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hello and welcome everybody to EMA's |
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last chance qualifier for the world |
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championship tournament I'm joined today |
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by cter gems my name is fresh Lobster we |
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are super excited to bring you the |
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action after the apack tournament has |
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just concluded and we saw a lot of |
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creativity there a lot of variety of |
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decks making it very far and the |
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tournament winning lineup by nnn3 |
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consisted of a porro king deck as well |
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as TMO puff cap some serious craziness |
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going on there and gems are you |
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expecting some similar creativity from |
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from our EMA players today I sure hope |
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so it was a fantastic uh showing from |
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APAC just showing us the possibilities |
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of what a last chance qualifier can do |
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people from all rank distributions |
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showing up here and doing fantastically |
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and showing that it's not over until you |
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try for your last attempt and moving on |
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for today we're going to have a look at |
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what the format for the tourat for the |
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tournament is going to be there are 64 |
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players as usual we are using what is |
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known canonically as Riot lock where |
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they can bring three different uh decks |
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with no duplicated Champions and region |
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combinations they take turns to ban one |
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of the opponent's decks and then they |
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can't use it once they win with win with |
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it and there is a time limit on the |
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matches and everything is obviously a |
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best of three hopefully we'll see its |
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single elimination and we'll find out |
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who's going to be the |
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winner and moving on to the price pool |
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segment it's a bit special today because |
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there's no Direct Cash pricing in this |
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tournament and also there are no rra |
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points to be accumulated anymore doesn't |
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matter because most of the world |
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championship slots are already given |
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away what the people do compete here for |
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is first and second both get a direct |
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invitation to the world championship and |
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that implies they make at least $1,000 |
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in price money and they have a shot up |
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to the first place price of $ |
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30,000 us so still a lot on the line on |
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this tournament but it is highly unusual |
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because it's go big or go home you |
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either make it to the the grand finals |
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or you go home empty-handed and that |
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must put some special pressure onto |
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these |
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players yeah for for nearly all of them |
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I believe uh that have qualified here |
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for the top 64 they have to make it to |
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the top two I think there was maybe one |
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exception throughout all of it that has |
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a chot a shot with points potentially |
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when the the points cut off does happen |
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for ladder um in I think in a day or two |
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time but everyone else has to make it to |
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that top spot or that's it that's their |
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world's dreams gone for this year |
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and we are ready to jump into the |
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bracket to see our qualified players and |
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the matchup for today and we see sitting |
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at the very top of the bracket here rior |
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rex versus major Blazer our first |
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featured match of the stream of course |
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rior Rex being a fan favorite the |
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overwhelm God himself this should be a |
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very exciting one and I'm super curious |
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to see what kind of overwhelm spice |
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Ricker Rex is bringing this time around |
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yeah super happy to see some UK |
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representation there with arachnid and |
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Marshall and also one of my scrim |
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Partners jnb also qualifying here for |
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the top |
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64 really this bracket it's sad for me |
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to see CU everyone I want is on this |
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quarter so they're going to never to be |
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knock each other |
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out and it seems to be the curse of |
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these brackets I am noticing going with |
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a bit of bias towards looking at German |
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competitors here it's kind of under |
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represented this time around I just say |
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most of the German quality Grinders have |
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already qualified but still a bunch of |
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interesting names what I'm surprised by |
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is there are also a lot of to me at |
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least unknown names in this part of the |
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bracket which means that these open |
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qualifiers did fulfill their job and |
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kind of give everyone a chance and a |
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wild card to still make it into the |
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world championship on the very last |
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chance on the very last second yeah I |
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mean that's the beauty of a l chance |
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qualifier that's open to everyone right |
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you're going to have things like this |
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pop up it's an open field with t tons of |
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players uh being there and it's going to |
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be just surprising to see who makes it |
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who makes it all the way to the finals |
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it for all we know it could be a player |
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we haven't seen show uh themselves |
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throughout the entire year I think we |
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saw in apack I think I believe pimping |
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ho uh came out a lot sort of semi- |
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retirement went all the way to the |
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semi-finals yeah we did see some |
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legendary stor some Cinderella story |
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lines almost of people who still made it |
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into the world championship and I do |
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think the apack tournament or earlier |
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was a perfect example of this the winner |
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of the tournament ntnm 3 actually still |
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was in silver rank in this Legends of |
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fra ranked lad season but did impress |
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with a quality lineup and some quality |
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plays and therefore deservingly still |
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got a shot at glory at the world |
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championship going back to this bracket |
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there's one more matchup that I find |
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interesting that is Sonic holic versus |
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okabi Ace two names that pop up in the |
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ranked ladder quite consistently and |
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especially with Sonic holic very |
| 2217s |
consistent tournament grinder and top |
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cutter yeah they they've been around for |
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a long period of time as well in the |
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game have been consistently uh doing |
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well and hopefully we get to see some of |
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their matches later on but as it is with |
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the nature of these big tournaments |
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sometimes we don't end up catching them |
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and seeing what they've brought and |
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we're just going to have to hope they go |
| 2237s |
and win as many matches as possible |
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basically yep and moving on to the |
| 2242s |
bracket we do see okay here's a couple |
| 2245s |
of German familiar names and Timmy and |
| 2247s |
Trin uh a couple of great matchups as |
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well in for example vorti and shampu |
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shampu is one of the most consistent lad |
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finishers in EMA probably worldwide |
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pretty much always ranking top five at |
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the end of the season uh just next to |
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Teddy most of the time and then dhy also |
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someone who I actually played way back |
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in the open Beta of Legends of rera in |
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tournaments already and therefore just |
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bringing a ton of tournament experience |
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to the table Yeah and the the Italians |
| 2276s |
are also in full force here with broken |
| 2279s |
ball patat gener and S sastic fantastic |
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showing from them as well this season |
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normally we say it's the it's the |
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Germans but the Italians are coming in |
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full force this time moving on to the |
| 2289s |
next segment of the bracket we have a |
| 2292s |
bit more French representation here with |
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SEO another lad and tournament Beast |
| 2298s |
going up against Legacy of yon one of my |
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favorite usernames in ledgers of R Tera |
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also a consistent ladder and tournament |
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player apart from there I would say |
| 2307s |
there are a lot more wild cards in this |
| 2309s |
part of the bracket than usual a lot of |
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names I don't recognize but we'll see if |
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one of them can Prevail or if the tried |
| 2317s |
and tested and experienced tournament |
| 2318s |
Grinders can battle their way through |
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yeah just on that note body St one of |
| 2323s |
the player names there has mentioned um |
| 2325s |
was messaging me yesterday and they're |
| 2326s |
like I don't normally play the opens but |
| 2327s |
I wanted to for the cosmetics and I |
| 2329s |
accidentally Top Cut for day |
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two so this just shows you how open it |
| 2334s |
is right yeah another perfect example of |
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how everyone can go for the long shot |
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can go for the dream scenario and kind |
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of make it to the World Championship out |
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of nowhere and that is ultimately what |
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this whole year of Legends of Runa was |
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shaping up towards because this is the |
| 2352s |
prestige the premier tournament by far |
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the big biggest prize pool and this is |
| 2357s |
the main reason why everyone competed in |
| 2359s |
these tournaments in the first place was |
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to qualify for that world championship |
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yeah it's all to play for here and our |
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first match of the day it's going to be |
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major Blazer up against rior Rex and we |
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see the Zed Gwen coming out here from |
| 2373s |
major Blazer so Gwen Zed is one of the |
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sort of uh I I wouldn't I'd like to |
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wouldn't want to say it's an agro deck |
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but it's very more on the aggressive |
| 2379s |
front uh it's a deck that likes to high |
| 2381s |
rooll with playing the hall units |
| 2383s |
getting Gwen down trying to finish the |
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game off a lot sooner um than a lot of |
| 2387s |
other decks and just utilizing the |
| 2389s |
ephemerals that keep coming back to life |
| 2391s |
from the opulent foyer from Shark |
| 2393s |
chariots from and stuff like the |
| 2394s |
dragon's Ambush yeah and the Very |
| 2396s |
streamline deck list I'm not seeing any |
| 2398s |
spicy Tech choices there the next deck |
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screams spice a teimo kist this is |
| 2405s |
something I have personally not seen in |
| 2407s |
action yet it is going to try to go wide |
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in the early game with all of bandal |
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City's swarm support even tching in some |
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unusual cards like yordle Explorer and |
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paparo the great and as a topend |
| 2420s |
finisher jolani is going to try to |
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transform all of those small yordles |
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into something like 1818 overwhelming |
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units and go for a complete overwhelm |
| 2428s |
Overkill finish yeah and the final deck |
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here is the staple pick for I think a |
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lot of players um today it will be the |
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JAX on a very strong mid-range style |
| 2439s |
deck it's got or as the finisher but |
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it's got tons of tools and this is a |
| 2442s |
very spell heavy version of it running |
| 2445s |
one copy of sheries I've seen it's |
| 2447s |
running Bellow's breath as well um which |
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a lot of decks have cut so that's |
| 2451s |
interesting to see here from major |
| 2453s |
Blazer Jack or is the deck we probably |
| 2456s |
will see a lot of indeed it always comes |
| 2458s |
back for these top cuts and right away |
| 2460s |
we see it on the other side as well RoR |
| 2463s |
going with a triple battle Fury triple |
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bone Club bnk version only playing one |
| 2468s |
or that's something that's very peculiar |
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to me sacrificing some of that top end |
| 2473s |
for more Tempo and priority trying to |
| 2476s |
close out the game early round playing a |
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lot more three offs of those super |
| 2480s |
dangerous cards like sheries like white |
| 2482s |
claw ferocity and like battle Fury which |
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can just impact the game so much at |
| 2487s |
burst or Focus speed yeah and this is |
| 2490s |
the river darus list that he brought |
| 2492s |
yesterday um for the Swiss portion of |
| 2495s |
the day and he was messaging Us in chat |
| 2497s |
as well and he's like okay I didn't |
| 2499s |
really test this list and he just played |
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it but knowing R it's got battle Furies |
| 2503s |
if he's going to do well with it and |
| 2504s |
he's shown that he's able to do well |
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with it either way so still managed to |
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get that that clean 90 Sweep with this |
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deck and thought well it's good it was |
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good enough for yesterday I'm going to |
| 2513s |
bring it again today but there is one |
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thing I am widely surprised by and is to |
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only see two copies of battle Fury in |
| 2519s |
that deck I don't know what happened to |
| 2521s |
rior Rex he doesn't seem like the kind |
| 2522s |
of person to only bring eight battle |
| 2525s |
Furies to the last chance qualifier Top |
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Cut but things do return to Norm here |
| 2529s |
with a triple battle Fury B Nar Sani |
| 2533s |
deck this is definitely a bit of a wild |
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one one of Bard is not something we |
| 2537s |
often see this does allow for all of the |
| 2540s |
Fred or overwhelm to kick in and the key |
| 2542s |
card here I think is Reva the L keeper |
| 2544s |
trying to buff her through for example |
| 2548s |
these Chimes and then going crazy on |
| 2551s |
Deck Buffs and overwhelms and we are |
| 2553s |
about ready to hop into the action here |
| 2555s |
rior rex versus major Blazer game |
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one yeah and we are in turn four here |
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and it is the Gwen Zed left up by being |
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played by Major Blazer and I'm not sure |
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which overwhelmed deck the ja on um |
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version with the weapons so okay this is |
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looking very interesting the hate spikes |
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come down here for major Blazer looking |
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to try and remove the combat cook |
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here and rorex only has the sher's |
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option where as we do see in the |
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graphics the bands are coming in the Teo |
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jalani deck was getting banned we're not |
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going to see Teo jalani action that is |
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sad because it looked like the most |
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offbeat and unusual deck here but rior |
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just identifying their lineup's |
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weaknesses correctly going for that ban |
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and jumping into the action major Blazer |
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currently using that hate Spike trying |
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to protect the Z and going for a Shadow |
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shift to keep that Prodigy alive toate |
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more hollowed units a bit later on down |
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the line yeah not only does it keep the |
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unit alive it removes the 31 with tough |
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from rior Rex's side so that basically |
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stops R so yeah the one thing you have |
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to know when you're playing these over |
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against these overwhelm style decks uh |
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you are very much beholden to how many |
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overwhelm units they have on the board |
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and how heavy they can swing at you with |
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so having having those removed means |
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that stuff like the bone clubs the the |
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battle Furies lose a lot of their |
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effectiveness so it's fantastic to those |
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can but speaking of overwhelm units |
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rorex can generate to with the wi claw |
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ferocity although no direct overwhelm |
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units in hand rorex does have access to |
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overwhelm so far major Blazer making |
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like for a very aggressive deck Zed Gwen |
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has Premier removal options because it |
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forces the opponent to block awkwardly a |
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lot of the time and major blazers that |
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can add combat tricks like Spike like |
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Shadow shift like Mark of the ice on top |
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to really go for some favorable traits |
| 2671s |
and that's what we're seeing in full |
| 2672s |
effect here rior boards has shrunk quite |
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a bit and major Blazer currently is on |
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the gas paddle in this |
| 2680s |
game yeah however major rior Rex does |
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have the opportunity of having like the |
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big blowout turns potentially so um and |
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there's no real ways of stopping that in |
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awen Zed so as long as they can get an |
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extra turn where they can survive rior |
| 2694s |
Rex can look to try and set it up on the |
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foll turn with like the wild CLA |
| 2698s |
ferocity potentially playing one this |
| 2700s |
turn with a battle Fury next turn but in |
| 2703s |
this case going just most likely what |
| 2705s |
will be the Jack's level up but as we |
| 2707s |
can see we'll be for to use the here |
| 2710s |
speaking of level UPS though major |
| 2712s |
Blazer just going for a straight up |
| 2714s |
cheater move and putting elusive on the |
| 2716s |
Zed as if he wasn't already tough enough |
| 2718s |
to deal with usually The Omen hog would |
| 2721s |
be a good option here to block the Z and |
| 2723s |
still go for a favorable trade major |
| 2724s |
Blazer deciding though whether or not to |
| 2726s |
pull the omen hog with this sapling or |
| 2729s |
to pull the ja to slow down RoR re's |
| 2733s |
game plan further and to prevent that |
| 2735s |
Jax from leveling on the next attack so |
| 2737s |
rior Rex now left with the option to |
| 2739s |
potentially block that Z with the omen |
| 2741s |
Hawk the hero of the yeah I think you |
| 2744s |
potentially go for it because if they |
| 2745s |
use hit Spike on Z I mean not hit Spike |
| 2747s |
if they use like Mark of the on Z you're |
| 2749s |
not going to be too upset cuz Z still |
| 2751s |
dies um you get to remove it the only |
| 2753s |
downside R has here is what we see here |
| 2756s |
contemplating is that he needs a unit |
| 2759s |
alive at least one for the wild claw |
| 2761s |
Frosty or for the ble Fury to have any |
| 2764s |
effect that is a great point the thing |
| 2767s |
is even on like rior Rex's next attack |
| 2769s |
is not going to look scary enough the |
| 2771s |
wildclaw does not push enough damage and |
| 2773s |
that means major Blazer probably can |
| 2776s |
expect to attack one more time later |
| 2779s |
down the line tries to keep the the |
| 2781s |
Jacks alive to keep the win condition |
| 2783s |
alive to have more over units on board |
| 2785s |
and that's where they Mar of the is |
| 2786s |
comes through and that's where the Z |
| 2788s |
level up also comes through while J |
| 2791s |
still died this is looking very good for |
| 2794s |
major Blazer here yeah that's very much |
| 2796s |
a scenario where I think us as CS have |
| 2799s |
the cast division moment right so we we |
| 2802s |
know there's a mark of the Isles um rior |
| 2805s |
probably went okay look I can't really |
| 2807s |
play around Mark of the is my wi con |
| 2808s |
next turn is to get uh maybe wild Co |
| 2811s |
ferocity or battle Fury and then attack |
| 2813s |
and get enough damage to try and push |
| 2815s |
for uh Le |
| 2817s |
and took the risk and obviously got |
| 2819s |
punished a little bit there for it um |
| 2821s |
and on this turn I mean if you're if |
| 2824s |
you're major Blazer you can probably |
| 2826s |
just take 12 here yeah if I recall |
| 2829s |
correctly there's no way of dealing |
| 2831s |
direct damage to the Nexus in rior Rex's |
| 2833s |
deck rior going for a bit of a |
| 2835s |
psychological scare here just jamming |
| 2837s |
the battle fury on threatening to put |
| 2839s |
major Blazer down to one HP and that's |
| 2841s |
exactly what happens but major Blazer is |
| 2843s |
going to be like okay you cannot stop my |
| 2845s |
hand turn you probably can't even stop |
| 2847s |
the dragon Ambush this turn well I guess |
| 2850s |
the omen hog does have a block rre |
| 2852s |
sitting at 5 HP right now but the |
| 2855s |
onslaught of the stage hands next turn |
| 2858s |
is probably going to be |
| 2859s |
unstoppable major Blazer Els to go for |
| 2861s |
the open attack here resummoning the zad |
| 2866s |
Shadow and the hall unit and that is all |
| 2869s |
she wrote four game one Z Gwen going for |
| 2871s |
an explosive start and an explosive |
| 2873s |
finish and taking the victory here yeah |
| 2876s |
it's one of those Decks that is |
| 2877s |
explosives as you said but also has as |
| 2880s |
we've seen countless times throughout |
| 2882s |
the last couple weeks when players have |
| 2883s |
been testing it and playing a lot of the |
| 2885s |
the bigger issues for bringing this deck |
| 2887s |
that people have faced is that sometimes |
| 2889s |
it can just lose to itself uh which is a |
| 2891s |
bit unfortunate but again if you feel |
| 2893s |
comfortable in it if you feel like the |
| 2895s |
you got the heart of the cards so to |
| 2897s |
speak it's one of those Decks that will |
| 2900s |
uh for the most part destroy the Open |
| 2901s |
Fields should you get a decent start |
| 2903s |
with it and that's exactly what we s |
| 2906s |
from major Blazer now it looks like |
| 2908s |
we're going to see the mirror match I'm |
| 2910s |
not quite sure if it's a mirror or if |
| 2911s |
rorex is playing The Bard version of the |
| 2914s |
overl deck we will see that in a second |
| 2916s |
so far all fard cards and it is the |
| 2919s |
mirror match interestingly enough I |
| 2921s |
would say RoR Rex is probably slightly |
| 2923s |
favored here because of the three of |
| 2925s |
battle Fury Three of sheries and so on |
| 2928s |
all of the combat tricks are very useful |
| 2930s |
the only thing that is bit scary is only |
| 2932s |
having one or in that mirror yeah |
| 2934s |
there's a few other cards that will have |
| 2936s |
to potenti play around such as the harsh |
| 2939s |
winds can potentially be a big blow out |
| 2942s |
in a turn so obviously it's is a oneoff |
| 2944s |
so most likely R will not play around it |
| 2947s |
depending on the situation but it is one |
| 2949s |
of those cards where if you don't |
| 2950s |
respect it in in such a board Centric |
| 2953s |
match like this it could just end your |
| 2955s |
tournament right there and then and both |
| 2957s |
players have decent openings but major |
| 2959s |
Blazer I would say is very close to the |
| 2961s |
nuts with the omen Haw with the |
| 2963s |
apprentice and then buffing up the out |
| 2966s |
weapon that is so nasty to deal with and |
| 2968s |
if major Blazer should get an or online |
| 2970s |
on turn seven this is going to be |
| 2971s |
devastating Sher is here coming in super |
| 2973s |
effectively as well bashing the Nexus |
| 2975s |
for a lot of damage while well the |
| 2977s |
second attack is not available anymore |
| 2979s |
The Omen Hawk so far holding steady |
| 2981s |
probably going to see a buff combat cook |
| 2983s |
come down here has to be a fix and pick |
| 2986s |
because you will need that combat cook |
| 2988s |
as a blocker later on still well pretty |
| 2992s |
even state so far but I prefer major |
| 2995s |
Blazer's hand and put position right now |
| 2997s |
yeah this is a matchup which is like the |
| 3000s |
classic I mean neither deck are demasia |
| 3002s |
but this is like a very similar to like |
| 3004s |
season one demaria style match up where |
| 3006s |
it's very board Centric um very combat |
| 3009s |
trick focused and trying to utilize and |
| 3011s |
get favorable trades where and if |
| 3013s |
possible for both players to try and eek |
| 3015s |
out maybe a slightly wider board or a |
| 3017s |
slightly taller board IND theat of R |
| 3020s |
there is always that additional threat |
| 3021s |
though of a sudden overwhelm lethal and |
| 3025s |
this is something where Rick I would say |
| 3027s |
has better chances not just because he's |
| 3030s |
currently the only player with an |
| 3031s |
overwhelm unit in hand but also because |
| 3033s |
he can make more use out of those |
| 3035s |
overwhelms because of more combat tricks |
| 3037s |
and more bone clubs this these transing |
| 3041s |
right now for major Blazer are a |
| 3043s |
fantastic option here to start cleaning |
| 3045s |
up this board and do do what I was |
| 3047s |
mentioning before which is those getting |
| 3049s |
those very very favorable trades across |
| 3051s |
the |
| 3052s |
board R keeping Mana open threatening a |
| 3055s |
iety of combo tricks but also having the |
| 3058s |
option to develop another blocker it's a |
| 3060s |
bit of an awkward spot for RoR because |
| 3062s |
you are aware that your opponent plays a |
| 3064s |
bunch of entrancing lures as well as |
| 3066s |
fish fights so you don't really want to |
| 3067s |
sacrifice a lot of units into that goes |
| 3069s |
for The Apprentice as another blocker |
| 3071s |
probably going to buff up the weapon of |
| 3074s |
the second combat cook in a second but |
| 3077s |
we see more weapons come into play on |
| 3079s |
major Blazer side here and The piten |
| 3082s |
Cast Away actually a bit of an |
| 3083s |
interesting decision does major Blazer |
| 3085s |
keep up the tempo go for the sheffer's |
| 3087s |
authority and the answer is yes just |
| 3090s |
valuing the stat line a lot oh and with |
| 3093s |
with r tapping down here um |
| 3096s |
basically of saying to Major Blazer that |
| 3100s |
look okay no combat tricks no Sky spers |
| 3102s |
you to worry about this enchanting L is |
| 3104s |
just going to be a free trade here with |
| 3105s |
the quick attack on the combat hook yeah |
| 3108s |
that is so nice for major Blazer that |
| 3110s |
basically made it easy took away the |
| 3113s |
decision the the mental Warfare of do I |
| 3116s |
play around that combat trick do I not |
| 3118s |
it is just going to be a unit picked up |
| 3119s |
for free RoR now toping the wild claw |
| 3123s |
ferocity and that would make for a good |
| 3125s |
attack but is that really the move rior |
| 3128s |
also having the option to either Play |
| 3130s |
Bone club or develop some other |
| 3132s |
units yeah this is uh looking very very |
| 3136s |
difficult for |
| 3136s |
Rico has the tools to close out the game |
| 3140s |
in hand right now but we're in a sort of |
| 3143s |
a weird state of limbo where Nei player |
| 3144s |
kind of wants to fully commit what they |
| 3146s |
have um because doing that will |
| 3148s |
potentially put them out of like the |
| 3150s |
fish fight Mana potentially or like |
| 3153s |
battle Fury or glacial San into a fish |
| 3156s |
fight sort of thing are huge issues here |
| 3158s |
for |
| 3160s |
R yeah thanks for not looking too rosy |
| 3163s |
as of right now the good thing is that |
| 3165s |
major Blazer is about to run out of |
| 3167s |
units the bad thing is Jackson hand is |
| 3170s |
quite the powerful units and a variety |
| 3172s |
of useful combat tricks even fish fight |
| 3175s |
might come in handy very soon could be |
| 3177s |
used right here to contest that beefy |
| 3180s |
Apprentice with the bone Club you would |
| 3183s |
first have to commit a catch though for |
| 3185s |
the plus one plus one buff so let's see |
| 3187s |
how major Blazer navigates this there |
| 3188s |
are a lot of |
| 3190s |
options yeah I'm not against using catch |
| 3192s |
and fish fight here um you still have |
| 3196s |
enough Mana to potentially develop the |
| 3197s |
Jack and go for a nice Open Swing on the |
| 3199s |
next turn potentially with another |
| 3201s |
entrancing lure um so it's it's going to |
| 3205s |
be it's aose call um this is kind of one |
| 3207s |
of the issues the jackor deck can |
| 3209s |
occasionally fall into where you end up |
| 3211s |
with a lot of spells and weapons in hand |
| 3213s |
but no units or a lack of units and for |
| 3215s |
both players um that's starting to |
| 3217s |
become an issue mhm does seem to be |
| 3220s |
going for the fish fight the awkward |
| 3222s |
thing about fish fight is that if you go |
| 3224s |
for the unequip a we weapon option then |
| 3226s |
the combat cook is not a great blocker |
| 3229s |
anymore on the board and you don't |
| 3231s |
really want to tank a lot of Nexus HP |
| 3233s |
against the deck that has so many |
| 3234s |
overwhelm threats does go for the fish |
| 3236s |
fight nonetheless I assume this is just |
| 3238s |
going to be let go through that's |
| 3241s |
exactly what we see here Redevelopment |
| 3243s |
coming and the Le Jags on major Blazer |
| 3246s |
side yeah that's going to set up a |
| 3248s |
pretty good opening attack for major |
| 3250s |
blazers however it's not enough yet to |
| 3253s |
actually close out the game so it's |
| 3255s |
going to be interesting to see where |
| 3256s |
this goes Rico is looking actually |
| 3258s |
pretty okay now um purely because major |
| 3260s |
Blazer hasn't been able to draw into the |
| 3262s |
key um more basic key unit for closing |
| 3266s |
out the match all these spells while |
| 3268s |
fantastic um aren't going to |
| 3271s |
allow R to really like uh I mean major |
| 3275s |
Blazer to like really close out the game |
| 3277s |
but on Ros and there's also a bit of an |
| 3280s |
awkward thing going on and that is that |
| 3281s |
these Sans are not going to draw an |
| 3284s |
additional unit they're not going to |
| 3286s |
apply their conditional effect because |
| 3289s |
they're is no card of another faction of |
| 3292s |
another type on the board for rior Rex |
| 3294s |
right now no weapon master or bird or |
| 3296s |
anything else and that's why RoR Rex has |
| 3298s |
been so patient with the San so far but |
| 3300s |
at some point they are going to have to |
| 3302s |
be played Major Blazer here picking up |
| 3304s |
another combat cook which is quite |
| 3306s |
useful but first of all having to decide |
| 3308s |
how this attack is going to be played |
| 3310s |
out o the tail stones is huge for Blazer |
| 3315s |
here because depending on what Rico does |
| 3317s |
here um you have the option just to |
| 3319s |
flash free here and still be okay if |
| 3322s |
they had one more Mana actually they |
| 3324s |
could have gone for the INB but |
| 3325s |
unfortunately they don't have that the |
| 3328s |
in tube would have been huge that would |
| 3330s |
have actually been probably a blowout in |
| 3332s |
game breaking but major Blazer just one |
| 3334s |
Mana short and now either needs to go |
| 3337s |
for a flash freeze or a fury of the |
| 3338s |
north Fury is not enough the ja would |
| 3340s |
still die so I'm expecting a flash |
| 3343s |
freeze out of the three sisters here |
| 3345s |
yeah again if they had one more Mana |
| 3346s |
they could have potentially gone for it |
| 3348s |
with the catch |
| 3350s |
um one thing though like major Blazer |
| 3354s |
might be on the read that X is holding |
| 3356s |
white claw ferocity and that means you |
| 3359s |
actually need that three sisters on |
| 3361s |
defense to freeze that what it's going |
| 3363s |
to be like a 20 attack overwhelm unit |
| 3365s |
swinging in so major Blazer actually |
| 3367s |
with some very good cautious play here |
| 3370s |
with some foresight and really taking |
| 3373s |
some time to contemplate this |
| 3375s |
decision yeah the only issue is you're |
| 3376s |
going to lose your Jacks and that's kind |
| 3378s |
of your only winon |
| 3380s |
currently um which is a bit unfortunate |
| 3382s |
I guess it's a really really tough |
| 3384s |
decision because |
| 3387s |
you need to figure out a way to survive |
| 3389s |
next turn I'm looking through the deck |
| 3390s |
list right now there is that is the only |
| 3392s |
three sisters so the other option really |
| 3395s |
um for major blazers to draw that harsh |
| 3398s |
WIS let's see what major Blazer can pull |
| 3401s |
here it is just a pen Cast Away and I I |
| 3405s |
didn't quite do the math but I think |
| 3406s |
this might be enough for lethal it is a |
| 3408s |
20 attack wild claw swinging in there's |
| 3410s |
only three HP on the blocking side for |
| 3413s |
major Blazer and now the lag of of three |
| 3415s |
sisters really kicks in and rcts pulling |
| 3418s |
the miracle comeback it |
| 3421s |
seems yeah I think that play on the last |
| 3424s |
previous turn with the three sisters it |
| 3426s |
was so close if I think if major Blazer |
| 3428s |
held on to it or this yeah if you do |
| 3430s |
this you can't block so it doesn't work |
| 3433s |
unfortunately putting the weapon on um |
| 3436s |
yeah it just instantly moves it back to |
| 3438s |
the back line but there was no play |
| 3440s |
anyway to save major Blazer the |
| 3442s |
commitment of the three sisters did |
| 3444s |
ultim spell major blazers doom and we |
| 3447s |
are going to see the BART deck in action |
| 3450s |
this is a match up I'm very curious |
| 3452s |
about because rorex is going to benefit |
| 3455s |
like and be more and more comfortable |
| 3457s |
the longer the game goes because of |
| 3460s |
three Reva lke Keepers in Rico's deck |
| 3463s |
major Blazer has definitely like access |
| 3466s |
to more punch through options but we |
| 3468s |
already three see a three sisters on |
| 3470s |
rior Rex's side in the opening hand and |
| 3472s |
that is going to be kept as well |
| 3473s |
alongside two bird the ringers yeah so |
| 3477s |
looking at R's list the B I think purely |
| 3480s |
is just for Access for um the B the bell |
| 3482s |
ringer and for asmus really for the most |
| 3484s |
part just getting a couple chimes in and |
| 3487s |
if you do get the occasional chime R's |
| 3489s |
going to be happy but I don't think |
| 3490s |
that's what R is banking on a lot of the |
| 3492s |
time I think this is just another way |
| 3494s |
for R to play a battle Fury overwhelm |
| 3496s |
deck overall while not um basically |
| 3500s |
suffering too much by going into some |
| 3501s |
other cards or regions absolutely agreed |
| 3504s |
the party por also a very uncommon |
| 3506s |
pickup here but of course does make |
| 3508s |
sense if you do want to play three |
| 3509s |
battle Furies and three revas the Chimes |
| 3512s |
both hitting the Nar rior having the |
| 3516s |
power of the overwhelm Gods on his side |
| 3518s |
and the 55 Nar about to come down next |
| 3521s |
turn is going to be quite a menace to |
| 3524s |
deal |
| 3525s |
with yeah the thing is if one thing that |
| 3528s |
we we haven't spoken about is um this |
| 3530s |
Bellow's breath it's a oneoff copy um |
| 3534s |
which will actually remove a lot of rior |
| 3535s |
X is board |
| 3537s |
currently yeah until Lorna does end up |
| 3540s |
buffing the whole deck this B's breath |
| 3542s |
is actually a a nasty card and it's not |
| 3545s |
a very common tag choice in JS or that's |
| 3547s |
why Rick Rex maybe not really having it |
| 3549s |
on the Forefront of his mind will still |
| 3552s |
have a very effective Blocker in thear |
| 3554s |
but I could definitely imagine bow |
| 3557s |
breath be played very soon Maj Blazer |
| 3559s |
elects to go for the combat cook instead |
| 3561s |
here going for the the the what's it |
| 3563s |
called the uh |
| 3565s |
refill spellmount a weapon let's say and |
| 3568s |
RX probably might answer here with some |
| 3572s |
juicy nard |
| 3574s |
development yeah but you still have the |
| 3576s |
capability here to attack with the |
| 3577s |
combat C major Blazer Roo most likely |
| 3580s |
just going to block yeah take one uh |
| 3584s |
unit off the board here from the side of |
| 3585s |
R it's it's it's looking very very tough |
| 3588s |
actually for R to claw back here I think |
| 3590s |
this is actually outside of Nar this is |
| 3593s |
a very tough position yeah you really |
| 3595s |
need that poke stick to keep that card |
| 3597s |
draw going I'm wondering like I'm very |
| 3599s |
curious if major Blazer is going to |
| 3601s |
address this situation having the option |
| 3603s |
of a harsh wins to get rid of the Nar |
| 3605s |
and shutting down the Poke sticks so |
| 3607s |
shutting down the card draw is |
| 3609s |
incredibly valuable here but it is a |
| 3611s |
hard read for major Blazer to make |
| 3613s |
especially after what just happened last |
| 3615s |
game maybe major Blazer will be more |
| 3617s |
cautious and defensive with using |
| 3619s |
freezes in this matchup so still a lot |
| 3624s |
of ways this game could play out we'll |
| 3626s |
see whether or not this buffed up Nar is |
| 3629s |
going to carry rior Rex back into this |
| 3632s |
game yeah I think that's what Rick's |
| 3634s |
going to put all his eggs in that one |
| 3636s |
basket right there uh sichani though |
| 3639s |
again is a card that can help remove a |
| 3642s |
unit to keep that board presence alive |
| 3644s |
um with this attack this is screaming |
| 3646s |
like we're going to see three sisters |
| 3648s |
come down here from the side of Roo |
| 3650s |
either to freeze or to buff up I double |
| 3654s |
Sky splitter really it seems very |
| 3656s |
aggressive into an open six Mana here |
| 3659s |
from the side of R especially when |
| 3660s |
they're running triple um Sky split |
| 3662s |
Triple Three |
| 3663s |
Sisters yeah I am not a huge fan of this |
| 3666s |
rior Rex has so many answers to deal |
| 3668s |
with this and now can just go for a fury |
| 3671s |
of the Norse can go for a flash freeze |
| 3674s |
and Tom is probably not the pick here it |
| 3676s |
would remove the weapon but you really |
| 3678s |
want to generate that poke stick I kind |
| 3680s |
of like Fury of the North and then |
| 3682s |
killing that combat cook later with the |
| 3684s |
poke stick that will beated but we'll |
| 3686s |
see what rior does go for and we did |
| 3689s |
have the same idea all right the Poke |
| 3691s |
stick's not even needed Nar already |
| 3694s |
going up to eight and that costs major |
| 3696s |
Blazer a lot two Sky Splitters four Mana |
| 3699s |
as well as the combat cook on the board |
| 3701s |
that was a huge swing of momentum here |
| 3705s |
yeah n's going to level up here as well |
| 3708s |
um so it's going to gr vulnerable to to |
| 3710s |
the favorite artism um which will allow |
| 3715s |
Roo to set up a premier overwhelm turn |
| 3717s |
either with Sani or with the combination |
| 3719s |
of the two um having vulnerable allows |
| 3722s |
Rico to dictate the blocks a little bit |
| 3724s |
better and guarantee some damage going |
| 3726s |
through toon |
| 3727s |
Nexus and Nar is going to grow even |
| 3730s |
bigger 77 is a very formidable stat line |
| 3733s |
here that can hold its own on defense |
| 3735s |
and is of course very scary to face on |
| 3737s |
offense also Ricker just top decked kind |
| 3740s |
of a nuts card here rev the Lor keeper |
| 3742s |
is going to give recorrect higher odds |
| 3747s |
of winning the longer the game goes and |
| 3750s |
that last combat that last turn that |
| 3753s |
last attack by rior seems to completely |
| 3756s |
have turned the tides of this specific |
| 3759s |
game okay so I have to correct you there |
| 3761s |
77 is not a very formidable stat line 07 |
| 3765s |
[Laughter] |
| 3769s |
is it's it's it's a big stat line but |
| 3771s |
it's not a |
| 3773s |
formidable touche tou nonetheless I do |
| 3776s |
think this Nar especially on turn six is |
| 3778s |
still going to have a lot of impact on |
| 3780s |
the trading here major Blazer picking up |
| 3782s |
some important cards of their own |
| 3785s |
picking up a three sisters more combat |
| 3787s |
options here and we do see L Reva the |
| 3789s |
lke keeper come down on rorex side |
| 3791s |
immediately putting the work in buffing |
| 3794s |
that ruthless Raider to a 5-3 stat line |
| 3796s |
and the sigani is still a great option |
| 3798s |
for rx's next attack turn also keep in |
| 3801s |
mind now that after RNA has been played |
| 3804s |
the value of of poke stick increases |
| 3808s |
further yeah I mean r is going to get |
| 3810s |
the additional draw from it as well as |
| 3812s |
just an additional Nexus damage should R |
| 3814s |
want to do right so that's not to be |
| 3816s |
discounted as well uh because it does |
| 3818s |
look like Rico's setting up for a big |
| 3820s |
overwhelm turn either next turn or the |
| 3823s |
attack turn after uh major Blazer has |
| 3826s |
answers there with the hush wins and the |
| 3827s |
freezes so can actually stall it out for |
| 3830s |
some time will it the Bellow breath is |
| 3833s |
actually hugely impactful and scary here |
| 3836s |
major Blazer is threatening to either |
| 3838s |
remove the Nar or push a lot of Nexus |
| 3840s |
damage I do think REO is going to let |
| 3843s |
that Nexus damage Slide the issue for |
| 3844s |
major Blazer is not that many finishers |
| 3847s |
right not that many battle Furies and |
| 3849s |
wise CLA verities and not that much |
| 3852s |
access to overwhelms and therefore Rick |
| 3854s |
X taking the ODS here going for the Sani |
| 3857s |
removal having both units on major |
| 3859s |
Blazer side marked with a vulnerable |
| 3862s |
attack makes this combat a lot |
| 3866s |
easier yeah it does however you end up |
| 3868s |
this weird scenario on major Blazer side |
| 3871s |
the harsh winds isn't really doing much |
| 3875s |
if that makes sense it's it's going to |
| 3877s |
it's going to deny um the removal on one |
| 3880s |
of your units but you're not actually |
| 3882s |
removing a lot of rior Rex aside |
| 3883s |
depending on the pulls here yeah really |
| 3886s |
depends on how rior Rex pulls here if |
| 3888s |
Nar tries to pull the Artisan um it is |
| 3892s |
actually very threatening |
| 3895s |
then major Blazer harsh WIS could have a |
| 3897s |
huge effect and that's exactly what re |
| 3899s |
RoR seems to be doing and I do expect |
| 3902s |
the harsh WIS to come through and some |
| 3903s |
major Punishment No elects to go for the |
| 3905s |
three sisters flash freeze instead but |
| 3907s |
losing the Nar here kind of hurts but we |
| 3910s |
also mentioned early run like rores is |
| 3912s |
in a position where he can take those |
| 3914s |
risks because the RNA has already put |
| 3916s |
the work in and all of the draws on Rick |
| 3918s |
x side are just bigger than major |
| 3920s |
blazers draws and Sport refill so this |
| 3923s |
is depending this is very close to just |
| 3926s |
straight up Lether from major Blazer |
| 3928s |
side they can forge one of them their |
| 3930s |
units um and go in and pressure that way |
| 3935s |
but sich would obviously block and they' |
| 3937s |
only push six it's it's like really |
| 3939s |
close to ending the game ja comes down |
| 3942s |
leveled up this actually puts RoR Rex in |
| 3944s |
an awkward situation I didn't quite math |
| 3947s |
this out but it's going to be a |
| 3949s |
significant bunch of damage chopping |
| 3951s |
through here |
| 3953s |
us yeah it's plus three onto J you can |
| 3959s |
forge one more here uh depending on the |
| 3962s |
blocks you're probably going to want to |
| 3964s |
put Bard and S on the overwhelms I think |
| 3967s |
if you forge Jax it's lethal right he |
| 3969s |
goes up to eight if you block him you |
| 3972s |
still tank one damage and you have to |
| 3973s |
let one of the other ones go through I |
| 3975s |
think if major Blazer spots this and |
| 3977s |
forges the Jacks this looks like Letha |
| 3979s |
and goes for the Artisan instead yes |
| 3981s |
good he would approve I think |
| 3986s |
I'm surprised by this you still had time |
| 3987s |
to think there's no need to rush this I |
| 3990s |
mean major Blazer still goes for some |
| 3992s |
good board removal I guess the upside |
| 3994s |
here |
| 3996s |
is oh the impact yeah the impact does |
| 4000s |
the impact I completely forgot to |
| 4002s |
calculate that in this looks like an |
| 4004s |
Unstoppable attack after all I mean they |
| 4006s |
could have been two over and then if if |
| 4007s |
R did have any of their combat spells so |
| 4011s |
like the three sisters or Sky splited if |
| 4012s |
they could have survived |
| 4015s |
maybe maybe it was worth going for that |
| 4016s |
but and putting them down to one and |
| 4018s |
playing around like a sky spitter wow |
| 4021s |
shy Mod's com in and major Blazer goes |
| 4023s |
for the perfectly calculated lethal |
| 4025s |
after |
| 4026s |
all being much more aware than I was |
| 4029s |
here in the Caster seed factoring that |
| 4031s |
impact damage in spreading out power |
| 4033s |
nicely and just threatening lethal on |
| 4035s |
the attack and this comes down to what |
| 4038s |
we mentioned like two or three turns |
| 4040s |
earlier where rorex decided to not block |
| 4043s |
with the Nar and therefore took a lot of |
| 4045s |
Nexus damage which allows major blazers |
| 4048s |
to draw the right cards but then also to |
| 4049s |
find the lethal line and go for the |
| 4051s |
exact Nexus Lea too close out that |
| 4054s |
series and to kick the number one ranked |
| 4058s |
seed out of this tournament fan favorite |
| 4061s |
Rick Rex unfortunately we have to say |
| 4063s |
goodbye to him and that's it for the |
| 4066s |
championship the world championship |
| 4067s |
dream We R We R we Rex we overwhelm we |
| 4071s |
don't flex ah such a that done but we |
| 4075s |
are ready to jump into another game as |
| 4077s |
we see Ace bombastico another very |
| 4080s |
prominent Community person going with |
| 4083s |
the overwhelm list of their own and it |
| 4085s |
looks like they copied a page out of |
| 4087s |
Ricker Rex's Playbook here as we see a |
| 4090s |
Darius fyord list and we also see a |
| 4093s |
ruthless Raider with a bone Club |
| 4096s |
equipped followed up by a glacial thoran |
| 4099s |
why Dimitri is playing another version |
| 4103s |
of that Gwen hallow archetype and that |
| 4105s |
one is focused around Riven and the |
| 4107s |
noxus over package yeah it's it's a deck |
| 4110s |
that came about practically just in the |
| 4112s |
last week um very very recently um it's |
| 4116s |
a very uh sort of over it's it's it's an |
| 4119s |
overwhelmed deck actually so I'm |
| 4120s |
surprised Roo didn't bring didn't bring |
| 4123s |
this because there's a lot of overwhelm |
| 4124s |
in this list but also R wanted to bring |
| 4127s |
nine bone clubs and only eight battle |
| 4129s |
Furies maybe that was the mistake you |
| 4131s |
know maybe maybe that caused REO some |
| 4134s |
good |
| 4135s |
Karma yeah but unfortunately we're |
| 4138s |
seeing here this is I think the the r um |
| 4142s |
Darius list actually from from Ace here |
| 4144s |
so we're just seeing more of it more r r |
| 4147s |
even though he unfortunately didn't make |
| 4149s |
it through to the next round he still |
| 4150s |
lives on here with Ace yeah Roo's Spirit |
| 4153s |
Carries over maybe those two pre |
| 4155s |
together I don't know |
| 4158s |
um well focusing on the action here |
| 4160s |
Riven does level up we do see her blade |
| 4164s |
of Exile being equipped not equipped yet |
| 4167s |
but being in hand and this is fairly |
| 4171s |
likely to go down on the Gwen also |
| 4173s |
having a might in hand on this very turn |
| 4176s |
Demitri could threaten a ton of damage |
| 4180s |
the issue is Ace bombastico does have a |
| 4182s |
three sisters in hand and enough Mana to |
| 4184s |
cast a flash freeze as well yeah freeze |
| 4187s |
is probably this deck's biggest enemy um |
| 4190s |
they don't really have much that they |
| 4192s |
can do after the freeze comes down |
| 4193s |
outside of like M and elixir um which in |
| 4196s |
general won't be enough to to to remove |
| 4198s |
a lot of the big units that we're seeing |
| 4200s |
here on AC's |
| 4202s |
side hallow does buff the Riven it is |
| 4207s |
only Hall plus two but because of |
| 4209s |
riven's passive effect she does get |
| 4211s |
plus4 attack instead the Gwen also |
| 4213s |
getting another plus two and therefore |
| 4215s |
trading favorably into the ruthless |
| 4217s |
Raider as of right now and the ace |
| 4218s |
bombastico now needs to decide do I |
| 4220s |
remove the Gwen or do I save H eight h |
| 4224s |
from my Nexus with this three sisters |
| 4226s |
flash freeze so your biggest problem |
| 4229s |
here by the way um is if you commit the |
| 4232s |
flash face |
| 4234s |
preemptively on on when you just lose |
| 4237s |
straight up to might because might will |
| 4240s |
um double up on Riven to as well so even |
| 4243s |
if you flash his Riven Riven can still |
| 4245s |
end up punching for six yep last a |
| 4248s |
really awkward turn yeah last option is |
| 4251s |
to just let this go through but it's |
| 4253s |
also not the rose of options because |
| 4255s |
it's hard to finish your opponent in the |
| 4257s |
next attack turn to just punch 14 damage |
| 4260s |
through and we do see the might pre |
| 4262s |
committed and this is going to get |
| 4264s |
punished by the three sisters on Ace's |
| 4266s |
side I I love the pass from Ace doesn't |
| 4269s |
get allows them to uh sort of give |
| 4271s |
priority and put Dimitri in that awkward |
| 4273s |
position do I commit that might now and |
| 4276s |
it works out super favorably here for |
| 4280s |
Ace Gwen still levels up like Ace going |
| 4283s |
for play here arguably forcing a little |
| 4287s |
mistake out of Dimitri although it's |
| 4288s |
hard to say butri is still in a very |
| 4290s |
good position with both Champions |
| 4292s |
leveled with both Champions buffed and |
| 4294s |
just super beefy and a is just not |
| 4296s |
really having an any lethal threat as of |
| 4299s |
right now yeah I'm just looking through |
| 4301s |
D's list so there's the enraged fire |
| 4303s |
splitter um as a two damage to the Nexus |
| 4305s |
option there's three of them so that's a |
| 4307s |
play effect card it's a pretty new card |
| 4309s |
in a lot of decks we've been seeing |
| 4310s |
played recently um deal two to the enemy |
| 4313s |
and two to the enemy next |
| 4314s |
as well as a single copy of f so going |
| 4316s |
down to one was actually extremely scary |
| 4318s |
for Ace there mhm so this did turn out |
| 4323s |
nicely for Ace so far the question is |
| 4327s |
like Ace needs to put themselves in a |
| 4328s |
position where they can survive another |
| 4331s |
attack and then they can realistically |
| 4333s |
look for lethal like the only way to |
| 4335s |
find lethal right now is equip bone club |
| 4338s |
pre-commit might and somehow hope that |
| 4340s |
Demitri disconnects and doesn't block |
| 4342s |
that is not a line we want to go for |
| 4345s |
instead Ace is probably going to try to |
| 4346s |
go a bit wider here with ruthless Raider |
| 4348s |
and maybe Darius and rather have some |
| 4350s |
defensive stats on the board yeah I mean |
| 4353s |
they can in theory um use the double |
| 4357s |
might here and pressure for it oh wait |
| 4360s |
this |
| 4361s |
is okay that is not what I was expecting |
| 4365s |
from Demetri the hate Spike just |
| 4366s |
removing the |
| 4368s |
Riven that's going to actually allow Ace |
| 4371s |
to potentially set up a Gwen removal or |
| 4375s |
it stops the pressure for for lethal |
| 4377s |
actually it doesn't because now the |
| 4380s |
ruthless later hits Dario levels mid |
| 4382s |
combat now Demitri actually needs to |
| 4385s |
block off the Gwen uh ruthless Raider |
| 4388s |
Only Hits for |
| 4393s |
two oh because of the yeah yeah okay |
| 4396s |
with the block of the yeah good point |
| 4398s |
actually I didn't see the Squire being |
| 4400s |
played and now it is going to be a |
| 4405s |
what okay I'm confused I'm lost at this |
| 4408s |
point so with Hall uh how much damage |
| 4411s |
are we pushing here from Demetri's |
| 4413s |
Side open attack darus is going to have |
| 4416s |
to block |
| 4417s |
Gwen this is it's going to be Incredibly |
| 4420s |
Close right you force the block yeah |
| 4421s |
there's hell two thanks to production |
| 4423s |
for showing us that so it's going to be |
| 4425s |
a four attack Elusive and an eight |
| 4427s |
attack Gwen which is going to clear out |
| 4429s |
the Darius and there's nothing that Ace |
| 4431s |
can do defensively combo trick wise |
| 4434s |
yeah however though Ace can um I mean |
| 4438s |
the glacial Ser unfortunately is not |
| 4440s |
going to draw anything but you can just |
| 4441s |
play and set it up for like a big might |
| 4445s |
turn so Darius does get removed here and |
| 4448s |
Ace does stay alive on one HP and does |
| 4451s |
have the option to go for something like |
| 4452s |
sorus into soran into bone Club into |
| 4455s |
double might just hope that the MRI |
| 4458s |
doesn't have burn and hope that Demitri |
| 4460s |
doesn't have another three sisters Sky |
| 4462s |
split or and defensive combo tricks |
| 4464s |
basically yeah the issue with that is |
| 4466s |
that it's done over multiple actions |
| 4468s |
whereas you'd really want to set that up |
| 4470s |
um the glacian plus bone Club this turn |
| 4474s |
which is unfortunate and set up for an |
| 4476s |
open to play around stuff like the |
| 4477s |
enrage fire splitter um so it's it's a |
| 4481s |
little bit scary but it might just be |
| 4482s |
the sorion plus the legion sabator and |
| 4484s |
then Swinging with the open not |
| 4486s |
developing a bone |
| 4488s |
club that is also an interesting option |
| 4490s |
yeah spreading mites across two |
| 4492s |
attackers is also |
| 4495s |
it's more just a Manis they can't play |
| 4496s |
Glacier sh in bone Club this turn yeah |
| 4499s |
well what they could do though is Play |
| 4500s |
sabator Bone Club open attack double M |
| 4504s |
what would that put them at it would be |
| 4506s |
one direct Nexus damage so 10 to kill |
| 4508s |
and it would be 13 attack on the sabator |
| 4512s |
not quite enough I guess only forcing |
| 4513s |
the GW block by the way I'm just now |
| 4516s |
realizing what confused me earlier on |
| 4518s |
was I didn't realize that Gwen actually |
| 4520s |
had the Regeneration keyword on her and |
| 4522s |
that is keeping her healthy throw all of |
| 4524s |
these trades and so Demitri's play lines |
| 4526s |
did actually end up making a lot of |
| 4528s |
sense without really falling into any |
| 4530s |
danger and we do see the task speaker |
| 4533s |
which cannot be played this game anymore |
| 4535s |
because A's Nexus is at one HP let's see |
| 4538s |
if we're going to see the mistake of a |
| 4539s |
lifetime come out of Ace I don't think |
| 4542s |
so but you never know so the question is |
| 4545s |
how much does uh Ace respect the enrage |
| 4547s |
fire |
| 4548s |
splitter cuz that is that is the key |
| 4551s |
defining moment doesn't respect it just |
| 4554s |
slams The Bone club and is just going in |
| 4556s |
and I think that's correct I don't think |
| 4558s |
you have a choice if you're Ace you kind |
| 4559s |
of have to try and finish this off as |
| 4562s |
soon as physically possible exactly and |
| 4564s |
without the bone Club I don't think |
| 4565s |
there was any lethal threat here just |
| 4568s |
like if demri goes for the blocks |
| 4570s |
there's just not enough damage being |
| 4571s |
pushed through but with the additional |
| 4573s |
five damage from bone Club it's going to |
| 4574s |
be exact lethal if Dimitri doesn't swap |
| 4578s |
around the blockers here and they do not |
| 4582s |
double M I assume it's be pushed out |
| 4585s |
onto both units here it's still a bit of |
| 4587s |
a mind game thinking about which combat |
| 4589s |
tricks Dimitri could play they could |
| 4591s |
have something like a hate Spike but |
| 4594s |
double might on the San is also just |
| 4596s |
going to be enough with the one direct |
| 4598s |
Nexus damage coming in from the cator |
| 4600s |
and therefore Ace does close the game |
| 4603s |
out in a convincing fashion coming back |
| 4605s |
from impossible odds but also some I |
| 4609s |
don't know the hate Spike was weird |
| 4611s |
right why did the me go for that why did |
| 4613s |
they sacrifice Riven I couldn't quite |
| 4615s |
follow that whole sequence nonetheless |
| 4618s |
Ace does advance in a very deserving |
| 4620s |
fashion capitalizing on those |
| 4623s |
opportunities yeah it's it's it's it's |
| 4625s |
very very tough choice but I do like the |
| 4627s |
double M option um there from Ace to |
| 4629s |
finish off the game playing around that |
| 4631s |
hate Spike there if if they committed |
| 4633s |
that onto the legion sabator there was a |
| 4635s |
potential for a hate Spike to shut that |
| 4637s |
down I do like the option there very |
| 4640s |
good point also something like fervor |
| 4641s |
would have done well it would have been |
| 4643s |
Direct |
| 4645s |
of the removals the being very astutely |
| 4649s |
aware of the threats that the oppon |
| 4651s |
provide and Ace continuing to move on |
| 4655s |
into the round of 32 and so far Some |
| 4657s |
solid players have prevailed I'm going |
| 4659s |
to be curious to see how many of the |
| 4661s |
familiar faces we see in the next round |
| 4663s |
and how many of these wild cards of the |
| 4665s |
newer and unknown players we are going |
| 4668s |
to see and we are ready to jump into the |
| 4671s |
bracket I |
| 4672s |
believe ah no we are ready to jump into |
| 4675s |
a little break first and then we're |
| 4676s |
going to have a little look at the |
| 4678s |
bracket to see who is left who we're |
| 4681s |
going to show next and who is eventually |
| 4683s |
going to make it and secure the last |
| 4685s |
slots for the world championship |
| 4687s |
qualifier see you in |
| 4688s |
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all you |
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is all you got to |
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say |
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St by step step by |
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step |
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is that all you got to |
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the gra |
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now |
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you |
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house |
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when the dark |
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now |
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and welcome back everybody we are now |
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here for the World Championship last |
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chance qualifier here again it is me |
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jems casting today with the lovely fresh |
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Lobster and what a series of matches |
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we've had today first of all we had to |
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say goodbye to rior Rex unfortunately |
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beaten by an overwhelmed deck but the |
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second series was a bit more like |
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discussable and interesting and we do |
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have a bunch of replays here and that's |
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where a bit of confusion started uh we |
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did see Demetri in a seemingly solid |
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position and then going for a hate Spike |
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which does remove one important attacker |
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from A's side but sacrifices a champion |
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that is this important the leveled up |
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Riven yeah uh I believe Demitri |
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mentioned in comments that that that was |
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potentially mistake in twitch chat so |
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it's unfortunate to see but that's what |
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happens when you have such high stakes |
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matches like this where if you lose |
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that's it that's your world qualifying |
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position gone throughout the whole day |
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which it's just the stress of that right |
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any little mistake can just end your |
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whole your whole run exactly and we did |
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see the follow-up attack from Ace come |
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through uh I was surprised when I first |
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saw that in the moment in hindsight |
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after seeing the replay I think the |
| 5975s |
blocks by Dimitri were actually correct |
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we do see the attack back coming through |
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the darus has to be sacrificed here and |
| 5982s |
it did look like Dimitri still had |
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control of this game but the reverse |
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swing from Ace coming through both |
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committed into the glacial saan which is |
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also a lot of foresight by Ace very |
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clean Play We double checked the deck |
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lists Dimitri was indeed running three |
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hate spikes and an auction fervor and |
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therefore committing all of the attack |
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onto the very big unit that cannot be |
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removed through any means secured the |
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lethal and Ace did capitalize on the |
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mistake of sacrificing the Riven and |
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finding the right lines of Play Even |
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though then both players played very |
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well Ace just had exactly the right hand |
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to clear it out and we jump right back |
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into the bracket here some juicy |
| 6023s |
matchups Sonic against go go this uh the |
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the Russian player with a bunch of Ls as |
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their username is someone who we |
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highlighted in the last uh big open |
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tournament broadcast that we had |
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bringing a triple Shadow I control |
| 6039s |
lineup I'm curious if they're cooking up |
| 6041s |
something similar this time but apart |
| 6044s |
from that we did see major Blazer go |
| 6046s |
through after beating Ricker playing |
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against the fellow UK aftermath r |
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are you familiar with them at all yeah |
| 6054s |
after Beth Reid is a UK player very |
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strong player um over on the UK side and |
| 6058s |
we're looking at the other side of the |
| 6059s |
bracket here we've got Ace versus sugis |
| 6063s |
and ghost of driver versus Never Walk |
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Alone calamari versus Teddy this bracket |
| 6066s |
is just full of absolute killers and |
| 6069s |
Teddy versus Camari is the match up I |
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hope we're going to get a glimpse of as |
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well but the featured match we're going |
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to be looking at is at the bottom of |
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this segment of the of the top 604 top |
| 6081s |
30 |
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rather Pat pad versus broken ball both |
| 6084s |
representing the Italian flag this |
| 6086s |
should be a banger of a matchup I |
| 6088s |
already peaked into de list and we did |
| 6090s |
see quite some creativity come through |
| 6092s |
I'm also happy to see Timmy to timit |
| 6095s |
perform well still in this tournament |
| 6096s |
run and the last segment of the top 64 |
| 6101s |
any matchups that stand out to you here |
| 6103s |
yeah Leandro and red Monti players I've |
| 6105s |
seen consistently on ladder throughout |
| 6108s |
literally number of years red Monte I |
| 6110s |
believe has played in and top gu in |
| 6112s |
previous tournaments um throughout the |
| 6115s |
year as well as in Prior years and done |
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fantastically so great to see them back |
| 6120s |
and again just overall fantastic showing |
| 6122s |
from bod snar because that's their first |
| 6124s |
ever um their first ever tournament |
| 6127s |
showing and they've managed to Top Cut |
| 6128s |
and still make it all the way to top 32 |
| 6130s |
so all to play for for these players and |
| 6133s |
any losses means that is their runs |
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unfortunately over |
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so play for here yeah I'm glad to see |
| 6139s |
that some wild cards are still this |
| 6141s |
tournament but now we are totch to two |
| 6144s |
very uh well known tournament Players |
| 6147s |
patpat and broken and the first deck of |
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patpat is Riven Gwen which we just saw |
| 6151s |
in action but quite differently built |
| 6153s |
this one has more versatility and |
| 6154s |
defensive capabilities with two copies |
| 6156s |
of Vengeance as well as a shadow tail |
| 6159s |
stones one copy of quietus so this can |
| 6162s |
finish the game in explosive fashion but |
| 6164s |
can also go for a bit of control |
| 6166s |
vengeance is very good in this fard |
| 6168s |
overwhelm metal yeah it's a fantastic TR |
| 6172s |
and obviously we also see the jacks on |
| 6174s |
again this is a deck we're going to talk |
| 6175s |
about countless times uh we're going to |
| 6178s |
see different sort of variations of it |
| 6180s |
um this one's very another one of the |
| 6182s |
more spell heavier versions with no |
| 6184s |
sheries from patat here for this one um |
| 6187s |
but two three sisters and two Wilds |
| 6190s |
ferocity these are all sort of like the |
| 6191s |
tech choices really you see is how many |
| 6193s |
copies of certain cards you're going to |
| 6195s |
be playing in that spell slot this looks |
| 6197s |
more like a traditional Jack Or List |
| 6199s |
very different from the one that rior |
| 6200s |
Rex showed us earlier the third deck I |
| 6203s |
was actually curious about pnz bandle |
| 6205s |
City this is going to be a jinx discard |
| 6208s |
pile a pretty aggressively built one |
| 6210s |
just saying no to a second Champion I |
| 6212s |
won't need that pretty nasty amount of |
| 6215s |
burn in hand triple in deck rather |
| 6217s |
triple Electro Harpoon triple Mystic |
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shot triple blowback only one rumage but |
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three subd dregers three Zite urchins |
| 6225s |
still enough draw potential and cards I |
| 6229s |
really like to see are squeakers at |
| 6230s |
Arena promote us for generating some |
| 6233s |
Mecha and this is sort of the main first |
| 6236s |
sort of control based list coming down |
| 6238s |
here that we've seen today from broken |
| 6239s |
ball uh surprising to see we there's a |
| 6241s |
lot of the control decks in The Meta but |
| 6243s |
they haven't had a great showing in the |
| 6245s |
tournament so great see seeing the Nora |
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Narin which is sort of like the I guess |
| 6249s |
the off meta control list you you could |
| 6252s |
bring doing fantastic here for broken |
| 6254s |
ball we see a lot of spicy one-offs here |
| 6256s |
not only in the tampion split with onear |
| 6258s |
but one Solari sonog one avenging |
| 6260s |
vastaya as a deny option one enraged |
| 6262s |
fire spitter lots of versatilities and |
| 6265s |
tough to play around if you are in the |
| 6267s |
opponent's shoes if you're in patad |
| 6269s |
shoes second X from broken ball is kind |
| 6271s |
of familiar to what we saw on padpad |
| 6273s |
side but using the Cannon as the second |
| 6275s |
Champion generating discard fod in the |
| 6277s |
mark of the storms also going for |
| 6279s |
squeakers and Arena promoters for some |
| 6281s |
Mecha generation also going for a filthy |
| 6284s |
amount of burn with triple Electro |
| 6286s |
Harpoon Mystic shot blowback and a copy |
| 6288s |
of lightning Rush two very explosive |
| 6291s |
decks and the third deck is one that we |
| 6293s |
haven't seen yet today no it's the El |
| 6297s |
Classico Scouts brought here from broken |
| 6299s |
ball it's a deck that's uh constantly |
| 6302s |
come in and out of favor in The Meta U |
| 6305s |
very strong this is the more I guess I |
| 6307s |
would like to say the more uh combo |
| 6309s |
style oriented version where you |
| 6311s |
basically try and develop a big board |
| 6313s |
but in this case we see Triple genev |
| 6315s |
from broken ball which is something a |
| 6316s |
lot of lists um had potentially cut down |
| 6318s |
a little bit on and actually only two |
| 6321s |
Champion strengths not three which is a |
| 6323s |
bit surprising the bands have already |
| 6325s |
gone through Canon Jinx band on broken |
| 6328s |
ball side I know this is one of broken |
| 6329s |
B's specialty decks and Pat pads should |
| 6332s |
very much be aware of this I think |
| 6334s |
they're both friends IRL and online and |
| 6337s |
also uh have prepped a lot together so |
| 6339s |
it's unfortunate that they do run into |
| 6341s |
each other so early into the tournament |
| 6343s |
but we're also happy to see this Banger |
| 6345s |
off a matchup and we do see the scouts |
| 6347s |
deck against Pat Pats Jinx discard deck |
| 6352s |
yeah this is so one thing to not is |
| 6353s |
obviously this is a standard version of |
| 6355s |
both of these lists they both have |
| 6356s |
eternal style versions and um that |
| 6359s |
changes the matchup a little bit |
| 6361s |
actually uh makes it a little bit worse |
| 6363s |
I think in standard for Scouts overall |
| 6366s |
because they don't have access to key |
| 6368s |
cards like Rangers resolve um which |
| 6371s |
actually is crucial for like the early |
| 6372s |
couple of turns to get some favorable |
| 6374s |
trades and also to do with stuff like |
| 6375s |
Jinx Rockets so it's going to be |
| 6377s |
interesting to see how this plays out I |
| 6378s |
would also see padpad being favored here |
| 6381s |
a couple of factors one is pet Pat's |
| 6383s |
deck has more access to Value generation |
| 6386s |
just picking the very big Mecha yles |
| 6388s |
will make sure that broken ball |
| 6390s |
eventually runs out of steam and the |
| 6391s |
other big thing is broken ball does not |
| 6393s |
have any fast removal or even slow Speed |
| 6397s |
Spells to remove Jinx broken ball can |
| 6399s |
only remove Jinx on attack turns and |
| 6402s |
that might allow padpad to level up Jinx |
| 6405s |
easily and generate one or two rockets |
| 6407s |
and a bunch of card draw and then run |
| 6409s |
away with the game so broken ball here |
| 6412s |
it's something key to knowe it's passed |
| 6414s |
without developing any units the reason |
| 6417s |
you would be doing this is broken ball |
| 6418s |
as a Scouts players you're trying to |
| 6419s |
float Mana for this form up for |
| 6421s |
protection on the Jan sculptor most |
| 6423s |
likely um in this matchup if you can |
| 6426s |
start getting that plus one HP across |
| 6428s |
your border across a couple of units |
| 6429s |
that's going to make it very difficult |
| 6431s |
for pet Pat to actually push for damage |
| 6432s |
and um broken ball is worried obviously |
| 6435s |
for any type of removal coming down on |
| 6436s |
that Duran sculpter here yeah you cannot |
| 6439s |
afford to lose the Duran sculpter to |
| 6441s |
something like a Mystic shot um |
| 6444s |
therefore A very wise pass by Broken |
| 6446s |
ball next turn the the sculpter would |
| 6448s |
have been much more safe due to being |
| 6451s |
protected by Form up broken B |
| 6453s |
identifying how valuable this card is |
| 6454s |
right now and developing in a bit of a |
| 6457s |
delayed fashion patpat just going for |
| 6459s |
some aggressive development off their |
| 6461s |
own pushing in for an excess damage here |
| 6463s |
and broken ball now has to catch up on |
| 6465s |
the board and starts doing so with the |
| 6467s |
patricide Broadway yeah cuz you have to |
| 6469s |
remember as I mentioned this deck |
| 6471s |
instead of like being uh sort of curve |
| 6474s |
based orientated it kind of is in the |
| 6475s |
sense that you kind of want to develop |
| 6477s |
the board over a period of turns um the |
| 6479s |
main way this matchup is going to end is |
| 6481s |
usually from a singular big Champion |
| 6483s |
strength and we do see one in hand only |
| 6486s |
two copies in deck you mentioned earlier |
| 6488s |
on I think the main reason is just the |
| 6489s |
Nerf to nine Mana it used to be eight |
| 6492s |
and broken Ball's deck instead plays two |
| 6494s |
copies of scrutinizing Sergeant and |
| 6496s |
triple geniv as additional Wing |
| 6498s |
conditions also for the AIA is often |
| 6502s |
going to be enough to swing the game |
| 6504s |
State entirely in your favor broken ball |
| 6506s |
picking up the mar Warden which you are |
| 6508s |
happy to see with a Durant sculptor on |
| 6509s |
board low rolls a bit here on the lur |
| 6512s |
unit just a bland one three being |
| 6514s |
generated while pat pat already has Mana |
| 6517s |
to play Jinx but of course doesn't want |
| 6519s |
to do that into a 4 HP formidable |
| 6523s |
Challenger |
| 6525s |
unit yeah it's going to be a bit |
| 6527s |
difficult but but again this is the |
| 6528s |
thing brall doesn't actually necessarily |
| 6530s |
need to attack tackle take trades can do |
| 6531s |
it on their defensive turn it's not the |
| 6533s |
only real like concern is obviously |
| 6535s |
quick attack from Jinx the other stuff |
| 6536s |
can just trade on the following turn has |
| 6539s |
got the scrutinizing sergeant available |
| 6541s |
which is again going to be another two |
| 6542s |
two units in one card type of play can |
| 6545s |
hit uh a number of very valuable cards |
| 6548s |
such as Misfortune which would be ideal |
| 6550s |
here cuz in this match up yet Misfortune |
| 6552s |
um is very key in the sense that a lot |
| 6554s |
of the bandal city cards only have one |
| 6556s |
HP um so it makes your your attacks |
| 6559s |
extremely scary |
| 6561s |
we do see Arena promoter come out and |
| 6564s |
pull a very important Mecha yord its |
| 6567s |
name has eluded me but it will buff the |
| 6569s |
boards on padet side further it's |
| 6572s |
trumpet yeah something like that |
| 6573s |
Trumpeter trumpeteer uh but a very good |
| 6577s |
card especially in a board- based |
| 6578s |
matchup like playing against Scouts |
| 6580s |
broken ball faced with a tough decision |
| 6582s |
do I invest in inspiring light I would |
| 6584s |
like to see it because then you can |
| 6585s |
still play scrutinizing Sergeant next |
| 6587s |
turn and have Mana for form up available |
| 6590s |
to protect your cards in trades or from |
| 6593s |
removal options that's exactly what |
| 6594s |
broken ball goes for this does also |
| 6596s |
allow the pull and trade this turn |
| 6599s |
because there's no threat of Mystic shot |
| 6601s |
anymore the petricite broadwing attack |
| 6604s |
is just going to go through I don't mind |
| 6606s |
this Tech because uh but the issue I |
| 6608s |
guess with your broken boards you are |
| 6610s |
going to give petat information that |
| 6611s |
there is most likely a form M up in hand |
| 6615s |
here let's see if Pat pad bites and it |
| 6618s |
seems like he does broken does get a |
| 6621s |
very juicy form up here patad going for |
| 6624s |
definitely a risky block I'm surprised |
| 6626s |
to not see the um Durant sculptor Block |
| 6630s |
in blocked instead not quite sure what |
| 6632s |
the reasoning was here yeah it's it's |
| 6635s |
unfortunate cuz I think then it still |
| 6637s |
would have traded and they they would |
| 6638s |
have actually removed the Duran sculptor |
| 6641s |
um but exactly and I mean the dredger |
| 6644s |
was a 54 anyway without form up it would |
| 6646s |
have survived yeah a bit of a dazzling |
| 6649s |
block here but padpad still has momentum |
| 6652s |
on his side still has Jinx and Mana |
| 6654s |
available let's see if padpad actually |
| 6656s |
pulls the trigger on developing that |
| 6659s |
champion yeah the problem the problem |
| 6661s |
with Jinx right now is it doesn't |
| 6662s |
actually really achieve too much it'll |
| 6664s |
get the one attack in same similar thing |
| 6666s |
to like the trumer the trumer um at |
| 6669s |
least will allow potentially for more |
| 6671s |
favorable trades later on um and but the |
| 6673s |
problem is obviously we've seen the |
| 6675s |
scrutinizing sergeant come down from |
| 6676s |
broken ball so most likely a for dearia |
| 6679s |
on the next following turn to completely |
| 6680s |
wipe out Pet's |
| 6684s |
board let's see how broken ball sets |
| 6686s |
this one up committing for Deasia means |
| 6688s |
the champion strength is going to fall |
| 6690s |
further and further behind because we're |
| 6692s |
not banking SP Mana but we do see the |
| 6694s |
snap for Deasia committed by Broken ball |
| 6696s |
here passing it over to Pat pad facing a |
| 6699s |
huge amount of stats here and going to |
| 6701s |
have to trade off a lot of these |
| 6704s |
units yeah cuz the brok ball side at |
| 6706s |
this point you really don't have any |
| 6708s |
good ways of dealing with jinx as a |
| 6709s |
scout player any anyway so broken balls |
| 6712s |
realized okay look I I I I lose the |
| 6714s |
ability to play Champion strength next |
| 6715s |
turn but Champion strength next turn is |
| 6717s |
basically doing the same thing as me |
| 6719s |
just playing for Maria this turn if that |
| 6721s |
makes sense good point good point yeah |
| 6724s |
broken B really identifying the matchup |
| 6726s |
Dynamics correctly here and just saying |
| 6729s |
screw it I'm going to send it just going |
| 6730s |
for full send Tempo uh using Mana super |
| 6733s |
efficiently so far using combo trick |
| 6735s |
super efficiently I very much like the |
| 6737s |
inspiring light play and that all |
| 6739s |
allowed broken ball to snowboard the |
| 6741s |
ball here in a match up that can |
| 6743s |
definitely be very tricky to |
| 6744s |
navigate yeah I mean most likely going |
| 6747s |
to see the get so this is like one of |
| 6750s |
the key turns I was mentioning where |
| 6751s |
because it's standard this um this turn |
| 6755s |
changes quite a bit so patack can play a |
| 6757s |
bit more risky there's a couple of |
| 6758s |
options here for petack could go could |
| 6761s |
attempt to try and set up a jinx rocket |
| 6763s |
to clear the board the downside to doing |
| 6766s |
that is you lose to something like an |
| 6768s |
inspiring light um if there's a second |
| 6771s |
one um or they could just try yeah it's |
| 6775s |
it's it's a really tough call I really |
| 6776s |
like this by pad pad we already saw an |
| 6778s |
inspiring light I think we're not in a |
| 6780s |
position where we can play around |
| 6781s |
another one I really like using this |
| 6784s |
whole hand for removal to get excited |
| 6786s |
also shuffling another Jinx into deck |
| 6788s |
can be valuable later down the line and |
| 6790s |
now experimenter probably onto the |
| 6792s |
Vanguard sergeant and all of a sudden |
| 6794s |
broken B is going to have four units at |
| 6796s |
one HP perfectly set up for a jinx |
| 6799s |
rocket I very much like what P ising |
| 6801s |
here and siman is going to be refilling |
| 6804s |
their yeah the issue here though is that |
| 6808s |
um broken ball does have refill on the |
| 6810s |
board after the fact um and can set up |
| 6814s |
uh will have to float um one Mana so |
| 6817s |
they can play Sergeant plus MF you can't |
| 6820s |
really play the Scout which is been |
| 6821s |
unfortunate to set up with champion |
| 6823s |
strength unless you just only play that |
| 6826s |
true but broken ball will also be able |
| 6827s |
to develop next turn we will see though |
| 6830s |
because there's always the threat of |
| 6831s |
another Jinx rocket but Pat Pat's hand |
| 6834s |
is going to be quite stacked for a |
| 6835s |
little bit at least so there's no |
| 6837s |
immediate threat of another Jinx rocket |
| 6839s |
there are going to be a few actions |
| 6841s |
before that happens one thing to note |
| 6843s |
here just looking through deck list that |
| 6845s |
was a oneoff augumented experimentor |
| 6847s |
that came just in the nick of time into |
| 6849s |
Pat Pat's hand so Fortune a little bit |
| 6852s |
on his side but also just setting up |
| 6854s |
this Jinx rocket super duper nicely yeah |
| 6859s |
I have a bit questions from Ren born |
| 6861s |
committing that form up um while it does |
| 6863s |
provide yeah while it does provide um a |
| 6867s |
defensive option to keep your Duran |
| 6869s |
sculpter alive it |
| 6870s |
stops it it basically means that um you |
| 6874s |
don't get the trade on the trumpers |
| 6875s |
because then you would have forced |
| 6876s |
potentially a pull on trumpers on the |
| 6879s |
island Navigator um because then pat pat |
| 6881s |
would have had to respect it potentially |
| 6883s |
in the form up to remove |
| 6885s |
James that is actually a good point |
| 6888s |
using the form up as a removal option |
| 6890s |
would have been interesting I think |
| 6891s |
broken Ball's idea was to just set up a |
| 6894s |
champion strength turn here and that's |
| 6897s |
why this for is such a low role to pull |
| 6899s |
from the island Navigator because I |
| 6901s |
think broken ball was really hoping for |
| 6903s |
two Scout units just buffing them up |
| 6905s |
immensely and going for multiple attacks |
| 6908s |
trying to trade off everything on Pat |
| 6910s |
Pat side but I mean but we don't know |
| 6914s |
which weapon the fet actually pulled we |
| 6916s |
will see in a second but it's just not |
| 6918s |
what broken ball was hoping for |
| 6921s |
all yeah it's going to die cuz it's it |
| 6924s |
is an ephemeral it's super unfortunate |
| 6927s |
and now this Jinx is going to just kick |
| 6929s |
into next gear um you might if you are |
| 6932s |
broken ball change your game plan a |
| 6934s |
little bit so was the shepherd's |
| 6936s |
Authority um you might just want to |
| 6938s |
develop Misfortune here most likely and |
| 6941s |
then just go as wide as you can |
| 6943s |
unfortunately though the double blowback |
| 6946s |
Mystic is close enough but the only |
| 6949s |
issue obviously the amount of discard |
| 6951s |
card options aren't high enough you have |
| 6953s |
the returner wrench which is one way to |
| 6956s |
get a bit more discard uh but pat pat is |
| 6959s |
just missing the additional cards which |
| 6961s |
next turn should be available yeah well |
| 6964s |
Pat Pat is chilling anyway having enough |
| 6966s |
burn in hand to just shoot down broken |
| 6970s |
ball Nexus just not having the Mana |
| 6971s |
available I think there's no way to get |
| 6974s |
lethal this turn because uh to get rid |
| 6977s |
of your whole hand you would have to |
| 6978s |
invest all eight Mana then you can't |
| 6980s |
cast the rocket anymore so pad pad just |
| 6982s |
needs to not die this turn and it looks |
| 6985s |
like padpad can accomplish that quite |
| 6988s |
easily yeah just going for more units uh |
| 6992s |
you have you're not really scared of |
| 6993s |
Scouts outside of champion strength um |
| 6996s |
so as long as you've got the discard |
| 6997s |
options wait so we're going to draw an |
| 6999s |
additional two cards next |
| 7003s |
turn three yeah that that's not enough |
| 7006s |
right I mean we're not going to generate |
| 7008s |
a rocket but we have ah you mean yeah |
| 7010s |
not enough discard F in hand for I'm |
| 7013s |
just trying to |
| 7014s |
count there would be one card missing |
| 7018s |
that is true but there's a high |
| 7019s |
likelihood next turn that we can |
| 7021s |
generate a rocket by just discarding the |
| 7023s |
other blowback and then it would be |
| 7025s |
lethal so I think there will be plenty |
| 7028s |
of options for pad pad the main focus |
| 7030s |
right now should definitely be to just |
| 7032s |
not die and I think you're potentially |
| 7036s |
so you're potentially losing jinx this |
| 7037s |
turn unless you miss you'd have to stick |
| 7040s |
the um Petra side the broadwing yeah and |
| 7044s |
I think that's exactly why patpat is not |
| 7046s |
committing more like why pad's not |
| 7048s |
playing the other Mecha yord for example |
| 7051s |
broken ball also correctly identifying |
| 7054s |
having to go for a lot of pressure |
| 7056s |
thinking about how to block off this |
| 7057s |
island Navigator here it is going to be |
| 7060s |
the augmented |
| 7061s |
experiment a lot of like it's a very |
| 7063s |
tense situation for both sides still |
| 7065s |
because both players don't know what the |
| 7066s |
other one is holding but broken ball did |
| 7069s |
not committed inspiring light here so we |
| 7071s |
can be pretty sure that that's not going |
| 7073s |
to come down and the third form up is |
| 7076s |
the only consideration so next |
| 7078s |
consideration with the Petra side |
| 7079s |
broadwing do you pull Jinx or do you |
| 7081s |
pull something else and force Jinx to |
| 7082s |
block somewhere else on the board I Jinx |
| 7086s |
survives the other blocks so I would |
| 7088s |
definitely be pulling |
| 7090s |
Jinx um the reason being is you could |
| 7092s |
just be bluffing in like another form up |
| 7093s |
from broken ball while also pushing |
| 7095s |
lethal but I guess patat is just forced |
| 7097s |
the block no matter |
| 7098s |
what |
| 7101s |
in a bit of a tough situation here |
| 7103s |
whether or not to play that me they have |
| 7105s |
to I think I think they're dead if they |
| 7106s |
don't mhm they have they leave six |
| 7109s |
damage up on board without using Mystic |
| 7111s |
and they want to save that Mystic for |
| 7112s |
the Nexus I'm assuming so it's a bit |
| 7116s |
tough it they'd be put into a position |
| 7118s |
where they'd have to uh Mystic the the |
| 7121s |
Duran sculpter or lose Jinx M yeah and I |
| 7124s |
think the Mystic is going to be used |
| 7125s |
here to keep Jinx alive to be honest um |
| 7129s |
it's it's yeah using burn that you would |
| 7132s |
prefer to go towards the Nexus is also a |
| 7134s |
bit iffy here so as of right now there's |
| 7136s |
no guaranteed lethal inside yet for Pat |
| 7139s |
pad just because of the pressure that |
| 7141s |
broken ball is putting out so both |
| 7143s |
players kind of like fighting to their |
| 7147s |
teeth like going for the win conditions |
| 7149s |
that they do have so the next big |
| 7151s |
problem by the way is the returner |
| 7152s |
wrench actually landed on Jinx so that's |
| 7155s |
a discard option |
| 7158s |
gone true Mystic shot does come through |
| 7160s |
defensively to keep Jinx alive I very |
| 7162s |
much like it and surrender coming in by |
| 7166s |
Broken ball feels a bit early to me but |
| 7169s |
also broken ball was about to lose most |
| 7171s |
of their board here and it was a very |
| 7174s |
let's say scuffed position to come back |
| 7176s |
from as a Scouts Deck with no |
| 7178s |
interaction so I can't really blame |
| 7179s |
broken ball to save a bit of mental |
| 7181s |
energy save a bit of sanity and instead |
| 7184s |
go up against that Gwen Riven deck yeah |
| 7188s |
and also as we know on the follow turn |
| 7190s |
it would have been just blow back into |
| 7192s |
um actually that was one off no they |
| 7194s |
would have one off yeah it was actually |
| 7196s |
yeah they one off that was a bit too |
| 7198s |
close to |
| 7199s |
call |
| 7203s |
yeah now we see the the Gin deck coming |
| 7207s |
here out from broken ball switching it |
| 7208s |
up a little bit deciding Scouts isn't as |
| 7212s |
favored into this matchup so I'm going |
| 7213s |
to try get at least one of my wins in |
| 7216s |
mhm and this should be a pretty good |
| 7218s |
match up overall for broken ball also |
| 7219s |
having a good opening hand drop the bomb |
| 7222s |
pyos is super crucial here because there |
| 7224s |
are so many 1 HP units on Pat Pat side |
| 7227s |
Jin in hand is already going to start |
| 7229s |
spamming his effect passively from hand |
| 7231s |
Jun construct perfect blocker I I don't |
| 7235s |
know if broken ball could have pulled a |
| 7236s |
better starting hand this is looking |
| 7237s |
super juicy Pat pad also having a good |
| 7239s |
start but just Pat pad's early units are |
| 7242s |
going to be countered by Broken B's deck |
| 7245s |
and by Broken B's |
| 7246s |
pyes yeah unfortunate these pyes just |
| 7250s |
have so much removal available brok I |
| 7252s |
also like not using the pyos here I'm |
| 7255s |
waiting because um this just plays |
| 7257s |
around like potential hallowed and |
| 7259s |
giving hallow to something on the next |
| 7261s |
attack but again pretty safe turn here |
| 7264s |
from broken ball no matter what |
| 7265s |
everything looking great so far getting |
| 7267s |
that portal shuffled immediately and you |
| 7269s |
are going to draw that mysterious portal |
| 7272s |
in time to generate another blocker skip |
| 7274s |
is also a card that is not only going to |
| 7276s |
give hand info but also drain pad pad's |
| 7279s |
deck off resources and it already |
| 7280s |
doesn't play a ton of card draw yeah |
| 7283s |
you're really going to want to hit cards |
| 7284s |
like the might and the the new dragon |
| 7287s |
that's coming out like sort of the big |
| 7289s |
you can't hit Champions but you can hit |
| 7291s |
um like vengeance is another good one to |
| 7293s |
hit cuz I know Pat Pat's running a |
| 7294s |
couple copies of that too both broken |
| 7297s |
Riven gets developed here there's no |
| 7299s |
clean removal option on broken ball side |
| 7302s |
decides to not play the skip potentially |
| 7305s |
let that attack go through bot Bank |
| 7306s |
three spell mana and |
| 7310s |
okay two Hollow outs does come through |
| 7312s |
five damage pushed are you I'm I'm a bit |
| 7316s |
confused to not have seen that skip be |
| 7319s |
played and used as a blocker maybe just |
| 7321s |
saving it for later on just in case to |
| 7324s |
maybe hit a more key key s of endgame |
| 7326s |
turn like the enrange fire splitter cuz |
| 7328s |
Pat Pat's going to have to develop and |
| 7329s |
play a lot of their hand |
| 7330s |
out maybe maybe but we do see Jin get |
| 7333s |
developed which of course can accomplish |
| 7336s |
a lot just as a backline engine but just |
| 7339s |
triggering the passive effect over and |
| 7341s |
over avenging witha does get played as a |
| 7343s |
shadow in the |
| 7345s |
bush of course patpat has full |
| 7347s |
information over what this card is |
| 7350s |
because it is an open deck list format |
| 7352s |
both players know what the other one is |
| 7353s |
playing yeah so Vine vayia it's it's one |
| 7356s |
of those cards we haven't seen for a |
| 7358s |
while cuz it's very common |
| 7361s |
in uh so it's the Ambush card it's a 3 |
| 7364s |
three it's it generates a card in your |
| 7366s |
hand to transform it and when it does it |
| 7369s |
will stop all fast slow speed and skills |
| 7372s |
on the stack very similar to right of |
| 7375s |
negation and you additionally get a unit |
| 7377s |
on the board of course it is more tricky |
| 7380s |
to play around in a nid deck because |
| 7382s |
then your opponent actually does not |
| 7384s |
know if you do have deny access |
| 7386s |
available or not but in this case padpad |
| 7389s |
does have information the Jin does swing |
| 7391s |
in put some more skills on the St get |
| 7394s |
closer to that level up trigger before |
| 7398s |
I there was a line I believe where brok |
| 7402s |
in theory could have potentially removed |
| 7406s |
Riven I mean for sure it can be like |
| 7409s |
drop the bomb pyos and |
| 7412s |
pastry uh no I think that if you I think |
| 7415s |
if you pyos the 21 it would have |
| 7419s |
stunned potentially stunned the Riven |
| 7421s |
how close are we for the Jinx oh right |
| 7424s |
yeah and then you could have just |
| 7425s |
dropped the bomb and |
| 7427s |
attacked okay I didn't y think this |
| 7430s |
through so yeah maybe maybe we can get |
| 7433s |
that on a replay later on we'll see uh |
| 7436s |
that is definitely some mental |
| 7437s |
gymnastics to do with Jin as always and |
| 7439s |
we do see the mysterious portter |
| 7441s |
generating |
| 7442s |
a what's the name I don't remember the |
| 7445s |
name uh but in aive it's it's the it's |
| 7448s |
the Brash card that everyone wanted to |
| 7450s |
work but doesn't unfortunately work yeah |
| 7453s |
but it's too expensive generates another |
| 7455s |
fleeting Brash card which is going to be |
| 7457s |
a good blocker here actually yeah is the |
| 7460s |
card of the first one thank you and |
| 7463s |
um the third like the the the next |
| 7467s |
elusive is got sorry the next fleeting |
| 7469s |
card in hand is going to generate |
| 7470s |
another card in hand that is actually |
| 7472s |
going to make you rally as a player |
| 7476s |
that's the big payoff for going down |
| 7477s |
that line but broken ball does not have |
| 7480s |
any Mana generation and will not have |
| 7482s |
access to that although rally would look |
| 7484s |
good |
| 7484s |
here yeah we're going to see the Riven |
| 7487s |
level up most likely coming down here |
| 7490s |
here all three blade fragments coming |
| 7493s |
down which going to |
| 7494s |
generate the blade of the Exile which |
| 7497s |
levels up the Riven now the issue is |
| 7500s |
obviously Riven now gets double the |
| 7502s |
bonus damage from hallow double from |
| 7505s |
might doubled from everything and I |
| 7507s |
don't see a way for broken ball to |
| 7509s |
really deal with Riven here yeah no W up |
| 7512s |
has ever been found no hard removal in |
| 7515s |
hindsight like maybe you were onto |
| 7517s |
something the rivon was actually a |
| 7519s |
pretty high priority card to remove and |
| 7523s |
her just getting one attack through |
| 7525s |
already put so much pressure on broken |
| 7526s |
Ball's |
| 7527s |
Nexus now in a bit of a tricky situation |
| 7531s |
never having played that skip as a |
| 7532s |
defensive option broad M does get picked |
| 7535s |
up and that is huge for remove it yeah |
| 7537s |
that's sort of the key deck this deck |
| 7539s |
was known as basically broad main Jin |
| 7541s |
essentially for the most part or like a |
| 7544s |
broad main uh for the longest time um |
| 7548s |
really relies on Theo broad main from |
| 7549s |
turn six onward because you run a lot of |
| 7551s |
cheap um One cost spell removal which |
| 7553s |
doesn't remove most units in the game um |
| 7556s |
it's fortunate obviously in this match |
| 7557s |
up there a lot of like one HP on the |
| 7559s |
side of Si but yeah wallup again another |
| 7561s |
fantastic pick up here from broken ball |
| 7564s |
will allow uh very easy survivability on |
| 7567s |
the next couple of turns back to back |
| 7570s |
nuts a top decks broken ball just going |
| 7572s |
for a for swing here hoping Pat pad |
| 7574s |
blocks with those valuable Champions and |
| 7576s |
then broken ball can follow up with some |
| 7577s |
removal like broadman as well as all of |
| 7580s |
those PS and slow damage |
| 7582s |
spells big problem here though um is |
| 7585s |
that patat is practically one turn off |
| 7588s |
from a potential lethal has that um |
| 7592s |
enraged fire splitter in hand which will |
| 7594s |
do two damage and if Pat's able to find |
| 7597s |
a second one that would be |
| 7600s |
it might is also generally scary of |
| 7603s |
course it will get blocked by wup though |
| 7605s |
but if like Gwen survives with overwhelm |
| 7607s |
and another cards gets mited and the |
| 7609s |
ballista is their skip pulls the might |
| 7612s |
away that makes perfect sense that is |
| 7614s |
the card you would least like to be |
| 7616s |
surprised by mid combat skip being the |
| 7620s |
annoying little uh fellow that he always |
| 7623s |
is giving a lot of information as well |
| 7625s |
as just game control okay so the the |
| 7628s |
issue with that is obviously Fire split |
| 7630s |
is going to remove skip here um you can |
| 7632s |
deny the two damage here if you're |
| 7634s |
broken Bard but the problem is now broad |
| 7636s |
M's not on the board so how does broken |
| 7638s |
B actually remove these units how does |
| 7641s |
bck remove the Gin I mean the Riven and |
| 7644s |
the Gwen well it's fine because only the |
| 7648s |
Gwen has overwhelm and that card is |
| 7649s |
going to get |
| 7650s |
stunned right Riven doesn't have |
| 7652s |
overwhelm right now and we do have |
| 7654s |
enough blockers for all of the units |
| 7656s |
swinging in so we're not in h depends on |
| 7659s |
the weapon |
| 7661s |
right doesn't Riven generate a |
| 7664s |
weapon good point on on The Shard that |
| 7666s |
she generates yeah so there is a one out |
| 7669s |
of three chance that an overwhelmed |
| 7671s |
fragment is going to get generated roken |
| 7673s |
ball also with an interesting option |
| 7674s |
whether or not to swing here because the |
| 7676s |
follow up with drop the bump and or |
| 7678s |
pastry is going to be quite clutch J |
| 7682s |
also generating more abilities on the |
| 7686s |
stack yeah I think you want if you if |
| 7688s |
you're on the side of petack you want to |
| 7689s |
remove Jin um just to play |
| 7693s |
around um stuns potentially you can then |
| 7696s |
have the option of your pet pack to |
| 7697s |
develop further without having to worry |
| 7699s |
about that too much does set you up |
| 7700s |
obviously for the broad the other key |
| 7703s |
thing of even with the broad M broken |
| 7705s |
balls um units are all sort of spells |
| 7708s |
are all very much slow speed apart from |
| 7710s |
the wallup so it's going to take a |
| 7711s |
couple turn setups |
| 7715s |
mhm but now broken ball is actually not |
| 7718s |
in the worst position I'm curious to see |
| 7720s |
whether pad pad open attacks or develops |
| 7722s |
aista I would like to see some |
| 7723s |
development come in the open attack has |
| 7725s |
to happen because otherwise broad man |
| 7727s |
comes down on Riven and then the stun |
| 7728s |
happens s on Gwen and that would shut |
| 7730s |
down the entire turn here that's |
| 7732s |
actually a very good point but |
| 7734s |
developing also gives you one more |
| 7735s |
overwhelm unit on board that can be |
| 7737s |
buffed with fragments and so on so it is |
| 7740s |
it is a tough call to make |
| 7742s |
it's my intuition is with pad pad here I |
| 7745s |
think developing is fine especially not |
| 7748s |
knowing what broken ball is actually |
| 7750s |
holding but I do think the broadman is |
| 7753s |
going to come in quite clutch here well |
| 7755s |
you you can't really play bman right now |
| 7756s |
though right I know you have to but one |
| 7759s |
on the of the overwhelm |
| 7761s |
units uh you have to play on Riven right |
| 7766s |
I mean that would remove rythm but then |
| 7767s |
you have two overwhelm units swinging in |
| 7770s |
it's a tricky |
| 7772s |
one so I think that's what broken Ball's |
| 7775s |
idea is here already trying to Ping off |
| 7777s |
one overwhelm unit to set it up for |
| 7778s |
broadman removal or drop the bomb |
| 7781s |
removal actually because Pat pack can |
| 7783s |
just end it here though right depending |
| 7785s |
on the shards yeah now it's two shards |
| 7788s |
yeah it's two sh options here and that |
| 7789s |
could just end the game completely here |
| 7792s |
if pat pat finds the overwhelm fragment |
| 7793s |
I'm not quite sure what the left one is |
| 7795s |
I think that looks like a quick attack |
| 7796s |
fragment but it's hard to say from this |
| 7798s |
POV and with a huge hallowed Buffs as |
| 7801s |
well this is going to be very scary the |
| 7802s |
other question though is does pat pet |
| 7805s |
pre-commit all of these fragments and |
| 7807s |
the Riven Champion spell I assume this |
| 7810s |
is what is going to Happ FOC their focus |
| 7812s |
speed yes and like you don't really want |
| 7816s |
to give broken ball more time because |
| 7818s |
that deck will eventually out control oh |
| 7820s |
it was an overwhelm fragment all along |
| 7823s |
so pat pat did have full control of this |
| 7825s |
game we just didn't see it we didn't |
| 7827s |
know it and that is it that was a 20 |
| 7830s |
Victory a |
| 7831s |
quick well roll through by Pat pad yeah |
| 7836s |
unfortunately for broken ball that is |
| 7839s |
when his sort of run ends up against pat |
| 7841s |
pat congratulations patat for making it |
| 7843s |
through to the next round that is so |
| 7846s |
unfortunate for broken Bo though because |
| 7849s |
he is one of the most consistent |
| 7851s |
tournament Players in EMA making so many |
| 7853s |
top Cuts but just never quite spiking a |
| 7856s |
top cut by that I mean never quite |
| 7858s |
placing super duper highly outside of |
| 7860s |
the last Eternal open where he got |
| 7862s |
second place with the first place he |
| 7865s |
would have qualified for the world |
| 7866s |
championship so just barely missing it |
| 7868s |
here and now also making Top Cut of the |
| 7870s |
last championship uh the last chance |
| 7872s |
qualifier and also just not making it |
| 7874s |
through the G fin so unfortunate for |
| 7876s |
broken ball not being able to |
| 7877s |
participate in the World Championship |
| 7879s |
but congrats to Pat pad and we're moving |
| 7881s |
over to ghoster driver versus Never Walk |
| 7883s |
Alone another Super high-profile matchup |
| 7886s |
yeah while it is a high-profile match it |
| 7888s |
looks like a very sort of over match |
| 7892s |
here uh with with the set level up the |
| 7894s |
karma leveled up we've reached turn 10 |
| 7897s |
we're most likely going to generate an |
| 7898s |
obliterate here from set um which will |
| 7901s |
stop the revives there is a deny but |
| 7904s |
with the Cal on board that the right |
| 7907s |
still technically works but you you're |
| 7908s |
just kind of you're kind of just |
| 7910s |
stalling at this point with no way real |
| 7913s |
wion here if you're ghosted driver |
| 7916s |
unfortunately yeah Ghost Driver with a |
| 7918s |
Chrono break in hand which is usually a |
| 7920s |
blowout play and very often will just |
| 7922s |
secure a victory but never walk alone |
| 7924s |
seems to have played around it nicely |
| 7926s |
never quite giving ghoster driver a lot |
| 7928s |
of Revival options and also all the |
| 7932s |
showstopper is probably going to get |
| 7933s |
negated here this could also be left |
| 7935s |
gone through and Chrono break be played |
| 7938s |
the issue is like ghoster driver kind of |
| 7939s |
wants to empty their hand to replay Jinx |
| 7941s |
at some point soon problem is jinx is |
| 7944s |
obliterated right so this doesn't |
| 7945s |
actually bring Jinx back he brings the |
| 7947s |
rest of the board back there right right |
| 7949s |
and this gets noi that's what the right |
| 7951s |
of negation has been saved for I assume |
| 7953s |
if there is another Noy Andy and we do |
| 7955s |
see another oh Noy wait didn't that get |
| 7959s |
played for three did I see that |
| 7960s |
correctly yeah that's the one that got |
| 7962s |
played oh come back okay okay so it just |
| 7966s |
SL in the hand graphic animation it was |
| 7969s |
not a second Noy in hand it just um |
| 7973s |
didn't get committed to the board yet in |
| 7975s |
the animation and Jinx does get |
| 7978s |
revived |
| 7981s |
and I am a bit surprised um I do think |
| 7985s |
the card says obliterate on the first |
| 7987s |
that's why I thought maybe another Jinx |
| 7988s |
died earlier on the turn and that was |
| 7990s |
the second coroner break we don't know |
| 7993s |
yeah but uh go through driver did |
| 7997s |
so actually possible |
| 8000s |
well like we won't find out right now |
| 8004s |
only one way to find out and that is to |
| 8005s |
ask after the game but for now coaster |
| 8009s |
driver still a little bit in this game |
| 8012s |
but not really because the leveled up |
| 8013s |
Jinx got removed right away that shuts |
| 8015s |
down ghaster driver's draw and this |
| 8018s |
rocket on its own is not enough remov to |
| 8021s |
take control of the board yeah this |
| 8023s |
match up in general is heavily favored |
| 8025s |
for karma set um as long as they can |
| 8027s |
sort of survive the first couple of |
| 8029s |
turns and deny the Chrono Break um |
| 8032s |
they're usually in a fantastic spot gr |
| 8033s |
is drawing these jinxes on which is |
| 8036s |
going to help um clear up a lot of this |
| 8039s |
board but there is a |
| 8040s |
deny and I think this deny is worth it |
| 8043s |
it keeps your |
| 8044s |
set so we're just going to see a million |
| 8047s |
spells wow is |
| 8050s |
huge and this is usually what ends up |
| 8052s |
happening in this match up yep and you |
| 8055s |
can just double cast big scrap traps as |
| 8057s |
well the does come through without even |
| 8059s |
too much thought and I very much agree |
| 8060s |
here Never Walk Alone keeping the board |
| 8062s |
alive that was ghoster driver's only |
| 8065s |
chance to really back into the game and |
| 8067s |
I think now we just see those L up Karma |
| 8070s |
and set Duo take |
| 8074s |
over double scrap tration unfortunately |
| 8077s |
you only get one of them we get the next |
| 8078s |
show shot stopper here from never walk |
| 8081s |
alone and that is going to secure the |
| 8084s |
first win here for Never Walk Alone yeah |
| 8087s |
been there done that no need to see this |
| 8089s |
play out this was a full controlled like |
| 8093s |
there's just no way coming back for |
| 8095s |
Ghost Street driver and now we are going |
| 8096s |
to see the final match up here the score |
| 8099s |
is one a |
| 8100s |
piece yeah h j this is a triple control |
| 8103s |
lineup and Never Walk Alone bringing |
| 8106s |
back the good old H Jace we thought it |
| 8108s |
was dead but never walk alone saying |
| 8111s |
nope watch should we bring it |
| 8113s |
back on the flip side ghoster driver is |
| 8117s |
still going to need to win with this |
| 8119s |
Jinx Echo deck not the best matchup like |
| 8123s |
I I prefer to be a Never Walk Alone |
| 8125s |
shoes it of course depends a little bit |
| 8127s |
on how these lists are teched exactly |
| 8130s |
but never walk alone has the option to |
| 8132s |
just not play too much into a Chrono |
| 8134s |
break most of the time and two drop |
| 8136s |
borders being drawn by ghaster driers |
| 8138s |
that is so massive is that massive I'd |
| 8142s |
argue that's not that great you kind of |
| 8145s |
want to get those for free yeah no my |
| 8147s |
point is is massive on in a bad way |
| 8151s |
because like not only are you not going |
| 8153s |
to get these for free later Ron but also |
| 8155s |
you're basically starting the game down |
| 8157s |
two cards in hand or like two super low |
| 8160s |
value cards and you have no way of |
| 8162s |
discarding them you have no way of |
| 8164s |
shuffling them and cycling them uh and |
| 8166s |
making them useful they're just kind of |
| 8168s |
one three buddies that are hoping to get |
| 8169s |
buffed later |
| 8170s |
on yeah but as we can see ghost is |
| 8174s |
hitting those predicts so it's it's |
| 8176s |
super crucial so the echo Jinx game plan |
| 8178s |
usually the first couple of turns is to |
| 8179s |
find predict into predict into predict |
| 8181s |
and then try to look for Eko and get |
| 8183s |
echo down on the board pre-leveled or at |
| 8186s |
least um one three out of four with a |
| 8189s |
predict in hand like a burst |
| 8191s |
speed and that looks to be the case if |
| 8194s |
for ghost which is fantastic we do see |
| 8197s |
the first production surge out from |
| 8198s |
Never Walk Alone gets triple units here |
| 8201s |
and there's another Echo and another SC |
| 8203s |
sense there's a good number of options |
| 8205s |
here for |
| 8206s |
ghost yeah ghoster can is assume that |
| 8208s |
one Echo is going to get cleared out |
| 8210s |
actually you have to kind of assume that |
| 8212s |
all of your Echo get cleared out AAL |
| 8214s |
clock Ling gets drawn instead I would |
| 8217s |
say for Never Walk Alone that was a very |
| 8219s |
good production search pole because you |
| 8222s |
kind of needed a lot of blockers and |
| 8224s |
these with tough keyword I actually |
| 8227s |
present great blockers to not let drop |
| 8230s |
still alive so the tough keyword might |
| 8233s |
come in handy very soon most of all |
| 8236s |
never walk alone has to just be happy to |
| 8238s |
have like three blockers side by |
| 8241s |
side yeah but thing is if you're G to |
| 8243s |
driver you don't actually have to attack |
| 8244s |
here right you can you can pass keep |
| 8247s |
passing sort of waiting until you hit |
| 8249s |
the turn where you can find the corona |
| 8250s |
breaks and then um set up the sort of |
| 8253s |
attack Corona break attack coron AIC |
| 8255s |
style turns which this deck is known for |
| 8258s |
yeah ghoster driver's deck is pretty |
| 8260s |
aggressive but it's the it's very very |
| 8263s |
much a combo aggression deck and |
| 8266s |
therefore there's no rush to put out |
| 8268s |
pressure and get an nexcess damage and |
| 8271s |
yet but I do think toate level ech |
| 8277s |
quickly and most importantly also not |
| 8280s |
let never walk alone's Champions stick |
| 8283s |
around because both Jace and himer |
| 8285s |
Dinger are so impactful if they stay |
| 8289s |
alive for a few turns yeah I mean Jace |
| 8292s |
most likely is going to level up very |
| 8295s |
soon um we do see the echo level up |
| 8297s |
voice of the Risen is huge here |
| 8299s |
unfortunately we we see neverone has got |
| 8302s |
answers with that with the hex |
| 8303s |
spliterator |
| 8304s |
um which is also super key here |
| 8308s |
literator as well as Vengeance so never |
| 8311s |
walk Al can take care of quite a few of |
| 8313s |
the key cards on ghoster driver's side |
| 8317s |
do see the echo level up animation he is |
| 8319s |
of course still going to die that is why |
| 8321s |
the Aftershock committed and not thetic |
| 8323s |
shot by never walk along |
| 8327s |
here |
| 8329s |
yeah also one thing to noce exitor as |
| 8331s |
well if it does uh kill the unit if it |
| 8334s |
does die it will obliterate it so again |
| 8337s |
plays are around the Revival |
| 8342s |
options we see a bit of Chip damage come |
| 8345s |
through a bit of board control still I'm |
| 8349s |
liking never walk alone's position here |
| 8351s |
also like having access to Vengeance |
| 8353s |
antic spliterator having the Challenger |
| 8355s |
ja as potential removal for a champion |
| 8358s |
or a voice of the Risen we do just see |
| 8359s |
himer Dinger get dropped though because |
| 8361s |
at 4 HP this is very tough to deal with |
| 8363s |
four ghaster driver and voice of the |
| 8365s |
Risen was the card that got chosen |
| 8367s |
instead of another Echo I very much like |
| 8370s |
it because Echo is just too easy to |
| 8373s |
remove but this is also like this is |
| 8376s |
probably not going to stick around for |
| 8377s |
long no you're probably just going to |
| 8379s |
pull with with Jace here onto the voice |
| 8382s |
of the Risen and hope for um no Revival |
| 8386s |
right that's what it looks like |
| 8388s |
um Goa driver is sort of um posturing |
| 8391s |
right I've got the corona break here do |
| 8393s |
you want to play into |
| 8394s |
it Mystic shot does get played that kind |
| 8397s |
of speaks towards not pulling actually |
| 8400s |
in my yes I agree yeah because you just |
| 8402s |
remove one unit pass and then that that |
| 8404s |
one unit can't get revived yeah but if |
| 8406s |
you ha |
| 8408s |
obliterate it should not be able to get |
| 8410s |
revived |
| 8411s |
anyway |
| 8414s |
right shadow in the brush gets played |
| 8417s |
for one Mana here a nice little |
| 8419s |
discount this is very useful for ghoster |
| 8422s |
driver because you know that never walk |
| 8424s |
alone like only has clunky removal |
| 8427s |
options they're all going to cost six |
| 8429s |
Mana that means after one gets negated |
| 8433s |
by the avenging best Ambush the second |
| 8435s |
one cannot be played this turn anymore |
| 8437s |
the question is you go for the removal |
| 8438s |
on the voice of the Risen now your only |
| 8440s |
real concern I |
| 8441s |
guess is if you there's some sort of |
| 8445s |
cost reduction on it but you know there |
| 8447s |
it's very likely to have been the case |
| 8449s |
right yeah I mean I think the only cost |
| 8452s |
reduction that came through was from the |
| 8453s |
clock Ling and you know that a one Mana |
| 8456s |
shadow in the bush has been played so |
| 8458s |
the cost reduction is gone I like this |
| 8460s |
play but never walk alone it looks a bit |
| 8462s |
sad to throw away the JS just before he |
| 8464s |
levels but it's just so key to take out |
| 8468s |
this voice of the Risen to stop the |
| 8470s |
pressure coming out from love the attack |
| 8473s |
with the forge Chief because now you can |
| 8475s |
remove the Vaya here with the |
| 8479s |
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| 8481s |
quietus which allows you to then be safe |
| 8483s |
with the the hex literator and the |
| 8484s |
vengeancesynyster |
| 8510s |
yeah yeah I I do agree with you JS I |
| 8512s |
would have liked the other line of play |
| 8514s |
more but oh just let go through yeah in |
| 8518s |
this case it's only a tiny misstep it |
| 8520s |
doesn't matter too much I mean I like |
| 8522s |
letting this go through because then you |
| 8524s |
can Lev jinx this turn otherwise you |
| 8525s |
couldn't have it's true yeah um but it |
| 8529s |
just it's it's just I guess it it it it |
| 8531s |
ends up not mattering uh in the grand |
| 8534s |
scheme of things but yeah I think it |
| 8536s |
would have been slightly better to have |
| 8538s |
done that last turn just to play around |
| 8539s |
anything um potentially this turn they |
| 8542s |
could have kept the three3 on the board |
| 8543s |
potentially right with spell shield |
| 8547s |
M yeah I also thought that was the the |
| 8549s |
only reason to justify the forge Chief |
| 8552s |
sacrifice but either way like we see why |
| 8556s |
we said this matchup is so good for |
| 8558s |
never walk alone once you do establish |
| 8561s |
control it's just you have Superior |
| 8563s |
removal options very effective removal |
| 8565s |
options and you can put your opponent |
| 8567s |
into a position where they just never |
| 8568s |
get a good Chrono break off like no |
| 8571s |
matter if they actually drew it or not |
| 8572s |
okay now it does get top deck that is |
| 8574s |
like the one chance that ghoster driver |
| 8577s |
has to get back into this um in |
| 8579s |
hindsight also a bit surprising that we |
| 8581s |
did not see the Jinx leveled up but of |
| 8583s |
course Never Walk Alone also left a lot |
| 8585s |
of Mana open threatening those |
| 8587s |
vengeancesynyster |
| 8597s |
never walkine is really scared of here |
| 8599s |
um because that would just be a huge |
| 8600s |
blowout mhm Jinx would level up you'd |
| 8604s |
then Force the um use your other removal |
| 8607s |
and then Chona break can come in yeah so |
| 8610s |
for the newer viewers and the less |
| 8612s |
experienced viewers if you're wondering |
| 8613s |
why these players are not just jamming |
| 8615s |
their cards and why are they not playing |
| 8616s |
their cards efficiently the reason is |
| 8619s |
that both players do have access to the |
| 8622s |
deck lists of the other and they know |
| 8624s |
which cards to play around and which |
| 8625s |
cards would potentially blow them out of |
| 8628s |
the game and that's why both are being |
| 8629s |
very cautious and hesitant to not run |
| 8632s |
into one of those highrisk |
| 8634s |
situations yeah the downside to that is |
| 8637s |
obviously I mean the longer this match |
| 8639s |
goes on I would I would I would say that |
| 8642s |
it actually is worse for Ghost Driver um |
| 8644s |
unfortunately Ghost Driver doesn't |
| 8645s |
really have much of a choice and it's |
| 8647s |
never walk alone sort of dictating the |
| 8649s |
current match and where the state of |
| 8651s |
everything is going um there is that |
| 8653s |
right we were talking about so um will |
| 8656s |
ghost drive go for it |
| 8658s |
the problem is you do want it however |
| 8661s |
your hand and board State doesn't really |
| 8663s |
help if you do get it right now you're |
| 8665s |
not actually finding a way to actually |
| 8667s |
win the match yeah it's a bit awkward |
| 8670s |
because you only get that JS level up |
| 8672s |
when you get that right out of your hand |
| 8673s |
and for now it seemed like Never Walk |
| 8675s |
Alone was not in a hurry to remove |
| 8678s |
Jinx right potentially just never walk |
| 8681s |
alone scared of that right but obviously |
| 8684s |
we know that there is no right at the |
| 8686s |
moment |
| 8691s |
hex literator does come |
| 8693s |
through and now I guess the Moment of |
| 8695s |
Truth we will finally get confirmation |
| 8697s |
on whether or not that obliterated card |
| 8699s |
can be revived um as far as I remember |
| 8702s |
it shouldn't be able to yeah and a |
| 8705s |
ghoster driver does not commit the |
| 8706s |
Chrono break here that Tech coming in |
| 8709s |
super clutch I've almost never seen that |
| 8713s |
part of the card matter right that it |
| 8715s |
does not kill a unit but obliterates it |
| 8716s |
instead but here it's so crucial to the |
| 8720s |
outcome of the game we did see the r of |
| 8722s |
negation get predicted but it just comes |
| 8724s |
down too late ghoster driver really |
| 8726s |
needed this one turn earlier now never |
| 8728s |
walk alone is in full control himer |
| 8730s |
Dinger about to level up |
| 8732s |
here with a hextech Handler so every bot |
| 8735s |
is going to have plus two plus two and |
| 8738s |
this looks like all she wrote yeah so |
| 8740s |
hex Handler has been nerfed in recent |
| 8743s |
times kind of one of the main cards that |
| 8745s |
um uh pushed hinger Jace a little bit |
| 8749s |
out of favor no more no more quick |
| 8752s |
attack no more buff on HP anymore it's |
| 8755s |
just plus one plus is it plus one plus Z |
| 8757s |
yeah it's just plus one plus zero with |
| 8759s |
himer Dinger it would be plus two plus |
| 8761s |
one that's that's right I said that |
| 8762s |
incorrectly we do see more Bots being |
| 8764s |
generated but it's not even necessary |
| 8766s |
Never Walk Alone just going for the big |
| 8768s |
lethal swing here and ghoster Driver can |
| 8771s |
just barely stay alive but is kind of |
| 8773s |
out of steam these are my streets yeah |
| 8777s |
this is unfortunate and this is kind of |
| 8779s |
how himer Jace works it's sort of a bit |
| 8781s |
more grindy if they get that himer |
| 8783s |
Dinger down they can just consistently |
| 8785s |
generate blockers and that's actually a |
| 8787s |
huge problem for him for the um Echo |
| 8790s |
Jinx deck because even if they do get |
| 8792s |
the corona break turns and they do get |
| 8794s |
multiple attacks going uh as long as him |
| 8797s |
is still just generating turrets it's a |
| 8799s |
for not yep and Never Walk Alone mostly |
| 8803s |
navigated this match up perfectly with |
| 8805s |
never giving ghoster driver a a good |
| 8808s |
Chrono break and there was this one turn |
| 8811s |
where right of negation would have come |
| 8813s |
in clutch but it just wasn't in hand you |
| 8815s |
also said it was a one-off so some good |
| 8817s |
risk taking I guess by Never Walk Alone |
| 8819s |
it does pay off here maram used to cycle |
| 8821s |
voice of the Risen does get found but |
| 8823s |
with no board to buff she's not that |
| 8826s |
scary yeah I mean if even if you go for |
| 8828s |
the corer break attack corer break turn |
| 8830s |
and go to drivers this turn you're not |
| 8833s |
actually achieving anything super |
| 8834s |
unfortunate ancient preparation again |
| 8836s |
and the too late unfortunately that is |
| 8839s |
going to be it for Ghost Driver Never |
| 8841s |
Walk Alone will be making it through to |
| 8843s |
the top |
| 8846s |
16 and yeah ghoster driver another very |
| 8850s |
consistent tournament player |
| 8851s |
unfortunately kicked out here the |
| 8854s |
chances at hopes for a world |
| 8856s |
championship qualification of many |
| 8857s |
players ending today but that does make |
| 8860s |
way for never walk alone and some other |
| 8862s |
success stories with a triple control |
| 8865s |
lineup well finding some good match here |
| 8867s |
and not letting that Jinx deck get any |
| 8870s |
win I very much respect the creativity |
| 8872s |
and the risk in bringing that lineup but |
| 8874s |
also never walk alone navigated it quite |
| 8877s |
nicely yeah fantastic play from all the |
| 8880s |
players we've been seeing today and |
| 8882s |
ghost D what's been your sort of |
| 8883s |
favorite moment so far in terms of deck |
| 8886s |
lists um honestly still from the apack |
| 8890s |
tournament the Teemo Caitlyn puff cap |
| 8893s |
deck that won the tournament but from |
| 8895s |
today it would probably either be brok |
| 8897s |
balls gin deck I think that was some |
| 8899s |
very interesting piloting but I also |
| 8902s |
very much like this control lineup by |
| 8904s |
never walk alone right here and we are |
| 8907s |
going to see more spicy decks a bit |
| 8909s |
later on but we are about ready to hop |
| 8911s |
into a little break here and then follow |
| 8913s |
up with the round of 16 stay |
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tuned |
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to the |
| 8956s |
chaos |
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you |
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final |
| 9045s |
the |
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a |
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| 9531s |
welcome back everybody to EMA's Last |
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Chance qualifying tournament for the |
| 9536s |
world championship of Legends of Runa we |
| 9539s |
are now already at the round of 16 and |
| 9542s |
we are ready to recap some of the action |
| 9544s |
that just happened in the round of 32 |
| 9547s |
and that got us here I think the first |
| 9548s |
replays we have are of broken Ball |
| 9551s |
versus Pat pad the Italian |
| 9553s |
Showdown what did you see here after |
| 9556s |
that menacing Jinx rocket was played by |
| 9559s |
Pat pad yeah this is sort of the game |
| 9561s |
deciding turn here um against broken |
| 9564s |
ball this Jinx rocket completely |
| 9565s |
demolished the board broken ball elected |
| 9567s |
to use that form up to protect the Duran |
| 9570s |
sculptor um and then I believe ended up |
| 9572s |
going for a concede here um when the |
| 9575s |
match in theory technically wasn't over |
| 9578s |
although it was very close um depending |
| 9580s |
on the number of actions available brok |
| 9582s |
potentially had a chance to turn it but |
| 9584s |
they did lose most of their board here |
| 9586s |
yeah if Pat pad's draw would have break |
| 9588s |
maybe there was still a little glimmer |
| 9590s |
of hope but losing the MF is very |
| 9592s |
frustrating of course while the Jinx |
| 9593s |
stays alive but that was it for the |
| 9596s |
first game and the second game Pat pad |
| 9597s |
going for that huge Riven swing a lot of |
| 9600s |
foresight again on Pat Pats um in Pat |
| 9603s |
Pat's shoes realizing this is probably a |
| 9606s |
situation where broken ball doesn't have |
| 9607s |
great answers going for that early |
| 9610s |
damage which set up this beautiful |
| 9612s |
overwhelm development with the overwhelm |
| 9615s |
fragment en hand with another Riven |
| 9617s |
Champion spell in hand so a lot of |
| 9619s |
potential backup for pushing more damage |
| 9621s |
and broken ball just not having the |
| 9623s |
blockers here only one wall up no way of |
| 9626s |
dealing with this Onslaught and that was |
| 9629s |
it pat pat Advanced broken ball did drop |
| 9632s |
and leave us here but this replay |
| 9634s |
perfect use of hex obliterator right |
| 9637s |
yeah we mentioned it time and time again |
| 9639s |
the obliterate means it's it's not death |
| 9641s |
it doesn't go into the death pool so the |
| 9643s |
the corona break doesn't bring it back |
| 9644s |
and we saw a great match there between |
| 9647s |
Ghost Driver and Never Walk Alone very |
| 9649s |
shortly at the end of that match um |
| 9651s |
where we saw Never Walk Alone take it |
| 9654s |
and put themselves through into the next |
| 9656s |
part of their bracket and speaking of |
| 9658s |
brackets we are now going to go have a |
| 9660s |
quick Gander here as to where everyone |
| 9664s |
has been getting here and we see here |
| 9666s |
sugon de versus never walk alone and |
| 9670s |
Kari versus cop dagger here in the top |
| 9673s |
16 okay and I think we do have to um |
| 9676s |
mention here that sugan is in fact Hash |
| 9679s |
a very well-known and respected uh |
| 9682s |
tournament player from the L Community |
| 9685s |
just decided to make our lives miserable |
| 9687s |
here by renaming their account to suon |
| 9689s |
the E and uh therefore going to be |
| 9693s |
showing up in this bracket but on the |
| 9696s |
other half of the final 16 after or in |
| 9699s |
the other quarter rather aftermath arnet |
| 9702s |
is still in here representing the UK |
| 9705s |
going to go up against FXX and we see go |
| 9709s |
AKA coupon which is another nice new |
| 9712s |
name that you just mentioned for this |
| 9714s |
player and our featured match coming up |
| 9717s |
shortly Timmy to timid here going to be |
| 9719s |
going up against a French ladder Legend |
| 9722s |
shampo who's also very good and solid in |
| 9725s |
tournament play high-profile match there |
| 9727s |
for sure and we see Pat Pat again who |
| 9729s |
just Advanced against broken ball |
| 9731s |
earlier on yeah up against Reno AR yeah |
| 9733s |
this is going to be a fantastic series |
| 9735s |
of match is again a reminder to everyone |
| 9738s |
tuning in that only the top two will |
| 9740s |
qualify here um so as we look at these |
| 9743s |
brackets here we' got ready red Monty |
| 9745s |
against bodn again bodn player never |
| 9747s |
played a standard open making it all the |
| 9749s |
way here in their last chance qualifier |
| 9752s |
might end up making it all the way to WS |
| 9754s |
as I mentioned before the top two that |
| 9757s |
make it through today are the only |
| 9758s |
people going through to Worlds if you |
| 9761s |
lose that is this year's worlds run over |
| 9763s |
so all to play for here to get those |
| 9765s |
those last couple of spots and it's such |
| 9768s |
a weird dynamic right because in any |
| 9770s |
other card game tournament you are |
| 9771s |
already happy to get into the top 16 and |
| 9773s |
all of the other opens you were already |
| 9775s |
happy to have accumulated some rra |
| 9778s |
points to have a bit of price money in |
| 9779s |
your bank secured already but this |
| 9781s |
tournament is special it is go big or go |
| 9784s |
home you either make it to the Grand |
| 9786s |
finals or you go home empty-handed and |
| 9788s |
just with a little bit of bragging wres |
| 9790s |
about oh I was so close but not quite |
| 9792s |
there and that's why it's still such a |
| 9795s |
high pressure situation for all of these |
| 9797s |
players you had all year to show your |
| 9800s |
consistency you had all year to get |
| 9801s |
those points and now for everyone who |
| 9804s |
was unable to do that or maybe didn't |
| 9805s |
have time or for whatever reason this is |
| 9807s |
their last chance to play well get make |
| 9811s |
no mistakes and try make that those last |
| 9813s |
couple of spots and we are ready to jump |
| 9817s |
into the N |
| 9820s |
next match up the decks are ready here |
| 9823s |
we are going to be looking at Timmy to |
| 9824s |
timit decks first first another run at |
| 9827s |
Echo Jinx a bit of a different build |
| 9829s |
than the previous one playing two RS of |
| 9830s |
negation no avenging V but this is |
| 9833s |
mostly a very streamlined list with a |
| 9834s |
lot of three offs the more or less |
| 9836s |
optimal version has already been solved |
| 9838s |
and that's what Timmy is bringing here |
| 9840s |
yeah I do like the double rights um |
| 9842s |
maybe just sort of a tech pick maybe |
| 9844s |
expecting a bit more control we haven't |
| 9846s |
actually seen much of it actually today |
| 9849s |
um the double right would help in the |
| 9850s |
matchups with ket and we see the next |
| 9852s |
deck is this Riven Gwen again this is |
| 9854s |
the deck that came in a bit more |
| 9856s |
recently and it's just been tearing the |
| 9857s |
tournament scene apart uh very very |
| 9859s |
strong deck uh it's got the uh overwhelm |
| 9862s |
package with Riven the weapon package as |
| 9865s |
well and the Gwen hallowed uh combo that |
| 9869s |
works in tandem with with Riven doubling |
| 9872s |
up the attack bonuses and this is an |
| 9875s |
even more aggressive version than we've |
| 9876s |
seen earlier on no Vengeance and triple |
| 9879s |
opulent foyer double notion fervor |
| 9882s |
making Space by cutting two hate spikes |
| 9885s |
only playing one hat Spike and the third |
| 9887s |
deck another take on te o kale I did not |
| 9891s |
even notice that this deck had an |
| 9893s |
upspring recently but I love to see it I |
| 9896s |
hope this goes through this time I hope |
| 9898s |
this won't get banned the idea here is |
| 9899s |
to swarm the board early on go for early |
| 9902s |
board control with all of those yordles |
| 9904s |
with bandal City's unit spam tools and |
| 9907s |
then eventually finish the game with a |
| 9909s |
jalani the blood Weaver transforming |
| 9911s |
everything into huge overwhelm units and |
| 9914s |
we also see the Arma set again this is |
| 9917s |
one of the control decks I was expecting |
| 9918s |
to see more of today um and it's it's |
| 9921s |
showing itself here with shumo we saw it |
| 9923s |
pre a little bit in the previous matches |
| 9925s |
uh round as well very strong control |
| 9928s |
deck here in the meta it's very much a |
| 9930s |
uh I would say it's it's like 50/50 into |
| 9933s |
most things in the meta right now so |
| 9935s |
it's just a very sort of a safe pick in |
| 9937s |
terms of a control deck and we're seeing |
| 9939s |
two copies of Nine Lives again the tech |
| 9941s |
Choice there nine lives allowing some |
| 9943s |
birth speed development blockers or |
| 9946s |
attackers but moving on after seeing a |
| 9948s |
control deck we now see a very |
| 9950s |
aggressive board swarm aggro oriented |
| 9953s |
deck Jinx with no Cannon option again |
| 9956s |
very similar to a list we saw a bit |
| 9957s |
early R triple promoter triple streak |
| 9960s |
squeaker generally very stream life |
| 9962s |
almost only three ofs with one copy of |
| 9964s |
maram temp |
| 9966s |
caretaker yeah it's it's just a very |
| 9969s |
solid discard aggro deck and leading us |
| 9972s |
up to the third deck so Sho here going |
| 9974s |
for three different deck Styles um |
| 9977s |
instead of like triple control triple |
| 9978s |
midrange they've got sort of a mid-range |
| 9979s |
an aggro and a control list um just sort |
| 9982s |
of spread their Styles across these |
| 9984s |
three decks Jacks one again we've spoken |
| 9986s |
about number of times however this one's |
| 9988s |
running a single copy of buried and I |
| 9989s |
which has been a tech choice in the past |
| 9992s |
for this list but has been cut in most |
| 9994s |
recent times most likely uh you bring |
| 9996s |
that when you're expecting a lot of |
| 9998s |
mirrors yeah what's interesting around |
| 10001s |
about deck building on champo side is |
| 10002s |
also that the aggro deck Jinx is very |
| 10005s |
streamlined on almost only three ofs |
| 10007s |
while the two slower decks mid-range and |
| 10010s |
the control deck had a lot of one and |
| 10011s |
two ofs tched into them that just make |
| 10014s |
the opponent's life more miserable in a |
| 10015s |
longer drawn out game because it gets |
| 10017s |
more and more likely that you draw your |
| 10019s |
offbeat situational one and two ofs so |
| 10022s |
very curious to see what bands are going |
| 10025s |
to come in here did you already Theory |
| 10028s |
craft a little bit in this specific |
| 10031s |
matchup so K set in general should be |
| 10034s |
okay in to jinx Echo but I don't know |
| 10036s |
how well it fares into the bandal Swarm |
| 10039s |
uh similarly I think the bandal Swarm |
| 10041s |
should do well into discard aggro um and |
| 10046s |
it's going to be tough right so it's |
| 10048s |
like one deck beats another deck and |
| 10049s |
then the other deck that's left open |
| 10051s |
Beats the other one sort of thing |
| 10052s |
happening here yeah I also don't see any |
| 10055s |
very obvious ban choices here the |
| 10057s |
matchup spread is very interesting |
| 10059s |
mostly because shampo elected to go for |
| 10061s |
a very well what do we call it a lineup |
| 10065s |
That seems a bit all over the place on |
| 10067s |
first side but all three decks are very |
| 10071s |
strong on their own and have interesting |
| 10073s |
matchup spreads and I do believe shampo |
| 10075s |
is very very proficient at piloting them |
| 10077s |
uh shampo I faced a lot mostly on the |
| 10079s |
ranked lead and extremely good at |
| 10082s |
playing those control decks like or |
| 10085s |
control/ combo decks like Karma said and |
| 10088s |
really shines and drawn out matches yeah |
| 10091s |
I suspect if you're on Timmy's side |
| 10093s |
you're more likely going to ban the |
| 10095s |
karma set or the jackor you're most |
| 10097s |
likely leaving discard up um in theory |
| 10101s |
you should be okay into that you have a |
| 10103s |
you can either go tall with with Gwen |
| 10105s |
Riven and just slam through them a lot |
| 10107s |
of the time um or you can go wide with |
| 10110s |
your Echo Jinx and your your Teo |
| 10114s |
bandal I agree with you sho's Karma deck |
| 10117s |
is the only one that has very very |
| 10119s |
effective defensive options that being |
| 10121s |
said there's a case to be made for |
| 10122s |
Banning Jack's or because it's the only |
| 10124s |
one with access to freezes and |
| 10127s |
especially in the Riven deck you really |
| 10130s |
don't want to face a freeze at the same |
| 10133s |
time against naona deck you can also get |
| 10135s |
stunned you can get your big units |
| 10137s |
recalled you can get them straight up |
| 10139s |
removed by the pnz portion of their deck |
| 10142s |
it's a bit of a pick your poison here |
| 10145s |
yeah it really depends on I guess what |
| 10147s |
these players have sort of predicting |
| 10149s |
people to bring it's it's I think this |
| 10150s |
is probably one of the harder pick bands |
| 10152s |
of the day that we've seen um because uh |
| 10156s |
just because of how close a lot of these |
| 10157s |
matchups actually |
| 10159s |
are I just hope to see that Teemo deck |
| 10162s |
in action that is my only wish for today |
| 10164s |
please don't ban a champo that is |
| 10167s |
potentially an option I can see the Gwen |
| 10169s |
Riven being the target here to be |
| 10171s |
banned that's a bit surprising to me |
| 10174s |
because I think like on shampo side |
| 10176s |
you're like the only deck that really |
| 10178s |
doesn't have answers to Gwen Riven is |
| 10180s |
the Jinx deck so no matter what gets |
| 10182s |
banned you'll at least have one good |
| 10183s |
match up into the deck |
| 10186s |
I mean technically the Jinx deck can |
| 10188s |
just throw a lot of its removal at Gwen |
| 10190s |
and Jinx there aren't many like Health |
| 10192s |
buff buff options so in theory yeah it |
| 10195s |
has options there it's not like as like |
| 10198s |
um straight set as we think but again |
| 10201s |
yeah it's I feel like the matchup spread |
| 10204s |
is pretty much fairly even across the |
| 10205s |
board maybe there's |
| 10207s |
slight uh different opinions on the |
| 10210s |
player side I mean if we just look at |
| 10212s |
pure stats it's going to be quite even |
| 10213s |
but players will have their own opinions |
| 10214s |
I suspect to what they want to choose |
| 10216s |
and yeah Echo Jinx being banned here |
| 10218s |
Echo Jinx being banned when R goes |
| 10220s |
through and the K de does get banned |
| 10222s |
after all that means the Teo deck slides |
| 10224s |
through I am joyful to see this and yeah |
| 10228s |
first time we see this in action today |
| 10230s |
and let's see what the first matchup of |
| 10233s |
the day is going to be I can imagine |
| 10235s |
that Timmy would like to not play the |
| 10237s |
Gwen deck against the or deck or does |
| 10240s |
get picked and it is going to be running |
| 10242s |
into the Gwen deck very interesting to |
| 10244s |
see here we saw for a split second that |
| 10246s |
shano had a three sisters in the opening |
| 10249s |
hand but Mulligan |
| 10251s |
away yeah super super interesting there |
| 10255s |
I mean three sisters is one of those |
| 10256s |
cards that's going to keep you alive |
| 10257s |
however though if you didn't have any |
| 10259s |
other units or anything you probably do |
| 10261s |
want to St throw it away just to find |
| 10262s |
something to stem the early damage in |
| 10264s |
the first couple of turns good point I |
| 10266s |
think that was exactly the reasoning it |
| 10268s |
was like okay if I would have one or two |
| 10271s |
units to play early then I can greed and |
| 10273s |
keep the three sisters from later on but |
| 10274s |
not situation here we do see the |
| 10276s |
interesting T choice burri and Ice come |
| 10278s |
through we also do not see a block with |
| 10280s |
the ja even though Sky spitter is in |
| 10282s |
hand but that just means that champo |
| 10283s |
wants to keep on developing more units |
| 10286s |
on curve Innovative blacksmith coming |
| 10288s |
down here yeah just going to slightly |
| 10290s |
heal um while also keeping Jack alive |
| 10293s |
the the blacksmith sets up the combat |
| 10295s |
cook for the next turn uh your overall |
| 10297s |
attacks are pretty good if you're sh on |
| 10299s |
sho's side and the oh the harsh winds |
| 10301s |
draw is fantastic here for Sho that's |
| 10305s |
what they need also combat real was a |
| 10308s |
very good pick up as a weapon because |
| 10310s |
right now like you swing in you only |
| 10312s |
have one Mana available you can't really |
| 10314s |
play Combat tricks or represent combat |
| 10316s |
tricks but with the combat re with two |
| 10318s |
spell Mana you can represent Sky |
| 10320s |
Splitters and uh I don't quite remember |
| 10322s |
if there are more in sho's deck but Skys |
| 10326s |
splitter is definitely the big one to |
| 10328s |
have in hand |
| 10329s |
here yeah it it's yeah as it's it's huge |
| 10332s |
in the defensive terms but again it's |
| 10334s |
just fantastic uh sort of cheap combat |
| 10337s |
spell to to also protect your life on a |
| 10340s |
big overwhelm ter it's three HP |
| 10342s |
effectively being saved a lot of the |
| 10343s |
time um the only issue obviously we see |
| 10346s |
here with SH Bo has got a lot of these |
| 10347s |
combat tricks uh is slowly starting to |
| 10350s |
only have spells which could end up |
| 10353s |
being a little bit of a problem so the |
| 10355s |
Gwen really needs to stay alive for |
| 10357s |
Timmy that is currently the hyper carry |
| 10359s |
let's call her uh not only healing the |
| 10361s |
own Nexus but also representing a lot of |
| 10363s |
damage and a good Target to put all of |
| 10366s |
those combat tricks on shampo elected to |
| 10369s |
let the Innovative blacksmith die on the |
| 10371s |
previous turn very cautious with a Skys |
| 10374s |
spitter another consideration here might |
| 10376s |
have been banking Mana to play that |
| 10377s |
buried and Ice later on we see J J is |
| 10380s |
already very close to leveling up even |
| 10382s |
if he swings on his own next turn he is |
| 10384s |
probably going to get that level up |
| 10386s |
through yeah so sh had a cut number of |
| 10389s |
options here in terms of what they |
| 10390s |
wanted to do um they could have gone for |
| 10393s |
the fish fight here um |
| 10395s |
uh and save the harsh wins for a future |
| 10398s |
turn when H gets a little bit bigger |
| 10400s |
they could but instead they went for the |
| 10401s |
har |
| 10403s |
wins now um but they they have a Skys |
| 10406s |
splitter backup in this yeah this is |
| 10409s |
such a huge turn I actually love this |
| 10411s |
from shampo banking that two Spellman to |
| 10413s |
have this harsh wins plus Sky spitter |
| 10415s |
combo but Timmy can invest a m here or a |
| 10418s |
auction F and I think that's exactly |
| 10420s |
worth it and what Timmy should do take |
| 10422s |
out that unit saving the might for later |
| 10424s |
for big overwhel hit but like we said |
| 10426s |
earlier on the Gwen is the hyper carry |
| 10428s |
she needs to stay alive and that's |
| 10431s |
exactly what Timmy did both players made |
| 10433s |
perfect use of their Mana all and all |
| 10436s |
all of their combo tricks but it's just |
| 10437s |
a quick attack keyword that prevails |
| 10440s |
here and gives Simi the favorable trade |
| 10444s |
yeah this is unfortunately a really kind |
| 10447s |
of awkward turn here for Sho has to go |
| 10449s |
for the draw here to try and find um |
| 10453s |
anything uh for the future turn but this |
| 10455s |
turn has to try and remove this here as |
| 10458s |
soon as possible the ja level up is |
| 10459s |
going to put his attack up to four here |
| 10461s |
yeah but this is going to go through |
| 10463s |
right there's no hate Spike there's no |
| 10465s |
Vengeance there's no removal no |
| 10467s |
protection NADA on Timmy side the second |
| 10470s |
for you gets played and you do have a |
| 10471s |
lot of small ephemeral HS coming in Kato |
| 10475s |
could be a win condition here in a |
| 10477s |
second right buing |
| 10479s |
like you do still have the might so you |
| 10482s |
can make use of that H hell buff on the |
| 10484s |
k to himself but shampo oh shampo keeps |
| 10488s |
on developing and does tap under |
| 10490s |
potential bur in ice Mana that's |
| 10492s |
interesting but also still has fish |
| 10493s |
fight in |
| 10496s |
hand yes the glacial San is huge here it |
| 10499s |
allows the draw um this is a lot of |
| 10502s |
damage here but again fish fight can |
| 10504s |
just remove K here yeah KO has to die |
| 10507s |
otherwise you you're you're putting |
| 10509s |
yourself in a risky position |
| 10512s |
unnecessarily yeah it's a lot of committ |
| 10515s |
in terms of Mana K sitting at five so |
| 10517s |
you know most likely um the worst |
| 10519s |
outcome that Timmy can really do is like |
| 10521s |
another two drop like the redeem prodigy |
| 10523s |
or what we see here the Run |
| 10526s |
Squire and shampo has a few options here |
| 10530s |
could re-equip a weapon I'm expecting |
| 10532s |
the San to be played on defense I think |
| 10534s |
shampo is already looking at lethal here |
| 10537s |
right shampo is currently trying to map |
| 10539s |
out okay how do I get a wi CLA verocity |
| 10541s |
open attack |
| 10543s |
leth I didn't quite math out it might |
| 10547s |
heal by equipping a weapon for |
| 10549s |
one uh if you're shumo I'm trying to |
| 10551s |
think how much damage Timmy can |
| 10553s |
represent here there's a lot of Hallows |
| 10556s |
that have died five of them here so |
| 10558s |
that's and you're able to drag one of |
| 10560s |
the units off to the side using the Run |
| 10562s |
Square |
| 10563s |
hit so both players having some tough |
| 10566s |
decisions for Timmy it's mostly just |
| 10568s |
which unit do I pull which unit do I |
| 10570s |
give hello to I expect the um we Smith |
| 10575s |
the blacksmith to be pulled by the |
| 10578s |
Challenger and one of the ephemeras to |
| 10579s |
get that Hall buff now for shampo it's |
| 10582s |
really tricky like do I develop glacian |
| 10585s |
on |
| 10588s |
defense overwhelm fragment on the o that |
| 10591s |
is actually the absolute maximum damage |
| 10593s |
that can be pushed outside of using M of |
| 10596s |
course but goes for the ja removal and |
| 10598s |
therefore trying to take out Cho's Wing |
| 10600s |
Condition it's not that much damage |
| 10602s |
represented though champo could just let |
| 10604s |
this go through yeah I was wondering if |
| 10607s |
we just go for the might this turn but I |
| 10608s |
guess |
| 10612s |
not yeah I'm still worried about I'm |
| 10615s |
just what combat tricks is shumo |
| 10617s |
presenting right now right so you've |
| 10618s |
seen the one harsh wins so Three Sisters |
| 10622s |
is your next worry mhm cuz there's two |
| 10625s |
of those still in the left in the |
| 10627s |
deck shampu is are lowkey kind of happy |
| 10630s |
that the Jags died because now the other |
| 10632s |
one can be redeveloped while |
| 10635s |
Scout blacksmith can be turned into a |
| 10640s |
wildclaw into an alpha wildclaw here by |
| 10642s |
the white CLA ferocity and that means |
| 10644s |
two big |
| 10645s |
attacks yeah it's a huge turn here for |
| 10648s |
shum I think you just send it yeah and I |
| 10650s |
don't think Timmy has anything in hand |
| 10652s |
to stop that well quiet is actually but |
| 10656s |
it's Focus speed you can't stop the |
| 10659s |
first that allows for some quietest |
| 10663s |
action but semy does not go for it |
| 10666s |
instead develops a blocker and this |
| 10668s |
should close out the game I assume we |
| 10670s |
just forged the Scout weapon we turn |
| 10672s |
this into an alpha wild claw and that |
| 10674s |
means Timmy had a tiny little window of |
| 10677s |
staying alive staying in this game but |
| 10680s |
did not use that quietest in time to be |
| 10683s |
honest it probably would have just |
| 10685s |
prolonged the inevitable anyway because |
| 10686s |
Timmy is just not having any scary |
| 10690s |
units with hallowed being very uh at |
| 10694s |
seven you didn't really need anything |
| 10696s |
other than a unit plus might to really |
| 10699s |
start pressuring lethal it was actually |
| 10700s |
Incredibly Close with run Squire uh I |
| 10702s |
mean you're probably losing the Run |
| 10704s |
Squire this turn but if you could have |
| 10705s |
kept it alive and pulled off pulled the |
| 10707s |
alpha wild off to the side there was |
| 10709s |
potential open attack lethal type of |
| 10711s |
scenario but again this is very sort of |
| 10714s |
like nitpicky lines here yeah that's a |
| 10717s |
very tough call to make as well like uh |
| 10720s |
of course timy doesn't have that |
| 10722s |
knowledge I think shampo also still had |
| 10724s |
or Mana up I don't quite remember um so |
| 10728s |
it's a very tough call to make for Timmy |
| 10730s |
like it would have to be a soul read to |
| 10732s |
go for that qust there did not go for it |
| 10736s |
shampo capitalizes gets the win with the |
| 10739s |
or deck that uh freeze turn did come in |
| 10743s |
very clutch after all though even though |
| 10745s |
shampo did lose that ja or the what was |
| 10749s |
it the the combat cook on that turn even |
| 10751s |
though Timmy did get the better of the |
| 10752s |
exchange that time overall it just made |
| 10755s |
sure that champo out value Timmy in a |
| 10757s |
way because it did cost Timmy a lot of |
| 10759s |
resources cards in hand and that means |
| 10761s |
Timmy eventually ran out of steam and |
| 10763s |
shano just found the window for lethal |
| 10766s |
and knocked in the |
| 10768s |
Nexus and we go into our next match here |
| 10771s |
and it is the discard aggro from shumo |
| 10773s |
here um being played up against again |
| 10776s |
the |
| 10778s |
Gwen Riven list and looking like a |
| 10781s |
fairly good opening hand for both sides |
| 10783s |
here Ro got me good son urchin |
| 10787s |
discarding the Chompers giving an early |
| 10789s |
Challenger which is probably not going |
| 10790s |
to be sacrificed this early on but yeah |
| 10793s |
good opening hands for both players |
| 10795s |
currently again this favors shampo |
| 10797s |
because shampo has access to draw well |
| 10800s |
Timmy would like to have one of the |
| 10802s |
champions in hand already and continues |
| 10805s |
to draw very low cost and low value |
| 10808s |
cards generally good for the opening |
| 10810s |
hand but Timmy might run into a similar |
| 10812s |
situation of running out of steam at |
| 10814s |
some soon which I really don't want to |
| 10816s |
see happen because I want to see the te |
| 10817s |
deck |
| 10818s |
in so op for as well also is fantastic |
| 10822s |
in this matchup um will just generate a |
| 10824s |
Blocker on when it's played on the |
| 10826s |
defensive turn and will generate |
| 10827s |
attackers from there on um I remember |
| 10830s |
when it used to do you remember the time |
| 10831s |
when it used to just generate units all |
| 10833s |
the time |
| 10835s |
before that was a horrendous to deal |
| 10838s |
with unfortunately that's not the case |
| 10840s |
anymore it's a it's round based I |
| 10842s |
believe yeah y very Justified nerve and |
| 10845s |
now it is much more fair it's still an |
| 10848s |
interesting card that does he play but |
| 10850s |
not as well annoying um we did see |
| 10854s |
shampo Shuffle in a Mystic shot after |
| 10856s |
some thought So shampo currently valuing |
| 10858s |
just board development and swarming and |
| 10863s |
pressure over the potential removal |
| 10864s |
option of Mystic shot plus Electro |
| 10867s |
Harpoon to remove a |
| 10868s |
champion yeah there's a couple of |
| 10870s |
options here um theodo Squire has to |
| 10872s |
sort of generate the removal op is a bit |
| 10874s |
unfortunate here you really want to play |
| 10876s |
the Su treger here this turn on three on |
| 10879s |
curve but doesn't really have anything |
| 10881s |
to really throw |
| 10883s |
away nonetheless shampo is kind of |
| 10885s |
chilling here does have effective |
| 10887s |
removal options could go for an attack |
| 10890s |
probably not worth it because we would |
| 10891s |
sacrifice a unit to the ephemeral 2 one |
| 10894s |
on Timmy side and here's exactly what I |
| 10897s |
meant earlier on with Timmy's deck just |
| 10901s |
not finding the value oh actually s |
| 10904s |
sacrifices the Chompers to push six |
| 10905s |
early damage shampo going pedal to the |
| 10907s |
Met yeah I was going to say you wouldn't |
| 10910s |
really use the pyos there unless you |
| 10911s |
were going to go for the attack um |
| 10913s |
because you don't want to give them the |
| 10914s |
H so it was very much a setup there for |
| 10917s |
that attack which is a bit um I guess a |
| 10920s |
bit of like a a tell here from shum on |
| 10923s |
what they wanted to do yeah what one |
| 10926s |
thing I will say though is I a bit |
| 10928s |
surprised that the uh tiny spear was |
| 10931s |
equipped on the AOS like usually I would |
| 10935s |
agree that just spreading out power is |
| 10937s |
the the cleanest way to attack and |
| 10939s |
spreading out power evenly but knowing |
| 10941s |
that your opponent plays fearsome units |
| 10943s |
I kind of would have liked one of those |
| 10945s |
two ones be buffed to a 3-1 just to have |
| 10947s |
um well cleaner blocks here and now we |
| 10949s |
are going to get punished by this three |
| 10951s |
Hall units already dead we going to tank |
| 10954s |
six that hurts yeah it does yeah you |
| 10957s |
could have okay you could have done that |
| 10960s |
before the attack right you already had |
| 10961s |
a crank I guess they wanted the atune |
| 10965s |
from the octopus but I guess you could |
| 10967s |
you could have waited a turn right but I |
| 10968s |
guess this sets up a better open |
| 10970s |
attack for one more damage yeah I'm not |
| 10973s |
you take a bit more Dam you take a bit |
| 10975s |
you take the six but you set up a better |
| 10977s |
open but in this this line now I'm a bit |
| 10980s |
confused because now you don't set up |
| 10981s |
the you're not doing an |
| 10984s |
open yeah developing I'm I'm with you on |
| 10988s |
this I think a few plays here looked a |
| 10990s |
bit unorthodox I'm not sure if it's some |
| 10992s |
super deep Giga brand Str or some |
| 10994s |
inaccuracies coming in from shampo which |
| 10997s |
I mean it's also not the end of the |
| 10999s |
world not like actually no one can play |
| 11001s |
perfectly all the time but we did see |
| 11004s |
this Quaker generate a professor F Mech |
| 11006s |
and that is absolutely huge because |
| 11008s |
Cho's hand is also running out of steam |
| 11010s |
and value and here it is so nice to have |
| 11013s |
some unit refill even though they are |
| 11014s |
randomly generated it is so good to just |
| 11016s |
have some cards on the board and on |
| 11019s |
Timmy's side just as they are about to |
| 11021s |
run out of steam the Gwen does get top |
| 11024s |
de and maybe can put them somewhat back |
| 11026s |
into this game yeah so the Gwen is |
| 11029s |
fantastic but just no no need to go for |
| 11032s |
the Gwen the the benefits of Gwen |
| 11034s |
obviously would have been the healing |
| 11035s |
from the snip snip um potentially stall |
| 11038s |
out a little bit longer but with six |
| 11040s |
hollowed and Kato and everything being |
| 11044s |
on one |
| 11045s |
HP Shuma is just looking for some |
| 11047s |
removal here yeah and is that the |
| 11049s |
overwhelm fragment in the middle I do |
| 11051s |
believe so it does get put on to one of |
| 11054s |
the ephemeres and we will see a big |
| 11056s |
attack I am so surprised that this |
| 11059s |
overwhelm fragment what that's what was |
| 11060s |
just a huge going to be on shimpo right |
| 11063s |
I mean on K right sorry wrong and I |
| 11066s |
think both players realizing this and Sh |
| 11069s |
not like this comes through and we won't |
| 11071s |
see the Divo deck no no that's so |
| 11075s |
unfortunate the pressure must have |
| 11077s |
gotten to them yeah we just mentioned it |
| 11080s |
we just mentioned inaccuracies on champo |
| 11082s |
side and then we see a big Miss play |
| 11084s |
unfortunately by Timmy ah it's Ah that's |
| 11088s |
not how you want to end your world's run |
| 11089s |
I feel so bad for Timmy there |
| 11092s |
yeah did yeah it was yeah with the Kato |
| 11095s |
having like 10 plus attack and two units |
| 11097s |
yeah having overwhel there was nothing |
| 11099s |
stopping it and yeah it's I I don't know |
| 11103s |
what to say it's it's it's genuinely |
| 11104s |
just heartbreaking for Timmy because |
| 11106s |
they had they had that match uh in the |
| 11109s |
bag potentially to even out to one1 and |
| 11112s |
we going to have to we're going to have |
| 11113s |
to move on to our favorite um Su easy |
| 11117s |
here up against Never Walk Alone yep I |
| 11121s |
am very excited to see hash |
| 11125s |
AKA uh yes sugan the easy um face up the |
| 11130s |
himer Nora wait no it's himer Jace again |
| 11134s |
right it's the the deck that we |
| 11135s |
previously saw the Hipster himer J pole |
| 11138s |
with the nerfed hexte handlers never |
| 11141s |
walkon seems to still be liking the OD |
| 11143s |
here but no removal for this level Jinx |
| 11146s |
so for hash this could generate some |
| 11150s |
serious value and some serious Nexus |
| 11152s |
burn the good thing is that like the |
| 11155s |
Nexus the the the Jinx Rockets line up |
| 11159s |
so incredibly well with heimerdinger's |
| 11161s |
Bots all of them still get removed |
| 11163s |
because the hex tech Handler does not |
| 11166s |
buff HP anymore yeah it's it's it's the |
| 11169s |
Nerf is actually kind of crucial here |
| 11170s |
cuz I mean the other thing is to not is |
| 11172s |
there isn't actually removal here for |
| 11174s |
Jinx on the side of never Walker l so |
| 11175s |
this Jinx is just going to steamroll a |
| 11178s |
little bit here in the next turn and |
| 11180s |
just go wide keep generating Rockets |
| 11182s |
hopefully um and make it very difficult |
| 11185s |
for Never Walk Alone mhm we see suges |
| 11190s |
trying to refill the |
| 11191s |
board is going to be able to empty the |
| 11194s |
hand this turn but no Mana left for a |
| 11195s |
jinx rocket also never walk alone did |
| 11197s |
not give the opportunity of a board wipe |
| 11200s |
here attacks in with these two Haack |
| 11203s |
handlers real realizing that right now |
| 11206s |
sug easy cannot get any good blocks |
| 11209s |
going but this like the biggest issue |
| 11212s |
for never walk alone right now is not |
| 11213s |
having removal for the Jinx and hash is |
| 11216s |
just going to get more board |
| 11219s |
refill never walk alone here yeah |
| 11222s |
Sugo um is going to be able to get |
| 11224s |
another rocket here too as well this |
| 11227s |
turn big big Nexus it and that should be |
| 11230s |
it right Electro Haroon is going to come |
| 11232s |
down the hand be Ed very easily and the |
| 11235s |
super mega Death rocket should spell |
| 11238s |
disaster here for Never Walk Alone Nexus |
| 11241s |
I don't really see how they can stay in |
| 11244s |
this let's see if sugandi easy can find |
| 11248s |
the lethal line here Electro Harpoon |
| 11251s |
gets put on the hyper Ding and damages |
| 11254s |
the Nexus at the same time and the super |
| 11258s |
mega Death rocket is |
| 11259s |
generated and that should be it yes uh |
| 11262s |
we see again Never Walk Alone |
| 11265s |
unfortunately not winning that match and |
| 11267s |
we see hash uh taking it |
| 11272s |
here okay so it's one a piece for |
| 11275s |
shandis and never walk alone and the |
| 11278s |
last match up left is oh I would say one |
| 11281s |
that should very much favor the |
| 11283s |
Heimerdinger deck we are going to see |
| 11284s |
another red Gwen so Riven Gwen noxus |
| 11289s |
against a deck that runs a bunch of |
| 11291s |
vengeancesynyster |
| 11294s |
yeah uh we see Su John de EZ again here |
| 11297s |
against Never Walk Alone uh for the top |
| 11300s |
eight position here again the the |
| 11303s |
positions in the in this tournament |
| 11304s |
don't matter they're all playing to get |
| 11306s |
into that grand |
| 11307s |
finals this is basically high stakes |
| 11310s |
single best of Threes all the way and |
| 11313s |
it's looking fa very favorable here for |
| 11315s |
Never Walk Alone uh missal probably |
| 11317s |
don't want to keep that in your hand in |
| 11318s |
the opening hand you probably don't want |
| 11320s |
hinger uh we're going to see what yeah |
| 11323s |
okay unfortunately I think that's what |
| 11324s |
they got from the Mulligan yeah that |
| 11326s |
looks like a post Mulligan hand Forge |
| 11328s |
Chief being picked up is very useful |
| 11331s |
here in like when facing such an aggro |
| 11335s |
combo type of deck does get met by |
| 11337s |
quietus right away sugas has some pretty |
| 11340s |
good development options here with uh |
| 11344s |
run Squire no Rune Challenger guy and |
| 11348s |
Riven coming up very soon also does pick |
| 11350s |
up a prodigy could go for some h unit |
| 11353s |
generation right away not the easiest |
| 11355s |
choice to make but I do think we will |
| 11357s |
see some H generation come in no it is |
| 11359s |
pass and round yeah I mean there is the |
| 11362s |
Vengeance one of the key s of six cast |
| 11364s |
cards not only does it remove like the |
| 11367s |
Riven or the quen it sets up and starts |
| 11370s |
to get that Jace level up online to and |
| 11373s |
one thing that is absolutely huge to |
| 11376s |
note here is that the for chief did not |
| 11379s |
regenerate its value right it did not |
| 11381s |
create that spell mana and that means |
| 11383s |
that never walk alone did not have |
| 11385s |
Vengeance Mana available to deal with |
| 11387s |
Riven right away and they had to waste |
| 11389s |
two mana on turn three already that |
| 11391s |
really hurts and that was some good |
| 11393s |
foresight by Sugo just to remove that |
| 11397s |
Forge Chief before it can do anything |
| 11399s |
with |
| 11400s |
Aus yeah it's super unfortunate the jce |
| 11403s |
however though does get a nice clean |
| 11404s |
removal here on the uh Riven and Theus |
| 11409s |
again going to remove The Prodigy here |
| 11411s |
just going to slow down the H generation |
| 11415s |
something sugon is struggling with right |
| 11417s |
now hate Spike does answer the quieters |
| 11421s |
quite nicely and it does take out a key |
| 11422s |
unit on Never Walk Alone side but that |
| 11424s |
also means there's not going to be any |
| 11427s |
good way to deal with himer Dinger later |
| 11429s |
on Never Walk Alone also banking some |
| 11431s |
spell Mana having that Vengeance |
| 11433s |
available for that Gwen that will |
| 11435s |
eventually come down yeah one thing to |
| 11437s |
know is they got the tough husk uh there |
| 11439s |
was the option of potentially hitting |
| 11441s |
some they got spell shield um which |
| 11443s |
which would have been disastrous here |
| 11444s |
for Never Walk Alone yeah and in other |
| 11446s |
scenarios tough would have been really |
| 11448s |
good if never walk alone's hand would be |
| 11449s |
more like after shot plus mistick shot |
| 11451s |
something like that but the Vengeance |
| 11453s |
can just take care of this so cleanly |
| 11454s |
and I do expect to see this very soon |
| 11457s |
the only question is is the for chief |
| 11458s |
going to get played first probably right |
| 11460s |
because it have to it'll have to get |
| 11462s |
pulled right or it denies it denies two |
| 11464s |
damage at most just playing it could |
| 11467s |
also be quieters instead but that does |
| 11469s |
run into the threat of elixir of Wrath |
| 11472s |
it is a oneoff i I think though that's |
| 11474s |
probably the consideration here I never |
| 11476s |
walk alone side right |
| 11478s |
now because you don't know if your |
| 11480s |
quietus is going to get value later on |
| 11482s |
anymore just because you already cleared |
| 11484s |
out most of the small attackers on Sugo |
| 11486s |
side it's not just that it's technically |
| 11488s |
Mark the to potentially in the deck that |
| 11490s |
never walk alone has to play around true |
| 11493s |
true and does go for the quietus is |
| 11495s |
going to force an answer and they do |
| 11497s |
expect an elixir of Wrath to come down |
| 11501s |
here so this this is actually favor |
| 11505s |
favorable for sugon Diaz so finally real |
| 11509s |
work still a significant attack coming |
| 11512s |
through even though I do expect Gwen to |
| 11515s |
get Vengeance I think Never Walk Alone |
| 11517s |
is considering letting this go through |
| 11518s |
and just developing Heimerdinger |
| 11521s |
afterwards playing with fire here the |
| 11523s |
question is are you still at a |
| 11525s |
comfortable Nexus HP are you really not |
| 11528s |
afraid of mites and fervers and any |
| 11531s |
other burn options never alone seems to |
| 11533s |
think so and goes for the riskier line |
| 11535s |
of play so I'm having a quick look at |
| 11538s |
the burn option so there's three triple |
| 11540s |
enrage fire splitter which is very |
| 11541s |
common in the list but there's two nox |
| 11543s |
fervers in this list by |
| 11545s |
sugon |
| 11548s |
okay so all of these decks are slightly |
| 11551s |
differently built but they all still |
| 11553s |
follow the same game plan it's |
| 11556s |
just like it does make it |
| 11559s |
different what to play around and what |
| 11561s |
not to play around depending on what |
| 11563s |
frequencies your opponents have these |
| 11564s |
crucial burn cards hex literator is |
| 11567s |
about to be used stopping this Gwen from |
| 11569s |
level up who's currently at five out of |
| 11570s |
10 the good thing for Never Walk Alone |
| 11573s |
is that another elusive turret is going |
| 11576s |
to get generated the bad thing is sugaz |
| 11580s |
could answer with threat the needle but |
| 11582s |
is going to go for Gwen Redevelopment |
| 11584s |
instead then again Never Walk Alone |
| 11586s |
still has answers yeah the other |
| 11589s |
Vengeance puts Never Walk Alone in a |
| 11591s |
very very stable position here |
| 11593s |
um and the ruination should anything un |
| 11596s |
what happen on the following other turns |
| 11599s |
um the other option I guess the Miss |
| 11601s |
call here not not like ideal not really |
| 11604s |
going to be doing that much here um and |
| 11607s |
sugon is kind of just forced to just go |
| 11609s |
kind of all in here a little bit which |
| 11610s |
will get punished very |
| 11613s |
quickly Soul Harvest does get picked up |
| 11616s |
it's not a card you love to see in this |
| 11618s |
matchup against a deck that plays like |
| 11621s |
10 15 different attack so sugon has can |
| 11626s |
try and remove himer the problem with |
| 11627s |
trying to remove himer um will be that |
| 11631s |
never walk alone will be able to have |
| 11632s |
two elusive turrets on the next attack |
| 11635s |
which is going to be incredibly scary |
| 11637s |
yeah so Never Walk Alone going for that |
| 11639s |
riskier but also more aggressive and |
| 11641s |
offensive play having generated big |
| 11643s |
elusive attackers trying to put Su |
| 11646s |
gondes on the timer here and threatening |
| 11649s |
to close out the game over a couple of |
| 11650s |
attack turns as Weller is going to get |
| 11653s |
pulled that does scream like a might |
| 11659s |
setup yes but again venance is going to |
| 11661s |
shut down most of this turn here um I |
| 11664s |
guess the question is going to be how |
| 11667s |
the might when you when did you commit |
| 11669s |
the might cuz there's been no hallowed |
| 11672s |
right so this is the thing like there's |
| 11673s |
no hallowed bonus that you're scared |
| 11675s |
about here that is so unorthodox to see |
| 11679s |
it is a turn seven attack and sues still |
| 11682s |
does not have and Hell |
| 11684s |
Buffs no pre-commit coming through |
| 11688s |
whatsoever this lack of pre-commit is |
| 11690s |
also I mean further you have an answer |
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for you can always Vengeance so you're |
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not that scared um you can wait to hold |
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this Vengeance for a further um but you |
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I guess you are scared of further might |
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here so if you try to pre-commit the |
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Vengeance you can get blown up by |
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further plus might that is some high |
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quality rock paper scissoring like |
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mental rock paper scissoring coming |
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through so blocks get committed might |
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does get played onto the Gwen |
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threatening the lethal and will be met |
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by a |
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Vengeance I would have been curious |
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like hash could have tried to just let |
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this attack go through and not give |
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Never Walk Alone a spot for a Vengeance |
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and like not like therefore not really |
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give the turret generation but veng |
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after the attack but yeah the they would |
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have lost one turret so they would have |
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lost one turret and uh not |
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di to Le well it's not quite lethal yet |
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unless the soul Harvest will be played |
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which I expect to happen therefore oh |
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yeah that was probably just one of those |
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Caster Vision moments like because we |
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can see the hands this line of play pops |
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up into our heads yeah that there was |
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maybe maybe an opportunity for hash to |
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stay alive a bit longer here but I can't |
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really blame them for going for the |
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finish here just being met by the |
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perfect answers on Never Walk Alone |
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and this himr J deck will prevail and |
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unfortunately we have to say goodbye to |
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another one of our fan favorites |
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sugandi yeah that is the brutality of |
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this tournament congratulations to Dev |
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colone for winning this but |
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unfortunately that is the Run end here |
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for sugis for today and for this year |
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most likely yep it was a wild card hash |
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did |
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well go for a YOLO moment kind of just |
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trying to wing it and qualify in that |
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last moment but at some point the |
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competition just gets so tough Never |
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Walk Alone not letting any opportunities |
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slip up and getting W's with this |
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control lineup that was also a tough |
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lineup to face for hash I'm not going to |
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lie good run unfortunately this is just |
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this one tournament where a good run is |
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not good enough you need a great run you |
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need a perfect run you need to make it |
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all the way to the Grand finals |
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otherwise you're going home |
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empty-handed yep that is unfortunately |
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how this all plays out today um again |
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congratulations never walk alone you've |
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got a couple more matches still left to |
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go don't let up uh hopefully these |
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players uh hopefully these players keep |
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up the consistency we've been seeing |
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throughout the day and we are about to |
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see some more of that action of the |
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round of 16 I'm not quite sure which |
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game is going to follow up we will see |
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in a second but but I'm curious to see |
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if we see more spicy decklists I I think |
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it might be go next it might be the |
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player whose name looks like a coupon |
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code that's why we baptize that player |
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as coupon uh shout outs to Caster gems |
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for the creativity here I mean don't |
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don't credit me I read it in somewhere |
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else and just stole |
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it as you do as a card gamer stealing |
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deck codes net deck the name yeah |
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exactly going up against diogenous and |
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joyer one the name seems somewhat |
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familiar I don't know if that was a |
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rename or something uh or if we saw that |
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player perform well in tournaments |
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earlier on uh does that ring a bell for |
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you no the name doesn't ring a bell for |
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me um could be another wild card that |
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we've not seen yet um but looking at |
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this current state of the board uh even |
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if this Jinx does come down it's looking |
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like the next attack is going to uh |
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potentially end the game yeah but Jinx |
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is the perfect card to pull off some |
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miracle comebacks because if you also |
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look at diogenes's board I mean you're |
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going have to throw the Jinx away here |
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you're going to have to |
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block do |
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you oh damn you don't have the action |
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you don't have the time anding lure |
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comes through a card that we didn't see |
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before and that is going to mean 12 |
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damage pushed by diogenous and making |
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perfect use of priority here not giving |
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coupon code the opportunity to play that |
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mega super mega Death rocket and DIY is |
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going for a smooth Victory right |
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here yeah and that is actually 2-1 to di |
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diogenes enjoyer up against go |
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unfortunately that is the end for go |
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this we're going to be saying this all |
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day uh it is the it is that point of the |
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Year where everyone is playing for those |
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last couple of spots that are available |
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for worlds and unfortunately every match |
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is just going to be us saying goodbye to |
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players we've seen time and time again |
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coming through and um the nature of the |
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competitiveness of EMA unfortunately |
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means that we're going to lose a lot of |
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fantastic players and that is the |
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brutality of this tournament |
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specifically usually we would be happy |
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for the players at this point to already |
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collect some Runa points to already |
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collect some price money in this |
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specific tournament it just doesn't |
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matter we mentioned it over and over |
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again but it cannot be understated it is |
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so crucial to reach the grand finals |
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here to get one of those two World |
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Championship slots and there are only |
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eight players left who still have a |
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chance two of them are going to make it |
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actual late run but for now a little |
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and we are back everyone those tuning in |
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you just missed the top 32 here for the |
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world's champions last chance qualifier |
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I am gems and joining me as fresh |
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Lobster and what a series of matches |
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we've been having |
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today and there's a lot of unravel from |
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the last round to a lot to Peak back |
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into and we do have a bunch of replays |
| 13379s |
available to us right here and it all |
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starts out with ghoster driver and Never |
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Walk Alone who had a bit of a strenuous |
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game because ghoster driver just running |
| 13388s |
out of resources not really putting the |
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board together and we see a big himer |
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Dinger attack coming through closing out |
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that serious kicking out ghoster driver |
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but ensuring Never Walk Alone does |
| 13398s |
continue and this is a very clutch and |
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important replay right |
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here yeah a fantastic uh this was the |
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the turn that we saw I think leading up |
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to um T Timmy um we saw the ferv come |
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down here to keep the gwai for future |
| 13415s |
turns allowing for Timmy to slowly set |
| 13419s |
up for a big overwhelm turn in the |
| 13421s |
coming |
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turns and moving on I think this is one |
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game further shampo going for a big |
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board swing going for the power spread |
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out with the tiny spear electing to push |
| 13433s |
early damage in this matchup and it |
| 13435s |
eventually really paid off because it |
| 13436s |
all culminated in this specific |
| 13438s |
unfortunate moment yeah unfortunately he |
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quick to to hit the pass button quick to |
| 13445s |
hit the commit action didn't |
| 13447s |
unfortunately put the overwhelm on that |
| 13449s |
KO and which ended up losing them this |
| 13451s |
series which was super unfortunate um |
| 13454s |
just not taking their time in such a |
| 13456s |
crucial moment ended up ping them in |
| 13458s |
such a tough spot yeah but you see that |
| 13461s |
happen in tournaments over and over the |
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pressure does get to the players and |
| 13465s |
cause them to make mistakes and we do |
| 13467s |
see the finish here from sugan D getting |
| 13470s |
a w on the Jinx deck generating the |
| 13473s |
rocket that was a very dominating one |
| 13475s |
but in game three Never Walk Alone |
| 13479s |
really strategically played Master fly |
| 13481s |
and prevailed with the aggressive way of |
| 13483s |
playing the himer Dinger deck yeah the |
| 13486s |
elusiv came in clutch managed to get the |
| 13488s |
removal as well here on the 2-1 and set |
| 13492s |
themselves up for a fantastic open |
| 13494s |
attack to finish off this match against |
| 13496s |
sug is ending their run here while also |
| 13499s |
in twofold making sure they get through |
| 13501s |
all the way here to the top eight yeah |
| 13504s |
very unfortunate for suugo and the easy |
| 13506s |
but it is also a matchup that is very |
| 13508s |
favored for Never Walk Alone bringing |
| 13510s |
that himr J Deck with the three |
| 13512s |
vengeancesynyster |
| 13540s |
have UK representation last chance for |
| 13542s |
any UK player to make it he's all our |
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hopes are resting on him versus Dion jez |
| 13547s |
enjoyer which I've been told is Serge Tu |
| 13550s |
a famous uh player who's been around for |
| 13552s |
a long time who's play performed |
| 13554s |
fantastically and our featured match SEO |
| 13556s |
versus red Monte yeah I thought that |
| 13559s |
name rang a bell dius and joy if that is |
| 13561s |
in fact Seri sergy then it is a true and |
| 13565s |
tested tournament Legend and would also |
| 13567s |
very much deserve one of those two last |
| 13570s |
qualification spots for the world |
| 13571s |
championship but has to go through after |
| 13572s |
maet first and to the winner of sooy and |
| 13576s |
red Monty like you mentioned it is going |
| 13577s |
to be our featured match and we see |
| 13580s |
another strong playing strong showing |
| 13583s |
from another strong French player from |
| 13585s |
the LFR team next to shampo sooy I think |
| 13588s |
they have been prepping together a lot |
| 13590s |
so it's good for them that they're on |
| 13591s |
opposite sides of the bracket and both |
| 13593s |
of them have been putting up beast mode |
| 13595s |
performances on the ladder as well as in |
| 13598s |
recent tournaments runs and as far as I |
| 13600s |
know SEO is also a very young player and |
| 13602s |
only recently started making splashes in |
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the competitive scene so a bit of a |
| 13606s |
prodigy scenario here with a lot of |
| 13608s |
potential and Promises moving |
| 13611s |
forward yeah hopefully we get to see the |
| 13614s |
matches up shortly it's it's it's going |
| 13617s |
to be a fantastic match here between so |
| 13619s |
and ren Monte and we're going to have a |
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quick look at their deck |
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lists we are first going to see red |
| 13627s |
Monty's decks and one that we haven't |
| 13629s |
seen yet today and I also wasn't |
| 13631s |
expecting to be honest is a cane atro |
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build another mid-range archetype that |
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does very heavily rely on these darkin |
| 13640s |
weapons being played to pull out atro |
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from the deck the interesting one here |
| 13643s |
is that it has a surprising amount of |
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interaction and combat trick we see |
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three copies of furious wielder to |
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remove something like jinxes in the |
| 13650s |
backlines and two Unforgiven cods and |
| 13652s |
frostbites have proven to be super |
| 13654s |
valuable today with the amount of big |
| 13656s |
overwhelm hitters that we've been seeing |
| 13659s |
yeah we'll see the Karma set here |
| 13661s |
brought back again here from red Monty |
| 13664s |
uh we've seen this throughout the day a |
| 13665s |
little bit and good to see it brought |
| 13667s |
back again we see the double portal |
| 13669s |
Pioneer which has been kind of common in |
| 13670s |
this deck and The Nine Lives again it's |
| 13672s |
been a one of or a two of sort of choice |
| 13675s |
in a lot of these lists um that we've |
| 13677s |
seen with K set again great control |
| 13680s |
list yeah what stands out to me here is |
| 13683s |
that there are a lot of three offs most |
| 13685s |
of the karma set builds opt to go for |
| 13688s |
more optionality play more oneof and two |
| 13690s |
of the more situational cards but this |
| 13692s |
list by red Monty is pretty streamlined |
| 13693s |
and the third deck is another ja or |
| 13696s |
mostly a pretty classic build I do see |
| 13699s |
two copies of harsh winds alongside the |
| 13700s |
three sisters so also well predicted the |
| 13704s |
meta that freezes are going to be very |
| 13705s |
important in these mid-range mirrors as |
| 13707s |
well as against all of these overwhelm |
| 13709s |
SL big hitter piles Parts made hole |
| 13711s |
stands out a bit as a unique Tech |
| 13715s |
Choice yeah the parts made hold was |
| 13717s |
there as well as a tech Choice with the |
| 13719s |
weapon for the addition draw and we see |
| 13721s |
so again another atro list here this is |
| 13724s |
this is shaping up to be very |
| 13726s |
interesting CU we haven't seen any of |
| 13727s |
these it was not really on anyone's |
| 13729s |
radar to bring atro style lists for |
| 13731s |
standard at |
| 13732s |
all and yeah it is very surprising to |
| 13735s |
see two of these in the same match but |
| 13737s |
this is a very different take on it with |
| 13739s |
the |
| 13740s |
Deasia um mostly well it does allow a |
| 13744s |
very different unit pool we barely see |
| 13745s |
darkenss and it does also allow a very |
| 13747s |
different types of combat tricks the |
| 13749s |
second one Gwen uder another one that we |
| 13751s |
haven't seen at all today this is some |
| 13754s |
serious spice I see two copies of hiara |
| 13757s |
all Seer for some explosive udor stand |
| 13759s |
swapping level UPS big hits and I also |
| 13762s |
see a copy of harrowing in case you ever |
| 13764s |
do run out of steam to just get a |
| 13766s |
surprise Letha this is where all the |
| 13768s |
spice for today is gone it's it's all in |
| 13770s |
this match here we started off with r |
| 13772s |
with the overwhelm spice now we've got |
| 13774s |
the Quin UIA spice and the final deck is |
| 13776s |
in kenon Ari list I know some players |
| 13779s |
watch are going to be super happy to see |
| 13781s |
this but this is a list that's heavily |
| 13783s |
fallen out of favor recently um quite a |
| 13786s |
while back and this is the noxus version |
| 13788s |
so there's a two copies of might in |
| 13790s |
there wow this is some serious bravery |
| 13793s |
coming in by sooy going for well offbeat |
| 13797s |
off meta Decks that used to be kind of |
| 13799s |
played different metas but just thinking |
| 13801s |
okay this is a perfect opportunity to |
| 13803s |
play these decks and in the current meta |
| 13805s |
I would kind of agree the Ionia deck the |
| 13808s |
Canon deck actually what was it six |
| 13810s |
recalls or so or rather like recalling |
| 13813s |
the opponent's units with tag outs with |
| 13816s |
Will of IIA with concussive pal stunning |
| 13818s |
those big hitters so I think this lineup |
| 13820s |
is going to be pretty happy mostly to |
| 13822s |
play into a deck like ja or as well as |
| 13825s |
atro Kane to be honest and just well |
| 13829s |
annoy the big hitters with freezes with |
| 13832s |
stuns and with recalls I think it's |
| 13834s |
potentially even okay in the com set |
| 13837s |
right you have you B you B just recall |
| 13840s |
their removals most of the time um I |
| 13843s |
suspect it could take the ban right |
| 13846s |
maybe I I don't know if that might be a |
| 13849s |
bit like presumptuous of me to say that |
| 13851s |
but it might genuinely take the ban I'm |
| 13854s |
not sure such a unique lineup I have no |
| 13857s |
idea where this is going to go and what |
| 13859s |
makes it interesting is I can guarantee |
| 13861s |
you that all of these players and all of |
| 13863s |
the players that sooy has faced so far |
| 13866s |
we also not expecting to see decks like |
| 13868s |
this like this is not something that |
| 13870s |
goes up in SC like comes up in scrims or |
| 13872s |
Theory crafting so you say you say that |
| 13876s |
I definitely have some players they here |
| 13878s |
in the top 64 I know that would have |
| 13879s |
definitely scrimmed something like a |
| 13881s |
kenon a Kenan Ari list K AR maybe maybe |
| 13885s |
well it is uncommon I think uh I'm just |
| 13889s |
trying to say that for red Monty I think |
| 13892s |
you don't really have good matchup stats |
| 13894s |
and you don't really you might also not |
| 13896s |
be that comfortable piloting into these |
| 13899s |
decks and that's what makes this pick |
| 13900s |
and bad face incredibly tough yeah the |
| 13903s |
the uncertainty of whether or not you'll |
| 13905s |
do well into it or not which might end |
| 13908s |
up swaying you |
| 13911s |
um it might end up swaying you the wrong |
| 13913s |
way in your bands um and we know |
| 13916s |
historically as well that um SEO was one |
| 13919s |
of the the biggest s of ladder players |
| 13922s |
of the konari Des back in the day too so |
| 13925s |
maybe it's just a comfort pick yeah it |
| 13927s |
might be a mixture of comfort pick and |
| 13929s |
just having seen and identified in Niche |
| 13932s |
and The Meta what I do like it seems to |
| 13935s |
me that sooy and Never Walk Alone made |
| 13937s |
good calls with this deck as well as the |
| 13941s |
himr Jace deck that plays a bunch of big |
| 13944s |
card removals Place cars like |
| 13946s |
vengeancesynyster |
| 13959s |
jinxes so far and that's what allowed |
| 13962s |
them to really succeed on their |
| 13963s |
tournaments run here already making it |
| 13965s |
into the top eight and even here like |
| 13968s |
just looking at lineups I would think |
| 13970s |
sooy is going to be |
| 13973s |
favored yeah but again we it really |
| 13975s |
depends on the ban strategy right um I |
| 13979s |
can I can most likely see something like |
| 13981s |
the Comas set being the ban on SEO side |
| 13984s |
most likely |
| 13987s |
um the two mid-range decks it's a tough |
| 13990s |
call uh mainly because I think the the |
| 13992s |
com the Gwen U list is a bit slow the |
| 13995s |
comet can get chance to sort of get the |
| 13997s |
ball rolling so to speak |
| 14000s |
um yeah it's a it's it's tough because |
| 14003s |
again a lot of speculation especially |
| 14005s |
when us as CES we have not prepped for |
| 14008s |
AR |
| 14009s |
Canon let's be real yeah another thing |
| 14012s |
about that Karma into Gwen udor matchup |
| 14016s |
is even if udor doesn't get heart |
| 14018s |
removed even if if he just gets recalled |
| 14020s |
all of the stand swaps and the Buffs |
| 14022s |
disappear so it's almost like heart |
| 14024s |
removal so I think almost for all three |
| 14027s |
decks like Karma might be the toughest |
| 14030s |
one to face the only one that would be |
| 14032s |
kind of happy to play into it is the |
| 14034s |
Deasia deck I |
| 14035s |
think and even that like a good karma |
| 14039s |
set pilot will be used to playing |
| 14041s |
against these mid-range decks and we |
| 14043s |
also saw a lot of tech choices to sway |
| 14045s |
those matchups into the karma players |
| 14048s |
favor yeah I I suspect the reason why |
| 14051s |
this pick and band phase is taking so |
| 14052s |
long is because when you see a lot of |
| 14054s |
these like unique decks um what people |
| 14056s |
be players will be doing it's very |
| 14057s |
commonly um historically you'll be um |
| 14060s |
probably taking screenshots of the lists |
| 14063s |
um and then sitting there trying to |
| 14064s |
study okay what what how do I lose these |
| 14067s |
matchups do I have it'll be a lot of |
| 14069s |
like game sense from historic matches |
| 14072s |
from historic metas um where you've seen |
| 14074s |
similar style decks and trying to |
| 14076s |
basically make your judgment based off |
| 14077s |
of that on how you handle the pick and |
| 14080s |
ban that might definitely be part of the |
| 14082s |
reason I think another one could be that |
| 14085s |
maybe red Monty honestly is just pulling |
| 14087s |
up a stats website and trying to find |
| 14090s |
some matchup stats there I think that |
| 14093s |
might be something that I would do in |
| 14094s |
that situation just use the what five |
| 14097s |
minutes that I have available and try to |
| 14099s |
get as much data on my opponent's decks |
| 14101s |
as I can and I do also very much agree |
| 14103s |
you have to kind of look at the lists |
| 14105s |
and just imagine okay which cards like |
| 14106s |
which what do I need my Noy for what do |
| 14108s |
I need my deny for in each of those |
| 14110s |
matchups what am I going to save my |
| 14112s |
removal for and that kind of preparation |
| 14115s |
can pay big dividends if you're going |
| 14117s |
into a matchup you're not that familiar |
| 14119s |
with yeah the next issue again when |
| 14121s |
you're playing a lot of these unfamiliar |
| 14123s |
matchups there uh I guess Mulligan |
| 14126s |
knowledge um is going to be crucial we |
| 14128s |
see the ja on being banned here and the |
| 14131s |
ogia Gwen instead so leaving up uh the |
| 14135s |
atrox list on both sides feels like |
| 14137s |
there were a lot of Mind Games in this |
| 14140s |
on both sides I still think this isine |
| 14144s |
for now you can playasia into the karma |
| 14147s |
set which is probably one of the better |
| 14150s |
chances you'll get to get a win through |
| 14152s |
here first of all we'll see the atrox |
| 14155s |
mirror but two very different versions |
| 14157s |
of the atrox deck I think red Monty's |
| 14159s |
deck is going to be a bit more |
| 14161s |
aggressive in Nexus damage and so on |
| 14163s |
with the Buu cultist the other thing |
| 14166s |
that really speaks for them is the |
| 14168s |
inclusion of unfor giving cold Frost |
| 14170s |
bites can be very very effective in a |
| 14172s |
mid-range |
| 14173s |
matchup yeah and we see both sides here |
| 14175s |
having access to one of the probably the |
| 14179s |
more key weapons in this matchup is the |
| 14181s |
darkin harop um putting that quick |
| 14185s |
attack onto either Challenger units or |
| 14187s |
Scout units um like the ranger um can |
| 14190s |
end up having a big sort of blowout turn |
| 14192s |
later on and Valor here is a fantastic |
| 14196s |
top deck yeah both players having access |
| 14199s |
to that quick attack is so good for the |
| 14202s |
one that actually has a Challenger in |
| 14203s |
hand fed feather tracker Valor this |
| 14207s |
might be a bunch of value trads coming |
| 14208s |
in both players so far having kind of |
| 14211s |
good hands having font hroes as well so |
| 14214s |
topend value but it looks like sooy has |
| 14216s |
the more explosive opening |
| 14219s |
[Music] |
| 14220s |
here yeah it's going yeah the doing |
| 14223s |
Hop's just going to sweep up you might |
| 14224s |
have to play The Unforgiven cold just to |
| 14227s |
keep your unit alive which is going to a |
| 14229s |
bit depressing CU you really want to |
| 14231s |
save that for later I do agree it's not |
| 14233s |
the best use but it does slow down the |
| 14235s |
opponent quite significantly it does |
| 14237s |
give you a favorable trade it removes |
| 14239s |
the key unit The Valor and it does |
| 14242s |
bounce the harp back into hand which |
| 14245s |
makes which forces Soo to invest more |
| 14247s |
Mana to replay it yeah it's great in |
| 14250s |
that sense but it's again like I said |
| 14251s |
it's one of those key cards especially |
| 14252s |
when you're only running two copies of |
| 14254s |
it that you need for those later turns |
| 14256s |
as well so if SEO can um start to to |
| 14260s |
rebuild up that board has one less sort |
| 14262s |
of big threat to worry |
| 14264s |
about fully agreed here it was a big |
| 14267s |
investment to make darkin harp comes |
| 14269s |
down on the bu cult is now repaying that |
| 14272s |
favor attacking with a quick attack unit |
| 14274s |
but SEO is not forced to take any blocks |
| 14276s |
here can just let this go through use |
| 14278s |
Nexus HP as a resource the good old |
| 14282s |
saying and now with a vein on board and |
| 14284s |
a tumble in hand also has an easier time |
| 14287s |
re-equipping the darken harp yeah and we |
| 14289s |
see the uh the ranger Knight Defector |
| 14292s |
here for sey plus the the classics or |
| 14295s |
Ranger Knight Defector dark in heart |
| 14297s |
combo um coming down um most likely SEO |
| 14301s |
is probably going to take it |
| 14303s |
slow um maybe not even equip the darking |
| 14305s |
heart potentially um but we can see if |
| 14309s |
if they did go for that line this turn |
| 14311s |
um there's nothing stopping |
| 14313s |
it except for the Mana pool I believe |
| 14315s |
well they can play the yeah they can |
| 14319s |
play The Defector and the harp they |
| 14320s |
cannot play the tumble to equip it which |
| 14322s |
would be an additional attack but you |
| 14324s |
can also use that tumble next turn as a |
| 14328s |
rant St onto that Scout unit so SEO is |
| 14331s |
sitting in a very comfortable position |
| 14334s |
right now just taking some time and |
| 14335s |
really mapping out the next couple of |
| 14337s |
moves and not only thinking about this |
| 14339s |
very |
| 14341s |
action yeah it's said goes for the |
| 14344s |
badger bear um wanting to keepi the |
| 14346s |
manor up I guess uh to threaten |
| 14350s |
I don't know if humble you're really |
| 14351s |
wanting to threaten but maybe just where |
| 14353s |
it concerned um and keeping the Mana up |
| 14356s |
for a more defensive option for the |
| 14358s |
following turns yeah it's a bit |
| 14360s |
surprising to me as well maybe you're |
| 14362s |
bluffing a gentleman's duel but then |
| 14364s |
again you're not really like you can't |
| 14366s |
even take out a cane with a gentleman's |
| 14368s |
duel nor an atro so not quite sure what |
| 14371s |
the thought process was here Al would |
| 14373s |
have expected The Defector the Scout |
| 14375s |
unit to be played and then put on the |
| 14377s |
pressure instead we see the tble be used |
| 14379s |
on the vein which is also an effective |
| 14382s |
way of equipping the quick attack darken |
| 14385s |
harp but also generating another tumble |
| 14387s |
right away at the start of the next turn |
| 14390s |
yeah I'm just having a look that the |
| 14391s |
only real punish I guess here would be a |
| 14396s |
momentous choice no that's not even |
| 14398s |
enough right |
| 14400s |
yeah you will obey your |
| 14402s |
master yeah moment him plus two |
| 14407s |
HP super safe here for SE yeah also good |
| 14412s |
defensive option here by red Monty using |
| 14414s |
that shadow fiend as a blocker to not |
| 14415s |
take any unnecessary Nexus damage condem |
| 14418s |
was activated for a second here but no |
| 14420s |
good Target this condem can come in |
| 14422s |
quite useful very soon though but now we |
| 14425s |
see the lack of the Scout units means |
| 14427s |
that there's no fullon tumble rally |
| 14430s |
option by SEO gentleman's duel did get |
| 14433s |
picked up |
| 14434s |
though this might be a bit of a standoff |
| 14437s |
coming through both players wanting to |
| 14438s |
keep Mana open yeah I mean I don't mind |
| 14441s |
developing atro here you're you can you |
| 14445s |
have condemn if you want to get rid of |
| 14447s |
Kane uh you can just play that for the |
| 14449s |
full six Mana which doesn't feel great |
| 14452s |
but um will keep your units |
| 14455s |
[Music] |
| 14457s |
alive |
| 14467s |
yeah |
| 14476s |
yeah the me mentor's choice will |
| 14478s |
potentially be a problem the other |
| 14480s |
option is you can just slam a truck um |
| 14483s |
just get it down it's it's just a big |
| 14485s |
unit it stops a lot of red Monty's |
| 14487s |
attack um with the the other the Buu |
| 14490s |
cultists they will still trigger but uh |
| 14493s |
it will slow down the overall damage he |
| 14495s |
will surrender the darken weapon or die |
| 14499s |
we will drown him in |
| 14502s |
Shadow okay and there is |
| 14508s |
the |
| 14511s |
piercing give it to |
| 14516s |
me oh doesn't Badger B just block yeah I |
| 14519s |
was a bit confused by the quick attack |
| 14526s |
there The Fanatic is just going to get |
| 14529s |
removed for free |
| 14536s |
[Music] |
| 14556s |
basically yep and we're going to |
| 14558s |
probably see double atrox is developing |
| 14560s |
next turn um do you ever |
| 14564s |
consider putting darking half point |
| 14566s |
atrox for the for the attack over the |
| 14569s |
regular |
| 14577s |
[Music] |
| 14579s |
weapon well it's just if they if red |
| 14582s |
Monty decides to just play their own |
| 14587s |
atro |
| 14593s |
yeah |
| 14603s |
[Music] |
| 14610s |
no yeah it's it's it's got double attack |
| 14612s |
the Scout you set up a fantastic turn |
| 14614s |
here it's a dark in I'm really curious |
| 14617s |
to know where the world Enders are at at |
| 14618s |
this point cuz that could also matter a |
| 14622s |
little bit to cut through the |
| 14624s |
[Music] |
| 14638s |
Shadows MH yeah it's it's it's a very |
| 14641s |
very a fantastic L but we it all kind of |
| 14644s |
goes back to I guess the turn like three |
| 14647s |
or four turns ago these defectors have |
| 14649s |
been sitting in hand for a while now we |
| 14651s |
could have this sort of double attack |
| 14653s |
combo could have just been pulled off |
| 14654s |
turns ago what |
| 14656s |
is why is s sey deciding this turn as |
| 14659s |
opposed to three turns ago a Ser of the |
| 14664s |
[Music] |
| 14673s |
dark |
| 14677s |
m |
| 14679s |
[Music] |
| 14688s |
[Music] |
| 14699s |
[Music] |
| 14701s |
yeah I mean this condemn as well we know |
| 14704s |
there's spell shield available um so uh |
| 14707s |
we through the um expense protection |
| 14710s |
sitting in red Bon's hand so it's even |
| 14713s |
if you do Commit This condemn on like |
| 14715s |
the atro six turn there is protection |
| 14717s |
options for red Monty so um could end up |
| 14720s |
being a little bit of a blowout there |
| 14721s |
unless they can get it reduced to one |
| 14722s |
you don't really want to play it for six |
| 14725s |
oh darking hop is also huge there could |
| 14727s |
have developed something like anaka |
| 14729s |
which would survive like a cadem or |
| 14737s |
strike |
| 14741s |
[Music] |
| 14747s |
[Music] |
| 14762s |
M only now we just see the the sort of |
| 14767s |
tip for tat atrox is being played um |
| 14769s |
there is the atrox champion spell in |
| 14772s |
hand and I think o we just are we just |
| 14774s |
going to see are we just going to see |
| 14777s |
the world end is being |
| 14787s |
played it's it's huge on Monty side |
| 14791s |
[Music] |
| 14797s |
though |
| 14801s |
but |
| 14807s |
yeah yeah it's it's a very tough turn um |
| 14811s |
I mean this six damage will most likely |
| 14812s |
need your red Monty there's a chance you |
| 14814s |
just take this |
| 14816s |
six I have waited for long enough yeah I |
| 14820s |
mean yeah it's tough right cuz your |
| 14822s |
hand I mean and then qu obviously left |
| 14825s |
with the decision of do I use condemn or |
| 14827s |
do I just play my own world |
| 14832s |
lender return to me soldier of war an |
| 14836s |
action or an action out of red Monte |
| 14841s |
[Music] |
| 14849s |
right yes it's the atrox spell |
| 14852s |
[Music] |
| 14857s |
yeah |
| 14859s |
[Music] |
| 14874s |
[Music] |
| 14882s |
oh this is going to be this is such a |
| 14886s |
difficult decision for S cu you could |
| 14888s |
let this go through but and then you |
| 14889s |
know for a fact that your opponent red |
| 14892s |
Monty can't play |
| 14894s |
worldender and you can so you could set |
| 14896s |
up you can start your world Ender |
| 14898s |
[Music] |
| 14902s |
now |
| 14905s |
yeah not even Realms could divide us old |
| 14909s |
friend W Terror |
| 14917s |
must |
| 14918s |
yeah it's been a a long time we have the |
| 14921s |
I guess the yeah the strike spell coming |
| 14924s |
down here to remove one more and the the |
| 14926s |
violent Discord to remove another unit |
| 14931s |
y not going to be enough to close out |
| 14933s |
the game this turn so K is out of Mana |
| 14936s |
here red Monty red Monty's defense |
| 14938s |
holding up very nicely so |
| 14941s |
far yes it is however atrox um is still |
| 14945s |
a big 1010 unit that's coming in um |
| 14948s |
probably can just take it mhm and um |
| 14952s |
look |
| 14953s |
to maybe play a NCO and go wide next on |
| 14955s |
the following turn something like that |
| 14957s |
but then condemn now is going to be |
| 14959s |
effective I guess but I guess it's it's |
| 14961s |
tough because you have I guess spell |
| 14963s |
shield still yeah I mean I think Monty |
| 14965s |
can just take this re-equip a weapon |
| 14968s |
which Monty already did and next turn |
| 14969s |
play their own word Ender and like how |
| 14971s |
is theoy going to deal with that I mean |
| 14973s |
I guess we know condemn is in hand and |
| 14975s |
there are some defensive options there |
| 14977s |
are more units to be veloped another |
| 14979s |
thing that you have to be spell shield |
| 14981s |
so they're fine even to condemn yeah and |
| 14984s |
they still have two Mana available for |
| 14985s |
the spell shield too that's huge one |
| 14987s |
thing that Monty needs to be aware of is |
| 14990s |
the surprise tumble out of nowhere |
| 14991s |
although it's not really a surprise |
| 14993s |
Monty knows that tumble is in Z's hand |
| 14995s |
just needs to make sure to not be in a |
| 14997s |
spot where the left over three Nexus HP |
| 15000s |
gets slammed down by |
| 15004s |
atrox yeah I don't see that actually |
| 15006s |
happening here because even if you |
| 15008s |
tumble here um there's the atrox trade |
| 15011s |
against each other I'm trying I guess |
| 15012s |
you yeah if you tumble you lose so you |
| 15015s |
need to play more |
| 15016s |
blockers luckily drew a nice cheap one |
| 15019s |
drop mhm which can just tank a hit and |
| 15023s |
the at probably have to trade into each |
| 15027s |
other the big problem is I |
| 15031s |
guess oh I guess you can play yeah P |
| 15034s |
breach Walker I forget about that which |
| 15036s |
um it summons the other two units yeah |
| 15039s |
they are discounted that would be an |
| 15041s |
option but sooy might also go for that |
| 15044s |
next turn because if I'm not mistaken it |
| 15046s |
does summon elusive copies right and |
| 15048s |
that would threaten leth on the next |
| 15052s |
turn however red mon is going to be able |
| 15054s |
to have draw Now options has another |
| 15056s |
atro still in hand for combat tricks so |
| 15059s |
can in theory still survive through that |
| 15061s |
oh forsaken Bai at zero Mana is very |
| 15064s |
good as well can look for the other copy |
| 15066s |
of unforgiving cod |
| 15068s |
wow this matchup shaped out incredibly |
| 15071s |
well like I didn't really expect both |
| 15074s |
World ands ending up being played and |
| 15077s |
all of those different |
| 15079s |
darkens see like seeing some light being |
| 15083s |
very if they have that as an option |
| 15088s |
no maybe |
| 15092s |
skip I can yeah I'm on board with skip |
| 15095s |
it might like you can consider momentous |
| 15097s |
choice if you expect your opponent to |
| 15098s |
have another atrox just to have more HP |
| 15100s |
on the Block but we'll see in a second |
| 15103s |
here it was a skip Keeper of the Box |
| 15105s |
gets picked up and that is an option to |
| 15107s |
get a bit of Life steel onto the |
| 15112s |
board with no at on the board the strike |
| 15114s |
spell is gone by the way so um The |
| 15118s |
elusive is enough right now for |
| 15120s |
[Music] |
| 15124s |
aoy Monty is currently out of defensive |
| 15128s |
options besides that one life steel unit |
| 15130s |
that can be played so K is playing it |
| 15132s |
slowly going for the ranger Knight |
| 15134s |
Defector first I do expect that this is |
| 15137s |
going to be a setup for The elusive |
| 15140s |
unit to me atrox atrox being play does |
| 15144s |
equip the darken blade big hitter but no |
| 15147s |
possibility for strike |
| 15150s |
effects could also go for the it TR of |
| 15152s |
their own but it's not really |
| 15154s |
threatening Lether oh but with red Monte |
| 15157s |
having played the the atro and Nexus |
| 15160s |
also got healed by two so they're now at |
| 15161s |
seven but the elusive could also get |
| 15165s |
another weapon equipped I think it would |
| 15166s |
have been at seven attack Soo instead |
| 15169s |
electing to go to play atrox of their |
| 15173s |
own this is so tough I don't I'm trying |
| 15176s |
to figure out how Z gets back into this |
| 15179s |
right now I don't think you |
| 15181s |
can going for the quick attack yeah this |
| 15185s |
gets a single trade um it's not enough |
| 15189s |
to push lethal you can block quite |
| 15191s |
comfortably yeah with any of your bigger |
| 15193s |
units if |
| 15195s |
you're um this I guess this just gets a |
| 15197s |
bit of heal and like a slight trade yeah |
| 15201s |
I I think you just can't really stop the |
| 15202s |
back swing just plays Al L here again |
| 15206s |
after also important to mention in the |
| 15208s |
bottom right we just saw a graphic that |
| 15210s |
diogenes enjoyer AKA Seri Seri actually |
| 15214s |
got the 20 over a ragnet and is there |
| 15217s |
for in the semi-finals and the dreams of |
| 15219s |
making it to the World Championship very |
| 15221s |
much alive but now going back to the |
| 15223s |
action red Monty is setting up an |
| 15226s |
incredibly wide and large attack and I |
| 15229s |
don't think there's anything that SEO |
| 15230s |
can do about |
| 15233s |
this yeah I think this is going to be |
| 15236s |
game number one heading over to red |
| 15238s |
Monty SEO unable to find ways of uh |
| 15242s |
closing out that match and the world |
| 15244s |
Enders the draw specifically just giving |
| 15248s |
red MTI tons of options there in the lat |
| 15251s |
stages of the |
| 15252s |
game and we do have to wonder whether or |
| 15255s |
not there was a potential Miss lethal by |
| 15258s |
not going for that elusive pra the |
| 15262s |
breach Walker and then equipping a |
| 15264s |
weapon onto it right I think that was on |
| 15266s |
the table techically would have been |
| 15269s |
lethal that turn yes technically yeah |
| 15272s |
I'm surprised because it looked like sey |
| 15274s |
was thinking about it and going for that |
| 15276s |
first but then did elect to go for atrox |
| 15278s |
instead but it is what it is red Mony |
| 15282s |
going up one and zero and now has to win |
| 15285s |
one of those |
| 15287s |
two games chances bullets opportunities |
| 15291s |
with Karma set with the Ionia pnz deck |
| 15295s |
yeah and SE drone probably one of the |
| 15298s |
more like um annoying weapons for KET to |
| 15301s |
deal with in the 0 plus one tough um |
| 15307s |
because giving tough in this match up in |
| 15309s |
a deck that like com set that tends to |
| 15311s |
have more direct damage makes it uh |
| 15314s |
basically need to have double the number |
| 15316s |
of spells usually to remove that unit |
| 15318s |
instead of one it'll usually be two yeah |
| 15321s |
tough the tough keyword is the nightmare |
| 15323s |
of pnz and of some fredd or cadow |
| 15325s |
control decks especially here it can be |
| 15329s |
quite the Menace not only the weapon |
| 15331s |
itself but also the dark in that can be |
| 15333s |
summoned the Challenger that makes |
| 15336s |
spells more expensive ensive while he's |
| 15338s |
attacking that is also something that a |
| 15341s |
Karma set deck would not like to see and |
| 15344s |
we do see a very slow start from both |
| 15347s |
sides red Monty already having the key |
| 15350s |
champions in hand and also having a |
| 15351s |
portal Pioneer which can remove a weapon |
| 15354s |
very soon yeah the new Explorer cards |
| 15358s |
giving you a total of like five |
| 15359s |
different card choices one of them as |
| 15361s |
you mentioned being the landmark uh the |
| 15364s |
weapon removal there's Landmark removal |
| 15366s |
there's healing and there's also another |
| 15367s |
a potential crucial one in the keyword |
| 15369s |
removal as well um so can potentially in |
| 15373s |
this matchup happen and removing like |
| 15376s |
something like Scout um but most of the |
| 15377s |
time I suspect we'll see the weapon |
| 15379s |
removal yeah the keyword removal can |
| 15382s |
also be very useful to remove and |
| 15383s |
overwhelm for atro for a while even the |
| 15385s |
Regeneration and then remove them |
| 15388s |
eventually but I do also expect most of |
| 15391s |
the time seeing that darken equipment |
| 15394s |
destroyed by the Explorer spells Redmont |
| 15397s |
going for an early formula really |
| 15399s |
valuing the draw highly and not very |
| 15401s |
happy with the options currently |
| 15403s |
presented in hand does get kind of |
| 15405s |
rewarded with a high note as well as |
| 15408s |
concussive pal very useful in this |
| 15410s |
matchup currently things are not looking |
| 15412s |
too poorly for red Monty considering |
| 15415s |
that they are playing an aggressive |
| 15417s |
snowb mid-range deck but now zco is also |
| 15420s |
putting out some pressure with The |
| 15421s |
Defector one of the most important cards |
| 15423s |
in this matchup I suspect we're going to |
| 15425s |
see the concussive P come down here |
| 15426s |
straight away um it denies the |
| 15428s |
additional attack I guess from the vein |
| 15431s |
deny the vein level |
| 15433s |
up |
| 15435s |
um the other is just block and |
| 15439s |
Mystic yeah block and highe would take |
| 15442s |
care of this and I think this is a card |
| 15444s |
that we really want to get rid of the |
| 15446s |
board so I can I'm I'm totally on board |
| 15449s |
here with red Monty's decision making so |
| 15451s |
far but unfortunately for them sooy is |
| 15454s |
holding a second Defector in hand yeah I |
| 15458s |
guess for the second one you're going to |
| 15459s |
have to play concussive pal it's a bit |
| 15460s |
unfortunate you can so the Marium can |
| 15463s |
block uh the Elkin just get a free just |
| 15467s |
get one chip damage in I guess um the |
| 15469s |
other option I guess you could block |
| 15470s |
vain but you don't have any burn spells |
| 15472s |
currently in hand you use the high note |
| 15475s |
already um it's a bit of yeah it's a bit |
| 15478s |
tough you could view a softening up but |
| 15480s |
I don't think you can risk that yet |
| 15481s |
you're most likely playing set next turn |
| 15482s |
just to try and remove it yeah and set |
| 15485s |
is also an effective answers stopping |
| 15488s |
the ranger Knight Defector from being |
| 15491s |
developed unless Monty could just go for |
| 15494s |
immediate vein removal then the ranger |
| 15496s |
Knight Defector sticks but then you have |
| 15497s |
one of the really scary Annoying threats |
| 15500s |
gone off the board because V is already |
| 15502s |
at two out of four on her level up |
| 15505s |
progression and you don't want to allow |
| 15506s |
her to level up and stick on the board |
| 15508s |
for a little while yeah so now since the |
| 15511s |
Rite defec Mana has sort of been Tapped |
| 15513s |
Out by SE R just go straight for the |
| 15515s |
easy removal on the vein um double |
| 15517s |
broadwing is going to make it a bit |
| 15519s |
awkward again for red mon to keep the |
| 15521s |
set alive could try and use the champion |
| 15524s |
spell from set to St two units but we'll |
| 15526s |
have to wait and see what sooy develops |
| 15529s |
here if |
| 15531s |
anything sooy with two good options |
| 15534s |
Ranger Knight Defector or atrox The |
| 15537s |
Defector can also be followed up by the |
| 15539s |
dark and harp which will be very |
| 15541s |
frustrating for Monty to see but they |
| 15543s |
have multiple stun options in their own |
| 15545s |
hand and therefore for now they're |
| 15547s |
sitting comfortably they're still fine |
| 15550s |
but this board is starting to mount up |
| 15553s |
and snowball a little bit on Soo side |
| 15555s |
yeah so I'm expecting a pass most likely |
| 15557s |
here from Red Monte you don't have to |
| 15560s |
commit anything yet if reright Defector |
| 15561s |
attacks you can just throw your set away |
| 15563s |
and then just develop a new one and |
| 15565s |
you'll still be sitting okay um the plus |
| 15567s |
two attack doesn't really do anything uh |
| 15570s |
for |
| 15576s |
formidableness the weapon you set the |
| 15578s |
Pioneer up in |
| 15579s |
advance that's a good point you're now |
| 15582s |
not car not scared of the darken harp |
| 15587s |
anymore um this line sets up for what's |
| 15590s |
most likely going to be a tumble which I |
| 15592s |
quite like because then that stops the |
| 15594s |
weapon it delays the weapon remove I |
| 15596s |
should say because you don't get that |
| 15597s |
action with the slow uh |
| 15600s |
attack I like it that's some very astute |
| 15603s |
play from seoi really making red Monty |
| 15607s |
life miserable and making their |
| 15610s |
options as unvaluable as possible if |
| 15614s |
that makes |
| 15615s |
sense yeah it's making it really awkward |
| 15617s |
they're going to get the rally here with |
| 15619s |
the dark no matter what there's no |
| 15621s |
deny um which there's a lot of damage |
| 15624s |
being pushed I mean we're going to |
| 15625s |
probably see the concussive Palm come |
| 15626s |
down after the fact um and then that |
| 15629s |
will hopefully stabilize the board for |
| 15631s |
red Monty a little bit and set up for |
| 15633s |
the set on the following turn or we just |
| 15635s |
see a pass |
| 15642s |
so I think red Monte went for the pass |
| 15644s |
and the priority has been giving back to |
| 15646s |
sooy who's currently considering whether |
| 15648s |
or not a tumble is worth it there are |
| 15650s |
quite a few cards to think |
| 15652s |
about like denies and noice and so on so |
| 15656s |
K is electing to click the and and make |
| 15659s |
red Monty just burn three |
| 15662s |
Mana which is also a little bit of a a |
| 15665s |
tiny victory going towards snowballing |
| 15668s |
the game and the atrox does get |
| 15670s |
developed here while still having well |
| 15672s |
Valor and Tumble mana on |
| 15675s |
[Music] |
| 15677s |
board yeah we shall |
| 15680s |
see |
| 15682s |
um not |
| 15685s |
sure what happens here |
| 15689s |
for Monty in general it's going to be |
| 15691s |
tough uh it's getting to that point in |
| 15693s |
the game where sequ is going to be |
| 15695s |
trying to look to close it out |
| 15697s |
um has options to |
| 15699s |
rally and just a little bit of a problem |
| 15708s |
overall and okay so if you're tooy |
| 15711s |
you're looking to finish off as I |
| 15712s |
mentioned this turn uh or as soon as |
| 15716s |
possible and not sure exactly how red |
| 15721s |
Monty really survives has the concussive |
| 15723s |
pal as an option oh Drew The Nine Lives |
| 15726s |
which is perfect so can generate now |
| 15729s |
actually two additional blockers these |
| 15731s |
two additional blockers uh are going to |
| 15734s |
be huge and uh just to survive an |
| 15737s |
additional turn it's one of those games |
| 15740s |
where the game plan for red Monty is to |
| 15742s |
get to like that turn 10 get to that |
| 15744s |
Karma and from there on in if you can |
| 15746s |
get karma plus set on the board um it's |
| 15748s |
usually game over the obliterates will |
| 15749s |
remove the weapons and uh basically stop |
| 15752s |
all of seo's pressure but again it's |
| 15755s |
going to be a race to that point we're |
| 15757s |
going to probably see rally coming down |
| 15759s |
again this turn and setting up another |
| 15762s |
attack |
| 15763s |
here so CO's board lead is snowballing |
| 15767s |
here Mystic shot does threaten to take |
| 15770s |
care of that atrox but catch is an |
| 15773s |
incredibly useful defensive combat trick |
| 15775s |
red Monte is trying to seize the |
| 15778s |
opportunity here but sooy does have an |
| 15781s |
answer in hand if they elect to go for |
| 15782s |
it it is not an easy decision to make |
| 15785s |
because Soo could be worried about |
| 15788s |
further removal |
| 15793s |
followup do you go for you go for the |
| 15796s |
catch here with the |
| 15798s |
dark Oh no just takes the okay just |
| 15801s |
takes the |
| 15804s |
Mystic value the catch High yeah we'll |
| 15806s |
see we'll see exactly what happens here |
| 15809s |
Lobster uh just going for the anaka |
| 15812s |
instead going wide I like this you can |
| 15815s |
tumble here |
| 15817s |
um to get a rally and then you can still |
| 15820s |
kna afterwards and get another |
| 15821s |
additional |
| 15823s |
unit so it's going to be interesting to |
| 15827s |
[Music] |
| 15829s |
note what do you think Lobster did you |
| 15831s |
just rip the tumble here I think you do |
| 15833s |
right if you're so yeah I kind of like |
| 15836s |
it the cool thing is like red Monty's |
| 15839s |
deck just doesn't have the perfect tools |
| 15841s |
to stop anaka from pulling multiple |
| 15843s |
cards here because they don't really |
| 15845s |
play big removal and they like if they |
| 15848s |
would have had a recall they probably |
| 15850s |
would have played it immediately right |
| 15852s |
so can be somewhat comfortable that the |
| 15855s |
anaka is going to get some value through |
| 15856s |
the tumble does not get played yet that |
| 15859s |
does give red Monty a higher Mana pull |
| 15862s |
again but it does also give the |
| 15864s |
opportunity of using the tumble to |
| 15866s |
activate a rally if played on The |
| 15868s |
Defector instead of inaka yeah I mean |
| 15870s |
they have that opportunity last time |
| 15871s |
they didn't rally if I'm correct they |
| 15872s |
didn't Scout I mean Scout attack that |
| 15875s |
that was the thought process you could |
| 15876s |
have scouted then still got your token |
| 15879s |
token and attacked again gotcha |
| 15883s |
gotcha okay we see an |
| 15889s |
Noy and let's see if that also is the |
| 15891s |
pull and it is the pull and being so |
| 15894s |
like overly patient with the tumble |
| 15897s |
might end up getting punished really |
| 15899s |
really hard we see the weapon removal |
| 15901s |
coming down to play around World Ender |
| 15904s |
no more atro coming back dral coming |
| 15907s |
down here for sey means that they're |
| 15909s |
going to try and go as wide as possible |
| 15911s |
maybe um on the open most likely but set |
| 15915s |
coming down here though is going to shut |
| 15918s |
a couple of this couple of these attacks |
| 15920s |
down yeah the set cannot really be |
| 15923s |
activated this turn I'm not quite sure |
| 15925s |
how many coins have been stacked up but |
| 15926s |
I think it's just one or two and uh if |
| 15930s |
there can be a sh breaker that would be |
| 15932s |
getting generated that would be huge but |
| 15934s |
I don't think that is the case in that |
| 15936s |
the tumble is is going to be played will |
| 15937s |
get shut down by the Noy so for sooy |
| 15940s |
this must look incredibly juicy because |
| 15942s |
literally the only thing that can stop |
| 15944s |
this is a one Mana opy red Monty just |
| 15946s |
happens to have that in |
| 15950s |
hat yeah I mean the Noy at one Mana I |
| 15954s |
mean this is the thing with the with |
| 15955s |
cost reductions occasionally you can get |
| 15957s |
into that false sense of security um |
| 15959s |
unfortunately you can't really do much |
| 15961s |
about it a lot of the time so we see the |
| 15962s |
Noy come down for one so K thinking the |
| 15965s |
tumble was most likely save |
| 15967s |
unfortunately it is not and now this set |
| 15970s |
will probably remove Dural and just |
| 15972s |
swinging for a little bit of damage the |
| 15973s |
other option is you can potentially just |
| 15975s |
try to remove the ranger Knight Defector |
| 15978s |
but yeah it's a tough decision to |
| 15980s |
make S going for the cool |
| 15983s |
invulnerability effect during the |
| 15985s |
challenge taking out a important |
| 15988s |
attacker on Soo side and the show |
| 15990s |
stopper does come through after all so |
| 15991s |
my math has been off and it was exactly |
| 15994s |
12 Mana being spent throughout this turn |
| 15997s |
taking out the anant all of a sudden the |
| 15999s |
momentum is swinging super hard in this |
| 16002s |
matchup yeah unfortunately once you've |
| 16005s |
got to the sort of this stage in the |
| 16006s |
game you haven't had a chance to play |
| 16008s |
wender your atrox hasn't really uh been |
| 16011s |
able to achieve what it needs to do on |
| 16012s |
the board um red Mon's stabilized has |
| 16016s |
got the option for karma plus place your |
| 16018s |
bets on the following turn um the only |
| 16021s |
issue is obviously could have doesn't |
| 16022s |
have enough money for the coin I guess |
| 16023s |
so you can Karma coin place a bet coin |
| 16027s |
that is actually a very good line of |
| 16029s |
play I if red Monty sees this I think |
| 16031s |
this is just going to be a blowed in |
| 16033s |
this game because the way Karma works |
| 16035s |
with coins of course and with place your |
| 16037s |
bets especially so karma is going to |
| 16039s |
double the value of the first coin and |
| 16041s |
it's also going to double the coin |
| 16043s |
generation from place your bets right so |
| 16046s |
instead of two coins you get four coins |
| 16047s |
in hand and that gets double casted you |
| 16049s |
get eight Mana |
| 16050s |
back and that is enough to just do Karma |
| 16054s |
things and very of often will flip the |
| 16058s |
momentum of the game in the very turn |
| 16060s |
that it happens especially with a level |
| 16061s |
set on board that generates a short |
| 16063s |
stopper as |
| 16065s |
well yeah it's very very close but it |
| 16067s |
really depends on the actions tooy takes |
| 16070s |
right so if this attack goes through |
| 16072s |
honestly you're most likely going to hit |
| 16073s |
AET and just play |
| 16075s |
Karma uh yes you are going to lose set |
| 16079s |
um you could play concussive pal and |
| 16080s |
Karma this turn as well that works fine |
| 16082s |
and place a bits on the following turn |
| 16084s |
but the issue is obviously this this um |
| 16087s |
the Mana won't be in your favor because |
| 16090s |
of the |
| 16091s |
Jal but I can't blame red Monty for |
| 16094s |
trying to keep this second set alive um |
| 16097s |
I do think both options are very |
| 16099s |
legitimate and red Monty just electing |
| 16101s |
to go for the more conservative and less |
| 16104s |
flashy line of play and going for more |
| 16106s |
traditional use of karmine to place |
| 16108s |
yours with some Mana banked yeah |
| 16111s |
unfortunately though since we've had the |
| 16113s |
change to uh the coin being now Focus |
| 16116s |
instead of burst you can't really do |
| 16118s |
like the big explosive thing Karma set |
| 16121s |
used to be able to do which play place a |
| 16123s |
bet straight into the coins and then |
| 16124s |
play your spells in response um you're |
| 16126s |
actually a bit more committed now when |
| 16128s |
you do the karma place your bets you are |
| 16130s |
you have to spend 10 um a lot of the |
| 16134s |
time and uh when especially when there's |
| 16137s |
like something on the stack anyway I |
| 16138s |
should say you can't necessarily always |
| 16139s |
play the coin but I am very glad this |
| 16142s |
change happened I think that was a very |
| 16144s |
important quality of life change when |
| 16146s |
facing Karma set type of decks and it it |
| 16149s |
does make it to allow for a bit more |
| 16151s |
interaction and not so that Karma just |
| 16154s |
runs away immediately World Ender is |
| 16156s |
being played not scared of a deny but |
| 16159s |
also it just happens to not be in red |
| 16161s |
Monty's hand instead we are going to see |
| 16164s |
this explosive place your bets turn come |
| 16167s |
up very soon yeah I mean it looks like |
| 16170s |
oh we have the score Never Walk Alone |
| 16171s |
beating Camari never walk alone doing |
| 16174s |
fantastically this tournament um great |
| 16177s |
to see how far they've been able to take |
| 16179s |
those Decks that we've been watching |
| 16180s |
earlier on unfortunate for Kamari again |
| 16183s |
dropping in quarter finals so close but |
| 16185s |
yet so far only Grand finals matters in |
| 16189s |
this tournament to secure one of those |
| 16191s |
World Championship spots and we do see |
| 16193s |
the fancy Co action refilling back to 12 |
| 16197s |
Mana again and just allowing so many |
| 16199s |
more plays |
| 16201s |
here yep you can have the weapon removal |
| 16204s |
here if you need it uh as well as the |
| 16206s |
showstopper so you can remove the weapon |
| 16208s |
on one of them and show stoer the other |
| 16210s |
one to remove it um it's gotten to that |
| 16213s |
point Karma's down on the board uh |
| 16215s |
there's more insight com inside of Ages |
| 16218s |
for more weapon for more spell |
| 16220s |
generation um it's yeah this matchup |
| 16224s |
usually Falls really far behind very |
| 16227s |
quickly um at this point in the game if |
| 16230s |
you if you've let Karma andet it down on |
| 16232s |
the bord as we can see here not even |
| 16234s |
scared of the atro that much really just |
| 16237s |
want to deny the draw from the heart |
| 16239s |
from the dark in there and the equipment |
| 16242s |
getting destroyed as well yeah I hate to |
| 16244s |
to call it early but it seems like we |
| 16246s |
are past the point of no return it's |
| 16249s |
going to be so hard for SEO to push |
| 16252s |
additional Nexus damage in from this |
| 16254s |
point onward and we do see Karma doing |
| 16256s |
Karma things Karma's inside of AES |
| 16258s |
generating a bunch of stuff deny even |
| 16260s |
gets picked up a bit too late because |
| 16262s |
World Ender already went through just |
| 16264s |
play scrap tration yeah rtion would be a |
| 16267s |
good one haing Gale also perfectly takes |
| 16269s |
care of the atro and there's no pressure |
| 16272s |
left on so side we do see the shenny |
| 16273s |
mode go through the surrender comes |
| 16276s |
through and red Monty is going to be our |
| 16280s |
player to advance to the semi finals so |
| 16283s |
close to that world championship spot |
| 16285s |
but still needs to win that final test |
| 16287s |
in the next round yeah unfortunately for |
| 16290s |
Ren Monte um that they don't make it um |
| 16292s |
through this this thing but I do know if |
| 16295s |
I remember correctly there was a |
| 16296s |
potential tiebreaker in points set up um |
| 16300s |
for the ladder points or the overall |
| 16301s |
routa worlds points based on of um if |
| 16304s |
red Mony actually qualified here or not |
| 16306s |
so that might have been cleared out now |
| 16308s |
now that |
| 16310s |
um SEO actually wait yeah SEO didn't |
| 16312s |
make it yeah it's basically SEO that |
| 16315s |
needed to to make it to the finals we |
| 16317s |
will research that in the little break |
| 16318s |
that is going to come up shortly and |
| 16320s |
keep you updated but for now yeah we are |
| 16322s |
going to have to part W was with SEO |
| 16324s |
which is very unfortunate because I like |
| 16326s |
the creativity in the lineup and mostly |
| 16328s |
it was very strong play but I think a |
| 16330s |
couple of small inaccuracies that just |
| 16334s |
got punished by Monty really |
| 16336s |
capitalizing and got getting the victory |
| 16339s |
here we are going to go into that break |
| 16340s |
we will be back with the semi-finals in |
| 16343s |
the bit stay |
| 16345s |
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| 16354s |
tuned |
| 16366s |
[Music] |
| 16381s |
[Music] |
| 16409s |
[Music] |
| 16444s |
he |
| 16445s |
[Music] |
| 16461s |
[Music] |
| 16469s |
[Music] |
| 16474s |
y |
| 16475s |
[Music] |
| 16499s |
[Music] |
| 16504s |
he |
| 16522s |
is that all you |
| 16527s |
got |
| 16533s |
another |
| 16534s |
to |
| 16540s |
St by St St |
| 16551s |
[Music] |
| 16564s |
St |
| 16574s |
is that all you got |
| 16579s |
to |
| 16594s |
another |
| 16600s |
one |
| 16624s |
you |
| 16633s |
[Music] |
| 16644s |
[Music] |
| 16646s |
it's all you got |
| 16654s |
to |
| 16664s |
[Music] |
| 16675s |
[Applause] |
| 16684s |
I |
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welcome back everybody to EMA's Last |
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Chance qualifier for the world |
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championship and we are now coming up |
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with the most important round of the |
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tournament it is the semifinals and we |
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know that both finalists are going to |
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secure their slot in the world |
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championship so this is kind of the true |
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finals of the tournament the grand |
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finals are going to be more of a show |
| 17582s |
match but before we jump into that we do |
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have some replays of the quarterfinals |
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action and there's a lot to unravel here |
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as well yeah we saw red Monty up up |
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against SEO uh here both bringing atrox |
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list although as we mentioned earlier |
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very different atrox list we got the |
| 17599s |
Kane atrox ver is the Quinn version uh |
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and we saw this key turn here where we |
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saw the Bader surviving which allowed s |
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to uh basically survive for a couple |
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more turns ultimately uh red Monty does |
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eventually take the match overall this |
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was the key turn here both players had |
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the options to play their atrox finisher |
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cards sooy went for it but Monty just |
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had all of the removal options available |
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and therefore kind of took out the |
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pressure from seo seo only got R Monty |
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down to 3 HP but could not stop the |
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inevitable atrox level up and all of |
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those darkins swinging in and that last |
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big attack from red Monty secured the |
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game for them right here |
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yeah it was just again one of those |
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board based matchups where one side |
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managed to um kind of just develop the |
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bigger board managed to get the anaka |
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managed to get the atro level up as we |
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saw go wide go tall as well at the same |
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time refill their hand and sooy |
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unfortunately wasn't able to close out |
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this match and again we saw the next |
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match here between the two we saw the |
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karma set from red Monty uh make it all |
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the way to that sort of later stages of |
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the game all the way up to turn 10 uh |
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where they were able to develop both |
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both Karma and set on the board and do |
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typical Karma set stuff to secure their |
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win yeah and Karma ran away with a game |
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once it was past that point of no return |
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once the Monty can just play much more |
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Mana efficient stuff sooy just kind of |
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couldn't put enough pressure out in the |
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early stages of the game and that is all |
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she wrote red Monty one of our |
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semi-finalists we will also see in our |
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upcoming featured match looking at the |
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bracket here the next one we're going to |
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be looking at is diogenous enjoy your |
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AKA sergy most people will know this |
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player better under the username sergy |
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to Vamos a Spanish tournament grinder |
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that has already realized a ton of |
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success in a variety of tournaments and |
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I'm not surprised to see them basically |
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blast through the bracket here as well |
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mostly cleaning out with two's here and |
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there an occasional 21 yeah and on the |
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other side we've got Never Walk Alone |
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versus shumo again reminder the winner |
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of both of these two matches will be |
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guaranteed their spot in the World |
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Championship uh in December so all to |
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play for this is the most important |
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match of the tournament uh this is the |
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deciding match on whether or not they |
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will make it and get to play and also |
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I'm super happy to see to like four |
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players of such caliber make it so far |
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if we would have looked at the bracket |
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at the beginning of the day these are |
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four of the names that would have stood |
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out as people who really deserve to |
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represent EMA on the world championship |
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level and this is again do or die for |
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all of these players it sucks that we're |
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going to have to say goodbye to two of |
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them but I am also going to be happy |
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that two of them are going to make it |
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through and secure that prestigious slot |
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in the world |
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championship yeah and we're moving on to |
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our featured match of the two sets which |
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is red Monty versus Sergey and red Monty |
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we saw it before the break they have |
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this Kane atrox list a very previously |
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metasol position strong mid-range board |
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Centric deck um brought practically by |
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only only red Monty themselves um doing |
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fantastically got themselves all the way |
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here into the semi-finals for a position |
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and a chance to get themselves to the |
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Grand finals very interesting list uh |
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it's got one expense protection and the |
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unforgiving colds there to to maybe pre |
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on like Jacks and other mid-range decks |
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yeah and while the atrox canist might be |
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a surprise performer Karma is something |
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that has been on the Raider of a lot of |
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tournament Players and top Pilots |
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because this deck allows for so much |
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skill expression it kind of always just |
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makes a comeback in the top cut of |
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tournaments and this very streamlined |
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version of red Monty seems to have put |
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the work in so far two denies and most |
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importantly stuff like three tag outs |
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three concussive pumps three aftershocks |
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so many removal and stalling options and |
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obviously we see the jackor uh what is |
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there to say about this deck if we've |
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seen this |
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time and time again in Eternal in |
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standard it is a very strong mid-range |
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deck relies heavily on the weapon uh |
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synergies with Jackson on the only real |
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sort of standout I guess is the parts |
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made whole a oneof copy which will allow |
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a red Monty to discard a weapon to draw |
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a couple of cards maybe and develop a 32 |
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speed um and two copies of harsh winds |
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and here we see a new deck that we have |
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not seen yet today and we haven't really |
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seen much of on ladder neither Teemo |
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Riven smor this is just trying to go |
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wide and tall at the same time in the |
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early stages of the game push a lot of |
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damage and finish off the game with |
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plenty of burn with three we see three |
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copies of blowback Mystic shot and |
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enraged fire spitter for direct Nexis |
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damage ideally also a couple of Teo puff |
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caps but we can also push quite a bit of |
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damage on the board through these |
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overwhelm units as well as rivons |
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overwhel blade fragments yeah and we see |
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the Jinx Kennon as well coming back here |
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in for first uh full force for C here |
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dionis uh again very strong aggressive |
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list here running the Canan version |
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instead which will potentially enable |
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more discard targets again very |
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fantastic strong triple blowback triple |
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electric Haroon pyos is in there and |
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also that Arena promoter just giving a |
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little bit of extra reach and rounding |
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out that very |
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aggressive styled lineup is another |
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iteration of J or main deck a flash |
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freeze here also two copies of three |
| 17946s |
sisters so also having plenty of options |
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for the ja or mirror or against big |
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hitter type decks but still running |
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enough removal and entrancing lures and |
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fish fights sheries as a very tough to |
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deal with combat tricks sky spitters |
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this is really an annoying list to face |
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because you don't really know all of the |
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options that your opponent is going to |
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go for in the middle of combat with one |
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two three four Mana |
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available yeah if you're Sergey you're |
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actually I think potentially quite happy |
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overall here uh you're most likely going |
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to ban JAX on or kro I feel like you |
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kind of want to play your aggro deck |
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into this Karma set um both very |
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aggressive uh lists here that will |
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potentially rush it down before it can |
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get to do its uh job especially with |
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like the uh the changes to cards like |
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costic Rift a lot of the lists have cut |
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costic Rift in karma set um so that's |
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potentially not there to remove a lot of |
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the cheaper units on both on mro de yeah |
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this Karma set list looked like it was |
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very teched against mid-range it didn't |
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play a lot of early units it doesn't |
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really play much heal it plays a lot of |
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well stopping singular big units from |
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hitting you with the concussive Pals and |
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the tag outs and so on nonetheless we do |
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see J or get banned and the two aggro |
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decks kept in there so I would say this |
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looks favorable for sergy all around |
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because |
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like against ja or it can be a bit of a |
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race ja or does have some defensive |
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capabilities and can also close out the |
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game explosively with wild claw |
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ferocity and we do see the Teo deck in |
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action I think the first Teo that we |
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actually have on screen in this |
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tournament love to see |
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it yes you wanted to see it earlier but |
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unfortunately it got banned but you got |
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to see it I guess in a different light |
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here I the nox version I got I got it to |
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show up for a second and then it gets |
| 18062s |
Mulligan away with the attack token on |
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turn one this is breaking my |
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heart so close yet so far and what a |
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fantastic top deck there for rontti JAX |
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on two with the weapon Swift Master |
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there ideal yeah this means that Jax is |
| 18077s |
going to come down as a 43 and that |
| 18079s |
weapon that very impactful weapon is |
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going to stay buffed throughout of the |
| 18083s |
game because I don't think that |
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diogenous enjoyer is playing any |
| 18088s |
equipment removal and this is a good |
| 18090s |
early attack forcing a trade and and |
| 18094s |
taking out some potential pressure |
| 18096s |
coming back at red Monty later on yeah |
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this is a pretty slow hand overall um |
| 18103s |
for what is an an aggressive list here |
| 18105s |
from Serge um can play the Riven here |
| 18108s |
but the issue of playing Riven here is |
| 18110s |
you fold quite comfortably to the fish |
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fight that we can see in Ron's |
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hand I'm curious to see what these |
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people like to do that does seem very |
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straightforward Riven even though she is |
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going to bite the dust very soon it's |
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going to generate a blade fragment at |
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least so sergy does have access to the |
| 18130s |
blade of the Exile soon and has a fire |
| 18132s |
spitter in hand but for now the tempo is |
| 18136s |
definitely in Monty's favor but the |
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value isn't looking at Monty's hand |
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there's not that much followup right now |
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they're going to run out the thing is |
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Monty doesn't need that much right uh |
| 18149s |
with harsh winds and Sky spit can just |
| 18151s |
consistently get valuable traits |
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um The Mystic I do like uh is it's the |
| 18157s |
only chance you have of removing that |
| 18159s |
Jack yeah and otherwise you can't really |
| 18161s |
stop it from leveling eventually and |
| 18163s |
then it becomes a huge problem so sergy |
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with some accurate play making perfect |
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use of the full Mana pool and yeah |
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probably even predicted that thinking |
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okay it's fine to sacrifice Riven here |
| 18175s |
if I do get the Jags for her in the end |
| 18178s |
as well and Monty with a very very |
| 18180s |
slight lead but not really a lot of |
| 18182s |
value let's see how much that board |
| 18185s |
Advantage can snowball yeah so red Monty |
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has a few options here um can try |
| 18190s |
getting the Jack weapon forging extra |
| 18192s |
times or can just choose to go for the |
| 18194s |
pilt overcast away and have the the |
| 18196s |
value spread across multiple weapons um |
| 18199s |
hits the pot of overwhelm is fantastic |
| 18202s |
but um pot of pain was also great if you |
| 18205s |
want to go for more survivable game plan |
| 18207s |
but we can see red Mon's like nope just |
| 18208s |
going to go full swing in this turn yeah |
| 18211s |
I think especially against a burn based |
| 18213s |
deck it's more of a race like |
| 18216s |
survivability you won't really be in a |
| 18218s |
position where you just want the game to |
| 18220s |
go on forever because sergey's deck can |
| 18222s |
always top deck more burn so I like |
| 18224s |
Monty going for that more aggressive |
| 18226s |
option and just going for the face race |
| 18228s |
instead clock link chain does start here |
| 18232s |
and it looks like diogenes and joy is |
| 18234s |
currently pivoting to elusiv as a game |
| 18237s |
plan yeah it does however that might be |
| 18240s |
a little bit too slow we know red Monty |
| 18242s |
had the harsh winds available so can |
| 18244s |
just stop a lot of this damage coming |
| 18246s |
through and then set up a nice fantastic |
| 18249s |
Open Swing or not even an Open Swing can |
| 18250s |
develop so the thing is against a lot of |
| 18252s |
aggro decks you can just freely develop |
| 18254s |
you don't have to worry about open |
| 18255s |
swinging as much CU most of the time the |
| 18257s |
only Direction they're going to have is |
| 18258s |
some fast speed spell which they can do |
| 18260s |
when you attack you can just full on |
| 18262s |
develop as wide as you want then swing |
| 18266s |
in sergy seems to want to remove some of |
| 18270s |
the threats |
| 18271s |
here with this Challenger unit red Monty |
| 18275s |
did not go for the plovan Castaway |
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development which |
| 18279s |
means they I'm a bit surprised to see |
| 18282s |
The Omen Haw develop first I think it |
| 18283s |
was very important to get the atune down |
| 18285s |
first from the cast away so that you can |
| 18287s |
also Skys splitter this turn and still |
| 18289s |
play all of your hand but nonetheless |
| 18292s |
Skys splitter is still available that is |
| 18294s |
the most important thing here and this |
| 18297s |
can stop the Castaway on board from |
| 18300s |
dying to the challenge attack from |
| 18301s |
diogenes so so yeah serg is in a bit of |
| 18304s |
a tricky spot here not really being able |
| 18307s |
to alleviate enough of the pressure on |
| 18309s |
the board yeah the thing is if you're in |
| 18311s |
an AG if you're playing like an agro |
| 18312s |
aggressive deck and you're trying to |
| 18314s |
alleviate pressure you already know |
| 18316s |
you're not in a great spot right U at |
| 18318s |
that point in the game you are basically |
| 18321s |
hoping to try and basically get any |
| 18324s |
anything you can to try find that one |
| 18327s |
that one point of damage here that two |
| 18328s |
point of damage here even as we can see |
| 18330s |
going for Teemo instead of another |
| 18334s |
another going for Teo instead of another |
| 18336s |
clocking maybe banking on the five puff |
| 18339s |
caps pushing in an extra one or two |
| 18341s |
damage before the game |
| 18343s |
ends might be the idea that might also |
| 18347s |
just be keeping spam open I'm not quite |
| 18349s |
sure what exactly in this current hand |
| 18351s |
state that spam man would be kept open |
| 18353s |
for but going for the omen hog pulici |
| 18357s |
side a rather low value unit of course |
| 18359s |
it's a bit futile to challenge The pilen |
| 18362s |
Cast Away here because the overwhelm |
| 18364s |
weapon is going to bounce back to hand |
| 18365s |
and can be replayed Sky splitter keeping |
| 18367s |
that HW alive it's an elusive blocker so |
| 18369s |
you have to pull it so Teo can |
| 18371s |
hit true do you really value that Teo |
| 18374s |
hit that highly don't know it seems like |
| 18377s |
it right |
| 18379s |
otherwise this is going to be close to |
| 18382s |
lethal already with wild claw ferocity |
| 18384s |
just being top decked and can put that |
| 18386s |
on the weapons SM Apprentice with a |
| 18388s |
quick attack weapon going to push in a |
| 18390s |
lot of overwhelm damage |
| 18394s |
you |
| 18394s |
also I don't mind it on the one the one |
| 18397s |
on the end with no weapon um just it's |
| 18399s |
just better overall stats on the board |
| 18401s |
good point good point I also liked |
| 18403s |
Monty's defensive use of skysplitter it |
| 18405s |
usually is a waste to put that on an |
| 18407s |
omen hog but Monty is correctly |
| 18410s |
assessing that sergy is currently going |
| 18413s |
for an elusive game plan and that is |
| 18415s |
sergey's only way of dealing enough |
| 18417s |
damage to still win the game and |
| 18420s |
therefore this elusive blocker just ch |
| 18422s |
blocking one two attacks later on is |
| 18424s |
going to be super valuable and therefore |
| 18426s |
is being capped the line and does not |
| 18428s |
attack here is being kept back in the |
| 18430s |
back line I suspect we'll see the |
| 18431s |
blowback most likely coming down this |
| 18433s |
turn um it will keep both elusiv alive |
| 18437s |
push three damage the only punishment I |
| 18439s |
guess oh okay just hitting okay here |
| 18442s |
instead worried about the sky the second |
| 18444s |
another Sky splitter I guess yeah and |
| 18446s |
this allows sergy to still play the fire |
| 18449s |
spitter and remove the omen hog and the |
| 18452s |
the fire spitter itself can challenge |
| 18455s |
the alpha white claw that does look good |
| 18457s |
on paper for sergy we of course know |
| 18460s |
that there is a harsh winds available |
| 18461s |
for Monty and that is going to be |
| 18463s |
devastating for diogenous enjoyer here |
| 18466s |
yeah the harsh winds is g to really |
| 18469s |
really set back virus's game plan here |
| 18473s |
let's see what they these two players |
| 18474s |
still draw another Teo drawn another |
| 18477s |
wild close for |
| 18478s |
rocity one HP and a dream here for |
| 18481s |
Sergey can they find their rout out of |
| 18485s |
this so sergy is gonna be looking for as |
| 18489s |
much damage as possible this turn and |
| 18491s |
then close it out with blowback and burn |
| 18494s |
I assume well this is either going to be |
| 18496s |
an urchin or a |
| 18497s |
skip let's see what exactly I think |
| 18500s |
urchin makes more sense because it's |
| 18501s |
free anyway um so sergy is going to be |
| 18504s |
going for a blade of the Exile and just |
| 18506s |
going to try to get one really big over |
| 18508s |
hit in with this fire spitter but Monty |
| 18512s |
being very wise to not tap under harsh |
| 18514s |
win's Mana sergy is just playing as if |
| 18517s |
like okay if my opponent has a freeze I |
| 18519s |
lose anyway so I got to play as if they |
| 18521s |
don't have a freeze to have any chance |
| 18523s |
to win and we of course know the harsh |
| 18526s |
wins is available but Sergio is still |
| 18528s |
trying to maximize their own odds of |
| 18531s |
winning this game I'm trying to think is |
| 18533s |
there a line Serge can take here that |
| 18536s |
plays |
| 18537s |
around um the harsh winds at least a |
| 18540s |
little bit or at least sets them up to |
| 18542s |
be okay for the next turn and I'm I'm |
| 18543s |
struggling to find it I don't think so |
| 18546s |
you just can't |
| 18548s |
remove these overwhelm units they're too |
| 18552s |
big uh you can blow back one of |
| 18555s |
them and that's kind of it |
| 18561s |
mhm the other option |
| 18564s |
is quick attack I'm assuming |
| 18567s |
yep oh no |
| 18569s |
overwhelm and keeping man keeping the |
| 18572s |
man for blowback I guess yeah not going |
| 18574s |
for the blade of the Exile but |
| 18576s |
instead keeping the blowback Mana |
| 18582s |
open still unfortunately the harsh winds |
| 18585s |
is going to come down and only two |
| 18587s |
damage will be pushed yeah so sery |
| 18590s |
trying to maximize their own win |
| 18592s |
chances playing to their outs which I |
| 18595s |
think is very nicely |
| 18597s |
done it's most likely not going to |
| 18599s |
matter here unless we see the most third |
| 18602s |
Teo puff cat pull of all time I like |
| 18605s |
this pull by the way um it removes the |
| 18608s |
overwhelm weapon while also |
| 18610s |
simultanously allowing them to have a |
| 18611s |
blowback back up to keep their 84 alive |
| 18613s |
for the following turn yeah I like that |
| 18616s |
a lot as well the blowback could also be |
| 18618s |
played mid combat to push more overwhelm |
| 18621s |
damage and directly damage the Nexus we |
| 18623s |
do see the blowback go |
| 18626s |
through now the question is can sergy |
| 18629s |
somehow stop the alpha white CL from |
| 18631s |
swinging in and we already |
| 18633s |
going to be second wow yeah I don't know |
| 18637s |
how they had no idea how they deal with |
| 18639s |
that yeah it would basically have to be |
| 18642s |
a bunch of burn toop deck we just got |
| 18645s |
rid of the rumage Monty is going to jam |
| 18647s |
the white claw ferocity in and two big |
| 18651s |
cats swinging in for the lethal attack |
| 18652s |
the Nexus at a puny one HP will not hold |
| 18656s |
surrender comes in from sergy and Monty |
| 18659s |
goes up one and0 in the super important |
| 18664s |
serious yeah and all that's left here |
| 18666s |
now for red Monty is that Karma set |
| 18668s |
we've been seeing them play throughout |
| 18670s |
the day and it's got two attempts here |
| 18672s |
against two very aggressive lists um |
| 18675s |
Sergey going to have to take a two sweep |
| 18679s |
against KET here and I'm going to have a |
| 18682s |
quick look at deck list in the meantime |
| 18684s |
while we wait for them to get into that |
| 18685s |
match and uh discuss exactly why I think |
| 18690s |
Serge is probably in a much better |
| 18691s |
position than we expect yeah honestly |
| 18694s |
it's doable both of these decks look |
| 18697s |
like they can just run Karma set over |
| 18700s |
Monty has half of a very good starting |
| 18702s |
hand here half is very poorly so you're |
| 18705s |
very happy about the removal you don't |
| 18707s |
like all of these expensive draw SPS |
| 18709s |
while sergy also great start with the |
| 18712s |
urchin discarding the ephemera Grenadier |
| 18715s |
but no good follow up as of right now |
| 18719s |
slow start here does get float a little |
| 18721s |
bit of Mana which isn't the end of the |
| 18722s |
world can develop Riven here uh there's |
| 18725s |
no real removal for Riven outside of |
| 18727s |
double spell and if you see like Mystic |
| 18730s |
plus high note you actually not too |
| 18732s |
upset about that yeah although for Monty |
| 18735s |
it would also be fine like it takes a |
| 18737s |
lot of tempo out of a sergies sales here |
| 18740s |
and it would be kind of a a board state |
| 18742s |
that you can handle Palm is the other |
| 18744s |
option I do think Palm is a bit over |
| 18746s |
zealous here you would |
| 18749s |
rather I was just going to say I love |
| 18752s |
that I love it completely shuts down |
| 18755s |
Monti's turn that turn to play the |
| 18757s |
double double removal stops development |
| 18760s |
and now you get potentially another |
| 18762s |
blade fragment as well else I was just |
| 18766s |
about to say like that was a very risky |
| 18769s |
pass from Monty and not going for the |
| 18770s |
Riven removal immediately that was and |
| 18774s |
I'm surprised by how quickly sery saw |
| 18776s |
this I think that was almost set up he |
| 18778s |
was kind of almost expecting that and |
| 18780s |
just capitalizing on that opportunity on |
| 18782s |
red Monty going for a Pass that might |
| 18784s |
have been AIT too greedy Mystic shot |
| 18786s |
still finds a good Target here in the |
| 18789s |
rider the Risen Rider if I'm not |
| 18791s |
mistaken and still not the worst |
| 18794s |
situation ever for Monty but now sergy |
| 18797s |
or AKA diogenous enjoyer has managed to |
| 18802s |
build a scary board for a good open |
| 18804s |
attack that's a huge open uh um from red |
| 18807s |
Monty during that one copy of Nine Lives |
| 18809s |
it's going to generate some blockers |
| 18811s |
there at speed should they want to go |
| 18813s |
for it yeah but right now I also like |
| 18816s |
sery developing further realizing like |
| 18819s |
okay my opponent has some fast speed or |
| 18821s |
burst speed options for blockers but |
| 18822s |
they're all very expensive and I can |
| 18824s |
develop two units maybe even three in |
| 18826s |
the meantime going for the Run sire |
| 18828s |
which can even pull something like a set |
| 18830s |
aside should that be played as the |
| 18832s |
defensive option yeah if you're s You're |
| 18834s |
Expecting most likely nine lives here |
| 18836s |
right the way red Monty is posturing and |
| 18838s |
not playing anything they haven't played |
| 18840s |
like a a smooth mixologist they haven't |
| 18842s |
played like their own clock cling or |
| 18844s |
anything um no Palm which would do be |
| 18846s |
like a two for one you you should if |
| 18849s |
you're di if you're Ser most likely have |
| 18851s |
a read they most likely have n lives or |
| 18854s |
multiple spells here on the |
| 18856s |
attack Seri going for the big |
| 18859s |
swing committing a bit more |
| 18863s |
resources quick attack on the Riven I |
| 18867s |
think the reason was being safe from the |
| 18869s |
nine lives like predicting that this is |
| 18871s |
probably going to happen |
| 18873s |
great for from sery I'm very very |
| 18875s |
impressed from the piloting in this |
| 18876s |
match so |
| 18878s |
far yeah he's been playing on point |
| 18881s |
today um fantastic here I love the quick |
| 18884s |
attack on Riven because then you know |
| 18885s |
the 42 coming out from nine lives can't |
| 18887s |
trade yeah it trades very awkwardly and |
| 18890s |
unfavorably and it looks like red |
| 18891s |
Monty's deck is just going to get run |
| 18893s |
over |
| 18894s |
here it's what I find so impressive is |
| 18898s |
that it's these little plays that don't |
| 18900s |
look too flashy that are actually huge |
| 18903s |
for sergy here that really prove why he |
| 18905s |
made it so far in this tournament like |
| 18906s |
that pass back earlier on which doesn't |
| 18909s |
look spectacular at all but it was a a |
| 18912s |
big play and arguably a big outplay and |
| 18914s |
also here the pre-commit of the quick |
| 18916s |
attack fragment some very imp impressive |
| 18918s |
stuff here by diogenous and joyer yeah |
| 18921s |
basically for those tuning in basically |
| 18924s |
that pass made redmy lose so much Tempo |
| 18928s |
and unable to use their Mana that the |
| 18930s |
next couple of turns when they're trying |
| 18931s |
to like their big draw they don't have |
| 18933s |
any more removal left and if they use |
| 18935s |
removal surgat just develop wider and |
| 18937s |
wider and wider make the following |
| 18939s |
attack way more difficult for R to deal |
| 18941s |
with because the Spells are a bit too |
| 18943s |
expensive absolutely and we still see |
| 18945s |
the effect of that pass on that turn |
| 18947s |
three on that early turn because the |
| 18949s |
Riven is still alive three turns later |
| 18951s |
and it still made red Monte commit a set |
| 18955s |
development and probably going to use |
| 18958s |
like have to use that challenge action |
| 18960s |
to finally get rid of the Riven much |
| 18962s |
later after she already pushed a bunch |
| 18964s |
of damage and generated a bunch of |
| 18966s |
fragments yeah the fragments have been |
| 18969s |
generated this point we're just going to |
| 18971s |
see uh Serge go as wide as possible just |
| 18975s |
set up an open attack again this is one |
| 18977s |
of the things about the karma set |
| 18978s |
they've cut cards like costic grift out |
| 18980s |
right there's none of that sort of AOE |
| 18981s |
board removal some we've seen today and |
| 18984s |
one zero for Never Walk Alone against |
| 18986s |
shumo on the other side of the semifinal |
| 18988s |
never alone might potentially be our |
| 18991s |
second uh finalist |
| 18994s |
here we I hope we can still catch some |
| 18997s |
out of that action later on hoping for |
| 18999s |
that serious to go for a long time |
| 19001s |
because sergey's decks are both very |
| 19003s |
fast this series is not going to go that |
| 19005s |
much longer even though it might look |
| 19007s |
like it fire spitter comes down and I |
| 19010s |
really don't see how red Monty can stop |
| 19012s |
this attack or even if they somehow |
| 19014s |
miraculously stop this attack there's |
| 19015s |
plenty of followup burn the next turn in |
| 19018s |
the blowback as well as the auction |
| 19020s |
fever |
| 19022s |
double concussive pal this allows them |
| 19024s |
to generate |
| 19025s |
units block um they still take a little |
| 19030s |
bit of damage here it's still four |
| 19033s |
damage going through and then we have |
| 19036s |
back and fervor there's some healing I |
| 19038s |
guess in hand with the smooth |
| 19040s |
mixologist on the next turn from red |
| 19042s |
Monty can start with that but then you |
| 19044s |
don't have deny Manor |
| 19046s |
available oh and the override coming in |
| 19049s |
from sergy from dius andjoy just putting |
| 19052s |
one more attack on the board that |
| 19053s |
represents six damage on the swing and |
| 19056s |
that forces the conceit out of Monty |
| 19058s |
we're tied at one a piece and all of a |
| 19060s |
sudden like we mentioned earlier and now |
| 19062s |
it looks favored for diogenous |
| 19065s |
enjoyer yeah historically KET would have |
| 19067s |
been okay into some of these aggro decks |
| 19069s |
but I guess obviously the changes in |
| 19070s |
this current variation not having uh the |
| 19074s |
ability to deal with really wide small |
| 19077s |
boards effectively and it's it's going |
| 19079s |
to I mean the only options are high |
| 19081s |
notes of shots basically yeah and just |
| 19084s |
going back to the pick and band phase |
| 19085s |
that's why I was surprised to not see |
| 19087s |
the ja or be left open because I thought |
| 19090s |
that would be by far the best way for |
| 19092s |
the C deck to get a w through but either |
| 19094s |
way let's not get ahead of ourselves |
| 19096s |
because first of all sergy needs to |
| 19098s |
actually prove that this is a good |
| 19100s |
matchup after all and we are playing for |
| 19102s |
all the marbles right now it is the |
| 19104s |
semifinals but keep in mind that both |
| 19107s |
players advancing to the Grand finals |
| 19108s |
are going to secure their world |
| 19109s |
championship slots so this is is for |
| 19112s |
both of these players the most important |
| 19114s |
game of the tournament yeah and to start |
| 19116s |
it off I love the pass here from surge |
| 19119s |
saving that Canon um sigil sign to be |
| 19122s |
able to discard it this turn with the |
| 19124s |
zai urchin the mark of the storm getting |
| 19127s |
an additional draw also still keeping |
| 19129s |
pyto Mana open red Monty did find the |
| 19132s |
perfect blocker here the maram if I |
| 19134s |
recall correctly was a oneoff in their |
| 19136s |
list and finds a juicy block here is |
| 19138s |
going to get shut down by the pyos |
| 19140s |
though most likely hey it's a two of |
| 19142s |
they run two copies of that as well as |
| 19143s |
two copies of portal Pioneer um which |
| 19146s |
can provide some additional healing in |
| 19148s |
in this match two Mariam okay so some |
| 19152s |
good early game defensive options |
| 19154s |
forcing the pyos and then getting a lot |
| 19156s |
of value out of this mistake shot so far |
| 19158s |
red Monty's defense holding up nicely |
| 19161s |
yeah and unfortunately actually Serge's |
| 19163s |
hand is a really poor um has I guess |
| 19165s |
some draw in there but is really looking |
| 19168s |
to find uh basically just units to go |
| 19170s |
wide with |
| 19173s |
some units in hand I expect the urin to |
| 19176s |
discard the flame Chompers here but now |
| 19178s |
sery really needs to find some full up |
| 19179s |
draw and jins is a pretty good |
| 19182s |
one yep it is however actually there is |
| 19186s |
nothing really that removes I'm looking |
| 19188s |
through the de this I guess there's |
| 19189s |
three aftershocks three aftershocks yeah |
| 19191s |
yeah so the aftershocks are going to be |
| 19193s |
the key card we don't see red Monty with |
| 19194s |
them currently but Ser is probably going |
| 19196s |
to be um aware of it and most likely |
| 19199s |
playing around |
| 19200s |
it |
| 19202s |
okay Canon for for draw can generate a |
| 19205s |
mark so you can rumage and start looking |
| 19207s |
through the |
| 19208s |
deck I like it that does delay the Jinx |
| 19211s |
development and you also can't go for |
| 19213s |
the classic rumage Jinx level up but |
| 19215s |
that does put out a ton of pressure |
| 19217s |
snowballing the board here this is |
| 19218s |
probably getting noi just because it |
| 19220s |
represents so much damage and maram is |
| 19223s |
still going to be able to trade with one |
| 19224s |
of the units smooth mixologist I expect |
| 19227s |
to come down here this is a bit awkward |
| 19228s |
for sergy because now like you would |
| 19231s |
prefer to have more units to develop |
| 19233s |
maybe you shoot out one of the blockers |
| 19235s |
with a Mystic shot maybe you use it to |
| 19237s |
remove the smooth mixologist in a second |
| 19239s |
here we will see oh going for the more |
| 19243s |
uh I wouldn't say greedier it's it's is |
| 19246s |
slightly greedier because it can be |
| 19248s |
punished by a Mystic um from red Monty |
| 19252s |
against the Canon ultimately elected not |
| 19255s |
to do that so um quite I think okay for |
| 19258s |
Ser there just a hit |
| 19260s |
pass |
| 19262s |
yeah I don't think you need to anything |
| 19264s |
Serge you can't hit pass here this is so |
| 19266s |
awkward if you hit pass R mod is going |
| 19268s |
to pass |
| 19269s |
back I do agree with the arena promoter |
| 19272s |
development instead and that also keeps |
| 19274s |
the Mystic shot to remove the set in a |
| 19278s |
second should he try to remove this |
| 19280s |
Arena promoter I think that is the what |
| 19282s |
is it called Dune Hopper or something |
| 19284s |
dun Hopper that it just goes wide again |
| 19286s |
um I like this from Serge recognizing |
| 19288s |
there isn't anything to stop like wide |
| 19290s |
boards really in this match match up um |
| 19293s |
trying to make the turns as awkward as |
| 19295s |
possible however we see the second Seton |
| 19298s |
there which is actually going to shut |
| 19300s |
down the entire turn here for red for |
| 19304s |
Serge if you go for it you could also |
| 19306s |
just recall that unit generate some |
| 19308s |
coins no it will be set face breaker |
| 19310s |
just trying to stall take out some Tempo |
| 19313s |
and you like keeping that Ard in hand |
| 19317s |
now sergy did find a unit that is really |
| 19320s |
tough to deal with though 66 stat line |
| 19322s |
is very frustrating for this Karma deck |
| 19325s |
yeah it has to be combined with like a |
| 19327s |
Mystic or a high note with with the set |
| 19330s |
on the next turn it's kind of your onlye |
| 19333s |
out um wow Monty not even thinking about |
| 19337s |
it just calling the bluff so what sergy |
| 19339s |
was basically trying to do was saying |
| 19341s |
something like okay I have multiple burn |
| 19343s |
spells or I have a blowback and enough |
| 19346s |
discard F so feel free to block with set |
| 19349s |
I am going to remove him but mon he was |
| 19351s |
like N I don't believe you if you have |
| 19354s |
it you have it but so if we're looking |
| 19356s |
at actual cards that can be discarded |
| 19358s |
and not have a negative effect on the |
| 19359s |
hand we've already seen a single flame |
| 19362s |
droppers played out so they would have |
| 19364s |
had to had two more flame droppers in |
| 19365s |
hand for the blowback so I think red |
| 19367s |
Monty was like okay if you have blowback |
| 19369s |
you're just discarding valuable cards |
| 19371s |
right now yeah yeah that was actually an |
| 19374s |
impressive block but also a very |
| 19377s |
reasonable one considering all |
| 19379s |
circumstances of the game just going for |
| 19382s |
a slightly risky play but it did pay off |
| 19384s |
here portal Pioneer generating some more |
| 19387s |
healing and it almost looks like Monty |
| 19389s |
is about to stabilize but there's still |
| 19391s |
a jinx in hand for |
| 19394s |
sergy yeah that Jinx is so tough for Ser |
| 19398s |
to find the right moment to dump it onto |
| 19401s |
the board really needs to have like the |
| 19403s |
rumage back up at first speed the level |
| 19407s |
um because Serge is obviously going to |
| 19409s |
be very hesitant to just slam it on the |
| 19411s |
board there so many different ways for |
| 19413s |
Jinx to be removed or recalled or |
| 19417s |
aftershocks that sort of stuff or even |
| 19419s |
just set pulling it uh with the |
| 19421s |
Challenger so we know from cast Vision |
| 19425s |
that there isn't anything really at the |
| 19426s |
moment except for a recall but surade |
| 19430s |
doesn't so surge is just playing to the |
| 19432s |
out playing uh very safely and |
| 19434s |
respecting the options that red Monte is |
| 19437s |
presenting and I'm loving this by sergy |
| 19440s |
I was just going to say there is option |
| 19441s |
to play Super aggressively and discard |
| 19443s |
some value to guarantee the Jinx level |
| 19444s |
up and like that means that Jinx is not |
| 19449s |
threatened by Aftershock anymore so the |
| 19450s |
only good way for Monty to deal with |
| 19452s |
Jinx are going to be recalls you will |
| 19455s |
have eight total Mana available unit |
| 19457s |
Mana that is so you can play Jinx level |
| 19460s |
her up replay the Jinx and still play |
| 19462s |
one of the rockets and have her stick on |
| 19464s |
the board for additional draw so like |
| 19467s |
sergy it looks sad to discard that |
| 19470s |
Mystic shot because you can't use it to |
| 19472s |
take out set anymore but I think that |
| 19474s |
was some great planning ahead from sergy |
| 19477s |
and setting up this Jinx turn and kind |
| 19479s |
of guaranteeing her to stick |
| 19481s |
almost yeah this is a really awkward |
| 19483s |
turn I mean Serge the problem is Serge |
| 19485s |
is obviously going to be playing around |
| 19486s |
the other invisible removal that uh he's |
| 19490s |
expecting he's expecting them and this |
| 19492s |
is kind of the reason why we might not |
| 19494s |
see jigs developed here and we see the |
| 19496s |
the attack post strink here um but we |
| 19500s |
know from obviously Vision that there |
| 19501s |
isn't anything so this is like the the |
| 19503s |
most the tougher decisions here um that |
| 19506s |
Sergey can be doing this looks like to |
| 19508s |
me setting up for an attack then maybe |
| 19511s |
developing the Jinx after red Monty's uh |
| 19514s |
expended some |
| 19515s |
Mana also makes sense personally I'm a |
| 19519s |
bit surprised but it it's it does have |
| 19521s |
some solid reasoning behind it just |
| 19523s |
putting a lot of pressure on the board |
| 19525s |
forcing red Monty to invest a lot of |
| 19527s |
mana and valuable removal or concussive |
| 19530s |
Palms tag outs that kind of stuff yeah I |
| 19532s |
think it's uh Sergey basically saying |
| 19534s |
okay look if you spend a lot of Mana |
| 19536s |
here to try stay alive with um survive |
| 19539s |
damage I can get Jinx to slam down the |
| 19541s |
bo Jinx survives another turn uh to get |
| 19544s |
the draw and that's what s really going |
| 19547s |
to |
| 19550s |
want Monty deciding on how exactly to |
| 19553s |
block |
| 19555s |
here this does put |
| 19558s |
the what was it sand Hopper dun hopp |
| 19561s |
that does put it into removal range also |
| 19564s |
into set challenging range and sergy |
| 19567s |
still has multiple options here could |
| 19569s |
clear out the set with a Mystic shot of |
| 19571s |
course that can be punished quite hard |
| 19574s |
by a tag |
| 19575s |
out we see the sery seems to have some |
| 19579s |
plan in mind with being so super patient |
| 19581s |
with the |
| 19583s |
Jinx I mean I think you have to go for |
| 19585s |
it now right this whole line was set up |
| 19588s |
you can play Jinx at the end of the turn |
| 19590s |
um you want the rocket to try and kill |
| 19595s |
set I you could just go for you could |
| 19597s |
just go for the Mystic too yeah but the |
| 19599s |
tag out can come down |
| 19602s |
defensively I think sergy might have |
| 19604s |
been scared of Aftershock plus High not |
| 19607s |
or Mystic shot or any any combination |
| 19609s |
two of these spells but now we do see |
| 19611s |
the Jinx be developed we do see the |
| 19614s |
rumage level up with only one card draw |
| 19616s |
but the most important thing is the |
| 19618s |
super mega Death rocket that she |
| 19619s |
generates and still has one spell Mana |
| 19622s |
left Ava to play it to we going to see |
| 19625s |
the deny here for mon most likely here |
| 19629s |
to keep the set alive for the next turn |
| 19632s |
kind of the only way they can remove |
| 19633s |
Jinx at the moment yeah the other play |
| 19636s |
would have been tag out recall set to |
| 19638s |
hand but I do think the deny is straight |
| 19640s |
up better here it also leaves the other |
| 19642s |
blocker alive and it allows you to |
| 19643s |
immediately swing in with set remove the |
| 19646s |
Jinx and basically reduce |
| 19649s |
sergey's um sergey's top deck or serg's |
| 19652s |
chances to generate another rocket |
| 19654s |
immediately oh we are we generating a |
| 19656s |
show |
| 19657s |
stopper hello oh there we go that's huge |
| 19662s |
they had just enough Mana to generate |
| 19664s |
the show stoer that's going to remove |
| 19665s |
jinx as well as quite a few other units |
| 19667s |
on the board it's going to deny the draw |
| 19670s |
which is going to be huge here |
| 19672s |
especially because Ren Monty has um |
| 19674s |
formula in hand has options to rebuild |
| 19676s |
up their hand on the following |
| 19679s |
turn and all of a sudden this board does |
| 19682s |
not look that scary anymore the uh sand |
| 19686s |
Hopper Dune Hopper Mech will also die to |
| 19688s |
the next showstopper we are probably not |
| 19690s |
going to see it this turn though even |
| 19692s |
though set is leveled it's really hard |
| 19694s |
to get enough Mana expenditure down this |
| 19697s |
turn but who knows maybe with formula |
| 19699s |
ref except spell |
| 19701s |
Mana Monty could try to go for it I |
| 19703s |
think that's what they're considering |
| 19704s |
right now it could just slam the combo |
| 19707s |
down as well it's it's risky but what's |
| 19709s |
your punishment it's it's just blowback |
| 19711s |
which isn't enough right pretty sure |
| 19713s |
Karma's safe for the most part the only |
| 19716s |
options would |
| 19717s |
be it would have to be Mystic pyos right |
| 19720s |
yeah I think there's a good case to be |
| 19722s |
made for each and every of those plays |
| 19725s |
formula to generate another show stoer |
| 19726s |
is good but also just playing Karma so |
| 19728s |
that the formula draws a million card |
| 19730s |
next turn makes a ton of sense and now |
| 19733s |
we're seeing the momentum to slip out of |
| 19736s |
sergey's hands and back into the karma |
| 19738s |
set deck just what we've seen earlier on |
| 19741s |
there is just this point of no return |
| 19743s |
When the karma set deck is going to have |
| 19745s |
full control of the game and start to |
| 19747s |
run away and yeah smooth mixologist as |
| 19749s |
well as double casting The Refreshments |
| 19751s |
on either the set or the Nexus is going |
| 19754s |
to give Monty so much of a safety net on |
| 19757s |
HP |
| 19758s |
pool yeah probably going to see the |
| 19761s |
formula come down here see how many |
| 19762s |
cards are drawn most likely going to get |
| 19764s |
a show stopper here which going to wipe |
| 19766s |
out the the the majority of the board |
| 19768s |
here um has the stun as as well from |
| 19771s |
another stat which is going to generate |
| 19773s |
more coins you can then refill your |
| 19775s |
entire manner up play the smooth |
| 19776s |
mixologist uh this is we're talking |
| 19779s |
about how this should have been favored |
| 19781s |
for Ser but this is what happens if you |
| 19783s |
don't get that early game aggression or |
| 19786s |
this you don't get the early game damage |
| 19788s |
that you need in this type of deck it |
| 19790s |
very very quickly um falls apart and we |
| 19795s |
have to wonder if sergy was not a bit |
| 19797s |
overp patient with the Jinx like there |
| 19799s |
was always a good reason why the Jinx |
| 19801s |
was not |
| 19804s |
played wow Sergey just immediately |
| 19808s |
realizing okay I am past this point of |
| 19810s |
no return there is no shot I'm winning |
| 19812s |
this anymore and goes for the conceit at |
| 19814s |
190 Nexus HP doesn't want to sit through |
| 19817s |
the torture of karma set slowly taking |
| 19820s |
over the game and we have our first |
| 19822s |
world championship last chance qualifier |
| 19826s |
finalist rat Monty will represent EMA at |
| 19830s |
the r ter World |
| 19832s |
Championship yes congratulations red |
| 19836s |
Monty you played absolutely fantastic uh |
| 19840s |
huge also congratulations I guess I mean |
| 19843s |
it's a bit cons consolidations I guess |
| 19845s |
to like Sergey unfortunately doesn't |
| 19847s |
make it but you played fantastically you |
| 19849s |
you got all the way to the semi-finals |
| 19851s |
um and hopefully we see you again next |
| 19853s |
year as well um again everyone today has |
| 19856s |
been playing great we've been seeing |
| 19857s |
some really strong run Tera action and |
| 19860s |
we're popping into our second match here |
| 19862s |
and we're seeing an or level up this |
| 19864s |
does not bode well for potentially the |
| 19866s |
other side I haven't seen the handstands |
| 19868s |
yet shampo swinging into never walk |
| 19871s |
alone but we also see the sarapin level |
| 19873s |
up might be equally powerful we will see |
| 19876s |
the last tournament we casted together |
| 19878s |
gems we did see sarapin pull off some |
| 19880s |
miracles for Boxer maybe the same is |
| 19883s |
going to be repeated here clocking going |
| 19885s |
for a card draw the question is how well |
| 19887s |
can never walk alone refill their hand |
| 19889s |
because Nexus a HP is still very |
| 19891s |
comfortable on both |
| 19893s |
sides |
| 19896s |
rumage this might be key for the outcome |
| 19900s |
of this game and of the tournament run |
| 19901s |
of the two players and Celestial impact |
| 19903s |
is found and gets rid of the huge |
| 19910s |
or wow |
| 19912s |
okay do we know what the the current |
| 19915s |
score is for this match I know it's at |
| 19917s |
least one Zer for Never Walk Alone is it |
| 19919s |
1-1 though I think it's one Z we didn't |
| 19922s |
get an update since if I'm not mistaken |
| 19925s |
so shampo is definitely in a do |
| 19927s |
situation goes for a big attack and does |
| 19929s |
manage to shut Never Walk Alone Nexus |
| 19932s |
down to 2 Hp but it's not quite enough |
| 19935s |
yet there's no direct Nexus damage burn |
| 19938s |
on champo side and now the question is |
| 19940s |
how much can the sarapin do how many |
| 19942s |
miracles can she pull |
| 19946s |
off timer pressure as |
| 19949s |
well I I mean it the time press is not |
| 19952s |
too much of an issue yet unless we hit |
| 19955s |
the next game Rocket barrage |
| 19958s |
however another huge survivability tool |
| 19961s |
here for Never Walk Alone the what is it |
| 19963s |
called Celestial wers or something the |
| 19965s |
double stun Jana does level up which |
| 19968s |
means more value more draw more card |
| 19971s |
generation oh this is this game is in |
| 19973s |
such a crucial point right |
| 19978s |
now the thing with shampo board state is |
| 19981s |
like it's still looking okay but once |
| 19983s |
you run out of |
| 19984s |
units it's just it's just useless it's |
| 19987s |
just weapons yeah it's like what seven |
| 19989s |
eight weapons the only card that never |
| 19992s |
walk alone actually does not see is the |
| 19994s |
three sisters and that's why shampoo is |
| 19996s |
considering and tbing their own unit |
| 19998s |
realizing like okay I need a unit to be |
| 20000s |
able to win this game is it INB or is it |
| 20003s |
just furious F yeah Fury makes more |
| 20005s |
sense good point I thought for a second |
| 20009s |
there is a line there is the line to INB |
| 20011s |
to trigger the to trigger the glacial |
| 20013s |
San effect yeah to get a potential draw |
| 20017s |
that is technically line but it happen |
| 20020s |
to turn too |
| 20024s |
late probably going to see the Scout |
| 20027s |
weapon be equipped if it's still |
| 20028s |
equipable this turn no fishack and dead |
| 20031s |
going in for two overwhelm swings and |
| 20033s |
never walk alone just has the perfect |
| 20034s |
answer in hand for that with the double |
| 20037s |
stun |
| 20039s |
spell |
| 20042s |
a gentle breeze to ease your okay and we |
| 20045s |
see another three sisters drawn from |
| 20048s |
shumo it's not quite yeah it's not a |
| 20050s |
freeze it's a stun three sisters doesn't |
| 20052s |
help here no it's yeah Never Walk Alone |
| 20055s |
might have just stabilized here we're |
| 20057s |
going to see sarapen generate a spell |
| 20060s |
plus sunken Temple which is going to |
| 20062s |
probably give additional draw because of |
| 20064s |
time trick I guess because time trick |
| 20066s |
yeah time trick is probably better right |
| 20068s |
and the third option is also just tail |
| 20071s |
stones into behold the infinite it's not |
| 20073s |
bad at all you can potentially find the |
| 20076s |
golden sister for some life steel |
| 20078s |
there's so many options here time trick |
| 20080s |
high note gets picked up that can take |
| 20082s |
care of the glacial |
| 20085s |
San I'm has not been played before it is |
| 20087s |
double cast costic riff with a |
| 20092s |
discount let's see if that is what is |
| 20094s |
going to be picked up it's maram instead |
| 20096s |
and the |
| 20098s |
youngling two great defensive options as |
| 20100s |
well guiding touch healing the Nexus |
| 20104s |
drawing two cards sarapin back working |
| 20106s |
her magic and doing her thing they |
| 20109s |
should draw yeah it's two cards right |
| 20111s |
yeah we I don't think we unless we've |
| 20112s |
seen one played earlier we don't know |
| 20114s |
there's a potential we' missed missed |
| 20116s |
that I would assume that guiding touch |
| 20118s |
has not been played yet might have been |
| 20120s |
a little bit of boy there is the star |
| 20124s |
Shing okay there's the double up how |
| 20127s |
much are we healing this turn young L at |
| 20129s |
zero falling star does not do much here |
| 20131s |
but there's still a lot of Randomness |
| 20133s |
that can be generated star shaping can |
| 20135s |
hit the Nexus Ferris finan here good old |
| 20138s |
Reggie cample Miracles we've seen that |
| 20141s |
happen over and over |
| 20143s |
again uh there is perfector great I |
| 20146s |
don't think you care about the other |
| 20148s |
options too much that looked like the |
| 20150s |
only playable card reasonably but still |
| 20153s |
shampo does have steam champo does have |
| 20156s |
gas on their board they can still hit |
| 20158s |
for quite a lot of overwhelm damage |
| 20160s |
the only question is how much Living |
| 20162s |
Legends is it discounted no they haven't |
| 20165s |
played discount okay so it's just a full |
| 20166s |
10 Mana Living |
| 20168s |
Legends how much can never walk alone do |
| 20170s |
defensively Nexus is back to 11 HP and |
| 20173s |
we have t stones into probably double |
| 20176s |
generating |
| 20178s |
hush if no tail stones have been yet it |
| 20181s |
triggers twice hush doesn't remove the |
| 20183s |
weapons that is a great point it |
| 20186s |
actually it will only impack the glacial |
| 20187s |
San and the overwhelm so The Omen hog |
| 20191s |
would still hit but that is fine right |
| 20194s |
because we just buffed our Nexus back up |
| 20196s |
to 11 HP when for some good old quality |
| 20199s |
healing even 12 with the young Ling plus |
| 20201s |
three plus three Glacier s in hand as |
| 20203s |
well oh hits a man okay do you just rip |
| 20207s |
it do you just do we just rip song |
| 20210s |
spinner |
| 20212s |
yeah we shall see both players being |
| 20215s |
patient so far falling star that was the |
| 20218s |
idea here not pre-commit the hush rather |
| 20220s |
saving it for a potential bigger threat |
| 20222s |
that might end up being top decked Never |
| 20224s |
Walk Alone playing quite the control |
| 20226s |
game plan |
| 20227s |
here there's another glacious Shing that |
| 20229s |
seems perfect Target for the that hush |
| 20232s |
that you mentioning can trick and have a |
| 20234s |
look to see what we get back alley bar |
| 20237s |
sunen Temple uh all potentially a little |
| 20239s |
too slow for this turn um probably does |
| 20243s |
want them but maybe to be played on the |
| 20245s |
next turn Living Legends does get |
| 20247s |
dropped only units okay removal options |
| 20251s |
okay but there are some important ones |
| 20254s |
to mention we don't know how much got |
| 20255s |
invoked yet so the dragon does not get |
| 20258s |
played instead golden sest for some life |
| 20260s |
steel we highlighted that earlier on as |
| 20262s |
a great Celestial pull the other option |
| 20265s |
would have been the warrior for some |
| 20267s |
challenging and board control but of |
| 20268s |
course straight up life steel is more |
| 20270s |
important in this specific game |
| 20274s |
State San gets buffed up further and |
| 20277s |
further goes for a big attack and and |
| 20281s |
the is probably going to met going to |
| 20283s |
get met by a hush shampo has a great |
| 20285s |
attack here with the three sisters in |
| 20287s |
hand because the overwhelm blocker can |
| 20289s |
get |
| 20290s |
Ed but we know that never walk alone has |
| 20295s |
tonian tellstones in hand being able to |
| 20297s |
generate well even two hushes if wanted |
| 20300s |
and |
| 20301s |
needed the attack goes through nothing |
| 20305s |
gets committed Never Walk Alone being |
| 20307s |
very cautious with the resources here |
| 20310s |
you have to remember um I have we |
| 20312s |
haven't looked at the list but like |
| 20314s |
um there isn't really damage over the |
| 20316s |
top so for Never Walk Alone going down |
| 20318s |
to two doesn't really matter as long as |
| 20321s |
they can find something the next turn or |
| 20326s |
two but never Walker alone is currently |
| 20329s |
in a position where they might die to |
| 20330s |
the next attack from |
| 20332s |
shampo I guess not really because you |
| 20334s |
still have the hush right for the |
| 20335s |
glacial saan you take one from the |
| 20338s |
impact I guess from the weapon |
| 20341s |
Cosmic Cosmic |
| 20343s |
H troll gift is just fine thre the |
| 20347s |
needle is also not terrible as a removal |
| 20351s |
option remix oh we do see equipment |
| 20354s |
destruction so we can get rid of the |
| 20355s |
fish awag |
| 20357s |
here oh that was such a big |
| 20360s |
pull because that was |
| 20364s |
oh goes for the removal on the saan and |
| 20368s |
leaves the Fisher wag in play not sure |
| 20372s |
if I agree here so what you could do if |
| 20373s |
your shipboat technically you could |
| 20375s |
harsh winds |
| 20376s |
here harsh wind or ANB or let this go |
| 20380s |
through both players seem to be |
| 20382s |
respecting the other players's hand a |
| 20385s |
ton what I'm so surprised by is like you |
| 20389s |
currently I mean you're not super scared |
| 20392s |
of that overwhelm Hawk because you can |
| 20393s |
go for a blessing of targon as well to |
| 20395s |
buff your defensive units but the Fisher |
| 20398s |
wack is a problem and you can't h |
| 20401s |
that's why I I'm surprised we didn't see |
| 20404s |
the overwhelm weapon get destroyed and |
| 20407s |
use one of the two hushers that we have |
| 20409s |
later on on the glacial |
| 20414s |
San timer pressure is on both of these |
| 20417s |
players though they are both deeply into |
| 20419s |
overtime in this specific game and they |
| 20421s |
also have to worry about game three |
| 20423s |
coming down to time yeah I think at this |
| 20425s |
point in the game Sho is a bit more |
| 20427s |
worried about that right um because sh |
| 20430s |
still if Shuma does win this match has |
| 20432s |
to play another one whereas I think |
| 20433s |
Never Walk Alone is looking to win right |
| 20434s |
here right |
| 20436s |
now |
| 20439s |
while attack with the overwhelm unit |
| 20444s |
goes through is this |
| 20449s |
lethal I mean sarapan can get buffed |
| 20451s |
quite a lot but shampo can obliterator |
| 20454s |
or can buff the own |
| 20458s |
unit I think they behold the yeah we can |
| 20461s |
buff with blessing of |
| 20463s |
Taron oh we still have hex tech trans |
| 20466s |
Mogul as well but I guess it doesn't |
| 20468s |
help here because the weapon |
| 20470s |
stays but now I think if shampo goes for |
| 20473s |
the obliterate it should just be lethal |
| 20475s |
right and still lets it go |
| 20480s |
through I mean yeah I mean you you still |
| 20482s |
wored full Mana right but if it's such a |
| 20486s |
difficult decision cuz it's such a high |
| 20487s |
stakes match um we obviously have cast |
| 20490s |
division that there isn't that much |
| 20491s |
Never Walk Alone could realistically do |
| 20494s |
like yeah when do you go for it yeah the |
| 20497s |
problem is when you see them use the |
| 20499s |
blessing of Taron as their source and |
| 20502s |
blocking with a seraphine that should be |
| 20503s |
a dead giveaway that there isn't much |
| 20505s |
else left in their hand right that's you |
| 20507s |
can you can well not necess that should |
| 20509s |
be a read at least that something is up |
| 20511s |
there right they're just throwing away |
| 20512s |
the seraphim I 100% agree with you here |
| 20515s |
gems I'm very |
| 20518s |
like I'm surprised by how overly |
| 20520s |
cautious both of these players |
| 20522s |
are so much is on stake right SP in |
| 20526s |
Worlds 1K to win both of these players |
| 20529s |
not wanting to take that risk and just |
| 20531s |
being blown out |
| 20534s |
yeah this is the overthinking classic |
| 20536s |
that happened to me a lot that happens |
| 20538s |
to all tournament Players I believe like |
| 20540s |
you you you're so for like hyper focused |
| 20543s |
on making they blew the Perfection |
| 20546s |
that's got overdrawn their most |
| 20549s |
effective finisher just got torn into |
| 20555s |
pieces GFF I think it's just playing out |
| 20558s |
cards here if you'll never walk alone |
| 20559s |
right and when was the last time Shuma |
| 20562s |
Drew an actual |
| 20564s |
unit like three seconds ago oh my |
| 20567s |
goodness but never walk alone does have |
| 20569s |
access to good removal here with the U |
| 20573s |
the the the what's it called |
| 20575s |
the the celestial spell the double |
| 20578s |
obliterate would even take care of the |
| 20580s |
Fisher wag of the overwhelm |
| 20582s |
weapon okay so we have some obliterates |
| 20584s |
but not the right one have got some |
| 20586s |
removal |
| 20593s |
here invoking again having a look |
| 20595s |
another meteor a golden sister is huge |
| 20598s |
here life steer we do see the three |
| 20602s |
sisters available so there could still |
| 20604s |
be a freeze and we see the |
| 20607s |
wait what wait wait |
| 20611s |
what are they worried about the timer |
| 20614s |
where is that coming from I've lost for |
| 20616s |
words you what you had the comet you had |
| 20619s |
you were beholding celestials you could |
| 20621s |
have obliterated both units as well as |
| 20624s |
the shumo had no units it's just a hand |
| 20627s |
of |
| 20628s |
weapons is this is is there a scenario |
| 20632s |
where one of these players is already |
| 20633s |
qualified and they're kind of doing a |
| 20634s |
show match thing or I don't think so I |
| 20637s |
think they're not on our list of the the |
| 20640s |
current players that need that they both |
| 20641s |
need the win to make it I believe this |
| 20644s |
might just be a ton of nerves kicking in |
| 20647s |
for both players and I mean it made for |
| 20649s |
some very entertaining |
| 20651s |
gameplay and yeah it's just wild like |
| 20655s |
both players have been playing so |
| 20657s |
passively and willingly not taken a lot |
| 20661s |
of opportunities to get control of the |
| 20664s |
game or to threaten |
| 20666s |
lethals and now it all comes down to |
| 20669s |
jinx Arro versus a very defensively |
| 20671s |
built sarapin J deck I'm I'm so confused |
| 20676s |
though I I really want to be able to |
| 20679s |
have a a chat with them and figure out |
| 20681s |
what happened there because from our |
| 20683s |
perspective I mean we have cision so we |
| 20685s |
know I mean even if you never walk alone |
| 20687s |
you know like nine of eight other the |
| 20688s |
cards in Hand of weapons |
| 20690s |
right so you're only really there's only |
| 20692s |
like one or two cards in the hand for |
| 20694s |
shumo at all so you haven't seen them |
| 20697s |
play anything for turns so you could I |
| 20699s |
have a guess I guess that it's |
| 20700s |
potentially some type of spell |
| 20704s |
or it's not on cuz they mostly most |
| 20706s |
likely would have played it I don't know |
| 20708s |
where did why I'm still so confused yeah |
| 20711s |
and I I can't even imagine what they |
| 20712s |
were playing about but I'm going to try |
| 20715s |
to pull up the deck list maybe I'll see |
| 20716s |
something and we'll update you in a |
| 20718s |
second if we get clearer on this but |
| 20721s |
well for now it we are still in game |
| 20723s |
three and this is a super duper enticing |
| 20725s |
and interesting matchup this is a |
| 20727s |
classic somewhat controlly deck |
| 20730s |
with some combo options verus a very |
| 20732s |
aggressive Deck with some combo options |
| 20734s |
so both players having a lot of agency |
| 20736s |
in this match up and multiple ways to |
| 20738s |
play this matchup and which cards to |
| 20740s |
discard how to attack when to develop |
| 20743s |
the Jinx and so on discarding the |
| 20746s |
blowback straight up here from shrimo as |
| 20749s |
well I think with the current hand state |
| 20752s |
it's fine you're trying to get rid of |
| 20754s |
the hand anyway to set up the Jinx |
| 20756s |
eventually is that true shot barrage |
| 20758s |
insta pick yes it was ooh that's one way |
| 20761s |
of dealing with Jinx it's one way |
| 20763s |
dealing with most of the board from Jinx |
| 20765s |
cuz most stuff has uh usually three or |
| 20767s |
less health for the most part so you can |
| 20770s |
that true shot a lot of the time it's |
| 20772s |
going to hit for three units and remove |
| 20773s |
all |
| 20775s |
three Cosmic youngling is also a hugely |
| 20778s |
impactful early fight and sarapin base |
| 20781s |
statline is just a great Blocker in this |
| 20783s |
matchup both players you see are |
| 20786s |
blitzing out moves by the way like |
| 20787s |
they're playing way faster than they |
| 20788s |
usually would because in this third game |
| 20791s |
you don't want to go down on |
| 20794s |
time if the game does not |
| 20798s |
conclude if the game Runs Out of |
| 20801s |
Time wait what what is the rule actually |
| 20803s |
it is TI 11 uh it'll be whoever's got |
| 20806s |
this time this round this match um okay |
| 20808s |
it's not the they still have 10 they |
| 20810s |
still have 10 minutes essentially |
| 20811s |
there's another 5 minute overtime right |
| 20813s |
it's not they if they play quick enough |
| 20816s |
it should in theory be fine especially |
| 20817s |
when you're playing a fast deck like |
| 20820s |
okay does that rule still exist like if |
| 20821s |
it's tight 111 then the player who won |
| 20823s |
the first game no it's it's literally |
| 20825s |
whoever's got more time left on the last |
| 20827s |
match that perfectly explains why the |
| 20829s |
why these players are playing so quickly |
| 20831s |
like we mentioned they still have like |
| 20833s |
after this main timer runs out the main |
| 20835s |
timer of 4 minutes 22 there's going to |
| 20837s |
be an additional five and if both |
| 20839s |
players keep playing at this Speed the |
| 20841s |
game should be decided by the time that |
| 20843s |
these 9 and a half minutes are over |
| 20845s |
early sunen Temple gets dropped never |
| 20847s |
walk on not liking their |
| 20849s |
and that allows Sho to develop a pretty |
| 20852s |
wide board and maybe run away with a |
| 20854s |
Tempo here yeah never going to throw |
| 20857s |
away a couple of the key removal options |
| 20859s |
the mystics and stuff here um maybe they |
| 20861s |
redraw them maybe they're not they do |
| 20863s |
get some fum yeah some fumes there but |
| 20865s |
triple seraphine not what you want to |
| 20867s |
see the the prank hitting some fumes |
| 20871s |
right there was huge by the way yeah |
| 20874s |
prank coming in super clutch for shampo |
| 20876s |
if you play serin the other turn into s |
| 20879s |
uh into high |
| 20882s |
notes so I actually think the seraphine |
| 20884s |
draws were not that bad given that |
| 20887s |
shampo did end up developing and not |
| 20889s |
open attacking also the second youngling |
| 20891s |
is something you really like to see but |
| 20894s |
shampo setting up an attack in a way |
| 20895s |
that makes it really hard for Never Walk |
| 20898s |
Alone to get good blocks you're probably |
| 20901s |
okay throwing a seraphine away I think |
| 20903s |
yeah with three in hand but you do would |
| 20906s |
you block the 66 |
| 20908s |
yeah |
| 20912s |
again I think both players must really |
| 20915s |
feel it on the nerves so much pressure |
| 20917s |
because this is the most important game |
| 20919s |
of the tournament for both of these |
| 20920s |
players and probably even the most |
| 20922s |
important Legends of rera game of their |
| 20924s |
lives because it is for a World's |
| 20926s |
qualification slot if they win they are |
| 20929s |
going to have $1,000 guaranteed and a |
| 20932s |
shot at the first uh first place price |
| 20935s |
of |
| 20936s |
$3,000 and a lot of glory and fame so I |
| 20941s |
think both of these players are really |
| 20943s |
really feeling the pressure right |
| 20948s |
now yeah it is very very close we have |
| 20951s |
both sunken Temple and beyy bar on the |
| 20954s |
board Jinx comes down |
| 20956s |
unfortunately for Shuma doesn't have a |
| 20958s |
way of actually emptying out the hand |
| 20960s |
currently these younglings by the way |
| 20962s |
are just such a a nightmare um for sh to |
| 20967s |
deal with every turn healing for for two |
| 20969s |
Mystic removing the the June uh mecho |
| 20974s |
there and yes so tough and when was the |
| 20977s |
last time you saw a Trevor snooze bottom |
| 20979s |
in action that randomly generated card |
| 20982s |
gets dropped here to support the |
| 20983s |
following attack Mystic shot gets sent |
| 20985s |
to the |
| 20986s |
Nexus instead of being kept in hand the |
| 20989s |
arena promoter goes for a block this is |
| 20992s |
going to get buffed up by the Pate I |
| 20993s |
will assume alleviate some of the |
| 20995s |
pressure of the board but it is one |
| 20997s |
blocker for an attacker it's perfectly |
| 20998s |
fine for both players t St nothing that |
| 21002s |
you really need right |
| 21004s |
now let see what the draws |
| 21008s |
are there's Pursuit that's a bit too |
| 21010s |
slow here I don't think it's close to |
| 21012s |
leveling uh the condition for it uh okay |
| 21017s |
Explorer is okay the attack though from |
| 21019s |
shumo is not that threatening High node |
| 21022s |
and Mystic shot being found allows for |
| 21025s |
Jinx removal that is pretty big but |
| 21027s |
shampo can replay the second Jinx and I |
| 21029s |
think level her up this turn this is |
| 21032s |
going to be quite a bit damage going |
| 21035s |
through this |
| 21036s |
turn and it really depends on how Never |
| 21039s |
Walk Alone is going to commit their |
| 21041s |
defenses big committ of cards here okay |
| 21045s |
not wanting to take any Nexus damage and |
| 21047s |
therefore removing the jinx as well as |
| 21050s |
the elusive copy from Trevor's new spot |
| 21053s |
him I maybe would have liked the spell |
| 21056s |
ordering to be the other way around |
| 21059s |
um in case Jinx levels I |
| 21062s |
agree very much agree so never punished |
| 21066s |
here though it would have also been very |
| 21067s |
hard to punish for shampo with four |
| 21069s |
cards still left in hand second Jinx |
| 21071s |
gets replaced sarapin gets dropped both |
| 21072s |
people having their engines their carry |
| 21074s |
Champions |
| 21076s |
online we're going to see the Jinx level |
| 21079s |
up the Rockets oh man big players this |
| 21082s |
is probably the most intense match we've |
| 21083s |
had all day and this is for a |
| 21086s |
spot in the grand finals which |
| 21088s |
guarantees the a World's qualifier spot |
| 21090s |
here so everything to play for we've |
| 21093s |
been seeing uh some sort of preemptive |
| 21096s |
con seeds I don't know what to say here |
| 21099s |
this has been insane yeah keep in mind |
| 21101s |
this is the true Grand finals of the |
| 21103s |
tournament these two are currently |
| 21104s |
duking it out for the wor qualification |
| 21107s |
spot even though it's officially still |
| 21108s |
the semifinals interesting uh playline |
| 21111s |
here is going for the silent Shadows |
| 21113s |
here also had the option to develop the |
| 21115s |
Su treer and stick that on the board but |
| 21117s |
not have Mana to play the |
| 21120s |
rocket just have one more unit on board |
| 21122s |
versus three Nexus damage it's a bit of |
| 21125s |
a tough contemplation shampo not having |
| 21127s |
a lot time to think about it just going |
| 21128s |
for the Nexus damage and that might also |
| 21131s |
be a good move in the current situation |
| 21132s |
but these young Lings are going to |
| 21133s |
regenerate themselves is perfect at two |
| 21137s |
costs at one how close is seraphine to |
| 21140s |
level up leveling up though that is the |
| 21142s |
big question there's a lot of new spells |
| 21144s |
being drawn here though we do see the |
| 21146s |
Aftershock being committed immediately |
| 21148s |
instead of leveling sarapin |
| 21150s |
first yeah I'm a bit surprised by that |
| 21153s |
it's yeah it's probably these players |
| 21154s |
don't have time to think all of these |
| 21156s |
things |
| 21159s |
through the idea here is to follow up |
| 21161s |
with the Valor for sure or with draw |
| 21163s |
into other removal or with flash bombs |
| 21165s |
Never Walk Alone can draw a million |
| 21167s |
cards right here we see sarapin as at |
| 21169s |
six out of nine level up nice and we do |
| 21173s |
see access to a lot more value in Never |
| 21175s |
Walk alone's hand Advanced Intel maybe |
| 21178s |
there's eventually be some Flash B High |
| 21180s |
Rolls do go for the Valor right |
| 21182s |
afterwards so sarapin should now be at8 |
| 21184s |
out of |
| 21187s |
n this yeah I both players really |
| 21191s |
rushing here Cho just can't do anything |
| 21193s |
though the problem so it's kind of forc |
| 21195s |
just to keep passing until the attack |
| 21196s |
happens to Mystic has to really try to |
| 21198s |
keep this Jinx alive it's a bit |
| 21201s |
unfortunate but it's just the current |
| 21202s |
situation these these younglings by the |
| 21204s |
way are putting the thing is the one |
| 21207s |
thing to note is Never Walk Alone |
| 21209s |
doesn't actually have a way to end the |
| 21210s |
game right now yep the young links are |
| 21213s |
hyper carrying this match up right now |
| 21216s |
can't end the match before the timer |
| 21218s |
most likely that's what you mean the |
| 21220s |
problem yeah how does how does Never |
| 21223s |
Walk Alone actually end the match before |
| 21224s |
the timer right the sarapin deck is so |
| 21226s |
grindy that there just might not be a |
| 21228s |
lethal in time with only 2 minutes 50 |
| 21230s |
left and never walk alone is currently |
| 21232s |
half a minute down on the timer which is |
| 21233s |
huge Celestial impact does get found so |
| 21236s |
never punished for not going for the |
| 21238s |
Double C after shock but Sho is out of |
| 21241s |
Ste you can't AFF to not just keep |
| 21242s |
passing Sho as quickly as possible |
| 21244s |
basically in this match up if you're |
| 21246s |
playing for time and hoping they can't |
| 21247s |
kill |
| 21248s |
you what a oh triple flame chers that is |
| 21251s |
such a horrible hand and the only unit |
| 21253s |
with attack does get deleted from the |
| 21255s |
board so all that champo can do is play |
| 21257s |
a bunch of cards and try to play the |
| 21258s |
timer play can play Swindle just to see |
| 21260s |
what is in Cho's hand as well right yeah |
| 21263s |
I think Never Walk Alone wins this in |
| 21265s |
time because the timers are now back to |
| 21268s |
even and shampo is kind of out of |
| 21273s |
options yeah out of options but there |
| 21276s |
not has no damage from never side yeah |
| 21279s |
but you have two minutes to bash in the |
| 21281s |
Nexus and it's not like shampo can stall |
| 21283s |
they need to Blitz out moves themselves |
| 21285s |
no they can just keep hitting and the |
| 21287s |
pursuit the pursuit on the attack |
| 21289s |
they're finally I don't think it's I |
| 21291s |
don't think it's 20 yeah I think it is |
| 21294s |
but we shall see the players will let us |
| 21297s |
know in a second 19 out of 20 formula |
| 21300s |
gets played and this should be it with |
| 21303s |
the huge cats coming in securing the |
| 21306s |
world championship qualification slot |
| 21308s |
for Never Walk Alone in a thrilling high |
| 21312s |
stakes nerve-wracking Series against |
| 21314s |
shampo and this all goes back to that |
| 21318s |
man okay this is so such such an insane |
| 21321s |
match here unfortunate for shampo they |
| 21324s |
played really well uh but never walk |
| 21327s |
alone it's going to send this uh |
| 21329s |
catastrophe in is going to get the 30 30 |
| 21333s |
overwhel to swing in is going to be our |
| 21336s |
second qualified player here in the last |
| 21338s |
chance qualifier here joining the |
| 21343s |
uh red Monti wasn't it yes yeah it was |
| 21346s |
Monty beating diogenous in the other |
| 21348s |
semifinals and that means we have our |
| 21349s |
two World qualification finalist for |
| 21353s |
EMA it is going to be Never Walk Alone |
| 21356s |
representing uh Poland |
| 21358s |
and Monty I believe was representing |
| 21360s |
Russia shampo unfortunately just barely |
| 21364s |
falls short mostly super clean play but |
| 21367s |
especially timer pressure nerve-wracking |
| 21369s |
pressure coming through maybe forcing |
| 21372s |
some misplays maybe forcing them to not |
| 21374s |
take some opportunities that were in |
| 21377s |
front of them and in a very unfortunate |
| 21379s |
way we have to say goodbye to shampo and |
| 21382s |
to sergy but we are about ready to hop |
| 21384s |
into a break and bring you the grand |
| 21387s |
finals of our two world world's |
| 21388s |
Representatives later on stay |
| 21394s |
[Music] |
| 21417s |
tuned |
| 21419s |
[Music] |
| 21447s |
he |
| 21451s |
[Music] |
| 21477s |
he |
| 21484s |
[Music] |
| 21507s |
is that all you've got |
| 21513s |
[Music] |
| 21526s |
to and we are back for the World |
| 21530s |
Championship last chance qualifier and |
| 21533s |
of course it's me jems bringing back |
| 21535s |
fresh Lobster you guys we had a very |
| 21537s |
short break but you just missed what an |
| 21540s |
electric end to that semifinals there |
| 21543s |
where we saw some fantastic matches |
| 21545s |
between red Monty and Sergey yeah sergy |
| 21549s |
AKA diogenous enjoyer a tournament |
| 21551s |
Legend here we see dropping down to one |
| 21553s |
HP from Red Monty's ja or overwhel |
| 21556s |
attack and then following up on the |
| 21557s |
subsequent attack with two alpha wi claw |
| 21560s |
swinging in and just not enough |
| 21561s |
defensive capabilities on sergey's |
| 21564s |
aggressive Teo Riven deck therefore |
| 21567s |
dropping game one |
| 21569s |
game two another shot at glory here for |
| 21573s |
sergy much better matchup running over |
| 21575s |
this Karma deck early on we see the |
| 21577s |
board snowball this is just turn five |
| 21579s |
and already a six unit wide attack and |
| 21582s |
diogenous enjoyer AKA sery going for the |
| 21586s |
override on a stunt unit to secure the |
| 21590s |
lethal here on the subsequent turn seven |
| 21594s |
attack we saw as well on the next match |
| 21598s |
a fantastic series here between red |
| 21600s |
Monte and serge here with the karma set |
| 21604s |
coming in super super clutch here for |
| 21607s |
red Monty securing them this win here we |
| 21610s |
see the level up the showstopper was |
| 21611s |
also generated this turn as well using |
| 21614s |
the coin and the tagout allowing them to |
| 21617s |
stabilize and remove the majority of the |
| 21619s |
board uh and then in the future get that |
| 21621s |
Karma down and then get some healing as |
| 21624s |
well and just full board stabilization |
| 21627s |
surging going for the surrender to save |
| 21630s |
everyone some time and that meant that |
| 21632s |
Monty was our first world championship |
| 21634s |
finalist and then we tuned into the |
| 21636s |
other series which was pure |
| 21642s |
craziness yeah very very craziness I |
| 21645s |
believe um looking back out this never |
| 21648s |
walk alone I think was out of cards and |
| 21650s |
that's why we saw the surrender yeah no |
| 21651s |
cards in deck that's why we saw the |
| 21653s |
surrender |
| 21656s |
oh yeah that was one didn't catch but |
| 21658s |
thanks for mentioning it yeah now it |
| 21660s |
looks obvious they just ran out of |
| 21663s |
time they just ran out of time in a very |
| 21665s |
very weird way one that we don't usually |
| 21667s |
expect from control decks but then in |
| 21669s |
game three shampo just not quite finding |
| 21672s |
enough |
| 21675s |
pressure this removal was very heads up |
| 21679s |
very clean taking care of both jinxes |
| 21682s |
and the pursuit of perfection came just |
| 21684s |
in the nick of time gets double cast |
| 21686s |
here but only space for one catastrophe |
| 21688s |
but that is of course enough the Jinx |
| 21691s |
deck just not having any cards any |
| 21694s |
removal spells to deal with that and |
| 21696s |
that secured the second world's |
| 21699s |
Championship slot and we are now about |
| 21701s |
to go into our grand finals you might be |
| 21704s |
asking yourselves what are these people |
| 21706s |
playing for well it's mostly bragging |
| 21708s |
rights and I think a title maybe some |
| 21711s |
Cosmetics so it's mostly a show match |
| 21713s |
the most important part is done by both |
| 21715s |
players and we are ready to jump into |
| 21716s |
the decks |
| 21718s |
for both sides here yeah red Monty |
| 21722s |
bringing back the atrox Kane doing |
| 21726s |
fantastic here as you mentioned they're |
| 21727s |
playing for the glory they're playing |
| 21728s |
for the title they're playing for the |
| 21730s |
the last chance qualifier winner here uh |
| 21733s |
all to play for really now this is this |
| 21735s |
is this is where it's really at and |
| 21737s |
bringing back this atrox Kane mid-range |
| 21740s |
deck that we've been seeing throughout |
| 21741s |
the |
| 21743s |
day this I'm so so surprised to have |
| 21745s |
this deck potentially win the last |
| 21748s |
chance qualifier but then again there |
| 21750s |
are always some surprises there always |
| 21752s |
have been this is a much more |
| 21753s |
streamlined deck one that more people |
| 21755s |
were expecting to see perform well Karma |
| 21757s |
set also very nicely taged into the meta |
| 21760s |
of the tournament today and Monty |
| 21762s |
piloting it efficiently to deserve this |
| 21765s |
Grand Final |
| 21766s |
appearance yeah Karma set as well been |
| 21769s |
doing fantastically for them throughout |
| 21771s |
this entire day very strong control deck |
| 21774s |
um has been doing well very well into |
| 21775s |
the field also beating out Decks that |
| 21777s |
were expecting it to lose to today |
| 21780s |
specifically against xge earlier on and |
| 21783s |
the third one ja or something that shows |
| 21785s |
up over and over in top Cuts as a good |
| 21787s |
option into mid-range decks as well as |
| 21789s |
into many of these control decks the |
| 21792s |
wild CLA ferocity has been putting on |
| 21794s |
work over and over again Parts mate hole |
| 21796s |
did not really have a CH chance to shine |
| 21798s |
yet on the broadcast but just a very |
| 21801s |
well rounded a streamline deck that has |
| 21804s |
been getting wins over and over and also |
| 21806s |
pulling quite a few bats |
| 21808s |
yeah just overall very solid lineup and |
| 21811s |
Never Walk Alone we saw this Jace |
| 21812s |
Heimerdinger uh which you mentioned |
| 21814s |
earlier on was a very smart decision to |
| 21817s |
bring uh very metad dependent it's been |
| 21819s |
doing fantastically for them throughout |
| 21820s |
this entire tournament Great Tech |
| 21823s |
choices as well the hex literator we saw |
| 21825s |
put in some work earlier on not only as |
| 21827s |
removal but also as obliteration to not |
| 21830s |
allow uh the echos and jinxes to be |
| 21834s |
revived because the cards don't go into |
| 21836s |
the death pool ruination we have really |
| 21838s |
seen pop off yet but surely it had or |
| 21840s |
will have some chances to shine the |
| 21843s |
second control deck Karma set kind of |
| 21845s |
close to the version that we saw on the |
| 21847s |
other side but a bit different on Tech |
| 21850s |
choices and so on Rocket barrage is the |
| 21853s |
one that really Springs my eye here but |
| 21855s |
it does not have the greatest targets |
| 21857s |
into Monty's |
| 21859s |
lineup no um it doesn't however it's |
| 21863s |
still going to be kind of useful um at |
| 21865s |
points to just remove a couple of units |
| 21867s |
it's not the end of the world but one |
| 21869s |
thing to know is they're running a |
| 21870s |
couple copies of sunken Temple in their |
| 21874s |
version and third and finally another |
| 21877s |
deck that we haven't seen in Action a |
| 21880s |
lot is sarapin only two copies of Jenna |
| 21883s |
two copies of sun temple one copy of |
| 21885s |
back alib bar that we saw earlier on |
| 21887s |
putting in some work and well generally |
| 21889s |
speaking a lot of tech choice is not |
| 21891s |
enough to cover everything but we do see |
| 21893s |
a very removal oriented build and again |
| 21896s |
some anti- big hitter stuff playing two |
| 21900s |
copies of celestial wonder which stuns |
| 21902s |
two attacking enemies and that therefore |
| 21904s |
just being very good at stalling the |
| 21906s |
game delaying the game and eventually |
| 21907s |
taking |
| 21908s |
all so in terms of pick ban here what do |
| 21912s |
you reckon the decisions are from both |
| 21915s |
sides it's very control lineup from |
| 21917s |
never Walker alone most likely trying to |
| 21919s |
Target things like Jack sa I wouldn't be |
| 21921s |
surprised if we just see KET being |
| 21922s |
banned yeah for the first time today I |
| 21925s |
think I'm going to say this looks easy |
| 21928s |
for Never Walk Alone this should be a |
| 21929s |
set Karma ban for Monty it's not quite |
| 21932s |
as easy I would expect jayer to be |
| 21934s |
banned just because it runs the most Big |
| 21936s |
Stuff removal in vengeancesynyster |
| 21957s |
3 four |
| 21958s |
five yeah I this is looking very |
| 21961s |
favorable I would say for Never Walk |
| 21962s |
Alone um very three strong Decks that |
| 21966s |
should beat most mid-range and red |
| 21968s |
Monty's shown up with two mid-range |
| 21970s |
decks and a control |
| 21972s |
deck Karma set does get banned jimer |
| 21975s |
gets left open Karma set gets banned on |
| 21977s |
both sides neither wanting to play Karma |
| 21980s |
set like let's just get rid of it let's |
| 21982s |
have a mutual agreement here |
| 21984s |
fellas no Karm sets we want to go home |
| 21987s |
today at some point also nice for the |
| 21990s |
broadcast to not have these super drawn |
| 21992s |
out games where it's already evident who |
| 21994s |
won instead we see some of the well |
| 21997s |
let's say faster control decks although |
| 21999s |
especially the sarapin deck can also |
| 22001s |
draw games out quite longly and we see |
| 22006s |
the himer deck go up |
| 22009s |
against atrox Kane first of all yeah |
| 22012s |
this is our first match here in the |
| 22015s |
grand finals remember both of these |
| 22016s |
players have guaranteed their |
| 22018s |
qualification uh just to reiterate that |
| 22020s |
they have guaranteed their qualification |
| 22022s |
to the worlds they are just playing for |
| 22024s |
the glory right now and the title so I |
| 22028s |
believe most of the pressure has been |
| 22030s |
alleviated of these players they're |
| 22032s |
probably going to be playing a lot more |
| 22034s |
for fun now all of the heavy lifting all |
| 22036s |
of the heavy work has already been done |
| 22038s |
and let's see some entertaining Legends |
| 22041s |
of Runa action for the grand finals of |
| 22044s |
the lcq |
| 22046s |
EMA yeah and open we seeing the opening |
| 22050s |
here from red Monty with the Forsaken |
| 22052s |
Bai uh just a solid predict mayy to |
| 22056s |
search for a weapon we have the the |
| 22058s |
duckin in hand already um looking okay |
| 22061s |
overall for but the same could be also |
| 22063s |
said for never walk alone has the |
| 22065s |
quietus as well available for equipment |
| 22067s |
removal which is really what you really |
| 22068s |
want in this stage of the |
| 22071s |
match quietus can be super duper useful |
| 22075s |
if Rand Monty does not find lot of |
| 22077s |
weapons elected to not go for a second |
| 22080s |
dark and spear here with a predict so |
| 22082s |
therefore saying no to the buff on the |
| 22084s |
little beai and making themselves |
| 22087s |
vulnerable to a potential quietus |
| 22089s |
removal so Never Walk Alone really |
| 22091s |
capitalizing with I think it's a one-off |
| 22093s |
quieters and punishing red Monty's |
| 22096s |
development here it's definitely not a |
| 22097s |
one of quieters uh two |
| 22101s |
of tunnel vision we've been tunel |
| 22104s |
visioning a lot this broadcast I think |
| 22107s |
that's just the nature of the excitement |
| 22108s |
we're so excited just wanting |
| 22112s |
to show everyone the level of play we've |
| 22115s |
been seeing |
| 22116s |
today the tag comes in from red Monty |
| 22119s |
life steel is activated not that it |
| 22121s |
matters too much but considering whether |
| 22123s |
or not they really want to down trade |
| 22125s |
into this hex tech |
| 22127s |
Handler yeah I mean there's there's the |
| 22130s |
I believe a M's Choice |
| 22132s |
potential |
| 22134s |
um but uh as like a BL but that would |
| 22137s |
still get blown out by a |
| 22140s |
Mystic never walk along with a J's |
| 22143s |
development so far very happy with how |
| 22145s |
everything's been going outside of not |
| 22147s |
having activated the hex tech Handler |
| 22149s |
yet so none of the classic Jay |
| 22152s |
Heimerdinger stuff no six Mana spell |
| 22154s |
still none in |
| 22156s |
hand going to need the Reggie to pull |
| 22159s |
something useful here the ferris finan |
| 22162s |
Seer the child is gone the killer other |
| 22166s |
side Kan does get dropped trying to go |
| 22168s |
for some board control I think right now |
| 22171s |
there's no way of buffing Kane to |
| 22172s |
further attack though which is sad for |
| 22174s |
red Monty because that means that Jays |
| 22176s |
cannot be taken off the board this turn |
| 22179s |
this might be the second quietus to take |
| 22181s |
care of Kane's weapon right now and that |
| 22182s |
would leave him as a vanilla 25 unit |
| 22186s |
yeah Kane's very dependent on getting |
| 22188s |
that weapon um to gain the plus one |
| 22190s |
attack on the attacks uh when they |
| 22192s |
Challenge and also to be able to um uh |
| 22196s |
survive for a few turns as well um |
| 22199s |
unfortunately this means that a Mystic |
| 22201s |
is going to clean up Kane quite |
| 22202s |
comfortably here too yeah we say good |
| 22205s |
riddens to the dark in Sky if it's not |
| 22207s |
even going to get a value trade here and |
| 22210s |
this is looking quite well for Never |
| 22212s |
Walk Alone with the Mystic shots |
| 22214s |
available the only question being does |
| 22216s |
the jce block does Never Walk Alone want |
| 22218s |
to risk running into momentous choices I |
| 22221s |
think they can just because of the |
| 22224s |
double Mystic shot removal option |
| 22228s |
oh wanting to keep the JS healthy for |
| 22230s |
the eventual level up that's going to |
| 22232s |
kick in at someday expecting re |
| 22235s |
to we need literator perfect perfect |
| 22240s |
that does line up with atro's stat line |
| 22243s |
perfectly as well lines up with a Tru it |
| 22246s |
it obliterates so it removes the weapons |
| 22249s |
um couldn't ask for a better option |
| 22251s |
there overall that's better than |
| 22253s |
Vengeance yeah yeah yeah for the most |
| 22255s |
part the only downside obviously is um |
| 22257s |
it's there's options for like momentous |
| 22260s |
choit and and and expense protect to to |
| 22263s |
stop it good point but never walk alone |
| 22266s |
has banked two more spell Mana has a |
| 22269s |
Mystic shot in hand so that can be used |
| 22271s |
to get rid of the spell shield from |
| 22272s |
expanses protection let's see what these |
| 22274s |
players commit and how this plays out |
| 22277s |
here yep there's the expense protection |
| 22280s |
we're going to see The Mystic shot here |
| 22281s |
to pop the spell shield um this would |
| 22283s |
have been a bit of a BL if there was a |
| 22285s |
momentous Choice from Ren Monty but |
| 22287s |
there isn't one one right |
| 22291s |
now the good thing for red Monty is |
| 22294s |
heedless Resurrection as well as another |
| 22296s |
at TR in hand there's still a lot of |
| 22298s |
game a lot of value on their side while |
| 22300s |
Never Walk Alone is still looking for |
| 22302s |
more of these high cost spells just to |
| 22305s |
level up Jays maybe eventually get the |
| 22308s |
himer Dinger |
| 22309s |
rolling yeah only having H dingers I |
| 22312s |
mean you could play alus here um and |
| 22315s |
just set up for your attacks yeah the |
| 22319s |
lack of six cost spells here never walk |
| 22321s |
alone is not ideal just spells in |
| 22323s |
general if they had like a couple cheap |
| 22325s |
spells um with hinger they could have |
| 22327s |
done that and just developed some |
| 22329s |
blockers um but as you mentioned this |
| 22332s |
turn most likely going to see that |
| 22333s |
heedless Resurrection coming out from |
| 22335s |
red Monty mhm and the lari C is going |
| 22338s |
off first this is some cheeky play by |
| 22340s |
red Monty because they tap under atro |
| 22343s |
mana and that means that never walk |
| 22345s |
alone is going to be much more willing |
| 22347s |
to tap under Vengeance Mana themselves |
| 22349s |
but atro seems to not be the plan for |
| 22351s |
this turn anyway dropping The Defector |
| 22355s |
that Ranger Knight Defector with the |
| 22356s |
Scout attack and I really like the now |
| 22359s |
safe himer Dinger development by never |
| 22361s |
walk alone and I think they're going to |
| 22363s |
be following up with a poger stay to |
| 22366s |
refill the hand and to generate a huge |
| 22369s |
Blocker in that |
| 22371s |
TX this rang Defector will force |
| 22375s |
potentially uh some good trades here the |
| 22378s |
question is whether not red Monty takes |
| 22380s |
another attack here with the reng Knight |
| 22382s |
Defector can heal it |
| 22385s |
up it's a pretty key unit you would not |
| 22387s |
really want to sacrifice it but right |
| 22389s |
now you can use a gem here and you be |
| 22392s |
fairly |
| 22393s |
safe it would at least Force Never Walk |
| 22396s |
Alone to trade the Jace away and that is |
| 22398s |
something that red Monte is looking |
| 22400s |
towards |
| 22402s |
anyway like even without the gem you're |
| 22404s |
most likely safe into everything I think |
| 22406s |
except for a Mystic I believe so this |
| 22410s |
way you just play around that a little |
| 22411s |
bit yeah it would have had to be the |
| 22414s |
third Mystic or maybe there's some some |
| 22416s |
more options in the deck list we're not |
| 22418s |
thinking of right now but the J Staying |
| 22420s |
Alive means the level up is going to |
| 22421s |
come through the progress day being |
| 22423s |
played generating a TX as well and this |
| 22426s |
is where the momentum might start to |
| 22429s |
shift because both Champions now getting |
| 22431s |
their engines |
| 22433s |
going okay there's a Aftershock yeah AR |
| 22437s |
shock's great um it can remove a unit we |
| 22441s |
see oh doesn't use the I love the pass I |
| 22444s |
love the pass take that every day if you |
| 22446s |
never walk alone |
| 22447s |
right but we could have removed The |
| 22450s |
Defector that's the only thing care |
| 22452s |
about The Defector with a T-Rex on the |
| 22454s |
board that's a fair |
| 22457s |
point so Kane gets played we do see the |
| 22460s |
Vengeance for Never Walk Alone there are |
| 22462s |
also other options for removing stuff we |
| 22464s |
could also just play double huge scrap |
| 22467s |
trap and it would give us an 1111 |
| 22470s |
another 1111 because dou casted by JS |
| 22473s |
and some TX use of you could uh one |
| 22477s |
thing to know is uh shock blast doesn't |
| 22479s |
double up anymore yep it got discounted |
| 22482s |
by the progress day which is bit |
| 22483s |
unfortunate um so it's just you can't |
| 22486s |
actually it wasn't consideration they |
| 22488s |
drawn it this time to play that instead |
| 22489s |
of Vengeance but because of the discount |
| 22491s |
it makes it very awkward yeah and |
| 22494s |
instead of just going for huge pure stat |
| 22496s |
Never Walk Alone wants to develop some |
| 22498s |
elusive Bots instead but also keep more |
| 22501s |
Mana open keeping some some flexibility |
| 22504s |
here and now could either go with some |
| 22507s |
blocker development in these floor begun |
| 22510s |
elusive units oh I just remembered heess |
| 22512s |
Resurrection is never going to summon um |
| 22514s |
atrox cuz you got BL it oh oh the hackit |
| 22518s |
yeah we did even mention this earlier on |
| 22520s |
I think |
| 22522s |
yeah that's why we see the Kane back |
| 22525s |
here good point |
| 22528s |
good point I don't think it would have |
| 22529s |
mattered in this situation anymore |
| 22531s |
anyway because it looks like this himer |
| 22533s |
Dinger J's combination has already put |
| 22535s |
in the work just the the TX as a |
| 22537s |
potential blocker is already giving so |
| 22540s |
much board control over to never walk |
| 22542s |
alone and it feels like the these |
| 22544s |
Champions already kind of did their job |
| 22546s |
Kane going in for attack and is now |
| 22547s |
going to die to the Aftershock shock |
| 22549s |
blast would have also been an option but |
| 22552s |
never walk alone can really choose |
| 22554s |
freely |
| 22555s |
here |
| 22557s |
yeah this this game is looking to be set |
| 22560s |
here most likely I don't see how red |
| 22561s |
Monty claws back um well Ender still not |
| 22565s |
enough sitting at 14 unable to play it |
| 22569s |
at all which kind of like your your only |
| 22571s |
real way to like try and sneak a win in |
| 22574s |
is with a load of darkins and we see the |
| 22576s |
acceleration gate coming down here from |
| 22578s |
never walk alone it's going to be |
| 22579s |
doubled up these elusiv there's nothing |
| 22583s |
that red Monty can do about them yeah |
| 22585s |
and the sheny comes in we do see an |
| 22587s |
early |
| 22590s |
surrender and it is going to be a one |
| 22593s |
lead for the Jays HR deck again just |
| 22596s |
showing why it was a perfect metac call |
| 22598s |
a very good bring and some very |
| 22600s |
proficient experience piloting on never |
| 22602s |
Walker along side yeah fantastic choice |
| 22605s |
of decks as well praying on these |
| 22607s |
mid-range lists uh this triple lineup of |
| 22611s |
like control based decks doing |
| 22614s |
fantastically for them most likely what |
| 22616s |
we're going to see again is a seraphine |
| 22618s |
J doing the exact same thing or very |
| 22620s |
similar Style game |
| 22622s |
plan the deck seems tched in a similar |
| 22625s |
way wanting to just remove or stop these |
| 22628s |
big hitters and then eventually go over |
| 22630s |
the top with discounts with invokes with |
| 22633s |
Jenna and sarapin just doing their thing |
| 22635s |
we do see the J or being played on the |
| 22637s |
flip side hopeful hand gets Mulligan |
| 22639s |
Omen Hawk is a great find or a bit too |
| 22643s |
early to show up in hand but let's see |
| 22645s |
if Monty can draw some more units |
| 22647s |
because this opening hand does not look |
| 22649s |
promising yeah it's not looking that |
| 22652s |
great on either side Reggie for never |
| 22654s |
walk alone's going to put in some work |
| 22655s |
to generate some spells Sunburst |
| 22657s |
fantastic um the obliterates are |
| 22660s |
fantastic as well so there's a lot of |
| 22661s |
good options later on in the game but |
| 22663s |
never walk alone but nothing if if Monty |
| 22666s |
had a more aggressive start this would |
| 22668s |
be a bit more of a dire situation |
| 22670s |
however red Monte doesn't have that |
| 22672s |
right now yeah Monty has a devastating |
| 22675s |
start here not being able to play nor a |
| 22677s |
three drop but because Never Walk Alone |
| 22679s |
open pass priority it's not really |
| 22681s |
punishing to Monty because both players |
| 22683s |
didn't use Mana both players wasted Mana |
| 22685s |
neither developed this is still slightly |
| 22687s |
favorable for Never Walk Alone just |
| 22689s |
because they are playing the more |
| 22691s |
impactful expensive cards but this does |
| 22694s |
keep Monty in the game Tempo and |
| 22696s |
momentum |
| 22697s |
wise do we go for the upcycle rake most |
| 22700s |
like there's there's an argument for |
| 22702s |
shepherd's authority |
| 22704s |
too you're not worried that much about n |
| 22707s |
attacking |
| 22709s |
you it's a good point most of the time |
| 22711s |
it's an instant Scout weapon pick |
| 22713s |
especially if it does get forged that |
| 22715s |
does make up for the lack of stats but |
| 22718s |
in this case Monty just electing to go |
| 22721s |
for a smor kind of thing just going for |
| 22724s |
stats trying to go for a big hit and |
| 22727s |
this means that the Jana can get removed |
| 22730s |
before she can discount a bunch of newly |
| 22732s |
drawn cards yeah very straightforward |
| 22735s |
removal |
| 22736s |
most likely going to see the glacial San |
| 22738s |
played down here for red Monte Oh no |
| 22742s |
just going for the equipment weapon I I |
| 22743s |
don't mind this either it sets up the |
| 22746s |
the lore if you want to pull something |
| 22748s |
however the Sunburst is going to shut |
| 22749s |
this down does silence it but the weapon |
| 22752s |
still gets bounced back into hand now |
| 22755s |
it's just the puny Omen hog trying to |
| 22758s |
put out some pressure and uh deal some |
| 22761s |
pain to the Nexus of never walk alone |
| 22764s |
but it's still looking very stable and |
| 22767s |
comfortable for never walk alone right |
| 22768s |
now yeah I mean it's going to be like |
| 22770s |
that up to turn seven they have answers |
| 22772s |
to obliterate on so they're not scared |
| 22774s |
about it at all um they can afford to |
| 22777s |
keep passing but they can also just |
| 22778s |
afford to like time trickle play Reggie |
| 22780s |
and just essentially semi soft pass |
| 22783s |
right use a little bit of your Mana |
| 22785s |
without fully committing and leave Ls up |
| 22787s |
to answer anything Ren Monty does yeah |
| 22789s |
I'm liking this so far from Never Walk |
| 22791s |
Alone Monty just doesn't have a lot of |
| 22793s |
options to put out Steam and pressure |
| 22795s |
they can now go for the saan into an or |
| 22799s |
that is probably the highest pressure |
| 22801s |
line the Jags also coming in handily as |
| 22803s |
a cheap unit that can grow quite |
| 22806s |
significantly later on so gonna have to |
| 22808s |
see how Monty is going to handle that |
| 22810s |
what Monty really wants to draw though |
| 22811s |
is stuff like white claw ferocity as |
| 22814s |
well as another copy of or after the |
| 22816s |
first one is going to get |
| 22817s |
obliterated more |
| 22821s |
Jacks this ja is a 54 even though he's |
| 22825s |
not Le yet so can become a win condition |
| 22830s |
later on down the line but for now |
| 22831s |
there's just not enough early pressure |
| 22833s |
Never Walk Alone is still very stable |
| 22836s |
here and sitting comfortably we see more |
| 22838s |
and more draw more and more flash bombs |
| 22840s |
being put into the deck while is still |
| 22843s |
leaving a lot of Mana |
| 22846s |
open okay so if you never walk alone |
| 22850s |
you're sitting quite comfortably you can |
| 22852s |
remove the or |
| 22855s |
here but one of the cards I mentioned |
| 22857s |
the white claw ferocity is being picked |
| 22860s |
up that can be super useful especially |
| 22863s |
with the shefs authority bringing a ton |
| 22866s |
of stats to your |
| 22867s |
units so Monty is still in this game |
| 22871s |
just not very well fast at progressing |
| 22874s |
their own gameplay and putting out |
| 22879s |
pressure okay |
| 22881s |
so even the problem is as you mentioned |
| 22883s |
it's way too slow right I think that's |
| 22885s |
ultimately what what this is going to |
| 22886s |
come down to most likely going to see |
| 22888s |
clock Ling this oh no just going to go |
| 22890s |
for |
| 22891s |
the removal although that is only four |
| 22894s |
damage we don't have caused it RIS or |
| 22895s |
anything yet this might just be a setup |
| 22898s |
because there's plenty of time to draw |
| 22900s |
more cards this might be a flash bomb |
| 22901s |
setup and it does get |
| 22903s |
spiked this night Grand finals flash |
| 22907s |
bomb setups yeah this is very reminisent |
| 22910s |
of the first World's Championship Grand |
| 22912s |
finals but Caitlyn just saying hi from |
| 22915s |
the off here sniping out that glacial |
| 22918s |
saan red mon is still fine here |
| 22921s |
developing that |
| 22923s |
Jags white claw ferocity followup but |
| 22926s |
now with the back Ali bar in Play Never |
| 22929s |
Walk Alone can just pull ahead here if |
| 22932s |
they don't get overrun very |
| 22936s |
soon this is a good setup by Monty |
| 22939s |
though but we see the stuns so even even |
| 22943s |
even still it there isn't much that red |
| 22945s |
mon can |
| 22948s |
do how and Gale follow up trying to |
| 22951s |
remove the Jags here one of the |
| 22953s |
potential overwhelm attackers that will |
| 22954s |
come through now it's just going to be |
| 22956s |
the lonely wild claw well it's going to |
| 22959s |
be accompanied by a bird but it's not |
| 22961s |
enough not enough pressure as of right |
| 22964s |
now second ja of course still has plenty |
| 22967s |
of Mana to work with also still buff |
| 22970s |
from the first Omen hog that was being |
| 22973s |
played another another another |
| 22978s |
one and that's that's honestly the worst |
| 22981s |
one as well right it hits the Jacks so |
| 22983s |
that you can play Mystic on it but I |
| 22985s |
think Jax is leveling up |
| 22987s |
here Monty spreading out damage quite |
| 22990s |
nicely making it a bit awkward to find |
| 22992s |
good stun targets for this Le wonder I |
| 22994s |
really like this play that's very heads |
| 22996s |
up knowing that your opponent can deal |
| 22998s |
with two attackers you just spread your |
| 23000s |
power across |
| 23002s |
three so most likely going to see these |
| 23006s |
do we see the stuns this turn or do we |
| 23007s |
just see the hex splitter either the |
| 23009s |
stuns is a bit |
| 23013s |
safer you can do |
| 23017s |
yeah would you remove the or the |
| 23021s |
though the jack is oh is it well yeah no |
| 23025s |
you would use all your Mana you can get |
| 23027s |
a hush but then you yeah you wouldn't |
| 23029s |
have enough Mana that's a good point |
| 23034s |
CHS you have to yeah if you use expit |
| 23036s |
you have to worry about things like Sky |
| 23038s |
splitter yeah that's the next problem |
| 23040s |
probably going to see the one of the |
| 23042s |
explorers come down weapon |
| 23045s |
removal at this point there are also a |
| 23048s |
lot of annoying weapons which you would |
| 23049s |
all like to take care |
| 23051s |
of so Monty still finding some windows |
| 23055s |
for continuous pressure and all of a |
| 23056s |
sudden never walk alone's Nexus is down |
| 23058s |
to six HP but still with plenty of game |
| 23063s |
to stabilize here and to maybe |
| 23065s |
eventually pull ahead and remove all of |
| 23068s |
red Monty's threats should work yeah |
| 23072s |
it's a perfect red Monty just providing |
| 23074s |
the perfect weapon removal |
| 23076s |
Target that's a good point they still |
| 23079s |
have Shephard's Authority another copy |
| 23081s |
left that is hyper buffed and makes this |
| 23083s |
bird quite swall but it's on the bird |
| 23086s |
right so you're not too scared of that |
| 23087s |
unless it gets turned into a wildclaw |
| 23090s |
and another Celestial Wonder drawn all |
| 23092s |
while sarapin is at eight out of n |
| 23094s |
spells about to up and sing her song and |
| 23097s |
take control of the game |
| 23104s |
here okay so seraphine is kicked in |
| 23109s |
weapons are being removed explorator is |
| 23112s |
there red Monty at most has one more |
| 23115s |
turn here I love the fish fight on the |
| 23118s |
omen Hawk because if if Never Walk Alone |
| 23122s |
uses a hex spit here it's it's |
| 23123s |
essentially just removing a one one cost |
| 23125s |
unit |
| 23127s |
and I think it gets rid of the |
| 23129s |
attachment that's quite important the |
| 23131s |
hyper buffed weapon but Skys spitter |
| 23133s |
makes the hawk survive so good defensive |
| 23136s |
use here but will be met buy Mystic shot |
| 23139s |
as an additional |
| 23141s |
answer yes but now one thing to note is |
| 23145s |
there's two big overwhelm well three big |
| 23147s |
overwhelmed dudes coming down um soran |
| 23150s |
was a really good draw for |
| 23152s |
Monty on the following turn for red |
| 23155s |
Monty as well um yes there's a hush |
| 23158s |
which can stop one of |
| 23161s |
them but it's looking a lot closer than |
| 23164s |
it looks the stuns are going to be |
| 23166s |
fantastic for Never Walk |
| 23168s |
Alone stun hush in theory should save |
| 23171s |
them yeah most |
| 23174s |
likely yeah they should be staying alive |
| 23177s |
here another very important draw is the |
| 23179s |
discounted Aftershock this is going to |
| 23182s |
mean that ja can get removed or even the |
| 23185s |
alpha white CL can get removed by |
| 23186s |
Aftershock being double casted we do see |
| 23189s |
two of the overwhelms being stunned only |
| 23190s |
one is going to push some damage through |
| 23192s |
there's not a lot of additional overthe |
| 23194s |
toop damage here in red Monty's hand |
| 23196s |
form up can be used to block off even |
| 23198s |
more damage and take out the glacial San |
| 23201s |
so you don't have to worry about it |
| 23202s |
later so the wall of defense is holding |
| 23205s |
up for never walk alone so far yeah it's |
| 23208s |
it's going to be one of those very slow |
| 23210s |
grindy matches for Never Walk Alone to |
| 23214s |
close this off as we've been seeing it |
| 23215s |
quite consistent when you bring like |
| 23216s |
this triple type triple control list it |
| 23219s |
it always ends up in this grind this is |
| 23221s |
like the stage of the game where it's |
| 23223s |
most likely in Never Walk alone's favor |
| 23225s |
for the most part it is dependent on a |
| 23227s |
couple of draws um has got options for |
| 23231s |
like invokes and stuff |
| 23233s |
but they should be winning from this |
| 23235s |
point onwards as long as nothing crazy |
| 23238s |
happens with the draws yeah Monty can |
| 23240s |
maybe try to get a cheeky ja Victory |
| 23243s |
through because as of right now Never |
| 23245s |
Walk Alone is out of |
| 23246s |
draws is out of C generation can can |
| 23249s |
generate two celestials yes but that |
| 23252s |
would cost us the hush and just as we |
| 23254s |
say The Guiding touch gets top decked |
| 23256s |
that not only heals the Nexus up but |
| 23257s |
also gives two draws follow it up by a |
| 23260s |
cosmic youngling and maram who can |
| 23262s |
continue the draw |
| 23264s |
cycle Ines yeah they only cost one so |
| 23267s |
it's fine one gets double casted meteor |
| 23269s |
shower is very effective removal here |
| 23272s |
Scourge right you just slam |
| 23274s |
scourge oh Scourge could believe it but |
| 23277s |
harsh |
| 23279s |
wins it is a Scourge being picked up |
| 23281s |
here you don't necessarily have to go |
| 23283s |
for the this turn you just get it set up |
| 23285s |
for the following turn you can just um |
| 23287s |
you can invoke one more time see what |
| 23289s |
you get and then just go for like a |
| 23291s |
comet yeah another very interesting pick |
| 23294s |
would have been the moon silver |
| 23295s |
discounting another spell to put it into |
| 23297s |
sarapin double cast range but of course |
| 23300s |
the other PS just seemed better The |
| 23302s |
Scourge does get dropped |
| 23304s |
here I mean the the elusiv will still |
| 23307s |
survive even after the attack |
| 23310s |
so this is going to be significant |
| 23312s |
pressure no matter what and the scourge |
| 23314s |
is threatening removal so Monty just |
| 23317s |
happens to have the perfect answer in |
| 23319s |
hand right now with the harsh winds but |
| 23320s |
nonetheless this is some some serious |
| 23322s |
pressure being put out here by Never |
| 23324s |
Walk |
| 23325s |
Alone yeah don't if you attack with the |
| 23327s |
back outly bar because of harsh wins |
| 23329s |
right yeah you might want this as a |
| 23331s |
blocker but then again you do have two |
| 23333s |
more blockers in hand you don't mind TR |
| 23335s |
a bit of your board off you can replay |
| 23337s |
youngling as well as the dusk |
| 23340s |
Brer but then you can't in voke you can |
| 23344s |
play one of them if you want to invoke |
| 23346s |
this turn oh I think we can just let |
| 23349s |
that one go the other option is you can |
| 23351s |
marry him right and then for spell man |
| 23353s |
and then you can do you can do all of |
| 23355s |
them yeah that's a good |
| 23358s |
point going to lose the wait are we no |
| 23361s |
sarapin still survives okay that's |
| 23362s |
perfect yeah we're not losing any unit |
| 23364s |
what we are losing though is some |
| 23366s |
important HP on the board which means |
| 23368s |
that these overwhel units can hit us |
| 23369s |
quite effectively now it's going to be |
| 23372s |
curious I'm going to be curious to see |
| 23374s |
what Never Walk Alone does probably |
| 23375s |
youngling because that's the safest the |
| 23377s |
heal one mhm there is the line of |
| 23381s |
duskbringer into Mariam into either refl |
| 23383s |
spell Mana or Draw because right now |
| 23387s |
never walk alone is also almost out of |
| 23389s |
value and wants to draw a bit more I |
| 23390s |
mean you have board space issues for |
| 23392s |
that that was my other concern but we'll |
| 23394s |
see um I was mainly thinking it's going |
| 23397s |
to be young Ling for the one heal |
| 23399s |
because if you're worried about your HP |
| 23400s |
on the next the next attack especially |
| 23402s |
with Jack's having Scout here it might |
| 23405s |
be |
| 23410s |
relevant just for the perfectionist here |
| 23412s |
I think that was a very tiny misplay to |
| 23414s |
not play the duskbringer first because |
| 23415s |
we missed out on a pursuit of perfection |
| 23417s |
stack here but it doesn't really matter |
| 23420s |
here the most important thing is that |
| 23422s |
the spam Mana got refilled the invoke |
| 23424s |
happened The Traveler gets put into hand |
| 23427s |
and Rocket Barr gets drawn so even |
| 23429s |
though we're almost not having any draw |
| 23432s |
cards in |
| 23433s |
anymore we're not really out of value |
| 23436s |
probably commiting here after this |
| 23438s |
attack we have to the question is can we |
| 23441s |
wait aren't we dead we can't really deal |
| 23445s |
with the wild claw winging in next and |
| 23447s |
the additional impact from the pen Cast |
| 23451s |
Away the comet is kind of forced but we |
| 23453s |
can't do anything else and that's what I |
| 23456s |
meant earlier on with we're losing some |
| 23458s |
valuable HP on the |
| 23461s |
board oh there's a development gets |
| 23464s |
developed that allows us oh no could |
| 23468s |
have gone for the rocket barrage right |
| 23469s |
on the overwhelm yeah rocket brush oh |
| 23472s |
another development so you can still you |
| 23473s |
can still you can still go for the |
| 23475s |
rocket |
| 23477s |
now but there's another Jack in hand |
| 23480s |
yeah I think a weapon equip it's a |
| 23482s |
Jackson a weapon equip which is probably |
| 23483s |
just enough yeah from monting the |
| 23486s |
development makes sense just because you |
| 23487s |
had so many development options that |
| 23489s |
eventually you're going to find enough |
| 23490s |
units to punch through and yeah that's |
| 23493s |
the victory here um I think both players |
| 23495s |
played it pretty well some small |
| 23497s |
inaccuracies are never walked alone side |
| 23500s |
maybe could have like on the scourge |
| 23502s |
attack there was an option to maybe it |
| 23504s |
wasn't a Scourge development turn yeah |
| 23507s |
that that for one and the other one was |
| 23509s |
the scourge could have pulled something |
| 23510s |
like Jackson's dead so it survives with |
| 23512s |
5 HP instead of three in case you're met |
| 23514s |
by a harsh winds did feel like Never |
| 23516s |
Walk Alone had full control of this game |
| 23520s |
and then like just some cracks short and |
| 23523s |
it allowed red Monty to capitalize and |
| 23525s |
get back into this game and finally find |
| 23527s |
that lethal through all of these |
| 23528s |
overwhelmed units nonetheless a strong |
| 23531s |
showing from both players keep in mind |
| 23533s |
both of them are already qualified for |
| 23535s |
the world's championships and this is |
| 23536s |
basically mostly just a show |
| 23538s |
match yeah and someone who wants to |
| 23541s |
claim they won the whole thing right |
| 23543s |
it's for the glory you say |
| 23545s |
it's for the glory right you show up you |
| 23547s |
show up to Worlds and like yeah what guy |
| 23548s |
who beat everyone at at the last chots |
| 23550s |
qualifier to get in yeah sounds cooler |
| 23553s |
them being the second yeah exactly we |
| 23556s |
all know that's what's most important |
| 23558s |
bragging right yeah |
| 23561s |
exactly so we do see Monty going for |
| 23564s |
another weapon pick up this time of |
| 23566s |
course makes a lot of sense because it |
| 23567s |
is a different weapon the dark and blood |
| 23569s |
letters here which is going to |
| 23571s |
accelerate that atro being drawn from |
| 23573s |
the deck especially he get put into your |
| 23575s |
hand once you played three different |
| 23577s |
dark |
| 23579s |
weapons yep we |
| 23581s |
see all the landmarks coming here for |
| 23584s |
Never Walk Alone the back al bar and |
| 23586s |
they just |
| 23587s |
surrender okay well well we red mon |
| 23590s |
takes it yep I guess very anticlimactic |
| 23594s |
faction the bragging Wes were not quite |
| 23597s |
as important for Never Walk Alone it |
| 23599s |
seems maybe they weren't happy with |
| 23600s |
their opening hand maybe they didn't |
| 23602s |
feel like playing this |
| 23604s |
matchup it is what it is red Monty is |
| 23606s |
our winner of the line qualifier but in |
| 23609s |
reality both of these people shown on |
| 23611s |
screen are the winners of today both of |
| 23613s |
them secured the world slot some |
| 23615s |
guaranteed priz money as well as shot at |
| 23618s |
eternal glory and a lot of price money |
| 23621s |
and they did so with very convincing |
| 23624s |
play as well as very convincing lineups |
| 23626s |
reading The Meta very well and bringing |
| 23628s |
some very creative decks on both sides |
| 23631s |
yeah one thing to know is they have |
| 23632s |
basically lineups um that didn't like |
| 23635s |
one side really favored the other side |
| 23637s |
overall and they didn't see each other |
| 23639s |
till the finals so this just shows the |
| 23640s |
nature of like deck matchup pairings and |
| 23643s |
who you see in a bracket can matter very |
| 23646s |
much in terms of what lineups you're |
| 23648s |
bringing um but it's it's still |
| 23650s |
fantastic play to get there but it just |
| 23652s |
shows you like the randomness in your |
| 23655s |
opponent sometimes can have a factor it |
| 23658s |
definitely does both players going for |
| 23661s |
it's like targeting certain parts of the |
| 23662s |
meta and they mostly ran into it but |
| 23664s |
what what was very impressive for me the |
| 23666s |
triple control lineup even beat sergey's |
| 23669s |
aggro lineup right leaving the two aggro |
| 23672s |
decks open and it looked like those |
| 23674s |
would run the karma set deck over um but |
| 23677s |
the karma set deck prevailed it got a |
| 23679s |
win against the jins with clean play a |
| 23682s |
very like that was a very intense match |
| 23686s |
a lot of Mind Games going on there but |
| 23688s |
eventually it prevailed even though that |
| 23690s |
was not the kind of deck that the deck |
| 23692s |
was built for it was almost a weakness |
| 23694s |
for the karma set deck and nonetheless |
| 23697s |
being able to Pilot this all the way to |
| 23699s |
the Grand finals and to a victory here |
| 23701s |
is one impressive showing yeah again |
| 23704s |
congratulations to both of the players |
| 23706s |
they've played phenomenally they made |
| 23709s |
correct meta reads that panned out for |
| 23711s |
them and on top of that it was just |
| 23713s |
fantastic play around the entire day we |
| 23715s |
saw some crazy matches we saw some deck |
| 23718s |
outs we saw absolutely everything today |
| 23721s |
yeah de out has been a while since I saw |
| 23723s |
that also the timer pressure was so |
| 23725s |
insane that I really enjoyed play like |
| 23727s |
seeing a blitz version of Legends of |
| 23730s |
Ruta in a very complex matchup that |
| 23733s |
allowed for some flashy stuff on both |
| 23735s |
sides of the table but we also have to |
| 23739s |
say condolences to a lot of players who |
| 23741s |
almost made it but not quite that is |
| 23745s |
just the nature of these high stakes |
| 23746s |
tournaments especially in a tournament |
| 23748s |
like this where it only matters to get |
| 23749s |
into the grand finals and everything |
| 23751s |
else does not really give you anything |
| 23753s |
relevant |
| 23757s |
so we've got a little heads up that |
| 23759s |
never walk alone had something else uh |
| 23761s |
pop up like an emergency so that's |
| 23763s |
probably why they conceded Fair place to |
| 23765s |
them they already qualified so again |
| 23767s |
congratulations on their part yeah can't |
| 23769s |
blame them the they did the important |
| 23771s |
work yeah and the rest was just |
| 23773s |
basically for style points and if |
| 23775s |
something more important popped up I |
| 23776s |
hope it was not nothing too serious hope |
| 23779s |
it was just some little time trouble we |
| 23782s |
are ready to look at the final bracket |
| 23785s |
of the day of this whole EMA tournament |
| 23787s |
in a second here and we can revive the |
| 23791s |
runs of our two finalists that are |
| 23793s |
eventually going to represent EMA as a |
| 23795s |
region at the world |
| 23799s |
championship and we could see the |
| 23801s |
journey these players took never walking |
| 23803s |
alone and red Monty through the brackets |
| 23806s |
to get to where they were um one at the |
| 23808s |
top of the bracket one straight down the |
| 23810s |
bottom so makes it quite easy to follow |
| 23813s |
it but you can see the quality of |
| 23815s |
players they had to beat to make it all |
| 23816s |
the way and we saw some fantastic |
| 23818s |
matches across the day what was your |
| 23821s |
sort of standout match then throughout |
| 23823s |
the day which one were you going to pick |
| 23826s |
as your favorite match that you've |
| 23827s |
watched today I think the most intense |
| 23830s |
one for me |
| 23831s |
was it was probably both semifinals to |
| 23834s |
be honest we had Monty against diogenous |
| 23837s |
enjoyer AKA sery in a very uh |
| 23840s |
interesting match Dynamic with the aggro |
| 23842s |
decks trying to run over Karma set while |
| 23845s |
on the flip side never Walker alone and |
| 23847s |
chano had some drawn out Banger matches |
| 23850s |
which I just mentioned earlier on which |
| 23852s |
ran into time trouble which ran into |
| 23854s |
deck outs very very high pressure |
| 23858s |
situations and high level games those |
| 23862s |
were the most entertaining stand outs |
| 23863s |
for me and they were also for the |
| 23865s |
highest |
| 23867s |
Stakes yeah it has been a fantastic day |
| 23870s |
of Rune Terror action it's been |
| 23872s |
absolutely lovely casting you with you |
| 23874s |
again fresh Lobster it's a fantastic |
| 23877s |
year of run Tera for all of us here |
| 23879s |
we've had such a tremendous time and |
| 23882s |
huge shout out to all the production |
| 23883s |
teams we've been working with throughout |
| 23885s |
the entire year phenomenal job shout |
| 23887s |
outs to our production team here today |
| 23890s |
with h and IC and Ed AES team providing |
| 23893s |
fantastic level of production for you |
| 23896s |
guys to enjoy and have fun and watch R |
| 23899s |
Terror action and obviously it's been a |
| 23901s |
pleasure throughout this entire year for |
| 23903s |
me here yeah I can only agree thanks to |
| 23906s |
all of the teams at the production and |
| 23908s |
thanks to all of our players who've been |
| 23910s |
playing their butts off today and to our |
| 23913s |
representatives for EMA at the world's |
| 23915s |
Championship we will be cheering for you |
| 23917s |
that's it from me and gems who signing |
| 23920s |
off uh later on you can still watch the |
| 23923s |
AP sorry the Americas Last Chance |
| 23926s |
qualifier with some very high stakes and |
| 23928s |
some big names as well I think on this |
| 23930s |
very same channel so maybe catch you |
| 23933s |
there in the chat that's it from us take |
| 23935s |
care and see you at the world |
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