uh
8032s	first win in the group Series so that
8035s	does mean that Hemlock is going to move
8038s	up in this group bracket but uh as we
8043s	close out adal Vice any final thoughts
8045s	on the series as a whole yeah I mean
8047s	Hemlock just does it again you know has
8050s	made it into the the top cut very
8053s	consistently in previous events I think
8055s	one of the players that pocket has
8057s	mentioned you being uh a little afraid
8060s	of previously in terms of just that that
8062s	crazy consistency and uh you know
8065s	something's some things never
8068s	change yeah so what do we have coming up
8072s	next we're going to be finding out uh
8077s	and you're going to get to see that
8079s	Hemlock versus Rec vam winners match and
8083s	then later we'll get to that group a
8086s	elimination match between gu and levic
8089s	they're not out of it yet it will be a
8091s	kind of double elimination but up next
8094s	we'll get to see that wfam versus
8096s	Hemlock group a winners match uh and
8099s	there is still so much more Hearthstone
8103s	to go this weekend in our top eight
8106s	Championship so please don't go anywhere
8109s	make sure that you are sticking around
8111s	to check out these matches see how group
8114s	a closes out and we will be back in just
8118s	just a
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8435s	hello everybody and welcome back to the
8437s	Hearthstone World Championship my name
8439s	is TJ I'm joined by the one the only
8441s	Neil Lorinda B Linda how you doing today
8444s	buddy I'm doing great it's World TJ of
8446s	course I'm doing great um already after
8448s	to a flying start this tournament and
8450s	plenty more action to come and not too
8453s	many surprises in the lineups I don't
8454s	think I saw people talking about you
8457s	know where's the Mage why is honestly I
8461s	don't think there been much of a
8462s	surprise
8463s	here yeah I mean there's some some weird
8466s	decks here and there throughout the
8467s	field but um you know nothing completely
8471s	out of left field with the exception of
8472s	a couple of those multiple duplicate uh
8476s	Reno decks but we're cruising along with
8478s	day one here uh nearly wait
8484s	what we already have
8487s	ream down in the
8490s	deser uh maybe a little foreshadowing
8494s	for what's about to happen in this next
8496s	match no we assure you this is live um
8499s	but yeah we got the winners match for
8501s	group a coming up right now so it should
8503s	be a good
8504s	one yep Hemlock and Rec vam um both
8508s	winning with ease I think levik not
8510s	Banning the Paladin I was interested
8512s	when I saw that levik pretty much the he
8515s	likes to cook does levic um but not
8517s	Banning Paladin and then getting
8519s	murdered by it from someone who didn't
8521s	play much of the cards they just didn't
8522s	do anything for like three or four turns
8524s	really cleared one board off you go
8526s	plague DK doesn't seem like it to me I
8529s	must admit it hasn't seemed like it for
8530s	a while but i s of trusted levic to cook
8532s	something so maybe we'll see something
8534s	in that lower bracket match later um
8536s	more what he can do but it didn't very
8538s	good um giving H quite an easy ride I
8541s	think yeah plague DK in a very
8544s	interesting spot right now I feel um and
8549s	I I still have I have a little bit of
8551s	faith in the deck and maybe he'll levic
8553s	will be able to show that uh in that
8556s	lower bracket but did not have a good
8558s	showing in that first series that he
8560s	played against Hemlock so uh we shall
8564s	see if he's going to be able to turn it
8565s	around as we move forward with the day
8568s	and potentially into
8569s	tomorrow now I'm not responsible for the
8571s	profiles anymore but if I was this is
8573s	the sort of thing I would put uh rean
8576s	put this in himself known as The Beacon
8578s	of positivity in the competitive
8579s	Hearthstone Community I
8581s	mean he's a little bit Moody when he
8584s	loses I I can I can resonate with Rec
8586s	when I lose um but favorite game two
8589s	lies and the truth yeah there we go
8590s	there's the there's the giveaway but he
8592s	has competed tournament in 2023 he's
8594s	been top 16 once top eight twice um so
8597s	between them they have five top eights
8599s	and the winner of this will have another
8600s	one they'll have a top four in
8602s	fact yeah um
8606s	reom uh well Hemlock has just top eights
8609s	across the board and that makes sense
8611s	because I just realized you said five
8613s	top eights across the two the two of
8615s	them and you mentioned that ream has two
8617s	that would by process of elimination
8619s	mean that Hemlock is bringing the other
8622s	three uh but the deck we want to
8624s	highlight for uh this series for Ream uh
8626s	is that control Warrior um not a popular
8630s	bring ream was able to take uh the the
8634s	game obviously in the uh first match
8636s	that he played uh with this deck and you
8639s	know in in terms of how it's played
8642s	there's been some changes to the deck
8644s	obviously W bum this is one of those uh
8646s	Decks that I said is playing the Reno uh
8649s	with a lot of two ofs uh but I mean you
8652s	can get through your deck quite quickly
8653s	and there's a lot of two ofs in the deck
8655s	that you really need two of
8658s	uh specifically some of those removal
8660s	spells in the form of Belling Flames
8662s	Bladestorm uh trial of fire I feel like
8665s	there's too good to not include a copy
8667s	and I guess ream thinks that Reno is
8670s	just too good to not include even if
8671s	you're playing what five pairs five two
8675s	ofs yeah I played this Warrior deck for
8677s	a little while the other day I think I
8678s	only had four two ofs ream has five I
8682s	only have three in mine and um it plays
8685s	surprisingly horribly and then it wins
8687s	anyway I am surprised that double blade
8690s	storm in a format where you're Banning
8692s	Paladin that seems a little bit Overkill
8695s	but I mean it's a fantastic card
8697s	obviously but you want as few two ofs as
8699s	possible obviously the hammer that makes
8701s	sense the bellowing flam sure it does 10
8703s	damage why wouldn't you have that Shield
8705s	block kind of Cycles through your deck
8706s	you kind of need it to get to your stuff
8708s	trial by fire sure absolutely ridiculous
8711s	this powerful card blad storm is it in
8713s	that League TJ yeah okay
8719s	sure thanks sort cool glad we got to the
8723s	bottom of it take a look at Hemlock as
8725s	we mentioned never finished below
8727s	playoffs during Master's tour um
8729s	favorite class Druid favorite card
8732s	ilano those two things are a little bit
8734s	at odd with each other but ilano I mean
8736s	which version of ilano
8738s	right the original the original version
8742s	yeah the Nerf version probably still
8746s	yeah but not at yeah more like a yeah
8749s	versus a
8752s	yeah but still the Demon Hunter being
8755s	played this deck when you look at the
8758s	stats is quite a weak fourth deck but
8760s	also I can see why people brought this
8763s	it can get games done it doesn't have
8765s	any horrible matchups I don't think that
8767s	you would like to see so sure bring it
8769s	as your fourth deck but I do think it is
8770s	a solid it is the fourth deck in most of
8772s	these
8773s	lineups yeah it's it can take wins
8777s	against just about anything it can have
8779s	those starts where you can beat
8781s	anything
8783s	um but we've it does have some glaring
8786s	weaknesses and that's why it fits in to
8788s	that fourth deck slot and not one of the
8791s	more prominent decks uh of the event
8794s	like say Paladin uh for
8796s	instance Paladin a prominent deck no no
8801s	way yeah okay sure it's really I I can't
8803s	even think of a meme to go that of
8805s	course Paladin ridiculously strong right
8806s	now not just the early game um but the
8809s	removal it has the the late game it has
8812s	the two seven drops are both incredibly
8814s	powerful the cycle the the thinning the
8817s	sustain M Paladin's quite good y you
8821s	just mentioned BN but you know you
8824s	pretty much me every aspect of what
8826s	makes a hearthstone deck uh and it's
8830s	it's just strength across the board
8833s	aggro Tempo control removal big threats
8838s	card draw
8842s	AOE and because of how it functioned um
8846s	like pulling the One Drops Out of the
8847s	deck it's even more likely to curve than
8849s	a normal aggro deck like a lot of aggro
8851s	decks you go one two three and you that
8853s	they're looking at a hand of One Drops
8854s	that don't do anything CU it's turn five
8856s	or six you're like oh now I've lost but
8859s	pal has ripped all those one drops out
8860s	of its deck so it just carries on going
8862s	oh I've got my sevens in my hand because
8864s	what else am I going to draw there's no
8865s	ones left to draw so yeah
8867s	Paladin incredibly incredibly um strong
8870s	but it's being incredibly incredibly
8871s	banned as well so far so that's
8874s	something we probably won't talk about
8875s	too much over the course of the
8878s	tournament and here's a paladin all
8880s	right there we go there it
8883s	is interesting that levik also left up
8885s	hemlocks Paladin so I guess we should
8887s	have a quick look through see
8890s	why no entirely standard
8896s	build playing the version with one Aura
8898s	and one hammer which is the version that
8901s	became very popular um with apack
8904s	results in particular being very strong
8905s	on ladder with this version uh the
8907s	hammer looks incredibly strange when you
8910s	first see it in the deck but it does a
8912s	lot of little things obviously it Cycles
8914s	sometimes it removes a blocker sometimes
8916s	it kills your opponent but it also
8918s	reduces the garden's Grace because there
8920s	aren't that many holy spells in the deck
8921s	so sometimes just that that three point
8924s	reduction on your garden Grace can just
8925s	be quite important
8932s	yeah
8934s	ah just
8938s	feel just feel
8940s	uh at home to you
8942s	Neil watching Paladin this deck yeah ah
8946s	I I played some Paladin I've played
8948s	against some paladins as well Feels Like
8950s	Home yeah well recom off to a decent
8953s	start uh with a good curve um this Jon 3
8958s	also
8959s	has uh Sharpshooter sitting in hand or
8963s	whenever
8965s	ready he does as well as the a lot of
8969s	things which there has been some players
8971s	that have uh cut Feller
8975s	in uh from the deck which you know
8978s	obviously there's not the most uh like
8981s	Outcast energy there's some in the deck
8984s	but it's just good in terms of like just
8986s	a tempo play on
8988s	four um and even if you look at like
8991s	Mulligan win rates across the board it's
8993s	just so powerful um so uh surprised to
8997s	see some players cutting it but Ram is
9000s	not nicely placing the deck there and
9003s	opening hand and able to keep up the
9005s	tempo and keep himem lock off the board
9007s	which is what you want to
9009s	do yeah or for him loock um will be
9013s	handy later has a decision now obviously
9015s	he can clear with just do keeper
9018s	strength but that's not really what you
9019s	want to be doing your keeper strength is
9021s	far more powerful you also really want
9023s	to be keeping this coin for your Titan
9025s	later
9026s	on yeah so that makes this turn look a
9029s	little bit clunky right now obviously
9031s	with the aura being picked up he can
9033s	afford to take a bit more damage if he
9034s	doesn't think he's going to die
9036s	immediately so we'll just see some sort
9038s	of holding turn here I imagine just just
9040s	very basic
9042s	straightforward I know hand on your
9044s	sanguin and off you go see what what you
9047s	get from your
9051s	hand reduces your Garden's Grace it
9053s	keeps your
9061s	coin well if you don't have the board
9064s	though is holding on to the coin for
9067s	Titan as
9069s	powerful it's still yeah it's not as
9072s	powerful but it's just such a great card
9074s	to play it's still it's still something
9076s	that eats up your opponent's
9078s	board
9081s	yeah I think he chose to play it on the
9084s	the one drop first just to see what he
9086s	picked
9088s	up there we go this
9095s	fine wants to have something on the
9097s	board for next turn if possible for the
9103s	Ora just a cycle for spectral sight
9106s	couldn't get there don't want to dump
9107s	the Sharpshooter uh from the left
9110s	side uh so just using it for one and
9113s	just going to continue to clean up the
9114s	board here a little bit um but not
9117s	making too much Headway in in terms of
9120s	uh piecing together anything for the
9122s	Sharpshooter but is getting some of that
9125s	uh chip
9128s	damage which is very good this deck does
9131s	have a lot of direct damage if it can uh
9133s	swing face and does have the going down
9136s	swing it in hand which makes that a lot
9142s	easier setting up the aura now with
9144s	showdown in hand um Showdown keeper
9146s	strength next turn looking very tempting
9149s	um with a you know obviously with some
9151s	trades for good measure gain a load of
9154s	Health
9165s	yeah okay just been hitting Hemlock
9167s	forever and hemlocks on like 20
9170s	something still yeah a hey
9175s	17 ooh the tier do you feel
9179s	safe get back a living Horizon here of
9182s	course is a big deal
9185s	yep makes you feel incredibly safe it's
9188s	not even the most powerful tier that
9190s	you're going to see but I
9192s	mean still so strong one play it on
9196s	curve and rolling into a potential Titan
9199s	next turn as well Hemlock has just been
9202s	playing from with no board the whole
9205s	game from every single turn and it's
9207s	still hanging in there now to be fair
9208s	wbum has kind of had this awkward Dead
9211s	Hand uh with Sharpshooter and dispose of
9214s	evidence and momentum in ham for quite
9217s	some time but he going to be able to
9219s	find the midnight wolf to clean things
9221s	up uh Aura still active though which
9224s	makes makes things a little bit awkward
9226s	going
9227s	in terms of like trying to push the the
9230s	little bit of extra
9232s	damage yeah it just doesn't matter I
9234s	mean Showdown and keeper strength is a
9236s	thing if he don't clears the Titan is a
9238s	thing get asked quite a lot when I'm
9240s	playing this about the tier um why is it
9242s	so good because it looks out of place it
9244s	doesn't get that much back a lot of the
9246s	time but it's just on curve as you said
9249s	on turn six you get tier your opponent
9251s	has to deal with it while they're
9252s	getting tightened and if they do deal
9254s	with it you might just be able to drop a
9255s	CEST It just fits in the right part of
9258s	the game it's one of those cards that
9259s	isn't that powerful it's not
9261s	particularly amazing yeah it just does
9263s	everything you want to it exactly the
9264s	right time it's pretty ridiculous
9271s	yeah oh Hemlock Hemlock wants to just
9274s	Jam the Titan but I don't think he's
9276s	going
9278s	to let me think we looking
9284s	at Showdown keeper strength and you've
9286s	got a gans's gracing there for good
9288s	measure if you do that as
9290s	well put some health on the board to
9292s	absorb any any shots that might come
9294s	your way you everything think about um
9296s	boogieing down and keeper
9299s	strength definitely
9305s	could and you can still get a gun's
9307s	Grace on that as
9313s	well he's Tor yeah
9317s	thing is if he if he does the boogie
9319s	play then next turn he does have
9320s	Showdown and
9322s	Titan yeah which is a full clear cuz you
9324s	make your people
9327s	resilient oh is he just going to clean
9329s	up the
9335s	board okay no keeper strength up
9338s	whatsoever I mean that makes a little
9340s	bit of sense considering he does want to
9343s	hold on to these Minions that he's kind
9344s	of value trading across
9347s	it does make the big righteous protector
9348s	I actually like this turn so focus on
9350s	the keeper strength just because it gets
9352s	rid of the downside of The Showdown but
9355s	um I think this worked out quite well
9358s	but we finally get a sharpshooter turn
9362s	even though it has the potential to be
9364s	pretty
9366s	lackluster okay never mind he's going to
9368s	continue
9373s	going and then momentum what was it
9376s	called momentum one yeah he's kind he
9378s	kind of uh just want to make sure that
9380s	he gets another Naga and another spell
9382s	rotation
9386s	through cuz dispos of evidence would
9388s	have gotten rid of the momentum and he
9390s	wants to make sure that he has the time
9392s	to clear ooh okay well in this instance
9395s	I'd probably just
9398s	stop right okay never
9403s	mind yeah so this is where I'm sat there
9405s	next turn going if only I hadn't wasted
9407s	my keeper
9408s	strength yeah Hemlock being good at
9412s	Hearthstone yeah uh he so obviously that
9415s	Sharpshooter was kept in the Mulligan in
9418s	hand since the beginning of the game
9420s	right so he knows that's in the far left
9422s	um so that was a a very good call on his
9426s	part to hold on to it to try and find
9428s	AIT a more creative solution to deal
9430s	with the previous turn just because he
9432s	wanted to make sure that he had an
9433s	answer to the Sharpshooter so that's why
9435s	hemlocks there and we're here I just
9437s	like to play keeper strength Hemlock
9439s	likes to
9441s	win he might get a two Mana contest here
9444s	as well if he draws cards yep I mean he
9447s	didn't hero power first so he's drawing
9450s	cards there we go for sure two Mana
9453s	Countess oh
9455s	yeah two Mana tutu Countess however but
9458s	hey
9462s	uhhuh okay
9465s	yeah
9470s	yeah I like playing the Silver Wing here
9472s	actually the way he was hovering
9474s	because if there is some sort of crazy
9476s	Sharp Shooting nonsense happens next
9477s	turn which you know there probably isn't
9480s	this eats up two shots and the counter
9481s	only eats up one and you can still play
9482s	all your invitations next turn
9493s	anyway remember this day are with my
9498s	presence
9505s	okay a colossal very
9509s	good ah M just F their hand up yeah yeah
9515s	now re misses a draw and you know he had
9516s	nothing last turn because he floated six
9519s	Mana I just want to I just want to fill
9521s	a hand up with bananas say you haven't
9523s	got a
9525s	turn
9530s	uh also yeah he's just having to think
9531s	to make sure that there's nothing can go
9533s	wrong here giving your opponent eight
9534s	spells that cost one but also make a
9536s	1010 I think is a a good a slight bonus
9542s	to this play and re going to tap out and
9544s	Palin just just feels so good you leave
9548s	it up yeah it feels that that's what
9550s	happens maybe you know small sample size
9553s	we haven't seen a lot obviously this is
9555s	the world championship these players
9557s	have done extensive testing they know
9559s	the matchups inside and out they had a
9561s	plan uh for dealing with uh the Paladin
9564s	um but uh in this
9567s	situation Hemlock is able to get across
9570s	uh the Finish Line some great play um
9573s	not like the fastest start in the world
9575s	no like just like boogie down on three
9577s	perfect curve um but did have the the
9580s	hold on the keeper ver which was
9583s	fantastic so nice little uh win there
9586s	from henlock to kick off this upper
9589s	bracket
9590s	Series yeah and we've seen it do it
9592s	twice now I I don't know how long it's
9593s	going to keep being allowed to do it but
9595s	again you worded it well like these
9597s	players have put in so much practice
9598s	they probably know better than you and I
9600s	but certainly in the the high triple
9603s	digits of Legend this is exactly what
9606s	happens in this match up every time for
9607s	the Paladin yeah as close to every time
9610s	as Hearthstone does it it just finds a
9612s	way to get health don't die clear board
9615s	then it's over
9619s	yep or I mean you get the other start
9621s	the one you just described that Hemlock
9623s	didn't get where you just go one two
9624s	three oh I've got five minions oh you're
9626s	dead
9628s	l so
9631s	yeah you're you're dead
9634s	L that's that's what happens when when
9637s	Paladin happens to you yeah I am
9639s	interested though why um re bam did ban
9641s	that Demon Hunter I'd like to find out
9643s	what is going on there that's that's two
9645s	people have done that that now or
9646s	typically of not banned Paladin at
9649s	least yeah um probably has something to
9653s	do with the expected bands and just the
9655s	fact that it can that it can go fast um
9658s	you know be um beats up on Shaman I'm
9662s	sure uh just a sheer Tempo damage from
9665s	hand not necessarily relying on a on a
9668s	board that you can just kind of sweep up
9671s	and they do tend to go faster than you
9674s	um even if you have
9676s	unlimited time which you don't uh for
9679s	the shaman so uh could be a reason why
9682s	see the uh Demon Hunter ban against
9685s	lineups with Shaman if they do consider
9687s	Shaman to be the weak link that needs to
9689s	get across the board but whoa fast do
9693s	you think sh is the weak
9696s	link um I don't know I I get this lineup
9699s	maybe
9701s	but yeah against some lineups I don't
9704s	know uh
9706s	I think I don't have a lot of faith in
9710s	the nature Shaman if we look at the
9714s	current metag game in the world
9716s	championship okay I'm I'm sort of in the
9719s	subtle bucket I'm afraid which is I
9721s	think it's really good I think that
9723s	because every time I lose with it I
9725s	think there were four different things I
9726s	could have done differently on the last
9727s	turn that would have won the game and I
9729s	didn't do any of them um but maybe you
9733s	just don't get there often enough but I
9734s	I feel that Shaman's Inc incredibly
9738s	powerful let's have a look what he does
9740s	with his
9742s	hand the one of the interesting things
9744s	with Sharman um is what you do with the
9747s	ancestral knowledge when do you want to
9748s	overload when do you want to draw those
9750s	cards you really really want those cards
9752s	but you also really want to turn
9757s	three so he's going for maximum board
9760s	fight not even keeping the
9764s	Flash
9771s	sometimes flash can be good for board
9773s	fight though uhhuh
9776s	um especially since two is not a very
9779s	powerful turn so if you flash on two and
9781s	then have like reflexes or
9783s	something against aggro
9785s	Decks that can often times allow you to
9788s	just find an
9791s	answer yes if you got the if you got the
9793s	reflex in particular I've been
9796s	definitely told relentlessly by people
9799s	who know better than me Tic Tac so or
9801s	several others that you do that cuz you
9804s	get so much by you're reducing two or
9806s	three Mana at the end of the day on your
9808s	turn three only AG though however yes
9812s	only against Agro to be clear
9815s	yes just to get something going just to
9817s	clear some stuff maybe have a a turn the
9820s	tide minion whatever it's called left
9822s	over at the end of that
9824s	turn
9841s	oh that's tough
9843s	crash is it crash though I guess yeah I
9846s	think so you hate it but you take
9849s	it you you have Titan too but maybe
9851s	Titan is too
9854s	late yeah Titan is your like your second
9857s	go right you want have cleared once
9859s	before that I think
9862s	yeah now you've got reflexes now you've
9864s	got a decision to make onto what will be
9865s	an empty
9870s	board you can Flash salesman have some
9873s	stuff to do next turn and try and get
9874s	the
9875s	tempo then youve got to work out when
9876s	you're playing turn the tides though
9878s	because you don't want to overload
9880s	on the turn before you coin your Titan
9883s	out yep
9887s	one those soles sure
9893s	problem salesman totem seems fine does
9896s	present that question that you just
9898s	mentioned for next turn which is okay
9900s	what do you do on four when you want to
9902s	coin Titan on
9904s	five um May maybe you don't coin Titan
9907s	you don't get the three Mana reduction
9909s	and you've used a coin maybe he just
9910s	doesn't want to do that possible
9913s	I you f
9940s	I mean you could always just start yeah
9941s	I mean he could start with just a trade
9943s	and then a trade like kill off the
9946s	miracle
9947s	cells oh I'm down some rabbit holes here
9950s	I turn the tide coin flash or something
9952s	ridiculous if you got to do that you do
9954s	the flash first but
9957s	yeah then next turn you've got four Mana
9960s	but it's reduced spells with um some
9963s	quite good stuff in hand and then the
9964s	turn after that you've got potentially
9967s	Titan that doesn't seem that great
9969s	either nothing seems
9973s	fantastic when a doubt f
9980s	you don't need to coin turn save the
9983s	coin for the big turn next time then
9985s	what do you
9986s	do do you just totem and hope you don't
9989s	start
9991s	dying all
9994s	right guess that answers your
9997s	question so much Mana next turn there
9999s	right TJ six Mana reduced well if you
10002s	count the coin with reduced stuff
10004s	reflexes in hand
10006s	it needs to be a good one but it should
10007s	be turn the tide in hand as well reduced
10009s	it's going to be a lot of Mana spent
10011s	next turn and a lot of cards drawn
10012s	potentially Hing over that Thor him
10014s	there
10022s	mhm mam though also
10027s	assembling his own powerful turn
10032s	here potentially yes
10037s	it's still a little bit short
10039s	on he's not that much short is he he's
10041s	got a lot of Mana next
10043s	turn yeah we'll have eight Mana next
10046s	turn coin also doubles as just a spell
10048s	for the Sharpshooter and a cycle
10052s	so
10056s	grows we're looking all
10059s	right I think he's already working out
10061s	how he's going to Pace it with various
10063s	things next
10064s	turn
10068s	all right it's go
10070s	time what's in the
10076s	box a yeah it's the only one that makes
10079s	any sense yeah first one is the Discover
10083s	ooh another flash put double flash in
10085s	the bin for next
10088s	time if there is a next time you only
10090s	really need one though so you could just
10092s	flash this turn just to have potentially
10094s	maybe more powerful turn next turn still
10097s	like very far away from
10100s	aill I wonder still missing
10105s	burn plus
10112s	bioluminescence take the storm and don't
10114s	play it maybe here I'll take just go for
10116s	double F fine I'm okay with
10120s	this there is little
10124s	time
10128s	think of getting this down to buff the
10130s	crash into clear range M after the feral
10134s	comes down seems
10140s	reasonable
10142s	okay sensing the pop off turns so just
10145s	putting as much health on the board as
10148s	possible and also obviously that can
10150s	just kill
10153s	people kept up three Mana for turn as
10155s	well for the um overload for the Thor
10159s	yep solid
10165s	nice is this really better than
10173s	nothing going down
10184s	swinging
10186s	uh but that passes it back to Hemlock
10188s	even though it's a lovely clear all the
10190s	Mana is gone so Hemlock gets another go
10192s	to do what he likes this turn
10195s	yep but that was a pretty big push and a
10197s	lot of resources spent to make that
10200s	happen so but now seeing the Thor and
10204s	basically a
10205s	reset okay Jazz base still
10208s	missing all the
10211s	bird
10214s	yeah
10219s	Titan can help out with that
10223s	obviously all right re famam I'm not
10225s	thrown away show us what you got is this
10229s	really better than
10232s	nothing double dispose a little
10236s	awkward
10239s	yeah but this should do it right uhhuh I
10243s	I would imagine so um
10247s	um there significant damage in hand
10249s	already with this momentum and dispose
10252s	right
10254s	yeah yep that that'll do it even just
10256s	double dispose is
10258s	enough at that point had seven attack
10261s	double dispose plus six but it's just
10263s	going to keep
10265s	going probably out of muscle memory at
10267s	this point just to make sure the Demon
10270s	Hunter game is on
10273s	point I told it sure is Shaman's a week
10276s	L against this well Ream's a
10279s	Believer yeah he that's correct he's a
10283s	Believer but that's going to tie the
10285s	series up one to one nice little series
10288s	there didn't feel like Hemlock had too
10290s	bad of a game just W them pressured at
10294s	the right times um which kind of
10297s	forced a Hemlock to play these reactive
10300s	turns
10302s	and they're going down swinging I feel
10305s	was crucial uh in that sense because
10308s	instead of ream having to use the
10310s	Sharpshooter to try and clean up the
10312s	board was able to just buff the attack a
10315s	little bit uh get rid of the tempo push
10318s	uh from
10319s	hemlock uh in that instance and
10322s	basically resetting um the board State
10325s	knowing that he had Sharpshooter going
10326s	into next turn where Hemlock was
10328s	overloaded even with thorm that's still
10330s	three of your Mana spent he's not going
10332s	to have an opportunity to really um put
10334s	on much pressure again so well thought
10336s	out from reum and was able to get that
10339s	final push there right at the end way
10341s	over lethal once everything was said and
10343s	done
10344s	so a four so there's one ban of Demon
10349s	Hunter one ban of Paladin the Demon
10350s	Hunter wins on the other side the
10351s	Paladin winds on the other side and
10353s	we're as you were
10355s	so I guess it doesn't really matter does
10358s	it we're back down to the match as it
10359s	was one Sharman left each with Rec Ram's
10363s	Warrior we've talked about quite a a lot
10365s	and hemlocks Mage which again there's a
10368s	few people you know Twitter and chat and
10371s	stuff um little bit surprised how little
10373s	Mage there is are you surprised
10375s	TJ um I think Mage is one of the more
10379s	targetable
10381s	decks um and I think
10385s	like well I guess there's quite a few
10388s	players that brought Shaman and Mage but
10390s	I was going to say if you're like
10392s	deciding between Shaman and Mage in a
10394s	specific instance then I think Shaman
10397s	would fit that that uh that slot better
10400s	just given the the current meta game I
10402s	think it has the potential to go faster
10404s	has uh more tools to fight for Tempo
10407s	outside of just
10409s	keyboard but I'm a big fan a mage uh to
10412s	be quite honest it's just these players
10414s	didn't think that the field would be
10416s	super lucrative for a mage spring for
10419s	the frost
10420s	wolves okay well this is the game that
10423s	could very well decide this potential
10425s	match and decide who goes through today
10427s	too gets to put their feet up overnight
10430s	because it's the shaman
10432s	mirror if this is the weak link as
10435s	people are starting to maybe suggest you
10437s	want it out of the way in Conquest you
10439s	want it gone you want you want to win
10441s	you always want to win but you really
10443s	want it out of the way I like how you
10444s	say as people are starting to
10447s	suggest yeah that's you TJ you're
10450s	meanwhile I'm the only person who you've
10452s	spoken
10453s	to uhhuh
10456s	I I'm starting to suggest yeah as TJ is
10460s	starting to
10461s	suggest that's
10468s	me
10471s	schooling we we have seen um earlier
10474s	today and you know for months now
10476s	getting a little bit on the board in the
10478s	mirror is a huge deal it makes your
10480s	combo easier if you can Chip Away 10
10482s	damage by 10 oddly enough it puts put
10484s	your opponent's uh damage and their
10486s	removal under threat because they have
10488s	to start actually spending their damage
10489s	on your things they don't want to do so
10492s	schooling a big deal early on here but
10494s	also a big deal hemlocks just hitting
10496s	ream right out the
10513s	block so throw him all right yeah it's
10516s	just
10518s	fine just tempo right yep getting that
10522s	chip damage in but ream has the answer
10524s	with the turn Tides nice and
10530s	cleaned it is his coin Ina yeah also has
10534s	Thor yeah yeah can just go thorum into
10538s	Ina yeah also thorm will unlock the Mana
10542s	Crystal to use the final piranha to
10543s	trade over the thorm on the other
10546s	side uh which is pretty
10548s	clean see if that's the route that ream
10551s	decides to
10554s	go yeah I think that's um the first
10557s	thing on his mind and then he'll spend
10559s	time thinking now but what else is there
10561s	like he's seen that play in a
10562s	millisecond now it's what if I play
10565s	fatal Spirits what if I do something
10566s	else and then yeah you play Thor and
10568s	play the fish cuz there's nothing else
10569s	that looks
10573s	good
10575s	picks up a second schooling from the
10577s	thoring ready for next turn as
10579s	well and hemlocks got this you know
10582s	horrible looking turn where he
10584s	definitely loses
10593s	Tempo go put your world in double flash
10596s	into double ancestral what could go
10602s	wrong many many play yeah play sensibly
10606s	see if
10609s	I so a weird hand though double flash
10613s	double
10616s	bio just want to follow up a point there
10618s	that stle made earlier about this um
10621s	Jazz base only has one swing effectively
10623s	cu the second one is when you want to
10624s	trigger it to set up Hemlock choosing
10627s	there not to use the one swing cuz
10628s	there's no way he's popping off next
10630s	turn yeah so that swing could be used to
10632s	control the board later yeah
10635s	that's the Habit that I had to get
10636s	myself out of for a while was
10638s	automatically Swinging with jazz base um
10641s	as soon as I equipped it um which
10643s	sometimes is good if you want to use it
10645s	to fight for Tempo or like you said if
10647s	you are going to pop off in some way
10648s	next turn or you need it for Tempo or
10651s	whatever uh but in in this
10654s	instance making sure that that first
10656s	swing
10657s	is directed at something meaningful
10660s	instead of just three damage to face who
10663s	knows maybe it'll end up being three
10664s	damage to facee but he doesn't know that
10666s	yet
10668s	Neil he doesn't but he's under a flash
10670s	with a reflexes in hand next turn so he
10674s	thinks he might need it also he might
10676s	have to go for it even if he hasn't got
10677s	it cuz he's about to take chunks of
10679s	damage and Ream's about to get a big
10680s	board so yeah yeah and he's seeing he's
10683s	seeing a flash here he's seeing card
10686s	draw seeing more board being built
10689s	up I
10691s	mean yeah as it currently stands Hemlock
10694s	just doesn't even have any Biol
10696s	luminescence Target needs a feral Spirit
10698s	maybe potentially command of neptulon
10701s	that is
10703s	something four
10708s	Mana uh three Mana cycle another
10712s	flash yeah three Mana
10717s	sorry up lightning bolt oh so he can
10723s	bio yeah swing
10726s	bio that's plus six that's enough with
10728s	the snake oil at the
10731s	end I mean if he double bios then it's
10734s	way more than no it's six yeah 9 18 27
10738s	yeah that'll do it don't think he needs
10739s	a snake
10740s	oil doesn't even need the second
10742s	lightning
10750s	Bol nicely done oh my yeah hey
10755s	and sometimes you get in those
10757s	situations you're under pressure no
10760s	minions in hand whatever wing it you got
10763s	to wing it you got to fly by the seat of
10765s	your pants and say I'm going to lose
10767s	this game if I don't pop off next turn
10768s	so I'm going to double Flash and try to
10770s	find it had no minions no way to
10773s	generate minions in hand uh the previous
10776s	turn and at the start of the turn but
10778s	was able to find the command of
10780s	neptulon uh to uh generate some way to
10783s	get enough spell damage to win the game
10786s	I mean there's turn the tides there's
10787s	neptulon there's feral Spirits there
10789s	there's quite a lot in that box so yeah
10792s	when you're under double flash none of
10793s	your cards cost anything there was an
10795s	emergency ancestral if he needed it that
10797s	may have been enough the way it went as
10799s	well yeah only needed two minions in
10802s	that instance too right so turn the
10804s	tides could have done it with the totem
10806s	up um as well cuz did end up having so
10810s	much Overkill there with both the snake
10811s	oil and being able to go double bio so
10813s	he would had plus four uh spell damage
10817s	with just two Minions on board which
10819s	would have
10820s	been uh what 24 damage which was what he
10825s	needed was that what he needed
10830s	plus uh the turn of Tides would have
10832s	been the extra three so even turn the
10833s	tides would have done it there feral
10834s	Spirits like you said command of nepton
10836s	or turn the tides have all been
10839s	enough I don't know how much the good
10840s	players calculate all that and how much
10842s	they just have played the deck so many
10844s	times they just know that it's going to
10845s	be you yeah I don't think he calculated
10848s	it a good chance it's there yeah I think
10850s	he just said I need to do this and then
10853s	find a way to win or else I'm going to
10855s	lose all right getting to see some Mage
10858s	here um Mage versus
10864s	Shaman throws away the W drop looking
10866s	for those
10868s	fours specifically Cold Case this storm
10871s	is in
10873s	me
10892s	How can there be a decision on turn one
10893s	but there is there's all sorts of
10895s	options
10897s	here good um Arcane worm coin Bolt
10904s	that's what he's going to
10905s	do yeah I guess there was decisions
10908s	there but to me there wasn't really a
10909s	decision you just want to get that 32
10912s	out of the way cuz when are you dealing
10913s	with it otherwise
10916s	right and now the flow rid is exposed as
10919s	well because you the thought of a value
10922s	trade can't happen
10927s	yep doesn't want a keyboard cuz he's
10929s	going to be playing one Mana
10932s	spells and it's not tempo
10938s	one solves any
10944s	problem picks up a four for the
10948s	keyboard doesn't like
10957s	it oh this
10963s	hand
10970s	yeah I'm taking his time he's got a lot
10972s	of pop off potential in a couple of
10973s	turns obviously that's what the deck
10975s	does it's no surprise
10979s	yeah for hemlock that with double
10982s	Elemental inspiration in hand this kind
10984s	of has to be a play towards
10987s	those it can be hard a hard card for
10991s	Shaman to deal with if
10994s	it's beefed up a little bit if you got a
10997s	good amount of spell
10999s	schools uh being played which Hemlock
11002s	will have uh by that
11004s	point I've got an idea how ream will
11007s	deal with a turn seven inspiration to be
11010s	honest uh-huh he will kill rean will
11014s	kill Hemlock if it goes to that I think
11016s	yeah know that that's uh entirely
11019s	possible with the way these things this
11021s	is playing out and there's bio
11028s	so yeah we are looking towards uh
11032s	something potentially big
11034s	here yeah especially if minions just
11038s	like stick on board going into those
11040s	turns like we could realistically see
11042s	like jazz base and Flash next
11045s	turn I think he's going to consider it
11048s	now this this is what he wanted to do
11049s	right Jazz Bas and Flash let's see what
11051s	he gets oh another schooling could
11053s	schooling Jaz SP
11057s	flash ah he's not going to flash going
11059s	to go one more
11061s	turn just to make sure to clear the this
11064s	these things up but it's very close does
11067s	need some additional burn
11070s	spells in order to start to make this
11072s	work but he is flying through his
11075s	turns yeah he's just trying to get a
11077s	little bit of extra chip on the board or
11078s	at least tie up the Mana for hemlock so
11080s	Hemlock who is obviously struggling a
11082s	little bit I don't know how obvious it
11083s	is to but I think it probably
11086s	is
11087s	um this two damage could matter a
11091s	lot
11094s	weirdly and the minion obviously matters
11096s	a lot if you're going to try and pop
11112s	off
11122s	yeah getting to point ream needs to make
11123s	it happen in the next couple of turns
11125s	like we saying earlier if he's going to
11127s	go off on response and inspiration he
11128s	needs to flash
11134s	now that's the
11139s	plan a lot
11142s	double
11149s	I think he's just counting how many
11150s	minions he thinks he'll play next turn
11153s	do you want the snake or do you want the
11154s	minion for the bio that sort of
11156s	thing he's got a fish he's got a zapper
11159s	he's got two two looks plus a draw
11167s	yeah he's got so much Mana next
11172s	turn
11174s	counter
11175s	spell yeah that's
11179s	helpful it really is cuz with
11181s	Shaman you don't want to just test face
11184s	with a lightning bolt right because you
11185s	want a bio before you lightning bolt so
11187s	if there's a counter spell on the board
11188s	and you have to test with one of your
11189s	damage
11190s	spells everything's just a bit messy for
11193s	you yeah this is like the ultimate
11195s	disruption here uh with both the cryo so
11199s	can't swing in with the Jazz base and
11201s	then the counter spell so good thing re
11204s	them held on to the second flash cuz he
11206s	likely going to have to try and do
11209s	that unless you can just snake oil and
11211s	still get there even without the swing
11214s	like snake will test for counter spell
11217s	you have piranha plus novice
11219s	zapper it would depend entirely on what
11222s	the lightning reflexes hit
11225s	right yes well he tested with the uh the
11228s	flash so he was thinking of going this
11230s	time oh no that so we're at what plus
11234s	four spell
11239s	damage
11241s	yes so that's 21 plus the snake oil
11245s	which is 25 am i counting that
11248s	incorrectly um four 21 I Mak it 25 as
11253s	well it doesn't mean it is
11257s	25 oh he still had the second lightning
11259s	reflexes that was the first pick from
11261s	the lightning
11262s	reflexes okay
11268s	but he got turn the tides off the second
11270s	pick he was hoping for burn damage but
11272s	now Hemlock is dead to just the swing of
11274s	the Jazz
11279s	base or any burn Spell additional burn
11282s	spell from hand he tossed away the
11285s	artificer and was opening hand as well
11287s	um I'm not saying that was incorrect by
11289s	the way just just going back to the iron
11290s	of the
11291s	situation yeah
11297s	the damage
11299s	treasure um what do you Elemental
11301s	inspiration hope there's no burn and
11303s	hope you get a bunch of taunt bunch of
11306s	taunts and some life steal yeah
11309s	yeah to do to do I think that's possibly
11314s	the only route here for
11318s	hemlock can't draw if wisdom costs uh
11323s	let's see see oh double taunt double
11324s	life steal
11327s	okay and you deal through you either use
11330s	the treasure or the bolt on the zapper
11334s	so it's still any burn any burn spell is
11339s	enough oh that's four cards yeah
11349s	surely no he smiled so look like he
11353s	didn't hit
11355s	any oh no that's enough he he gets both
11358s	rushes and then he can swing face
11360s	because he has two two threes to trade
11361s	through so he does get there no burn
11364s	spells but the double turn the tides is
11365s	enough to turn up the board in fact he
11367s	needed three taunts in order to be
11369s	protected from that so not able going to
11372s	not able to get
11373s	it and uh ream going to tie the series
11376s	at two a piece and whoa he just fli
11378s	sides that I'm disoriented now he was
11382s	facing the other
11384s	directions whoa what's happening whoa
11388s	this is his winning Direction face so
11390s	when he comes back we have to see which
11391s	way he's facing yeah
11394s	yeah uh but well done uh by bre from
11397s	there and just kind of a very expensive
11401s	hand uh for him loock was never able to
11404s	get full Tempo I had to use the coin on
11406s	turn one just to kill the novice
11408s	zapper um and just was kind of trying to
11411s	play catchup uh the whole game
11414s	and I like the turn with he just
11416s	infinitize the maxud and try and go for
11418s	full disruption on the flash turn
11419s	realized that it's very possible that he
11420s	was dead if he
11422s	didn't um and use the cryo as well to
11425s	freeze the facee to try and block the uh
11428s	uh the Jazz base from being able to
11429s	swing and did get a solid outcome from
11433s	the elemental inspiration and given one
11435s	more turn if it wasn't exactly Thor him
11437s	off the top I think Hemlock might have
11439s	been able to turn the
11441s	corner uh just because that was the the
11444s	turn that he needed Thor him because it
11446s	wouldn't have been nearly as good if it
11448s	had been picked up on subsequent turns
11451s	cuz he would have been what one two
11453s	overloaded definitely not four so
11456s	capitalizing on that window of
11458s	opportunity he's going to gain eight
11459s	health Ream's going to get one more card
11462s	like and then he's going to kill ream
11464s	the next turn after that anyway so yeah
11466s	just in the nick of time for rean but
11468s	again he planned for it in that order um
11470s	Hemlock did everything he could to
11471s	disrupt it um vam as we saw with the the
11475s	Mir match actually when Hemlock one you
11476s	know just working out when's my opponent
11478s	going to kill me try and kill them one
11479s	turn before that's the sounds easy when
11481s	you can see both hands and when you're
11482s	watching the game from here but that's
11484s	the hard part of Shaman definitely is
11486s	just deciding I can win next turn I need
11488s	to win next turn let's go for it or I
11490s	don't need to win next turn sit back
11493s	feed up get a nice easy win the turn
11494s	after that and we're down to the two
11496s	Decks that are different in the lineup
11498s	we've got the the hemlock Mage we've got
11500s	the rec vam two of Reno
11503s	deck that we going to talk about every
11506s	time Reno's not
11508s	active ah it's always going to be
11512s	active it's not actually in fact it
11516s	wasn't already today so uh that's okay
11521s	cuz yoga was active yeah but I mean ream
11525s	the beacon of positivity in the
11527s	hearstone community right like yep you
11529s	got to think positive like that and
11531s	think every time you draw the Reno it's
11532s	going to come right on time and it's
11534s	going to be
11535s	active that's what the beacon of
11537s	positivity would
11539s	do yes yes it is if re Ram were the
11544s	beacon of positivity that he says his TR
11547s	two truths and a
11549s	lie then yes that's what he would do
11557s	yeah and he's
11562s	gone
11564s	versus
11566s	chair yeah a Ream's back
11570s	amazing didn't be like that it was a
11573s	good chair though yeah
11576s	solid very good chair so Hemlock needing
11580s	to win this one game to reach his fourth
11581s	day two in a row which is all four
11584s	events this
11586s	year uh the loser obviously gets another
11588s	go later on so not out
11592s	yet
11594s	and the winner goes straight through to
11595s	the top four yeah you don't you don't
11598s	want to lose right now though like
11600s	honestly I'd prefer to lose in the first
11603s	match get your Jitters out right uhhuh
11607s	then to to get to the Winner's match go
11609s	to game five and then lose cuz then you
11611s	have to reset all that sort of like
11614s	adrenaline and nerves that you get going
11616s	into that final game knowing that you're
11617s	that close to a top four like come on
11621s	now those getting the jit is out
11624s	TJ yeah we got two of the two ofs
11627s	already out the way Neil we got Bell INF
11630s	Flames we got Shield block
11633s	okay three to go I mean it's Reno may
11637s	not even be relevant I don't know it can
11639s	be pretty slow match up it could be
11641s	pretty good yeah keyboard coin Cold Case
11644s	that's my favorite thing to see I've
11646s	never mentioned this before but Mage
11648s	does seem to occasionally play a
11649s	keyboard on two and then coin out a Cold
11651s	Case yeah
11653s	it's a thing I've noticed we do have Etc
11656s	in hand as well for Ream um has heavy
11660s	plate steam cleaner and thear uh in the
11662s	ETC thear
11665s	seems pretty good for this matchup often
11670s	times the timing of it can sometimes be
11674s	the the question at hand
11677s	but I do like the thing Reno decks do or
11680s	don't like I'm not sure it's a thing
11682s	that they do though though to have a
11683s	cheeky two of in their
11685s	Etc so the heavy plates are two of but
11688s	it doesn't count as a two of so you hide
11691s	the Reno cards in the
11694s	ETC because they're good
11697s	cards
11698s	yeah I prefer to just have three very
11701s	situational cards that I wouldn't want
11703s	to put in my deck in there which is what
11705s	Reams decided to do that's my preference
11708s	well he's done both right he's he's he's
11710s	got a cheeky um cheeky heavy plate
11714s	yeah he yeah but heavy play I Feel Like
11717s	is a very highly situational card it's
11719s	like a des not a desperation card it's
11722s	like all right my opponent's at at 10
11725s	and I have no armor gain in hand I've
11727s	played Odin here's my heavy plate or I
11730s	desperately need to draw one specific
11733s	card and I have no card draw in hand but
11735s	I do have an Etc so let me take a heavy
11737s	plate and trade
11739s	it I think it's pretty good in the miror
11741s	as well
11743s	cuz that the mirror just becomes a smash
11745s	Fest both run low on resources so yeah
11749s	yeah probably take it the mirror yeah
11751s	not that you're going to play a mirror
11753s	of 52 of Reno
11756s	Highlander you know if you
11766s	did reverberations and you've got a
11769s	flame a fire spell in your hand
11771s	sweet
11773s	I'm a
11776s	[Music]
11778s	fan there's a lot of better targets but
11782s	there's not much of a better turn right
11783s	now is there
11788s	though
11790s	uh I guess there's not that many I guess
11792s	there's not like krath maybe
11798s	but there's no yog only the prison yeah
11803s	okay sure yeah there's not any better
11805s	targets okay Odin would just be to
11807s	remove a big thing right it's just a a
11811s	removal spell for Odin at that point
11813s	because it doesn't give you any
11815s	effect thory balour is the only one
11818s	that's going to have like this sort of
11819s	residual effect on the game I feel so I
11822s	think it might actually be the best
11824s	Target
11828s	thi is how it's said in the trade I
11831s	believe squirr
11834s	okay sure you
11837s	win I pulled squirrel rank on you so you
11841s	got to concede the correct
11845s	pronunciation all right Reno's in hand
11848s	how many two ofs have we made it through
11850s	so far in this
11852s	game only two well oh no three yeah cuz
11857s	we got the um the trial as well says
11859s	just the hammer and the blad storm
11861s	remaining nice
11865s	those 19 cards just needs to find it
11868s	before the elemental inspiration and
11870s	then even then you know he might just
11872s	want to use a blade storm instead I
11874s	don't think it really
11876s	matters it's just fun all
11879s	right prison time nothing else to do
11883s	right
11886s	right all right
11890s	cool look people in I
11893s	think it didn't
11901s	die oh that's a lot of cards holy
11907s	moly
11909s	yeah down to only 14 cards left in deck
11914s	already it's turn
11921s	seven it has Tempo too which is
11926s	[Laughter]
11928s	just all right it might be H I was going
11932s	to say it might be time to start looking
11933s	towards the
11937s	ETC finding the a minute to play to get
11940s	that thear to try
11944s	and rip the
11949s	Sith
11951s	Maybe
11957s	so enthusiastic with your
11960s	maybe
11962s	maybe oh I'm deep in thought I'm excited
11965s	TJ
11969s	honestly
11972s	[Laughter]
11973s	maybe
11978s	uh
11981s	yeah
11985s	just a hammer to go by the way and then
11987s	Reno would be active and then we're
11990s	cooking and then then we can remove the
11994s	inactive Thor bori from the other side
11996s	this is a turn by the
11998s	way we've got drum circles we've got
12000s	thores we've got Elementals we got all
12003s	sorts of things going on
12011s	here
12014s	yeah it's just a drum circle play just
12015s	get nature in the
12017s	pool it's about as good as you can hope
12019s	for terms of board it's pretty good
12023s	board yeah there's also never going to
12025s	be another time to play drum circle
12026s	because if your Elementals stick next
12029s	turn then kind of w anyway so you might
12032s	as well get something out of it now as
12033s	well it's just always active
12036s	Neil always active yeah always active oh
12040s	my God it's just was always
12044s	active Okay one turn away from on
12048s	curve fine but it was perfect cuz it's
12051s	come down before the elemental turn this
12053s	is it's like the perfect turn to use it
12057s	to for it to be no Elemental inspiration
12061s	no okay I'll play some spells then he
12064s	talked me into
12070s	it yeah just try and be as productive as
12074s	possible with your
12081s	Mana can we
12085s	um can we finale this infinitize the max
12090s	itude I mean we can do we want to
12094s	salesman oh it's just going to play for
12096s	armor
12099s	no well he gets the um
12103s	infinitize that
12106s	way I would just keyboard ping
12109s	infinitize over using the Cold Case here
12112s	yeah I agree I
12117s	agree yeah you waste a charge of the
12120s	keyboard well do
12124s	you yeah you
12130s	do see can get a better yog this time
12134s	just prison
12136s	face oh I mean that's a perfect spell to
12140s	play into
12145s	objection with the
12149s	gerer just gave his utter that already
12151s	had rush
12155s	[Music]
12156s	rush
12161s	gerer our of what is a jongo
12167s	anyway
12168s	um it's just a giant
12174s	worm huh I remember back joint the the
12179s	Wrath of the Lich King expansion or
12182s	alternatively in World of Warcraft Wrath
12185s	of the Lich King Classic out now by the
12188s	way uh in that zone in the middle I
12191s	forgot the name of it
12194s	bummer on
12195s	me there's many there's many a roaming
12198s	jonger
12200s	um throughout the uh the Frozen
12204s	Tundras what to do
12207s	what and you have to you have to watch
12210s	your step very carefully
12212s	because at first they're underground and
12215s	then as you
12217s	approach they
12219s	emerge oh
12223s	if you don't know they're if you know
12224s	they're emerging surely that's a little
12225s	bit less um
12227s	terrifying I believe they do give
12230s	advanced warning in the form of a uh
12233s	swirly Brown area on the
12237s	ground um again
12239s	apologies if this information is
12241s	incorrect it's been a long time since
12243s	I've battled a
12246s	jonger in
12251s	northrend I'm desperately trying to hold
12253s	on to this
12258s	sanitize trying to work out can keep
12260s	some of his own board at the same time
12262s	I'm not ignoring you TJ just thought I'd
12263s	look at the hearstone for a minute no I
12266s	was I was pretty much done I'm I'm out
12270s	of information to give on the
12273s	topic well I feel enlightened now so I
12276s	appreciate it I I guess a lot of these
12279s	pauses for recr now will be looking at
12280s	the bottom of his deck as well he's got
12282s	this this big Finley available to him to
12284s	fetch an Odin at some
12293s	point obviously so far through his deck
12295s	that he has a good idea what he'll pick
12306s	up and they're
12310s	back plays the one two for the
12313s	Bladestorm purposes cost some more Mana
12315s	at least to deal with
12323s	then otherwise re would shoot his own
12325s	yeah just just putting different numbers
12327s	of Health on the
12329s	board
12333s	wow oh just
12336s	yog oh my goodness that's
12340s	disgusting uh-huh and you too matey that
12345s	was free by the
12348s	way well he paid seven Mana for it
12351s	originally yeah two and a half Mana for
12354s	that so all
12359s	right I always want to just 14 them here
12363s	I don't know if you should but I always
12364s	want to you should probably play the
12365s	Elementals really I don't know for 16
12370s	them H going to go with the Etc
12373s	thear no sip right now not there but
12379s	infinitize the
12381s	maxud yeah as well I could make a case
12385s	for all of these a discounted Reverb is
12388s	pretty
12390s	massive yeah I think it's got to be
12392s	discount of Reverb
12394s	right I think
12398s	so yep otherwise you're just dead to SI
12401s	for sure you're probably dead to sip in
12402s	a lot of situations anyway but if you
12404s	don't if the reverbs there you're just
12405s	dead to it
12420s	yeah I
12423s	wonder
12425s	so infinitize has kind of done its
12427s	damage now as
12430s	well nice though would be to have
12432s	another
12436s	one take the middle
12442s	one what to do what to do this blade
12445s	storms disgusting though as
12453s	well time runs out on
12458s	me case Okay C case maxit tude yeah he's
12465s	weaving up D back to the
12471s	maxit a zero Mana bolt as well look at
12474s	all these bolts and snake oils it's so
12476s	much
12486s	now R's just trying to get as much armor
12489s	as he possibly can
12514s	[Music]
12517s	he's just making sure it matters he's he
12519s	wants to play this he's hovered over
12520s	he's just double checking that does it
12521s	even matter if I get sift have I just
12523s	dead do I need to cycle it to try and
12524s	win the game instead
12528s	yeah
12532s	here working out some break points
12541s	probably which me he's got to estimate
12543s	the number of bolts and things he thinks
12544s	he's up against which is always fun so
12546s	yeah he's just if if in doubt get the
12548s	exra eight and hope it makes a break
12550s	point work cuz even though thear didn't
12552s	see cth it's not a confirmation that cth
12555s	isn't
12557s	there right so yeah hemlocks drawn twice
12559s	and cycled once now twice since then as
12562s	well so
12571s	yeah but no Odin is making this really
12574s	hard for it you just can't close out the
12580s	game
12582s	no minion for these
12586s	oh power
12591s	cord is to get the keeper strength
12594s	played uh
12596s	or
12599s	holy mhm and to get
12602s	um yeah I guess the keeper strength sure
12605s	will also worked but another
12610s	Infiniti
12613s	we're not even hearing
12615s	the no
12622s	notop uh what is it is
12627s	fil oh there we
12630s	go didn't hear it the last
12634s	turn here we
12636s	go on a clock is properly on yeah yeah
12645s	no armor gain left in the hand however
12648s	there's
12653s	SI we can't see the discovers
12661s	so if he hasn't played fil was probably
12663s	looking
12667s	for Bell screen
12670s	blast
12672s	sift
12674s	Reverb it's fine
12678s	Rush can if with Reverb can only play
12681s	one of or two of the Arcane bols is
12685s	certainly not
12689s	enough because it just be two Arcane
12691s	bolts and a snake oil even if the fell
12693s	spell is
12694s	played how much is the spell
12698s	damage
12700s	seven
12702s	runs out
12705s	on 1020 yeah it's nowhere near is it
12707s	actually uh Ian it's close cuz plus
12712s	Reverb plus Arcane missile Arcane
12718s	missile 34
12721s	plus 14
12725s	48 he's had
12728s	56 so it was real close yeah the 88's
12733s	been left up
12734s	here that that just goes to show you the
12737s	value of picking the discounted
12740s	Reverb uh from the thear earlier as
12743s	opposed to the infinitize the
12745s	maxud because if that Reverb was
12747s	discounted by one and both Arcane uh
12750s	bolts could have been fit in there that
12752s	was
12756s	Lethal look I missed all of his um armor
12760s	spells here
12768s	just
12774s	ignis there was the uh plating left in
12776s	the deck I think which is what he was
12777s	probably looking for
12779s	there which must be the other card if it
12783s	is because there's one card he didn't
12785s	draw
12787s	there then he can trade for
12790s	it
12798s	crap Hammer yeah I mean still very
12802s	good and I don't know how Hemlock is
12804s	going to find the
12812s	damage there a second snake oil in his
12815s	deck uh Hemlock
12819s	has another um um he's got both salesman
12823s	apparently I can't be right there's a
12825s	prismatic Elemental oh that's what it is
12827s	the elemental the new cards are buggy I
12829s	think for me says an
12832s	elemental can find
12836s	it so it have to be direct damage from
12839s	Prismatic Elemental but in order he not
12842s	die right now yeah in order to survive
12845s	here and
12847s	[Music]
12850s	stuff
12852s	he's counting it again I don't blame
12860s	him I believe he was what six or eight
12863s	damage off on the previous
12870s	turn now it's even further
12875s	obviously it's going what is yeah it's
12878s	going to ra her a bit surely with a
12882s	Reverb gone he's in can't
12886s	land but he concluded he was dead next
12889s	turn probably rightly so so you have to
12890s	do something
12902s	yep and you're just making more yeah
12906s	you're when in doubt just play the uh
12908s	the the heavy plate actually ended up
12910s	being being the difference right yeah so
12914s	many small things end up being the
12916s	difference the take on the discounted
12918s	Reverb instead of the infinitize the
12921s	maxud check three Mana to spare no Odin
12925s	played heavy played anyway gain the
12926s	armor
12930s	check I don't even know what you're
12932s	looking for here moon
12938s	beam moon beam those things just talked
12941s	about were really important right there
12943s	are things that ream took time about
12945s	like things that normally you just play
12946s	on ladder you just throw it out there
12947s	and either do it or you don't he took
12949s	time and it has put him through to day
12952s	two 32 win over Hemlock hemlocks first
12955s	time having to battle it out he may
12956s	still get to day two but Rec vam looking
12960s	good top
12962s	[Music]
12964s	four very nicely whoa they very
12970s	delayed nicely done by reim and uh huge
12975s	weight off his shoulders as well like I
12977s	said I would not want to win the first
12979s	match and lose the second match cuz
12981s	you're just sitting there
12982s	stewing for a whole day you got
12985s	to my gosh I'm still not in the top four
12988s	I still have so far left to go but Reen
12991s	just booking the slot uh right out
12996s	there and now he has three or 4 hours to
12998s	calm down before he goes to sleep he
13000s	might need them looking at that reaction
13002s	but recv into the top for uh one of the
13004s	players who has done a lot for
13006s	Hearthstone this year with streaming and
13008s	keeping people up to date you know with
13009s	pocket train me but B to face um giving
13013s	us the players I view of the world
13014s	championships all the way along so
13016s	pleased to see him get there would be
13018s	nice to see Hemlock get there as well
13019s	but yeah ream top four chance to being
13021s	world champion TJ yeah solid series
13024s	throughout the day to the warrior been
13026s	come coming in clutch obviously you know
13029s	the Reno on curve helped out a a little
13031s	bit there uh being active but hey he
13035s	built the that's just perfect deck
13038s	building uh across the board knowing
13041s	exactly when the Reno needs to be active
13044s	oh is that slow-mo or my
13049s	lagging it's slowmo
13052s	um yeah I think that's I think it's
13054s	slow-mo okay okay that's really good
13057s	slmo exactly what it looks
13059s	like yeah
13061s	uh that's uh how I cast many
13066s	times um but yeah uh very of the series
13071s	for me personally and I'm sure for many
13074s	Reno enjoyers out there it was it was
13076s	also but Hemlock uh not out yet Hemlock
13080s	will have to fight through the deer
13082s	match which will actually take place
13085s	tomorrow uh on the schedule uh so today
13088s	we're playing all the way up through the
13089s	decider match of the group and then
13092s	tomorrow we're going to be going uh to
13094s	the decider matches and then right into
13097s	uh the semi-final so here we go with the
13099s	group a of matches we've completed
13100s	everything that we're going to complete
13102s	today for group a with the exception of
13104s	that elimination match that lower
13106s	bracket match uh which was the players
13108s	that lost those first matches of the day
13109s	G and levic very curious to see how
13113s	levik's going to Fair because I do feel
13115s	like levic over the past couple years
13116s	has been the player that's impressed me
13117s	the most but his entire performance
13119s	hinges upon whether or not that plague
13122s	death knight can show
13124s	up yeah and whether the he can find a
13127s	way to stop the Paladin as well because
13129s	nobody looks like they can stop Paladin
13130s	at the moment I I waiting for people to
13133s	start switching and start Banning that
13134s	Paladin instead of the yeah that's an
13137s	easy fix right the death knight you
13139s	can't take it out of your lineup but the
13141s	Paladin you can take it out of your
13143s	opponent's lineup uh very easily but uh
13146s	congratulations to reim I'm Moving On
13148s	the semi-finals we'll see more of reim
13150s	tomorrow he's earned the right to rest
13152s	for the rest of the day maybe watch some
13153s	of the matches but we do have one more
13155s	match left for group a which is going to
13158s	be that elimination match between G and
13160s	levic we are going to have to go to a
13161s	break though before we get into that one
13163s	so don't go anywhere more action here
13165s	from the Hearthstone World Championship
13167s	right after
13178s	[Music]
13179s	this
13183s	[Music]
13190s	[Music]
13199s	[Music]
13209s	you
13210s	[Music]
13236s	[Music]
13239s	a
13242s	[Music]
13257s	[Music]
13268s	[Music]
13269s	d
13279s	[Music]
13299s	he
13304s	[Music]
13316s	[Music]
13329s	d
13332s	[Music]
13343s	[Music]
13351s	[Music]
13359s	n
13363s	[Music]
13370s	[Music]
13376s	[Music]
13383s	[Music]
13389s	oh
13393s	[Music]
13408s	[Music]
13419s	you
13435s	[Music]
13449s	n
13454s	[Music]
13461s	[Music]
13470s	[Music]
13477s	welcome back everyone to the hearstone
13478s	world championship my name is sole
13480s	joined for this one by Idol Vice and it
13483s	is that Bittersweet moment of the day
13486s	where we are going to begin saying
13487s	goodbye to some of the players who have
13489s	put in an awful lot of work to get to
13491s	this point and can come a little bit too
13493s	quickly for some of these players out
13495s	Vis as they could be about to see a
13497s	player go
13498s	02 yeah and I think of note is these two
13501s	players are two of our previous
13503s	Champions so you know not only are we
13506s	losing someone who has done a ton of
13508s	grinding put so much work into
13510s	qualifying this year but uh we only have
13514s	three seasonal Champions so far and and
13517s	here with them facing off against each
13518s	other uh someone's not going to make day
13520s	two and I think uh probably between you
13524s	and I we're sort of favoring gu in terms
13526s	of moving
13527s	on I think so yeah um certainly the
13531s	lineup did not look that powerful in the
13533s	opening Series I kind of biged it up I
13535s	know you've been a fan of it or are a
13537s	fan of it as well um but I think think
13540s	this is where it can start to come into
13542s	its own uh levik for example has plague
13545s	death knight in his lineup which I think
13547s	is a deck that uh gu's lineup is almost
13550s	specifically designed to hate out of the
13552s	format I think G's come into this and
13553s	said well if anyone is going to be silly
13554s	enough to bring plague DK to this
13556s	tournament I'm going to teach them a
13558s	lesson and just put Minions on the board
13559s	and uh see how we go from there H but
13562s	you can see how these players got here
13564s	in the end re vam who we just saw uh
13566s	yelling something which was not fit to
13568s	be repeated on broadcast into the camera
13570s	as he booked his spot going through uh
13573s	his initial game was against gu where
13575s	perhaps the lineups weren't quite what
13578s	gu was aiming for but in fact it was
13580s	wfam who I who I received a bit of Intel
13582s	saying that he wasn't particularly happy
13584s	with how these L lineups had panned out
13586s	against each other in the opening
13588s	game yeah I'm a little surprised to hear
13590s	that because it does sort of feel like
13592s	if you're the only control Warrior
13594s	player that you'd be happier being
13596s	paired against the full aggro lineup but
13599s	yeah uh
13600s	as control Warrior goes there were some
13602s	unique decisions made in that list as
13604s	well so I can understand some of the uh
13607s	apprehension
13609s	there you're you're a fairly new
13611s	addition to the the full-time casting
13613s	roster but you're already getting the
13614s	lingo down solid like unique decisions
13617s	yep that's that's the way to put it big
13619s	agree H we are looking at nature Sharman
13620s	though because interesting getting your
13622s	opinion on this um You probably heard me
13624s	and Raven digging into it a little bit
13626s	like I feel like nature Shaman is the
13628s	deck that I'm just constantly say should
13630s	be a standout performer in every
13632s	tournament and then never quite is like
13633s	do you have a do you have a take on this
13636s	yeah I think it's definitely one of
13637s	those Decks that played to Perfection
13641s	can can seem unbeatable and certainly
13643s	when you can ban away your worst
13645s	matchup you'd think you'd feel pretty
13648s	strong bringing it to the tournament but
13650s	but as you say it hasn't ended up
13652s	panning out that way and maybe that's
13654s	just because when you factor in that
13657s	okay it's not just the pilot who is
13660s	incredible but also just everyone here
13661s	at this event maybe it's the kind of
13663s	thing where you can really capitalize on
13665s	that edge on ladder but it just doesn't
13667s	translate as well into tournaments yeah
13670s	and I think that's a really great point
13672s	to pick up on because I think something
13674s	that I'm guilty of as well is certain
13677s	decks just become like Decks that bad
13679s	players play right but you forget that a
13681s	good player can pick up that deck and is
13683s	going to improve the win rate and just
13685s	by Magic plague death knight appears on
13687s	the screen now I think this is worth
13689s	talking about because I do not think
13691s	this is a good deck in any way right I I
13693s	will make no bones about that however I
13696s	win so many games on ladder where my
13697s	opponent goes like weapon on one coin
13700s	Helia against a deck that just plays for
13702s	board in the early turns that's not what
13704s	you're supposed to do you have to
13706s	Mulligan those cards away and play for
13708s	cards that affect the board because
13709s	otherwise like you're playing bad lights
13711s	Justice into worse chillwind Yeti over
13714s	the course of the game and you die
13716s	immediately so you have to be able to
13718s	impact the board and I think better
13720s	players understand um that they have to
13723s	be malting more aggressively to be able
13725s	to answer board in certain matchups um
13727s	certainly I think also on the converse
13729s	of that like better players understand
13731s	how hard you have to Mulligan for
13733s	getting two uh C two plagues in your
13735s	opponent's deck against Highlander decks
13737s	because we're talking about this with
13738s	Linda and banter where we watched Linda
13741s	play on screen which you know with all
13743s	credit to them was at slightly lower
13745s	ranks than me and bant were used to
13746s	playing at and Leno was just playing
13748s	active Renos on curve against plague DK
13751s	with Highlander decks like this never
13753s	this can't happen this isn't possible
13755s	how do you make this happen sort of
13757s	getting into this debate of like yes
13758s	okay play DK might have this reputation
13761s	as a fairly linear straightforward deck
13763s	and it exists to do kind of one thing in
13764s	the meta and be up on Highlander decks
13766s	levik's one of the best players in the
13767s	world so if there's any way that he will
13770s	get an edge out of this he's going to be
13771s	the player to do it I think said this
13774s	Druid is not one of those Highlander
13776s	lists this Druid is sort of tailor made
13779s	to just get a bunch of stats on board
13782s	with this take to the skies drawing
13785s	specifically Splish Splash welps and you
13787s	really want to get that topor down
13788s	quickly well double WP on four into
13791s	topor is pretty much exactly how you
13794s	want to start things off if you're
13806s	gu so probably plague strike or dark
13809s	transformation just better Tempo cards
13811s	which I think what is what levic has to
13813s	go for here like levic has to try and
13815s	pressure the Druid through the early
13816s	turns even though his deck isn't
13817s	fantastic at doing so you can see like
13820s	this is kind of that curve like helier
13822s	is the best card in the deck in a lot of
13823s	situations but remains to be seen how
13826s	much of an impact those plagues will
13827s	have on this game in particular when
13829s	this Druid is about to make a disgusting
13832s	board fairly rapidly the way this game
13834s	is going so
13835s	far yeah I mean the blood ones could
13838s	make a difference at some point but but
13841s	typically you're killing them all at
13842s	once with this Druid Deck uh so I think
13845s	Frost is sort of the always relevant
13848s	plague that you you really like your
13850s	opponent to hit just because it messes
13852s	up their
13858s	turns I believe this is now two second
13862s	game out of two for G where he has just
13864s	gone ramp ramp into topio just straight
13867s	off the bat like perfect Druid draws
13871s	well it's sort of designed to do that
13874s	unlike most which would keep Splish
13876s	Splash wellp to to play on two you're
13878s	you're not active most of the time with
13881s	with this version of the deck if you
13883s	just keep a split Splash WEP so you
13884s	really want to get to that take to the
13886s	skies to draw you welp and another
13889s	Dragon there's potential to miss and hit
13891s	both of your expensive dragons and no
13893s	welps but most of the time you're going
13894s	to hit at least one
13898s	well
13905s	I'm watching wrath get played just gives
13908s	me Good Vibes you know I don't know why
13910s	it just that hits me right in the
13912s	Nostalgia for some reason the fact that
13913s	wrath still exists and gets played in
13915s	half
13917s	St human a mortal coil honestly
13921s	embarrassing and this is one of the oh
13924s	those are not the nature spells that you
13927s	uh typically wants to see but I was
13929s	going to say this is one of the few
13931s	lists I feel like for Druid that most of
13934s	the time goes for the get to Nature
13936s	spells rather than discount because you
13939s	just want more things to give you
13942s	welps yeah but world is not going to do
13945s	that we've seen various things where
13947s	it's like discounting um like drum
13949s	circle pieces like that like getting
13950s	quicker pop off turns even just
13952s	discounting ramp and then fire Druid as
13954s	well where you have it to change the
13956s	dynamic of odd cards to even or even
13958s	cards to odd depending on what you need
13959s	need On Any Given turn um so used as the
13962s	discount much more frequently I would
13964s	say a high level he St so you're
13965s	absolutely
13971s	right going for the draw six here really
13976s	looking to juice up and I think in
13979s	particular find our uh soul of the
13986s	forest and this is what I mean right
13988s	like just no like 's like yeah okay I'm
13991s	just going to hit a bunch of plagues but
13992s	you just don't care they just don't
13994s	really have a relevant impact on the
13996s	game right outside of Highlander decks
13998s	in The Meta game like generally the
14000s	Decks that exist at this level are doing
14001s	such powerful things that you know
14003s	little little ticks of two damage every
14004s	now and again just really don't make a
14006s	big difference right crucially no Frost
14009s	right so we are still able to play this
14012s	Sol of the forest I think levic is uh
14014s	feeling a little unlucky at hitting no
14015s	Frost there but the armor was probably
14019s	enough nod picking up those beetles was
14021s	probably a nod to the fact that I'm
14023s	about to draw a bunch of plagues let's
14024s	make sure we don't accidentally die but
14027s	also I believe like even if a frost was
14029s	hit we've summoned so many dragons from
14031s	the topal that probably the F could just
14033s	clear that anyway right with uh very
14036s	little downside so I think you was in a
14039s	relatively good position there of course
14040s	it's dependent like hitting fi and the
14042s	Sol of the forest here was like
14044s	definitely best case scenario I think
14045s	for GU in terms of what he wanted to do
14047s	this call absolutely and there is an
14051s	active Sylvanas here which is perhaps
14054s	looking a a little bit juicier than the
14056s	tomb Trader just because soul of the
14058s	forest means you're not actually getting
14061s	rid of the
14065s	board you looking at coin Primus
14069s	instead uh well perhaps coin hero power
14073s	you steal the big taunt
14075s	oh he going to munch
14078s	it yeah supp
14084s	so the cultivations are not terribly
14088s	discounted yet which is uh you know one
14091s	of the reasons that soul of the force is
14093s	in there certainly but it can be a sort
14095s	of awkward sticking point with this list
14097s	I was trying and get out a bit last
14099s	night and problem is there's second
14101s	solar in the hand as well so that's 28
14104s	raw damage just from the buff let alone
14105s	the Minions that are already on the
14107s	board and uh that is going to be as
14110s	quick a game one as you are ever going
14112s	to see and uh yes this is the curse or I
14116s	guess the plague of the death knight in
14118s	this series is levic is going to be
14119s	playing several games that look fairly
14122s	similar to that in my prediction he's
14124s	not necessarily going to get blown out
14125s	of them that quickly but um as soon as
14128s	plague death KN really runs into a board
14130s	that doesn't get tomb traded yep what do
14133s	they do like what options do they have
14135s	at that
14137s	point yeah I was a little surprised to
14139s	see just the Primus there particularly
14142s	not even for taunts taunts could have
14144s	put in sort of the most blockage against
14147s	that board but uh you know maybe
14149s	Sylvanas stealing the FI hero powering
14152s	down 31 you could sort of remove more
14153s	and present taunts just gaining a bit of
14157s	life is is not really doing enough in
14160s	that matchup because they they do sort
14161s	of just kill you all at once and uh I
14165s	think this plague DK is really going to
14167s	struggle throughout the matchup
14171s	here you see it again just colossal
14174s	amounts of damage going through well
14175s	over the 38 needed even with the health
14178s	game from the Primus as idice was saying
14180s	so yeah I mean that really does just lay
14182s	out the series right like this is
14184s	summing up the entire thesis in your
14186s	topic sentence right like that is what
14188s	we are going to watch for the rest of
14190s	this series I would imagine because um I
14192s	don't know how levic feels about this we
14195s	were talking about this earlier with
14196s	Ravens some players when they have a bad
14198s	deck in a series do just jam it three
14201s	times just because they don't want to
14202s	deal with the the mental torture of
14204s	being able to go through um but I think
14206s	those are more the exceptions right I
14208s	think particularly blies we have seen do
14211s	that kind of thing in European Grand
14212s	Masters and in Masters tours as well but
14215s	you would imagine just for pure mental
14218s	game and it is just mental game there's
14220s	no actual impact on the series like in
14222s	in tangible terms when you're at the
14224s	world championship you would much rather
14227s	like get some wins on the board and have
14228s	a nice looking scoreboard while you sit
14230s	there and play plague DK right that's
14232s	personally what my mentality would
14235s	be yeah I think for me would depend on
14239s	how much I have left that day you know
14242s	if I were in bunch of bunch of rounds of
14244s	Swiss I might say okay let's Jam this
14247s	get it over with so I can get to the
14248s	next round faster but when you are at
14250s	sort of these high stakes you've got you
14253s	know very few but very important matches
14257s	yeah I want to take the wins where I can
14258s	get them
14261s	yeah I respect that for sure and of
14263s	course this is you know there's no
14264s	followup to this even right it's not
14266s	even like this is an upper bracket game
14267s	we like okay whatever I got a bad match
14269s	up round one let me just Jam My Plague
14271s	DK three times we'll see what happens
14273s	and I'll just reserve my energy for the
14274s	series that matters no this is the
14276s	series that matters like this is the one
14278s	where you absolutely have to maximize
14280s	everything because this is win or go
14282s	home at this
14283s	point it is crazy that we are sat
14286s	watching that between two Masters Tour
14288s	WI like I made this point at the start
14290s	of the show that you know I don't think
14293s	you could necessarily call this the
14294s	weaker of the two groups because it's
14296s	got the two Masters Tour winners in it
14298s	versus one in Pocket training group b
14301s	and but they just sat down scrapping for
14302s	their lives initially and we're like
14304s	halfway through day one this was an
14306s	unexpected turn of
14308s	events yeah absolutely I think you know
14311s	we would have expect that no matter what
14314s	we're going to see a champion from each
14317s	bracket moving on and it it may very
14319s	well be that you know one of them moves
14321s	on from this match and then immediately
14322s	loses the followup to uh Hemlock and
14327s	then pocket's the only remaining
14328s	champion in the top eight assuming
14330s	pocket makes it out
14332s	of I love it that's just a given move
14335s	like honestly let's just give pocket the
14336s	buy at this point it just it seems fair
14338s	you know H but yeah I think the players
14340s	here are taking a moment uh you don't
14343s	worry you're not missing any gameplay
14344s	these players are just considering
14346s	considering the que maybe considering
14348s	the matchup considering overall strategy
14349s	in the series as a whole but I suppose
14352s	just to divert away from plague death
14354s	knight because that is pretty much all
14355s	we've spoken about so far what do you
14357s	make of the rest of levik's lineup in
14359s	this series that has remain okay so I
14363s	don't like it but I have I have a little
14366s	more respect for this Druid after after
14369s	playing it for a bit because there is
14371s	there is an an element of we'll say sort
14375s	of mad genius in its construction which
14377s	is that druid obviously known very much
14380s	for drawing cards and I think while it
14384s	seems crazy to have this many duplicates
14387s	there is this hyperfocus on early
14390s	defense and something that you can
14392s	actually do to get your Highlander cards
14396s	active uh and have copies of all your
14400s	very big threats is when you get to a
14403s	certain point where your hand is about
14405s	as many cards as your remaining deck you
14408s	can play fizzle so you get a snapshot of
14411s	all those juicy cards in hand and then
14414s	play Finley to swap your hand with your
14417s	deck you know your hand has no
14419s	duplicates so Highlander things will be
14421s	turned on and then when you play the
14423s	snapshot you'll have those active out of
14425s	the snap
14428s	shot I mean there's a very compelling
14431s	explanation but I do have to raise the
14432s	counter point that was an awful lot of
14434s	steps you just described to making
14436s	something happen yeah well it looks like
14439s	we are about to dive in it is going to
14441s	be that Shaman potentially one of the
14443s	big talking points of the tournament and
14445s	excellent guess idice it is going to be
14447s	the Druid on the other side from uh
14449s	levik queuing up so glad we uh we talked
14452s	about it going
14456s	in take to the skies I think levic is
14459s	going to be hoping to hit one of those
14461s	splish splash welps of course having
14463s	Frost load of seedling in the opener is
14465s	excellent both for the draw and in the
14467s	case of this match up for the
14470s	armor okay real talk though how did
14472s	spine tail Drake make the cut as a
14474s	two about that you know what I couldn't
14477s	tell you I really would expect at least
14479s	one Dragon
14486s	Golem
14490s	nice just going to double ramp the welp
14492s	right now sure yeah sure I like it
14494s	curves into four yeah see why
14497s	not
14500s	if you top deck another Dragon you can
14502s	play double
14505s	fours I think you likely will anyway
14508s	right regardless of the the activation
14510s	or
14511s	not sure yeah don't need the five damage
14516s	mhm Al perfect though
14521s	yep sorry we should take this as a given
14524s	it's a Highlander Deck with like seven
14525s	two ofs in it more than how hang on how
14527s	many are there there's 10 there 10 two
14530s	of so of course you're going to draw
14532s	perfectly when you build your deck like
14533s	that right like that is just a given
14535s	that's how Hearthstone works we all
14538s	know yes at this
14540s	point there's the cactus card remaining
14546s	there's wh Bloom seedsmen still it's
14549s	quite a few to look out for
14557s	mhm
14564s	though fewer than I would
14565s	expect yeah seedsman was a remaining two
14568s	of uh and then that Drew into the
14570s	planted evidence which was another
14572s	remaining two of um again you know doing
14574s	the due diligence of actually you know
14576s	explaining the thought process behind
14578s	this all of the cards even though there
14580s	are 10 of them do find the other cards
14583s	in some way right like yes there's two
14585s	spine tail Dres but they get drawn by
14587s	take to the skies yes there's two
14589s	planted evidence to Cactus construct but
14591s	they get drawn um by by seedsmen which
14595s	draws a nature spell right like there is
14597s	a a cascading effect of you get one two
14600s	of and then that draws you another two
14601s	of right like even going down to the
14603s	sense of okay there's two of seedling
14606s	that's just raw card draw right which
14607s	helps you get through your deck um I do
14609s	not take the argument of add more card
14611s	draw like add two of card draw to your
14613s	deck to make your Reno draw more
14615s	consistent but that is the theme
14617s	throughout all of the two ofs as well as
14619s	well as what you pointed out being
14621s	generally very very good anti-aggro
14623s	cards that are thrown in there as
14625s	well which I think has to be part of why
14629s	levic has been willing to leave up
14634s	Paladin y i I guess figuring that the
14637s	the plague DK can sometimes do all right
14640s	there certainly it's a matchup where you
14642s	can discount Resa very quickly and
14644s	sometimes that will get you there
14647s	that's
14653s	but we'll have to see if this Reno is
14656s	ever active in time to make the play
14658s	that you were talking about right to
14660s	just do it for The Showdown effect right
14663s	yeah it's definitely something that you
14664s	do have to watch out for particularly if
14666s	it lines up um you know if your opponent
14668s	actually signals like if they play The
14670s	Flash I think it's something that you do
14671s	have to very very seriously think about
14674s	just limit them to that one board space
14676s	even if it has no real other impact on
14678s	the game
14679s	yeah L got to get there first for sure
14682s	and right now G has bigger problems to
14684s	solve because just a great deal of
14686s	pressure coming at him right
14688s	now lightning storm in hand but no
14691s	ability to play that alongside the base
14693s	and you'd like to be getting
14694s	this base down as soon as you can as you
14698s	sort of have a limited window to try and
14701s	win here MH knowing that there's going
14704s	to be three three spawned off of every
14706s	nature spell from here on out
14709s	yeah I think if you wants to look at
14712s	this situation and take an optimist's
14714s	line you'd be like okay well they're low
14715s	on cards right now right so that's kind
14717s	of my my big hope is that they don't
14719s	necessarily hit any card draw um but we
14723s	can see that there has been that uh that
14724s	Frost Lotus that has been kept since the
14726s	beginning of the game we should get that
14727s	card draw rolling nice and
14731s	quickly thorum big
14737s	pickup
14740s	another planted evidence just to keep
14742s	this pressure rolling in terms of the
14744s	nature spells could go for the miracle
14746s	growth yeah big
14749s	found and a cactus construct
14752s	maybe or the drum circle so if anything
14755s	sticks you've seen a lightning storm
14757s	play it already drum circle is not
14759s	naturally in the deck so it's not
14761s	something that would necessarily be
14762s	played around agree
14767s	yeah
14774s	does just make this board represent
14775s	lethal now you know your opponent is uh
14778s	too overloaded to play Gogan as well
14780s	which would be the the best turn here to
14781s	be able to prevent that lethal just in
14784s	a in a vacuum even though you would be
14786s	failing to draw the three cards off it
14789s	which is your primary goal with this
14790s	deck most of the
14795s	time yeah I mean even without knowing
14800s	the drum circle is there you got to be
14802s	staring this down and and recognizing
14804s	that it's it's too much pressure to
14806s	leave everything standing
14810s	mhm at this point no ability to crash I
14813s	think it's just going to be lightning
14815s	bolt the
14817s	five2
14821s	maybe oh boy yeah he was just like
14825s	hoping it's not there but it's just
14829s	needed yeah
14834s	what all right
14837s	just you know this is one of those times
14840s	where where you say okay is this is this
14843s	a play to affect the opponent's mental
14845s	game right just showing hey look I even
14847s	had an active Reno even though that
14849s	sounds crazy yeah I so I believe in the
14853s	uh the big book of BM that some people
14855s	seem to insist is a real thing that you
14857s	can go and read and learn the rules
14859s	about this if you pass back lethal on
14861s	board to your opponent they're allowed
14863s	to do whatever they want because you
14864s	could have conceded already right that's
14866s	that's apparently a
14868s	thing so who so who knows um in the end
14871s	it's uh it's nonsense and you should all
14873s	go to a like a fighting game tournament
14875s	and see how long you last if you think
14876s	if someone emoting you is
14879s	toxic but uh anyway uh I think levik
14883s	really knows that the debate will be
14885s	raging about this active Reno right so I
14887s	think honestly if that was anything it
14888s	was hey check out my active Reno with
14891s	nine mana and I've ramped this game
14892s	right so with 12 cards left in deck yeah
14895s	yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly 10 two ofs
14897s	and like it's a point that is worth
14898s	making right because you can do the raw
14900s	maths and we've done this we as a
14902s	community we've done this over and over
14904s	about how many cards on average do you
14906s	have to draw with one two of in your
14908s	deck with two two ofs in your deck with
14909s	three two ofs on your deck to to
14911s	actually have an active Reno or an
14913s	active whatever your payoff card ends up
14915s	being that matth does not apply raw to
14918s	this deck that levik is playing because
14920s	of the fact that each each two of begets
14922s	another two of and the way they chain
14924s	into each other through the deck so um I
14926s	think levic certainly has a point to be
14928s	made there of like hey look like this
14930s	isn't an accident this will keep
14931s	happening I'll keep playing active Reno
14933s	on curve every time it happens until you
14935s	uh until you accept the point that my
14937s	deck building is genius but um I think
14939s	he still has a little way to go before
14941s	I'm I'm willing to take the L on this
14944s	one well and certainly a little way to
14946s	go in terms of having to get out of the
14949s	lower side of this group a and it's not
14952s	just the Druid that we have reservations
14954s	about
14955s	right no absolutely not like in fact I
14959s	think well yeah I guess nag Demon Hunter
14962s	I'm I'm generally more okay with overall
14963s	and Paladin is Paladin right like we
14965s	were extremely confident that we were
14967s	going to be seeing ubiquitous Paladin
14969s	throughout this tournament in fact if
14971s	anything is surprising is the amount of
14973s	actually Paladin we've seen being played
14976s	like left DED series I almost said this
14979s	in the intro I had this as an idea for a
14981s	bit in the intro of just like welcoming
14983s	everyone into a nice warm and safe
14985s	Paladin free zone where they they could
14987s	be away from the Terrors of Paladin
14990s	because it would be banned in every
14991s	series and if you're traumatized by
14992s	what's happening to you by paladins on
14994s	ladder then come to the World
14996s	Championships it's safe here I'm really
14998s	glad I didn't do that because that has
15000s	not been the case at all because then
15003s	immediately we have a match where CEST
15006s	just discovers combo kill yes you will
15011s	not stop me now very nicely executed
15015s	though I will say the decision to play
15016s	Zero cards and burn a card after that
15018s	contest hit and then just go for the the
15020s	full board swing was very very nicely
15022s	done and worth mentioning as well um
15024s	that basically the Paladin passed the
15026s	first six turns of the game in that game
15028s	as well and ended up winning so it was
15030s	hardly a nuts draw but uh meanwhile here
15033s	we go Paladin against plague
15035s	DK we've got the tomb Traders we just
15038s	need actually some
15041s	plagues yes and also not to have 30
15046s	Manas worth sorry 50 Mana worth of card
15048s	in our
15053s	opening 49 we're making
15057s	progress you know I think in the optimal
15061s	scenarios what I find about plague DK is
15064s	people get a little too hyperfocused
15068s	on plagues as the wind condition and
15071s	when I have played it and seen it played
15073s	a lot of times it is far more about
15075s	having the plagues as activators right
15077s	because tomb Trader is such a great typ
15079s	of swing and chain Guardian is an
15081s	incredible card both for swinging board
15083s	and for pressure because it's
15084s	challenging to clear with the reborn
15088s	agree 100% agree that is a huge pick up
15091s	off the top at least just have something
15092s	to spend some mana and that is huge it's
15095s	not now the tomb traitors aren't going
15096s	to be active on curve it's is going to
15098s	make the next turn or two just a tiny
15100s	bit awkward but if levik went one or two
15104s	more turns without finding an actual
15106s	plague to shuffle into the deck I think
15107s	he would have been absolutely cooked
15110s	here yeah
15113s	definitely but if o that's going to be a
15117s	painful painful plague to shuffle
15120s	in you got to do
15125s	it softening up this board in prep ation
15128s	for the tomb Trader that is almost
15129s	certainly coming down next turn getting
15132s	that second
15137s	excavate
15141s	oh sorry it's very cruel I just want
15144s	plague dks to suffer does that make me a
15146s	bad person even if it's at the world
15147s	championship I guess it does I mean I
15149s	think you're you're not the only player
15151s	out there but when it's between plague
15153s	DK and Paladin you know true yeah yeah
15157s	okay there's no such thing as the lesser
15158s	of two evils in this
15159s	[Laughter]
15161s	match so what I will be keeping an eye
15164s	on from here on out as you know still a
15166s	ways to go on these chain Guardians is
15168s	because Resa counts minions dead for
15171s	both players being up against Paladin is
15174s	one of the matchups where you can very
15176s	quickly get it online because you count
15179s	all of their minions dying towards that
15181s	so uh sometimes you able to sort of hit
15185s	a point where you've killed so many of
15187s	their that even though you know you may
15190s	not have had enough of your own dying
15192s	normally uh you are able to get a a free
15195s	or at least close enough to free Resa uh
15198s	played and be able to make some big
15200s	swings especially if they've gone in on
15202s	a Gardens Grace
15208s	already reporting for Duty it's the
15211s	hammer of Wrath going to get used here
15212s	it looks no imagine you'd be starting
15214s	with it no just going to go full out
15216s	committ to the board which you
15217s	absolutely have to respect sight unseen
15220s	but with the gift of Caster Vision we
15223s	can see this is going to get absolutely
15224s	blown out and this is going to make this
15226s	game a lot closer than it looked like it
15228s	was going to be two or three turns ago
15231s	uh there is still the coin CST and
15234s	you've got a bit of leeway here as
15236s	Paladin yes you're facing down 10 damage
15238s	but uh being able to go coin CEST into
15242s	three invitations could just give us
15245s	another one of those big swings
15248s	yeah the problem is that levic has what
15249s	successfully killed eight or so minions
15252s	over the last two turns with those two
15253s	AOE so now unless the uh the invitation
15257s	minions really affect the board rapidly
15259s	and immediately uh that rescue you were
15261s	just talking about starts to have a
15263s	pretty significant impact on this
15265s	game
15266s	anybody it's true but
15269s	also you know if they just kill from
15271s	hand like we saw before yes oh yes and
15276s	uh of course Prismatic being
15278s	is a factor here I think levic is
15280s	keeping that in mind as he's scaling
15283s	back the board a bit so that those
15284s	aren't going to be too inexpensive for
15286s	you to
15288s	play it's such a frustrating experience
15291s	right being like okay well I have to
15292s	play minions to pressure my opponent and
15294s	not give them infinite time but at the
15296s	same time every minion I play just makes
15297s	their life better like it's it's not
15300s	really a nice scenario to
15303s	be and not the greatest hits here
15308s	but you can take just one of the bigger
15311s	ones and actually wait on the other
15313s	invitations if you want to just play a
15315s	keeper strength for the
15320s	clear yeah I don't mind that at
15325s	all the other plan of course would just
15327s	be to hope for some damage try and find
15329s	that alakir or something from one of the
15331s	other invitations and then just allow
15333s	the board to be wide and leverage that
15335s	with the uh the
15336s	prismatics
15340s	oh G okay that's damage doesn't
15345s	necessarily go face but it is
15348s	damage also spreads the board very very
15351s	wide which I think is excellent news
15353s	against the likes of uh R when you've
15356s	already seen both of the Tomb traitors
15357s	be used already yep absolutely and now
15361s	the hammer wrath coming
15362s	down just to clear up as much of this as
15366s	possible get those
15368s	uh beams oh perfect
15383s	clear pick me pick
15387s	me extra excavate here is uh a little
15392s	dirty meaning that Skeleton Crew can
15394s	actually get a free rat so here we get
15397s	to to see that Resa and then immediately
15400s	Reviving
15406s	it and more relevant even than the
15409s	additional theft is just the the life
15412s	steal the life Ste is massive
15416s	yeah take a good look you ain't never
15419s	seen a l
15424s	again I double Matic can really come
15428s	into things though nice and cheap now
15434s	yep a never seen and I wonder here
15437s	whether levik plays the mole
15441s	or holds on to it yeah we're we're we're
15445s	through playing sit even okay okay
15452s	[Music]
15454s	sure the double Showdown as well yeah
15457s	one of the few scenarios in history
15459s	where you don't want to just start
15460s	jamming your showdowns before you rip
15461s	your
15466s	prismatics I
15467s	mean why not you you you know both
15470s	Traders have been used you can play the
15472s	first Prismatic then Showdown to ref the
15476s	board for sure y just double showdown
15480s	prismatics free
15483s	[Music]
15485s	again has the Mana to we in the
15487s	invitation as well
15493s	crab I I don't think there's any other
15496s	Shenanigans to be done like with the
15498s	nuon or anything no
15501s	agreed you have to at least have a
15503s	glance over at your deck list and try
15505s	and imagine some degenerate things right
15506s	but yeah I just don't think it's there
15508s	well the cboa alone would have cleared I
15511s	think were it not for the ability to do
15514s	showdowns alongside these
15523s	okay I suppose you don't have to play
15525s	both showdowns with kvor
15529s	there oh the yog off the top of
15535s	course and this is a a unique addition
15538s	to levik's list I I have not found to
15541s	many plag dek running yog uh quite the
15545s	hit there for extra
15551s	pressure that feels
15555s	good so this is where keeping that
15558s	additional Showdown can be kind of nice
15561s	right you could potentially clear up you
15564s	know a larger minion alongside the
15566s	keeper strength but with Jitterbug you
15567s	could also just Jitterbug keeper
15569s	strength and that's good enough yeah I
15572s	think that is probably the way he will
15574s	end up going just cuz it uh drops a card
15576s	drawer on the board nice and easy clears
15578s	the board threatens lethal more or less
15582s	with uh potential draws off the top for
15584s	additional Buffs gens Grace or whatever
15585s	off the
15587s	top makes levic have an answer and
15590s	honestly like this isn't a deck that
15591s	plays a ton of answers levic has just
15593s	drawn all of
15595s	them two aoe's two Jane Guardians and
15597s	the yog so far like of course he's been
15600s	much less proactive than he would have
15602s	liked to have been because he's had all
15603s	of those answers in his hand he has
15605s	drawn pretty much every single one of be
15607s	able to keep these boards
15608s	clear this is one way that the Paladin
15611s	has for getting the life total back up
15614s	uh you're just hoping that you're going
15617s	to be the one better positioned after
15620s	you're both out of cards
15624s	mhm but deputization plus Showdown is a
15627s	lot of Life steal yes it
15633s	is it also allows you to uh take the
15637s	eight potentially with your weapon if
15639s	you need to and still feel relatively
15641s	secure about
15643s	that otherwise don't really see how
15646s	that's
15647s	happening you don't need to right you
15649s	can weapon the three to you can weapon
15651s	the three2 sure yeah yeah know you're
15652s	absolutely right my brain's just like
15654s	well you can't weapon a three three so
15655s	obviously hit the eight1
15662s	instead Y and then hands to make this
15665s	live and we might even see then the
15668s	reges protector come down on the
15670s	deputization side to steal the buff back
15676s	yep keeper strength again but no Gardens
15679s	Graces whatsoever this game
15681s	and you know this is the the difference
15684s	between when we had order the court not
15686s	that it would matter against an enemy
15689s	that reshuffles your deck but not being
15692s	able to order into guaranteed all your
15695s	threats no such as uh potential amus
15700s	right for refill mhm means you are a
15703s	little more susceptible to running out
15705s	of
15709s	cards wow levic itching chain guardan
15713s	number
15715s	two oh are you
15720s	joking well there is the card
15722s	differential uh it's just a matter of
15724s	not dying to this
15727s	forward here and the excavates have
15730s	restarted so we're back on
15735s	ones perfect one pick up there what
15738s	little
15747s	time is there anything left to be given
15750s	spell
15751s	wise oh my goodness good cards okay down
15754s	with the ship
15755s	fine
15764s	yeah saves the minion because of course
15765s	trading into the shield and shooting The
15767s	Shield would just heal you for extra and
15769s	then move just move the 41 down the
15772s	chain essentially so he wouldn't
15773s	actually take any additional power off
15775s	the board by doing it that
15779s	way I
15781s	mean you just got a swing face haven't
15784s	you yeah I mean I just just play all the
15787s	cards and and hope the pickups were bad
15789s	is cu kind of where I'm
15812s	at one of the nice things about
15814s	deputization Aura is makes whatever you
15817s	have pretty big to go alongside keep
15820s	your strength
15826s	y I suppose you don't have to play the
15828s	down with the ship just
15833s	yet no it doesn't even give you a lethal
15835s	outright so not even the smallest
15841s	one has to be taunts
15843s	yeah both both keeper strength scene and
15846s	both
15863s	beams my rule is eternal sure leave
15873s	Bones okay it begins
15880s	here's a lot of stuff but there's still
15883s	no way of clearing this
15886s	Primus I think the biggest hit here
15888s	would be getting
15890s	Jitterbug
15892s	yes and there it
15894s	is very notably the now can draw towards
15898s	uh amus right which is probably the
15900s	biggest out at this point Gard Grace
15904s	were there an ability for anything to
15906s	connect this
15908s	turn very notable that the Outlaws are
15912s	the only three power Minions that you
15915s	actually have to be brought back with
15917s	tier but the way the card is worded on
15920s	on Showdown is give yours Rush not yours
15923s	have rush so resurrecting it they are
15926s	not going to have that
15928s	[Music]
15935s	keyword
15937s	uh how many's G drawn like three so far
15940s	this
15946s	game that is pretty good but the Mana
15951s	attacks makes things a bit
15961s	awkward how much can you actually clear
15964s	up if you do go for the ashbringer
15966s	though
15968s	I mean yeah you use it on the tier right
15972s	yeah and then 34 into 3 three and you
15974s	can take three more off the board so
15976s	there' be five remaining Haven seen any
15979s	Gardens Graces yet a bit of a gamble but
15982s	could be much much better depending on
15984s	the
15986s	hits Heatwave is the perfect
15995s	one how to move fast yep okay that'll
15998s	take care of the tier that's a full
16001s	clear and you even get to equip the
16003s	weapon and
16009s	swing I wondered if more people should
16012s	have been playing Flint even before it
16014s	was buffed but certainly now at two Mana
16016s	it's it's very appealing I mean it's
16018s	it's basically Inquisitor fire heart
16022s	right yes yeah yeah okay four Quick Draw
16024s	cards sure yeah
16032s	the uh the poisonous minion is
16036s	absolutely revolting here that is one of
16039s	the most disgusting things I've ever
16040s	seen in my life yeah makes the amus kind
16045s	of lose all its
16048s	[Music]
16054s	Effectiveness levic just starting to
16056s	chuckle to himself I think he
16058s	understands how well that turn went for
16060s	him just towards the end but I think
16062s	honestly to to give him credit you know
16065s	you could have potentially gone with
16067s	like Panic Sylvanas there or something
16069s	like that right but then okay yes like
16071s	remove the poisonous Minion from the
16073s	equation which is making all all of this
16074s	a formality now but I think levic
16077s	understands what eight cards left
16078s	remaining in deck from gu he's just
16079s	drawn a bunch of new cards on the
16080s	previous turn he knows that the Titan is
16083s	still a problem that he may have to deal
16085s	with over the course of this game and uh
16087s	by maintaining this sylvanus in hand he
16090s	uh just has a very very easy way to do
16095s	that Q going for just the draw here as
16099s	knows he's behind on
16101s	cards but uh this is third activation of
16105s	the Primus not something you get to see
16107s	terribly often nope and I could honestly
16111s	just Sylvanas the Titan don't even need
16113s	to I Will Never don't even need to
16117s	poison it off
16119s	your and that's it
16123s	yep levic head in hands but he has got
16126s	out of this one just by the skin of his
16128s	teeth an incredibly close game coming
16130s	down to the wire both decks I would say
16133s	somewhat suboptimal with their draws
16135s	like we saw levic sat with double tomb
16138s	traitor and double double rush and the
16141s	rexit in the opening hand just an
16143s	infinite amount of Mana in the opening
16144s	hand but then double Prismatic be seven
16146s	drop in Hugh's hand as well didn't
16149s	really have the smoothest opening curve
16151s	although was at least able to play
16152s	something on each of the opening turns
16155s	um so good performance in the end from
16156s	plague DK being able to find a way out
16158s	of a series that we have asked several
16160s	questions about up until this point but
16162s	I think um as mentioned right even if I
16165s	think a deck is is very straightforward
16167s	and low agency and perhaps not a world
16169s	championship caliber deck you put that
16172s	deck in the hands of a world
16173s	championship caliber player they will
16175s	find edges that the average player
16177s	doesn't find with that deck right and I
16179s	think levic has been doing that pretty
16181s	consistently over the last two years or
16182s	so as he's really risen to the top of
16184s	the the competitive field in h and when
16188s	you consider you know the band selection
16191s	we feel like Paladin can be an auto ban
16194s	but obviously L will have you know done
16197s	the work thinking in terms of you okay
16199s	what's actually worse from need to face
16200s	and Rogue sometimes it feels like
16203s	there's nothing you can do I think
16204s	particularly for that flague DK if they
16208s	make a stealth minion early on and just
16210s	scale it to an absurd size with wind
16214s	Fury it really takes away your AG agency
16217s	a lot more than the Paladin is capable
16219s	of Paladin you kind of know what to
16221s	expect on various turns and can sort of
16224s	youan and play around that but the mech
16228s	Rogue it it really sometimes feels like
16231s	all right well that was a game of
16233s	hearthstone that ended on turn four turn
16235s	five yeah and I think vanilla lad deck
16237s	against vanilla lad deck I don't like
16239s	the Paladin matchup for plague DK either
16242s	but when you look at some of the
16243s	additions in this deck from Lev like the
16246s	yog being in there the Sylvanas being in
16247s	there which isn't you know a guarantee
16250s	in the lad version as well these are
16252s	tools that are extremely good against
16254s	Paladin the yog like you know comes easy
16257s	to understand why that would be
16258s	effective against Paladin right because
16259s	you get to the point you want as many
16261s	board clears as you possibly can but I
16263s	think the Sylvanas is just such a smart
16265s	addition against Paladin because if you
16267s	play against the deck enough times you
16269s	notice these patterns where um you know
16272s	you clear their board a couple of times
16273s	they clear your board a couple of times
16275s	cuz they also have incredible uh AOE in
16277s	their deck but then eventually they're
16279s	just resolving down to this point where
16280s	like they just have one 4 six Divine
16282s	shield in play or they just have the
16283s	Titan in play right like that one big
16285s	individual minion and it can create such
16288s	a big swing um especially when things
16290s	like Gardens Grace start coming into
16291s	play later on as well with that if you
16293s	have that Sylvanas packed into your deck
16295s	as well soart deck building I think from
16297s	levic but that is in our pass now we
16298s	have a potential game three for levic to
16301s	go up and eliminate you from the
16303s	tournament Advance himself and it is
16305s	going to be on the Sharpshooter DK what
16307s	have you made of this so far there has
16308s	been quite a lot of it brought to the
16310s	tournament even after the
16312s	Nerfs yeah I mean the deck still feels
16315s	really good you know it's it's can come
16319s	down to whether or not you H hit your
16320s	Sharpshooter but there's you know a lot
16322s	of draw in DK to make that happen uh
16325s	doing things like picking up these
16327s	Fierce out Riders early uh can you know
16331s	give you either a discount for your
16333s	early game or give you a discount to go
16335s	towards a later on Naga that you're
16339s	going to be playing mid combo the right
16341s	sort of the best Naga the one that
16343s	discounts the rest of your cards and uh
16347s	I think
16349s	it's was at first a little bit
16351s	surprising tojust so much of it in
16354s	people's lineups but
16356s	having played it a bit myself now and
16359s	saying like oh you can sometimes just
16361s	run away with the game and you know win
16363s	turn five turn six uh makes a lot of
16365s	sense to me here in L of anaga levic
16368s	just goes for as big a board as possible
16372s	uh forcing you to have some kind of
16374s	response speaking of running away with
16376s	the game that is very much what levic is
16378s	trying to do here you just dropped the
16381s	turn the ties sure just able to clear up
16383s	pretty effectively take care of the 33
16385s	with the face preserve the minion in
16387s	play uh if he needs additional answers
16389s	to this in future he can just rip the
16391s	lightning reflexes look for a storm or
16394s	an altered cord something along those
16395s	lines even another turn the tides if the
16397s	board gets rebuilt H but it looks like
16399s	the board is not getting
16403s	rebuilt yeah and this is one of those
16407s	games where it's looking like
16410s	potentially okay you you made the best
16413s	with what you had but if you don't draw
16416s	Sharpshooter Naga or yeah the sigil soon
16420s	I mean that's just it right you can't
16422s	just hero power
16424s	pass for a few turns in a row and and
16426s	expect things to be okay yeah
16438s	absolutely
16440s	one solves any
16443s	problem one it's not it but at least
16446s	gives him one Mana card drawer in hand
16448s	if it dies which it will over the next
16451s	turn there's so Oasis Outlaws you can
16453s	hit as well in the deck to perhaps just
16455s	discover you the Sharpshooter that you
16456s	need even if you won't get the discount
16458s	for it of course but time running out
16460s	big time now for levic to find one of
16462s	those crucial
16465s	draws I think actually may have I I know
16468s	levik's actually at least played one of
16471s	those I don't know if he's maybe played
16473s	both of the Oasis Outlaws oh was there
16475s	two okay I saw one got played I wasn't
16477s	sure if it was
16480s	two and I think it's very important to
16482s	note that levic could have been using
16484s	you know dispos to clear earlier you
16487s	know either to keep
16490s	the uh one the VIS slyther spear alive
16494s	or just to clear off one of the taunts
16496s	but having to shuffle a card that is not
16499s	one of the cards you desperately
16501s	need is not something you want to be
16504s	doing so even though it's just slight
16506s	differences in probability holding on to
16508s	those dispos of evidence to give himself
16511s	the best odds of finding the very
16515s	specific cards that he
16517s	needs really starting with schooling
16521s	okay personally I wanted to start with
16524s	lightning reflexes and look for uh 54
16526s	rushes this turn as a matter of priority
16528s	and then if you don't hit that you can
16530s	then go for the fish sure
16533s	oh I think that changes things
16537s	right yeah I mean one extra fish or
16540s	double lightning reflexes for zero Mana
16542s	next turn I know what side of that
16543s	argument I'm coming down
16548s	on it's not a lot of damage you need to
16551s	find
16556s	right no sharp shooter yep and that's
16561s	just
16564s	it some times the deck do just be like
16567s	that is one of those decks we've had
16568s	this since the beginning of time some
16570s	decks in Hearthstone are just capable of
16572s	losing to themselves you know you can go
16574s	all the way back to gadan auctioner
16576s	Miracle Rogue all the way back in
16578s	classic Hearthstone right of sometimes
16580s	your hand was just backstab Shadow step
16582s	Prep Prep and you just could not find
16584s	that Auctioneer that's very similar to
16587s	the draw that we saw there on the other
16588s	side but you know that is the uh the the
16591s	cost of entry for having such powerful
16593s	Tools in your deck right is that the opp
16595s	opposite side of your deck then has to
16597s	be catastrophically bad if you draw the
16600s	cards in the wrong order and I think
16601s	sometimes with decks like this I
16603s	understand that you know there are play
16605s	patterns that people just generally
16606s	don't like and large damage from hand
16608s	early in the game fits that for a lot of
16610s	people but I think people do kind of
16612s	fail to appreciate sometimes that you
16613s	know that one deck that one game where
16615s	you lost to this deck on turn five the
16618s	the player you lost to then queued up
16619s	two more games and they were exactly
16621s	like this from levic right after like
16623s	there there is a reason decks like this
16626s	are technically balanced even if you
16628s	sometimes get the frustrating end of the
16629s	stick and playing against it and
16631s	hopefully now levik will feel like he's
16633s	got that bad game out of his system
16634s	because now he has to go up against
16636s	paladin on the other side but boy when
16638s	you can put Divine Shields Divine Shield
16641s	taunts huge stat Buffs in play plenty
16644s	full AOE so even if you do find your
16646s	Sharpshooter it can get dealt with by
16648s	the Paladin as well this is a
16650s	potentially rough matchup I think for
16653s	levik yeah and this is one of those
16655s	where I think you are interested in
16658s	anything you can do to make those very
16661s	early big boards just so you can do
16663s	value trades with your 1 three is
16665s	leverage the hero power as much as
16667s	possible and then just do enough damage
16669s	that before they get too many stats you
16671s	can do your Sharpshooter pop off turn so
16674s	keeping slyther spear uh having the
16676s	Wayward Sage on the far left here just
16678s	trying to get a lot of early stats here
16682s	and boogie down for G but no turn on ooh
16687s	okay this is a wonderful opening from
16689s	levic in terms of just very very strong
16692s	early Tempo gets a discounted Naga to go
16695s	along here school teacher for three is
16697s	fantastic some wonderful hits that you
16699s	can get off that levic will be feeling a
16703s	lot better than he did about 30 seconds
16705s	ago I can tell you that
16707s	much yep we do
16710s	see coin boogie down for G but on the
16713s	other side love it can predict ation and
16716s	then Wayward sage and then if he so
16719s	chooses also play that school teacher
16721s	which will get another discount
16725s	yes so if you were to stick something on
16728s	the board here he would need double
16730s	Divine Shield to come off this
16734s	mhm she does
16738s	not
16742s	interesting Tak the draw I imagine
16756s	so I think this is nod to the fact that
16758s	if levic top decks a sharpshooter having
16762s	a one Mana Wayward Sage is an excellent
16764s	way to start things off yes
16768s	agreed it hold the Naga value as well
16771s	yep oh Sigil of
16774s	time
16775s	so
16783s	nicely the tight rope that has to be
16786s	walked here is like how much damage can
16790s	levic push without gu feeling the need
16794s	to show down deputization Aura because
16797s	as soon as that happens it's very
16798s	possible that uh will be able to sort of
16801s	heal out of range of the damage that
16804s	levic is able to put for
16808s	yeah and I think this is smart honestly
16809s	from levic where he just says okay I hit
16811s	Sigil of time now I can actually divert
16813s	back to a more combo based strategy the
16816s	Paladin hasn't run away with it from the
16817s	with the early game like the alternative
16819s	to this is play my entire handful of
16822s	small minions but as we've discussed
16823s	already like a lot of the time that is
16825s	just activating the good cards in the
16827s	Paladin's hand um when you go for that
16829s	kind of board spread so I actually
16830s	really like this decision from leic just
16832s	to slow down for a turn rep
16838s	yeah not too much in the way of refill
16840s	for G just a few one ones they do all
16843s	eat two damage on a sharpshooter turn
16846s	but once again no Sharpshooter I think
16849s	we're looking for any draw we can no
16851s	spectral sight either has to take
16853s	consolation prize with the Crimson sigil
16856s	runner noling for
16859s	Mark doesn't hit damage or Sharpshooter
16863s	can't even play Greedy partner this time
16866s	turn and these are not the hits that Lev
16869s	was looking for it was seeming good to
16872s	that till that point but then uh
16876s	getting basically whiffs on the three
16878s	draws
16880s	is it's pretty tough
16894s	beat
16901s	this is a very tough turn now with the
16904s	addition of uh keeper
16908s	strength three or four different viable
16910s	options for how to play this turn of
16913s	course you do have deputization or as
16914s	you've been talking about for the last
16916s	few turns I mean there's also just
16919s	Showdown pris prism though pris y
16921s	exactly yep you know you consider
16925s	holding it back because uh now that
16927s	three damage is enough to
16929s	clear the Sharpshooter but at the same
16932s	time when you get your three 33s in
16939s	play this here I think is just to
16941s	Discount the garden Grace so that we can
16943s	go deputization Gardens Grace and we'll
16946s	see if not going for those extra stats
16949s	is going to punish I mean levic really
16952s	has to just go for a lethal here in
16955s	immediately otherwise Showdown plus
16958s	deputization Ora could do a ton of work
16962s	uh particularly if he plays a vicious
16964s	sther spear that actually gets attack up
16967s	to three which can actually kill one of
16970s	the
16977s	bandits see how just how irritating even
16979s	a one one on the board can be though
16981s	soaked so much of this damage from going
16984s	face
16986s	War there is a second Sharpshooter
16989s	picked up and actually yeah it's going
16991s	to have to
16993s	be it's going to have to be a beam turn
16996s	but you also need the
17003s	life no three three in play as you're
17005s	pointing out very smart from
17012s	levic so Grace can come down which I
17015s	think is part of why that hammer was
17017s	played last turn is it then allows you
17019s	to gain the life back up after the
17023s	Sharpshooter turn still play
17028s	beam whoa you Cho chose not to take it
17032s	did not play The Garden's Grace um with
17034s	the one Mana
17037s	remaining yeah what happened there cuz
17039s	beam should have been zero right he so
17041s	he I think he just decided he wasn't
17043s	spending one Mana any well no even then
17045s	you just play the extra one one right so
17046s	I think it has to end up being a mistake
17048s	but yeah he traded with the 62 into the
17050s	thing first before pass beam um which
17053s	then made it one instead of zero like
17055s	the holding of the gardens Grace might
17057s	be a deliberate choice but I can't
17060s	imagine why you wouldn't then play the
17062s	the additional one one with that Mana
17066s	instead well no it's just you can't play
17071s	The Beam still if you attack in and kill
17074s	a minion right right
17077s	demons I see yeah yeah okay yeah I'm
17080s	with you I'm with you yeah absolutely so
17082s	there yeah there wasn't actually
17083s	anything to hit
17084s	into that's right yeah otherwise so
17088s	valuing you know actually getting the
17090s	beam played which you know represents a
17092s	whole lot more damage
17093s	than uh being able
17096s	to Guard Grace for more
17100s	life this is very strange
17105s	though I
17107s	guess that might just mean levic is dead
17111s	here right keeper strength plus Gardens
17114s	Grace that much life gain that many
17116s	stats in play not having access to the
17120s	the bounce again more SP over
17124s	here rep for
17127s	Duty so leic now going to have to go
17129s	this turn instead and I do kind of
17131s	respect this line from levic I was when
17133s	you you commented initially um he had
17135s	the second sharpshooter in hand and we
17136s	kind of moved on to something else but I
17138s	was going to point out that he'd used
17140s	every cheap card in his hand on the
17142s	previous turn so his hand was just full
17143s	of twos and threes at that point which
17144s	just doesn't really get you anywhere
17146s	with a sharpshooter turn so leic tried
17149s	to delay tried to set up um got the coin
17151s	in hand at least trying to make
17153s	something happen but it's just that one
17155s	extra turn that he had to wait has just
17157s	ended up I think spelling disaster
17161s	here if it wasn't for that huge heal
17164s	then maybe we can talk about all these
17165s	momentums that have suddenly just shown
17167s	up but Paladin such a Swiss army knife
17171s	of a class really has everything going
17174s	for them anything that you want to be
17175s	able to do that's powerful when
17176s	Hearthstone Paladin can do it and that
17179s	includes healing back to
17182s	full I mean that is not a bad effort
17185s	though to be fair is it like that is
17187s	take all the way down to nine again
17191s	disgusting yeah I think had the minion
17194s	been able to to be cleared that turn
17196s	there's a very real
17198s	possibility you know denying that life
17200s	that levik still just gets there I it
17202s	was just a matter of no ability to to
17205s	get the full clear going
17207s	into going into that last
17211s	turn yeah I think one or two um
17214s	interesting moments from both players
17216s	there you know leic choosing to hold on
17218s	the the penultimate term which I think
17219s	was right um gu of course yes with the
17222s	execution of the Prismatic beam uh term
17224s	was absolutely correct but there was
17226s	also um a couple of turns before that
17228s	where there was multiple ways of of
17230s	going through how to address and I think
17231s	he also um on a couple of turns kind of
17234s	went a little low on pressure just to be
17237s	able to have the guaranteed responses to
17240s	the um to the turns right like there was
17242s	the turn right before levik uh topped
17245s	the first Sharpshooter and Drew it off
17248s	the top where you had a very very timid
17250s	turn wanting to be able to respond to
17253s	the Sharpshooters instead and I think
17254s	think as we saw the game progress I
17256s	think he was pretty much paid off for
17258s	that decision as well just being able to
17259s	answer those boards make sure nothing
17261s	was sticking on the other side and uh in
17263s	the end levik put up his best for the uh
17266s	the final showdown but could not get
17268s	that damage across the line and
17270s	unfortunately levik who I think comes
17272s	into this as one of the favorites with a
17274s	lot of people um maybe some of that
17277s	Faith would have been shaken after
17279s	people saw the lineups but certainly
17280s	just in terms of player name player
17283s	Prestige I think levic certainly would
17285s	have been a big favorite for a lot of
17286s	people would you agree with that yeah I
17288s	think absolutely you know the very first
17290s	Champion we had this year and did so
17293s	with I believe it was a blood DK right
17295s	so certainly has shown us the ability to
17298s	go the distance with unique lineup
17301s	choices and uh to then be the the first
17304s	Baker I mean player going home
17308s	uh is uh not what some of us may have
17311s	expected but when you have two Champions
17313s	facing off against each other
17316s	someone's got to go yeah I think either
17319s	way that pan out we'd be talking about
17320s	very similar things right cuz I put you
17322s	right in that same bracket but speaking
17324s	of brackets you can see re vam has had
17327s	all the success he is just so good as he
17330s	was eager to tell you marching through
17333s	in the upper bracket and making it
17335s	through to tomorrow and then levic
17337s	unfortunately is our zer2 player uh from
17340s	group a uh that remaining match Hemlock
17342s	and G we will be now holding holding
17344s	that until tomorrow I believe and then
17346s	moving on to uh to Group B for the
17349s	remainder of today where a few players
17352s	are entering proceedings out of ice
17354s	including of course pocket train which I
17357s	imagine a lot of people are waiting with
17358s	baited breath to see pocket entering the
17361s	frame we we we just want to see pocket's
17364s	APM right actually see how how he does
17367s	with you know some of these decks with
17369s	the Naga priest in particular is a fun
17372s	pick and then the Naga Demon Hunter as
17374s	well I know I was trying out some of the
17376s	Naga priest and I can do sort of the the
17379s	Baseline turns but the ones where you
17381s	really have to do a lot of refreshing
17382s	Mana crystals and playing you know
17384s	valash and all these wigs those uh those
17387s	are a little tougher for me well I'm
17389s	sure pocket will absolutely have it down
17392s	uh we are done with group a until today
17393s	as I said we still have that one
17395s	elimination match to be played tomorrow
17397s	but we are going to move on to Group B
17399s	we're going to do a little cast a
17400s	reshuffle we're going to take a little
17401s	break but there is still plenty a good
17403s	50% of the day still remaining of the
17405s	World Championships day one so do not go
17407s	anywhere you don't want to miss anything
17409s	we will be right
17420s	[Music]
17433s	back
17435s	[Music]
17443s	[Music]
17453s	[Music]
17463s	3
17464s	[Music]
17568s	[Music]
17613s	he
17614s	[Music]
17642s	he
17646s	[Music]
17677s	[Music]
17685s	[Applause]
17688s	[Music]
17702s	hallelu
17722s	hello everyone welcome back to the
17725s	second half of day number one here at
17728s	the Hearthstone Masters Tour World
17730s	Championship I am Dragon Rider joined
17733s	This Time by TJ how are you doing you
17735s	getting ready for uh this group b
17739s	TJ I am yeah I think uh especially this
17743s	first match is going to be uh quite good
17746s	quite special as well I also uh just
17749s	from a personal standpoint like the
17751s	lineups from group b a little bit better
17754s	not necessarily as well-rounded lineups
17756s	but as wow that's cool deck uh so uh
17760s	definitely looking forward to this one
17762s	um but I had mentioned at the very
17764s	beginning of the stream one of those the
17767s	there was four of us on the screen at
17768s	one time I said pocket train was my
17770s	player to watch and now I'm excited that
17772s	we get to start watching
17774s	him oh 100% agree with you there he is
17778s	definitely uh my pick to take the whole
17781s	thing I think uh so we are going to see
17785s	this first match as you mentioned
17787s	between pocket train and CJ coming up
17791s	but we'll get to work through that whole
17793s	uh or most of that group be but pocket
17797s	train here I am so excited I know a lot
17800s	of us are very like big fans of pocket
17802s	train uh I personally feel like he is
17804s	kind of the champion of the people is
17807s	what I am dubbing him as uh because he
17811s	actually kind of has this story of when
17814s	he started playing Hearthstone he he
17817s	wasn't that good he had this whole
17819s	history of like he didn't even hit
17821s	Legend until a couple of years into
17825s	playing and then wasn't really actually
17827s	interested in
17828s	competing but once he did start
17831s	competing he had those results and look
17834s	at some of these results as well 2023
17837s	Masters Tour fall champion after very
17841s	very good successes this whole year in
17843s	those Masters Tour an 80% win rate just
17847s	incredibly consistent throughout this
17849s	entire year and I I think a lot of
17852s	people can kind of relate to that uh
17854s	maybe not hitting legend for quite a
17857s	while but man once he did I am just so
17860s	glad that we get to see him at such a
17862s	high competitive level like this but you
17866s	mentioned those decks TJ let's talk
17869s	about that
17872s	priest yeah the Naga priest that's why
17875s	not many Naga priests you compare this
17877s	to what group a was was uh bringing for
17879s	us and it's like okay we got a plague
17881s	death knight you know that's uh that's
17883s	what we're working with here but now
17884s	we're working with Naga priest and
17888s	um I'd like to say it's you know good
17892s	old classic Naga priest but it's not
17895s	they got a whole lot of uh fun new tools
17898s	it's very difficult deck to play some
17900s	people don't are I I don't want to say
17904s	underestimating its strength but rightly
17907s	so
17908s	questioning whether or not this is the
17910s	bring because of how hard it can be of a
17912s	deck to play but we'll see pocket train
17914s	is well known uh for decks exactly in
17917s	this wheelhouse well known for very
17919s	Niche uh and sometimes specifically uh
17922s	priest decks so uh looking forward to
17925s	seeing if he can continue this the
17927s	rampage that he's been on this year
17930s	continue the momentum but feels like
17931s	he's just getting better as the year
17934s	goes on and uh he's got to harness that
17937s	power while he still can cuz we only got
17939s	two weeks left on the year and he's only
17941s	got two days left to be become a world
17944s	champion yeah well on the other side
17947s	though uh CJ is going to have something
17949s	to say about that if he has any control
17953s	over these games he is going to be
17955s	trying to stop pocket train and progress
17958s	farther himself uh I I feel like CJ is
17962s	one of those players who has had a lot
17965s	of this success has done very well for
17967s	himself I mean of course all of these
17970s	players have that's why they're here at
17971s	this world championship but but I don't
17974s	feel like as much is known overall about
17977s	CJ as some of our other players uh but
17981s	CJ did get to compete in that first
17983s	season of grand Masters so he is
17986s	definitely not kind of a stranger to the
17989s	Hearthstone competitive
17992s	scene I think that's an error on the on
17995s	the graphic cuz I don't remember him
17998s	being in
18000s	it like a old um but yeah uh kind of
18005s	looking through like his social media he
18007s	talks a lot about like his his his
18010s	students and sort of his mentality and
18012s	it's pretty cool to kind of you know
18015s	hear about his life and see his life
18017s	teachings uh through that
18020s	but that's coming in as
18023s	basically a lad hero right he didn't
18026s	really have those Masters T performances
18028s	this year uh only the one um in the very
18032s	last season
18035s	I guess by all accounts the underdog uh
18039s	com but by the accounts of previous
18041s	results throughout the year in large
18043s	tournaments but you can see five times
18045s	rank one finishes right that's uh uh
18048s	very impressive that's not an easy feat
18051s	like you you may say oh I can get get
18054s	rank one easy if I just put in the time
18056s	top 50 Legend is a completely different
18058s	world in top 200 top 10 Legend is an
18061s	even different world and then top five
18063s	Legend at the end of the season is a a
18065s	world that you could not even possibly
18067s	imagine so uh those are tough things to
18070s	do and certainly proven his worth over
18072s	the course of the year yeah and speaking
18075s	of uh a hero maybe the hero that we need
18080s	in terms of Reno decks because we saw
18082s	there that Highlander Reno Druid uh
18086s	which does have two duplicates the
18088s	Splish Splash welp and that nourish uh
18090s	but those the only duplicate copies in
18092s	the decks so yeah one of our kind of
18094s	running themes this whole weekend is
18097s	definitely those Highlander decks and I
18100s	I personally I'm more of a fan of this
18102s	one but at the same time he's kind of
18105s	the only player that brought this more
18108s	really one of mostly Highlander deck so
18113s	we'll see how it ends up working for him
18115s	but we are going to jump into this first
18118s	game here pocket train on that priest uh
18122s	but CJ on on this Naga this Sharpshooter
18127s	Demon
18130s	Hunter yeah the
18132s	getting the bat um so it took me a while
18137s	to figure out the miracle salesman and
18139s	what it's for but snake oil is just good
18142s	card uh able to get you out in a pinch
18145s	it's just a one Mana 2 two which means
18147s	it sted as if there was a downside sort
18150s	of um at the the tut two uh stat
18154s	line uh but what it does do is let you
18157s	trade into your deck if you think your
18159s	hand is not good it also um lets you
18162s	have an additional cheap spell if you
18164s	wanted to kind of beef up your your
18166s	Priestess on your Priestess turn very
18169s	interesting the whole deck is pretty
18172s	interesting in many regards but we'll
18173s	see if he's going to be able to do it um
18176s	CJ um there's a Sigil in the hand looks
18181s	like just going to play for Tempo with
18183s	the
18187s	Desperado yeah I don't mind this at all
18190s	though I I think just removing that body
18193s	off of the board is going to be a key uh
18198s	decision for CJ in this matchup because
18200s	the point one of the big points of the
18203s	priest deck is very similar to that Mech
18206s	Rogue that we've seen on broadcast a
18208s	little bit talked about was is kind of
18211s	the same right you stick them in minion
18213s	on the board early game you kind of buff
18215s	it up and you just send it into your
18218s	opponent's face you just hit for a lot
18220s	of damage and you try not to let your
18222s	opponent do anything about it uh and CJ
18225s	might be worried about a potential uh
18227s	serpent wig there so just trying to
18229s	clear that up plus there's not really
18233s	any sort of pop off or big potential
18235s	that he's going for in these first
18236s	couple of turns so I kind of just like
18238s	that keep the priest off of the board
18241s	until he has time to get to that sigil
18243s	and draw into some other
18246s	tools yeah the sigil I think is the big
18248s	key to this opening because one he can
18251s	feel free to spend his resources cuz he
18253s	knows that he's going to
18254s	refill and then two he knows that his
18257s	turn three is going to be nothing so he
18260s	needs to take control of the board while
18262s	he has the Mana to do so to make sure
18264s	that he can go into that sigil turn
18266s	safely not have to deviate may not play
18268s	that at
18270s	all yeah
18273s	that pip on the other side for pocket
18276s	train so much added value you're talking
18278s	about those Miracle
18280s	salesmen so good even without needing to
18284s	play it if you really can as you said in
18286s	a pinch you can trade it off you can do
18288s	so many different things with it it's an
18290s	added spell in this list for so many
18292s	different
18295s	things this
18300s	discover lady steno is very interesting
18303s	here I I think this also is very
18306s	reminiscent of what we've seen in the
18308s	past uh lady sto hasn't really been
18310s	around since she got nerfed there's been
18313s	a lot of other cards that have kind of
18314s	come into a lot of these decks uh
18317s	instead but taking the lady steno with
18320s	these predations in hand is pretty
18327s	interesting I mean it's well it's more
18330s	interesting than those other options
18331s	they did not really see great
18333s	true yeah it's lady Steno is a a shadow
18339s	of his former s not nearly as powerful
18343s	as it once was the Nerf kind of
18345s	compounded uh to make it to get it to
18348s	where it is now but CJ running out of
18353s	resources and pocket train has plenty to
18357s	keep the ball rolling
18361s	here yeah both lacking a little bit of
18365s	card draw right now which is really
18367s	actually very interesting because both
18368s	of these decks really kind of want to
18370s	have those very large draw turns or
18374s	consistent draws throughout the turns
18376s	and neither of them have really found
18378s	that and instead I think we're seeing
18380s	them just go for these salesman and
18382s	probably we'll have to trade off those
18384s	snake oils use the tradable effect just
18386s	to actually get some card draw going
18389s	which yeah is definitely not the most
18392s	ideal case but again as we've talked
18394s	about that is a case that you can use it
18396s	for and that's kind of the uh in case of
18400s	emergency break glass uh
18403s	scenario but there's been enough one
18406s	cost spells on the other side now for
18409s	pocket train that he has just been able
18411s	to get on the board with these massive
18415s	bodies what can CJ do about this yeah
18418s	very efficient turn with the funnel
18420s	kicks especially getting the heel off
18421s	first to make sure he had perfect Mana
18424s	expenditure he knew that he was going to
18426s	pop off that turn because of the um knew
18429s	he had all all the the one cost cards
18430s	that he needed to get these down uh with
18433s	the synchronize but just mapping it out
18435s	so he could also gain two health is just
18437s	icing on the on the cake so now it's up
18441s	to see the way
18444s	out there I mean there's no card for
18446s	pocket Train That's the uh the
18450s	benefit I suppose but also at the same
18454s	time in in a matchup like this as well
18458s	it does certainly feel like some of this
18460s	board is it's going to do a lot yeah
18465s	dream booat is one of the best pickups
18468s	in a vacuum off the top yeah P TR even
18473s	surprised by himself I don't know if
18474s	this is going to be able to chew through
18476s	this board uh
18478s	whatsoever we'll see but there it
18480s	doesn't feel like there's nearly enough
18481s	Mana or cheap up nagas obviously he's
18484s	going to keep drawing through his deck
18485s	but yeah wait
18494s	what everything went
18496s	face yeah I mean which usually feels
18500s	like a good thing but also not when
18502s	you're staring down this much damage and
18504s	you're at 10
18506s	Health
18507s	but also this is this presents a really
18511s	awkward situation for CJ where we saw
18515s	both of those predations as well just
18517s	going straight into minions and that
18520s	doesn't necessarily feel like the way
18522s	that you really want to be going in on
18524s	this matchup or or just playing this
18525s	deck in general you really want to be
18528s	having as many of those spells that you
18531s	are adding damage with or directing
18532s	somewhere to ideally be going to face
18535s	maybe some of that Sharpshooter damage
18538s	can uh pick off a couple of Minions on
18540s	the board or vice versa maybe there's
18543s	only a little bit of board and you can
18544s	use those spells and then that
18546s	Sharpshooter damage goes face but in
18548s	that case there was so much on the board
18550s	that there was really nothing CJ could
18553s	do about it regardless and we kind of
18555s	saw that in another match earlier
18558s	against the sift Mage where the
18559s	Elementals just got on board and there
18561s	was really nothing that the the Naga
18563s	Demon Hunter could do about it yeah you
18566s	really have to either push earlier or
18569s	hope there's not a taunt in the way to
18570s	be able to get the damage from like the
18571s	momentum suppos of evidence uh cycle
18574s	through your deck enough on the turn and
18575s	not necessarily worried about the
18576s	Sharpshooter shots but uh I feel like CJ
18580s	played the uh early game pretty well
18582s	playing into the sigil turn uh but then
18584s	from there pocket train just had the pop
18586s	off turn with the PIP into the miracle
18588s	salesman funnel cake full One
18592s	Drops uh the Thirsty Drifter and then
18595s	the synchronized to be able to just
18596s	drive it home and then the jle off the
18598s	top with a full full Health Board is
18601s	just mAh
18603s	uh beautiful uh from that pocket train
18608s	reaction there too yeah so good
18611s	yeah he I think he was doing that
18614s	because the lady Steno came down really
18616s	late but usually well not usually but
18620s	often times you're playing your cheaper
18622s	nus first to give you more options for
18623s	later but he had already played a bunch
18625s	of spells after the lady steno had come
18627s	down or before the lady Seno come down
18628s	so a little bit of wasted value but it
18630s	was because he kind of hit a stop in his
18633s	draw sequence and he's shaking his head
18636s	he knows that that was a rough game to
18639s	his world championship appearance here
18641s	but so plenty of hearthstone left that's
18643s	only a one zero lead for pocket train uh
18647s	moving into this next
18649s	game and I am very excited to see uh
18655s	when we get to pocket train playing that
18657s	Demon Hunter uh I am a big fan of the
18661s	Demon Hunter card choices that pocket
18664s	train and meia have gone with more so
18666s	than some of the other Demon Hunter
18668s	Decks that we're seeing but we're not
18670s	going to see pocket train bring that
18671s	Demon Hunter deck in quite yet instead
18674s	it's going to be this Druid which is
18677s	actually kind of the complete opposite
18679s	of that Reno duplicate conversation that
18682s	has been happening so far on broadcast
18685s	this is just Dragon drew it there's like
18688s	all the duplicates no Reno this is just
18692s	kind of going in on these bodies the
18695s	early game the mid game closing out with
18698s	ideally the board of dragon golems and
18702s	the cactus construct is one of those new
18705s	cards as well that helps this deck get
18708s	there yeah this is the good stuff
18712s	basically yeah sure Reno is pretty cool
18714s	and all
18715s	but this is the goods the dragon Dr
18719s	Goods I prefer this one is this
18724s	really you go with the Desperado over
18728s	the wa Sage that was picked off off the
18730s	top maybe just wants to go into Sigil of
18732s	time next turn and doesn't really care
18734s	about the
18735s	discount
18737s	uh but it's answered and CJ sort of knew
18742s	that because of the cactus construct
18743s	what was going to be coming cuz
18745s	obviously when you get that it's
18747s	obviously the last card that was
18749s	played cuz that's what put it into the
18752s	hand
18754s	oh the top deck razor scale I absolutely
18759s	love this inclusion in this deck there
18761s	is only one copy of the Razer scale but
18766s	this is such a clever choice I think in
18769s	the deck building and the cards here and
18772s	maybe in a broader scale maybe on ladder
18776s	it is less valuable or won't have the
18780s	same results but I think just the way
18782s	that these decks and these lineups are
18785s	positioned in the tournament this
18786s	weekend that razor scale slowing down
18790s	the uh demon Hunters slowing down a lot
18793s	of those big pop off turns with uh
18797s	Paladin if you keep it up but pocket
18799s	train didn't um but potentially against
18802s	Mages or in a uh potential
18806s	priest if like pocket train and me to go
18809s	into each other later that's just so
18812s	much I I think kind of added value of
18815s	putting that into the deck forcing the
18818s	added uh pressure of having to remove
18820s	that razor scale and of course it just
18823s	adds us another
18824s	Dragon yeah basically it buys you a turn
18827s	right against a lot of decks it buys you
18829s	a whole turn um not thr away but now the
18833s	pressure is pushing and once again this
18835s	is kind of where the uh Demon Hunter
18837s	struggles is when there's a relatively
18840s	early uh pretty big board uh to be able
18842s	to answer because the Sharpshooter just
18844s	doesn't feel like it does
18846s	enough um and it's not like this is
18850s	pocket train all inning like it was in
18852s	the last game has plenty to follow it
18856s	up yeah I I think being able to play
18859s	that Sharpshooter followed up by a one
18860s	Mana Naga and be able to have a lot more
18863s	Mana than what he was trying to work
18865s	with in the previous game this is
18867s	looking quite a bit better of the pop
18870s	off turn but yeah this is still a lot
18872s	lot of stats on the board and the the
18874s	fact of those Dragon Golems having taunt
18876s	I think is a very important part of this
18879s	board as well because that meant that
18881s	that 11 damage that CJ built up from
18884s	playing all those spells was not able to
18886s	connect with the face and it had to go
18888s	into one of those taunts it's 11 damage
18890s	that is not going to his face and that
18892s	is huge in a deck that wants to be
18895s	dealing damage to your opponent's face
18897s	that's how you win the game
18901s	yep
18903s	and going to be able to clean up most of
18904s	the board here at least the important
18907s	stuff and build even bigger and there's
18910s	nothing here there's idari studies sure
18913s	get find a midnight wolf
18917s	fantastic not going to do
18919s	anything it clears something that's
18923s	uh-huh yeah that's about as far as it
18928s	goes problem it cleared a thing it did
18935s	seven Mana clear a
18940s	thing I don't know about you TJ that's
18942s	not typically how I like to spend my
18943s	seven Mana but I I guess here in Z case
18946s	you just have to do it but for pocket
18949s	train though this has been such a
18951s	fantastic setup of just going in on the
18953s	board getting these good cards being
18956s	able to not even really worry about
18959s	pushing damage yet this has really felt
18961s	like a game of just I'm going to play
18963s	some things and just watch as you kind
18967s	of play a bunch of stuff to try to
18969s	answer the things that I've
18973s	done and he has the Alex draws that I
18976s	finish it up
18980s	with it's going to be a oh
18985s	well yeah he'll have board space cuz he
18988s	could trade in that doesn't need it
18990s	doesn't need anything actually only
18992s	needed the board at hand and a very
18995s	quick
18996s	two coming in for pocket train to start
18999s	things off now is where you start to
19000s	worry as G because both of those first
19003s	two games were quite
19005s	brutal yeah they they were pretty
19008s	decisive there for uh for pocket which
19012s	again fans of pocket train are rejoicing
19014s	they're very excited they like to see
19016s	this two Z but uh you know personally in
19019s	at least uh most tournaments but
19022s	especially a world championship you like
19024s	seeing it go to game fives you want to
19026s	kind of see it go toward the end you
19029s	don't want to just see a paladin getting
19032s	a huge thing on board and smacking face
19035s	and closing out the game on like turn
19036s	four that's not the kind of games that
19039s	we want to see but you know even though
19042s	CJ was able to get a couple of pop off
19045s	turns was able to find some of those
19046s	resources it just did not end up being
19049s	enough in the long run and
19052s	I find it very interesting as well in
19055s	boards like what we just saw with the
19057s	dragon Golems boards like we've seen
19060s	with the Sif Mage with those Elementals
19062s	and even in some of the other games that
19065s	have happened already on stream there's
19069s	medium to largish looking
19072s	boards and no board
19075s	clears why are we in a place TJ where
19080s	the deck that actually has the best
19083s	board clear is the aggro Paladin what is
19089s	happening yeah that's
19092s	uh I don't know if I call it I guess
19095s	aggro Paladin every Paladin is an aggro
19097s	Paladin if you if you try hard enough
19099s	but
19100s	um yeah it's uh Prismatic Beane keeper
19104s	verdict makes it pretty strong but
19107s	luckily no paladins in this series we're
19109s	getting a break from Paladin that's
19111s	right now it's pocket trains turn on the
19112s	Demon Hunter so we got a Demon Hunter
19114s	mirror going on here and uh I mean if CJ
19118s	can get this across maybe there's a
19120s	chance of a reverse sweep because it
19122s	seems like in both players lineups that
19123s	Demon Hunter is the uh the sort of weak
19127s	link everybody's kind of playing
19129s	mid-range CJ does have the less
19132s	consistent version of the Druid which
19134s	could be an issue if we're talking
19135s	specifically versus Demon
19137s	Hunter but it's still good enough
19142s	I I almost feel like I want to say that
19144s	CJ has
19145s	the less consistent version of Demon
19148s	Hunter as well not only just the Druid
19152s	but the Demon Hunter I I really like
19154s	this version of The Demon Hunter that
19156s	pocket train and mey have it's running
19160s	uh the spectral sites it's running ferin
19163s	and it does have a copy of going down
19165s	swinging which was recently uh buffed
19169s	but I think there's just a bit more
19172s	continuous like consistent draw which
19175s	really helps get to those pop off turns
19177s	to find the Sharpshooter to find the key
19180s	cards and being able to either go for
19185s	just a spectral site on a a turn where
19188s	maybe you're not really having a a great
19190s	turn anyways feels a lot better in most
19194s	games than waiting until you draw Finley
19199s	and then try to just play Finley to hope
19201s	that you get all the things in that
19202s	single
19203s	turn
19212s	yeah
19214s	[Music]
19218s	well behind on board
19223s	slightly yeah see what
19226s	[Music]
19228s	Nas expensive as far as nagas go
19232s	yeah spell damage is interesting and
19236s	it's the best value but is there is
19240s	there an argument for Zola and actually
19242s	using the battlecry to get a copy of
19246s	something it's possible but when you're
19249s	fitting that into sort of a combo
19252s	turn um three Mana is expensive and I
19256s	think queen of Shar might be too
19258s	slow I don't
19260s	know this is
19262s	tough obviously CJ thinks it's tough as
19265s	well
19267s	yeah cuz going into the tank on this one
19270s	yeah it's going to pick the uh GL skill
19272s	I guess it would have been
19274s	reduced cuz the spell was active so it
19276s	would have been a two Mana but I think
19277s	just going for cheapest there regardless
19280s	of
19280s	effect has a lot of
19283s	Merit yeah I'm not thrown
19286s	away talking about cheap there is a
19289s	discounted Sharpshooter into the one
19292s	Mana Naga for pocket
19294s	train
19297s	and what what is happening right here
19300s	actually because pocket Train's hands
19302s	are on his face and there's a bunch of
19304s	cards flying on the board here did he
19307s	just que this all up and play as is
19309s	there like a disconnect between the
19314s	cameras I feel very between the cameras
19316s	and the play yeah slightly
19318s	but very powerful turn cuz now CJ has to
19321s	play reactive here and there's just
19323s	nothing to really play reactive
19324s	Sharpshooters picked up but there's just
19325s	no
19329s	Mana yeah even having a discounted Naga
19334s	is
19335s	not enough uh enough compensation here
19340s	for being still so early in the game
19343s	could go for the Wayward Sage for even
19346s	further discounts on on something
19350s	but as you said is that even going to be
19352s	enough either I don't see
19358s	it yeah he's just got to plan for next
19362s	turn to try and hit the Sharpshooter
19363s	with the discount yeah and then kill the
19366s	Sharpshooter on the other
19371s	side okay I beam and then looks like
19374s	going to probably dispos and oh okay I
19377s	was going to say dispos and sigil but is
19379s	this
19380s	enough cuz you get the additional spell
19383s	plus the Buffs from the Slither
19385s	Spears 8 plus 7even that's exactly e
19388s	though that's 15
19390s	so by pocket train and that's going to
19393s	be a quick three just like that pocket
19396s	Train's moving on to the winnner
19399s	match yeah I that wow it was incredibly
19404s	fast and I think just also speaks to the
19407s	the strength uh and basically how these
19411s	decks are situated in this meta I I
19413s	really do think the more I've thought
19415s	about it that this lineup that both
19418s	pocket train and medy have brought is
19421s	incredibly well situated and is going to
19424s	be really difficult for a lot of the
19427s	other decks to answer whether that's
19430s	that they're going wide on board whether
19432s	they're pushing some early uh damage and
19435s	some early
19437s	Tempo or kind of going in on a popof
19440s	turn whether it's the priest or the
19442s	Demon Hunter it it just seems like all
19444s	of these decks have that flexibility
19446s	enough to be able to get on board early
19449s	push a lot of damage and kind of have
19451s	pop
19452s	offs yeah it's I think that matchup
19456s	looked like a pretty easy three 0 but I
19458s	think maybe not a lot of it but there
19460s	was a lot of pressure on that Demon
19462s	Hunter mirror right um I think that that
19465s	series looks a lot different if uh CJ
19468s	comes out on top of the the Demon Hunter
19470s	mirror because then pocket trains with
19473s	this Demon Hunter against Decks that are
19475s	similar to what he had in his lineup
19477s	maybe not as strong uh but still
19480s	definitely look like the favorite and
19482s	just consistent two of dragon Druid uh
19486s	and the the amount of pressure that it
19489s	that priest can put on in the mid game
19492s	seems like kind of the sweet spot right
19494s	now in terms of countering these decks
19497s	and you know coming into it with Paladin
19500s	ban in mind makes a lot of sense makes a
19503s	whole lot of sense so well done poget
19506s	train starting off as you would sort of
19509s	expect given the track record that he's
19511s	had so far this
19513s	year yeah yeah and we've talked about it
19517s	I think already we've kind of looked at
19518s	the stats in the first tournament of the
19521s	year he made it to uh top four in the
19524s	second one he was in the finals and the
19526s	third one he finally won it and I am
19529s	definitely excited to to see if he can
19532s	kind of continue that momentum that he's
19534s	been building up and close it out with
19537s	that world championship title but we
19540s	have other players and other matches
19542s	still to come that are also competing
19546s	for that world champion title so up next
19549s	we're going to have Wu versus mey and
19552s	we're going to see if uh mey with that
19555s	same lineup that uh we just saw with
19557s	pocket train can also have that kind of
19560s	dominating
19561s	performance and move into that uh
19564s	winners match that will happen following
19567s	the wieku versus mey but uh I don't know
19571s	I don't know how you feel about that one
19573s	I'm ready to see it I'm interested in
19576s	the decks but I'm also a huge pocket fan
19578s	so maybe there was just a little bit of
19580s	that bias in this
19581s	matchup but we still have plenty of
19584s	hearthstone action to check out today so
19588s	don't go anywhere you definitely don't
19589s	want to miss any of these games will be
19592s	right
19593s	[Music]
19620s	back
19621s	[Music]
19626s	[Music]
19679s	f
19707s	[Music]
19709s	he
19714s	[Music]
19760s	[Music]
19772s	[Music]
19787s	hello everyone and welcome back to the
19789s	World Championship uh you may have just
19791s	blinked to miss that previous match cuz
19793s	I'll be honest I was not ready so I had
19796s	to rush around and get ready I didn't
19797s	think it was going to be uh that fast
19799s	but uh I am joined with Linda here and
19801s	uh we're going to be bringing you the
19803s	next match as rapid as possible it seems
19806s	it's going to be wieku versus mey Linda
19809s	are you ready for this one uh yeah I I'm
19811s	ready I watched both seconds of the last
19813s	match I enjoyed the both thoroughly uh
19815s	mey with the same lineup as pocket train
19817s	card for card of course they worked
19819s	together and mey nearly stopped pocket
19821s	train from playing because mey said he
19823s	liked the lineup which made pocket train
19825s	instantly question himself but um after
19827s	what we've just seen I think pocket
19828s	train will be quite happy with how it's
19830s	turned out and obviously mey will be
19832s	excited as well because he'll know
19833s	what's happened and he'll be wondering
19835s	if he can do the same thing again the
19838s	pock just we are going to be checking
19840s	out we C first and the lineup they have
19842s	brought as well and um I can already
19844s	feel sel's disapproval with the uh
19848s	plague death knight being brought from
19850s	Wu for one of the decks Druid and
19853s	rainbow Mage to round it out um and we
19855s	did get word that the paladins have been
19857s	banned so we had a bit of a um
19859s	questionable few moments earlier in the
19861s	day where we went into this tournament
19863s	expecting Paladin to be banned across
19865s	the board and that was not necessarily
19867s	the case but we're back to normal now
19868s	Linda H but what can you tell me about
19870s	Wu well it's there on the screen
19872s	actually uh the main important thing is
19874s	the highest point earner just kept
19876s	getting those rank one Legends over and
19878s	over again uh no extra points for doing
19880s	so but doing it on multiple servers as
19882s	well obviously if you do on multiple
19884s	servers you have less chance of being
19886s	overtaken if you're rank one on three
19887s	servers yeah someone's going to overtake
19889s	you on two of them for you to or three
19890s	than lose your points I love this as
19892s	well first year playing Hearthstone like
19894s	you know competitively SL you know
19896s	taking part in the the Esports side of
19898s	hearthstone uh not bad for a first year
19901s	I'd say not too bad at all um so not
19904s	looking at too too much uh too much of a
19906s	problem so far for wiq as we Che out the
19909s	Mage here and it is going to be that
19910s	sort of rainbow SL mining Mage with the
19913s	blast Mage minor there at the top of the
19915s	list um did you expect to see more Mage
19920s	uh in this weekend Linda cuz I I feel
19922s	like a few people are expecting Mage to
19924s	be not quite Paladin level but not quite
19927s	the level it's at here I actually
19929s	predicted I think five I might have said
19931s	six majes I thought it wouldn't be
19933s	horrendously popular I definitely didn't
19935s	think it was going to be Paladin levels
19937s	um I also thought it'd be the other
19938s	version with the the keyboard and not
19940s	the excavate version um but a lot of
19944s	people did think there'd be more Mage
19945s	I'm not entirely surprised but I've been
19948s	kind of on the Mage isn't as as good as
19950s	people think bandwagon even when it was
19953s	really really good
19954s	so uh yeah I'm not surprised but we are
19958s	going to see one right here I just want
19960s	to pull you back to weu as well being
19962s	his first year in Esports um he's done
19964s	incredibly well on ladder but he has
19966s	dropped out top 16 of two of the three
19968s	Masters tours and top eight in the other
19971s	so something we've seen from very good
19973s	ladder players before is sometimes it
19975s	just takes a little while to get a
19976s	footing in competitive play this being
19978s	one of those people who you know was
19981s	good at ladder long long before he was
19983s	good at tournaments uh mey so wiq he's
19987s	had a whole year at it he's got a lot of
19989s	good players around supporting him uh
19991s	from the Chinese scene in particular he
19993s	should be
19995s	fine used to all the Nuance of
19998s	competitive play down to just routine
20000s	down to just making sure you're
20001s	comfortable but down to not being
20003s	nervous so I give me an age here yeah
20007s	speaking a little bit more on mey of
20008s	course uh that famous line from s let's
20011s	say the best hardstone player to have
20013s	never achieved anything well uh getting
20016s	to world is now a pretty good
20018s	achievement here for me as you mentioned
20020s	uh prepared the lineup with pocket train
20023s	and um it it's kind of I didn't go into
20025s	this going I really like pocket trains
20027s	lineup and um for some reason obviously
20030s	because pocket trains have been
20032s	highlighted recently uh F and I was like
20035s	yeah you know pocket chain I kind of
20036s	I'll be hon I kind of forgot me just had
20038s	the same lineup so I expect it to do
20041s	very very well and what's going to be
20043s	very interesting is if mey can um make
20046s	just as good a show as uh as pocket
20049s	train has just done and then what
20050s	happens when they face each when or if
20052s	should I say they face each other but
20054s	this is a deck that has been uh I think
20057s	has done well from all of us who have
20059s	been testing it and just seeing it
20060s	overall which is this Naga priest I
20062s	think for me this feels like the bring
20065s	you know when we always talk about
20067s	what's let's say the fourth deck or
20068s	what's this deck that's really going to
20070s	crack open a tournament for me I think
20073s	this Naga priest is very good it is very
20076s	good apparently the Pelos throwing in
20077s	there was um Rec fam's work who hasn't
20079s	brought the deck because of the group he
20081s	was in the people he was facing U but he
20083s	was working with them on this lineup as
20085s	well as I understand it um so that
20087s	that's credit to rec V I believe again I
20090s	don't know how much his memes and how
20091s	much is real but that's what I think
20092s	happened back to
20096s	me the players did their own so mey was
20098s	the one who put that 38% in own stats
20102s	clear on this I mean look there's
20105s	nothing wrong with a bit of honesty is
20106s	there so you know it's fine um but yeah
20109s	this matchup overall going to be very
20111s	very interesting because again if mey
20114s	wins he will face pocket train again
20116s	prep together same lineup and so on so H
20119s	it'll be Prett pretty cool to see if
20121s	that happens at all in the group it
20122s	could also happen in a a weird way where
20125s	one loses pocket train wins but then
20127s	pocket loses mey wins and so on so we
20129s	could likely get that match up overall
20131s	to see who's going to get the better end
20132s	of that stick but overall I do lean
20135s	towards mey here mainly just based on
20138s	that lineup our first look at weu um has
20142s	had a camera exemption for the rest of
20143s	the year but he has to use camera for
20145s	the World Championships no two ways
20147s	about it we need to see our potential
20148s	world champion in full glory and there's
20151s	mey in the familiar kitchen setting that
20154s	he streams from to thousands of fans
20156s	around the
20159s	world
20165s	[Music]
20169s	shall bring
20172s	[Music]
20186s	victory yeah and that looks like a hand
20188s	I'm not very good at the pre deck I will
20190s	hold up my hands I have played it a
20192s	little um but this looks like um a
20194s	pretty good opening hand to me and my
20196s	untrained
20200s	eye yeah yeah me getting up to a good
20204s	start now uh getting just the One Drops
20207s	available and that Pelos can be really
20209s	really powerful if he's able to just
20212s	play on curve you don't have to just
20213s	curve out Pelos but if you can play it
20215s	and you feeling confident that it's
20217s	going to live that's a a huge deal yeah
20220s	Wu has nine uh we we're on double watch
20223s	nine two ofs in this Druid and no Golem
20226s	as I understand it so you know I I just
20230s	prefer the the one that me and pocket
20232s	train have got not just cuz it's them
20233s	but when I played the the multiple two
20235s	of Druids I did find that if you're
20238s	going to do that you just you just want
20240s	more dragons and eventually it was just
20242s	like well just play lots of dragons and
20244s	dragon G sometimes just wins a game so
20246s	have that as well and and give up on
20248s	your Arena and just play just play deck
20250s	just play good hearstone
20254s	deck oh
20258s	my yeah cus construct about as good a
20261s	start as you're going to be able to get
20262s	here for weu uh with a druid again you
20264s	just want something to be able to fight
20266s	back on board because if pre if this
20269s	priest from me starts to snowball
20271s	there's not really a good way to stop it
20274s	or not reliable anyway for this Druid so
20278s	and as you mentioned because of the uh
20279s	the question marks with the the Reno
20281s	potential later on if it even gets that
20284s	far maybe with the help of some ramp H
20286s	it's going to be a tricky one I do
20288s	personally just like the the tempo play
20290s	here and uh just play the dream boat and
20292s	go H because
20294s	again hero power isn't good enough
20297s	versus this even though is just a it's
20299s	relatively small for a dream boat but
20301s	just having a two three out is a pretty
20302s	big
20303s	deal this is the most I mean it is the
20305s	world championships and he is getting
20306s	more and more experienced at competitive
20308s	play but this is the most f Focus I've
20310s	ever seen mey look like actually not
20312s	joking around just just getting on with
20314s	it and taking his time in the opening
20316s	turns which is important when you're
20317s	settling into a tournament whoever you
20319s	are I think and this is this is a turn I
20322s	don't know what the ordering is I'm
20323s	going to wait to see mey do it but so
20325s	many options already to draw cards put
20327s	pressure on do damage oh my
20330s	[Music]
20332s	goodness yeah I'm kind of just staring
20336s	here at what exact cuz like you said
20338s	there is a few options as to what to do
20340s	here
20344s	um it's the ultimate Tempo versus value
20347s	sort of hand right how much Tempo do you
20349s	need a lot how much stuff can you do a
20351s	lot which cards do you want a lot how
20353s	much Mana can you spend a lot oh my
20357s	goodness I'm just working out here I'm
20359s	not just
20362s	the this is what's really tricky to use
20364s	some of these cards because they have
20365s	like sort of multiple effects based on
20368s	what you're going for here CU I was
20369s	looking at what does funnel cake do okay
20371s	gets some Mana back and draws a card
20374s	does me need to draw a card right now I
20376s	I don't think so so I think I like this
20378s	approach here of just saying you know
20380s	what I don't need to use funnel cake or
20382s	anything right now I'll just uh just
20384s	pile on the pressure and sort of make
20386s	those trades as awkward as possible for
20388s	wiq yeah and forcing wiq to kill the the
20392s	smaller minion cuz it's the better
20393s	minion and leaving the bigger minion
20396s	alive because it's the bigger minion so
20399s	and now he's got
20401s	so much he can
20403s	do and again it's that decision try to
20406s	get some spells cast to get the handmade
20407s	and going as
20410s	well light SS and the impure
20417s	fall it's just drop down now yeah this
20421s	will be good to activate handmaiden and
20423s	um and have the Mana to be able to play
20425s	it salesman's going to picked up here
20427s	but this could also just be priestess as
20429s	well just to get serpent wig down
20434s	yeah aligos Priestess wig that's what
20438s	I'm seeing as well that's what I like
20440s	it's just so much damage what do you
20442s	play wig on
20443s	pagos yeah I I want an 88 on the
20452s	board what's your opponent going to do
20454s	nourish you to death I don't think
20458s	so okay
20467s	any problem now do you protect your
20468s	cleric by killing the 32 or even the one
20470s	two here yeah yeah I think so I think so
20473s	yeah the cleric do so much
20484s	work
20485s	yeah all nice cards and all that but if
20488s	you do nothing again this turn as the
20490s	Druid you are facing a full board next
20496s	turn is it still just ramp though yeah I
20499s	think oh I I think weq has to yeah
20505s	yeah because there is still the um there
20508s	is there is the F in hand right which is
20511s	a relatively big deal
20515s	mhm he's down to only 72 drops voo
20519s	watches out across the
20521s	world yeah
20523s	nothing nothing amazing here from
20528s	Cactus for no one
20537s	no would have just wanted anything that
20539s	was a bit more active you know some of
20541s	the other options you can get are
20543s	actually really strong I feel like Wei's
20544s	kind of had very mid outcomes from
20548s	Cactus right now
20550s	I two Mana 55 against um a potential big
20554s	cleric was pretty reasonable it's just
20556s	not enough this is out of
20561s	control and this is the problem now um
20564s	although I mentioned F obviously not
20565s	really having any reductions right now
20567s	still at that nine um does have the
20569s	innovate though so that could be
20570s	something but is it just a turn too late
20572s	because suddenly the one attack from
20575s	fire is not really going to be able to
20576s	uh do too much to aelo turn
20580s	no Zer Mana 46s are irritating as well
20583s	aren't
20585s	they
20588s	is wait oh okay I see just going to go
20592s	and uh wig again and the taunt in the
20595s	way is a big deal and this is I think
20597s	it's one of those cards that really
20599s	pushes this deck over the edge which is
20600s	the drifter uh being able to just drop
20602s	the taunts and the taunts are pretty big
20605s	so you can use them as the sort of um
20607s	the the bricks you build on H or what
20610s	happens a lot of the time is you use
20612s	them to just put be road blocks in the
20615s	way of the cards you've already built up
20616s	very similar to what's going to happen
20618s	here
20620s	with yeah not putting on the Pelos cuz
20622s	he going to get a zero amount of snake
20623s	oil for that at some
20624s	point if there is a some point like if
20627s	there's just an end of game happen and
20629s	also just spreading the threats right
20631s	because if you if you were Pelos then if
20633s	weu kills I mean Wu's in a bit of a
20636s	rough spot let's be honest but if you
20638s	have three threatening minions instead
20641s	of two that's better than having than
20644s	having the two right like that's very
20645s	very simple overall and even though
20646s	Pelos is just a one six that's
20649s	constantly threatening high damage at
20651s	any particular turn that it can attack
20653s	Miracle growth going to be the pick up
20655s	here for wiq going to hope something can
20657s	happen here but even a 99 taunt doesn't
20660s	look that good in this situation no and
20663s	the f is going to come down into the
20665s	Titan turn for meaty now as well so it's
20667s	just going to get
20668s	eaten
20670s	I mean if it even if the game even
20672s	continues to that point yeah if me
20674s	doesn't just find a lethal here yeah
20676s	yeah because bear in mind uh this is
20679s	where oh I was going to say there are so
20682s	many outs cuz there's one just power
20685s	right there's just punching through the
20686s	T and there's Bey happy with that first
20688s	game win um but there's just the whole
20690s	like well is there just enough power on
20692s	the board that's set one but then
20694s	there's Shard of the Naru there's plenty
20697s	of uh options even just more Buffs like
20699s	I said with that Pelos is basically
20701s	knowing the wigs in hand an 88 right if
20704s	it doesn't die so that's an 88 that can
20706s	attack well there of snake oils in hand
20708s	as well so if if the trade happens yeah
20711s	right if he go I I think weu had worked
20713s	out Le I haven't seen it I don't know
20714s	for sure I think we you had worked out
20715s	as lethal with the 44 trading in get the
20718s	snake oil put it on the pelagos yeah
20720s	basically whichever way you wanted to do
20722s	it he was in trouble right and that's
20723s	kind of the point I think the thing with
20725s	this priest deck is it's yes at a base
20728s	level you want to play minions and buff
20730s	them but the amount of little tricks the
20732s	deck has and the ways it can build these
20734s	minions up it feels like it's um you
20737s	know this style of priest deck has been
20739s	around you know in and out of
20740s	HearthStone for quite a long time now
20742s	but this one feels so flexible because
20744s	you have all of these different tools
20746s	and different ways to use them to be
20748s	able to get head on board and I think
20750s	yeah we saw it it's going to be a rough
20751s	match up if DW doesn't draw well so wiq
20754s	going down 01 so far and again that
20756s	priest like I said it's just looking
20758s	good and it felt like one of the decks I
20760s	wasn't expecting too much of going into
20762s	this weekend but the decks one of the
20764s	decks I think is maybe going to make the
20766s	biggest impact this weekend I mean it
20768s	already has You could argue and yes
20770s	you're right going forward if you know
20772s	if mey ends up playing pocket train it's
20774s	only early days it's only one zero Wu is
20776s	an incredibly good player yeah he has
20777s	brought Decks that can deck um but if it
20781s	ends up being meum pocket train then one
20782s	of those priest is going to the
20784s	semi-finals for sure so yeah this is
20787s	definitely the lineup to keep your eyes
20788s	on
20790s	yeah and looking at the um the rest of
20792s	wiu of course he he does still have the
20793s	Druid left he has the Mage and he has
20796s	that plague DK but again it's just it's
20799s	just a little bit shaky I feel just
20801s	against this L because the the Demon
20804s	Hunter feels like it's just strong
20805s	enough to get the job done even though
20807s	we've seen the deck go very fast and
20809s	they not also not really get anywhere um
20812s	I just think overall Wu is in a really
20814s	rough spot and he's going to need some
20815s	you know some kind of help to get over
20817s	the line here because although it's
20819s	obviously possible to win the series I
20822s	just think me's lineup just just has
20826s	multiple good matchups going into this
20829s	yeah I'm surprised we didn't see more
20830s	people bring the I don't know the
20832s	straightforward Dragon Druid that meum
20835s	pocket have got
20836s	because Dragon Golem with the the buff
20839s	version that they've got with the piper
20841s	build M it's just your dragon Golem is
20844s	bigger than their dragon Golem if
20845s	they've even got one um okay the Reno
20847s	can clear it once but the second one
20849s	just does you um and it's not
20852s	particularly subtle it's not
20853s	particularly for these players it's not
20856s	particularly difficult to Pilot but it
20858s	just does the job yeah I I'm a I'm a fan
20861s	of just the uh the two of dragon Druid
20864s	just because it feels like I'm just a
20866s	fan of just playing stuff quickly and
20868s	just chucking stuff on the board and
20870s	because the their minions are so beefy
20872s	um I mean we're about to find out um you
20875s	can you really get a you you can
20877s	actually have really good matchups or
20879s	good games versus some of these board
20881s	focused aggro decks because yes they're
20883s	doing aggro things but you end up
20885s	putting down like multiple big cards on
20887s	like turn three and four and then
20889s	suddenly they have to punch through them
20891s	before they can even really threaten
20892s	your health so we are going to go into
20894s	game number two he needed that he hadn't
20897s	got a dragon he threw away the two cards
20899s	to hit a dragon he didn't hit a dragon
20901s	because they don't play many dragons in
20902s	the deck it's eight or nine which is a
20905s	lot but you're not guaranteed it and he
20906s	needed a dragon from the cactus there
20908s	one
20909s	um and he hit one of course so now he's
20911s	in a good spot
20913s	but it's just another inconsistency in
20916s	that particular Druid build yeah is this
20919s	mey just going to go straight for snap
20921s	dragon it looks like it doesn't
20923s	it I mean he knows he's in trouble right
20926s	he knows there's um all sorts of nases
20928s	coming his way
20932s	here yep going to be huge ramp
20934s	especially when he sees uh cuz that was
20936s	the one that was generated right so now
20938s	weu has the option of playing the one
20940s	that was naturally pulled but okay not
20943s	bad being able to match up as well
20945s	that's pretty much what he
20947s	wanted yeah definitely um obviously the
20950s	second one's going to be a shame for him
20952s	but getting the one means that he can
20953s	now play his four drops if he rips them
20955s	off the top and maybe get into the game
20958s	okay another good draw here for for a
20960s	week uh yeah which what do you do with
20963s	it
20964s	though play it you just want to play it
20968s	okay
20969s	yeah of course right it's free it's a
20971s	free three five it is but it cuts off
20974s	your
20976s	ramp it does but I think with this
20978s	opening you you've you've equaled in
20980s	ramp and I think you just want to be
20981s	ahead on board because I don't think
20985s	there's a couple of dragons that like
20986s	fight back but if you're like two to
20988s	three minions ahead on board there's not
20990s	that much that mey has that like
20993s	actively sort of like clears the board
20996s	and gets ahead on the other side right
20998s	yeah I like it I I like there just play
21003s	[Music]
21005s	stuff they are playing the Amber welps
21007s	and the spine Tails so there is still
21009s	hope for me to to fight back on board
21012s	M it's just a bit slower right like
21015s	that's the thing it's like you're
21016s	fighting back like a one for one at a
21018s	time as opposed to there's no like big
21020s	sweeping AOE right yeah yeah absolutely
21024s	you're sweeping AOE as you play your
21026s	massive Dragon Golem but me is not going
21028s	to do that cuz he's been Force to play
21029s	his dragons right yeah yeah and his
21031s	innovat to stay
21034s	alive okay take to the skies is
21037s	something going to be able to do that
21039s	with gens likely that's an extra dragon
21041s	as
21046s	well do you want Buffs do you want ramp
21048s	I want ramp mey wants ramp as
21054s	well try to get to that F which you
21056s	should be able to do next time turn
21059s	right now no one off yeah one
21063s	off
21065s	[Music]
21071s	oh I think this is just like fizzle and
21075s	welp yeah put you you said play more
21079s	stuff like it's not like there's um
21082s	there's a grand plan here and to be fair
21084s	with the pickup of um of R straza like
21088s	that well you want to ramp to it right
21091s	obviously
21092s	and even if it doesn't end up doing much
21095s	but you want to just get to it cuz I
21096s	think weu is on the on the train of well
21099s	I'm winning on board let's keep winning
21101s	on board and start Ping On pressure yeah
21104s	just to be clear it would just be a
21105s	minion I know you know that but yeah
21107s	there are still nine two ofs left in
21109s	Wu's deck so you know that's what I mean
21112s	I think like all fancy stuff has gone
21115s	out the window for wiq now and it's just
21118s	it's kind of like just playing Trent
21119s	Druid right and it's just like I just I
21121s	have things just keep hitting my
21123s	opponent in the face there's the dragon
21125s	Golem though uh mey really needed a mest
21128s	mat here I
21130s	think maybe the dragon Golem gets
21134s	there I mean this is a pretty big T yeah
21137s	this this can hold off for a little
21139s	while and if it does hold off he's okay
21143s	and the thing is like against this board
21146s	fire is very significant right right
21149s	like this is like Wu is winning on board
21151s	but these aren't the bulky dragons right
21154s	it's just it's just a lot of stuff so
21156s	like dropping fight down unless there's
21158s	a really good answer that's just going
21160s	to buy mey all the time in the
21164s	world are we Dragon tailing and trying
21166s	to hit some good
21169s	fors no
21175s	okay it's want card draw
21186s	any dragons off the top for mey would
21188s	probably be a big deal here it's already
21190s	a reasonable size
21193s	deal five Sixers just everywhere
21201s	for yeah we's got to work out like what
21204s	he actually wants to or not wants to put
21206s	into
21207s	this yeah
21210s	yeah he's definitely going to be
21212s	thinking about what the next couple of
21214s	turns look like especially now cuz the
21216s	draws are you know yogs are on um ana
21219s	like there's a there's a lot of weird
21222s	end gaming draws kicking out here but
21224s	mey just going to go for the dragon
21226s	Golem it's only three but three five
21228s	sixes is is pretty reasonable right now
21232s	yeah three Mana off your thigh as well
21233s	of course which makes that a lot better
21235s	snap dragon in hand to make it's all
21238s	looking
21239s	pretty good um no Reno available for weq
21242s	let's say this game is possible but
21245s	incredibly unlikely yog is going to be
21246s	the big the big important card here yeah
21249s	and there is more ramp and doomin as
21251s	well so there's there's things to do
21254s	here it's not like um it's not like we
21256s	like meet is setting up lethal right now
21258s	right that 3 five sixes are nice but weu
21261s	is on well over you know what like 40 OD
21263s	Health right so yeah and yog will either
21265s	clear or remove two minions as it stands
21268s	as well
21269s	depending on how the trades
21274s	go and then he gets to have the massive
21276s	turn on
21277s	10 he gets to have the massive turn on
21279s	10 anyway with the yog so
21282s	yeah Titan into yog is pretty massive
21286s	yeah I think the big deal here is if you
21288s	look at me's position in the game yes
21290s	the next turn's pretty good but is the
21293s	turn after it that good right like
21296s	what's the he might have nothing left
21298s	yeah
21299s	what's the draw that mey needs right
21300s	it's basically going to be um what is it
21303s	the the Drake or the uh the um take to
21307s	the skies right like that they're pretty
21309s	much the things that mey needs because
21311s	this as a final push does not feel that
21314s	reliable when we can see what's in Wu's
21316s	hand yeah with that in mind I want the
21318s	thos here yeah yeah have a load more
21321s	stuff to reload after this stuff's
21327s	gone
21329s	yeah wiku is early board just kept mey
21332s	from doing any damage I mean he is on 45
21335s	as
21336s	well that's what I mean like this is a
21338s	reasonable board set up here for mey but
21340s	it's not like it's anywhere near setting
21342s	up
21343s	lethal yeah this is why he's spending so
21345s	long like he's doing what you you were
21346s	talking about like how how do I want
21350s	this to
21352s	look yeah and generally speaking the
21355s	longer this game goes on the worse it is
21357s	for mey right like me does not want to
21359s	play a late game I mean just look at
21360s	Wu's hand like you don't want to play a
21363s	slow late game versus this but is going
21366s	to have to find out a way to clear this
21367s	up whereas weu starts to uh get the big
21371s	payoffs kicking in now y are on Titan
21373s	goes
21376s	down don't think there's much left wey
21379s	pointed the minions it didn't seem to
21380s	have many
21383s	targets fine M will conse oh okay
21391s	oh
21392s	my the equality is definitely something
21395s	isn't
21396s	it
21407s	yeah it's got to be flower child right
21410s	has to
21414s	be ooh can't proc it but it probably
21417s	just doesn't matter at this
21419s	point right
21421s	[Music]
21425s	absolutely oh wait oh hero power yeah I
21428s	I was assuming he was going to play the
21429s	more minions but yeah okay
21434s	hero I generally Wonder
21438s	like sure I guess yeah okay I actually
21441s	want play more stuff yeah yeah but I
21444s	think the idea is knowing or I think it
21447s	was knowing that would draw the dragon
21449s	Golem right it was keep the dragons in
21452s	hand
21455s	y six two ofs by the way in week Q's
21458s	deck um on on two of
21463s	watch I believe I'm not 100% sure on the
21472s	tracking no it's less than that
21475s	actually some of the new cards don't get
21478s	moved so the cactus constructs for
21480s	instance have definitely been played he
21481s	might be down to one or two two
21487s	ofs wait did that just play minions cost
21491s	five more time wa for No
21494s	One um not
21496s	sure being
21502s	honest o yes yes it
21507s	did
21513s	well that's a
21514s	problem it's awkward isn't it yeah yeah
21518s	when suddenly your whole hands
21519s	unplayable just like that Yorks areon
21522s	saying No thank you and uh weu I think
21524s	there was a slight uh sigh of relief
21526s	there he was in control of that game but
21529s	I think the equality really threw him
21530s	off a little bit and was like oh no I I
21533s	have the board but it all is one Health
21536s	so does manage to fight back again
21538s	weirdly enough like not really any of
21540s	the the Reno stuff was relevant in any
21543s	real way there um but did get the Druid
21547s	over the line so that's one job done and
21548s	we're going to even this series up one
21550s	and one now and uh what a what a weird
21553s	game I think like both players sort of
21555s	ran out of gas and then got going again
21557s	but Wu just had that one extra step I
21559s	think the draw into the uh yog and Titan
21563s	really pushed him over the
21566s	edge yeah um he just had that one turn
21569s	where he took a bit of damage but
21571s	because he' made the early board he was
21572s	able to keep everything else from
21574s	snowballing he had that one decision
21576s	where he decided to put his whole board
21578s	into one minion that probably saved him
21579s	eight or 10 damage or something I can't
21581s	it was a four or five attack minion and
21583s	after
21585s	that um he just had to weather that one
21587s	hit and then he hope that yog wasn't
21589s	actually outrageously bad and yog is
21591s	very R outrageously bad you construct
21594s	some bad ones but leaving one or two
21595s	minions up is usually the worst case and
21598s	it's it's like a fantastic answer to
21601s	Dragon Golem specifically right like
21603s	it's the it's the thing you want to play
21605s	as Druid into it cuz as I mentioned when
21607s	we've been talking about Druid on and
21608s	off is that when if you're in the mirror
21611s	or you know a rough mirror right two
21613s	Druids both have dragons whatever if one
21616s	plays a big dragon Golem and you don't
21619s	really you're not already big on board
21621s	it's not really anything that you just
21623s	play your own and hope it's good enough
21625s	right like there's not really anything
21626s	that actively deals with that apart from
21629s	the players who are bringing yog and
21630s	have that you know the the the attacks
21632s	into all the enemies so that's one of
21634s	the few things that can actually do to
21636s	fight back and not just fall behind cuz
21638s	without that yog what was weu really
21640s	going to do right like there was just
21642s	I'll play a couple of dragons as well
21644s	but then meet is always at one step
21645s	ahead so the draw of the yog the draw of
21647s	the Titan really helping Wu out there
21650s	and uh getting him that Victory but that
21653s	does mean there's still the Druid and
21654s	the Demon Hunter over on meti's side and
21656s	Wu's now got mage and death knight so a
21659s	bit of a mixed bag for the rest of the
21661s	series Loreno yeah I I don't know what's
21663s	going to happen here but I'm trusting in
21665s	the lineup that meum pocket have brought
21667s	but yeah it's by no means in the bag but
21670s	I think they'll be happy with what
21671s	they're playing against here I think
21672s	they'll be happy with uq's lineup I
21674s	think they'll feel their favored I'm
21676s	saying they because obviously they'll
21677s	have analyzed the group together as
21678s	they're in the same group with the same
21680s	lineup um also of course weu hitting the
21682s	dragon off the cactus there I can't
21684s	remember if he top decked one because I
21685s	was so excited about the cactus itself
21687s	but
21688s	um getting him all the ramp that he
21689s	needed in the world and also the
21692s	decision you called um where he chose
21693s	not to ramp again but actually went wide
21696s	and save the ramp for later turned out
21698s	to be a good call but here we are mey on
21701s	the The Demon Hunter which this you ask
21704s	if Mage surprised me the amount of Demon
21706s	Hunter has surprised me I knew there'd
21708s	be some but there's so much I I'm
21710s	surprised how much there is oh really
21713s	and what made you surprised is it the do
21716s	you just not think the deck strong
21718s	enough or is it that the decks can be
21721s	painful to to Pilot over the course of
21723s	high pressure scenarios I feel that it
21725s	in the lineup that could have come along
21727s	in some of the lineups it's just not
21728s	particularly well matched uh I think you
21730s	have to have a very good meta read to
21732s	bring this and they've had the good meta
21733s	read I think it's the right call but
21735s	there's there's enough bad matchups for
21737s	this deck that I felt that it might
21740s	people might not want to risk it and
21742s	just STI with more tried and trusted
21743s	stuff instead cuz I know for me and
21746s	obviously I'm nowhere near as good as
21747s	these these players but I know mental
21749s	fatigue would kick in and I would start
21751s	this playing with this deck massively
21753s	cuz if you make one slip up you're in
21755s	trouble um obviously these players as I
21758s	said a lot better and I am enjoying
21761s	watching or going to be watching some
21762s	more demon onas mey has a pretty solid
21766s	hand with Spectrum wewood on that left
21768s	side means that pretty much just on
21771s	demand powerful Outcast options as in
21773s	when he wants to do
21775s	them yeah I'm just going to go into what
21777s	you said there a little bit more as well
21778s	um yeah oh yeah the fatigue they play
21782s	three matches in a day how fatiguing can
21784s	it be every player who's played at a
21786s	very high level always comes out the
21788s	first tournament or two and says I am so
21790s	tired I don't know what I played nine
21791s	games of hearthstone I'm shattered um
21794s	this takes it out of you you're just
21796s	going to have to trust me on it because
21797s	it really does absolutely take it out of
21801s	you well me to got a hold of sigil which
21804s	is absolutely huge especially within the
21806s	next turn or so weu just going to take
21809s	the slightly uh I don't want to say slow
21812s	in a bad way but it is you know a bit of
21814s	a slower opening again not the keyboard
21817s	version not going to be popping off
21818s	super quick regardless mey really
21821s	respecting this board here from WQ
21823s	doesn't want to give him any wiggle room
21826s	here uh to be able to start pushing
21828s	damage and really threatening because I
21830s	feel like in this matchup it's it's a
21833s	much more reliable number to try and hit
21835s	right as the Demon Hunter to try and
21836s	kill your opponent because it's not like
21838s	you're get to Warrior or Druid or you
21840s	know death knight for example that can
21843s	really mess with the health totals and
21844s	make things a little bit weird uh you
21847s	pretty much know your Target and know
21849s	that you have to just get there and
21850s	given enough turns Demon Hunter will
21853s	always get there but they do just need
21855s	the time yeah a common theme amongst
21858s	like current Hearthstone decks and meta
21861s	is try to deal some chip damage to make
21864s	the big thing you do a lot easier yeah
21867s	uh we you see a lot of these early board
21868s	fights with utter garbage minions like
21871s	you really small minions not bad minions
21874s	to have in your deck but small minions
21875s	to have on the board and yeah that two
21878s	damage that weq might push you know that
21880s	sort of thing it can add up so quickly
21882s	to suddenly you only need to STI with
21884s	one Mana or one Reverb or whatever I
21887s	think it's just very similar to what
21889s	we've spoken about loads within nature
21891s	Shaman right you play for board to push
21893s	some damage and then suddenly your big
21895s	burst combo just got a whole card easier
21898s	H which is a real big deal so exactly
21900s	yeah so that that seems to be common
21902s	thing with this with Sharman with the
21903s	Demon Hunter um with Warrior to some
21906s	degrees even the control Warrior where
21908s	you're just looking to hit the with OD
21910s	in one big turn and 12 is easier to do
21913s	than 17 or whatever right uh so
21916s	everybody's fighting for board with
21918s	their their Minions that have already
21919s	done their job they're trying to keep
21920s	them hanging around to do an extra point
21922s	or two of damage and it's quite
21923s	fascinating meta
21926s	actually I just use the Mana yeah I like
21928s	this just get that forged now so you
21931s	don't have to think about it later uh
21933s	that's my general go-to with uh forging
21935s	cards is oh do I have two M yeah just do
21937s	it
21940s	now do we just want Outcast
21943s	wolf I do I think so it's a lot of
21947s	stuff yeah and if if they're dealing
21949s	with your a lot of stuff then you know
21952s	they're using their Mana to deal with it
21953s	Reverb sorts most of it out but you know
21955s	even so
21959s	it's a whole turn for Wei just to get
21960s	rid of these two wolves and then it's
21962s	back to mey with time to play his sigil
21965s	maybe even
21967s	here yeah that's always the tricky thing
21969s	and something I had to sort of reset my
21972s	brain with
21973s	was in all the matchups and how it's
21976s	going how early you can afford to go in
21979s	how early do you even need to go in cuz
21981s	I think that's a trap I definitely fell
21982s	into there was feeling I had to sort of
21985s	go in with the Demon Hunter you know
21986s	start going off with a sharpshooter when
21989s	I just didn't need to I could have just
21991s	waited a turn or so and then you know
21992s	had it much easier as opposed to trying
21995s	to go for the oh well if I draw this and
21997s	this and this I'll win but if I don't I
21999s	probably
22000s	lose yeah and another thing is the sigil
22003s	if you play it too early not only have
22004s	you not got a board but you've got a
22006s	handful of stuff that you're trying to
22008s	dump and get outcasts out of anyway so
22010s	it's not necessary that early usually
22013s	anyway um this board presence is far
22016s	more important yeah here's here's the
22018s	horrible Reverb ping that we's ended up
22020s	having to do and he's going to hate
22022s	having to do this cuz now mey is going
22023s	to get chance to play sigil and just put
22026s	things on the board and again and then
22028s	set up for Sharpshooter turn yeah and
22030s	that's the thing isn't it like on
22032s	surface that was a reasonable turn right
22034s	Wu dealt with two six attack minions
22036s	right like that's okay you've just saved
22038s	12 damage but it was pretty much the
22040s	whole turn so suddenly mey gets to just
22043s	do whatever he wants right now and as
22045s	you mentioned that is letting Demon
22047s	Hunter do do whatever it wants even for
22048s	a turn or so is very very scary
22053s	indeed looking to spectal sight first
22055s	just in case he hits the other one and
22057s	doesn't need to mess around with the
22057s	sigil
22058s	[Music]
22062s	then I see oh okay tempting but you want
22068s	that sigil down right oh yeah yeah yeah
22071s	I just feel like it's a good pickup
22073s	because you will get there right if you
22075s	look at the rest of the hand like that
22078s	Wayward is not going to be that hard to
22080s	uh to
22082s	activate and it's allowed him to play
22084s	the Desperado for a little bit more chip
22085s	damage a little bit more bored a little
22087s	bit more
22088s	annoyance and back to you weq who you
22091s	know knows what's coming next turn now
22093s	so he's got to put down as much um
22096s	Health as possible and remove anything
22098s	he can IM Mees and we all know how you
22100s	do
22105s	that actually there's two choices so we
22107s	don't all know how you do that was that
22109s	five or
22119s	six
22123s	uh-huh
22126s	okay here are the big drawers me's back
22130s	in his chair like he's going on a roller
22132s	coaster ride or something cuz he is
22133s	about to go on a roller coaster ride
22135s	most likely yeah second momentum as well
22140s	is that's generally what you want to see
22142s	for some really really easy um easy
22146s	damage
22152s	yeah always want to get your Rush played
22155s	early to make as much room as
22165s	possible okay got the mistake as well
22167s	it's going to be nice dispose for
22171s	another
22173s	five what two off three
22176s	off four off three
22179s	off you okay final answer no I'm not
22183s	okay yeah and and this is it right like
22185s	suddenly there's a big question mark
22188s	right what can weu do to save off not
22190s	only just survive next turn but for
22192s	simply for the rest of the game right
22194s	like that's kind of the problem right
22195s	now because it's not as if it's like oh
22197s	if I clear the board there won't be any
22199s	damage well no there's hero power and
22202s	there's other cards and spells in the
22204s	deck that can just get there as well as
22206s	a second Sharpshooter because it feels
22210s	like an ongoing theme with Demon Hunter
22212s	um pretty much throughout its life is
22215s	well they probably draw the whole deck
22217s	so it's not like you can say well I hope
22218s	Sharpshooter is not in the hand because
22221s	you have to just especially at this
22222s	point in the game just assume the second
22224s	one is right or at least that's how I
22226s	play anyway no I agree and there's so
22228s	much attack buff anyway um either
22230s	discovered or just naturally in the deck
22232s	that you just die to so much stuff going
22235s	down swinging right like that's still
22237s	just a thing is that's not been played
22239s	yet does get the taunt up which is
22241s	something
22249s	uhhuh and it's gone yeah and that is
22253s	that should be guaranteed right it's got
22255s	to be I mean that they you can probably
22257s	construct a world where me's microwave
22260s	catches fire and he has to run away and
22263s	put out a fire and then he doesn't win
22264s	the game but yeah he's just won
22267s	yeah and there we go game number three
22270s	going to mey Demon Hunter is over the
22272s	line now just one more left if he wants
22276s	to move on to the winners bracket in his
22280s	group so going to be looking good if we
22282s	can just get that last Deck Over The
22283s	Line and again I think this is the I do
22287s	feel like the first match of course we
22289s	could talk about the stakes and and how
22292s	people's emotions run depending on how
22294s	far they are in the tournament but for
22296s	me at least in tournaments I've played a
22299s	while ago now let's say it was always
22301s	the first match that I was most bothered
22304s	about which sounds stupid cuz I've
22305s	played in the finals of tournaments
22307s	before and things but that first match
22309s	you just want to sit down and have a
22311s	good start and if you have a good start
22313s	I really do believe that sets you up for
22315s	just the rest of the tournament even if
22317s	end up not winning it but the first one
22319s	at least for me is always the one I'm
22321s	most worried about and always the one
22322s	I'd much rather just get a win under the
22324s	Bell quick yeah it settles the nerves
22327s	doesn't it as well you just you just sit
22329s	there the first game you just feel a
22331s	little bit awkward no matter what but
22333s	yeah it settles you down and one more
22335s	game and be gets to play his friend and
22337s	play test
22339s	partner yeah but Wu still got plenty of
22342s	time to be able to get into this he just
22343s	needs to win twice H with the next
22345s	couple of decks mey of of course only
22347s	needs to get his Druid over the line and
22350s	as we'll get we'll get to see more of
22351s	just all these different Druid builds
22353s	over the course of the weekend and see
22355s	how they perform because again the the
22357s	build that me is running for me feels
22361s	like the one or at least the one yeah it
22364s	feels like the one I would play honestly
22365s	or at least you know 29 cards let's say
22368s	um is the one I would play uh so I'm
22370s	very interest to see how it's going to
22371s	perform overall as eqs of course the
22373s	Druid but it's going to be going up
22375s	against the mage uh in this game number
22379s	four so if mey wins just for those of
22380s	you may be tuning in more recently he
22383s	goes on into the winners portion of his
22385s	group if weu wins or mey loses whoever
22388s	loses they'll go to that lower bracket
22390s	match and face
22393s	elimination elimination one of the
22395s	toughest competitors in this event
22397s	Everybody's scared of
22399s	them I would be I'd greet them like an
22401s	old
22402s	friend oh come on UK's best gamer
22406s	speaking come on many years ago many
22408s	many years still though they haven't had
22409s	a they haven't had um you haven't lost
22411s	your title true true you're the reigning
22413s	Champion Raven and don't let anyone tell
22415s	you
22420s	otherwise they they canceled it I think
22422s	because you were unbeatable that's what
22424s	I
22425s	think talk I won that byy a lot put it
22428s	this way it was not close so maybe that
22430s	was the case yeah maybe they're like
22432s	just can't repeat this again any ramp
22434s	there it is it's always there insta
22441s	that's the thumbs up from matey because
22444s	honestly there's not a card at least at
22448s	the moment for me that invokes that kind
22451s	of powerful feeling is playing the welp
22454s	on on you know on two because you just
22457s	think this is so strong surely you
22460s	cannot lose at that point so yeah I can
22463s	understand me's uh excitement oh my
22465s	goodness the only other thing that feels
22467s	as good is drawing your final two of on
22470s	turn eight on your Reno Warrior deck
22472s	sure well I would know what that feels
22473s	like cuz I don't play Bad decks Linda I
22476s	tested bad decks cuz I knew that these
22477s	people would bring bad decks I didn't
22480s	know that at all but I tested them
22481s	anyway because I understood
22485s	them
22488s	wow we you need to start taking care of
22491s	some of this which means the
22492s	reverberations is going to eat it
22494s	yeah it's going to help though it's
22496s	something right and again we can see
22498s	that me the rest of meat's hand is okay
22501s	Cactus helps uh but the rest of me's
22503s	hand is like I'd say okay not bad not
22507s	great but the cactus being able to fill
22509s	out this turn is going to be pretty nice
22511s	overall yeah you're not streaming now
22514s	don't rip the rat
22518s	please s i' love it though oh
22525s	my this thing feel builds your hands up
22527s	with really annoying one drops really
22528s	quickly by the way if You' played this
22530s	in yeah Cactus annoying one drops for
22532s	your opponent though I would say oh
22535s	annoying if if you rip Dragon goem you
22537s	bet they're annoying
22541s	yeah also just nothing great to even
22544s	kill them off for weq right like there's
22547s	nothing that feels clean here I really
22549s	like this approach that you know not
22550s	playing the time lost because there was
22552s	no real need to just get that hero power
22554s	kill off the Reverb dragon and just push
22557s	yeah
22558s	yeah these are like uh money in the bank
22561s	for f every turn as well if you got a
22564s	bit of Mana left over just just have
22566s	some happy
22569s	welps they are happy as well by the
22572s	artwork on the happy welp it is so
22573s	cheerful it's the happiest welp you've
22576s	ever seen it's
22578s	amazing yeah Wu knows taking care of
22581s	them
22582s	okay decent clear there or at least not
22585s	full clear of course but decent defense
22587s	there from
22589s	wiq down now turning the welps into
22592s	actual Hearthstone cards
22594s	now this is pretty good with the hero
22596s	power just has to will'll have to trade
22599s	the snap dragon in as well right
22602s	I
22606s	yeah oh no not going to bother okay this
22608s	what mean they fill in your curve
22610s	beautifully that they're just good
22611s	enough to fill in your curve and you
22614s	know constantly be a pain
22617s	well I think in these matchups as well
22618s	um a lot of the it's kind of what you
22620s	talking about earlier a lot of the
22622s	matchups feel very
22624s	Scrappy right in the early game and a
22626s	lot of these are just very heavily
22628s	fighting for that
22631s	board yeah me just waiting to rip Dragon
22635s	Golem off the top next turn and hope his
22637s	opponent hasn't got a
22645s	creation okay not
22648s	bad six man of Hydra is going to do some
22650s	work on the other side of the board next
22652s	turn yeah we could fighting back and I
22655s	really like the Thanos drop and not
22656s	holding it or anything weird for spell
22658s	damage it's just no draw me more cards
22663s	please yeah me's out of
22668s	stuff yeah mey has to kill off the uh
22671s	that minion it's going to be tricky to
22673s	deal with otherwise so five is going to
22675s	take a good of damage there but still
22677s	mey just saying if we can just push a
22679s	bit more damage then suddenly Alex
22682s	alexza can be in range to to deal with
22698s	this do
22700s	it just play play the big
22705s	thing
22712s	we's facial expressions are exactly how
22714s	I imagined from chats by the
22717s	way
22718s	I'm I'm surprised
22721s	this it probably I don't know if it
22723s	would be bad or not but I think I would
22724s	have traded the
22727s	thalos sure and just drawing a card
22730s	there also
22731s	um again depending on how much how
22733s	defensive he wants to be he does have
22735s	another Reverb right if he really wants
22737s	to yep oh okay picked up the bird yes
22740s	we're going to reverb the F get some
22741s	healing yeah I like
22747s	this able to trade the Thanos now
22750s	yep really good turn there from
22752s	weu yep worked out
22756s	nice
22758s	o it's not what you
22762s	wanted well the
22764s	weird the weird part is here is like is
22767s	this innovate Alex stza to kill the F to
22771s	kill the five one or do you just tank it
22774s	yeah it's horrible the problem if you
22775s	tank it you're healing for five so then
22778s	suddenly your Alex is not really doing
22780s	that much damage so I think yeah I I
22782s	think this sucks you don't enjoy it if
22784s	you're meaty but I think you do
22787s	it do it he
22791s	has all this research points but now it
22793s	really
22795s	sucks
22802s	this is weu buying some time now
22804s	bouncing Alex St and knows that the
22806s	damage isn't going to be uh too bad
22808s	coming
22809s	out if I'd been quick there which I
22811s	wasn't I could possibly have got those
22816s	[Music]
22825s	secrets
22827s	yeah it's always
22829s	objection good point actually yeah why
22831s	was I even think it's just always
22834s	objection you always just go don't get
22836s	to do a thing that's all you need to
22840s	know myadi now Wu can start to really
22844s	pile under
22846s	pressure yeah and we going looks like
22848s	we're going get to game
22851s	five I like illuminate
22855s	here okay just taking fire sail as like
22858s	a a just in case
22859s	scenario like what's the worst possible
22862s	thing that could
22867s	happen I don't think that's going to cut
22869s	it it's
22872s	not that's the one thing like I don't
22875s	know if uh again we've both spoken about
22878s	like quite liking the Just The Two Of
22881s	Dragon Druid but I do feel like we've
22883s	not seen much of the um sort of Mass
22886s	Dragon hands that you know where you you
22889s	you have the um take to the skies you've
22893s	had time loss generate you one or so and
22896s	then you know you've got tons of tons of
22898s	dragons in hand and you can really just
22899s	sort of chain big minions we've seen
22902s	these um whether it's the matchups or
22904s	not but we've seen the opponents of
22906s	these actually hold on to this at least
22908s	in in this matchup so far versus me
22910s	where Wu's managed to just control the
22913s	pressure and um and just hold it off
22915s	basic basically and say no you're not
22917s	going to be able to chain tons of dragon
22919s	dragon after Dragon after dragon and
22921s	overpower them with stats man to push
22922s	them off and then getting that sort of
22924s	top deck mode which is not really
22927s	something that this this Dragon Droid
22928s	really excels at Because unless you C in
22931s	like time lost or tight to the skies
22933s	exactly there aren't any top Decks that
22935s	really say oh I've won now right like
22938s	nothing really gets you into the game
22940s	properly maybe some of the card
22942s	Generation stuff so we've seen that
22943s	happen a couple of times now in mey um
22946s	might be doing the uh opposite of pocket
22948s	train here and not only maybe losing
22950s	this series but also uh lose it with
22952s	some really sort of struggling looking
22954s	games right like this Druid especially
22956s	is not really felt as powerful as at
22959s	least I thought it was going to be
22960s	coming to this tournament yeah he hasn't
22962s	played his Amber welps and his spine
22964s	tails at all which are the ones that
22965s	really help you swing the board in the
22967s	early game like play my 3 three kill
22969s	your 33 for three Mana that sort of
22972s	thing haven't seen any of that going on
22974s	um so he's always been behind on cards
22977s	and again like you say we saw take the
22979s	sky late in the first time he played the
22981s	D but he hasn't really had
22983s	those turn six Dragon Golem haha five
22987s	five sixes or five sevens I would
22989s	unlucky we just haven't seen that happen
22991s	at all for him and he's got one more go
22993s	at it as we starting to feel the
22995s	pressure a bit here I think well well I
22997s	think this is the uh the reactions to
23000s	someone who now has to queue the uh
23002s	death knight um is is my understanding
23005s	here because the problem here as this uh
23010s	famous hearstone philosopher once said a
23013s	long time ago was if you play a minion
23017s	against death knight you win uh and I
23020s	believe their name was uh sutle so he
23022s	also used the phrase buyers remorse
23024s	earlier today and I think Wei might have
23027s	been having some of that right then well
23029s	if you look now mey yeah there's the nod
23032s	yeah I was going to say this is the
23035s	beefy Dragon Druid hand where you just
23037s	go splash big dragon big dragon big
23040s	dragon dead um and that's going to be
23042s	the planet oh second one as well okay um
23046s	so this these are the hands I sort of
23049s	more used to seeing right where you just
23050s	Tempo out huge dragons and and overpower
23053s	the opponent too early we've not been
23055s	seen that in this matchup and weq on the
23058s	death
23059s	knight I I I actually without being like
23062s	overly zealous I think death Knights
23066s	okay it's not a horrendous deck but I
23068s	think against this type of matchup the
23071s	whole your opponent played some minions
23072s	and you die does hold
23075s	up interesting choice here for me he can
23077s	just SP tail it have a massive thing on
23079s	the board and kill or you can play more
23081s	ramp and still kill it with a hero power
23082s	but yeah have seven attack on board and
23084s	I'm adding more yeah don't need ramp if
23087s	you're just playing big dragons and next
23089s	turn there's um welp innovate spine tail
23093s	right ear an eternity of
23096s	so the tempo just gets more Tempo or
23099s	flower child into Dragon Golem like he's
23101s	got choices oh he's got the dragon Golem
23103s	yeah now do your
23105s	play okay whatever don't
23109s	mind yeah I mean I think at this point
23113s	either or cuz look at wi Wu can't even
23115s	look he's like oh no I've finally been
23117s	Dragon Druid did well this makes the
23119s	dragon Golem's huge right the play makes
23122s	them fairly small this is just this is
23123s	just the end I genuinely believe that
23126s	one I think this was probably the better
23128s	play but I think if there was just
23130s	splash spine tail that would have also
23133s	and you done it the other way around I
23135s	think that would have been just as fine
23138s	right yeah this this one just gets you a
23140s	board you can't kill into if you somehow
23142s	kill it it's a board you can't kill yeah
23145s	The Rock's going to help oh also S I
23149s	keep cutting you off I'm really sorry
23150s	this um this plays around uh Frost
23153s	plague as well with the innovate Dragon
23155s	if you
23156s	too ah sure yeah you are right yeah yeah
23159s	yeah there's the dragon Golem and here's
23163s	what also could be the beginning of the
23164s	end innovate out F nothing to rush into
23168s	but no no need to rush if you got this
23170s	many stats on board and just like that I
23174s	think me might have been feeling the
23175s	pressure going through this last game
23177s	but I just don't know how this can win
23181s	here for weu and I think weu knew it
23184s	from what turn two
23186s	yeah philosopher says mey played some
23188s	minions I don't mind relaying that
23191s	yeah but this game is not going to drag
23193s	on Raven is it
23203s	hey the reason I'm not saying much is I
23206s	don't think there's that much to say at
23208s	this point I'm not really sure WQ can do
23210s	WQ knows it I know it you know it
23212s	everyone knows it there's just this is
23214s	not the opening you want this is not the
23216s	matchup you want this is at least for me
23218s	one one of the matchups you really want
23220s	to avoid if you're going to be playing a
23223s	uh death knight right now so I think it
23226s	is what it
23231s	is I think it's lethal even if it kills
23233s	the minion but he's playing this to
23235s	entertain this
23240s	I oh no CU he gets yeah it's fine it's
23244s	this
23246s	I forgot about the
23250s	healing
23253s	uh
23256s	well shoot it and
23260s	go it's just working out is
23263s	it is it push everything and then um and
23267s	then
23268s	snaptail snap tail I'm just I'm just
23271s	merging cards it's like some
23272s	polymerization or something spine tail
23274s	and snap dragon
23276s	uh was available if he wanted it and to
23278s	just and trade with one of the three
23279s	fours he going to choose to hero power
23281s	and put in the 21
23283s	instead yeah makes a space on the board
23286s	for next turns well next turn you get
23288s	the joke um but for next turns whatever
23292s	removal might
23293s	happen either
23296s	way WQ held on for a turn but I'm not
23299s	sure what magical card he could draw BL
23302s	boil not playable even though that card
23304s	is you know reasonable at Hanging On a
23306s	little bit
23310s	longer and weu just frustrated I think
23314s	yeah it's active oh sorry it is of
23316s	course it's play I forgot about the
23317s	reduction for some
23319s	reason but you know yeah
23325s	playable well he's excavated
23329s	sometimes just not enough hero power
23333s	going to end it and mey is going to go
23335s	on to face pocket train in the winners
23339s	match of group b mey as you can see
23344s	quite happy with that Victory I would
23346s	say you know bit subdued but quite happy
23349s	overall um but congratulations to him a
23353s	bit of a rough one there for wiu of
23355s	course and I do feel for him uh not much
23357s	you can really do especially in that
23359s	last game right you play um you play the
23362s	DK and you get 10 Tempo Tempo out by
23366s	Dragon Druid right like that happens we
23368s	know that match Up's tough H and it's
23371s	just wasn't meant to be there but Wu is
23373s	knocked to the lower bracket he is not
23376s	out of it yet but for me lorenda I'm
23379s	excited now that uh I can put my feet up
23381s	and watch uh pocket train versus mey to
23385s	see who's going to be the total winner
23387s	out of group b yeah put I don't if you
23389s	have time to get your feet actually
23391s	anywhere like you'll lie back it be like
23393s	22 like you might have to be quick get
23395s	settled down for that one because that
23397s	is going to be a rapid match of
23399s	hearthstone I think if there's a druid
23401s	mirror it might take some moments but
23403s	it's going to be a quick one yeah and
23406s	just we have a quick look and probably
23408s	emphasis on the quick as the game did
23411s	not take too much there but that that is
23414s	what I was talking about the previous
23416s	games where we saw the Druid I was like
23417s	yeah it's kind of struggled not really
23419s	manag to get there this is what you
23421s	expect from this Dragon Druid at least
23423s	for me where as you can see the game
23425s	ends you've got a good chunk of dragons
23426s	in hand you put a lot of pressure on
23429s	with those Golems as well as some of the
23430s	more Tempo options and you just overrun
23433s	your opponent with Minions that are
23435s	bigger than theirs that is basically how
23437s	that sort of two of dragon Druid works
23439s	and it worked pretty well for mey so at
23442s	this point Linda um pocket train and mey
23445s	doing well same lineup unfortunately for
23447s	them same group but it does look look
23450s	like we're going to get at least one of
23452s	them into the uh the top four yeah and
23454s	Rec already there as well another player
23456s	who tested with these players again
23458s	brought a different lineup because
23460s	reasons but yeah the three of them
23462s	worked together on this and it looks
23463s	like very good chance all three of them
23465s	make it into day two yeah really
23468s	impressive overall and that means we do
23470s	have the mey versus pocket train match
23473s	coming up next so make sure to not go
23476s	anywhere because even if it goes the way
23478s	mey's match up just went at 32 it still
23481s	wasn't the slowest match in the world
23483s	but if pocket training has anything to
23485s	say say about it he'll make sure it's
23486s	sped up just like his first 3 so like I
23489s	said don't go anywhere we'll be right
23490s	back with that next match
23496s	[Music]
23505s	[Music]
23514s	up
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23566s	[Music]
23590s	[Music]
23629s	[Music]
23652s	[Music]
23657s	[Music]
23663s	the
23669s	[Music]
23674s	[Music]
23679s	[Music]
23693s	he
23704s	[Music]
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23721s	[Music]
23723s	SC
23726s	[Music]
23737s	[Music]
23753s	he
23762s	[Music]
23784s	[Music]
23809s	yeah and vice I think I was muted the
23813s	whole time why that was a great intro
23815s	though so well thank you so you can
23818s	appreciate it and uh you and only you
23822s	were the one who heard that but we're
23824s	back here the RSM World Championship I'm
23825s	TJ Jo by device and we got a winners
23827s	match ahead of
23829s	us we do and it is players with the
23832s	exact same lineup all four decks and mey
23837s	versus pocket train both of course from
23838s	the UK they have the same lineup because
23840s	they practice together wreck them also
23843s	uh not from the UK but was in that sort
23846s	of Practice Group coming up with lineups
23849s	went with a different choices just
23852s	because being in the other group was
23854s	worried about potentially getting
23856s	targeted but RS made it on and and these
23860s	two are facing off so one of them
23861s	guaranteed seems like it's a good
23863s	Practice Group to be
23864s	in very much so yeah one of them's going
23867s	to make it onto that top four and then
23869s	one of them still has that chance uh
23872s	tomorrow early in the day to play in
23875s	that decider matchup uh to get that
23877s	second chance to make it into the
23879s	semi-final so um now pocket trains uh
23884s	series was a little bit faster a little
23887s	bit more dominant than Mees um but they
23892s	both ended up taking the win in their
23894s	series but I I think pocket Train's full
23897s	series against CJ was maybe 30 minutes
23900s	it was a domination from his point of
23902s	view I'm fairly certain yes that it
23905s	finished before the delay had caught up
23910s	so yep and uh very short highlights as
23915s	well uh from that series that was it
23918s	that those were not highlights that was
23919s	just footage of the entire Series played
23922s	backwards but um we're highlighting two
23924s	different decks but like you said they
23926s	both have the same lineups here's the
23927s	Naga priest um uh we're just labeling IT
23931s	pocket train just cuz we feel like it
23933s	cuz we're talking about him right now uh
23935s	but we saw that uh fantastic thirsty
23939s	drifter uh plus the uh power cord uh
23942s	synchronized Synergy in that last game
23944s	last series that he played to get that
23946s	massive board very early on I believe it
23948s	was turn six uh to snowball to a victory
23952s	yeah if you were to look at this list
23954s	and compare it to the naga Priests of
23956s	old you would be a little bit confused
23958s	because this doesn't actually have quite
23960s	as many Naga going on you know there's a
23962s	few in there to get the activations of
23964s	the wi wi but it really is all about
23966s	those thirsty Drifter you can see just a
23969s	ton of one Mana cards Mana refreshes
23972s	from funnel cake and fich and of course
23975s	pip pip the potent to double those one
23977s	cost cards and then yeah going for
23979s	Drifter synchronized plays getting that
23981s	massive board in the mid game
23985s	turns pip the
23987s	[Music]
23989s	potent pippy pippity poity the potent
23993s	toity
23995s	we go uh but talking about Mei um
23999s	obviously not as great of a year as
24002s	pocket train uh his success has come
24005s	from the grinding that happens outside
24008s	of the tournaments and the actual Master
24010s	stores uh is left a lot to be desired in
24014s	terms of results but he's here at the
24018s	world championship and mey uh a lot of
24022s	respect for meia as a player um and you
24025s	know one of the Premier ladder Grinders
24029s	in the game and trying to transition
24032s	that success into you know World
24035s	Championship run trying to become that
24037s	world champion oh and an actual doctor
24041s	yes yeah yeah a little bit cheeky
24042s	putting his own you know stats of of his
24044s	tournament performance at 38% earlier
24047s	but even so he has been at every single
24050s	one of these events based on his latter
24052s	performance so still uh you a strong
24055s	player in his own right and yeah this
24057s	Dragon Druid they've gone for you know
24060s	much more consistent streamlined
24062s	approach rather than some of these
24063s	Highlander lists just opting for getting
24067s	stats on board like we saw last game
24070s	trying to play splish spash welp into
24073s	Dragon Golem as consistently as possible
24076s	of course with the Snap Dragons to buff
24079s	those up and take advantage of the the
24083s	copies yeah seen some pretty intense
24085s	curves coming from the uh dragon Druids
24088s	and that's what you get for playing a
24090s	consistent version of the list you're
24093s	going to hit those powerful cards uh
24095s	that you need uh for the game plan
24099s	you're supposed to have more often when
24102s	you have the the two ofs as powerful of
24104s	a card as Reno is I do I definitely like
24107s	this two ofs I do want to shout out the
24110s	one sort of Silver Bullet in the deck
24112s	list which is Razor scales three Mana 24
24115s	dragon that says cards cannot cost less
24117s	than two mana and I think that's a shout
24119s	out to some of the sort of comboy decks
24122s	out there the nature shamans the Naga
24125s	demon Hunters which they both also have
24127s	in their lineups so that's one of the
24129s	ways that once you do get ahead maybe
24131s	you play that 35 taunt that refreshes
24133s	your Mana crystals you can slap down
24135s	that razor scale and feel you know a
24137s	little bit safer into those uh Decks
24140s	that try and just play a bunch of cards
24142s	in one turn and kill you out of nowhere
24147s	we already saw it come into play quite
24150s	well and we'll see if it can get the job
24153s	done now but we are going to see mey on
24155s	the priest uh to kick things off pocket
24157s	Train's going to be on this Demon Hunter
24161s	and I I feel like Demon Hunter is
24163s	probably the weak Link in the lineup uh
24164s	would you agree on both
24167s	sides you know it's tough It's one of
24169s	those decks where the games where you
24172s	pop off it feels like nothing could
24174s	possibly stop you and then the games
24177s	where you don't find Sharpshooter you
24179s	wonder why he brought
24182s	it and so very much like nature Shaman
24185s	in that
24190s	sense except
24194s	worse what is more centered around one
24197s	specific card that you need to draw
24199s	right
24203s	yeah
24206s	but going to be a lot about Tempo in the
24207s	early game priest really just wants a
24210s	board or to to stick a board to be able
24213s	to kind of
24214s	snowball um pocket Train's going to be
24216s	trying to keep this under
24218s	control not fall too far behind and then
24221s	get to that Sharpshooter turn as easily
24223s	as possible already has board going into
24225s	the Sigil of time turn which is good
24228s	very important and mey going to have not
24232s	a dead turn but uh not the strongest
24234s	just a a cycle uh going on right now
24238s	yeah and you're really hoping to pick up
24240s	more draw off the clergy but I think
24242s	going into this turn three where you
24244s	know your opponent's really going to
24246s	want to play sigil if they have it uh
24249s	and ends up paying off is going to be
24252s	able to get at least two draws here
24253s	between dream booat and the hero
24255s	power
24258s	yeah and dream boo ends up just being u
24262s	a reasonably sized threat
24265s	coming into this turn I think it's a
24268s	debate of whether to play the mistake as
24270s	well just for a bigger minion off the
24273s	dream
24274s	[Music]
24278s	boat I guess the question is what what
24281s	could he possibly pick up that would
24282s	change that play but I think
24285s	uh H okay maybe second dreo would have
24290s	been fine but it is what it is
24296s	all
24310s	right one uh distinct difference between
24314s	mey and pocket trains versions of the
24318s	Demon Hunter is they've got ferin in
24321s	there as well as going down swinging so
24324s	a little more capability of just like
24326s	continuing to do stuff in the mid game I
24330s	suppose recfm also has that in his list
24332s	since he played with them but it's not
24334s	present in hemlocks or
24337s	levik's list and I do wonder if it just
24340s	gives you that little bit of extra
24342s	staying power in the times where it it
24344s	you don't find Sharpshooter right away
24347s	where you can still make some of these
24349s	powerful plays you know ferin of course
24351s	has the chance of giving you those
24353s	wolves which we saw can be very
24356s	impactful and of course going down
24358s	swinging there's so many ways of buffing
24359s	your attack that it just becomes sort of
24361s	the perfect board clear for this type of
24381s	deck thirsty Drifter coming into hand
24384s	for mey that's kind
24386s	of really the the warping card that's
24389s	changed how Naga priest is being
24392s	played
24394s	and funnily enough with Pip the potent
24399s	if the Thirsty Drifter is presently at
24401s	one meta cost you can get a copy of
24409s	it that's
24412s	uh
24416s	but then you're not playing as I guess
24417s	the Thirsty Drifter you kind of want to
24420s	hold on to it to go really big on the
24422s	board and not just play it peace
24425s	meal um but yeah could be an option for
24429s	next
24434s	turn not a powerful turn by any means
24437s	though for uh uh for mey
24442s	currently that's the question of you
24444s	know Tempo now or you know a bigger
24446s	swing later with the extra copy and he's
24450s	just going to be patient not even
24451s	playing the dream boat since it wouldn't
24453s	be getting a card or anything it would
24455s	just be a little bit of extra
24462s	[Music]
24464s	stats
24471s	[Music]
24472s	you
24474s	and in full preparation mode here for
24478s	pocket getting a coin uh using it to
24482s	play the oscillator which of course will
24483s	discount any mistakes as a zero Mana
24487s	Naga and uh drawing another three cards
24489s	look for
24491s	Sharpshooter but here is that big swing
24495s	turn for mey wanting to put as many
24497s	stats in play as possible going
24501s	into the potential big pop off turn from
24510s	pocket and it is going to be quite the
24518s	turn also activates the handmaiden in
24521s	hand yep so going to be able to draw uh
24525s	going into the next turn and has
24526s	protected lucky Mitch from the
24527s	Sharpshooter turn that's if pocket train
24528s	picks it
24529s	up it is funny
24532s	seeing
24534s	come down just as a one Mana acate wig
24537s	refresh zero Mana crystals but you know
24540s	decrease the cost of both of The
24542s	Drifters uh and activated so and the
24545s	other one can be used for refresh on the
24546s	following turn
24551s	yeah yeah no
24555s	Sharpshooter but did find me going down
24557s	swinging yep and I think that's just
24560s	going to have to be used for the clear
24562s	here
24568s	I think I almost wonder if you maybe
24571s	wanted to spectral sight
24575s	first so he wants to go Max damage oh oh
24579s	well yeah right you can't squeeze in the
24581s	hero power otherwise no not squeezing
24584s	the hero power
24585s	anyway because this is just enough yeah
24587s	yeah yeah yeah yeah with the double
24590s	dispose this clears the full board and
24591s	pushes all the damage so
24594s	I see down and even though there's no
24595s	Sharpshooter there's a ferin that's
24597s	resource generation much of the time uh
24600s	to be played next turn so not bad my one
24604s	thinking about potentially drawing
24607s	before uh dispose is that then you can
24611s	try and you know look for the
24612s	Sharpshooter before you're shuffling in
24614s	more cards into your deck but sure okay
24616s	yeah it's it's really the most minute of
24620s	uh probability
24622s	changes
24630s	and with Drifter is gone even though
24632s	midi is able to know build board back up
24635s	with the the wigs and and the isaga a no
24638s	taunt means you're you're not feeling
24640s	the most safe staring at six power of
24643s	Minions on the other
24652s	side
24658s	I think it's if this is going to be a
24661s	valash turn that I think you'd want to
24662s	be playing a little bit faster so
24666s	I might just be Pelos for maximum stat
24669s	stats in board and a threat that uh
24673s	pocket doesn't want to leave
24675s	around
24681s	yeah it is our time the step out of the
24686s	Shadow
24688s	okay security lets pocket train deal
24691s	with the
24703s	Pelos this can deal with
24712s	both if you rush the
24716s	ferin and clean board don't really get
24719s	to push anything
24723s	oh wow yeah okay so
24728s	removing as much power as possible while
24731s	still maintaining the ability to push
24733s	face I think pocket's realizing that
24735s	just at this point you know with no
24738s	Sharpshooter he's just got to try and
24741s	push enough damage that if he picks up
24743s	like a momentum or some of those other
24746s	pieces of damage that you might be able
24747s	to get there and hoping that mey doesn't
24749s	have something crazy to do on the other
24752s	side but you do already know about these
24754s	two wigs that are there and now with the
24756s	additional copy of alash and the funnel
24758s	cakes I think there's no way that this
24761s	isn't lethal yeah even the M Seer as
24764s	well to throw in there for a little bit
24767s	of extra damage is uh uh certainly
24771s	enough uh to get this done so so yeah I
24774s	mean pocket train had the opportunity to
24776s	go for that Pelos kill had the damage on
24779s	board but decided to push face uh
24782s	instead your entire
24785s	board then you know that's probably not
24788s	a a good situation in the ways of
24791s	actually winning the game with the hand
24793s	that he had no Sharpshooter it was just
24795s	like what Wayward
24797s	Sage uh and something else that didn't
24800s	have an impact on the board so mistake
24803s	so so really the only good draw was a
24806s	sharpshooter to be able to do anything
24807s	with that yeah and in that respect I can
24811s	understand like well if all me's got in
24814s	hand is pelagos and a couple of wigs and
24818s	no activators then maybe I can just push
24820s	damage and get through but of course we
24823s	uh I think it was perhaps knowable that
24825s	there was at least of a leash in there
24827s	because of the PIP potent copies but
24831s	yep uh and volution 2 wigs uh the Ser
24834s	wigs in hand were not active so pocket
24837s	tray may have also thought that there's
24838s	no other Naga to reset the serpent wigs
24843s	um and on top of that you know of a
24846s	leash to to keep on going
24849s	so uh but he took the risk did not pay
24852s	off as mey was able to secure the lethal
24855s	and take game
24856s	[Music]
24859s	one yeah regardless I think of who ends
24863s	up up taking this these are certainly
24864s	going to be some quick
24867s	games at least compared to some of the
24869s	others that we've seen uh very you know
24873s	board Focus damage Focus
24877s	decks mey ing game just
24881s	looks like on borderline board right
24886s	chair slouching just playing no facial
24889s	expressions and as soon as he's won a
24891s	game or won a series just like the
24894s	ultimate pop off yeah so funny like such
24897s	a different person when he's in the game
24900s	thinking about his turns
24903s	versus uh knowing that he won so all
24906s	right game two here we go Druid versus
24908s	Drew
24910s	prot play some
24912s	minions play some
24914s	stats no welps but I think you do keep
24917s	Snap
24921s	Dragon double cacus construct you know
24924s	that card can sometimes solo games all
24926s	on its
24927s	own oh
24933s	yeah I uh some something is a miss here
24937s	no one has a
24939s	welp yeah still time don't
24945s	fret oh there it is okay pocket train
24948s	clearly the better
24952s	player
24953s	top yeah what going to do you
24960s	know of course all of uh the competitors
24964s	are are tuned into this fact the win
24966s	rate of having welp versus not having
24970s	WEP for Druid is pretty astronomical I
24973s	think it is in the range of 60%
24979s	MH Rolling Stone oh my gosh oh
24983s	Synergy it's a lot of
24985s	stats it certainly is what have you what
24989s	have you seen as like the best hit off
24991s	of cactus
24994s	construct
24995s	um I mean it's hard to beat rolling
24999s	stone but in Dragon Druids sometimes the
25003s	uh keep keep forgetting it add at the
25005s	end of your turn adds a one two welp in
25007s	your hand sure sure yeah always forget
25009s	the name but that one can Wrangler or
25012s	something probably yeah yeah that one
25014s	has H very high upside but it's not like
25017s	immediately powerful like Rolling Stone
25020s	I think my personal favorite is Stereo
25023s	totem oh y okay stereo totem is good you
25026s	double stereo totem and it Buffs the
25028s	stereo totem okay exactly you just got
25031s	one two that Buffs on one into a two
25034s	five that Buffs on
25036s	two
25038s	yeah me you got me on that one that's
25042s	more more powerful than Rolling
25044s	Stone Rolling Stone against it's like a
25046s	Tempo board match up though is hard is
25049s	often times very good but they can play
25051s	around it because they know that it's
25053s	there and this will help clean things up
25056s	a bit you can at least play one of the
25058s	nest matrons into spine tail like the
25061s	buffed one of
25065s	course and for all our talk of the welp
25070s	uh
25071s	which oh interesting opting rather than
25074s	getting the five damage battlecry uh
25076s	just going
25077s	to hold on to it here and use the hero
25081s	power makes sense there's quite a few
25084s	stats with the the double
25087s	refresh yeah we we talk a lot about the
25090s	the welp and the win rate off of that
25091s	card but uh second in the deck is of
25094s	course summer flower child as that is
25096s	what draws you your Your Dragon Golems
25099s	your topor your F and uh midy does have
25103s	both of those
25110s	so yeah this is uh honestly like a whole
25113s	lot of uh I don't want to say
25116s	nothing there's a goem there's topor as
25119s	well but like Twilight Drake and the
25123s	Proto
25125s	Dres don't really have a immediate
25127s	impact on the board I mean sure they're
25129s	relatively big in size but that's can't
25131s	really afford to be doing that when
25132s	you're playing
25135s	against the same deck that's just
25137s	playing stats stats after stats after
25140s	stats
25143s	yep and discounted Alex stza is quite
25148s	good for being able to potentially seal
25151s	things up this is of course going to be
25152s	the inate dragon Golem just
25155s	a build a
25158s	wall Max for refill there with
25165s	734 is you know doesn't have that extra
25167s	buff that M's got on his minions but
25169s	it's still a a pretty potent board swing
25172s	oh
25180s	yeah what to
25183s	do question here I think is whether midy
25186s	wants to you know trade off a couple of
25188s	his minions and then play his own dragon
25191s	Golem or take the a little bit slower
25193s	use the spine tail
25201s	Drake if you really wanted to could get
25203s	another um flower child
25206s	mhm uh was like interated hero power
25210s	FL not much immediate power on the board
25213s	but sets up
25214s	for some more big
25219s	stuff yeah I mean the thing about this
25222s	deck right is is you can you build these
25223s	massive boards but barring gaining the
25226s	extra stats before the minion is played
25228s	it's not like you have a a drum circle
25230s	or anything to to buff things up once
25232s	they're already in play so there's not
25236s	immediate threat just out of these three
25239s	fours themselves
25247s	yeah Al about the set of turns and
25250s	finding ways to push damage and keep up
25253s	on
25264s	resources this should just be a full
25266s	cleanup turn from pocket
25270s	train which looks to be quite strong
25274s	yeah and a thing I want to note as well
25277s	about this uh brew master that was
25279s	picked up there's you know of course two
25281s	Brew Masters you can hit off Cactus
25283s	construct there's the youthful and
25284s	there's the saloon Room Master and
25288s	what's so great about Dragon Golems is
25290s	long as one of them
25292s	survives you can breaster it and get a
25295s	entirely full new board later on so I
25299s	think that's y probably one of the
25300s	reasons that pocket opted to pick that
25311s	one
25317s	yep man here it is oh my
25321s	gosh I mean me knew that that was there
25324s	cuz he saw the youthful brew master
25325s	immediately but still wins this cuz
25328s	seeing seeing it in action is
25333s	um what drives it
25337s	home I think normally there there can be
25340s	a risk of okay if you're the first
25341s	person to to to Golem are you going to
25344s	sort of lose in in the ping pong in the
25346s	end but brew master does give you that
25349s	extra shot and pocket because of these
25352s	time loss protor Dres just sort of had
25354s	more dragons in hand for his Golems
25357s	anyway
25358s	[Music]
25366s	yeah yeah this is a incredibly mediocre
25370s	Dragon Golem here
25373s	summons three there's maybe an argument
25376s	for playing Cactus construct first to
25380s	try and hit like fairy dragon or
25381s	something but uh the hero power does
25383s	clear up a minion so that's sort of the
25386s	more consistent
25396s	option just big minions just hitting
25399s	each
25401s	other
25403s	that's what harston's all about yep
25406s	absolutely well and they don't have
25408s	great ways of clearing up a f right
25410s	besides just hitting minions into it and
25413s	neither of them you know got the early
25416s	Snap Dragon down to to buff up these
25419s	Golems or the AAR and Gardens
25425s	so here we go Dragon Golem number three
25429s	it's just something so like Prim
25433s	about Dragon Druid
25438s	mirrors there two players just trying to
25440s	outat each other well got a couple of
25443s	rushes there y could do bunny stomper
25447s	with the Snapdragon or just take the
25448s	razor razor
25458s	jaw I
25461s	wonder
25468s	none of these
25470s	are incredibly
25476s	impactful I
25480s	no I think opting to take the stomper to
25483s	to use with a snap dragon on a later
25485s	turn but just going to have to Alex away
25489s	that
25490s	F and there's Gardens little
25503s	late little light still
25506s	potent yep still still adding quite a
25509s	bit of value to bucket's hand
25511s	here and uh feeling comfortable enough
25514s	to just throw out the Snap
25521s	Dragon often times sure to spend all the
25524s	Mana yep often times if you don't end up
25527s	rolling it out on three uh then it just
25529s	ends up sitting in the hand as we've
25531s	seen because you already drawn your
25533s	Golems off of summerflower child or what
25535s	have you so it's sort of lost its value
25541s	yeah needy has access
25545s	to what 88 into the 67 clear off 44 and
25550s	34 with the spine tails and here power
25552s	another Minion that's kind of the best
25554s	he's
25556s	got
25560s	yep going to use the stomper just to
25562s	preserve some life being low as he
25566s	is oh yeah cuz it would have been dead
25568s	using the hero
25573s	power and pressure's not stopping I mean
25576s	it's starting to run a little low it is
25579s	but still it feels like enough stat and
25582s	this is where there's just sort of taunt
25584s	Advantage
25590s	right I Y that's going to do
25595s	it luk promising for
25599s	mey when there was a lot of stats on the
25602s	board on like turn four yep uh and
25604s	rolled into double uh flower child but
25608s	it just wasn't enough I don't even know
25610s	if the welp made like that huge of a
25612s	difference I guess it did cuz a lot of
25614s	the Dragon Golem come down and start
25616s	that trade but it was just the number of
25618s	dragons in hand the amount of resources
25620s	that pocket train had access to and the
25622s	brew master from the cactus construct
25625s	really just drove that one home
25626s	combination of you know both Proto
25628s	Drakes adding an additional random
25630s	dragon to your hand doesn't even matter
25632s	what it was topor you know gets zero
25634s	value in that deck but just having more
25638s	dragons in hand so that each Dragon
25640s	Golem is a full full board and then of
25642s	course the brew master to be able to do
25644s	it uh an additional time was just sort
25647s	of a massive
25653s	differentiator and just one last quick
25657s	look at Dragon Golems hitting into each
25659s	other yep yep before we move on to the
25662s	next one but when you have identical
25664s	lineups like this winning these mirr
25666s	matchups ends up being pretty big I
25668s	don't think it's as big for the Druid as
25670s	it is for like let's say if it was a
25672s	Demon Hunter
25673s	mirror which I think is going this match
25675s	up is going to hinge more upon but still
25677s	got to feel good and now we're basically
25678s	down to a best of three with Demon
25680s	Hunter on both sides and then drew it on
25683s	mey side Pras on pocket chain side
25685s	basically the deck that their opponent
25687s	already won with so uh I mean I wouldn't
25690s	be surprised if this came down to a game
25693s	five uh Demon Hunter mirror would not
25697s	surprise me in the in the
25699s	slightest yeah I like how pocket train
25701s	hold up the wall like one I'm I'm going
25704s	to go fill this
25707s	up
25709s	dearu my beloved
25712s	Tanda he pressed play though so didn't
25717s	e he's he's there okay there he
25721s	is I I wonder how Mia will end up
25725s	playing out this Mulligan uh just I
25729s	guess it's just throw everything back
25730s	for welp
25732s	that that that seems to be the
25734s	line a
25741s	mistake well
25743s	played thank
25747s	you I suppose I can I can respect that
25750s	right you know the Druid really does
25752s	have just so many higher Mana cards that
25756s	the difference between welp and no welp
25758s	is just just so huge and figuring like
25761s	even if he does have something even if
25763s	he does have something like Snap Dragon
25765s	uh to buff things up or or you know take
25767s	to the skies draw additional
25769s	stuff being able to move into those four
25772s	cost plays right now being able to spine
25775s	tail I was going to say clear the clergy
25778s	but that's not even going to do it
25780s	anymore yep same with well pck train
25786s	still quite strong of a board
25790s	here oh I guess you clear the three four
25794s	instead it is a it is a five power
25796s	minion in
25800s	play what to
25803s	do sorry six with the uh Gardens
25809s	buff have to I don't think it's worth
25811s	just sinking that damage into
25816s	the location lines up very nicely
25820s	though
25829s	does mean that it'll be very challenging
25831s	at this point for pocket train to
25833s	overheal the cleric if that was a thing
25835s	he wanted to to look into doing uh not
25838s	going to be getting any more cards but
25840s	this is just such a board based matchup
25844s	you know both of these
25845s	decks uh struggle if they fall behind
25850s	too much yeah
25854s	and despite the strong star media is
25855s	going to be able to clean things
25858s	up now back to square
25862s	oneck extra wig and funnel cake I think
25866s	he you know wishes he had that clergy
25868s	now
25878s	[Music]
25880s	but
25882s	oh there we
25884s	go and this this is exactly what you're
25887s	trying to do right AAR Gardens aquatic
25890s	form pick up the other side play the
25893s	Sunken Gardens and now these Dragon
25896s	Golems are going to be pretty massive on
25900s	curve so barring lots of value
25905s	trade barring some kind of you know
25909s	funnel cake shenanigans
25913s	I don't know that there's a whole lot
25914s	the pocket can
25920s	do you find the truth Pelos you do
25926s	you
25928s	well might need that next turn
25936s	yeah wow and opting just to go for
25938s	another location draw rather than power
25941s	of creation
25948s	oh quite quite large yeah it's
25957s	big it's small we we have a a lot of
25961s	desserts in
25963s	hand
25965s	yep M delicious serpent
25969s	wig oh no not like
25974s	this yep I mean I don't think there was
25976s	anything else to be done you just need
25978s	to play stuff to activate the handmaid I
25980s	mean that's part of why I was kind of
25982s	looking at Power creation on the Pelos
25985s	last turn because it's another spell
25986s	played for the
25988s	handmaiden um does have the possibility
25993s	here of a bunch of thirsty Drifters
25996s	which is sort of your own
26000s	buildbox dragon
26002s	Golem
26007s	yep and follow up with Amon tool sweet
26010s	beautiful water water but I think pocket
26014s	knows that
26015s	this well pretty decent could just maybe
26019s	not quite going to be
26026s	enough there's a limited amount of
26028s	dragons in hand it's true for the second
26031s	Golem still a big board the second one's
26034s	not as buffed still buffed five sixes I
26038s	think also does have Deathwing as like
26041s	all right it yeah I'm I'm wondering if
26043s	it may in fact come down to Deathwing I
26046s	mean we're rapidly approaching 10 Mana
26049s	uh these ones are only four
26054s	FES so opportunity here you know clear
26057s	with the handmaiden plus location amanul
26060s	can take out two of
26065s	them pocket trying to hang on for dear
26067s	life with this
26075s	taunt really even playing a an inactive
26083s	wig which I didn't expect oh no Aero
26089s	potential oh okay this is why yeah
26093s	yeah I guess that makes sense cuz just
26096s	removing the two four FS may not have
26100s	been as strong as just making the copy
26103s	of this giant minion I like this play a
26105s	lot yeah
26106s	yeah and the
26109s	uh the Ceno pickup of course if he is
26112s	able to find the other wig could make
26114s	something
26115s	happen yeah it's
26119s	uh combo that that you don't often get
26122s	to partake in in the kna
26125s	priest very interesting though because
26128s	you actually can buff it a lot
26131s	easier I think what pocket knows as well
26134s	with the amanul here is one of the the
26138s	massively powerful things about Titans
26140s	is their ability to give you additional
26143s	value over turns and so by copying a big
26148s	taunt minion that can protect the amanth
26151s	uh just means that he he gets to hang on
26155s	to that value if the minions cannot be
26156s	punched through and yeah now he gets to
26158s	do that remove two minions and just
26161s	continue to acrw Value off of this
26164s	effect hold more legendary scarus is a
26166s	pretty big
26169s	pickup is it enough
26178s	damage no I think not not quite
26182s	yeah can't reset the wig enough to get
26185s	the attack like I was thinking oh if you
26186s	can get like three
26189s	resets yeah I oh the
26191s	Deathwing yep 14 14 Deathwing it does
26195s	mean no more hands so this is the final
26198s	push and uh while impressive you know
26202s	scarus just for a couple of taunts plus
26204s	the Thirsty Drifter is uh going to be a
26208s	bit of a bummer for that Deathwing
26222s	full power here pressure while he can f
26225s	in this with the uh the Priestess at the
26227s	very end it looks
26230s	like be able to just dump the hand when
26233s	he doesn't even have to play the
26234s	scenarios for Taun this turns right he
26236s	can just get The Drifter out that's
26237s	what's going to protect his life total
26239s	he's at 30 so even even if The Drifter
26241s	is dealt with he can afford to take a
26243s	hit and then the scarus just gets saved
26246s	for you know buffing this board plus two
26248s	plus two next turn
26252s	yep one of the better
26257s	pickups H okay y her power and fi will
26261s	clear the
26267s	[Music]
26270s	taunt
26271s	wow you want to push 14
26276s	here yeah I mean you know he knows it's
26279s	a board based
26281s	matchup
26283s	could I feel like if you're going to
26285s	trade it into something that you may be
26287s	trade it
26288s	[Music]
26290s	into the 76 though I'm not
26300s	sure
26312s	what yep
26325s	okay The Shard going to remove that
26328s	pesky taunt scarus comes down for the
26333s	Buffs and it's
26335s	not
26340s	lethal but I think it is plenty of stats
26342s	to just remove M's board
26351s	here nope nope just go face
26356s	sure okay comes down to this draw I mean
26361s	it makes sense right take what's what's
26364s	mey going to do against the wide board
26365s	like
26371s	this so there is a taunt has to think if
26375s	there's enough Mana to play another
26376s	splish B SW or if he has to hero
26381s	power the awkward part is you can only
26383s	really trade off two minions just
26386s	because of the two four attack Minions
26387s	on board they can only trade over one of
26390s	the Mir
26400s	salesman and then that should be enough
26402s	damage going back the other
26407s	way I guess a hero power would no hero
26410s	power would
26411s	still spell death yeah there there's
26415s	just no way to remove enough of the
26418s	board
26419s	here
26421s	yeah I think the the the FI was really
26424s	important for trying to allow media to
26427s	stabilize and the silence taking away
26428s	both the taunt and the life steal was
26431s	just a little bit too much
26435s	[Music]
26437s	yeah it clearly a little bit
26440s	stressed there you know uh things were
26443s	were coming down to the wire just a
26445s	little bit uh not sure whether that's
26449s	disappointment in sort of
26451s	by his own play for some reason
26455s	or just sort of the clunkiness that is
26458s	playing such uh board based matchups
26461s	into each other yeah I don't know I I
26464s	can't spot anything like ver of his play
26467s	I thought that that was pretty well done
26470s	I think that's just the pressure of the
26472s	situation getting to him maybe or man I
26475s	almost
26477s	lost uh kind of situation but pocket
26480s	trade now
26481s	one game
26483s	away from making that top four able
26486s	to uh take a break at the beginning of
26488s	the day
26490s	[Music]
26493s	tomorrow and just
26496s	watch always a nice position to be in
26499s	right when you can just sort of take
26500s	your time get a good meal in take a look
26504s	at what your opponents are
26505s	[Music]
26507s	doing
26509s	yep
26511s	chill but it is that Demon Hunter
26514s	though so we'll we'll see still have
26518s	that feeling that we're going to see
26519s	Demon Hunter uh Mir game five it's
26522s	possible that mey could just draw quite
26525s	Dead with this Druid but all it feels
26527s	like is just kind of one bailout card um
26532s	the toughest situation you can be in is
26534s	if there's an early uh Sharpshooter and
26538s	you just have no answer for it um your
26542s	deck all like ramp setup cards and none
26546s	of none of the big uh threats that you
26549s	need or direct damage you have much to
26552s	answer for to be able to take it
26554s	out well one thing about this Dragon dur
26557s	is that even though you know it doesn't
26560s	really have a ton of spells you do have
26561s	things like Amber welp and the spine
26564s	tail to actually remove crucial minions
26567s	and with the two Health Nerf to the
26571s	Sharpshooter you know even the abber
26572s	wealth will do it on its own that being
26574s	said usually sharp tail or Sharpshooter
26577s	comes out with a whole bunch of other
26580s	minions uh
26583s	so and uh with those sigils in play I
26586s	don't think pocket is going to be just
26588s	hemping a
26598s	sharpshooter okay
26601s	yep oh no oh double we just just what he
26606s	wanted I was going to say you know the
26609s	the Amber welp might have looked
26611s	appealing there had pocket not gone for
26613s	the buff but without it being able to
26615s	actually clear I think this means you
26618s	know that that meant midi just went for
26619s	the take the skies and it picked up the
26621s	two best draws
26623s	so can throw out a taunt and couple of
26628s	three twos with ramp
26635s	and dragon Golem's already
26637s	online
26639s	yep is he just fingers crossed oh no
26643s	Sharpshooter and there's a dragon Golem
26645s	coming down I I think that's not quite
26649s	what he
26655s	ordered who's hiding
26659s	now
26666s	all
26666s	right hoping for no draggon Golem and
26669s	then hoping that Sharpshooter is one of
26671s	the draws off the sigil next turn yeah
26673s	he's got four draws between turn and the
26675s	sigil to pick it up
26687s	so so now how greedy does mey want to
26691s	play
26692s	this cuz one advantage to the dragon
26695s	Golems is since they have taunt and if
26699s	mey thinks that he's not going to be
26701s	dead here he could go for something
26704s	crazy like flower child into Gardens
26706s	first but yeah this is certainly the
26708s	safe play just get four
26710s	Golems try and take as little damage as
26712s	possible off of the Sharpshooter turn
26718s	Y and you got got you know Gardens welp
26722s	spine tail followup to to clear anything
26724s	dangerous and no
26728s	Sharpshooter it's
26730s	tragic I
26733s	see also weird it's happened to him
26736s	twice this
26737s	series just gets through to well halfway
26740s	through his deck doesn't see a single
26743s	Sharpshooter o and you really don't want
26745s	to bounce one of these Dragon Golems is
26747s	that's just going to present an entirely
26748s	new board yeah y I think mey is feeling
26753s	pretty safe at this point yep even get a
26757s	flower child down here like uh amber
26760s	well plus uh low TR cleans things up
26763s	nicely still presents a very threatening
26767s	board yeah or could even flower child
26771s	and then uh Play The Gardens to buff up
26774s	the
26776s	hand also
26779s	true
26782s	yeah they face at the camera like what
26784s	are you what am i g to do I drew half my
26786s	deck and no sh shooter like come on not
26790s	even a uh a Finley
26793s	to oh actually this is a big difference
26796s	between their list and some of the other
26800s	players is there's no Finley to sort of
26802s	you know Mulligan right if you do draw
26804s	half your deck and and find no
26805s	Sharpshooter there's no Finley to to
26807s	sort
26808s	of enter the upside down and uh find it
26812s	that way
26816s	yeah
26823s	rough what's the draw no that'll do it
26828s	not even once well uh you know you've
26832s	got it out of the way now and and now
26834s	this is what happens to mey when you
26836s	have to play the mirror right that's how
26838s	that works y
26844s	my blood boils for
26848s	war you
26852s	stink he going to remove some power off
26855s	board does this uh protect him from Alex
26857s	stza damage no it does not it's just
26860s	sort of the least defensive card to
26863s	bounce yeah highest power as well but
26868s	Alex RZA will end it
26871s	that means we are going to a game five
26872s	it is going to be the Demon Hunter
26876s	mirror at least Demon Hunter has not
26878s	taken every loss in this match up only a
26883s	couple but that's what it's going to
26884s	come down
26886s	to it certainly seems to be the sort of
26889s	weak Link in the lineup uh
26893s	perhaps just draw variants but you know
26896s	that's a big part of the game and while
26899s	the the Demon Hunter can can sometimes
26900s	run away with it it does also lose to
26903s	itself at times so
26906s	yeah it's just the the trouble in coming
26909s	up with a fourth deck
26912s	right yeah it seemed to be um a big
26916s	issue for a lot of players there were
26918s	many that settled on on Demon Hunter
26921s	seen a lot of Demon Hunter on the day
26923s	today and it does have a lot of
26925s	power um there's also a lot of sort of
26928s	muscle memory built in from when it was
26930s	like the dominant deck uh at the
26933s	beginning of of the this uh meta um but
26937s	less played
26939s	now yeah of course Paladin is the most
26941s	popular being in every single lineup but
26945s	uh Demon Hunter is not far behind uh
26949s	with six players bringing Demon Hunter
26951s	uh tied with Druid at six Druids but of
26954s	course there is variation Among The
26956s	Druids in terms of what kind there are
26959s	and uh whereas the Demon Hunter apart
26962s	from you know few card Choice
26965s	differences is very largely the
26967s	same yep Finley
26972s	ferin uh going down swinging couple
26975s	little choices here and there but the
26976s	core of the deck Remains the
26978s	Same going down swinging has impressed
26980s	me today actually it has yeah you know I
26982s	think it's sort of it gives you that
26984s	opportunity to kind of reset and try and
26987s	clear up a bunch of stuff before you you
26988s	go for that pop off
26990s	or in the event that you've gotten ACH
26992s	ofage in and there's ACH of ta in the
26994s	way that you need to get through then it
26995s	can also be effective in that sense when
26998s	you're applying your last bit of uh
27000s	attack damage yeah like for instance in
27004s	that game going down swinging could have
27005s	been fantastic if pocket train was able
27007s	to pick it up on yep um on the even the
27011s	first sigil turn right cuz had dispose
27013s	of evidence in hand uh to be able to get
27016s	the attack high enough to clear off the
27018s	uh the dragon Golem so so but
27021s	alas is in the past time to move on to
27024s	game five Demon Hunter versus Demon
27027s	Hunter pocket train versus mey winner
27028s	moves on into the semi-finals into that
27031s	top four loser of this match still in
27033s	the tournament they are not eliminated
27035s	they just have to play an extra match in
27037s	order to make it to the playoff stage uh
27041s	tomorrow so um big deal for a lot of
27044s	players get deeper into the prize money
27045s	too with just this win by playing one
27047s	less series which is always nice
27051s	pocket going for the full throw while
27053s	mey holds on to Slither
27065s	spear greedy partner is I find often
27068s	like just a somewhat awkward card in
27071s	this
27072s	deck yeah in terms of you know not
27075s	always being able to play it on to with
27077s	it
27078s	active yeah like in this instance mey
27082s	holding the vicious Slither spear just
27084s	to make sure the predation doesn't get
27085s	reduced so greedy partner can actually
27087s	get a coin
27090s	exactly
27095s	awkward
27097s	I you
27101s	f and uh classic mirror here
27105s	right
27108s	yeah it's just going to be this and a
27111s	hero power clear up the sther spear
27112s	before it can gain any crazy amounts of
27115s	power imagine pocket going to be going
27118s	for this
27120s	sigil and it's a bit of a race to see
27122s	who can find Sharpshooter
27125s	first both of them with the two coins
27129s	from you know various instances uh wward
27133s	Sage not like really doing anything with
27136s	the discount here
27138s	no
27140s	you know often times you want to be
27141s	playing momenta for zero Mana anyway and
27143s	just giving it a little bit of help is
27145s	not worthwhile and two coins pack there
27148s	on the right side is also not great but
27150s	playing it for Tempo I mean there's
27152s	nothing else to be done right like me's
27154s	hand is just air
27159s	yep you know it's uh potentially crazy
27163s	pop off should he find Sharpshooter with
27166s	the the double coin right
27168s	but hacket was better positioned to do
27171s	that with these uh extra cards going
27176s	for the outcast card here wolf we've
27179s	seen can sometimes be quite impactful
27181s	but you do almost have to pick it when
27184s	you've already got a bunch of Mana to
27187s	play it so otherwise it's hard to keep
27189s	it Outcast we're going to go ahead and
27191s	spend this
27193s	coin uh just to shift around the
27198s	hand get this this draw spell into
27201s	Outcast position and try and take back
27204s	the board here from Mei uh you know
27206s	pocket of course doesn't know that mey's
27208s	hand is air it's just seen that it is
27211s	you know well and truly Juiced with the
27213s	coins should he pick up a sharpshooter
27215s	or have
27217s	one and we're just in full
27220s	dig there it is ah oh
27225s	OHS I was beginning to think did he just
27227s	forget to put the Sharpshooter in the
27229s	deck cuz
27230s	he's played this deck in three different
27231s	games this series and we haven't seen it
27233s	a single time now it probably won't
27237s	matter if Mei is not able to pick up his
27240s	own Sharpshooter next turn but I am
27242s	looking at quite a lot of Naga already
27244s	in the hand here for pocket or or in
27247s	play so could be a bit of a strange
27251s	situation where the Sharpshooters won't
27253s	even have Naga to
27258s	draw
27260s	but there may just barely be enough left
27262s	in the
27267s	deck yeah there has been quite a few
27271s	played
27272s	BL but decent amount of man to work with
27276s	a lot of cheap
27280s	cycle okay ah okay so one one of those
27283s	that we had seen it was off of the
27288s	studies
27290s	and pocket opting to play the
27295s	cheaper uh naga in the mistake just kind
27298s	of keep this chain
27302s	going but now there are no more Naga
27306s	left to draw and I'm wondering if maybe
27308s	he should have thrown back the Wayward
27311s	Sage instead just to have something to
27314s	to draw there I think was a slight
27318s	misstep
27323s	and he's just hoping there isn't a a
27326s	sharpshooter on the other side and and
27328s	it has forsaken mey
27334s	so this is
27336s	just mey this is the first time playing
27339s	the Demon Hunter so he he's got to get
27341s	the bad hand and there we go he concedes
27343s	nothing to do you know it's exactly how
27345s	he said pocket got the bad game out of
27347s	the way mey still had his uh to to deal
27350s	with yeah just an atrocious hand through
27354s	and through but pocket train was dealing
27355s	with Mysteries so um you know that's the
27360s	that's the way it falls that's what you
27361s	get for the Demon Hunter deck when
27362s	you're so all in on basically the
27365s	singular card especially in the mirror
27367s	it's just so volatile and there can be
27369s	back and forth games if both players are
27370s	on equal footing with um access to a
27373s	sharpshooter but when you're not do you
27375s	get games like that where it's just
27378s	looks a little bit Mis miserable for for
27380s	one player at the end yeah and of course
27382s	you know we see sort of uh difference in
27384s	player dispositions right rfam closes
27387s	out his game I'm so good pocket finishes
27390s	his game I'm so bad right just thinking
27393s	about that mistake of not throwing back
27394s	the Wayward stage to off his BOS to pick
27397s	it up again you know he's always very
27398s	hard on himself but uh but he still gets
27401s	there in the end you know I think being
27403s	that critical means you are learning
27405s	from your mistakes if if you can you
27407s	know recognize when they happen
27410s	yeah and those small mistakes can
27413s	sometimes be all the difference pocket
27415s	train has experienced that firsthand and
27418s	um you know it sometimes it takes that
27420s	experience in order to um to have that
27424s	mentality of every situation matters win
27427s	or lose right you have to
27429s	separate you know the your play from the
27432s	result uh in a lot of cases to in order
27435s	to improve at Hearthstone and that's
27437s	always been the case and the players
27438s	that are able to to do
27440s	that and just have the ability to
27443s	improve better and think critically
27445s	those are the players that make it far
27447s	and that's been the case for a
27449s	while all all the way back to the 2014
27453s	World
27454s	Championship firebat with his spread
27457s	cheats yep the only player to actually
27459s	think critically about the game instead
27461s	of just jamming cards and smacking them
27464s	into minions the only the first player
27467s	to think maybe I can just ignore my
27468s	opponents minions and hit him in the
27471s	face um now it's come full circle to
27474s	pocket train stomping a game of Demon
27478s	Hunter and hating himself for it because
27481s	he made one small mistake towards the
27484s	end and see here in group b pocket train
27489s	our first Victor out of group uh
27492s	throwing mey back down mey will face the
27495s	winner of our next match CJ Kaka versus
27498s	wiq
27500s	and CJ Kaka of course is the Naga Mage
27503s	player but of course after it got nerfed
27507s	again it's just here with the Sif Mage
27509s	the lowly Sif Mage no
27512s	nagas yeah both players have have Mage
27515s	in that Series so it should be an
27516s	interesting one yep uh to watch uh
27519s	that's why I said we like this group
27521s	deas are good other than Demon Hunter uh
27524s	but we're nearly done for day one here
27525s	at the hearstone world championship we
27527s	just have that one match remaining uh
27530s	one player will be eliminated and one
27532s	player will move on to that decider
27534s	match tomorrow uh to face off against
27536s	mey uh for another spot in the
27539s	semi-finals but before we jump into that
27540s	match we are going to have to take a
27541s	quick break but don't go anywhere more
27543s	action to come here from the Hearthstone
27545s	World
27550s	[Music]
27558s	Championship
27559s	[Music]
27589s	[Music]
27606s	[Music]
27618s	w
27627s	[Music]
27634s	[Music]
27642s	[Music]
27647s	n
27661s	[Music]
27684s	[Music]
27712s	[Music]
27740s	welcome everybody back to the
27741s	Hearthstone World Championship we've got
27743s	one more match for you today pocket
27746s	train and Rec Vamp already into those
27748s	semi-finals um but now we have
27750s	elimination on our mind subtle um CJ
27753s	Kaka weu and two of the players who
27756s	haven't really performed well previously
27758s	in Master's tours this year at least
27760s	anyway yeah and I'm not sure how this
27762s	has worked out and I can't really blame
27764s	anyone else because I did the talent
27765s	rotation for this event but I've been
27767s	here on both elimination games which
27769s	really isn't doing any favors for my
27771s	reputation of being negative and
27772s	miserable about anything I'm the one
27774s	that gets to tell players that are going
27776s	home um but regardless of that I think
27778s	we have got a pretty awesome Series in
27780s	front of us I think these are two of the
27782s	players if I if you take the eight
27783s	players that qualify for this world
27785s	championship I personally would say CJ
27787s	Kaka and Wu are two of the biggest
27790s	benefici beneficiaries if there are such
27792s	a thing of the new system that was so
27795s	heavily ladder grinder based right
27797s	because I think they just took to that
27799s	like a duck to water and went oh just
27801s	you know no live Hearthstone all year
27803s	cool Count Me In you know and they've
27805s	really um profited from that and um had
27809s	a large amount of success getting those
27811s	finishes getting those ladder results
27813s	under their belt and now are rightful
27815s	members of our world championship roster
27818s	yeah and I'll give you Muzzy and Frozen
27820s	as two previous names who started off
27823s	with systems not quite like this but
27824s	with grindy systems very good ladder
27826s	players who turned into two of the best
27828s	players of all time took them both a
27830s	little time especially Muzzy somebody
27832s	famously said that Muzzy might be
27834s	struggling or something I can't remember
27835s	the exact words I I called him a choke
27837s	artist NE is what I did so I'm not going
27839s	to run from it that's what happened he
27841s	called me out on it he was absolutely
27843s	right to do so it was a great moment but
27844s	I'm not going to revise history and use
27846s	softer words now that's what I said cool
27850s	good for you I thought I'd let you say I
27851s	know you don't mind saying it um but
27853s	here we do have two similar lineups but
27856s	um give you something to get your teeth
27858s	into we've got Wei on the the death
27861s	knight also has uh Druid with a lot of
27864s	two ofs
27866s	and whereas CJ Kaka has the more
27869s	standard rainbow Mage list as well as
27872s	just the two ofs uh the two two ofs in
27875s	the Reno Druid so I'll let you go from
27877s	there yeah I mean you know there's an
27879s	absolute Heartbreaker because step one
27881s	there's no Naga Mage in this tournament
27883s	right like that's how you know uh we we
27886s	we've really failed as a community when
27888s	we can't sneak that one token Naga Mage
27891s	into the tournament but no both players
27893s	um bringing a variation of the siif Mage
27895s	we are taking a look at CJ Ker's uh
27897s	rainbow Mage here uh not much has
27900s	changed with this two recently much like
27902s	nature Sharman Miracle salesman just uh
27904s	worming its way into the deck snaking
27906s	its way into the deck whatever you want
27907s	to call it um just for that extra burst
27910s	damage for zero Mana it allows for super
27912s	quick kills if you can turbo out um you
27916s	can get kills on turn eight right if if
27918s	you just hold a flame gazer if you get a
27921s	Arcane bolt and then if you have the um
27924s	the zero Mana snake oil to go with that
27925s	as well you can get incredibly fast
27927s	kills uh it has also brought Reverb
27930s	lethals back into the back into the meta
27934s	when it comes to Sith Mage because
27936s	previously once you played a Sith and
27937s	you played a Reverb you just didn't have
27939s	Mana left to actually be able to chuck
27941s	burn Spells at your opponent's face then
27943s	right like you sneak in one Arcane bolt
27945s	and that's your 10 Mana spent but now
27946s	you have those zero Mana spells
27947s	available to
27949s	that's something that become a bit more
27950s	attractive as well so CJ Kaka of course
27953s	well known for this kind of combo
27954s	focused lots of cards in one turn
27957s	drawing your whole deck Miracle turns
27959s	kind of decks um Sith Mage uh kind of
27962s	feels like there's close to that he can
27964s	get as along with the Naga Demon Hunter
27967s	while still being competitive in this
27969s	meta yeah it's a strange one right the
27971s	Naga Mage he brought as you've alluded
27973s	to several times to the last Master's
27975s	tour the only person who did so um
27977s	obviously famous for the that and like
27979s	you say he's managed to get it sneakily
27981s	into his Demon Hunter instead this time
27983s	around so he still gets to play some
27984s	nagas anyway um I just feel that this
27987s	mage build is more tight more well
27992s	presented compared to the excavate one I
27994s	kind of hope to see them go head to head
27996s	because I feel like the excavate Mage
27998s	does well when it draws the rainbow Mage
28000s	cards in its opening
28003s	hand yeah I mean I can kind of get on
28005s	board with that for sure um I personally
28009s	think some of the uh cards that the
28012s	excavate Mage cut to to make room for
28014s	the excavate cards are just you're just
28015s	so you're significantly lowering the
28018s	average power level of a card in your
28019s	deck um for the goal of getting a payoff
28022s	with some stronger cards that the
28024s	excavates then generate right and I'm
28026s	not necessarily sure that adds up for
28029s	for my mentality but uh regardless of
28032s	course um we are here with the um
28034s	whatever we're calling this yeah Reno
28036s	Druid it's a druid with a Reno in in it
28039s	but it follows none of the normal
28040s	conventions of being able to do this uh
28043s	we talked about this a lot myself and
28044s	Idol Vice um casting the series in group
28047s	a with the very similar deck enormous
28049s	amount of two ofs um but if you really
28052s	break down what the two ofs do basically
28055s	every two of gets one of the others into
28057s	your hand somehow right so you've got
28059s	two seedsmen that draws a nature spell
28061s	so then you've got two copies of the
28062s	various nature spells innovate planted
28064s	evidence Cactus construct uh dragons
28066s	you've got two copies of a bunch of
28067s	dragons but you also have two copies of
28069s	take to the skies which then pulls those
28070s	dragons um gets you down to one in the
28072s	deck of a couple of those dragons
28074s	hopefully so that it can chain through
28077s	very quickly um the problem is you need
28079s	that chain to work perfectly in order to
28082s	get a a fast Reno online but uh we saw
28085s	from levik that it can still happen I
28087s	think levik did very much make a theater
28089s	of it right of playing his Reno when he
28091s	didn't even need to just to say hey this
28093s	is active you know like put some respect
28095s	on this deck's name you you draw the
28097s	cards and just to tidy that up because
28099s	I've heard you mention obviously we've
28101s	all talked about the the Highlander SL
28103s	lowlander aspect of that deck um how bad
28107s	in general it's even worse in this meta
28109s	is Reno when it's not
28111s	active I mean do as a Hearthstone card
28114s	do you want a simple answer to that
28116s	question I mean it it gets you value
28117s	from your hero power it's doing constant
28119s	two damage it gets you some armor like
28121s	it's it's awful you wouldn't play it
28122s	that way but how terrible go on I mean
28125s	it costs eight like what what what are
28128s	we talking about eight talking about
28130s	Druid card so eight what's eight eight
28132s	Mana is not much eight Mana gain five
28134s	armor you're asking me how bad a card
28136s	that is it's catasto power it's
28139s	world-endingly
28141s	bad we got him going kids that's what we
28144s	wanted okay talking question I'm going
28147s	to get irritated that's how it works
28149s	uhhuh yeah had to start off in style as
28152s	we mean to go on
28155s	mhm okay so CJ Kaka here here getting
28159s	the early board we've seen that a lot no
28161s	wel before weu but again even if you get
28163s	the wellp it's not guaranteed to be
28165s	active in this kind of
28172s	build really tough for D when it misses
28180s	here haak like a true combo player has
28184s	having no troubles finding the
28186s	Sharpshooter we just saw a whole series
28188s	pretty much defined by two players
28190s	struggle to find a sharpshooter in this
28192s	deck CJ Kaka already has it in hand
28194s	already has it discounted as well by the
28196s	way with
28197s	h yeah I want to know how tempted he is
28201s	just to lob things out there so he can
28203s	get the stuff online yeah I thought he
28211s	might straight into sigil
28217s	beautiful
28221s	yeah this is classic anti-druid player
28223s	right just put your stuff out on board
28224s	and get the small amount of value that
28226s	you get out of it and just make your
28227s	opponent deal with it um of course there
28230s	are a few more ways of The Druids um to
28234s	deal with it now because I don't know if
28235s	you knew Neil but actually if you change
28236s	a Minion from five Health to three
28238s	Health it actually makes quite a
28239s	significant difference um to the power
28242s	deck yeah strange um so Druid does have
28245s	a few more ways to interact with it
28247s	theoretically
28249s	however theoretically is all well and
28252s	good until you have this
28254s	hand yeah oh good old coin Nest matate
28258s	on everyone's favorite play
28263s	ah it lives it's gone yeah no no the
28268s	opposite of it gone well the other
28270s	thing's gone
28273s	yeah
28276s	well I'm not sure this works out well
28279s	for we the L no it does no that's what
28282s	we both sort of reacted differently to
28284s	it like you reacted oh okay the problems
28286s	dealt with no it's not it is absolutely
28289s	in no way dealt with Wei was actually
28292s	seeing the funny side of it like it's
28294s	all he had to do like's he's dead if he
28296s	doesn't do that basically yeah yeah for
28298s	sure yeah it's the only but this is not
28302s	a good long-term investment
28305s	no no matter what anybody tells you
28308s	that is on the other hand is a fantastic
28311s	long-term
28315s	investment so now we're curving into
28317s	Doom kin which actually uh buys us a
28320s	little bit of time theoretically as well
28323s	maybe prevents significant damage coming
28325s	out on that turn where it wakes up yeah
28328s	then maybe a topio if we don't have to
28332s	[Music]
28334s	prison sorry you're right no no I'm I'm
28338s	I'm just thinking what happens when this
28340s	thing wakes
28342s	up are you hiding behind the sofa from
28345s	the scary pounds on the
28348s	television I don't know I think they're
28350s	quite good sorry I'll get you your
28351s	blankie you feel
28355s	s
28357s	oh you just know that CJ Kaka wants to
28360s	take steno here whether it's right or
28364s	wrong that was 45 seconds of CJ Kaka
28367s	resisting it yeah I also pretty much
28370s	always want to take Seno
28372s	spots the only place I take Seno quicker
28376s	uh is when you get offered it in Naga
28378s	priest from one of your amthal
28382s	rols
28384s	yes yeah people die when that happens
28391s	yeah it's
28395s	back and you're dead
28399s	oh you're so
28401s	dead so very oh my goodness just so very
28407s	dead well
28413s	then I love how a mistake might win the
28415s	world championships by the
28418s	way hey the way Pock going it's looking
28421s	almost
28422s	guaranteed he's going quite well isn't
28424s	he he's going quite well and then you
28427s	know making minor mechanical errors and
28429s	looking really annoyed about it it's
28430s	great having a good
28433s	time you think it was the worst case
28435s	scenarious the way he went on about it
28437s	but you know I cannot believe you've
28439s	managed to shoehorn that back in it's
28442s	2023 you're still doing the one joke I'm
28445s	so
28448s	annoyed I actually wrote it in my
28450s	notepad do not forget to say worst case
28452s	scenarios when Cy with SLE after that
28454s	happened last
28456s	game
28458s	I'm done you're on your own mate carry
28460s	on Okay cool so it's one Z to um
28463s	somebody CJ Kaka probably tick next to
28465s	one of the
28467s	boxes okay sorry for the good for the
28469s	good of everyone I'll get back invol I
28471s	just I just realized what this would
28473s	look like if I actually boycotted my my
28475s	fault I'll uh I'll jump back in yeah I
28478s	mean what you going to do right like
28480s	again not the best example to be talking
28483s	about how changing the health on the
28484s	Sharpshooter actually made a difference
28486s	because this was very much the same
28488s	pattern as we would have seen from five
28490s	Health Sharpshooter right you just jam
28492s	it against Druid they really really
28493s	struggle to kill it it stays on board
28496s	you follow it up they die uh the only
28498s	difference in this was that there was a
28499s	vague intermittent period where it was
28501s	dormant for a few turns but um as we
28504s	alluded to but never really quite
28506s	crystallized the problem with the
28507s	dormant play is that it wakes up going
28510s	into your opponent's turn so you never
28513s	have the opportunity to then react to it
28515s	later right it's not like it's something
28516s	you've just put on the later base and
28518s	then you can fire a removal spell at it
28520s	when it wakes up three turns down the
28521s	line no it wakes up three turns down the
28523s	line when it ticks over to your
28524s	opponent's turn and they have six manner
28526s	of stuff just to be able to jam on the
28528s	board with an already paid for
28530s	Sharpshooter uh which is going to spell
28532s	disaster for weu of course but he had
28535s	plenty of cards that could have killed
28537s	it in that situation he just missed on
28538s	the Discover that was the big difference
28540s	like that if that's on five then there
28543s	are no cards there it's probably one but
28546s	you know
28548s	there's far more when you're discovering
28549s	into trying to do three damage but here
28552s	we are now another deck that you adore I
28555s	know mhm your plague
28558s	DK I had a good time you did do this
28560s	tank rotation didn't you I did yeah yeah
28563s	I did do it I can't believe it I've got
28565s	plague DK twice and elimination game
28567s	twice and zero pocket train Series so
28569s	come on what am I doing I've let myself
28571s	down um but I I did really enjoy the uh
28574s	the levic series The the UN the plague
28578s	DK versus Paladin game was uh was a lot
28580s	of fun just basically both decks drawing
28582s	quite badly and then just bouncing off
28585s	each other and really uh resolving hard
28587s	down to the late game which was uh super
28589s	fun to watch uh so you I'm I'm here for
28592s	it I'm happy to watch a little bit of
28593s	play DK here and there I lik the points
28595s	you made in that particular match as
28596s	well about levik just finding things to
28599s	put in his deck that have a specific
28600s	purpose that aren't obvious until you're
28602s	levic and then it all becomes clear
28605s	really really despite the fact he's had
28607s	a bad he showed once again just why he's
28609s	so highly regarded I think in that one
28611s	yeah and I think as a deck builder as
28613s	well like he's one of those players
28615s	where his lineup will come out and all
28617s	the other top players will go oh my God
28619s	look at the state of this lineup and
28621s	then he'll win the and then he'll win
28622s	the tournament you know and everyone
28623s	will go oh it genius like we we went
28625s	through that exact process with uh 30
28627s	card blood DK right like mid-range
28630s	played like 2014 Druid blood DK with 30
28635s	cards and no renal like that he won an
28637s	Mt with that deck and day one everyone
28639s	was just like what is this like how can
28642s	you possibly play 30 card blood DK and
28645s	then we looked at it and just like well
28647s	actually you don't really cut any good
28651s	cards so maybe this is just fine and
28654s	yeah it turned out to be uh to be pretty
28656s	darn
28657s	good meanwhile we've got a a mage
28660s	without a keyboard on two
28663s	mhm I don't know if that's ever happened
28665s	before but it's happening now so
28667s	interest to see how Mage gets on without
28669s	one
28671s	okay it is legal it is allowed to
28677s	happen oh plenty of curve decisions here
28679s	now
28682s	though how valuable is this coin is the
28684s	main
28689s	question and how valuable is this board
28691s	as well because you know we do say
28694s	putting a minion down or you do say
28695s	putting a minion down against the uh the
28697s	death knight is just the end of the game
28699s	yep coining out a cold case is basically
28702s	doing exactly that yeah is it really a
28705s	minion deal with it yeah I'm not sure I
28707s	would have done this it's just C case
28709s	without weapon is pretty underwhelming
28712s	in terms of or development in terms of
28715s	pressure at least let's say like yes it
28718s	can stop you from being overwhelmed the
28720s	other way right with the skeleton death
28721s	rattles being able to pick things apart
28724s	um but it doesn't really represent
28725s	significant pressure to the point that
28727s	using a coin on it seems um oh I mean
28730s	okay fine I was about to say when your
28733s	followup is relatively non-existent
28735s	right you're just going to go into
28736s	volume up and kind of conce the board
28738s	again there but I mean sure if you're
28739s	just going to draw the second Cal case
28741s	straight off the top then coining the
28742s	first Cal case looks
28745s	genius there you go
28747s	then weq to the point we're like did we
28751s	miss a dredge so he knew that was the
28754s	draw like I don't think so
28756s	right don't think so either but it's
28759s	possible I have missed a dredge earlier
28760s	today
28763s	already Wu actually has like stuff to do
28766s	for the first few turns here this is
28768s	helping significantly
28771s	yep yeah good curve and it's one of the
28774s	matchups um where plague DK can look
28777s	okay because um Mage without keyboard is
28781s	quite slow to get on board itself right
28782s	so play DK with its mediocre curve of
28785s	minions of you know blood fend r into
28788s	four Mana 33s five Mana 55s or that kind
28790s	of stuff like it can actually take board
28792s	because Mage doesn't really do anything
28794s	more board focus and that if they don't
28796s	have
28803s	weapon but yeah the it's not a problem
28806s	as such but the the options here for six
28808s	mana and a handful of minions are kind
28810s	of sad they're not bad obviously he's
28812s	going to get the board back he's going
28813s	to be in an okay spot
28815s	but none of these jump out and you say
28817s	immediate power that's the problem
28821s	[Music]
28825s	here pile of bones sure yeah why not
28828s	that's all right yeah cost
28836s	zero like you've dug for a load of stuff
28838s	and now you're playing cards to dig for
28839s	more
28846s	stuff
28851s	he's in a decent position to hit Helia
28853s	very soon though with his Finley and
28854s	also you know the excavator ticking
28855s	along nicely
28858s	so or about to
28865s	be
28869s	well I sense a game plan
28876s	developing
28878s	I think you yeah oh hello Arcane
28883s	shot very interesting yes
28887s	yeah of course it it doesn't help plan
28890s	or it doesn't help step one which is
28892s	actually juicing the spell score since
28894s	you know Arcane is already a schore that
28896s	you're playing in the deck
28898s	[Music]
28899s	naturally is still some way away but you
28903s	do ideally want to get a second burn
28905s	spell in your hand before you drop uh
28909s	the lady NZ
28917s	jar
28920s	yes and also
28922s	um the lady as well yeah
28929s	yep and then next turn you do have a
28932s	pretty good looking hand if you hit here
28936s	okay well just have a h huge board
28937s	instead that'll do
28940s	fine
28942s	yeah such a good sound
28954s	effect death Knight's just poking
28957s	opponent with a stick saying do
28958s	something here because all these cards
28960s	are just so nothing on their own unless
28962s	your opponent's actually doing something
28963s	to
28965s	stop yeah some sort of
28969s	board has it m play a high a high value
28972s	minion for the rat to really matter yet
28976s	no but has been able to save the zero
28979s	Mana excavate for the reward which is uh
28981s	obviously ideal in a lot of
28983s	situations oh it's going to be fine
28985s	later if the problem is if you don't die
28988s	in the process right like against a
28989s	paladin or something here you you just
28990s	full heal in the next couple of turns
28992s	and try again yeah but against the Sith
28995s	who's just about to shoot you not so
28996s	much
29008s	never
29009s	[Music]
29010s	Frost
29013s	reality yeah okay just just make the
29017s	board tick along the
29021s	Mana wait to get another damage spell
29024s	finally gives weak you something to
29026s	actually react to which so many of these
29028s	cards in hand have been waiting to do
29030s	for quite some
29032s	time yeah that's what I was trying to
29033s	say it's just like it's all like having
29035s	all these cards but if there's nothing
29037s	to actually do with them you you
29038s	presented a six attack board for seven
29040s	Mana last turn right yeah
29047s	exactly and now because you've only got
29049s	a six attack board an army of 45 is an
29051s	absolute
29054s	nuisance yeah you can do several all
29057s	very swingy things here though if you
29059s	really want
29060s	to takes a few trades first to get the
29063s	rexit down in cost can now play it out
29067s	Trade It Off steal a minion resummon it
29069s	with life steal steal more minions
29073s	yep that's your big turn gone probably
29076s	for the game this has to get there it's
29078s	not the only thing that has to get
29079s	obviously you've got plagues scking away
29081s	you know blah blah blah but CJ kak on 41
29084s	playing a sift deck you you've got a
29086s	present stuff
29107s	soon that feels good sequencing kind of
29112s	questionable there right because if this
29115s	ends up being your turn you can mitigate
29118s	the outcome where you steal the 13
29120s	unless that's an outcome you desire
29122s	right by just rushing into the 13 with
29124s	the bar busted first and then making the
29126s	trade with the
29127s	rexa it wouldn't surprise me if it's an
29129s	outcome he desired honestly he was down
29131s	to 19 at the time right but what spells
29133s	is he like he plays a card in his deck
29136s	that specifically draws say you have no
29138s	spell but you generate spells we
29141s	excavates and so oh he's just realized I
29143s	think actually
29145s	yeah
29148s	yeah he's just realized what you were
29149s	talking
29152s	about yeah I didn't think it was going
29154s	to be a huge game but even so like I was
29156s	trying to justify it but yeah again his
29158s	reaction shows that he absolutely didn't
29160s	want to do that classic player apologist
29163s	Linda as
29164s	as yeah
29169s	yeah someone's got to be they don't get
29172s	much support from the rest of you
29175s	wow
29178s	but also someone's got to me on both
29180s	sides of that all right has actually got
29183s	some attack this time around yep plages
29185s	are starting to Chip Away
29189s	mhm has the triple buff as well so can
29192s	actually make a pretty big push this
29202s	turn
29204s	yeah Kaka though being very careful just
29207s	to leave the boards functionally empty
29209s	just the one stealth minion knows um
29212s	like the the hand certain elements of
29213s	the hand are face up right you've seen
29215s	the number of times uh excavate has
29217s	happened you've seen the rexa die you
29220s	know that the fourth excavate came off
29222s	the the zero Mana proc so you know
29224s	there's a zero Mana rat in hand so just
29226s	you know don't give things to rush into
29228s	pretty straightforward when you break it
29230s	all down but you've got to be keeping
29231s	track of a lot of moving parts to get
29233s	that right as
29235s	CJ yeah that's the sort of stuff that um
29238s	just takes up so much brain space that
29240s	you it can ruin Hearthstone turns for
29242s	people like me buy trying to do my thing
29245s	and I've got to keep track of what my
29246s	opponent's doing at the same time and
29247s	then there's when you're trying to count
29249s	things and H
29251s	yeah a good
29256s	job how close is CJ Kaka to just having
29259s	lethal here though how big is that Sith
29265s	now uh the inspiration was only played
29267s	for four so it's not like fully Juiced
29270s	yet at this point I'm not sure how many
29272s	new schools were played in the
29273s	intermittent
29277s	Turn Only plus four spell damage
29282s	huh what a
29286s	world so he's playing this first
29294s	to there was a lot of out there
29296s	obviously solid Alibi is a fantastic one
29299s	but um could find blizzard could find
29302s	Heatwave there's lots of options there
29303s	that could take care of most of this
29306s	board trying to work out if he needs
29308s	this
29309s	Reverb feel like he does or he feels
29312s	like he does but trading away from 73s
29315s	later might be
29316s	handy he's just trying to get the lady
29319s	down right to get everything produced
29320s	and he's off
29323s	yep gets the weapon out of hand and then
29326s	plays zero Mana spell to continue to not
29329s	summon Minions on the board but needed
29331s	to make a space
29333s	somehow also not attacking so it's just
29335s	sat there like you've pointed out
29337s	already
29340s	yep it's just like a mini spell yep you
29346s	also have the I guess you people might
29348s	pose the question well why not just ship
29349s	it into the seven three or something
29351s	while this way he still has four extra
29352s	damage that gets to go face at some
29354s	point but he by delaying it for later he
29356s	doesn't just ship the face now and then
29359s	leave the minion up to be able to rush
29361s	be rushed into with life Ste he wants
29363s	that four damage to go face at some
29365s	point for the lethal but he does not
29367s	want to leave a minion Exposed on board
29369s	that can be rushed
29374s	into now he's down to his natural card
29377s	draw with the infin eyes having gone
29378s	still just digging
29381s	around death
29384s	call they'll come a point when the
29385s	reduction just spells 30 damage anyway
29388s	so that wouldn't be too
29389s	bad wow we says okay I mean fine if
29394s	you're going to be like that I will
29396s	simply throw my zero Mana excavate
29398s	reward in the bin
29402s	immediately yeah because I want this
29404s	card
29405s	ET now you've got to do things and
29408s	you're going to hit Frost plagues at
29409s	some
29411s	point or
29415s	not
29417s	oh it's just a creation off the top
29420s	after your opponent just thrown their
29421s	zero Mana rat away Just sh in his head
29425s	it's like okay well I'll do this
29428s	then and this
29434s	yeah oh come
29438s	on I am the world's number one plague DK
29441s	hater but that is simply not
29445s	fair
29450s	ah CJ K is starting to vibrate with
29453s	anxiety as to how close this game is
29457s	becoming yeah it's a massive massive
29459s	difference obviously with a loser being
29462s	remove from the tournament but two Z up
29464s	you'd obviously fancy your chances we
29466s	talk about some games in Conquest not
29468s	mattering this one matters on multiple
29472s	levels yo cold feet y
29481s	kaching bit of an expensive Sith now it
29484s	is a bit of an expensive Sith
29489s	indeed CJ keka can just die as well he
29492s	didn't keep his hand size at 10
29496s	so no no way he really could have having
29499s	to play the lady on that turn yeah
29502s	exactly
29505s	yeah
29509s	oh you do right surely down with the
29512s	ship no okay all
29517s	right
29518s	Frost
29520s	BL okay not actually a not actually a
29523s	bad turn to get a frost plague out of
29525s	the way I guess that's not true hellia
29526s	has been played so there's no such thing
29528s	as getting a frost plague out of the way
29529s	at this
29531s	point if you're going to hit a frost
29533s	plague then that's a good turn to hit it
29534s	on even though it can be hit again put
29535s	that way yeah I know what you're trying
29537s	to say um that's
29544s	what just going to have to throw some
29546s	spells out just to stay
29549s	alive yeah and the chance of redrawing
29551s	good stuff goes down and down and down
29553s	obviously each time these plagues get
29554s	added to your deck and even then down
29556s	with the ship and asore from
29559s	hand y wiq just checking he thinks he
29563s	knows he's right but he's just doing all
29566s	of his due
29569s	diligence he knows it goes face right he
29571s	knows it goes face oh no but it's
29572s	counter spell isn't it that's what we
29574s	because we saw it before the oh yeah
29578s	[Music]
29579s	yeah so who's currently one
29583s	off so can he generate a spell
29587s	with Primus is expensive but yeah
29590s	generate a spell with
29592s	that and then use that spell to trigger
29595s	the counter spell the rules decide your
29597s	then you're too Mana short then you just
29599s	don't have the Mana remaining yeah you
29600s	have to play an aalor and the down with
29602s	the
29603s	ship wait you get plus three spell
29605s	damage right you get plus three spell
29606s	damage you're fine you play The Horn of
29608s	winter here you get plus three damage on
29610s	the down with the ship and it cost
29613s	Z oh that's so
29620s	sick oh that is so
29624s	sick
29627s	what an
29629s	ending what a game what a pickup what a
29634s	finale wo weu finding his way back into
29637s	the series CJ Kaka was
29640s	really just millimeters away from lethal
29643s	on multiple occasions there with the
29645s	setup on the previous turn with the
29647s	nasar multiple boards coming down that
29649s	were threatening lethal uh really really
29652s	clean play in the mid game where he was
29654s	just holding that four damage and
29655s	preventing the life Ste to come through
29658s	um shout out to weq there as well for
29659s	recognizing like okay I mean I'm going
29661s	to lose this game of chicken if we both
29663s	just sit around here waiting like I'm
29665s	not going to get a minion to attack into
29667s	like let's forget about it let's throw
29669s	all this stuff away and try and find
29670s	some more offensive cards instead and
29672s	the cards that were found will be
29674s	incredibly offensive to one person in
29676s	particular and that is CJ Kaka because
29678s	that ending is the kind of outcome the
29681s	kind of role the kind of generation the
29683s	kind of created by finish that can
29685s	really really pre on your mind for the
29687s	remainder of the series if you let
29689s	it absolutely and it's also going to be
29691s	good for weu I'm glad he might just show
29693s	us something we've hardly seen him this
29695s	year despite the fact he's been tearing
29697s	it up on ladder he's somebody that you
29699s	know he's he's not done particularly
29700s	well in the other Masters Tour so we
29702s	haven't got to see him play very often
29703s	first time we get to see him on camera
29705s	and we get to see him find a a pretty
29707s	cool out there to win that game and I'm
29710s	pleased that we got to see that and now
29712s	I'm pleased that we get to see this
29714s	because I want to see these two Mages go
29715s	ahead to head cuz I just feel the
29717s	excavate version is a weaker version and
29720s	that's a personal opinion it definitely
29722s	isn't necessarily born out by
29725s	fact sorry I didn't realize you had to
29728s	um put a small print disclaimer on
29731s	things that you say on air this is what
29732s	I've been I'm cly with you of course I
29736s	do I can't give you any wiggle room
29739s	you've got to you
29740s	know there's people there's people where
29742s	you like you tweet something and then
29743s	they respond yeah but that's just your
29745s	opinion like yeah this is my Twitter
29748s	account like what did you think I was
29751s	tweeting what are you talking
29755s	about
29756s	ah please be
29759s	normal subtle the person with opinions
29761s	gets upset about people asking if
29763s	they're his opinions
29771s	yeah we got the board this
29774s	end
29785s	there's something about the um world
29787s	championships obviously it's the end of
29789s	the year but this year in particular
29790s	where players weren't necessarily
29793s	completely terrified during the Masters
29795s	tours because they they knew they were
29797s	doing well on ladder they knew they get
29798s	more chances and so on MH um but now
29801s	they're here and there are no more
29802s	chances Suddenly It's kicking in you
29804s	might lose that's the end of your year
29805s	and it's been a very long year for all
29808s	eight of these
29809s	players um we are seeing the emotions
29811s	really pouring out this time around
29814s	these are some real choices here by the
29817s	way what to do ejection incredibly
29821s	powerful very limited selection of
29823s	minions um but you do currently know
29826s	that the flame Elemental is hanging out
29829s	U but there is a reasonably good chance
29830s	that would come down on the following
29832s	turn anyway from what you've seen so far
29834s	of the the lack of of weapon in the
29836s	curve but does in the end just choose to
29838s	go with the solid Alibi which of course
29840s	can pretty much lock out one turn
29842s	guaranteed if you do get into that race
29844s	classic classic Mage banter right it's
29847s	it's uh it's Ty versus Osaka World
29850s	Championship pedigree ice blocks extra
29853s	turns ping yourself in the face that's
29855s	what we're here for oh I want to say
29857s	ping yourself in the face and you stole
29859s	it where was your line but you know
29861s	anyway you stole the conclusion to that
29864s	thing that you started yourself exactly
29867s	how dare
29868s	you just shows the value they're putting
29871s	on the early chip damage here right just
29873s	a rock straight into a one two to spend
29875s	some mana and do something yeah yeah for
29880s	sure I believe uh wiq is just ticking
29883s	off spell skulls it looks
29885s	like
29888s	y
29891s	hello you want a jackpot I mean I don't
29894s	want to but I'd love to see it I think
29896s	spectral site probably makes more
29901s	sense I so nearly got there earlier I
29903s	was playing um Naga priest and I was it
29906s	was one of those games where you're just
29907s	utterly losing with Naga priest but You'
29910s	Rand randomly find ways to get there
29912s	because the deck's incredibly resilient
29914s	uh it's against like a Highlander um
29916s	control deck and they played a yog I
29919s	power word copied their yog played the
29922s	yog ended up stealing their yog and
29923s	getting tentacles and then with
29925s	literally the very last card of the game
29927s	my last uh tentacle for a nine drop gave
29929s	me sunwell filled up my hand with things
29932s	like jackpot and I was like oh I'm in it
29935s	I'm in it we're back I wasn't in it I
29938s	wasn't I was not back somebody taught me
29940s	once it's never sunwell so I thought you
29942s	should know no it's true not even when
29945s	you don't get to choose it's still at
29947s	that point never
29950s	sunwell it's a good draw that is an
29953s	extremely good draw the last thing you
29955s	want to be dealing with at this point of
29956s	the game is Just chip damage coming back
29958s	at you you want to be the one doing the
29960s	chipping if at all possible and this
29963s	also creates a nice clear board into a
29965s	potential pyro blast next turn with the
29967s	worst card in Hearthstone uhhuh you're a
29970s	big fan I remember the card
29973s	review but yeah uh CJ's put quite a lot
29976s	of investment into that board as well
29978s	and now it's now it's gone and he's
29980s	behind in every aspect of the game with
29982s	cards not really doing it for him at the
29985s	moment either
29987s	though 33 plays 22 though is relevant I
29990s	wouldn't say every aspect of the game
29992s	true very
29995s	true 37 plays a lot
30005s	less I mean if you can't play it here
30007s	why is it in your deck yeah if if on
30011s	curve with eight other cards in your
30014s	hand you don't jam it we're going to
30015s	have a serious discussion about why this
30018s	card gets to
30022s	exist yep okay good I say there's no
30026s	better time well there's no skeletons
30028s	would be a better time but
30030s	yeah there you
30036s	go moon beam picked up by the way keep
30038s	an eye on it CJ CER it's one of those
30042s	cards it's one of those cards that
30044s	breaks the rules oh the the life Miner
30046s	yeah yeah no no moon beam oh just moon
30050s	beam
30051s	okay Moon
30054s	beam.com
30057s	wow the the three people old enough to
30060s	get that reference in
30061s	chat it's just because it's it's molten
30064s	Rune adjacent right it fires twice
30066s	therefore it's absurd with cth as long
30068s	as you can get the out for
30070s	it is the point being made here if you
30073s	need it spelled out for you
30076s	I mean I don't but there might be people
30077s	who do I'm just making you do your
30083s	job could do with copying all those One
30085s	Drops already couldn't
30088s	he there imagine if you P his hand they
30092s	would actually simply be
30098s	dead I keep seeing really exciting cards
30101s	that you definitely can't take like pyro
30103s	blast just set the old school just
30106s	surprise pyro Blast for 10 when your
30108s	opponent thinks they're safe yeah
30110s	unfortunately this isn't fire Druid
30111s	we're not happy when you randomly
30113s	generate a uh a pyro blast on that note
30116s	actually no one no one has had a go at
30119s	CJ Kaka for not bringing fire Druid he
30121s	was supposed to right everyone agrees
30124s	that the narrative of this tournament
30125s	was CJ Kaka making it finals with fire
30128s	Druid right that that's what was
30130s	supposed to happen why has this not
30132s	happened I'm very disappointed oh worst
30134s	keyboard ever
30136s	ever yeah you just got to generate the
30139s	Spells right yeah yeah yeah it's
30143s	good I mean I wouldn't I'd have
30145s	generated turned my cards into zero Mana
30147s	so they don't trigger the keyboard and
30153s	waited what is this hand the nor pickup
30156s	at least is now something right just got
30159s	to get digging find that
30162s	[Music]
30164s	Sith
30166s	oh you're talking about the health total
30168s	differenti that's made a big difference
30170s	to
30170s	it yes it
30175s	has like I've never been a fan of Mage
30178s	but this is one of the worst Mage hands
30180s	for Kaka that I've seen like ever just
30183s	hasn't ticked along nicely at all
30186s	no hasn't found the card draw really is
30188s	only just now hitting the the wisdom of
30191s	noram and he will go through his deck
30194s	pretty quickly imag now cuz there's a
30196s	lot of that stuff left to go now so
30199s	he'll catch up pretty quickly a lot of
30200s	the rest of it is sort of generated card
30202s	draw a lot of the time though so you
30204s	still have to you still have to hit that
30205s	in various positions you do you do hinge
30208s	on the wisdom quite heavily a lot of the
30220s	time just clearing out his
30224s	hand
30226s	weq up to five just now on the spell
30229s	schools dropping the fou you can see the
30231s	wisdom now cost zero yeah you want
30234s	cheaty ways of keeping
30237s	track me
30241s	no yeah making the space and boo the SK
30244s	spell SKS there ready
30246s	for stargazing stargazing so
30253s	huge that now draws six if you want to
30255s	make space for it or you can rip the
30257s	other stargazing look for the other
30259s	wisdom and cast that
30262s	one just draw a nice clean four there
30264s	you go nice clean four it
30269s	is
30271s	oh
30275s	my
30277s	well the trouble is with The Alibi here
30280s	for weq is he doesn't really have much
30282s	going on himself after so we have to see
30283s	what his own wisdom gets yeah it doesn't
30286s	really help progress a turn as far as we
30288s	can see it just yet but you are right
30290s	there's card draw to
30292s	come but he's got to be sensing the
30294s	danger right like CJ has nine cards left
30298s	so oh well well now we've got a
30304s	race yeah now we have a race and one of
30306s	them has an alibi in their hand oh and
30309s	secrets as well just to make sure your
30310s	opponent slows down yeah I was about to
30312s	raise this point on the previous turn uh
30315s	just threw the one Mana minion well may
30317s	have been a prismatic like a cheap
30318s	minion into the objection just to clear
30320s	it out uh what that does of course is
30322s	allow your opponent to play a new
30324s	objection for which you need a new
30326s	minion to be able to deal with uh that
30328s	can come from the the for Mana card that
30330s	you're just seeing it can also come from
30332s	like a generated rewind into the first
30334s	objection that they played earlier in
30336s	the game all sorts of ways that you can
30337s	get back to it and so I do think you
30339s	have to have a little discussion with
30341s	yourself about okay can I H can I not
30344s	play Minion
30345s	hold a one Mana minion in my hand and do
30347s	it all same turn and still get lethal
30349s	with the I think the answer to that
30350s	question is no but you you definitely
30352s	have to think about it to absor to avoid
30354s	some of these tricky situations that
30356s	you're in
30358s	now yeah what it does do is is for we's
30361s	perspective it allows him to hold on to
30363s	that alibi because CJ Kaka is very
30366s	unlikely to be able to kill him from
30368s	here in a safe Mana through the
30370s	secrets okay zap has tested for counter
30372s	spell miracle salesman is the nuts test
30376s	for objection and if it's explosive
30378s	runes your hand just got
30379s	better
30382s	Y and it is oh look at the wins from wiq
30386s	as well he
30388s	knows
30393s	yeah CJ CER
30396s	counting I think it's lethal especially
30399s	now he's played the SI oh you've got
30401s	you've got moon
30403s	beam.com it's Infinity oh yeah and
30406s	double snake and yeah of course it's
30413s	lethal well yeah I think I missed about
30417s	two snake oers in a bolt there
30419s	m
30421s	so that was good match that's my excuse
30425s	and earlier you said you were just
30427s	pretending to be stupid and not
30429s	understand what moon beam did for for
30430s	for
30431s	effect we all believed you
30435s	no one believed me no one believe they
30437s	see me
30439s	play All Right Moving swiftly on CJ Kaka
30443s	has the Druid left it's the Druid list
30445s	that I like personally uh the one with
30447s	just two welps two nourish mhm and Reno
30451s	the rest of the way if you're going to
30453s	play Reno I think that is the build uh
30455s	there may be purists out there arguing
30457s	you can't play two of anything but those
30458s	two cards are fetchable as you've talked
30460s	about at length and there's only two of
30463s	them so when they're gone you can do
30465s	your thing on your Reno very often on
30467s	turn
30468s	eight yeah it does of course um I think
30471s	one of the big counts well okay the
30473s	biggest counterargument to this is just
30474s	the Classic one that we've been having
30476s	since original Reno was released about
30479s	you know just the ups and downs of
30480s	having a two of in your deck right um I
30482s	think the other spanner to throw in the
30485s	works here is that by only playing two
30488s	copies of split flash welp you then
30490s	sometimes ruin the consistency of
30492s	actually then playing one of those split
30494s	spash welps on two because you're not
30496s	playing two ofs of any of the other
30497s	dragons in your deck so sometimes those
30500s	numbers don't add up in terms of uh
30502s	total number of dragons in your deck um
30504s	but I certainly you have to have a long
30508s	hard look at yourself when you look at
30510s	the stats and you know there are some
30511s	matchups where splish spash welp is a
30513s	70% win rate opening hand card you have
30516s	to have a really really solid reason not
30519s	to have two of those in your deck right
30520s	and I'm not entirely sure if um you know
30525s	the the X amount percent of the time uh
30528s	where you bone yourself on rear or um
30531s	Reno on curve is worth just not having
30534s	that monstrous win rate Spike that CJ
30537s	Kaka has just received in this game by
30539s	playing the good card
30541s	on what I will say in this tournament so
30544s	far have we seen many Renos that really
30546s	have done things we've seen some but
30548s	it's felt like Reno is actually not a
30550s	particularly good card cuz people are
30551s	dying on turn six and seven anyway so
30553s	what uses your re
30555s	right I would I would argue that the the
30557s	list pocket brought with where they just
30559s	play Dragon Druid and get on with their
30560s	lives is probably the right bring oh I
30563s	completely agree with that yeah I I I
30564s	don't I don't think Highlander Druid
30567s	Reno Druid at all was the correct bring
30569s	if you're bringing Druid um I know we've
30571s	talked about my lineup before my lineup
30573s	didn't have Druid in it at all um not
30575s	even the two of list I think that's kind
30577s	of my tier list of Druids to bring um no
30580s	Druid was top tier for me um and then uh
30582s	two of dragon Golem Druid was
30585s	uh was mid tier and then any sort of
30586s	Highlander Druid was uh bottom tier uh
30589s	102 ofs Highlander Druid was just on
30592s	fire in a dumpster somewhere
30594s	so yeah I mean as you know I went
30596s	through a lot of The Druids and yeah you
30599s	either play Reno properly with just the
30600s	two two ofs or yeah just the two two ofs
30603s	I think is correct or you just play
30604s	Dragon Dr I think and have a nice
30606s	consistency you are going to have to be
30608s	careful saying things like play Reno
30610s	properly with just the two two ODS
30612s	though I I I know I I just decided had
30614s	it afterwards like yeah you know what I
30616s	mean yeah cuz you just made the whole
30618s	point about you know if you're playing
30620s	one Splish Splash what are you even
30621s	doing playing through it so I'm not
30623s	going to go back down that rout I agree
30624s	entirely with that
30630s	yeah I mean I I would rather play The
30633s	Warrior Deck with the Reno and some two
30636s	ofs than Druid in some ways because at
30638s	least you get to turn 12 to play your
30640s	turn 12 Reno that isn't active on turn
30643s	eight
30649s	right yeah I mean that certainly worked
30652s	out pretty well for uh for rec bam at
30654s	this point mhm but of course Rec bam is
30657s	just really good as as he was very quick
30660s	to tell us so don't know how the deck
30662s	has to do with anything in that regard
30665s	talking of really
30667s	good CJ
30669s	Kaka he's doing really good he's draw
30672s	he's drawn his two offs
30675s	and he's got Golems
30678s	cominging yeah this is it right you you
30680s	can have some sympathy for this
30684s	feeling 30 different cards outside of
30687s	the two of the cards that are considered
30691s	so good that you have to run two of them
30693s	and you just R
30694s	them such is the way of the Highlander
30697s	deck and it's it's a brutal feeling to
30699s	face when you are facing elimination in
30700s	the world championships at the best of
30702s	times it is a
30704s	criminally brutal feeling when it's
30706s	something that you've worked as hard as
30708s	these players have done for all
30713s	year so what's the plane now though this
30717s	is where my
30718s	little yog eyes light up and I want to
30721s	play some
30722s	yogs yeah invest
30725s	yeah
30727s	invest yeah Point
30730s	face Jo I've never pointed yogurt a
30733s	minion and I know in in Hearthstone it
30735s	it's never X is absolute hyperbole in
30739s	basically every situation and anyone who
30741s	ever said it's never X has probably done
30743s	X on at least one occasion I've never
30745s	pointed yogurt a minion I just don't
30747s	actually think it's ever
30750s	correct I've pointed a minion probably
30752s	more times I should have but I do only
30755s	point it at things that have got sort of
30756s	at least six or seven health I don't
30759s	know if anyone's actually done the maths
30760s	on it if they have let me know because I
30762s	haven't I'm just doing it on gut but
30764s	like opening up buff spells to land on
30766s	the specific one minion you're saying
30768s	that you want to kill just seems weird
30769s	when you can point at a face and then
30771s	anything that's a minion removal spell
30773s	will then go on a minion anyway cuz it
30775s	can't go to space right so I don't know
30778s	I saw work on thre I'm going to say that
30780s	every y spell does three damage I want
30781s	to hit a minion twice with it sorry if I
30784s	need to hit a minion three times with it
30785s	then I'm just going to do that right so
30787s	if it's six or more seven or more I'll
30789s	go for it that's what I'm trying to say
30792s	very badly look if a minion has seven
30795s	health or more and an average yor spell
30797s	does three I wanted three of those
30798s	spells to do three damage to the minion
30801s	there but at that point isn't it just
30803s	better to say I need like twisting
30805s	nether or whirlpool and avoid giving
30807s	gens grace to the instead yeah I mean
30810s	I'm not I'm not saying you're wrong I'm
30812s	saying that's how I do it well there you
30813s	go if anyone has actually done that M
30815s	please please do let me know yes that
30818s	would be good I'd like to hear too okay
30819s	Reno's active and so is the Titan cuz
30822s	that's how Titans work so this look good
30824s	for CJ
30827s	kako however SI on this side and lots of
30830s	cheap stuff
30833s	mhm double snake oil double burn
30838s	spell
30840s	yeah no moon beam to confuse me this
30842s	time we're
30853s	good
30855s	[Music]
30874s	okay just the presence of the secret
30877s	making this
30883s	awkward
30899s	oh good a splish spash
30901s	well
30903s	iows upon the
30910s	world and do it again
30917s	time waits for no
30919s	one everybody for the
30922s	camera just a full Board of
30926s	things the dragons not actually go quite
30928s	fill it but
30929s	yeah this of
30937s	the that could be cleared though
30941s	right easily yep
30946s	plus five on the spell scores which
30947s	means this Sith is a monstrous amount of
30950s	damage we just ticked over to the Mana
30952s	first as well on the Arcane bolts for
30954s	that all important one
30956s	extra CJ Kaka doesn't want this Reno to
30959s	clear the board it wants it to leave the
30960s	three four
30972s	there um
30975s	time to discover the dragon that um
30978s	means spells can't cost less than
30980s	[Music]
30982s	two of course uh pocket and mey are both
30985s	running in the
30986s	deck
30990s	right and uh just like
30994s	that double burn spell double snake
30998s	oil yep M getting it
31002s	done
31007s	it's two all in the elimination match in
31010s	the world
31012s	championships I know it all comes down
31015s	to this is a horribly cliche phrase but
31017s	my goodness it's been a long day for the
31019s	both as well was presumably both of them
31023s	like you're playing in the second group
31025s	it's so hard not to care about the first
31027s	group no matter what you're doing on
31028s	your personal
31030s	level yeah it's probably been up a while
31033s	I think particularly Commendation needs
31035s	to go to that game because we called it
31038s	out right like splish bash welp in the
31040s	Mulligan double Nish that game is
31043s	supposed to be over that's a monstrous
31045s	win rate for the Druid uh I don't know
31046s	about that matchup specifically against
31048s	Mage I'd have to uh check donkey posted
31050s	a really cool list of like um influence
31053s	of of cards in the opening hand in
31055s	particular matchups um not just split by
31057s	class split by archetype as well um so I
31060s	can't actually remember off the top of
31061s	my head where excavate Mage was in the
31063s	list but you know long story short split
31065s	spash welp and holiday absolutely ran
31068s	away with the you know the the net gain
31070s	in win rate for being in the opening
31071s	hand in basically every
31073s	matchup um so when you're faced with
31076s	that your tournament elimination on the
31078s	line your world championship is on the
31080s	line your entire Year's work is on the
31083s	line and you actually manage to stay
31085s	mentally clear and stay uh stay focused
31089s	and just play such a clean game as as
31092s	weq did in that spot and now we can get
31093s	all the way down to this Druid mirror
31095s	you have to give yourself a pat on the
31097s	back and say all right maybe maybe my
31099s	name's on this trophy after all yeah and
31102s	the out he found in the Death Knight
31104s	game as well so he's still playing
31106s	incredibly well y um but he's not
31109s	playing incredibly well here cuz he
31110s	hasn't drawn his
31112s	we CJ Kaka keeping the wild growth there
31116s	even though it's not a dragon because it
31117s	does the thing he needs it to
31120s	do it's fine the welps in the cactus
31122s	anyway
31125s	true it always is you just haven't Druid
31128s	it hard
31131s	enough there it is oh
31133s	unlucky oh
31139s	dear possibly the worst Cactus we've
31141s	seen all day I was thinking it might be
31143s	the worst Cactus actually physically
31145s	[Laughter]
31147s	possible this Cactus is so
31152s	silly
31156s	I was happy to hear that um Idol Vice
31158s	was a connoisseur as well you hear she
31160s	brought up the um the the buff totem
31163s	chain that I was talking to you about on
31164s	stream yes
31170s	yes okay well it's a lot of Health but
31174s	yeah noish picked up as well now for CJ
31176s	Kaka
31182s	so
31185s	[Music]
31192s	really Co yeah you can go coin aquatic
31195s	right try and find something hello um
31198s	what um huh well well that's talking the
31203s	worst Cactus you could possibly
31207s	get that's disgusting you don't get your
31211s	card draw you've got to draw one of
31213s	these next turn you've coined into Nest
31215s	mat oh
31217s	no I mean it's yog right the other two
31220s	cards are never playable in your deck
31221s	anyway so so it's y
31227s	yeah but you now know you're not getting
31229s	any ramp next turn as well oh it's yeah
31233s	true very
31239s	true Al to
31242s	re
31246s	but like the Good Hits there were um
31249s	what did you have like one W growth one
31251s	take to the skies uh one Amber welp were
31253s	the best things to be able to spend
31255s	three mana on specifically on that
31258s	turn
31262s	yeah I take the Char okay stay alert my
31266s	children yeah I think the plan is to get
31268s	F down and still have a dragon for your
31270s	weal that you'll desperately go to top
31271s	deck
31272s	soon okay yeah
31279s	Fair meanwhile Kaka is just kind of
31281s	getting hit in the head right
31285s	now H never mind there's a
31288s	Reno yeah it's played nourish so Reno
31291s	Reno's
31294s	allowed and this needs to be special I
31299s	think well not special it just needs to
31301s	be something that ramps
31309s	which like he is getting hit in the head
31311s	but it's about to change massively cuz
31312s	it's nine Mana versus four currently yep
31315s	with a Reno active in
31323s	hand yeah CU you know your opponent
31325s	can't play their cards so yeah yeah it's
31328s	a pretty good thear match up right you
31330s	know that their Reno and their RZA get
31332s	stuck in their hand while they they wait
31334s	for their deck to empty yeah so you can
31336s	just steal it and play it in your
31337s	version of the deck where they're active
31338s	all the
31344s	time amalgam Amal yeah desperately
31348s	looking for the
31352s	card Dragon goem no another just another
31360s	rear
31362s	wait
31365s	why wasn't that Dragon
31371s	Golem uh well explain the merits of
31373s	dragon Golem I mean you buy some time by
31377s	innovating it out next turn and getting
31378s	some dragons and then getting a fire
31380s	down and holding on for a
31383s	bit cuz your opponent's going to murder
31386s	this
31387s	board how is your opponent going to
31389s	murder this
31392s	board
31395s	okay
31396s	fair right like it only goes away to
31398s	Reno and then Dragon Golem is a
31400s	completely useless card into the
31401s	following turn anyway because you would
31402s	only have one board
31407s	space basically every other scenario you
31410s	get to keep most of this board anyway so
31411s	you don't really have space for the
31412s	dragon Golem to come
31414s	[Music]
31417s	down like I think it would have been a
31419s	fine pick I am also confused by what we
31423s	want more Highlander cards that don't
31425s	work in our hand but well that's that's
31427s	kind of my yeah that's my comeback
31428s	question right yeah
31438s	yeah time waits for no
31452s	one
31477s	well oh
31478s	my this is a board it is a board it's
31482s	just about doing a enough job to to
31484s	represent pressure here and keep the
31486s	keep pushing keep threatening just not
31487s	really allowing CJ Kaka complete
31490s	Freedom has in the meantime found a
31492s	light bomb though which could come in
31495s	somewhat useful even though the uh the
31497s	minions are pretty asymmetrical as it
31504s	stand
31512s	okay it's York
31516s	Time see always go face
31523s	yeah there CJ kaker man of culture he
31538s	understands that worked
31541s	well yeah kicking things off with a
31543s	defile was a pretty uh good way to make
31547s	a hell of impact on that board really
31555s	did split SP will help there it
31561s	is hey so we down to what seedsman now
31567s	how many other two ofs are there
31569s	remaining for week you cuz we've seen
31570s	zero ramp right so there must be two
31572s	seedsmen left in there as as well mhm
31575s	I'm not actually sure cuz the um the
31576s	tracker thing is doesn't necessarily get
31578s	it right on some of the cards
31584s	mhm insanity is no excuse for bad
31589s	men
31601s	okay jeez
31608s	uh just give them the Reno it's eight
31609s	Mana gain five armor in their deck
31611s	anyway
31613s	uh-huh and in yours
31619s	[Music]
31625s	apparently NOP they're still there the
31627s	cards you put there well the Viper you
31629s	didn't know you'd put there to be fair
31631s	but you have
31645s	I
31648s	wonder wow it's got to be y
31658s	[Music]
31661s	surely time waits for no
31665s	one is Wei thinking
31668s	that
31670s	okay just wants a different
31677s	card I think that's fair I think PRI
31680s	priority number one for Wu is just to
31682s	continue to get through this deck and
31683s	actually get these rear stas
31686s	active y but he's also got he knows
31688s	there's an ignis coming at some point so
31691s	I guess
31701s	o
31703s	yo CJ C oh no it's
31710s	happened oh no we've banter face
31713s	everywhere
31715s	Neil oh
31720s	no Wu's been hit with a realization
31723s	that he's got to just focus now because
31726s	he's probably going to go through to
31734s	tomorrow how how is CJ Cocker's desk
31738s	Still Standing
31740s	currently I don't
31744s	know oh my couldn't draw the nourish and
31748s	then he's got this going
31751s	on oh it started so well clear the
31754s	minion Gardens Grace your minion and
31757s	then yog giveth yog taketh away that is
31760s	hard
31765s	breaking I mean we see enough prisons
31767s	that is probably going to happen at some
31769s	point but this point two all elimination
31772s	match mirror that you're waiting on one
31775s	card to basically win the
31781s	game and Wu is just struggling to
31784s	concentrate here right cuz he's what's
31786s	your plan against this like make a
31787s	bigger board and kill them as quickly as
31789s	possible and suddenly all strategies you
31792s	know is totally turned on its
31796s	head yeah it's incredibly strange right
31799s	because you have to you have to Doom
31801s	manga as effectively as possible Right
31803s	like you have to invent the worlds that
31805s	you lose and play around them and that's
31806s	an incredibly difficult thing to do so
31808s	much so that sometimes you get so far in
31811s	your own head you just start throwing by
31813s	not playing fundamentally good
31815s	Hearthstone anymore like there are traps
31817s	that you can fall into in these kind of
31824s	spots the slug people have been on board
31826s	three times today I think and they've
31828s	never lasted
31830s	return every time is the is this turn
31834s	ends it is UNT tampering a spell in
31837s	Hearthstone when the Y comes back up
31839s	again can it just give you all your
31840s	cards
31841s	back
31843s	no oh unlucky then I guess one Mana
31845s	nourish into one Mana nourish into I
31849s	don't
31853s	know yeah the seedsman pickup by the way
31856s	has activated it was the last one
31864s	remaining I just love how hard this
31867s	looks like you know what I you've just
31869s	described it just working out what could
31872s	go wrong can I
31874s	what that do to me this is fine though
31876s	right because even if the top deck is
31879s	Reno you would assume that Reno wasn't
31883s	active previously because your boards
31884s	weren being cleared previously so your
31887s	opponent shouldn't be able to draw Reno
31889s	and the cards needed to activate said
31891s	Reno so you can just as hard as possible
31895s	what if y draws four cards and steals my
31898s	my Titan that sort of thing that's the
31899s	only ways you lose no it isn't though
31902s	that you're doing exactly the thing that
31904s	isn't the only way you
31906s	lose it's it's less likely to blow up
31909s	your entire board the more board you
31911s	make right that is objectively true I
31914s	agree I'm just saying what's going
31916s	through his mind because he has hit this
31917s	weird spot yeah yeah he's just he's just
31920s	double cheing all those things is what
31922s	I'm trying to explain
31924s	yes how about play Deathwing and make it
31928s	[Laughter]
31929s	fair doesn't even yeah doesn't even
31931s	matter really it's honestly a pretty
31933s	good play yeah it's actually
31940s	fine
31948s	uhad oh no card my Doom
31957s	kid I just I'm amused even though it's
31960s	not funny from CJ Kus they just help
31962s	broken weak you is right now in terms of
31965s	taking so much care and attention over
31969s	everything okay okay are we back are we
31974s	back we're never
31977s	back are we back no we're never
31981s	back are you sure I'm so sure it is not
31986s	possible to be back from this
31989s	position oh imagine
31993s	[Laughter]
31994s	imagine if we're back we're not
31999s	back
32004s	oh oh oh we're back we're back to
32007s	tampering the other way we're actually
32009s	back we found
32011s	it the double banter face my
32016s	goodness isn't wouldn't the double ban
32018s	to face be it happening four times
32021s	though
32024s	um I don't know why would be four times
32026s	cuz it didn't it happen to him twice in
32028s	one game oh I don't know it happened to
32031s	him three times in three games or three
32032s	times in four games I think oh okay it
32035s	was just a ridiculous amount of to
32037s	tapping it might have happened twice in
32038s	a game as well I don't know time for no
32044s	one okay inexplicably this game does
32048s	still
32049s	exist yeah it
32053s	does because CJ Kaka can draw a handful
32056s	of cards from his deck now as
32059s	well which have been to tampered with oh
32063s	my goodness amazing next turn is the
32066s	siest half turn in history Neil we're
32068s	actually pretty back that's what I was
32070s	trying to say we're kind of back really
32077s	back there's a Nish as well the Nish has
32080s	been drawn read alone everyone the Nish
32083s	has been drawn
32088s	yeah oh no if Wu gets to tampered
32096s	now what is this
32099s	game there's only six cards remaining in
32102s	Wei's deck like CJ Kaka just filled hand
32105s	with the Titan and is still ahead on
32109s	fatigue B to wondering why he conceded
32111s	so many games that's for
32115s	sure oh gobble hazy it's always hazy
32119s	it's actually always
32121s	hazy from the deaths it's a better time
32126s	tampering uh it makes the snapshot
32128s	probably cost zero right that's kind of
32130s	a big deal yeah time for no one what
32135s	even is this game is ending the day oh
32137s	my
32140s	goodness yep classic
32142s	um from the depths Finley the the
32144s	classic Druid play that we all know and
32147s	love it's so
32154s	ridiculous my hand is too full I did not
32158s	take a snapshot of that Finley so I have
32160s	no idea what just went back into the
32161s	deck hopefully no
32164s	duplicates no
32166s	clue does that
32168s	help no not particularly it was about
32172s	the the level of assistance I was
32173s	expecting though to be
32176s	fair one man at IGN everyone's favorite
32190s	card was life still decent here he took
32194s	a one okay it's a one
32197s	yeah then no is the answer to my
32201s	question
32204s	setting an eight man asore needs to
32206s	empty hand to make room for snapshot
32208s	stuff right I think part of the
32210s	reasoning behind
32211s	this reduce cost snapshot stuff at that
32216s	yeah so Nish Ram just to get cards out
32218s	of hand yeah yeah yeah exactly
32221s	this take some
32226s	board this is the most incredible game
32228s	of Heartstone I've seen in so
32231s	long
32233s	the Veno active on the side of the
32235s	person who's playing the million two Ops
32238s	before the side of the person playing
32239s	two two Ops how is CJ CER still here why
32243s	is his deck why is his desk not upside
32245s	down and his fist through his camera
32247s	that's what's supposed to have
32249s	happened oh why is he just still calmly
32252s	playing good
32253s	Hearthstone I don't know how did he
32256s	expect this to
32261s	happen
32264s	imagine if this was crane playing this
32266s	game be a different
32269s	match oh does Cactus end it there's a
32272s	very good chance Cactus ends it
32285s	actually the real question on everyone's
32287s	mind and I think I speak for everyone
32289s	watching when I say this is what we're
32290s	all thinking is how are we going to get
32292s	meca sharkk value this game there it was
32295s	it was there it was there all
32298s	along oh you just got to
32306s	believe oh no there's so much nonsense
32310s	I'm starting to completely lose track of
32312s	it I've got to admit right concentrate
32315s	flash of
32318s	lightning I love right concentrate into
32321s	immed immediately your brain fell out of
32323s	your ears the very first thing that
32324s	happened
32326s	afterwards oh stay
32334s	alert CJ Kaka has more Health than Wu in
32337s	explicably here as well yes and four
32340s	more cards in the deck however wiq does
32344s	have three uh three rear
32347s	sters because he gathered them for no
32350s	particular reason earlier in the game
32356s	yes uhuh okay then that's
32360s	fine of the AR en finally the asor
32364s	starts ticking it's been a
32372s	while all right operation empty hand has
32376s	gone very well this turn yes finally
32379s	getting towards the snapshot with card
32382s	in
32383s	it Nest maton off the top was huge in
32387s	terms of executing said
32389s	operation my hand is too full yep great
32395s	love that for
32397s	you Wu did not even stop and consider
32400s	which of those three beautiful dragons
32401s	he wanted to set on fire at the start of
32403s	the turn just clicked
32407s	one
32409s	imagine oh brew master
32417s	[Music]
32423s	at some point you do actually need some
32425s	board space that isn't taken up by
32427s	dragon portals though yeah and and yogs
32431s	and dormant minions and whatever else is
32434s	happening in this Hearthstone game yeah
32436s	I wish like if there was an option for
32438s	weq to just click on the yog prison and
32441s	just say I'm off the board but I'm
32442s	actually good on the Spells thank you I
32444s	don't I'm not interested in any spells
32447s	just get off my board uh Wu would be
32449s	doing that 100% of the time right now
32451s	because the problem is WQ can't really
32453s	afford to hit a single card draw spell
32455s	off yog prison on two entire charges to
32458s	get it off the board because if that
32460s	happens you're in trouble there is the
32463s	Finley which can store things out home
32466s	tampering them back in you just to
32468s	Tamper them back in yeah true there is
32469s	the Finley though there is the the
32471s	Finley was in SN the fin later but then
32475s	you're going to be in that where you're
32476s	just you have an empty hand and you're
32477s	drawing one card a turn and I think
32479s	clearly Neil we can all agree that if
32481s	your hand is empty and you're just top
32483s	decking one card a turn you're going to
32485s	lose the Hearthstone game right
32487s	definitely you're definitely going home
32488s	it's definitely the end of the day and
32490s	yeah we all exist in harmony all your
32493s	cards cost one you're not going to draw
32494s	any
32498s	cards oh my goodness
32507s	yeah I think he actually expected to
32509s	draw something
32513s	there cuz nobody actually knows what the
32515s	second part of to tampering does right
32517s	it's just one Mana something something
32519s	lose the game yeah it's my hand
32522s	disappeared I've conceded I didn't
32523s	actually read what the rest of the card
32524s	did that's that's what my does
32530s	yeah
32532s	yeah it's always hand disappeared it's
32534s	always
32537s	hazy
32540s	okay some cannibalize action later oh
32543s	the bre Master is so
32546s	sick look at CJ's
32552s	reaction brew master the
32556s	fizzle again same scenario as we saw
32559s	previously right with the Sharpshooter
32560s	May Dorman just wakes up you have no
32562s	control over it same deal dormant fizzle
32566s	uh pick up the brew master then it comes
32567s	back on your turn you just go all right
32569s	cheers I'll uh I'll take that
32571s	back I wonder how much of the decision
32573s	not to press y obviously the main thing
32575s	is what you've said about there's only
32576s	three cards left in his de I wonder how
32577s	much of the decision is I don't want to
32578s	get tone tampering it just be too
32581s	Horrible's finally active on Turn 2
32583s	million by the
32584s	way I
32586s	mean wiq is human right like you have to
32590s	imagine that is in the L somewhere but
32592s	you know you cannot possibly think like
32594s	that right at this level you have to
32596s	just be making the right kind of plays
32599s	however taking the second r straza on
32601s	turn four or whenever it was because it
32603s	might get renowned on your nest and
32604s	you've got another one that probably was
32606s	Forward Thinking Absolut absolutely yeah
32608s	and I think that might very well prove
32610s	to make us look pretty freaking stupid
32612s	right where we're saying why on Earth do
32613s	you want this R strza in your hand that
32615s	isn't going to be active until Turn 1
32616s	million or Wu's answer being because I'm
32619s	already planning for Turn 1 million shut
32621s	up and let me cook yeah and it is now
32623s	turn 1 million and here we are Y and he
32627s	have three of them so that if one of
32629s	them gets in a snapshot in something at
32630s	some point you could do it again from
32632s	the stolen I don't even know how we got
32634s	here yeah we got here
32637s	somehow so yeah fair
32640s	play has to find something to do this
32643s	turn
32645s	though
32648s	no no no I just looked to the York and
32652s	thought no oh okay
32654s	um how bad's a counter Reno here you
32657s	take 14 don't you no you don't take
32661s	14 huh what's going on I was trying to
32664s	work out ASW I just I just no you're not
32666s	taking 14 I just counter Renos
32672s	Now problem is so like rening the
32675s	portals is such a big deal in this
32677s	matchup when it goes long right if one
32679s	player doesn't just completely blow out
32680s	the other with ramp into big stuff into
32681s	your dead which by the way was supposed
32683s	to happen this game that was the game we
32685s	were playing it was supposed to be ramp
32687s	into big stuff into your dead um if you
32690s	start Reno not portals um you start to
32693s	get yourself into a spot of bother
32694s	because I think the late game is really
32696s	heavily focused on snapshotting extra
32698s	Renos and extra Ras so you can
32700s	continuously be winning that game of uh
32703s	of Nest tennis where you're you always
32706s	have one to play and you always have a
32707s	Reno to remove your opponents uh so I
32710s	think weq yeah just just finding a
32711s	different way to clear up here holding
32713s	back on that Reno to try and interact
32715s	with the
32717s	nest right did we catch what the weapon
32720s	was I've been so confused the last three
32721s	or four turns okay sum drops yeah this
32724s	one is immune and summon yeah I did see
32726s	this
32729s	one mish mash all
32737s	right Crusader or in play for no
32739s	particular reason
32747s	so he's got to save his Reno now for a
32750s	number of eight drops that he is
32751s	comfortable
32758s	facing you kind of have to play another
32760s	rear don't you but then you want to use
32762s	a snapshot again oh
32768s	my every card here is invest of some
32771s	sort it is yeah you're not wrong you
32775s	also like I don't know how much perfect
32777s	information these players have like wiq
32779s	has been taking very visible notes over
32781s	the course of the game I cannot imagine
32783s	uh he has stayed on top of this but you
32785s	know theoretically if you remember the
32788s	point the snapshot was taken and you
32790s	eliminate all the other cards that have
32792s	been played from turns where the
32793s	snapshot hadn't been taken you you
32796s	actually have a good idea of what is in
32798s	CJ kaka's hand right especially cards
32800s	that you saw played after the snapshot
32802s	got taken um the thear for example I
32804s	think is one of them um
32807s	but keeping track of that kind of thing
32809s	this deep into this game with everything
32811s	that's happened is a superhuman level of
32814s	recognition that I'm not sure either of
32816s	these players uh will have been hanging
32819s	on to cuz I'm going to be honest I
32820s	haven't seen Wu write anything down for
32822s	quite a long time at this
32825s	point yeah also I mean both players
32827s	apart from Kaka so one of them assumed
32830s	the game was over if they had any sense
32832s	like what sort of idiot would think this
32833s	game would still be going on an hour
32835s	later so there is the final card
32840s	Viper so you can now at least deal with
32844s	the remainder of this
32849s	weapon these re are too slow aren't they
32851s	you've been in tighter scrapes aren
32856s	they I mean they're the only thing you
32858s	have going for you you're not going to
32859s	win the game without them how like
32860s	what's the plan to win the game without
32862s	them um ask York questions sure
32870s	yeah y crazy it just might
32885s	work fast here you know I think you have
32887s	to yog here I know that you can just
32889s	lose on the spot if you do it
32893s	but I think you're losing this game of
32894s	he Stone
32900s	anyway precious all got to get a big
32904s	board point at the
32908s	88 oh no oh oh no oh
32914s	no what is
32918s	happening insanity is not use for Bad
32922s	Manners I'd like a snapshot
32926s	please oh
32928s	no hands on head my stance right now is
32932s	almost identical to
32937s	weu wow snapshot is gone and extra
32939s	Finley is found which means this is now
32941s	Wu's lot for the game two Ras and a
32944s	couple of protection ticks against
32946s	fatigue and that yog that he just didn't
32949s	fire on the previous turn
32955s	yeah it's it's huge not because he
32956s	doesn't get to fire it now but because
32959s	the third or second fires will be a turn
32961s	later and that's surely too
32964s	much yeah so if you haven't seen this
32966s	interaction before Finley shuffles into
32967s	the deck there's nothing there to
32969s	exchange the cards with so you draw
32971s	nothing back so you stall out of your
32974s	fatigue for a few turns so in this case
32976s	pretty much equalizing the fatigue
32978s	that's a nice round actually puts him
32980s	aead on the fatigue front so now CJ Kaka
32982s	has to actually push a little bit but
32984s	can absolutely afford to do
32988s	that careful it's against
32994s	me you know sure fires this one bullet a
32996s	lot of
33008s	times now it's CJ Kaka who's the one
33010s	who's trying to work out what's the
33011s	Doomsday scenario what does he need to
33013s	do to make sure he wins this game
33018s	yeah he's the one who's got the the very
33021s	pleasant but awkward position of trying
33023s	to work out right what is the right play
33025s	given this mess all right real quick
33028s	imagine getting this right at this point
33031s	of this year of hearthstone and this
33033s	tournament and this series and this game
33036s	he played the Reno then played the spell
33039s	to summon the stealth minion from the
33041s	Rogue secret to take up the one board
33043s	space not the other way around which
33045s	seems conventionally smarter right but
33047s	he put that one minion on the board and
33049s	just said well this way there is no
33051s	doomsday cuz I don't care what cards
33053s	you've just shuffled in your deck I've
33055s	just used your one board space for you
33058s	check mate brother it's
33060s	over yeah phenomenal good spot sole that
33063s	was incredible game he won after to
33066s	tampering himself when he was behind on
33069s	everything already and weu top ranked
33073s	player coming into this best season on
33075s	ladder of everybody that includes pocket
33077s	train just to be absolutely clear how
33079s	Monumental that performance is um but
33082s	has gone out
33083s	in uh whatever a match that was U TJ
33088s	Kaka somehow his desk isn't in that bin
33091s	it's somehow still just up there
33096s	and how those two players tracked
33098s	everything that was going on even
33099s	anything that was going on that game I
33100s	could see both hands I hadn't got a clue
33102s	by the middle what was happening
33104s	anymore short answer they didn't I think
33106s	honestly the last like 10 minutes of
33108s	that game they just tried to play good
33111s	average outcome Hearthstone right I
33113s	don't think anyone had a full handle as
33114s	to what was going on um but the fact
33118s	that CJ Kaka won that game of
33120s	hearthstone after getting hit with that
33122s	to tampering is absurd and I think we
33126s	have to take a rewind here because
33129s	earlier earlier we we were saying uh we
33132s	were slating CJ Kaka because he'd ruined
33135s	the script right he hadn't brought fire
33137s	Druid and we were all supposed to have a
33139s	good time watching CJ Kaka pop off and
33142s	do absurd triple Thaddius fire Druid
33145s	stuff and generating a million damage
33147s	what fools we were Neil because if he
33150s	was playing fire Druid we would not have
33153s	just seen that game that we just watched
33156s	which we referenced Ty versus Osaka
33159s	during this series yeah
33161s	that's up there that is an alltime not
33164s	just world championship game but an
33166s	alltime competitive Hearthstone game
33168s	that is absolutely ridiculous it had
33171s	everything it had fantastic plays it had
33173s	awful plays it had incredibly stupid
33176s	moments of Randomness it had everything
33178s	in between you literally cannot ask for
33181s	anything more from a game of hearthstone
33183s	than what we just watched yeah the
33185s	hunter Race Final went through my mind
33187s	more than once during that fiest and I
33188s	was thinking what was raven like during
33190s	that match am I okay oh yeah Raven was
33192s	like this I'm I'm okay because yeah we
33196s	had Crusader Aura and Showdown on the
33198s	board with Paladin
33200s	back Druid Druid did the core Paladin
33204s	combo and the core Warrior combo in the
33207s	same game they did like they did
33209s	Showdown Aura and they did from the
33211s	depths Finley in the same game of
33213s	hearthstone as a druid yeah and if that
33216s	last yog had gone off who knows what the
33217s	flash of lightning would have achieved
33219s	like it's so brutal right like the the
33223s	indecision like the the the analysis
33226s	paralysis that hits you at that point to
33228s	like oh my God can I use this do I not
33229s	use it can I possibly win what if I
33231s	press it and it just draws me three
33233s	cards and that throws the game like how
33235s	can you possibly with a Year's worth of
33237s	work with like 300 Grand on the line
33240s	with you know looming game five in a
33242s	series knowing you're going home with
33244s	the next bad decision you make how can
33247s	you possibly make that decision and I
33249s	guess the answer is you can't because he
33251s	didn't and that is mortifying it is such
33255s	a terrible way to go out I mean to be
33258s	fair the the good outcomes for that yog
33260s	were very low and the the outcomes that
33262s	just outright loss in the game were very
33263s	high but he still will never know and
33265s	that's what's going to bother him for a
33267s	long time to come I mean you miss 100%
33269s	of the yogs you don't shoot right so wow
33273s	yeah um there's still another voo in CJ
33276s	kaka's hand CJ Kaka I think had it in
33277s	the bag for a few turns there to be
33279s	honest snot untangled but again wiq
33284s	won't be able to process that for some
33288s	time I don't know I don't I don't know
33290s	if I will either to be honest I haven't
33292s	processed it yet that's for sure there's
33293s	so much overall tournament admin that we
33295s	should be doing right now but all we
33297s	want to do the produc talk about that
33299s	game that we just saw but yes there is a
33302s	wider spectacle of a world championship
33304s	going on around this you can see the two
33306s	players who have made it out two players
33308s	who prep together but two players who
33310s	have brought very different lineups both
33312s	of those lineups proving equally
33313s	successful however the pocket train
33316s	lineup we saw the pocket train plus mey
33319s	lineup absolutely run through other
33322s	decks and the only time that they really
33324s	seem to struggle is when they went up
33326s	against each other and then went to a
33327s	game five right like that yeah really
33330s	has to bode well for both of those
33332s	players uh if you're a little bit
33333s	confused by why we've only got two
33335s	players going through at the end of day
33336s	one it's CU we have held two of the
33338s	final elimination games for day two to
33341s	decide who those last two players are
33343s	and we'll be going all the way through
33345s	those elimination games and all the way
33347s	through top four to an eventual winner
33349s	and to an eventual world champion
33350s	hopefully tomorrow but Neil if we if we
33353s	see a game even
33355s	70% of what we just of the numbers we
33358s	just put up with that Druid mirror then
33360s	oh my God I'm not even turning up I
33362s	think I will have a heart attack and
33364s	collapse in my chair tomorrow look if if
33367s	this hadn't been the end of the day and
33368s	we had to do two more matches today like
33370s	you'd expect us to have done no one's
33372s	going to watch who's watching any
33374s	Hearthstone again today after that game
33376s	I don't want to see anymore I want to
33377s	work out what happen in that game again
33379s	I'm going to watch it again and see how
33381s	many mistakes I made I tell you what it
33382s	was a lot it was so it was fun to watch
33386s	it must have been heartbreaking
33387s	absolutely heartbreaking to play but I
33390s	couldn't watch another hearstone game
33391s	for a couple of hours now I'm I'm broken
33394s	I don't know what happened oh I'm good
33395s	I'm going to go play some Naga priest
33397s	that sounds like fun right about now go
33398s	play some go play some to tampering wild
33401s	or something oh it's banned so you can't
33403s	but you
33404s	know oh what did we just
33407s	watch we watched the closing
33411s	game of day one of the 2023 World
33414s	Championships and it was a classic it's
33416s	a terrible one for WQ but also CJ Kaka
33419s	you said it at the time why wasn't his
33421s	desk upside down and his PC in the pond
33424s	or something like he just carried on as
33426s	if he must have realized that his out is
33428s	to draw the Titan and to refill his hand
33430s	with one drops he must have realized
33432s	that was his out and um instantly just
33435s	gone okay well I'll draw it then okay
33437s	good luck and then suddenly You've Got A
33439s	reduced deck at least partially and you
33442s	can play some he Zone he must have just
33444s	instantly realized I'll cry
33447s	afterwards I'll just keep playing I'll
33449s	cry later and that's what he did it's
33452s	the mark of a grinder right it's a mark
33453s	of the most experienced hstone players
33455s	in the world of people that play
33457s	hundreds of games a day when they're
33458s	when they're active they've seen
33459s	everything thing they know that um games
33462s	aren't over until they're over it's the
33463s	mark of a potential world champion and
33466s	Neil I don't know about you but if if
33468s	you just leave us here we're going to
33469s	talk about this all day so we should
33470s	probably we should probably wrap this
33472s	show up we have another day of World
33474s	Championships coming at you tomorrow
33476s	make sure you are back same time same
33478s	place tomorrow because unbelievably the
33481s	stakes get even higher from here and you
33483s	do not want to miss any of it have a
33485s	great rest of your evening everyone meet
33487s	us back here tomorrow for day two and
33489s	the finals of the the hstone world
33490s	championship take care
33512s	[Music]
33519s	everyone
33543s	[Music]
33563s	[Music]
33593s	[Music]
33603s	[Music]

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