[2022] 2022 Hearthstone World Championship | Day 3 | Hearthstone Dev Tracker

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956s	hello everybody and welcome to the final
959s	day of the Hearthstone World
961s	Championship my name is TJ and joining
963s	me to kick off the show is the one the
965s	only Neil Lorinda Bond
967s	Neil how are you doing today I am doing
970s	great TJ we've built up to this for so
973s	long and we're finally gonna find out
975s	who the world champion is for 2022 and
978s	it could be the same person as world
979s	championship for 2021 which would be
981s	both an anti-climax and the best thing
984s	ever all at once
988s	that's right Neil you know what I just
990s	realized
991s	that I'm gonna have to do in the first
993s	game
995s	and I'm gonna put it back
997s	3 A.M
999s	I forgot to put on my shirt
1002s	it's fine teaching
1004s	I can cover for you you look
1008s	I'll do I'll do it at the first game you
1010s	look great deal I'll put on a t-shirt
1013s	great opening to the final day of the
1016s	world championship yeah forgets to put
1017s	on a shirt you'll know how this works we
1020s	don't need to see this you need to see
1021s	more of TJ putting on a shirt
1023s	um before dual elimination group
1024s	brackets if you've been here the last
1026s	few days you saw that top eight meat in
1028s	single elimination final brackets if
1030s	you're here now you're going to see that
1031s	the winner becomes the 2022 World
1034s	Champion
1035s	yes of course cool good talk and it's
1038s	best of five four deck Conquest if
1040s	you're here for the first time where
1042s	have you been for the last eight years
1043s	Conquest you have to win with all of
1045s	your decks there you go it's on the
1047s	screen in front of you you get four
1048s	decks you ban one you win with the other
1050s	three you go through to the next round
1051s	you keep doing that until there are no
1052s	more rounds to go through and then
1053s	you're the world champion for 2022.
1056s	sounds easy enough Neil sounds are easy
1059s	enough just like putting on a shirt
1062s	it's just like putting out I even got it
1065s	out I laid it out on my bed
1068s	got all the creases and wrinkles out
1070s	um
1071s	and then you go to the bath and you just
1073s	forgot about it and then I was like all
1076s	right I got everything set in front of
1077s	me I got my water
1079s	I'm ready to go I got all my Taps open
1082s	keep track and analyze some games of
1085s	world championship level Hearthstone I
1088s	knew I was missing one step I knew I was
1090s	missing one step so first prize TJ the
1094s	first prize it's 200 lots of 500 that's
1097s	so much money
1100s	that's a that equates to a lot of points
1103s	if we were to be giving out points for
1105s	the world championship but I I mean even
1108s	just rocking up to the world
1109s	championship
1110s	um you know very difficult to qualify to
1114s	uh many players dream just to play in a
1117s	world championship you're already
1118s	guaranteed uh that ten thousand dollars
1121s	and it just moves up from there so uh
1123s	everybody that has even made it to this
1125s	stage the quarterfinals is already going
1128s	going away with uh a good chunk of money
1130s	but to be honest it it still doesn't
1134s	feel good you know if you're losing the
1135s	quarterfinals
1137s	yeah sure you get a good a good amount
1139s	of money but everybody wants to win the
1142s	big prize now we're going to take a look
1143s	at uh what's happened over the past
1145s	couple days we kick things off on Friday
1147s	with the first two groups
1150s	in group a we saw yuyi and dead draw
1152s	Advance over bly's and XC and uh that
1157s	was an interesting group to watch I feel
1160s	like bly's if I had to you know pick a
1163s	favorite coming into the world
1164s	championship before Dex Mission before
1166s	anything I would have said I would put
1168s	blies at the very least near the top of
1171s	my list right in the top three for
1173s	players that I would predict to win the
1175s	World Championship
1176s	um and uh didn't have a great showing
1179s	didn't have a great showing no but
1181s	they're all tough groups as is the
1183s	cliche at World Championships One does
1185s	not simply just rock up as TJ put it to
1188s	the World Championships there's a lot of
1190s	going into there so even if you are the
1192s	16th best player on the day at the World
1193s	Championships you're still the 16th best
1195s	player still pretty good going Group B
1199s	absolute crazy group 10 world
1202s	championship appearances between them so
1204s	it was always going to be a shocker
1206s	whoever missed out but shouty and yala
1210s	coming through that group
1212s	possibly and that includes Glory the
1214s	world champion but possibly the most
1216s	experienced two players of all the
1218s	players in this group and that's a tough
1220s	one to call but I'm going to go with
1222s	that I think
1223s	yeah I would say so and honestly there
1226s	are two of the players that seem the
1228s	hardest to beat to be honest uh yala
1231s	specifically uh it's he always has like
1235s	the the French outs on his mind right
1239s	um and Raven has said it so I've all
1241s	said it I said it in the road to worlds
1242s	video for your Allah when he is winning
1245s	he does the absolute bare minimum
1247s	necessary
1248s	to win any given game of hearthstone so
1252s	uh it's he just feels like one of those
1255s	players that you have to work extra hard
1257s	against uh when you're playing against
1259s	him in a high stakes match and that
1262s	makes him a pretty frightening opponent
1263s	but moving over to group C xmg and
1266s	possessy coming out of the group
1268s	possessi as a very rare opportunity here
1272s	to win a Beckett World Championship in a
1277s	row would be the first time that it's
1278s	ever happened we came close last year
1280s	with possessive defeating glory in the
1283s	finals of the world championship in 2021
1285s	Glory coming off uh his win in 2020.
1289s	we'll see if possesses going to be able
1291s	to do that but xmg
1293s	coming into this tournament probably one
1296s	of the players that even though he's got
1298s	the resume even though you know he's got
1300s	the the game play down a player that was
1304s	probably underestimated a bit even among
1306s	the Chinese players I feel like xmg is
1309s	the one that at least uh among like the
1312s	Russian team
1314s	we haven't seen as as much of this year
1316s	or we tend to undervalue his
1318s	performances maybe that's because he
1319s	tends to lean towards aggressive decks
1322s	and it's just this weird mental block
1323s	that everybody has where they always
1326s	undervalue players that uh that you know
1329s	prioritize aggressive decks a player
1331s	like frenetic comes to mind right where
1333s	friends has had him had amazing seasons
1336s	in your Grandmasters but his
1339s	performances were always undervalued
1340s	compared to like blies and and Gabby
1342s	because he goes on for those aggressive
1344s	decks so it's just kind of this weird
1346s	thing but definitely a player to look
1348s	out for in the quarterfinals Tokyo plays
1350s	that are undervalued there's Levick
1351s	there at the top of Group D undervalued
1354s	mainly because Raven said he thought he
1355s	was good very early on in the year
1358s	um so we yeah if I even says they're
1359s	good we've really got to be convinced
1361s	you've got to play extra well to
1363s	convince us that there are any good if
1364s	Ravens picked you out but Raven was
1367s	right it had to happen one day and
1369s	Levick has proved to be incredibly
1371s	underrated the last few tournaments
1372s	since we've started paying more
1374s	attention mainly so we could ridicule
1376s	Raven the chance never came up because
1377s	Levick has been playing incredibly well
1379s	and then there's this bunny Hopper guy
1381s	whoever he might be is he so I I
1384s	mentioned earlier like favorites to win
1386s	the World Championship but honestly like
1388s	if I had to pick a player that was
1389s	destined to win the World Championship I
1392s	would have to say bunny Hopper yeah
1394s	um it's the road for him to get to this
1397s	point has been incredible he's had one
1400s	of the best years any Hearthstone player
1402s	could ever hope to achieve the best
1403s	couple years not only in our system but
1406s	also in uh Gold Series uh with Team
1409s	Liquid
1410s	um just individually and with his team
1412s	has been spectacular and he's been here
1414s	since the beginning since 20 winter
1417s	championship of 2015. back that was the
1421s	first time we had like sort of a a real
1423s	quote-unquote real competitive system
1425s	like a year-long competitive system yeah
1428s	buddy Hopper was at the very first
1429s	tournament of that and uh he hasn't
1432s	given up since then so
1435s	um I mean it's a good topic what can I
1437s	say but let's take a look at some of the
1438s	action we saw yesterday
1440s	um take a look at uh possessing his one
1444s	of the best series I've watched in a
1445s	long time which was possessive versus
1447s	Mighty incredibly close and in the very
1451s	last game Mighty was about to escape his
1454s	way to a victory and messy scammed it
1457s	right back to take the series yeah
1459s	Mighty was hard to himself on Twitter
1461s	but mighty's had a fantastic year uh
1464s	going straight through Grandma's first
1466s	time of asking and should absolutely be
1468s	proud of that performance overall on the
1470s	year um I think he's
1472s	will hold his head high when he's had
1473s	time to reflect everyone's always a bit
1474s	sad when they first get knocked out of
1476s	any tournament would you wait
1477s	tournaments are so hard right TJ because
1479s	only one person can win and all the
1481s	others feel sad at least for a while
1483s	yeah that's right
1486s	um and the world championship it just
1490s	hits that much harder right because last
1492s	event of the year uh higher Stakes
1495s	because there's a bigger prize pool more
1497s	Prestige you work so hard to get to this
1500s	point right everybody at the beginning
1501s	of any competitive arson year says I
1504s	want to qualify to the world
1505s	championship right that's the goal and
1507s	then you make it there and you're kind
1508s	of like well what's next well the only
1510s	next logical step is winning the World
1511s	Championship and so when you you know
1514s	boil your entire competitive year down
1517s	to that moment and you come up short
1519s	that feels bad especially if you come in
1521s	uh to the world championship with high
1524s	confidence which you know most players
1526s	tend to I think you've qualified for the
1529s	world championship if you haven't got
1530s	high confidence at that point you you
1532s	really need to believe in yourself more
1533s	right because you do that just by being
1536s	there you've won a lot of things
1537s	somewhere along the line yeah that's
1540s	right and uh taking a look at the uh
1543s	last matches that happened uh yesterday
1545s	unfortunately pascoa the Last Hope of
1547s	the Americas region
1549s	uh was not able to get it done in the
1551s	group
1552s	um just it felt like unable to get it
1554s	done with that death throttle Rogue and
1556s	I feel like that's a dick that struggled
1558s	a lot over the course of uh the week uh
1563s	the different variations of the deck and
1566s	it's unfortunate because I do think the
1567s	deck is good it just has sort of like
1569s	those you know built-in fail-saves where
1572s	you just
1577s	big stupid Dorsey patches yeah
1580s	Invincible Invincible yeah big stupid
1583s	horsey patches is absolutely the way I
1586s	want to start my day with Hearthstone
1587s	casting though yeah so there's our top
1590s	eight we're gonna kick things off with
1592s	you you versus yarla that's going to be
1593s	our first match but all the way down the
1595s	line
1596s	it's just a goodie after goody of uh
1601s	um of quarterfinal matches I think the
1604s	one that I'd like to highlight
1605s	specifically would be that third one
1607s	shout out to you versus yeah after all
1608s	two players that feel like they're in
1610s	incredible form and uh you know probably
1614s	two of the best Hearthstone tournament
1616s	Players uh of all time right it's crazy
1620s	to think that dead draw was never in but
1623s	Grand Masters because you look at his
1626s	stats and uh he just got
1629s	um be by the system early on when he had
1632s	some of his best performances uh one of
1634s	the best runs in master tours of all
1636s	time didn't end up qualifying to Grand
1638s	Masters because it was based on money
1639s	back then and money was weighted towards
1640s	the winner uh of Masters tours and he'd
1643s	only just started winning like the last
1645s	three tournaments of 2018 he started
1647s	racking up those HCT points as well but
1650s	he didn't play in the first half of that
1651s	year and if bunny Hopper is the player
1653s	who should win this on storyline
1655s	trajectory dead draw is the player who
1658s	should win it on storyline
1660s	um I know the hero like just can't get
1663s	there just everything's against in the
1665s	system all the way beating him down and
1667s	then eventually comes through and wins
1668s	the world championship that's where Dead
1670s	draw's storyline comes from if he makes
1671s	it through this but first off Yu Yi and
1674s	yala are two players who have been
1676s	around for a very long time as well uh
1678s	y'all has not always looked this way he
1680s	you know he's I used to bid in the last
1682s	couple of years looking at image there
1684s	um but he looks great I'm better than
1685s	that
1686s	that's what happens
1689s	1500 kilometers in a year
1692s	and play warlock every tournament for
1694s	all the years apart from this one yeah I
1697s	feel like consumes you this year Yara
1700s	just kind of um like he
1703s	he turned the page in his book and was
1706s	like I'm sick of playing control decks
1709s	I'm gonna qualify the world championship
1710s	playing board based aggro and I'm gonna
1712s	come into this tournament
1713s	uh playing
1716s	Tempo joking aside maybe that's the
1719s	final piece in the puzzle that he needs
1721s	he's always been a little bit hamstrung
1723s	by the fact that he'd turn up with his
1725s	control decks even in meta games that
1727s	didn't really Merit it and this year
1730s	he's I mean he he's gone unnoticed he's
1733s	gone under the radar because he
1734s	qualified for World so early we kind of
1736s	yeah y'all is in worlds let's forget him
1738s	and talk about the other players now and
1739s	this year he has been more much more
1741s	willing than ever before to just go you
1743s	know what I'm going to play the decks I
1745s	need to play to win the tournament not
1746s	the Decks that I'm good at that are
1748s	Comfort picks which by the way if you're
1750s	newer to tournaments you should play
1752s	Comfort picks because you'll play a lot
1753s	better and feel a lot better but y'all
1755s	are finally going for the Decks that
1757s	he's not so used to playing and because
1760s	he's such a great player they are
1761s	working out really well for him
1764s	yeah we could take a look at UE stats
1767s	there uh we were first introduced to you
1769s	you only back in 2018.
1772s	at one of the uh uh at the summer
1774s	championship in 2018 uh fun fact with
1778s	that tournament uh well not not so fun
1781s	fact you did not do well
1783s	a lot of this group incredibly quickly
1785s	honestly in 2018 that pretty much every
1788s	Chinese player had a lot of difficult in
1789s	those global tournaments
1791s	um but that one in particular uh shouty
1794s	and Bunny Hopper were both in that
1796s	Championship
1798s	um and are both now in this top eight so
1801s	that was ue's very first uh tournament
1804s	at least uh in in part of like the HGT
1808s	you know Global competitive Parson
1810s	system
1811s	very first one and now he's in a top
1813s	eight World Championship with two
1815s	players that were in that tournament
1818s	kind of a crazy crazy fun fact for you
1821s	this job is pretty crazy uh resume the
1826s	Master's tour win rate's a little bit
1827s	lower but again he he got qualified so
1830s	early I think maybe he put his feet up
1831s	for a couple of months honestly because
1833s	he'd had a lot of years of top top
1835s	quality play I think he may be rolled up
1837s	to a couple of those tournaments and
1838s	just played some Hearthstone and went
1839s	away again
1841s	um just getting ready for this event but
1843s	reached The Grandmaster semi-finals six
1845s	times in a row that is ridiculous
1849s	it really is yeah and honestly the
1852s	Master's tour win rate compared to a lot
1854s	of the players in the field like that's
1856s	probably what you're talking about just
1857s	kind of yeah kicked his feet up but I
1860s	always felt like yarla has done better
1862s	in sort of these smaller events where
1864s	the field is a little bit more
1866s	predictable right uh than in Masters
1869s	tours I feel like this is where strength
1870s	lies that's why even when he was having
1873s	poor performance in Masters tours he
1874s	would turn around the next week in Grand
1876s	Masters and you know win the week right
1880s	so uh I I just feel like
1884s	um this sort of tournament style fits
1887s	his strength better but gonna be opening
1889s	up with the ramp Druid the 30 card ramp
1891s	Druid Neil you said you've been playing
1893s	some of this deck yeah I like it so much
1896s	more than the 40 card especially in this
1898s	opening game where he's up against the
1900s	Demon Hunter uh the 40 card deck is just
1904s	not that good against Demon Hunter it
1906s	sort of messes around it gets a bit
1907s	awkward it makes some armor and then it
1908s	dies horribly to a million damage but
1911s	this can race it this can race the Demon
1913s	Hunter and I I think that the Druid I'm
1917s	not quite sure I'm prepared to say it's
1919s	favored but it might be but against the
1921s	Demon Hunter with 30 cards it's very
1924s	close it's a really really good foot
1926s	race to see you get that thing done
1928s	first I think
1930s	yeah this decking can get to its combo
1933s	surprisingly quickly
1936s	um and uh that's sort of where it's it's
1938s	strength lies
1940s	um so I'm excited to see how this is
1944s	going to play out I still do think that
1946s	Demon Hunter may have a slight Edge
1948s	[Music]
1949s	um I tend to favorite Demon Hunter in
1951s	just about every minute yeah I mean
1953s	that's the thing that's my own personal
1955s	bias I just think the deck is uh the
1959s	absolutely bonkers
1960s	uh in terms of its uh power level but uh
1965s	we shall see uh Demon Hunter can have
1967s	those draws where
1969s	you have a lot of you have arcanaster
1971s	Jace in in your opening and no ability
1973s	to Discount those your combo takes a
1975s	long time hand space gets awkward right
1979s	you get to a point where you're holding
1981s	on to non-reduced combo pieces and you
1984s	can't you know Vault your Dimensions
1986s	because you don't have the handspace
1988s	forward so we'll see
1990s	um
1991s	but if you check stat sites you see that
1993s	demon hunt against ramp Drew is like 42
1995s	uh sorry is the opposite yeah it's like
1997s	42 against the ramp dude I think that's
1999s	even more magnified when it comes to 30
2003s	card Druid but obviously a lot of those
2005s	stats have people who aren't very good
2006s	at Demon Hunter involved so that brings
2009s	it back the other way to quite a large
2011s	degree because Demon Hunter
2013s	it's straightforward enough to do quite
2015s	well with the deck there's a lot of
2016s	nuance in doing very well with the deck
2019s	yeah it's it's not that hard of a deck
2021s	to understand how to win right
2023s	um but it's the small situation Sato had
2025s	had some really good points on this
2027s	yesterday when he was talking about the
2028s	deck
2029s	um like the like the learning like the
2032s	damage break points and learning the win
2035s	conditions like the deck is really
2037s	straightforward there's not a little
2038s	there's not a lot of flexibility with
2040s	the deck but it's about understanding
2042s	specific matchups when you can be
2045s	liberal with your uh your spell damage
2047s	and your your burst Bells when do you
2049s	need to get greedy that type of thing
2050s	when you pressure Relic Vault when you
2053s	need to pressure with phantasms as
2054s	opposed to Holding On To The Relic ball
2056s	charge and get greedy with Dimensions or
2058s	if you need for removal like those those
2060s	things but as far as like knowing how to
2063s	win with the deck yeah you just get a
2065s	bunch of burst and spell damage and you
2067s	play it all in a turn that part's easy
2069s	anyone on this Druid which is basically
2071s	a combo deck I don't like the title of
2073s	amp Druid for this because it's just
2075s	combo Druid to me there are other ways
2076s	you can win with the ramp it makes sense
2078s	the name isn't completely wrong or
2080s	anything
2081s	but really it's a combo deck in the 30
2083s	card format you don't have the
2086s	the topiazole and all that sort of stuff
2088s	going on so you do have to basically win
2090s	with big stuff and your big stuff is
2092s	basically the combo uh just in case you
2094s	just fire a bunch of four sixes onto the
2096s	board and win that way or whatever but
2097s	yeah or six sixes depending on your
2099s	build
2101s	and yala has missed the turn three ramp
2104s	which is gonna irritate him but at least
2106s	he's got into a Jerry rig into some
2108s	nourishes uh the more pressing matter
2111s	even though he has
2113s	two of the combo pieces he has no search
2117s	so hasn't got that Moon lit hasn't got
2118s	that aquatic form to find the brand
2120s	which is the third and final piece of
2122s	the combo or of what he needs or the
2124s	fourth and final if you count the
2125s	Earthen scales so yala is ready to combo
2128s	off pretty soon
2130s	yeah which is crazy the thing you used
2132s	to a ways away uh sort of what I was
2135s	talking about where Jason arcanists are
2138s	in hand without their ability to be
2140s	reduced
2142s	um Unleashed felt and fell barrage also
2144s	on the far left with no way to be
2146s	reduced there's a relic of dimensions in
2149s	hand but there's no Vault no relics have
2152s	been cast so far so just casting a relic
2155s	of Dimensions as your first Relic on 5
2157s	is not particularly Strong by itself it
2160s	doesn't even complete the first part of
2162s	the quest so uh
2164s	yeah and you've lost a relative
2166s	dimensions is the important part when
2168s	you have to do that like one of your two
2169s	relics is your win condition most of the
2171s	time uh you draw four reduce the costs
2174s	and those cards bring you the game
2175s	because you've got a good density of
2177s	things to hit if you've used one of your
2179s	relics just to keep going and
2181s	the way it's going for you you might
2183s	have to just do that next turn you don't
2184s	have that much time against Druid and
2187s	next turn he will have seen the nourish
2189s	uh be ramped so
2191s	he will know he's going to get a move on
2193s	if he doesn't draw into something good
2194s	next turn he might just have to play The
2195s	Relic for draw two for five Mana
2199s	and with that in mind he should probably
2200s	get this sigil out here right now yeah I
2203s	wouldn't even mind casting uh the Fel
2205s	barrage while you have the Mana
2208s	um probably gonna have to go fast and
2210s	especially with the non-discounted
2212s	architis in hand and non-discounted Jace
2214s	betting that Mana now uh could be worth
2217s	it uh down the line obviously wouldn't
2219s	be able to fit it in the combo but you
2221s	have no guarantee that you're going to
2222s	be able to even cast that with spell
2223s	damage at a reasonable point in the game
2225s	so
2227s	um keeping hand space in mind I wouldn't
2229s	even mind just you know hero power sigil
2232s	barrage and then here apart face in this
2235s	instance
2238s	okay it's the first day of the last day
2241s	of Worlds and both players are going to
2243s	be nervous but no plays fearing this
2246s	pop-off from their opponent already you
2248s	can see the worry on their face that's
2250s	not just like tournament nerves that's
2251s	oh my goodness my opponent's gonna kill
2253s	me in a moment no from both players it's
2255s	great to see yeah so getting uh so this
2259s	is a sort of a similar play of making
2261s	hand space Also the sigil
2264s	um if you're casting relative dimensions
2266s	on five the sigil is still pretty good
2268s	because you get the automatic Quest
2269s	completion
2271s	um but
2274s	leaving that for a bigger turn
2277s	could be worthwhile as well like getting
2279s	like an extra discount on it right
2282s	um
2282s	and the potential to get Double
2284s	Discounts on certain things with if
2286s	you're playing uh like sigil plus a big
2289s	draw turn instead of just the relative
2292s	dimensions I don't know
2294s	if you're new to yala have a good look
2296s	at what he's done for the last 30
2297s	seconds
2300s	I I've already hit the two two and I've
2302s	just moved on with my life y'all are
2303s	working out if you actually really needs
2304s	to hit this tutu he's going to be
2306s	playing taylon possibly next turn or
2308s	Miracle growth um in some worlds as well
2311s	so it doesn't need to hit it spends
2313s	forever thinking about it and preserves
2315s	two Health in his mind by not doing that
2317s	because he's going to deal with it a
2319s	different way most of the time yeah um
2322s	oh
2326s	okay that is a benefit of last turn you
2329s	can net some damage of this with this
2331s	fell barrage knowing that
2333s	Irish was going to be played last turn
2335s	uh that has to be the plan but drawing
2338s	The Relic Vault may change things
2342s	um especially considering if you Relic
2344s	Vault and sigil
2346s	then next turn you get the discounts on
2349s	all of the uh all four of the dimension
2352s	draws plus the sigil draw so I think he
2356s	wanted in case he didn't draw onto
2357s	anything be able to have the spell
2358s	damage on board to cast that Bell
2360s	barrage next turn and you know turn four
2363s	damage into eight damage knowing that
2365s	nourish was going to be the card
2367s	but instead decides to deviate because
2369s	you can't really pass up getting that
2371s	Vault and schedule online for the relic
2373s	of dimensions and big discounts next
2375s	turn
2376s	you ought to decide whether he wants to
2378s	take time out to play this under King
2379s	now just to get rid of the tutu this is
2381s	what he thought about last term when he
2382s	was thinking about the attack with the
2384s	hero power so long uh he think he's
2386s	going to draw Guff he may have attacked
2388s	into the minion of course but that's
2389s	what the long think is for working out
2391s	how many times he's going to attack it
2392s	but how many times he's not and so this
2395s	is a turn off for yala which is
2397s	obviously imitating
2399s	um but after this turn he's free to go
2403s	the arm is relevant as well like Demon
2405s	Hunter we always talk about the infinite
2406s	damage but the infinite damage is
2408s	definitely harder than 40 damage which
2411s	is definitely harder than 20 damage it
2412s	is a thing yeah it's infinite damage if
2414s	you have infinite time right like yeah
2417s	if you can line up everything and get
2419s	spell damage dump all your spells and
2422s	then Jason the same turn
2424s	it's it's a million it's like not in the
2427s	90s
2429s	um
2431s	oh
2432s	okay
2433s	the double discounted uh Guild Trader
2437s	is going to be quite good one Mana
2440s	but other than that
2442s	the rest of the stuff is okay still a
2445s	lot of damage with Guild Trader double
2447s	Fury chaos strike Mark of score yes I'll
2450s	be going to be played in the same turn
2452s	yeah it depends on
2456s	what yala does next in terms of armor
2458s	because it might just be a case of
2460s	setting that up next turn and then just
2461s	go with the chase it might just be
2463s	lethal
2471s	just using the Relic to set up any
2473s	future relics more than anything there
2475s	oh wow it's so close to winning has he
2480s	got time to Guff
2482s	uh
2487s	you can ramp and Guff
2490s	I think now he's ramped though yeah okay
2492s	that's fine yeah uh which is the double
2495s	ramp he gains the armor he's got lethal
2498s	next turn
2500s	um unless
2506s	if he's alive he needs to be alive
2514s	he needs to have armor
2518s	he just he well he plays a new pecan you
2522s	play the brand first and then an ubercon
2524s	yeah exactly all Earth and scales works
2526s	as well but yeah or the scales works as
2528s	well yeah but I think you're right to
2530s	highlight that because a lot of people
2531s	do just miss out the extra Mana before
2533s	they get their armor yeah he he's he's
2536s	ramped enough at this point giving
2538s	himself enough Mana to be able to have
2540s	some wiggle room there but yes the Earth
2541s	and skills would also do it yeah
2544s	um
2546s	guess why I changed my mind when I said
2548s	it was that brown was the third piece of
2549s	the combo at the start of the game then
2551s	I changed it to Fourth piece because the
2552s	urban scales is kind of the fourth piece
2554s	or one of the four pieces sometimes yeah
2557s	or like under King with something to
2559s	trade into right like yeah
2562s	it's it's a wavy fourth piece yeah it's
2567s	under king or something to trade into
2568s	it's just a net five
2572s	uh five armor
2575s	yeah you're putting 10 Health on the
2577s	board but this is an absolute bajillion
2580s	damage
2584s	it's a bajillion
2595s	it's so silly
2599s	x64 noob
2608s	somebody told you this is I was like oh
2610s	he's not gonna have the armor
2614s	I was assuming that you you would chip
2616s	off more of the armor on the previous
2618s	turn uh but didn't like I was assuming
2621s	he would go like Guild Trader because he
2622s	wouldn't have had armor to go double ask
2624s	the Lord
2625s	uh but he wouldn't have needed double
2627s	astalor if uh Yugi had gone for the
2630s	spell damage because there wouldn't have
2631s	been enough Health on board right so uh
2634s	yeah and that's a like you said it's a
2636s	race right
2638s	um to be able to find those pieces and
2641s	you still the draw was a little bit slow
2644s	but it wasn't the slowest got to Relic
2646s	Vault dimensions on six
2649s	um the problem was right The Arcanist
2652s	didn't get like double reduced uh spell
2655s	damage cards didn't have like the the
2657s	ideal uh set of draws in order to make
2660s	that happen so
2662s	um and yarla showcasing what that Druid
2665s	Deck is capable of with running only 30
2667s	cards means you're going to hit those
2669s	combo pieces
2671s	a lot more often very quickly
2674s	yeah it's just a totally different game
2676s	to having 40 cards this was a kind of
2679s	exceptional in the way that it happened
2680s	because it all came off the top he
2681s	didn't have to use the moonlits or
2682s	anything for it but I guess if you're
2684s	not drawing your moonlits and you're not
2686s	drawing your forms you're allowed to
2688s	actually just draw the combo instead
2690s	because it's got to be replaced with
2691s	something but now the deck that
2695s	absolutely nutty on it is shark Rogue
2698s	yeah this deck is
2701s	um
2702s	y'all just played all combo it's kind of
2704s	funny to see because that's sort of not
2706s	been his Mo over the past three years
2710s	um and most of grand Masters last year
2712s	he would play some sort of combo style
2714s	decks but mostly played like control or
2717s	anti-combo those types of things
2720s	um he was like the uh
2725s	what do you call it
2727s	uh I don't know the the antagonist of
2731s	Europe Grand Masters every week
2734s	yeah yeah yeah that's fine
2736s	um in terms of uh his lineup versus
2738s	everybody else's
2740s	um whereas now you know he he's trying
2744s	to be the hero he's absolutely a hero
2746s	with this deck and he proved it in the
2749s	in the group stage right up against
2750s	pressure uh he needed to do 20 something
2754s	with his Drucker and he just did it he
2757s	he waited and waited and he knew he was
2759s	going to do it he knew how much damage
2761s	he had and I think it was 24 he ended up
2764s	doing and he needed to do 21 or 22 and
2768s	he he chipped away he knew that I can't
2771s	believe he was against me he knew that
2772s	he needed to do four or five damage of
2773s	Chip damage to get into range and then
2775s	he just won the game and I wouldn't be
2777s	surprised to see something very very
2779s	similar here it was against Demon Hunter
2781s	I think where it's like do you want to
2783s	heal do you want to heal for four really
2784s	do you yeah the player one three do you
2787s	want to heal for five
2788s	those are the decisions you have to make
2790s	when you're playing against this deck
2791s	though because their reach is insane uh
2794s	early on in the game
2796s	um and sometimes they don't even give
2798s	you cues that like on the turn that
2800s	they're gonna pop off
2802s	um you know
2804s	like preemptively throwing the uh
2807s	forsaken the tenant on the board sure
2809s	like that's a cue right like yeah
2811s	football graveyard's up lieutenants on
2813s	the board sure right that's a that's a
2816s	big one
2817s	um but sometimes they just have the
2819s	cards in hand to be able to do it from
2822s	hand and still have enough reach to get
2824s	there I can't imagine bringing this deck
2827s	to a world championship because the
2830s	amount of pressure on you to perfectly
2833s	perform every action with you know less
2838s	than half a second to make each decision
2840s	is unfathomable like we've seen people
2844s	mess up curve Paladin before let alone
2847s	27 action Rogue that just cause the
2850s	pressure my goodness yeah like like we
2853s	saw who was it was it blies like trade
2856s	or play a guild Trader instead of
2858s	trading it
2859s	oh yeah on turn one he he played he
2862s	played the weapon
2863s	oh the Blackwater Cutlass yeah yeah one
2867s	weapon is in play Let's go like with
2869s	with one man available you're making one
2871s	action to turn we see we see people mess
2873s	that up now imagine you multiply that by
2877s	you know 25
2879s	and you have a split second to play you
2882s	know each card how much room there is
2885s	for air you have to be incredibly
2886s	accurate for a player that's normally
2888s	used to taking his time thinking through
2890s	every every action uh in the Arla this
2893s	deck is is crazy to me that it's uh that
2897s	it's been able to do that so we'll see
2899s	if uh he can get it done but it is going
2901s	to be the Demon Hunter once again for yi
2903s	I believe I see it queued up on my handy
2906s	dandy
2907s	and I think this is another race and I
2909s	think once again maybe the demon Hunt is
2910s	just fractionally unfavored
2913s	um depending on maybe you will have
2916s	learned from watching yala play it in
2918s	the group right he'll have seen that and
2919s	seen that yala was like getting into the
2922s	low 20s and maybe you you will heal up
2924s	preemptively
2926s	I just saw Garlic's opening hand I can
2928s	see a split second faster
2931s	you'll see it in a moment oh I'm excited
2936s	still excited
2938s	I'm maintaining the excitement
2940s	oh my goodness look at this opening hand
2943s	TJ look he's got two sharks a shadow
2945s	shambler and he can decide to keep the
2948s	auction here as well I think although
2949s	I'm not one you don't want them you
2950s	don't want the second shark I think
2952s	because you haven't actually keep the
2953s	first shark but you want one from the
2956s	sketchy
2958s	um and you don't want to leave both
2959s	sketchy stranded I would even yeah
2961s	sharks it does make sense
2964s	um and then you look for uh sketchy uh
2967s	forsaken Lieutenant that kind of thing I
2969s	saw a rose pop up and use him though
2973s	um
2975s	we did see that the graveyard is sorry
2979s	I'm going to be very careful the the
2982s	graveyard that doubles your death
2984s	battles
2986s	yeah is is not as important early as you
2988s	may think I think the yala didn't use it
2991s	on the first shark and did use it on the
2992s	second shark last time
2995s	and then there's a seven Stone graveyard
2996s	which just is in the deck
3000s	[Music]
3003s	relaxed
3008s	foreign
3011s	way both sharks is just playing the deck
3014s	a lot I think instinctively I only keep
3015s	one and I was like excited about two
3016s	because the deck the hand looks so good
3018s	but obviously you throw away one of them
3019s	but throwing away both
3021s	something that he did pretty quickly
3022s	there I think he knows the deck is more
3024s	likely than not to get that one back
3026s	this hasn't happened yet you can get one
3029s	back or you play you play double loan
3032s	shark in double sketching information
3034s	yes
3036s	um and double shroud like you you don't
3040s	necessarily want to keep those cheap
3042s	those minions because
3044s	then that just strands the other spells
3047s	uh that fetch minions in your deck
3049s	specifically the sketches because the
3051s	shrouds are usually gonna are always
3052s	gonna have something to draw right like
3055s	Draka
3056s	it's always the Paradox of combo decks
3058s	through the years isn't it if you're new
3059s	to the game freeze Mage for instance you
3061s	throw away all the pieces of your deck
3063s	that win you the game and go for all the
3065s	things that draw those cards at first
3066s	it's like well why don't you just keep
3068s	the things that win the game
3069s	but over time you realize like you've
3071s	just described you get so many dead
3072s	draws if you do that there's that guy
3074s	again dead draw yeah but uh you have to
3077s	do it all seemingly backwards until
3079s	you've done it a few times then it
3081s	becomes incredibly clear that's what you
3082s	should do turn your deadrise a genius
3085s	right
3087s	no I was lyrics
3089s	All the Time
3094s	so with that in mind who's got the the
3096s	worst name who never gets free promotion
3099s	out of their name because buddy Hopper
3100s	probably gets a tiny bit for instance
3102s	yarla
3106s	yala
3108s	isn't that just how Texans say everybody
3113s	Darla
3115s	y'all uh yeah
3118s	you're a bunch of idiots
3121s	okay here you go yeah you only gets free
3124s	promotion in Texas
3126s	[Laughter]
3131s	you're right there you go I'm not sure
3133s	about Blazers do you blaze anything
3138s	close enough to like Blaze I don't know
3141s	lies in your Trail a trailblizer all
3143s	right yeah see
3146s	if it's free promotion in Hearthstone
3147s	that's how it works as we look at MG
3149s	Maybe
3150s	xng because that's a
3154s	it's just a really big car
3156s	yeah well SMG is like submachine gun
3160s	that's in a lot of games right like Call
3163s	of Duty yep yeah absolutely I can say
3165s	that because it's Activision
3167s	I know I know
3169s	I'm with you
3171s	I was I was watching like navigate that
3173s	mind games
3175s	other card games world champion in other
3178s	card games
3181s	yeah never mentioned the other card
3183s	games
3186s	oh no so everybody's getting free
3188s	promotion so dead draw is not a genius
3189s	it's just what everybody does yeah
3194s	gets promotion every Easter
3199s	because that's what it means apparently
3205s	that's a fun fact he and Ming sounds
3207s	like a soap star
3211s	Glory gets mentioned you know every
3214s	World Championships because the glory of
3215s	winning
3216s	Abu gabu there you go
3220s	um how does Habu gabu uh yeah I was
3223s	going through an order but subtle
3225s	it's given to spoilers how do you have
3226s	your Gabby anything
3229s	turn five TJ come on wake up
3231s	I know this has been uh
3234s	uh Slim Pickens in terms of cool things
3236s	to do for both players once again you
3239s	face with the decision this is like this
3241s	hand is like ah just Jace again double
3246s	undiscounted furies
3249s	a one discount on AFL barrage but the
3252s	other one's in hand that's full cost I
3253s	mean he has the dimensions you can't
3255s	just sit here and hold on to everything
3257s	all right chaos strike okay need for
3259s	greed
3261s	yeah
3264s	that's the case right now so you can
3265s	play the knees degree cheaper more
3268s	cheaply
3269s	yep and now yala
3272s	not a bunch of bad cards right now in
3274s	his hand
3275s	[Laughter]
3278s	oh geez what have we done that's good
3284s	oh no he's gonna just make graveyard
3287s	people
3297s	I mean he could go like coin auctioneer
3303s	prep bone Spike
3306s	okay I like it graveyard and then touch
3309s	both graveyards but
3311s	what I like about that it doesn't feel
3313s	like it's really doing anything and you
3315s	use one of your coins it does mean that
3319s	your opponent has to deal with your
3320s	Auctioneer rather than doing their own
3321s	game plan next turn though sure yeah and
3324s	I know you might not interrupt it much
3326s	but it they're looking at an Auctioneer
3328s	going oh I lose if I leave this up yeah
3330s	I think I might wait though oh uh and
3334s	just throw out the graveyard right now
3335s	because there's a potential that he
3337s	could have
3339s	is there a potential that you can have a
3341s	lot of Mana next turn
3342s	yes
3344s	um oh actually is there
3347s	it would have to be gadgets and
3349s	auctioneer
3350s	coin
3352s	like draw into
3355s	the other graveyards perhaps sketchy
3357s	draws into prep then you prep bone Spike
3360s	yeah and and play the shark that you got
3364s	from the sketchy because he stole the
3365s	shadow shampooer active so it'd be two
3367s	Mana it would kill kill itself right
3368s	away yeah but then you'd stop there it
3370s	would just be giant graveyard minions
3373s	you wouldn't have like Draka you
3374s	wouldn't have Mana for Draka but maybe
3376s	giant graveyard mints are enough
3378s	ah nah they're probably not that's
3380s	because at this point those guys how
3382s	child can play you're gonna have pretty
3384s	big extinctions right
3385s	yeah I think it depends how giant is
3387s	whether they're not going to win you the
3388s	game but they might buy you a turn and
3390s	the turn might be enough with an auction
3392s	in playing stuff so I I think he has to
3395s	do it just because he might die if he
3397s	doesn't like even just putting stuff in
3400s	the way
3400s	of uh potential bursts because even
3403s	though we can see you use hand y'all are
3405s	just to use
3406s	all right there's a good chunk of
3407s	discounted cards in the hand there's one
3409s	two three discounted cards in the hand
3412s	and seven Mana would be available to you
3415s	next turn like if it's discounted spell
3417s	damage plus like double fell barrage
3419s	right yep and there's views getting some
3422s	chip damage in with these Furies and
3424s	these chaos strikes uh you're always
3426s	going to be sub 20 Health going to the
3428s	next turn
3429s	that's not really a safe place to be so
3432s	yeah I think Garlic's got to go this
3434s	turn and just hope it gets there
3439s	uh Jewel makes a huge difference
3441s	obviously but you just got access next
3443s	turn to Guild Trader Relic vault
3447s	relative for graveyard is a card that
3450s	will help in some worlds here
3453s	obviously yeah I didn't know the
3454s	Mulligan they should have kept one of
3455s	the Sharks huh that's how it works
3457s	that's how maths Works TJ
3461s	that's how hindsight works
3464s	okay
3468s	my goodness he's doing everything but
3470s	what he needs
3479s	gotta go prep looking for sketchy
3483s	there it is sketchy
3487s	uh we'll overdraw
3490s	I don't know he had a very quick glance
3492s	at how far through the turn he was there
3494s	now he's just going he's got to decide
3496s	to put the brakes on or whether to go I
3498s	think he's too late I don't think he can
3499s	go he's got to chill
3502s	just just make some cards happen now and
3505s	make some big ghosts and hope your
3506s	opponent can't kill them do what you
3508s	described at the start of the turn
3515s	don't overdraw anything
3521s	this sets up lethal what could go wrong
3528s	um so this is lethal if uh Mark of scorn
3532s	does not hit a minion
3535s	wow
3538s	potions uh so you have to Fury first or
3541s	attack first right
3543s	so you unleash then you Fury hit face
3546s	huh
3552s	or it's again it's you don't even have
3555s	yeah you don't even have to you can
3557s	Relic first because that'll clear the
3559s	board
3560s	and then you mark him scoring if it
3562s	doesn't hit a minion it's lethal yeah
3566s	and very nice dude
3569s	1-1 in this first quarterfinal are you
3574s	taking one back yeah and
3580s	I don't know so maybe you're always
3581s	supposed to keep a shark I I mean it's a
3584s	sample size of one that's the problem
3585s	I'm going to defer to the fact that
3587s	y'all has played this thousands of times
3589s	and I haven't I played it quite a bit
3591s	actually but not in this matter
3593s	uh but Ryan seems to keep a shark but
3595s	I'm just going to go with the person
3596s	who's played it a lot knows
3598s	instinctively that they should on
3599s	average draw a sketchy except for that
3602s	yeah I mean if you look at like uh
3605s	Mulligan win raids for the deck shark is
3607s	one of the worst
3609s	but with that specific combination right
3615s	that's where you have to kind of
3618s	yeah I can guess yourself also there's
3620s	not a huge sample size
3623s	uh of Mulligan win rate for this
3626s	specific instance of the deck right no
3628s	nobody plays this version uh
3632s	Everybody Plays the mailbox dancer
3635s	stenographer Frost wolf Warlords uh
3638s	Draka version of the deck because it's
3639s	kind of got that in between where it's
3640s	not all in on Draka
3643s	um
3643s	or it does have some other minions you
3645s	have some other options
3647s	in order to do that and then there's
3650s	this
3651s	and then there's this
3653s	good old-fashioned mine Rogue
3658s	with illusionists thrown in for good
3660s	measure
3664s	yep
3665s	what it is The Illusionist just makes so
3667s	much sense
3669s	um because you double up on
3673s	like us sketchy information
3677s	and we've just seen why you might want
3678s	to do that
3679s	yeah so like you're sketching
3681s	information you get a Scourge
3682s	Illusionist you also get another one of
3685s	your death rattles right like and
3688s	sometimes having access to a cheaper
3690s	version of the death rattles
3692s	specifically burning blade acolyte like
3695s	having access to a one-mana burning
3696s	blade acolyte
3698s	um
3699s	is actually really important in a lot of
3701s	situations to be able to Convoy a lot
3704s	easier with like a graveyard plus like
3707s	Shadow sampler or even forsaken
3710s	Lieutenant so and y'all is going to move
3712s	over to the quest felt Demon Hunter I
3715s	feel like the miracle Rogue that
3717s	matchup's got to be very difficult
3720s	um yeah into the death rattle Rogue
3722s	because as soon as they get a taunt down
3723s	like
3725s	you got away from the Jabs before you do
3727s	anything and then you've got to do it
3729s	all again and then you've got to do it
3731s	all again so uh that's a matchup that I
3734s	think yala wants to avoid so he's going
3736s	to go over to Quest fell Demon Hunter
3738s	try and get a win with that one first
3739s	and then to make sure that he has two
3741s	Chances with the Rogue
3744s	uh electronics yep meltronics thrown in
3747s	there
3748s	in place of is running uh none none of
3752s	the mark of scorn still two need for
3755s	greed still chaos strike still still two
3757s	spectral strikes and that was spectral
3760s	sights straight to site that was a
3762s	talking point in the groups as well uh
3765s	yala three games basically struggled
3768s	with draw and
3770s	the feel factor of cutting just one uh
3775s	draw card
3776s	into does that really matter what it
3778s	matters because of snowball but how much
3780s	and so on that's going to be a thing
3781s	that carries on here because he's not
3783s	just cut a draw card it's worth
3785s	remembering that everybody had already
3787s	cut a draw card from the really smooth
3789s	version of this deck to to get the spell
3791s	damage more smooth he's got another draw
3794s	card on top of that and at some point
3797s	another gets too much and it's very hard
3800s	to quantify win rate stats don't reflect
3803s	drawer cards accurately for various
3804s	reasons and so it is very much a feel
3808s	thing that he's happy cutting that X1
3810s	for meltronics of all things that boy
3819s	meanwhile you yeah why he has the thing
3824s	always a question for me whether you
3826s	keep trickster or smoke screen if you
3827s	only have one of them on the draw I
3829s	think on the play you just don't
3831s	but on the play he's got them both so he
3833s	hasn't got that to worry about he's just
3834s	gonna keep him
3845s	this is the Juice by the way
3847s	yeah
3848s	really is oh hit the smoke screen
3851s	unlucky
3854s	yeah yeah if he hits the yeah take our
3860s	next turn coin trickster and then he
3863s	driv
3866s	es now he's gonna have to wait until
3867s	turn four that's just horrible imagine
3870s	doing a combo on turn four
3876s	yeah it's a fury to speed up the
3878s	spectral site for next turn looks
3880s	sensible could just sigil hero power but
3884s	I guess having extra Mana to throw
3885s	something in because you can for your
3888s	respectful side next turn but I guess
3889s	spending the Mana now is
3892s	worthwhile
3894s	yeah that feel is not going to be the
3896s	life and death for winning the game
3897s	later you're not getting to turn eight
3899s	where you might Fury for zero and Jason
3901s	or something it's all happening one way
3903s	or the other before that yeah and this
3906s	to me come
3907s	I was just gonna say you could miss out
3909s	on one damage by not here repairing this
3910s	turn if all you cast is a spectral side
3912s	next turn but let's say spectral side
3914s	hits
3915s	Relic fault relic of dimensions
3918s	and discounts them right then you can
3920s	play The Relic ball with your one extra
3922s	Mana next turn and then go turn four
3924s	relative dimensions with the Vault so
3926s	this opens up more possibilities you
3927s	might have IP you just want to trade
3929s	away something like that as well sure
3933s	uh for me
3935s	a lot of people don't like combo and
3937s	combo matchups they say it's just sort
3939s	of not interactive but it's not
3940s	interactive in the sense of Yetis
3941s	hitting into each other and leaving a
3943s	4-1 on the board but we've described in
3946s	all three of these games a lot of sort
3948s	of mental interactions like do I go now
3950s	what's my opponent doing what Clues can
3952s	I pick up from what my opponent has done
3953s	and yeah that's another fascinating
3955s	aspect of hearthstone that I think
3956s	people sometimes Overlook when they're
3958s	talking about interactivity it's a
3960s	different way of describing it for me
3963s	this sort of stuff is fascinating
3966s	and I will say that when I'm on my own
3968s	little stream playing games as well it's
3970s	not just because I'm here casting
3979s	they're deciding what to do here the
3981s	unleash fell not something he wants to
3984s	burn so easily
3986s	um to get to that second spectral site
3988s	but don't really want to trade away the
3990s	need for greed either because it's
3992s	a card he just wants to cast next turn
3997s	um
3999s	I think it costs four so you would have
4003s	to dump the Unleashed fell if you wanted
4004s	to go for a second Quest completion next
4007s	turn because you'd have to spectral side
4008s	as well
4013s	trade it it's really hard actually
4016s	that is really hard
4019s	my instinct would say cast it
4022s	but you always got different instincts
4024s	well has he like was his Instinct almost
4027s	at the car seat and he spent 45 seconds
4029s	talking himself out of it that's also
4030s	possible here my I would be wow my
4033s	instinct is to cast this and then I'd
4034s	spend 45 seconds thinking about
4041s	at the end of the turn anyway yeah
4046s	sit there for 45 seconds trying to work
4047s	out how to fit Habu gabu into daily
4049s	conversation
4051s	and then cast it
4054s	um
4057s	okay then
4059s	gotta mine
4064s	beforehand yeah forehand you pack stab
4068s	your tutu like I think so I don't know
4071s	though because the backstab could be
4072s	really important
4074s	I think that I think he's counting sort
4076s	of the ways this can go wrong if he
4078s	backstabs how much he needs the other
4079s	one to backstabbing mine later and how
4082s	many ways it burns things he doesn't
4083s	want I think he's weighing up those two
4085s	one of those things is better than the
4087s	other and that's that's the mental
4089s	gymnastics he's trying to do right now I
4090s	think the backstab is important let's
4092s	see next turn you could counterfeit
4094s	blade an attack face right
4098s	um then it would be uh
4101s	oh you need six Mana to do it yeah I
4103s	think you need to backstab so he has a
4106s	kill on turn six
4107s	guaranteed right you load up the
4111s	counterfeit blade okay next turn you go
4114s	uh snowfall graveyard shatter shambler
4118s	and then on the the next turn you go
4122s	um attack with the weapon forsaken
4124s	Lieutenant Mine backstab The Forsaken
4127s	lieutenant
4131s	that's 28 yeah in one turn
4135s	Ed a lot eight damage from the cap our
4138s	four damage from the counterfeit blade
4141s	um
4143s	24 damage from the mines because it'd be
4145s	eight damage you'd be getting three mind
4147s	procs
4148s	uh doubled from the snowfall graveyard
4150s	but then he wouldn't be yeah yeah no
4152s	that would be it so it'd be a kill on
4153s	turn six
4156s	if there he has 28 damage yeah and if he
4160s	needs oh no he hasn't he has enough Mana
4162s	for Wicked step too because that would
4163s	cost two so yeah turn six is again is is
4166s	32 damage he has 32 damage on turn six
4169s	with the setup run go quicker
4173s	now y'all is desperately trying to find
4176s	out how to go quicker
4178s	I think his plan from here would be to
4180s	try and set up turn seven Jace win with
4182s	some
4184s	damage spaced in between
4187s	not so long about double the backstab
4189s	and discard your back step anyway
4193s	so yeah
4194s	this is lined up nicely for you next
4197s	turn he just needs to make sure he gets
4198s	Shadow shambler played in a snowfall
4200s	graveyard played
4202s	and then hope he doesn't die yeah so
4204s	Jala's plan next turn is possibly just
4206s	Guild Trader unleash
4208s	then Relic the turn after because you've
4210s	got more chance of getting it with the
4211s	phantasms and just go for it
4215s	does damage will stick so the guild
4216s	Trader Unleashed damage is is some
4218s	damage that will just stick on the face
4221s	yeah the
4225s	yarala is going to see the
4228s	next turn it's probably going to be
4229s	meltronics because you're always going
4231s	to see like Shadow shambler snowfall
4233s	graveyard Etc yeah and he knows there's
4236s	a mine in hand
4239s	and he knows that the counterfeit blade
4240s	has a mine in it so he's going to do
4243s	that in order to
4245s	it's funny because that it would still
4248s	be lethal for yui
4251s	if he picks up a dumpable card next turn
4255s	oh this Extinction is potentially big so
4258s	he plays melatonix and um
4261s	the other Relic he doesn't need
4263s	maltronics this turn
4265s	I don't think
4270s	Extinction means that next turn he's got
4272s	phantasms into
4275s	Dimensions which might be very tempting
4277s	for him because he's getting quite close
4278s	to a turn seven double Guild Trader
4281s	if some of your stuff costs zero on the
4283s	next turn you're in a good spot so I
4286s	think he'll be looking to get these two
4286s	relics cast
4291s	oh maybe it doesn't mean there's so much
4294s	even there's so much damage even
4296s	next turn
4298s	well he's down to um from what he can
4301s	see he's down to 14 so from where he's
4302s	set he can just lose
4306s	was short he's down even less because
4308s	there's a mine in that counterfeit blade
4310s	so there's 10 damage being represented
4312s	just on board he's down to 10 so he may
4314s	feel the need just to heal and remove
4315s	the two that you can see and then just
4317s	play the extinction because
4319s	relics it's hard yeah so he's got a
4322s	maltronix this turn and load up the
4325s	phantasms
4327s	oh geez
4336s	wait snowfall graveyard that's two
4344s	attack mind backstab that's lethal even
4348s	through maltronics
4354s	that's insane
4356s	oh
4358s	[Laughter]
4361s	oh gosh
4363s	turn five lethal through maotronics yeah
4369s	and it's 2-1 to you ye who now just has
4372s	his plague people left I believe
4379s	yeah that's
4381s	ridiculous I did not ex well I said if
4385s	he picks up a dumpable card off the
4386s	table he was still it was totally until
4388s	next turn if he doesn't heal through
4390s	maltronics I think y'all this play was
4392s	good
4393s	um because like you know my you sitting
4397s	up for a turn six kill scenario was
4398s	based off the fact that yarla would be
4400s	not at 20 right I said 32 damage on turn
4405s	six that was assuming y'all was gonna
4407s	like heal or something like that y'all
4409s	thought he'd be safe for this turn with
4411s	maltronics and that some of the combo
4413s	piece he wouldn't be able to set up the
4415s	combo because of the maltronics right
4418s	um and then he'd be able to heal and
4421s	dump his cards next turn and then try
4423s	and set up for like you said the Json
4425s	seven
4427s	um
4427s	but did pick up the double card off the
4430s	top and was able to get it done that
4433s	snowfall graveyard hold right we were
4436s	talking about oh you could snowfall
4437s	graveyard on three then you know tricks
4439s	or smoke screen on four but that's you
4443s	know that's a risk right I if you only
4445s	have one snowfall graveyard you'd rather
4447s	just wait until you can actually play it
4450s	when you know you're getting death
4451s	battles instead of
4453s	like a whatever the percentage is with
4456s	you know 23 cards left in deck
4459s	hitting three death rattles that are in
4461s	your deck with five draws you do the
4464s	math deal I don't want to do math I
4466s	don't ever do math I just do numbers
4469s	that's a whole different thing
4471s	that's a whole different ball game yeah
4475s	that's just numbers ball games just
4476s	numbers that's baseball baby 2814 oh
4480s	that's not baseball that's football
4482s	baseball's like seven five unless you're
4485s	in Colorado I think it's like 14 13
4487s	because the air is so thin but we worry
4489s	about that another time
4491s	yep Maha Stadium
4493s	indeed oh my the Colorado Rockies no
4496s	it's not my house Stadium's the Broncos
4498s	I think X Broncos I believe might be
4502s	wrong maybe it's still his Mile High
4504s	John Elway played the Mile High Stadium
4506s	that much I do know
4510s	John Elway that's a throwback for what
4513s	when I used forwards that's the only way
4515s	you're allowed to throw us a girl
4518s	yeah
4519s	you could throw backwards yeah but you
4523s	don't because then you people accuse you
4524s	playing that you do
4527s	like it's very often
4530s	like Flea Flicker plays and stuff is
4533s	that like all of those okay you you
4534s	pitch backwards yeah that's a pitch
4537s	exactly
4539s	technical just pictures of synonym for
4541s	throw
4542s	you throw a baseball at somebody
4546s	there's a literally a position called a
4549s	pitcher he's not called a thrower is he
4552s	exactly if I caught a baseball pitcher a
4556s	thrower I'd get called an English idiot
4561s	proving my point
4564s	Emily
4565s	yeah
4566s	I think I won this discussion a pitcher
4569s	is still throwing a baseball no he's not
4572s	he's pitching it
4575s	like I'm pitching this um discussion and
4578s	you're throwing it
4581s	I think it's the other way around
4582s	actually I I think you'll find not
4584s	anyway we're interplay people people
4586s	priest and that's great because I get to
4588s	say the word plague people a million
4589s	times and then get tweeted at for not
4590s	knowing the name of plague whatever it's
4592s	called
4594s	it's Pike spreader it's not even that
4597s	complicated of a card
4599s	it's not it Just spreads plagues yeah
4602s	it's not like you know
4606s	plague warlord of Azeroth right it's not
4609s	even something like lore base it what
4611s	does it do it spreads plagues Blake's
4614s	better
4616s	yeah that's why even I can remember it
4619s	yeah there you go I can be awkward to
4622s	use plug spur in this matchup I found
4624s	that like um if I use plug spreader on
4626s	curve they just trade away their Guild
4629s	Trader and then fell barrage you know
4631s	like uh the plague spreader later on in
4634s	the game are the ones that that are the
4637s	toughest uh to deal with like a turn
4640s	like six or seven plague spreader like
4642s	give them time to like draw the Jace you
4645s	know
4646s	um and then drop the plague spreader
4648s	yeah
4649s	bone collar in hand
4651s	you know that you can play it on curve
4654s	but like if you just have a plague
4655s	spreader in hand and no way to bring it
4657s	back whether it be amulet or bone collar
4659s	then playing it on curve
4661s	can sometimes be
4664s	uh not the best it's just a good plural
4667s	plague spreader plague people
4670s	that's the plural of play splitter
4675s	the plural of plague spreader is plague
4677s	spreaders
4678s	no come on be serious anyone
4684s	that's one thing I learned from school
4686s	plural of anything you just add an s
4689s	well like you said galley wix's
4693s	yep uh-huh
4696s	TJ sound diseases points
4700s	what's multiple TJ Saunders is that TJ
4703s	Saunders this is uh it's I believe it's
4706s	TJ San die
4708s	but Gally Wickes
4711s	yeah okay good tool that's it's it's a
4715s	it's a hundred percent rule right yep I
4718s	didn't ask at the end if there's already
4719s	an S at the end of the world the plural
4721s	is you change the last syllable for an i
4726s	okay unless it's plagues but in which
4728s	case you have played people
4730s	yep
4732s	the three rules the three rules they
4735s	teach you in America about English
4739s	all right meltronics did something kind
4742s	of yeah
4744s	it did a little bit oh spectral sight
4747s	off the tippity top that'll do a lot
4749s	dollar reaching up to the top shelf of
4751s	the deck plucking off the spectral site
4762s	yeah you've got to spend your money
4763s	that's one thing about this deck that is
4765s	kind of the only thing you don't have
4766s	much versatility with like you cannot
4769s	float Mana with this deck I don't think
4777s	he wants to eliminate the possibility of
4780s	a gift draw but honestly consider the
4785s	possibility of eliminating the
4786s	difference just just ship it yeah 40
4790s	card deck
4792s	yeah
4795s	but is that more of a reason or less of
4796s	a reason to stop them from drawing I
4798s	know it's more of a reason they won't be
4799s	able to draw
4808s	a bit
4810s	is he gonna is he gonna chat
4812s	a bit he does it
4817s	correct oh
4820s	a a singular plague spreader uh-huh
4826s	yeah I like it here because you got a
4828s	bone collar to bring it back if it just
4830s	gets removed with no minions in hand
4842s	he's saying it for years
4850s	I mean look at these cars look at the
4852s	state of these cards
4854s	yeah that's the absolute statement I
4857s	think there's the only one that gives
4859s	you anything but do you really want
4861s	something right now from your opponent
4863s	like do you do you need
4865s	that deck is quite as powerful I guess
4869s	do you need cards or when you have these
4871s	full of things you can't empty
4873s	oh you got a snake
4879s	back here comes the plague spreader okay
4888s	and draw straight into the minion that
4890s	he wants to protect
4892s	yeah
4894s	before that the players have to kill off
4896s	the plague spreader
4899s	in order for the it to happen this turn
4902s	but at this point you if you don't deal
4905s	with it now like you could
4908s	trade away the guild Trader I hope you
4910s	don't draw a minion Arcanist
4912s	Extinction right
4914s	um but then you ruin your your Vault
4916s	Dimensions turn so you get dimensions
4918s	and then hope that you don't draw into
4920s	Jason that it doesn't get killed off
4922s	next turn or hope that you just nail
4925s	like every spell damage minion that gets
4928s	double reduced like that's also a thing
4933s	yeah he's not even enough of them now
4936s	it's fine right just draw all of them
4939s	and you're good
4940s	don't worry
4945s	my goodness the county lethal was
4947s	already just so stupid it does this
4950s	is it just lethal next turn
4954s	oh
4955s	not even close he's always close
4959s	oh it's not close
4960s	8 16.
4963s	20
4965s	eight
4967s	okay it's kind of close
4971s	it's something like oh no the Bell bro
4975s	no he should have turned it one of the
4978s	things into a plague spreader and that
4980s	would have probably been lethal
4984s	no
4986s	no
4987s	everything if he had killed the plank
4990s	spur last turn pending which of his
4992s	things got turned if it hit the
4994s	expensive Guild Trader he wouldn't have
4996s	enough Mana to do everything in one turn
4998s	four six okay so he would have been two
5000s	turn
5002s	sure
5003s	and the location still would have been
5005s	played so
5006s	you're so used to stop being lethal
5009s	hmm
5011s	well now you kind of have to take the
5014s	risk anyway
5018s	well he can play one of the he can play
5020s	one of the cheaper spell damage here
5024s	or he could play the ex another happy
5027s	guilty
5028s	oh you think it's probably the expensive
5030s	one so he doesn't yeah
5032s	that was played
5035s	putting it back for future use kind of
5037s	understand that as well
5048s	I don't work out you should have cycled
5050s	after the chaos strike
5052s	oh he did get the phantasms off okay
5055s	good yeah
5060s	because by cycling
5062s	before the chaos strike gave him more
5064s	information but also gave him a chance
5065s	of redrawing the thing he was trying to
5067s	hide in his deck
5078s	this this matchup is a brain melter
5080s	absolutely
5084s	oh
5086s	it would hit the more expensive Arcanist
5088s	that's a welcome to the club yeah he
5092s	tried to get the snake hit but
5095s	realistically you're going to lose some
5097s	spell damage in this game at least it's
5098s	not a Jace
5099s	at least that portion of the game is
5101s	over for the time being
5111s	quickly
5115s	being burned is so big because that's so
5118s	much for like so much damage that's lost
5121s	yeah bit by bit this deck removed the
5123s	damage didn't it so the marks have both
5126s	gone from Charlie's deck for instance
5127s	and they've gone from uh most of the
5130s	Dexter take out at least one originally
5132s	this deck had a lot more damage in it
5134s	and was very much a damage
5136s	slightly less of a combo deck and more
5138s	of a just kill you deck but now
5141s	yeah the fell is a crucial part of
5143s	everything that's going on
5150s	I'm gonna have to look to a type I'm not
5152s	sure what it is but he should look to
5154s	try and set up two turn lethal here if
5155s	he can I know you always should but
5157s	particularly right now demons
5160s	demons
5170s	Danny going to do that with double spell
5172s	damage maybe triple spell damage
5184s	at some point he's gonna have to take a
5186s	risk right and just hope that the Viper
5187s	gets hit by a plague spreader
5189s	uh I feel like it yeah
5191s	just like just you can take you can take
5194s	another turn of damage it's just he
5196s	needs to be doing something here yeah
5199s	um
5201s	honestly wouldn't even mind like just
5202s	Relic faulting this right like a
5204s	Phantasm yeah I actually you might need
5207s	a relic Vault for the okay yeah I guess
5210s	it's casting twice so just having the
5211s	double Extinction in hand is is fine
5213s	enough
5215s	to boost your last Dimensions you're
5218s	saying
5220s	uh no to boost your last uh your
5222s	Extinction to get through a board got it
5226s	that you ensure that like Fel barrage
5229s	goes face all the time yeah y'all is
5232s	lost too I think like piecing together
5234s	34 damage is going to be very difficult
5239s	he's gonna need to do it all in the same
5241s	turn
5242s	um he's gonna need to have uh like the
5244s	zero Mana Guild Trader Arcanist
5247s	dump spells but that's why he keeps
5249s	pushing him back right in the same turn
5251s	yeah
5254s	um but weirdly by putting them back he's
5256s	giving himself a chance to draw them
5258s	again I wonder if he should be holding
5259s	on to them until the time comes and then
5260s	put them back but I mean none of this is
5263s	easy right now in the slightest
5267s	that last Dimensions needs to hit them
5271s	hunt too quickly
5276s	yeah down to a turn or so and like you
5279s	say this the plague spread is back
5288s	there is still a lot of damage available
5290s	it's just if he had infinite time like
5292s	you're saying that he hasn't got the
5293s	infinite time
5298s	I honestly think this is in extinction
5301s	in prey right
5303s	I just hope your viper gets hit one you
5306s	need one more turn
5307s	or that you you take damage off the
5310s	board that is that isn't the spreader
5312s	yep they don't hit the spreader I agree
5318s	because the policeman's not gonna the
5319s	priest is not gonna have burst so you
5321s	there's nine what 19th power on board 16
5324s	yeah 19 power on board so you just need
5326s	to take out one minion
5328s	and this is where the psychology of it
5330s	being the world championship's huge
5332s	right because you don't want to lose
5334s	your thing getting plagues better but
5336s	you've just got to play the matter
5337s	whatever the situation you've still just
5338s	got to do the best math and Hope uh it
5341s	hit the chase yeah
5347s	and as long as
5349s	UE gets rid of this board
5351s	yala will be down to only one spell
5353s	damage minion in the deck then at that
5355s	point as well
5356s	um
5357s	there is still
5360s	one
5362s	there's not there's not even um
5365s	an extra Phantasm so try and make some
5367s	stuff in the deck and that's the end of
5368s	it yep Whirlpool coming out eliminating
5372s	the second Guild Trader no Jesus there
5374s	not even yawa's own plague spreaders as
5376s	well
5377s	uh and that's it UE moves on to
5381s	semi-finals
5383s	just like that a lot of combo based
5386s	action in that one and yala
5389s	just didn't quite have the best of it
5391s	there you did nothing wrong either it's
5393s	just one of those games that look like
5394s	it's really well played apart from maybe
5396s	the last couple of turns from yalo in
5398s	this one where like you say he just he
5400s	had so much going on in his head so much
5402s	he had to juggle around uh play playing
5404s	around play Spit as well as trying to
5406s	set up a lethal whilst also trying not
5408s	to die
5409s	is a Head Exploder let's face it so he
5412s	was right up against it there and yala
5415s	once again not the world champion this
5417s	time around but also once again has
5419s	provided us with a lot of entertainment
5421s	through the year and throughout all the
5423s	other years as well but UE four players
5426s	left for him yeah he is uh
5430s	playing incredibly right now and
5433s	obviously has a deck that or has a
5436s	lineup That Demon Hunter struggling
5437s	against let's be honest that that it
5440s	seems like that's where he's netting a
5441s	lot of his wins players just can't get
5443s	the Demon Hunter across with the way
5445s	he's built this lineup so I've been uh
5448s	quite cool to see him play uh but yeah
5450s	that last game from yarla you all that
5453s	knew that at some point he was going to
5454s	have to take a risk and take a 50 50 or
5457s	whatever for plague spreader he got it
5459s	down to a point where it was a 50 50
5461s	instead of like you know a 66.6 chance
5465s	to eliminate a spell damage minion the
5468s	PG of course repeating of course if the
5470s	Viper had been hit by that first plague
5472s	spreader there maybe there's a chance
5474s	but to be honest it was a pretty slim
5476s	pickings that's a very difficult game to
5479s	navigate and I think that UE also just
5482s	you know played that as well as he
5484s	possibly could have given the situations
5487s	making every turn as awkward as possible
5489s	for your list so well done you will see
5491s	him later on in the semi-finals but
5493s	that's just
5494s	the first quarterfinal
5497s	um and Saul has just pointed out plague
5499s	spreader plague spreader that is
5501s	actually correct it can turn the plague
5502s	spreader into a plague spreader it
5504s	doesn't only take the place where
5505s	everyone so yes it was actually the
5507s	highest chance he possibly could have
5509s	had to hit
5511s	um something that wasn't Jace so
5514s	oh but enough about that game
5516s	because we got plenty more games to come
5518s	Lorinda as I did that whole series went
5521s	by I still didn't put on my shirt I know
5523s	after each game I was thinking it's
5525s	comfy too if I give him a hint do I just
5526s	like
5528s	Superman this or something but I decided
5530s	to just carry on yeah good job caring on
5533s	good job carrying on but yeah we solved
5535s	six more matches left on the day three
5536s	more quarterfinals two semifinals and
5538s	then of course the grand finals later on
5540s	to finish it all uh but before we jump
5542s	into the next quarter final we are gonna
5543s	have to take a quick break so don't go
5545s	anywhere more action to come here from
5547s	the Hearthstone World Championship right
5549s	after this
5551s	foreign
5555s	[Music]
5564s	[Music]
5568s	oceans or mountains
5571s	hiya
5572s	good answer big parties or small
5575s	gatherings
5578s	baths or showers
5580s	puzzle
5582s	uh prefer to be a passenger or a driver
5588s	City or Countryside
5592s	prefer to work hard or play hard
5595s	[Music]
5614s	[Music]
5617s	okay cats or dogs dogs
5620s	messy or tidy
5623s	tidy
5624s	uh call or text
5630s	Okay roller coaster or bumper cars
5634s	um roller coaster
5636s	scary movie or funny movie funny movie
5639s	and snowball fight or water balloon
5642s	fight snowball fight
5646s	[Music]
5656s	[Music]
5663s	[Music]
5667s	thank you
5669s	[Music]
5696s	thank you
5698s	[Music]
5743s	thank you
5749s	hello everyone and welcome back we are
5751s	ready for our second match of the day
5753s	and it's all on the line for these
5755s	players I'm Raven and joining me subtle
5757s	and we've got xmg coming up versus bunny
5760s	Hopper and again I think this is just
5762s	going to be uh the plan for the day
5764s	subtle is being upset at whoever loses
5767s	right because like we've just seen yala
5769s	get knocked out it's such a big deal but
5771s	again when you when you compare it to
5774s	you Yi when you look at Players like xmg
5777s	versus bunny I can't sit here and say oh
5780s	one should win you know over the other
5783s	just based on the players themselves
5785s	yeah sir I was a little bit initially
5787s	confused by the way you phrase that he
5788s	said it's time angry be upset at whoever
5791s	loses like at whoever loses screw you
5794s	buddy how dare you lose this game of
5796s	hearthstone I mean yeah that's going to
5797s	be true depending on who we predicted
5799s	right also very good could happen but
5802s	mostly yeah just the level of these
5804s	players right it's just it's gonna hit
5805s	us hard every single match today yeah um
5809s	particularly because we're likely to see
5811s	the the deal in Hearthstone where like
5813s	yala just kind of went out swinging
5815s	there you know it's not like someone
5816s	just completely capitulates under the
5818s	pressure
5820s	um I'm not sure how much total sense
5822s	yala's plan did make in those last few
5824s	turns but at the same time he was just
5826s	put in a very incredibly awkward
5828s	position by an incredibly good player
5831s	and that's what we're going to get to In
5832s	This World Championship I don't think
5833s	we're necessarily going to see too many
5835s	games now we're like okay yeah goodbye
5838s	you got outplayed you deserve to lose
5839s	kind of thing you know like we're just
5841s	at this level now we're in incredibly
5843s	fine margins are going to dictate the
5846s	outcome of these games yeah of course
5848s	just checking in with xmg the the uh not
5850s	sure about the uh draca priest it's
5853s	definitely a an archetype I'm not used
5856s	to seeing too often but most importantly
5858s	just look at those records right just
5860s	extremely solid and gold team
5862s	championship and then you know very
5864s	strong in Masters tours as well so xmg
5867s	has been there very impressive for me
5868s	throughout the the course of the weekend
5870s	so far subtle yeah that was Gia's job
5872s	for this tournament and she's sacked off
5874s	to bigger and better things now so we
5875s	can just blame her perfect she's track a
5878s	priest come on uh yeah very very strong
5880s	player all of the kzg players of which I
5882s	believe there are there were three in
5884s	this tournament at the star which is
5885s	obviously a great performance for uh
5887s	that take that team a great performance
5888s	of the China region as well making it
5891s	this far they're all very very strong
5893s	players and they do have a slightly
5896s	Off the Wall lineup construction between
5899s	uh across the spread of all of the
5901s	players who are doing so you can see
5903s	here like pure Paladin and yeah even
5905s	Draco
5907s	okay something has gone very wrong with
5910s	the data entry on xfg's decklist here I
5913s	think is how sick would draca be in
5916s	Priest like he would still be incredible
5919s	like you would still base play the same
5922s	deck maybe that's what ergia was going
5924s	for at this point whereas the the Rogue
5927s	and the priests are more or less the
5929s	same style so why not call them the same
5931s	thing
5932s	yeah but so this is a deck that we have
5935s	seen honestly visibly struggle a little
5938s	bit obviously it still has the massive
5940s	successful pop-ups that we've seen
5943s	um but we've been skewed I think by uh
5946s	by some of the matchups it's been forced
5948s	to take on
5949s	um going up against shattering blast and
5952s	mass polymorph Mage or just cueing into
5955s	Demon Hunter and them just drawing you
5957s	know location relic of Extinction and
5959s	suddenly you know you're one or two
5960s	turns where you can make a bunch of 20
5962s	Health minions just don't really seem
5964s	that impressive against the level of
5966s	resilience long-term resilience that
5968s	Mage has and that burst removal that
5970s	what that you know one of the few decks
5972s	in the game that has the power to remove
5974s	at the same speed the priest has the
5977s	power to put stats on the board so uh
5979s	still waiting for uh Boone priest to
5981s	really live up to the hype in this
5983s	tournament in particular yeah and
5985s	speaking of the priests in general bunny
5986s	is gonna I think have his Mage band away
5989s	and that means this Quest priest is
5991s	going to be available as well as the
5993s	Rogue so we could be in free not
5995s	particularly a long series due to just
5997s	the nature of xmg's decks at least as
5999s	far as I can see but just uh bunny gets
6002s	to play uh Decks that I think are suited
6005s	to bunny Hopper you know just you know
6007s	sort of a generally drawn out you know
6009s	styles that where you have to get a
6011s	little bit creative to sort of almost
6013s	like generate those Wing conditions
6016s	yeah for sure you can see just with the
6018s	uh the sheer number of renothal decks
6020s	that bunny Hopper has in his lineup here
6022s	that he is looking to play some of those
6024s	longer more drawn out games does have
6026s	the quest Demon Hunter thrown in there
6028s	as well because I think that deck just
6029s	does fall into the category coming into
6031s	this tournament at the very least of
6034s	being too good to drop yeah what I will
6037s	say though is when we've seen matchups
6039s	played at the very highest level
6041s	uh like if I queue into plague spreader
6045s	Quest priest on ladder I'm not
6047s	particularly worried I still think I'm
6048s	favored uh when we're seeing it being
6050s	played at a very very high level it does
6052s	seem like the control decks with the
6054s	plague spreader the control decks with
6056s	the various other forms of disruption uh
6058s	do have a better chance against these uh
6060s	combo decks than you know maybe your
6062s	average player does
6064s	um so interesting to see you know when
6065s	we get to the very very very end of the
6067s	tournament whether this is uh still you
6070s	know combo decks are keying or whether
6071s	it is some of these tech cards and some
6073s	of these anti-combo strategies that are
6075s	starting to come to fruition I was ready
6077s	for a very different path of that
6078s	conversation there where you were going
6080s	to say oh yeah every time I queue into
6081s	the uh play Express priests online there
6084s	I I just leave
6085s	um and then you know it's just Friday
6087s	three points most of them yeah the
6090s	point's worth the time sometimes it
6092s	depended on what deck you're playing if
6094s	you're playing Demon Hunter they're on
6096s	your time you're not on theirs don't
6098s	worry about it very very true but yeah
6100s	as we've said throughout not only this
6101s	tournament but almost bunny Hoppers you
6104s	know the majority of his career but this
6106s	style of deck and especially this style
6109s	of Rogue is something he is very very
6111s	good at indeed and so it will be a even
6114s	though he's good at this he's going to
6115s	be having a bit of a tough one against
6117s	this priest because you can plan for
6120s	long games you know pull sort of win
6121s	conditions out of nowhere later on and
6124s	really think 10 steps ahead but that
6126s	might not help you if you can't answer
6129s	the pop-off turn from the priest right
6131s	and I think that is one of the the
6133s	drawbacks of this deck is if you're
6135s	forced into a corner quickly and you
6137s	don't have that answer there's often not
6140s	tons of stuff you can actually do about
6142s	it yeah what I will say is that
6145s	concoctions have added just an extra
6147s	Dimension into Rogue in general and
6150s	particularly into this deck
6152s	um especially in combination with the
6154s	duplicate spell as well if you can get a
6156s	good destruction with uh Destroyer
6158s	random thrown in there as well if you
6160s	can get the double Destroyer random and
6162s	if you then have the shadow spell in
6164s	your hand and you can just absolutely
6165s	nuke boards from orbit if you're able to
6168s	get those combinations going and that's
6171s	not even allowing for the chance that
6174s	you do just rip jackpot and just hit
6175s	some absolutely not so anti-pre-spell
6178s	coming off the jackpot that you can then
6179s	repeat over and over again so I do think
6182s	jackpot Rogue is a deck that did get
6184s	some nice new toys to play with in the
6185s	new expansion
6187s	um and I think bunny is possibly the
6189s	best equipped player in the world to use
6192s	those tools effectively in this deck
6194s	yeah I think that's completely fair and
6196s	looking at the opening hands here xmg
6197s	choosing to keep hold of the Raging
6200s	Elemental and an identity theft whereas
6202s	bunny still just considering the options
6205s	again I do feel like this Mulligan for
6208s	the rogue deck is one of the most
6210s	difficult because there's so many
6212s	different things you can make Arguments
6214s	for right in this road deck like you can
6217s	look at so many of the different cards
6218s	in your opening Mulligan and think okay
6220s	well that's good for that that's good
6222s	for this do I want to keep this for that
6224s	and it's very difficult to just say this
6226s	is always a correct Mulligan or an
6228s	incorrect Mulligan they're going on
6229s	there but when you're decided to throw
6231s	everything in I think it's fair to say
6233s	get at least reasonably rewarded here a
6235s	cutlers to just cycle if he wants to and
6237s	then the sketchy to just play out on
6239s	curve and at least give himself options
6241s	going forward
6243s	and exhale did hit a spell with the um
6246s	with the weapon because as we all know
6248s	you can't discount a spell below zero
6253s	uh I feel sorry for chat that doesn't
6255s	understand jokes that were made till she
6257s	minutes before going live I will
6260s	contextualize uh that when TJ and
6262s	Lorinda came back into our sort of
6263s	virtual green room after casting I was
6266s	talking like hang on you you do realize
6268s	that plague spreader can hit plague
6269s	spreader because it seemed like they
6270s	were talking as if it wasn't and they
6272s	both said yeah we'd often forget because
6273s	it's like you know Howard zero Mana
6275s	spell can't be discounted which is sort
6278s	of semi-true but I just don't understand
6280s	why that's a comparison that was in
6282s	their heads very confused now
6284s	unfortunately here we can't see the
6285s	discoveries we'll try and get that fixed
6287s	for you ASAP uh but still bunny Opera
6290s	will be able to give himself options
6292s	going forward
6293s	but see with this prep as well suddenly
6295s	although the hand doesn't do tons right
6298s	now
6299s	the chance of the high value impact
6301s	coming soon is there for bunny Hopper
6303s	picking up that counter spell now yeah
6305s	counter spell very nice indeed
6309s	okay null there's the prep bursary
6314s	too bad at all
6318s	and I'm gonna be uh you know a
6320s	we're running out of time this weekend
6322s	so I'm gonna throw out a typical maybe
6324s	Raven stupid question okay does bunny
6326s	ever consider using a shadow step on
6328s	this sketchy here just to just get
6330s	another secret in the pile
6332s	yeah so there is a problem that you do
6335s	run into with Rogue decks where you know
6337s	you're playing Shadow steps you're
6338s	playing preps you might be playing
6339s	backstabs whatever else it is so
6342s	sometimes you know as old as 2014 you do
6344s	just draw these hands that are Absolute
6346s	Air
6347s	um and one of the things that you learn
6348s	quite quickly is when you get into
6349s	situations like this just turn your
6352s	Shadow steps into actual Hearthstone
6354s	cards right like as soon as you can
6356s	actually use them on something to get
6357s	some value just do so to be able to
6360s	stretch The Edge and I think better than
6362s	that in this instance it's just another
6364s	chance to go fishing for you know
6366s	objection specifically which is a
6368s	fantastic card to uh to pick up in a
6371s	number of match-ups across the board now
6373s	and also a funnily enough not the uh
6377s	worst secret to have reoccurring in this
6380s	matchup like not bad at all for bunny RP
6383s	getting that Judgment of justice is uh
6385s	gonna be very very awkward for uh xmg to
6389s	sort of consider time and time again
6391s	that's the big issue right the secrets
6393s	aren't just like okay you can throw
6395s	something to a counter spell right fine
6397s	but what about the next counter spell
6399s	and then the one after that and so on so
6400s	on that's when it really starts to get
6402s	problematic for for the opponent here an
6405s	xmg was in such a horrific 50 50
6407s	situation there because PC's Mage secret
6410s	come down if it's counter spell and he
6413s	plays identity theft into it then that's
6415s	a disaster he wastes his whole turn
6417s	if on the other hand it's objection then
6421s	identity theft is the number one thing
6423s	he wants to do because he wants to get a
6426s	Minion from his opponent to be able to
6428s	proc the objection and you have
6429s	basically no read on that because it's
6432s	just a discovered Mage secret and Bunny
6434s	would have picked either of those yeah
6436s	both are good in that situation so yeah
6438s	you know there might be people say
6440s	making the argument well we'll just test
6441s	with coin first no coin isn't fantastic
6444s	card in xmg's hand right now he does not
6447s	want to throw coin away for no reason
6449s	it's a way more high value card than
6453s	just a coin is in most matchups in Blast
6455s	proves
6456s	and this is really starting to start
6458s	here bunny is probably just one solid
6460s	card away from really piling on the
6463s	pressure for xmg because now we we do
6466s	get to see the perjury as well but with
6468s	the Contraband stash you can just start
6470s	stacking these and although xmg Will
6473s	then know the secrets and won't have to
6475s	test things uh it's still gonna soak up
6478s	cards right like if you know a counter
6481s	spells there and if you deck play spells
6483s	well you're probably going to have to
6484s	play a spell into it and take the hit so
6486s	let's see how this one pans out
6491s	why is it always the Decks that open a
6493s	box every turn that the discovers break
6495s	on yeah I don't know I honestly don't
6498s	know it's a little bit infuriating but
6500s	we do get to see it's going to be the
6502s	ice barrier here which another Mage
6504s	secret xmg again has to play around not
6508s	the best one by any means but I suppose
6510s	at least there xmg's gonna have to think
6512s	about it but now subtle that's it's one
6516s	of those turns I bring up I think every
6518s	single time we cast this this deck I
6521s	bring up like sometimes you just sat
6523s	there with some cards and they may as
6526s	well be from a different game because
6528s	they just don't do that much
6534s	but can bunny really afford to pass I
6536s	saw him have a Contraband stash there
6538s	and a part of me thinks I'm just with
6540s	him honestly like can he just pass I
6542s	don't think so yeah I respect it I'm
6545s	just looking at this turn and saying
6547s	well we have uh five Mana
6550s	it's five Mana card in the hand in a
6552s	player yeah xmg given the round of
6554s	applause oh that's funny
6558s	and at least bunny Hopper you know you
6561s	can argue as to just get through one
6562s	more turn before we can just throw out
6564s	the flurry of Secrets once again with
6566s	Tess screaming yeah
6571s	so xmg still doesn't know that it's
6575s	not objection right
6578s	but that's still a question mark Fame I
6580s	believe he doesn't know that the ice
6581s	barrier specifically is yes yes yes yeah
6584s	he knows what the other two secrets are
6586s	because obviously the counter spell is
6588s	the recurring one that he's already
6589s	procked and he will have seen Judgment
6591s	of Justice fail to get cast on the
6594s	Contraband stash as well let's say how
6597s	could he possibly know he's not played
6598s	around that many power than Secrets but
6600s	yeah the the recast you make perfect
6602s	sense
6604s	oh well
6607s	it's playable it's
6610s	my deep analysis on this draw
6613s	you look you play around until deck
6615s	sometimes you're going to draw a Renault
6616s	yeah like if you play A Renault deck
6620s	occasionally you're gonna sign yourself
6622s	up to play a game of Arena it it just
6625s	happens occasionally you know
6629s	draw a card player card
6637s	I'll tell you something I probably have
6639s	the least Arena wins or games out of
6642s	probably the majority of the player base
6643s	right now
6645s	oh yeah not personally a fan of having
6647s	to just play Renaissance for bunny but
6650s	it looks like xmg now
6651s	is saying let's go he's it's not going
6655s	to be the objection there he knows he's
6657s	gonna have to throw something to counter
6658s	spell but the rest of his tourney should
6660s	feel fairly free good to worry about the
6663s	horse oh no sorry he knows I don't know
6665s	why we keep bringing up the pound didn't
6667s	you
6668s	who's this we
6670s	always oh it's subtle and I mess up you
6673s	mess up okay take some responsibility
6675s	don't drag me down with you I refuse
6680s	okay I'll remember next time you make a
6681s	mistake okay
6685s	I'll just leave I'm not being a part of
6686s	this mistake but let's just leave
6688s	halfway through unacceptable yeah where
6691s	are our Professional Standards I'm
6693s	leaving I'm literally shaking I've done
6695s	it before so yeah true
6699s	and again
6702s	bunny Hopper Maestro draw
6706s	ing True Arena fashion does he have much
6709s	choice but to play test he is whiffing
6711s	on these like repeating Secrets not
6714s	actually repeating but at least he's
6715s	getting counter spells to be fair I have
6718s	no idea why you drafted tests with swift
6721s	scale tricks to Maestro of the
6722s	Masquerade in your Arena deck that
6724s	doesn't seem correct
6726s	it'd be fair I did State my lack of it
6728s	Arena experience so I'm like oh these
6730s	these are all like good cards
6732s	he's a good lead standard
6738s	success plus a counter spell xmg is
6741s	going to use the devour just to break
6743s	the counter spell
6753s	I do like when these odd situations do
6755s	come up though because it's an
6756s	interesting experiment you know when you
6758s	always think oh what what if I had
6760s	counter spell every turn of a game would
6762s	this deck win or lose then you actually
6764s	just get to find out sometimes ah let's
6767s	lose isn't it
6772s	when the applicant does the chance to
6774s	isolate a minion right which is probably
6776s	going to be priority number one next
6778s	turn
6783s	unfortunately there's seven more mana
6785s	and another handmade and
6787s	harder isn't it
6791s	I think Samwell was the pick yeah it was
6793s	it was so it was picked so fast of the
6795s	illuminae I wasn't sure but it looked
6797s	like it was somewhere on it is now be
6799s	honest some well yet to impress me but
6801s	I've not given up on it so I'm ready
6805s	awareness
6809s	things have definitely occurred this
6812s	time oh someone gave animal companion
6814s	okay
6817s	[Laughter]
6820s	do you like a zero about a spell that
6822s	solves the one remaining problem left in
6824s	this game yeah I'm just gonna highlight
6826s	some of the cards that you may not be
6828s	familiar with mainly the defrost
6833s	not that it may or may not matter here
6835s	is xmg build up a huge board and
6838s	I guess to no one's Surprise by now
6840s	bunny has nothing to do on his turn and
6843s	simply has to pass with the village the
6846s	perfect response to this judgment of
6848s	Justice I think you can see in a bunny
6850s	Hoppers face now you yeah it's probably
6852s	accepted his fate at this point
6854s	nice of you as well to uh highlight what
6857s	they call poisonous flowers in Canada
6862s	what's that that's a Night Show Bud
6865s	yeah I had to look at the name of the
6867s	card again like where's this joke going
6869s	oh okay it's not going anywhere that was
6872s	a joke down all standards that's a solid
6875s	two out of ten it is total scale yeah
6880s	and at the moment SMG can more or less
6883s	do what he wants and I'm pretty sure he
6885s	will be aware that he can do what he
6887s	wants especially now yeah especially
6889s	that the hand is a pile of rubbish it's
6892s	the best feeling when you play this deck
6895s	you just rip the identity theft he like
6897s	ah perfect I win
6900s	and then you know there's always someone
6902s	out there who goes oh this discovers are
6904s	rubbish I can't get a good card
6907s	[Applause]
6912s	I don't know why but I very much enjoyed
6914s	that was like you know what let me make
6916s	a couple of attacks right now do I cycle
6918s	this there's no way this has to be late
6921s	though there's no shot I wasn't even
6923s	paying attention that has to have been
6925s	leading yeah I think that's what xmg's
6927s	uh slap himself in the face a few times
6929s	might have been four
6933s	look at Buddy's little face he's loving
6935s	it he's like you know what time to go
6937s	out with a bang
6940s	I think that's gonna cut it no it is no
6943s	and xmg takes game number one yeah yeah
6946s	yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we saw it you
6948s	saw it everybody's sorry but most
6950s	important on the xmg in these situations
6952s	I do think it's important to go I'm an
6955s	idiot I messed up I won move on now you
6958s	know carry on with the match doesn't
6959s	matter he won anyway it wasn't punished
6961s	great uh for xmg there and there what an
6964s	odd game and I think again those are
6967s	those Rogue games that make people
6968s	question whether the deck's good right
6971s	I'm not saying it's correct to but there
6973s	are those just games where it looks like
6975s	the worst deck in the world yeah it was
6978s	after such a promising Star as well with
6981s	you know double early disruptive secret
6982s	with uh judgment and counter spell
6985s	you're like okay cool you know all you
6987s	need to do from that point is just pick
6989s	up like one more thing like something to
6991s	actually go on the board or one passive
6993s	removal right and then just keep
6996s	recurring that over and over again and
6997s	you're probably annoying enough that
6999s	you're at least in the game against
7000s	priest at that point like you make xmg
7002s	have to think and plan you put them in
7005s	you put them in a similar spot to where
7007s	yala was in that previous game at the
7009s	end of the last series right where
7010s	there's just lots of irritating things
7012s	happening on the other side and you're
7014s	having to navigate your way through with
7015s	the more combo Focus deck but as it is
7018s	bunny just didn't really put up any
7019s	resistance there because he he just drew
7022s	a couple of Secrets and then the thief
7024s	activator cards as opposed to yeah the
7026s	actual Thief cards and just kind of fell
7029s	over even though xmg decided to uh give
7032s	him a bit of a window and now moving on
7034s	xmg jumping across to this Paladin what
7037s	have you made from it from what you've
7038s	seen so far this weekend subtle because
7040s	we've seen it look decent we've seen it
7042s	actually be banned in some instances as
7044s	well yeah uh it's it's fine that is my
7049s	stance on it
7051s	um it's it's a solid mid-tier deck I'm
7054s	not gonna argue with it it's around it's
7056s	in The Meta game I put it around the
7058s	same point as like Ping Mage for example
7060s	where if this is the way your lineup has
7063s	gone and it makes sense holistically
7064s	with the rest of what you're doing as a
7066s	conquest lineup then fine I'm not going
7068s	to object to it I'm not going to sit
7069s	here and say this is just a straight up
7070s	bad deck that's costing you points in
7072s	the tournament but at the same time I
7074s	don't I'm not saying you're bringing it
7076s	as like the best X lineup I'm not blown
7078s	away by it right yeah yeah it's like oh
7081s	this was genius how did we not foresee
7083s	you know like oh the sleeper hit of the
7085s	tournament pure Paladin no no it would
7088s	be great though wouldn't it it's like ah
7090s	the sleep at the tournament just put 30
7091s	pounding cards in your deck it's like
7095s	yeah you know that class that struggled
7097s	to find like five cards that you really
7099s	want to play in a deck up until now you
7101s	just put 30 of them in there and then
7102s	you're fine
7103s	you just go so far past it that you come
7106s	all the way back around to it being a
7107s	good deck
7109s	only up and down once again not the most
7111s	convincing Mulligan choose to keep hold
7113s	of the prep
7115s	looking for something else to get going
7116s	here private eye not too shabby
7127s	generally what you want right with I
7130s	mean nearly every Paladin deck of the
7132s	past couple of years at this point is
7134s	just a decent curve
7137s	yeah I can't think of too many occasions
7139s	in the past where I've drawn banana man
7141s	into carial and felt upset about the way
7144s	my game was going
7150s	to leave the hero power for Demon Hunter
7152s	not terrible in this situation but do
7155s	you think it's worth the the time
7158s	when there's a Cutlass in hand
7162s	so bath wise in this deck
7167s	the only things that are coming down
7169s	early enough to interact with this right
7172s	I'm sorry I was looking at Bunny's decks
7173s	xmg's decks instead
7176s	um it's seal of blood right which is
7178s	going to reapply the Divine Shield
7179s	anyway okay I I think the reason to hero
7182s	power it would be you're scared of it
7183s	getting buffed and then you have to hero
7185s	power it for five damage six damage
7186s	instead of the one damage that you're
7188s	dealing with now but that's still just
7190s	gonna be the case right because the only
7193s	thing that's going to buff it up to a
7194s	significant degree is going to reapply
7196s	the Divine Shield I just wondered if it
7198s	was like hero power and then next turn
7200s	hero power trade
7202s	with the with the weapon right and then
7204s	you can dodge that three cast I think
7207s	you want to get playing cards which is
7209s	yeah yeah which you know I can
7212s	absolutely get behind just it's always
7213s	interesting when you have that Demon
7215s	Hunter hero power specifically right
7216s	just because of how flexible it actually
7219s	is oh yes
7226s	got to work out where he wants to go now
7227s	does have tooth if he wants to just you
7229s	know work on tidying the board up but
7231s	because it's not that clean kill one
7233s	coin not be quite worthwhile yeah and
7235s	I'm kind of with him on this one
7236s	actually just get the private eye down
7240s	yeah my brain immediately gravitated
7243s	towards this because I missed a really
7244s	good line yesterday where it was coin
7246s	Shadow coin into scabs from Levick I
7248s	think yeah the nuts line so I was
7250s	immediately looking for this was like
7252s	coin coin is pretty sick here
7257s	you just now over correct the other way
7259s	and it's just oh yeah coin coin is just
7261s	always correct when you have the shadow
7262s	spell in everything
7264s	yeah yeah that's the one
7268s	very well
7269s	at least his choices choices for Secrets
7271s	here
7274s	I think yeah I was going to say against
7275s	Paladin I would stare at that explosive
7278s	runes for quite a while and then pick it
7283s	yeah I guess the only real counter
7284s	argument is that it's the carial term
7286s	but it's a one-off and it would be the
7287s	nuts yeah perfect curve you know you
7289s	don't necessarily have to play around
7290s	that's fine
7291s	[Music]
7293s	cheeky now Jack
7296s	tough right isn't it because it's like
7298s	it's good but to re-summon it's trash
7304s	true yeah so it's like uh like death
7308s	rattle draw a spell for hold breaker
7310s	like
7312s	yeah you might just end up getting
7313s	murdered by bringing that back every
7315s	time but it would be funny which you
7319s	know style is far more important to me
7321s	yeah yeah he's gonna go for now Jack
7323s	again I think if you said discover a
7325s	minion pick one then yes now Jack
7327s	especially against pile that I'm with
7329s	you all the way it's just that but it
7330s	does feel like Bunny's like minus one
7333s	card on his replays oh yeah
7337s	worth mentioning though that with this
7339s	hand that you've got already like you
7340s	know jackpot tooth of nefarian etc etc
7343s	your uh Contraband stash You're Gonna
7345s	Fill up anyway right so there's a good
7347s	chance that that might not even end up
7349s	happening
7353s	really it's not too heavy it's gonna be
7356s	banana
7360s	boom exploding banana
7362s	[Music]
7366s	suddenly this is a lot of pressure while
7368s	xmg's been spending his time ramping up
7374s	uh double coin private eye and then
7377s	using the explosive runes for free
7378s	essentially that you got from that like
7380s	that's so much tempo
7382s	you look at private eye as a
7385s	um three four for four you're like okay
7387s	it's not really a high Tempo play is it
7389s	and you look at what it did to the tempo
7391s	of this game in particular oh my
7393s	goodness yeah and the thing as well is
7395s	because of the nature of this Paladin
7397s	xmg has it's not like we're gonna start
7399s	start talking about equality and taxes
7402s	or anything like that right it's like
7404s	it's just
7405s	yeah it is without Tempo without bored
7408s	presence there's not really any way it
7411s	fights back so outside of of course
7414s	doing something crazy with the Countess
7415s	invitations but other than that like xmg
7418s	will just be losing on board for the
7421s	foreseeable future you definitely don't
7423s	want to get me started talking about
7424s	equality and taxes
7426s	about it
7434s	though
7437s	don't mind this nice another aggressive
7439s	minion right just a 4-3 get it down and
7442s	again that is going to be re-summoned so
7444s	in the complete opposite fashion of the
7446s	nagerc it's not the best initial card to
7449s	just play out as a card but when you
7451s	read something a 4-3 every now and again
7453s	yeah sure you'll take it
7464s	I'll tell you something though
7466s	as in a x Retribution Paladin in World
7469s	of Warcraft I do love the uh the theme
7472s	of all these new cards with the Seal of
7474s	blood and other blood elves and
7475s	everything strength comes very on point
7479s	oh
7488s	it's just not happening
7491s	I even did let's look at some well again
7493s	and that's becoming my favorite card if
7495s	you need an out just start somewhere
7502s	oh crap a tower for next turn
7507s	I think xmg just acknowledging this
7509s	game's going too quickly and kind of
7511s	missed the 50 50 there on the uh the
7514s	Order in the Court instead which would
7515s	start drawing in the light rays that he
7517s	kind of needs to start stabilizing this
7519s	game at this point right I I would
7521s	honestly love to just see bunny girl
7523s	face right now
7526s	got what 12 you can put his opponent to
7529s	eight
7535s	has asked the law in hand
7539s	I wonder
7541s	yeah I think just what what is xmg
7545s	actually going to do about it from bunny
7546s	Hopper's perspective as well I don't
7549s	think there's too much and then he then
7551s	bunny has krabatoa and then it worse
7553s	statues
7555s	yeah you do concede a 1-1 taunt to your
7559s	opponent right with the Nugget character
7561s	but I don't think that's a big deal
7568s	also interested that this was the play
7571s	instead of uh tooth Maestra for example
7574s	but I suppose this way you front load
7576s	the damage of the two three threes then
7577s	you can use the tooth to deal with torn
7579s	if that's what it comes to
7588s	always
7596s	hello Divine Shield a lot of stats on
7599s	the board but
7600s	still not nothing too great here
7604s	that should just be lethal right
7609s	crab lethal I think so
7612s	crab lethal tastes like crab
7615s	ber 216 always the best play no
7619s	questions at all and body Hopper is
7622s	gonna even this series open and what a
7624s	complete you know flip of how the
7626s	previous game looked for the Rogue right
7628s	like bunny just had like nothing to do
7630s	for multiple turns in a row in the
7632s	previous game and then this time you see
7634s	the power of the deck right where
7636s	generating just cards to play getting
7638s	that Tempo and keeping hold of it can
7640s	make the world of difference and you
7642s	also see the weakness of that Paladin
7645s	great once you get on board and stay on
7647s	board but if you pushed off something
7649s	pretty crazy has to happen for you to
7651s	actually regain control because if that
7653s	pile is off board it's just not really
7655s	going to achieve much
7656s	yeah and it's good work from uh bunny as
7659s	well we talked about how the deck is
7661s	very flexible and more so in the hands
7663s	of the right people uh and Buddy there
7665s	played that deck very very aggressively
7667s	you know there was no real greedy picks
7669s	there was no even really greedy usage of
7671s	cards took an Ajax Hexum which was the
7673s	most immediate Tempo and then played it
7675s	immediately honestly all irritating
7677s	minion that allowed him to start pushing
7680s	face and you can see how that really
7682s	took hold of the game because it that
7684s	najuk hexen that was played administered
7687s	the lethal blow at the end of it all
7689s	right it was still just hanging around
7690s	you know while we were talking about
7692s	recursive uh summoning of better minions
7695s	and how other things would be better if
7697s	the najak hackson to pull out in that
7699s	situation but he's like nah I'm just
7701s	gonna end this by playing things and
7703s	just tempoing out the private eye
7705s	pulling out the secrets stealing the
7707s	torn out of the way going phase turn
7709s	after turn after turn very very
7711s	aggressive way to play the deck and very
7712s	successful in the end it looks like xmg
7715s	is jumping over to the aggro through it
7717s	here and again very clean list we saw
7719s	this from him yesterday was it day
7723s	before day before I think day before
7725s	um and anyway it did look quite good
7728s	honestly uh aggro Druid I'll be honest
7730s	uh even though I generally do actually
7733s	start it well what would I bring aggro
7736s	decks okay what are the good aggro decks
7738s	like I'll be honest I didn't really give
7739s	too much thought to aggro Druid for this
7741s	tournament even though I knew it
7742s	obviously existed but I just thought it
7744s	was eclipsed by some of the other decks
7745s	but I've been liking what xmg has been
7747s	doing with his lineup overall and the
7749s	aggro Druid definitely doesn't feel like
7751s	the weak Factory but subtle going up
7753s	against fell Demon Hunter what's this
7756s	matchup like for you does the Demon
7758s	Hunter just have the AOE in the heel to
7760s	just win or is it a little bit more
7763s	complicated than that
7764s	no no you've about nailed it in your
7768s	very reductive summing up of the matchup
7771s	um so the problem you have here is the
7773s	Druid is Druid doesn't really have great
7777s	ways to give the minions massive amounts
7779s	of attack anymore there's no Abra Savage
7783s	raw those kind of things that are
7785s	actually really threatening in terms of
7786s	quick damage uh how they win is making
7789s	boards with tons of health and then
7792s	other classes not being able to remove
7794s	that
7795s	Demon Hunter
7796s	can a just let you hit them for 10 12 14
7800s	damage several turns in a row and just
7802s	heal back up again with the burst
7804s	healing and B if they do get spell
7807s	damage AOE plus relic of Extinction
7809s	which they have plenty of time to build
7811s	towards because of that healing that I
7813s	was talking about they don't really care
7815s	about how much health your minions so
7818s	yeah this is a very very good matchup
7820s	for Demon Hunter in my experience but
7823s	you can if you get a above average
7826s	aggressive start if you can start
7829s	pushing you know two damage turn two
7831s	four damage six damage just ramping up
7833s	over time
7835s	um Force may be one of the unleash fails
7838s	to be used just for healing when it's
7839s	not necessarily part of a full board
7842s	clear then there is a chance for the
7844s	Druid and I'm sure xmg will be trying to
7846s	put something together here yeah and I
7848s	think just uh you know to finish off
7849s	what you were saying about the matchup
7851s	overall I think when he's Mulligan
7852s	really just you know solidifies it right
7854s	key keeping a silver moon in Mulligan is
7858s	not something you see in too many
7859s	matchups as Demon Hunter but knowing
7862s	they'll actually need that spell damage
7864s	to just say okay maybe turn four maybe
7867s	turn three I just need to guarantee I
7870s	can clear it you know small to
7871s	medium-sized board and then move on from
7874s	there so very interesting to see the
7875s	difference in Mulligan here from bunny
7877s	Hopper of course as well throwing away
7879s	the quest itself gonna be coining out
7882s	Relic Vault to get off with and now has
7884s	access to a pretty nice relic of
7887s	Extinction really once as well as a hero
7889s	power next turn
7891s	yeah interesting going with the coin
7893s	here when the coin came out I was
7896s	wondering whether it was just going to
7898s	be even coinmark just to completely
7900s	remove any platform
7903s	or uh bunny Hopper to build from I
7905s	actually went for coin location just to
7906s	get that loaded I suppose with that
7908s	Relic in hand it does make sense yep 100
7910s	and now does actually keep the I'll get
7913s	hold of the Unleashed foul should I say
7915s	so uh and with the coin used of course
7918s	it does limit him a little bit but from
7920s	easily turn four onwards he has a very
7922s	very solid AOE and heal at this point
7927s	those have some choices here it's not
7930s	tons of damage being shown but oh okay
7932s	deciding to just push it out there with
7934s	two one Health Minions on board and
7936s	start to chip away some of these and of
7938s	course with location it's gonna be
7939s	procking twice and yeah okay kills two
7942s	looks about fine puts the the others
7944s	down to low Health as well
7948s	how can xmg build on this
7952s	of Herald of nature which is fine
7955s	the power a little bit more pressure but
7957s	these still very very killable xmg now
7961s	praying it looks like to just let the
7963s	minions survive so then it Prides story
7966s	and you know at least have a chance at
7968s	pushing back versus bunny right if he
7970s	Prides Fiori's these three minions we
7972s	can start to talk Soul we can indeed
7978s	but the second best feeling in
7980s	Hearthstone has occurred and it's very
7982s	rare that this occurs and you don't take
7984s	the opportunity but bunny will be
7986s	fearful of that Pride's Fury and he will
7989s	be thinking about whether he can afford
7990s	the to tank this board for perhaps two
7993s	turns which is what might be necessary
7995s	from this point uh never mind it's all
7997s	going bye-bye very rapidly and it's true
7999s	it's a tough call as well because
8000s	normally that is fantastic but without
8002s	the quest it's definitely less good
8005s	right you don't just get the reduction
8007s	for example
8011s	this patch Pride's feeling good you can
8013s	see what this means to xmg right it's
8015s	not like this is the last game of the
8017s	series but he really really wants this
8019s	win and this is what this kind of
8021s	matchup does to you if you're the aggro
8023s	player you say okay just don't play just
8025s	don't clear let me have one more turn of
8027s	damage and see what I can do
8031s	it's just all dead right
8034s	with location second Relic uh fell
8038s	barrage hero power and or Unleashed fell
8041s	three four four yeah so be right I think
8044s	you're favored to get it just with the
8046s	Relic and the fell barrage but the fact
8048s	that you have the unleash fail to throw
8049s	into that as well if you really want to
8052s	slightly awkward as you said Quest
8054s	thrown away which means none of these
8055s	cards are discounted if he'd have got
8056s	some discounts here then he'd be able to
8059s	do all of this and play the second Relic
8062s	uh Relic Vault for next turn for the
8064s	relic of Dimensions which would be
8065s	completely absurd uh there is also the
8068s	option here to just go uh just go Reno
8071s	essentially just Silver Moon unleash and
8074s	then have the big Relic next to him and
8076s	then clear up next turn exactly yeah
8078s	actually like this now that I look at it
8080s	you can also choose to do this so I
8083s	think I like the unleash yeah that's
8084s	what Bunny's going to go for but having
8086s	seen the Silver Moon then hit the board
8088s	I was also considered you could just go
8090s	spell damage relic of Extinction right
8092s	which is going to clear this board up on
8093s	its own at that point
8096s	and now one thing I will say xmg didn't
8098s	get the board cleared of course their
8100s	bunny did heal for a lot but with double
8102s	planted evidence things can go sideways
8104s	right like because those are you know
8106s	you can't really play around that card
8109s	right because it is just every nature
8111s	sorry every Druid card
8115s	we have Miracle growth territory yeah
8117s	probably not right I think you still
8119s	want to be as aggressive as possible at
8120s	this point
8121s	yeah I think if the board was cleared we
8123s	would talk more about Miracle growth but
8126s	if xmg can build on this oh
8130s	another one
8132s	that's a draw
8138s	tricky though right because he has just
8140s	seen Unleashed fell yeah he's ever
8143s	centuries and try and get the Pride's
8144s	Fury next turn is that too greedy it's
8147s	so hard to build a reed though right
8148s	because
8150s	I think it's valid to look at that turn
8152s	and say oh do they have the same thing
8155s	again next term right did they go
8157s	unleash fell last turn with like spell
8159s	damage Unleashed last turn and just so
8161s	they can then spell damage unleash again
8163s	this turn and then they get the full
8165s	clip or did they just have to try and
8167s	heal to not die exactly yeah exactly
8169s	it's so different it's really hard to
8171s	get read and what that play means
8173s	because that's that turn the bunny had
8175s	would was a good turn for many different
8177s	things yeah right like I do respect this
8180s	from xmg though because this feels like
8181s	okay they healed a lot I need to catch
8184s	back up yeah let's make more stuff grow
8186s	impatient
8188s	ink is very likely to push bunny off the
8192s	extinction of the um
8194s	Dimensions right I'm not sure this was
8197s	ever going to be a Dimensions turn I to
8199s	me I think the way this was planned out
8201s	was heal on four clear on five react on
8206s	six and then if need be you can just do
8208s	Relic ball dimensions on seven and
8210s	that'll end the game
8215s	hopefully Saul never you know joins
8217s	Sesame Street or whatever and does the
8219s	counting game because that is one that's
8220s	a little bit complicated for kids it's
8222s	like yeah however because of the way
8225s	this board is shaped out you can now
8227s	just choose to take full clear plus
8228s	Relic Vault this turn right like just go
8230s	fell barrage Relic bolt here and have
8232s	like a lot of Dimensions next turn the
8235s	phantasms are huge though I think
8237s	they're five fives now right so you are
8239s	you are losing a lot of opportunity to
8241s	do this but yeah I think this is correct
8243s	I mean there's a world right where it's
8245s	actually just Vault Phantasm phantasms
8247s	yeah and just be like I win
8254s	yeah I really like the way this game has
8255s	been played by Bonnie yep
8258s	very very solid throughout
8261s	and honestly like I definitely would
8262s	have just tried to go Max clear straight
8264s	away and then been worse off for it you
8267s	know in in the longer run yeah
8270s	though what are you liking the look of
8274s	brings none of it none of it Raven
8282s	cook just for stats right you have you
8285s	have you have to do better
8287s	look it's warming up okay it's been on
8290s	the oven
8291s	so wait for the for it to just warm up
8293s	first before he starts cooking
8297s	you really have to work on your own
8298s	sound with this one particular name
8303s	I can't cope with this okay wait what
8306s	that's it
8310s	oh we have been through this I'm not
8312s	going to labor the point
8315s	I'm innocent I don't know what you're
8316s	talking about something yeah yeah yeah
8319s	hey
8324s	I do just like the yeah I love this it's
8327s	going fantastic right yeah yeah this is
8329s	great this is just well now I'm the
8331s	aggro Druid what did you do about this
8333s	fair enough
8337s	oh yeah and I think as you can see in
8338s	the top of the screen there that looked
8340s	like a concede from xmg as he's just
8342s	beaten on board and when you get beaten
8344s	at your own game it's normally when
8346s	you're about to lose but he takes
8348s	another game in the series and I agree
8350s	with you there I think that was just
8352s	extremely extremely clean from bunny
8355s	Hopper and again xmg did what he could
8357s	with with the hand he got but I think
8359s	just the the planning of turns and the
8361s	execution of it from bunny was just yep
8364s	ticked all the boxes and guess what he
8366s	won the game very convincingly
8368s	yeah and as Raven with sailing xmg just
8370s	got completely cooked that game
8373s	um he was blasted off the board
8375s	extremely efficiently the term rationing
8378s	out the clear over two turns I think was
8381s	the key to let's say the key to
8383s	guaranteed Victory I think taking a
8386s	closer to full clear that turn still
8388s	looks a lot like winning in a lot of
8390s	scenarios but I think bunny saw the line
8393s	of sort of coming to the same thing at
8395s	the same time that just kind of locked
8396s	it up over multiple turns
8399s	um with that 567 plan I was talking
8401s	about but then the relic of phantasms
8403s	was the last draw and then that changed
8405s	things to you know you didn't even have
8407s	to roll the dice on the dimensions to
8409s	end the game with the location you just
8411s	had that phantasms which was guaranteed
8414s	to bring it home in the end so yeah
8417s	great game from bunny Hopper great
8419s	previous game from bunny Hopper as well
8420s	in both of the games where bunny has had
8423s	the option to play Hearthstone he has
8425s	played some Hearthstone in this series
8426s	and that's about as much as you can ask
8428s	and now we're jumping over to the Excel
8431s	control priest uh the the Long Haul deck
8435s	here from bunny Hopper maybe will not
8437s	necessarily be the case going up against
8439s	xmg's Druid once again but I think I'm
8441s	gonna spend you know if this game does
8443s	gone for a while I'm gonna spend the
8444s	time just thinking how else I'm supposed
8446s	to say that word because I don't know
8449s	any other ways so I'm confused as to how
8452s	you can pronounce it other than what the
8454s	word is anyway everyone else hears it I
8458s	promise
8459s	but hey the word's the word I don't know
8462s	what I'm supposed to do here no the bird
8464s	is the word Raven this is very clearly
8465s	established and I am the bird
8470s	uh buddy hopping out one game away from
8473s	moving on here and um keeping some hope
8476s	alive for the European region I mean of
8478s	course we have dead draw and love it
8480s	coming up a little bit later on uh but
8482s	for now you know I guess team China
8484s	doing extremely well with you through to
8486s	top four
8489s	yeah xmg looking to follow but has an
8492s	uphill battle now against what has been
8495s	for me and personally you know my
8498s	assessment of where the metagame was at
8500s	the big over performer of the tournament
8502s	right like I personally didn't feel like
8504s	control decks with disruption uh had the
8507s	tools to deal with the combo decks and I
8511s	would say if you look at the general
8512s	sentiment around you know boards and
8514s	social media other people seem to think
8517s	the same thing uh but having now watched
8520s	it being played out at the high level it
8522s	seems like this uh this plague spreader
8524s	priest is doing wonderful things against
8526s	a lot of decks
8529s	yeah I love it I hate it it seems to be
8531s	getting the job done
8532s	I was just for a minute quite scared
8534s	when you started talking about these uh
8536s	General sentiment on social media I was
8539s	like well what are we going to talk
8539s	about ever again
8541s	really is it
8545s	[Music]
8547s	okay well now I'm scared to say crooked
8549s	is that a problem that's not the word I
8552s	know I'm just saying like is that what I
8554s	have to refer to it though
8557s	thank you
8560s	uh uh Chef Raven uh okay
8565s	oh there they are the chef
8571s	well for xmg making a solid push here
8574s	does have a lot of buff uh options with
8576s	the two Herald of natures as well
8580s	this board's getting deleted next turn
8582s	isn't it
8585s	probably I'm gonna go for probably
8589s	theoretically if you got really cute
8592s	about it you can buff and then not
8596s	attack face so that only four Health can
8598s	get healed and then your cook survives
8610s	a child of nature here but honestly is
8614s	there a world in which SMD doesn't
8615s	attack I don't know that's a terrible
8618s	play to play around a two-card combo in
8621s	your opponent's Renault deck where
8623s	they've drawn seven cards it would
8625s	disown him as an aggro player yeah it
8628s	doesn't always also doesn't make a
8629s	difference because the only minion
8631s	you're protecting goes to six health
8635s	is the Crooked cook
8637s	I can say it it's fine
8639s	literally what I said I'm sick of this
8641s	song I feel like this is some kind of
8643s	plan everyone's got to try and make me
8645s	look silly I said the same word yeah I
8648s	get laughed at uh-huh
8651s	yep that's the system
8657s	tempted just to chill for a turn here
8658s	right
8660s	um I wonder
8664s	I guess I was thinking of what Pride's
8666s	fiori does to the board which is I think
8668s	the you know number one thing bunny
8670s	needs to think about but I think it does
8672s	not do enough in terms of how no because
8674s	so here's the issue right you could just
8677s	keep The Shard and then if Pride's Fury
8680s	comes down then you just go Shard
8683s	zarella Etc there's also just gift right
8687s	like wouldn't gift to be
8689s	keep him in roughly the same situation
8691s	anyway well the so the cook would go to
8696s	nine Health in that instance right and
8698s	gift desperate prayer would only heal
8700s	for eight
8701s	yeah I guess my point was like does
8703s	bunny care if there's just a cook on the
8705s	board right uh
8707s	um
8711s	the desperate prayer option was still
8714s	there but you'd like you'd basically end
8717s	this turn doing nothing because you
8718s	don't really get to cycle that much
8719s	without cycling the The Shard and Shard
8723s	is necessary to hold on to next turn to
8725s	make sure not to take a million damage
8726s	so by using The Shard here it's kind of
8728s	The Best of Both Worlds because you
8730s	remove a little bit of the health now so
8732s	now Pride's Fury comes down you don't
8734s	need to silence anymore because you
8735s	actually have enough AOE yes with the
8737s	the gift the desperate prayer and the
8739s	zirella to clear the board so this is
8740s	actually a cute little hidden line
8742s	optimization that I wasn't thinking
8744s	about kind of The Best of Both Worlds
8745s	type playing
8750s	good thing for xmg this game though is
8752s	that he isn't in the situation he was in
8755s	the previous game where even if this
8756s	board gets cleared well he has more
8758s	where that came from right he can refill
8760s	at least one more time that's
8764s	left
8767s	problem is this is the worst type of
8769s	clear coming out here because it's the
8771s	zirella tempo swing uh clear and then
8773s	that's going to be backed up by you know
8775s	the highest quality anti-aggro minion in
8777s	the entire deck possibly apart from the
8779s	Colossal with the uh light shower
8782s	Elemental coming down after that
8785s	highest quality anti-agro minion except
8787s	maybe the Colossal was a name pitched in
8789s	development but it wasn't quite catchy
8791s	enough
8792s	no no it got signed off it just didn't
8794s	fit on the card Ah that's right yeah
8797s	and also if bunny Hopper doesn't need to
8800s	go full anti-aggro he now can just play
8802s	me da which is like insane to just throw
8805s	down right ah you're a fellow midar
8808s	enjoyer with the stress on the second
8810s	syllable
8811s	is that is that now wrong no that's also
8814s	how I say it I have no I like what
8816s	putting an apostrophe in a word means in
8819s	like Warcraft lore of how to pronounce
8821s	things is a mystery to me because it's
8823s	it it doesn't hold to any form of actual
8826s	etymology that I'm aware of so I just
8828s	say things that sound cooler yeah yeah
8830s	it's like you know it sounds right
8835s	so what's the I'll get this completely
8837s	right lord lord for Martha Ron is that
8840s	the name of the card yes
8843s	but you can say it like really like
8845s	lotham Arthur on you can say it really
8847s	like rhythmically which is clearly the
8849s	correct way to say it because it sounds
8850s	the best Elvish Style
8863s	I think bunny can just play it
8866s	I think so
8872s	is like how does it die and if it
8874s	doesn't die it just kills the trog and
8876s	then
8878s	when you can just play the light shower
8880s	behind it if he really needs to I think
8882s	I like the soldier a lot
8900s	and already for xmg when you're in this
8903s	position as you know a deck like a
8905s	graduate you sit and you're just staring
8907s	down the fact that you're priest
8908s	opponent felt comfortable playing this
8911s	and passing you just think oh no
8914s	I feel like I'm gonna lose all right
8917s	even though he's got like a full hand
8918s	right you still sit there and go my
8920s	opponent just played this non-torn
8922s	minion yeah and they're happy about it I
8925s	am afraid
8927s	foreign
8949s	much better off just killing a thing
8954s	I would imagine you're killing a thing
8956s	here I don't think at this stage of the
8959s	game extra one twos or anything you're
8962s	super concerned about
8964s	uh because any I imagine any Buffs that
8967s	xmg has are going to get used on this
8970s	turn like xfg's just kind of gonna go
8972s	for blood here although it would be
8973s	going into the whirlpool term so there
8976s	is a chance that xmg decides not to all
8978s	in here
8980s	but this is kind of board tension
8983s	o'clock right where xmg kind of has to
8986s	commit very aggressively to even be
8988s	significantly ahead of what's being put
8990s	on board right now
8992s	that's the problem even just looking at
8993s	this the board feels more more or less
8996s	equal
8997s	especially when you factor in the
8999s	healing effects
9000s	and that's not where xmg wants to be so
9002s	I respect this yeah just go in and it's
9005s	it either does the job or it doesn't at
9007s	this point
9008s	thanks mg basically putting his
9010s	tournament life on the line to the back
9012s	of this push
9017s	so back up to 35 back down to 21
9021s	up to 25 again from the live still
9027s	uh okay
9029s	and also just rest
9032s	he wants to
9034s	yes I offered the gift of the narrow
9037s	first of course oh or not oh is he just
9041s	going forward he's just going full yeah
9042s	either plague spreader or bone caller
9044s	yeah and that oh the sky of release the
9048s	sigh of relief from bunny he just
9049s	already is feeling it
9051s	okay planted evidence is the draw
9053s	however planted evidence is always the
9056s	draw when you get into this kind of
9057s	position
9059s	oh
9061s	foreign
9065s	and he's in convoke the spirit's
9068s	territory I suppose which is why this is
9071s	being held on to at this point why not
9073s	yeah I don't think a Pride's Fury is
9076s	going to do much right
9082s	yeah yeah just play it sister
9089s	I mean all bodies now bunnies I don't
9092s	want to say on autopilot because that
9093s	sounds like a negative thing but just
9095s	he's just sitting back and saying okay
9097s	just play the game out right just stay
9100s	you know stay calm the Minions on board
9102s	keep ahead on board and it shouldn't be
9104s	a problem and with force of nature again
9107s	xmg might play out the next turn or so
9109s	but the fact that he's just losing Tempo
9112s	on board every single turn that goes
9114s	past is not a good sign it is not no
9119s	we guide us well just to sit there
9122s	oh now they work
9129s	around the tree on the box quite well
9136s	yep just I imagine maximum trades from
9139s	Bonnie just don't give xmg any wiggle
9141s	room whatsoever
9147s	I think Bonnie's starting to feel
9149s	personally insulted that xmg is still in
9152s	this game
9155s	everybody's just like and they say I'm
9157s	slow
9160s	but again like I said xmg's tournament
9163s	live rests on this one single game right
9166s	now why not hang on for a couple more
9168s	draws but yeah shaking the head like I
9171s	said the Pride's Fury just doesn't
9173s	really achieve what she gets to clear
9177s	one of there well two of the minions
9179s	with a hero power and still massively
9181s	behind on board like it's not looking
9183s	great and it hasn't been for a while
9189s	huh
9193s	can you kill no I can't find it doesn't
9196s	make a difference the draw
9208s	foreign
9210s	but sure
9212s	yeah none of them deal damage so
9215s	I guess like you could like Whispers
9218s	right again
9220s	just
9221s	build the board that way you know what I
9224s	mean like
9225s	they just doesn't then you can push
9226s	damage face as well right
9228s	yep
9229s	again we're talking about things that
9232s	don't strictly matter but yeah this is
9234s	the idea if you just yeah whichever way
9236s	he wants to do it he just uses this to
9237s	just kill the board Quicken the game and
9239s	like I said there is no top deck in the
9241s	world I believe that saves xmg in a way
9244s	of goodbye it was a great effort but
9246s	bunny Hopper is not only going to take
9247s	this series but move on through the
9250s	Hearthstone World Championship a huge
9253s	congratulations there and I think just
9254s	very well played I do think we're
9257s	watching bunny Hopper at Peak
9259s	Performance levels right now everything
9261s	looks clean the plans are working he is
9264s	thinking ahead and it's paying off
9267s	yeah lots of little optimizations
9270s	throughout all of those games
9272s	um you know just top down from a
9273s	top-down perspective the road game
9275s	against Paladin which is really good
9277s	from a macro sense right understanding
9280s	just get on board first oh you have the
9282s	banner man hand well guess what you
9283s	spend two turns playing two twos I'm
9286s	just gonna Jam all this stuff in your
9287s	face and you won't be able to recover
9289s	the game then with Demon Hunter you know
9292s	the Divergent are not clearing and just
9293s	going with the spell damage heel that
9295s	was a really good optimization that I
9296s	did see and then going into the next
9298s	game with the priest the using The Shard
9301s	preemptively to get Best of Both Worlds
9303s	so that you reduce the damage you you
9306s	silence the Crooked cook so it wasn't
9307s	continuing to draw cards but you still
9309s	had the Pride's Fury covered on the next
9312s	term without needing The Shard uh is a
9315s	great optimization that I didn't see
9316s	because I was very fixated on the idea
9318s	of needing The Shard for that Pride's
9320s	Fury turn so little optimizations like
9323s	that which is littered through all of
9324s	those games from bunny Hopper and I
9327s	think that is something that human
9330s	players of his style have been great at
9332s	for such a long time right it's a
9334s	similar set of plaudits that we Heap on
9337s	yala for example where you know we'll
9339s	look at something we have to speak and
9341s	we're like okay this looks like the line
9342s	yala takes 50 60 seconds and then finds
9345s	something just a little bit different
9347s	and a little bit hidden that's just ever
9349s	so slightly better and Bunny Hopper is
9351s	uh the player of that exact same and
9354s	then it adds up though right do that a
9355s	few times and suddenly you end up so
9357s	much further ahead in the game you
9360s	wonder how you could possibly lose at
9362s	that point so yeah very very impressive
9364s	overall and like I said it does mean
9365s	that Bunny Hop is going to be facing yui
9368s	a little bit later on but we still have
9369s	a couple more matches left in that
9371s	initial match stage of the top eight
9373s	we've got xiaote versus dead draw coming
9375s	right up I know so it's going to be
9376s	keeping a very close eye on that one and
9378s	then we have Levick versus possessy
9380s	coming up as the fourth match of the day
9382s	so there's plenty more Hearthstone
9383s	coming up but we've got to go to a break
9385s	while we set them up so don't go
9386s	anywhere we'll be right back
9390s	[Music]
9395s	thank you
9402s	[Music]
9404s	okay so here we are with some this all
9407s	that with xiaobai first One's Gonna Be
9410s	Ocean or mountains hiya a big party or a
9414s	small party like a gathering
9417s	yeah
9418s	okay bath or shower
9421s	yeah
9422s	okay passenger or driver
9425s	hey
9427s	uh City or Countryside
9430s	yeah
9431s	work hard or play hard
9434s	hey
9436s	[Music]
9451s	[Music]
9454s	cats or dogs
9456s	dogs
9457s	messy or tidy
9461s	uh
9462s	party
9464s	call or text
9467s	text
9468s	a roller coaster or bumper cars
9470s	roller coaster
9472s	scary movies or funny movies scary
9475s	movies
9476s	uh snowball fight or water balloon
9478s	fights
9479s	snowball fight
9483s	[Music]
9498s	[Music]
9505s	[Music]
9514s	thank you
9516s	foreign
9520s	[Music]
9568s	foreign
9572s	[Music]
9589s	world
9592s	Championship my name is TJ I'm joined by
9595s	Derek Brown This is the first cast where
9599s	we're breaking up kind of the Duos for
9600s	the weekend and of course it has to be
9603s	TJ and Derek Brown
9605s	what's up Derek how you been Buddy
9608s	been an emotional weekend TJ I lost my
9611s	uh my partner which now I get to say and
9614s	she can't very quickly and hardly say
9616s	not that kind of partner don't get that
9619s	idea I will throw up
9623s	but yeah I can say whatever I want now
9625s	she's gone so uh I guess not all bad
9628s	laughs
9631s	well I
9634s	would be perfectly fine being that kind
9638s	of partner for you Derek thanks teach
9641s	how much I uh how much I like you but
9644s	let's get into our match because I like
9645s	both these players as well shout out to
9647s	you not like that
9650s	kind of players
9651s	um
9652s	well yeah shout out to Jet draw uh two
9655s	of the cleanest players from this stage
9658s	in terms of uh just straight up gameplay
9660s	and honestly every time they play in
9662s	tournaments you can't count them out and
9665s	that's what I appreciate about both of
9668s	them I have much appreciation for that
9670s	and dead draw is kind of the player
9673s	who has been scammed by the system so
9676s	many times throughout his career that it
9678s	feels like his time whereas shouty is
9680s	kind of the guy that everybody else says
9682s	is the best player all the other Pro
9684s	players are like yeah that shouty so hot
9686s	right now
9688s	but not like that but not like that it's
9692s	gameplay
9693s	uh yeah absolutely I mean they they've
9695s	been saying it for years right you ask
9697s	any of the top players like Bonnie
9699s	Hunter he says it all the time as well
9701s	those are the two main ones that spring
9703s	to mind but that's like two arguably the
9706s	two best players of all time in
9707s	competitive Hearthstone uh they often
9709s	tout Sheltie as the best player or right
9711s	up there and you can understand why he's
9714s	a common practice partner of a lot of
9716s	the top best players which is where he
9718s	was mostly known in the western scene uh
9721s	for the most part but then as you start
9723s	to look down his stats in recent years
9724s	he has really been boosting incredibly
9727s	impressive numbers of his own right you
9729s	will often run into him at the top of EU
9731s	Legend ladder if you're playing around
9733s	there and then of course third world
9735s	championship having won a Masters Tour
9737s	as well incredible win rate in Masters
9740s	tours like at that upper upper echelon
9742s	of the mid 60s is super impressive and I
9745s	think he is honestly one of the few
9747s	players that can put up a a Equitable
9749s	fight against dead raw when he's on top
9751s	form as dead draw appears to be right
9754s	now I think he's been putting the
9755s	practice in really grinding away and I
9759s	think there's a very strong argument
9761s	this is the highest level match of the
9763s	the top eight
9764s	uh yes I would say so a match worthy of
9767s	the finals
9768s	um is an apt description as well so uh
9773s	xiaote gonna be opening up with the
9775s	quest fell Demon Hunter as we take a
9777s	look at Dead draw who's bringing a
9779s	little bit of a a different lineup than
9782s	a lot of the players obviously Quest
9783s	fell Demon Hunter is there but uh
9785s	jackpot Rogue which was less popular
9787s	coming into the tournament than say any
9790s	of the miracle variations but has been
9793s	performing with bunny Hopper having the
9795s	deck in his lineup and making it into
9798s	that quarterfinals and then also the
9801s	Mage which honestly
9805s	did not expect the 40 card
9809s	ping Mage control Mage to be in any sort
9814s	of winning lineup this weekend but it
9816s	has Derek it's there I see it with my
9818s	own eyes
9820s	indeed yeah and I think I like dead
9822s	draw's strategy with this Mage the most
9825s	as he has been pretty consistently I
9828s	think Banning Druid uh in all of his
9831s	games where it's been presented to him
9833s	and that makes a lot of sense gone I
9835s	believe are the days where Mage can
9838s	consistently put up a fight against
9839s	Druid uh when it was the old version of
9842s	Magister Dawn grasp not Varden where you
9846s	got plus two spell damage uh oh sorry
9848s	plus two damage on your hero power with
9849s	an honorable kill instead of plus one
9851s	you could very easily stand up to a
9853s	druid because you were getting up to
9854s	eight damage with the hero power and
9856s	then paying them down with the arcanists
9858s	plus the uh sorry The Apprentice plus
9860s	brand as well you could just deal 24 30
9863s	damage in a turn quite easily and Druid
9865s	could not stand up to that now I think
9867s	it's a little bit harder so I love his
9868s	band strategy on the Druid and with that
9870s	being said and done the Mage is honestly
9872s	just looking pretty strong it's it's got
9874s	a nice matchup against the Rogue I think
9876s	because of all the freeze available be
9878s	it against the death rattle or the the
9881s	miracle variants that we're seeing not
9883s	bad against the uh the demon Hunters
9885s	which we're seeing a lot of once you
9886s	have the objections slotted in as well
9888s	it really is something that slips under
9890s	my radar going into the tournament and
9892s	the more I see it the more I like it
9894s	yeah this this lineup from deadra and to
9897s	an extent bunny Hopper because it's very
9899s	similar
9901s	um it's kind of the fly by the seat of
9904s	your pants lineup is what I like to call
9906s	it where right you have these control
9909s	Decks that can Branch to a lot of
9911s	different paths I call them control
9913s	decks but you know this archetypes don't
9915s	exist anymore everything's a combo deck
9917s	whatever
9918s	um
9919s	and uh they have a lot of skill
9922s	expression you have maneuverability it's
9924s	not aggro Druid where you could play a
9926s	heck of a game of hearthstone and come
9929s	up short because your opponent had the
9930s	answers
9932s	um the decks like the the Mage and
9935s	seafrogue even control priest to an
9938s	extent are decks where you have time you
9940s	have this wiggle room you can you can
9942s	use your skill in the game in more ways
9946s	than just all in on five and if they
9948s	have it they have it right
9950s	um and I think that really suits players
9952s	like that draw bunny Hopper and uh shout
9955s	T who also has Thief Rogue even though
9956s	uh his lineup is more rounded off with
9959s	the
9960s	um the Boon priest as well as the
9963s	non-alignment Jailer Druid which is also
9968s	something that I uh I didn't expect so
9971s	uh I I don't know I'm just excited for
9973s	this match I don't know if that
9975s	explanation made sense that's what it
9976s	was in my head fly by the seat of your
9977s	pants
9978s	skill expression whatever other Buzz
9981s	words Buzz phrases you want to use
9983s	combo Tempo control aggro it's synergy
9986s	synergy
9989s	um
9990s	something like I don't know
9994s	I don't know he feels pretty cool
9998s	well an interesting starting hand for
10000s	both of our competitors here as they
10003s	enter the first moments of the quarter
10006s	final relative dimensions alone most of
10009s	the time puts you in the lead in The
10011s	Demon Hunter mirror it's just Far and
10012s	Away the most important card to see in
10015s	that starting hand but in terms of quest
10018s	progressions shouty is undeniably in the
10021s	lead right now with two potential
10024s	spectral sites leading to some
10027s	really interesting options as to how you
10029s	play this with the most obvious being
10032s	this where you go Relic well onto
10034s	spectral on three and hope to hit a
10036s	tradable in order to be able to complete
10038s	Quest then
10039s	um but if he doesn't find the dimensions
10041s	shortly afterwards he's going to be in
10044s	trouble especially as Deadpool finds the
10047s	perfect garnish to this hand in the
10049s	Relic Vault for the dimensions on turn
10051s	four
10053s	a little sprinkle of parsley right on oh
10056s	that'll top it off
10060s	um uh one fun fact about shout tea that
10062s	sort of sets them apart from the other
10063s	competitors
10065s	um he actually just when he plays
10066s	Hearthstone lays his monitor on the
10068s	floor
10071s	plays with his feet and he he has a
10074s	custom desk where he uh cut a hole in
10076s	the middle of the desk and he just looks
10077s	through the hole at the monitor on the
10079s	floor and he plays like that said it
10080s	helps him Focus
10086s	especially what shouty roughly
10088s	translates to into English
10090s	floor monitor
10103s	you can always count on you
10106s	to make the stupid things that I say
10108s	you've been stupid all right
10112s	uh another Relic fault not watch out do
10114s	you want to see
10116s	but
10119s	could be
10120s	just a way to chew some things later
10122s	having sane turns where you could go
10124s	or like bought something into Relic
10125s	Vault something
10127s	but it's going to take a few turns
10128s	before anything gets online the Saving
10131s	Grace is at the spectral sites are built
10132s	in Outcast position dead draws hand
10134s	outside of that relic of Dimensions is
10136s	that it is bad yeah I think that was
10140s	kind of an interesting turn there
10143s	um where he deliberately didn't play The
10145s	Fury and
10146s	I don't know I I kind of felt like I
10149s	liked
10151s	playing the fury there I I just often
10153s	find that the difference between two
10155s	extra damage if you factor in the plus
10157s	one and the Jace plus one when it's
10159s	replayed it's not worth the one extra
10161s	Mana you have to spend because his hand
10164s	is so good right now that you know if he
10166s	draws
10167s	the need for greed back another relative
10170s	dimensions a whole bunch of tradables
10171s	his mana's just spent on card draw and
10174s	playing his Bell spells in the next few
10176s	turns so
10178s	I don't know personally I found as I
10180s	played more and more
10182s	um efficient manner expenditure is worth
10183s	a little bit more than necessarily the
10186s	uh
10188s	maximum amount of damage
10190s	well it's something we should keep our
10192s	eyes on if their draw has two damage and
10196s	one Mana off lethal
10200s	uh shouty on the other side that was
10202s	walking away with a reasonable enough
10205s	mid game like he's completed Quest stage
10207s	one drawn a bunch of cards discounted
10209s	Jace as the main
10212s	card that makes a difference the rest
10213s	not too impactful uh but again it just
10217s	comes down to Newton's get that relative
10219s	of Dimensions off the top Pronto or he's
10221s	going to be in big trouble
10223s	yeah
10226s	if he does rip it off the top he's in a
10228s	good spot
10231s	but that draws gonna get the uh the
10235s	first draw
10236s	of the dimensions
10239s	see what's in these boxes
10241s	wow okay okay all right
10245s	cool
10246s	it's not what you would have asked for
10249s	but it's not bad is it yeah I mean we're
10253s	looking at a possible lethal next turn
10255s	if the board is dealt with that's Joseph
10258s	because of Arcanist plus double score
10260s	and fell barrage Fury uh Fel barrage one
10264s	Fury uh oh
10268s	well there is thankfully for shouty a
10270s	lot of clear potential here uh with the
10273s	second Relic Vault and two relics in
10275s	hand one of which being extinctions
10278s	um he
10280s	has to have at least something close to
10283s	a clear here right because you could
10285s	just go
10286s	press the location uh relic of phantasms
10289s	press it again relic of extinctions
10292s	which would do three three four four
10295s	which is obviously not going to clear
10296s	the board but
10298s	yeah it does quite a lot it takes off
10300s	some damage you could go uh phantasms
10305s	um spell damage then button plus uh
10309s	relative Extinction which would be right
10312s	uh four four five five
10315s	which I mean four four six six right
10318s	yeah four four six six
10320s	five four four six six
10323s	the first one is would be two
10326s	plus two oh no yeah four four five five
10329s	all right I was using uh wrong wrong
10332s	maths there add maths oh yes
10336s	wait he's not double doubling the
10337s	extinctions no okay yeah yeah
10339s	that does not work trust me I've tested
10342s	it extensively
10343s	oh
10350s	and those one ones there are a massive
10353s	difference that stops a huge amount of
10356s	damage from going face on this turn
10364s	uh if you're a trade trade phase 24.
10367s	demons
10369s	14.
10371s	I don't think it's quite there because
10373s	of the one ones that are in the way
10377s	yeah it's not is it if you hero powered
10380s	down one of them but then you can't
10381s	Theory face which is where a lot of the
10383s	damage could be 19 plus it'd be 27 max
10387s	if you hear a power one and trade one
10388s	right right
10390s	yeah yeah
10394s	it's close it is close yeah 27 Max
10398s	that's assuming that both marks don't
10400s	hit minions
10406s	not very good discounts here for their
10408s	draw yeah and uh also is not getting the
10412s	um hero power in as well to pair off one
10415s	of these one ones to make the marks and
10417s	the bell barrage better but if I mean if
10419s	the board isn't answered once again
10421s	there's no only shell in the hand for
10425s	shouty then
10428s	still has a bunch yeah with nothing on
10430s	board Max damage is pretty high
10432s	especially with access to double Furies
10434s	coming up this next turn
10437s	so important these discounts here that's
10439s	a spell damage that's huge we need
10441s	unleash Fel now
10445s	the game now
10450s	so you would
10454s	chaos strike down the five five first
10461s	in order to tank the damage and then go
10463s	for Guild Trader unleash fell and then
10467s	trade away something at the end I
10468s	suppose or first you might as well and
10471s	obviously Trader one one in to the
10473s	fourth then
10476s	you're healing for 12 and you're like
10481s	you take five of that off so you're
10483s	feeling for seven so going up to 23 with
10486s	a one one on board and a three four on
10489s	board
10490s	you're definitely not safe but you're a
10493s	lot safer than you were at the start of
10494s	this turn yeah
10512s	oh bad
10514s	I don't know if that's good or bad even
10517s	for deadra I guess it's a good draw but
10519s	like realistically I think they were out
10521s	for lethal there rather than just to
10522s	keep drawing
10527s	and how are you making room for this
10529s	that you
10530s	dump
10531s	Furies I guess if you go sigil Fury
10537s	you've still got one too many cards in
10539s	hand it's very awkward
10541s	and Schoen obviously refills itself
10544s	and I don't think there's any outs for
10546s	lethal this turn
10549s	it's because of the opinions in the way
10551s	right
10555s	super specific I think that might
10557s	technically be but for all intents and
10559s	purposes I agree it's
10560s	oh yeah like if you dump super unlikely
10563s	really exactly yeah and you can't dump
10566s	the hand complete though because Marcus
10567s	going to replace himself so
10571s	I mean oh man those are so strong but he
10575s	needs to clear off this damage from the
10577s	board now
10578s	okay that's a spell
10582s	okay and then bolt plus we're like a
10584s	Phantasm so board clear spell damage in
10587s	hand with a good amount of damage makes
10591s	a giant board multi-pronged attack
10594s	indeed whereas shouty still has
10597s	technically all the tools he's going to
10599s	need to deal with this that relic of
10601s	Dimensions again uh looking pretty
10605s	strong there's still one Extinction left
10607s	in his deck I believe that he's gonna
10609s	try and find now
10612s	and both Guild Traders as well so we can
10614s	hit uh spell damage plus a mixture of
10618s	removal so there's the Unleashed felt oh
10621s	he makes his nose spelled
10624s	spelled I think that's it
10628s	just can't clear there's too much on
10630s	board he could try and trade into relic
10632s	of extinctions which would clear up two
10635s	of them
10637s	uh I think
10640s	but it needs to be a hit right now one
10642s	out of six
10643s	and that's not it oh the guilt trailer
10646s	was next that's brutal that's all skill
10650s	traders in the bottom five the last
10651s	extent Extinction in the bottom five as
10653s	well yeah
10655s	needed a lot more than that
10665s	and it's just gonna hope that there's
10667s	what literally no damage
10670s	oh sleep on board lethal on board so
10674s	there it is dead draw gets there
10676s	unfortunate last turn for xiaote
10679s	[Music]
10680s	um those Demon Hunter mirrors get
10682s	stressful real quick because
10685s	yes the early game does matter why am I
10688s	so high up
10690s	I can't move my camera
10694s	I didn't live my uh I didn't lift my
10696s	chair so my my cat moved my camera I
10698s	think I'll move it back in a second
10702s	be here
10706s	don't talk to me or my son ever again
10708s	I love you Dad oh
10712s	I can't my hand disappears that's
10715s	unfortunate
10722s	what I was saying now
10728s	it's actually quite nice being low down
10732s	I'm good now I'm a little tilted though
10733s	that's the problem that's okay well so
10736s	shouty I'd imagine
10739s	true that but now I get to go to the
10740s	Boon priest the ultimate anti-tilt deck
10743s	because you get to play so many cards
10745s	right
10748s	you do get to play a lot of cards
10750s	sunwell as well is like the text on it
10753s	should just say cards it shouldn't give
10755s	you any extra information that's just
10756s	all it does
10758s	yep identity theft as well
10762s	you don't even know where you're taking
10763s	them from you just you're just picking
10767s	discover two cards
10769s	from somewhere
10772s	is it gonna be against the uh oh no of
10774s	course sorry it's Shelties priesthood
10776s	can't be up against the Demon Hunter
10777s	gonna be the Rogue on the other side for
10779s	uh Tetra which again is kind of cards
10782s	the deck uh with jackpot and a whole
10784s	bunch of other discovers as well there's
10787s	a potential for some old school
10790s	Hearthstone action here with just
10791s	discovers deciding the match uh but the
10794s	the real heart of the gameplay I think
10796s	is very much just shouty
10799s	is a tick and Time Bomb waiting to go
10801s	off with these Radiance and make a huge
10803s	board and dead draw is the uh the Plucky
10806s	hero
10808s	trying to Cobble together some way to
10810s	get out of this impossible situation
10812s	like MacGyver
10814s	yeah it's uh he's just got a couple
10818s	paper clips
10820s	and some scrap metal and he has to get
10824s	together you know chewing gum yeah some
10827s	way to get out of the building
10831s	and the I feel like the key to it at
10834s	least from the games we've seen is the
10836s	sketchy stranger
10837s	um
10839s	injection Judgment of Justice
10843s	explosive runes
10846s	counselves as much counterspell ice trap
10849s	yeah there's a law
10851s	um just trying to delay or in some cases
10854s	just you know outright
10857s	stop it the big combo from happening
10861s	um outside of that you're beholden to
10863s	jackpot
10865s	which is
10868s	you have to have the ultimate Faith to
10870s	be able to do that
10872s	and we'll see what dead draw decides to
10874s	do and I don't even know if
10879s	shout out to him is a keep
10881s	It's gotta be so flexible coin and coin
10885s	yeah it does give you a lot of
10886s	flexibility doesn't it yeah so just
10888s	shout out demise don't want to keep
10889s	Knoll you want to look for the
10892s	the scam cards
10894s	exactly as you said you're beholden to
10897s	uh jackpot because if you don't be
10899s	holding it in the start in hand you're
10901s	in trouble
10904s	y'all are crazy
10911s	I think just a full toss from Sheltie on
10914s	the other side
10921s	just want to switcheroo
10933s	okay
10935s	did Charles got something to work with
10936s	here perjury is pretty good
10939s	jackpot of course
10941s	oh scabs with oh Shadow demise as well
10946s	um so early yeah we've got a game plan
10949s	now oh yeah
10952s	everything's uh
10954s	coming up jackpot
10964s	on this time let us see what's in the
10965s	books
10966s	oh boo
10970s	are we gonna go perjury the next turn
10973s	jackpot trade the cut list that makes
10976s	sense
10978s	seems like a reasonable curve
10982s	how to still got some time before uh
10985s	anything can really happen double-it
10987s	identity theft
10989s	could
10991s	I don't even know what are you even
10993s	looking for in Rogue like jackpots of
10995s	your own right I mean it's not a bad
10998s	card to get with double Radiance to be
11001s	fair
11002s	but it's just it's a big unknown
11004s	obviously
11009s	or probably actually the Cutlass out of
11012s	that Bunch right you need some
11014s	some cycle
11017s	oh jackpot
11021s	it's just so Random like
11024s	I mean they've seen it give double
11026s	alignments so far today yeah I know I
11028s	know but like
11031s	I don't know it's impossible to judge
11033s	right like it might be good it might be
11035s	terrible I'm just saying Cutlass is
11036s	always decent oh Sprint oh prep Sprint
11042s	here's your side no not put yourself
11044s	yeah I did like crap yeah it's prep
11047s	perhaps a good one
11051s	all right what are we gonna get
11054s	Judgment of Justice
11058s	by the best of these yeah absolutely the
11061s	others only really offering Bluff value
11062s	I'd say which
11064s	is too fickle a prospect to gamble with
11067s	here
11074s	yeah I think jackpot then trade the
11076s	Cutlass seems reasonable spends all the
11078s	Mana you could trade the Cutlass to look
11080s	for something a little more proactive
11082s	like a reconnaissance
11083s	that's true yeah
11089s	nice Cutlass idiot yeah rip it
11095s	oh that's not bad actually those are
11098s	both pretty good
11099s	yeah I read them all for
11102s	uh combo priest but yeah it's the
11105s	mid-sized boards it's a lot of pressure
11108s	oh okay
11112s	wow prep as well
11114s	I mean there's a handmaiden and a
11116s	priestess
11119s	get down the handmaiden right now with
11121s	the coin that's sick
11129s	oh okay the hands coming together
11131s	there's something happening now
11134s	oh is he popping off this turn okay
11136s	there's something happening right now I
11137s	guess
11141s	gotta look for Boone right now
11144s	oh that's oh with yeah because that's
11148s	how close
11150s	but he can play the oh yeah now because
11153s	the bone Spike yeah you're talking Spike
11155s	that's sick
11156s	oh get your own one one that is pretty
11158s	insane
11161s	and this is early like Dedra has plans
11163s	for a turn six scabs that he could pull
11166s	off this however is looking to be a
11168s	little bit too much for him
11171s	yeah there's no bless so this will give
11173s	him two turns uh-huh
11176s	but still that doesn't line up
11183s	he needs to draw
11184s	crap you yeah oh coin coin prep bone
11188s	Spike plus scabs four gets it
11192s	Trickster
11195s	uh so you trickster flame strikes so the
11197s	Judgment of Justice blocks the damage
11199s	yeah that's nice
11204s	and then you have three turns so you
11206s	should be able to get there and you have
11207s	the prep out as well
11209s	I think you can just about survive that
11211s	yeah
11213s	what the jackpot on the other side oh
11218s	it match it dude so a five Mana spell
11221s	specifically is playable on the same
11223s	turn as well right
11225s	yep
11228s	anime dead pretty useless right about
11230s	now yeah
11233s	oh
11236s	okay
11238s	no way still no way of answering dealing
11242s	with the the Judgment of Justice right
11243s	now but that is absolutely bizonkers
11246s	it's so Random
11248s	well when you picked a jackpot
11252s	okay fine I'll take the L
11254s	I was wrong I'd be a little dweeb with a
11257s	Cutlass right now
11260s	watch out
11261s	or do you do you play deal with the
11263s	devil in order to have a judgment of
11265s	Justice attack
11268s	especially you can Sprint and find like
11270s	double blessing you can deal with the
11271s	devil Sprint find double bless
11275s	yeah maybe you throw down the anime dead
11277s	as well just to have like the maximum
11280s	possible chance of being able to attack
11282s	with something
11283s	or you just take the risk
11291s	fair enough
11298s	yeah I think if you're gonna play deal
11300s	with the Devil the attack
11303s	okay sketchy stranger
11307s	uh or do you just flame strike again yep
11309s	flame strike is a very real possibility
11311s	I don't think you can afford to go
11313s	neptun because of the overload yeah you
11316s	definitely don't want to overload so
11318s	Contraband stash it is just a flame
11321s	strike but I think it's good enough here
11322s	you can even pre-bump the tutu
11328s	unless he wants to tank six
11333s	like
11334s	sketchy stranger it does have some
11336s	upside because you could dig for counter
11338s	spell or ice trap you know they have a
11340s	mystery card in hand
11342s	it could be a Sprint you know it could
11344s	be something that just brings them right
11345s	back into the game
11349s	all right sketchy stranger it is
11353s	I guess Contraband stash could be
11355s	necessary later on
11358s	that's the ice trap
11365s	it's got to be the best out of these
11367s	like a paladin spell they're never gonna
11369s	fall for
11370s	you know it's easily to deal with even
11372s	for Bluff value they can deal with the
11373s	scary ones of Reckoning and Judgment of
11375s	Justice
11382s	and boy oh boy is the secret an absolute
11385s	nightmare for Sheltie
11391s	oh that's
11393s	that's a bummer
11397s	you could still be snake
11400s	maneuvers
11401s	yeah
11403s	or the uh deal six one that I forget the
11405s	name of but
11408s	ocean denied that's the one
11412s	but it's ice trap and that makes Dedra
11416s	sit up in his chair he's getting excited
11418s	now as this is looking very very
11421s	winnable at this point
11424s	foreign
11427s	still not over for either player at all
11431s	but dead draw got to what he needed to
11433s	do he bridged the Gap into coin coin
11435s	scabs and now I think he's got the upper
11437s	hand
11440s	yeah and gets to kill off the hand
11442s	meeting as well
11445s	uh which is nice so you don't put that
11447s	back in hand he knows there's a Sprint
11448s	there
11450s	um the side strap doesn't get rid of it
11451s	but uh does have he knows he has like a
11455s	turd to be able to react and next turn
11458s	can like find a potion belt
11461s	find another secret with the sketchy
11463s	stranger where you followed
11467s	a lot of options
11468s	count as well that's another good one
11472s	it's only at 16 though so if at any
11475s	point a board sticks
11476s	yeah
11478s	there could be some trouble but chaoti
11481s	looks like has to spend the entire turn
11483s	here uh with just the Sprint
11493s	there's there is a question as to
11494s	whether you play the radiant Elemental
11496s	first because if you hit the second
11498s	devour now that you've drawn one
11501s	you
11503s	actually pull quite far into the lead so
11506s	I I think I actually like that risk
11511s	oh I hit it as well well there's still
11513s	gonna be they're still going to be there
11515s	next turn exactly I think that's his
11517s	thinking yeah and next turn might be
11520s	even better because you don't give
11521s	deadro a chance to like react to the
11523s	radiant Elemental uh and maybe even kill
11526s	it off which
11528s	uh he would nearly be able to would just
11532s	command of Neptune right yeah yeah
11535s	um and then you're you're down both your
11537s	devours so your next Boon is not going
11539s	to be
11540s	fantastic
11542s	um
11543s	at least not as good so
11547s	okay
11550s	so it's just a straight up case of Max
11552s	stats on board right for for dead draw
11555s	here so I'm thinking counter spell
11558s	command null
11560s	yep uh you've seen both their jackpot
11563s	hands it's not AOE so you have Liberty
11565s	to go wide on the board if they want to
11568s	play sunwell here like they can take the
11570s	risk but they have to play another spell
11571s	first anyway
11573s	yeah you don't even need wow
11577s	damage face right yeah well you don't
11580s	even need to play the null because
11582s	most likely it's gonna have to rush into
11584s	something next turn anyway it's a fair
11586s	point yeah oh but this should be the
11589s	rest of the deck for shouty so this
11591s	would be the last push
11595s	or maybe not the rest of the deck
11597s	because there's double Switcheroo in the
11599s	deck with only a single raid Elemental
11601s	to draw
11602s	yeah both reanimate Deads are done as
11605s	well right yeah but has handmaiden and
11608s	and double that's light well though oh
11611s	sonwell sorry yeah that's the that's the
11613s	big one that we wanted to see
11618s	so you can play
11619s	one more spelling will still cost zero
11622s	because it's reduced in cost per one
11623s	actually two more I think
11625s	is the radiant as well
11630s	ah okay let's see what he can pull out
11632s	of his hat
11634s	cool
11639s	Mark of the wild perjury explosive rooms
11641s	Gardens Grace look not great huh is that
11645s	another deal with the devil no it's the
11648s	six Squad Proving Grounds right yeah
11649s	yeah that's the one yeah
11653s	and it's not a bad turn again for this
11656s	point in the game for Boone priest
11663s	does depend on the secret here you can
11665s	kill it with Contraband stash
11671s	man stash cast flame striking command of
11674s	nebulon which is 24 that's 25 yeah
11677s	that'll do it
11678s	25 yeah stronger than it once was you're
11682s	absolutely 2014 cool TJ casting back
11690s	even gets a private eye out of this too
11692s	and a counter spell oh boy oh the ice
11696s	trapped the Justice oh it's so much
11698s	isn't it oh you didn't lie TJ these
11701s	sketchy strangers are absolutely broken
11703s	in this matchup yup
11711s	uh Proving Grounds efficacy
11715s	it's gonna pull
11716s	a radiant from his deck as the one
11719s	remaining minion
11723s	which is not going to end well for that
11726s	radian I'm gonna say
11729s	I guess you just Boone the private eye I
11733s	have to like cast perjury first or
11735s	something
11736s	in Boone bless no because there's an ice
11739s	trap too oh geez
11745s	there's nothing man this game's over he
11747s	he just missed on the uh the sunwell
11749s	Spells yeah
11751s	perjury into how can you get any random
11756s	generation you can't right
11760s	you can get Rogue Secrets obviously but
11763s	that still doesn't open up any extra
11765s	good options
11773s	[Music]
11775s	like there used to be that that Rogue
11777s	secret that gave spells to your hand
11778s	based on what your opponent played uh I
11781s	can't remember what that was called
11783s	gone
11785s	yeah
11787s	but nowadays I think it's a very short
11791s	road there's not a chain of discoveries
11792s	you can get from Secrets anymore
11795s	It's gotta go
11797s	in with the uh
11800s	radiant next turn right I hope you can
11803s	draw it
11804s	You just prove it grounds it
11808s	was that that you just picked objection
11810s	objection oh my God
11813s	that's such BM Oh man
11818s	AZ and
11820s	I don't know Dreadful Dreadful yeah just
11823s	yeah
11825s	it's like an emergency
11829s	here comes all the rest
11836s	let it play something
11839s	of the children
11846s	Dicky situation
11848s	hope that you get a minion that you can
11850s	just buff yeah uh Jackson and not gonna
11855s	do it
11856s	2-0 up
11858s	in this quarterfinal
11860s	over Xiao tea
11862s	making it work
11863s	[Music]
11868s	yeah centro's just looking real strong
11870s	so far it was a very solid game from the
11873s	get-go I mean
11874s	I imagine he kind of had it in the back
11877s	of his mind from turn one where he kept
11879s	the uh the shadow of demise but as soon
11882s	as he drew the scabs like he saw it we
11884s	saw it straight away that's the game
11885s	plan you just have to survive till turn
11887s	six and he did that in the uh the best
11889s	way possible I think the one thing it
11892s	was like a bit weird was again his
11894s	trading Cutlass order I do agree that
11896s	that should have been done in a
11898s	different order I don't really know what
11899s	he was hoping to yeah exactly I guess
11902s	like more likely that you hit the
11905s	uh yeah I guess actually was trying to
11907s	hit specifically the uh the bone Spike
11909s	right because then you could do scabs
11911s	one turn earlier and it means you have a
11913s	slightly higher chance of doing that
11915s	which okay fair enough that's reasonable
11917s	if that's your reasoning yeah yeah
11920s	um from xiaoti's side the only even
11922s	quite I loved his early pop-off to be
11924s	able to play around the potential scabs
11926s	uh the attack into the Judgment of
11928s	Justice
11929s	uh he's the only one right
11932s	obviously ice trap would have
11933s	interrupted the Sprint anyway but if you
11935s	don't attack and you have other meetings
11937s	on board you have the chance to attack
11939s	with one of the smaller minions into the
11941s	Judgment of justice and then even find
11942s	lethal from the Sprint the following
11944s	turn
11945s	um
11947s	that one is you know like it didn't
11950s	change the outcome of the game because
11953s	the Sprint would have gotten ice trapped
11955s	anyway so there would have been no
11956s	chance
11958s	um and then the game would have played
11959s	out nearly exactly the same from there
11961s	however
11963s	could have been a possibility at least
11965s	to think about not attacking it leaving
11967s	the secret up and then using one of the
11969s	small means Riot
11972s	the end of it all though just the Mage
11976s	left over for dead draw taking a look at
11978s	the remaining decks for shouty which is
11981s	all of them apart from the priest uh
11982s	sorry apart from the Druid which has
11984s	been banned away uh priest is what he's
11986s	going to be lining up first and again
11988s	this is one of the things I like about
11990s	this Mage this particular build of it as
11992s	well with double blizzard the grace age
11994s	parrot Commander savara there's just so
11998s	much stall in this deck uh like I I kind
12002s	of founded the difference between the 30
12003s	card and the 40 card variants when that
12005s	was a bit of more of a debate
12007s	pre-expansion uh was that the 40 card
12009s	versions felt a little bit inconsistent
12012s	in their stalling mechanisms whereas the
12014s	30 card version you could very commonly
12017s	hit like three or four solid Alibis in a
12019s	row or a bunch of freeze with flurries
12022s	into vardens and to locations because
12024s	you had so much consistency in your draw
12025s	and the smaller deck size but when
12027s	you're transitioning over to this build
12029s	of the deck with double poly double
12030s	blizzard double gray Sage power the uh
12033s	Varden in there as well you've still got
12035s	the solid Alibis and the locations
12037s	there's so much stall in this deck the
12040s	priest just has an absolute nightmare
12043s	trying to even do the most basic level
12045s	of its game plan
12050s	yeah I mean we saw it in action it was
12052s	yesterday right we started in action oh
12054s	yes exactly and it just seems so
12057s	frustrating for the priest like it at a
12061s	certain point in the game it just feels
12063s	like no matter what you do
12065s	you're gonna get got
12067s	um and dead draw keeps the mass
12069s	polymorph in the opening hand obviously
12072s	most of the time with the current
12074s	eraboon priest the pop pop happens uh
12078s	sooner and then turn seven but that's
12079s	where all the other stall tactics that
12081s	you mentioned come into play just by
12083s	time with uh with the flurries with the
12086s	location things like that until you get
12088s	there so
12092s	okay okay
12094s	um that's a three damage wildfire
12099s	I think you just play it yeah because if
12102s	you pick up a playable three you'd want
12105s	to get that down so you can curve out
12106s	with Cold Case the early pings don't
12108s	really matter because you don't really
12109s	want to give them shorter than or gifted
12112s	the Naruto draws early anyway yeah in
12115s	case they're looking for a specific
12116s	piece so yeah just play off Curve cast
12118s	it I agree
12119s	I think there's enough drills uh that
12121s	make it worth uh playing it there uh
12123s	shouty though I didn't get to see what
12125s	card you picked on the uh discover or
12128s	the dredge I should say sorry uh but
12131s	yeah yeah going for short instead of the
12132s	handmaiden which is very interesting to
12135s	me because I mean I certainly would have
12137s	gone handmade in there even though I
12139s	appreciate you don't get the reduction
12141s	in cost just because this hand is
12143s	screaming for one right it really wants
12146s	some strong card draw and given that you
12148s	have a little bit more time against Mage
12150s	most of the time I think I liked going
12153s	for
12153s	the handmaiden but it's again
12157s	fascinating to see a difference in
12158s	opinion this is a kind of a big thing it
12162s	doesn't see the mass poly
12165s	that's true actually that's really bad
12167s	for him Just for information he doesn't
12169s	see it yeah at least that could mean he
12172s	could have the information that he needs
12173s	to go off before turn seven comes around
12175s	or that he needs to do like a a halfway
12179s	pop off I guess he knows that these
12181s	aren't in the hand but that doesn't give
12183s	him much information either maybe the
12184s	Varden uh uh I think it's Finley here
12188s	yeah
12189s	just have a re-roll in your hand uh the
12191s	problem is with both of these cards
12193s	though that he's picked up is they mess
12195s	with animate Dead uh which at this point
12198s	in the game is really really bad uh
12201s	taking a 50 50 on anime dead to get a
12204s	skeleton or what a one in three I
12206s	suppose it would be at that point if you
12207s	play The Cold Case uh to hit the
12210s	uh raging Elemental is not something you
12213s	want to do at all so I don't think this
12215s	uh Cold Case is going to be played for a
12217s	good while
12218s	geez this matchup feels miserable like
12221s	I'm just looking at the hand from dead
12223s	draw and I'm just like how does xiaote
12226s	ever win I mean sunwall exists identity
12230s	theft exists
12232s	get like a dawn like the the big dong
12235s	grasp
12237s	it's gonna recast a cold case like
12241s	it could recast sunwell also
12244s	you cast on well before you play the Don
12246s	grasp uh
12250s	is Holy I wasn't actually sure yeah
12252s	obviously you play a lot more holy
12254s	spells so yeah yeah yeah uh
12257s	but there's like a possibility right
12259s	that is a chance
12261s	no
12263s	okay good minions very good Minions that
12266s	gives them the pop of potential
12268s	not
12270s	now certainly but
12273s	next turn maybe the turn after the end
12276s	is four and there's no car draw which is
12279s	the biggest thing I guess you could just
12281s	before you burn one
12283s	okay
12285s	does not feel good
12287s	[Music]
12290s	oh it's a nice pickup though for dead
12292s	draw actually just being able to go
12294s	Cold Case sorceress uh to get Polly
12297s	online for next turn
12301s	uh I guess the one because he had the
12303s	blizzard but you know sure yeah yeah
12306s	um
12306s	I guess just considering with a full
12308s	hand from his opponent there's a very
12310s	there's a reasonable chance that he has
12312s	double Shadow a devour so we might not
12315s	want to play The Cold Case and Juice up
12318s	that combo turn next turn but if
12320s	anything else these skeletons are just
12322s	juicy bait uh for Sheltie to go in and
12325s	then uh sheepify everything next turn
12330s	that's the rough over to draw to
12335s	yeah and this looks like it's just gonna
12337s	be the radiant plus the Cold Case
12340s	okay sure
12342s	have a chance to keep this alive but I
12345s	don't think this can't be ah
12351s	okay is it a go turn because you're
12354s	playing everything except identity death
12356s	right and right they raise the elemental
12358s	plus the Boon are gonna be pretty big
12362s	foreign
12372s	Ty is just starting to realize that
12379s	not blaming him for go again he had to
12381s	do something this game and it just gets
12383s	more and more likely that his opponent
12384s	has blizzard poly more dress anything to
12388s	be able to clear all this up
12393s	uh but this side
12395s	do not think even if there wasn't a mass
12398s	poly like
12400s	detroiters really does not struggle too
12402s	much to clear this up at all yeah it
12405s	doesn't even have to mask Bali can get
12407s	out more resources first
12410s	just blizzard
12418s	could even like Mig trades see where the
12420s	volatile skeletons go and then flurry
12422s	okay whatever just get the flip yeah
12426s	yeah shouty knew it was a possibility
12429s	with the way that the Shivering
12430s	sorceress works
12434s	has been unable to get his foot in the
12436s	door this entire Series Dead draw has
12440s	just felt like his lineup is so well
12442s	positioned to take down these exact
12444s	styles of decks and again the more I see
12447s	it go on and on the more I think the
12448s	bunny and dead draw just have such a
12451s	stunner of a lineup here
12456s	and it's like jati was close right also
12458s	has the uh the jackpot Rogue Demon
12461s	Hunter
12471s	how to make that I mean does that do
12474s	anything yeah
12476s	no nothing's died right oh he can get
12481s	you back a sheep
12482s	so Switcheroo is the the only one that
12485s	really makes sense here draw the handle
12486s	it in
12488s	um
12490s	and then identity theft
12493s	Auto grasp gets Sun well yeah you're
12497s	right right that's it we're well into
12499s	that territory now yeah
12502s	yeah but with the way this has gone and
12504s	xiaote not putting on pressure dead draw
12506s	with double Wildfire can end this game
12509s	quick with more drush in hand incredibly
12511s	quick yeah this is
12513s	if not to turn lethal definitely three
12516s	turn lethal he's setting up
12518s	yeah it's pushing seven more damage next
12520s	turn there's going to be seven damage
12522s	sticking on board
12529s	ah it's gonna be one is it one off
12534s	that's pretty sick
12540s	blurry
12541s	yeah oh those are the handmade and
12544s	Dreadful
12546s	that's it I mean without the hand in
12548s	this tent I'm finally sure I guess you
12551s	could go with instead oh parrot you can
12555s	recast sunwell
12557s	love it now we're talking
12559s	oh geez
12567s	okay it's a decent enough hand actually
12570s	to redraw the sunwell as well for next
12572s	turn
12579s	I made that a sheep
12582s	nope he's out
12585s	oh and look at that
12587s	the pop-off from dead draw as he gets it
12589s	done 3-0 sweep one of the most dominant
12592s	series we've seen uh so far this
12594s	tournament is fair to say really uh no
12597s	ability for Sheltie to get into that
12598s	game at all as he went all in a couple
12600s	times dead draw had the perfect answers
12602s	each and every time and he's now just a
12605s	uh a poultry two series away from
12608s	becoming the world champion it's it's
12610s	within his grasps now but yet still the
12613s	level of competition he has to overcome
12615s	it does not slow down at all
12618s	no it really doesn't and honestly at
12621s	this point like
12623s	I'm rooting for the Dead Drop bunny
12625s	Hopper finals oh I imagine you're on
12628s	separate sides of the bracket so it's
12629s	possible and like seeing those similar
12634s	styles of lineups in a final I mean it'd
12636s	be a very long final but I feel like
12640s	that's fitting for a world championship
12642s	we've had so many world championships as
12644s	of late that are just like you know uh
12646s	like 30 minute Affairs just people
12648s	players jamming their cards back and
12650s	forth hitting each other in the face
12653s	I need some jackpots in my life
12656s	we have uh one more semi-finals uh
12660s	position left open it's going to be
12661s	between Levick and possessi uh big story
12663s	line going to that last quarterfinal is
12666s	Essie's chance to defend his title be
12668s	the first player to do that in the
12670s	history of hearthstone and win
12671s	back-to-back World Championships but
12674s	Levick is going to be that first
12675s	Challenge and I think
12678s	did you who did you pick as your
12680s	prediction to win come on CJ who are you
12683s	talking to
12684s	possessy obviously my boy okay Raven and
12688s	I both picked Levick I think so there's
12690s	a lot of predictions on the line living
12693s	just looked real clean and possessy
12695s	looked
12696s	not clean after all it never does that's
12700s	why I love him he plays so bad
12703s	he's still the best player in the world
12705s	that's how good he is he doesn't need to
12708s	play well he's so good that he digs
12711s	himself to a hole exactly and then he
12714s	uses his giant muscles climb out of the
12718s	same hole that he just dug for himself
12719s	just to prove that he can
12722s	yeah and levick's just on the side like
12724s	is that intimidating I really don't get
12727s	what the point of this was yeah
12729s	possessively just growling at the ground
12734s	but one thing's for certain that match
12737s	should be a good one so you're going to
12740s	want to make sure you stick around for
12741s	that but before we jump into that last
12743s	quarterfile the fourth and final
12745s	quarterfinal as we approach the the end
12748s	of the world championship we are gonna
12749s	have to go to a quick break uh but don't
12752s	go anywhere more action to come right
12754s	after this
12755s	foreign
12757s	[Music]
12767s	[Music]
12772s	cats or dogs cat
12776s	messy or tidy tidy call or text face
12783s	I feel like anybody under the age of
12786s	Audi is gonna say text scary movie or
12790s	funny movie funny movie
12793s	snowball fight or water balloon fight
12797s	snowboard
12800s	[Music]
12813s	[Music]
12818s	cats or dogs
12823s	good man Messi or tidy
12826s	Mercy yeah yeah
12829s	call or text
12833s	everyone's gonna say text
12836s	uh roller coasters or bumper cars
12840s	rollerbusters okay
12843s	scary movie or funny movie scary
12847s	wow oh my first my first scary movie
12849s	answer nice
12851s	snowball fight or water balloon fight
12860s	[Music]
12862s	foreign
12864s	[Music]
12882s	[Music]
12887s	[Music]
12892s	foreign
12895s	[Music]
12907s	[Music]
12920s	foreign
12922s	[Music]
12935s	[Music]
12949s	we definitely weren't ready but we're
12951s	ready now it's time to go as I'm sorting
12954s	out my hair on camera it's fine at
12956s	Levick versus possessive is coming right
12959s	up for you guys we're so eager to get
12961s	going we didn't even bother rolling the
12963s	intro Lorinda is going to be joining me
12965s	now not subtle as I'm sure subtle is now
12967s	currently enjoying himself laughing at
12968s	the opening uh Lorinda how's it going
12970s	Mateen are you ready for this uh final
12972s	final initial match if that makes sense
12975s	like levik versus possessi a lot on the
12977s	line but different stories for both of
12979s	these players yeah absolutely a chance
12982s	for somebody to be retain a title has
12984s	never happened before in the Hearthstone
12986s	World Championships at least we have had
12988s	people win various things back to back
12990s	blinds winning the Masters Tour back to
12991s	back that sort of thing but two world
12993s	championships in a row Gloria came so
12995s	close but possesses the only one who can
12996s	do that this year and Levick who I'm
12999s	levick's second biggest fan I was the
13002s	second earliest person to pick out how
13003s	great Levick was and noticed him coming
13005s	but Raven I'll come seed it you you've
13008s	been singing live Express for a long
13010s	time
13011s	and I think it's
13013s	it's for example when Saul talks about a
13015s	player you know he goes in depth uses
13016s	all these fancy words and honestly my
13019s	go-to description of Levick since the
13021s	first time I saw him play on stream was
13023s	that every single turn of each game he
13027s	just plays very well that's it and that
13030s	I don't mean that as a negative of
13031s	course that that's all he does but yeah
13034s	he just plays exceptionally well very
13036s	consistently and I think when we're
13038s	talking about these two players yes one
13041s	of them is a world champion and one of
13043s	them isn't but I will say in terms of
13045s	just consistently strong play I think
13048s	Levick you know beats the the champ out
13050s	on this one because possessi although a
13052s	fantastic player has you know does have
13055s	hiccups right we've seen it and he
13057s	doesn't get punished too heavily by the
13058s	most of the time but they do exist and I
13061s	think that's a an issue Levick doesn't
13063s	actually currently suffer from yeah it's
13065s	something that happens quite a lot with
13067s	these players who just don't make
13068s	glaring mistakes ever it gets difficult
13071s	to sort of say well they just play good
13073s	and don't make mistakes that's that's
13074s	not exciting that's not catchy people
13076s	forget them but banterface suffers from
13077s	the same thing super good player doesn't
13080s	make mistakes
13081s	great that's the description so people
13083s	yeah it's a great description which
13086s	people describe me like that doesn't
13087s	make mistakes super good player they'll
13089s	be well happy but people it doesn't
13091s	have rememberability
13093s	yeah but Levick will be a member of our
13095s	Lives if he wins this world championship
13097s	for absolute sure yeah 100 and look at
13100s	the lineups here double Demon Hunter
13102s	bands so both it's one of the I think
13104s	the few times this weekend where we've
13107s	just seen what I would call just a band
13109s	the best deck strategy right right
13111s	because to me Demon Hunter just is the
13112s	best deck in the game right now and
13114s	we're just seeing double Demon Hunter
13115s	band but both players have quite
13117s	different lineups even after that uh the
13119s	uh XL Rogue they're the Ping Mage we
13122s	have from Levick as well and then the
13124s	Boon priest it looks like we're going to
13126s	be having the Boon priest go up against
13127s	the possesses Rogue first of all and I
13131s	do believe I'm gonna triple check before
13133s	I sound very stupid that uh yeah the
13135s	Rogue from possessi is going to be the
13137s	Draco Rogue right so then both decks
13140s	trying to do very similar things to the
13142s	extent that Gia called uh the priest a
13145s	draca rogue at one point I know yeah in
13147s	the day which cracked me up a little bit
13148s	but um but yeah both decks doing trying
13150s	to effectively do the same thing but
13153s	which one for you laurinda does it more
13155s	consistently which one's got the edge
13156s	here would you say I think the priest
13158s	but only fractionally and in this entire
13161s	matchup like the three remaining decks
13162s	on either side a lot of the games are
13165s	going to be quite polarized I think in
13167s	favor of one or the other so with this
13169s	being quite a close one this opening
13171s	game of this series might actually be
13173s	very very important we talk about it in
13175s	Conquest a lot uh some wins are worth a
13177s	bit more than others this is a big one I
13180s	think getting the win with this kind of
13182s	50 50 early on will set the scene for
13184s	who goes through to the semi-finals yeah
13187s	it's a big deal right because on the
13189s	surface here with with this matchup
13191s	specifically of course you'd say well
13193s	priest can probably have enough time to
13195s	you know in your average game just
13197s	drawing of cards pop off and also they
13200s	make massive taunts a lot of the time
13202s	taunts that are bigger than even a good
13204s	tracker weapon but the problem is with
13207s	the potions or the concoctions that the
13210s	road can make it does mean that there's
13212s	actual ways to just instant destroy
13214s	opponents minions and I think that is by
13217s	far the best effect from these like new
13220s	this new potion Style with Rogue right
13222s	is that I think if they didn't have that
13224s	effect that just says destroy an enemy
13226s	minion we could even question whether
13228s	players would even bring it or not
13231s	uh yeah
13233s	I agree with the first three quarters of
13236s	that I think they'd still bring It
13237s	Anyway honestly but I I do think that
13240s	the potions are so good and so versatile
13243s	that let's say that one didn't exist it
13244s	would still be good but obviously this
13246s	matter would be a heck of a lot worse uh
13248s	just drawing two cards is still super
13251s	good doing the three damage is still
13252s	pretty good quite often because you know
13254s	you need to do a bit more extra damage
13255s	to finish games but yes I do agree in
13257s	this matchup absolutely that is a
13260s	superbly important superbly important
13262s	yeah let's go with it take it superbly
13264s	important part of the matchup and here
13266s	we're just checking out some of the uh
13268s	notable achievements for possessive
13270s	course but none more so than getting
13272s	your own card in the game due to being a
13275s	world champion so he is just a few
13279s	matches away from doing the unthinkable
13283s	which is very very exciting indeed but
13286s	like I said he's got a tough player to
13288s	try and beat just to make it to top four
13290s	for now as we take a look at this uh
13292s	Draco Rogue with the double all Sprint
13294s	in there and the war Masters as well the
13298s	zoo is just starting to you know beef
13299s	out a few different versions of this
13302s	Draco Rogue I think before the expansion
13304s	we were just seeing well this just is
13307s	the Rogue these are the 30 cards but
13309s	there's definitely a lot more leeway now
13310s	in terms of the builds right
13313s	yeah absolutely like you first of all
13315s	got to build like we're actually calling
13316s	it Draco Rogue because I'm still calling
13319s	it Miracle Rogue but Miracle Rogue is
13320s	shark Rogue and sharkberg was death
13323s	battle road but death battle Rogue now
13325s	has totally different cars like
13327s	Invincible in it but Invincible Road
13329s	doesn't work because you might be
13331s	playing the Jambo version of it it's
13333s	just absolutely nutty how Road can be
13335s	built right now as hopefully that just
13338s	showed you there's so many different
13339s	ways to do it and they're all different
13342s	archetypes because within those
13343s	archetypes as you were pointing to then
13345s	you can build it to just go for Draco
13346s	you can build it with Edwin's and
13348s	Sprints you can build it without a
13349s	Sprint you can build it with far more
13351s	potion stuff so you don't really need
13353s	the Edwin always although people still
13354s	play it and so on it's ridiculous so a
13358s	lot of prep will have gone into these
13359s	decks even though they look like they're
13361s	just net deck there will be so many
13362s	little decisions to make sure your
13364s	lineup does what you want it to do going
13366s	into these now already looking at the
13368s	opening hands here on the top for levix
13369s	Switcheroo as well as having a boon
13372s	available and just a solid curve in
13374s	general and on the bottom for possessy a
13377s	shroud of concealment and draca just
13379s	already in hand with the shadow of
13381s	course being a you know an ever-present
13383s	threat in itself both players do have
13386s	the ability to get the job done here and
13389s	I do think a lot of it is going to rely
13391s	on how quickly Levick decides to go but
13393s	I'm also on the other side how quickly
13396s	possessed he can get hold of some
13397s	potions
13398s	yeah and some reductions on the potions
13401s	as well could be handy he's got nothing
13403s	going on at the moment though
13406s	um I haven't got the reductions he's
13407s	just got the bounce sorry my bad
13410s	concealment though it's going to be nice
13412s	to just get things going a little bit
13413s	does have Vancleave for uh maybe even
13415s	another shroud next turn if he wants it
13418s	but he has drawn all of the card drawn
13420s	all the card draw is pretty bad at the
13424s	start of the game that's more of an
13425s	emergency reload apart from Edwin which
13427s	is okay and for me this hand is a dud
13431s	and he is going to need not just one top
13433s	deck but two or three to even get into
13436s	this game right now as Levitt with
13438s	double handmaiden at the top there ready
13440s	to ready to go pretty much it will now
13443s	yeah that's true although I'm never too
13446s	upset about seeing a lot of card draw
13448s	with this deck I think that's generally
13449s	what you want to go for so you can make
13451s	the pop-up as big as possible looks like
13453s	possessing is going to be going for the
13455s	Van Cleave gets rewarded with a prep
13458s	doesn't have to use it if he doesn't
13460s	want but again I think uh use it he
13463s	could just well the problem is if he
13466s	preps and then you'd assume you're going
13468s	to play at least something else then
13471s	that's two cards that you could have
13473s	played next turn for dracker that you
13475s	can't play this turn uh sorry that you
13477s	can't play next turn right so is drawing
13480s	mystery card and maybe buffing Van Cleef
13482s	a bit more
13483s	worth the reduction of draca uh next
13487s	turn I don't know and this is why the
13488s	deck's not super straightforward right
13490s	you have to make these tough calls yeah
13492s	I guess it's actually four cards as well
13494s	because your prep then turns into
13496s	something else and yeah okay
13499s	they're just happy to have the 4-4 stuck
13501s	there
13502s	yeah and I think when you look at the
13503s	potential of a bone Spike draw prep
13505s	becomes very very powerful indeed
13507s	because it then kind of just gains you
13509s	Mana at that point right
13516s	that's kind of all there is to say to
13518s	that part you're right you are indeed a
13521s	right Raven uh but it has given Levick
13523s	the the office and the time to just go
13525s	for this now fill up his hand in so he
13527s	turned four and the priest already doing
13530s	pretty good priesty things
13533s	you'd have a decent idea what's in
13534s	possess his hand like like it or lump it
13537s	there's just no concoctions going on in
13539s	possess his side that limits down which
13542s	cards he can possibly have in hand and
13545s	that means that if it can make some good
13546s	plans for the future yeah I mean he's
13548s	already taken a look right because he
13549s	has the two ghosts so he um he already
13552s	has looked with um uh identity theft yes
13556s	so like he already just has a good
13558s	actual knowledge never mind not seeing
13560s	any potions he uh he knows what a few of
13563s	the cards are anyway and Lubbock
13565s	choosing to just go yeah a bit I would
13567s	say just making a single 1313 and just
13570s	saying well you know what I don't have
13571s	Radiance not worth trying to do anything
13573s	crazy because he can't
13575s	yeah the only hard part of that was
13577s	whether to bless or not I think the rest
13578s	was you know just make a 13 Health
13580s	minion and then you've got the bless
13581s	might as well while you can because I
13584s	think he knows that possessy even if
13587s	possessing can clear this it's going to
13589s	severely damage resources right
13595s	as it is what does possessive even do
13598s	about this
13599s	until my three prep Sprints that Sprints
13601s	make some space spin to right away and
13604s	just try a new hand because this one
13606s	isn't doing it I agree
13613s	I'm shroud
13616s	double wall master
13620s	that was the thing I wasn't
13622s	sure what possess he wanted to get
13627s	I think he wants to possibly just get
13629s	these two stenographers in there and
13632s	just get some damage onto this thing and
13634s	clear it off the board and then worry
13635s	about the rest later
13638s	because it's going to kill him
13640s	yeah uh yeah I guess I guess I guess
13642s	there was a chance to actually hit their
13644s	mailbox dances as well because there was
13646s	basically what she does
13650s	I think he possessed something up here
13657s	it didn't get the bone Spike off
13661s	wait what
13663s	is it even roping
13666s	I think he was yeah
13670s	he just straight up oh wow okay for a
13674s	second there but that
13675s	is huge and you remember not so long ago
13679s	Lorinda when I said one of these players
13682s	doesn't really make mistakes and the
13684s	other one yeah yeah I remember it quite
13686s	clearly Raven
13688s	absolute straight up possessive that one
13691s	[Music]
13693s	and
13694s	look
13695s	at the difference
13698s	now there's an extra 1712 on the board
13700s	there's still
13703s	um
13704s	nothing to really get done here
13706s	yep I mean he worked everything is the
13709s	the absolute most possessive things he
13711s	worked it out two Mana left with the
13713s	clear ready to play with two mana and
13715s	then just doesn't get it in there
13717s	uh it's heartbreaking for him he's only
13720s	game one but it's an important game one
13721s	as I discussed at the start it's a
13724s	really huge matchup for swinging this
13725s	match around and the thing is as well we
13728s	all know possessy is good right we know
13730s	we can get it done we know he can play
13732s	well but these just hiccups and mistakes
13735s	just don't seem to be going away and the
13738s	fact that you know I can I can call that
13740s	before the series starts and then in
13742s	game one there's a just game losing
13745s	mistake it's disappointing because I
13747s	think regardless of who we all would you
13750s	know who we all would like to win Worlds
13752s	right we all players like oh I really
13754s	would think this player should win or
13755s	that player should win possessive
13757s	winning worlds twice would be incredible
13759s	it would be such you know a crazy moment
13761s	but
13763s	if this is what keeps happening then he
13765s	shouldn't right because like there were
13768s	players who were just playing better and
13770s	way more consistent so it's a tough one
13772s	possessing made a mistake and he has
13774s	paid for it by basically handing Levick
13776s	an easy free game one huge problem there
13779s	for possessing and it's proof on the
13781s	other side of that coin of how good he
13782s	is because he gives everybody a Wonder
13784s	zero head start at some point in the
13787s	game and still became the world champion
13791s	true true I was scared that you're
13793s	trying to justify or make a huge game
13795s	losing mistake okay there Lorinda uh it
13798s	turns out that it shows how well he is
13800s	when we cast together you become me and
13802s	I become subtle to make the dynamic work
13805s	but regardless without half about it for
13808s	too long we are going to be moving on to
13810s	game number two of course and we're
13812s	gonna have a bit of a Switcheroo here
13813s	Levick gonna be on the Rogue this time
13815s	although a different build of course
13817s	with the jackpot Rogue and possessy
13820s	jumping over to his priest
13823s	yeah possessing is on the plague people
13826s	priest as I've been calling it and I'm
13828s	going to keep calling it no matter how
13829s	much pressure is put on me to call it
13831s	sensible things
13833s	um and that deck has been the revelation
13837s	of the tournament I would say not so
13838s	good against the jackpot Rogue as it is
13840s	against other things because it it kind
13843s	of relies on the plagues but as to to
13846s	mess with people well jackpotvo's got
13848s	infinite things turn one of them into a
13850s	plague spreader it's just going to get
13852s	more people and put those down instead
13854s	and so I think the jackpot vote in a
13857s	decent spot but
13859s	the play piece has been the deck of the
13860s	tournament in terms of expectancy versus
13863s	what it's achieved I think
13864s	yeah I think that the deck's done well
13867s	so far and it will be interesting to see
13869s	how well it continues to do as we finish
13870s	out the day but for me as you kind of
13873s	mentioned the problem with the match up
13875s	is well Rogue has a load of random stuff
13878s	anyway is giving them a plague like that
13882s	big of a deal right because a lot of the
13884s	time you aren't actually
13886s	breaking up a combo because a combo
13889s	doesn't really exist you know what I
13890s	mean it's like yes you could turn one
13892s	you know like tests into a plague and
13894s	it's like okay well that you know that
13896s	just kind of sucks but outside of that
13898s	they have so much just I I mean this in
13900s	like a very neutral way but so much just
13902s	random garbage in their hands a lot of
13904s	time anyway it's like well you're not
13906s	hitting combo pieces right it's
13908s	definitely not the match-up the priest
13910s	players are going yes I can't wait to
13912s	play against jackpot Rogue with this
13914s	priest deck so we'll be interested to
13916s	see how it plays out here and just how
13918s	the deck performs overall because again
13921s	even though we're talking a lot about
13923s	the plague spreaders there's plenty of
13925s	just play the curve out overpower your
13928s	opponent with just Share value and then
13930s	worst case if it becomes one of those
13932s	sort of Meandering style games that
13934s	these sort of matchups can become well
13936s	there's the sort of guaranteed win
13938s	condition right of just finishing the
13940s	quest
13941s	yeah absolutely yeah it's not like
13943s	hitting a Jace is the way I would have
13945s	put that where we saw yala earlier
13947s	trying to do all sorts of difficult I
13951s	don't know 3D puzzles in his head in the
13953s	space of 75 seconds to not get his spell
13956s	damage or his Jace hit
13958s	um and yeah we're gonna see the neutral
13962s	version of this the arena version of
13963s	this priest which is just up against
13964s	another Arena deck
13967s	let's see stuff versus stuff
13971s	I'll be very interested actually to see
13973s	if possessive keeps his plague spreader
13975s	because again like it
13977s	it's not
13979s	game winning but it's also just a four
13981s	drop to play to do the quest right so
13984s	and it's fine so yeah he is Gonna Keep
13986s	It Levick going for the reconnaissance
13988s	and the private eye earlier today we saw
13990s	bunny Hopper sort of show the power of
13992s	an earliest private eye and and start
13994s	playing on pressure in the Paladin
13996s	matchup and we'll see if our Levick can
13998s	have a similar success with this kind of
14000s	opening I'm sure it's just the way he he
14003s	looks naturally but I always get the
14004s	impression especially this year that
14006s	Levick just feels sorry for his
14007s	opponents it's like ah you know you
14010s	you're so bad you had to make that play
14012s	I'm just going to beat you now I'm sorry
14014s	it's like you know
14016s	it looks like this sort of I apologize
14018s	for beating you but you should be better
14020s	yeah I think it all encapsulated in one
14022s	look I think with lavik as well he's
14024s	definitely not one of the most visually
14026s	reactive players that we've ever had
14028s	right yeah he seems to at least again
14031s	visually keep a lid on things and just
14033s	be like yeah okay you know we're just
14034s	playing the game it helps that he wins a
14036s	lot so he doesn't have to get upset too
14038s	often
14039s	um but yeah it just seems to be in
14040s	control of himself at all times yeah
14043s	he's a lot more humble than he looks on
14045s	the screen as well he's always sort of
14047s	very appreciative to be mentioned or to
14049s	be put in the conversation with each
14050s	other's players of his standard
14052s	um which they are it's not like we're
14054s	putting him in there to make him sound
14055s	good he is that good but he's always
14057s	sort of very appreciative of that fact
14059s	he's um just the way he he looks when
14061s	he's playing that makes him look like
14063s	hey I'm better than you and that's not a
14064s	bad way to look when you're playing
14065s	games
14066s	I love it gonna Shuffle away the
14068s	restaurant I like this a lot and just
14070s	saying you don't get to do anything that
14072s	fancy on curve and also just opening up
14075s	space creating Tempo objection now
14077s	locked in for Levick as well with this
14079s	private eye follow-up things are looking
14081s	quite good for Levick to get that Tempo
14083s	opening that you really want with this
14085s	deck but you have to be able to follow
14088s	it up with something which is why I
14090s	think we see this prep reconnaissance
14092s	first
14094s	so leather can get an idea okay what can
14096s	I make what can I pressure with because
14098s	this looks great but as we've seen in
14101s	the past if the next two turns are
14102s	nothing then it's not really going to
14105s	achieve a big objection coming down
14107s	there
14109s	laughs
14111s	Olympic's face was like okay what a
14113s	shame your objection
14117s	oh my goodness Raven
14121s	yeah possesses like he knows I'm about
14125s	to get locked out
14127s	just gonna get objected to all over
14129s	yeah not quite as good a choice second
14132s	time round to follow up with here he's
14134s	gonna go for Paladin with a noble
14136s	sacrifice he's gonna go for Paladin yeah
14138s	that's definitely not a good choice ever
14141s	three entered one remains none will win
14145s	I think that's how it goes
14149s	a double cross definitely a good pickup
14151s	anyway just because he like Levick needs
14154s	to draw it's the problem with this deck
14156s	is if you don't get hold of card draw or
14158s	a lot of the consistent value in hand
14161s	then you can win if we saw it earlier uh
14163s	today where it was just the three like
14165s	most pointless cards in the deck just
14167s	sat in hand doing nothing every turn
14170s	yeah this this rubbish on the the screen
14172s	right now is nine damage represented
14175s	just a collection of stuff it's just you
14178s	know those cards you find under the
14181s	pillows on your sofa or the cushions on
14183s	your sofa you just move it back looking
14185s	around tidying up and there's these
14187s	three minions just there doing nine
14189s	making you feel uncomfortable what do
14191s	you think of coin Finley here
14193s	coin Finley a coin first to check the
14196s	secret and then finally because if it's
14200s	not counter spell it is almost certainly
14202s	objection right it's cool drop the
14204s	Finley into it and now possess you can
14206s	decide what he wants to do with the
14207s	follow-up
14209s	yep I like it I think it's a good idea
14211s	Raven and possess he does too there you
14214s	go
14218s	what can get frustrating about playing
14220s	it's this type of Rogue is it feels like
14222s	no matter what you do the rogue's
14225s	laughing at you right it's like yep you
14227s	then have to use the coin to check for
14228s	counter spell play the Finley then you
14230s	play a million and because you spent all
14231s	your money oh your opponent just gets to
14233s	draw more cards it's like what
14235s	and right and my opponent's still
14237s	getting things going well for them
14239s	whenever I play against jackpot Vogue or
14241s	Thief Rogue whatever you want to call it
14242s	I spend the whole game screaming how
14244s	have they got so many cards I've dealt
14246s	with all of their cards and they still
14247s	have more cards where are they coming
14249s	from why are they still here why have
14252s	they got five millions and five cards in
14254s	hand is about to be the case now for
14255s	possessing what's going on
14259s	save the resource because light bomb
14261s	would be kind of bad so yeah might as
14263s	well keep it back
14264s	yep I don't think the maze just gonna
14267s	make a giant difference we are going to
14269s	see now possessive go for the light
14272s	shower I believe
14275s	scary though right because even that's
14277s	interesting in itself possessively going
14279s	for the light shower yes he gets to heal
14281s	of course which is nice but
14283s	the it's also a minion that Rogue can
14287s	interact with that doesn't require
14288s	trades of their own minions right so we
14291s	can see now bone Spike and then bone
14293s	Spike off the deer and with Astor law I
14295s	mean okay nice heal but go away taunt
14298s	minion pressure again from Levick yeah
14301s	turn after turn of just relentlessly
14303s	removing the opponent's Tempo and making
14305s	his own it's
14306s	so much it's not over yet but it doesn't
14310s	look like the damage is going to stop
14312s	appearing now with the the top level as
14314s	slow as slow or the flamethrower or
14316s	whatever it's called
14320s	possessively just having too much to do
14322s	each turn gotta make some stuff on the
14324s	board to actually fight gotta heal a bit
14326s	gotta stop from dying
14328s	and all the cards cost like six of four
14331s	and horrible numbers this day he's only
14333s	on turn seven
14334s	okay for now though deserve gifted the
14336s	narrow to start with can draw a card if
14339s	it gets hold of zyrella then that's a
14341s	very very good outcome worst case can
14343s	still go for light bulb or second light
14344s	shower
14348s	starts with the draw like I said zyrella
14350s	would make a massive impact
14356s	which means light bomb is the choice
14360s	here I don't think just do another light
14364s	shower
14365s	another light shower feels incredibly
14367s	terrifying I haven't added it up but
14369s	there's a lot of damage coming at him
14370s	next turn
14374s	I think Lubbock will be fine with this
14376s	he's almost expecting it right going for
14377s	the daggering instead of the maestro
14382s	foreign
14388s	thinking what's going on here
14390s	but it's not 10 Mana so it's fine yes I
14393s	was gonna say it's not doubling so
14394s	you're okay okay I'm actually I wasn't
14397s	okay now if it feels awkward to just
14401s	play scabs versus priest on an empty
14403s	board but definitely looking at it I
14406s	guess with this Lubbock just saying okay
14408s	they struggle to clear again right make
14411s	another bullet try and clear again right
14414s	and I kind of like this just basically
14416s	just slowly trudging towards the astalar
14419s	on 10 yes which is going to be key here
14421s	because once more possessi has to do
14423s	something about that board he has no
14425s	idea if he's dead or not and he knows in
14427s	two turns time unless he does something
14429s	there will be the double asteroid coming
14431s	down and look how threatening this board
14433s	is compared to if he had played that
14435s	monster back on turn five or four
14437s	whichever turn it was he held it back
14438s	decided his board was big enough on that
14440s	turn and just waited I think it's turned
14442s	five and now instead of just having a
14444s	three one and a three five which
14446s	wouldn't be too scary the extra three
14448s	two in the middle is so much extra
14450s	damage represented that will actually
14452s	get through like Expendable damage
14454s	that he's going to have available to him
14456s	I feel it's going to be really nice
14458s	though allows him to put in the not only
14460s	get the light shower back but get an
14462s	additional taunt and can play Cathedral
14464s	as well so gives possessi some kind of
14467s	big walls to put up
14469s	yep
14471s	but now
14473s	we can talk about scabs yeah get them to
14477s	play something boom scabs it away and
14479s	possess it you can see he was just
14481s	hoping just just no scabs just let my
14484s	taunts live for a turn
14486s	foreign
14489s	to play the Mida in um this turn either
14492s	gonna have to just
14498s	26 hand Point damages he has
14502s	a lot is that what we're calling them
14504s	handpoint damages I think that's the
14505s	right it's what you're calling them I
14507s	don't know if I'm gonna agree it's
14509s	correct
14510s	I'm a trendsetter
14512s	look at me go
14513s	all right
14514s	possess he knows where he's up against
14516s	mine as the Pyro and that's enough
14518s	that's a lot of work to get rid of this
14520s	love
14523s	hmm
14528s	all these four attack minions priests
14530s	really struggle to deal with four attack
14532s	minions don't they baby we've gone full
14534s	circle haven't said that for a while I
14536s	thought I'd just get it in there
14538s	uh is this lethal not quite
14542s	soon
14543s	yes it is isn't uh bump bumpity heal up
14549s	to
14550s	22 take
14556s	is it dagger that's equipped or did he
14558s	actually equip the weapon it's dagger
14559s	right it's just dagger okay it might not
14561s	be now but there was no bumps required
14564s	right don't you just play astalar
14567s	and uh use that to kill off the six six
14570s	okay push with the dagger I mean I
14572s	didn't count it to be first we've got to
14573s	do 27 that way plus six is what 33 and
14577s	it does 16 20.
14579s	24. so like I said it was before the
14582s	prayer I was I was looking yeah but yeah
14584s	regardless
14588s	but to be so careful not to just
14590s	instinctively ship everything face just
14593s	in case you've got to work it out
14594s	because the priest can just come back if
14596s	you don't kill them I think I still just
14598s	like things
14601s	pyro next turn and he yeah and he
14604s	possessed he doesn't know about the Pyro
14606s	being an important part of that
14608s	I love it gonna
14610s	do this now I'm gonna go oh it's have
14613s	three potions instead concoctions sorry
14618s	hey what is a two
14621s	it kind of makes sense right because
14625s	it's just lethal it's just no it's not
14627s	because we had it worked out and then we
14629s	got it wrong yeah well done the problem
14631s	is I was just trying to work out
14633s	the one trade I guess Lubbock's just
14636s	removing cards off the boards with the
14638s	other stacked it yeah also the potion is
14640s	just such good value because he knows
14641s	it's not lethal so in the world where
14643s	Pyro's not enough he might need another
14645s	push so he's balanced
14647s	having some resources with a scary board
14650s	with a pyro in hand oh it's gonna end
14654s	well Pool Plus hero power I think it's
14657s	an understandable play from possessive
14659s	but not for the first time we're going
14661s	to see pyroblast Locker game out here
14666s	just gonna lock in the Pyro I did not
14669s	see that coming and the smile in the
14671s	clap from possessing he knows and now
14673s	he's gonna be game two going to Levick
14676s	just and again master class in just
14679s	applying pressure giving himself options
14681s	and of course helpful they didn't get
14684s	one of those hands with this deck where
14686s	you get stranded just a little bit did
14688s	get the potions uh ready to go did get
14690s	these secrets with the early game and
14692s	then follow up that's the biggest deal I
14694s	think if you Muller couldn't have the
14696s	secret package early and you don't hit
14698s	any follow-up that's when the deck can
14700s	struggle but that was not the case here
14702s	for Levick very well played absolutely
14704s	hitting the jackpot with the Rogue there
14707s	2-0 ahead and has the Mage left and the
14710s	real relevant thing about that is the
14712s	Mage versus the priest when that match
14714s	comes up when that matchup comes up is a
14717s	really good matchup for the Mage uh
14721s	there's two other games before that most
14722s	likely as well but Levick now in
14725s	absolutely on the hill Match Point
14727s	whatever you want to call it to get to
14729s	those semi-finals I believe it is going
14732s	to be the image of course for lavik but
14734s	going up against the Rogue from
14736s	possessing and this is a funny one in
14738s	itself right because this uh from
14741s	Lubbock I was talking about this earlier
14743s	with this deck compared to say bunny
14745s	Hoppers Mage Bunny Hop is running more
14748s	late game Powerhouse white plays whereas
14751s	Levick has has pushed everything into
14753s	the early game we've already seen the
14755s	power of the one-off shattering blast
14757s	earlier in the tournament with Levick
14758s	being a priest with that combo and just
14761s	the fact that you can just freeze out
14763s	Rogue so much with this deck that it
14766s	will be a problem for possessing if Levy
14769s	can get hold of those you know the likes
14771s	of solid Alibi maybe the savara that's a
14774s	you know something we've seen go hand in
14775s	hand a lot this weekend and then some of
14777s	the additional phrases as well but
14779s	either way I am with you lorindra I
14781s	think even if this matchup which I think
14783s	is fine for the mage it doesn't go well
14786s	I think the deck's going to get there
14789s	over time it would possessively would
14790s	have to be you know pull something
14791s	incredible out the bag in this series
14793s	for me yeah that goes back to the first
14795s	game of the series where yeah I was
14798s	talking in terms of this is a big one
14799s	because it's the it's the sort of 50 50
14801s	in the the match-up grid and possessing
14804s	did make a mistake
14806s	um yeah no other way around it can't I I
14810s	like to apologize for playing mistakes
14811s	and find reasons for them as much as
14813s	possible that one was straight up just
14814s	didn't spend two mana on the card in his
14816s	hand in time
14819s	see how it goes it looks like a full
14821s	keep from Levick and I'm kind of with
14822s	him on that although there's not
14823s	strictly freeze or anything like that in
14825s	the opening hand dungeone is kind of
14828s	maybe sometimes freeze but most
14830s	importantly it's just good stuff to do
14832s	early because in the world where your
14835s	opponent doesn't just uh draca you on
14837s	three you then if you can just throw
14839s	stuff out there you're probably gonna
14840s	end up being a head on board
14845s	so I love these yeah these mailbox coin
14849s	hands they look so bad and sometimes
14851s	nothing happens but usually there's so
14853s	much cardo in here that it just turns
14854s	into something good
14855s	uh
14859s	yeah it's it is good cardboard it wasn't
14861s	the card I was thinking of but it's
14863s	going to be fine
14868s	rifle through
14870s	Shadow step plus stuff
14874s	I've just got stuff that's fine
14877s	yeah I think lubix probably uh when he
14880s	saw the prep was a little bit worried
14881s	with coin yeah but
14884s	I'm gonna be feeling at least mildly
14886s	okay that he isn't dead yet and we can
14889s	see of course there's still going to be
14890s	a turn or two at minimum before
14892s	possessive is going to get anything done
14894s	no draca and no um location either which
14897s	means just no real pop-off right if
14900s	possessive goes with the um
14902s	[Music]
14904s	losing the name of the card drought
14910s	not shroud yeah sorry if possessing went
14912s	for you know like the stenographers and
14913s	War Masters then who gets right love it
14915s	because you won't will not care it's
14917s	only the dragon locations it's the
14919s	problem
14921s	it is indeed and
14923s	this is kind of being forced to play the
14926s	mailbox without a shadow step which
14929s	not ideal to face but obviously if you
14932s	don't get the shadow step which he does
14933s	found one you end up giving the coins to
14936s	your opponent which is really irritating
14938s	it's the problem now the like
14940s	this is using coins to spend Shadow
14943s	steps to use coins to spend whatever
14945s	like
14946s	with possessive doing this he is digging
14948s	and digging for
14950s	he's trying to win it on this board
14952s	is he just gonna throw everything out
14954s	yeah he's just gonna try winning on this
14955s	board and hope he doesn't get Frozen to
14957s	lose he's just going in
14959s	flurry flurry shattering plus he decided
14963s	he hasn't got the time right but he's
14965s	gonna walk into an absolute catastrophe
14967s	and he's already used a Sprint and he
14969s	hasn't done anything good in hand apart
14971s	from the potion belt which could find
14972s	Card Draw
14974s	and this
14976s	I I actually agree with the decision
14979s	because his hand was not developing up
14981s	to turn five he just hadn't got the
14983s	stuff he doesn't like it he's gonna like
14985s	it a lot less in a minute Levy doesn't
14987s	even have to do all those combos right
14989s	he can now just with Reckless just close
14992s	off the mailbox he can coin ping with
14994s	the coin from the mailbox as well if he
14997s	really wants to kill this stenographer
14999s	and I think why not clear that yeah he's
15002s	just possessed he's basically gone all
15003s	in without any payoff
15005s	and now levix probably like right I get
15008s	to put my feet up for the rest of this
15009s	game needs to draw from potions he needs
15013s	the yellow potion that's not yellow that
15014s	one's yellow absolutely needs the card
15016s	draw
15018s	and I think there's any chance because
15020s	Essie just needs Van Cleef as well
15023s	yeah or the second Sprint but yes Van
15025s	Cleef might be the only way
15027s	it might not be enough it's too slow
15029s	maybe yeah put Levick honestly I can't
15032s	even imagine what he's feeling right now
15034s	2-0 and this game is going about as well
15037s	as you could imagine it's got a foot
15040s	like pretty wide board now got options
15042s	for freeze with the two one ones on
15043s	there got plenty of damage pushing out
15045s	still got emergency buttons in the form
15048s	of flurry and shattering blast now
15050s	possessing has hold of the location and
15052s	the Van Cleef but is it going to be
15054s	enough uh almost certainly no is my
15057s	answer yeah he can make an infinite
15059s	infinite ghoul but it's never going to
15060s	attack so it doesn't matter he's going
15062s	to make an infinite infinite goal this
15064s	ghoul is going to be one big ghoul
15067s	you're not you're lying isn't it a ghost
15069s	uh it's a ghoul now okay the same way
15073s	that there's a chef in the Druid Deck
15075s	okay okay whatever I call it is what it
15078s	is
15081s	one little Ray of Hope here because yeah
15084s	as in well out it's got less chance of
15087s	being frozen out right the weapon has
15089s	less chance of being frozen out than
15091s	minions do it does we can't get to bear
15095s	this can he no he can't
15101s	oh yeah so you can
15104s	if he gets there in time that rope's
15106s	burning again oh surely surely it's just
15109s	prep Bones by draculate and then yeah it
15111s	is it is you're right
15112s	and he wants to trade into the one one
15114s	right
15116s	I think he got the attacking okay okay
15118s	whatever as long as that one one dies
15120s	and he gets to attack with draca boxes
15122s	have been ticked
15124s	okay fine possessive good job nice work
15127s	yeah picking up the Dracula somewhere in
15128s	the middle of that lot when it looked
15129s	like the um the ghost was the only way
15132s	to make anything happen
15135s	wow
15137s	now for Levick there is sanctum there's
15139s	Amplified snow flurry there is solid
15141s	Alibi so what I'm trying to say here is
15144s	there is time but he has been put on a
15146s	bit of a clock now because of that draca
15148s	yep
15150s	uh it will be a bit of an open goal
15152s	though uh possessed he does have
15154s	basically nothing left it is all in on
15156s	this tracker but yes
15158s	okay so 11's just gonna go face with the
15160s	skeleton right yeah he needs every he
15163s	said he's on a clock that's what he said
15164s	that he's he agrees with you he's gonna
15166s	get every point of ping he can get in
15167s	and hope to hang in there yeah I guess
15170s	there's no use for the coin yet so why
15173s	get it right I guess was what I was
15175s	looking at
15175s	hard we Sprint to effectively draw the
15178s	whole deck here for pizzazzi yeah
15181s	don't play that by mistake that would be
15183s	a bad time to make that one
15188s	the problem now is though is Essie uh he
15192s	forgot to attack really has the web
15196s	no he was frozen
15198s	okay that's fine then don't give me a
15200s	heart attack yeah he was frozen by the
15203s	Amplified right yeah yeah yeah the
15205s	problem is possessive doesn't have that
15207s	many cards to like pop off with the
15209s	graveyards right so it's just the
15212s	graveyards now if this weapon gets
15214s	stalled enough or if Levitt can gain
15216s	some health or whatever then it's like
15218s	the graveyards need to be able to just
15219s	do something it's just over in two turns
15223s	as long as he gets The Alibi plate here
15224s	right yeah yeah it's just that that's
15226s	what I mean like possessing can't build
15228s	a big enough board and defend right he
15230s	just doesn't he doesn't have any odds
15232s	left
15236s	I just played the Shroud because why not
15238s	it does nothing except both this
15240s	sinstone but there's what six damage
15242s	showing
15244s	um yeah a ping for three three yeah yeah
15248s	and uh there's no way to do this and
15250s	that is not only going to be game but
15252s	that is going to be serious and
15254s	possessing previous World Champ is not
15256s	going to be able to do it again and
15258s	Levick takes the win 3-0 and honestly
15263s	the either side of this board for all
15266s	these games could not have looked more
15267s	different Levick looked cool calm
15270s	collected and like I said it pays off
15273s	because just solid Play No missing
15276s	around no mistakes and that's the 3-0
15279s	into the top four huge congratulations
15280s	there for Levick yeah I'm an absolute
15283s	cliche machine today but to be the best
15285s	you've got to beat the best and he did
15287s	beat the person who registered as the
15289s	best in 2021 and he is on his way to a
15292s	semi-final because of it
15294s	um obviously it's a Shameless he
15295s	possession those mistakes but this is
15297s	what has defined him in both directions
15298s	super play Super strategy and occasional
15301s	moments like that and yes he was frozen
15303s	just to be clear that last game is
15305s	definitely one where I'd love to you
15307s	know be able to rewind the clock and
15309s	just be like okay what if possessy
15311s	waited one more turn because then things
15314s	could get interesting right because then
15316s	maybe he gets out of a location maybe he
15318s	gets hold of the dragger so can pop off
15320s	as wide as he did and play the drakka
15323s	and I know I'm not saying he's that was
15325s	strictly right or wrong it's just an
15327s	interesting uh point to talk about but
15329s	there you go Lorinda that is going to be
15330s	the top four one of these four players
15332s	is going to be our world champion by the
15335s	end of the day and only a few more
15338s	matches left yep the China vs Europe
15341s	story Europe 3-1 ahead at the moment
15346s	but it's not over yet and I'm just
15349s	thinking about that Levitt game again
15350s	that last game he was just counting all
15352s	the way there's a couple of turns where
15354s	oh he's done two damage to the face okay
15357s	then I guess he needs the damage exactly
15359s	from that last turn with you know 13
15362s	coming in at him next turn and two two
15364s	ghosts coming in next turn and also as
15367s	well let's look at the top four why
15368s	there's so many different uh arcs that
15371s	we could play out here to get to this
15372s	final but what an incredible final it
15374s	would be if it was dead draw versus
15376s	bunny right two Team Liquid players have
15379s	been playing in a you know over in like
15381s	the the Chinese Team league of course as
15383s	well and like what a finals that could
15385s	be and then on the other hand we have
15387s	these Soul remaining Chinese player We
15389s	have levik basically compared to these
15391s	that the new kid on the Block there's a
15393s	lot to look at and a lot to look forward
15394s	to but for now we are going to go to a
15396s	break where we set up the next match
15397s	don't go anywhere we'll be right back
15402s	[Music]
15407s	thank you
15419s	[Music]
15431s	foreign
15436s	[Music]
15466s	[Music]
15474s	you will see
15477s	[Music]
15483s	Christ and serve your pain
15493s	my
15495s	foreign
15501s	foreign
15504s	[Music]
15531s	foreign
15537s	[Music]
15563s	foreign
15565s	[Music]
15602s	hello everybody Welcome Back To The
15604s	harson World Championship my name is TJ
15606s	and I'm joined by the one
15609s	the only diamonds Auto Welch how you
15611s	doing subtle
15612s	I am doing fantastic it's the world
15616s	championship of hearthstone TJ how could
15619s	we not be doing fantastic in such an
15621s	illustrious occasion and I feel like
15623s	we've had a little bit of everything
15624s	today we've had you know strong decks
15627s	blowing people out we've had people just
15629s	not drawing anything that they needed
15631s	from their decks at all we've had
15633s	players winning because they outplayed
15634s	their opponents and we've had players
15636s	losing because they threw uh
15639s	catastrophically so you know a little
15641s	bit of everything as the mixed bag that
15642s	you need from a Hearthstone tournament
15645s	and right now we're getting all of it
15647s	oh yeah oh we're getting a mixed bag all
15651s	right a mixed bag of nonsense
15655s	what I'd love to see in the Hearthstone
15657s	World Championship E versus bunny Hopper
15660s	mirrored classes
15663s	for the first time in
15668s	can you remember another series that had
15669s	mirror classes it's a good question yeah
15672s	the the lineups in general are quite
15676s	homogenized but there are just enough
15678s	differences that it's uh you know it's
15680s	been a mage here instead of a paladin
15682s	there and so on
15683s	um there isn't it's it's been
15685s	these three and Druids largely
15689s	um with some variety of priests that I
15691s	think is the most common but a lot of
15692s	The Druids have now been weeded out and
15694s	I don't think too many of them played
15695s	against each other so not entirely sure
15697s	but yeah very similar uh lineups across
15700s	the board not only is it a class mirror
15702s	but largely an archetype mirror as well
15705s	apart from yui's Little Twist of the
15708s	mine Rogue coming into this one and this
15711s	is kind of the thing with the the kcg
15713s	players in this tournament right is they
15715s	all have one kind of weird deck that no
15718s	other player in the tournament is
15720s	playing like yui has the mine Rogue xmg
15722s	has the aggro Druid uh gelby has
15725s	Celestial Druid like they've each
15727s	individually taken risks with their
15729s	lineup but obviously different risks and
15732s	I talked
15733s	um to some of the kzg players in the
15735s	interviews beforehand and said you know
15737s	clearly your group and your team has
15739s	done fantastically collectively to get
15742s	you all to this point do you now have to
15744s	separate and do your own thing and who
15746s	do you practice with now and does that
15748s	like does that break up some of your
15750s	power and the people that I spoke to are
15751s	generally saying yes this is going to be
15753s	weird that we're now having to prep to
15756s	beat each other specifically as opposed
15758s	to working together so closely as we
15759s	have
15762s	I mean they should
15764s	you can when you go to the world
15766s	championship you can always practice
15767s	together right
15770s	um we've had it in the past uh what's
15772s	the big one uh Viper and Bunny Hopper
15774s	2019 World Championship
15777s	um where they uh practiced and and
15780s	placed it together for the world
15781s	championship the one the hunter race won
15782s	and then they then they met in the same
15785s	made each other right yeah in the
15786s	semi-finals or quarters yeah yeah semis
15788s	are quarters yeah uh pretty late on in
15790s	the tournament and Viper ended up
15791s	winning obviously because he he was the
15792s	one who made it to the finals to play
15793s	against Hunter race
15795s	um but like that sort of mutually
15798s	assured success
15800s	one of you has got to win at the end of
15803s	the day regardless
15805s	um whether you practice together or you
15807s	didn't and having an opportunity for
15809s	both of you to get further in the
15811s	tournament because you know you're
15812s	practicing against uh our privacy with
15815s	players that are very good and they've
15817s	had success within the past I think is
15819s	uh
15820s	uh a good thing it's like the opposite
15822s	of mutually assured destruction you know
15826s	I think at least now UE will be the one
15829s	holding his head high he's the The Last
15831s	Man Standing when it comes to the the
15832s	kzg players in fact the last man
15835s	standing from anywhere else other than
15836s	Europe TJ if I've been following the
15839s	results of these quarterfinals correctly
15842s	um so he has a a large amount of hopes
15846s	weighing heavy on his shoulders I think
15848s	not only that of the China region but I
15850s	would imagine that of many players
15853s	around the world who do not want to see
15855s	more European smugness going through to
15857s	the world championship finals
15859s	well it has been quite some time since
15862s	we've had a European world champion
15864s	not quite as long as it's been since
15867s	we've had a champion from the Americas
15869s	region but 2019 Hunter race was the last
15872s	uh world champion from Europe
15875s	um it's been downhill from there to be
15876s	quite honest with you
15878s	uh just real downhill from there
15880s	um not quite as uh as steep of a slope
15883s	as it was from firebat in 2015. you know
15887s	that was just like
15889s	that was a cliff this one's like a
15891s	gradual decline and now they're slowly
15895s	moving back up the hill
15897s	but Yugi has a Lamborghini and he's
15901s	zooming
15903s	[Music]
15906s	why so hang on in this metaphor are you
15909s	we're driving Lamborghinis off cliffs
15911s	I've very I got lost in the middle of
15913s	what scene you were setting during all
15915s	no no the Americas region was fire bat
15920s	um like driving a minivan with all his
15921s	buddies in the back right just like
15923s	dolls buddies jamming spreadsheets okay
15926s	they're cruising along respectable Pace
15929s	okay
15930s	and then if this is your pitch for a
15933s	teen comedy Road Trip movie I'm not
15935s	buying it okay you are not getting any
15937s	sort of budget to make this and they
15939s	they're driving along and then you know
15941s	fireback winter World Championship they
15943s	celebrate you know they press the button
15944s	on the side the doors open automatically
15946s	they all get out and cheer they get back
15948s	in and they're like now it's your turn
15950s	so all the rest of them take turns
15952s	driving but then boom off a cliff
15954s	um now uh APAC Europe and China
15959s	um they were all sensible you know they
15961s	had GPS they knew the clip was coming
15963s	you know they didn't get ahead of
15964s	themselves so they went around they
15966s	found a they found uh other roads to go
15970s	right
15971s	um Europe was like all right we need
15973s	immediate speed okay so they hit the NOS
15977s	boom
15978s	went straight up the hill okay just you
15981s	know like a an Audi or something I don't
15983s	know straight up the hill and then boom
15986s	real steep slope after that and there
15988s	and they they didn't total the car but
15991s	they crashed enough to where it was
15992s	going to delay them
15994s	um China was just going straight the
15995s	whole time no Hills
15998s	just you know one flat height no no it's
16002s	45 I finally caught up with the metaphor
16004s	now what China was doing is that they
16006s	spent the first three or four years
16008s	saving up so they could buy a
16010s	Lamborghini so they did nothing for
16012s	three or four years because they were
16014s	just saving every penny
16016s	that's true yeah no and then with lion
16018s	lion was the first person to get usage
16020s	of the Lamborghini and then since then
16022s	China's just been on top right like
16024s	China's been absolutely stomping in
16026s	Masters tours ever since line was the
16027s	world champion this all sorry to you I'm
16029s	sorry I doubted you this all this all
16031s	made perfect sense all along yeah well
16034s	it was it was lion was in the original
16036s	car the rest of them were like I don't
16038s	like this plan if we keep doing this
16040s	we're going to be the same as Europe
16041s	forever
16043s	um lions like no I think this is going
16045s	to be good so she kept going and she
16048s	finished first in 2020. then the rest of
16051s	them got out went back home saved up for
16053s	the Lamborghini
16055s	real quick real quick because line has
16057s	already shown them how to get a
16059s	Lamborghini quickly at that point so
16061s	they can do it much faster right the
16063s	road map's already set out for them they
16064s	can get in there exactly a little
16066s	quicker than mine did yeah so they got
16068s	it and now
16070s	um
16071s	he's the one that's in it right now and
16074s	then what region am I missing oh APAC
16076s	um
16078s	eight pack
16081s	got a spaceship okay we got a rocket
16086s	okay they they didn't even know the race
16088s	was happening for for the first four
16091s	years and then they realized in 2019
16094s	wait a second
16096s	there's a race going on we gotta get in
16098s	this all their life savings they all
16101s	threw it together they bought a rocket
16103s	ship they went to the moon okay
16107s	um and then
16108s	they got two world champions in a row
16110s	Boom at the Moon two world champions in
16112s	a row and then they realized that
16114s	possessi had made all these promises
16117s	like all right after we get to the moon
16118s	we're gonna
16119s	turns out that what possessity didn't
16121s	tell them is they were broke they didn't
16123s	have any money so now they're stuck on
16126s	the moon
16129s	so this this world championship is being
16131s	played on Mars
16134s	two things real quick
16136s	I first off just to stop anyone being
16139s	mad at TJ Sanders we have not delayed
16141s	the start of the HearthStone for 10
16143s	minutes while TJ went off on this
16145s	extended metaphor we were told that we
16148s	did not have the players and might have
16150s	to fill for time and so TJ decided to do
16152s	a 10 minute metaphor about various
16153s	Vehicles okay just want to make that
16155s	very clear before an angry mob murders
16158s	TJ so secondly so where we are now
16162s	where we are now is
16165s	the world championship trophy is on Mars
16167s	okay possessy still stuck on the moon
16170s	ran out of money okay
16173s	the America's region they're still on
16176s	Earth they had a minivan they ran it off
16178s	a cliff the dunzo
16180s	China is in a Lamborghini just racing to
16184s	the to Mars okay in Europe
16188s	you know still where were they oh
16191s	they're in a another respectable fast
16195s	vehicle hitting the NOS
16197s	getting to Mars
16199s	so sorry the the plan there's three of
16202s	them in the same vehicle so
16204s	you know inertia uh
16208s	laws of physics and motion
16210s	what what goes up must come down they're
16213s	going faster because there's more of
16214s	them in there
16216s	it's a Lamborghini it's probably going
16218s	to get to Mars first
16221s	fairly short neither of those
16223s	terrestrial vehicles are going to make
16224s	it to Mars I'm also very uncomfortable
16227s	with the idea that we started talking
16228s	about like how to buy Lamborghinis and
16230s	things going to the moon like we'd sound
16232s	like awful Tick-Tock influences at this
16234s	point so I think we should move on very
16236s	rapidly that's my calling foreign
16241s	I mean considering how long it took you
16244s	to make that entire metaphor I'm not
16246s	sure that short forms is really your
16249s	wheelhouse no it's not no I don't even
16253s	think a platform exists to where I could
16255s	oh this one this is my calling
16260s	a world championship where the only
16262s	delays of the day have been right now
16264s	where I start casting with saddle
16266s	my favorite person to make crazy
16268s	metaphors with who won't reciprocate
16270s	them correct Orinda is my favorite
16272s	person to make metaphors with if I want
16274s	the metaphor to never end
16277s	well TJ it's been fun but can I interest
16280s	you in talking about Hearthstone at all
16282s	well we continue to wait for some
16283s	Hearthstone to break out yeah we did to
16285s	be fair we did talk about HearthStone
16286s	for quite some time before we got to
16288s	that point
16289s	um
16290s	but now yes we can
16292s	so that was tangentially Hearthstone
16295s	related as well yeah it was a weird
16298s	potted metaphorical history of the
16300s	Hearthstone world championship and its
16302s	winners through the lens of TJ Saunders
16304s	warped child brain
16306s	um but mine Rogue is specifically what I
16308s	would like to talk about because you
16310s	cast uh mine Rogue a little bit early on
16312s	right and I could almost hear the wheels
16314s	turning as you suddenly remembered how
16317s	much damage mine Rogue did and how
16319s	quickly it happened
16321s	um do you think it's like actually well
16323s	positioned in this tournament because uh
16325s	it's certainly the only one that we're
16326s	seeing Reach This stage so uh not in
16330s	this current metagame but over the past
16332s	year right since the beginning of the
16334s	year I
16336s	I
16337s	can't
16338s	um I think that mine Rogue is the deck
16340s	that I played the most games on in as in
16342s	a specific archetype okay
16345s	um
16346s	I'm out of practice a little bit but uh
16350s	I think that that deck has
16352s	almost always been underrated in terms
16355s	of how powerful it is specifically when
16357s	you're looking at other combo decks
16361s	that have 30 Health right which Demon
16364s	Hunter you know floats right in that
16366s	that margin because yeah if you're faced
16369s	with no pressure
16370s	you can just make your hand
16372s	whatever you want and just hold on to
16375s	resources however long you want and you
16377s	can kill
16378s	very quickly
16380s	um and when you have that time and when
16383s	you're facing off against another deck
16384s	who's not doing anything mine Rogue will
16386s	often come out on top the only issue
16388s	though is that
16390s	your bad draws are very bad
16393s	[Music]
16395s	um so like your ceiling is much higher
16396s	but your floor is
16398s	much lower
16400s	that makes sense yeah no I think that's
16402s	entirely fair I would largely agree and
16404s	just looking at the remainder of the
16406s	field
16408s	uh dead draw has a very heavy
16410s	renithal-based lineup he has the XL Mage
16413s	he also has control priest and a 40 card
16416s	jackpot Rogue and but on the other side
16418s	of that Levick has a very slimmed down
16422s	lineup again how's that Quest Demon
16423s	Hunter that we're talking about major
16425s	the 30 card version so a very uh lighter
16428s	Target for the mine Rogue to get at and
16430s	then has that Boone priest as well which
16432s	you know that that is a contentious
16434s	matchup for sure but certainly in some
16436s	of the matchups that we have been seeing
16437s	and I think particularly that Quest
16439s	Demon Hunter that you were talking about
16442s	um I have played a ton of question
16443s	Hunter and have played against a ton of
16445s	death rattle Rogue obviously because
16447s	that's a large chunk of what ladder is
16449s	and there's been so many occasions where
16453s	they're doing burning blade acolyte
16454s	stuff or ghoul stuff or whatever and I'm
16457s	just sat there thinking if they've put
16459s	one mine in their deck I'm dead like
16463s	just outright dead and there is nothing
16465s	I can do about it so I do think it was a
16468s	very Heads Up Call from UE and honestly
16470s	I think this is a a genuine contributing
16473s	factor to the reason why yui is here and
16475s	the other Chinese players aren't
16478s	and I feel like the mine Rogue version
16479s	on ladder is not as popular so it's not
16482s	when you're playing on ladder you you
16484s	completely disrespect the damage so I
16487s	agree I'm like all right they got you
16489s	know four the burning blade acolyte
16492s	tokens on board I'm at 26. I'm good like
16496s	I can wait a turn just really good
16497s	dimensions with mine Rogue no you gotta
16500s	always be worried about your life total
16501s	to an extent you also sometimes just
16503s	have to ignore that and say I'm gonna go
16505s	with my own game plan and hope they
16506s	don't have it but as we saw earlier
16509s	um in the yarla versus you you match up
16512s	they're gonna kill you even without
16514s	training centered yeah I could do this
16517s	so yeah I'm looking forward to it
16520s	um it looks like players have been found
16523s	so I believe that means we should be
16528s	we did a bad minimum for the resumption
16531s	of the Hearthstone tournament has been
16533s	achieved achieved I believe that means
16536s	that we should be going into game
16537s	relatively shortly
16539s	[Music]
16547s	what's happening now you can't just
16548s	disappear off camera left what are you
16551s	doing oh hey buddy yes you can hey he's
16554s	biting my lights oh okay dashie's not in
16557s	here so we can't have we can't have cat
16559s	Wars again unfortunately I literally
16561s	have to go walk around the entire house
16562s	and find them I specifically let him out
16565s	and he came back
16570s	the Bengals is that what they are
16573s	I don't know okay
16576s	they're they're rescues we got them when
16578s	they were
16580s	three weeks old I think
16582s	it just stopped uh nursing um and their
16585s	their mom just dipped
16589s	buns
16590s	bands have a tears yeah and there we go
16593s	like through all the nonsense I did at
16596s	least make some effort to set up
16598s	something thematic because I had a
16600s	feeling breaking down this uh this match
16602s	up in the break as we were watching the
16604s	previous one complete that uh OG might
16607s	just be the deck to receive the ban in
16609s	this one and that is a lot of respect uh
16612s	being given to that mine Rogue which is
16613s	why I wanted to bring it up and talk
16614s	about it because it just does go to show
16616s	siphoning that ban away means that you
16618s	know Demon Hunter gets to stay up
16620s	there's none of that concern uh bunny
16622s	trusting in the control priest I I would
16625s	imagine to some degree to go up against
16627s	the Demon Hunter which is not something
16629s	I was expecting to say coming into this
16631s	I was talking about this with Raven feel
16634s	like a at a ladder standard even a
16636s	relatively High ladder standards that's
16639s	still a good matchup for the Demon
16641s	Hunter
16642s	um but the the South Harbor that we've
16644s	seen the the control priests have just
16646s	had the edge in not only managing
16649s	disruption but also getting ready good
16651s	pressure going at the same time which is
16653s	a balance that my ladder opponents don't
16655s	really seem to get right in the matchup
16657s	so interesting in the in the few matches
16659s	that we have left the two semis in the
16661s	final whether that Trend continues
16663s	yeah it feels like we've been getting
16665s	like the plague spreader end of the deal
16667s	but it's a it's a big deck
16671s	40 cards
16672s	though
16674s	and it's not quite so you can't like
16676s	fetch a specific thing
16677s	you're limited on draw so
16680s	you got to make do with what you got and
16683s	you really only have like seven eight
16685s	turns in order to find something for
16688s	that disruption or for that pressure uh
16690s	before the demon Hunter's Gonna Get You
16693s	[Music]
16694s	pop out of the bushes
16698s	with a surprised 80-something damage as
16701s	most things in bushes tend to have
16703s	hidden up their sleeve yeah imagine
16705s	you're walking down the street and a
16708s	Demon Hunter
16709s	pops out of a bush
16711s	and starts unleashing fell
16715s	but then it's fine because you've
16717s	already preemptively given it the plague
16719s	which is actually as we know the only
16721s	one true counter to demon Hunters yeah
16724s	little did they know yes to be fair to
16727s	be fair leg spreader in that bush well
16729s	yes if the Demon Hunter is in a bush
16731s	that kind of suggests that it's outside
16733s	in which case yeah it has the plague
16735s	that's just kind of how the world works
16737s	now isn't it these days yeah yeah it is
16741s	um so it turns out finding the players
16744s	was only step one
16746s	haha
16749s	now the players have to find it within
16751s	themselves
16754s	to pick which deck they're going to play
16755s	first
16756s	yeah well we got through bands which is
16758s	why I was very excited to see our lower
16761s	third matchup chart thing uh appear or
16763s	lineup chart up here because that means
16764s	the band's got in which is an excellent
16767s	First Step at the very least
16769s	um remainder of these matchups talk
16771s	about uh pigmage on UE side 40 card
16775s	version for UE as well it's a very
16778s	interesting lineup whenever I see a
16780s	lineup like this my brain just goes to
16781s	Pavel for some reason I don't know why
16784s	um you remember for like 18 straight
16786s	months Pavel just brought like a two and
16788s	two lineup it was like two slow decks
16790s	two fast decks every single tournament
16792s	back to back to back including when he
16794s	went undefeated for like an enormous
16796s	amount of time
16798s	um it's just that's that's always what I
16800s	think of when I see this kind of lineup
16801s	with like two slow grindy XL decks with
16804s	the Ping Mage and the priest and then
16805s	two very very fast combo decks with the
16808s	Demon Hunter and the mime Rogan hey it
16810s	worked pretty darn well for Pavel for a
16812s	very long time
16814s	yeah that was back when you know we were
16818s	young and naive and we were trying to
16820s	coin all these terms
16822s	you know like that's a pobble lineup you
16826s	know like uh or who was it oh uh Samuel
16829s	Sal's play style
16832s	to you no one else tried to coin that
16837s	uh Samuel style for those who don't know
16840s	a player that had a lot of success in
16842s	Hearthstone over over a couple years who
16845s	oftentimes made
16846s	baffling plays and stumbled into
16849s	victories
16850s	and it was because he played this is my
16853s	theory okay uh he played as if
16857s	the next card in his deck his next draw
16860s	was the best draw
16862s	this deck
16864s	what he did the beginning of the turn he
16866s	identified what's my best top deck
16867s	that's what I'm gonna draw next turn
16869s	this is my Play
16871s	and uh had an alarming amount of success
16874s	with that play style
16876s	to quote an admirableism he doesn't just
16878s	play with the cards in his hand he plays
16880s	with the cards in his deck
16883s	Amen brother that's what I would always
16886s	say when he said that
16888s	and then probably follow up with there
16890s	being multiple roads to Del Dorado or
16893s	something
16896s	what was it
16897s	oh there's just two two that's exactly
16901s	two
16903s	no more no less oh two years two roads
16905s	El Paso yeah two right
16913s	and they're boring boring roads
16917s	to reward you for that incredibly long
16920s	amount of time that you had to wait so
16922s	to get into this series it looks like we
16925s	are going to kick things off with at
16927s	least an incredibly long game of Hearth
16929s	tanks this is going to be control
16929s	priests going up against the slow Mage
16932s	on the other side for UE so this one
16934s	could be a absolute grind and we could
16937s	be seeing the plague people come back
16939s	into play as well they can actually have
16940s	a really really big impact on this game
16942s	there's a cup a couple of very crucial
16944s	minions in this deck yeah you bet your
16948s	butt if you see a high dust cost it's
16951s	going to be a long game you see 22 000
16953s	dust oh boy that's a 20 minute at least
16958s	game so
16961s	so funny how that works aggregate games
16964s	very fast very low dust cost
16967s	Pig Mage very high test costs very long
16969s	games
16970s	get what you pay for
16973s	yep going all the way back to the
16975s	original wallet Warrior way back in the
16977s	day when however many legendaries are in
16979s	that egg I feel like that never broke
16981s	the 20 000 Mark I think I guess now
16983s	we're dealing with 40 card deck so it's
16985s	kind of cheating you'd have to do like
16986s	average cost per card for it to be a
16989s	fair comparison right
16994s	it was
16996s	they're in a test game right now so
16998s	we'll be jumping in momentarily but I
16999s	have one more I don't know it was a
17001s	personal anecdote I remember back when
17003s	we were making these initial Graphics
17006s	um because we've had the same like deck
17008s	Graphics since after Specialists right
17010s	so what was that 2020 was that 2020 2019
17014s	something like that 19 yeah not sure it
17017s	was it was in 2019.
17019s	we kind of had like two World
17021s	Championships almost in 2019
17023s	Because the actual World Championship
17025s	the Honda race one was in 2019 and then
17027s	lion also won in 2019.
17030s	um just at the end of the year
17033s	um so what was I gonna say oh and they I
17037s	worked at blizzard time they asked me
17038s	for feedback on the graphic and I was
17039s	like does cost interesting
17042s	I was like I don't think that fits like
17043s	well what else would you put there
17045s	I was like good point
17047s	ship it
17048s	[Laughter]
17051s	so that's how that went yeah good I mean
17056s	I feel like we're getting fascinating
17057s	insight into the inner machinations so
17060s	for us don't need Sports
17062s	oh have you got a better idea now all
17065s	right ship it
17071s	it's honestly been like my life
17074s	my brain says what are you gonna say TJ
17076s	and I'm like I want to say this it's
17078s	like you got a better idea
17082s	all right ship it okay all the brain
17085s	brain one has pitched this do you have a
17089s	better idea nah sorry bud you're all on
17091s	your own it's left side right side right
17093s	that's how that works all right I guess
17095s	10 minute uh extended vehicle metaphor
17098s	is
17101s	I was like what was that 30 minutes I
17105s	don't know oh geez I want to go home and
17108s	I'm already here
17112s	next I was like I'm going home it just
17114s	gets up from his chair goes to the bed
17115s	that's like six feet away
17118s	I hate traveling to work we did it we
17122s	did it
17126s	all right Dawn grasp opening hands big
17130s	big deal
17134s	Bonnie's hand leaves a lot to be desired
17137s	does
17142s	like like 32 out of the 40 cards in his
17145s	deck though I could see the same thing
17146s	so
17149s	um
17159s	trying to look for some craziness in the
17162s	deckless
17164s	things that could uh really make things
17167s	awkward
17169s	feels like the uh
17172s	sisters fall now probably has to be
17174s	number one yep priority for for bunny
17177s	Hopper just to get that value
17179s	the Daw as well
17183s	and the plague spreader just to get the
17185s	additional value ultimately like you
17187s	know super late game strategy for bunny
17189s	Hopper is to
17191s	Citrus falling uh you know collect some
17193s	ambulance start trading them flood the
17195s	pool with uh
17197s	spiders and plague spreaders
17202s	yeah I think keep bringing them back the
17205s	big question though is whether you get
17206s	enough time to do that when your
17209s	opponent plays Dawn grasp on curve right
17211s	because we when you draw Dawn grasp you
17216s	are very clearly established that you're
17218s	now playing aggro in this matchup right
17219s	there's no real other way around it
17221s	you're not going to outvalue the priest
17223s	particularly this build of priest with
17225s	that asterisk infinite value from the
17228s	spawner and then you know as many medals
17230s	as you can get as well on top of that
17232s	you're never going to be able to keep up
17233s	on that however massive amounts of
17236s	damage per turn that's a real big deal
17238s	of course this is the uh 40 card version
17240s	as well so you are
17243s	um looking at bran being in there with
17245s	the Reckless apprentice and so on and so
17246s	forth but then we get into the dynamic
17248s	of how many of those minions you
17250s	actually get to play in their original
17251s	form as minions and how many of them die
17254s	of the plague
17258s	yep well said
17260s	I mean thematically that's what's
17262s	happening right I think yep well I mean
17266s	you yes plague spreader is an undead so
17270s	yeah
17271s	in Canon they have died
17274s	yeah and it's one of the only ways for a
17278s	minion to skip the Hearthstone process
17281s	of death which is Living Dead undead
17286s	prison Court
17289s	ah yes the cycle spreader gets to
17293s	give the whole dead yeah phase of it
17299s	goes to a slow chart of death straight
17301s	to being Undead without leaving a corpse
17304s	that's very impressive uh no it still
17306s	goes that it skips the dead stage
17312s	[Music]
17314s	they go straight from living to Undead
17316s	right
17320s	they'll get stole leaves a corpse
17324s	nobody can utilize the corpses except
17326s	for death Knights but it still leaves
17327s	one
17328s	strangely enough even if it's then
17330s	reborn it's still Undead
17339s	I need to rethink everything
17351s	between gift and amulet I feel Emily so
17354s	you can just start trading it
17356s	yeah I think something to be useful for
17359s	the purposes of drawing a card I think
17360s	you'd rather be juicing The Amulet than
17363s	drawing than uh recovering through
17365s	Health right it just seems more useful
17367s	across the long term
17370s	especially if those amulets are going to
17371s	turn into plagues brothers or uh Midas
17374s	at any point
17376s	foreign disagrees
17382s	who am I to doubt
17387s	the hopper of bunnies
17392s	I would imagine you will want to get
17395s	this Arcane intellect cast at some point
17397s	and this looks like the turn to do it
17398s	yep just get that into the pool now for
17400s	the dawn grasp
17405s	again this is not gonna be a straight up
17408s	fatigue matchup even if it was the Mage
17411s	would not be in the conversation because
17413s	they don't really have the way to extend
17415s	the deck size in the way that the priest
17416s	does so no real concerns from you you
17418s	hear about drawing cards just wants to
17420s	be able to cycle through to the heavy
17422s	hitches as rapidly as possible
17424s	foreign
17439s	but
17441s	I mean I feel like you can you can just
17444s	extend like there's always like this
17446s	okay well you know you don't want to
17448s	overextend against priests
17450s	because they have so much removal
17454s	but you do have so many resources
17457s	as this Mage death yeah
17460s	specifically this one I mean
17463s	in this the nerubians and the Prismatic
17466s	Elementals you just have like infinite
17468s	stuff
17469s	yes you do but in this style of match-up
17472s	the only removal card you need to be
17473s	scared of is whirlpool and you need to
17475s	be scared of it in a very specific way
17477s	it's like don't get your Reckless
17479s	Apprentice whirlpooled for example
17481s	that's a bad plan
17484s	yeah
17485s	we've already seen uh one instance in
17488s	this tournament where Whirlpool could
17490s	have been used to incredible effect and
17492s	did not do so but uh certainly sort of a
17496s	unique mechanic that you do have to keep
17497s	in mind that is a little bit different
17499s	from just regular removal outside of
17501s	that yeah I think go ahead and throw out
17503s	all the Minions you can in the early
17504s	game yeah
17509s	they're pretty annoying board but I
17510s	don't think bunny Hopper is too worried
17511s	about it could make a value trade then
17513s	give to the naaru
17515s	deal the light shower Elemental up to
17516s	full and also draw a card and see what's
17519s	in the box for the venomous scorpion
17520s	first
17521s	shoot that maybe uh changes things
17531s	ah yeah forgot about the objection
17534s	yeah probably just gonna end up going
17535s	double minions in this case then
17540s	and forego the gift
17548s	huh
17550s	oh
17553s	clear conscience
17558s	no devour I think you need cheap stuff
17560s	that can just be played you don't want
17562s	your hand filled with all these
17564s	sort of expensive situational cards yeah
17568s	I agreed
17570s	because handspace is almost always an
17572s	issue with these style of control
17573s	priests with any style because you're
17576s	holding on to every card for a rainy day
17581s	all right easy Dawn grass this turn you
17583s	see the reaction from bunny is one of
17585s	frustration
17586s	of course very easy to sympathize with
17588s	that and also with the zero Mana hero
17590s	power banked all the way up until this
17591s	point you do get the uh the immediate
17593s	juice on the here about
17607s	gotta think of what the play next turn
17610s	is but I don't think a double trading
17612s	this scorpion really makes much sense so
17614s	I agreed
17617s	oh yeah
17619s	oh board clear hello clean that scene
17628s	I mean the rest of the hand it's a fat
17631s	sack of nothing
17632s	yeah
17633s	even
17635s	oh
17640s	I guess you're gifting you would rather
17642s	like spirit guide or any other mid-range
17645s	Dominion in your deck by a significant
17647s	margin than clearing this board I think
17651s	foreign
17655s	what else do you actually have problem
17657s	with like drawing for example the other
17659s	light shower Elemental or a plague
17661s	spreader is it's the perfect hero power
17664s	interval on the other side you just be
17665s	playing it straight into either trade
17668s	plus ping or just straight up ping
17670s	depending on whether it's for health or
17671s	six health
17676s	a counter argument at some point that's
17679s	going to happen
17688s	yep funny just essentially using some of
17693s	the less flexible cards in the hand to
17695s	clear up instead no great emergency to
17697s	use the AOE
17711s	honestly you can start thinking about
17713s	long-term damage
17715s	pretty soon
17718s	you're a power of four currently I
17721s	believe
17733s	now freeze the Scorpion
17735s	make sure that that can't answer the
17738s	board the problem is he doesn't really
17739s	have anything he particularly wants to
17741s	commit immediately to the board state
17753s	oh it appears TJ has disconnected and
17755s	left me all on my own for a while
17764s	yeah as cold Casey anything left
17766s	proactive that you really wanted to do
17768s	unless you were in the interest of
17769s	dropping Varden
17771s	on that turn just to clear up the
17772s	problem of the Scorpio but that doesn't
17774s	really seem worth it in this scenario
17784s	and so far you he's done a really really
17786s	good job of just making awkward board
17788s	states that are threatening enough
17790s	especially when backed up with the hero
17791s	power
17792s	to make bunny have to react to them but
17795s	never making a board that's really good
17797s	enough for bunny to feel comfortable
17799s	ripping a premium AOE spell but just
17801s	understands he kind of has to in this
17803s	spot and does so UE does get a light
17805s	bulb out of the hand
17814s	and that means now UE can start to get
17817s	some value out of these viziers oh
17820s	okay
17825s	this is already a straight up choice
17828s	between the two roads to El Paso
17833s	because Fireball Mass polymorph are both
17835s	two excellent choices here for different
17839s	reasons
17841s	Fireball supporting the damage plan with
17843s	the hero powers and the brown Reckless
17845s	etc etc Mass polymorph kind of
17848s	preventing you from getting plague
17850s	spreaded a meaning that you then get to
17852s	keep those cards like brand Reckless and
17854s	everything else
17856s	I think this is a very very tough
17858s	decision watch him now just take
17860s	roondorb having been the card that I
17862s	haven't talked about at all
17868s	okay does go Mouse Paulie bye now
17874s	and okay ends up best to both worlds
17876s	perfect
17884s	oh sorry I just realized this whole time
17886s	I was getting baited by the fact that
17888s	the text on the thing is still wrong
17890s	it's just gone from three damage to four
17893s	my mistake that'll teach me for reading
17896s	things that are written on the actual
17898s	game UI and trusting them
17905s	I wonder
17908s	so already this is an enormous amount of
17910s	damage building up and again now because
17912s	of the mass polymorph security blanket
17915s	bunny is gonna have a great deal of
17917s	difficulty in terms of uh getting a
17919s	plague spreader train rolling
17921s	so if the first one doesn't die it's
17923s	then not being resurrected by any of the
17925s	cards that do so
17927s	you use looking in pretty good shape
17930s	right now overall
17935s	I think just has to start parceling out
17937s	this damage hey buddy how's it going all
17939s	right
17944s	wow looks like nothing's changed well
17947s	things so the hero power has been
17949s	upgraded a bit it's now at four and
17951s	there is a fireball and a mass polymorph
17954s	in the hand which is you know very
17956s	useful
17957s	for both damage and for dealing with the
17959s	plate spreaders after that yep pretty
17962s	much equilibrium has been resumed bunny
17964s	was forced to use a light bulb at one
17966s	point and apart from that not a lot is
17968s	going on okay
17971s	sounds good thanks for catching me up
17973s	see your turret drawn
17975s	no idea Wendy would want to use it
17980s	uh when I mean I guess my answer is when
17983s	you have Mana to spend which is kind of
17984s	now it doesn't really have Mana to spend
17987s	on anything else at the moment yeah I'd
17990s	be worried to ruin here in case you get
17992s	too much like car draw and overdraw yep
17995s	oh
18000s	I don't even know
18002s	okay okay
18005s	yeah desperate for just to prevent the
18007s	healing actually ghost face with the
18009s	hero power as well instead of shooting
18010s	the own uh his own Theater which is
18012s	always a debate to be had
18015s	yeah I probably would have shot the
18017s	theater to be honest
18020s	Maybe
18021s	I'm used to it having four health so TJ
18024s	what you're forgetting though is that
18026s	it's a four four
18028s	um and as Lorinda will tell you even in
18031s	the year 2022 that makes it a mortal
18034s	against priests so this this fall
18036s	forward just connects for like 30 damage
18038s	this game yeah nah you you right you're
18040s	right yeah
18041s	oh got a plague spreader oh wow okay
18046s	now you see what he's actually drawn is
18049s	a sheep
18053s	true
18055s	light two sheep in fact
18058s	that's the final step
18062s	flow chart
18064s	they're being dead Undead corpse risen
18068s	corpse sheep
18079s	I mean it feels like a pretty darn good
18081s	Mass polymorph doesn't it though
18084s	I was just I was talking about this
18086s	right before you rejoined like it's not
18090s	just this plague spreader doesn't turn
18092s	your brand or your Reckless Apprentice
18093s	into a plague spreader it's also one
18097s	doesn't go in the pool so now it's not
18099s	coming back from amulet it's not coming
18100s	back from the 2-4 it's not coming back
18102s	uh from uh the hero card or any such
18106s	nonsense like you're just dealing with
18108s	so much of the problem in front of you
18110s	by polymorphing this thing yeah
18114s	and the question is once again do you
18116s	ping the theater before you mask
18117s	polymorph or do you shoot that damage
18119s	phase because your argument of it's four
18121s	four Never Gonna Die
18124s	it doesn't exist anymore be clear not my
18127s	Oculus
18128s	I have actually paid attention to the
18131s	game after 2019 you know
18137s	a little
18142s	whoa oh dude whoa
18147s	whoa
18148s	okay
18150s	there's a lot of Bird in Hand
18153s	there is a lot of Bird in Hand here
18162s	it's just
18163s	somewhat Risky Business
18167s	there's a large amount of that burn is
18168s	reliant on the only two Minions that you
18171s	currently have
18172s	obviously it would take something a
18174s	little adventurous to uh to blow this up
18177s	right now before you're able to
18178s	polymorph it but it's not impossible
18188s	the light it burns
18194s	okay
18199s	I mean sisters falling up getting mass
18203s	pollied is also a pretty big deal so
18205s	it's another Minion that bone collar
18206s	can't bring back then it's big
18218s	but as the card we said bunny was going
18220s	to be looking for it's gonna give him a
18222s	whole lot of value
18226s	Shadow spells that can heal are pretty
18228s	limited though
18232s	if that's his concern
18234s	um you have like void Shard which is a
18236s	void charge it's a feel yeah
18239s	um you can get like Thrive which can
18241s	pull heal from your deck but that's you
18243s	know
18244s	that you would have had anyway
18248s	you can also get burst
18251s	I mean it's again like void Shard and
18254s	whatever the five Mana spell is that if
18256s	you had an undead diet deal with two
18257s	damage to all enemies and Shadow Wood on
18261s	death I think got a word on death yeah
18264s	um it's face damage too it's all enemies
18266s	not it is yeah I feel like
18269s	that more and more and more recently
18271s	like AOE that also hits face it feels
18273s	like that's more the norm now than it
18275s	ever was yeah Unleashed fell I'm gonna
18278s	yep we gotta make this different from
18280s	fell screen blast
18282s	oh no it's like six times better
18286s	do you have a better idea nope ship
18289s	it
18300s	oh
18304s	um well you saw the Wildfire plate so
18307s	yep what do you want it is the question
18311s	yep still an actual decision to be made
18318s	I guess would
18320s	Varela yes that's the one
18324s	like it's only one Mana you're floated
18326s	so much man in the game yeah agreed you
18329s	might as well get the half of a damage
18331s	each turn bonus that it's gonna give you
18333s	at some point in the game
18340s	all right
18350s	not too quickly start collecting those
18353s	void shards
18375s	and there's the bone cooler
18381s	yeah I'm not sure certainly the uh two
18385s	significant ones on the previous board
18386s	were both mass-pollied I would be lying
18390s	if I claimed I knew every minion that
18392s	had died before this
18393s	uh Prince Renault light shower Elemental
18396s	venomous scorpion
18398s	[Music]
18407s	none of which are Undead
18414s	Burns coming in hot
18424s	so far this game has been a very long
18426s	and frustrating experience for Mr Hopper
18430s	and this is kind of how it feels I mean
18433s	you saw the reaction when the hero was
18435s	played on turn seven right like you know
18437s	you are in for a wildly uphill battle
18440s	when that kind of thing happens yeah
18445s	foreign
18449s	was the plague spreader
18453s	and that was shut down quite
18455s	significantly
18457s	uh that pick which I I don't think you
18460s	were here for right when the discovers
18461s	were made of the choices
18465s	yeah so he played the two viziers having
18468s	finally got the discount for them he
18470s	played them both in the same turn
18471s	um and then the first one was polymorph
18473s	against Fireball and took the polymorph
18476s	over the fireball which took him most of
18479s	the turn to decide which of those two he
18480s	wanted and then the second one just gave
18482s	him the fireball again so he got to have
18484s	the best of both worlds
18486s	foreign
18489s	ER oh gosh oh
18493s	insane no minions in hand Dead next turn
18498s	insane
18507s	A desperate prayer flash
18510s	um
18516s	beer guide
18519s	phone caller
18524s	oh that is sick
18526s	the flush behemoth
18529s	um
18531s	with like
18532s	amulet and Bone collar it's just gonna
18536s	pull all the contents from the deck and
18538s	then keep resurrecting them
18541s	yeah Fair
18544s	that's a nice pickup from Call of the
18546s	group it is I do kind of feel like
18549s	Bonnie needed to do it like three or
18550s	four turns ago though to have enough
18552s	time to actually extend
18555s	yeah
18557s	he
18559s	most of the time has another pink Target
18562s	here with the flush pinky myth unless
18564s	the baltus girlfriend hits it
18566s	bring it up to seven
18569s	sets
18572s	do you ball
18574s	it feels like a lot of damage not going
18576s	phase to me at this point okay fine
18583s	yeah and this dies
18591s	this was the issue right I think you
18594s	felt okay going for the Ping for six
18596s	because some of the time you got three
18598s	of that damage back by being able to
18599s	attack with the Reckless Apprentice
18602s	um but
18603s	both this and well there's there's two
18607s	different torn outcomes that could have
18608s	come out of it right I suppose looking
18609s	at it so
18624s	light bomb ever consideration here
18627s	foreign
18635s	to blow up the plague spreader or what
18637s	are we doing yeah pull up the plague
18638s	spreader yeah I have to get a card out
18641s	of hand that's expensive you could also
18642s	the Light it burns the uh
18645s	Reckless Apprentice but I guess the
18647s	taunt still has a lot of value
18650s	yeah true
18653s	I'm not sure like now you've seen bran
18656s	Reckless
18657s	how dense is the pool of Minions that
18659s	you're actually looking to destroy like
18661s	obviously more dress is fantastic if you
18663s	could uh get rid of that it's a big deal
18666s	I feel like you've already missed the
18669s	window okay that is a huge deal though
18673s	yeah because the light share Elementals
18675s	and the behemoths were the only ones
18679s	that had died so did that first before
18681s	the plague spreader was killed yep
18684s	um to make sure the highest likelihood
18686s	of like Charlie Elementals was there
18689s	and I mean that's a lot of Health
18694s	though that is a big hero power
18699s	is it Rune time
18702s	it's blizzard I think and then pig face
18704s	sets up for lethal
18710s	it's true actually yeah especially with
18713s	this Wildfire on top of it as well
18714s	you're doing eight then eight you have
18716s	six more
18717s	yeah so it sets up lethal through a hero
18720s	power yeah exactly without the Wildfire
18723s	you're then one off of being able to
18724s	throw a hero power right which is a big
18726s	big difference yeah and we'll see if
18730s	bunny Hopper senses that right
18733s	because if he does then it kind of has
18735s	to be a light bomb
18737s	yeah I do like the UE has just
18739s	recognized how clearly focused you are
18742s	on damage in this matchup as well just
18744s	you can look at a lot of the decisions
18745s	you know how painful it was for him not
18748s	to take a fireball when Mass polymorph
18750s	was obviously an amazing card to take
18751s	Taking then the second polymorph
18753s	immediately but also the theater
18755s	decision just to Jack the desperate
18756s	prayer away from the opponent is
18758s	actually now reaching the point where
18759s	it's incredibly relevant as we're
18761s	getting to the end of the game
18768s	I guess Shadow work ruin makes more
18771s	sense
18789s	okay
18792s	pretty good turn
18799s	okay there is now no longer anything
18801s	that you can spend manner on
18806s	although they're like I feel like you
18808s	have any level of self-respect yeah so
18810s	it kind of just makes it a rune for
18812s	resources kind of turn I guess yeah
18816s	just try and dig to that muldrash the
18818s	other Reckless as quickly as possible
18820s	all right he disagrees
18824s	they keep spinning Mana ah killing this
18826s	bone colored oh
18828s	it's just plague spreader and
18833s	uh Behemoth right
18839s	not that Behemoth the other one the
18840s	flesh one oh the nine drop right yeah
18846s	uh Blackwater Behemoth though pretty
18849s	fantastic draw
18852s	er sorry out of nowhere is buddy just
18855s	now winning this game how has this
18857s	happened
18869s	it's very healthy and you use just out
18872s	of stuff yeah
18877s	and I'm starting to question
18880s	whether this Rune needed to be ripped a
18882s	turn or two earlier
18885s	because you years had
18888s	very unimpressive turns right and like
18891s	part of that is just due to the complete
18893s	lack of resources that he has in hand
18895s	right now
18900s	all right now
18904s	yeah not a single doubt in my mind that
18907s	it is getting played this time that is
18910s	an excellent start
18918s	it's gone
18922s	I didn't put Gaia in your deck
18925s	yeah oh it removed place from the game
18929s	the entire game all of hearthstone now
18931s	you just saved everybody from playing
18934s	spreader
18935s	yeah if we'd have just cast that spell
18937s	on mine render elucia a long time ago we
18939s	could have saved ourselves about 18
18941s	months of Heartache uh no here's where
18943s	you're wrong saddle it says removed from
18945s	the game it does not say remove this
18947s	Minion from the game wherever it is ah
18950s	gotcha
18952s	that's the distinction
18956s	not a bad Rune didn't give resources
18959s	which was the thing that you were
18961s	struggling with the most but yeah it
18963s	dealt with this board which
18965s	had a lot of potential healing
18968s	it did also because he kept the Finley
18971s	it did at least remove what was a very
18973s	nightmare potential board and because
18974s	the plague spreader didn't actually go
18976s	off it just got removed from the game uh
18979s	he can just now swap into what is
18981s	presumably his other Reckless Apprentice
18984s	his uh more dress unless I've missed one
18986s	of those cards being plague spreaded at
18988s	some point which I don't think I have uh
18990s	it was just the uh
18993s	Grand Magister rahmath that's right yeah
19004s	interesting
19009s	could illuminate pick something you
19012s	don't want and then Finley I don't know
19024s	it's all falling apart for yui isn't it
19026s	this looks so secure just four or five
19029s	turns ago
19030s	then that ton of damage though like he
19032s	does he does
19035s	but very soon we are going to be
19037s	reaching the point where there are just
19039s	lifesteal Minions on the board every
19041s	turn
19046s	you have ways to play around now of
19048s	course you have freezes you also have
19049s	solid Alibi which is another way to play
19051s	around lifesteal because those minions
19053s	are then only dealing one damage
19056s	I have an idea
19059s	okay more trash and ask the Lord okay
19063s	[Music]
19065s	stay where you are
19068s	look at the if there's any like natural
19070s	healing left in the deck for bunny
19071s	Hopper
19072s	um
19074s	doesn't look like it except for zairella
19077s	like the uh
19079s	amen I
19081s	hero right one
19084s	there's Finley starred
19091s	dirella dirella
19094s	phone caller
19099s	I don't even know anytime a card gets
19101s	stolen or swapped it just yeah there's
19104s	an amulet too
19106s	hey there it is that's a ton of healing
19109s	too oh my gosh yes it is died that's a
19112s	Reno this is a Reno
19117s	well it's a bunch of other stuff plus
19118s	plague spreaders
19122s	oh God you're right how many plague
19124s	spreaders have actually died one who
19126s	question mark yeah
19128s	one was removed from this it was removed
19131s	one was mass pollied there's one
19138s	it was just one year it was just one
19140s	okay
19142s	is a big deal though yeah I think From
19146s	yui's perspective mutinous
19149s	the best one although if the mutinous
19151s	eats the Madar now like is mutinous
19155s	suddenly the best card in the deck it's
19156s	really really hard to know
19162s	I'll give you some overdraws here I
19164s	believe
19166s	nope
19168s	oh he he cast The Shard last turn okay
19171s	didn't trade it back cast it into the
19173s	counter spell and I thought the flush
19176s	Behemoth would pick up a
19179s	ah no bone collar's not Undead okay it
19181s	just brings back Undead it's not Undead
19183s	itself that makes sense or otherwise
19185s	could bring back itself for an infinite
19187s	chain of undevs
19193s	fly back back down to 21 again
19204s	we'll set Emily that three
19209s	unclear
19210s	I think it's three
19213s	guy to my hand let's see what silence
19220s	the Drake amulet pink I guess
19224s	oh didn't get any light showers back oh
19227s	that's so bad
19239s	is negating a chunk of this hero power
19243s	back every other turn
19252s	come on TJ stop looking at the other
19255s	cards what do you think you're doing
19257s	fine
19261s	there's no way you have enough Infuse
19263s	value left in your deck to make frozen
19265s	touch the choice right surely
19270s	Cold Case
19273s	okay maybe
19283s	also you do have the savara to consider
19285s	as well right like frozen touch is a
19288s	better card to put in the savara because
19290s	you'll actually be able to do like
19292s	surprise survara here's all my frozen
19294s	touches back and shoot the opponent
19295s	lethal whereas Rooney the art Mage is a
19297s	very delayed setup with that yeah
19300s	because if you cast the infused Frozen
19302s	touch then if the savara gives you back
19305s	the infused Frozen touch yep
19309s	yep all right we've collectively talked
19312s	ourselves into it
19313s	seems smart
19315s	[Music]
19322s	bunny did not take as long to figure out
19325s	yeah he's like oh wow okay forgot there
19328s	was a Varden in Bunny's deck also
19330s	there's two cards left which don't even
19332s	ask me what they are
19335s	bone collar and Viper
19339s	okay you can ask me what they are
19342s	TJ What are the two cards left in
19344s	bunnyhopper's deck I believe bone collar
19346s	and rushdrop Viper beautiful
19353s	yeah I think he just gets there from
19354s	here like it looks like it yeah
19358s	um
19361s	not being able to get the uh the Mida
19363s	down up until this point
19366s	like I feel like it's just got to be
19369s	I
19370s	know it's an objection up so you can't
19381s	once this gets objected you know you
19383s	have to heal because you have the
19385s	perfect information there's a frozen
19386s	touch in the hand you would be dead here
19389s	without the heel every time
19403s	Frozen touch Cold Case ping
19413s	21 damage on board with a six damage
19417s	hero power 27.
19419s	it's a it's got to be a guaranteed
19421s	t-shirt though you would have thought so
19426s	I get yeah you can also cast the other
19427s	one and then savara
19430s	and then Pig and yeah uh
19434s	15th damage next turn
19438s	foreign
19448s	[Music]
19449s	devouring plague is about as good as it
19451s	gets
19453s	still some way short
19456s	yep
19459s	I think that'll do it
19462s	yes but how
19466s	I don't think I've I've seen with the
19468s	new dawn grasping it up to nine
19474s	yeah that is big while you were
19476s	disconnected I was getting baited by the
19477s	text for a while you know how it still
19479s	says plus two when it pops up on the
19481s	screen so I was counting one ahead of
19483s	where it was for a while but yeah even
19485s	with the plus one it's been got up to
19487s	absolutely monstrous sizes and that is a
19492s	ridiculous marathon of the first game I
19494s	promised you a game that would be at
19497s	least as long as the time it took us to
19500s	get into the game and I always deliver
19502s	on my promises
19504s	right subtle deliver on Simon soddle
19508s	delivers on his promises Welch so they
19510s	call him be calling him that for years
19513s	um and kind of a heartbreaker for bunny
19515s	because at a certain point in that game
19516s	it felt like he had a good grasp
19518s	on uh on where things were
19521s	but
19522s	it just felt like there was so much that
19524s	he wanted to do each and every turn yeah
19527s	the sisters fauna basically didn't come
19530s	into play except for like the one called
19532s	the grave into flush Behemoth with let
19534s	some cool stuff happen
19536s	um but hand size was too full there were
19538s	secrets to test for
19540s	um there was healing to be done like
19543s	there so much that he needed to do every
19545s	single turn yeah just survived the
19548s	onslaught of pings that never even got
19550s	the miter down despite drawing it yes
19552s	not super early but with like you know
19555s	15 14 cards left in deck so
19558s	uh never had the Mana that's the part
19561s	that really bothered me and it was why I
19563s	was getting so antsy uh during yui's end
19567s	game so early end game period where he
19571s	had those one or two week turns and it
19573s	didn't look like he intended to use the
19575s	the Rune to try and draw cards right
19577s	because it felt like if he had one more
19580s	weak turn then bunny was gonna go okay
19581s	sick midr passed like you've given me
19584s	the turn that I need to actually get
19586s	this in play and then that would become
19588s	a pretty significant problem for you you
19589s	moving forward but there was definitely
19591s	a moment there where where Bonnie made
19593s	me believe against all logic that that
19595s	was a winnable game in pro wrestling
19597s	terms I bit on the near four TJ but then
19600s	you you kicked out at 2.9 and ended up
19602s	winning
19603s	what
19606s	I can't even begin to deduce what that
19610s	might mean
19613s	like even with the context of your
19615s	analogy I have no idea yeah okay so to a
19619s	non-restling fan right like we all
19620s	understand that wrestling is
19622s	predetermined and who wins is decided
19624s	before the match right and so going into
19626s	a match no yeah going into a match
19629s	sometimes it's really obvious to
19630s	everyone involved what the outcome of
19632s	the match is going to be right like it's
19634s	a big title match you know that the
19635s	Challenger isn't built up enough in
19637s	storyline to win the title right but
19640s	then in the match there can be a moment
19642s	where they hit a particular move and
19644s	then they go for the cover and you're
19645s	just caught up in the moment you're like
19647s	oh my God they've actually won right
19648s	like you you forget every logical part
19651s	of your brain and you go oh my God they
19653s	actually did it I've just been wrong
19654s	this whole time they're actually going
19655s	to win and then the other guy kicks out
19657s	at 2.9 as opposed to three and it's
19659s	called biting on the near Four
19662s	there you go I was so close to
19664s	understanding it and then you just threw
19666s	it the same words right back at me at
19669s	the end to explain the end of the
19672s	analogy okay so 4.9 come in and so you
19676s	count to three that's how you count up
19678s	in for one two three okay so if you're
19680s	kicking out a 2.9 that's the closest you
19682s	can get to kicking out the full is it
19685s	like the end of the match right the fall
19687s	is the decision that ends the match the
19689s	PIN for the submission that you're
19691s	biting as in believing the near fall
19695s	yes are we all on the same page yeah all
19698s	right cool beautiful analogy thank you
19700s	thank you
19704s	well done
19705s	Round of Applause hey out of Applause
19708s	everybody involved here everyone yeah
19710s	including you the viewer yes
19714s	um all right
19716s	jackpot Rogue 17
19719s	740 deaths as opposed to twenty one
19721s	thousand so this will be
19722s	long but not as long as the last one
19724s	based on that count but uh jackpot Rogue
19727s	it feels like it's just been getting the
19729s	job done it's been Scrappy it's been
19731s	dirty it's been
19734s	ugly but
19736s	uh I'm out of descriptors but it's
19740s	winning and that's the important part
19744s	absolutely no I uh do also love this
19748s	decision from uh yuyi deciding that nope
19752s	we do not want to be playing another 45
19753s	minute game after that level of nonsense
19756s	straight back to the Demon Hunter Where
19759s	We Belong this is more like it TJ this
19761s	is my speed
19763s	Lamborghini speed straight off a cliff
19765s	straight to the Moon
19770s	where possessive is waiting
19779s	for dimensions
19783s	get rid of all this other stuff
19786s	oh no
19788s	oh no
19796s	and this is the ugly side of the
19798s	dimensions keep is uh spectral site get
19801s	stranded
19802s	um I I think there's a direct
19804s	correlation between the players who play
19806s	one spectral site which is quite rare
19808s	and people who think you keep relative
19811s	dimensions like 100 of the time in all
19813s	circumstances right because this is the
19815s	instance where the spectral site is
19817s	ludicrously annoying like you'd rather
19819s	that was just about any other card in
19820s	this spot yeah
19823s	except
19828s	magistrates short
19831s	meltronics ultronics man yeah where did
19834s	I come up with that word I don't know is
19837s	that even a is that even a card no
19839s	there's like magisters that you've kind
19841s	of shoehorned into maltronics who's a
19844s	prosecutor
19846s	yeah I don't really know what's happened
19847s	there TJ I can't defend you on that one
19849s	oh it is someone that has an
19851s	encyclopedic knowledge of every card
19853s	name in Hearthstone like honestly I feel
19856s	like I should hold you is the uh
19859s	quartermaster for Silver Moon city in in
19861s	World of Warcraft ah okay
19865s	the more you know
19870s	that's a great draw
19873s	oh
19875s	we have a drake fire amulet situation
19878s	over here
19880s	it's down the Trek firing him a little
19882s	arm subtle quick
19885s	uh nope that's not the right one oh
19888s	sorry
19889s	[Music]
19891s	yeah that that had my references mixed
19894s	up sorry
19896s	yeah you actually sounded the prince
19898s	Kellis at the alarm
19901s	we'll have to use that one in years yeah
19903s	calm down everybody there's no Prince
19904s	Kelly set here
19907s	go back to your beds
19918s	they're gonna scam away
19920s	job's done force of nature too just
19923s	prepping it out yeah well I know it
19925s	right this is the Curve
19927s	just how it works
19929s	three two twos into two giant dragons
19931s	with an extra tutu just hitching along
19934s	for the ride
19937s	you you saw the prep too oh prep Force
19941s	nature wow all right I mean at six
19943s	damage but I got time right I got time
19946s	yep
19948s	you wanna know the really depressing
19950s	thing if you're you
19952s	these dragons are coming down into the
19954s	turn where you really want to just spend
19956s	five Mana drawing cards yeah
19959s	laughs
19978s	he would be wise to try and remove some
19982s	pressure here and I did say try that was
19984s	the operative word
19986s	because he'll know the threat of
19988s	trickster right I don't think he'll
19989s	necessarily be envisioning absolute
19991s	worst case scenario but he does know
19993s	that a significant amount of pressure
19994s	can come out here
19998s	okay
20007s	leafy Dragon extra medium but you will
20009s	take the death Wing there every time
20011s	and yeah I feel you
20029s	there is lethal presented on board so
20033s	but what are you gonna do you know
20036s	what are you gonna do type situations
20038s	yeah big fan of the what are you gonna
20041s	do philosophy
20042s	yeah and this is the first first one
20045s	cast too first Relic second will be the
20047s	second Relic so yeah you need one of
20049s	these cards to be a silver moon okay
20051s	step one complete because now that goes
20054s	down to zero it not only had to be a
20055s	silver moon it had to be a silver moon
20057s	in the second set of cards that were
20058s	discounted by two but you then did also
20061s	need unleash fell and fell that was
20064s	really close actually like all he needs
20067s	was the unleash to go alongside that and
20068s	then he has spell damage unleash Fel
20070s	barrage Relic yeah
20073s	that was Demon Hunter is yeah
20080s	this was the the scam to end all scams
20083s	and still yeah was a single card away
20088s	on turn four for being able to come back
20091s	from that can survive with the fell
20092s	barrage
20095s	um but then that reduces the amount of
20097s	clear potential next turn if and
20099s	Unleashed fell is picked up oh
20104s	Audrey Grave Digger and the way this
20106s	game's going you nobody sees this zero
20110s	amount of Silver Moon
20112s	now unlucky
20114s	so it's a forecast skill Trader so you
20117s	probably get rid of the extinction in
20119s	this situation I think so yeah
20123s	an encounter argument the location that
20125s	you can see is an up but there's no
20127s	reason why they couldn't have the other
20128s	one as well on one of the cards they're
20130s	not looking at
20132s	do you think it is Relic yep
20137s	oh would you look at that
20144s	you take the free draw first evaluate
20146s	take the second free draw evaluate
20151s	I see
20153s	unleash fell please okay
20156s	unbelievably we actually continue to
20159s	have a game of Hearthstone
20173s	if you can even comprehend in your tiny
20176s	little mind
20178s	hey
20182s	my brain's tiny oh tree
20192s	is your favorite he might be favors
20195s	no yeah I was just biting on an Air
20198s	Force okay
20203s	another happy guilty
20206s	because this is one of this is probably
20208s	gonna be one of those not gonna have the
20211s	discounts necessary unless you play
20212s	kirchers kind of games
20216s	yeah if you can't find the time to get
20218s	that curtress down though right like
20220s	still one fell barrage remaining still
20223s	one no still both extinctions remaining
20226s	because the first one was shuffled back
20227s	into the deck so yeah it didn't get the
20229s	Vault down which
20232s	you know may not be the biggest ideals
20233s	but the ability to go like Vault yeah uh
20237s	uh Dimensions pick up an Extinction and
20240s	then Vault Extinction with still a
20241s	little bit of Mana to play with
20244s	one man always trust a little bit just
20247s	one is a big deal and now private eye is
20250s	going to come out so we got the ice trap
20252s	from the first perjury we're gonna get
20253s	the second perjury which also could have
20255s	something pretty impactful there's also
20256s	a test which can
20259s	recast a uh Drake fire amulet if there's
20263s	board space
20264s	but if there's not board space then you
20268s	use dead so yeah and just to pick up on
20271s	the point from earlier I I know your
20272s	right brain knows this but you know that
20274s	wasn't just float one Mana don't play
20276s	the location for no reason there was a
20278s	secret up on the other side right so you
20280s	have to have that in mind all the time
20282s	when playing against Rogue on the other
20283s	side as it happens it was just the
20285s	poetry
20287s	yeah
20289s	at that yeah true if it's double cross
20291s	at that point though
20293s	you may just give them the draw because
20295s	they have all the everything they need
20296s	on the board to win as it is
20301s	foreign
20303s	[Music]
20308s	okay
20310s	that's a clear right
20312s	ah yes
20318s	short
20321s	S
20322s	search Within Me
20328s	what's that five five six six five five
20330s	six six yeah
20337s	that there was a way right yeah this is
20339s	one of them
20341s	the one I saw as well was like two fives
20343s	hitting the death wing and then a six
20345s	hits the three four or six hits the four
20346s	seven the four seven lives but this is
20348s	the outcome that just ends up directly
20350s	being lethal needed those break points
20353s	to work out very favorably in the end
20354s	and they did not do so bunny just about
20358s	gets there but honestly I think that's a
20361s	much closer game than it has any right
20364s	to be well first off it does have the
20366s	right to be a close game your opponent's
20367s	not necessarily entitled to just go
20369s	trickster two giant dragons from Drake
20371s	on turn four but after that point the
20375s	fact that Demon Hunter was still in that
20376s	game is kind of ridiculous but Demon
20379s	Hunter was still in that game like make
20381s	no mistake about it
20383s	um and you know we we kind of moved on
20384s	to the end of the game but just again
20386s	picking up your point of like yeah they
20388s	have the stuff on the board so you kind
20390s	of feel fine about letting them draw the
20391s	cards I kind of disagree with that
20393s	because if I was a Demon Hunter in that
20395s	position I would be very interested just
20397s	like okay kill these two things and then
20400s	there's a good chance there's style of
20401s	resources and then I can probably find
20404s	the turn to play kurtress right and then
20406s	the game becomes winnable as long as
20407s	they don't have that immediate reload
20409s	after I draw the fell barrage or the
20411s	relic of Extinction or whatever it is I
20413s	need to be able to clear this board so I
20415s	think UE had a fair old stab at being
20417s	able to pick that apart but I think
20418s	Bonnie after that exhausting first game
20420s	uh will be pleased that the Hearthstone
20422s	Gods just uh just handed in the nuts in
20424s	game two yeah well my argument would be
20427s	you know maybe finding a way to kill
20429s	those two things is made easier by
20431s	having a sec spending one man honestly
20433s	yep yep
20435s	um so like step one before step two
20438s	playing with the cards in your hand and
20440s	the cards in your deck
20442s	and ignoring your opponent's cards TJ
20444s	we're just taking two entirely different
20446s	roads to El Paso right now
20449s	that's right
20452s	[Music]
20454s	you're the Admiral now
20457s	oh God no
20459s	all right all tied up heading into a
20462s	Demon Hunter mirror
20467s	this is a full mirror
20469s	is it card for card no double marker
20471s	scoring for bunny Hopper
20472s	yeah
20474s	my differences as they tend to be wait
20477s	no double marker scoring for both
20480s	wait really yep I thought you was a cow
20483s	strike gamer oh he is he's a double k
20486s	he's a one need for greed gamer right
20489s	gotcha yeah that's the difference yep
20495s	um Bonnie is a one spectral sightgamer
20497s	instead yep
20500s	and under Neil's logic bunny took a sip
20503s	of his beverage first this series
20506s	visibly
20507s	I I love how the first time he brought
20510s	that up the very next game the exact
20513s	opposite happened it did not even wait
20516s	to shatter his narrative
20520s	that's the stuff
20522s	that is the stuff right there
20526s	get it in play
20530s	No One Believes you have other choices
20532s	bunny this never works play your two
20534s	drop thank you I thought it was funny
20536s	that the uh
20538s	bolt as a as a noun right
20542s	like the the two
20545s	things that a vault is are like complete
20547s	opposites
20550s	you know what I'm talking about
20552s	no the two things it is is a noun yeah
20555s	like one is a vault okay you wanna you
20558s	know keep something
20560s	safe right so you stick it out so nobody
20563s	can get to it yeah the other one's like
20566s	I want this thing to go to the Moon
20571s	short
20573s	[Music]
20574s	at the Olympic fault
20577s	I want this human being as high in the
20579s	air as possible
20582s	without the use of electronics
20584s	robotics
20588s	or rocketronics
20591s	all the all the Onyx oh
20595s	but I I specified as a noun isn't that
20599s	as a verb so-called the vault
20603s	isn't it
20604s	okay the name of the event like pole
20607s	vault yeah I suppose so
20610s	sure all right I'll allow it
20616s	I'll allow it
20625s	actually don't think it is
20627s	true kind of is like the event name
20630s	right but
20634s	because I thought you were going to talk
20635s	about like grooves like isn't volt a
20638s	name for like a a church roof or some
20641s	some kind some kind of architectural
20642s	thing I think the other noun definition
20644s	yeah it is yeah okay
20646s	like a vaulted ceiling right yes exactly
20649s	and I'm like how are those two things
20651s	that uh opposite I'm very confusing even
20653s	even in TJ brainworld that seemed like a
20655s	reach yeah
20657s	we got ourselves a game though yes we do
20660s	both players with
20662s	uh Vault plus Dimension bunny Hoppers
20665s	got a little bit of a leg up because
20668s	got a vaulted Extinction
20671s	so his his Relic vaulted Relic
20675s	actually is going to go to the Moon
20683s	foreign
20699s	yeah I think need the great trades first
20702s	oh
20705s	however
20708s	you use it difficult card to use in the
20710s	matchup
20712s	um for me this has been one of the
20713s	hardest things to figure out a high
20715s	level with this deck is particularly in
20717s	this mirror there's not
20720s	infinite amounts of agency in the mirror
20722s	but I do feel like when you put these
20725s	big minions in play is one of the big
20727s	decision points because not only can
20729s	they be threatening to the opponent
20730s	they're also the thing that stops them
20732s	just you know killing you dealing 26 for
20734s	you on like turn six without even using
20736s	their Jace and killing you you know yeah
20739s	um so
20740s	I do think that was a little bit of an
20742s	awkward decision about whether to go for
20743s	the tempo or try and continue cycling
20745s	for a quest proc
20750s	yeah or you know also just having the
20753s	guild Trader in the deck for when you
20754s	Dimensions next turn yeah true yeah be
20757s	able to have like the really cheap spell
20759s	damage alongside an already discounted
20761s	Jace you know it's just kind of by one
20763s	but still that can sometimes be the
20765s	Difference Maker oh that's nothing
20768s	that's nothing that is all pretty much
20770s	nothing yeah
20773s	that ain't it
20776s	yeah you see big Shake of the head
20778s	coming out there from you yeah he knows
20780s	that is a pretty miserable relic of
20783s	Dimensions does get to create the board
20785s	swing here if he wants but I am curious
20787s	with the relic of phantasms costing zero
20790s	whether he has the same decision really
20791s	and again does just choose to go for the
20793s	immediate tempo
20799s	all right Buddy's turn yep
20804s	peppers are off the top not terrible you
20806s	can always be trade away you know that
20808s	it's not gonna be one of the discounted
20809s	cards better better
20815s	foreign
20819s	I have never seen a more dead human
20821s	being the New Year this game
20827s	oh
20829s	he's dead next turn
20835s	you're right you're right
20839s	is he
20841s	presuming I think that like I haven't
20843s	literally haven't counted so it's 20 24
20845s	plus yes it's 20 no
20849s	hold that right okay now they're dead
20851s	next
20852s	uh 24 29 yeah yeah uh you wouldn't have
20855s	enough man at a hero power exactly so
20857s	assuming the dimensions hit one extra
20859s	piece of damage which it did most of the
20861s	time yeah uh two minions left in the
20865s	deck
20866s	[Music]
20867s	you can also I guess you can't pick up
20870s	any other free damage but yes it is
20874s	very likely it's just lethal yeah
20879s	no way you can fit in the hero power
20880s	anyway what are you talking about
20882s	yep
20897s	bunny just has to not be dead right now
20899s	is there any way that this can be
20900s	stopped what about uh a second Relic
20904s	Vault into Phantasm yeah that would stop
20906s	it
20908s	you need minions in play that are larger
20911s	than 5 HP
20915s	foreign
20918s	you died
20922s	I grow short
20925s	because from here you would need to draw
20927s	a card for zero Mana to get the
20929s	phantasms discounted to two and still be
20931s	able to play it
20945s	I mean it's not an insignificant amount
20947s	of damage next turn for yui either like
20950s	that's the key that's the key part of
20952s	that sentence next turn
20957s	there it is
20959s	that's uh more than enough damage water
20962s	deck 37 potent that's a 37 maximum uh 30
20968s	potions eight maximum
20971s	if the Market's scoring were to hit
20973s	search Within Me
20976s	oh he's ripping that Mark of school he's
20979s	assigned dominance
20989s	oh okay well bunny hopper one game away
20995s	from the finals of the World
20997s	Championship
20998s	uh it it will come down to the priest
21002s	for bunny Hopper
21004s	um and we are speed running dupriest
21007s	versus priests
21014s	speed running two priests versus priests
21017s	as opposed to speed running priests
21018s	versus priest which is an entirely
21020s	different Beast
21022s	yep all right well you still got the
21026s	Demon Hunter
21027s	um I mean I felt like even in that game
21030s	was like
21033s	it wasn't one card off from like
21035s	surviving or winning but like a hit the
21038s	Relic Vault for for zero so uh second
21041s	phantasms which I think was still in the
21043s	deck
21044s	um had been picked up that would have
21046s	put enough in the way to where I don't
21048s	think bunny Hopper would have had lethal
21050s	unless off the top was the other
21052s	Unleashed fell
21053s	uh because it would have been
21056s	um what are we 5566 so the two six sixes
21059s	would have gotten in the way
21061s	The Relic the was the location up though
21063s	did you or you have a second location he
21066s	he picked one of the cards that he drew
21068s	from the dimensions oh it would have
21069s	been six six seven seven actually he
21071s	played the dimensions uh drew a zero
21074s	Mana Relic
21076s	uh our zermint of Vault uh so if the
21079s	second card pixel about all picked up
21082s	alongside that which ended up being a
21084s	mark of score and was second phantasms
21086s	he could have vaulted phantasms had six
21089s	six six seven seven seven seven on the
21091s	board uh then bunny would have needed to
21093s	draw either second unleash or Extinction
21096s	of his own to be able to clear up the
21098s	minions but he'd already used because he
21100s	used early Extinction to juice his
21102s	dimensions and then use the second
21104s	Extinction to clear the four fours right
21106s	so that even wasn't even an option in
21108s	episode so yeah still not that far away
21110s	even in that ridiculous spot from UE
21112s	being in that game but enough about the
21116s	past this is about the present and
21118s	future of the Hearthstone World
21120s	Championship TJ and this is the matchup
21122s	that briefly while we were talking about
21124s	Hearthstone during the introduction to
21126s	the series I did bring up and say that
21129s	the priest has done a little better in
21131s	this matchup than I ever really expected
21134s	to see and there is a recipe right there
21138s	for Success that is an opening hand Jace
21141s	which will sit there and be potential
21144s	plague food for the entire game now
21147s	yep and I was having the conversation
21150s	with Lorinda earlier about like plague
21153s	spreader timing in the matchup
21154s	[Music]
21155s	um because like there's so many times
21157s	where you play it on curve and they just
21160s	like trade away their Guild trade or
21162s	fell barrage it and move on their merry
21163s	way you know
21166s	um where it gets more Awkward once you
21167s	start like drawing more cards like turn
21169s	five turn six I still think it's correct
21171s	to just get it out there because even if
21173s	it dies you can still bring it back with
21175s	the various uh resurrect effects that
21177s	you do have yep
21179s	um but it was just an interesting
21181s	conversation that I have with larinda
21183s	that I wanted to share with you subtle
21185s	oh thanks I feel very included in your
21188s	friendship now I I appreciate it thank
21191s	you for welcoming me into the the warm
21194s	bosom that is your relationship with
21195s	Lorinda
21198s	yeah we like to party
21200s	yeah that's how we get down
21204s	uh okay so need for greed picked up so I
21207s	think coin need for greed is certainly
21209s	on the menu yep
21222s	yeah pretty medium
21241s	I would favor the Scorpion here I think
21244s	there is an argument
21246s	to going fishing with tradable and
21249s	Thrive just looking for more cycle
21251s	options to try and get yourself to that
21253s	plague spreader as quickly as possible
21255s	uh but venomous corporate can provide
21257s	you with a potential card draw here
21260s	anyway find tradable spells Etc
21263s	Bonnie disagrees
21267s	amulet
21268s	okay fine
21271s	get it back in the deck
21276s	Whirlpool also could be interesting in
21279s	the matchup if the Demon Hunter goes
21281s	slow and they have to leave spell damage
21282s	on the board
21287s	something to note
21289s	indeed
21292s	and the next turn could go like Trade
21294s	Restaurant Viper and venomous scorpid
21302s	that's an odd schedule draw
21305s	yeah I don't even know if you want to
21307s	play the spectral site
21310s	because you're not completing Quest
21312s	I think you're playing at this time just
21313s	to draw two cards right like you can
21315s	just go sigil but like just play the
21318s	three cards on the right hand side of
21319s	your hand essentially right just go
21320s	sigil spectral location
21323s	no okay fine I think hand space is going
21326s	to be an issue like if the spectral site
21327s	picks up cards you're not completing
21329s	class spectrosite picks up cards that
21332s	aren't being discounted but can't be
21334s	traded away
21336s	your hand is going to be really awkward
21339s	but your hand size doesn't become a
21341s	problem until you draw relic of
21342s	dimensions and you haven't done that yet
21347s	my stance is always go with the Samuel
21349s	style play style
21350s	[Laughter]
21353s	it's crazy I just told the story that's
21355s	already come up
21358s	he's playing as if it's going to come
21360s	off the sigil
21363s	first card off the situ yeah yeah
21365s	discount yeah yeah
21370s	I swear the things that I say into
21371s	becoming relevant but cool
21375s	even that's arguable oh yeah I think it
21378s	needed to actually happen before you
21380s	could uh in that one on your resume hey
21382s	it didn't always happen to Samuel style
21384s	either
21385s	true yeah
21389s	although it did seem to happen quite a
21391s	lot it did yeah
21401s	this is
21403s	painful hand holy
21409s	drop
21411s	yeah
21416s	and about plague spreading but there is
21418s	pain spreading across yuyi's face right
21421s	now with each turn that goes past
21423s	without a significant card draw card
21425s	coming out of the deck obviously that uh
21428s	need for greed already used and as we
21430s	mentioned before UE is a solitary need
21432s	for greed gamer
21435s	[Music]
21437s	I mean it it still could all end up just
21440s	being fine I'm like oh yeah of course
21443s	still Demon Hunter after all and Bunny
21444s	Hopper is not doing
21446s	really much of anything
21449s	okay there it is
21453s	it could even uh Relic Extinction then
21456s	Relic dimensions
21464s	I think I like that actually
21466s	you dump the Fury at the end
21470s	like with location proc on both with
21472s	location proc on both yeah
21475s	because it just juices the dimensions
21477s	more right yeah which at this point
21479s	could be relevant because you you need
21480s	like free spell damage minions yup with
21483s	an 88 Mana Jace yep
21494s	he would have been one and three
21498s	I would have been free and free
21505s	results oriented thinking
21508s	the best kind
21516s	now let's get the upside this way though
21517s	if you drew uh phantasms which he did he
21520s	gets to extend onto the Border medium
21525s	[Applause]
21530s	he didn't do it he didn't do it all
21532s	right fine he didn't do it he just be
21534s	like that oh yeah if I care
21538s	I mean I'm gonna give him the benefit of
21539s	the doubt but
21542s	also I'm gonna politely
21545s	say that I disagree
21547s	oh there it is
21551s	it's party time
21558s	no I went before we started casting
21564s	where you went
21566s	and it's party time
21568s	I said I already went before oh I see
21571s	okay fine
21574s	thanks though
21575s	and welcome
21579s	uh weirdly enough TJ was actually the
21581s	last living being in his house to be
21583s	potty trained
21586s	we're actually potty training Noah right
21589s	now
21590s	like they're they're on break from
21593s	school for my Christmas break
21595s	[Music]
21601s	oh but he doesn't know he lacks critical
21605s	information I I don't even have like
21608s	I didn't even have time to analyze the
21610s	situation and you just ripped an
21612s	Extinction and got his Jace plagued ah
21615s	there was a lot of time we were talking
21617s	about parties too sure yeah yeah to be
21620s	fair much of my life has been wasting my
21622s	talking about the body
21623s	[Laughter]
21627s	ah I don't even be surprised
21631s	your fault for having kids really
21632s	wouldn't it yeah
21637s	foreign
21643s	if that is the only plague spreader that
21647s	UE gets hit with this game
21650s	and this is not over
21654s	you can absolutely
21656s	dildo 40 without Jace
21660s	he loses one more spell damage minion he
21663s	is in a world of trouble yep
21668s	[Music]
21671s	what knowledge do the stars provide
21676s	and there's some more
21685s	hide them in the deck
21689s	yeah keep the rush Rod Viper I guess the
21693s	plank spreader's there on the Far Rock
21695s	suit yep the old Chase
21698s	the Old Trader take cover
21702s	not safe outside no it's not safe out
21705s	here
21709s	for this don't you understand
21715s	God it's like the last two years
21718s	stay inside
21720s	Jesus
21728s	still of 50 50 though
21735s	I drove short
21750s	[Music]
21751s	can he get there if if with triple spell
21753s	damage
21755s	still can get there were triple spell
21756s	damage
21763s	that's still 40.
21768s	yeah triple spell damage is 16 per on
21771s	the fell barrages so that's 32 just from
21773s	the fell barrages and then you know you
21775s	have enough damage in and around that no
21776s	problem
21777s	yeah
21778s	double spell damage is still 24 so if
21780s	you then have big Furies you can still
21782s	get to 40 quite comfortably even just
21784s	with double spell damage in some
21786s	situations oh yeah but there are no
21788s	theories left
21791s	there's one on these fell one chaos
21793s	strike
21804s	not too quickly and also where are we on
21808s	extinctions because extinctions become
21810s	very relevant in this situation as well
21812s	because you need addiction left too yeah
21813s	there's one Extinction left yeah so that
21816s	is very often important to uh you know
21819s	remove that last seven seven eight eight
21821s	size minion that they have on the board
21822s	that you're not going to get with your
21823s	AOE
21826s	hold the whirlpool to get rid of the
21828s	play spur on the other side and then
21829s	turn one okay
21832s	and he does hit the spell damage
21838s	yeah it's real small from Bonnie bunny
21840s	choosing basically to sacrifice all
21842s	semblance of pressure just to get
21844s	maximum odds of hitting a second
21846s	relevant minion with the plague spreader
21854s	real smart
21860s	Within Me
21863s	if this hits Ark
21868s	five 24 from fell barrages
21872s	okay and then you rip the Relic for
21875s	three more cards that's lethal right
21877s	that's the rest of the deck fell barrage
21880s	Unleashed and you now get the zero Manor
21882s	Guild Traders he's done it the madman
21884s	has actually found a way
21888s	oh that is 16 more damage coming through
21891s	and that means we are going to the
21894s	priest mirror I want you gosh I told you
21899s	you cannot count this deck out Jace is a
21902s	garnish in this deck it is Surplus to
21905s	requirements and you Yi manages to find
21909s	the line even though the disaster was
21912s	looking like it was about to occur lost
21914s	Jace and a spell damage minion to those
21917s	plague spreaders still found a way to
21919s	get over the line that was beautiful
21922s	from UE
21928s	makes you think like that last term from
21930s	bunny Hopper if he had
21933s	um one more Mana he could have gone like
21935s	amulet light bomb and then you get two
21937s	plague spreader targets but then this
21938s	plug spreader still on the other side no
21940s	I agree with that I think the whirlpool
21941s	is smart and then just hope that they
21943s	don't have the damage
21945s	um
21947s	but that's tough because bunny Hopper
21949s	also like you said didn't have the
21950s	information uh of like what was
21954s	discounted what was in the hand up until
21956s	that point he knew there was just this
21957s	mishmash of spells and if you know what
21959s	the guild Traders were free in the deck
21961s	and that there were some dimensions
21963s	but I don't think there's any other play
21964s	that he can make in that situation to
21965s	one maximize the odds that a spell
21967s	damage meaning gets hit by the plague
21968s	spreader yep and then two try and get
21971s	two plague spreaders in the mix I don't
21974s	think there was a way to
21975s	resurrect the second plague spreader
21978s	uh from the amulet that was in hand and
21980s	kill off both I don't think there was a
21982s	way yeah so if you want to be super
21984s	results oriented and really dig into the
21986s	minutia of the end of that game which
21988s	you know since the game ended how it did
21990s	I suppose we probably should at least
21992s	the second one maybe not the first
21994s	um Bonnie as I said at the time Bunny's
21996s	giving up his own pressure right like
21998s	that's the other part of that situation
22000s	and Bunny feels fine to do that because
22002s	of the size of the board he had he's
22004s	saying okay if I'm gonna die this turn
22005s	is going to be to double or triple spell
22007s	damage in which case the unleash fell
22010s	would clear up my entire board anyway
22011s	therefore my board isn't relevant
22014s	however what it did allow was for the
22017s	mark to go face as the initial cycle in
22020s	the turn which it wouldn't do otherwise
22022s	if there were actually Minions on the
22024s	board which could have ended up being
22026s	the difference in terms of sequencing uh
22028s	between the breakpoint that killed bunny
22030s	there or not so there are so many things
22032s	to consider on that final turn and as
22034s	you kept saying during your explanation
22036s	bunny doesn't necessarily understand
22039s	exactly what's going on right so it's
22041s	almost impossible to solve that
22043s	completely without the perfect
22045s	information that your opponent has so
22047s	absolute Heartbreaker bunny uh four
22051s	Bunny and an absolutely triumphant
22053s	moment for yui and now it means that we
22056s	are going to square off what might now
22059s	go down in history as an all-time great
22061s	world championship series TJ with a
22064s	priest mirror
22066s	foreign
22068s	holy moly
22071s	I don't even know if I'm ready for this
22072s	like I'm I'm like stressed
22078s	that was you he left
22084s	he has left at every available point he
22087s	had left before the start of the series
22088s	he left and popped off when he won his
22092s	camera's disconnecting all the time he
22094s	leaves before the Mulligan
22097s	we're all on New Year's time right now
22100s	okay so let's try and dig a little bit
22104s	into this batch up uh
22106s	those uh sisters fall net in the opening
22109s	hand for bunny Hopper that's big
22112s	um drown massive card
22115s	um
22116s	not because of fatigue right the mat
22119s	it's the it feels like the matchup
22121s	doesn't really come down to fatigue in a
22124s	sense obviously if you're just drawing
22125s	cards willy-nilly and you're like eight
22127s	cards ahead of your opponent then yes
22128s	fatigue can matter a drown just to deny
22131s	the ability to like have stuff stick
22134s	around and stay there for a long time
22136s	talk about Mida uh talking about
22139s	um any Undead really that can be brought
22141s	back by bone collar
22143s	uh and also plague spreaders at crucial
22146s	moments right like if there's a plague
22148s	spreader on the board that's incredibly
22150s	disruptive to you then drown is a way to
22152s	deal with it that doesn't proc the death
22153s	row yeah
22158s	but spawner is the big one
22160s	um hand size does become an issue you
22163s	need to find ways to dump cards when you
22165s	can but that Visions can get you call of
22168s	the Grave which is incredible value in a
22171s	lot of situations it can get you void
22173s	Shard which can just be a card to dump
22176s	to give you a little bit of Health drown
22179s	uh amulets to be able to keep cycling
22181s	those in deck Thrive if you absolutely
22184s	need to find a card in your deck at this
22186s	very moment
22192s	Shadow word undeath if your opponent's
22195s	at four health and
22197s	you had an undead die after your last
22200s	turn yep
22210s	yes please we'll take extra drowns well
22213s	actually a first round for bunny because
22215s	I believe uh UE plays one natural copy
22218s	and Bunny plays zero as it stands in the
22220s	deck
22221s	so this evens the drown count
22224s	and uh the more you can trade your
22226s	ambulance the better because at a
22228s	certain point like whoa
22231s	it's gonna be like light bomb amulet
22234s	your turn I bomb amulet
22237s	your turn warpool
22244s	weird
22246s	edit and then it
22248s	popped up right there on the screen yep
22252s	didn't work for The Relic Dimensions
22254s	last game we worked for the whirlpool
22257s	this is weird that's not where the
22259s	spectate thing usually is no
22262s	tidy behind the thing
22266s	what
22278s	maybe I'm crazy
22280s	you're not crazy it's been like that for
22282s	like six years I just never noticed
22284s	until now
22285s	it's in a priest mirror mode and I'm
22287s	just looking for literally every little
22289s	tiny detail that's happening in the game
22291s	well
22299s	And So It Begins
22306s	or does it with your extensive
22308s	experience TJ I believe uh in the
22311s	casting plague priest mirrors you are uh
22314s	significantly ahead of me with a one to
22316s	zero Advantage yep how much of an impact
22320s	did plague spreader actually have on
22322s	that mirror
22323s	and
22326s	uh it's impossible to say okay
22330s	uh honestly like I was pretty focused
22334s	for that whole game and thought I had a
22336s	good handle on it and I was commending
22339s	like dead trough for how well he was
22340s	playing the entire game and how his
22344s	understanding of the matchup was correct
22346s	and he lost
22348s	[Laughter]
22351s	he's like he's a head he's a head he's
22353s	ahead fatigue doesn't matter he's
22354s	playing for Tempo he's got these huge
22356s	amulets and then his board's clear his
22359s	opponent's board is huge he's dead
22361s	hmm okay like
22364s	like there there's so every decision has
22367s	a million Ripple effects yeah of course
22370s	because of everything that happens in
22372s	between uh like you what you pick from
22376s	Call of the Grave because of your
22377s	amulets what you pick from visions of
22379s	Darkness because
22380s	of you're gonna recast a lot of things
22383s	things are going to be re-summoned by
22385s	bone collars yeah
22388s	um like what's being drowned how many
22390s	Midas are in your deck versus your
22392s	opponents
22398s	like they do have a big impact but
22400s	there's so many minions in either
22402s	player's deck that don't really matter
22404s	like the natural minions in the deck
22407s	don't matter because they have so many
22408s	ways of just finding that minion but uh
22412s	in another way so they mattered in the
22414s	sense that there was a lot of plague
22415s	spreaders played and
22417s	they dealt damage and they made board
22420s	States but it didn't matter so much in
22423s	the sense of wow it hit something huge
22426s	you know like it's the plague spread on
22428s	something huge so on a scale of their
22431s	total Bay don't worry about them at all
22433s	to they're the only thing that matters
22435s	in this hour-long match-up it's
22437s	somewhere in the middle is what you're
22439s	saying somewhere in the middle yes yeah
22440s	okay
22441s	like I'd say the the its board presence
22444s	mattered more than its effect
22446s	yeah okay that makes sense yeah
22450s	oh uh drowning this fall now is
22454s	interesting for a couple reasons
22457s	one
22458s	you never really want to play two's
22460s	fullness
22462s	but two
22464s	it denies your opponent's Fallen as an
22467s	undead
22468s	which means that it won't be brought
22471s	back by bone collar which significantly
22473s	reduces their ability to build boards
22476s	later on in the game
22482s	welcome I guess you can play toothless
22486s	yeah I was gonna because I'm not
22488s	entirely sure why you obviously it's
22490s	drowned right so possibly by the point
22493s	you get to it it's not gonna be super
22495s	relevant
22497s	um but still I don't think at that point
22498s	in the game you're particularly worried
22500s	about having the two Shadow spells in
22502s	the hand plus
22503s	you do have Finley in your deck right so
22505s	now if you draw thinly in the next
22507s	couple of cards you know that you can
22509s	start rolling with the uh the Savannah
22511s	on the other side as well
22512s	now that you want to drown
22516s	oh yeah
22518s	just take that big giant holy Rock and
22521s	put it at the bottom of the ocean
22527s	which is also your deck
22529s	never really understood that
22540s	he's
22541s	livid are you gonna understand why right
22544s	you you coming into this matchup like
22546s	okay it's a small Advantage but I've put
22549s	a natural copy of drown in my deck for
22551s	this exact eventuality good deck
22554s	building me well done Pat myself on the
22556s	back and then at the very first a
22558s	possible opportunity your opponents
22559s	discovered a copy of it and entirely
22562s	neutralize that Advantage yeah yeah it's
22566s	uh that's brutal I feel like this almost
22568s	this whole series it's been like you you
22570s	like back against the wall
22575s	like every nothing going his way and
22578s	just like fighting his way out of it
22582s	can't catch a break
22589s	listen I love bunny
22591s	I love Europe as a region but I think
22595s	you know with the China players have on
22597s	their mind right now and the performance
22599s	that you you put in in that previous
22601s	game to find the lethal out after being
22603s	so heavily disrupted by the priest
22605s	I'm kind of rooting for you here
22609s	like the Drake fire eminent was the last
22612s	straw yeah
22619s	also maybe not so much for you but for
22623s	me
22625s	I don't really want to see the last
22627s	Chinese player eliminated just yet like
22629s	after the first semi-final already
22631s	knowing that the world champion is going
22633s	to be European I don't know yeah handle
22635s	that true it is definitely better for
22636s	tension
22639s	your smudginess will be undeniable
22644s	yeah
22645s	all the grave one of the better ones
22651s	in fact I might go as far to say as
22654s	the best at least tied with drowned for
22657s	the best how many Shadow spells all that
22659s	TJ did you do this count last time do I
22661s	have to do it now 16 16 I knew I could
22664s	rely on you
22671s	and then I asked Neil what are the odds
22673s	of hitting something he said 3 and 16.
22676s	correct
22678s	and then I got confused and was like
22680s	that can't be right that is right Neil
22682s	was like I think it's right because I
22685s	second guessed it then Neil proceeded
22687s	imagine having the 16 cards face down in
22690s	front of you on a desk and you get to
22691s	turn over three of them that should make
22693s	it very obvious that it's 3 and 16. yeah
22697s	but I feel like there's some some level
22698s	of Statistics in how I make my choices
22701s	you know yeah yeah
22708s	like Voodoo statistics you know
22713s	Donald you're making the assumption that
22716s	blizzard has coded it so that every
22717s	spell is the same odds
22720s	of being discovered
22721s	true yeah
22723s	oh is that it was for sure learn to say
22725s	that's exactly what they said okay I
22728s	mean yes that is just the best way to
22730s	explain it to people so I'm not
22731s	surprised
22737s	the interesting part about Lorinda mats
22739s	is when he gets there through actual
22741s	Voodoo that you know as someone who's
22743s	actually studied maths I've never heard
22745s	of in my life and then he explains how
22748s	he's done the calculation and it's just
22749s	the most fake maths I've ever heard in
22752s	my life but it is the right answer those
22754s	are the ones that absolutely blow my
22756s	mind
22758s	so here's how I think of it right
22761s	okay do you know what skee ball is right
22763s	yeah
22765s	um so ski uh imagine you're playing skee
22768s	ball there's 16 holes on the Skee-Ball
22771s	course and you have three balls
22776s	what's the likelihood
22778s	that you get one of those balls in the
22781s	very specific ski ball hole that you
22783s	need
22786s	sorry how you doing 16. what was the
22788s	start of this again I got distracted by
22790s	Lorinda
22793s	so you're playing Skee-Ball yes there's
22796s	16 holes on the skee ball Circle yes and
22799s	you have three balls with three throws
22802s	what are the likelihood with those three
22803s	holes that you get I see all into one
22806s	specific hole well I don't know because
22808s	I don't know how good you are at Skibo
22810s	yeah
22813s	[Laughter]
22819s	factors there's more variables you need
22821s	to consider I don't think you can just
22824s	miss the hole with one of your discovers
22826s	though I'm not sure that's how it works
22827s	and for the record I am very good at
22829s	Skee-Ball I didn't say you won I said I
22832s	didn't know how good you were
22836s	the mere language used already assumes
22839s	some level of goodness you know
22841s	the fact that I know what Skee-Ball is
22844s	yeah right
22859s	okay so yui knows what that is because
22862s	even if the death rattle can't proc it
22864s	still shows you what the card is
22871s	from Call of the grave
22879s	car in place
22895s	yeah this might just be a Finley just
22897s	get me out play this fall now like yeah
22900s	agreed
22902s	every turn you don't you are just
22904s	falling ever so slightly behind in value
22907s	right
22913s	oh
22917s	yeah that's right you also Place natural
22921s	calls calls of the Grave yep
22927s	in place of some anti-aggro stuff like
22931s	uh light Mall another drink
22938s	I am now receiving multiple tweets
22941s	appreciating my wrestling analogies by
22943s	the way I'd just like you to know that
22944s	meant to be treated
22949s	we're a very on I have such cool Hobbies
22951s	me oh yeah yeah being a pro wrestling
22954s	fan is really cool TJ it's a thing that
22956s	we're super proud of
22965s	foreign
22970s	everybody under the age of 12 is very
22972s	proud that they're pretty
22979s	I believe the most popular demographic
22981s	in terms of TV viewership for wrestling
22983s	is now over 60.
22986s	really yeah
22988s	it's dying It's like mid-30s because in
22992s	the peak of pro wrestling was about when
22995s	those people would be 12 right right
23000s	foreign
23004s	early 40s right late 30s early 40s
23008s	because it was like early 90s where it
23010s	started mid 90s
23012s	you would know yeah late late 90s into
23015s	early 2000s was the period yeah yeah
23018s	like mid 30s then yeah or like
23021s	Hulkamania period late 80s early 90s
23023s	like that was Hulk Hogan era or like
23026s	there's like rock Steve Austin era which
23027s	is the late 90s whichever one you're
23029s	referring to if that's your answer
23031s	I'm just baiting you into revealing that
23033s	you know way more about Progressive
23036s	[Music]
23037s	be talking to me about mainstream WWF
23040s	slash WWE wrestling right now you don't
23042s	want me to get me start talking about
23043s	like weird tape trading Indie Feds that
23046s	only nine people have ever seen from the
23049s	the late 80s early 90s that's when I
23052s	really get to play my nerd cards
23055s	and don't even get me started on yo-yos
23058s	[Laughter]
23071s	what are these
23074s	foreign
23077s	yeah I mean it's the go-to option right
23079s	yeah they're all utter garbage so at the
23082s	very very least
23083s	you might as well burn a card like see
23085s	this is the Rippling effects though
23087s	right you get the the short term you
23090s	know dopamine Rush of burning your
23093s	opponent's card but then you have the
23095s	long-term ramifications of one you
23097s	either have to hold this mailbox dancer
23098s	in your hand for the rest of the game or
23100s	two you got to play it it's gonna die
23102s	and then it's gonna be resurrected by
23104s	your ambulance yeah and you're gonna
23106s	burn cards yeah true
23109s	hmm
23114s	we're looking for zyrella
23117s	Ida
23121s	and of course yeah why not yeah
23132s	but he's like jokes on you now I got an
23134s	extra coin in my hand
23137s	just a dumpable card
23143s	foreign
23150s	yeah there's no way it's incriminating
23151s	psychic right that can't be worth over
23153s	just a five eight
23156s	again not having a ton of experience in
23158s	the matchup I have no real like
23159s	intrinsic feel of how important Tempo
23162s	versus value is in that kind of
23164s	situation but you'd have a hard time
23166s	convincing me that one random card was
23169s	better than a five eight yeah also
23171s	incriminating psychic you don't even get
23173s	the incriminating psychic
23176s	oh yeah true yeah yeah it would be full
23178s	so you get the card from your opponent
23180s	and then you the incrementing cycle
23183s	would just be gone so yeah very fair
23189s	bog Beast
23195s	we're suddenly back to uh TJ's potty
23197s	training as he said he was dropping a
23199s	bog Beast before he came on to broadcast
23205s	yep and inside my pogbase was a muck
23207s	Mare
23209s	with talk
23228s	is this void Shard ship it like
23233s	oh
23234s	devour is a dumpable car you got to kind
23236s	of find a mix between value and
23239s	throwaways yep if you don't have enough
23242s	value options just pick the throwaway
23246s	and it's not this similar in pattern to
23249s	the control piece mirrors we had a ton
23251s	of a couple of years ago in uh Europe
23252s	Grand Masters uh where early on players
23256s	were getting outplayed by just picking
23258s	too much value every single time of all
23260s	the discovers and then just not being
23262s	able to play any of their cards
23264s	um whereas the better players were just
23266s	picking smoother more you know Tempo
23268s	effective things and just actually
23270s	having space in hand to be able to do
23272s	things for the whole game
23284s	oh hmm
23289s	contact hexen shadowward ruin
23294s	why
23298s	though the light show Elemental dies on
23300s	your side of the board okay
23304s	that seems like a lot of resources to
23307s	use
23308s	I would say on a one light shower swing
23311s	but I suppose it's more than that light
23314s	shower swing over the course of the
23315s	whole game once all the resurrections
23316s	are taken into account so
23318s	I still think it seems a bit extra to me
23321s	yeah nah just give him a buddy yeah
23324s	that's right
23326s	what happens if you
23328s	I'm sure I'm sure I've seen this before
23330s	if she's najick hexen the the najick
23333s	hexen
23336s	that still has a minion
23339s	active that was stolen
23341s	and then it's killed
23343s	it still goes back to the original owner
23345s	right yeah I think so okay
23351s	I want to double check
23354s	hey the drowns are appearing
23358s	any Merit for ID theft over drown
23362s	ah if you need two hand spaces for right
23365s	identity theft yeah
23368s	yeah and you'd probably just be looking
23370s	for a drown anyway
23375s	oh
23381s	look if you can just go back and forth
23382s	between drown like get pick up a drown
23385s	pick up a devour pick up a call of the
23387s	grade and just keep doing that over and
23390s	over again yep that's that's Peak priest
23393s	performance
23395s	he just drowned his own Minion
23401s	oh yeah
23403s	why wouldn't he do it on the other one
23405s	there are many light shower Elementals
23408s	like it but that one's mine
23411s	what's his yep
23416s	uh
23417s	theft accusation probably or I guess
23420s	devouring plague but theft accusation
23424s	um
23428s	foreign
23437s	it's still kind of good though right you
23439s	now get like the burns there's a dumper
23441s	ball here very easily turn the five six
23444s	to a five five
23448s	and you get to do this for free now
23449s	because weird decisions were made on the
23452s	previous turn
23453s	yeah I'm trying to think if there's any
23455s	benefit to doing it on your own like
23458s	spite I don't know
23461s	you want to get stolen from me
23476s	what would be even weirder is if you
23478s	drowned his own light shower Elemental
23481s	last turn only to then
23485s	Whirlpool it into Oblivion
23491s	it does seem that the ruin is somewhat
23495s	more appropriate here yeah
23498s	oh yes the Devourer in the ruin that's
23501s	uh
23503s	oh no okay I don't understand I I
23506s	genuinely do not understand
23510s	he just destroyed three cards in his own
23512s	deck yep
23518s	and he opened up a hand space for bunny
23520s	Hopper with the Finley
23523s	that he was never gonna play because he
23525s	had Vision to Darkness in him from this
23526s	fall now
23527s	[Music]
23529s	oh shatter skin gargoyle
23535s	got that card quite a few times in Arena
23541s	wait as I'm sure you have too saddle
23544s	what happens with yes this thank you
23547s	okay good yeah that's the question I was
23549s	gonna ask I've never seen that
23549s	interaction but if you proc the death
23551s	rattle and then read the text well it
23553s	hasn't been honorable honorably killed
23555s	so you've resumed it right and yeah
23557s	that's exactly what happens it's good
23558s	good
23560s	I'm pleased
23565s	now let's discuss
23569s	and
23573s	at least say the word permanently on it
23575s	does it what's the exact word what's the
23577s	exact wording on the card I know it is
23580s	written for flavor and not for technical
23581s	accuracy and it is confusing but what is
23584s	the exact word
23587s	uh sister's phone now it's on svalner
23590s	but not on the spell itself right yeah
23592s	that makes sense okay I'm with you uh I
23595s	mean it's sort of on on the spell itself
23597s	it says this stays in your hand yes yeah
23600s	but it doesn't actually have the word
23601s	permanently on it but the minion does
23603s	yes Battle Cry permanently and it's even
23607s	in italics yes that's that's how you
23609s	know they mean it but what it's actually
23611s	doing in a technical sense is discover a
23614s	shadow spell add another copy of this to
23616s	your hand that's what it's actually
23617s	doing yes so if it gets counter spelled
23620s	for example you lose it forever and it
23623s	can still get theatered blah blah blah
23625s	everything that that means so yeah if
23627s	you Shuffle It Away with Finley go to
23628s	the bottom of your deck yep yada yada
23631s	yep
23638s	oh yeah
23640s	how many how many board spaces would you
23643s	like to use on plus two plus one
23649s	um by the way I don't know if you've
23650s	noticed I waited for a while to comment
23652s	on this okay uh but bunny has been
23654s	playing symmetry games for quite some
23657s	time I think to just keep himself amused
23659s	in this game
23662s	he's been making his board as
23663s	symmetrical as possible for quite some
23666s	time
23674s	Oh Derek saying the ordering goes adds
23676s	it to your hand first then discovers a
23678s	spell which I'm willing to believe
23688s	[Laughter]
23694s	oh that even existed
23698s	all right well got a a Mida from the
23701s	identity theft I actually got just two
23704s	big Whomping Minions on the identity
23709s	theft
23712s	it's coming back though it's coming back
23738s	drown the guitar
23745s	ooh devouring plague
23747s	four drowns you know what I mean see
23751s	what I mean I'm not making this up
23756s	not relevant
23758s	right
23759s	there's no positioning that matters I
23761s	don't think so
23763s	maybe there's a death rattle in the game
23765s	where positioning matters
23768s	I don't think so let me look
23771s	I'll take up a good three minutes
23775s	we gotta keep ourselves entertained as
23777s	well that's right
23783s	not enough death rattles yet for zyrella
23789s	yeah I think as much as possible you do
23792s	still want zarella to be like that super
23793s	late game nuke when it comes down to it
23805s	uh hoping ue's good here because I
23808s	believe his camera is frozen and this
23810s	has not just been you know mousing
23812s	around and looking at things this has
23813s	looked like total in action on the other
23815s	side no okay we're good we're good yeah
23819s	finally finally the silence coming down
23823s	yeah just thinking
23826s	Shadow word ruin now to uh deal with one
23828s	finally
23831s	I suppose they are both dealt with to
23833s	the extent that the Silence has been
23835s	used
23856s	I mean opponent's at 27. you want to
23858s	just start getting them
23860s	it's also Undead
23864s	so like
23866s	if you guys
23870s	you rip the vision and then you get the
23872s	thing that's like whenever you play an
23874s	undead give it reborn you know yep yep
23877s	I don't know I I don't want cards for my
23880s	opponent's hand to be quite honest with
23882s	you I want dimash
23888s	that's our line of thinking having
23890s	stayed in this match for such a long
23891s	time but Bunny's like playing the long
23894s	game
23894s	yeah we are very quickly going through
23897s	the uh the seven stages of priest
23899s	mirrors which is
23901s	um very different to the seven stages of
23903s	grief it like it starts with engagement
23904s	and then goes through distraction memes
23908s	boredom and then just smoking we've
23910s	reached that point in proceedings where
23912s	you just want them to go face with
23913s	everything yeah
23916s	we got there pretty quick yeah we did 10
23918s	cards left in the deck yeah pretty good
23920s	actually yikes
23924s	I've done my due diligence and have
23926s	concluded that there are no death rattle
23928s	means in the game where positioning
23929s	matters okay
23931s	uh there is though the existence of bone
23935s	Lord Frost whisper
23938s	for the rest of the game your first card
23940s	each turn costs zero you die in three
23942s	turns yes
23946s	not relevant at all to the situation
23947s	unless I'm just gonna say why why are we
23950s	talking about that
23952s	apart from you also being a massive bone
23954s	Lord and you're just wanting to you know
23956s	show support
23959s	hey that's bone Lord Frost whisper to
23962s	you
23964s	on bone Lord Neil whisper
23967s	ER
23982s	the Mind eaters kinda awkward
23985s	yeah I thought that way too
23988s	it just seems like hand size concerns
23990s	that you don't really need to deal with
23992s	in this situation yeah the shadowy
23995s	shadowed Spirit what's it called
23998s	shadowed Spirit yeah
24001s	seemed just like way better like just
24003s	the pressure that it provides yeah
24008s	[Music]
24019s	oh yeah ship it yeah that might either
24023s	dies buddy Hopper overdose a card
24033s	there's a Mida left in the deck
24040s	inside rella
24043s	and zarella
24045s	dirella I think would be the biggest
24047s	deal
24048s	uh one midday you can probably get away
24051s	with because you know it alliterate
24053s	multiple times with drowns and
24055s	resurrections and whatever else
24071s	foreign
24075s	Box Dancer just still exists
24081s	not too quickly
24091s	if it kills the Mind era that's a pretty
24093s	big deal because otherwise there was no
24094s	way to kill it outside I guess could
24096s	have just cleaned the scene oh nope they
24098s	all went into the one okay so gonna lie
24100s	to Burns it yeah just dumping cars we
24102s	could it's just again a little bit
24104s	confused by what the goal was there
24106s	because now you've now given your
24109s	opponent a copy of a card in your hand
24112s	as opposed to a coin right by silencing
24116s	your own thing is that better the cop
24119s	doesn't seem better
24120s	card in the deck oh all the way around
24123s	sorry yeah yeah okay
24128s	oh four friendly minions
24131s	let me play that plague spreader
24134s	wow that's a nice Suite of minions it is
24138s	God so many drowns
24142s	just use one right like just put a
24145s	mailbox there that's what a freaking
24146s	mailbox dancery yeah yeah yeah yeah
24149s	every time
24151s	get me out
24158s	this is what people want TJ look at all
24161s	these minions interacting with each
24165s	other
24169s	yetis
24181s	yeah Derek raising the point like I you
24183s	know I was phrasing it as a question
24185s	like giving them the coin isn't
24187s	necessarily worse than giving them the
24188s	card because as we've spent a great deal
24191s	of time talking about making room in
24194s	your hand is the biggest problem that
24196s	either player has in this matchup right
24198s	now yeah so coin is a tool that you can
24200s	use to make space as I don't even
24203s	necessarily think that is the wrong
24204s	decision
24206s	oh he's gonna play the minor you use
24209s	super low Health 18 Health yep
24213s	shadowed Spirit would come in quite
24215s	handy here yes I'm Gonna Keep harping on
24218s	it
24220s	this is six
24222s	11 damage like that's well to be fair
24226s	the whole reason all this stuff is on
24229s	board is the copied amulet that came
24231s	from the thing that he took instead of
24233s	the the spirit so and now this is
24236s	getting drowned as well yeah certainly
24243s	like 11
24247s	it's there's a void Shard lethal that
24250s	can't be right
24252s	5 9 10 11 13 15 19. uh no I think you're
24257s	right
24260s	you'd need a hand space first however
24262s	which you cannot do while retaining
24264s	enough Mana to play a point shot though
24268s	so unlucky
24286s	not too quickly well you you're at seven
24291s	I hate to break the news to you but
24292s	that's where we are in this game
24298s	and you're gonna have to clear up this
24300s	board that has
24301s	multiple layers
24305s	I mean Shard cleaned the scene
24309s	I guess the cleanest scene is not
24311s	infused right
24315s	Shard cleaned the seed renithal Whispers
24319s	bow
24321s	okay
24331s	or trade the four death rattle amulet
24343s	wow
24348s	what are you looking for
24357s	Wow
24359s	just leaving the 4-4 up
24362s	uh
24364s	yeah he's
24366s	shadowed Spirit lethal
24369s	no later he just has the third Cathedral
24371s	Cathedral there it is
24376s	8 10.
24378s	and Bonnie you absolute coward that's
24381s	the most unsymmetrical you could have
24383s	made that board on the final turn
24386s	come on now
24388s	but on a more serious stuff bunny gets
24392s	there after
24393s	an absolute marathon of a series in
24397s	every regard we lost you ye at the start
24400s	of it it took us half an hour to even
24401s	get into the series then we had the Mage
24404s	versus priest roller coaster to kick
24406s	things off then that ridiculous upset of
24410s	the game with the you know double play
24412s	spreader hitting spell damage and Jace
24414s	against control priest and then UE still
24416s	putting together the lethal and then
24418s	finally this absolute epic to end off on
24422s	and honestly like I am not gonna claim
24424s	to be an authority on this meta's
24427s	control priest mirrors I will claim to
24428s	be an authority on many things but this
24430s	is not one of them but to me from my
24434s	lofty perch it seemed like UE was a bit
24437s	lost during that game at various points
24440s	like yes it's obviously a lot down to
24443s	various generations and how difficult
24445s	your hand is to use but it certainly
24447s	felt like bunny had a clearer purpose
24449s	and understanding about what he was
24451s	doing throughout the game yeah and
24452s	whereas is almost just reacting and it
24455s	did kind of feel like bunny was always
24457s	in control of things from where I was at
24460s	yeah and like the couple of just kind of
24463s	questionable things of like you know the
24465s	drown on his own like chair Elemental
24468s	the whirlpool seemed a little bit weird
24470s	because those like child Elementals
24471s	could have come in handy later on when
24473s	he had a nice uh clean clear with a
24475s	Shadowood ruin at the very same time
24479s	um it did just seem like bunny had came
24483s	in with a game plan just ultimate value
24485s	stick to Tempo even if that means
24488s	discarding cards right over drawing
24491s	cards uh just keep pressure on the board
24493s	at all times make it really awkward for
24495s	my opponent that's exactly what he did
24496s	so I mean that does mean subtle we are
24499s	guaranteed
24500s	European world champion breaking the
24502s	breaking the curse
24505s	oh so didn't think I'd be ready for it
24508s	but I'm ready for it I'm ready for it
24510s	yeah I'm ready for it I'm ready yeah we
24512s	I mean we already did the job of
24514s	knocking aipac off their perch that
24515s	they've been uh sat on for the last
24517s	couple of years so it really seemed
24519s	inevitable from this point forward but I
24521s	will watch with uh great anticipation as
24523s	we do the second semi-final because I
24526s	think these may be two of the best
24528s	performing players in the tournament so
24529s	far
24531s	um one sketchy Miss lethal on one side
24533s	but overall just two incredibly solid
24535s	players and I think you know bunny is
24537s	the only other person left in that list
24539s	which sets us up weirdly for a
24541s	Hearthstone tournament for a game to
24544s	decide or a match to decide the title
24546s	between the two players that have played
24549s	the best in the tournament potentially
24550s	that's not supposed to happen but it
24553s	might be where we are
24555s	yep that's where we are but we still
24557s	have uh a ways to get there not a way is
24560s	this literally one match before we get
24561s	to the finals But like after this match
24564s	I'm like it's a ways away
24566s	uh but that was a long one so I don't
24567s	know at least three hours yeah nearly
24569s	three hours we were sat here with it
24571s	with the break so uh we're gonna go take
24574s	our uh much dessert Break
24577s	um and when we come back we are going to
24578s	get into that second semifinal see who's
24580s	gonna join bunny hopper in the
24582s	Hearthstone World Championship final so
24584s	don't go anywhere
24589s	[Music]
24606s	[Music]
24617s	[Music]
24623s	[Music]
24638s	thank you
24641s	haha
24661s	you will soon
24664s	[Music]
24670s	Christ
24672s	and serve your king
24678s	your storm is mine
24691s	[Music]
24698s	thank you
24699s	[Music]
24703s	[Applause]
24705s	[Music]
24713s	foreign
24716s	[Music]
24733s	[Music]
24744s	foreign
24749s	[Music]
24784s	welcome back everybody after that
24787s	marathon of a first semi-final we have a
24790s	second semi-final because that's how
24791s	semi-finals work and Derek is going to
24794s	be a great one is it going to be Levick
24796s	the the newcomer I'm going to call him
24798s	although we all know he's been around
24799s	for some time or will it be Team Liquid
24802s	who have done so well in the league of
24804s	hearthstone in China and have a chance
24806s	of having an all liquid final
24808s	yeah I know that would just be so sick
24810s	wouldn't it like it
24814s	doesn't say with everything we're going
24815s	to be saying is that it feels like out
24817s	of the three players left in the
24819s	tournament funny and dead draw through
24821s	sweat tears have earned this spot it
24825s	feels like they deserve this the title
24827s	of world champion because we know them
24829s	so well we've been right behind them for
24831s	their journey in competitive HearthStone
24832s	for so long so I would say based on
24836s	everything we've seen dead draw has to
24838s	be the favorite in the second semi-final
24840s	match just based on tournament pedigree
24843s	however Levick has just been
24846s	consistently surprising me consistently
24848s	playing at the absolute top level he's
24851s	one of those players that you know is
24852s	good but because he's not so much part
24854s	of The Narrative of top players in the
24856s	world right now he doesn't get the same
24858s	praise necessarily as a lot of the other
24860s	top players would like buddy and dead or
24862s	both of whom are very real Arguments for
24864s	best player in the world right now but
24866s	his play throughout the entire weekend
24867s	has been absolutely impeccable and so
24870s	Levick were he to go the entire distance
24872s	I don't think anyone would be
24874s	complaining about the quality of said
24876s	world champion yeah he also has a lot of
24879s	fans in the chat which is always nice to
24881s	see and he's also like he's one of those
24884s	players who he hasn't done great in
24885s	Masters tours until this year
24887s	particularly but he's won a lot of other
24889s	things that have been put in front of
24891s	him sort of the the local whatever it is
24894s	cup for you know surrounding
24896s	neighborhood countries for 500 he's won
24899s	infinite number of those things over the
24901s	years
24902s	um so just because we haven't seen him
24903s	playing competitive Hearthstone at the
24905s	highest level he's been destroying it at
24907s	sort of tier two tier three levels for a
24909s	long time because he hasn't had the
24911s	chance to play the tier one stuff so
24913s	much but this year open system he's gone
24915s	all the way through it and here he is
24917s	one match away from reaching the finals
24921s	indeed his opponent just being dead draw
24923s	who I think really does uh exemplify the
24927s	the journey that we've gone through
24930s	competitive Hearthstone over the last
24931s	few years with the obvious switch to
24933s	Grand Masters there were some very
24935s	legitimate complaints about the fact
24937s	that it was difficult for the top
24939s	performing players in Masters tours to
24941s	qualify up through two grand Masters and
24944s	Dedra was truly the poster child of that
24946s	uh complaint that people had because he
24948s	was he's won the third most number of
24952s	Masters absolutely games out of anyone
24954s	and he missed one right up there at the
24956s	top of win rate yeah sure there you go
24958s	and he's still yeah right up there at
24959s	the top uh and he's like right up
24962s	towards the top of win rate second most
24964s	top 16s or top eights when we used to do
24967s	that in Masters tours as well like it
24969s	his accolades just speak for themselves
24971s	but finally with the changes the subtle
24973s	changes that we've been making obviously
24975s	now Grandmasters phased out anyway uh
24977s	but I think it does show that the the
24979s	system is fostering this type of talent
24982s	and we are left in a situation where
24984s	we're getting back-to-back world's
24985s	appearances from lots of players
24987s	possessing a couple games away from
24989s	being back-to-back world champion Bonnie
24991s	Hopper and Deirdre making it through to
24993s	the semi-finals and Levick as well you
24995s	know he's the type of player a few years
24997s	ago would have really struggled to make
25000s	it through to the world championships
25001s	and now with his dominant results on
25003s	ladder Translating that into tournament
25005s	victories as well we are seeing this uh
25009s	New Breed come through and uh we are all
25013s	the happier for it as jumping into the
25015s	decks here we do have two of the
25019s	common archetypes between our two
25021s	players with both players having jackpot
25024s	Rogue well both players actually having
25025s	identical classes across the board it's
25027s	worth saying it's just the archetypes
25030s	where they differ control priest for
25032s	dead draw Boone priest for Levick and
25035s	straight up ping Mage for Levick whereas
25037s	it's a slightly more controlling package
25039s	for dead draw but the jackpot Rogue and
25041s	the Demon Hunter that's where they
25042s	completely overlap in terms of
25044s	archetypes yeah and because of those
25046s	sort of small well fairly large
25047s	differences it means that the bands
25049s	ended up being different and sort of
25051s	broke the mirror in the classes with
25053s	Levick Banning the priest and with dead
25057s	draw Banning the Mage so does shake it
25060s	up a little bit and I I personally think
25062s	it will come down to whether Levitt can
25064s	get his um his blessed pieces Moon
25066s	priest out of here I think that's going
25068s	to be the key thing in this one
25070s	obviously if he can't he will lose uh
25073s	but I think that's the one where he
25074s	hasn't got very good matchups unless he
25076s	runs it into the Demon Hunter and the
25077s	Demon Hunter might be gone after this
25079s	game so this Boon piece might have some
25082s	work to do so very very important game
25085s	number one for Levick I think absolutely
25087s	needs to keep this Demon Hunter in play
25089s	so that his priest has a chance to bump
25090s	into it
25092s	let's see whether he can do so both
25094s	players with a spicy two Mana card to
25096s	kick off the semi-finals the jackpot for
25099s	Levick who knows what's hidden behind
25101s	those curtains but it obviously has the
25103s	potential to be a game-winning card in
25106s	its own right whereas for dead draw
25108s	needs a little bit more help certainly
25110s	from a relic of Dimensions to really
25113s	make this hand pop but even with just
25115s	like Relic Vault and phantasms that's a
25119s	reasonable starting board here no
25121s	absolutely
25123s	um
25124s	first of all the phantasms just provide
25126s	a distraction they slow the Rogue down
25128s	but also they can just do enough damage
25130s	sometimes to make things so much easier
25132s	for you plus you don't mind popping the
25135s	Vault on three anyway for the first pop
25137s	because then when you get to Dimensions
25139s	later
25140s	um it's got that double buff going into
25143s	it and the Vault has regenerated or
25145s	whatever the phase is uncool down if I'd
25148s	and so you get the they get the super
25151s	Dimensions as well so everything here
25153s	far better than it looks for dead draw
25157s	again we're seeing a really nice
25159s	demonstration from Levick of the power
25161s	of sketchy stranger because the obvious
25164s	curve with this hand was absolutely
25166s	jackpot onto trickster on four you can
25169s	argue about stranger or perjury uh on
25171s	turn three in between uh but there's so
25174s	many strong cards here right so many
25176s	strong secrets that we keep talking
25177s	about explosive runes objection counter
25180s	spell ice trap uh
25183s	Reckoning as well like can be okay but
25185s	like the main things are just those
25186s	Hunter and Mage spells uh that are so so
25188s	uh
25189s	brutal against Demon Hunter and even
25192s	though it means he's going to be popping
25193s	off with the trickster earliest on turn
25195s	five now I do still like this play
25198s	because of how good these secrets often
25200s	are yeah just because you can do
25202s	something really really busted on turn
25204s	four doesn't mean you actually have to
25206s	do that right it's still it's still
25207s	pretty buses on turn five and you're in
25209s	the game better so absolutely agreeing
25212s	with you here Derek that's just delaying
25214s	it a little bit it's going to make a big
25215s	difference
25216s	oh it's so irritating to play around
25219s	these under pressure as well
25222s	um very much so he has a little bit of
25224s	information however and because this
25226s	perjury is still
25228s	perjury it's not uh in uh the form of
25231s	another secret quite yet dead draw knows
25233s	it's not counter spell I think that's
25235s	all he's rooted out so far so he is
25239s	obviously going to be most afraid of
25241s	objection or runes and objections
25247s	yeah
25249s	okay he knows it's not barrier or Visage
25253s	now either
25255s	like the obvious way to play this turn
25258s	to me is not to go Mark of scorn is to
25260s	play the extinction coin spectral site
25262s	and then you get follow-up at the end
25264s	with Mark of scorn
25266s	um
25268s	yeah I think it's settling on that in
25270s	the end as well
25272s	yeah when you describe me that's exactly
25273s	play ahead of my eye line and then
25275s	Deadpool's doing it differently I'm
25276s	thinking well Derek's just wrong then
25278s	and I'm not going to admit to the fact I
25280s	agreed and then he started doing like
25281s	yeah actually Alex is great I love him
25288s	I love how double coasters procs
25290s	instantly it's so funny
25292s	yeah yeah just interrupting their turn
25295s	nice discounts uh with the double spell
25297s	damage and a lovely draw of prep
25300s	on the other side for Levick and a
25303s	lovely looking ice trap as well
25307s	so
25309s	how quickly does Levick do you feel need
25311s	to get on with this now because
25312s	obviously when demon Hunter's just doing
25313s	its thing you don't really know how
25315s	close they are to winning you do have to
25316s	get on with it at some point pretty soon
25318s	right
25321s	uh yes yeah yeah absolutely you want to
25323s	start building up a big board now that
25325s	you've seen one relic of Extinction if
25327s	you can get minions in play that are up
25330s	to like six seven health or so it does
25331s	become a little tricky for them to clear
25333s	off with unleash fell and get damaged
25336s	face at the same time but but Levick
25339s	here you know and until he sees relative
25341s	dimensions in his opponent's hand he
25344s	does have a fair bit of time uh to keep
25347s	just playing his game plan uh these
25350s	secrets that he's got the
25353s	explosive runes in particular are going
25355s	to be so backbreaking for dead draw when
25358s	they're replayed through Contraband
25360s	stuff this is going to be tricky for
25362s	dead draw to get a lethal through
25364s	anytime soon
25365s	yep
25368s	um I mean how many millions have you
25369s	been in the Demon Hunter deck is it six
25371s	there's the four spell damage there's
25372s	the Jace
25375s	and a snack yeah and a snake so it is
25377s	it's it's the seven no six yeah this is
25380s	what I had in my head so you burn the
25383s	snake at some point and you have to
25385s	start throwing things in there like you
25386s	say
25387s	oh it's gonna be tough
25390s	nice draw though from dead draw uh with
25392s	the double relic of Dimensions he's
25394s	already got a decent
25396s	hand at the moment actually with the
25397s	double spell damage and unleash felt
25399s	it's going to be very tricky uh for
25401s	Levick to stick aboard against all this
25404s	hits the relic of Dimensions which is
25406s	obviously the card you'd want to send
25408s	back in at this point uh later on in the
25410s	game you can rely on the gravedigger to
25413s	Discount uh sorry to counteract big
25416s	discounts because when they're shuffled
25418s	back in they are sent back to their
25419s	original cost at this point you are
25421s	specifically trying to hit relic of
25423s	dimensions
25424s	that unfortunately a second one was also
25426s	found to the game plan for Levick does
25428s	not achieve what it was setting out to
25430s	do very interesting there um Levick
25432s	taking the the value trade getting rid
25434s	of the one one that shows how much he's
25436s	valuing his health total how much harder
25438s	he knows he's going to make it because
25439s	he knows he's going to get rid of maybe
25441s	two spell damage minions maybe even
25443s	three because if Dedra needs one now to
25445s	clear this board that will get picked
25447s	off one way or another
25450s	um and so every point of health is going
25452s	to stop some sort of surprise Jace Fury
25455s	chaos win
25458s	he valued that one point of Health
25460s	massively there
25464s	okay decent discounts
25467s	that's nice okay yeah pretty good
25469s	Dimensions overall
25471s	yeah
25472s	save that one turns as well
25475s	very threatening at this point
25480s	actual minions this is
25482s	yeah this is however the last big push
25484s	onto the board that I think dead draw
25486s	can
25488s	put together because this is the second
25490s	relic of dimensions and with uh oh sorry
25494s	phantasms apologies for the 277s and so
25498s	if these are dealt with in any form
25500s	that's about it with the explosive runes
25503s	denying any real minion pressure from
25505s	the spell damage that could come down so
25508s	it's very much all in on the combo game
25511s	plan here from dead draw and honestly
25514s	just like a single good secret here from
25516s	sketchy stranger yeah and Levick can
25519s	stop the combo from ever happening
25522s	explosive ruins is okay because it gives
25526s	you one extra proc but it's a lot worse
25529s	than objection uh which could have both
25530s	been replayed again with the stash yeah
25533s	yeah but it's he is running out of oh
25536s	dead raw is running out of million
25537s	options as you've said the freezing trap
25539s	will cut down one more of these he's
25542s	picked up the damage to this just to
25543s	take out the other minion that is
25545s	everything dealt with and dead draw is
25547s	gonna have to fiddle around and like I
25549s	say Levick knew this was the plan
25551s	cut off one point of damage a moment or
25554s	two ago just to make it that little bit
25555s	harder because every point after 30
25557s	something makes it so much more
25559s	difficult
25561s	I like that is that he does this with 10
25563s	cards in hand you don't want this seven
25565s	seven in your hand right now so you'd
25567s	rather it die don't you
25570s	are we 100 sure you don't not 100 uh
25578s	it's nine Mana though I I realize but
25582s	you're in a spot right
25584s	it's fair it's a fair point uh my
25586s	intuition is still you're right says
25589s	that you would rather have more
25590s	handsprings available I do think you're
25592s	right I'm just um raising the point yeah
25595s	yeah
25596s	no no it's a good point because I mean
25597s	right now realistically the best win
25599s	condition for dead draw as I see it is
25601s	drawing the other Phantasm sorry I guess
25604s	drawing the other relic of Dimensions
25606s	reduce exactly second Arcanist and fell
25611s	barrage and then you play the most
25613s	expensive spell damage card in your hand
25614s	then play to get it hit with explosive
25617s	runes then you play all the rest and
25619s	then you kill him in one turn with two
25621s	foul barrages two unleash Bells as well
25623s	doing it now we've not been adding this
25626s	up he's just going right now
25629s	but is it enough that the Jace wins next
25631s	turn is it two turn lethal with Jace
25633s	through a lot of stuff that's the plan I
25636s	mean he's saying like he has explosive
25638s	runes in the pool if I'm procking it now
25640s	I need to replay the rest of my good
25643s	minions before he plays the second one
25645s	and I hope that they stick
25648s	it's not absurd
25651s	the hope that they do so I mean they can
25654s	right they might they might yeah I also
25659s	love it like you know one of the hearts
25660s	of his own to eat up a fell or something
25662s	like that
25663s	sure yeah
25670s	and not because there's a chaos in over
25672s	here
25675s	yeah and then from there stash or
25677s	explosive runes we'll reapply the
25681s	runes
25687s	also destroy your board very amusingly
25689s	uh those things are really horrible in
25692s	the Mirror by the way if um if you don't
25694s	destroy them if you don't have the spell
25696s	damage and unleash combo those things
25699s	just go all the way in the against the
25702s	weapon version of the deck
25703s	like Grim the leeches
25707s	black people
25711s	indeed yeah okay that's a nice draw
25713s	cards left for dead draw the one
25717s	Arcanist is the big one the one fell
25718s	barrage is the other big one because
25721s	again I'm thinking if he can discount
25723s	specifically both spell damage
25727s	she's got one of
25729s	he could then go
25731s	pedal damage
25733s	that gets destroyed by the runes and
25735s	then spell damage Jace which might be
25737s	lethal I
25740s	I'm not sure if Jace alone will be
25743s	enough to be lethal I don't think it is
25744s	quite yet but it could be of the game
25748s	we've had the three-point Fury we've had
25750s	the chaos strikes they're getting close
25752s	now
25755s	it is getting close uh another few of
25757s	you so another Fury would be
25762s	oh no
25765s	that's really difficult to get through
25774s	no Extinction If he if he gets the other
25777s	Fury I think it's 13 from Jace
25780s	how does he get through this 3-8 though
25782s	I mean he doesn't now but yeah
25785s	right okay
25789s	uh Mark spell yeah
25809s	it would take it to 16 but also if you
25811s	get rid of the three eight it's not
25812s	there anymore obviously
25817s	again for the other spell damage minion
25820s	before he can do anything
25826s	that's true yeah I guess the players you
25828s	draw the other spell damage you play it
25829s	and then you hope that the remaining
25832s	Secret in their hand is not runes or
25836s	objection even though you know there's a
25838s	great chance that it's ruined because
25839s	it's been held for so long what is it
25842s	like exactly yeah
25844s	like in the real world he knows but in
25846s	the world where Hearthstone has to be
25848s	played you have to play Hearthstone
25850s	I absolutely agree with this line those
25852s	are two absolutely hilarious cards to
25854s	get
25856s	I mean you could just pyroblast them in
25858s	the face right now if you want to
25861s	uh in terms of ice blood Tower I want to
25864s	say that's not a good idea because ice
25866s	blood into Shadow step to bounce back
25868s	the one that I'm stopping you from dying
25870s	doesn't sound like a great idea that'd
25873s	be a great one for the did the player
25875s	making mistakes lists of arguments but
25878s	you want your shower on because there's
25880s	something you've miscalculated which
25881s	there probably isn't just having extra
25882s	Health that's smaller than 13 on the
25885s	board to suck up some barrages it's
25887s	probably just smart
25889s	yeah and if you pick Tides then you can
25892s	go uh double pirate next turn which is
25896s	a guaranteed it's very likely lethal I
25898s	want to say dead draw throws down the
25900s	spell damage praying it's not gonna die
25902s	it dies
25904s	and uh I think it's gonna struggle to
25907s	get through all of this
25911s	so two
25917s	even if he gets Unleashed fell unleash
25919s	fell then fell barrage
25921s	uh they're still the reborn left over
25924s	afterwards oh I guess actually it
25926s	doesn't matter which order it goes in
25931s	yeah enough there it is on the Jace
25934s	anyway and Levick takes a 1-0 lead I
25937s	feel like Levick just wins every game of
25939s	hearthstone he plays at the moment it's
25941s	not actually true but it certainly feels
25943s	that way
25944s	it does and I think again it's Testament
25947s	to the lineup that the three remaining
25949s	players in the tournament have right
25951s	every single player left in has jackpot
25955s	Rogue of all decks a deck that I well
25958s	into this tournament was still
25959s	disrespecting because again it just
25962s	feels so loose compared to most of the
25964s	other Rogue decks in the game like for
25967s	me the the kind of deck I enjoy in
25969s	Hearthstone and the deck that I feel is
25970s	strongest are just very tight deckless
25973s	they have lots of card draw they do one
25975s	thing and they do it really well that's
25977s	what Demon Hunter is at the moment
25979s	that's what any version of Miracle Rogue
25981s	is right now that's what the Boon
25983s	priests are right now like that's what
25985s	wins typically in Hearthstone but this
25987s	Rogue just has so much more disruption
25990s	than initially meets the eye these uh
25994s	now these sketchy strangers sorry time
25997s	and again have just single-handedly
25999s	beaten Demon Hunter if you get one
26001s	explosive or one uh objection it kind of
26005s	just feels like you win the game versus
26006s	Demon Hunter a lot of the time yeah and
26009s	that's the key right you've got two
26010s	shots at it if you do do all that this
26012s	is you know because there's two cars
26014s	there is not just the objection because
26016s	the runes do it as well makes it so so
26019s	difficult to get through
26021s	and that looked it was it was definitely
26024s	still close at the end their dead draw
26025s	did set up that 13 damage for one of the
26028s	terms for instance that with the fell
26030s	off the top and the opponent not having
26031s	a taunt would get through there there's
26033s	something AFC in that statement but he
26035s	was finding a way to set up lethals even
26037s	through all that nonsense but yeah you'd
26040s	go down one zero and that Demon Hunter
26042s	remains in play and I say that I think
26045s	that possibly it will come down to with
26047s	a levix Boone priest could beat the
26049s	Demon Hunter so he needs to win again
26051s	here to keep that in place not that bad
26053s	the boom piece could beat the other
26054s	decks but he would love to keep that
26055s	Demon Hunter in play
26058s	well here we go for Levick on the Demon
26061s	Hunter the mirror as dead draw will be
26063s	lining up his own once again as we've
26066s	seen and as we've said a few times
26067s	already this tournament no it does kind
26070s	of feel like one of the lower skill
26072s	expression matchups but Dedra has I
26075s	think specifically led to some
26076s	interesting games in this mirror where
26079s	the the board-based aspect of this deck
26083s	is consistently overlooked by a lot of
26086s	the players yes I agree with him
26088s	throwing away double relic of phantasms
26090s	there you don't want it in the starting
26091s	hand but these kind of players in the
26093s	mid game where you get up to five five
26095s	six six maybe even seven seven sized
26097s	minions of the phantasms can actually
26100s	pose some really big problems for
26102s	opponents who were too liberal with
26104s	their extinctions early on in the game
26106s	right this is the difference between an
26108s	exact 50 50 matchup and an underdog
26110s	matchup right you there's the option
26112s	there to go coin into phantasms into
26114s	more phantasms and against some matchups
26117s	you might just do that and see if it
26118s	gets there but obviously in a 50 50 it's
26121s	a long shot it's just a long shot that
26122s	might just work so you Chuck it away and
26124s	try and do the thing your deck is built
26126s	to do which is murder people on turn
26128s	five horribly with spells living
26132s	creative who hate over 10 000 years or
26135s	something I'm sure that law is
26136s	completely rubbish but I tried
26141s	uh Quest completable
26143s	on this turn even if it does come in the
26145s	form of an unoutcast spectral site I do
26148s	agree with the line that Levick took
26151s	this game where he didn't play Outkast
26153s	spectral site on turn two which would
26156s	have maximized card draw uh but been
26160s	uh no Quest completion until like turn
26163s	four most likely turn three absolutely
26165s	earliest if you get very very lucky and
26167s	with this line he's able to get a
26169s	discount in some pretty valuable cards
26171s	uh being able to go Relic plus Relic
26174s	Vault next turn is a nice little push of
26177s	tempo as I was talking about which can
26179s	sometimes be relevant in those mid game
26181s	turns yeah while they're messing around
26183s	trying to pick it all off and the social
26184s	has talked about this a lot as well and
26186s	you've talked about it a lot
26188s	well they're missing on trying to pick
26189s	it all off
26191s	um they're not drawing cards so you're
26193s	slowing people down in what is a race
26196s	nice oh my goodness oh wow now we're
26200s	talking man these turns for Levick have
26202s	just been so strong
26206s	yeah now he's got a timing decision to
26208s	make um I think next time we might see
26210s	just Vault double phantasms don't push
26213s	the button and then the turn after just
26215s	go for the massive car draw
26218s	another happy really
26221s	whereas before he picked up that
26223s	Dimensions everything was very different
26227s	the good draw it's one draw too late to
26230s	be able to play it on this turn pretty
26232s	savagely for dead raw and his Grim is
26234s	there more or less says it all it's it's
26237s	a draw you're happy to see
26240s	but it just hurts to have to play it one
26242s	turn later again question as to whether
26244s	or not you play rank one Fury or even
26248s	fell barrage wow okay I didn't see that
26252s	Levick just flinched slightly as his
26255s	headset as he heard dead draw shouting
26256s	hey Levick I've got dimensions in my
26258s	hand with that Extinction he just played
26262s	yeah I agree with this line from dead
26264s	draw I I do think it's uh yeah
26268s	he's a bit scary sometimes
26272s	yeah oh my goodness oh wow
26278s	uh you don't
26280s	have to play unleash fell here right you
26283s	can just start with Relic plus very well
26286s	into the yeah Relic Vault into the
26289s	dimensions and yeah
26291s	I think you get down to exactly six and
26294s	then are you gonna go Dimensions
26296s	RV temperatures to go double
26298s	um go Relic Vault double fantastic with
26301s	the Vault here
26302s	no no this is always Dimensions okay
26305s	sure
26307s	uh but yeah a little interesting there
26310s	that he went for it uh first as I really
26314s	don't think there's any
26315s	one oh wait he's on cartridge oh sorry
26317s	he's on Square stage three okay there
26319s	you go he wants kurchasing hand it was
26321s	there perfectly acceptable to do so
26325s	I I honestly didn't even realize that
26328s	he'd I'd forgotten that he'd gone
26329s	through so quickly through all these
26331s	Quest stages given that dead girl hasn't
26332s	even done one level uh so far and Levick
26336s	is looking so laser curtress next turn
26338s	I'm so lazy with Curtis that's why I
26341s	wasn't looking at the dimensions I just
26342s	like I just burned my curves because I
26344s	can't be bothered to keep my hand the
26345s	right size because it's so
26347s	often not used but it's big enough in
26349s	this to actually be a problem so you
26351s	should probably look after your Curtis
26355s	think don't
26357s	press the Vault here oh man because it
26360s	does make it a lot harder to play the
26361s	dimensions next turn and even though
26364s	he's obviously going to be running into
26365s	some
26366s	hand space issues potentially
26369s	I think he's running it today it's very
26370s	intense issues
26372s	yeah I guess and again it does exemplify
26377s	dead draws
26379s	uh approach to this matchup which
26381s	consistently does take use of board
26383s	control rather than just playing purely
26385s	for the combo which is just a very
26388s	interesting different way of approaching
26389s	it from what I've mainly seen on ladder
26390s	in this exact game right now I can't
26393s	talk about the rest of his tournament I
26394s	think he's so far behind
26396s	that this is the look my opponent's
26398s	drawn a million cars they're going to
26399s	kill me so soon set up two turn lethal
26402s	and see if you get that I grow impatient
26404s	like you know you don't you know they're
26406s	going to clear and stuff but it buys you
26407s	a turn to maybe Dimensions next turn
26410s	maybe you get out because
26413s	it's just miles behind
26415s	I don't think I agree with how far
26417s	behind he is because drawing cards of
26418s	this matchup is important but reducing
26421s	their cost is more important they've
26424s	both gone Relic plus sorry Relic Vault
26426s	plus relative dimensions right so
26428s	they've both reduced the same amount of
26429s	cards in hand and with this line Levick
26432s	the thing that Levick has achieved by
26435s	drawing more cards is he's more likely
26437s	to have the answer right to clear this
26439s	off he should be able to accrue the
26441s	necessary resources to clear this
26443s	whereas I think for dead draw I I
26445s	appreciate what he's going for with the
26446s	board control plan because it disrupts
26448s	your opponent but I would argue when
26450s	they're at 10 cards in hand
26452s	they want to spend a turn playing
26454s	removal they don't want to go for
26456s	another Relic draw turn and so
26459s	personally for me I think it could have
26462s	been set up where you go for
26464s	unlocationed relic of phantasms on the
26467s	previous turn just for two four fours
26469s	rather than the five five as well and
26470s	then this turn you get to go coin three
26473s	throw something away extinctions unleash
26475s	fell whatever and play The Relic of
26477s	dimensions and get that one played a
26479s	single turn earlier okay yeah that
26482s	that's definitely a line that I can see
26485s	is incredibly strong
26487s	um like you say because you know your
26488s	board doesn't stick my thought process
26491s	was I think he's a long way behind maybe
26493s	he thinks he's too far behind because
26494s	what you've said is planning out would
26497s	have been quite good
26499s	um so maybe me and Deborah are both
26502s	overestimating how far dead Royal is
26504s	behind because like you say levix Ham's
26505s	quite expensive and chunky
26510s	foreign
26515s	nice easy clear turn though for dead
26517s	draw uh as he also takes a turn off
26521s	drawing here which I think is fine for
26523s	him I I guess to be fair the one thing
26525s	that Deirdre did actually achieve with
26527s	this is that Levick did get kurtress in
26529s	his hand previous turn and he was unable
26531s	to play it now which is you know when
26534s	you think it through probably the main
26535s	thing that Deirdre was looking to
26537s	achieve which he did do
26540s	uh now I think Levick should however
26543s	have his sights set on Relic rather than
26547s	Catrice on this turn his deck is just so
26551s	jam-packed with good cards to Discount
26554s	uh that I'd rather just play The Relic
26556s	right now because I think the chances of
26558s	hitting them are very high
26560s	yeah I'm interested how this pans out
26561s	because the whole courtress turn was
26564s	very strange to me anyway just because
26566s	like I say I I I I I respect getting the
26569s	extra value from a potential Court just
26570s	don't get me wrong I'm not that wasteful
26573s	right I eat all the food on my plate if
26575s	I can but it it just seemed like you
26578s	didn't need it at that point it often
26580s	seems like you don't need it you just
26582s	winning two or three turns draw a lot of
26583s	cards reduce them with volts and
26585s	dimensions and Bam You've Won
26587s	so I mean just to see what he does with
26589s	his character so whether it actually
26590s	ends up being a relevant thing that he's
26592s	spent quite a lot of time doing
26594s	and whatever he's doing it's time to do
26597s	it right now ends up on
26599s	developing board okay again players very
26603s	committed to the board and in this
26604s	instance you can see why deadra wants to
26606s	play The Relic of Dimensions Levick
26608s	wants to force him into clearing the
26610s	board we're going to see whether or he
26612s	whether or not dead Rock could achieve
26615s	both on this turn because in order to
26617s	win the game I think he's gonna have to
26620s	yeah and he's gonna have to piece it
26622s	together in bits here come the bits just
26627s	gonna trust the deck and I think this is
26628s	correct
26629s	only 10 cards left draw for them
26635s	one manage Ace oh my goodness there's
26639s	removal there they're not fail spells
26640s	the marks um but oh my God there's so
26643s	much stuff
26644s	uh he's played one Unleashed fell not
26647s	two but he can go Arcanist velberage Fel
26651s	barrage
26653s	Chase I I think oh no sorry that's one
26657s	of one I just have to play the cards
26659s	you've got no time I don't think unless
26661s	you play this a million times if you can
26663s	calculate this you just do it yeah
26665s	agreed
26667s	he has to play Jace
26671s	it works good luck
26675s	oh man this is so close
26679s	oh
26681s	okay that's everything bar one cleared
26684s	off I believe a 10 attack
26688s	yeah and it's not leaking it's a lot of
26690s	damage but now there's so much potential
26693s	to pull things back here uh for Levick
26696s	it's just the same turn again for the
26699s	other direction and bigger things to we
26701s	move
26703s	Levick is going to do the same thing
26705s	spend 20 seconds wondering what to do
26707s	about it and then realize he's got to
26708s	rip it
26710s	just cycling first to put the guild
26712s	traders in there oh no oh no that's the
26717s	disaster
26720s	I think that's the card you needed to
26722s	discount it would have cost zero but now
26725s	we can't
26728s	I did it all to reduce this Guild Trader
26730s	but yeah the Jace was the key one and
26733s	there was another balcony so maybe he
26734s	didn't need to put the guild Trader in
26736s	there
26737s	easy in hindsight
26739s	I wanted to put the guild
26742s	yeah I think it was correct uh he he
26744s	needed spell damage and Jace to clean
26747s	this up and to win the game he took the
26748s	risk and was punished for it
26750s	there's no unleash fell in the deck so
26753s	even if he were to trade he can't play
26755s	anything that's over and in again such a
26759s	head scratcher a nail biter a brain
26762s	melter as a it has started to be dubbed
26764s	as well in a game there uh Tetra comes
26768s	away with the win but man like so many
26770s	different decisions that could have been
26772s	made there in that mid game I think that
26773s	was such a fascinating example of a
26776s	Demon Hunter mirror which I you know
26779s	have often touted as being a little bit
26781s	luck of the draw whoever comes out ahead
26783s	uh in his early turns just wins the game
26785s	but that was absolutely not the case
26787s	there many different decisions that
26788s	could have been made by both of our
26790s	players to change the outcome yeah both
26792s	of them putting Minions on the board to
26793s	try and block fell spells and also to
26795s	buy time because they're blocking the
26797s	fail spells they're threatening
26798s	effectively thought with all the damage
26800s	that's in the deck if you take 15 points
26802s	of damage for minions you're going to
26803s	lose
26804s	uh with Levick feeling the need to
26808s	complete Quest into a courtress actually
26811s	in his hand which involved him fiddling
26813s	around a little bit that turn and
26815s	there's obviously layers to this that
26817s	the players have been playing this and
26819s	they'll have play test groups around
26820s	them playing this helping them out as
26822s	well because they're in the world
26823s	championships friends help you out
26826s	um have come to the conclusion that you
26827s	do need that minion presence a lot of
26829s	the time
26832s	Demon Hunter once again now for levik
26835s	you can uh I love it you can always spot
26838s	the true ladder Grinders in a tournament
26840s	setting can't you who just jammed the
26842s	same deck over and over again when it
26844s	loses like it's blies it's levic it's uh
26848s	yeah any of the ladder Gods whenever you
26849s	see them pop up in tournaments it's
26852s	always just the same over and over again
26853s	and I think that is kind of telling the
26856s	story here of the series wherein
26860s	the Demon Hunter for Levick is the weak
26863s	spot there's just some good matchups I
26865s	think across the board for dead draw
26866s	where he's got this Mage left behind
26868s	here this is I think the most arguable
26870s	again I see the theory behind this with
26873s	double objection and a whole bunch of uh
26876s	disruption spells like the solid Alibi
26878s	in order to make it harder for your
26880s	opponent to kill you
26881s	having said that I do think in practice
26883s	the Rogue has looked more convincing
26885s	versus The Demon Hunter than the Mage
26888s	has for me
26889s	yeah absolutely I agree with you I think
26891s	the majors are finer there's three
26893s	Majors left there's two highlighted at
26894s	the start in the last three people in
26896s	the tournament so it's going pretty well
26897s	I know they're slightly different builds
26899s	and so on but seems to be the the bring
26902s	as the phrase goes very well you're
26905s	saying about levick's weak point I think
26907s	now that the Demon Hunter has won four
26909s	dead draw levix Boone priest is also a
26912s	little bit sketchy now uh with not
26916s	necessarily the easiest way out of it
26917s	with a double objection Deadpool's ping
26919s	Mage for instance making things a lot
26921s	harder
26922s	so Levick I feel significantly behind in
26926s	this one one at Best of five uh but
26929s	nothing that a win in this game would
26930s	wouldn't turn around in a heartbeat
26934s	and therefore one of the few things that
26937s	can dissuade a man from going for uh all
26940s	out on relics is spectral site in the
26945s	leftmost position it can be when
26946s	factoring Quest whereby on turn three or
26950s	turn two with a coin
26952s	super smooth uh stage one Quest
26954s	completion just ready to go and another
26956s	spectral site to follow up means even
26959s	though there's no Dimensions quite yet
26960s	for levig this Quest is going to be
26962s	absolutely plowed through yeah and that
26965s	will usually especially in his build
26967s	allow you to just get the
26970s	the stuff you need incredibly quickly
26978s	their draw just obviously nothing to do
26980s	in this opener for a few turns you just
26982s	got to sit there and let the Demon
26983s	Hunter go out their business that's
26984s	terrifying in its own right
26987s	he's doing it on turn two interesting
26990s	job's done because it doesn't cause
26996s	oh wow uh but he doesn't right unless he
26998s	got specifically zero Mana Central of
27001s	alacrity uh it's only four cards he's
27004s	drawing next turn why not
27006s	uh so when I go again what I mean is if
27009s	he drew the facility spectral sites and
27011s	the first two cards were rubbish
27013s	he could just go okay I don't want to
27014s	reduce those and then the turn after he
27016s	could have cycled knee for greed and
27017s	spectral cited into some better cards
27020s	he got two looks at um a reduction
27024s	but as it is he ripped a relative
27025s	dimensions and reduced that instead
27028s	yeah fully agree with this line to play
27030s	a one Mana draw card first be it Mark of
27033s	scorn or trade The Guild Trader because
27035s	you want to hit specifically The Relic
27038s	Vault and that's the only real card that
27040s	significantly upgrades your next turn
27049s	ah this guy
27051s	oh
27055s	yeah
27057s	okay
27060s	she's the cost as well it's disgusting
27067s	to play them both
27070s	down yeah oh actually sorry more
27073s	specifically play the one Mana one save
27075s	the zero Mana one for
27077s	whatever amount of surprise Factor
27079s	that's for sure
27082s	do something else with the develop yeah
27085s	sure
27089s	yeah saving Health can be relevant
27090s	emotions
27092s	absolutely yeah and it does just upgrade
27094s	your Relic because the difference
27095s	between discounting by one and
27097s	discounting by three and then four is
27100s	Big very very big
27102s	yeah it's weird because after that the
27105s	difference becomes smaller game but this
27106s	first couple of reductions are massive
27110s	okay next turn is amazing for him and
27113s	dead draw has
27116s	very little going on here
27121s	the card is found though the spicy Tech
27123s	card that counters very nicely a deck
27126s	that as you said runs six millions and
27128s	six minions alone with no ability to
27130s	discover more
27132s	I do agree though that for dead draw
27133s	it's not time
27136s	yet it's not like jackpot Rogue where
27140s	you play it and then you can replay it
27142s	again and again with the stash and Tess
27144s	you play it once and then it's it's gone
27147s	it's a one-time effective for the Mage
27149s	so you want to save that until either
27151s	you've seen the rust Viper or you
27153s	suspect it's Jace time this is an
27156s	interesting turn by the way Levick just
27158s	being very very much going to sort of
27161s	dump some stuff out of his hand before
27162s	getting his Dimensions off
27165s	yeah again you could kind of see he
27167s	wanted Jace right yeah
27174s	very interesting turn
27181s	oh no
27183s	yeah this is not it is it it really
27186s	isn't
27188s	just nothing happening to the point
27190s	where he's been kind of forced into
27191s	playing the objection here
27194s	and Levick just to do something very
27197s	slightly there's just to say yeah okay
27198s	well that's that's fine
27201s	it is entirely face up uh given that
27204s	there's only one secret or one type of
27207s	secret in the deck in the objection so
27209s	Levick does know what he's up against
27211s	here
27212s	uh
27214s	but could take that opportunity to just
27217s	play Silvermoon I grow in Arcanist but I
27221s	don't
27222s	really see what that achieves you
27223s	because the rest of the manner that
27225s	you're spending on this turn uh you know
27227s	it can go on relic of Extinction oh
27228s	sorry of phantasms which is okay to
27231s	develop board but playing need for greed
27234s	doesn't do that much because I think you
27235s	play both Quest I think you play Silver
27238s	Moon and Relic and just get some stuff
27239s	out your hand this hand is just his main
27241s	problem here is dumping stuff and what
27243s	do you ever dump you don't really want
27244s	to dump the barrels you don't really
27245s	want to dump the silver moons but also
27248s	two three Mana silver moons you're never
27250s	casting them both the same turn are you
27254s	no uh but it's just I think
27256s	demonstrating again very clearly here
27258s	that Levick wants kirchers he wants that
27261s	in half uh I don't know if he
27264s	necessarily wants to play it for the
27267s	Battle Cry the effects for the rest of
27269s	the game or just to have that secret
27271s	seventh minion that you could use to
27273s	counteract uh another objection and
27276s	therefore save all your spell damage
27278s	cards that remains to be seen uh but
27281s	either way it does show that while I
27283s	think a lot of players first instinct
27285s	with this deck once they've played it a
27286s	little bit is to disregard kertress and
27288s	say it doesn't matter without gliding
27290s	the deck you don't get enough value
27292s	whereas Levick uh very much disagrees
27294s	both games he's tried to get this down
27296s	with pretty high priority
27298s	yeah absolutely and again here I mean
27300s	definitely playing this very wrongly
27302s	apparently in just not being scared to
27305s	lose my silver moons because I'm going
27306s	to get zero Manor Guild Traders anyway
27308s	and getting that Relic Castle trying to
27311s	get to the next one but he's been
27312s	protecting car draw he's got 11 cards
27314s	left in his deck he's setting up
27316s	some sort of mad scientist to turn
27319s	lethal from here maybe
27323s	that was ambitious
27335s	man he's playing this so slowly he can
27339s	play it out it really is such a patience
27341s	it's fascinating when somebody plays it
27343s	plays The Peddler as well
27345s	yeah yeah when they play thanks I guess
27348s	at least what I'm expecting I'm just
27349s	assuming they've got some you know
27351s	they've got so much practice like
27352s	they're playing it very well that's just
27354s	all I can assume they've got a totally
27355s	different game plan yeah yeah
27360s	of course I was forgetting again these
27362s	Tusk pieces plus The Peddler that's in
27363s	the deck which makes it the seven minion
27365s	deck plus sure Kirk have been the secret
27367s	eight million uh not seventh which is a
27370s	pretty big deal uh Levick I do think
27372s	still needs to hit
27375s	pretty key discount with these relative
27379s	dimensions which he should be able to do
27381s	with pretty high likelihood because one
27384s	of the things he's gained by drawing so
27387s	many cards in his deck before he plays
27389s	relic of Dimensions is he's essentially
27391s	guaranteed to discount at least one
27394s	Guild Trader if not both because you can
27397s	keep cycling them back in it doesn't
27398s	matter how small your deck gets you can
27400s	always shuffle them back in and then
27401s	play The Relic afterwards uh which is
27404s	again another cool aspect of this style
27407s	of play from Levick which is also sorry
27411s	he's going into the box turn right which
27414s	has given sort of some box location
27418s	what if that was uh I want to not just
27420s	die yeah to not just die because he's on
27422s	16. so the box is is this is a seven
27425s	five chill in there that the Box might
27426s	actually hit if a pyro comes out or
27429s	something maybe
27432s	oh it's not a great start
27434s	that's a decent riddle
27441s	and you know that's a pretty good end as
27443s	well that's a respectable box all around
27449s	which is hilarious
27453s	I really is
27456s	okay only six managers who unfortunately
27459s	was not able to hit that with the
27461s	relative dimensions for a much bigger
27463s	discount but the important factor Still
27465s	Remains those
27468s	Guild Traders
27473s	doesn't quite get there
27476s	not on its own yeah
27479s	test the secret no objection
27483s	no runes
27488s	loads of choices here depending how far
27490s	he thinks the game is gone he could play
27492s	the other Silver Moon Yeah and get a
27495s	load of stuff out of this unleash and
27496s	barrage but then you haven't got an
27498s	unleash barrage anymore
27505s	a little surprising not to him start
27506s	with the Unleashed fell but I guess he's
27508s	got loftier plans for that card I guess
27512s	not I was testing counter spell first
27514s	again sorry of course yeah he needs to
27516s	work through the secrets
27519s	I think he'll play one better
27525s	that would make sense to me because of
27527s	Nick's turns Jace yeah here we go
27535s	okay let's go again
27540s	boxing for all the Marvels here hear
27543s	Hearthstone boxing a good start by chess
27545s	boxing
27547s	but it's Hearthstone
27550s	uh remove a Minion from the game go be
27553s	gone parrot
27557s	and uh counter spell kind of amusingly
27559s	is a very nice card uh to have found
27562s	here because there aren't many spells
27565s	left uh for Levick
27571s	no
27574s	uh you know sigil would be the best card
27577s	to play into that to get rid of it and I
27579s	imagine he will not leave himself in a
27581s	situation where he's just losing to
27582s	counter spell but it's another thing to
27584s	think about at the very least uh which
27586s	is all working in tetra's favor
27595s	but I mean speaking of things to think
27596s	about like dead draw again could have
27598s	been of the mindset of you go ping plus
27600s	snow flurry to try and set up for a more
27603s	dress or a rune of the arc major lethal
27607s	next turn
27609s	Phantasm seems like a reasonable test
27611s	he's got to work out he's got lethal
27613s	through whatever else is left
27618s	yeah he just needs to again be cautious
27620s	of Secrets there's another mystery Mage
27623s	secret that he needs to work through
27625s	here so he's first of all thinking
27627s	counter spell he wants to get rid of the
27629s	dimensions I was thinking he's been sort
27632s	of freestyling all over this game by not
27633s	playing his dimensions for the whole
27635s	game
27636s	okay there you go and he knows that that
27638s	was the second secret the first one he
27640s	narrowed down I believe to Visage or ice
27643s	barrier exclusively because he did test
27646s	for the Oasis Ally towards the end there
27649s	and so he's not really afraid he can
27651s	just not attack face until the end of
27654s	this game and he should be fine
27656s	or potentially even at all
27660s	yeah
27663s	36 isn't that hard with this reductions
27665s	yeah I'm amazed how slowly he's played
27668s	this Relic it's been really interesting
27670s	to me
27672s	Oh I thought said okay
27675s	there's the other one
27679s	there we go
27682s	those are now next turn Mana
27685s	the last card in his deck is Guild
27687s	Trader which I think
27689s	will cost zero because of the effect of
27692s	kirchers haven't been traded back and
27693s	forth so unless there's a secret which
27696s	can come down to disrupt it in the form
27698s	of objection which was just drawn oh no
27701s	wait there's a Viper for Levick to
27703s	Discount that uh he can then just go
27705s	triple spell damage Fel barrage plus
27708s	Chase and I
27710s	do not see
27713s	dead draw putting up a strong enough
27715s	defense to survive that imagine if
27718s	Deadpool had a different secret he could
27720s	put up so that when you play the Viper
27722s	it doesn't die screws up your board
27724s	space
27728s	it doesn't matter the very least
27736s	that makes sense
27740s	board Frozen Lord super Frozen we get it
27744s	you can stop now rune laughs
27749s	man that was an insane uh insane route
27752s	of the archmage there does he know the
27754s	secret he does not right
27756s	he knows his barrier or Visage
27758s	okay so he doesn't want to play the
27760s	snake to test
27763s	because there'd be no space in the board
27764s	for the other minions if he did that he
27766s	would be able to get the Jace down
27767s	oh man but he doesn't want to do
27770s	anything like that was such a brutal
27773s	combination from Detroit like if Levick
27776s	does nothing
27781s	say or you know just whatever
27784s	combination it could be there's a card
27785s	that came off the uh the Rune door
27787s	earlier on he could just be dead
27790s	but if he plays any of these cards it's
27793s	going into a solid Alibi doesn't
27796s	actually do any damage I think he just
27799s	has to close his eyes and say please
27802s	don't let me be dead let dead draw have
27804s	nothing in hand that kills me don't let
27807s	him play another song of Alibi and then
27809s	I win next turn yeah he's got to do some
27811s	counting as well right it might be worth
27813s	playing at The Barrage if he's still got
27814s	lethal next turn just to remove some of
27816s	the damage
27817s	sure okay
27820s	just On The Fringe cases
27824s	door grasp off the top how many frost
27826s	spells has he played uh I honestly can't
27829s	remember I've lost track there's been so
27831s	much happening in the last couple of
27832s	turns
27834s	no flurries
27836s	no
27838s	cold God no sorry one Cold Case has been
27841s	played so honestly it might come down to
27842s	like a slim chance to hit
27846s	all the way but the solid Alibi came
27847s	from the the sorry the
27851s	root of the arc major it wasn't actually
27853s	played itself so it's obviously not
27854s	going to be played off the the dawn
27856s	grass we need to find some other way to
27857s	survive and I don't know if Bard has got
27861s	internet he's got an intellect
27864s	and a Finley oh it gets
27867s	feet okay he's digging for The Alibi uh
27871s	did you go somewhere first for one extra
27874s	card apparently not
27877s	oh man Levick can't believe it
27881s	this way he might get another I'm I've
27883s	lost track completely might get another
27885s	intellect there it is
27887s	that's the chord
27893s	[Music]
27895s	that's it that'll do it instead yeah
27897s	four damage the solid Alibi or The
27899s	Apprentice either way dead draw I think
27901s	had that game on Lock and oh my goodness
27905s	I doubted hard that Mage at the end I
27909s	did not think he was going to be able to
27910s	stand up against all that damage from
27913s	Levick but the solid Alibi specifically
27917s	I think that was the only card that same
27919s	saved him off the Rune of the archmage
27921s	Dead draw hit it and the next turn just
27923s	found the nuts to survive
27925s	brought a silly end to a game of
27927s	hearthstone unbelievable
27930s	he's one game away from a final of the
27933s	World Championships against his teammate
27937s	at the end of an incredible year for
27939s	both of them
27941s	and Levick has some mediocre match-ups
27944s	still to come it is looking so good
27948s	right now for Deadpool but this has been
27950s	the story of dead George's career it's
27952s	always looked good for him and something
27953s	always gets him at the last second
27956s	so will he actually reach the world
27959s	championship final or is he going to be
27960s	denied stay tuned no we're not taking a
27963s	break we are staying right with all this
27964s	don't worry about that
27967s	no no no it's not gonna happen I I can
27970s	feel Mom and Dad draw cheering him on so
27973s	hard that nothing can possibly go wrong
27975s	at this point surely
27978s	I enjoy the tweets after each dead draw
27980s	Victory it's like well done too Jack the
27983s	player that I know quite well I'm
27985s	rooting for you well played Jack it's
27987s	it's great I love it
27989s	it's the purest thing I've ever seen I
27991s	love it so much uh but yeah just the uh
27994s	the jackpot Rogue revealing which
27997s	in case you're watching Mom and Dad draw
27998s	is good this is good this is what we
28000s	want to see as Deadpool fans playing
28002s	Hearthstone just to explain it in
28005s	layman's terms this uh is a deck again
28008s	uh as we've seen time and again as we
28010s	saw in the reverse earlier on in this
28012s	series right where Levick was on the
28013s	Rogue Dead draw was on the Demon Hunter
28015s	it should be in a good position with all
28017s	the disruption all the repeated effects
28019s	and of course all the pressure that can
28021s	come from jackpot Rogue to be able to
28022s	beat the Demon Hunter uh first of all
28025s	though Levick is going to be lining up
28026s	his Boon priest instead which is a bit
28029s	of a tougher Prospect I want to say for
28032s	the jackpot Rogue interesting I don't
28034s	think it is but do you not okay
28038s	yeah I think I think they've been pretty
28040s	sort of gives that a little bit extra
28041s	time sometimes not always and there's
28045s	just ways of dealing with the stuff so
28046s	I'm interested to see how it goes I'm
28047s	not a jackpot Rogue Aficionado by any
28050s	means I will admit
28053s	um but I feel that I would rather just
28054s	have
28056s	my Straight Up Demon Hunter and take my
28058s	chance they don't objection too often
28061s	he's gonna play them both it's not like
28062s	there's any decision here just how do
28064s	you feel
28067s	I just the the way I see it in Rogue
28070s	there's two ways you get out of a big
28072s	board right it's coin coin scabs or coin
28076s	scabs if they did it very late into the
28077s	game or it's find something that doesn't
28080s	exist in your deck those are the two
28082s	ways out of a really big board priest
28085s	board
28085s	neither of those are outside
28089s	possibilities they're not Fringe
28091s	outcomes that never happen but they're
28092s	not especially likely either and I think
28095s	the disruptive tools that you have along
28097s	the way are not quite potent enough uh
28100s	in order to fully stop the priest dead
28102s	in its tracks because there's some
28105s	tricks that priests has of its own for
28107s	example if you get down a
28111s	objection or the explosive runes priest
28115s	has some minions they don't mind getting
28116s	rid of themselves and they can also
28118s	steal them with identity theft and then
28120s	play them back against you on the other
28122s	side and just again as soon as priest
28125s	does hit that explosive uh turn where
28129s	they go off and make those two or three
28131s	massive minions Rogue specifically needs
28134s	to have hit you know shadowed ruin brawl
28137s	Whirlpool whatever just one of these big
28140s	uh spells that the uh
28143s	catches the priest of God and there's no
28146s	potions in this visual sorry uh
28148s	concoctions in this version as well
28150s	which is one of the big deals I guess is
28152s	there yeah right did you just play them
28155s	uh yeah yeah you play a little bit you
28157s	play double potion belt because the
28159s	concoctions
28161s	are huge uh because they aren't that
28164s	absolutely if you hit them you kind of
28166s	win so that's a good point
28169s	there is stuff there sure but it's like
28172s	you have to hit that alongside also a
28175s	serrated bone Spike because there's
28177s	always a village or a priestess hidden
28180s	behind oh sorry or a handmaiden hidden
28183s	behind all those big radiant Elementals
28185s	uh so you're right I should add that to
28187s	the list of ways the road can dig itself
28189s	out of these holes but it's just always
28191s	I feel like a little bit below 50 chance
28194s	to hit that okay levick's showing what
28196s	he thinks is like okay well here's a 2-3
28198s	that I really want on the board and deal
28200s	with it or it's going to hurt you that's
28202s	how he's how he's reading the situation
28204s	straight away
28205s	oh yeah
28207s	can't objection it if it's already there
28213s	that's an interesting choice actually
28215s	for their draw here like prep Sprint is
28218s	the obvious play to just get uh against
28222s	some of those answers we were talking
28223s	about in hand but prep jackpot into
28226s	private eye was a pretty good turn next
28229s	turn
28230s	kind of close is there any health total
28233s	you'd consider a key number in this
28234s	matchup sort of a number obviously you
28236s	don't want to be on three so a buff of
28238s	some sort is nice but is there a second
28240s	number like do you really want to be on
28241s	six or seven as opposed to
28244s	is there one number that's just where
28245s	you want to rest I guess oh and Minion
28248s	Health Brothers yeah
28252s	um uh no necessarily I mean like I guess
28254s	above four yeah because three is the
28257s	number as you said for null and serrated
28259s	bone Spike but then with the dagger
28260s	included that kind of bumps up to four
28262s	so five a lot of the time becomes very
28264s	difficult for rogue to kill uh but I
28267s	don't think that's really the big
28268s	concern here for Levy he's not playing
28270s	this radiant to have it survive and
28273s	close out the game he's playing it
28275s	because he has anime dead in his deck
28277s	and you know maybe Deirdre doesn't kill
28279s	it and then you'll happily just use the
28281s	original body
28283s	uh but most of the time that's not the
28285s	case
28287s	he does go about it in this rather funky
28289s	looking yeah because of the Paladin
28292s	secrets I will say it's not just him
28294s	being uh an idiot playing it the wrong
28296s	way round he is taking a an incredibly
28299s	understated pop-up turn compared to what
28302s	you would usually expect but I guess
28304s	hoping that that's not Reckoning now
28307s	that he's seen it's not Judgment of
28308s	Justice uh but he's also seen it's not
28313s	get down or uh
28315s	oh no the uh Galloping savior so there's
28320s	few Secrets it could be at this point
28322s	for him bloodlust and tiny toys might be
28325s	a combo in some decks but it's not where
28327s	you want to be with Rogue right now
28330s	and that's a decent draw
28338s	Secrets is so dumb
28341s	are you playing with every Secret in
28343s	Hearthstone it's like oh my head just
28345s	hurts it's not even particularly hard
28347s	it's just you can't slip up
28350s	I mean you know nothing goes wrong here
28352s	right because it's just perjury plus the
28353s	Paladin secret yeah and I think the only
28355s	ones that could be left now are avenge
28357s	and Reckoning
28359s	so a spell is always safe to play the
28362s	question is what you do now because you
28363s	could bump in
28365s	gift to heal them back up because you
28367s	have to damage them before it's going to
28369s	draw a card
28371s	or you could just full pass if you're
28374s	really afraid of Reckoning I don't know
28376s	I just feel like for Levick either line
28378s	doesn't lead to a win
28382s	looking pretty bleak
28384s	yeah it really is
28390s	oh it's two cards versus a seven nine
28394s	thing of yellowness
28398s	brutal as well
28402s	actually can you just set up the tiny
28404s	toys here and then bloodluster kill for
28406s	the remaining stuff next turn
28408s	that's pretty sick yeah you go about it
28411s	that way
28415s	and then when you've killed the last
28416s	thing you just win at your leisure
28420s	okay not not great but sure it's fine
28423s	though right you've got just got numbers
28425s	on the boards of bloodlust
28428s	okay that's a spell that's a pretty good
28430s	spell as well to get some immediate
28432s	value and proc the handmaiden
28435s	or you want to pick bone Spike to play
28437s	more cards but honestly I kind of wonder
28439s	if that had to be reconnaissance because
28441s	gigafin as you're out uh at this point
28448s	some stuff but it's yeah it's the best
28451s	card
28453s	and mate needs to be absurdly strong
28459s	another one's nice oh devour number two
28463s	second devour yeah that's nice
28466s	you've got a three two he's rolled out a
28468s	lot of Hunter Secrets now yeah you're
28470s	gonna get your menu so you can't even
28472s	test the um
28475s	risk it
28477s	yeah I think that's wise
28480s	again you do have some amount of
28482s	information right even though it's just
28484s	a random Hunter secret you know it was
28485s	picked over a mage or a paladin secret
28488s	the Mage one is the more important piece
28490s	of information so
28493s	you I you are I think correct to suspect
28495s	that it's freezing trap yeah yeah plus
28497s	what does it I mean what does the seven
28499s	really do for you here anyway it's too
28501s	much to risk Fair yeah
28509s	yeah it does set up bless lethal off the
28511s	top
28512s	is the argument for it door but I think
28516s	I agree it's a bit too scary to try it
28519s	your hand was different and didn't have
28520s	three minions at a krabato in there I
28522s	think maybe it's a bit different as well
28523s	you shut your eyes and hope that he's
28525s	bluffing but no need to do that just yet
28530s	dead draw Mighty onshore in this
28532s	position though he's currently protected
28534s	but it is a flimsy protection indeed
28536s	with it just being the freezing trap
28538s	right now
28540s	this gives the krabatora something to to
28542s	rush into
28550s	yeah he thought for a long time I think
28552s	he's aware that this is an outside
28553s	possibility
28556s	I think it was something he he doesn't
28557s	look particularly surprised about
28560s	yeah and there it is this is the the big
28562s	reason of holding back on the attack as
28565s	well as of course krabator can protect
28567s	the freezing trap on the very next turn
28570s	and uh
28573s	obviously things all of a sudden looking
28574s	a lot scarier uh for dead draw
28578s	to the point where it looks like he's
28579s	hovering over the future side there
28581s	which means he's going to go looking for
28583s	um
28585s	the removal concoction destroy yeah
28588s	trading these two and then serrated and
28591s	hope he gets destroyed
28593s	well you could start with tooth and then
28595s	you could serrated your own guy
28597s	afterwards and you'd still just have
28599s	Mana
28601s	to play the concoction right
28604s	um and you of course get one Discovery
28606s	off of tooth first which I think I
28607s	slightly prefer he's a massive favorite
28609s	to get it here by the way he's got
28611s	repeated three and five chances
28621s	so sick
28623s	let's destroy a minion
28625s	that's gonna get the job done and Levick
28628s	knows his chance of it not being there a
28630s	really tiny here it's just too too many
28632s	shots at over 50 50.
28635s	well no it's one out of five right it's
28637s	not three out of five because you don't
28638s	discover
28641s	oh yeah sure so it's not quite so bad
28643s	yeah good point
28645s	uh-huh
28646s	but still yeah yeah
28655s	okay what do we got off the sunwell here
28657s	as a chance to turn things around for
28659s	Levick you've got the hilarious combo of
28662s	flipper friends for a bunch of otters
28664s	and then immediately consuming their
28666s	souls don't look Rosa but I don't know
28671s	if that's necessarily uh gonna be enough
28674s	to uh to turn it around
28680s	there's a dead Road
28682s	going to take his time here because he
28684s	can set up lethals if he's careful with
28685s	the bloodlust not immediately but he
28687s	needs to be counting everything because
28688s	there's so many ways to maybe set up
28689s	lethal
28692s	if you're attacked with the fort it
28694s	would be 23.
28696s	yeah you can't get that much set up so
28698s	just play normal Hearthstone
28711s	oh man I mean any of these are fine just
28713s	stuff count your matter how much stuff
28715s	you want play card that adds up to
28717s	number
28719s	How can I
28721s	ask the law
28723s	rape Decker like just to have stats he's
28727s	going to play about every card in the
28728s	game right now which makes it a little
28729s	bit harder I guess
28731s	sure yeah yeah
28733s	point
28735s	so this is like an arena turn where you
28737s	put down as much as you feel is about
28739s	enough without overdoing it
28743s	oh I think maybe robot out there uh or
28746s	if it gets the card you want another
28749s	that's a lethal Destroyer minion
28752s	flavic doesn't kill something here it's
28754s	game over
28755s	she will of course
28758s	and I'm going to guess that he did rope
28759s	out I don't think he would ever pick a
28761s	krabato's closet to send back into the
28763s	deck there
28769s	oh man it's the last turn isn't it we
28772s	just have to see if this is good enough
28774s	for Levick he resurrects himself grab
28776s	her toes claw that's not what you want
28779s	to see
28781s	although I guess it does allow him to
28783s	finish off
28785s	finally put your side yeah
28790s	he doesn't know there's a but he has
28791s	already generated two more Destroyer
28793s	minion concoctions uh even before he's
28796s	killed off which is so big
28799s	yeah
28801s	as good that has got the card draw on as
28803s	well if you're wondering well he's
28804s	starting to run out of stuff the yellow
28805s	one on the right hand side is card draw
28807s	so he will be able to get that done as
28809s	well
28811s	get more stuff which isn't dead and he's
28814s	getting more stuff it's so dangerous
28817s	yeah yeah Levick really trying his best
28820s	to get the best for Lee she can without
28822s	going down to zero Mana because he
28824s	doesn't want to prop the uh double cross
28827s	that he knows his opponent has
28830s	okay good way of doing so
28835s	loads of rubbish on the board to try and
28837s	defend the 513 blessing hand as well
28842s	so you have
28845s	a really annoyingly nine Mana to work
28848s	with instead of 10 it means you can't go
28849s	ask the Lord dagger double concoction uh
28852s	you instead would just have to go ask
28854s	the law or dagger and that double
28856s	concoction and hope that with one of
28857s	them you're able to snipe off uh the
28860s	radiant in what is essentially just a 50
28862s	50. yep
28866s	foreign
28873s	you can deal three damage first so it's
28875s	better than a 50 50 but it's still
28878s	currently a chance that you could miss
28881s	yes
28889s	he's gonna play a fine love because he's
28891s	going to be shot he's gonna like
28893s	mentally uh jibery
28896s	Levick knows what's up he knows what's
28898s	going on I think deadra's realizing you
28900s	have to do it in this way deal three
28901s	damage first then draw two cards Two
28904s	Shots
28905s	Out of the first try he hits the radiant
28909s	Levick collapse and I think is saying
28912s	goodbye to his hopes at the Grand finals
28915s	here because now I struggle to see a way
28917s	for him back into this game
28920s	he looks tough
28922s	we're just looking at Dead draw's Hand
28923s	and with the two card drawing there I
28927s	feel like the drawers is incredibly
28929s	strong spot the only thing stopping me
28931s	from saying it's over is this like all
28935s	in but then the last menu gets eaten
28937s	next turn and that's all over
28947s	one final big minion it's a good push
28950s	and it is admittedly still tough for
28952s	dead draw to clear
28954s	most of the time
28956s	but he has of course got that one final
28958s	mixed concoction to uh to clear things
28960s	up which means a hitting first time last
28962s	term was absolutely monstrously
28964s	important yeah seriously
28973s	he's not even messing around with
28976s	jackpot he's just getting the cards
28978s	played that he knows he needs to play on
28980s	the board
28981s	I love it here thinking like come on I
28984s	watch for mighty's games yesterday where
28985s	he missed like four shots at getting one
28988s	of these concoctions to destroy an
28990s	opposing minion and this time dead
28992s	drills hit three in like the last few
28994s	turns it's just been perfect for
28996s	concoction after perfect concoction
28998s	fathedral all the way along and uh
29002s	levick's only real chance was like
29004s	hitting pyroblast like this Alibi had to
29006s	be pyroblast or some other
29008s	uh convoluted chain of spells to get
29011s	there
29012s	jackpot is potentially part of that
29015s	convoluted trainer I suppose as is as
29017s	though on the flamebringer minions
29021s	bloodless will kill him I think I
29023s	haven't actually checked
29025s	it is he's got potion belt
29027s	he can destroy something first I mean
29030s	surely he's owned a concoction of his
29032s	own to kill something
29034s	sure
29037s	or of course Alibi he has access to okay
29041s	um so then you jackpot now because
29043s	you've got The Alibi sure
29046s	right like he could go jackpot into the
29047s	scourge right and then he's healing
29053s	really healing it feels that next turn
29056s	he's got um he's only going to use
29058s	either the jackpot or the potion belt I
29059s	guess
29062s	I'd rather jackpot a bit sure I'm not
29065s	going to blame anything at this point he
29066s	knows about the the eight man of Astral
29068s	or so oh sorry it's it's yeah he knows
29070s	there's an asteroid in hand which still
29072s	deals damage through so this leaves him
29075s	alive at one so sorry he did actually
29077s	have to heal to survive against the
29079s	Aston law that's a nice spot
29085s	because again as the law works
29091s	yeah yeah it's exactly one off with
29093s	dagger
29098s	uh this is the thing I just want to
29099s	shout out we've said sort of he has
29101s	intangibly good play and very few
29103s	mistakes that's exactly the sort of
29104s	things like that heel there it's not
29106s	going to save him it's not going to
29107s	change his his year in any way he's
29109s	going to almost certainly lose the
29111s	quarter final semifinals of the World
29112s	Championships but just those little
29114s	spots the things that he's done all year
29116s	long
29118s	exactly he just sees little things that
29121s	other people might miss always got it in
29123s	the back of his mind
29125s	and as he's forced to sit through the
29127s	torture of Astor Law's animation while
29130s	solid Alibi is in play uh a Bryce smile
29133s	to the camera lets us know he's just as
29136s	aware of as we are of how unlikely this
29138s	is to work
29140s	Nightshade bud that's not the card you
29143s	need in Miracle priest
29145s	and neither of these
29148s	one final shot on hazy
29151s	foreign
29156s	that's not gonna do it and dead drop is
29159s	going to the Grand finals of the 2022
29163s	Hearthstone World Championships I could
29165s	not be happier for the man he deserves
29168s	it so much
29169s	yeah and in some ways
29172s	normally the pressure Starts Now about
29174s	is the final oh my goodness I've got to
29176s	win I mean the world final because he's
29178s	playing its bunny Hopper and obviously
29180s	both of them will absolutely want to be
29182s	the Hearthstone world champion but
29183s	because it's those two in the final
29186s	we might see a very free very well
29189s	played not quite so tense final as
29191s	normal because they are very good
29192s	friends they're very close teammates
29193s	they work together all year and if it's
29196s	the same as Glory possession last year
29198s	to some degree if I'm gonna lose the
29199s	final Derek I want to lose it to you
29201s	you know
29203s	my friend Dalek and they're in that spot
29205s	there obviously the pressure's on to win
29207s	there's a lot of money there's a title
29208s	on the line there's all that stuff the
29211s	validation of your peers and everything
29213s	but the fact is going to be a full-on
29215s	friendly final is absolutely nutty after
29218s	this whole year where for the longest
29220s	time it didn't even look like bunny
29222s	Hopper would qualify
29225s	exactly right yeah it's for both of
29228s	these players over their entire careers
29230s	being the biggest of roller coasters
29233s	constant ups and downs constant
29235s	victories near victories uh for dead
29238s	draw in particular but unable to close
29239s	out the biggest of titles as close as
29242s	they both may have come Time After Time
29245s	and uh
29247s	that's not right we'll get that fixed
29249s	shortly it is Dead trying the finals not
29251s	Levick apologies for that but uh hey who
29254s	do you know with dead draw going through
29256s	I didn't think that on December 18th uh
29260s	the UK or England I suppose would be
29262s	represented in a world championship
29264s	final in this setting but we'll take
29267s	what we can get Lorinda yeah and this is
29269s	the one we are going to be watching as
29271s	well so we got the right one all along
29273s	as well
29276s	um it is possibly coming home in the
29278s	most important of ways in Hearthstone
29282s	yeah I'm excited even if the graphic
29285s	isn't but the graphic's so excited it's
29287s	just under stress it's so excited it's
29290s	wrong that's the the name of the game of
29292s	hearthstone Esports especially other
29294s	casting desk at least uh but yeah for
29296s	Dedra of us bunny Hopper
29298s	I cannot Express I know I've said it so
29301s	many times how excited I am for both of
29303s	these players they work so goddamn hard
29306s	to get to this point they are so good at
29308s	the game they make it look so easy
29310s	because they work so hard two of the
29312s	most tireless players in uh competitive
29315s	Hearthstone I mean you can see I've been
29317s	blooming kicking my camera around on my
29319s	foot which is why I'm disappearing off
29320s	into the void uh on the right hand side
29322s	there but again
29325s	hard enough you'll just appear in the
29327s	final alongside Levick bunny
29330s	as well you just get to play it cast it
29333s	everything in that final just keep
29335s	kicking that camera there we go
29337s	corrected uh to have dead draw and like
29340s	you said Team Liquid double represented
29342s	in the final guaranteed to have a uh a
29345s	winner which is cool to see as it's you
29348s	know one of the teams that has been most
29349s	long-standing behind Hearthstone and
29352s	just undeniably has the best team in the
29354s	world right now
29356s	yeah I think if you get the top two in
29358s	the finals yeah yeah I think you've got
29361s	a claim you've got a claim Derek I think
29363s	you're right but I I can only we're sort
29365s	of echoing each other at this point
29366s	we're both so excited to see these two
29368s	in the finals that we didn't hide any of
29371s	us that we had a little bit of bias
29372s	towards the players that a special I
29375s	think who has just missed out so many
29378s	times because the way the system was
29379s	built wasn't built to hurt him but the
29382s	fact he didn't quit when
29384s	he won things at the wrong times he was
29386s	winning enough things to get there and
29388s	every time he's like just after the
29389s	cutoff or just too late for this cut off
29391s	and then the next cutoff happens he wins
29393s	a game and yeah I think we're just happy
29395s	to see him have his chance to be the
29397s	world champion and I'm so excited I
29400s	think it's time that I stopped talking
29401s	we go to a break and we set up the world
29404s	championship final for you for 2022 just
29408s	cannot wait we'll see you in just a few
29409s	minutes
29411s	[Music]
29427s	okay I've got buddy here and I'm ready
29429s	to ask him some questions to see how
29431s	knowledgeable he is on so is a
29433s	competitive Hearthstone so first off
29436s	Bunny at what was levick's Swiss record
29439s	in the first three Masters tours of the
29442s	year was it a 17-7 b 18 and 6 C 19 and 5
29451s	or D 20 and 4.
29455s	foreign
29460s	but because Levick Swiss record so he
29463s	did make playoffs so I mean obviously it
29466s	has to be 17 or better I think
29468s	tiebreakers were at 17. did Levick play
29471s	tiebreakers tons of people play
29472s	tiebreakers
29475s	um
29479s	I'm gonna have to rush you for an answer
29480s	I don't think he played tiebreakers I'm
29482s	gonna say I'm gonna say 18 points oh it
29486s	was saying 19 and five across three
29489s	Masters tours very very close uh okay
29491s	next question
29493s	um this is a good one in how many
29495s	seasons of the European Grand Masters
29497s	did bunny Hopper have a negative win
29500s	rate was it a zero B one C two or D3
29509s	so how many seasons did you have
29510s	negative win rates
29512s	I really get it once right so I must
29514s	have had a negative win rate in that one
29517s	um what did I do I made playoffs
29520s	playoffs
29524s	relegated
29525s	and then the ones the one
29528s	where I actually had to go on tiebreaker
29530s	matches
29531s	but that one was like two-tiered there
29534s	there I think in the first part I did
29536s	find and then the second part I went
29537s	three and four so I think the answer is
29539s	I added two I went negative and two of
29542s	them I think too too harsh on yourself
29544s	bunny the answer was B one it was only
29547s	one season you went negative overall
29549s	apparently overall I think but there's
29552s	like this there was this thing where we
29554s	went we had two tiers where we went
29556s	first and upper and lower Division and
29558s	then I think in the second part where I
29560s	got into the lower Division and the
29561s	upper division there I was negative that
29564s	part of the season but the overall
29565s	season I was positive anyway you can
29567s	find you can file any complaints over to
29570s	Lorinda for any of these questions or
29572s	answers anyway moving on next question
29574s	how many matches did dead draw win in
29577s	Masters tours in 2019 and 2020 combined
29584s	52
29586s	55
29587s	58 or 61.
29591s	dead dragon
29594s	um
29595s	well obviously no idea uh
29599s	he didn't so what was it 2020 in 2021
29602s	right that's what they like 2019 and
29605s	2020. oh 2019 and 20. it was the the
29609s	sort of the years he did well and missed
29611s	right yeah but we also had that was also
29613s	the years where we applied best of three
29615s	Specialists with 10 rounds per
29618s	tournament so that's not actually
29620s	directly it doesn't matter bunny the
29623s	format doesn't matter yeah yeah but it's
29625s	like likely it's more likely you get
29627s	more wins then it just makes more sense
29628s	I'm gonna say 58. it's actually 58 yeah
29632s	c58 congratulations that was a good
29634s	answer I would not have guessed that
29635s	myself I didn't already know okay well
29637s	that's one point for you so far bunny
29639s	the next question which player had the
29642s	highest all-time win percentage in APAC
29646s	Grand Masters is it Mighty surrender
29650s	possessy or glory
29654s	in APAC Grand Masters yeah highest
29658s	all-time win percentage
29661s	like
29664s	including playoffs and everything just
29666s	everything I've read the question yeah
29669s	yeah okay I understand it's just me it's
29673s	so funny if it's mighty
29675s	but I'm just not gonna believe that one
29678s	um wow shade Throne I mean we have two
29682s	world champions there and surrender
29685s	um
29686s	like that's not disrespect to my team
29688s	but comparing yourself to Two World
29689s	Champs and surrender
29692s	[Music]
29692s	um
29695s	I'm just going to say surrender because
29697s	he used to own he used to own so hard
29699s	the first three seasons of GM he just
29702s	stomped everybody it made them look like
29704s	complete Noobs
29706s	I'm gonna say surrender
29708s	I agree with you as that those
29710s	statements are true but it's actually
29712s	Mighty because it's win rate and those
29714s	three players have played a lot of GM
29715s	matches Mighty went 11 and 4 I believe
29719s	for a 73 win rate so because it was when
29723s	percentages are not games played it's
29725s	where that one falls down just a little
29727s	bit and finally funny and for the last
29730s	question what is possesses match win
29733s	rate in Masters tours
29737s	57.2 percent
29740s	59.2 percent
29743s	61.2 or 63.2 percent
29750s	hmm
29751s	[Music]
29756s	and again it was just match win rate in
29758s	Masters tours full stop yeah like all
29761s	the time
29763s	um
29766s	it's win rate it's not like I think it's
29768s	like not under the top top uh Masters to
29772s	win rate players
29773s	but
29776s	I'm just gonna say 59 because I think
29781s	it
29782s	seems seems reasonable I know the top
29785s	top performers
29787s	um were XC and Lee
29790s	um but yeah that is completely
29792s	irrelevant to this question okay well
29795s	the correct answer is actually
29797s	61.2 without I believe a 93 to 59 uh
29802s	winter loss so um uh really impressive
29805s	uh score over the overall for possessive
29808s	uh Bunny Hop unfortunately got one
29809s	question right but honestly these
29812s	questions were really hard so regardless
29815s	uh thanks a lot for your time and I wish
29816s	you best luck at Worlds thank you
29820s	[Music]
29840s	[Music]
29851s	[Music]
29857s	[Music]
29886s	all right
29898s	[Music]
29903s	all right
29922s	foreign
29931s	[Music]
29944s	[Music]
29952s	foreign
29971s	[Music]
29984s	[Music]
29995s	thank you
29999s	[Music]
30011s	[Music]
30020s	foreign
30022s	[Music]
30028s	foreign
30030s	welcome back to the Hearthstone World
30034s	Championship we're about to jump into
30036s	the grand finals my name is TJ I'm
30039s	joined by Neil Lorinda Bond Bill casting
30042s	your first world championship ever how
30044s	you feeling
30045s	great TJ I've got a great one to cast as
30049s	well with the team liquid final honestly
30051s	I'd have been happy for Levick to get
30052s	there as well but dead draw bunny Hopper
30054s	it's probably the final one I've just
30056s	selected at the start of the tournament
30058s	there's several people I want in here
30060s	but you can't get a better one than this
30061s	I don't think no I mean it's also to the
30065s	players that have played the most
30066s	cleanly uh so far throughout the weekend
30069s	and have brought lineups that just seem
30072s	Next Level right
30074s	um and very very similar at that so we
30078s	do have a different band strategy coming
30080s	in however with dead drop painting the
30083s	Rogue away from bunny Hopper but bunny
30084s	Hopper Banning away the Mage uh from
30087s	dead draw so even though both players
30089s	coming in uh with the same strategy
30091s	going away with different strategies on
30094s	the bands
30096s	um and before we jump into that Neil I
30098s	do want to just uh clarify something uh
30100s	to the viewers Neil and I are casting
30103s	right now for the grand finals but we're
30105s	actually going to be rotating through
30108s	all the casters throughout the grand
30110s	finals from game to game
30112s	so uh should be fun uh just a nice cool
30115s	way for us to finish out the year and
30118s	because we couldn't decide who should
30120s	get the cast that last uh that last
30123s	World Championship match so
30125s	um just so you're not lost if you hear
30127s	mine and Neil's voice now but then some
30130s	other people's voices later that's
30132s	what's gonna happen but now we can talk
30134s	about Hearthstone once again with that
30135s	out of the way Neil when the casting
30137s	goes downhill you know we've switched
30139s	out and they've brought in soft little
30141s	Raven or Derek or one of one of those
30142s	people you know that's how it's working
30144s	out something like that something like
30146s	that
30147s	all right so the Mage and the Rogue ban
30149s	automatic because it's basically a
30151s	mirror match uh 4v4 and the Mage versus
30154s	Rogue the first thing you do is look at
30156s	the match on its own so the Mage versus
30159s	Rogue potential rematch of the the Decks
30162s	that were left up uh is a way of judging
30165s	who got a win obviously it's a lot
30167s	deeper than that there's a lot more in
30169s	it but I feel that getting rid of the
30172s	Rogue
30173s	is is the lose out of those two
30177s	personally but it's really close
30178s	obviously
30180s	they're both kind of decks that can beat
30182s	just about anything but rely on a little
30185s	bit of help you know like I feel like
30188s	Mage maybe gets that done more often but
30190s	at the same time it depends on the
30192s	match-up right
30194s	um so I think that uh if you think about
30197s	it that way you just either one is a
30201s	reasonable ban in the situation
30204s	it's just do you get the right match up
30205s	for the deck that's left up the deck
30207s	that you leave up right so
30210s	um like I think the Mage is maybe a
30212s	little bit more manageable for the Demon
30214s	Hunter than the Rogue is uh at times
30217s	yeah just seemed to be the bane of demon
30219s	Hunter's existence up until this point
30221s	where Mage can just have a bunch of dead
30224s	stuff in hand and just never be able to
30226s	get there they don't go fast enough and
30228s	they have a lot of Jank and a 40 card
30230s	deck
30231s	um whereas Rogue much more consistently
30233s	hits disruption they have a ton of it so
30236s	I think that's one of the things to
30237s	consider in in evaluating commands like
30241s	this where
30243s	um you could look at the percentages not
30245s	find a difference but just hope you get
30246s	the right matchups right away we're
30247s	going to go into a mage versus uh yeah
30250s	and uh I mean this one just seems so
30253s	Mage favored
30255s	um uh the priest does have some game
30257s	right you have a you have a good amount
30259s	of time it's a long while before the
30262s	Mage finds usually a long while before
30264s	the Mage finds the dong grasp gets the
30266s	hero power ramped up and there is a lot
30269s	of disruption in this priest deck uh
30271s	talking plague spreaders uh in order to
30275s	um try and hit some of those uh key
30277s	minions like uh like more trash
30281s	um
30281s	and uh brand Reckless Apprentice right
30285s	the things that give give the Mage that
30286s	little bit of additional burst uh
30288s	towards the end of the game the
30289s	finishing damage
30291s	yeah and so with that in mind bunny
30293s	Hopper will be hiding those in his Deck
30295s	with this Mulligan to make sure that
30297s	there's the minimum chance of being
30299s	plagued uh because there are cards that
30302s	later you can just play off the top of
30304s	your deck if needed so he'll be hoping
30306s	to dodge those for a few turns just play
30309s	very basic setting up Hearthstone and
30312s	this is a bit more than that he's
30312s	actually going to be able to get a
30314s	pretty decent curve going considering
30316s	this mage deck doesn't really do a
30318s	pretty decent curve a lot of the time
30320s	yeah and the big thing about this curve
30322s	is that it's just draw right it's cards
30324s	that are putting things on the board but
30325s	also replacing themselves in the hand
30328s	um which is what you need there's
30330s	there's no fatigue in this matchup you
30332s	really just want to find as many
30333s	resources as possible and this is a hand
30336s	that lets you do that obviously the
30337s	solid Alibi is not going to be great but
30339s	everything else is a welcome sight for
30342s	bunny Hopper at this point and dead
30344s	draws man it's not bad it's just a bunch
30348s	of minions to play up the curve which is
30350s	oftentimes the best thing you can do
30352s	against Mage so oh Neil
30355s	getting that jittery feeling of the the
30357s	last match of the year you know
30359s	absolutely and already obviously this
30363s	one looks like this first game is is a
30367s	very favorite for bunny Hopper as you
30368s	have declared but especially with the
30370s	draw he's got but it'll be a while to
30373s	see it unfold and the priest isn't just
30374s	going to roll over and die it has a lot
30376s	of time to to try and make a plan happen
30380s	or maybe get one turn where it dumps
30382s	load of stuff maybe bunny Hopper has to
30384s	fire a box and it goes wrong there's
30387s	things that can happen here but for now
30391s	uh we're just in those opening exchanges
30394s	and this could take a while
30396s	to really open up
30398s	yep
30399s	love the desperate prayer drown doesn't
30401s	really have that many good targets for
30402s	the deck and the main limiting factor
30405s	for priest I feel in this matchup
30407s	especially as it goes on is Health right
30411s	once Don grasp is online once the pings
30413s	start coming in you really just need
30415s	time because the Mage will gas out of
30417s	resources and just have to rely on the
30419s	hero power for a lot of things and the
30421s	priest will oftentimes never run out of
30423s	resources but just don't have enough
30425s	Mana slash health
30427s	to put enough stuff on the board to end
30430s	the game so desperate prayer not often
30432s	picked from those discover effects like
30433s	that in non-agura matchups but I do like
30437s	the choice from dead draw here
30442s	yeah sorry just slightly distracted
30445s	there just for a second
30447s	um the thing we saw in the priest mirror
30450s	was the inability to really present
30452s	anything threatening against some sort
30454s	of control obviously the mirror is the
30455s	extreme case but the Mage has so much
30457s	control
30459s	after about turn six onwards when you
30461s	can start blizzarding and polymorphing
30463s	that
30465s	I don't see how dead draw realistically
30467s	gets anything threatening unless
30470s	amulets like get your ambulance to two
30473s	or three and just play them straight
30476s	after each other and then generate some
30477s	more and do it again
30481s	sister's phone is for right yeah exactly
30483s	a lot of minions in the deck it's it's
30485s	you know not just as simple as oh you
30487s	get a mass polymorph and then you're
30488s	good to go
30491s	um bunny Hopper already flooding the
30492s	board here there is a clean the scene
30494s	however to be able to clean things up
30496s	there's also zyrella now with the
30498s	desperate prayer
30500s	uh which is going to be a huge swing
30502s	potentially uh for dead draw at least
30504s	for this early board but the game it's
30505s	not really about the early board for
30508s	bunny Hopper because like I said all of
30510s	these cards that have been played are
30512s	have had secondary effects they drew
30515s	spells into the hand and
30517s	reduce the cost of spells in the hand
30519s	you know so this is dead draw having to
30522s	react not dead draw you know taking lead
30525s	right but also if bunny Hopper had come
30528s	in for 10 damage here like that would
30530s	have just been a bonus content right
30532s	he's fine with this
30534s	just um
30537s	residual damage would have been lovely
30539s	to get an extra 10 in there
30541s	and now it's irritating for him but they
30543s	are going to put these irritating boards
30544s	but with both of them on 40 Health to
30546s	start with uh especially the prettiest
30548s	we should just keep going back to 40
30549s	Health repeatedly the Mage will need to
30552s	look after his health total a little bit
30553s	I guess that's one thing dead draw can
30556s	try and do is just chip this damage down
30558s	three here two there six there and
30561s	find a way to somehow sneak damage
30564s	through for lethal but you can see how
30565s	hard it's going to be with all this
30566s	freeze available for the mage
30569s	especially as he wrote to be forced to
30571s	play his Alibis for a million turns and
30574s	then if Deadpool ever does set up some
30576s	scary board for one or two turns they
30578s	just play your Alibis and save the day
30580s	yeah
30588s	could be a solid opportunity to get the
30590s	plague spreader down
30592s	um not guaranteed to have any minions or
30595s	even any or any relevant minions
30602s	but if you can hurt Bunny's curve along
30605s	the way or stop anything from happening
30607s	usually the earlier you can get those
30608s	Blake's Butters down the better
30611s	yeah absolutely like like I was saying
30613s	like like you said in the interior as
30614s	well you can't catch a more dress after
30617s	about turn nine because they're just
30619s	gonna jam it on the board when they draw
30621s	it so
30622s	the only way to catch it is
30625s	now
30631s	so one more turn I guess maximum chance
30633s	for bunny Hopper to have that in hand I
30635s	know there's other targets to catch as
30637s	well but that'll be the main one right
30638s	that's that's a chunk of damage
30641s	play the place better on seven so you're
30642s	going into the turn seven of the
30644s	opponent
30646s	you know it's okay
30652s	we should acknowledge that this board
30653s	exists TJ this board exists 15 a damage
30657s	of attack on the board for dead draw
30659s	I have a body hamper is begging for an
30662s	excuse to play his cards so yeah
30665s	I think it's all right
30667s	very likely that um even just a blizzard
30670s	will clear everything off this turn
30673s	yeah what do you polymorph what are the
30674s	polymorph targets for bunny
30677s	um spirit guide plague spreader
30680s	anything that give resources or you
30682s	don't want to be resurrected uh like
30684s	chair Elemento could be a good one
30686s	because if you get rid of the lightshow
30687s	elemental
30689s	you don't have to worry about that
30690s	healing later from amulets right
30692s	but that could be reasonable that's what
30695s	I was going with the question that's
30697s	that's what I was wondering if you turn
30698s	this into a sheep and then it's like
30699s	okay that's quite a lot of damage you've
30701s	just done like 18 damage or 12 damage
30703s	you've just done to Deadpool kind of in
30706s	a weird way yeah
30707s	in a raven sort of way
30710s	yep
30713s	and now with that out of the way
30716s	world is your oyster here
30719s	I must do that either plague spreader or
30722s	Spirit guides
30726s	um however one one thing to note is just
30728s	because the mat the uh Mass polymorphous
30731s	cast doesn't mean that there's not a
30733s	second one in the deck and also a third
30734s	potential one for Magister Don graphs so
30741s	oh dear horses there
30748s	well
30752s	other the face lines are also act on it
30754s	I must consider yes we know priest we
30756s	know
30758s	been doing it for years
30763s	here we go
30765s	time to spread some play
30768s	they let him out the house
30775s	is that a tongue hanging out it is right
30780s	the plague spreader
30782s	sure
30785s	excuse me
30788s	no that's one long pink tooth just just
30793s	one tooth just this is how he eats look
30796s	at all these sheep
30799s	you might get my tooth into one of those
30800s	sheep
30801s	look at my giant pig tooth into that
30804s	sheep
30807s	ah
30812s	everybody hope for spending the first 30
30813s	seconds recoiling in horror that thought
30817s	that TJ's just throwing out there
30824s	I don't even know what you want to do
30827s	yeah poker
30837s	I like the way the first decision is do
30839s	I stop a damage or do I take an accident
30841s	or do an extra damage
30843s	yep uh this makes sense
30847s	and got that available again as soon as
30849s	he wants to turn other things into sheep
30851s	yep
30853s	can't get the plague if you're a sheep
30859s	that's not medical advice by the way
30863s	I'll make that clear
30871s	yeah I feel the same way about what do
30874s	you do
30876s	players just have like these hands that
30880s	are just like
30881s	a bunch of nothing
30884s	yeah
30885s	they're not going to Mars with these
30887s	hands for a while
30889s	Pedro's gonna see okay I can put the
30891s	miter now I've seen Mass polymorph and a
30894s	parrot into Mass polymorph
30897s	and that's just gonna be another parrot
30899s	it's gonna be another power and then I
30901s	mean he at that point he won't come seed
30904s	but he's pretty close to just having to
30906s	come seed at that point
30907s	I know but I'm just saying it's like
30910s	we're gonna have then 30 minutes of dead
30912s	draw not conceding because he might win
30915s	the game of hearthstone I mean bunny
30916s	Hopper Don grass could be way down the
30918s	bottom of the deck it's so much more
30921s	important to the gameplay than the Mage
30922s	than Midas
30925s	the priest right so yeah
30931s	Ops to go for the spirit guidance said
30933s	however Arkansas intellect that's a very
30936s	welcome draw
30938s	for bunny Hopper I think you play it and
30940s	then it's fluffy if you if you're bored
30945s	I might even go Arcane in elect well
30948s	first you evaluate the draw
30951s	which is not good right about now and
30954s	then evoker yeah I don't think you
30956s	really need to
30957s	oh you can flurry at the end of this but
30960s	especially getting six you don't really
30963s	have to worry about this five damage too
30964s	much
30965s	I guess
30966s	yeah I'm being overprotective with my 41
30969s	health I guess
30970s	yeah
30972s	there's a lot more armor to be gained in
30974s	this match uh for bunny Hopper
30979s	yeah there it is cold case still another
30980s	evoker still managed to Don grasp and
30983s	the ability to recast it still Runes of
30986s	the archmage for ice barriers cold cases
30991s	when you heard it like that what was
30993s	them that draws threats oh yeah he's got
30994s	one of all the things that have already
30995s	been mass-pollied and he's got one more
30997s	of them all so yeah again there's always
31000s	sisters fall now as well which yes
31003s	is probably the biggest threat because
31005s	it's infinite threat essentially it's
31007s	infinite slow threats yeah scorpion come
31011s	on
31015s	quickly
31017s	just shaking his head okay killing it
31020s	off I like this actually light that
31022s	burns not really going to have many
31024s	great Targets on either side you have
31025s	plenty of other removal to deal with big
31027s	stuff absolutely hit that into the death
31030s	rattle pool and gonna get the might eye
31033s	out but that's probably going to be
31034s	another signal for I'll find how pretty
31037s	just go Mass polymorph Make It Stop TJ
31040s	it's just polymorphing everything into
31042s	sheep
31046s	just absolute sheepstone at this point
31050s	yeah dead was unimpressed but
31053s	unsurprised
31059s	I mean you've got to get out yeah
31061s	there's no reason to play the round of
31063s	fall yeah okay
31066s	yeah we talked about yala many times oh
31069s	there it is that's the one
31073s	that's the one
31076s	though
31081s	kind of like me oh you can even undying
31084s	allies in svalner
31087s	I mean
31088s	sure
31093s	illumination is better
31097s	place better too late he's going for the
31100s	amulet has anything actually died at the
31102s	moment is it just your sheepstone God
31105s	oh yeah he killed his own spirit guide
31106s	good point yep
31112s	oh my
31121s	no way yeah how voker and hope for ruin
31124s	at this point get some research yeah
31126s	flurry oh no
31128s	oh this hand just does nothing it just
31132s	does nothing but it does it for so long
31135s	TJ yeah but like you're you're gaining
31140s	zero ground in the match-up by Blue this
31143s	is not a deck you're going to run out of
31144s	resources stalling doesn't really work
31147s	against priests because they they want
31150s	to stall so by stalling you're playing
31152s	right into their game plan
31155s	though it's like you know
31158s	you're just you're spending a blizzard
31160s	for nothing because you don't want to
31162s	take the damage and there's nothing else
31163s	you can do you're spending a flurry for
31165s	nothing
31168s	I mean it was on three interesting to
31170s	see how long he holds on to that
31174s	I mean it's free so
31179s	it'll stay free even once you trade it
31181s	back
31181s	do you want it to go up to seven or five
31184s	or six or is three enough that's kind of
31186s	where I'm at without there there's
31187s	another one in this for later
31188s	it seems in the priest mirrors right
31191s	we've seen four be the uh yes the magic
31195s	number
31199s	TJ being the premier priest expert now
31202s	in the mirror because he's cast both
31205s	times it's ever happened in championship
31206s	play
31207s	yep
31209s	because he's just that lucky a whopping
31212s	two hours and 10 minutes of priest
31214s	mirrors that's right oh the second was
31216s	it now and ten yeah uh an hour and
31220s	no it wasn't quite uh I thought the
31223s	first one was an hour and 20 minutes
31224s	maybe I'll oh okay I thought you know
31225s	it's now exactly but maybe the one we
31228s	cast in earlier today was like 40 45
31231s	minutes was somebody actually won the
31233s	game where somebody actually cast the
31234s	other day the game just didn't ever and
31237s	it might still be going Rumor Has It
31244s	all right but he's just chipping away at
31246s	these minions preserving the blizzards
31248s	preserving the flowies because there's
31249s	TJ rightly says they don't really get
31251s	you anything they just passed the turn
31252s	whereas this
31254s	evolves a tutu onto the board
31257s	because that's how you put things on the
31258s	board you evolve them onto the board
31266s	of it
31273s	those are good probably take undying
31275s	eyes and just dump it yeah
31280s	what is he looking for more ambulance I
31282s	think is actually a thing carve the
31284s	grave yep
31286s	that's the big one uh Thrive could be
31290s	okay Joe boydshard can be okay
31293s	identity Theta can sometimes be okay
31296s	though you really need to think about
31298s	hand space
31305s	yeah just steal the the Magister and
31308s	Dawn glass we just ping them before they
31310s	ping you easy game
31315s	18 cards left in deck and the 18 cards
31318s	that are left in deck are all of the
31320s	good cards
31325s	I said what do you mean it is Finley
31327s	right now then to get turn all these
31329s	into the things that are better no
31331s	seriously not you dead draw
31334s	like both wildfires Finley astalor
31337s	Arcanine like brand Reckless safaric
31341s	Cold Case Don Grass more dress Rune like
31345s	that those are the cards that are in
31346s	this bottom 18. it really doesn't need
31350s	carrots and
31353s	blizzard always have parrots John Alibis
31355s	both flurries he gets it offensive card
31359s	surely this is good it gives him a wing
31361s	condition
31366s	surely this is good yeah also gets solid
31369s	alibi
31371s	oh
31375s	you dumped the second desperate prayer
31376s	yeah I just dump it
31379s	two visions in hand oh my gosh we're the
31383s	Mage now TJ kind of uh so it stays there
31387s	even if you cast it from dawn grasp
31392s	I mean that makes sense given the logic
31395s	of how we've seen Vision used but
31400s	I don't know how relevant this feels
31402s	super relevant I don't know how relevant
31404s	it actually is but it feels really
31405s	important to me that now Deadpool can
31407s	actually just ping bunny to death where
31409s	buddy hasn't drawn any of his relevant
31410s	cards
31412s	yep
31415s	get him
31421s	ping the skeleton go up to three
31423s	actually what do you start on with Dawn
31425s	graspber's priest I have no idea
31428s	it's fine then pin go to three yeah do
31431s	it
31453s	well
31459s	I thought I brought up a good point yeah
31461s	I'm actually checked we've both been
31463s	quite at the same point so I'm assuming
31464s	you're doing the same thing because dead
31467s	draw is now a mage no there aren't any
31471s	so if there's none
31475s	you would discover priest spells still
31478s	no that doesn't make any sense
31482s	it was uncastable
31483s	don't know gotta be honest don't know if
31486s	there's none
31490s	remove it
31494s	or one was mass polymorphed the other
31497s	removed from the game that was a
31500s	fantastic Rune of the archmage holy moly
31504s	got the Arcane Defenders a counter spell
31507s	explosive runes
31510s	excuse me yep
31514s	we're gonna find out how this works now
31516s	well it's a counter spell so get this
31519s	out of my hand
31523s	I cast it so we can
31526s	yeah
31529s	for science
31530s	there's only a hundred thousand dollars
31532s	or something on the line just just cast
31534s	it
31538s	huh
31544s	yeah can you get pre-spells yeah
31547s	cool
31550s	[Laughter]
31552s	so it Carries On
31556s	oh geez
31559s	Vic wait no you can
31564s	yeah
31565s	can you also get other Shadow spells
31568s	though but now that you've like become
31570s	the Mage now that you're a mage can you
31573s	get Shadow spells from other classes
31575s	don't see why not
31577s	you see other classes if you want to
31578s	right
31582s	that's reasonable
31584s	unless the identity of the the Spells
31588s	you're discovering is not determined by
31590s	the hero and it's instead determined by
31592s	the actual Vision since it works
31593s	differently than a lot of spells because
31595s	it's always there right it's in this
31597s	yeah Perpetual State technically that
31600s	spell is still the same spell that was
31602s	there when he was a priest
31604s	okay that's my that's my my goodbye into
31608s	any of these arguments at this point I'm
31609s	just going to sit there and see what
31610s	happens
31616s	yeah we'll see
31618s	yeah
31620s	in a minute it was just off a fireball
31621s	and we won't have a clue what's
31622s	happening
31625s	yeah it looks like it's still increased
31627s	okay well peace cards are good yep so it
31630s	looks like the identity of the uh
31633s	um
31634s	the class is tied to the card and not to
31636s	the uh
31637s	that's fine I think that's probably okay
31642s	we don't want any um Shadow Boxing
31644s	anyway right
31650s	sunsets
31655s	ground time
31660s	because if it was any class he'd be
31662s	offered a bunch of other ones
31665s	yeah I would have seen something already
31666s	yeah we would have seen it we would have
31668s	seen a dead warlock warlock spells yeah
31672s	I think there's even more death knight
31673s	Shadow spells oh wow okay
31677s	but would have seen both TJ were both
31679s	right all right yeah we're both right
31682s	always maybe not there's also Shaman
31683s	ones now
31685s	you could discover this if that was true
31687s	you could discover the scourge which
31689s	would be naughty
31693s	so yeah I think it's only priest all
31696s	right all right here's Dawn grasp
31700s	a little late but better late than never
31701s	down to 10 cards left in the deck
31704s	to three quarters of the deck already
31707s	stay where you are and both play some 40
31711s	health
31714s	both players don't grasp this one with
31717s	infinite heel one with infinite damage
31719s	yep he's gonna come out on top
31722s	and that's a beefed up hero power as
31724s	well
31726s	got five
31730s	oh I think it was
31732s	now it's at five
31735s	okay
31741s	I meant the amulet just to be clear you
31744s	made the door goes got it yeah
31747s	amulet
31749s	[Applause]
31751s	oh nice work
31756s	love an early interaction just get
31758s	yourself a five eight
31760s	okay so this is what
31762s	um double burning blade acolyte spirit
31766s	guide
31769s	yep yep and yep that's it possibly
31772s	that's it a lot of things got turned to
31775s	sheep at the start of this game
31779s	guide
31780s	sets
31791s	okay I'm pretty sure that's it
31794s	double burning blade acolyte
31798s	oh there's a bone collar one Mana offer
31799s	being able to be played though
31802s	phew we have beefed up hero power though
31804s	now at four Dead Drop five for bunny
31806s	Hopper
31811s	let me hop ahead in basically every
31813s	regard but
31815s	making the priest into a dawn glass was
31818s	definitely made this a lot more
31820s	interesting yeah
31823s	I don't know how worth it is it is but
31825s	there is a way to get your hero power
31827s	buffed once again this turn if you
31830s	um blizzard Wildfire ping or deathborn
31834s	Wildfire ping
31838s	not sure how worth it that is because
31840s	those are premium resources expecially
31842s	considering both parrots have already
31844s	been used
31845s	that's the wild fight that damage could
31848s	add up over the course of the game and
31850s	make it worth it
31852s	like deathborne's not going to get much
31853s	value so honestly I wouldn't mind seeing
31855s	deathborn Place hero power because that
31857s	hero power now is at six
31861s	uh it's yeah
31866s	a bit of Casa Mouse as well both players
31868s	not wanting to put down anything that's
31870s	going to um
31872s	of the opposing here apparently yeah the
31875s	thing you've just said they are valuing
31877s	just racing these hero Powers into the
31880s	sky
31890s	and now amulet has full value as well
31893s	because that's the fourth deathrattle
31894s	minion
31896s	just don't make this into an eight seven
31897s	because then bunny Hopper can ping it
31900s	he was thinking about cathedraling and
31903s	buffing but that would make it an eight
31904s	seven you could Cathedral re-summon
31909s	and then calculations are correct
31913s	go for it
31915s	yeah
31918s	I love the little head shakes that
31920s	Deadpool does he does this in play tests
31921s	well I don't know what I'm doing because
31922s	he's destroying people all the time I
31924s	don't really know I'm doing this turn
31925s	bam killed you
31929s	I was only one burning Place ah yes the
31931s	first one was not a played it was um
31935s	coming from the actual call of the Grave
31937s	right no
31940s	so where's that on the Dead undead
31943s	really dead super dead
31946s	um and vanished
31949s	Resurrection Spectrum
31952s	um it's it's a spirit which is in
31955s	between
31957s	alive and dead
31959s	okay
31964s	I mean I I just assume that everything
31966s	you say is Canon and if it isn't it the
31968s	second you say it it becomes Canon so
31970s	it's fine yeah
31973s	okay so dead draw uh uses the Finley uh
31977s	so that gets rid of the vision of
31979s	Darkness it doesn't get rid of it it's
31980s	at the bottom of the deck now it's like
31982s	what the I don't know where it is what
31985s	was the third to bottom fit the bottom
31986s	something like that
31989s	um but gets back a heap of good stuff he
31992s	knew that the astolore was on the bottom
31994s	which is the big one because he drowned
31996s	it yes moments before and had not traded
31999s	anything into the deck
32001s	okay and sheep
32006s	what's the record for number of dead
32009s	sheep in a game and where are the boxes
32011s	why aren't we opening boxes I mean the
32013s	body opened like the sickest box ever
32015s	earlier that's ages ago we need another
32018s	box now this is next but it was four
32021s	turns ago is that all it was I don't
32023s	know maybe
32026s	he probably was only like six or seven
32027s	turns ago to be fair
32032s	I think it's time for a place better
32033s	right
32037s	I think it's time
32045s	only it's not
32048s	yeah go play people go
32056s	foreign
32062s	going back to that turn a hundred turns
32065s	ago
32066s	um
32067s	where bunny Hopper killed the elemental
32069s	to cut off the healing there's such a
32071s	big difference now you can see we said
32073s	at the time that's a lot of damage now
32074s	you're starting to see how Deadpool
32075s	really could do without being in that
32077s	resurrect pool
32078s	yep
32081s	it's a very good death porn though
32082s	deathborne and then frees the plague
32084s	spreader
32086s	with the location
32088s	yeah
32100s	starting to get to the position where
32101s	he's setting up quite a lot of damage
32103s	all the time with more dress in hand and
32106s	yeah stay away
32107s	so far so savara is Mass pymorph
32112s	um it's Mass probably more flurry and
32115s	deathborne
32118s	you know yep
32123s	which is nice very nice
32130s	the sunset
32133s	well that is in Norway so it's probably
32135s	been set for a few months now
32148s	each turn is getting harder and harder
32151s	for dead draw to sort of do something
32153s	that's impactfully still got it for now
32155s	but this is likely going to kill the
32158s	plague spreader
32159s	yep
32162s	is he gonna hit me yep flag spreader
32165s	gone what got turned
32167s	on the two Amplified snow flurry nice
32170s	bunny Hopper Dodge the bullet there
32173s	with that one
32175s	um unfortunately no hero power targets
32178s	available
32180s	with the way everything went
32182s	it was here part eight
32184s	I think there's seven or eight it's
32186s	definitely Beyond 60 weeks I saw him
32188s	think seven yeah we saw him hit a six
32191s	yeah and then we joked about making the
32193s	six six into an eight seven so funny but
32195s	I don't think he's killed a seven yeah
32196s	that's seven yeah but this is a whole
32199s	chunk of damage funny Hopper this is
32202s	gonna set up a two-turn lethal
32204s	um that's gonna be enough damage to put
32205s	dead draw down to 17 and there's no heel
32209s	hero power so it looks like it's gonna
32210s	have to be behemoth
32213s	probably
32216s	yep can't afford to uh hope that more
32220s	Rush isn't there
32221s	at this stage of the game
32224s	yeah with no healing again we go all the
32226s	way back to the very start of the game
32227s	where bunny polymorph to one minion
32229s	board because it was a good minion to
32230s	polymorph
32232s	turning out to be the difference a
32234s	hundred turns later
32237s	at the moment at least
32246s	because now Bunny's kind of just he's
32248s	buffed his hero power so much it's just
32250s	three pings away
32252s	at some point he will just be able to go
32254s	visual board ping you feature board ping
32256s	you fusible ping you in theory there's
32258s	still quite a lot more play for dead
32260s	draw to
32261s	go through though yeah
32266s	I wouldn't even mind seeing like
32268s	Reckless or no I'm probably more dressed
32271s	first usually want to use more dress
32273s	first in these instances because uh
32275s	Reckless approach is more flexible to be
32278s	able to react to more things that your
32279s	opponent is doing but once again putting
32281s	the pressure on Dead Drop forcing him to
32283s	heal because there's Reckless apprentice
32284s	and ping for next turn which is going to
32286s	be 14 damage so
32289s	and it doesn't look like dead draw has
32291s	any way to react there's no light shower
32293s	Elementals in the death rattle pool
32296s	s we love which means that Bunny Hop is
32299s	almost certainly going to take a 1-0
32301s	reminder this is the world final
32303s	game number one is going for a long long
32305s	time here Reckless Apprentice was hit by
32308s	the plague spreader
32314s	and heal from the zyrella okay
32323s	but now he's in things together
32326s	this is the third hero power the Dead
32328s	Rose had this game
32334s	heck
32336s	was like get me out what are the other
32339s	two cards in my deck you know
32342s	[Laughter]
32346s	uh it is going to be Reckless Apprentice
32348s	yeah enough brain Reckless Apprentice
32349s	bottom two cards wow okay it actually
32351s	was the bottom two cards oh my gosh
32353s	great recognition from bunny Hopper uh
32357s	to be able to uh uh know that that's how
32359s	that was gonna work because otherwise
32360s	the thinly not going to be that high in
32363s	value it would have been good
32364s	anti-fatigue better than that not great
32366s	but there you go bunny Hopper is going
32368s	to take
32369s	first game of the series one up
32372s	in the world championship finals very
32375s	nicely done yeah
32377s	um no real Shocker on the result of that
32380s	game of hearthstone uh from the the
32382s	initial setup you kind of expect the
32383s	Mage to get that done but the route it
32385s	took did make it interesting somewhere
32387s	in the middle you know
32389s	2.9 count
32391s	getting us in there
32394s	and count come on
32397s	oh geez too many references uh thus far
32401s	today but yeah it was a I thought that
32404s	things might have been a little bit
32405s	closer with dead draw getting access to
32406s	manage to draw grass before bunny Hopper
32409s	found it in time also had the good room
32412s	with the archmage in there there's just
32413s	too many like uh resources for the Mage
32416s	that are are just like straight up
32419s	damage like more pressure than what a
32421s	priest can do with a stolen Dawn grasp
32423s	uh that is just hard to keep up and we
32426s	could see that in action there I do like
32428s	how liberally but it used all the uh
32431s	additional mass polymorphs as well
32434s	um just make sure there's nothing
32435s	deathrunner pulls really limit the
32436s	options uh for dead draw in that game so
32440s	I just kind of choked him out of that
32441s	one and uh a clinic on the the made
32445s	first priest matchup I think
32447s	yep kept it very very tight there and
32450s	again just just thought in advance well
32451s	if things go wrong I need to play
32453s	accurately at the start obviously it's
32455s	about Championship final you expect them
32456s	to play accurately but good job he did
32458s	because dead draw did manage to pick up
32461s	that Dawn grasp and get into the game to
32463s	some degree but bunnies Hopper always
32464s	had the the bigger hero power always had
32467s	more control of things and now TJ it's
32470s	time for the hot tag
32472s	the hot tag that's right Lauren and I
32475s	are stepping out so we're gonna throw it
32477s	over to Raven and Sato for the next game
32479s	hello hello hello hello
32481s	yeah I'm joined by subtles we bring you
32484s	game number two and subtle what a
32487s	grueling game number one that was
32488s	between bunny Hopper and dead draw and
32491s	then we're gonna you know be stuck in
32492s	such another grueling next match up
32494s	which is the Demon Hunter mirror
32497s	yes indeed the heat spot has been long
32500s	and grueling but I am full of baby face
32502s	fire right now and this comeback is just
32505s	beginning more than delighted to be uh
32508s	stepping in for a world championship
32510s	final of course as TJ was saying we all
32512s	just kind of wanted to cast this final
32514s	and you know what we make the rules so
32516s	we do we're all gonna pass it back and
32518s	forth
32519s	um I hope by the way you are all ready
32521s	for uh tons of uh hackneyed football
32524s	references based on what is going on at
32526s	the moment but I'll try and keep it as
32528s	focused as I possibly can Demon Hunter
32530s	versus Demon Hunter it seems like we
32532s	might have a slightly shorter shift
32535s	and TJ opened it with yeah yeah and fear
32539s	not if you don't care about football I
32541s	will welcome you with open arms and I
32543s	will call subtle an idiot for you do not
32545s	worry uh but yeah the Demon Hunter
32547s	mirror this one it's got to be even
32550s	though we've talked a lot about you know
32551s	the the volume of the quest priests in
32555s	the top four for example and other sort
32557s	of different brings for me Demon Hunter
32559s	is still just the the key class of the
32563s	World Championship this year so reliable
32565s	so powerful so consistent and here I
32568s	think the winner of this one is going to
32570s	be uh you know not a huge deal for the
32572s	series as I think both players are going
32574s	to rely on just having a Demon Hunter
32575s	win at some point but I think the big
32578s	difference is if bunny Hopper does get
32579s	the win he does just need that one more
32582s	game to go his way to seal yeah and it
32585s	was you know it would be a huge reversal
32588s	as well because you could see bunny
32590s	Hopper visibly frustrated when the
32593s	priest opponent played the dawn grasp
32595s	before he did right like that's the
32597s	exact kind of uphill struggle you do not
32599s	want to be facing in what should be a
32601s	big favorable for you early on that just
32603s	managed to stabilize grind back in and
32605s	normally in that matchup when it does
32607s	come down to Dawn grass versus Dawn
32608s	grass as I believe TJ was talking about
32610s	the uh the actual Mage is going to end
32613s	up getting there because they have the
32614s	dawn grass deck right like they're one
32616s	with the brand and The Reckless
32617s	apprentice and everything else that goes
32619s	with it so great comeback and now we're
32621s	going to reset for another mirror match
32623s	after The Accidental mirror match of the
32625s	uh the opening game and as we dive into
32628s	this mirror subtle is there anything the
32630s	players actually want to do apart from
32633s	just do their thing quicker is the game
32635s	as simple as that because again as I
32638s	mentioned I think way back on Friday
32640s	it's like there's Glides or anything in
32642s	the game anymore to like mess with your
32644s	opponent so to speak so it is 75 that
32648s	and that's not to dismiss that decisions
32650s	don't matter right like yes you are
32652s	racing you are racing to draw your combo
32654s	pieces but you can still be more or less
32656s	efficient in doing that than your
32658s	opponent right it's just a different
32659s	skill set
32660s	um relic of phantasms though to me is
32663s	one of the most underappreciated let's
32666s	say under focused on cards in the
32668s	match-up because I don't think it's
32669s	important I don't think it's a
32671s	game-winning card but I do think the
32673s	timing of it is very important it has
32676s	Myriad uses in terms of putting stats on
32679s	the board is one of the very few things
32680s	you have the put stats on the board to
32682s	disrupt you know your opponent's fell
32683s	barrages hitting you in the face or
32685s	whatever else you can also choose to
32687s	create pressure on turns so that your
32689s	opponent can't just uh Quest complete
32693s	for example right they have to react to
32694s	the board that you have on the other
32695s	side or can't just slam a curtress that
32698s	they've just completed into their hand
32699s	because they have to focus on clearing
32701s	up your board so it's disruption it's
32703s	also this weird layer of Defense because
32705s	it's the only way you have a putting
32707s	Minions on board that can actually soak
32709s	up some fell barrage damage on the other
32710s	side because without timely Phantasm
32713s	usage you don't get to Jace in this
32716s	matchup you just die to spell damage
32719s	fell barrages if you just sit there and
32721s	wait yeah because there's no other
32723s	hurdles as you mentioned right it's just
32724s	oh how much health does my opponent have
32726s	how much damage do I have without those
32728s	Minions on board and we did see bunny
32730s	Hopper there get a quest completion so
32732s	not looking good too bad for him
32734s	especially hitting the Unleashed for
32736s	zero is always nice and again a couple
32738s	of good cards hit a dead draw on the
32741s	other hand of course hasn't got the
32742s	quest completion quite yet but does have
32744s	the location down with now a relic of
32747s	Dimensions out
32753s	I got a couple of choices it could start
32755s	with the need for greed cycle or could
32757s	even just play Need for greed this turn
32768s	it looks like he's gonna go with the
32770s	cycle oh
32772s	yes not exactly what you're looking for
32774s	this early in the game
32777s	yeah a little bit awkward
32781s	choosing to cycle piecemeal though like
32784s	the big reason why you do this is if any
32787s	of these three to four draws that you'd
32789s	get here depending on spectral site or
32791s	whatever else that you picked up were to
32793s	find you then relative dimensions for
32795s	example you'd have no hand size concerns
32798s	going into the Future Turn and would be
32799s	able to slam it immediately that's kind
32802s	of an outsider position in this box you
32803s	don't even have the Relic Vault down in
32805s	the first place
32806s	um but you know similar to the priest
32809s	mirrors that we've seen But in a much
32810s	more high octane environment managing
32813s	hand size is about as important as
32815s	anything else uh in this particular
32817s	mirror because you you don't want to
32819s	have to dump particularly valuable cards
32821s	if you can just manage your hand size a
32823s	bit more effectively leading up to that
32824s	point
32826s	yeah and again a dead draw getting some
32829s	good work done here with you well double
32830s	reduced skill Trader along with that
32832s	fell barrage and still gonna keep that
32834s	hand size pretty much full off the draw
32836s	next turn hey bunyappa though going for
32838s	Mark of scorn and I think oh no
32843s	this is not really what you're looking
32846s	for
32847s	it is not no yeah okay well you know the
32851s	reductions on the two silver moons fine
32855s	again not great but at least they're not
32857s	just flat three costs right like that is
32859s	quite a big deal
32870s	and play the sigil if you want to don't
32872s	see why not
32886s	okay both players at least equal in the
32890s	cost of Jace right now uh regards so
32893s	they do have the full costs that draw
32895s	will end up with the seven though right
32896s	or is this curtress step now has he
32898s	completed twice already oh no I think
32901s	wait
32903s	yeah I think he's on once this is yeah
32905s	yeah because Bunny's Uncle Chris and the
32907s	pitch is different
32909s	right yeah yeah there it is yep okay
32914s	and now probably a reasonable uh
32918s	phantasms turn here
32920s	it was an alternate line in this
32922s	position where you could just
32923s	potentially start burning a little bit
32924s	because that's the flip side sometimes
32926s	you just start burning your opponent
32928s	down if you get a particular hand and
32929s	you deliberately then don't want to play
32931s	The Relic of phantasms because all
32933s	you're doing then is adding like plus
32934s	six plus 12 healing to your opponent by
32936s	putting Minions on the board in the
32938s	first one and that's it right by burning
32939s	them down you don't mean play spell
32941s	damage no no just start throwing them
32943s	throw like Fury's or Mark whatever else
32946s	it is just to do that little bit of Chip
32947s	damage and then get them in range for
32949s	the spell damage felbarage on the
32951s	following turn you can kind of get those
32952s	two turn setups going sometimes
32955s	they'll know relic of Dimensions even
32958s	though bunny would be struggling with
32960s	hand size at this point as well with the
32962s	fact that there's just now two locations
32964s	the the double Silver Moon in hand that
32966s	isn't really a dumpable card it does
32969s	have the location plus his own relic of
32972s	phantasms now which is something you
32974s	will no doubt be sat thinking about
32978s	It's Tricky right like right now because
32980s	bunny doesn't have well I don't know how
32982s	much does he have yeah surely just
32985s	Bells won't do it right so because you
32988s	don't have tons of burst you might want
32990s	to put the minions so he doesn't get
32992s	pushed back
32995s	okay finally
32999s	I've got actually double location
33002s	Rock one and Phantasm right
33005s	that is the vanilla play yes I would
33008s	agree or whether to be offended
33014s	okay yeah again yeah I guess that's
33017s	that's a good default I was just again
33018s	looking at like say fancy spell barrage
33021s	yeah yeah and then look at what those
33023s	relative dimensions hitting specific
33024s	things on the following term but when
33026s	you have three spell damage minions
33027s	costing Mana in your hand already you're
33029s	probably gonna end up in trouble oh and
33032s	uh I do believe this yeah
33036s	coming through with eight damage each
33038s	from these fell barrages now just
33040s	closing this one up one two one
33044s	yeah and just like that like I said I
33046s	think both players should be confident
33048s	about getting wins with Demon Hunter but
33050s	it's just this just relieves some at
33053s	least even mental pressure here for dead
33054s	draw knowing that he won't be going zero
33056s	two down because not only are they both
33059s	these players of course playing the most
33060s	important match of hearthstone of their
33062s	lives but when you're playing it then go
33065s	oh right I'm just too old like it was
33066s	zero two you know what I mean I'm like I
33068s	cannot lose another game that level of
33070s	pressure has to get to anyone whether
33073s	you were the best player in the world
33074s	whether you're experienced or not I
33076s	don't really care I think it just has to
33078s	get to them so dead draw even just for
33080s	his mental game here evening this at 1-1
33083s	pretty good point for him here
33085s	yeah absolutely that now squares us up
33088s	uh both players have taken down the
33090s	functional mirror match are good from
33091s	dead drawer as well because if I've had
33093s	any questions about dead draw's play so
33096s	far this tournament it's been on the
33097s	Demon Hunter a little bit there was that
33099s	mislethal I believe on day one and he's
33102s	just a looked a little bit uh
33104s	momentarily uncertain in some spots with
33107s	the Demon Hunter although sometimes that
33109s	is just kind of a vibe from dead draw he
33111s	does look a little bit uncertain and
33114s	disheveled about what he's doing
33115s	sometimes
33116s	um while actually having complete
33118s	confidence so that might just be a Vibe
33119s	thing but it seemed that if any uh deck
33122s	was going to let him down just because
33123s	of uncertainty or mistakes here and
33126s	there it might have been the Demon
33127s	Hunter so getting that through nice and
33128s	clean and spotting that lethal having it
33131s	counted in advance from a turnout as
33133s	well and very nice performance from
33135s	deadron yeah definitely a tricky skill
33137s	there to be able to just spot the
33138s	lethals that don't include like playing
33140s	all of the spell damage right like that
33142s	combination of how much spell damage
33143s	versus how many spells you have is is
33146s	actually a really really big deal so
33148s	again a great job there for dead draw
33149s	does mean he has his Rogue and Priests
33151s	left with the obviously Demon Hunter and
33153s	the priest on bunny side as well so
33156s	again the the fear factors creeping back
33159s	with the double priests but it doesn't
33161s	mean me and Saul are gonna jump out and
33163s	I believe TJ and Derek are jumping in so
33166s	virtual tag let's go
33170s	I'm back baby
33172s	hello Derek
33173s	welcome to this virtual casting desk
33178s	oh it's roomy
33180s	yes it is oh Lala a lot of runda but
33184s	wiggle around huh
33189s	get my get my Wiggles in my stretches
33191s	for the day
33192s	oh that's right I I like this let's jump
33195s	in between you know we all we all get to
33197s	class except for the part where I cast a
33200s	30 minute game
33202s	go fill up my water use the restroom
33205s	come back and they're they're already in
33208s	the next game basically in the next game
33211s	uh but other than that very cool how are
33213s	you Derek
33215s	I'm excited TJ costing another
33218s	Hearthstone World Championship final
33220s	only a small piece of the pie this year
33222s	and not uh gorging on the entire thing
33225s	like last year but uh still very excited
33227s	to see who walks away with the trophy uh
33231s	it's not gonna be the priest mirror I am
33233s	spared that particular evil but uh the
33235s	Demon Hunter
33239s	game five
33243s	oh geez okay all right all right
33246s	serious this is serious all right Derek
33251s	um priest versus
33253s	Demon Hunter uh that's a pretty good
33257s	start for bunny Hopper
33259s	um just mention missing the dimensions
33261s	and is I see you cooking up a real good
33265s	stew
33268s	oh yeah that's reducing down nicely
33270s	however deadra on the other side uh oh
33274s	wow interesting uh had himself a real
33276s	nice hand with the plague spreader
33278s	obviously is a nice counter to the Demon
33281s	Hunter but I've got to say I'm a little
33284s	bit surprised to see him so quickly
33285s	trade away the amulet there because I
33288s	did think this could be an instance of
33291s	coining out the plague spreader maybe it
33293s	doesn't die straight away necessarily
33295s	but having that amulet in hand to be
33298s	able to resurrect it and hopefully get
33300s	another uh spreading of the plague and
33303s	delete another Minion from their hand
33305s	yeah I I do feel like getting it out as
33308s	early as possible is sometimes falling
33311s	into a trap
33312s	um thought and I talked about this
33314s	earlier where you know just less likely
33317s	for there to be minions in the hand
33318s	there's not that many minions in the
33319s	district and three of the Minions that
33321s	are the deck can just be traded away
33323s	so
33325s	um if you play it too early you risk
33327s	that you you run the risk of Guild
33329s	Trader just being traded Fel barrage
33331s	being played Flex better being gone no
33333s	minions being plagued
33336s	that whole uh thingy so
33339s	um that's just one thing to look out for
33341s	but bunny is just
33344s	gas in
33346s	yeah that's the house rip the extinction
33348s	right now hero power slam the face with
33352s	these one ones and two twos
33354s	and the turn as fast as possible be
33357s	impatient while your opponent does their
33358s	turn windmills slam your Relic fault
33362s	and get the dimensions flowing yeah I
33365s	think that was kind of a tough choice on
33367s	the extinction actually I will say
33368s	because it can be useful later on just
33370s	to clear off uh later on uh yeah yeah
33375s	Elementals as well can be good as well
33377s	just because the only reason I consider
33379s	not playing it is because his Dimension
33380s	was already reducing by three and then
33382s	four which
33385s	when you factor in the quest completion
33387s	as well means that all relevant cards
33390s	aside from Jace is the one outlier are
33393s	discounted down to zero so the
33395s	extinction buffing up the dimensions yet
33397s	further is not especially relevant uh
33400s	but even then uh I do think it's very
33402s	reasonable to get it down just because
33403s	these Minions on board are actually
33405s	doing a pretty good job this is a decent
33407s	amount of Chip damage he's getting
33408s	through
33409s	yeah
33411s	would agree I would agree
33414s	um bunny Hopper actually filled up and
33416s	took a sip of his water so oh he's gonna
33420s	win it's over if they could see each
33423s	other's cabs Andrew would have conceded
33425s	yeah
33426s	like whoa that's a bit aggressive
33430s	you really have to fill it up at the
33432s	same time oh that is
33434s	I mean if they could see each other's
33436s	hands I think dead Trump might concede
33438s	right now that is an unbelievable set of
33441s	discounts to get
33446s	if you were to let this rip right now
33448s	it's like a good amount of damage it is
33451s	it really is
33454s	uh would just be an extra 16 on top of
33458s	the four that's on the board there yeah
33459s	exactly
33461s	so
33468s	now I think plague spreader is a safe
33471s	bet yeah I think it's reaching that
33473s	point yeah if anything like the
33476s	discounted spell damage that's in hand
33478s	if there is some or discounted Jace
33481s	even if it doesn't proc then now you
33484s	know okay cool well there's no
33486s	discounted minion so
33488s	perfectly fine with it there it is
33490s	that's a nice one to hit as well just to
33493s	have as the backup after play spreader
33495s	and you know hey we thrive in the hand
33498s	as well if this plague spreader dies he
33501s	could Thrive into one of the amulets get
33503s	that down so I realized then activating
33505s	twice like there's a good amount of
33508s	disruption happening with this hand
33509s	right now yeah
33513s	all right so Guild Trader's getting used
33515s	here and damage is being shipped
33518s	The Guild Trader
33520s	Extinction
33526s	I just fell barrageous it's actually
33528s	really clean break point you get four
33530s	yeah I think the extinction will be able
33532s	to gain you more damage than that in the
33535s	long run yeah
33536s	oh
33540s	well
33542s	this is Phil
33551s	still
33556s	yeah you could do I I do want to get
33558s	this relic of phantasms down uh on this
33561s	turn I think it's a really nice turn to
33563s	do so because if they play light bomb
33565s	which is the obvious answer to this
33567s	board you actually get to stick the
33569s	guild Trader which is then uh
33571s	represented potentially like seven more
33574s	damage on the following turn maybe more
33576s	uh if the draws are
33578s	uh willing which uh you know could just
33581s	be lethal on this next turn there are
33583s	draws that allow it for bunny Hopper if
33585s	the best play for dead draw is just
33587s	light bulb
33590s	yeah we're now at the point where this
33592s	relic of Dimensions even without a relic
33595s	Vault cast on the next turn
33597s	even peace would be playable like with
33601s	the The Arcanist oh my God because it'd
33603s	be a seven discount
33605s	it's insane
33608s	yeah it's the best he's got it's
33610s	surviving that's that's game is that
33612s	just game with just the top deck and the
33615s	scorn
33616s	that's 12 plus five I don't think oh if
33621s	Mark of scoring hits like it is lethal
33623s	with hero power yeah yeah more likely
33626s	that you hit it from
33628s	Dimensions that I do not know that is a
33632s	tough question uh because Dimensions
33634s	could hit either second Arcanist second
33638s	Guild Trader gonna test first
33641s	I think that's it
33643s	that's 12 plus five plus three yeah
33646s	that's lethal
33649s	I wasn't even counting the actual three
33651s	attack from The Guild Trader either yeah
33653s	exactly it's because it just
33659s	just
33661s	it's happening the Demon Hunter getting
33663s	fluid is so big for bunny Hopper that's
33665s	been a big part of both players plans is
33667s	to have a relatively good matchup
33669s	against the Demon Hunter with uh their
33671s	Mage their priests their Rogue as well
33672s	and with that being ticked off now bunny
33674s	Hopper just his control freaks left to
33678s	get a win with oh TJ it's the perfect
33681s	way to end the year's competitive
33683s	circuit oh geez it's funny because it's
33686s	like you know players they play a banger
33689s	of a game in game one like super long
33691s	back and forth and then all right let's
33694s	take a break let's both get our Demon
33695s	Hunter wins out of the way
33697s	you know quick like 15 minutes for both
33700s	games demon Hunters are gone all right
33702s	now we can get back to the real games
33703s	because we got priests versus priest or
33706s	priest versus deep Rogue which are both
33708s	uh you know some some burned Barn
33713s	burners uh of matchups so
33717s	um all right
33719s	we'll see if there's going to be a game
33721s	five and I get the priest mirror
33723s	actually I just looked the priests feel
33725s	safe
33726s	it's Raven in the room
33727s	[Laughter]
33731s	let's have one final awkward virtual
33733s	high five Which Way hold on let me see
33736s	which way it is okay it's this way ready
33737s	three two one two one
33742s	close enough close enough
33744s	from across the pond the latency
33748s	we still got it
33750s	um but yeah Derek you know before we
33752s	send it over to uh the chuckleheads
33755s	um this is your last game of casting for
33758s	World Championship would you like to say
33760s	anything
33761s	it is uh it's been another fantastic
33765s	year this is my favorite thing to do and
33768s	uh it's been a pleasure to get to do it
33771s	for another year thanks TJ it's a lot of
33773s	fun again and uh everyone else enjoyed
33775s	the rest of the finals this is going to
33776s	be good stuff
33778s	well they didn't tell us to throw to
33780s	them yet so you could say if you like
33783s	now it's been a pleasure casting with
33786s	you too Derek uh so go enjoy the rest of
33789s	the finals but for now we're gonna send
33791s	it to Lorinda and Raven for a riveting
33793s	priest mirror
33797s	well
33799s	here we are indeed we lost the uh the
33803s	small sort of Caster game of Russian
33805s	Roulette here as uh we end up with the
33808s	control priest mirror of course a lot on
33811s	the line for these players and uh it's
33813s	gonna be obviously bunny Hopper
33815s	currently in the lead two and one but
33817s	yeah it's this mirror and Lorinda like
33820s	we've seen
33822s	many hours of this matchup but maybe not
33826s	too many match-ups separately themselves
33829s	but is there anything here in your
33832s	experience that the players are
33833s	particularly aiming to do is there any
33835s	you know key cards key plays or really
33838s	is it just people that the players are
33840s	going to be looking for those small
33841s	edges and then sort of build them up
33843s	over time to to just take the victory I
33846s	mean one thing we did see is uh using
33849s	the amulets late so constantly recycle
33852s	those ambulance getting more and more
33855s	um big boards towards the end which do
33857s	get removed and then you do it again and
33859s	then you try and generate more amulets
33861s	and you trade those and keep doing that
33863s	and just keep trying to make the big
33865s	boards really over and over again uh
33867s	there are times where you have a choice
33869s	to make where you can go for
33872s	like long-term card advantage or hey
33875s	maybe I could just sneak 18 damage in
33877s	now and then your opponent can't clear
33879s	it in one turn so they'll they'll maybe
33881s	take 12 and then maybe they take seven
33883s	the next turn and maybe you push the
33885s	damage over the line
33887s	um so I expect it's not just to be a
33888s	long one because it's a pretty smooth
33890s	and this neither deck has a way to win
33892s	but also I expect both these players to
33896s	legitimately rope nearly every turn
33898s	working out whether they want to empty
33900s	their hand to make space for more stuff
33902s	or work out whether they want to try and
33903s	connect five damage to face and then
33905s	there's constantly you know the the
33908s	brain melting decisions of what am I
33910s	going to do about the plague people
33912s	um am I going to kill them do I need to
33914s	get some things out my hand is my stuff
33917s	going to become plague people and become
33918s	a nightmare yeah well one thing I do say
33921s	I can see here and there is a big
33923s	positive I think for bunny Hopper is he
33925s	did actually keep the sister uh svarna
33929s	which is going to be a big deal because
33930s	we've seen so much of of that card's
33933s	impact in these games right and they're
33935s	nice to see that the players are keeping
33937s	good spirits here with the emote and
33940s	hero power face as the uh turned to play
33942s	from dead draw but yeah I do think that
33944s	reoccurring spell is going to be
33946s	absolutely huge here for Bunny Hop at
33948s	this early on
33949s	yeah absolutely uh huge I'm gonna temper
33953s	that down Raven we save huge and when
33955s	they both got three cards left in their
33957s	deck in about an hour's time from now
33959s	but definitely a good start I'll go with
33962s	that
33964s	nothing's huge I know you know what give
33968s	me a minute I'm going to put some
33969s	pajamas on or something to just get cozy
33971s	for this one the players will have to
33973s	start just slowly working out how to
33976s	push any kind of advantage and I think
33978s	that's the biggest deal right
33980s	um I it's not so much one particular big
33983s	play but just small things that are
33985s	going to add up over time and we are
33987s	going to see the plague spreader uh you
33990s	know dance happen relatively early here
33992s	from dead drop and putting up as one as
33995s	well of course but
33996s	do you actually think that there's
34001s	I guess I'll rephrase what I was going
34003s	to ask what moment do you think there's
34006s	ever a reason to maybe even slow down on
34009s	card draw if at all
34012s	um so we've seen two of these and both
34014s	were one one was won by the player who
34017s	just generated a big board that couldn't
34019s	be dealt with and the other one was very
34021s	nearly won by that uh but actually was
34024s	won by the person who ended up managing
34026s	to save amulets for the end
34028s	I do think that you want to keep your
34032s	hand empty because at some point you get
34033s	the curving spells that you want to put
34035s	in your hand because they're better than
34036s	the things that start in your deck
34038s	and I'm not 100 convinced that fatigue
34042s	doesn't play A Part ever either I feel
34044s	like I would rather be the one a couple
34047s	of cards you know safer in fatigue just
34049s	in case I don't think it'll come to that
34052s	but
34053s	who's played more than five of these and
34055s	actually played it to the end there will
34057s	be people out there who have done that
34058s	because people play it but you know I
34061s	don't want to be behind in fatigue in
34062s	this matchup yeah and that's the key
34064s	right there's enough that can be done
34066s	that you cannot play fatigue from turn
34068s	one right that's the it's not like you
34071s	know the older control Warrior mirrors
34073s	where you you knew from turn one right
34077s	that yes this will go to fatigue
34079s	therefore I will play like that from the
34082s	the second game starts not necessarily
34084s	the case in this matchup so it will be
34086s	just both players gauging exactly what
34089s	they need to do
34090s	yeah absolutely and things like when to
34093s	use your light bulbs they look like
34094s	they're really good on small boards
34096s	early but they become massive later on
34098s	but again the problem especially with
34101s	dead drawer's hand
34103s	you really struggle for hand space later
34105s	on in the game and he has two six drops
34108s	and two eight drops that he doesn't
34109s	really want to cast for some time
34112s	and he's going to struggle to to keep
34114s	his hand empty and where adds to an
34116s	extent bunny has a play for every single
34120s	turn of the game for the rest of the
34122s	game now right with the vision
34124s	yes exactly and he's got the space to to
34127s	produce that at some point Deborah will
34129s	also have his vision but even if he had
34131s	it he wouldn't be able to cast it at the
34133s	moment sensibly he'd be able to cast it
34135s	but his hand would fill it with garbage
34137s	and he would struggle so his plan really
34140s	for now is to empty out his hand the
34142s	best he can you know he's not going to
34145s	die from taking eight from an eight
34146s	seven so he's got plenty of time empty
34149s	out the handy best he can and prepare
34150s	himself for his vision but bunny Hopper
34153s	generating that value already kind of
34156s	the equivalent to the old armor
34158s	um first one to get for armor the tank
34160s	up going
34162s	in the old Warrior mirror if you get the
34164s	tank up going in the other place you've
34165s	got armor up you're just generating an
34167s	advantage
34170s	I find this really tricky as well like
34172s	all the Discover options they're they
34175s	are powerful but
34178s	the one that looks good now might not be
34181s	good later right like that's the problem
34182s	I do think you do have to keep a close
34184s	eye on drown I think that's probably the
34186s	most generic good pick in the matchup
34189s	being able to just cycle Cards into your
34191s	deck and steal them from your opponent
34193s	is huge and I think that's if you're
34195s	ever unsure and drown is offered
34198s	I think you probably should just stick
34200s	with with drown for the uh the usual
34204s	yeah yeah that's something I forgot to
34205s	mention when you asked me at the start
34206s	what was important the ambulance rounds
34208s	where you're swapping um
34210s	let me see if you get this right so I
34211s	don't get um tweeted at but the the my
34214s	duh
34215s	repeated at my DARS
34218s	your dad
34221s	is he that good at Hearthstone Raven
34224s	uh not particularly but it's you know
34226s	got live Steel
34232s	um
34233s	it
34234s	again dead draw is just quality of hand
34237s	is just at this early Point not quite
34240s	there to just get rid of Renault I think
34243s	for now
34245s	he's managed to hold on to oh no don't
34248s	no absolutely weird right because on one
34251s	hand it's exactly what you want right is
34255s	just more stuff than your opponent but
34258s	on the other hand
34261s	oh quite that drop but is it still just
34264s	a pick right it's got to be better than
34265s	flash shield and wig it has to be yeah
34267s	it just I'm Gonna Leave the Room and
34269s	come back and when I get back in or the
34271s	sunwells won't be on the table anymore
34273s	they won't be in your decks they'll all
34275s	have gone away okay I'm Gonna Give You
34276s	All 30 seconds to just put the sunwells
34278s	away and behave yourselves
34280s	Road
34281s	but it does I think it's the right pick
34283s	he's not going to get much out of it but
34285s	maybe he gets something good because
34286s	well I know the dick has something good
34288s	right now yeah the thing is like two
34290s	spells let's say is probably better than
34293s	a flash heel right just like two sort of
34296s	random spells you would imagine so even
34299s	if he gets a small value from this it'll
34301s	be fine the double drown though is
34303s	looking spicy indeed for bunny
34308s	he's right to the point in the way he
34310s	does have to start dumping some cards
34311s	right
34313s	yeah absolutely but he also as you've
34315s	mentioned a couple of times did you just
34317s	take the drown and just use one of the
34319s	drones
34321s	I don't know yeah I just don't use one I
34324s	don't know I think just take it use it
34325s	he's gonna
34326s	uh
34329s	it's bunny he won't use it he's gonna
34330s	gather okay thanks I like this I like
34332s	this I actually like it but that's why I
34334s	thought he wouldn't do it because if I
34336s	like it there's no chance it's right now
34338s	me and Bunny are often on the same
34339s	wavelength when it comes to our Stone
34341s	play
34342s	uh-huh what what is the wavelength I'll
34344s	tune in you you wouldn't get it you
34347s	wouldn't get it
34348s	no uh
34350s	it's New Wave
34353s	oh wow you know wind up radio
34355s	I've got a wind-up radio that I have
34358s	actually within reaching distance of
34360s	where I'm sat right now
34362s	I'm telling the truth okay the Finley
34364s	solves a lot of the problems that dead
34366s	drawers had with his hand
34368s	now he's gonna have live drawers look at
34371s	this
34371s	yeah they only worry with Finley here is
34373s	that uh I guess it's fine maybe with the
34375s	light bulbs and the the some of the
34377s	other options but it does feel like
34379s	you're just bottling your problems up
34380s	for later for them to explode because it
34382s	does mean the the bottom of dead draws
34384s	deck isn't exactly mind-blowing no but
34388s	he'll have the light bulbs you'll have
34389s	the whirlpools and they're they're much
34391s	better at the end of the game yeah
34393s	problems going on and that sort of thing
34395s	then they are at the start of the game
34397s	so they're better there the real problem
34400s	he's got now is he's got his good cards
34403s	and they're all going to get put into
34405s	bunny Hoppers deck you see the reaction
34406s	there there's one more of those still to
34409s	come yeah at least one more drown and
34412s	you see that draws head dip a little bit
34414s	because he knows we talked about fatigue
34418s	not being the you know the the Beyond
34420s	end all of this matchup but
34422s	it started to be like a four card
34425s	difference it's starting to stack up and
34427s	know me down for uh dead draw either
34430s	which you know that doesn't help with
34431s	the fatigue problem as well right like
34434s	hand quality bunny Hoppers is a bit
34436s	better deck quality bunny hops is a bit
34439s	better
34441s	um just ongoing value that he's got
34443s	going bunny Hoppers had some ongoing
34445s	value already everything is just sort of
34448s	teetering towards bunny Hopper there's a
34451s	lot of things can still change it very
34453s	very quickly and I would be lying if I
34455s	said I knew what all those things were
34456s	because we've only seen two of these I
34459s	haven't played the mirror on ladder I've
34460s	played the deck
34462s	um it's gonna be difficult but
34466s	at the moment I would say bunny Hopper
34468s	is on course to become the Hearthstone
34470s	world champion at the end of this game
34471s	which could be some time yeah one of the
34474s	big problems here is without the um
34476s	without being
34478s	had been playable for dead draw the
34480s	amulets are just less good because with
34483s	that that at least can start negating
34485s	some problems with fatigue that their
34487s	draw is going to hit in the
34489s	some point in the future I was working
34491s	out whether I was the Ghost of Christmas
34493s	future or past at this point
34496s	um but but yeah it's it's just it's not
34499s	an urgent problem at this second but
34501s	it's going to be one soon and I'm not
34503s	really sure how it gets away with this
34505s	unless he could end up like drowning it
34507s	back or drowning bunny hoppers at some
34509s	point yeah I mean that's that's what
34511s	that will happen he will he'll be hoping
34513s	to very much get his own vision of
34514s	Darkness rolling and that's when the
34516s	game kind of equalizes this is why bunny
34519s	Hopper needs to make hay while the sun
34521s	shines as it is although it's freezing
34523s	cold here the sun's not shining at all
34526s	um but yes
34528s	absolutely bunny Hopper with all those
34530s	little advantages
34534s	it's a big difference like I said as
34535s	soon as Bonnie kept basically the vision
34538s	in the opening hand
34540s	it's such a giant leap because that's
34542s	the one thing you know you want right in
34546s	this matchup like you were talking about
34547s	the light bombs and whirlpools needing
34549s	them later you want some other things
34551s	sooner but the one thing you know you
34553s	want no matter what is that vision
34557s	foreign
34560s	staring at the the things unfolding
34564s	before our eyes Raven
34568s	trying not to repeat myself too much I
34571s	think we'll see this um card draw into
34573s	the cycling I'm pretty sure you just
34575s	talked about that but yeah he's just got
34577s	to go for it now because look at the
34579s	advantage Bunny Hop is getting it's
34580s	starting to become visible now it's not
34583s	just yeah we know you've done some
34584s	things it's starting to become look at
34586s	all the things I have that you don't it
34588s	has the same hand as dead draw with just
34590s	three extra things in it yeah this shoe
34593s	is just again just these amulets for
34594s	dead draw I think currently just do
34596s	nothing or at least what may as well be
34598s	nothing
34602s	problem but if he keeps saying like
34605s	again on one he does need to cycle but
34607s	then is it does he have something like
34609s	actually a winning uh that's gonna close
34612s	that gap which is more or less a six
34614s	turn Gap now between the players well
34617s	the one thing the dead draw is doing is
34618s	saying okay I mean because the fatigue
34620s	both the games we've had one went into
34622s	fatigue but it wasn't the deciding
34623s	factor the other one didn't get close
34625s	one thing that Deadpool has done which
34628s	has negated a little bit of the
34631s	advantage bunny hopperscore is
34632s	constantly being front on board yeah and
34635s	a lot of these boards you don't clear in
34636s	one turn comfortably like now the light
34638s	bulb light bomb would blur up at plague
34640s	person which would you know obviously
34642s	plague bunny Hopper and then he clears
34645s	and once again dead draw gets to replay
34648s	so for the next three or four turns dead
34651s	draw will be the one with the tempo on
34654s	the board it's not a huge thing it's
34657s	unlikely to get through but he is
34659s	stunting bunny Hoppers development by
34662s	doing that I mean this is what used to
34663s	happen in the old priest mirrors right
34665s	where it used to be like your first
34667s	actual priority is to just burst them
34670s	down right make big boards keep making
34672s	big boards Force the removal out and
34674s	then go again and the matchup Was Won in
34677s	that fashion and it came down to those
34679s	fatigue things sort of later and it
34681s	definitely wasn't plan a so you can
34684s	definitely see dead draw doing okay here
34686s	so far at least keeping that pressure on
34688s	but like I said the problem is just the
34691s	sheer value that the vision has already
34693s	got is just such a problem it really is
34695s	and Deadpool is just not able to find
34697s	his own turn after turn
34700s	but he is repeatedly splitting the
34702s	difference he's repeatedly drawing some
34704s	cards and then saying to bunny Hopper
34705s	okay I'm going to tie up your Mana if he
34708s	ties up bunny Hoppers man of enough
34709s	eventually bunny hoppo will either stop
34711s	getting value or maybe burn a card which
34714s	could be useful if they do get a fatigue
34716s	only probably looking at identity theft
34718s	here but
34720s	I'm just staring at just another amulet
34723s	yeah either or and I again if you've
34725s	played this a lot I'm going to just say
34726s	that whatever bunny Hopper takes is
34727s	correct on this one that's what I do
34729s	anyway but like even more strongly I
34731s	think if you play this a lot you know
34732s	which is the pick here
34735s	um does he even need the cards right now
34737s	it's only a copy maybe just the amulet
34738s	play for that late game safety play for
34741s	those big boards later in the day that's
34743s	what I mean like just amulet and then
34745s	just trade it away it seems absolutely
34747s	fine review the option after that I do
34749s	like this a lot here from bunny does get
34751s	the zyrella hero
34754s	they'll just do stuff I think one of the
34756s	things you need to look at in terms of
34759s	how far I think bunny thinks he's ahead
34762s	is that he's had these two locations for
34765s	ages and procked once
34768s	you know it has been a recurring problem
34771s	with the matchups we have seen here if
34773s	you've got the vision going
34775s	you really do struggle to empty your
34777s	hand and that's why I'm not writing dead
34778s	draw completely off because he will gain
34781s	that value back very quickly with a
34782s	vision if he draws it because he has
34784s	managed to there it is he has managed to
34787s	solved the problem of hand size in his
34788s	hand with that Finley
34790s	and yeah now the game is well and truly
34792s	on he sits up in his chair and you can
34794s	see he he thinks he's back in this
34796s	because he's got the tempo he's got the
34798s	vision rolling
34799s	and he's not totally out of it but as
34801s	Raven has pointed out several times look
34803s	at those deck sizes 25 to 17 is how much
34807s	stuff bunny Hoppers stolen basically and
34810s	not so bad I was gonna say yeah their
34812s	job probably has to play the Behemoth
34814s	out because you know if he's scared of
34816s	this uh plague but of course upon
34819s	getting the vision like the vision is
34820s	priority and he does lose the Behemoth
34823s	as well so even though he isn't you know
34826s	he doesn't need the lifesteal so to
34828s	speak a behemoth play later could have
34830s	actually been huge absolutely
34833s	um another thing that's been happening
34834s	well Bunny Hop has been controlling
34836s	these boards is he has actually been
34838s	using up his spells so his hand is full
34840s	of minions right now
34841s	he's facing enough damage that he
34844s	doesn't just want to go minion minion
34845s	minion right he wants to blow up the
34847s	board over and over again or put some
34849s	taunts down or something
34851s	and if Deborah can just keep on this
34853s	turn after turn hit you for six play
34855s	another six six hit your five play an
34858s	amulet which he'll draw in a moment yeah
34860s	he's got two or three they've been
34861s	cycling really or two they've been
34862s	cycling really well
34864s	if you can just keep this rolling maybe
34867s	he gets there with the equivalent of
34869s	tempo that priest has uh it's not like
34872s	Rogue Tempo it happens over several
34874s	turns but you can see bunny obviously I
34876s	start taking damage now like chunky
34878s	damage
34880s	what he's gonna have to do a good job
34881s	clearing here though Ireland is always
34884s	the nice play to be able to just push
34886s	back a little bit at least and and just
34888s	get some level of tempo going
34891s	but again take six a trade play some
34894s	more minions for dead draw
34896s	and he's gonna have the opposite problem
34898s	to bunny Hopper his hand's going to be
34899s	full of spells in a moment because he's
34901s	used all his minions up buddy Hopper's
34904s	hand is full of minions because he's
34905s	used all his spells up so when it goes
34908s	the other way when bunny Hopper finally
34910s	gets control it's going to be about
34912s	where the dead draw spells can control
34914s	bunny Hoppers minions in the same way
34916s	and that's where those extra seven or
34919s	ten turns whatever it was at Visions
34920s	will probably reveal themselves in
34923s	Bunny's favor yeah extra zyrella though
34925s	for dead true or that said nothing to be
34927s	upset about at all along with the amulet
34929s	so pretty solid pickup using the zero
34932s	Mana spell to just dump the card now
34934s	reborn of course on the minion two yeah
34936s	this is still that sort of um very
34938s	thematic Undead Army that just never
34941s	really gets cleared and he's just yeah
34943s	it couldn't work out which one's
34945s	Australia so just shipping it face it's
34946s	setting up sort of lethal over two or
34949s	three turns with the you've got to
34951s	visualize the clear I play some more
34954s	stuff clear I play some more stuff now
34955s	as it happens Deadpool's kind of running
34957s	out of stuff for the time being but
34959s	that'll change soon
34962s	I'm excited baby I think this might be
34963s	going to go five suddenly even though
34965s	there's no logical reason why bunny
34966s	Hopper isn't a mile in front yeah
34971s	no it's actually just so close honestly
34974s	is it great
34983s	you're going for a light shower okay
34986s	because again it's something you got to
34987s	bear in mind that at any point bunny
34989s	does have Whirlpool right he can just
34992s	stop this push if he wants to
34994s	more or less again though it costs eight
34997s	you play Whirlpool you do nothing else
34999s	dead draw and again dead was running out
35002s	of minions we need to keep an eye on
35003s	that he needs an amulet he's got one
35005s	yeah and um but if there's a Whirlpool
35007s	happens then ambulance just happens and
35008s	everything comes back yeah that is true
35011s	I think amulet is the the scary one
35013s	right because in general I think Bunny
35015s	Hop has seen enough stuff to say okay
35017s	well other than amulet you probably
35020s	don't have that many actual minions to
35023s	just play naturally right yes so
35025s	obviously amulet is definitely scary
35027s	bunny Hopper keeping a at least equal on
35030s	board roughly speaking of course yeah
35032s	and he's taken seven damage effectively
35034s	like I've been talking about this push
35035s	like it's some game-winning Bonanza
35037s	killer he's actually managed to do seven
35040s	damage with this game-winning Bonanza
35042s	killer over that whole time yeah
35044s	um deadra also noticed has been holding
35046s	on to at least one Shard the whole time
35048s	so if a board does stick or a big chunk
35051s	of board sticks he will be able to get
35052s	through taunts and you know put in a
35055s	hefty thump at some point that's that's
35057s	something else he's working towards
35059s	yeah I was even looking at what like
35061s	what and when zirella becomes relevant
35064s	right because that's what those death
35065s	rattles uh you know there's a lot of
35067s	plagues in there
35069s	there is a lot of plagues but the thing
35071s	is four fours aren't the easiest thing
35074s	to keep dealing with the deck is built
35076s	to deal with giving your opponent a
35078s	couple of four fours and killing them
35079s	off
35080s	but when you're talking about killing
35082s	four fours over 25 30 turns that's a
35086s	different problem you're not built to
35087s	deal with that so much
35093s	hey dead draw trying to squeeze a lot
35096s	into this turn now
35098s	kills off the zyrella on board
35100s	simple
35102s	yeah I don't know how many turns he's
35104s	had this momentum before now but
35106s	he's holding on to it it is starting to
35108s	Peter out
35112s	there's an amulet
35114s	drops down vision for Bunny and
35120s	yeah now
35124s	I don't know which cards have been
35126s	copied or not with theft accusations so
35128s	uh I would genuinely you know generally
35132s	lean to identity theft in this matchup
35134s	of course but bunny has a much better
35137s	idea uh that how good theft accusation
35140s	is or isn't right now
35142s	yeah I I've also given up on the deck
35145s	track of this so I remember that when TJ
35146s	and I cast it in the on the first day
35148s	the deck tracker melted so yeah it's
35150s	like
35151s	not touching that today
35154s	not too quickly for this game that is it
35157s	it did reappear but I don't know
35161s	get track of this look at all this stuff
35162s	though
35165s	remember the dead drawers whirlpools and
35167s	light bulbs are both on the bottom of
35169s	the deck like all four of them because
35171s	he he finled them away quite early on
35174s	in relative terms
35184s	Mindy it's okay oh oh oh there it is
35193s	and he knows that Bunny's hand has got
35195s	quite a lot of plague people in it he
35197s	must be tempted as a whirlpool
35199s	Yeah It's Tricky though right because
35201s	then it's just the same problem you
35202s	mentioned earlier but backwards where
35204s	Bonnie gets to play into this as opposed
35206s	to you know the other way around exactly
35209s	so he's kind of stuck with this whole
35211s	gotta just keep on trying to keep the
35213s	tempo but it is petering out
35217s	we've got the Shadowood ruin
35219s	um
35220s	yeah vision
35224s	identity theft Whispers of the deep sure
35228s	are you still identity because like you
35230s	said he's actually running low on
35231s	threats to want to grab a amulet or
35234s	something right so I think it has to be
35237s	identity theft for dead draw right now
35241s	you open his hand is just
35246s	it's like one of those really bad
35248s	science fiction episodes where you know
35250s	the whole crew just slowly gets turned
35252s	into a zombie
35255s	okay it gets turned into a zombie all of
35258s	them morph into one single zombie yeah
35260s	it's like the Borg plague people
35263s	meanwhile it's like hey Spirit healer
35266s	have a look around that corner up plague
35269s	person now unlucky
35273s	the zirella for dead draw
35278s	it guys identity theft into identity
35280s	theft yeah oh well there's Mida that's
35283s	good there's me down he's come back
35286s	finally with a pint of milk a pack of
35289s	ciggies after all these years
35301s	now what
35303s	beat the shards use a shards or cyclist
35306s	the shards don't do anything though
35308s	right not now they don't but he knows
35310s	that you know they will at some point
35313s	yeah and I think that's the that's the
35315s	issue right like they will at some point
35316s	so keep them right in hand if dead draw
35320s	wants to dodge something specific
35322s	oh look I didn't I think both of these
35325s	players don't even know who's who
35327s	anymore
35331s	is the the Spider-Man meme right they
35334s	just pointing each other
35335s	everything's just plagued people no one
35338s	actually knows what's happening
35342s	steal that sort of gut feeling that
35344s	bunny should be slightly ahead but also
35346s	the other gut feeling that I don't know
35348s	what I'm talking about so who knows ants
35350s	on the middle and a burn for dead draw
35353s	here as well right because that's gonna
35354s	overdraw
35366s	help I think it's stopped
35371s	there's so many amulets or identity
35373s	thefts
35374s	I'm burning up and saying you know what
35376s	I've turned the corner now there goes
35377s	light charity yeah Bunny Hop is saying
35379s	okay I'm on board now I still have
35382s	removal available if needed but he is
35384s	just that one step ahead you've noticed
35387s	Bernie Hopper's possession right
35389s	Deadpool is going to be the one on
35390s	defense removing stuff every turn seeing
35393s	what bunny Hopper has his reload and
35396s	bloody Hopper's early vision
35398s	meant that his relay his removal on the
35401s	sort of ten turns he had to defend was
35403s	pretty efficient and dejua might be just
35407s	a touch behind here but one important
35408s	factor though I want to just bear in
35410s	mind is both players are now on the same
35411s	debt count right or the Bonnie's now 11
35415s	that draws 12. yeah so that huge lead
35420s	like what was it like four or five maybe
35421s	even six cards yeah yeah for bunny
35424s	Hopper has gone away because he's needed
35426s	to draw or he's had cards you know like
35428s	stolen or deleted with a whirlpool and
35431s	so on so actually now the fatigue isn't
35435s	really that big a deal in terms of one
35437s	player being ahead of the other
35439s	I think it's the card quality though and
35441s	again I'm very happy to be told I'm
35443s	wrong here but because bunny Hopper had
35445s	that run of getting the Visions earlier
35447s	my instinct says that his card quality
35450s	should be better than dead droids just
35452s	by slowly small efficiency advantages
35456s	but I could be completely wrong yeah
35459s	well one thing to bear in mind I think a
35461s	lot of that evening up of the fatigue
35464s	came from Whirlpool which means you know
35467s	the light shower Elementals or whatever
35469s	and everything like that got sort of
35471s	deleted out of the deck which meant
35473s	basically the cards dead draw had
35475s	already played
35476s	was you know the the mirrors were in
35479s	bunny Hoppers deck no that's a very good
35481s	point so it could just be that the card
35482s	quality was equalized immediately with
35484s	the whirlpool yeah
35486s	we are gonna have to watch it sort of
35488s	unravel as you're watching me unravel
35490s	live on air yeah because wasn't there
35492s	like I think the drowns from earlier at
35496s	least a couple of them just got deleted
35498s	right I think you're right yeah
35502s	yeah I think you're right one was in
35504s	midar but I think the others were just
35506s	things that have now been deleted
35508s	foreign
35520s	towards the bottom of the deck it
35521s	becomes far more relevant at the end
35523s	because you've the cards you've saved
35525s	that are any good that get stolen that's
35527s	a big deal and and you just wait till
35529s	the whirlpools have been played right
35530s	and then drown
35533s	and then yeah safer yeah
35537s	except you don't know how many
35538s	whirlpools they've been generated but
35540s	you don't think that three zirella is
35543s	dead too I guess they're just super
35544s	amulets right
35547s	yeah but they they only proc the death
35549s	rattles right so if your death battle is
35552s	bring something back to life then hey
35558s	maybe not
35562s	credible into tradable into tradable
35564s	okay welcome to the
35568s	Club yeah so the bone caller putting the
35571s	bone cooler in the zirella is where I
35573s	was going without that's the second one
35575s	for dead draw this game
35577s	and then zarella brings back some yeah
35580s	stuff and off you go yeah I I guess the
35584s	point is like that's gonna do like two
35586s	versus obviously a amulet is can do
35589s	seven right yeah whatever so we'll see
35592s	how that one goes but oh look another
35594s	plague spreader absolute plague spreader
35598s	It's Tricky as well because I think
35600s	everybody knew about the 100 xyrella
35603s	Heroes that he would probably drown that
35606s	too for right
35608s	I don't know if these two practice
35610s	together for this tournament they
35611s	brought very very similar lineups right
35612s	so there's there's a possibility they
35614s	did practice together because they're in
35615s	different groups that's the thing that
35616s	players still do at the top level
35618s	sometimes yeah I'm sure when I asked uh
35621s	bunny he said it was going to be a
35623s	potential mix
35625s	of you know obviously non-tournament
35627s	players and uh dead draw I guess or
35630s	maybe another one
35631s	it wouldn't surprise me if they had in
35633s	which case the reason I bring that up is
35635s	but he might know there's a handful of
35636s	zoellas if they play tested this but who
35638s	play tests this when they've got one
35639s	week to test every match up yeah you
35642s	just look at this go yeah amulet's Goods
35644s	I know that's kind of good you know
35645s	everybody knows good because he's got
35647s	two of them as well
35648s	so maybe he would expect triple his
35651s	overall action
35652s	there's one
35658s	have a hand of play
35661s	oh
35663s	that's it I'd be very interested to see
35666s	what happens on what the meta looks like
35668s	if plague spreader just hit a card in
35671s	your opponent's hand and not a minion
35673s	that would be hilarious what's he got
35675s	like plague pool and plagues so like
35678s	spells just become plague spreaders yeah
35681s	just as a minion yeah I'll call it
35683s	Whirlpool plague pool in that in that
35685s	apocalyptic description let's make it
35688s	someone make it a Tavern brawl and see
35690s	I'm very excited yes do it Tales from
35693s	the plague
35695s	except give it a good name
35700s	I just gotta drown
35702s	oh they're just stealing the same things
35705s	I
35706s	think so stop it
35708s	there's hundreds of thousands of dollars
35710s	on the line make the behave
35714s	rest
35717s	[Music]
35722s	okay the Midas are going to start doing
35724s	stuff now yep and bunny is you know that
35728s	had that turn behind uh you would say on
35731s	fatigue at this second in time
35734s	um but that can swiftly change and of
35737s	course now bunny is the one who's ahead
35739s	on board
35741s	seem to remember there were 16 spells so
35744s	if you're playing Vision all over and
35746s	over again you're gonna hit a 3 and 16
35748s	chance to hit a drown quite often so if
35751s	it does just come down to Mida versus
35753s	Mida
35758s	I'll get there I've just been lazy
35762s	who hits the most three out of 16 shots
35765s	to
35765s	to just drown it back into their deck
35767s	all the time
35774s	wow
35782s	one thing that's been very clear from
35784s	particularly Bunny's side but that's
35786s	because he's been the defender is the
35787s	the players just aren't worrying about
35789s	the plague spreaders right they're just
35790s	like a 4-4 plague spreader is fine in my
35792s	hand oh yeah but the thing is fine
35795s	the the way to worry about it and play
35799s	around it I would say is to just throw
35802s	minions out left right and Center which
35804s	is probably the way to lose right so you
35806s	just say well I'll play normally and
35808s	take the four fours
35811s	kidnap
35814s	here's the tricky thing here we've just
35816s	had an update from Derek that someone
35818s	said that it's Meda because a nauru says
35821s	it in the book of mercenaries it's not
35824s	my dough anymore yeah the problem is
35826s	though if that's the case well thrall
35828s	says shaman
35836s	everyone needs to sort themselves out as
35839s	far as I'm concerned I I'm with you I I
35841s	used to cast shaming with you and Shaman
35843s	with everyone else to avoid arguments I
35844s	said Shaman before I met this game yeah
35847s	I was an original shamanite and I I was
35849s	I just got I'm not as strong as you even
35852s	I got bullied by subtle into saying it
35854s	incorrectly and you know there you go
35856s	and and here we are years
35861s	media yeah here we are
35866s	no how do you say Navi says its name
35869s	I would say
35872s	who says media
35874s	the narrow says me mate is really calm
35879s	it's just because she was just not on my
35880s	maidar before we started the disgusting
35883s	when we started this match and I'm gonna
35885s	come down now
35886s	bam
35892s	put just chain in vision of Darkness
35894s	here another drowned to pick up not too
35897s	much of a surprise like I said I think
35899s	that is if you're off a drown you'd need
35901s	a very very good reason to uh not take
35905s	it in this matchup yeah I agree I think
35907s	it's the number one card
35911s	wow
35913s	it's so silly oh and get in the sack
35918s	get in this sack
35921s	The Amulet here only on two though for
35923s	dead draw so you'll probably still want
35925s	to cycle that get a bit more value yet
35927s	wait when you activate the sax thing
35930s	with Zion I assume something doesn't pop
35932s	out of it because
35934s	yeah under it's uh and epic backs on
35938s	that
35938s	epic sex I think you need Epic Sax to
35941s	watch this replay too
35943s	well the shape I like to pick up is just
35945s	the just the most raw value death rattle
35947s	of course uh it's gonna just create more
35950s	Minions on board which is probably what
35952s	their their dead draw is here for
35954s	some of the phone's Shady bunny to
35956s	analyze this Arena board please or you
35958s	know language hacker or red beard or
35960s	somebody look at the state of this board
35965s	look at it
35970s	absolute state of the board
35974s	foreign
35976s	but it is a fairly dangerous board to be
35978s	fair
35980s	yeah I'm just sitting here wondering if
35982s	bunny actually wants to drown the
35985s	mothership yeah I think that's just the
35988s	highest value so we'll just take it away
35991s	it stops dead draw getting it in um is
35994s	death rattle pool as well which is going
35996s	to be very important for later
35999s	I like that finally Raven having said
36002s	it's going to be important for later 200
36005s	times each during this game of
36007s	hearthstone later is nearly here no I
36010s	think it's still a while away yet it is
36012s	a little bit the reason I said later and
36014s	not soon it's getting there yeah it's
36017s	getting there
36020s	God
36022s	and the drowns of course will slow down
36024s	fatigue at some point as well
36027s	one thing that Deadpool has struggled
36029s	with the last two or three turns because
36030s	again he's been the the temporary player
36033s	is he hasn't had quite as many Visions
36035s	cast as bunny has I don't think I think
36037s	he's missed one or two
36039s	I might be wrong right
36041s	I feel like bunny just doesn't miss any
36043s	and I feel like dead drawers miss a few
36044s	but he's been making space in his hand
36047s	by Will pulling away his own plague hand
36050s	a lot of the time as well
36052s	oh amulet number 500.
36056s	play it oh come on
36059s	I think right now a dead drop will just
36061s	want amulets with almost Max minions
36064s	right
36065s	this is Max minions that's why that's
36067s	what I thought three minions is Max for
36068s	now
36070s	wait there's been no other death battles
36072s	there's only space
36075s	oh you can't yeah he could have traded
36076s	the three two right
36079s	sure to have died uh yeah I I It's
36082s	tricky because I'll be honest
36084s	I don't think the trackers that we have
36086s	is reliable at this point now the track
36088s	we've got at this point I don't know
36090s	what the amulets in the deck even look
36092s	like and how many there even are so uh
36095s	we'll have to see how this one pans out
36096s	but dead Rod's choosing to make a bit of
36098s	a push and it does force bunny Hopper on
36101s	the back foot in terms of whether he
36102s	wants to clear or not
36105s	you can also kind of counter push and
36106s	just put his own stuff on the board and
36108s	say okay well your board actually is
36110s	full of two ones mate and I don't care
36111s	about it I'm just gonna put some stuff
36114s	out on my own and one thing bunny has
36115s	done as you kind of mentioned earlier is
36117s	he is played Visions almost every
36120s	possible turn of this game that he could
36126s	all I know right now is it's what I
36129s	would do uh take that as a positive or A
36131s	negative for Buddy's play but I would
36133s	definitely look at just saying okay well
36135s	this is just raw Extra Value no I'm with
36138s	you even and I'll be wrong with you we
36140s	can be wrong together it's fine
36143s	chaos Nova burnt uh bunny Hopper just
36145s	emptying some hand space before as well
36151s	if you're looking at this ambulance it's
36152s	got four on it
36157s	no he wants Five On It
36163s	and then he started reciting the lyrics
36165s	to a certain song I know I know I was
36167s	21. play around getting his band forever
36170s	but you know
36175s	trying all right I'm sure we'd be fine
36177s	if we were banned forever
36178s	yeah I'm sure we'll see he has managed
36181s	to Chip Away bunny Hopper down to Omega
36183s	28 which is too low than most Heroes
36185s	start with he's getting there
36189s	this
36191s	dirella will of course uh kill off the
36193s	Volvo
36196s	yep
36199s	why are there motherships all over the
36201s	place
36203s	like the plague people but they're
36205s	Mothership people they're spreading
36209s	my cat's come to see what's going on
36210s	she's excited too right at the end here
36213s	with the potentially of the World
36214s	Championships 2022
36221s	wow now
36224s	Ida on the Orient Express being put back
36228s	in the deck once again
36236s	what's that I don't even know why I'm
36238s	trying to remember
36240s	what all the Death rattles are that the
36243s	bunny offer has it I was like right what
36245s	is this board stick gonna look like at
36246s	the end here and it's just gonna be a
36248s	ton of healing yeah they're both trying
36251s	not to draw cards but those things are
36252s	the location is just clogging up the
36254s	board as well
36259s	hey looks like dead draw now gonna start
36263s	oh does have drown yeah like I said I
36265s	just at this point I can't even think of
36268s	another card that you would pick if
36269s	drown was an option
36271s	let's have fragment no I don't think
36273s	there is I mean I say there might not be
36274s	one too what are you doing cat This is
36277s	highly important
36279s	um yeah I can't think of one but then
36281s	whenever you say you can't think of
36282s	something incredible pops up that you've
36283s	not seen for years it's just like it's a
36285s	hugger
36287s	or something but yeah here comes the
36289s	drown
36291s	he wants to cast something to get it out
36293s	of his hand just so he's got space to
36294s	play The Vision again soon
36297s	and no minions in hand right now so
36300s	doesn't need to worry about this plague
36302s	spreader hitting I don't even know at
36305s	this moment in time but yeah I didn't
36307s	have to overly worry about it looks like
36309s	he's just gonna throw the mech into the
36311s	bottom of his deck instead I genuinely
36313s	don't think they care much about having
36315s	things turned into plague people I think
36316s	the four fours are just good enough that
36318s	they don't mind yeah I was just meaning
36320s	if like you know
36322s	somehow they generated some really
36324s	insane death rattle right and and they
36326s	said you know what I actually want this
36328s	there's like a chance that you'd silence
36330s	the spreader for a turn just to be able
36332s	to play the death rattle next turn but
36334s	yeah it's it's unlikely but possible
36338s	this is like one of those card games
36339s	where one player gets all of the cards
36340s	apart from a few but the few the other
36342s	player has spins them all back to their
36344s	side and you keep doing that and you're
36346s	just not sure who's winning until it's
36347s	over but I do feel like bunny Hoppers
36351s	quality card quality is becoming
36353s	noticeably stronger than dead drawers
36355s	over the last few turns
36358s	the double Mothership
36359s	Etc
36366s	but I'm not sure if you should just be
36368s	counting number of minions or we should
36370s	be looking at the actual quality of the
36371s	minions at this point I mean it's tough
36373s	as well because once again fatigue has
36375s	shifted back towards dead draw where
36377s	he's now got two cards left in deck
36379s	because bunny Hopper has I feel like
36380s	bunny Hoppers just hit way more drowns
36382s	which happens when you play Visions way
36385s	more often
36386s	um and it started to just give a little
36388s	bit of an advantage and as you said I'm
36390s	not saying fatigue is the the ultimate
36392s	end point here but
36395s	being a bit ahead of your opponent in
36396s	fatigue means that you might squeak out
36398s	a lethal when obviously if the the board
36402s	state was flipped you would be able to
36403s	right so it will start to stack up
36405s	damage wise but he definitely hits three
36408s	drowns before dead draw even had the
36409s	opportunity to right right right that's
36412s	the part I do remember for sure
36414s	yeah dead doors now at the amulet stage
36416s	of the game where you have to remember
36419s	that you can't tradeable an amulet once
36421s	there's no cars left in your deck so
36423s	it's time to play them obviously drown
36425s	kind of helps with that you can drown
36427s	and then you can trade the amulet
36430s	into your last card so that's a thing
36432s	that might be on his mind in terms of
36434s	not playing drown for a turn or two
36440s	we can use their parents to clear up a
36442s	minion here makes sense just retains
36444s	much board as possible
36448s	he has retained a big board two or three
36450s	turns in a row now
36454s	and with a double zyvela left and I
36456s	think an amulet still to come
36463s	and Bunny will have a much better idea
36465s	of what this Whirlpool you know what
36467s	level of impact this Whirlpool has or
36469s	doesn't
36470s	and it's still got light bomb which gets
36473s	a reasonable-ish job done
36481s	go for devour with the tone okay okay
36490s	I mean this and then it does make light
36491s	bomb better after trades happen right so
36496s	yes absolutely this could be uh probably
36500s	oh
36502s	that one hurts but Brown is a good
36505s	response how much damage is this
36508s	a lot I mean it's a lot in context it's
36510s	like 20 19 I think yeah I didn't count
36513s	it I just sort of did a five times four
36515s	is twenty and it looks like five times
36517s	four to me because it's the same as six
36518s	times three
36520s	yeah this is solid because now their
36522s	draw is going to flip over to the shadow
36524s	side of zyrella and he will have Shadow
36527s	word
36529s	damage I can't remember what that one's
36531s	called one sec uh Shadow word on death
36535s	that's it yeah Shadowood damage
36537s	Shadowood on death that is pretty much
36539s	the same phrase as far as I'm concerned
36541s	blame around the light bomb healing up
36543s	his small minion because healing up
36544s	anything else wouldn't matter but two
36546s	damage could be relevant
36548s	the pings are starting to add up
36551s	are we going to a game five
36553s	I don't think there's whirlpools and all
36555s	sorts of stuff the problem is there's
36556s	still the zyrellas
36559s	I think that's the the big question mark
36561s	for me is just zirella right now uh
36567s	there's so many big question marks in my
36569s	mind right now they're just floating
36570s	around covering up my eyes and I just
36572s	don't even know what's happening anymore
36573s	it's it's great I'm loving every second
36575s	of it
36578s	see the world pool though
36580s	yeah and I'm on review
36583s	take a quick look here
36586s	okay
36587s	she's on one okay
36595s	those we love are never true he comes
36598s	over to number two
36599s	gonna fetch some more play people back
36606s	and Deadpool
36608s	almost certainly in control otherwise
36610s	buddy Hopper has been cleaning out his
36612s	hand with repeated whirlpools to make
36615s	space does seem to have eaten some of
36617s	the value out of his deck as well
36621s	and like you say there's still two um
36624s	for bunny Hopper to to even this all up
36626s	a lot more
36629s	but he needs them
36641s	I don't know if that's funny that the
36643s	sack death rat I'll just procs it's just
36645s	like hey I'm here I was in this game
36647s	yeah but you don't get anything out of
36649s	the sack apparently
36655s	sort of like when Santa visited me you
36658s	were naughty yeah
36661s	yeah that's going to be a few more cards
36664s	shuffled in here for dead draw
36670s	will this ever
36675s	end but the next one's gonna be like
36676s	seven trucks deeper
36679s	kind of interesting right because it
36680s	looks like Bunny's just gonna lock in
36682s	the light bulb this turn clear it all
36685s	and say next turn he can zyrella
36689s	yeah because now he also has the double
36692s	uh amida
36694s	uh-huh
36697s	do you care for the burn as well
36703s	all right
36705s	yeah he's gonna kill them with a whirly
36707s	pull I think
36714s	again
36718s	looks like he might it'll be his last
36720s	one but these don't heal bunny so two
36722s	four sixes although annoying uh unless
36725s	I'm forgetting death rattles I don't
36726s	think these die
36729s	well it's not gonna kill dead draw right
36732s	so your buddy gets to make a couple of
36735s	Trades but that draw just goes again
36736s	with all the Death rattles also worth
36739s	noticing or pointing out that he saved
36741s	that silence basically the whole game
36743s	yeah so he knew the matchup he knew this
36746s	is what it came down to at least in some
36748s	capacity he knew that one of those
36751s	silences ends up going on these
36753s	um Midas at the end of the game
36760s	oh
36763s	it's so weird right because
36767s	is what's going to happen right now
36770s	is
36772s	Bonnie
36775s	Waits maybe for the McDonald's to be
36778s	played
36781s	then oh
36783s	yeah uh
36791s	for ages
36794s	I'm just trying to think of a way that
36796s	dead draw like secures this because now
36799s	dead drop has all the removal but dead
36801s	drawer wants the pressure right not the
36803s	removal so the fatigue is generating
36806s	pressure
36808s	just about to shuffle more now
36812s	and get the Midas back
36814s	uh what about me let's find out they
36816s	just summons them all lifestyle again
36817s	and and then dead draws got to respond
36819s	he does have AOE to respond but the
36822s	problem is it's like Whirlpool which
36825s	will kill his own minions and he wants
36827s	them to win right because Bonnie just
36829s	shoots all the way back up has the uh
36831s	the fragments in the deck now yes you
36834s	know they Auto draw an auto play but
36838s	then what does Dedra do all deadro's AOE
36841s	is symmetrical right
36842s	yeah it's just a very messy ending to
36845s	everything really right now Bonnie's
36847s	just got minions in hand and dead Rod
36850s	doesn't and I know that sounds like I'm
36852s	bringing this whole game down to a very
36855s	very basic ending but that's the one big
36859s	factor for me that's different for these
36860s	players
36864s	yep no I think I think there's still an
36866s	amulet in the deck
36868s	that's a bunny
36872s	the World Championships on the line if
36874s	we
36877s	oh my goodness look at the hell
36880s	[Music]
36882s	this is gonna burn some as well right
36884s	which is a big deal yeah it is just keep
36886s	drawing one of the reasons again why the
36889s	uh the cycle at the end there for bunny
36890s	Hopper was really nice because I don't
36893s	think he would have overdrawn anyway but
36896s	he just gives himself a whole nother
36898s	turn before the fatigue hits him again
36900s	right yeah but this uh Whispers will
36902s	help him to clear the board
36907s	in conjunction with a light bomb
36910s	it did turn down a identity theft there
36912s	so he values this more highly and he
36914s	took it quickly as well so he's got the
36915s	plan for it
36917s	and here's the moment right when I was
36918s	talking about other spells that can be
36921s	useful when suddenly you want to really
36923s	power the pressure on you know devouring
36925s	plague and everything's going to be
36927s	quite good to just push these off board
36928s	because like I said the biggest problem
36930s	that dead draw has is all the AOE
36933s	symmetrical he doesn't want that he
36935s	wants to hit face and retain his own
36937s	board
36940s	foreign
36944s	well that's what I said like honestly at
36947s	this point it's difficult the big factor
36949s	is bunny still has minions and a zyrella
36952s	left
36953s	and their drawer doesn't and buddy has a
36955s	amulet right to me that's the biggest
36958s	Factor but
36960s	Visions could get identity theft that
36962s	they can then get Bunny's amulet right
36965s	yes so their draw can still acquire new
36969s	cards it's just if and when he has the
36971s	time and as it hits the right cards of
36973s	course
36974s	yeah it's going to be about these
36975s	Visions obviously at this point
36978s	it's just ridiculous to work out who's
36980s	winning when you're not familiar with
36981s	the matchup I think it's ridiculous when
36983s	you are neither of them seems to know
36984s	the outcome like looking at The Players
36987s	like in the Demon Hunter game you just
36988s	know who is ahead right at various
36990s	points because the players you don't
36992s	know Hearthstone you know who's ahead
36994s	that's the thing though right The X
36995s	Factor here is the Visions like the game
36998s	can just you know flip either way based
37001s	on what each player gets from Visions
37002s	each time right like bunny just
37004s	discovered a death rattle yes it's not a
37006s	hugely impactful one but it could have
37008s	been
37009s	right like there's still things that can
37011s	happen identity theft there oh my God
37013s	but I don't think he does at this point
37015s	I think he has a good idea what like
37017s	almost all if not all of dead draw's
37020s	hand is
37022s	yeah
37023s	those are how they're trying to find a
37025s	way it's my dad on Buddy's side is just
37027s	more or less immune to light bomb
37033s	and divisions
37038s	oh here we go oh oh okay you want two
37043s	visions to turn in case you miss
37046s	I I don't even know Lorinda but all I
37049s	know that you do neither of those three
37051s	cards or neither any of those three
37053s	cards and not amulet
37055s	I think the other vision and I think you
37057s	want to rip the other Vision hmm
37060s	then you have to dump the card if you
37062s	did that though but
37064s	and then you have a mulligan every turn
37066s	for uh another attempt
37074s	[Applause]
37079s	sure
37081s	the bunny can heal for 12.
37085s	I mean more right but another amulet
37087s	another drown oh another drown but bunny
37089s	has zirella right so he's he's still to
37094s	a decent extent fine because he still
37095s	heals for loads
37097s	and puts more uh Midas in the deck but
37102s	he's waited until uh dead draw feels the
37104s	need to play Whirlpool which he may or
37107s	may not do this turn like if bunny
37108s	drowns
37110s	this now
37112s	that draw might have to whirlpool
37115s	then bunny plays the plague spreaders
37117s	and if the whirlpool happens again
37119s	Bonnie can play zirella but but
37122s	um their door has the light bump so he
37124s	can whirlpool
37126s	hold on to the fragments like he's doing
37128s	if Bunny Goes For zyrella he gets
37130s	whirlpooled if he goes for plague people
37133s	he gets light bombed
37138s	and if Deadpool knows that which he
37141s	probably does but who knows at this
37143s	point
37144s	he might have a lock on the game again
37146s	except Visions changes who's winning
37148s	every single yes that
37150s	that as usual
37152s	biggest problem the little tiny caveat
37154s	of the whole game changes on its head
37156s	every single turn nothing nothing too
37158s	important for the world championship
37159s	haven't you been here been here for with
37161s	Hunter Hayes and Viper haven't you just
37163s	been in this spot like three years ago
37165s	uh
37168s	uh and no but there's the whirlpool here
37170s	uh that finals was the one that had a
37175s	ending at some point that we could see
37178s	and try and work out this less so
37182s	yeah I think we're about an hour deep
37183s	into this game unless I'm getting my
37185s	timings so uh the players like I said
37188s	earlier in the in the in this final was
37190s	under a ton of pressure
37192s	playing a game like this but he knows if
37195s	he wins he's one he is done and he's the
37197s	world champion if he doesn't he's got to
37199s	go all over again against Deadpool
37204s	incredible pressure for both of these
37206s	players the focus that honestly like I
37208s	respect the fact that they're still just
37210s	making good plays right because they
37212s	must be tired it's a long weekend for
37214s	them tons of pressure and mentally
37217s	taxing gameplay of priest
37219s	so I'm just massively impressed we're
37222s	even still will go in here
37224s	yeah and the players too Raven and the
37226s	players
37227s	the show slash players and not us at all
37230s	because we we we're rubbish humongous
37232s	owl that sounds like damage on a stick
37237s	oh
37238s	chicken
37240s	uh-huh
37243s	that's a foul
37245s	yeah it's more minions right for zyrella
37250s	yeah it absolutely is uh and Barrel or
37254s	amulet amulet probably
37256s	yeah
37258s	the only small though these little
37259s	ambulance they don't have much trading
37261s	ability anymore yeah but three Mana
37263s	maker thing uh I think the play I think
37265s	dead draw would love that
37271s	[Music]
37272s	okay
37273s	with dead drawers actually got lethal
37275s	outs at any point soon well he's on heel
37277s	right this time with zyrella so
37280s	yeah
37281s	another word on death does too
37285s	to try and hunt for silence here because
37287s	if bunny Hopper doesn't have any healing
37293s	and yes I realize what you say about
37294s	it's always there wait wait TJ's pulled
37296s	me up on you don't need another vision
37298s	of course you don't you just play the
37299s	same one yeah it doesn't wouldn't he use
37301s	the uh if he wanted to clear
37305s	have to hunt for silence right
37308s	no I don't think he walks in a scene
37311s	I guess well what I mean is if he hunts
37314s	for a silence and misses
37316s	he's got nothing right
37319s	[Music]
37322s	can't you just clean the scene just get
37325s	rid of yes they get redrawn but that one
37328s	turn appealed could be the difference
37331s	okay I guess no I guess they're just
37333s	saying look it takes six funny heels for
37336s	uh what 12 at a minimum I guess more
37338s	with the hero power but next turn
37340s	they're gonna finish only three right
37342s	are we 23 attack
37346s	what are you cleaning
37347s	it's infused isn't it oh it's infused it
37350s	must be infused to six or less yeah yeah
37352s	it must be infused by now I I would hope
37355s	so with the amount of time that that uh
37357s	yeah yeah I'm having a moment okay it's
37359s	okay it's okay excuse is Gonna Come
37362s	thick and fast in a minute but yeah
37363s	having just having a moment is irelia
37365s	still available for Bonnie he's been
37367s	very patient with this zirella he's
37369s	already pulled one Whirlpool out of uh
37371s	that draws hand but you will be aware
37374s	that there's a second one and he
37376s	definitely wants to wait with the
37378s	zyrella and and but he might not get the
37380s	choice right he's on six next turn so
37383s	you might just have to call it a day and
37385s	the big deal here is when this cyrilla
37387s	has gone this is why I've been trying to
37388s	wait for it I think you have two when
37390s	the zarella is gone then the whirlpool
37392s	becomes pretty good for dead drill
37394s	right which is why I think when he's
37396s	been trying to get the the whirlpool
37398s	played yeah to then play zyrella because
37401s	then he just gets ahead yeah it's been a
37403s	game of cat and mouse that part of the
37405s	game I have tracked
37406s	with all my confusion about many parts
37408s	of this game some of this I think we've
37410s	got the theme pretty much right cat and
37412s	mouse or plague spreaders and naru
37421s	it's a reminder for those who have just
37424s	joined in in the middle of this Marathon
37425s	it is the best of five but it will end
37428s	up three two at the very most
37432s	foreign
37445s	gets one back
37447s	yeah interesting though right because
37449s	that's
37451s	good
37452s	but again it kind of means that draw
37454s	can't play Whirlpool seven fatigue we
37457s	need to keep an eye sorry yeah which I
37459s	can't work out who that's good for if
37461s	dead drug can't play whirlpool
37464s	it's very very very tricky but yeah you
37469s	are right the fatigue is definitely
37470s	stacking up on bunny Hopper he does get
37472s	to push a good chunk of damage himself
37474s	now yes oh
37476s	most importantly what does he do about
37478s	the madars on the other side
37480s	he still has his eye better which is he
37483s	now doesn't have his eyeballer
37487s	and this is where the game will finally
37489s	start to resolve asterisk vision
37502s	this is always going to happen in the
37503s	final we're always going to get this
37504s	match Raven weren't we yeah
37507s	Scotland TJ stitching us up I don't mind
37510s	we're gonna cast about two hours of
37511s	finals it's fine
37513s	you know bunny Hoppers had to pull the
37515s	trigger on the zyrella healing up all
37518s	the way back up to full getting all the
37520s	shuffles in but now dead draw gets to
37522s	decide okay by you know one is this the
37526s	last Cyrillic too is this now the time
37529s	to just say Okay Whirlpool go because
37532s	dead draw does have the fragment in hand
37538s	then the problem happens if like Bonnie
37541s	just has a drown after all that it's
37543s	then he gets it and then they just fight
37546s	those Wars forever
37547s	I think that this exact matchup Was Made
37550s	For You Raven
37551s	there's infinite paths to talk about
37554s	yeah
37556s	infinite Burns had to be priest and you
37559s	haven't got subtle to Reign you in so
37560s	I'm just gonna let you do it
37562s	um
37566s	and the devour on the meter we've seen
37570s	this before on the other side
37575s	best way making space
37578s	yeah I mean a part of it if they can't
37580s	get drowned they're definitely looking
37581s	for dumpable cards right there's a drone
37584s	drone number 87 million 265 312 of the
37589s	event
37590s	okay okay so every drown he gets now
37593s	he's gonna
37596s	oh
37598s	it's gonna delay the dead draw to
37602s	Whirlpool himself right I mean he's yeah
37605s	he's getting in front with these um
37606s	Midas now
37611s	he trades one push his face into the
37614s	other looks good
37619s	[Music]
37622s	definitely Epic Sax time
37625s	the problem here is uh just to bring it
37628s	up
37629s	it needs it sounds very weird to say but
37632s	deadron needs to play for a win here
37634s	because there is a chance we hit turn
37638s	timer yeah and if that happens funny
37642s	will win the series so into the
37644s	tournament yeah yeah yeah so the onus is
37646s	on Deadpool here to like try and win so
37650s	and that says something that does not
37652s	come up in Hearthstone very often in its
37654s	longer long history but it's a it's
37657s	definitely a thing so something that uh
37659s	you know we have to be mindful of here
37660s	if bunny just holds on and holds on and
37663s	holds on through the turn timer he will
37665s	get there
37666s	yep
37668s	and I'll be honest I have got no clue
37670s	what term we're on
37672s	um
37673s	one million how many drones do you
37676s	reckon they've played each like eight
37677s	each
37680s	I wouldn't overly argue with that yeah I
37683s	wouldn't maybe not come not a flat
37685s	number you know even number each but uh
37687s	yeah yeah I'm not gonna overly argue
37689s	with eight each that's a so eight points
37691s	into fatigue on top of the eight extra
37693s	cards you've drawn sort of 16 something
37697s	turns into fatigue minus two or three
37699s	for card draw but most the card draw
37701s	hasn't been used 12.
37703s	12 Cards into fatigue
37707s	it's Lorinda I'm just gonna accept
37708s	whatever number you give me
37710s	yeah
37711s	12 in for a fatigue yeah of course uh
37715s	with the turn timer if the turn timer
37717s	hits basically the ruling is that both
37719s	players get a win
37722s	but as you can see that would put bunny
37723s	up to three and they'd draw up to two
37726s	therefore buddy wins the best of five uh
37729s	just in case you're wondering why buddy
37730s	would win in that scenario
37734s	because I think it then goes to health
37736s	totals if it's 2-2 when that happens
37738s	it's something something Health totals I
37740s	think I'm not even gonna swear to that
37741s	because it doesn't matter
37743s	their job finally had to use cleaning
37745s	the scene though just to be able to
37746s	clear everything up
37748s	just getting a little bit too much
37754s	well Shadowood ruin is the most
37755s	pointless card he's just sticky with
37757s	these on deaths for two damage just in
37759s	case somehow this all is something right
37761s	like which is ticking up it's it's
37763s	definitely something yeah Bunny's gonna
37765s	miss one of the medals because of the
37767s	hand well of course it
37770s	oh amulet and then there's another
37772s	amulet as well it all starts again
37776s	so if the turn timer hits 60 or whatever
37780s	it is then we get obviously a type what
37782s	happens if you just gets so many death
37783s	rattles that the game just never ends
37785s	because it has to process five bajillion
37788s	death battles and honestly I will just
37790s	get up walk off and let someone else
37793s	deal with it you've done it before
37795s	oops
37798s	yeah like I said these amulets for me
37800s	were the cards that were really uh
37803s	pushing in bunny Harbor's favor as far
37806s	as I could tell just because he gets to
37808s	do this right and now dead draw once
37810s	again has to decide is now the time do I
37812s	Whirlpool now and then we know bunny has
37815s	another amulet although I'm not sure
37816s	what the other amulet's on
37819s	because I think he just bought it and
37821s	it's on one it might on one and he can't
37823s	really trade the bullet here because
37824s	there's overdraw right and mess up so
37828s	yeah he'd eat a lot of fatigue he's I
37830s	think he's eating either nine or ten
37831s	this turn
37834s	but he is making 8 000 Midas a turn so
37837s	it's kind of did you say that he's
37839s	actually only really making uh what four
37841s	yeah
37842s	oh no it's making zero right because
37844s	he's burned again
37847s	because he's yeah
37851s	preventing the
37854s	fatigue yep
37863s	how are you dead was shaking his head
37865s	with a smirk he's like why are we
37867s	playing this game oh yeah a hundred
37868s	thousand dollars I remember now let's
37869s	carry on
37870s	you're too kind
37872s	with the heel there from the uh
37874s	apothecary
37875s	and Mistress of mixtures sorry not
37877s	apothecary
37880s	it's just of concoctions oh okay
37885s	all the grave for bunny probably can
37888s	hold this right if he wants something a
37890s	little bit more impactful
37892s	I think so
37899s	I'm getting an urge to check the deck
37901s	tracker not because
37903s	um I want to know what's in a deck
37904s	because I want to know what it says
37908s	oh
37912s	I am out of cards it's reached absurdity
37916s	hasn't it
37918s	it's downright silly
37921s	[Music]
37925s	and Bunny's doing a great job here of
37928s	just holding off the fatigue and winning
37930s	on board like this is just it feels like
37934s	some kind of like Exodia end game State
37937s	doesn't it where bunnies just sat here
37938s	like right well you're now taking
37940s	fatigue and I'm taking zero so I'm
37942s	unlucky
37943s	yeah what you call it explodia yeah it's
37947s	so slow
37949s	there's so much at stake
37952s	and I think bunny Hopper holding off on
37955s	the zirella was so huge I actually now
37957s	wonder is it beneficial
37960s	but ah no no
37962s	you might as well say that I've used
37964s	every single word I understand in the
37965s	whole of the language you might as well
37966s	say whatever it was it's just there's no
37969s	points it's just wrong okay it's not
37972s	that it was a silly idea it's it was
37973s	just literally incorrect what I was
37976s	gonna say so yeah I mean never mind I've
37979s	gone past like actual truthful words
37981s	about 20 sentences ago I'm now just into
37983s	things I can say about this game of
37985s	hearthstone that might be right
37987s	occasionally
37988s	like that was an egg
37991s	there you go my statement
37999s	I know what he wants to do as well could
38000s	actually go like burning blade and then
38002s	Shadow would devour on a different
38004s	minion to proc the acolyte if he really
38006s	wants to
38009s	he wants a five eight taunt on board
38011s	it's all about this Mida management at
38014s	the moment isn't it
38016s	that isn't even meant to be a pun but
38017s	yeah
38019s	foreign
38030s	as long as he possibly can
38038s	I decided he wants some space
38040s	okay
38041s	wants extra damage yeah because he's not
38044s	damaging quickly enough I think that's
38045s	the point
38050s	hey and again it's difficult oh amulet
38054s	yeah it's difficult to just say oh
38057s	someone's winning or going to win
38059s	because every turn visions of Darkness
38062s	changes what could happen yeah
38066s	Visions again and I'll ask I like the
38068s	amulet here into another play Express
38071s	there okay well that's a lot of bold
38073s	presents actually for dead draw now it
38075s	is
38077s	bunnies burning through these Midas so
38081s	obviously it's stopping him from dying
38083s	but also
38084s	it's stopping him from having Midas on
38086s	the board
38089s	yeah I'm Gonna Do The Shuffle Now I will
38091s	say bunny Hoppers late game setup and
38094s	style in this matchup has been very
38097s	impressive I definitely think their draw
38099s	has been on the uh sort of like playing
38102s	uh sort of the response game and Bunny
38105s	Hop has been set in the pace because
38106s	choosing you know holding all these
38108s	extra Madara in the deck and then you
38109s	know over drawing to keep fatigue away
38111s	uh having those uh the amulet ready to
38114s	go to proc the tradables uh saving the
38117s	zirella till the very very very very
38119s	very last moment to seemingly put him
38122s	ahead in the game I do think bunny
38124s	Hoppers execution have been strung
38127s	yeah they're clearly both incredibly
38130s	well prepared for this matchup uh We've
38132s	we've seen
38133s	both of them play other people and they
38135s	the both times they just look like they
38137s	knew exactly what they were doing
38138s	compared to their opponents so where are
38140s	we now dead draw hitting fatigue League
38141s	seven
38143s	and does not have any healing apart from
38145s	this fragment which is uh you know it's
38147s	off the door in a box
38150s	yeah the Shadowood on there and then
38153s	Shadowood on there
38154s	uh-huh
38156s	hey that's a huge AOE claim
38160s	yep it's one that he's gathered over the
38162s	the course of time and that's going to
38164s	be a fatigue I believe for bunny Hopper
38166s	it's 10 or 11 I'm not sure which might
38169s	might be nine he sort of didn't fatigue
38171s	for a while when he was fatiguing yeah
38173s	I'm gonna say 10 just because I feel
38175s	like saying 10. I'm gonna say 11. the
38177s	Drew he drew amulet I forgot there was
38179s	an amulet in the deck still it's gonna
38181s	Shuffle that back in once more midat
38184s	again and this amulet is just a stop Gap
38186s	to make sure he doesn't completely
38188s	fatigue he's been doing so much work he
38190s	has done so much work
38193s	foreign
38195s	devour to clean up at least one of these
38198s	plague spreaders
38203s	in
38205s	undying allies into play spreader now I
38210s	think so
38212s	he's gonna Shuffle at least just to get
38214s	the last one out well that's one M okay
38217s	draw next turn before fatigue kicks in
38219s	mind
38223s	and the fatigues back there's the
38225s	fatigue
38226s	right
38227s	most of the stuff's open we're into
38229s	fatigue it's basically just a shootout
38231s	at this point to say that
38233s	but if these Midas get cleared and then
38237s	come back
38239s	it's nearly over for dead draw and oh so
38243s	so close that draw needs something huge
38246s	to pull him out here and body off but
38247s	you can see the stretch just trying to
38251s	just say come on let this be over both
38254s	players are played extremely well but I
38256s	do think bunny Hopper's plan is just
38258s	solid
38262s	I think that's it I think bunny knows he
38265s	sees the the emote or at least he is the
38267s	emote from dead draw and unless I'm
38269s	missing something that is going to be it
38271s	that draw gonna go out on his own terms
38273s	and Bunny Hopper it's your 2022
38276s	Hearthstone world champion and look at
38280s	what it means to him he can't even
38282s	believe it oh he's been in the game a
38286s	long time we've seen him from the very
38289s	beginning I remember the first time I
38291s	saw Bonnie Hopper playing a tournament
38293s	and we knew he was good then and he's
38295s	only gotten better truly one of the
38298s	greats uh to to play the game and just
38300s	incredible moment for him we know him as
38303s	a friend you know outside of hearthstone
38305s	as well and it just means so much to him
38307s	we know how much work he's put in how
38309s	much time he's put in and just how good
38311s	he is and again I think this final was
38314s	fantastic Bunny versus dead draw
38316s	couldn't have asked for more but a huge
38318s	huge congratulations to bunny album
38321s	absolute shivers down the spine moment
38323s	there seeing bunny finally show some
38325s	emotions he's not the most emotional
38327s	like outwardly person that you'll ever
38329s	see in Hearthstone so seeing it's like
38330s	doubles it up uh he was one of the ones
38332s	who was there right at the start in the
38334s	first championship not the first world
38336s	championships for the first the first
38338s	year that Hearthstone had Championship
38339s	events then had World Championships at
38341s	the end of those this year he thought he
38344s	was done like he was down to the last
38346s	chance of the last chance had to put in
38349s	various finishes in Masters tours to
38350s	even have a shot at it all got through
38354s	at the very last opportunity in the end
38357s	and here he is
38360s	world champion of hearthstone somebody
38363s	who
38364s	definitely there is a strong case for
38367s	could be the best player of all time
38369s	over you know extended periods years and
38372s	years and years absolutely amazing I'm
38376s	really pleased to see it for him
38377s	obviously sad for General but honestly
38379s	I'm happy for dead draw to get second
38380s	place anyway and
38382s	Bernie Hopper what an absolute amazing
38387s	year an amazing career yeah a huge win
38390s	for bunny Hopper and a huge win for Team
38392s	Liquid as well like you said I think you
38394s	know the the representatives have been
38396s	not only having a fantastic year outside
38398s	of the you know the world championship
38400s	sort of tour and everything but in other
38402s	tournaments as well so again just
38403s	another huge congratulations to bunny
38405s	what a weekend Lorinda what an event
38408s	what again looking back from day one
38411s	when we just saw what the lineup of what
38413s	the groups looked like I was like I
38414s	don't even know you're supposed to just
38415s	pick who you think's gonna win here
38417s	because the field was so stacked but I
38420s	think the way it played out even though
38422s	my prediction didn't get there I think
38424s	it played out how it should have in the
38425s	end oh my prediction got there oh yeah I
38428s	shouldn't have said anything picked him
38430s	I I totally just friendship picked it
38432s	was like yeah Bunny Hop because I have
38434s	the whole year and the whole of last
38435s	year I've avoided picking people that I
38438s	know well personally so that I don't
38440s	jinx them not because I think that's
38441s	superstitious because it's unlucky to be
38443s	superstitious but so that they don't
38445s	think he's being and today you know what
38447s	I'm just gonna do it I'm just gonna pick
38449s	bunny Hopper and he got there yeah and
38452s	then I did it and the best and again
38454s	even though you can think of what you
38457s	want of these priest mirror matches
38459s	right and the way you know this was the
38460s	last game of the World Championship but
38462s	I think you know looking at what we saw
38465s	there throughout that whole game
38466s	especially the last game bunny Hopper
38468s	was just always felt one step ahead the
38472s	plan was there he executed extremely
38474s	well there was just the Mulligan start
38476s	off with was you know helped him out a
38478s	lot but holding the zirellas for as long
38480s	like much longer than dead draw managed
38482s	to planning those Madar overdraws so he
38485s	did that fatigue he was actually losing
38487s	to didn't actually end up burning him in
38490s	the end was huge because we were saying
38492s	I mean we kept jumping back and forth as
38494s	to who we thought was going to win but
38496s	Bonnie started getting really behind on
38497s	that fatigue and he then just said no
38500s	it's okay I know I can heal and delay it
38502s	but here's my other plan and it was to
38504s	stack the hand so that the fatigue burn
38507s	wasn't actually damaging him and I think
38509s	that those things just added up over a
38511s	time and it just got him that extra step
38513s	ahead what a series honestly Lorinda
38516s	like even though this was this one game
38518s	felt like a series in itself just what a
38520s	way to end the world championship yeah
38522s	and it's I'm slightly disappointed
38524s	myself for not knowing all those
38525s	interactions but honestly we've seen
38526s	three of those and nobody apart from
38528s	Bunny Hop and Deadpool have known all
38530s	the interactions there's been so much
38531s	there but knowing that that's how the
38533s	super deep fatigue one goes and that
38535s	you've got to fill your hand in all that
38537s	we haven't seen it go super deep fatigue
38539s	in the other ones because Bunny Hop and
38541s	Deadpool have just won it before he gets
38543s	there but looks to me and I don't know
38545s	like they practice with each other and
38546s	they knew that that was how it panned
38548s	out looks like he knew he had to plug
38550s	the gaps and he had it all planned all
38552s	along again congratulations to both of
38554s	them for putting on such a great show
38556s	but also obviously congratulations to
38558s	bunny hopper for winning it and it looks
38560s	like we can see what he has to say
38561s	because I believe bunny is ready to join
38564s	us so we'll just double check wait for
38565s	him to appear on screen uh there we go
38568s	buddy mate congratulations uh what how
38572s	are you feeling right now we saw the
38573s	emotion on camera but if you've just got
38576s	any words for how you're even feeling at
38577s	this point
38578s	I mean I didn't think this this was ever
38581s	gonna happen so
38583s	um yeah I'm very emotional obviously
38587s	as you can see but um
38589s	yeah
38590s	that's also just my personality I built
38593s	a little bit too close to water as yeah
38596s	as as we say in in German I don't know
38599s	if this expression holds in English as
38601s	well but people that cry way too
38603s	much but uh
38606s	you know what if there's ever a moment
38608s	buddy it's now mate and I just want to
38610s	ask like does the fact that you know we
38612s	know you've been competing for a very
38614s	long time you've been up there in the
38615s	list of just fantastic players for years
38618s	and years now uh do you think you know
38620s	this was just the moment you think that
38622s	this was just the point where all all
38624s	the work really came together do you
38626s	think your experience really helped you
38628s	get to this point
38629s	[Music]
38632s	um
38633s	yeah I think so it's just been a lot
38635s	recently you know it's like uh Russia
38637s	changes I made some posts about my
38638s	future
38640s	um where I have no idea where I'm going
38642s	and um
38644s	I I do think this experience is paid off
38646s	I think like for most of this year I've
38650s	played really really really good
38652s	Hearthstone
38654s	um
38655s	I at the last championship and at the
38657s	start of this tournament I had some
38659s	really dumb mistakes which I I had a
38661s	missed click I had some super stupid
38663s	mistakes that I I still feel after like
38667s	what is it eight years no six years of
38669s	competing at the start of the
38671s	tournaments I still like I I still get
38674s	nervous I don't sleep well and
38675s	everything but
38677s	um as the days progressed I think the
38680s	play got a little bit cleaner and I'm
38682s	super happy
38684s	and what did it feel like for you going
38686s	up against dead draw in the finals I
38689s	think it was such a crazy finals with
38691s	the level of players we had in this
38693s	tournament I think the finals could have
38695s	been any of the two players but you
38698s	versus dead during the finals what was
38700s	that like for you
38701s	I mean I thought it was pretty funny
38703s	um
38705s	I wrote to him no I'm not going to say
38708s	this
38708s	um
38710s	well you know we're teammates and we're
38713s	both um like our competitive contracts
38715s	are ending
38717s	um so it's just fitting that we make
38719s	first and second place together
38721s	um
38722s	I don't know second time world's second
38725s	time the lineup that we built was
38728s	I think
38729s	really really good I mean first and
38731s	second place this time second third
38733s	place last time
38736s	um I think it just speaks to
38739s	um like the prep group and like also the
38743s	people I communicate with and then the
38745s	the level of preparation
38748s	and is that you know speaking of that
38750s	bunny is there anyone specifically you
38751s	know any shout outs you just want to
38753s	give to players that have helped you
38754s	prepare or whether it's in deck like you
38756s	know lineup construction or in other
38758s	ways you can give any shout outs you
38760s	want now mate
38761s	yeah I'll do one completely harsh
38763s	unrelated child at first
38766s	um that one goes out to my wife for
38768s	indulging me when I go to super prep
38770s	mode and I just uh stop really
38773s	functioning in other modes so I wanna
38776s	thank her uh first and foremost and then
38780s	let's get to the Hearthstone players uh
38782s	the people that helped me prep this time
38783s	most of all Casey and Dedra
38787s	um helped me so much with lineup
38789s	building and prep games and then
38792s	um two other people helped me quite a
38793s	lot in terms of like just prepping
38795s	prepping prepping uh just taking time
38797s	out of their day and that was Bruto and
38800s	Vira that helped me uh quite a bit so I
38803s	want to thank those also like
38806s	um
38807s	it's just amazing these people put a lot
38809s	of their own time into just helping us
38812s	when they have absolutely nothing at
38814s	stake and I appreciate that a lot
38817s	because it's far from
38821s	um now I know the Norwegian the German
38823s	word but not the English one it's uh if
38826s	something is for taken for granted you
38828s	know anyway uh yes I I think it's not
38832s	something I can expect from anyone and I
38834s	I appreciate that
38837s	yeah it's um it's huge and I think as
38839s	you've already mentioned like that that
38841s	just rough group of players has done it
38844s	time and time again so I think you're
38846s	completely right you know the help
38847s	surrounding you definitely uh helps a
38849s	ton has got to where you are but you
38851s	know again I'm just so happy for you
38853s	mate I'm so glad that you won it do you
38855s	just have any final words just anything
38857s	before we let you go and celebrate
38861s	um if blizzard wants to hire me
38863s	um my contact is in my now it's no
38867s	secret that I've actually I applied for
38869s	a design position a few times so you
38871s	know shout out there and um well you've
38874s	just added something else to your resume
38875s	right so it's fine world champion now
38878s	easy but I have a world champion on
38880s	their team now there you go
38883s	could do that no anyway
38885s	um I appreciate it a lot thank you very
38887s	much
38889s	oh thanks a lot Bunny and again
38890s	congratulations it was an amazing
38892s	tournament amazing final and uh yeah go
38894s	and celebrate my friend go and celebrate
38897s	thanks
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38900s	and there you go bunny Hopper world
38903s	champion and I would just say it's about
38906s	time uh Lorinda I think you were back
38909s	with me but you know any uh any comments
38911s	about the interview just happy to hear
38913s	from bunny just happy honestly I said
38916s	sort of what I had to say before the
38918s	interview about I could repeat it but
38920s	he's very very deserving of this and the
38923s	things he said this year has been one of
38924s	his best years he's played amazing
38925s	Hearthstone they've always had the best
38927s	lineups put together all that stuff not
38930s	much else to say apart from that uh
38932s	fantastic scenes here at the Hearthstone
38935s	World a championship yeah so it's been a
38937s	crazy weekend it's been a long weekend
38939s	with some amazing matches with some of
38941s	the best players in the world but that
38944s	means it's coming to an end Lorinda any
38946s	final comments from you before we wrap
38948s	it up for another year no absolutely
38950s	fantastic weekend I put in a bit of time
38953s	to sort of spam this over the last few
38955s	days when I was streaming just sort of
38957s	counted it down and it's lived up to
38959s	everything I hoped it would be and nice
38961s	to finally sit here at the final it sort
38963s	of feels like I've achieved something by
38965s	getting to the final table so yeah
38967s	really looking forward to next year and
38970s	what we've got but for now that's it
38972s	just great to be here well as usual
38974s	everyone thanks a lot for watching we
38976s	hope you had a fantastic time and uh you
38979s	know we appreciate all the production
38980s	stuff all the players of course turning
38982s	up and getting ready for these long days
38984s	and they're trying their hardest on this
38985s	one another huge congratulations to
38988s	bunny Hopper and as always it's an honor
38990s	to bring you guys the world at
38991s	championships thanks a lot for watching
38993s	and we'll see you next time
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39188s	Hearthstone Grand Masters world champion
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[2022] 2022 Hearthstone World Championship | Day 3

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