[2023] APAC | World Championship Last Chance Qualifier | Legends of Runeterra Dev Tracker

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2159s	hello everybody and welcome to the world
2161s	championship last chance qualifier this
2164s	is the absolute last time that players
2166s	can qualify for the World Championship
2167s	my name is Boulevard joining me today is
2169s	spids spids how are you doing I'm doing
2172s	pretty well I'm really excited for this
2174s	tournament this is the last opportunity
2175s	and not only does one player get in two
2177s	so there's a lot of stakes here that I'm
2178s	very excited to see I'm very excited to
2181s	see how the finals play out I hope the
2182s	finals play out because they're they're
2184s	we're going to try and show them but you
2185s	know it once players are kind of qual
2187s	for the thing sometimes they don't
2188s	always do it that's totally up to them
2189s	but hopefully we'll have a final match
2190s	for you today because obviously we just
2192s	want to watch as much Legends of rra as
2194s	possible now if you're tuning in for the
2195s	first time you don't really know how the
2197s	last chance qualifier works I have great
2198s	news if you've touched run Tera at all
2200s	in the last 12 months it's basically the
2202s	same as all of our other Rune Tera opens
2204s	and World qualifiers and things like
2206s	that 64 players have made it out of the
2208s	pool of players that were going for
2210s	better than an X3 record they're still
2212s	bringing three different decks with no
2213s	duplicated Champions no duplicated
2215s	region combination and no more than one
2216s	deck without any Champions at all
2218s	they're going to ban one of their
2219s	opponent's decks before the matches
2220s	begin cannot win with a they cannot use
2222s	a deck again after winning a game with
2223s	it in each tournament round last for 65
2225s	minutes and again we are playing in the
2227s	standard format I know we just got out
2229s	of Eternal we are back to standard spids
2231s	let's talk about the prize pool today
2233s	though the prize pool has no cash
2236s	prizing it's got no R Points you might
2238s	be thinking what are we even playing for
2239s	what's the point but not only does first
2241s	get a direct qualification just like a
2242s	regular WQ in the lcq both players first
2245s	and second get in and the prize pull for
2248s	worlds is definitely no no mean feate no
2250s	mean Fe somewhere something like the
2252s	last place at Worlds is still the same
2254s	as first in aun Tera open so it's it's
2256s	not like you're losing out on money in
2258s	something like this it' be wild though
2259s	just like yeah here's here's a paycheck
2261s	now go to Worlds here's another paycheck
2262s	so you know this is just sort of it's
2264s	it's a little different than a a regular
2266s	world's qualifier or a run Terra open of
2268s	sorts but you know we do want to get we
2270s	got to fill out those last six spots
2272s	there wasn't really a clean way to do it
2273s	so we are going to be the first to Crown
2274s	the two apack Champions tonight well I
2277s	guess today for apack I know it's night
2279s	for me but um yeah so we are going to be
2282s	taking a look at the bracket here in a
2283s	second give you an idea of the 64
2285s	players that actually did make it
2286s	through you should recognize a lot of
2288s	these names because there's a lot of
2289s	players that haven't been able to make
2290s	it through just yet a lot of kdf players
2293s	in this uh particular
2296s	bracket there's also a lot of EV plays
2298s	we see one here I think there's one or
2300s	two more further on teams are quite
2302s	important in L getting a lot of practice
2303s	in together and I think uh this is just
2305s	an example and more proof of all that
2307s	happening right kdf EV we have tons of
2310s	teams in uh America and EMA as well so I
2313s	think that's a big part of L in the
2315s	modern world absolutely and it always
2317s	seemed more relevant to me in APAC you
2319s	see a lot of like APAC specific teams
2321s	whereas you'll usually cross the border
2323s	if you've got am and EMA and of course
2324s	ABG is a global team though I don't
2327s	think we've actually seen any ABG
2328s	members just yet in the bracket so far
2330s	but they're still plenty more to come
2331s	we're only halfway through recognizing a
2333s	couple of names out here like
2336s	Royston
2337s	yeah I mean we also see Torah there as
2339s	well and on this part I think I remember
2341s	Alpha King getting top four in a
2343s	tournament earlier this year and SE
2344s	chicken from memory doing quite well as
2346s	well ping pingho very famous name
2348s	qualified for the First World tournament
2350s	fighting
2351s	Eevee yeah Eevee one day ping pingho
2353s	probably going to be our future match
2354s	Eevee uh one day actually did get top
2356s	four earlier this year as well it was
2358s	the second Eternal open that we had so
2360s	we'll see if they can compete in the
2361s	standard format as well as we get into
2364s	the last part of the bracket here just
2365s	going to see a lot more names a lot of
2367s	end D on this one kdf atg ABG THC lot of
2371s	lot of clan tags getting thrown around
2373s	here spits I love the
2375s	camaraderie getting the whole alphabet
2377s	three we saw Mega goofball AKA Nessie on
2379s	the previous page as well as Zen only
2381s	two abgs is actually kind of few for
2384s	typical Apex standards normally there's
2386s	about five or six there so definitely a
2387s	lot of you know familiar names and new
2389s	names I'm sure ABG would have you
2391s	believe it's because most of their
2392s	players from the apack region already
2394s	qualified and therefore can't be in this
2396s	last chance qualifier but I haven't seen
2398s	an official roster sheet so I don't
2400s	really know how true that is but we're
2402s	going to take a look now at the decks of
2404s	the players of our feature match as we
2406s	mentioned in the bracket it's going to
2407s	be pin pingho versus ev1 day starting
2409s	off with E1 day and we've got uh War
2411s	mothers call with Senna rather then
2413s	shenir volar going a little bit lower to
2415s	the ground honestly I like this a little
2416s	bit something that this lacks in
2418s	standard that it has in Eternal is that
2420s	five Mana Champion to stall worth the
2422s	mid game their trundle here
2424s	Senna yeah I think five Mana Champions
2426s	are really important in ramp decks being
2428s	able to ramp on turn three into a five
2430s	Mane Champion we saw that with trundle
2431s	previously Center not as strong as
2433s	trundle but you know trundle is no
2435s	longer in the game in standard so Center
2436s	really fills in that slot that's quite
2438s	hard to find also like three Gras of the
2440s	undying kind of a cute card okay I'm
2442s	seeing a patter looking at the region
2443s	combinations down here at the bottom
2444s	spits I feel like we're looking at a 9x
2446s	War mothers call lineup how do we how do
2449s	you feel about
2450s	that I think 9x decks are like really
2453s	really cute I think these lineups can
2454s	get there in sort of really interesting
2456s	ways and one SC I don't think is on
2457s	anyone's radar as a 9x maybe as like a
2459s	3X sometimes but this this could hit
2462s	stuff it hits mid-range Deasia quite
2464s	well sh who wanders was a dominating
2467s	force in the Eternal format really one
2469s	of the defining cards of a deck like
2470s	this and I'm not surprised to see two sh
2472s	who wanders in every copy of this bod
2473s	deer the black and dice it's really nice
2475s	to see the uh uh what do you call it
2477s	variety patch cards coming through and
2478s	even veiled protector making an
2479s	appearance in this Sani aelan
2482s	Soul also say wings of the cryo Phoenix
2485s	which is a card that we only ever saw in
2486s	like Karma set fard for like three weeks
2489s	but that's very interesting I'm so
2491s	curious to see I wonder if they brought
2492s	this to the open rounds and it just was
2494s	successful to them or if they did a
2495s	pivot because I can't tell what you
2497s	would do if you had this lineup in your
2498s	M me neither and now we're going to take
2501s	a look at what pin pingho has brought
2502s	starting off with Yumi Pantheon this is
2504s	an old classic male's blessing even
2507s	making it into the main
2509s	deck it's very it'll counter freezes and
2512s	we're fighting a triple frostbite lineup
2514s	so Mel's blessing will definitely come
2515s	in handy here blinded Mystic as well
2517s	probably going to miss
2519s	against know what you blinded Mystic
2521s	outside of veil protector in the ton if
2525s	I mean so when you're a Deasia deck like
2527s	this mid-range style deck and it seems
2529s	to be like a full mid-range lineup here
2530s	for pimp pingho taking the Regeneration
2532s	off the sh who wanders might be
2534s	something that you need to do if you're
2535s	ever going to conquer that
2537s	Titan yeah now we got Kane atrx another
2539s	sort of old Titan of like you know big
2542s	beefy mid-range curious to see if this
2544s	third deck's big beefy rrange I wouldn't
2546s	expect unless has got dedicate of the
2547s	challenge but this deck is I think it it
2550s	makes sense with Yumi they both do the
2552s	same thing they both have like a big you
2553s	know late game on about turn eight turn
2555s	nine trying to pressure them down I do
2557s	like the two decks here together I would
2559s	imagine this last one's Nyla Jana it is
2560s	going to be Nyla Jana took a couple of
2562s	hits in the balance patch but it looks
2563s	like uh no Temple three tide dancers so
2566s	sort of sticking more to that and it's I
2568s	mean it's not quite mid-range but you do
2570s	get a wide High attack board if you're
2573s	going for the Triple tide dancer
2575s	build yeah it's definitely has some
2577s	powerful hands that can do really insane
2579s	things you know I think everyone's seen
2581s	some instance of three windborn Mariners
2583s	on turn two and I don't know how Ario de
2585s	going to do deal with that at outad of
2586s	like Avalanche but that's still nine
2588s	damage they're taking on that turn
2590s	really interesting lineup stuff that I
2591s	wasn't really expecting to see Kane
2594s	atrox was not really on my radar but I
2596s	was watching some of the America's
2597s	players a little bit earlier they were
2598s	playing it as well it like it wasn't
2600s	doing anything stats wise in Grassroots
2602s	tournaments but looking at the actual
2604s	head-to-head between these two player
2605s	spits I'm very conc about Jan Nyla even
2608s	in the Eternal format something I
2609s	noticed with Jan Nyla is like she who
2610s	wanders is specif like every single card
2613s	in the Jan nla deck is getting hit by sh
2616s	who wanders and now you're up against a
2617s	triple sh who wanders
2620s	lineup is that to be considered but my
2622s	instinct was to ban janilla I feel like
2625s	as Eevee you're trying to just play like
2627s	harsh winds and counter all of the big
2629s	beefy stuff that Pingping H trying to do
2630s	and Jilla I think has the highest
2632s	potential of having a blowout except
2634s	maybe Pantheon with spell shield my
2636s	instinct is that while janilla just gets
2637s	destroyed by Shu wonders they can still
2640s	win before turn before turn
2642s	six that's true although that I when I I
2645s	didn't get to take a really good look at
2647s	ev1 day Dex but the board wipes that
2649s	you're I'm assuming there's a lot of
2650s	avalanche wings of the cryo Phoenix not
2653s	super effective against these mid-range
2654s	decks they're a lot more effective
2656s	against the janen niil it's the only
2657s	thing that's like low to the ground
2658s	enough where you can actually get just
2660s	like a near Game ending board wipe off
2661s	the first one but with these midrangey
2663s	champions in all of these the Senna the
2665s	set the s to play the mid game maybe you
2668s	do have a better mid-range matchup than
2670s	the more traditional warmothers call
2672s	build that we're seeing now that is just
2674s	trundle Vol
2676s	bear I wonder what pin pingho is
2678s	thinking about banning and Eevee you've
2679s	got three Decks that all look the same
2681s	but there are differences between them
2682s	you can't bring duplicate region
2683s	combination so there are like staunch
2685s	differences here my instinct is the
2687s	Ionia deck set is just such a powerful
2690s	card getting constant showstoppers is
2692s	really really scary but typically it
2694s	would have been a ban SI I think back
2696s	back before rotation I think it depends
2698s	on the specific list and again I don't
2700s	have it in front of me like I don't know
2701s	how many recalls and stuns are in the
2702s	Ionia version obviously vengeance is
2704s	something you have to take into account
2705s	with the shadow a version but I do agree
2707s	set probably the most threatening
2709s	champion of the three when we're talking
2710s	Sani s a set I think set far and way the
2712s	best one uh as long as we all agree that
2714s	like targon is probably staying open
2716s	that definitely looks like the weakest
2718s	build the one that you're going to most
2719s	easily be able to
2721s	exploit yeah I mean I think ton is
2725s	always going to be the odd one out in
2726s	this like with with war mothers decks
2727s	and Fu the rush decks it has always been
2729s	SI first Ionia second and then the third
2731s	one has it's felt like it had to be
2733s	Taron but I think bandal may have also
2735s	been able to do things and trying to get
2737s	lower to the ground but you obviously
2739s	just make sure the weakest one is still
2740s	up there and I imagine Pingping is going
2742s	to be trying to tour that in what must
2744s	be
2746s	unfavored oh wow so something that I
2748s	just noticed actually is that the shadow
2750s	a version does not run Avalanche so pin
2754s	pingho I don't I don't know if that was
2755s	a consider obviously like Vengeance
2757s	ruination eradication these are things
2759s	that are probably more likely on the
2760s	mind of pin pingho but spids we're now
2762s	into the first round of the 64 here ev1
2765s	day up against pin pingho both these
2767s	players finding a good amount of success
2769s	this year but now only one will be able
2770s	to move on closer and closer to that
2772s	final stage and that last chance invite
2774s	to the world
2776s	championship I really like this fracture
2778s	in one day's deck against janilla being
2781s	able to just play Fracture against a
2783s	board of Windor Mariners is going to be
2785s	such a blowout if that ends up happening
2786s	it was Mig maybe that wasn't something
2788s	they decided to keep but getting an
2789s	avalanche in response doesn't seem like
2791s	that bad of a side grade yeah two board
2793s	wipes in the opening hand of course Nyla
2795s	not going to be hurt by an avalanche
2797s	it's going to take a little bit more
2798s	than that the wings of the cryo Phoenix
2799s	but again this is what I was a little
2800s	worried about as the Jan Nyla player is
2802s	just I don't know if you can get on
2804s	board fast enough and especially with
2805s	one of the few Nerfs that you took being
2807s	the burn aspect of the deck just are you
2811s	actually fast enough to outpace
2814s	this you got to try right and with
2817s	Pingping hose de you can always end up
2818s	drawing into the cards like you're going
2820s	to cycle through at least 20 of your
2821s	cards by the time this game is ended and
2823s	you're going to try and find your tient
2824s	to try and find your Jenna and neither
2826s	of those cards can be easily answered
2827s	these like four health things or five
2829s	health things just can't be answered
2830s	easily from E's deck they don't have
2832s	Vengeance their only hard removal is
2834s	seismic Shard which they don't have in
2835s	hand
2836s	yet going for the ramp here instead of
2840s	waiting for the combat to come through
2841s	giving pin Pingo sort of a green light
2843s	to develop further if there is an
2844s	avalanche but when your opponent hasn't
2846s	drawn three cards in a turn and the
2847s	windborn Mariners aren't down to zero
2848s	Mana it's not as much of a concern and
2850s	this will still give E1 day Mana for the
2853s	wings of the cryofix on the fing turn
2855s	get that actual three damage board wipe
2856s	take out the Nyla and whatever else
2858s	comes down so six damage
2860s	honestly it's not great right like you
2862s	would have loved to not take six damage
2864s	on turn three but it's uh there's not
2866s	much that could have been done about
2868s	it let's see Aftershock drawn we've got
2871s	Aftershock and haling Gale major bricks
2873s	in this match up haling Gale doesn't
2875s	even kill sichani so Ping's probably
2877s	going to look to M these away being able
2879s	to use the updraft keyword releas in
2881s	this expansion and trying to like fish
2883s	for anything else getting the slipstream
2885s	right now is quite nice though you
2887s	really want to I mean as the tech you
2889s	just want to cycle as much as possible
2890s	and getting that as soon as you draw is
2892s	quite nice still sitting on a priority
2894s	sequence for ev1 day though and I'm
2896s	curious like ev1 day is aware that pin
2899s	pingho has that fleeing card right for
2901s	just pass the turn you're the ramp deck
2903s	you the only card you could play right
2905s	now be like avalanch maybe just go for
2907s	the proactive wings of the cry Phoenix
2909s	but when your opponent has that fleeting
2910s	card in especially when you've got harsh
2912s	WIS available if your opponent does just
2913s	pass into an open attack feel like one
2915s	day should have just slammed that pass
2917s	button
2918s	already this feels thinking about their
2921s	manner on the future turns I think they
2924s	want to make sure they're not just like
2925s	locked into doing harsh WIS for an open
2928s	and that they're not wanting to like
2929s	play Sani as a development Punisher and
2931s	their only development Punisher like
2932s	sichani is their only play next turn and
2935s	so being able to do this now me means
2936s	they can sit next turn still deal with
2937s	some units I sort of I understand but
2941s	imagine if this was responded to with AA
2943s	right like I think this may have been I
2945s	can see this being
2947s	premature I don't hate it I don't hate
2950s	it I I'll I'll put it that way but oo
2953s	that's a lot of whoa no wasted cards
2956s	here I imagine the double mariam's going
2957s	to come through Shuffle away the fleeing
2959s	cards maybe one for a draw one for spell
2961s	man we'll see how pin pingho is
2963s	feeling I oh windborn Mariner is
2967s	discounted that's a very nice draw to
2969s	get from ping pingho side and with this
2972s	open they're going to have to play harsh
2973s	wins which will me you're never playing
2975s	har winds at any other time but it does
2976s	slow them down a little bit and allows
2978s	ping pingho to just develop more readily
2980s	over the next couple of turns I don't
2981s	think Mar was a bad draw at all I think
2982s	it's quite good for them I think it's
2984s	one of the best possible draws that pimp
2985s	Pingo could have had sort of punishing
2987s	that early potentially wings of the cryo
2989s	Phoenix here and we can see over on the
2991s	side thanks to our lovely production
2992s	team that Nyla is at nine out of 16
2995s	cards drawn
2998s	but end around
3000s	here this is where things start to get
3002s	awkward spits because you know your
3003s	harsh WIS here next turn you can Sani
3007s	it's not bad but this is sort of pin
3009s	pinho's pop off turn not as much in
3011s	terms of damage but in terms of oh this
3014s	is where I get to throw out a bunch of
3015s	cards but with two three HP units
3018s	already on the board and Eevee one day
3020s	tapped below the Mana for wings of the
3022s	cryo Phoenix pin ping how has to be
3024s	cognizant of a in plus fracture but
3027s	outside of that I think they're actually
3029s	safe to develop just a little bit
3031s	here yeah I really like the idea of
3034s	playing the May right now it doesn't
3035s	lose to Avalanche and you're able to if
3037s	you take spell Mana try and play the eye
3040s	of the storm then develop things like
3042s	Master Lookout if they decide to develop
3044s	stuff going for master Lookout first
3045s	seems a little bit weird to me but I
3047s	guess it just tells them that you know
3048s	you don't know what I'm going to have in
3049s	my hand it's the least committal thing
3050s	you could do that's true and pimp pingho
3053s	even if the Avalanche comes out here
3054s	pimp pingho still has the the eye of the
3056s	storm can still push through at most six
3058s	damage get ev1 day down to eight which
3061s	again the burn was the aspect of this
3063s	deck that was hurt and because pin
3065s	pingho is not running any copies of the
3067s	temple not going to have as much refuel
3069s	as those versions but the Avalanche does
3072s	come through this more or less Taps out
3074s	Eevee one day for the turn pin Pingo is
3075s	still going to be aware of fracture
3076s	might play around that and I wouldn't be
3078s	surprised to see no further development
3079s	based on that information right if you
3081s	do then lose your miams before you
3082s	actually go to combat to the fracture
3083s	because it's slow speed spell you're
3085s	going to be kicking yourself but pin
3086s	pingho goes for
3087s	it I think it's four damage either way
3090s	you're always playing either storm
3091s	aggressively when you're able to get it
3092s	through especially the turn before you
3094s	play exalted Cloud Winder I think like
3095s	being able to have the extra look for
3097s	then looking for more things to Discount
3098s	Cloud Winder on a future turn but it's
3101s	going to be hard to decide what to
3102s	discard do you want this five Mana 22 or
3103s	do you want the burn and we're going to
3105s	get rid of the cloud Winder to get the
3106s	tide
3108s	dancer I mean it is going to be a pretty
3110s	big reward and actually yeah went for
3112s	the draw rather than the Mana so not
3114s	going to get the ey storm this turn at
3116s	least but now Cloud Winder gets to come
3118s	down and only one unit can be taken out
3121s	by the Sani if that's what one day
3123s	decides to develop they do still have
3124s	the harsh
3126s	winds looks like it's going to be a SK
3128s	skolly Pioneer you just keep open that
3130s	Avalanche
3132s	Mana taking the heal makes sense you're
3135s	not really trying to get rid of brash as
3136s	a keyword it's cute but except this two
3138s	three nothing's really blocking Brash or
3140s	it's big enough for it not to really
3142s	matter at that point I think that we're
3144s	probably going to see the tide come down
3146s	to try and start looking for something
3147s	on a future turn but you can't develop
3149s	next turn because of this Buri to ice
3151s	and so you really want to make sure that
3152s	you're able to proc the tie dancer on
3154s	your open which is possible with eye of
3156s	the storm but it's not it's not
3159s	guaranteed and I'm concerned if pin
3162s	pingho tries to pass back here I think
3164s	Eevee one day would slam the end turn
3166s	button at that point just floating eight
3167s	man out of your opponent feels
3168s	absolutely great from a position like
3169s	this yeah you lose out on you know your
3171s	sort of free trade with your Explorer
3173s	but I think that's a little bit better
3175s	than passing it over but pin Pingo not
3177s	going to fall for it plays out the tide
3178s	dancer and now things are looking a
3180s	little bit bad for Eevee one day though
3181s	that next turn turn seven is or turn
3184s	eight rather no turn seven yeah I looked
3186s	at the Mana of one day to try and tell
3188s	me what turn it was big mistake on my
3190s	part so yeah turn seven really going to
3192s	be the the deciding turn of this game it
3194s	feels
3195s	like it does seem like it would be
3197s	deciding but even if that doesn't happen
3199s	if you look at uh one day's hand there
3202s	actually isn't much of a a powerful
3204s	presence over the next couple of turns
3205s	Bo takes two turns to get the landmarks
3207s	to count down Sani isn't that much
3209s	overwhelm damage aso's rather slow
3211s	there's no war mothers call so while
3213s	ping pingho definitely wants to put as
3215s	much damage in on the turn seven it's
3217s	not impossible for them to wait until
3218s	turn n and develop two threats one on
3220s	turn seven one on turn
3223s	n nice setup for the Avalanche going to
3225s	take out the entire board really take
3227s	the wind out of the sails of this ship
3229s	here but Nyla going to be able to come
3231s	down next turn and if my math is correct
3232s	will be able to level off of the eye of
3234s	the storm that's where things start to
3235s	get a little dicey the harsh Winds of
3237s	course still available for one day but
3239s	it's a question of okay yeah I survived
3241s	the Nyla I survived the boat I developed
3244s	my bod deer the black and ice but then
3245s	you've still got one more turn before
3247s	the thrs actually get to come out one
3249s	more attack token turn for your opponent
3251s	maybe you're able to find the perfect
3253s	window for the buried nice but if not
3255s	Victory might be able to slip
3258s	through going to see presumably vanilla
3261s	come down next turn I think this draw
3263s	from Pingping who is going to be really
3264s	important what get off eye of the storm
3266s	and what they get from this top deck is
3267s	going to be really important for trying
3268s	to work out what the next couple of
3270s	turns will look like if they get a Jenna
3271s	they're able to play for like that turn
3272s	n aggression or if they get a bunch of
3274s	units they're able to develop and beat
3276s	this bar ice that Eevee one day has just
3279s	tapped
3280s	under
3281s	iand I'm not running the same
3284s	calculations as one day here spits I
3285s	didn't think it was necessary to use the
3287s	heal there I understand that it's Focus
3289s	speed not burst speed so you know maybe
3292s	you're you'd have to be worried about an
3294s	open attack at that point and I just
3296s	don't think an open attack was something
3299s	Eevee one day had to respect as much as
3301s	they just
3303s	did yeah this is definitely given the
3305s	green light for Ping pingho to be able
3306s	to develop fully like the cry Phoenix
3309s	could come down but if ping pingho sees
3310s	that they're able to play ey the storm
3311s	on n and push seven damage right from
3314s	that alone plus the Mystic shot plus
3316s	whatever they end up drawing so I I
3319s	really don't understand and Eevee one
3321s	day has to figure out what they're going
3322s	to do are they're going to play Sani to
3324s	free something TI dancer will buff it up
3326s	afterwards are they going to play harsh
3327s	winds to not do anything else on this
3329s	turn feels like a very slow line that
3332s	they've taken by playing this two Mana
3333s	card very innocuous but ends up being
3336s	rather a big issue okay gets the precom
3339s	into the eye of the storm that's
3340s	actually really good like really really
3343s	good for Eevee one
3346s	day you get two burst damage on the
3349s	Nexus which is like the one thing that
3350s	ping pingho is trying to look for but
3352s	being able to stop 10 damage with just a
3353s	harsh winds is it's what you wanted most
3356s	out of this turn I think outside of
3357s	maybe doing buried and ice but we know
3360s	Mystic shots in the deck and we know
3362s	Eevee one day has no more healing in
3364s	hand another Mystic shot top deck will
3366s	be
3367s	lethal and it's almost certainly going
3369s	to happen right there's so much draw in
3371s	pin ping hosand available right now
3372s	there's not actually that much healing
3374s	that one day has available you know top
3376s	deck of the Explorer is going to give
3378s	them something but with a second boat in
3380s	hand for pin pingho with the Janna with
3383s	the slipstream there's just a little bit
3385s	too much draw to assume that e one day
3387s	is going to be able to slowly claw their
3389s	way back into this
3391s	one I mean this is the issue of the
3393s	Taron version you want to be killing ner
3395s	and you want to be killing the tide
3397s	dancer in order to prevent these like
3399s	plus two strength for everything plus
3400s	two damage to the Dome without any
3402s	interaction and their only interaction
3403s	is seismic Shard and buried I which are
3405s	slow they're overcosted a lot of the
3407s	time or need a bunch of conditions in
3409s	order to make them work we're just
3411s	seeing that this deck the weakest of the
3413s	war mothers Co decks just isn't going to
3414s	be enough against Jenna that level two
3417s	Nila is going to keep doing just so much
3420s	work against one day's resources at this
3422s	point even if she who wanders were able
3423s	to come down this turn pin Pingo would
3425s	have that Nyla on backup because it's
3427s	currently hiding as a champion spell
3429s	which would be enough for lethal in
3430s	combination with the Mystic shot but
3433s	it's not quite how things are going to
3434s	work out and I I just don't think this
3435s	Explorer is going to be enough to get it
3437s	done all this is really done is leave
3438s	Sani open as well but with the second
3440s	boat in the hand for pin pingho it feels
3443s	like it's going to be too easy to fire
3445s	off a slur of spells next turn and get
3447s	that plus four buff across everything if
3450s	both tide callers do make it into the
3451s	following
3452s	turn this tide Dancer come down does
3455s	give Eevee one day some leniency here
3458s	some capacity of doing interesting
3460s	things they can play Buri to nice if
3462s	pink pingho then responds with the Nila
3464s	they do have the capacity of finding
3465s	something like a harsh winds in order to
3468s	survive and then heal up right after it
3472s	actually wouldn't survive because pin
3474s	pingho can attack with the Nyla and put
3477s	Mystic shot on the stack which would be
3478s	the four damage because bar nice is
3479s	going to be all of Eevee one day's Mana
3482s	here yeah this is looking like lethal
3484s	unless e Mana has first speed healing
3486s	which looking at the deck doesn't seem
3488s	to be the case this should be a safe
3490s	lethal from pin pingho to kick things
3495s	off just trying to make sure I check the
3497s	deck list I don't think there's anything
3498s	that can apply there's no burst healing
3500s	is that Catalyst double check no I think
3502s	Catalyst rotated
3504s	actually
3505s	did Catalyst rotate okay it's not like
3507s	it's only been eight months for me to
3509s	learn this look I I made a promise at
3512s	the very beginning that I was never
3513s	going to fully digest rotation you can't
3514s	expect that out of us but yeah this
3515s	looks like it should be a very safe open
3517s	attack
3518s	lethal but you have to put the Mystic
3520s	shot on the stack that is an important
3523s	part of this otherwise one day gets a
3525s	chance to
3527s	heal well they still need a I guess yeah
3530s	you can do it post freeze but that is
3533s	the first game to Ping Pingo against
3534s	this triple
3536s	line and like you said spids maybe that
3538s	Jano was just a little bit too quick I
3540s	mean Eevee one day might have gotten a
3542s	little jumpy with some of the board
3543s	wives might have expected to top deck a
3545s	few more but just wasn't as clean with
3548s	the Mana as they needed to be in a
3549s	matchup like this and now we're going
3550s	into Pantheon Yumi a deck where the
3553s	frostbite is going to be a lot more
3554s	effective but the sweepers are going to
3555s	be a lot less effective and one day just
3557s	us to hope to draw the right portion of
3559s	their
3560s	deck I think this match Up's going to be
3562s	much better for one day I think this is
3563s	what they were trying to beat with this
3564s	line like beat these sort of single unit
3567s	wions like Pantheon like whatever Yumi
3569s	ends up buffing so this is definitely
3571s	not over I think there could be a
3572s	reverse sweep from one day on the Yumi
3574s	Pantheon here absolutely I mean the
3576s	targon version still has seismic Shard
3579s	right and for those of you at home that
3580s	haven't seen this card before if you
3582s	behold a Titanic unit which will
3583s	probably be very easy for one day four
3585s	Mana slow speed deals seven to a unit if
3588s	you keep looking at these increasingly
3590s	growing mid-range uh faded units and
3592s	you're like oh man how am I ever going
3593s	to deal with that just shoot it with a
3595s	seismic
3598s	Shard fracture being able to destroy
3600s	weapons actually might be quite relevant
3602s	this thing that is normally a sweeper
3603s	that you say will be not as valuable
3605s	against a single unit deck like Yumi
3608s	Pantheon can be instead converted into
3610s	destroying weapons we've seen uh
3613s	explorers as well in one day's deck so
3615s	things like this Jal and presumably
3617s	wandering Shepherd will be easily
3620s	destroyed by these weapon
3621s	REM I don't even think there's I I guess
3624s	it's question of like do you just kill
3626s	the first weapon that you see are you
3628s	holding this for a specific weapon and I
3631s	guess we're going to get our answer
3632s	right now there's really not much else
3633s	for one day to do and if they do want to
3635s	fracture this turn then they will still
3637s	have ramp Mana following it's just a
3639s	matter of not getting the two two in
3641s	that
3642s	case oh actually no it's only a single
3645s	dark and agis in this deck so that's the
3647s	that's the only weapon you could kill it
3649s	now another thing that I think is quite
3652s	see the war mother skull finally being
3653s	drawn I think another thing that's
3654s	important is that this boader will be
3656s	really good into ping pingho deck 88s
3658s	are really hard to get through even for
3659s	a Pantheon Pantheon will have to be
3661s	proed with faded like about four times
3663s	before it's able to do things to this
3665s	Boer of black and dce so being able to
3668s	ramp into that on what will end up being
3670s	turn six with two ramp cards in hand
3672s	seems very very powerful for one day
3674s	they've got the ramp they've got the top
3675s	end they've got everything they want
3677s	yeah the defensive capabilities of
3678s	pening host deck pretty much start and
3680s	stop with that Cosmic youngling that we
3682s	see in hand which is in no shape or form
3684s	going to outpace some THS I am
3690s	ready the attack come in I think we
3693s	missed a fader trigger this turn which
3695s	means that Pantheon should currently be
3696s	at one in four turns time that's still
3698s	the attack token so missing on one
3700s	Pantheon level up trigger is not too bad
3702s	yet but we still don't see Pantheon in
3704s	hand and we also don't see Yumi or any
3707s	other big units outside of these two
3708s	Saga Seekers we also don't see a lot of
3711s	pressure in pin ping Ho's hand and with
3713s	one day having all this ramp available
3714s	in the warm mother's call already
3715s	available I think it's actually going to
3716s	be on one day's next attack token that
3720s	the war mothers call gets to come down
3721s	and resolve and in the meantime pimp
3723s	Pingo is threatening not much might even
3726s	have to start proactively using these
3728s	form UPS to proc faded and try to push a
3730s	little bit more damage maybe get a harsh
3731s	winds or some other frostbite effect out
3733s	of one day there's a faded proc for the
3734s	turn but it's just going to find another
3736s	Cosmic young
3737s	L I really like this Explorer Choice by
3740s	the way Boulevard being able to pick the
3742s	only explorer that self targets well
3744s	besides the your own weapon is really
3746s	really cool getting rid of keywords
3748s	doesn't matter against E's deck unless
3750s	you want to get rid of like overwhelm
3751s	from thr or spell shield from asol if
3753s	you're at that point you've lost so
3755s	being able to self Target just like
3757s	guiding touch used to or still does uh
3759s	on your faded units is it's definitely a
3761s	good pick I really like that choice of
3763s	Explorer spell I do as well and Yumi off
3767s	the top I think is exactly what pin
3769s	pingho needed in a situation like this
3772s	you need some sort of consistent damage
3774s	buff that's also going to proc faded for
3776s	you on this turn and you can even cycle
3777s	through and get multiple faded faded
3779s	procs here by having Yumi equip over the
3781s	weapon then attaching the weapon to the
3782s	other unit and it seems that pin pingho
3785s	says hey I have the Mana for it that's
3787s	might as well be what I do for those of
3789s	you that have never seen this before you
3790s	cannot have an attach unit and an
3791s	equipment on the same unit that' be a
3793s	little bit too
3795s	much K ping has also done a very
3797s	specific play here of not caring about
3800s	bared Den I saying if you had bared and
3802s	I I'm losing this game so I'm going to
3803s	develop into it anyway which is the
3805s	important thing that you need to do when
3806s	you're playing these decks especially if
3808s	You' got a really bad hand and one day's
3810s	got a really good hand you just have to
3811s	make that choice say I'm losing to bued
3813s	in ice so be it I'm going to try and
3814s	play to win and that was a play that we
3816s	can't see it in the hand cuz it's not in
3817s	the hand but that's what Ping Pingo was
3819s	thinking about and deciding I'm not
3820s	going to play around yeah you've got to
3822s	be able to identify situations where you
3823s	don't actually get to play around a card
3825s	and still win and unfortunately it
3827s	doesn't look like it matters much for
3828s	pimp pingho I imagine the harsh winds is
3829s	going to come out here as ramp is no
3831s	longer necessary with spell Mana Bank
3833s	War mother's call will be on line next
3835s	turn I believe that all of these decks
3837s	have been built that well there's a
3838s	scholarly Pioneer in all of them so
3841s	maybe there is a little bit of a weak
3842s	pull off of the war mothers but there's
3844s	only so many of those in the deck and
3846s	even so a blocker is a blocker at this
3848s	point it doesn't matter much and guiding
3850s	touch not a good enough draw for pin
3852s	pingho maybe it can find a Pantheon but
3854s	this should more or less be the
3856s	beginning of the
3858s	end first unit summoned is sichani one
3861s	of the lower rols but still big enough
3863s	to trade into most of these units it
3864s	will be ched away so there will be one
3866s	more attack coming in and not an
3867s	insignificant attack either I mean
3870s	unless they top de a harsh wins from one
3872s	day it doesn't they're not going to be
3873s	able to deal with this too much we're
3875s	going to see the single combat come down
3877s	that's very cool getting rid of one of
3879s	the units there will be another unit on
3880s	the field from one day's side next turn
3882s	that will be pulled to the side but it's
3884s	a very good use of single combat proing
3885s	faded being able to deal with the bo
3888s	quite good use spids if one day doesn't
3891s	draw Frost fight pen pingho can just
3894s	kill them next turn with the double form
3897s	up I don't know if they'll go for it but
3901s	they've already kind of spot checked for
3902s	a couple of board wipes it's it's really
3904s	hard to get a read on your opponent's
3905s	hand but and especially with triple
3907s	harsh winds being in there but you've
3909s	already seen one harsh winds come out
3910s	and that's the only frostbite left is
3911s	double harsh winds maybe pin pingho just
3913s	sends it and we see the development that
3915s	might be gearing towards
3918s	it a low roll not that it matters it
3920s	will be challenged to the side anyway
3921s	but definitely important no freeze if
3924s	ping ping H goes for it and it's you
3926s	only have to commit one form up you
3928s	might as
3929s	well okay that's not quite it
3933s	interesting didn't have to heal in the
3934s	first place just a little bit of an
3936s	overcommitment there on the side of pin
3937s	Pingo but that's going to do it one day
3939s	it doesn't matter that the low RS can
3940s	through that single combat off the top
3942s	being able to deal with the Sani
3943s	clearing up the board space still having
3944s	the Challenger available means that EV
3946s	one day will be eliminated here from the
3949s	top 64 and world's 2021 player pin
3952s	pingho will be moving on to the top 32
3955s	this was not one day's day they didn't
3957s	this lineup didn't end up getting
3959s	against what needed to be their like
3961s	their target right I can't I wouldn't
3963s	imagine that a deck like this wasn't
3964s	their target so just this wasn't the day
3966s	for them didn't get the right draws
3968s	didn't find the freezers a bit bricky if
3970s	you look at their hand now I was saying
3971s	earlier that it looked really nice you
3972s	had a bunch of ramp and a bunch of top
3974s	end that you could go to but this top
3975s	end doesn't matter when you don't have
3976s	the time to play it and if you're
3977s	pressure down enough these two aols
3979s	aren't going to do anything no and I was
3982s	you I was sitting there looking at the
3984s	boat deer in hand and going oh this is
3985s	really cool with one ASO in hand if one
3988s	day hits an ASO off of the warmothers
3991s	call then they can actually play out the
3992s	bod deer the black and ice and then
3994s	they've got a reduced cost Descent of
3995s	the Stars the aurelan soul board wi
3997s	spell in hand and that'll just be the
3999s	end of the game but unfortunately just
4002s	not and it it does come a little bit
4005s	down to the Sani coming off of the first
4008s	proc of the warmothers call something
4010s	that was small enough to be taken out by
4012s	a single combat if that was a you know
4014s	something like Shi wanders or an AO or a
4016s	Bo a deer then pin
4018s	pingho it would have been a lot more
4021s	rough and we're just going to see ev1
4022s	day you know think about their options
4024s	try to figure out is there anything that
4026s	I can do here the answer is no and that
4027s	is going to be pin pingho as we
4028s	mentioned moving on to the top
4032s	32 they're only I think four wins away
4035s	from making it into Worlds for Ping
4036s	pingho I think it's four as I'm aware
4039s	goes 32 to 16 to 8 to 4 to should be
4042s	four wins for pinking to make it it's
4044s	it's very close for Ping pingho to get a
4047s	a come
4048s	back I'm glad that you did that because
4050s	I was sitting here counting on my
4051s	fingers as you were saying the words I'm
4052s	like yeah this all sounds right to me
4054s	but we're going to get you all into
4055s	another match here unfortunately one day
4057s	uh getting twoed on the targon version
4059s	of the war mothers SK and I think that's
4061s	why we don't really see players going
4063s	for 9x lineups and 9x lineups are really
4065s	have a really interesting history in
4066s	legends of her intera in that usually
4068s	it's not right usually you want to go 6X
4071s	and then something else and when you go
4073s	for the full
4074s	it's worked before we've had triple
4076s	timelines when Eternal opens we've had
4078s	triple bandal tree win seasonals before
4080s	but a lot of times you just want to stop
4082s	at the 6X you don't want to be going 9x
4084s	for the sake of going 9x you want to
4086s	make sure that this is really something
4087s	that you believe in something that's
4089s	going to shake the Meta Even when you're
4090s	playing your tertiary option that's just
4092s	not how it worked out for one day
4096s	today no it did not that there was the
4098s	call from the new patch that you would
4100s	try and play these new cards you know it
4102s	got recently buffed but sometimes it's
4104s	just not enough the call isn't
4106s	there no it is not I believe production
4108s	is trying to say something okay there we
4110s	go I heard something about a match but I
4111s	wasn't sure if it's no match we're
4112s	getting ready for the next match but
4114s	we've got a cam dong freaks I believe is
4116s	the name of this team a mirror match
4118s	here in Peta versus camong and it looks
4120s	like we've got poros up against a more
4123s	traditional warmothers
4125s	call see eradication in hand I I hope
4128s	this comes down I hope all of these
4129s	pores get slaughtered by the you know
4131s	the fear of the Shadow is
4135s	kdf doesn't really have a lot to respond
4137s	with they've got the par King and one
4139s	par but that's not
4141s	enough no that is it at the very least I
4144s	mean that is plus eight plus eight into
4146s	the zani the blood Weaver a second copy
4148s	is not really what you wanted to see
4149s	here need to be getting on board a
4151s	little bit harder but Bok King coming
4153s	down with Peta tapping below any sort of
4155s	removal for it does look nice for camong
4157s	so going be able and I believe that was
4160s	four out of six on the poro King there
4162s	so not looking too sh happy there's
4165s	still a lot of board wipes in peta's
4167s	hand but historically the place in The
4169s	Meta of poros is sort of as an
4171s	anti-control
4173s	tool por King comes down and asks where
4175s	did all my citizens go they've all left
4177s	me only sees this por that's coming out
4180s	of a cannon to try and come back into
4182s	this game but going to see the war
4183s	mother spull come down summoning
4185s	necrotic arachnoid blocking every single
4188s	thing that hamong could be doing and the
4191s	board has changed so much from just two
4193s	turns ago with the the eradication I was
4195s	going to say cam Dong's actually only a
4198s	little bit of Mana off of lethal here
4200s	because of the poro snacks plus a
4202s	Moonlight Affliction onto the two
4204s	blockers but instead three units come
4206s	out of the war mother's call not
4208s	something that I expected and a recently
4210s	buffed card as well those the main body
4212s	here the arachnoid actually gaining
4214s	fearsome because didn't really make
4215s	sense to summon a couple of fearsome
4217s	spiderlings and not have fearsome
4218s	yourself but more snacks going to come
4220s	out now and these special snacks can
4222s	really do a lot to turn the tide of the
4223s	game
4224s	I really like this play from camong
4226s	trying to get this uh pale Cascade if
4229s	there was a colorful snack from the POR
4230s	King it could have been lethal with
4232s	elusive given to the POR King not what
4234s	we see said we see espresso snacks which
4236s	gives Challenger to two units so you
4238s	could challenge some of these arachnoids
4240s	you could challenge the feral Mystic
4241s	before it gets the stats but I think you
4243s	want to save it for a later turn to try
4245s	and be aggressive and try and get
4246s	something interesting going on maybe
4247s	combine it with some keywords you get
4249s	from the fabled horor so I like just
4251s	going for the damage right now but now
4252s	we see Vol bear
4254s	and this is where things get interesting
4256s	we've hit the zani the blood Weaver
4257s	portion of the game but we've also hit
4259s	the turn two of the warmothers call
4261s	coming down so now we're just going to
4263s	have oppressively large units coming in
4264s	from each player camong could even go
4267s	for a double block here it's a little a
4269s	little questionable how they want to
4270s	play this do you really want to all in
4271s	on this zani I don't think they're quite
4273s	leveled up yet but if you double block
4275s	they will be unless it's 16 is it 14 or
4279s	16 for zani to ascend 16 okay so I
4283s	believe currently a 10 10 so double
4285s	block just puts you just shy of that but
4287s	even then P actually has so many Tools
4288s	in hand to deal with this mostly just
4290s	harsh winds ruination if things get to
4292s	out of hand because Peta does have that
4294s	warmothers call still going will
4295s	theoretically be able to refill their
4297s	board with
4299s	something if C plays zani I think
4303s	Peter's even able to just respond with
4304s	ration losing their entire board but
4306s	saying I'm going to get a unit next turn
4307s	I've still got all of these premium
4309s	interaction pieces such as harsh winds
4311s	to be able to deal with a second zani or
4312s	so forth I I could see that happening as
4315s	the line we going to see the desent
4316s	porro die you know they finally got what
4318s	they wanted in life and gets hit by this
4322s	massive storm Lord uh and the POR King
4325s	trying to block a spider dealing with
4328s	the fear that the previous por di to the
4330s	king actually going into combat and
4331s	dealing with all the fear that they had
4332s	earlier but it's hard for Kong to try
4336s	and get back from
4337s	this there is still hope though still an
4340s	elusive unit and while the tools of PETA
4342s	to deal with the board currently as well
4344s	as the zanis are there they are not
4346s	infinite they will eventually run out
4347s	and usually I've only seen pors running
4349s	two copies of the zani so this is
4351s	everything that camong has but even then
4352s	you know we still got the Moonlight
4354s	Affliction to try and push something
4355s	through a blessing of targon onto the
4357s	elusive for certainly options available
4360s	still but okay just going to be a big
4363s	pass from both players nine and seven
4365s	Mana floated respectively and Yumi comes
4368s	through but there's still that harsh
4369s	winds to deal with the daring por which
4371s	I I guess cam Dong's best option here is
4373s	to force that harsh winds through
4376s	now I think they also want to play
4378s	fabled par not only does it give them
4379s	the par snack but trying to get spell
4381s	shield on either these can really be
4382s	good at forking Peter's Mana if you can
4385s	get spell shield on this daring par
4386s	you're able to deal with harsh winds
4388s	plus ruination cuz they don't have
4390s	enough Mana for it you can deal with
4391s	soul Harvest plus harsh winds because
4393s	you can just buff the POR up we don't
4395s	see spell shield instead we see quick
4396s	and orament not what you want to see and
4399s	more espresso snacks is definitely what
4401s	not what you want to see you wanted to
4402s	see impact you want
4404s	spell Shield or keywords this is not
4406s	what you wanted no and I'm actually now
4408s	it's kind of catching up to Peter that
4410s	they didn't go in with the arach noids
4412s	on the previous turn their board is full
4413s	I imagine cam Dong's just going in with
4415s	the daring poro and sort of invalidating
4418s	the warmothers call for the time being
4420s	by having these two two stick around on
4422s	the board and just sort of overdrawing
4424s	the unit that would flip into play you
4426s	know it's going to you're not going to
4427s	run your opponent out of units in deck
4429s	anytime soon but for the time being at
4431s	least you're a lot more resilient to
4433s	dying
4435s	you're also allowed if you really want
4437s	to create some board space from Peter's
4439s	perspective Soul Harvest your own
4440s	necrotic nestling it heals you one cuz
4442s	of necrotic arachnoid and it gets you
4444s	more board space to try and find like a
4446s	second volley bear for example maybe not
4449s	the the flashiest of lines but
4451s	definitely something you're able to do
4452s	cuz nothing can be Soul harvested from
4454s	Kong's deck anymore there's not a single
4455s	unit except playing Yumi no attach that
4458s	can be Soul harvested so if you're going
4460s	to Soul Harvest anything may as well
4461s	make it your own netic I feel like we're
4464s	going to see one of them get used here
4465s	harsh wind's probably going to come down
4467s	I mean kind of has to come down
4468s	otherwise he is going to die and we're
4470s	going to move on to the top 32 because
4472s	this is game three uh so Soul Harvest
4474s	plus a freeze still available but it's a
4476s	little narrow quietus completely off the
4478s	table at this stage of the game
4479s	everything's going to have too much
4480s	health to even go for that we're going
4481s	to see the necrotic survive we're going
4484s	to see Zero damage pushed into the Nexus
4486s	unless camong yeah not quite enough Mana
4489s	could have hushed for one damage but
4490s	doesn't feel like the best use of a card
4491s	like that and just not enough Mana for
4493s	the blessing of
4495s	Taron quiet is used on the
4499s	king this can be buffed with any augment
4501s	you'd have to play your your or you can
4503s	self hush I was hoping to see sort of a
4506s	a behold the infinite line try and find
4509s	like a great beyond as another Al Windon
4511s	and it would also proc augment but
4513s	that's not what we see Soul Harvest
4514s	comes down killing the porro in from the
4516s	cannon
4518s	uh Peter is in a very good position this
4521s	open attack might be good enough to make
4522s	leth yeah we what comes off the top if
4524s	it's a large enough unit and bow deer
4526s	the black and ice is a large enough unit
4528s	for this to be a lethal
4531s	representation we'll just make sure
4533s	confirm all of that for you no life
4535s	steal on any of these poros and that is
4537s	going to be 19 over 14 and that is going
4539s	to be Peta taking down camong in the kdf
4542s	Mir match here in the top
4544s	64 looks like we see por King and
4546s	immediately it just it doesn't work out
4548s	por King is one of the coolest Champions
4550s	I think it's a bit of a fan favorite to
4551s	see the POR King do well but instead the
4553s	war mother skull after losing twice
4555s	against ping pingho has finally gotten
4557s	some revenge and is still in the top 32
4559s	slightly different matchup but still
4561s	made it there anyway yeah and that's
4563s	really unfortunate for poro players
4564s	everywhere you come into this expecting
4566s	to be able to do well against the
4567s	control decks oh you have a Avalanche it
4570s	doesn't matter all my poros are three
4572s	threes but that early eradication just
4574s	wasn't something that uh camong was
4576s	really able to come back from didn't
4578s	really have the hand for it just again a
4580s	little bit bricky right the hush not
4581s	great in a match up like that the
4582s	Moonlight Affliction not great a match
4583s	up like that we never saw the the targon
4585s	tellstone get used because was it going
4587s	to get another hush again not great in a
4589s	matchup like that the Mana was just a
4591s	little bit too constricted and as you
4592s	mentioned the espresso snacks not the
4593s	ideal snacks was really looking for the
4595s	one that's giving keywords over to
4596s	Champions but not going to happen now we
4598s	still had quite a bit of time left on
4600s	the clock about 20 minutes or so maybe
4602s	we'll get you into another match we're
4603s	checking on it currently but spids how
4605s	we feeling about the day so far did you
4607s	think War mother's call was going to be
4608s	in every lineup that we saw so far no
4611s	fot SI wasn't really on my radar as a
4613s	deck that would be that popular it
4614s	doesn't really fit into a lot of lineups
4616s	there's no like second and third deck
4617s	that I find that really goes for it
4618s	you've got a bunch of these might Decks
4620s	that makes a lineup you've got mid-range
4621s	Decks that make a line up you got Agro
4622s	Decks that make a lineup but you don't
4623s	really have this like triple control
4626s	shell that typically works but we've
4628s	seen two people try and bring it there
4629s	seems to be something here that I'm just
4631s	not noticing and not seeing I'm curious
4633s	what other decks was brought in that not
4634s	just the nine times War mother but
4636s	because I saw a bandal noxus is that
4640s	that would be bandal Gunner's
4642s	noxus okay so just running yeah might
4645s	and the fire spitter with the bandal
4646s	Gunners sort of the the original version
4648s	of bandal Gunners even that people were
4650s	experimenting with before we found out
4651s	oh we can just put Champion strength in
4653s	this deck what a what a lovely time but
4655s	yeah control does feel like it's kind of
4656s	lacking in a third option I think War
4658s	mothers and hyur are sort of the
4659s	Baseline that a lot of players are going
4661s	for but nasis always looks better on
4663s	paper than it actually performs in
4665s	events like these I wouldn't be
4666s	surprised to see two to four NASA
4669s	players in the entirety of the top 64
4671s	and there's another control option that
4673s	is escaping me at the moment I think
4675s	it's karma set so not Shadow usually
4677s	going for pilt over in Z there but
4679s	there's a lot of debate about whether or
4680s	not that really fits in control lineup
4681s	Karma set you can just kind of play in
4683s	anything so again you don't want to
4684s	Pigeon yourself into this like 9x lineup
4686s	you don't want to be like oh yeah I'm
4687s	already running two control decks I have
4689s	to run a third control deck no you can
4690s	mix and match a little bit sample some
4692s	of this sample some of that throw a m
4693s	deck in
4697s	there yeah the triple control lineups
4699s	are also pretty weird because all of
4701s	them like they all have different loose
4703s	condition right K loses to AG a lot
4705s	harder than these other decks lose to AG
4707s	right loses to Big beef more than the
4709s	other decks lose to Big beef so while
4710s	this triple control in the feeling they
4712s	lose to different stuff but I think
4713s	we're going to go into a game relatively
4714s	soon production has told us that we can
4716s	make it to
4717s	one okay I saw a never mind after that
4720s	and I wasn't sure but it looks like we
4721s	are getting into ABG Nessie up against
4723s	Hyrule and again
4725s	another uh Shadow a FR though I don't
4728s	think this one as warmothers call this
4729s	is looking more like a
4732s	Nivea
4733s	I don't know what this matchup looks
4735s	like I mean I can tell from the field
4736s	what I think this matchup will be like
4738s	where Nessie has Karma and set flipped
4740s	and hyru doesn't have a lot going for
4742s	them but harrowing can work if there's
4745s	no deny and I'm going to presume at
4747s	least two or three ashes would come down
4750s	oh yeah that's true this could actually
4751s	be the ash deck rather than anivia that
4753s	would make a little bit more sense
4756s	actually make a lot more sense actually
4759s	one thing okay yeah it is Ash yeah look
4761s	sometimes people bring a Nivea okay we
4763s	we advise against it all the time
4765s	there's a lot of disclaimers all over
4766s	the Internet don't bring an Nia
4767s	especially if it were your last chance
4768s	qualifier Ash is something I even talked
4770s	about zombie Ash coming into the week
4771s	and it's just I completely flew out of
4773s	my brain as soon as I see the shadow
4774s	wild fa combination but the obliteration
4777s	from the set spell huge in a Revival
4780s	matchup like
4781s	this I really like that obliteration and
4783s	we're going to see some attempt at
4786s	killing the Champions very cool
4788s	eradication dealing with all of these
4790s	units that Nessie has that aren't the
4792s	Champions but going to see oh I missed
4794s	this I I don't know if I am blind I
4796s	thought we're going to see a tag out I
4797s	didn't see the deny in hand and that
4800s	that's such a blowout there is now room
4802s	for the harrowing to come down and maybe
4804s	that'll be something but I'm sure Ness
4805s	has realized that if there's a harrowing
4807s	they're probably still able to win block
4809s	down enough you can't freeze everything
4810s	with these ashes yeah on top of the fact
4813s	that like Aftershock plus like Mystic
4815s	shot would take out an ash because of
4816s	karma so you could even go like at this
4819s	point Aftershock plus concussive Plum
4822s	plus Mystic shot plus high note all on
4824s	the stack at the same time doubling up
4825s	on everything just taking out so many of
4827s	the ashes that at 19 life you're
4829s	probably fine but with highy rule not
4832s	immediately snapping off the heroing at
4833s	least checking the eye seeing what's
4835s	coming out and if we're not seeing it
4836s	immediately fired off you have to assume
4837s	that they're not too happy with what's
4839s	inside or looking at a different option
4841s	maybe just going rindler into the soul
4843s	Harvest though again not a line that is
4845s	guaranteed to work out and with that tag
4846s	out in ness's hand we know that it would
4850s	not want to bring up a slight thing you
4852s	said earlier there is a good reason not
4854s	to bring zombie anivia and I know you
4855s	don't know the rotated Champions
4857s	Boulevard but
4860s	anivia sounds about right that's a great
4863s	reason not to bring
4866s	it uh hro was just thinking are they
4869s	going to go for the harrowing deciding
4870s	not to thinking I'm going to try this
4872s	line again to deal with the Champions
4875s	deal with Karma but it's not going to be
4877s	enough I don't know if this is something
4879s	you're allowed to do as hro you might
4881s	just have to hope that it's enough but
4882s	maybe they tried maybe they can see on
4884s	the de that's not enough and it's going
4885s	to be 1 ABG nessi against hyro well that
4889s	means we're going into a game three
4890s	which is nice because there's still a
4892s	lot of time left on the clock we'd love
4893s	to see some Legends or inter ter we can
4895s	it looks like it was a himer Jace not so
4898s	this is such a control oriented lineup
4901s	that we've seen so far
4904s	spits maybe this is just what the top
4906s	cut formula is like you know I thought
4908s	open rounds would be all Gwen Riven
4910s	maybe that's why all of these decks
4911s	probably deal with Gwen Riven it's
4912s	probably what everyone was expecting to
4914s	be targeting and I think every deck
4916s	we've seen probably beats that that deck
4919s	that's shut up in the last couple of
4920s	days you're going to see zombie Ash
4922s	versus the POR King this has to be
4924s	zombie Ash favored
4925s	surely surely because there like you
4928s	don't even really have to worry about
4930s	zalani because presumably things are
4933s	never dying with increased power and so
4936s	that's a huge weight off your shoulders
4938s	you still got ruination to deal with the
4940s	poros if they're very large but
4943s	something we we're not used to seeing I
4944s	saw a buried in ice in ness's opening
4946s	hand that the Allan away and then main
4948s	decked Aurora por
4951s	Alis I think I've seen one Aurora P Alis
4954s	be pretty common I've brought this in my
4955s	por King decks I think it's sort of a
4957s	nice card to have to save your hands but
4959s	two of them I can't tell if this is good
4961s	or bad I can't tell if 66 poros after
4964s	turn like 12 is going to be what you
4967s	want to be doing or not it's a very this
4969s	is a very interesting hand from nessi
4971s	I'm curious how they play this out for
4972s	is a really nice draw
4974s	there it seems it feels like a slower
4977s	version and spids I don't mean to alarm
4979s	you there are a full three copies of
4981s	buried and ice in nessie's
4985s	list well I there might be some burying
4989s	and Ice then that if that stairs was
4992s	rotated so you can't do that that
4993s	combination so buried and ice is trying
4995s	to hit the the mid-range mirrors and it
4997s	hits the mid-range mirrors hard if you
4999s	can especially against Hy roll's deck
5001s	where they might do harrowing and you
5002s	might be able to BU the nice right after
5004s	and then go in for lethal on the next I
5006s	don't hate it in this match up but
5008s	Nessie has a very bricky built deck I'm
5011s	I'm curious how this whole deck
5013s	looks it it's a poro deck all right I'll
5017s	give him that but actually going to fire
5018s	off the aora Alis go to nine cards in
5020s	hand rather than using a poro snack this
5022s	turn is their attack token they're just
5024s	going to pass it back over but yeah the
5025s	bared knce actually works out great in
5026s	this matchup that is so heroing focused
5029s	the concern of course is that it's not
5030s	just a heroing deck right there's also
5032s	rindler there's Soul cleave there's all
5033s	these different Revival options and uh
5035s	while buried in ice can buy you a turn
5038s	or two can you actually finish the game
5040s	in that metime and with triple poro
5042s	snacks in hand as long as Nessie has the
5044s	time to play out all these cards i' say
5045s	the answer is yes and seems we're a
5047s	little ways away from Ash really taking
5049s	over the board and invalidating these
5052s	blockers these por flies are also really
5055s	really nice it's one of the better poros
5056s	you can get from your things like your
5059s	jubilant paros and your porro stories
5061s	being able to deny an extra interaction
5063s	piece is very nice to see I also quite
5065s	like seeing patched porro but the stat
5067s	line quite matters in being able to deal
5068s	with certain things and looking for
5070s	brash or overwhelm or elusive is a very
5072s	nice thing to sort of cycle through we
5074s	going to see shatter on the the POR
5076s	herder it's a two three for now but it's
5078s	going to be the smallest unit in about
5079s	three turns time so it's very
5081s	interesting to see that be used so early
5084s	one of thing that I want to correct from
5085s	earlier is I'm just sort of like now
5087s	putting together that this is frelard
5089s	poros and not targon poros and so we're
5091s	never going to have to worry about that
5093s	top in the the blood Weaver it's really
5095s	just what you see is what you get with
5096s	the poros which I think is more
5099s	threatening in this match up especially
5101s	just with Aurora pori Alis being in the
5103s	main deck just so many of these poros
5104s	are going to be very very large very
5107s	very soon and Hy roll's hand is not
5109s	really lending itself
5111s	towards uh putting enough pressure on to
5115s	end things in the mid game granted
5116s	there's a lot of draws to come through
5117s	still there's a sentry in play there's a
5119s	glimpse Beyond in hand so maybe that'll
5121s	change but hyru has to start getting
5124s	Ashes to
5126s	die it'd be very funny if they on Triple
5128s	berried and ice in the Taron version
5130s	that' be just crazy uh we're going
5133s	to I'm really curious about this block
5136s	deciding to preserve the health as
5137s	opposed to use this as a 33 on a future
5140s	attack ness's obviously thinking about
5141s	it deciding if they want to do it but in
5144s	this frod version where you're just
5145s	trying to keep having a bunch of stats
5147s	and you don't really have other ways of
5148s	dealing with top end I don't know if
5150s	valuing this five health is really what
5151s	you want there's no Kings unless there's
5153s	like an avalanche but I doubt that's in
5155s	the deck list so I'm curious why we
5158s	decided to block there from
5161s	Nessie maybe just making can take the
5163s	damage and accept it I think it's just
5165s	about making board space and trying to
5167s	get a good roll off of the poro stories
5169s	maybe find some elusiv or some better
5171s	poros just really thinking I don't have
5174s	like I can always throw away units
5176s	because I will just have more it's kind
5178s	of the poro mentality and yeah you can
5181s	lean a little bit too hard on that and
5182s	then sudden oh I actually ran out of
5184s	units how could this possibly happen wo
5185s	is me I lose the game now not sure
5187s	that's going to happen to Nessie here
5188s	though especially with that second copy
5189s	of Aurora poral so many poros in hand
5193s	but they're they're maybe that was the
5195s	reason sort of bried behind Mana like
5199s	yeah you have a ro P yeah you have poro
5200s	stories that's seven Mana worth of cards
5202s	you have to play to get access to the
5204s	poros before you can start throwing them
5209s	down we going to
5211s	see this spell come down that I thought
5213s	I saw a second AG Soul Harvest probably
5215s	trying to
5217s	Target this is going to you can see the
5220s	the spell in hand they're going to try
5221s	and combo this with flash R I don't know
5224s	if this is the best line from Hyrule I
5226s	feel like you're trying to combo kill
5228s	something like a porro king and not even
5232s	com yeah I that was a very interesting L
5235s	I guess trying to force the the snacks
5237s	out preventing maybe the Barce from
5239s	coming down but there's nothing you're
5242s	really going to be have buried anyway I
5243s	guess you're pressuring a lot if bued KN
5245s	did come down that's something I had
5246s	really thought about but that was a very
5248s	interesting deciding not to do the flash
5251s	Fe afterwards nessie's bored by the way
5252s	going to be able to play the POR King
5255s	into Nimble porro or maybe affectionate
5257s	porro with only Vengeance being a
5258s	concern I wonder if NY goes for
5261s	that I don't think you ever get much
5266s	safer than this at this stage of the
5267s	game your opponent with this few cards
5269s	in hand is probably always going to be
5271s	representing vengeance Mana unless they
5273s	are otherwise trying to push lethal with
5275s	like a ruin or not even lethal but like
5277s	a ruination or a heroing or a you know
5280s	even R Kindler maintains Vengeance Mana
5283s	at a certain point in the game so I
5285s	think this is a fine time to throw
5287s	especially with flash re coming out now
5288s	and I think this is going to level the
5290s	ash here but again enough blockers are
5293s	present that Nessie is not taking a big
5295s	hit here my aim is
5299s	true that play of Flesh Rays does allow
5303s	Nessie to be able to play the poring
5306s	being able to block down just deal with
5308s	the ash there's no manner for H able to
5310s	deal with the POR King so por King into
5312s	Nimble por will come down one of the
5313s	things we could have considered was not
5314s	playing the POR King this turn if
5316s	Vengeance was held up because he is not
5317s	flipped you can guarantee a special
5318s	snacks once he leveled up but now
5321s	there's free reain for Nessie to just be
5323s	able to play the POR King only
5324s	interaction piece would be a third flash
5326s	freeze plus a soul Harvest which you
5327s	could be fearful of but we're just going
5329s	to see it come down hor King joining
5331s	their citizen trying to go for lethal in
5334s	a couple of
5335s	him the affection por comes down it's
5338s	going to be a regular por next as well
5340s	as a special snacks into nessie's hand
5341s	and we get to see just the cutest darn
5343s	level up animation you've ever seen in
5345s	your life folks the little Crown coming
5346s	through all the drawings the horos even
5348s	though a little stuffed poro just Rags
5350s	the Rich's story here and the poro King
5352s	going to level up and give over a uh you
5355s	know spits I don't know the snacks names
5357s	that's pepper snacks as far as I'm aware
5359s	that gives impact to all of the units we
5362s	see Crystal Arrow being drawn which is a
5364s	development Punisher but nessi doesn't
5367s	not need to open attack they've got they
5369s	can play all of their por snacks right
5371s	now and use it as reup against something
5374s	like a freeze and should be lethal yeah
5377s	that's lethal the double snacks is going
5378s	to do it it's not three poros that are
5380s	unblocked so it will take all six Mana
5382s	but holl doesn't have an answer and
5385s	Glimpse Beyond not going to draw the
5387s	burst speed freezes in a timely fashion
5389s	it's going to be slow and that is going
5390s	to be Nessie taking this one as long
5392s	long as they commit the poro snacks that
5395s	hasn't happened yet so we'll wait to see
5397s	here but got a funny feeling those are
5400s	getting
5402s	cast you got to you got to make sure you
5404s	eat when you play these tournaments you
5405s	can't just you know O Okay interesting
5408s	deciding not to go for lethal I can see
5412s	why you know getting them down to two
5413s	Health when you've got two impact on
5415s	your your units right well it'll go away
5417s	after the next turn um it's still fine
5421s	it's very interesting not play the the
5424s	poro snacks
5426s	because you can play around harsh winds
5429s	if you want by not playing the POR snack
5430s	but it's going to come down anyway this
5432s	hars either in this turn or the next
5433s	turn so very interesting not to go for
5434s	it but I can see why and it's not like
5438s	nessie's in danger of dying with this
5440s	game stretching out right even if a
5441s	heroine comes down not only is there
5443s	just a buried in ice available for
5445s	Nessie to counteract that but Hyrule
5446s	doesn't have multiple Ash in the death
5449s	poool it's one Ash zero rindler nowhere
5452s	near being in danger of actually dying
5454s	on the crackback of this so taking it a
5455s	little bit slower but I think that they
5457s	can afford to in a situation like
5459s	this yeah you don't want to overfill
5461s	yourself on every single meal
5463s	opportunity you're allowed to spread
5464s	your meals out over the day um eating
5466s	one meal a day may not be the healthiest
5468s	line for for the POR King and all of
5470s	that uh citizens to take so taking the
5474s	time is fine but it does give Hyrule
5476s	some opportunity to maybe find outs
5479s	there are ways they can draw multiple
5480s	harsh winds or get an ash into an Ash or
5483s	try and threaten something but with that
5487s	top deck I don't think you can do it
5488s	anymore I think once Nessie open attacks
5490s	it'll be
5492s	enough yeah there's no no way heroin
5496s	comes out here Nessie responds with a
5497s	buried nice and I I'm sure Hyrule put
5499s	that heroing on the snack checked the
5501s	eye looked at nessie's deck list Saw the
5503s	triple buried nice and said oh man how
5505s	am I going to get out of this
5508s	pickle and looking at their thinking
5512s	I'm not seeing a way out here spids
5514s	probably debating between the ruination
5515s	and the harrowing of course it is uh
5517s	sort of disgruntling that at least one
5519s	poro is going to survive even if you do
5521s	throw at the Rin the ruination but at
5523s	the moment like there's no hand
5525s	information on Nessie you know that they
5526s	have one special snacks and that's it
5528s	you don't know what else is waiting in
5529s	the
5531s	wings yeah Hy roll just has to check
5533s	through the deck list figure out like
5534s	what could nessie's hand possibly be
5536s	what sort of hands am I beating I'm
5538s	probably beating triple bar dence plus
5542s	only porro snacks in the hand that would
5545s	be like the only thing that hro could be
5546s	trying to go for but it just I don't
5548s	think I don't even think that would
5549s	honestly make lose they' do they'd
5552s	probably have two more cards at that
5553s	point and that'd still be enough to win
5555s	so definitely just like it's tough I
5558s	thought this match up would be favored
5559s	for zombie Ash turns out it it's not at
5561s	least from this game alone uh just a
5565s	poor showing from the from the ash deck
5568s	time also not a viable wi condition here
5570s	there's still 8 minutes left on the
5571s	clock allessie has to do is go to combat
5573s	on top of the fact that H roll is down
5575s	by about minutes in that so really an
5578s	impossible number to try and catch up on
5579s	now we just get the open attack yeah
5581s	there's harsh winds but there's so many
5582s	snacks in the hand of Nessie that it
5583s	doesn't matter including another uh
5586s	spicy snacks that's going to give impact
5588s	over to everything so yeah that is just
5589s	going to be lethal it's going to be ABG
5591s	Nessie moving on to the top 32 joining I
5593s	believe it was Peta and pin
5596s	pingho uh that's my that's my memory too
5599s	Nessie has qualified for something like
5602s	four out of the last five opens I don't
5605s	that number I've taken out of complete
5607s	nowhere but like I've been following
5608s	Nessie Nessie is a decent friend of mine
5610s	we I'm I'm very excited to see Nessie
5613s	maybe be able to take this it's only as
5614s	I've said four wins away now to try and
5616s	be able to make it into two worlds make
5619s	it with the F final two slots first and
5621s	second make it in so there's a lot on
5624s	the line for all of these players and
5625s	it's going to be very exciting to see
5626s	what happens in our next round and our
5628s	next round will be coming very soon but
5630s	not now we are going to throw it over to
5631s	a short break and when we do we will
5633s	return with the top 32 here of the World
5635s	Championship last last chance
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5658s	[Music]
5660s	qualifier
5664s	[Music]
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5702s	[Music]
5725s	is that all you got
5750s	to
5754s	[Music]
5777s	is that all you've got to
5780s	say
5783s	this is not
5810s	another
5816s	step by step step by
5840s	step
5847s	[Music]
5850s	it's all you got to
5870s	say
5879s	[Applause]
5900s	stand
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5960s	he
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5990s	oh
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6058s	welcome back everybody to the wclc Q AKA
6061s	World Championship last chance qualifier
6063s	I am Boulevard joining me is spits we're
6064s	going to be here all day with you um I
6066s	don't know why I'm going to keep
6067s	introducing us I'll probably stop that
6068s	at some point but if I don't don't
6069s	correct me we're going to get into our
6071s	next matchup very shortly though got a
6073s	nice one for you here we've got rosidin
6075s	up against what we translated to please
6076s	play your cards
6079s	quickly which I hope we see being played
6081s	quickly cuz that means we get to see
6083s	more matches and more L over the course
6085s	of our day we're going to go through the
6087s	bracket once more just to keep you
6088s	updated on what's been happening around
6091s	this tournament we're in the top 32 now
6093s	uh we saw Peter win when we were going
6095s	through this
6097s	earlier and nnn3 is a player that I
6100s	recognize from a couple of these top 64s
6102s	across the year I'm kind of rooting for
6104s	them just like if a name sticks out to
6105s	me if it's a player that I've seen do
6106s	consistently well over the year yeah I
6108s	want them to come through and make a
6110s	Deep Run maybe take it all all the way
6111s	so nnn3 someone that I'm rooting for on
6114s	this side of the bracket we're going to
6116s	move on to the next one in just a second
6117s	here remind you of just everyone that's
6119s	still in it we've got our featured match
6121s	there up at the top pakaru still in THC
6126s	Tor this I think has got the most
6128s	players that I recognize on it I
6129s	recognized rosan I recognize P of car I
6131s	recognize a marine when watching Bandit
6133s	Keith do their open rounds earlier uh
6137s	Mar Noom is translated to RC I'm going
6139s	to flex my ladder knowledge it's the
6141s	only time it'll ever be useful so make
6143s	sure to cram that in before we go into
6145s	the third part of the bracket with sea
6146s	chicken ping pingho ABG Nessie lots of
6149s	other good players here as well sea
6152s	chicken is someone that I recognized
6153s	from way back in 2021 when I was still
6155s	doing when we had a week in between top
6157s	32 and the finals I would try and guess
6159s	the winner of each region and I usually
6162s	had a pretty good rate of getting
6163s	someone in the top four sea chicken
6165s	randomly saved me one time in the APAC
6167s	region so shout out c chicken for
6168s	getting top four way back in the days of
6170s	seasonals and then over here lot of end
6174s	a little bit of kdf a little bit of
6177s	ABG lots of teams again as we were
6180s	saying doing quite well in this I think
6183s	every single time we saw a team they're
6184s	able to win there was a team kill as
6186s	well but I think when we get to the top
6189s	four or the top eight we're probably
6190s	going to see more team players than not
6192s	team players and that's just sort of
6194s	what happens in L in the modern day yeah
6196s	especially in APAC where in not everyone
6199s	outside of APAC is putting their team
6201s	name in their name but in APAC they wear
6203s	that with a badge of Pride and you
6205s	absolutely love to see it especially uh
6207s	just how how many big names there are
6209s	coming into this like kdf EV these are
6211s	teams that we've seen doing consistently
6213s	well across the year so excited to see
6215s	them continue with that but for now
6216s	we've got a couple of teamless players
6218s	that we're going to take a look at the
6219s	deck list of and I promise the days of
6220s	warmothers call are over I know that we
6222s	said oh man we've been seeing a lot of
6223s	warmothers there weren't that many we
6225s	just happen to see all of them already
6226s	so you don't got to worry about that
6228s	from here on out instead we're getting a
6229s	mirror match of our most played champion
6231s	this event which is Gwen coming in at 24
6233s	out of 64 not a huge representation but
6235s	it is also split between Zed Gwen and z
6238s	z Gwen riin Zed is stuck on my mind but
6242s	ephemerals is actually something that we
6243s	don't see too often in events like these
6246s	it's more of a latter specific deck but
6248s	it's finally making it to the big
6250s	stage this deck's really interesting and
6253s	has way more pressure than you would
6254s	ever think in a deck Gren clay do and
6256s	Shadow a Apprentice go way higher than
6258s	you think and dragon Ambush for surprise
6260s	lethals on your defensive tokens makes
6262s	this very scary and death Mark is a
6264s	great way to blow out certain opponents
6265s	that aren't expecting it this is
6267s	combined with Scouts a deck that I don't
6269s	think we've seen for a while there have
6270s	been better Champion strength piles in
6273s	the last couple of opens I think we saw
6274s	scouts at least one open that was quite
6276s	big but typically we're seeing from MBL
6277s	in recent times but this is a lower to
6279s	the ground lineup in this mid-range and
6281s	it's a very interesting list I I could
6283s	see Scouts coming out again as
6285s	formidable players are getting kind of
6286s	spooked by all of the eradication that's
6288s	running around especially in these
6289s	warmother lists so it's just like ah
6290s	there's really nothing my deck can do
6292s	about that I'd rather have some units
6294s	especially with inspiring light that I
6295s	can have survive something along those
6297s	lines and then Darius Nar it's never
6299s	really at the top of the meta but it's
6301s	come close on ladder a couple of times
6303s	and it's just good oldfashioned
6306s	overwhelm I love these two pets all of
6309s	these decks are looking for crazy Tempo
6312s	plays that are able to blow out the game
6313s	the ephemerals deck will find something
6315s	random when you don't expect it Scouts
6317s	tries to play for these combo cards like
6320s	Champion strength and and Foria pette is
6322s	this deck's version of that card same
6324s	with decisive maneuver and whirling
6326s	death very very cool lists to have
6328s	brought russet on the other hand is on
6330s	Jinx Cannon a bit of a mecha themed
6332s	version with two Arena promoters and no
6334s	eye of the storms uh we've seen this
6336s	quite a little bit in a lot of these uh
6339s	at least I've seen a lot of pro players
6340s	trying to bring this very interesting
6342s	list yeah not it's it's sort of the more
6345s	traditional aggro that you're going to
6347s	get out of a metal like this I know when
6348s	we talk about aggro especially in L
6350s	there's a lot of like okay this isn't
6351s	really aggro this is leaning more
6353s	mid-range this is probably as close as
6354s	you're going to get to like a pure aggro
6355s	deck right now and then jaor everybody's
6358s	absolutely favorite deck right SP this
6360s	is the deck of 2023 everybody loves to
6362s	see it we're always so excited for
6363s	jackon or to come back and join us and
6365s	grace us with their presence once
6368s	again you definitely do not speak for me
6370s	I know you were being sarcastic I I'm
6372s	tired of seeing JAX on a little three
6374s	entrancing really cool this list is
6376s	built in an interesting way with only
6378s	one wild CL I've seen people go to two
6379s	and there's no buried it's slightly
6381s	lower to the ground there's also a catch
6383s	which some decks cut but I I'm done with
6387s	seeing Jackson well what about Riven
6389s	Gwen spids are you sick of Riven Gwen or
6391s	is this something new for you so red
6394s	Gwen is my favorite competitive deck of
6396s	all time I love this deck and we've seen
6398s	over the past year and a half this deck
6399s	change over time it started as a
6401s	harrowing deck it went into a might and
6403s	Katarina deck and this is the third
6405s	version using fire spitter that has
6407s	recently come into the tournament and
6409s	came from the variety set absolutely
6411s	demolishing uh a lot of these uh
6414s	pre-existing ways of building aggro
6416s	right now it's going into these might
6417s	versions now it's going into all of
6418s	these sorts of things it's a very
6419s	interesting way of building it it now
6421s	plays for a a foring combo uh where
6424s	you've got a a Gwen attacking you've got
6426s	a Riven attacking and you have to deal
6428s	with both of them you can't just deal
6429s	with one it's a very interesting list
6431s	that I'm I'm happy that it's doing quite
6432s	well you know it's not even enraged fire
6435s	spitter for me that card's whatever man
6437s	but I'm just so happy that KO the arm is
6439s	finally getting his oberved spot in the
6441s	sunlight I don't think he's been buffed
6443s	in like 2 and 1/2 years when he randomly
6445s	sort of went from like 3 HP to 4 HP and
6447s	at the time it was like okay yeah that's
6449s	cool and then it never really amounted
6450s	to anything and all of a sudden in
6452s	backto back events in backtack weekends
6454s	KO the arm and Riven are well not Riven
6457s	so much in the other version it was more
6459s	like Draven and Vai and Rumble and
6460s	things like that but it is kind of nice
6461s	to see a new deck pop out of the Eternal
6464s	format and then players find a different
6467s	version of it that works for
6469s	standard
6472s	this is an interesting ban I I'm not
6475s	sure what either rosan or please play
6477s	your cards quickly is going to be trying
6479s	to ban from the other I feel like rossan
6482s	isn't allowed to ban Gwen Zed two of
6485s	their decks probably does quite well
6486s	into it in the Gwen Riven and the Jinx
6488s	Cannon but outside of that I don't know
6490s	what they are most scar of maybe Darius
6493s	Nar I'm never really sure how to
6498s	evaluate these overwhelmed decks and
6500s	it's a similar problem that I've had
6501s	with Gwen decks where like we've had a
6503s	lot of Gwen decks pop up in the past
6505s	it's never really obvious which ones are
6507s	going to stick I am actually a little
6508s	surprised by the higher presence of Gwen
6510s	Riven especially given like the stats on
6512s	it over the week but I think it was very
6513s	much like a late stage like Thursday
6515s	Friday adaptation as far as the Darius
6516s	Naro like that's been around for a while
6518s	it's been kind of middle of the pack
6520s	there are some cool tech cards in there
6522s	but I don't know that they necessarily
6523s	line up into what rosidin has brought so
6525s	I think as far as the deck that they're
6526s	most afraid of I trying to remember how
6529s	the stats look for a ferals into Jax or
6532s	and I think it was like it feels like
6535s	it's probably fine for Jax or but I I
6539s	just straight up don't
6541s	remember I I believe it's ephemeral
6543s	favorite and that's why ephemerals were
6544s	actually rising to number one on the
6546s	ladder at some point so I'm not sure how
6548s	it pairs into the Jinx deck or this
6549s	other Gwen deck but I think ephemerals
6551s	at least from a Jax Orin perspective is
6553s	where you'd be looking for that
6556s	B I think I think that could make sense
6560s	I
6561s	this is the this is similar to the
6562s	lineup that I brought when playing a
6564s	couple of hours ago I wasn't on Jack's
6565s	or I was on bandal Jinx and my instinct
6568s	would have been to possibly ban Scouts
6571s	but I I can't tell all three of these
6574s	look auring as bans but also alluring as
6576s	Decks that I could possibly 20 we're
6578s	going to see JAX on be banned from
6579s	please player card quickly and you are
6581s	right it is a feral that's going to be
6582s	banned um so we're going to see how that
6585s	ends up going into our
6589s	game
6592s	it's an aggressive start for please play
6594s	your cards quickly I didn't see what
6595s	roson actually ended up with post
6597s	Mulligan much lower to the ground curve
6599s	so Off to the Races here and actually
6600s	going for the omen Hawk rather than the
6603s	pigeon with the turn one attack token
6604s	paying respects to the fact that Roston
6606s	is on a rather High number of One Drops
6609s	here yeah this question of which one
6611s	drop to play always changes depending on
6613s	what uh deck you're fighting you're
6614s	fighting something a bunch of two ones
6616s	you want to play your one one but if
6617s	you're fighting something a bunch of one
6618s	twos you want to play your two two
6619s	little cute game you can play on turn
6621s	one before it starts becoming irrelevant
6622s	by the fact by the time turn two comes
6624s	around we're going to see redeemed fry
6625s	come down and please player clouds
6627s	quickly does have an interesting answer
6629s	in Crimson pigeon plus
6632s	Elixir and it looks like that's going to
6634s	be the line we'll see if the Elixir
6635s	comes out don't see a lot of reason not
6637s	to Ross in is tapped out it's just a
6638s	matter of how much do you value the
6639s	pigeon with the other card like with the
6641s	really only available play or police
6643s	player card quickly next turn being that
6645s	overwhelmed tough unit it makes sense to
6647s	save the pigeon and preserve it here
6648s	this Riven though is going to cause some
6652s	problems thank you production for this
6654s	hollowed counter this will be extremely
6656s	important having played a fair bit of
6657s	this Gwen Riven deck counting exactly
6660s	what you need to do is it it takes like
6662s	minutes every single time but eventually
6664s	you get there and eventually helps you
6665s	win the game uh please play your cards
6667s	quickly has one of the better hands they
6669s	can have against Gwen Riven though
6671s	you've got two answers to these
6672s	overwhelm hallowed threats in uh
6675s	resisters and in pette well there isn't
6677s	a lot of strong cards until that top
6680s	deck from please play cards quickly in
6681s	their hand um they've definitely got
6684s	what they need against russan
6687s	deck yeah please play your cards quickly
6690s	is they're a little slower than they
6692s	need to be in a situation like this the
6693s	opulent foyer is going to have a lot of
6696s	time to sort of build up that value and
6699s	piroet while it's normally a strong card
6701s	not something that you want to be forced
6703s	to use on these ephemeral units either
6704s	for the damage or for the stun and if
6706s	double foyer ends up coming out gen Ros
6709s	still has that available as a blocker
6710s	one of them might get overwritten later
6711s	on but also has like hate Spike just so
6713s	many of these tools that are nice to
6716s	have these foyers available but outside
6718s	of that roson doesn't have a lot of
6720s	punch left in their hand if this Riven
6722s	gets dealt with things are looking a
6723s	little
6726s	sketchy by riven's next turn they will
6730s	have the full blade meaning they're able
6732s	to give two pieces of overwhelm to their
6735s	board and only one will be able to be
6737s	answered in the uh the flash free they
6739s	can try and get a a whirling death or a
6742s	pette to happen if the board ends up
6744s	aligning correctly but R definitely has
6746s	the hand that they want as well we're
6748s	going to see n come in try and create a
6749s	poke stick which does really well into
6751s	everything that isn't Ren right now
6753s	nothing has a high amount of Health but
6755s	we're thinking about hate Spike what do
6757s	you think about hate Spike yet I there's
6760s	no Skys splitter in please pay your
6762s	cards Quickly's list it's just double
6764s	elixir of iron when we're looking at
6766s	sort of cheap ways to buff up the health
6767s	of the unit so I like the hate Spike
6769s	here the only way that they're going to
6771s	be able to deal with this well they did
6772s	go for a safety block so whirling death
6773s	now opens up as an option but I think
6775s	the more obvious one was going for Fury
6776s	of the north but it is going to be the
6778s	whirling death saving that three sisters
6780s	is an option for the Riven on the
6781s	following turn and there's just no
6784s	answer for this out Roan so I I liked
6786s	the hit Spike line there I think the
6788s	lack of Skys spitter is weird but it's a
6789s	good call out on their end to try and go
6791s	for that and yeah a pokey stick is
6793s	developed and we'll see where this takes
6794s	them double opul and foyer four hallowed
6797s	Stacks this is getting a little out of
6799s	control but to keep in mind that those
6802s	those opulent units are going to just
6804s	get taken down by a poke stick no matter
6805s	how large their attack stat
6808s	is this is one of this is going to be
6810s	one of the hardest turns for both plays
6812s	to organize we're going to see the runes
6813s	Squire come down being able to use a
6814s	keen blade fragment On The Run Squire
6816s	means it can try and get a positive
6817s	trade but we can see this Pokey stick in
6819s	hand that's going to be able to deal
6821s	with if you wanted to do ke blade
6822s	fragment plus the Run Squire we're going
6825s	to see pet come down preventing this
6827s	turn from happening which means R is
6828s	trying to set up for the turn after that
6830s	can be answered with the three sisters
6832s	but eventually if please player cards
6834s	quickly doesn't end up drawing a winon
6836s	at some point because you do still need
6837s	a win games uh russan does have the late
6839s	game that they might
6841s	want what I'm curious about for this
6844s	turn is how this Pokey stick is used
6847s	obviously killing a 71 very appealing
6849s	option however if you pokey stick the
6851s	Nexus you give vulnerable over to the
6853s	Riven on the following turn and have a
6855s	chance to actually take out that
6857s	champion uh I think yeah killing the
6859s	seven probably just a touch to appealing
6862s	of an option though you still have the
6864s	three sisters to deal with the ribbon
6865s	it's not like a huge deal at this moment
6867s	and this is going to let you just
6868s	continue to develop your board rather
6869s	safely without uh worrying about your
6871s	life total on a following turn where
6872s	like oh yeah I flash freeze the ribbon
6874s	but then they just played like an elixir
6875s	of Wrath and uh uh might in response and
6878s	I ended up dying anyway the win's stri
6881s	Ran's deck doesn't run a lot of units
6884s	that are good blockers against how do
6886s	you not how do you please play your
6888s	cards quickly uh uh strength the right
6891s	so like ran draws this Phantom Butler
6893s	but that doesn't feel great into what
6894s	police player cards quickly is trying to
6896s	accomplish and while this attack is not
6897s	threatening lethal uh please player
6899s	cards quickly probably wins in two turns
6902s	time like by their next attack token and
6903s	rosan probably can't win unless they
6906s	draw something like a KO um next to
6909s	attack token so we're going to have to
6911s	see what rosan top decking but it's
6912s	going to come down to this top deck I'm
6913s	pretty
6915s	short I'm not even sure if Ko's going to
6917s	be enough while that flash freeze is
6919s	still a
6921s	available 14 life is a lot but I we
6926s	we'll see we'll see I I think that
6927s	you're right that there are some top
6928s	decks there that you know with seven
6930s	hallowed Stacks you'd have to assume
6931s	that there is and I did want to call out
6932s	this might in please play your cards
6934s	quickly l i I know that you look at this
6936s	you're like oh all these units already
6937s	have overwhelm why would you bother with
6938s	the might there's obviously units that
6939s	don't have overwhelm but I also think
6941s	that when you think about the explorers
6942s	that are getting played in The Meta the
6944s	option that is going to be used against
6945s	you most often is likely remove the
6947s	keywords from this card for this turn
6949s	and the next and giving might back over
6951s	to your large units is an undervalued
6954s	thing in the deck building process but
6956s	does come
6957s	up a very interesting card to be running
6960s	it it always feels great to have might
6962s	just as a one of in your deck to try and
6964s	pressure uh if that's the sort of thing
6965s	your deck wants to do um so adding it to
6968s	any noxus deck that wants to be
6970s	aggressive is often quite a good line we
6971s	are going to see the full blade come
6973s	down on Riven probably trying to make
6976s	sure they do an open attack not playing
6977s	into pette but it does mean you're not
6979s	playing top decks like KO I also do want
6982s	to call out here uh please play your
6984s	cards quickly technically had lethal if
6987s	the might had come through for an
6989s	additional three damage then poke stick
6990s	Tusk speaker on this next turn would
6992s	have done it I assume they were just
6996s	trying to keep their poke stick open to
6998s	avoid a hate Spike or a noxian fervor so
7001s	I don't blame them for not going for it
7004s	but just something to keep in mind I
7006s	think there's only one unknown card
7008s	actually in the hand of Ross at this
7010s	point
7012s	anyway it can be sometimes hard to hand
7014s	track the weapons but uh I think yeah
7017s	that would be the case if you're hand
7018s	tracking all of this properly uh there
7020s	is the overwhelm weapon in Ran's hand it
7023s	should be quick attack and overwhelm
7024s	that we're seeing um so Gwen will have
7027s	overwhelm here meaning there are two
7028s	massive attackers Gwen will have 13
7031s	strength plus three but not plus two so
7033s	only going up to CU we don't have the
7035s	plus two fragment in hand going up quite
7037s	high but it's not going to be enough
7039s	this dual lethal isn't going to get
7041s	there as far as I can
7044s	tell we'll see the dance of the Tusk
7046s	come down and that's actually just
7047s	adding a little bit more damage into
7049s	both nexuses which is not what you want
7052s	to be looking at when there's a Gwen top
7053s	deck coming through there's going to be
7054s	16 attack on the Riven uh actually no
7057s	even more than that I believe thanks to
7059s	the doubling up of the Riven ability but
7062s	24 it doesn't matter under the the
7063s	pressure of a flash freeze and in fact
7065s	it just kind of eats the elixir of Wrath
7067s	buff that could have come out so this
7070s	should be no problem surviving on the
7072s	side of police player cards quickly 21
7075s	of that damage is about to get erased so
7077s	eight yeah just shy it was close but
7080s	just
7082s	shy and this gets us back to the the
7086s	blade that they played on Riven that
7087s	rust played on Riven last turn uh not
7090s	deciding to play for a top deck but if
7092s	they decided to play for that and buffed
7094s	up the Gwen instead that extra two
7097s	damage plus the three would have been
7099s	enough to go for lethal this turn being
7101s	a little bit too hasty and not thinking
7102s	about your top decks ended up making it
7104s	so that there was five damage
7108s	missed well two damage missed cuz the
7110s	Elixir would have come down but just
7113s	didn't end up happening instead Elixir
7115s	is going to be used to take out the Nar
7117s	but I don't think there's anything
7119s	rosidin can top deck from here that's
7123s	going to get them out of this situation
7125s	in fact the Poke stick even going to be
7126s	used to preserve the Nar elixir of iron
7128s	not going to do anything but with three
7130s	units surviving with a might in hand and
7132s	with a Tusk speaker left in the wings to
7135s	try and take over only one blocker for
7136s	the open attack you have to assume that
7138s	please play your cards quickly he's
7139s	going to be able to take this one on the
7142s	open uh there was a very interesting set
7145s	of hands uh please player cards quickly
7148s	was able to draw two ways of interacting
7150s	with Ran's game plan that pette and that
7153s	three sisters and that's too many pieces
7155s	of interaction for a deck that's such a
7156s	high power combo deck that wants to play
7158s	for the player not having any
7160s	interaction right ran taking the first
7162s	loss here but uh Gwen Riven can
7165s	definitely get a surprise win later
7167s	anyway especially against a deck like
7168s	Scouts that actually has no interaction
7171s	yeah Scouts versus Jinx I think is how
7173s	this match up is going to come down to I
7174s	think you're absolutely correct with the
7175s	Riven Gwen shouldn't have the red Gwen
7177s	2.0 is uh I've come to call it in the
7179s	last 15 minutes or so shouldn't really
7181s	have too much of a problem taking down
7182s	the Scout the scouts deck like you
7183s	mentioned just no interaction and with
7185s	the champion strength Nerf happening I
7187s	think it's just coming down too late in
7189s	the game to even try to use it as as a
7190s	defensive tool or like get a surprise
7192s	Victory out of your opponent I think by
7193s	turn six this Riven Gwen should be up
7195s	and running and and starting to threaten
7198s	lethal Mulligan very interesting from
7200s	rosan deciding to prioritize early units
7204s	I get why you're trying to beat Mari and
7206s	you're trying to beat uh broadwing and
7208s	all these sorts of things that uh pleas
7209s	player cards quickly is trying to play
7211s	in the deck but if they don't draw awen
7213s	or a Riven rosin can't win it's very
7216s	hard to win without those cards you do
7218s	have might and you do have this Dragon
7220s	but that sometimes is not enough it's
7222s	only 15 damage it isn't
7224s	20 and you're not really allowed to play
7227s	a long game with the opulent foyer
7228s	against something like Scouts either so
7230s	like you mentioned you just need to find
7232s	those Champions if you're going to end
7234s	the game because two damage on turn six
7237s	really not what you're looking for
7239s	against Scouts and a couple of Trades
7241s	going to come out here in the early game
7242s	but actually we're going to have
7243s	hallowed on both sides of the table here
7245s	folks as Mari Warden working
7248s	overtime
7250s	Ran's draws are going to have to be good
7252s	and they also have one of the they've
7254s	got the worst token right when you want
7255s	to play foyer you want to be playing
7256s	foyer on your defensive token but you
7258s	also want to be playing it on turn three
7259s	to get as many Hollow procs as possible
7261s	not that it's the most relevant thing I
7262s	don't think this token is going to be
7263s	the reason why rosan loses I'm ready to
7265s	eat my words in three turns time though
7268s	but having to instead play run Squire
7270s	and um voice this turn doesn't feel
7274s	great this blade fragment is not the
7275s	quick attack one so there isn't the free
7277s	trade that's going to happen right now
7278s	you are able to give the extra Hollow
7280s	Pro two run s to trade into broadwing
7282s	but it's not exactly what you want to be
7284s	doing I know you mentioned the attack
7286s	token might not be the end of the game
7288s	here but I think it's less about rosidin
7289s	having it on odds and more about please
7291s	play your cards quickly having it on
7292s	evens being able to get this geneveve
7294s	Elm Hardon curve um the Scout attack on
7297s	curve actually going for The Misfortune
7298s	instead after that top deck going to
7299s	take away this single blocker and we're
7301s	going to see roson finally go for that
7303s	defensive foyer but again it's not
7304s	actually trading back onto any of these
7306s	units noxian fervor is available we
7308s	might see the death of an MF here
7310s	there's no protection in hand but it
7311s	seems like a small consolation bonus
7313s	prizes please play your cards quickly
7315s	still at 20 still not under duress of
7317s	anything and we'll see now if there is
7320s	going to be the noxian fervor while
7322s	there's technically no interaction in
7324s	this deck there could be a misfortunes
7326s	make it rain in the scouts player hand
7328s	that needs to be
7329s	considered as well as form up form up
7332s	would be an awful thing to be running
7333s	into losing one of your best ways of
7335s	burning out the Nexus this matchup is
7337s	two Decks that are both extremely trying
7340s	to do their own thing right rosan trying
7342s	to set up multiple threats and then do M
7344s	and play card quickly is just trying to
7345s	play their Champion strength or in this
7347s	hand state the for Maria ran ended up
7350s	mulliganing for an early curve that's
7352s	always going to be worse than scouts's
7354s	early curve and not finding their wind
7357s	might make it such that what I thought
7358s	would be a really favored match up isn't
7360s	going to be the case missing out on the
7361s	quick attack blade again 50/50 chance
7364s	also hurts
7365s	greatly things not looking good for
7368s	rosidin right now if anyone at home is
7370s	wondering why please play your cards
7371s	quickly didn't attack all out last turn
7373s	given that there was only a 1 HP blocker
7375s	the answer is Mark of the Isle uh I went
7377s	to go check as well I'm like what health
7378s	buff is are they worried about it's Mark
7379s	of the Isle and look there's a shadow a
7381s	tellstone guess what's in that it's Mark
7382s	of the
7383s	Isle but genev elart this might just
7389s	be not quite lethal but we're getting
7393s	very close it might even just have to be
7395s	a defensive enrange fire SP to try to
7396s	take out one of the units luckily
7397s	inspiring light is a slow speed spell
7400s	but it's still going to
7401s	be oh man to do
7407s	math it's going to be currently it's 11
7410s	damage if you add in the inspiring light
7412s	it adds three damage which is 14 last
7414s	time I checked my calculator so still a
7417s	fair bit of damage coming in I I'm
7420s	surprised not to see the inspiring light
7422s	cuz you can still afford Champion
7424s	strength next turn uh but deciding that
7426s	the three extra damage just doesn't
7427s	really matter you would not not be able
7429s	to afford Champion strike next turn
7430s	actually You' only have eight Mana it
7432s	would be Nerf it is nerfed to n so I
7434s	think that's why we didn't see it
7435s	opening up for that potential top deck
7437s	not getting
7438s	it uh yeah I definitely paid attention
7440s	to the last patch and knew that that
7442s	card was Ned we do see sp sp come down
7444s	able to try and control the board and
7446s	without Champion strength the lack of
7449s	rally means that rosan can defend
7452s	slightly we might have to see fur
7453s	offensively to beat their sort of hands
7456s	but this isn't fully over yet Ran's
7458s	going to be able to challenge something
7460s	and try and go in or no not not
7463s	enough yeah well actually well actually
7467s	F further than excess yeah yeah I think
7473s	it's Ros done it so currently there's 12
7476s	because of the four HED you add three
7478s	due to the might and you add two due to
7480s	the blade fragment this puts uh fle
7482s	player cards quickly down exactly enough
7485s	to be lethal now there is a former that
7488s	will end up being able to kill the
7491s	um the wait yeah form up will prevent
7495s	this and we don't have a further Target
7497s	anymore so it is an Allin play but I
7500s	think rust nearly had to go for it CU
7501s	they'll probably lose into into form up
7502s	anyway trying to use uh further
7505s	defensively and I think if you're like
7508s	form UPS I think a card where you can
7509s	just go okay if they have it they have
7511s	it it's such a narrow line you kind of I
7514s	don't think it was checked for earlier
7515s	in the game but it was a very it was a
7517s	pretty recent top deck unfortunately is
7519s	going to go down here and we're actually
7520s	just going to see our first showing of
7521s	red uh red Gwen 2.0 just getting twoed
7524s	here I thought that this was going to be
7526s	a fine match up but like we mentioned uh
7528s	a little bit of a champion Reliant deck
7530s	uh some some decks are very reliant on
7531s	their Champion some aren't while I don't
7533s	think that this one necessarily is in a
7534s	faster matchup like this it's really the
7537s	only midgame presence that you
7541s	have very very technically rossan if
7545s	they didn't go in for that Allin was
7546s	able to survive they could have
7548s	furthered one of the blockers and could
7549s	have done Spirit Journey from the shadow
7551s	ales tilstone to prevent the damage
7553s	would have survived at a low amount of
7555s	health and try and find an overwhelm
7557s	thing in future try and find the
7558s	overwhelm fragment try and find Gwen or
7561s	or Riven for extra damage but it wasn't
7564s	there going all in is not the wrong play
7565s	even though it led to a loss there you
7567s	sometimes just have to and with a hand
7568s	like that it happens it happens to the
7571s	best of them as we just saw
7573s	unfortunately that is going to be rosted
7575s	and eliminated from the tournament but
7576s	please play your cards quickly moving on
7578s	to the top 16 that's right folks we're
7579s	already confirming players for the top
7581s	16 and remember while we are playing the
7583s	finals the top two get the same prize
7584s	they are moving on to the world
7585s	championship it Boulevard is their
7587s	seating at Worlds I don't know we get we
7590s	give points to world's qualifier winners
7592s	that's all the information that I have
7593s	folks that seems to there might be there
7595s	might not be who knows is there a
7596s	difference between first and second who
7598s	knows not me um but we're going to be
7599s	jumping into another match now because
7601s	there was plenty of time on the clock
7602s	that was a rather quick 2 and 0 uh
7604s	before I try and spill more trade
7606s	secrets about seeding at Worlds but
7607s	again I don't actually know I just just
7609s	know that points were given to world's
7610s	qualifier winners what do they need 18
7612s	Rune Terra points
7614s	for I mean you know surely having that
7618s	extra 18 points lets you D them out like
7620s	candy to all of the other you know
7621s	players they're like look at what I've
7622s	got look at all these points I have you
7624s	know you can't person personally I don't
7626s	have any Rune Terra points I have zero
7628s	Rune Terra points but I like to think
7630s	that at the end of the year Riot games
7632s	will physically mail you something for
7634s	each point that you had something that
7635s	you can hang on your refrigerator so you
7636s	can go slap 18 of those suckers up there
7639s	like look I won a World Championship
7642s	qualifier uh it seems like we're going
7644s	to be getting into a game soon I
7645s	personally I think I've got five or six
7647s	Rune Terra points so I can actually fill
7649s	my fridge with a bunch of random tokens
7651s	saying I played in this tournament uh
7654s	but we can hopefully get into a game
7656s	soon yeah it looks like we're going to
7657s	be getting into kdf nno versus LCS super
7661s	that's an L A lot of consonant and then
7664s	a
7665s	69 uh which funny enough like something
7668s	about the Apex Tax Scene super blank 69
7671s	is a very common name there's even a
7673s	player super something 69 that is I
7676s	think Super timeline 69 already
7678s	qualified yeah I don't know if this is
7680s	another team that just uses a separate
7685s	tank uh we're in game it is Jax on
7688s	versus uh the red Gwen this is a matchup
7691s	that I've practiced a little bit and
7693s	it's extremely tight it's a tough match
7696s	up where uh ja on can't really deal with
7699s	red too effectively they do have three
7701s	sisters in this list but typically the
7703s	linear power of Red's able to go in
7706s	there are some traits happening right
7707s	now but redw would typically feel fine
7710s	in this position although no Champions
7712s	once again no Champions Three Sisters in
7715s	the hand of the orange Jax player a
7718s	couple of weapons but KO the arm that's
7720s	a pretty good way to start fall your way
7722s	back into this Jax is going to go down
7723s	here I'd be very surprised to see a fury
7726s	of the north to protect this champion
7728s	and LCS super is still able to get down
7730s	two cards this turn but the three
7732s	sisters is being hovered it might just
7739s	be I'm just double-checking the blade
7741s	fragments as far as I can tell the one
7744s	that is currently in hand is the
7746s	overwhelm one meaning that this uh
7750s	Elemental Dragon is going to have uh 11
7753s	strength plus overwhelm if you pull the
7755s	other unit to the side that should be
7757s	guaranteed lethal
7761s	as long as you get the hollow to proc
7763s	prop play and kdf enko misses
7766s	it this is a pitfall that players fall
7769s	into very often number one is trusting
7771s	spitz's math I'm going to trust it
7772s	blindly though I believe that was Lethal
7774s	uh the other one is just sort of looking
7776s	at a situation and going oh yeah like I
7778s	can clear the board here and not really
7780s	thinking that you have lethal and with a
7782s	deck like red Gwen 2o you've got to be
7785s	looking for the lethal at every
7787s	opportunity
7789s	we are going to see the dragon come down
7791s	again putting uh super uh super I'm just
7795s	going to call them super uh down to one
7797s	Health uh but not deciding to play ker I
7800s	think I would have liked to see Kar come
7802s	down to be able to apply overwhelm I'm
7805s	not sure how relevant that is but either
7807s	way unless super draws a free spell this
7811s	will still be lethal but now there's a
7813s	chance when before there was
7815s	none taking a look at this Jack or list
7818s	because the Pres of yeah there is a one
7819s	of buried and ice so the fact that enco
7822s	has to develop that KO the arm for
7825s	lethal oh never mind super has decided
7827s	to tap below the Mana for the potential
7829s	barried nice top deck and that is going
7830s	to give the green light for Koo to come
7832s	through harsh wins off the top only
7835s	matters if LCS super can maintain board
7839s	parody If even one other unit can get
7842s	through it's probably
7845s	fine not everyone's got overwhelm right
7847s	it's just going to be whoever gives it
7849s	to join the hunters they said yeah this
7854s	does seem to be fine enko missing out on
7857s	that lethal a couple of turns ago but
7859s	super doesn't have a great way of coming
7862s	back into this game lethal right I think
7864s	this is still lethal well KO has to
7866s	support something for it to be lethal
7868s	but uh yeah I believe oh no no not if
7871s	you give over to a six okay yeah pull
7874s	the six health I was like okay six six
7876s	overwhelming to a six health unit does
7877s	not actually give you lethal um but with
7880s	that six Health being pulled to the side
7881s	then yeah this should just be lethal
7884s	well no you right now you block freeze
7887s	these two things but you need to give
7888s	overwhelm to the thing that's being
7889s	challenged that's the way to reduce
7891s	parody in this sense this deck is
7892s	complicated I know everyone in in you
7894s	know chat is going to be like come on
7896s	casters work out this math but it can be
7898s	hard this deck requires a lot of
7900s	thinking
7902s	um but this is going to be enough I knew
7905s	there was a lethal I just didn't get it
7908s	out of my m mou in time thank you spids
7910s	for carrying us through that so that is
7911s	going to be harsh wins on those units
7913s	there is the three attack Phantom Butler
7914s	sneaking through and that is going to be
7916s	enco actually taking it 20 over LSC
7919s	super and moving on to the top 16 again
7923s	more clan tags in the top 16 kdf
7927s	representing Phantom Butler serving a
7930s	win against ja on probably targeted in
7933s	this I'm thinking janilla tries to beat
7934s	Jax on this deck's probably trying to
7936s	beat Jax on Jaxon is our most brought
7938s	deck to this tournament so it's a pretty
7939s	good idea to try and have that something
7941s	as you can Target as opposed to ban and
7943s	kdf enko being able to beat Super just
7945s	shows that you know we saw uh Gwen Riven
7948s	lose twice now we can see it at least
7950s	win and continue to show its strength
7953s	and while Jack is the most brought deck
7955s	in this tournament I do just want to
7957s	give the information to the viewers at
7958s	home not a very high representation 19
7961s	out of 64 players I believe that is the
7963s	lowest
7964s	represented number one deck that we have
7966s	had the entire year
7969s	a very open meta here in the Apex
7972s	scene yeah and this is a consequence of
7974s	having the variety patch two weeks ago
7975s	and then having the Eternal open
7977s	completely different format just yet
7979s	less than a week ago there wasn't enough
7980s	time to prep so you're just bringing
7981s	what is linearly strong Jackson linearly
7983s	strong Riven Gwen linearly strong that's
7985s	what we're trying to see but even still
7987s	everyone's got different ideas on what's
7989s	the strongest deck yeah and we will see
7991s	who was actually right and who was wrong
7993s	once we get it down to our final two I
7995s	don't believe we are hopping into
7997s	another match no we are hopping into
7998s	another match it's going to be Bruce
8000s	1995 up against nnn3 player that I said
8004s	that I was looking out for we'll see the
8005s	score as we get into the game here
8006s	taking the information it looks like we
8007s	got our first formidable of the day up
8010s	against Karma set hopefully Karma set
8012s	might be sarapen you never really know
8015s	for sure but we're going to see tun Noy
8017s	and assume
8019s	Karma looking at the board right now I
8022s	really like uh the way that KET has been
8024s	built recently with the addition of
8026s	Rocket barrage it's only going to be
8027s	killing these one ones but it does hurt
8029s	the formidable units a little bit if
8030s	they were to come down and hits a lot of
8032s	things like janill like renwen we're
8034s	going to see if we see more set we're
8035s	going to see two ofs or maybe even three
8037s	ofs of this rocket barrage because it
8038s	does quite well into the meta yeah I've
8041s	been constantly seeing triple rocket
8043s	barrage coming out we're going to see it
8044s	do a pretty good job here of just sort
8046s	of cleaning up the board and outside of
8049s	that oh you got to do it now though oh
8051s	aftershocks going to come through
8052s	instead maybe going maybe I can find a
8054s	higher priority Target but Garen is
8055s	going to protect everything else from
8058s	this rocket barrage for the time
8061s	being and I mean it's not a super
8064s	threatening hand besides right you can
8066s	actually take a block onto the gar and
8067s	just finish it off with the rocket
8068s	barrage next turn it's not like you
8070s	really mind the damage from The Omen
8071s	Hawks coming in but there's a lot of
8073s	Health Buffs in the hand for NTN and3 so
8075s	we'll see where all of that comes into
8076s	play but instead is actually just going
8077s	to be healing up the petricite
8080s	charger healing up the pite charger is
8082s	very interesting it's one of the pnz and
8084s	Ionia has two different ways of
8086s	interacting with the BL pnz does direct
8087s	damage I does recalls pnz is useless
8091s	against a card that says I don't take
8092s	damage from spells but can still be
8094s	recalled so putting value into this unit
8096s	makes sense cycling the weapons healing
8098s	it up but it can always be tagged at it
8100s	can always be set challenged there are
8102s	still ways that it can take damage but
8104s	deciding to play gar next turn does make
8105s	some sense getting the extra strength to
8107s	apply for the Future Turn dealing more
8109s	damage that's I think going to be what
8112s	uh NN is trying to go for
8116s	NN oh gallo top deck this is actually
8119s	now a really nice curve for three here
8121s	on the side of Bruce just looking at a
8123s	lot of the same cards in the hand nopy
8125s	not useless in a matchup like this
8127s	obviously we see the gentleman's duel in
8129s	the hand for nnn3 it's just a matter of
8132s	will Bruce actually have Noy Mana when
8135s	the gentleman's duel comes down slash is
8138s	relevant because Bruce still has a lot
8140s	of cards that they have to play here and
8141s	unfortunately not able to line up the
8143s	rocket barrage once again as the garar
8145s	is going to be going at minimum down to
8147s	5 HP
8150s	these Omen Hawks still staying on the
8151s	board I don't know when these were
8152s	played but they probably played before
8154s	gar was drawn cuz gar has plus two plus
8156s	two it's really funny to see Garin is
8158s	just accepting them into his army like
8159s	hey you know come on you can be part of
8161s	the elite and then G is going to come
8162s	down and see them as formidable and try
8163s	and buff them up these Omen Hawks are
8165s	not going to be insignificant threats
8167s	they it's hard to deal with them unless
8168s	you want to do your rocket barrage but
8170s	they're not going to be around um have
8172s	low Health in a future turn uh these
8175s	Omen Hawks are definitely being
8176s	Consolidated into the Deasia
8180s	oh actually I'm a little surprised not
8182s	to see nnn go for the gentleman's duel
8185s	there being able to level the Garin and
8187s	rally going into your Gallo turn seemed
8189s	very appealing uh but with two Mana left
8192s	probably just a little bit too concerned
8193s	about the possibility of a tag out onto
8194s	their own unit SL noopy just a few too
8196s	many things going on to really want to
8198s	use that spell just yet when you think
8200s	you can pressure your opponent's Mana a
8201s	little bit harder and now we're just
8202s	going to see things open with a rocket
8203s	barrage to take out those Omen Hawks
8205s	before Gallo can come down and buff them
8206s	up really take a lot of winds out of the
8208s	s that level
8210s	up gar will be regening this all back
8213s	and not having Aftershock anymore that
8215s	we saw used a few turns prior obviously
8216s	Gia would have the extra Health if that
8218s	was the case but Gia going to be a
8220s	consistent threat and Bruce is going to
8222s	have to continue recalling it but they
8223s	can't recall forever they're going to
8225s	have to find set they're going to have
8226s	to find Karm to try and win the game and
8229s	if gar can stay on the field
8230s	consistently through all that it's not
8231s	going to be great for Bruce's
8233s	chance and that spell shield on the
8235s	Gallo is going to make it increasingly
8237s	difficult to recall through and through
8239s	and as we can see there thanks to
8240s	production 25 out of 25 exactly on the
8242s	Gallo leads me to believe there's not
8244s	going to be a block here or maybe there
8245s	is you might as well throw the gar into
8247s	combat see what you can do you've still
8248s	got the gentleman's duel and the elixir
8249s	of iron to try and buff up the health of
8251s	this unit in case Bruce's plan was to
8252s	take it out with an aftershot for
8254s	something after the fact uh but first
8256s	going to take away the spell shield from
8257s	the Gallia with the Explorer spell and
8258s	then just try to pass the turn two Mana
8260s	still represented so probably not going
8261s	to see a gentleman's duel again there is
8263s	the Gallo level up and things are
8265s	looking
8267s	rough
8268s	takes us back to the weapon cycling like
8270s	three or four turns ago gallio was
8272s	exactly enough to be able to level up
8274s	and that is partly because of all the
8276s	cycling apparently Karma was upd drafted
8279s	earlier and now costs four Mana very
8282s	interesting to see what the hand would
8283s	have been like such that Karma needed to
8285s	be upd drafted May being rather bricky
8286s	but Karm is definitely the way that
8288s	Bruce is going to try and get back into
8290s	this game even though there's a lot
8291s	there fting down right now as you can
8293s	see there Karma at 8 out of 10 on the
8296s	level up uh production showing it a
8298s	little early I said I wanted it at 9 out
8300s	of 10 but that's okay I don't think
8301s	we're actually going to make it to that
8302s	stage of the game tagout likely to come
8304s	down onto the Gallo but even with that
8306s	aside we might be looking at lethal
8308s	depending on what comes out of this
8309s	anaka there's the Mana for double tagout
8312s	so it might not happen this turn but I
8314s	don't think you can stop the Garen level
8316s	up and even if you pre-commit to a
8319s	double tagout uh that gentleman's duel
8321s	can proc the Gallo rally in combat
8327s	anyway yeah uh this is very much a fork
8330s	that three has put into Bruce they don't
8332s	have enough development punishes a
8334s	concussive Palm would be really nice to
8336s	have seen but unfortunately that's just
8337s	not what's there and if Bruce Taps out
8340s	fully to try and deal with the fact that
8341s	they're going to have four units attack
8343s	them if they don't do that the does
8346s	create a little bit of a situation for
8348s	them they decid to let the attack go
8349s	through I think you sort of have to hope
8350s	that anaka hits like a 02 lucky that
8353s	anaka did but gallo and G and
8358s	everything's just going to be pressuring
8359s	so much and that is just going to be
8361s	lethal NTN and three can get the rally
8363s	off here thanks to the gentleman's duel
8365s	that's going to be a tap out from Bruce
8366s	the unit down and then aaka and the
8368s	petricite charger free to go into combat
8375s	again comes down and that is game you
8377s	didn't have to do the second tag out as
8379s	far as I can tell there wasn't lethal
8381s	being threatened but if you didn't do
8382s	the second tag out gar would have
8384s	flipped they would have just passed
8385s	their turns and Bruce I don't think has
8386s	a possible draw that lets them survive
8388s	you can't draw and then play three
8390s	concussive palms or something that would
8392s	have been it we do see the surrender and
8393s	three going into our top
8398s	16 and I'm glad to see formidable pop up
8401s	oh we actually get to see the entire uh
8403s	so Ionia Shadow out I'm going to guess
8407s	was ephemerals there's so many different
8410s	decks for so many different region
8411s	combinations I'm not even sure what FR
8413s	word pnz
8415s	was uh you are right that it is z um
8419s	that was the deck FR OD pnz is traps it
8421s	is Caitlyn uh Teo um running presumably
8426s	like you know freeze cards and all these
8427s	sort of anti- mid-range stuff I guess
8429s	that makes sense with
8441s	[Music]
8446s	formidableness dancing are the ones that
8448s	have been finding their marks not to
8449s	anyone's surprise really if you hit the
8451s	matchups that you were looking for
8452s	you're probably going to win them that's
8454s	why you built the lineup in the first
8455s	place but it's not something that's
8457s	likely to work out for the entire
8458s	tournament and as we get down to these
8460s	sort of other anti- lineups it's going
8462s	to be very funny to see if we've got
8464s	these players like three that are not
8465s	really on any like meta Decks that are
8468s	trying to Target something against
8469s	someone else who is not really on any
8470s	meta decks and looking to Target
8472s	something it's always fun to see those
8473s	sort of wet noodle fights but believe we
8476s	are out of
8478s	uh matches to watch which means we are
8480s	going to throw it to a short break and
8482s	when we come back we will be into that
8483s	top 16 cresting into the halfway point
8486s	of the tournament don't go anywhere
8488s	we'll be right
8490s	[Music]
8506s	back
8541s	[Music]
8618s	[Music]
8626s	he
8633s	[Music]
8656s	n
8662s	[Music]
8686s	he
8687s	[Music]
8714s	[Music]
8716s	he
8718s	[Music]
8746s	he
8750s	[Music]
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8824s	[Music]
8836s	oh
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8876s	[Applause]
8882s	[Applause]
8896s	oh
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8971s	[Music]
8981s	[Music]
8988s	[Music]
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9012s	[Music]
9025s	[Music]
9048s	is that all you got
9075s	to
9077s	[Music]
9101s	that all you've got to
9105s	say this got
9111s	another you
9131s	[Music]
9135s	to
9139s	step by step step by
9165s	step
9174s	all you
9195s	got
9202s	[Applause]
9217s	St to
9225s	your
9241s	[Music]
9261s	[Music]
9276s	[Music]
9285s	oh
9304s	[Music]
9315s	all
9359s	[Music]
9375s	you
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9514s	[Music]
9525s	he
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9548s	[Music]
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9573s	[Music]
9585s	come
9587s	[Music]
9617s	[Music]
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9665s	[Applause]
9667s	[Music]
9676s	fighting
9677s	[Music]
9678s	Shadows
9690s	[Music]
9691s	[Applause]
9697s	[Music]
9704s	inting
9705s	[Music]
9716s	[Music]
9734s	come
9739s	[Music]
9752s	[Music]
9764s	chos
9766s	in
9767s	[Music]
9774s	[Music]
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9794s	the
9800s	[Music]
9839s	[Music]
9839s	[Applause]
9843s	[Music]
9854s	in
9856s	your will
9858s	beft now
9860s	there
9863s	[Applause]
9869s	[Music]
9884s	you
9901s	[Music]
9933s	[Music]
9939s	[Music]
9944s	[Music]
9957s	things are heating up here at the apack
9959s	last chance qualifier so I've lost the
9960s	jacket gotten you know rolled up the
9962s	sleeves a little bit because we've only
9963s	got a couple more rounds until we're in
9965s	the finals which is sort of when the
9967s	tournament is functionally over but of
9970s	course we are still going to play the
9971s	finals someone needs to be able to say
9973s	that they won get more fake Rune Terr
9974s	points more magn from riot games at the
9976s	end of the year not confirmed TM TM TM
9979s	um but we are going to be looking a look
9980s	at a very special matchup here but first
9983s	we're going to take a look at who is
9984s	left in the tournament overall our top
9986s	16 we can finally fit it all on one
9988s	screen but we're not going to we're
9989s	going to be it out into four sections
9991s	anyway got nineball versus kdfa
9994s	fundamentals versus
9995s	nnn3 up on this
9999s	side uh these are I I wasn't introduced
10002s	you actually you stunlocked me you said
10004s	you weren't going to introduce me and
10005s	then you were right you actually didn't
10007s	uh we saw three beat Bruce on the stream
10010s	um fundamentals is a really cool name
10012s	like obviously if you know your
10013s	fundamentals you're going to do well and
10014s	hopefully this player knows what they're
10016s	doing going into the next part of the
10017s	bracket we see Marine we see please play
10019s	your cards quickly as well as Martin
10021s	nostro and pisu CaRu who is going to be
10023s	our featured match and you'll find out
10026s	why in a second here folks but also
10027s	please don't expect me to match spitz's
10029s	pronunciation on anything Latin it's
10032s	just not my forte I took French in high
10034s	school instead
10036s	forgot all of it at this point um but
10038s	we're going to and move on to that last
10040s	bit of the bracket or actually the third
10041s	bit of the bracket where we got Lee long
10042s	red versus Ono my win streak and pin
10044s	pingho versus ABG Nessie very good
10046s	backup match I hope we can actually
10048s	catch a little bit of that one two
10049s	Titans yeah ping pingho versus AB is
10052s	definitely something I'm interested in I
10054s	I can't wait those are some of my
10055s	favorite players fighting but pizaro is
10057s	also one of my favorite players it's
10058s	it's what's so cool all the plays that
10059s	we get to see today going into the final
10063s	section in a second will show the the
10066s	last little bit of the bracket in our
10068s	top 16 um two end players fighting at
10071s	each other another team kill you hate to
10072s	see it but also sometimes you love to
10074s	see it yeah I actually did a little
10076s	control effing turns out these are the
10077s	only two end players left in the
10079s	tournament uh actually sorry not left in
10081s	the tournament in the tournament
10083s	entirely uh so unfortunately did run
10086s	into each other in the top 16 not going
10087s	to be able to get that team kill in the
10089s	finals and then up on the top there we
10090s	have kdf eno who we just saw versus
10093s	their opponent whose name is no longer
10094s	on the screen so I forgotten what it was
10096s	I a baby with no object permanence uh so
10098s	in order to remind me of what we're
10101s	going to be doing here we're going to
10102s	get the decks for the players of on
10103s	screen you're going to see just why
10105s	we're so excited to do pakaru versus
10108s	Mari
10111s	nostrom oh first deck we see in front of
10113s	us is sarapen set you can see maybe
10115s	something cool in the bottom right
10117s	corner just in a second but we have to
10118s	go through sarine set first triple
10120s	Temple this is a version that we've seen
10122s	somewhat as a side grade to the karma
10124s	set it's placed like slightly lower but
10126s	sunken Temple can sometimes get you
10128s	there it's also on three puff pedler to
10130s	break the mirror also nowhere near as
10133s	many one ofs as you would expect out of
10135s	a seraphine list this is looking like
10137s	it's actually going to have a little bit
10138s	of a rough time actually leveling that
10141s	champion yeah I mean we see Cold Shot we
10143s	see IO tail stones which can do things
10145s	but we're going to the next deck himman
10147s	Nora if you know about this deck you
10148s	will know that pukaro was kind of the
10150s	person that invented it back when it
10153s	first came around it sort of popped up
10154s	in the Apex and then all of us sort of
10156s	Saw pukaru do well with it and took it
10158s	took it for ourselves but a very very
10160s	interesting list with two Dawning
10162s	shutter and three grave companion never
10164s	did I think I would see grave companion
10166s	in a list it's always a card that I've
10167s	been interested in but you know
10168s	definitely not what I expected and five
10170s	copies of Vengeance seems like a lot but
10172s	I mean hey we're here for it and then
10173s	the reason that we're here everybody
10175s	Evelyn maai we've seen some maai Mists
10179s	in top 64 before and you know what they
10181s	all had in common they were dog water
10183s	they went 0 and2 in top 64 this is the
10185s	deepest that I've ever seen one of these
10187s	make it granted I haven't looked very
10188s	hard but I'm very excited to see if the
10190s	watery grave deck can actually do
10192s	something here and these are probably
10193s	the only Evelyn and the only maai in the
10195s	entire
10196s	tournament it's a very very interesting
10199s	deck list using like watery grave which
10201s	was released I think like during the
10202s	expansion very very cool list marrum is
10206s	on the echo Jinx you know modern day
10208s	version of echo with no zillian only one
10211s	quick send and only one R of negation if
10212s	you're looking for your tech cards these
10214s	are typically the things you're seeing
10215s	as well as two mayam and one experiment
10217s	May's a very interesting card trying to
10219s	scry for your Chrono breaks more and
10221s	block quite well early on as well as the
10223s	experiment it's not something that you
10224s	see in these lists very often even after
10226s	the sort of Rise of jinx in popularity
10228s	even while Ekko was still standard legal
10230s	and of course now no longer but it's not
10232s	something you see very often going into
10233s	the next list though we've got Darius
10235s	Nar Brothers Bond as a two of is quite
10239s	the tech Choice here and outside of that
10241s	things looking relatively standard for a
10243s	list like this all the decks we've seen
10246s	so far have all got crazy interesting
10248s	cards I'm really excited to see if they
10250s	end up coming into play cuz these are
10252s	things that we rarely ever see Brothers
10254s	W especially in this one being the main
10256s	outlier bone Club is sometimes in
10258s	sometimes out but I think most versions
10260s	are stuck to one at this point uh very
10262s	interesting list finally ending up with
10264s	zed Gwen which I mean just as a deck is
10267s	often a bit weird I got the black flame
10269s	you know a bit of a bit of Worlds you
10271s	know trying to get into Worlds using the
10272s	black flame everyone's favorite world
10274s	famous card uh interesting choice to put
10276s	it on something like a zed or a shark
10278s	Chariot or a moonlit Glen keeper uh just
10280s	an overall very interesting L and death
10282s	Mark making it into the main as well I
10283s	don't think that's standard it might be
10286s	though I haven't really looked too
10287s	closely at these list to know like what
10288s	is standard what is not and then when it
10289s	comes to like looking at a pack list
10291s	you're still not really sure like what
10292s	is standard and what is not but as we
10294s	get into the bands here pakaru with a
10296s	very unique take on Triple control we
10298s	were talking earlier in the day about
10299s	war mother's call how it seemed to be
10301s	relatively popular for the players that
10302s	we were highlighting in the top 64 but
10304s	pakaru throwing all of that out the
10306s	window instead going for the more
10307s	traditional Norah Heimer I believe the
10308s	first time we'll see that a little bit
10310s	of an odd version of seraphine set and
10312s	then this Evelyn
10315s	maai this is a very cool lineup from
10317s	pyaru but this is not what they want to
10319s	be seeing I think they want to be seeing
10321s	heavy set control things like you know F
10324s	the rush not F the rush sorry War mother
10326s	call as you can try and outscale them or
10328s	maybe like slow mid-range stuff like
10330s	formidable to try to beat but all of
10332s	this is like very aggro slanted
10334s	mid-range which seraphine set can be too
10336s	slow to and uh this watery grave deck is
10339s	definitely going to be quite slow into
10340s	so I don't think this is the matchup you
10341s	wanted to see from PC car absolutely not
10344s	and this is what we talked about in the
10346s	top 32 right players coming in looking
10348s	for a specific Target but because this
10350s	is likely to be one of the widest metas
10352s	that we've ever seen you can definitely
10353s	miss on something like that and it looks
10355s	like that might be what's happening to
10357s	pakaru now there are still some Avenues
10360s	to Victory here Echo Jinx while it's
10363s	generally a pretty good anti-control
10364s	deck because you have the option to have
10366s	your board wiped and then revived still
10368s	a lot of combo pieces that kind of need
10370s	to come together we've seen Eko be the
10372s	hide-and-seek champion of 2023 so far
10374s	just not wanting to come to the
10375s	Forefront of the meta come into the deck
10377s	at the you know a meaningful time get
10379s	those Corona break shuffled and actually
10380s	get the engines going so there are still
10382s	inconsistencies inherently within the
10384s	Decks that Mario nostrom has brought
10386s	that pakaru can exploit but
10387s	unfortunately just not really up to
10389s	pisar whether or not these decks do what
10391s	they need to do and it's not a good
10393s	position to be in but definitely
10394s	winnable
10395s	I think the slowest deck that marrom has
10398s	is the nard Darius and that's going to
10399s	be what pizari tries to Target but from
10401s	Marin ostrom's perspective they are
10404s	going to be in a tough decision I doubt
10405s	they were thinking about this lineup
10407s	when they were building it are they
10408s	going to ban Mill or not probably not
10410s	because it's going to be too slow but
10411s	then what's your next best ban maybe
10413s	sarapin set or hman Nora but they're
10417s	also weird yeah it's hard to say with
10419s	this build of seraphine set right
10420s	because you don't actually expect the
10422s	seraphine to level in a timely fashion
10425s	in something like this and even if they
10426s	do you know how many spells are they
10428s	actually going to get to double up on
10429s	once sarap is leveled because they
10430s	probably played most of them to level
10432s	her in the first place it might even
10433s	just be about like getting off one face
10435s	breaker as the double up spell but more
10437s	than that I think the seraphine might
10439s	actually just be a little bit more of
10440s	like an anti-aggro Tech something that
10441s	can come down in the early game block
10443s	usually two units and then the temple
10445s	just kind of tries to win the game from
10446s	there out value your opponent out
10448s	resource them through a temple rather
10450s	than a Karma it's gotten pis aaru this
10452s	far in the event um but sometimes
10454s	players do look at something like that
10455s	evely and maai and go hey I've never
10457s	played against this before I don't
10458s	understand it I don't want to try to
10460s	play against it now for the first time
10462s	there's so many things must be going
10463s	through M ostrom's mind they could be
10465s	thinking I have to ban him and Nora cuz
10467s	this is the person that created it or we
10469s	have to ban you know EV and maai cuz I
10471s	don't know what's going on or we have to
10472s	ban the set deck and it's very
10474s	interesting listening to how people talk
10476s	about seraphine set recently when Karma
10478s	set first became a thing everyone
10479s	thought about it as a Karma Deck with
10480s	set sort of mid-range and now it's
10482s	become you know seen as the set deck
10484s	that just happens to have another chion
10486s	combined with it we do see the narus
10488s	band not what I was expecting but maybe
10490s	it's just the strongest most linear deck
10492s	that does the thing most consistently I
10495s	think it is a consistency issue here for
10496s	bisar to take that one off the table and
10498s	then Martin nostrom taking out the
10499s	sarapin set I guess just looking at that
10501s	is the deck with the most early game
10503s	access uh the one that is least
10505s	exploitable good this like Evelyn deck
10507s	does strike me as something that can be
10509s	hard to chew through if you're trying to
10511s	play aggressively and we're actually
10512s	going to get to see no we're going to
10514s	get to see it here in game number one
10515s	that py TOS means it's bandal City that
10517s	means it's himr Nora up against Echo
10520s	Jinx these hate spikes are going to be
10523s	really important against Echo Jinx
10525s	you're going to be able to threaten Ekko
10526s	and you're going to be able to prevent
10527s	Eko from striking if you want to try and
10529s	kill something else such as like aning
10531s	chronomancer or put damage on the voice
10532s	of the Risen but this may not be enough
10536s	cuz you will need to find a way to win
10537s	the game and no Nora no himer can spell
10540s	concern on the other hand Marin no has
10542s	some predicts and does get the drop
10544s	border but we'll need to find more
10546s	predicts over the course of the game
10547s	just the chronomancer and the the
10549s	fession is not
10551s	enough the first Blood world champion
10553s	here in drop order the only way to burst
10555s	attack your opponent on turn one well
10557s	not the only way but probably the best
10558s	way the 1 three developed and now sakaru
10561s	not finding much and again like what do
10564s	you even take here okay it looks like
10566s	it's going to be the removal of the
10567s	keywords I was going to ask you know do
10569s	you ever go for the landmark destruction
10571s	just to like make sure that an ancient
10572s	preparations down the line isn't an
10574s	issue you just go for the heal obviously
10576s	weapon destruction not something you
10577s	value but actually valuing the removal
10579s	of the keywords oh my goodness that's a
10580s	second drop
10581s	order removing the keywords is
10583s	interesting but what you must realize
10585s	about himon nor is that there aren't
10586s	that many blockers when you don't have
10588s	junk construct in your hand and so you
10590s	can remove eka's quick attack but it's
10592s	still going to probably survive with
10593s	that it's it's very interesting that we
10595s	saw explorers blunder be taken thinking
10598s	if they want to take voice of the Risen
10600s	or Mystic shot both are very good
10602s	reasons to be taken Mystic shot can
10603s	remove a blocker but voice of the RAS
10605s	lets you Pummel in for so much damage
10607s	and that's what we're going to see I I
10610s	actually obviously looking at the hands
10612s	and the double ha spike a triple hate
10613s	Spike now to piscar Mystic shot was
10614s	looking appealing because it will have
10616s	the option to cancel one of those but
10618s	the voices is actually highlighting an
10620s	issue that I have with this deck which
10621s	is it it it's just too many four drops
10625s	is kind of what it boils down to uh Jinx
10627s	never really feels like she gets to
10628s	level in a hand like this and you're not
10631s	really maintaining a large enough hand
10633s	size to make it worth it all the while
10635s	augmented experiment could flip that on
10637s	its head but again the problem with
10638s	these four drops is that they're all so
10640s	high value outside of augmented clocking
10642s	right there's so many puzzle pieces that
10643s	you need to fit together and they just
10644s	come out so slowly that pakaru really is
10647s	going to have time to just continue to
10649s	dig for this himer
10650s	dier you may not remember this but when
10653s	I first Top Cut you wrote about me in a
10655s	little article and you mentioned that I
10656s	was playing I I was playing Echo Jinx
10659s	and Echo Jinx into Shadow Isles does
10661s	very interesting things where while four
10663s	Mana is an issue
10665s	on your chions uh and your your wi such
10667s	as the voice of the reason Shadow only
10669s	really has damage six Mana removal in
10672s	the Vengeance they can try and H Spike
10673s	and we are going to see that come down
10675s	and that has changed it since you know
10676s	years ago when you wrote this article um
10679s	but you are able to sort of out value
10682s	because your wions are cheaper than
10683s	their answers and that's what Echo Jinx
10685s	is going to try and do
10691s	here not finding much off of this
10695s	predict I mean another Echo is certainly
10696s	something that you're going to want
10698s	right I think that all right how is this
10701s	the fourth predict or is this the third
10702s	predict I never remember if Ekko
10703s	actually Waits until the card finishes
10705s	resolving and then levels and shuffles
10706s	in the Chrono break or like you shuffle
10708s	them in as soon as the card is cast
10709s	because you're doing a predict never
10711s	quite sure I guess we'll find out in a
10712s	second here I don't even know if you
10713s	remember we've seen feral into aspiring
10716s	chronomancer into ancient preparation
10718s	this is in fact the fourth
10720s	predict okay soly the time trick then
10723s	the Chrono breaks go in see this is why
10725s	you're the
10727s	expert uh I've played too much of this
10729s	deck over the past year and a half I
10731s	think it's like my third or fourth
10732s	highest Mastery just below Sil auan and
10734s	redw uh we are going to see pukaru
10737s	making the most out of their triple hits
10738s	by C and getting a conchologist which we
10740s	haven't mentioned yet is quite an
10741s	important card for them to be able to
10743s	survive longer uh we're going to see
10745s	what they try and get here probably
10749s	those aren't good options but you're
10750s	probably taking
10751s	Quicken it's nice to be able to sort of
10755s	set up a shadow block with something
10756s	like this I don't think that the Quick's
10758s	going to get much use out of your
10759s	opponent once these once the voice of
10761s	the Risen comes down because the echo
10762s	did level before dying so now
10763s	everything's going to be up to four
10764s	attack you're not really looking to
10766s	bounce a drop border here but pisar is
10769s	still not finding a significant threat
10770s	and ectic collection is something that
10772s	I'm a little bit down on in a deck like
10775s	this because you do just have hands like
10777s	this it's such a clunky do nothing card
10779s	drawing multiple copies of it can be
10781s	such a rough position to be in and third
10782s	drop order or Mar nostrom that is
10788s	tragic letic collection is always really
10790s	interesting I always thought this is a
10791s	really powerful card but once you
10793s	realize that it only shuffles in at most
10795s	18 puff caps it's not even like
10797s	threatening as much as you think it
10798s	would right the best part of it is the
10799s	portals but if you've got a board full
10801s	of things like junk construct and
10802s	randomly summon portals you don't need
10804s	even more portals at that point this for
10806s	second finding the drop Port is quite
10807s	nice and we probably going to see that
10808s	curved into a voice of the and pizar is
10812s	going to have to Vengeance it but then
10814s	can just play even more Champions is
10817s	true and another issue with that
10818s	collector collection is the portals
10819s	going into the top 10 rather than the
10821s	top four so even if you're just trying
10822s	to do it with a couple of units it's not
10824s	great a little surprised to see the
10826s	Vengeance come out pre combat but maybe
10828s	piscard didn't actually think that
10830s	marrom was going to go into combat never
10832s	mind they just full swing again anyway
10833s	so going to get a block with the K just
10835s	just bouncing off with drop or to take
10836s	advantage of the husk health and next
10839s	turn is looking like it might even just
10841s	be like naked quick in onto con ol to
10844s	try and generate another spell oh never
10846s	mind there's another conchologist too a
10849s	little bit of backup but things are
10850s	still looking rough where Mar a just
10852s	continuing to draw champion after
10854s	Champion there's a very scary contol
10857s	just on the other side and the only
10858s	fearsome block is that Mar nostrom has
10861s	outside of voices buffing things are
10863s	champions which I think is a really
10864s	funny way and this chip damage if this
10866s	game does go long and pakari is able to
10868s	stabilize will be relevant right you do
10870s	want to win through puff Caps or you
10871s	want to win through six Mana hinger tyrs
10874s	so it's quite important to look for that
10875s	and Mar Ostrom not really finding their
10878s	Chrono breaks not really finding their
10879s	wions here they are going to go for May
10881s	to try and look even further it's like a
10883s	side grade to a a clocking but not
10886s	finding what they
10894s	need I'm looking I'm heing I'm haing all
10897s	of these like bandal tellstones yeah
10899s	kind of whatever the other two options
10901s	look rather appealing it's more about
10902s	like okay what do I think is actually in
10904s	my opponent's hand because when your
10905s	opponent's this low on cards obviously
10906s	the Trixie tentacles feels a lot better
10908s	but I think undergrowth is the right
10910s	option while you're just kind of getting
10911s	chipped down by all these drop
10913s	orders definitely like the undergrowth
10915s	finding a feral pre we're probably going
10917s	to see that come down this turn looking
10918s	for the r of negation or looking for the
10920s	Chrono break uh pisaro trying to figure
10923s	out what they're going to do with the
10924s	rest of their turns we are going to see
10926s	the undergrowth come down just before uh
10928s	a Chrono break could happen and if there
10929s	was a Chrono break this isn't the worst
10931s	one you can see losing three units can't
10933s	feel good I mean you don't lose them
10935s	there at the bottom of the deck but now
10936s	you know you've got three less units
10938s	happening
10939s	there I remember when oh man there was a
10941s	big debate about
10944s	like back in the go hard days and
10947s	tossing and it's like oh no you tossed
10949s	your go hards and it's like okay well
10950s	they were at the bottom of the deck so
10952s	it doesn't really matter anyway and then
10954s	oh well now your opponent has the
10955s	information that you're down go
10956s	ultimately I don't think it really
10957s	matters what was on the bottom of your
10958s	deck yeah you give a little bit of
10960s	information over to the opponent but I
10961s	think they kind of you know through the
10963s	power of reason able deduction Mar
10965s	nostrom was probably aware that there
10966s	weren't many units in pakaru hand at
10968s	this
10970s	point Mar nostrom getting a c if you
10973s	don't know by the way Mari means C and
10975s	nostrom means hour uh our is in the
10978s	pronoun us um but in a sea of all of
10981s	these four Mana cards eventually going
10983s	to be able to play two next turn isn't
10985s	that exciting finally two cards in a
10986s	turn uh but we're going to see the
10990s	perilous pastry come down combined with
10992s	is this going to be
10994s	I didn't see what it was initially but
10996s	it's going to be probably trying to deal
10997s	with the oh inter that's not ha Spike
11003s	even then I feel like this is accurate I
11005s	feel like hate spike is something you
11006s	would want to wait on here so that you
11008s	can set up the ghost block
11011s	but I think that's what we're going to
11013s	see I think we're going to see a Beyond
11014s	and a hate Spike on the turn uh if
11016s	you've been hand tracking I think you're
11018s	able to work out that there isn't
11022s	a a uh a Chon break I don't know if
11024s	that's entirely true but I feel like
11026s	we've seen these cards in the hand this
11028s	whole time we might be able to work that
11029s	out and feel pretty comfy knowing that
11031s	there's no uh R of negation Orono break
11034s	or at least trying to play for that and
11037s	it is going to work out and the wind
11039s	just keeps getting taken out of the
11041s	sales of marra but these drop orders are
11042s	just doing a lot of work regardless
11046s	thisaru yeah I think the raw Glimpse
11048s	Beyond is just something you've got to
11049s	fire off at this point this is your last
11051s	unit you can't really afford to wait
11052s	around for your opponent to draw a
11053s	Mystic shot maybe you'll find something
11054s	double grave companion uh which I
11057s	believe is probably going to make its
11059s	top 16 debut right here right now I
11060s	don't think this card has ever made it
11062s	this far
11064s	before you can play grave companion to
11066s	grave companion and then Glimpse Beyond
11068s	one of them to draw three cards for that
11070s	turn but that's not going to feel great
11072s	now Mar nostrom losing two voices
11074s	already like if you go through the deck
11076s	losing both voices is very hard it's
11078s	going to be hard to find that third copy
11079s	of voices which means that pukar isn't
11082s	actually looking that down in damage
11084s	there is going to be the the Jinx
11085s	leveling next turn but that can always
11087s	be Dawning shadowed
11090s	soar somehow has managed to stabilize
11092s	after one of the most awkward hands I've
11094s	seen with no junk construct and no nor
11096s	and even if Mario nostrom does draw a
11099s	Chrono break here okay it does matter a
11100s	little bit of to go into combat I
11101s	imagine gon's going to be used to dodge
11103s	the echo but that Dawning Shadow is
11105s	actually a great anti Chrono break Tech
11107s	in that you're only killing one unit and
11108s	then when your opponent goes for the
11110s	rally all of their units are
11111s	significantly reduced on their attack
11115s	it's a very interesting deck list I
11117s	doubt pisar was thinking about exactly
11119s	Echo Jinx with the way this is built but
11121s	it is definitely come into play quite a
11123s	bitume you're going to see the Glimpse
11124s	beond try and be hover draw three cards
11126s	eventually find these cards that you've
11128s	been looking for I don't think I can TOS
11130s	how much different this game would look
11131s	if jump construct was there earlier it
11133s	would have blocked like eight damage by
11135s	this point and been much much healthier
11137s	we're going to see Glimpse and H Spike I
11139s	think both come down and if you order
11140s	this properly no it doesn't matter how
11142s	you order it I don't think
11144s	to get an extra
11147s	draw is there even a hate Spike left I
11149s	thought all of the hate Spikes have been
11151s	oh this is double Glimpse
11152s	Beyond oh okay okay okay no it's not
11155s	it's one Glimpse Beyond and oh man we
11157s	don't remember what cards there are we
11158s	know it's one glimp Beyond and something
11160s	else it's py TOS P
11163s	TOS saving one damage trying to draw
11166s	three it shouldn't draw four right dog
11168s	doesn't proc on itself i' assume not
11170s	would be surprised if it
11172s	did it
11174s	doesn't we do see the himr Dron finally
11176s	units can be played pisar has finally
11178s	found any way to you know search for
11180s	units and Mar nostrom failing to draw
11184s	because of the Glimpse beond means they
11185s	can't find the Chrono break they can't
11186s	find R of negation and can't find a way
11188s	of killing on this time no so with
11192s	Mystic shot going to the top of the deck
11194s	Mystic shot at the Nexus puts pakaru
11196s	down to five Super Mega Death rocket
11198s	puts them down to two and then that
11200s	Mystic shot on top of the deck puts them
11202s	down to zero
11205s	one thing I want to point out about
11207s	himora this is something I was thinking
11208s	about talking about earlier uh himora is
11212s	really interesting where typically
11214s	whenever you fought Shadows you always
11215s	be like Health their health doesn't
11216s	really matter because they can always
11217s	heal they've always have vile piece they
11218s	always have these cards Hora doesn't run
11221s	healing anymore which means it's
11222s	basically like a pnz noxus control there
11225s	which is a crazy difference obviously
11227s	you can get healing from the Explorer
11229s	that's the one like exception to this
11231s	rule but you can count down to 20 which
11234s	is something you could never do against
11235s	si decks
11236s	previously I think that's why we've seen
11238s	such a big fall off of Si in standard
11240s	even if
11241s	the lack of healing in si isn't as much
11245s	of an issue as people might make it out
11247s	to be I think it's just such a play
11249s	style difference from what we're used to
11250s	out of Shadow a especially the control
11252s	Decks that like it it's taken us longer
11255s	than we might have liked to adapt to it
11256s	but I assume this is going to be the
11258s	Mystic shot off the top and that's just
11260s	going to be lethal no they went for
11262s	something else actually
11265s	that's I'm looking at the deck list here
11268s	spids I'm not seeing anything that could
11270s	have possibly stop that line of
11274s	play uh if you're you might be seeing
11276s	this Explorer they don't know that it's
11278s	explor blunder it could have been the
11281s	Explorer healing spell and tried to go
11283s	for a longer game I don't hate it it's
11285s	like the like aorus snacks that we saw
11287s	earlier when AB Nessie was not playing
11289s	it earlier it's similar but I think
11291s	you're still supposed to go for the
11292s	mytic shot there because you're still
11293s	reing a lot of damage with your anyway
11295s	and getting the clucking doesn't change
11296s	that all that much I also feel like
11298s	there were I'm not 100% sure on this but
11300s	I'm relatively certain that pisar has
11301s	passed with a good amount of Mana in the
11303s	past to the point where they probably
11305s	would have just used the healing to be
11307s	Mana
11308s	efficient but if they haven't then yeah
11311s	maybe Mario nostrum is still cognizant
11313s	of the healing going what else would you
11314s	even possibly take in this matchup
11315s	obviously it's the healing if you even
11317s	if you took the keyword one then I've
11319s	had a jinx and an echo in play before
11321s	surely you would have used it on one of
11323s	them and had a more effective block but
11325s	that's just not howaru units have lined
11327s	up up until this point but I don't think
11329s	Mar nostrom is really in danger of dying
11331s	before pakaru finishes them
11334s	off pakara has to make some decisions
11336s	here we are going to see explorers
11338s	blunder come down and try and develop
11339s	some units probably going to see another
11341s	unit come down as well I wonder if you
11344s	pop the Chrono break here this is
11345s	something that's very difficult to
11346s	organize Eko isn't going to die so you
11349s	are able to get the free uh attack and
11352s	trade into the board a little you don't
11353s	revive anything but you're basically
11355s	just using this as Relentless p and
11356s	trying to pressure a deck that doesn't
11358s	respond well to Relentless p man I'm
11360s	good now luckily uh pisar can dodge this
11364s	with a quick in onto one of their units
11366s	and then replay it on the following turn
11368s	and just full block everything else and
11370s	because the Chona break came out already
11371s	you don't have to worry about that so
11372s	your units are going to survive it's
11374s	just a matter of what do you want to
11375s	bounce to your own hand do you want to
11376s	reset the health on your dog even though
11378s	it's more Mana maybe you reset the Nora
11380s	just because it's you know the cheaper
11382s	unit and it looks like it is going to be
11383s	the
11385s	Norah Mar nostrom is going to be ruing
11387s	in their seat seeing this they've seen
11389s	three hate spikes two glimp Beyond and a
11392s	pyos and still their Echo is inable to
11395s	trade that's got to feel awful you would
11397s	have thought that Echo was guaranteed
11398s	here but no this conola just picking
11400s	this maybe like 20 turns ago slight
11402s	pilation more like six uh could have you
11405s	wouldn't have expected it it just it's
11406s	got to hurt to see from Marin Ostrom and
11409s	now pisar is finally going to get to
11410s	take advantage of that ectic collection
11413s	so while Mar and asesa sit here and dig
11415s	through their deck to try to find and
11416s	out they're going to be drawing shrooms
11418s	in the process and thanks to production
11419s	we see that Nora is now fully leveled
11422s	and will be generating four five six
11424s	seven Mana units coming out of these
11428s	portals game is far from over though
11431s	because as we've said before this High
11433s	Manor is just like old noxus uh pnz
11436s	except slightly different uh there is no
11438s	healing outside of an Explorer if Mar
11440s	nostrom is able to find that uh Mystic
11442s	shot that we saw earlier that wasn't
11443s	picked they could still easily lose and
11446s	there are so many ways Mar to top deck
11447s	what they need yeah I believe there's
11449s	still two Mystic shot two Jinx left in
11452s	the deck maybe it's only no yeah I think
11454s	I think it is two Jinx left in the deck
11455s	at this point believe one was like
11457s	shuffled Away by a Marium earlier so
11461s	minimum H I'm not going to say minimum
11463s	maximum Four Points of burn or four burn
11466s	cards rather that maram can still draw
11468s	into to find the end of this game and
11470s	pakaru would have to find an Explorer in
11472s	the meantime to get one Health above a
11474s	super mega Death rocket two above a
11475s	Mystic shot but they're not presenting
11478s	lethal on this following turn not
11479s	through
11481s	quicksand and there are interesting ways
11483s	that pisara can try and look for another
11485s	Explorer they could shoot their
11487s	own uh Flor beone they're able to play
11490s	ceaseless entry and try look for but we
11492s	see the Mystic shot drawn and this will
11495s	dispel lethal as soon as Mar nostrom
11497s	gets an
11501s	action it was a close one spids for a
11503s	second there I thought pakaru might have
11505s	been able to like you know it would have
11506s	taken a couple of turns but maybe
11508s	ultimately in the end they could get
11509s	there but sometimes you just draw those
11511s	two points of burn that you shuffled
11513s	away earlier in the game and that is
11514s	going to do it here for game number one
11516s	Mari nostrom taking it over
11519s	pakaru Kara's got to be thinking I
11521s	should have taken the other thing from
11523s	the Explorer it was so close I would
11525s	have had two Health remaining and I
11526s	would have made
11529s	it well you know what they say
11531s	hindsight's 50/50 and hopefully
11533s	now we'll get to see this Evelyn maai
11535s	deck going up against ephemerals this is
11537s	not a position that you want to be in if
11538s	you're pakaru ephemerals back in the day
11542s	very very heavily anti-control deck
11544s	there was really nothing you could do
11545s	unless you ran withering wh but
11547s	withering wh wasn't very effective
11548s	against the rest of the meta you know
11549s	this is a little bit more low to the
11550s	ground a little bit more aggressive
11551s	there's no like Hecker room top end but
11553s	at the end of the day still a little bit
11555s	of a nightmare for decks like
11557s	these yeah honora is going to have some
11560s	better play into it with things like
11561s	pyos to shoot shoot down some things and
11564s	the fact that they can't really
11565s	effectively kill himer or Norah can be
11567s	quite relevant and we're going to see
11568s	bothos and himer in the opening hand but
11571s	at the end of the day Mari nostrom
11573s	doesn't sort of fall off cuz every
11575s	single attack that they're going to have
11576s	will be pressuring 15 damage pretty much
11578s	every single time that's just how a fals
11580s	work you need to put them on a clock you
11582s	can't just be passive and pisar is going
11584s	to struggle to find that luckily they do
11586s	have a more proactive hand this time
11587s	around
11588s	and but still shark Chariot in the
11591s	opener really highlights the pain point
11592s	in the match like this it's something
11594s	that you can't interact with in play it
11597s	or rather like it's slow speed it
11599s	doesn't come in until they're already in
11600s	combat and by then it's a little bit too
11601s	late for the perilous pastry to come out
11603s	and be an answer but you know they're
11606s	generally not killing by turn five
11609s	pakaru should have the time to get down
11610s	a Heimerdinger and establish a board by
11612s	then uh I'm a little bit more worried
11614s	about this maai
11616s	deck Mari nostrom has got the perfect
11619s	one two three four they've got the foyer
11621s	on the defensive token to get the extra
11623s	hollowed they've got Gwen that needs to
11625s	be vened but you're going to be facing
11627s	down so many things they have to make a
11629s	tough decision though shark Chariot or
11631s	redeem Prodigy redeem Prodigy does four
11633s	damage now and one for every Future Turn
11635s	but Shar Char does three damage now and
11636s	three for every Future Turn and deciding
11638s	that the future game is more
11640s	important and no pie toss onto the shark
11643s	Chariot to deny that little bit of
11644s	damage probably going to have to save
11645s	that for once the himer comes down
11647s	because I think you're right Vengeance
11648s	onto Gwen on turn four is borderline
11650s	mandatory so not able to have that big
11653s	spell for when the himr Dinger actually
11654s	comes down you got to kind of take what
11655s	you can get and himer is not really like
11658s	the win condition in this deck in the
11660s	way that it was in himer Jace you're not
11662s	really getting a slurry of big turrets
11664s	it's more about like yeah here's just
11666s	more bandal City gum up the board
11668s	nonsense to level up my
11671s	Norah do see Norah get the strike in and
11674s	just having enough block is exactly what
11675s	you want we are going to see portal Pine
11677s	come down and destroy the opulent fo
11679s	very important that this happened this
11681s	is going to deny probably four or five
11683s	stacks of hollow plus 10 damage worth of
11685s	these units over the course of the next
11687s	couple of turns cuz either this game
11688s	goes along or Mar nostrom win so we're
11691s	going to see uh this this happen uh it's
11694s	a very good take from the portal
11698s	Pioneer no oh Soul Harvest is a very
11704s	very good top deck for pakaru if this
11706s	Gwen actually does come down I think
11707s	that's enough of a Tempo stoppage for
11709s	pisara to really get back into this game
11711s	so Mari nostrom is going to look at that
11712s	deck say ah you know if I run out this
11715s	GW and I get Soul harvested that's kind
11716s	of a rough beat let me throw down the
11718s	redeemed Prodigy instead that way I
11719s	leave hate Spike open if there is some
11721s	kind of removal tool for it and instead
11723s	it's just going to be a blocker
11724s	developed by pisar but either way a lot
11726s	of time bought here and now as a six
11728s	Mana spell available while Heimerdinger
11730s	comes through getting extra shock
11733s	Chariot as well it's going to be
11734s	difficult to find a way to proc shock
11735s	Chariot on a future turn unless you want
11737s	to use the moon Glen keeper we do see
11738s	stalking Shadows which can proc shark
11740s	Chariot by giving you an ephemeral unit
11743s	but pakara is going to have the sort of
11745s	hand that allows them to start on the
11747s	very slow and not too great feeling
11750s	stabilization process with the himer
11751s	with the pitas and going to be able to
11754s	get another portal pretty much
11755s	guaranteed with three draws plus the
11757s	draw from the ceaseless entry and this
11760s	is where we're really going to start to
11761s	see the break point between this and
11762s	other ephemeral decks in the past just
11764s	the lack of heckum the lack of the big
11766s	finish that levels up in your deck and
11768s	comes down and gives everything buffed
11770s	up for the rest of the game the
11771s	overwhelm damage on the unit itself
11773s	can't really be understated instead now
11775s	we're actually just going to see like a
11776s	draw denied Nora taken out with the ha
11778s	Spike and got to hope for a decent husk
11781s	here to power up that
11784s	Gwen yeah tough or spell shield would be
11786s	really ideal for trying to go onto this
11788s	Gwen you could also hope for regen but
11790s	doesn't seem to get too much and we are
11792s	going to see uh the quick attack husk
11795s	sort of Superfluous with Gwen but who
11797s	knows maybe we it'll be surprising and
11798s	we'll get two quick
11800s	attacks unfortunately the the he buff
11803s	not super relevant here as we're still
11804s	kind of lining up that Soul Harvest onto
11806s	that Gwen it might even happen on the
11808s	himer Dinger turn get another portal
11809s	down as the portal POA does turn back
11811s	into a nor so that's one less spell for
11813s	the himer in the future but now is the
11814s	Moment of Truth just an open attack
11816s	might as well push a little bit of
11817s	damage get the portal under the deck for
11818s	free it's not like you're attacking with
11820s	the Heimerdinger this turn so see how
11823s	Marin nostrom wants to open this one
11825s	pakaru might just take a pass if Mar
11827s	offers
11829s	it this does look like pisara has
11832s	definitely stabilized quite a bit
11834s	they're getting a couple of portals over
11835s	the next couple of turns they're
11836s	probably going to play himr and they
11837s	shouldn't I imagine be any way of
11838s	interacting with it I don't think we saw
11840s	s har or anything there might be death
11842s	Mark which pukara could be thinking
11844s	about but that would be about it but
11846s	Mario nostrom doesn't have as bad as the
11848s	hand might seem being able to stun
11850s	something and being able to scry for
11851s	something like extra moonl Glen Keepers
11853s	or even shark chariots could be really
11855s	really good with this stalking
11857s	Shadows yeah definitely not out of the
11859s	woods I mean even if they take the pass
11862s	here stage hand into the Moonlight Glen
11865s	keeper with the shark Chariot already in
11867s	the death pool offers up a good amount
11868s	of damage now with himer coming down I
11870s	imagine Gwen is relatively safe to come
11871s	down as well it's a matter of you know
11874s	probably not going to be an open attack
11875s	at a Mari nostrom if if there is it's
11877s	going to be disastrous walking into that
11878s	Vengeance but with the stage hand in
11880s	hand I imagine Mario nostrom is going to
11881s	run this one out one thing we should
11883s	heavily consider never mind ignore what
11886s	I was about to say I was going to say
11887s	moonl Glen keeper has fearsome and there
11889s	aren't that many good fearsome blockers
11891s	from pcar but Noble Rebel is a fearsome
11894s	blocker and that changes things a lot
11896s	you are able to do stage hand plus moonl
11898s	Glen keeper but the actions allow Pyar
11901s	to do Vengeance and develop the six one
11903s	you can pull it to the side that damage
11904s	is still relevant we could see a five
11906s	damage fearsome but takes a lot more set
11908s	up we'll see what Mario nostrom wants to
11911s	open with here three hallowed Stacks
11913s	proed up three Mark of the aisle in the
11916s	deck something pisar is going to have to
11917s	think of when lining up this Soul
11919s	Harvest onto the Gwen although I think
11921s	you'd be relatively happy to see
11923s	ephemeral go down on the Gwen you just
11924s	kind of need to deal with that card
11926s	especially as Mario nram gets down to
11927s	three cards in hand here pisar though
11930s	only enough Mana for a couple of spells
11932s	if the soul Harvest is used vengeance is
11934s	off the
11936s	table going to be a tough decision for
11938s	pakara you could try and go for soul
11940s	Harvest but again it runs into the mark
11941s	of the ODS as you were saying and if you
11942s	do that you can't afford Vengeance
11944s	anymore High TOS you could try and
11946s	double up one get a bunch of one ones
11947s	and deny what you think might be one of
11949s	the few ways they've got a feral access
11951s	to you've already destroyed the landmark
11952s	you've already seen a couple of these
11953s	come down they may not have easy ways of
11955s	creating emerals especially if you can
11956s	pyos or perilous B them afterwards these
11959s	car got a lot they definitely need to
11960s	think about uh I wonder what they go for
11963s	it's going to be quite tough we are
11964s	going to see the soul Harvest hovered
11965s	and threaten
11968s	the if Mark of the Isle stops it either
11971s	way you might as well go after the Gwen
11972s	here right I don't think you're really
11974s	leaving up too much with that one extra
11975s	Mana but no is going to go onto the
11978s	redeemed
11981s	prodigy Boulevard's pants are on fire
11984s	because he is a liar but we are going to
11986s	see the moonlet land keeper pry come
11988s	down train and pull the Fearsome to the
11990s	side and not an easy way for pizari to
11992s	answer it there will be five Dam five
11996s	yeah three 2 plus three five damage plus
11997s	the Gwen extra two we're going to see
11999s	pakara go down to probably three Health
12001s	here and again a deck that doesn't
12002s	really
12011s	heal all right there is the Moonlight
12013s	Glen keeper here comes I imagine the
12016s	turret might be the pie toss instead to
12019s	try and stop the challenge onto the
12021s	Fearsome
12023s	unit and that would just uh take a lot
12026s	of the wind out of the sales of Marin
12027s	nostrom still get the two damage three
12029s	for the Gwen but yeah it does kind of
12031s	feel like this might just have to be
12032s	pre-combat py toss to preserve your
12034s	fearsome
12037s	blocker that may have to be the case
12040s	again you're going to be running into uh
12042s	Mark of the Isles but we have seen that
12044s	already been sort of tested for so this
12046s	is rather safe as a player uh it does
12049s	mean that the moon l l keeper is not
12051s	going to push in for the five damage
12052s	Gwen will still be able to trade into
12053s	something probably just the draw to be
12055s	honest and that'll be even better for
12057s	p and that's what we're going to see the
12059s	trade and presumably the block P ofar
12062s	has definitely stabilized but again we
12063s	see stalking Shadows this is not out of
12065s	the woods yet Eternal dancer probably
12069s	the it's the it's the largest hit that
12072s	you could get off the stalking Shadows
12074s	but even something like a shark Chariot
12075s	might be a little bit more impactful in
12077s	terms of like ending the game later on
12078s	because you're getting double up on the
12080s	shark Chariot uh each one is summoning
12082s	the other shark chariots because it's
12083s	ephemeral and while there is still an
12085s	ephemeral in the hand of Mario nostrom
12086s	anything can become ephemeral with a
12088s	mark of the aisle down the line but with
12090s	so many cards in the hand of piscar you
12091s	got to assume that this is going to be
12093s	like a Nora level into the ectic
12096s	collection all these portals start
12097s	coming out and probably no more damage
12100s	going to be pushed through
12103s	the ceaseless Sentry was Glimpse Beyond
12105s	it and then portal back into another
12106s	ceaseless Sentry it seems to be some
12108s	sort of Shadow trickery where nor is
12110s	putting a portal right under the Glimpse
12112s	and taking the unit back uh this is a
12114s	very threatening attack and we even see
12116s	The Eclectic collection we're not going
12118s	to see it played right now but eclectic
12120s	will be able to shuffle in a bunch of
12122s	puff caps exactly 18 as well as create a
12125s	61 for Hing all right so all okay here's
12129s	here's what happens Marin austrom goes
12131s	oh look I did it I I okay here oh man I
12134s	was waiting for I one of the puff caps
12135s	in the deck first and then you don't
12137s	even look at the puff caps and it's like
12138s	oh no there were 17 puff caps on my
12140s	stage hand where did those come from
12143s	just really turn the tides and give us
12144s	an excellent game through with this Maly
12146s	list that we really want to see in
12147s	action this kind of why we picked this
12149s	match up in the first place piss ofar so
12151s	hurry up with the N the himr nor we've
12153s	seen this before I've seen it I'm sick
12155s	of it whatever Nora level up awesome
12158s	cool yordles everywhere great text
12159s	whatever man I want to see some mil
12164s	after that TI raade we should keep in
12165s	mind that Mario nostrom is definitely
12167s	not out of it and that pick from
12168s	stalking Shadows with two fearsome
12170s	attackers can definitely be relevant we
12172s	might see himer flip by then but if
12174s	there's not enough ways of blocking
12175s	fearsome this is quite a bit of damage
12178s	it's six damage right now with four
12180s	Hollow plus two from one of the GL
12181s	Keepers you get both of them hit that
12183s	will be lethal Mario nostr is definitely
12185s	not out of this one of the better hits
12187s	to get from stalking Shadows I think
12189s	it's still going to take the backup of
12190s	something like a mar of there's aveng
12192s	and a hate spike in the hand for pisar
12194s	so even though they've only got one
12195s	fearsome blocker at the moment and they
12198s	might even I don't I don't imagine Mario
12200s	nostrom is actually going to throw out a
12201s	block here they might but at the same
12202s	time you'd kind of be opening yourself
12204s	up to a potential portal coming out okay
12206s	I kind of like this keeping the uh sort
12207s	of board full because now that the Norah
12209s	is leveled you don't want to your
12211s	opponent is just like oh look here's my
12212s	soul gorger coming out of my portal and
12215s	now suddenly not only do I have a fome
12217s	blocker but I have life steal so you
12218s	know a situation like this they're going
12220s	to force it into pis aaru's hand go go
12222s	for I guess it's not even going to be an
12223s	open attack right you probably are going
12225s	to have to Nightfall out these moonl
12227s	Glen Keepers um and with that being the
12230s	case between the Vengeance the hate
12232s	Spike the pie toss I'm not seeing the
12234s	lethal here for Marin
12237s	nostrom you never know if if there is a
12239s	mark of the is top deck I think it is
12242s	possible you'd have to map out all of
12243s	these actions with how the Heim is going
12245s	to create stuff without that ha is
12246s	going to come down it is not the easiest
12248s	decision to make but if we don't see the
12250s	mark the I do think you're right that
12252s	Mar nostrom is not going to find their
12254s	way out of this especially ifle
12256s	Collection comes down someone's a 61
12258s	right now and gets a bunch of portals
12259s	and is able to develop things like a
12261s	surprise Soul gorger for example you see
12263s	it come down and everyone's favorite
12264s	long animation that slightly shorter
12267s	than the sun disc and uh this yeah this
12269s	is going to be a hinger level up as well
12271s	all in the same action so every time
12273s	we've seen that collectic collection so
12275s	far it's been immediately followed up by
12276s	that hinger level up and I just imagine
12278s	we're going to get a pass out of mar
12280s	nostrom here not a lot of reason do
12282s	throw out the moon GL keeper before you
12283s	can Nightfall it and will have the Mana
12285s	to run all of the units in hand
12286s	currently out on the following turn but
12288s	again even without spell Mana banked
12291s	Vengeance plus hate Spike are available
12293s	and now a five five no all three Chimes
12296s	I believe went on in the same unit but
12297s	that should at least be one additional
12299s	fearsome Blocker in Hand of pakaru if
12300s	they get in
12302s	action Zed is a little bit too late you
12305s	would have hoped to see this on maybe I
12306s	don't know turn three and instead it's
12307s	turn eight which last time I checked is
12309s	exactly five turns too late uh Mar
12312s	nostrom just isn't going to be able to
12314s	find their way out of this pukaru could
12315s	tap under something if if they're being
12317s	a bit too quick but even with his hand
12319s	it's hard to tap under Vengeance when
12320s	all of your cards cost less than three
12322s	Mana now imagine if the Zed were a
12325s	heckum if you will I know that he's
12327s	rotated I know he's often in Eternal
12330s	Wonderland but this is
12333s	why I'm not as big on a femals as I once
12337s	was and I was never huge on it but man
12339s	the finishing power that he brought to
12341s	the table you just don't get that out of
12344s	zed zed is really good into Decks that
12347s	don't have direct damage removal like
12348s	Decks that don't run hate Spike or don't
12350s	run pyos or don't run you know all of
12352s	the things that pukaru is trying to run
12355s	this is just not the match up for Z I
12356s	think it wanted to see something like
12357s	Gwen Riven where they don't have well
12359s	actually no that has H Spike I don't
12360s	know what Zed wants to see but Z wants
12363s	to see Jack or I
12365s	guess and run into Jax's Champion spell
12369s	I can see
12370s	that uh isaro just thinking you know
12373s	what are the possible ways that I lose
12375s	this do I need a hate Spike now or can I
12376s	wait on hate Spike there's a lot of
12377s	things you can think about they're going
12378s	to be looking at each other's deck lists
12379s	and trying to figure this all out but
12381s	isara stay slow and stay steady they
12383s	should be able to come through this with
12384s	a bunch of uh FL be guns attacking
12388s	elusively yeah it's a little bit of with
12391s	only six Mana left available you can
12393s	either Vengeance or you can pie toss
12395s	perilous pastry hate Spike and just kind
12397s	of thinking okay if my opponent goes
12398s	into combat is there anything that they
12399s	could possibly do to me especially if I
12401s	end up going for like a pie toss hat
12403s	Spike combo rather than the Vengeance
12404s	does Mark of the aisle get me in some
12406s	way you're aware that your opponent only
12408s	has one unknown card the other one you
12410s	know is a moonland glen keeper because
12411s	the one in play is ephemeral so you know
12413s	they came off the stock and shadows here
12414s	comes the second copy and that's just
12416s	another calculation that pisaro was
12417s	doing if my opponent played one moonl
12419s	gun keeper they're pretty likely to play
12421s	the second one and honestly an attack
12423s	lost tier off of one is playing the
12425s	ephemeral copy before the non-ephemeral
12427s	copy not that I think it really makes a
12430s	difference here
12433s	are going to see this attack line up Mar
12435s	noom's got to just be praying you know
12436s	no Vengeance no hit Spike please let me
12439s	get this a like this a fear some damage
12441s	in but we can see the hand that's going
12443s	to be the case Mar nostrom I don't think
12446s	playing like I don't think anything was
12448s	badly played From marous perspective
12450s	they played their 1 two 3 four or they
12452s	didn't play Gwen in the end they played
12453s	another card but they were trying to be
12455s	aggressive they mulliganed rather well
12457s	it just it didn't pan out when pcar
12458s	managed to play himer on five and that's
12461s	always been the biggest criticism of
12463s	ephemerals it is a strong deck but it is
12465s	a low agency deck there's really it's
12468s	not really up to you in a lot of
12469s	situations how well you do all you can
12471s	do is put your cards on the table and if
12472s	your opponent has the answers well
12473s	that's just all she
12476s	wrote the H Spike come down going to see
12479s	more turrets be
12481s	spawned himer for some reason seeing
12483s	Evelyn kill something and be like yeah
12485s	this is a good opportunity to create a
12486s	tough turret this is exactly what I was
12488s	trying to do going to draw kahiri The
12490s	Returned and a bunch of I forgot about a
12492s	collectic collection it's on the screen
12494s	but I just completely forgot about it
12496s	and I don't think there's an alha Mar
12498s	Noom at this point I don't think there's
12499s	a single thing they could draw to avoid
12501s	them getting lethal down fearsomely
12503s	actually uh oh you you don't know that
12506s	about the uh what is this 11 Mana Shadow
12509s	a fast speed drain six from the
12512s	opponent's Nexus spell you haven't heard
12513s	about that one oh no sorry I hadn't
12516s	heard about this I must have missed that
12517s	when they released utter Devastation I
12519s	just get them so confused
12522s	those variety cards get pretty wild
12525s	these
12526s	days we do see the surrender 1 for p
12529s	CaRu versus Mar nostrom and we are going
12532s	to see your very favorite Evelyn maai
12535s	Mill whoa who said anything about favor
12538s	it's why we're watching the matchup but
12539s	let me tell you Boulevard likes it when
12541s	yall just bring the same deck it makes
12543s	my stats easy my I get carpal tunnel if
12545s	there's too many one of and I got to say
12546s	this time around it's not going to be
12548s	kind on the wrists for me but this is a
12550s	list that we haven't seen before and
12551s	actually is taking advantage of I don't
12553s	think it was a variety patch this time
12555s	or ays rather the two Mana 1 one Nexus
12558s	strike summon a random husk I think it
12560s	might I don't think it was a variety
12561s	patch card but I remember you know it
12563s	didn't really make an impact when it
12565s	came out so I kind of forget when it
12566s	came out now on top of that just you
12568s	know some a couple of like sea monster
12570s	cards but grave companion another tech
12572s	choice that pakaru has put in this
12574s	Shadow aisle list that uh I don't even
12576s	know what to expect out of a normal mil
12577s	deck because I've seen normally when I
12579s	see like the maai watery grave stuff
12581s	it's it still just kind of looks like
12585s	deep the the deck does some interesting
12587s	things it has seen some Niche play
12589s	tournaments I know sir tman has been
12590s	playing it a little bit in some certain
12592s	things it does some things powerfully
12594s	but you really have to stall you you
12596s	don't have a windc con outside of water
12598s	gave you can pretend to have C Scarab
12599s	winning and you can pretend to have
12600s	Evelyn but it never gets you there
12602s	fighting this deck that is probably
12604s	going to be able to pressure them
12605s	relatively effectively but pukara maybe
12607s	has the best draw with double C Scarab
12609s	and
12610s	maai maybe would have liked a soul
12612s	Harvest instead of the Vengeance would
12614s	have paed into this hand very well but
12615s	of course one mark of the aisle out of
12616s	Mari and aam could undo all of that
12617s	anyway so going to ship it back for an
12620s	Evelyn
12622s	not looking great into what Marin
12625s	nostrom has assembled here pisar very
12627s	much at risk of just getting aggro down
12629s	but hey with this many units in hand all
12631s	of your top decks are that much more
12633s	likely to be
12635s	removal that's one way of thinking about
12637s	it you know if my Mulligan is bad at
12639s	least I'll draw into good cards later on
12641s	the other hand Mario nostrom has drawn
12643s	into two dragon Ambush which are
12645s	typically pretty good but only if you've
12646s	got a high density of hollow and shark
12648s	charot and with only one hollowed and no
12650s	shark Chariot these are just five Mana
12652s	deal fors which is not great oh the
12655s	black flame does that change anything
12659s	spids I'm trying to think of even what
12660s	the I mean I think obviously the high
12662s	priority Target is shark chariots just
12664s	getting as many shark chariots
12665s	assumingly possible but outside of that
12666s	green blade Duo is not an awful grab
12672s	I have seen a lot of people pick Z with
12674s	this thing protect Z it means Z can't be
12676s	hate spoken uh which I that's not the
12679s	past sense of hate Spike hate
12682s	spiked where that there's a good way of
12684s	protecting that unit especially if
12685s	there's no Landmark removal it's a very
12687s	good way of dealing with that but that's
12690s	sort of where you're hoping at the most
12693s	we are going to see the past because
12694s	there isn't that much else going on and
12695s	we are going to see the mark of the
12697s	protect from a hate Spike if that ends
12699s	up becoming the case this is a concern
12701s	that that I had is yes Zed is a very
12703s	good Target the problem is that if you
12704s	want to do all of that you have to wait
12706s	until turn five and even then there's
12708s	still an opportunity for the opponent to
12709s	kill the Zed before the black Lane comes
12711s	down Mark the a is going to mitigate
12712s	that just a little bit uh but at this
12714s	point pakaru also just has enough
12716s	establish to fight through the mark of
12719s	the aisle the hate Spike plus the
12720s	undergrowth will kill this unit
12722s	regardless and now we're even seeing the
12724s	Z come down a turn before the blackflame
12725s	is online Gwen also not a bad Target but
12727s	again uh you know it's just a one of
12729s	it's not like you have to Tunnel too
12730s	hard on card like this to find Victory
12732s	sometimes green Glade Duo into Z just
12734s	like the beta days is good
12736s	enough while picari does have some
12739s	answers towards what Mar a wants to do
12740s	pakar also has to weigh if they want to
12743s	be playing the sea scarabs the evelyns
12745s	and the maai because they will want to
12746s	have the saplings be aggressive but they
12748s	can't do maai plus a sapling unless they
12750s	do hate Spike on the next turn and do
12753s	the maai on the next turn if they play
12754s	something else on this turn there's a
12755s	lot of math that they have to work out
12757s	regarding how exactly they want to
12758s	stabilize after this turn it may not be
12760s	correct to go for the ha spike in the
12762s	undergrowth if it means you're not
12763s	developing units against a deck that
12764s	constantly tries to Pummel you there's
12767s	also just the thought of if you if like
12770s	right now you go okay here's an
12773s	undergrowth onto Zed before you go to
12775s	combat and Mark of the aisle comes out
12776s	and you okay okay here's hate Spike onto
12778s	Z and a second Mark of the all comes out
12780s	you are eliminated from the
12783s	tournament that would definitely be
12785s	scary I I I would I would hate if that
12787s	happened to me I can understand why
12789s	pakari would not want to go for that
12791s	trying to line up the attacks trying to
12793s	figure out probably if they want to even
12795s	attack with Z at all because if maai
12798s	blocks it Z will die either Zed dies
12801s	from the strike or they have to play The
12803s	Mark of the Isles not having a Hol yet
12805s	means that Zed is running into something
12807s	here and I think that's a a trade that
12811s	Mario nostrom is just going to have to
12813s	accept given that maai is going to do
12816s	way too good of a job of keeping Mari
12819s	ostrom's board under control if it's
12820s	allowed to take cable
12822s	here definitely going to be a
12824s	consideration it's it's weird to think
12825s	of maai right now as being like a
12827s	broadwing Creator or Fleet feather
12829s	tracker Creator but that's something
12830s	that Marin Ostrom can't really deal with
12833s	but losing Z means that there's not
12834s	going to be a good black flame Target
12836s	Duo is not what you want cuz you're
12838s	going to miss out on the extra stacks
12840s	and Gwen is not what you want either Zar
12842s	deciding not to block and elect to keep
12843s	the maai around Z flipping which is
12847s	quite important for the extra stats that
12848s	will be constantly pummeling this one
12850s	string will meta when it's doubled all
12852s	the time it does take it out of Soul
12854s	Harvest range as well which is I feel
12856s	like sometimes players really
12859s	overestimate how scary level two Z is
12861s	when there's just literally nothing in
12863s	the deck that gives z a keyword to
12865s	spread around which is kind of what you
12867s	get out of a level two Z obviously the
12868s	one Health and one attack in a matter
12870s	are a lot more in a match up like this
12871s	is like undergrowth Soul Harvest and
12873s	these saplings just no longer available
12875s	and with that black flame coming down
12877s	Zed is now available to be played Again
12879s	by Mari a and then two Zeds
12881s	is a lot of Zeds a lot more Zeds than
12883s	you want to be dealing with and because
12884s	they're all Emerald they're going to get
12885s	additional Buffs from you know any of
12887s	the moonl GL cers or things like that
12890s	but this might just be an empty board
12892s	you do have to attack with something in
12894s	order for the black flame to trigger and
12896s	I guess that's where the dragon ambushes
12897s	are coming in Dragon Ambush is
12900s	definitely a powerful card here it may
12901s	look like Mar nostrom only has one
12903s	attack token next turn but Mar no's
12905s	actually got two attack tokens right in
12907s	hand with these Dragon ambushes healing
12909s	a little which is irrelevant right now
12911s	but maybe relevant in the future but
12912s	summoning a bunch of attackers that
12914s	pukari doesn't have fantastic blocks
12916s	lined up they could also just play
12918s	another Z and attack with four Zs next
12920s	turn really being the shadow himself
12922s	lots of interesting plays that Marin can
12924s	go
12926s	for this AAR can take a little bit of
12930s	damage here but not too too much and the
12933s	second dragon Ambush is going to start
12935s	to cause a lot of problems maokai might
12936s	even get in a safety block hell might
12938s	even be able to get in a safety block
12939s	with the second C scare get everything
12940s	down to one HP it's not like you're
12942s	really worried about your opponent using
12943s	removal at that point but you are
12946s	considering oh you know what if another
12947s	one of these comes out in the future
12948s	what if I have to block something bigger
12949s	but I think it's worth for pakaru to
12951s	take the double block here and preserve
12953s	this
12953s	HP one thing pakaru also still has
12956s	access to is an attack token and a dead
12959s	Bloom wander being able to passively
12961s	heal three without losing this unit is
12963s	very very good for p ofar typically dead
12965s	Bloom wandra is just a heal three it
12967s	just trades and that's it it's going to
12968s	be a heal six in this matchup if not
12971s	possibly more depending on the fact that
12972s	Marin Ostrom doesn't ever have blockers
12974s	cuz all of their units are
12977s	ephemera I am Shadow All right we are
12980s	now getting to the time of the matchup
12983s	where I need production to show me where
12986s	maai is at after the dead Bloom Wanderer
12988s	comes down then we can check where the
12989s	maai is at uh 6 out of 25 I don't know
12992s	if that was pre or post everything that
12995s	we just saw that feels like it had to
12996s	have been
12997s	pre unless six cards were just tossed
13000s	there eight that's not how math works 11
13003s	okay there we go we're at 11 that's a
13005s	believable number thank you
13008s	production production once again filling
13010s	in for all of our inability of knowing
13012s	all these things ourselves we could have
13013s	just been counting but no we have to get
13015s	production I could have been counting
13016s	but production assured me Boulevard
13018s	we've got this really cool mechanic
13020s	where we can show off champion level UPS
13022s	please use it um and now this Z is
13025s	coming down but if pisar really wants to
13029s	they could take this out hat Spike could
13031s	come through followed by the undergrowth
13033s	to counter the mark of the aisle and
13034s	then there actually is no attack coming
13036s	through this turn to proc the black
13038s	flame but that's not going to be what
13040s	happens here instead just five blockers
13043s	maintained every single time that pikar
13046s	plays a unit when maai hasn't been proed
13048s	yet seems to toss if I'm correct nine
13051s	not nine six cards which means that uh
13053s	maai will probably be leveled in about
13055s	two turns time with a few other trades
13057s	happening here and there which means
13059s	that the deck is going to be thinned and
13060s	this this is basically the same as
13062s	saying something like a six turn
13065s	clock that's a very long clock though
13068s	and with no watery grave in hand there's
13070s	no uh otk potential that the deck is
13072s	kind of going for but yeah with the
13075s	double undergrowth in hand you've got to
13077s	assume that pretty much whenever pisar
13079s	wants to at this point the level up is
13080s	just going to go
13083s	through there is a way of dealing with
13086s	the maai level up which is to continue
13087s	shuffling Champion builds into your deck
13089s	but Gwen the champ spell unfortunately
13091s	has to kill a unit and if you're going
13093s	to kill your own Gwen to create awen in
13094s	your deck that's not really where you
13096s	want your GW typically you can try and
13098s	kill an ephemeral unit in some instances
13100s	but it's not going to be able to happen
13102s	every single time so typically the cycle
13103s	that you can do to beat the maai flip
13105s	may not work with this
13107s	deck oh and if we see the mark of the
13109s	aisle come out here while there's not
13110s	undergrowth Mana there is still hate
13112s	Spike mana and then when the next Gwen
13113s	comes down there can be the double
13115s	undergrowth
13116s	and you know even with the maai level up
13120s	going off it still feels like Mario
13122s	nostrom could easily come back into this
13123s	especially as long as that second dragon
13125s	spell is in Hand of course it will come
13127s	down to what's left in the deck after
13129s	the fact because I don't think that one
13130s	Dragon spell is going to be quite enough
13132s	to pull them out of this but it's
13134s	getting close luckily for mariio Ostrom
13136s	there is no life steal
13139s	husk there is no life steal husk butara
13142s	will still be able to draw into dead
13144s	Bloon wanders and probably has not only
13146s	the better late game but the better well
13147s	maybe not the better game but something
13149s	close to being able to draw better cards
13150s	over the course of the the next couple
13152s	of turns Marr probably has enough
13154s	blockers as well to deal with another
13156s	Dragon Ambush so isn't going to be too
13158s	concerned for the next turn either M's
13160s	going to have to try and stall for like
13162s	maybe two or three more turns time and
13164s	find a win then but P car is going to be
13166s	able to like spam out blockers with the
13168s	saplings and these interaction pieces
13169s	it's just not going to be
13173s	enough second hate Spike put on the
13176s	stack
13178s	presumably sacrificing the husk and that
13181s	is going to be the end of this
13182s	interaction it's going to be four damage
13183s	taken by pisar with a board cleared from
13185s	Marin nostrom and a little bit of damage
13187s	pushed onto the Evelyn something a
13189s	little more
13191s	painful Evelyn leveling up can be
13194s	relevant for tossing things a little bit
13196s	you will be summoning husks every single
13198s	turn that or at least for one turn and
13200s	maybe she's permanently leveled with the
13202s	amount of things that have died I would
13203s	presume so which means that maai and the
13206s	SE Scarab are going to flip relatively
13208s	soon deep actually might not be that
13210s	insignificant you are going to be able
13212s	to Pummel for quite a bit over the next
13213s	couple of turns that's it four out of
13217s	six on the dead allies but I mean if
13218s	something is top decked here H there's
13221s	really not enough Health on the side of
13223s	pakaru on the units in order to really
13227s	take advantage
13231s	of is
13233s	this this is never lethal oh no if you
13237s	go on a husk then yeah that's
13241s	yeah if if you kill a husk you flip
13242s	Evelyn again I assume you go deep to
13246s	level up the SE Scarab as well that
13247s	would put eight additional damage on the
13250s	board and that'll do it working out the
13254s	math realizing that you can go deep with
13255s	an undergrowth by killing your own unit
13257s	and leveling up this Evelyn giving five
13259s	Extra Strength Marr has no answers not a
13261s	single answer in the deck would be able
13263s	to interact with this and P car finding
13265s	maybe the world's weirdest lethal in
13267s	their Mill deck by not even trying to
13269s	Mill by underg their own
13272s	hearts that sure is something and
13276s	suddenly seven damage turns into 15 on
13279s	the stack and Mari and Ostrom going to
13281s	look at their hand with absolutely
13283s	nothing that they can do and ephemerals
13285s	is going to go down to maai Evelyn and
13288s	that means maai Evelyn's going on to the
13290s	top eight here
13291s	spids pretty sure that means PUK car
13294s	only has to win two more matches after
13297s	this with this deck you know trying to
13299s	make sure they win the top eight and
13300s	then win the top four once they're in
13301s	the top two they are in Worlds they have
13303s	made it to the final area right after at
13306s	the end of the lcq what a crazy game
13309s	what a crazy game indeed that is
13310s	certainly one of the weirdest lethals
13312s	that I've seen out of anyone and
13314s	honestly excited to see more pis aaru as
13316s	the tournament goes on it looks like we
13318s	are going to have time to get into
13319s	another match here as well no no more
13322s	matches sorry about that I thought I
13323s	heard one more it turns out it's no more
13324s	the words have similar letters but
13326s	congratulations to pakaru we'll be
13328s	checking in after the break to see who
13330s	is left in the top eight but that's a
13332s	problem for later for now we say goodbye
13334s	to you hello to the B right back soon
13336s	screen and when we return we'll be
13338s	moving on to the
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13359s	quarterfinals
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13381s	[Music]
13419s	no
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13659s	he
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13688s	w
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13718s	w
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13833s	[Music]
13838s	oh
13841s	[Music]
13859s	64 players entered well a lot more than
13862s	that entered but 64 players entered
13863s	today but only two can leave and we've
13866s	got eight left that we have to whittle
13868s	down to those final to spids that's your
13871s	name I'm Boulevard we're here to take
13873s	you through the rest of the action today
13875s	and we're going to take a look at the
13876s	brackets so you can get to know the
13878s	eight players that are remaining in this
13879s	event fying for that last chance of the
13881s	world's qualifier we have kdf to nnn3 oh
13885s	no my win streak pin pingho please play
13887s	your cards quickly pakaru firecloud and
13890s	end sinid who eliminated their teammate
13892s	end Florine unfortunate that a team kill
13895s	had to happen that early in the
13896s	tournament but this also means that
13898s	we've got EV out of the tournament THC
13900s	ABG all gone it's just down to kdf and
13903s	end when we talk about clan tags making
13905s	it into the top
13906s	eight also got some like well-known
13909s	players for tournament success
13910s	previously we've had ping pingho
13912s	obviously participant in Worlds 2021 and
13915s	pukar who has always had their name be
13917s	quite high up in these sort of events
13918s	definitely a stacked top eight we saw
13920s	you know the 64 that we started with
13922s	just slowly and slowly get crunch down
13924s	and they're all exactly two wins away
13926s	from qualifying in Two
13928s	Worlds yeah kdf Peta a player that like
13931s	we don't know a lot about Peta
13932s	specifically but the kdf team roll
13934s	probably one of the more famous players
13935s	on that in terms of LR already qualified
13937s	for the world championship so a strong
13939s	prep group backing them at least but if
13941s	you're wondering who we're going to take
13942s	a look at this time is going to be I
13945s	sinid and fly Cloud because we haven't
13947s	looked at those players yet everyone
13948s	else at the bracket we've marvelous
13950s	predictions out of myself and spits for
13952s	correctly identifying what players we're
13954s	going to make it this far in the
13955s	tournament we've already watched a lot
13956s	of the other side of the bracket so
13958s	going to focus on the two players that
13960s	we haven't seen just yet unfortunate
13961s	that one of them had to do a team kill
13962s	and we didn't get to catch that but we
13964s	will catch them now in a rather standard
13967s	matchup I would say I think this is a
13969s	lot of decks that we expected we'll take
13971s	a look at their lineups here in a second
13973s	and let you all see exactly what we're
13974s	looking at starting off with sin kid and
13977s	Jinx Kennan this is probably as close to
13979s	a triple aggro as we've seen so far this
13982s	is a very interesting Jinx Canon list
13984s	we've typically seen a lot higher top
13986s	end in these lists I'm thinking things
13987s	like augmented clucking I'm thinking
13989s	things like Arena lady that has tough
13991s	and discounts the Mecha by one uh
13994s	instead we're seeing utopus for extra
13996s	discard f as well as a tune as well as
13998s	three scrap Heap really interesting list
14000s	that's going a bit lower to the ground
14001s	and I'm curious if that sort of low to
14004s	the ground is exactly what they want to
14005s	be doing against their matchups and I
14007s	was going to say maybe it's more burn
14008s	than we're used to seeing but they were
14009s	actually kind of light on the number of
14010s	burn spells that they were running and
14012s	then we have uh what I've just been kind
14013s	of calling yordles I feel like if yal
14015s	explorers in the deck it's kind of fair
14017s	to just call it a yal deck but zani the
14019s	Blood Weaver on the top end kale to kind
14021s	of round out the mid game and SP you
14022s	were talking about how yal Captain seems
14024s	to be the real star of the show here yal
14026s	Captain is a really hard unit to kill
14028s	four damage removal for the past like
14030s	three years has been really hard to find
14032s	and Ne Captain just sticks on the board
14033s	on turn four and then you just swarm
14035s	with at least two or three units from
14037s	your alats and your yles that just get
14038s	buffed up way too big and then we're
14041s	going to end with Gwen Riven with three
14043s	opulent foyer and as you were saying
14045s	three KO three fire spitter and three
14047s	might very this looks like a stand list
14049s	and then there's also Strike Up the Band
14051s	which has not seemed too standard to me
14052s	but this deck has sort of been coming
14053s	over the past week and has definitely
14055s	had some strength and while I wouldn't
14057s	necessarily call this like red Gwen I
14058s	didn't really call aggro but look if I
14060s	tell you this is an aggro deck and
14061s	you're like no it's not I'm looking at
14063s	the three elixir of Wrath and that's a
14065s	pretty hard sell that that's not an
14067s	aggro deck and then on the side of
14068s	firecloud here got a triple mid-range
14070s	lineup kicking things off with
14073s	[Music]
14078s	formidableness but there isn't an omen
14080s	Hawk which we're pretty common seeing in
14082s	this deck I'm I'm thoroughly surprised
14084s	not to see an omen Hawk instead replaced
14085s	with things like elixir rine Sky split a
14087s	shield of girand and the darken spear
14089s	these sort of like other ways of giving
14091s	Buffs if you're going to replace Omen
14092s	hog with anything I guess it's okay to
14094s	do it with a buff but very awkward card
14096s	not to have included lot of very Spell
14098s	heavy and then the omen hawks come back
14099s	in for frostbite mid-range a blast from
14102s	the past one of the oldest decks in
14103s	legends of Runa wasn't sure how it was
14106s	going to pop up today because it does
14107s	very poorly as you can imagine into the
14109s	formidable deck that we just saw when
14110s	everything has zero attack it's
14112s	frostbite effects aren't very useful but
14114s	this deck has been popping up more and
14116s	more and I think it's got a pretty
14117s	strong foothold in The Meta if you can
14119s	find the right
14120s	matchups doesn't have Reckoning in it
14123s	which will be important since uh
14124s	firecloud is fighting a bunch of aggro
14126s	such as the Jinx cannons so not having
14127s	Reckoning is going to feel a little bit
14129s	bad there but this is obviously this
14131s	double F lineup is being combined with
14132s	the third F deck which is Jax on uh
14135s	relatively stock standard looking list
14137s	obviously the Spells always change we've
14138s	got a Bellow breath in there we've only
14140s	got two entrancing Ls only one three
14142s	sisters Elixir vant and catch but the
14144s	units are all the same you've seen Jaxon
14146s	I've seen jackon I hope to never see it
14147s	again hey am I like contractually do I
14150s	have to talk like do I have to talk
14151s	about ja Orin you guys is that like did
14154s	you write that down like do I have to
14155s	say something about this deck or like
14157s	can we just am I good man I love jaor
14160s	it's such a power wow Omen Hawk so
14165s	cool in this matchup this is going to be
14168s	I think I want to say favored for sin
14172s	kid only because ashla Blanc struggles
14175s	against aggro and that's what sin kid
14177s	has got I feel like firecloud with two
14179s	mid-range deck should feel okay into
14180s	some of this stuff but that Ash Blanc is
14182s	really showing as a sore thumb in this
14185s	lineup I think especially with the newer
14187s	builds of ashel Blan when The Reckless
14188s	trifarian sort of became standard you
14190s	look at your list and you're like okay
14192s	yeah this is actually a really nice
14193s	curve I should have a pretty okay time
14195s	against aggressive decks and then you
14197s	realize that one of your two drops can't
14199s	block your only three drop can't block L
14201s	blanc's not a great blocker either so
14203s	when you actually get down to Brass ta
14205s	you have like nine units that you throw
14207s	down in the early game that are like
14208s	barely trading onto one drops or not
14210s	trading at all and suddenly you start to
14212s	realize why you're not doing super well
14213s	into things like that on top of that
14214s	again no healing in a deck like this so
14216s	once the burn starts to come through in
14218s	the late game that's just something you
14219s	can't do anything about and with
14220s	Reckoning being removed from these decks
14222s	once it hits s Mana you don't have that
14224s	big midgame push to even try and outrace
14227s	your opponent and sort of out pressure
14228s	the burn on one of those like pivotal
14231s	swing turns which honestly is is kind of
14232s	weird to me I figured even with like
14234s	with formidable being a bad matchup for
14236s	this deck and being quite popular you
14237s	thought Reckoning would have found its
14239s	way back in here eventually maybe as a
14242s	one of but no one does it and I checked
14244s	I triple checked it did not
14248s	rotate Ash blon's One saveing Grace is
14250s	that it is going to be going up against
14252s	Gwen Riven hopefully it's not banned cuz
14254s	Ash Blanc is going to be able to beat uh
14256s	Gwen Riven just because you're able to
14258s	use those freezers on those high power
14260s	cards if Gwen Riven only really gets
14262s	three times at most to attack in with
14264s	15x overwhelms just play a flash phrase
14267s	and it's all gone to Kut so I expect to
14270s	see something like the Jinx Cannon ban
14272s	just cuz it's the most aggro deck that
14273s	there is and then sin kid might be
14276s	looking to ban something like maybe
14279s	formidable I'm not sure if I could also
14282s	reasonably see a ban onto yordles just
14285s	because Ash Blanc doesn't always deal
14289s	with the super wide bandal City nonsense
14292s	too often the soupy stuff it's really
14293s	hard to chew through and then usually
14296s	the bandal city decks have some kind of
14298s	finisher they can establish but with
14300s	that finisher being you know kale and
14302s	zalani maybe the frostbite is just
14304s	effective enough that you don't have to
14305s	worry about it and normally I'd say yeah
14307s	gravitate right toward that Jinx Cannon
14309s	but there's a lot less burn in there
14312s	than I would have expected there's only
14313s	one blowback there's only one time
14315s	Winder one Electro
14318s	harpoon
14319s	definitely a different version of the
14322s	deck it Ash Blanc is going to be like
14325s	the main story of this match up I think
14326s	how is it going to be able to deal with
14327s	things properly and sometimes Ash Blanc
14330s	does get there like I know we' been down
14331s	on it sometimes you just are able to
14333s	draw a one drop into a two drop and have
14334s	Sky splitter for the entire time and be
14337s	able to defend and organize things doing
14338s	Glory Seeker into the dark and spear on
14340s	a turn three attack can trade into a
14342s	unit and buff something up as if it were
14344s	an omen Hawk there there are things that
14346s	Ash leelan can do you shouldn't always
14347s	sleep on it about 10% actually blun
14349s	games it wins and no one knows why and
14351s	we could end up seeing that absolutely
14354s	and like I said pre like we are in a
14356s	unique position where like obviously
14357s	there's a balance patch there's a
14358s	variety patch but for the most part
14360s	we're in the same meta that we were you
14362s	know about a month ago at the world's
14363s	qualifier I was horribly down on ashel
14365s	Blanc in that tournament I felt like it
14367s	was it was a punt to try and bring that
14369s	deck to the top 64 but as we've moved
14371s	towards a more control oriented as
14374s	players sort of you know we looked at
14376s	Shen jarvin Aon at the start of the week
14377s	and then that kind of moved out again
14379s	that was one of ashle blanc's bad match
14380s	ups same thing with formidable like
14382s	control was just doing too well against
14384s	formidable and Shen jarvin to
14386s	realistically bring those decks and
14387s	those were two of the Decks that were
14389s	holding down ashle Blanc where ashle
14391s	Blan actually does pretty well into
14393s	Shadow
14395s	a I so I think formidable is going to be
14398s	banned but do you ever consider Banning
14400s	ja on is is the Jax threat more than the
14403s	Balin threat is like the main way of of
14405s	pressuring this in your mind what is sin
14407s	kid most scared of Jax Orin is a good
14410s	deck formidable is not really a good
14411s	deck and when we say good deck you'll
14412s	hear me and Dro yell about this all the
14414s	time a good deck a Hallmark of it his
14417s	consistency and like sometimes you just
14419s	take over the game on turn three
14420s	formidable can't really do that
14422s	sometimes Jax ore just puts out like a
14424s	66 on turn
14426s	three going to see the bands they are
14428s	Teo kale and their jaor I think you were
14431s	right on at least the team kale being a
14433s	consideration we are going to see
14435s	formidableness
14438s	this single combat is going to be quite
14440s	important I think it's one of the few
14441s	ways that uh firecloud is able to deal
14443s	with Gwen Riven but Gwen Riven does have
14446s	two gwens a might and ayous host which
14447s	is close to what you
14449s	want yeah a little sad that we're not
14453s	going to get to see the ortles but hey
14454s	that's okay pretty good opening curve
14456s	here for firecloud where on the side of
14458s	sin kid I mean I am hard pressed to look
14461s	at a hand with might and Gwen in it and
14463s	go N I could do
14466s	better uh fire clad definitely has a
14469s	really powerful 1 two 3 oh sorry just 2
14471s	3 4 and is able going to be able to
14473s	attack with Balin on the right token as
14475s	well that they want to and possibly get
14476s	big enough such that Gwen is going to
14478s	really struggle dealing with things like
14480s	single combat plus these formidable
14481s	units and without quietus and soul
14484s	Harvest which are typically how Shadow
14486s	wants to beat these formidable decks it
14487s	is going to be a little bit awkward
14488s	because they can't deal with the threats
14490s	that fire Cloud's going to be
14493s	presenting now and honestly this
14495s	fearsome attacker is going to be a
14497s	little bit of a threat in the immediate
14499s	it's something that you know there's not
14500s	like a super high presence of them but
14502s	if the hall out Stacks can start to get
14504s	up I think Phantom Butler is where
14505s	you're going to be throwing them over
14506s	anything else even an overwhelm unit uh
14508s	at least until Garen comes down into
14510s	play that one HP going to play against
14511s	you a little bit in terms of like
14512s	gentleman stel and single combat but
14514s	that's not an issue for now and I think
14516s	firecloud just kind of has to take this
14517s	damage really needs as much HP as
14519s	possible on the units to come but with
14522s	only two damage as your block point it
14525s	just doesn't feel worth
14526s	it this attack is really interesting cuz
14529s	by attacking there forgoing the blade
14532s	fragment from Riven cuz she won't see
14533s	the attack token which means by turn
14535s	five you will only have one blade
14537s	fragment from Riven plus the blade
14539s	fragment from the Run Squire if you
14540s	decide to go for that line now you can
14541s	play Riven on turn four or turn five and
14543s	wait for turn seven to get the full
14545s	blade but by attacking here and getting
14547s	the two extra damage you are forgoing
14549s	the possibility of getting a blade early
14551s	you've got a curve that lets you do
14552s	things like when into might and you
14555s	might not have enough Mana to play all
14556s	three blade fragments plus the blade but
14559s	you are forgoing two damage for a blade
14560s	and that could end up biting them in the
14563s	but yeah it's a little bit about how
14564s	much is that blade fragment actually
14566s	worth damage wise in the later stages of
14568s	the game and I know we always talk about
14571s	yeah you know the top level players are
14572s	thinking two three turns ahead for
14574s	something like that you do have to think
14575s	like four or five turns ahead and that's
14578s	not always you know something that
14580s	you're cognizant of especially if like
14582s	you feel like the match up might take a
14584s	while yeah there's 48 minutes on the
14585s	clock now but how are we going to look
14586s	you know 45 minutes from now is the game
14587s	going to be over really afford to sit
14589s	here and rope every interaction trying
14590s	to like grabbing pen and paper and
14592s	mathing out the blade fragments but does
14595s	kind of get bailed out by drawing
14596s	another reforge unit so you know is sort
14599s	of going to make up for the blade
14600s	fragment that they just missed in that
14602s	way we do see another runes Squire drawn
14605s	and syid has to do a lot of thinking
14607s	here they've got nine Mana over the next
14609s	couple of turns they can spend four mana
14612s	on the blade fragments plus the blade if
14613s	they spend another four mana on the Run
14615s	Squires which can be good they can pull
14617s	things to the side set up a buch of
14619s	overwhelm and plus two attack especially
14621s	giving plus two attack on things like
14622s	the Phantom Butler or you could just go
14624s	forw you could say I'm going to playw
14626s	plus M I'm going to do the blade
14627s	fragment in a future turn I'm going to
14629s	take this simpler but it does suffer
14631s	when there's a bunch of strike spells
14632s	that are able to kill Gwen and Riven
14634s	before they can actually do what they
14635s	need to do for future turns it's almost
14638s	two parallel game plans where yeah these
14641s	are both a solid plan a but you do have
14644s	to commit to one of them and say this is
14646s	my plan a this is my plan B
14650s	a hard thing to think about especially
14653s	when there's so much math involved
14655s	adding Hollow to your Riven level up
14657s	trying to figure out where to put your
14658s	plus two strength where does overwhelm
14660s	go how does Challenger fit into all of
14661s	this it is not an easy deck to think
14663s	about so I'm going to expect that sin
14664s	kids going to spend a lot of time
14665s	thinking about exactly what they want
14666s	getting glinting blade fragment will
14668s	feel amazing as a way to get positive
14670s	trades to happen or feel free to attack
14672s	with things like Riven uh cuz they
14674s	should be quick attack and plus two in
14676s	the hand right now not overwhelmed so
14678s	they're are things that you can do
14679s	aggressively and you don't need
14680s	overwhelming this board right
14684s	now yeah a few more H Stacks really need
14687s	to be in there or at least like just
14688s	more attack on the units in general
14689s	before you really start to worry about
14690s	that might it's certainly something that
14692s	you're going to be saving for the
14693s	following turn this might even be you
14695s	know you can't level Riven here you do
14696s	have to play out all the blade fragments
14698s	before she actually sees the sword and
14700s	levels but I didn't expect to go into
14703s	combat with three Mana available maybe
14705s	it is might held up just to prevent the
14708s	combat trick out of fire
14711s	Cloud there's definitely a few options
14714s	here you are threatening some things
14716s	this thread the needle or a possible
14718s	hate Spike we just not in hand but
14719s	they're still threatening it constantly
14721s	means that fire cloud is going to be
14722s	wary about blocking with things it's
14724s	hard to justify blocking Gwen when she's
14726s	got quick attack you can try and
14727s	threaten your Shield of jand but that
14729s	would lose into things like thread the
14730s	needle or head Spike there's a lot that
14733s	uh firecloud has to be thinking about
14735s	but on the other hand they are looking
14737s	towards 10 damage being taken right now
14739s	we are going to see glinton blade
14740s	fragment come down on the Gwen I
14742s	surprised not to see it on the Phantom
14747s	Butler yeah I mean there's still like
14750s	this this is protected from everything
14752s	right because it's a petricite charger
14754s	hate Spike and thread the needle can't
14756s	affect it so the single combat is going
14757s	to take out this Gwen no matter what sin
14759s	kit had left
14763s	available that is a very good trade for
14766s	uh firecloud but the is the second Gwen
14769s	in hand and not using the single combat
14771s	in order to deal with an overwhelmed
14773s	threat later on could end up being a
14775s	little bit too too scared about the
14778s	early game right they still have to play
14779s	for the late game there is still more
14780s	stuff that's going to happen in this
14782s	game and firecloud has to sort of figure
14784s	out how they going to deal with that in
14785s	the next couple of
14787s	turns we're getting down to a point
14789s	where it feels like it's going to have
14790s	to be a might Gwen finish which granted
14793s	a pretty strong finish I was going to
14794s	say Garen gets to come down as a
14796s	fearsome blocker but could actually just
14798s	go straight into combat with the jarvin
14800s	challenging the
14802s	Riven or you can play Garen and have
14804s	petricite broadwing do it either way got
14808s	a couple of options I think I like
14809s	threatening the Garen level up
14811s	especially when you've got that
14812s	gentleman's duel available and the Mana
14814s	for just you know threatening the level
14815s	up of the gar going into your opponent's
14817s	turn so they can't spend too much time
14820s	developing Garen might be able to flip
14822s	this turn which can be very interesting
14824s	it's maybe Garen can't flip unless they
14828s	two two on just because gar only has
14830s	five Health he does have regen but he
14831s	won't be able to stay around like that
14832s	forever he could try and hit the Nexus
14834s	but depending on how sin kid wants to
14836s	play especially if the opulent foyer
14837s	come down it will be pretty defensive
14839s	sin has to work out where they want to
14840s	spend their Mana exactly we do see the
14842s	opulent foyer come down which means if
14843s	gar attacks is probably blocking which
14845s	means desert oh wait the spell gives
14847s	plus two Health gar could definitely
14849s	flip this turn I completely missed that
14851s	I was going to let you finish maybe talk
14853s	about you know hate something that
14854s	you got to consider might I don't think
14857s	you're allowed to use might to try and
14859s	trade onto the gar it feels like with 7
14861s	HP that's such a small Finish Line that
14863s	you need to limp over you can probably
14866s	just do that with the might not worry
14868s	too much about this but it's going to be
14870s	absolutely devastating for sinid here in
14873s	fact they might be going down here they
14877s	don't have the Mana to develop when
14880s	firecloud gets to gentleman duel onto
14882s	the Riven even a might at that point is
14884s	not enough to kill the Garen and then an
14886s	open attack with the Jarvis and fire
14889s	Cloud doesn't go for it which like I
14892s	don't know
14893s	how I'm I'm looking at for hallowed
14896s	Stacks I'm looking at a level two Riven
14898s	I'm looking at this might I'm seeing a
14899s	lot of issues that this gentleman's duel
14901s	is not
14902s	solving as a currently stand Sim kid has
14905s	access to three things with overwhelm
14907s	and that's including two things being
14909s	buffed by Hall the normal thing as well
14911s	as Gwen now I think they're only able to
14914s	afford two of these things either so out
14917s	of Gwen out of every fragment and out of
14920s	the blade and might pretty sure they can
14921s	only afford three of those not all four
14924s	so there is something that won't be
14926s	played but three ways of winning the
14927s	game versus only one way of Defending it
14930s	the math checks out there are two ways
14931s	to win the game um and Sid's going to
14933s	have to find what that looks like slowly
14936s	it it takes a long time to work out this
14937s	MTH but we're going to start with the
14938s	Phantom butet wonderful and I'm trying
14941s	to think of what the situation would
14944s	look like had firecloud used that
14947s	Phantom that gentleman's duel onto the
14949s	Riven at this stage they would be
14952s	allowed to attack jarvin would come down
14954s	challenging something rather than just
14956s	being played uh one of yeah the Phantom
14959s	Butler would have gotten taken down by
14960s	that
14961s	and
14963s	yeah might have still been lethal with
14965s	the might and all the blade fragments
14971s	but I don't think it would have
14975s	been to do some quick back of the napkin
14978s	math I don't have my napkin with me so
14980s	it's just going to be with some paper
14982s	umw will currently have three strength
14984s	gone up to seven if you add the three
14986s	from the fragment that does go up to n
14988s	Riven is very similar Riven will go up
14990s	to 4 plus 8 which and then you can add
14993s	the blade to another thing if you desire
14996s	um based on how you want to move these
14997s	around you probably putting the blade on
14998s	the when so that the plus two strength
15000s	doesn't go to the Riven that the hollow
15001s	does but that does mean as far as I can
15004s	tell that while Riven is presenting a
15006s	lethal threat Gwen currently is not I
15010s	don't know if I if you factor in the
15011s	plus two strength if that changes things
15013s	we are going to see the Run Squire
15015s	buffed up which means either Gwen is not
15018s	coming down or I think one of the
15021s	overwhelms is not coming
15024s	down yeah I don't think I think might
15027s	got thrown out the window when Phantom
15029s	Butler got
15031s	played unless Gwen's not getting
15036s	played ooh I think what what we might be
15038s	threatening is something
15040s	like a couple copies of five damage each
15043s	this is a very interesting way of doing
15045s	it you can put might on Riven that's one
15046s	way of threatening damage you can put
15048s	Phantom Butler down that's another way
15049s	of threatening damage and if we see the
15051s	promit on the glinting blade fragment on
15054s	the uh the the host what's the I don't
15057s	know what this unit is called the the
15059s	gly band you could see like a three
15062s	pronged lethal where only two prongs
15064s	need to hit but I think we're at the
15066s	point where that does have two answers
15068s	they can block the Phantom Butler and
15070s	they can do gentleman's jewel in the
15071s	other prong and that should be
15075s	enough yeah this is
15078s	um this looks
15080s	awful for sin kid like this doesn't look
15084s	like anything you just throw a couple
15086s	blockers out oh yeah here's barrier in
15088s	front of your Phantom Butler here's uh
15091s	you know a bail in in front of your
15093s	Riven I'm taking one damage you have
15096s	might available I have gentleman's dual
15097s	and I have a barriered unit that I can
15099s	use it on this also levels Garen not
15102s	that that particularly
15105s	matters yeah I'm I'm very surprised we
15108s	didn't see the Gwen line at all to be
15110s	able to threaten more lethals she does
15112s	two damage burn which means you only
15113s	need five to go over the top it's 3 + 4
15116s	+ 2 which is n going into Javan which
15118s	only has five Health meaning that you'd
15120s	only be one damage off which you can
15122s	find a million ways with these other
15124s	units or further in the deck or
15125s	something I feel like Gwen would have
15127s	been a much comfortable line into what's
15129s	going to end up being quite a
15130s	threatening open attack or even worse a
15134s	develop and uh yeah this does feel like
15138s	the end of the game mostly because like
15140s	level two jarvin is now available so
15142s	cataclysms are going to be coming out at
15144s	rapid fire Pace I don't think sinid can
15147s	get back to a point where they've got
15149s	the board especially while Garen and
15151s	jarvin are constantly attacking over and
15153s	over
15155s	again although should I think we should
15158s	rag on sin kid too much this is like a
15160s	high Stak tournament and they're only
15161s	two wins away from making it to Worlds
15164s	it's hard to do math when you've only
15165s	got like I don't know 45 seconds per
15167s	timer that's where you've got to clutch
15169s	it though you have to be solid in those
15171s	situations especially if like the prize
15173s	on the line is going to the World
15174s	Championship things are not getting
15176s	easier from here on out right when you
15178s	actually make it to the top 64 of Worlds
15179s	you're going to be in Stakes like this
15181s	every single match that you're playing
15182s	you've got to learn how to clutch out
15184s	those situations granted that is
15186s	something that takes time maybe we're
15187s	early on in sin kid's career maybe this
15189s	is a learning point for them to come
15190s	back next year's World Championship but
15192s	that turn feels like it should have gone
15194s	more in their
15195s	favor very soon there'll be a sin adult
15198s	but for now there're still a sin kid
15200s	learning exactly how to do these math
15202s	equations when this is a complicated
15204s	deck if you've not picked up Gwen Riven
15206s	recently the first time you play it your
15208s	mind will hurt from the amount of math
15210s	that you have to do I'm definitely not
15212s	speaking from experience here we do see
15214s	Strike Up the Band be able to develop
15215s	two blockers which means the game isn't
15217s	fully over yet you can find a overwhelm
15220s	blade fragment plus thisw if you want
15223s	and without like I guess you can always
15225s	hold up cataclysm so you need to find
15227s	multiple ways of dealing with this you
15229s	can find something like a Shadow Isles
15230s	till Stone to do the the spirit journey
15233s	to protect yourself from a Javan so
15235s	there are top Decks that can let this
15239s	work I was even just thinking like a
15241s	might top deck and maybe you're actually
15243s	still in this because there's just so
15244s	many hallowed stacks and we're going to
15246s	get two more um so even even the blade
15249s	Squire with a might would be 13 attack
15251s	that's too much for no I guess a sky
15254s	splitter onto the gon would save you but
15256s	it's got Challenger so that's not really
15257s	up to you looks like that is the
15260s	overwhelmed blade if that's quick a man
15264s	yeah no it's okay I've played enough of
15266s	this deck to be able to sight read these
15267s	I I used to know him by sight I'm
15270s	slipping I'm getting
15272s	old uh we are going to see what the
15274s	draws have to be I think I think that
15277s	might
15283s	way're going see the come down which
15286s	means we can now see the Gwen be
15287s	developed this turn which does mean that
15289s	a might top deck will actually be
15295s	enough this is a chance for me to leave
15297s	M it's looking dicey spids there's one
15300s	more draw for sin kid one more draw for
15303s	firecloud and off the top of theck
15306s	please
15310s	it's boisterous
15311s	host it's a one drop everybody what
15314s	could you possibly want other than a one
15316s	drop uh and the unit does come down this
15319s	Gallo is just going to come through this
15321s	doesn't even leave cataclysm Mana but it
15322s	doesn't matter because there's 12 hp
15324s	blocker with Skys splitter available so
15326s	15 HP on a blocker it's as much as you
15328s	could possibly ever need but it's going
15330s	to be a lot of hallow Stacks coming
15333s	through you can block with Gallo he's
15335s	going to go down to one Health but he
15337s	doesn't doesn't care he's still having a
15338s	good time and it will be quite a bit of
15341s	damage threatened for uh for firecloud
15345s	next turn it seems to me to be lethal
15350s	but I'm not entirely sure with these
15351s	decisions of blocks yeah actually a uh a
15354s	Garen was thrown away instead of a
15357s	25 um unit and you know that the card in
15361s	your opponent's hand is a focus speed
15363s	blade fragment so you didn't have to
15365s	worry about a might or anything along
15367s	those lines so
15369s	uh okay yeah jarvan's getting sacked
15372s	here too
15374s	spids mean javan's getting sacked but
15377s	this Bal and the benevolent is
15379s	definitely going to be threatening way
15380s	too much damage I mean you can block
15382s	Javin next turn but that's still
15385s	threatening lethal with Sky Splitter on
15387s	the jand never mind we're going to see
15390s	when traed anyway same deal still a plan
15393s	fire Cloud's got a
15395s	plan I I don't think the sacrifice was
15398s	ever correct but it doesn't really
15400s	matter because they found the line
15401s	anyway they're going to get to go for an
15402s	open attack here as the token rolls back
15404s	over to them and that will just be
15405s	lethal Champion strength for good
15407s	measure and that is going to be
15408s	firecloud taking it 1 over sinit as we
15410s	move into the remainder of this match
15412s	that was a little dirty at the end there
15414s	but eventually as you mentioned it's
15416s	it's a high stakes tournament it's high
15417s	pressure these players have a lot on the
15419s	line they're probably thinking about
15420s	okay yeah I'm just a couple of wins away
15421s	I've got to cool it down and hopefully
15423s	they can take a nice mental reset and uh
15426s	you know get get back into a good head
15428s	space for game two is this is the
15429s	matchup that we were talking about right
15431s	this is the ash Blanc that sin kid was
15433s	looking to pick on the one that doesn't
15434s	do as well into these aggressive
15435s	matchups but unfortunately for sin kid
15438s	that Gwen Riven is still available
15440s	something that you called out as a
15442s	potential weak point into
15444s	frostbit it's definitely going to be a
15446s	tough match up but sin kid sometimes is
15447s	going to be able to find draws with
15449s	three2 ones and ashong going to find
15451s	something with z00 Z it's just not going
15453s	to be enough for that sort of match up
15455s	but if Zink doesn't draw early units and
15458s	has to rely on things that get easily
15460s	harsh winds or frostbite fire Cloud's
15462s	going to be in a very very happy
15463s	position I think they're really happy
15464s	that they're able to get this match up
15466s	as their Ash Blanc
15471s	attempt a little bit of a an ugly opener
15474s	there for firecloud if this is post
15477s	Mulligan it's not awful but you know you
15481s	kind of have to float turn two for
15483s	LeBlanc to have a chance at surviving
15484s	when you're against a Mystic shot deck
15487s	uh while there's only two Mystic shot in
15488s	here again we were talking about Sin
15489s	kid's deck being a little bit lighter on
15490s	the burn numbers there's only two Mystic
15491s	shot but there's also an electro Harpoon
15493s	so there's still that third copy of the
15494s	two damage
15497s	burn sin kid's got an early aggressive
15500s	hand in as much as they always want with
15501s	an aggro deck you want a One Drop that
15502s	curves into a good two drop which curves
15504s	into a pretty decent three drop or maybe
15505s	a couple of two drops and one drops
15507s	having the jury rig also comes coming
15509s	down means that it's going to be pretty
15510s	aggressive and we see the result of the
15512s	other game there's a bit of overlapping
15514s	icons but pukar unfortunately not making
15517s	it uh very very
15521s	interesting rip maai Evelyn you will
15524s	always be remembered for your top eight
15527s	performance at the last chance qualifier
15529s	at least by Me Maybe not by everybody
15530s	but I'll I'll have it written down and I
15532s	will remember it and I'll bring it up
15533s	constantly at cocktail parties how I'll
15534s	impress everyone with my Legends of
15535s	Teran knowledge as you all should be
15537s	doing these on these holidays but for
15539s	the game at hand it's four damage
15541s	already on board it's going to be a take
15542s	down of The yal Squire which is always
15546s	kind of an interesting one where it's
15548s	like what this sort of telegraphs is
15551s	that firecloud wasn't willing to trade a
15553s	3-1 for a 21 anyway otherwise probably
15555s	would have gone for like a frostbite
15557s	onto the squeaker and then yeah go ahead
15558s	attack with your two1 I'll block with my
15559s	31 but actually sin kit holds back the
15561s	squeaker anyway really valuing what they
15562s	can get out of that augment later
15564s	on this timewinder was a pretty good
15567s	draw being able to deal with the 31
15569s	which is probably the only thing it's
15570s	actually going to be able to deal with
15571s	ping pingho also getting a win against
15572s	Ono my win streak we now know two of our
15575s	quarterfinalists but play going to be
15577s	thinking what are they going to be doing
15578s	with this 10 are they going to be
15580s	playing LeBlanc and just run into a
15582s	Mystic shot are they going to have to
15584s	pass and try and see if they can bait
15585s	sin kit at DIS spending Mana this is not
15587s	a great position to be it no it is not
15591s	and the Mana is a little awkward for
15592s	fire Cloud as well you know not quite
15594s	able to develop and do your combat trick
15596s	but if you don't develop this turn like
15598s	you might as well not develop right
15599s	because your turn four isn't doing
15601s	anything
15602s	anyway unless you draw okay yeah pretty
15605s	pretty good there for you to just be
15606s	able to FL turn two pretty happy
15608s	actually that sinid didn't develop at
15609s	all further into you and just continue
15611s	to put that pressure on so things still
15613s	looking okay for firecloud in this ash
15615s	blon here in game number
15616s	two sinid did draw the flame jumpers
15619s	which is pretty important for being able
15620s	to pressure just surprise amounts of
15622s	damage we are going to see the sump drer
15623s	discard that and summon the flame
15625s	jumpers this could be followed up with
15627s	something like a Time Winder on the jury
15629s	rig try and threaten the three one you
15631s	could also be followed up with a scrap
15632s	Heap or some Mystic shots there's a few
15634s	things that sink could be doing and the
15636s	damage will probably be somewhere within
15638s	the 5 through seven range which is
15640s	pretty good but it is turn four and you
15642s	probably wanted a little bit more damage
15643s	by turn
15645s	four okay I was going to say I I think
15647s	I'd like to see sin kid go aggressive
15649s	here go for the time Winder discard the
15651s	jury rig if a protection spell comes out
15654s	onto the ice Ville Archer that should
15656s	give you the green light to try and
15657s	Mystic shot the L Blanc although
15659s	unfortunately for sin kid uh just one
15661s	more combat trick going to come out and
15663s	save that champion as
15665s	well you're definitely predicting I know
15668s	we had Echo Jinx earlier but it seems
15669s	like you're really the predictor here at
15671s	the moment knowing exactly what these
15672s	players are going to play before they
15673s	play them but tin kid now is in a pretty
15676s	bad position with this attack they can
15678s	pull the ice Veil Archer to the side but
15680s	LeBlanc is going to be able to get a
15681s	positive trade in with a one Health one
15683s	strength unit and be able to get a fair
15685s	bit of level up or if they don't attack
15687s	with it that's going to feel pretty good
15688s	going into turn five being able to play
15690s	the he guard and being able to stabilize
15691s	the board ever so slightly yeah at this
15694s	point I think if you're going to
15695s	challenge you actually have to challenge
15696s	the the ice Veil Archer just so that
15698s	LeBlanc really can't trade into either
15699s	of these units and unfortunately that
15701s	brittle Ste going to absolutely blow out
15702s	the sum treger just nothing looking good
15704s	on the side of in kid right now and
15705s	decides to just go in with the yal
15707s	Squire and this is a very cool attack
15710s	yeah I don't think this is worth the
15712s	brittle steel uh so just good read on
15714s	the side of sin
15716s	kid very very interesting and you got to
15720s	be scared of trumpeter you're probably
15722s	seeing this on the side of firecloud and
15723s	thinking there's a Trumpeter coming out
15725s	right now I I don't know what I'm going
15727s	to do and that might end up leading to
15729s	an there's no way you pass you still
15731s	have to play Hearth guard here almost
15733s	certainly Hearth guard Ash you got to
15735s	play something and honestly I okay I was
15738s	going to say I think I actually like the
15739s	ash given just like the low board
15741s	presence of your opponent even if the
15742s	Trum attacker does come down you know
15744s	you still have the brittle steel
15745s	available but yeah actually just does go
15747s	for the hear guard doesn't go into
15749s	combat either say I'm not attacking with
15751s	this whole
15752s	block think they're trying to beat the
15755s	just if you attack and you go in Sid can
15758s	just redevelop the board and sort of
15761s	feeding their Mana is a nice way of
15762s	doing things we're going to see the G
15763s	Mega Force at first I would have really
15764s	like to see scrap he to try and find
15766s	that Trumpeter it seems like one of the
15767s	best cards you could be trying to get
15769s	right now clad going to respond with
15771s	some draw not find any spells but
15773s	developing a unit's just good enough on
15774s	its own
15775s	anyway okay I was about to say got to
15777s	send a few more units in combat This
15779s	Time Around The yal Squire trick only
15780s	works once only yields two damage and uh
15783s	yeah going full into combat the Geo
15784s	Mecha Force are going to try and
15785s	threaten the life of this little blon
15787s	and from there that's where sinid kind
15790s	of gets puzzled what else can go into
15792s	combat now staring down a 56 the answer
15794s	seems to be nothing stand and defend
15797s	this is not the spot you want to be in
15799s	is Sid you don't have a jinx in head
15801s	it's turn six and you have dealt four
15803s	damage to the Nexus while firecloud is
15806s	got a swa of more cards more mid-range
15809s	presence everything they could possibly
15811s	want this is not the matchup that I
15812s	thoughtcloud was going to be winning but
15814s	this is what ends up happening and we
15816s	see there in the bottom corner nnn3 did
15819s	take down kdf paa which means this is
15821s	our last match of the quarterfinals and
15824s	the last chance for someone with a clan
15826s	tag to make it into the top four sin Kid
15828s	the Last Hope for the team players
15830s	around here still no
15834s	Trumpeter but I did want to shout out
15836s	that you know when we talked about this
15838s	matchup being bad for frostbite
15839s	mid-range a lot of it was sort of around
15841s	Glory seeker and Reckless trifarian
15843s	inability to block and those are just
15845s	cards that firecloud has not
15847s	dra fire Cloud maybe Drew one of their
15849s	best hands they could have they all they
15851s	needed was two early units plus a bunch
15853s	of like protection combat tricks like
15855s	the small scale fot stuff that is part
15857s	of the reason why they're so powerful to
15858s	begin with and sinid not having an early
15861s	enough curve we didn't see like triple
15862s	Zite open so we didn't see something
15864s	like a the 44 Double Impact come out on
15867s	turn three and just do a bunch of damage
15869s	sinit had a bit too slow of a hand and
15871s	that was fine enough for firecloud the
15873s	game's not fully over there's definitely
15875s	ways where Jinx can stay alive and and
15877s	if you draw two jinxes you can get
15879s	through the the Bloody Business but it's
15882s	not going to be an easy it's not going
15883s	to be an easy
15884s	line oh anaka feels like
15889s	that's not lethal but almost surely a
15893s	solidification of the board for fire
15896s	Cloud no more unit damage likely to come
15898s	through from sin kid for the remainder
15899s	of the game unless it's impact or
15902s	something along those lines overwhelm
15904s	some kind of Mecha ortal keyword coming
15905s	through and from there it's got to be
15907s	all burn and we mentioned earlier sin
15909s	kit a little light on the burn in this
15910s	list and already used a Mystic shot
15911s	already used a Time Winder there's
15913s	really not much left going on in there
15915s	it's like one more Mystic shot an
15917s	electro Harpoon and a blowback and when
15918s	you add all of that up you're only
15919s	looking at seven burn damage left in the
15923s	deck I do like this choice of Earth
15925s	Shaker and there's the possibility of
15926s	getting another one with spell shield
15928s	from the buildr Rascal Earth Shaker is
15931s	typically the sort of thing that you
15932s	might want in these positions to get
15934s	surprise impact and to be big enough but
15936s	Earth shaker probably only getting two
15937s	strikes in before it dies to these Heth
15939s	guards and dies to all of the big beef
15942s	that the ash Blan deck is able to
15943s	threaten we are going to see plus one
15945s	Health to try and deal with something
15949s	but it's still going to trade into two
15953s	strikes and sinid just presenting lethal
15956s	and hoping that firecloud accidentally
15958s	clicks the pass
15959s	button that's it's it's happened before
15963s	it'll happen again okay just going to go
15966s	in
15967s	with the Mecha yal going to get a block
15969s	out of a pitiful little ice Veil Archer
15971s	that'll swiftly be replaced by I
15974s	honestly just whatever anaka decides to
15975s	pull out of the
15977s	deck what do you think it'll be do you
15979s	think it'll be another anaka or do you
15980s	think it'll be something like a glory I
15984s	think it's going to be a
15987s	LeBlanc ah maybe next
15991s	Ty is not a bad get there it's pretty
15995s	it's quite sizable and this is where
15997s	things start to get really rough because
15998s	now reputation is going to activate that
16000s	incisive tactician's going to go down to
16002s	six Mana not that's particularly
16004s	relevant for just the hand that
16006s	firecloud has available but they're
16007s	going to be able to refill their board
16008s	with the ice Veil Archer alongside of
16010s	that still Bloody Business Mana
16011s	available and just go in for a second
16013s	full swing here with a full board again
16016s	once anaka pulls something out of the
16018s	deck yeah Reckless TR fa and very strong
16021s	top end in Ash Blanc once you've already
16023s	won the game on the board it actually
16024s	just forces that to win one turn earlier
16027s	even two turns earlier before the next
16028s	attack to very very strong card that
16031s	going to come down here bu Rascal trying
16033s	to look for something maybe Professor
16034s	Von Mech to go wide and find like weird
16037s	elusiv now we see the trumpeter
16040s	instead it's not going to be lethal for
16043s	fire Cloud this turn but when you're
16045s	playing a deck like Jinx Kennan if you
16047s	lose your entire board here that's
16049s	pretty much lethal they admire the r but
16052s	forget it there's the rally should just
16054s	be a pass from sin I don't see a reason
16058s	to commit the trumpeter right
16061s	now yeah it doesn't increase the
16063s	strength to anything that changes the
16064s	ranges it can make the sup dredger trade
16067s	better into the incisive tactician if
16070s	you wanted to do it that way but I think
16072s	s kid must realize that their only way
16073s	of winning the game is hoping that uh
16076s	fire cloud is bricked and then can go
16078s	wide enough with things like the scrap
16080s	Heap and the Trump attacker so I don't
16082s	think you're incentivized to overriding
16084s	a unit because that's one less unit
16085s	that's going to be hitting the Dome in
16086s	your attempt to try and win exactly and
16090s	I don't see a reason to hold back the
16092s	ice Archer either but firecloud does
16094s	does I don't need this and Reckless
16095s	starian number two now joining for this
16097s	is like this is where you want the
16098s	Reckless starian coming out of you don't
16100s	want to draw them in the early game in a
16101s	match up like this that a mobile keyword
16102s	really doing a number on you but yeah
16104s	later in the game once you resolved a
16106s	hearth guard or two yeah why not pull
16107s	him out of the deck with an AA and
16108s	threaten
16110s	lethal having nothing that can block is
16113s	got to be sin kid sin kid's got to be
16115s	very very happy right seeing that they
16117s	have their chance of winning because
16119s	there are non-lockable units coming
16121s	through it's not going to work out I
16123s	think they are still going to be four
16124s	defensive units plus Bloody Business
16126s	plus brittle steel but out of anything
16129s	they could want this is possibly the
16131s	best but I just don't think it's going
16132s	to be enough no and if they want to get
16134s	even more defensive firecloud can throw
16136s	down an ash and turn the second copy
16138s	into the flash
16139s	freeze and from there like we mentioned
16141s	we we've calculated all the burn left in
16143s	the deck and it's seven not including
16146s	you know Kenan Champion spell jenx
16147s	champion spell but with neither of those
16149s	champions in play or in hand those are
16150s	pretty much off the
16152s	table and firecloud should be taking
16155s	this one barring a miracle that honestly
16158s	with a deck list in front of me I cannot
16160s	C
16163s	together I really like this use of pyos
16165s	you're technically getting extra value
16167s	out of it just a it's minor but it's
16169s	really might as well give it a shot okay
16171s	Shadow Tech Walker that's an elusive
16174s	unit that's um I I mean it dies to
16176s	Bloody Business but you can close your
16180s	eyes sin kid Bloody Business can't hurt
16182s	you
16183s	here if you just attack with Shadow Tech
16185s	Walker for the next 7,000 turns maybe
16187s	you can finally get a win in with it but
16189s	it's just going to be too little too
16190s	late it will get an extra strength from
16192s	the trumpeter and there is four impact
16194s	from the from the shazza one but it will
16198s	just be Frozen and then the impact
16201s	doesn't even go through anymore it's
16202s	just it's an unfortunate situation for
16203s	Sid they're just waiting for the game to
16205s	go through
16210s	all right we've reached round 10 karma
16212s	is fully leveled up there's the LeBlanc
16214s	that I thought was coming out of the
16215s	anaka it was on top of the
16218s	deck silly you should have looked at the
16220s	right area unfortunate but we are going
16223s	to see the Trump deer come down it does
16224s	have spell shield which I forgot about
16225s	but it doesn't seem to matter too much
16227s	going to see the freeze and I think sin
16230s	kid if they didn't believe that the
16231s	runting was on the wall yet they
16232s	probably believe it
16234s	now and uh I was going to say at the
16236s	very least you get to kill anaka but if
16238s	fire Cloud doesn't want you to kill
16240s	anaka you don't get to kill anaka
16241s	there's a couple of different ways to
16242s	protect this and likely to just be the
16244s	brittle
16245s	steel no impact damage even coming
16247s	through off of that and that is going to
16249s	be the end of end sin kid here in the
16253s	last chance qualifier
16255s	firecloud the writing is on the wall all
16257s	they have to do it's just a couple of
16259s	buttons away spids if you hit the a key
16261s	and then the space bar that'll put all
16263s	of your units into the attacking row and
16265s	space will confirm the action and that
16267s	will move firecloud on to the
16270s	semi-finals I don't know if you know
16272s	this Boulevard but this is only one of
16274s	two ashela blancs brought into the
16277s	tournament and it's already making its
16278s	appearance in the top four you were
16280s	talking about that you weren't too upset
16282s	about this as a bring does this sort of
16284s	make you feel as if you're Vindicated
16285s	this is like actually going to be doing
16287s	well in this tournament like we mean
16289s	we've seen it done well wasn't the best
16290s	bring one of the problems that I've had
16293s	all year is sort of benchmarking
16295s	successes an analyst where there were a
16297s	couple of events ago where I was like oh
16298s	I think like atro Vin is pretty good
16300s	only like three people brought it in AP
16302s	pack and then two of them made the top
16304s	four and I'm like is that good analysis
16307s	is that a win so when I call out a deck
16310s	is something that I I think is like an
16312s	okay bringer I don't hate and like not a
16314s	lot of people bring it but it makes a
16315s	Deep Run that's really I'm still not
16317s	quite sure how to label
16320s	that because for every deck that does
16322s	that there's about 40 Decks that had two
16324s	people bring it and in top 64 and they
16327s	just didn't find their
16328s	matchups yeah rip to all the maai
16331s	players out there prior to this event
16332s	that were like yeah this is the secret
16334s	Tech bringing lost out in top 64 pissar
16336s	doing your proud but today it is
16338s	firecloud doing us proud moving on to
16340s	the
16342s	semifinals that is going to be a bracket
16345s	that we'll look at when we get back from
16347s	the next break but for now spids now
16349s	that we're down to the top four we are
16351s	about to go into the final match
16354s	essentially the one the last one that
16356s	really matters the one where the players
16358s	are going into the world championship
16360s	how are we feeling we rooting for anyone
16362s	is everybody playing clean are we seeing
16364s	good
16366s	L I think we've seen some good LOL I
16368s	think we've seen some really interesting
16370s	lineups there have been some plays that
16371s	have been a little bit weird but these
16372s	decks are really hard I think the deck
16374s	that we've seen the most misplays on has
16375s	been uh Gwen Riven which is just such a
16378s	difficult to understand yeah it's it's
16380s	one of the hardest ones and it's
16381s	obviously only come up in the past week
16383s	people don't have practice on might plus
16385s	Hol that deplay especially with Riven
16387s	doubling things up uh I'm very excited
16389s	to see this should be a really good
16391s	semi-finals which we will see when we
16393s	get back from this mediumsized
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17758s	welcome back everybody to the near final
17760s	moments of the World Championship last
17762s	chance qualifier my name is bll this is
17764s	not Boulevard spids and we are going to
17766s	be taking you into the top four here in
17769s	a moment all four of these players are
17771s	just a single win away from qualifying
17774s	into the world championship later this
17776s	year and now we're going to take a look
17778s	at the bracket to show you who is left
17780s	how they got here all that good stuff so
17783s	you can decide who you're going to root
17784s	for between
17786s	nnn3 and pin pingho and can you play
17789s	your cards more quickly and
17792s	firecloud uh I kind of want to see
17794s	another returner in ping pingho I I
17796s	think it's really cool that we've had I
17797s	think four or five people return from
17799s	previous worlds like such as donut and
17801s	grpa Roi and uh other players like that
17804s	I I'd like to see more rning I think it
17806s	creates a nice story line SC if they can
17808s	do it a second time uh so I'm definitely
17809s	roing for pink pingho in the first match
17811s	yeah it's kind of like a oh do we want
17813s	the returning players do we want the new
17814s	faces to come through like the old Guard
17816s	versus the new Guard we're like two
17817s	young of a game to really have an Old
17819s	Guard but like we've got an old guard
17821s	and if we do it's certainly pin pingho
17823s	who has not been to the world
17824s	championship in a couple of years and
17826s	then on the bottom side we're absolutely
17827s	getting a new player here either please
17829s	play your cards more quickly or
17830s	firecloud
17831s	so I'm not you know I'm not going to be
17834s	upset nnn3 was someone that I called out
17837s	at the beginning of the tournament and
17838s	someone that I was like to see make it
17839s	so if they beat ping pingho they
17841s	absolutely deserve the spot no questions
17843s	asked can't wait to see them there but
17845s	that is not our feature match we kind of
17847s	ran the numbers tried to decide who
17849s	would finish more quickly and decided
17851s	that pin pingho versus NTN 33 would
17854s	probably be the match that goes on a
17855s	little bit longer so we're going to be
17856s	checking out the bottom side of the
17857s	bracket here we'll get into their decks
17859s	in just a second to remind you of what
17861s	these players have brought and what
17863s	they're going to be doing kicking things
17865s	off with can you please play your cards
17866s	more quickly and Zed Gwen one of the
17869s	number one lad decks for most of the
17871s	week leading into the event now I'm not
17874s	going to speak on if they're the last
17875s	player in the event with it because I do
17877s	not
17878s	know uh I was going to start my ti raade
17880s	by saying this is the last person
17881s	running Zed Gwen so I hope I'm right now
17883s	I'm doubting myself uh we saw this deck
17886s	sometimes do well and sometimes doesn't
17887s	it it's this very low agency deck that
17889s	can do a powerful thing but it's really
17891s	easy to stop if the other player is able
17893s	to set up their own board properly right
17895s	we saw that with himona earlier this is
17897s	joined by with Scouts another you know
17900s	famous deck from quite a while ago
17901s	playing for sergeant playing for
17903s	Champion strength despite being nerfed
17905s	it's still trying to do the exact same
17906s	thing it's always done try and pressure
17908s	in makes sense with zwen they're
17909s	basically the same deck low interaction
17911s	much power it's just one turn slower how
17915s	how bad could that possibly be when
17917s	you're not in an aggressive meta
17918s	apparently not that bad I don't I would
17920s	be surprised if you told me that there
17921s	were more than a couple of Scouts
17922s	players in an event like this uh
17924s	Champion strength yeah that's probably
17925s	running around in space but not
17927s	necessarily Scouts and then rounding
17928s	things out we have Nar darus and we
17930s	talked about this a little bit earlier
17931s	the might a little bit of a Cool Tech
17933s	card has some use cases not always going
17936s	to shine in every matchup and then that
17938s	pette uh spids you really hyped up that
17940s	card and we saw it do exactly what you
17942s	said it would in an earlier matchup
17944s	I mean nard Darius is definitely one of
17946s	the coolest Decks that you can sort of
17947s	add weird cards to and it can work noxus
17949s	has some powerful cards that allow that
17951s	happen such as pite and whing death and
17953s	we saw these cards be quite relevant in
17954s	the matchups that they ended up playing
17956s	in firecloud is on formidable with a 222
17959s	Champion split with a champaran but no
17962s	Omen Hawk very interesting list that's a
17964s	bit different from normal but it's doing
17966s	quite well and that lack of omen Hawk is
17968s	actually going to play really big in
17969s	this match up that elusive in the
17971s	ephemeral deck is an absolute Nightmare
17973s	and that versus Omen Hawk is like the
17974s	one drop War of the event that I've seen
17976s	going on for the last couple of days so
17978s	you know might might come back to bite
17981s	them but there's Challengers and other
17983s	things there's blocking Badger bear
17984s	you're not necessarily be held to The
17985s	Omen hawen moving into
17987s	fard noxus it's not nard Darius it's
17990s	frostbite mid-range and this looks like
17992s	it's going to be a little bit of a
17994s	problem for something like that nard
17996s	Darius yeah this deck's definitely able
17998s	to do that pressure I mean we just saw
17999s	this in our last match up sometimes Ash
18002s	Blanc is just able to draw exactly what
18003s	they need and get it and if you look at
18005s	the spell split I have just realized no
18007s	flash freeze in this list it is a load
18009s	of the ground version with three Elixir
18011s	vant through Sky spitter and brittle
18012s	seal no flesh freeze is interesting but
18015s	it sort of makes sense what are you
18016s	trying to flesh freeze that you're not
18017s	trying to Har WIS especially when you
18018s	have Ash to just make an Ash's harsh WIS
18021s	right I think it's more about like the
18022s	triple burle steel triple elixir of iron
18024s	play against those aggressive matchups a
18026s	little bit better which is how they got
18027s	here in the first place just taking down
18029s	one of the most aggressive lineups in
18030s	the tournament and then it's Shor well
18033s	spit do you have anything new to say
18034s	about Jack oror that you haven't said in
18036s	the past year I don't have anything new
18038s	to say about jackor that I haven't said
18040s	in the past year no you are right this
18042s	deck I can't wait to go uh talk about
18043s	anything else you talk about the bands
18045s	that looks ex how long do I have to
18047s	complain about a deck before it's like
18048s	oh yeah this one's been around too long
18050s	like there are definitely decks where
18051s	they were around for a while but I was
18052s	like no I can take more red Gwen give me
18054s	back red Gwen and like they kind of did
18056s	but like you know but looking at these
18059s	bands like I mentioned I think that like
18061s	the narius is something that is going to
18062s	be left up I don't think that's I I
18065s	think that is something that fire cloud
18066s	is going to be pretty comfortable
18067s	playing into the ephemeral is always a
18069s	bit of a wild card especially when it
18070s	comes to the ban
18072s	phase yeah this is very interesting on
18074s	one hand firecloud does have a lot of
18077s	pressure such as Jack's hands and such
18079s	as LeBlanc hands that are able to
18080s	pressure when the fal deck doesn't have
18083s	a lot of blockers but at the same time
18084s	those hands are just as good against
18086s	Scouts typically the only thing i'
18088s	mention about Scouts is that I think
18089s	it's got a good match up into ja on if
18090s	you play for Champion strength so it
18092s	might be a Scout span just for that
18094s	matchup
18095s	alone wouldn't surprise me and like
18097s	playing for Champion strength is all
18098s	well and good until you don't draw
18100s	Champion strength but obviously if
18101s	you've made it all the way to the
18102s	semi-finals you're running kind of hot
18104s	do you think that your luck is going to
18105s	hold out it probably will statistically
18107s	I think you're likely to draw Champion
18109s	strength by a certain turn but I'm not
18110s	going to run all that math right now
18111s	that's for production to do later in the
18112s	game when we're like oh my gosh what are
18114s	the odds top deck Champion strength
18115s	they'll show us they have the technology
18118s	but is ephemeral scary enough that you
18121s	need to ban I mean it would be a band to
18125s	protect your jack or we talked about
18127s	that a little bit earlier I don't know
18128s	that formidable necessarily play Super
18131s	well into something like the uh the
18134s	hallowed units that we've been seeing
18135s	you know not as much frostbite in there
18138s	to protect against a zed or stop these
18140s	big Gwen pushes so yeah I could I could
18143s	see Scouts being the ban just because
18146s	you need or sorry either scouts or the
18149s	uh ephemerals but again like ephemerals
18150s	are always such a weird thing to talk
18152s	about when it comes to B strategy
18153s	because it's inherently inconsistent is
18155s	what stops you from bringing it but then
18157s	you run into it and you're like okay
18159s	well I have to assume that my opponent's
18160s	going to draw pretty well on
18162s	it I think if you want to ban Gwen Zed
18165s	it's sort of the safer ban I think Gwen
18167s	Zed will force firecloud to draw well
18169s	right if fire clad is able to draw
18171s	slightly above average hand they'll be
18172s	able to demolish quined they'll get
18174s	brittle steel they'll get Jax they'll
18175s	get Balin and are able to pressure in
18177s	but if they don't draw those cards Gwen
18179s	Z will always run them over while
18181s	against Scouts you can have a of worse
18184s	off draw and still be just as good into
18186s	disc Scout so I think I could see
18187s	ephemerals being banned but you could
18189s	also say that hey 20% of the time
18190s	ephemerals draws uh absolutely nothing
18193s	and you're going to win and that could
18194s	be a line to go for it depends where you
18196s	want to put your chance into do you want
18197s	to put your chance into them drawing
18198s	badly or you drawing
18200s	well either way I think it's uh it's
18203s	really just about protecting the jackor
18205s	so on the side of Polie play your cards
18207s	faster I think that jackor is always
18208s	getting left open I
18210s	think I almost want to say you ban from
18213s	frostbite mid-range I'm not actually
18214s	sure between for middle and frost bite
18216s	midrange I'm not sure which one you have
18218s	an easier time with as the
18221s	overwhelm it's got to be formidable
18224s	right formidable is onless copies of
18225s	freeze you don't really want to be
18226s	running into a brittle steel when
18228s	they're playing things like uh the the
18230s	tough lady the two men a tough lady or n
18232s	if they're not buffed by Omen Hawk
18234s	they're just going to get brittle
18234s	stealed and easily killed it's I think
18237s	you have to ban uh Ash Blanc but it's
18239s	also the weaker deck like formidable I
18241s	think is a stronger deck in that does a
18243s	more linear thing and doesn't rely on
18245s	its draws too much so you could also
18246s	it's sort of like thew Z thing but the
18247s	other way around yeah and there's n one
18250s	drops in the overwhelm deck so while we
18251s	talk about frostbite mid-range yeah you
18252s	know in the mid game you can sort of
18253s	stabilize with these frostbites there's
18255s	a lot of brittle steal targets sometimes
18256s	you just go oh yeah it's turn three
18258s	here's two Crimson pigeons and
18259s	Allegiance sabator how do you deal with
18260s	that oh you played a trifarian glory
18262s	Seeker oh no here's 12 damage to the
18265s	Nexus on turn
18267s	three going to have to see what the
18270s	bands end up being it's really cool to
18273s	see that this is what we got in this lcq
18275s	this not what I was expecting at you
18276s	know a couple of hours ago I wasn't
18278s	expecting these primarily you know I
18281s	guess I shouldn't say that I wasn't
18282s	expecting FR odd mid-range maybe that's
18283s	going to be a hot take I was expecting a
18285s	lot more of like you know SI control and
18287s	a lot more Riven than we ended up seeing
18289s	we end up seeing the Gwen Z ban and the
18290s	JAX on band kind of surprising to both
18292s	of us yeah I I think you were spot on
18296s	with the prediction of Gwen Riven I
18298s	expect that when we get into EMA and the
18300s	Americas that deck will rise as asically
18304s	I think that apack had a pretty low to
18305s	the ground and widespread overall in
18307s	terms of deck representation again jaor
18309s	being the most represented deck at 19
18310s	out of 64 I think that's the lowest
18312s	we've had all year I don't think the
18314s	other regions are really going to follow
18316s	suit with that
18317s	one this is a pretty good early draw
18320s	double Fleet for the tracker into
18321s	misfortunes exactly what you want to see
18324s	and this is it this is game one of the
18326s	semifinals again we will play a finals
18328s	but this is sort of the one that's for
18330s	all the marbles winner goes to the world
18332s	championship loser leaves with
18334s	absolutely nothing the prize on the line
18336s	today is just the world's invite and
18339s	this is a pretty decent Scout curve to
18343s	try and get it done here A Champion
18344s	strength would just be well but that we
18346s	could really say that about any Scout
18347s	hand no PR yeah having exactly like a 1
18351s	1 3 4 5 6 is going to feel amazing into
18354s	firecloud who's got a bunch of three
18356s	drops that will eventually come down but
18358s	it's very awkward to play them now the
18359s	gentleman's Jewels are interesting this
18361s	probably can be a kill on the fortune
18364s	and then if you set up this further you
18365s	might be able to trade into these
18367s	relatively happily but it's not the best
18370s	spot for you to be and you don't have
18371s	that top end of gar or
18373s	Gallo no it will come in time though but
18377s	it's not like please player cards faster
18378s	is doing nothing this time around they
18380s	they've got a really nice Scout curve
18382s	here on the 456 and you've got to find
18385s	something on five or six to try and
18386s	match that a blocking Badger bear comes
18388s	down okay that's all well and good but
18389s	you're only one buff spell away from the
18391s	scout player into disaster so it's not
18394s	even going to be a blocking badge be
18395s	it's going to be the petricite broadwing
18397s	coming down just building up the formid
18398s	a little bit more I imagine this is
18400s	going to have a spear to accompany it
18401s	probably onto the petricite charger and
18403s	just get a couple of uh 03s out and
18405s	about again not phenomenal in terms of
18408s	trading power and right now please play
18410s	your cards faster just kind of debating
18411s	do I go wide with scouts or do I go wide
18413s	with one
18415s	drops instead decide to go for Scouts
18417s	having Dred Reger get rid of a champion
18419s	strength there's only one more left in
18420s	deck for memory there should have only
18422s	been two in the deck list which again we
18424s	talked about this earlier it doesn't
18425s	fully matter but the formidable player
18427s	is definitely going to be able to think
18428s	about this and be like hey Champion
18430s	strength is much less likely they can
18431s	only have one possibly out of all of
18433s	their draws there's three in the deck
18435s	there's three are you sure I thought
18436s	there was only two is it forid yeah it's
18438s	formidable that is too ah okay you
18441s	honestly had me questioning if I'm
18442s	looking at the right Scouts list and I'm
18444s	like well who else's Scout list would I
18445s	be looking
18449s	at going to see the quein come down try
18452s	and challenge
18453s	the probably the charger away maybe
18456s	maybe it's the broadwing away to put
18457s	less strength on it but I expect to see
18459s	that come down no never mind I'm
18461s	a yeah two Mana staying up just really
18464s	threatening the form up that they don't
18467s	have and we're going to have to see is
18468s	the bluff called what's it going to be
18469s	first it's going to be a spear onto the
18470s	petricite charger leaving up that
18472s	gentleman's duel or perhaps a blocking
18475s	Badger bear depending on how this first
18476s	round of combat goes it's not an insane
18480s	amount of damage here but again
18483s	please play your cards faster just
18484s	missing that
18487s	Anthem definitely it's interesting not
18490s	to have gone for the Quinn level up and
18491s	trying to threaten the form up I can see
18493s	why but I don't know how please player
18496s	card faster is planning on doing well
18498s	into the mid game you have to expect
18499s	this formidable deck is going to be
18501s	having beefy units coming down over the
18502s	next couple of turns and without a
18504s	champion strength you can't really go
18505s	over the top so trying to go wide
18507s	without a flipped Quin seems like a tall
18511s	ass I wonder
18513s	if this is a read by please play your
18515s	cards faster who is saying okay I've
18518s	been looking at your early game so far
18520s	you've just been like you haven't really
18522s	been jamming out units so you've
18523s	probably got a heavy hand a heavy hand
18525s	probably includes a jaran so if I play
18527s	my Quinn here she's not going to level
18530s	and I'm just going to get jarvin as soon
18532s	as you go to combat next
18535s	turn that would be a very interesting
18537s	read and I definitely don't dislike that
18539s	read that read does make a lot of sense
18540s	but now with playing the broadwing you
18541s	can say okay Javin that I may have
18543s	predicted is not going to be the case
18545s	but now you have to worry is Quinn just
18547s	going to be challenged did draw the
18548s	champion strength on the side of please
18550s	play your cards faster which is
18551s	definitely changing how you think about
18552s	the next couple of turns do you want to
18553s	play it on turn seven do you want to
18554s	play it on turn eight how can I spend my
18556s	units effectively in order to let myself
18558s	do that is going to be the questions
18559s	that they're thinking of right now and
18561s	there's really no great answer out of
18563s	firecloud for that champion strength
18564s	there's still multiple units that make
18566s	multiple units in the hand of please
18568s	play your cards faster than the Mari
18569s	Warden and the Quinn and so you know
18571s	it's a little awkward I I guess you
18573s	could like geneveve now for some more
18577s	effective trades then Quinn and Mariah
18579s	on the next turn and then set up for
18580s	like a very late Champion strength but
18583s	then you're giving your opponent time to
18585s	go a little bit wider set up a Gallo
18587s	potentially um and just probably does
18589s	not have a solid read on fire Cloud's
18591s	hand double blocking Badger bear is not
18592s	what I would be putting them on in this
18596s	situation so firecloud does have the
18599s	capacity I think to replay this darken
18601s	weapon they've only played one so far
18602s	this turn if my understanding is
18604s	correctly which means they could try and
18605s	go for the Quin but they also have to be
18606s	scared about a form up if they go into
18609s	this Quin and and please play C faster
18611s	does have a form up that's going to be
18612s	really threatening and scary they could
18615s	try and go for the Valor instead we're
18616s	going to have to see what these trades
18617s	end up being like they are going to run
18619s	into the possibility of form up but
18620s	there is none in the hand and this is
18622s	going to feel amazing you know everyone
18623s	loves to joke about the America's
18625s	mentality of if they have it they have
18627s	it but what what about when they don't
18628s	have it when you say you know what if
18630s	you have it you have it and they just
18631s	don't huh what about that huh that's
18633s	that's going to take fire Cloud one step
18634s	closer to the world championship with a
18635s	favorable
18637s	trade the top deck of the foras you know
18641s	Vanguard Sergeant definitely interesting
18642s	they can't afford Vanguard Sergeant plus
18644s	Mari Warden which is a little bit
18646s	disappointing they might be able to just
18647s	be play Genevie here but geneveve gets
18649s	aned really effectively by Gallo there's
18651s	not really a good way of treating into
18653s	that so we are going to see the genev
18654s	and hope that there's no Gallo but it
18656s	could have been really disastrous I love
18659s	that these players are just kind of
18660s	going back and forth like I have a read
18661s	but you know what if you have it you
18663s	have it just nobody has it it's it's
18664s	these weak hands but eventually it's
18667s	going to come to a hedge where police
18669s	player cards faster is the one that has
18670s	the champion
18673s	strength let see the first trade come in
18675s	pry responded to by an Elixir aine not
18677s	letting any more positive trades come
18679s	through in the future but BCL doesn't
18682s	really have anything going for them
18683s	anymore their last card is a freeze that
18684s	doesn't really matter and a blocking
18685s	Badger bear that's not going to care
18687s	about blocking into a champion strength
18689s	next turn it's not looking good for
18691s	firecloud they will want a gar or a
18693s	Javin or a Gallo or something to get
18695s	them back into this that's said if
18696s	firecloud does find one of their light
18698s	game threats here I I actually don't
18699s	mind their position you've got the flash
18701s	freeze for the Scout after the champion
18703s	strength and it's just another you know
18705s	Anthem effect top deck by please play
18707s	your cards faster so the valor's about
18709s	to go down there's really nothing please
18710s	play your cards faster can do about that
18712s	and they're just losing the board but
18713s	again I'm not sure with a weak top deck
18716s	like Durant sculptor I'm not really
18718s	feeling it spids it's just go a little
18720s	bit wide get five units out slam a
18722s	champion strength might even probably
18725s	don't slam a champion strength right now
18727s	maybe now you do but probably not I I
18730s	it's only plus4 plus4 which means aaka
18732s	just actually gets to trade on one of
18733s	these units but no it actually is going
18734s	to be the case just going to run it
18736s	out what's really cool about Champion
18738s	strength if you do Champion strength
18739s	this turn you can still afford Vanguard
18741s	Sergeant Plus for Maria on the next turn
18743s	so all of these one drops are going to
18745s	be six fives and then five fours over
18747s	the next couple of turns you lose one of
18748s	them but big deal when you're
18750s	threatening the Nexus so much over the
18751s	next couple of turns and Cloud isn't
18754s	going to be able to respond pretty
18756s	effectively even if they top something
18757s	like a Gallo it doesn't really matter
18759s	when you can continue pummeling them in
18761s	the Gallo not going to have that much
18762s	strength after the trades
18764s	anyway and just kind of debating what
18766s	they're comfortable going down to
18767s	normally you think okay yeah you know
18768s	I'm against aasia that can go to one
18770s	it's fine they don't have any reach but
18771s	they do have misfortunes in the deck and
18773s	it would be a shame to lose to that so
18776s	now I mean the board is much less
18778s	threatening now there's a flash freeze
18780s	there's a unit to develop but ah man
18782s	firecloud is just continuing to not draw
18785s	units just getting all the Spells and
18787s	this is a rather spell heavy version of
18788s	formidable usually we see it more akin
18790s	to the scouts list you run like the
18791s	champion strength the elixir of iron
18794s	gentleman's duel and like Skys splitter
18796s	and that's about where you call it a day
18797s	but here I believe there's something
18798s	like 14 spells in this look with the
18800s	shield of Duran the additional single
18803s	combat and this might be the consequence
18805s	of not having Omen Hawk these Shield of
18807s	gerand are what is being replaced from
18810s	what would normally be Omen Hawk Omen
18811s	Hawk would have traded into these two
18812s	ones of rather earlier made these broad
18814s	wings and these blocking Badger Bears
18816s	slightly larger the the difference in
18818s	these cards definitely is going to be
18819s	relevant and I think please play a cards
18822s	faster is absolutely going to take this
18824s	game I mean there there are chances that
18826s	this comes out but please play a cast is
18828s	doing so much aggression right
18830s	now the very least there is going to be
18833s	an attack token with a AA and okay yeah
18837s	I was you know I was going to say I've
18838s	never seen what happens if a kna pulls
18840s	jarvin and then I remembered I used my
18841s	kn aaka can't pull
18845s	Jan time uh from here though could pull
18849s	a gallo and Gallo would be lethal this
18852s	look uh you can't pull Champions oh
18854s	sorry not yeah my bad we literally just
18857s	talked about this oh my Lord I don't
18859s	know what you thought the difference
18859s	between jarvin and Gallia was
18862s	but glacial Sor and it's a dark in so
18866s	you draw and that's just
18870s	lethal can't believe two actions ago I
18872s	said that please play a cards faster had
18874s	guaranteed lethal I am completely wrong
18876s	this anaka pulling I mean anything they
18877s	would have pulled would have done a
18878s	bunch of damage with all the Buffs that
18879s	anaka has done it it would have done
18882s	quite well and that's the first game in
18884s	what is a qualification for worlds yeah
18887s	all of a sudden we're just down to the
18888s	frostbite mid-range again and unlike the
18890s	previous match we're feeling a little
18892s	bit more confident in this we don't
18894s	think there's like a you know we were
18895s	talking a lot about the frostbite
18896s	mid-range into the overwhelm that's the
18898s	matchup that we wanted to highlight we
18899s	might not even get it if Scouts does go
18901s	down here again we were talking about
18903s	Reckoning and how no one really plays
18904s	that Frost by mid-range Scouts is a
18906s	matchup where that would actually do
18908s	some
18910s	damage thing is I don't even think you
18911s	need Reckoning if you play half guard on
18913s	turn five Scouts can't do anything
18915s	against it now there is The Reckless
18917s	traran which isn't great but there is
18919s	still traran GL Seeker into LeBlanc into
18922s	Ash which is a decent hand but this play
18926s	cards faster has got two misfortunes
18928s	this is an awful EV or or odds hand
18932s	rather for firecloud especially pairing
18936s	into a fleet feather tracker Misfortune
18938s	opener blade if there's a way for them
18940s	to lose the scouts I think it looks a
18943s	little bit like this on terms of like
18945s	still looking
18949s	playable my clad is probably going to
18951s	end up playing lunit trying to put some
18953s	damage in and I wonder if play cards
18956s	faster is going to slowly think about
18959s	playing Misfortune or not they decide
18960s	not to decides to play the daring por of
18963s	the mar Warden and a few other things
18965s	like that do you go in do you pre-commit
18968s	the The Elixir and try and go in or do
18971s	you just do this trade and end it with
18972s	that I think I do this trade end it with
18975s	that plan for Bloody Business plus
18977s	elixir on the L Blanc next
18981s	turn just in case of either another
18984s	Fleet feather tracker or a pite
18986s	broadwing I don't really see the value
18987s	in maintaining my 51 no PR no pay I
18991s	guess that's fair I was seeing it as a
18992s	way that might kill Misfortune but with
18993s	Bloody Business you are would to play
18994s	Misfortune right now it will give
18996s	LeBlanc the third point of Health which
18998s	is very nice for defending and if police
19000s	player C faster wants to do Make It Rain
19002s	to try and attack in anyway there is
19003s	still this Electra so all the Mana lines
19006s	up really really nicely following into
19008s	an ash and being able to pressure the
19009s	board State when pleas play cards faster
19011s	isn't going to be able to do a lot much
19013s	after that there's still the Quin into
19014s	the Valor and maybe a top Champion
19016s	strength for Maria could be something
19018s	but firecloud is definitely getting
19020s	their mid-range presence that they need
19021s	to of next two or three
19026s	times that said I it like if this is
19031s	this is why I hate Scouts you're casting
19032s	it and you're like that was an excellent
19034s	point spits but what if Champion
19036s	strength comes off the top of the deck
19038s	and that's just really as much analysis
19041s	as we can give you that it's kind of
19043s	just what it comes down to with Scouts
19044s	okay you have four units on the board
19045s	that's awesome now you're just in the Cs
19047s	waiting room nothing gets between me and
19049s	my Mark going to see the hot do come
19051s	down try and buff the other units now
19053s	please play cards faster is not
19054s	threatening an insignificant attack this
19056s	is well now with these blocks it's less
19059s	significant no respect for form up
19062s	again wind blocking which makes sense I
19065s	guess there's no there's no one damage
19066s	removal in this match up but it does
19068s	mean that Quinn will no longer feel
19069s	comfortable attacking unless she's
19071s	willing to die we do see the inspiring
19073s	light top deck and a misfortune that can
19075s	do things but who's player cards faster
19077s	is going to probably be able to play
19079s	traran assessa and try and look for
19082s	freeze cards either way I assume you're
19085s	kicking things off oh really I I thought
19087s	it would have been mirror image onto the
19088s	Hearth guard to kick things off leave
19090s	yourself with the harsh winds available
19093s	or play the assessor after the fact for
19095s	an additional
19097s	draw I think this has to do with the way
19100s	that the reputation list is built the
19102s	overemphasis on things such as a brittle
19105s	steel and elixir means that I think when
19108s	building this you're really looking for
19109s	these one Mana combat tricks to blow out
19110s	this mid-range deck and going going for
19112s	something slow like copying the guard
19114s	just doesn't make sense with how this
19115s	list is built I think with most other
19116s	lists I would see that as a better line
19118s	but I can understand why we went for
19120s	this from the side of fire
19125s	Cloud all right the inspiring light has
19127s	come down and now there's still a couple
19129s	of options on the side of firecloud it's
19131s	either ice fille Archer or it's now the
19134s	mirror image onto I would assume Hearth
19138s	guard over LeBlanc not a lot of reason
19139s	to get the LeBlanc out there Hearth
19141s	guard buffing up the deck and then
19142s	holding up the elixir of iron but
19144s	there's no Challenger on the fleet
19147s	feather
19148s	you're I guess the question is like how
19150s	much you get into the Mind Games of it
19151s	where it's like okay obviously they
19152s	played their Anthem effect they don't
19154s	have something to play for the
19154s	Challenger but at the same time how big
19156s	brain would it be if now their last card
19158s	in hand did give Challenger over to the
19160s	fleet feather tracker now that firecloud
19162s	has tapped out it's not going to be the
19163s	case though no Scout attack and it's
19165s	actually just going to be a lot of the
19166s	board getting taken down not even using
19168s	the elixir of iron to try and save
19170s	anything well prob because there's not
19172s	enough Mana for that that's one of the
19173s	few reasons why come down just to be a
19176s	little bit snarky to your Boulevard but
19178s	there is not that much in the defensive
19181s	potential of firecloud there is never
19183s	mind I there's Ash into Ash's frostbite
19186s	which can be quite nice
19187s	but please play faster has drawn the
19191s	Quinn into the fori which is sort of
19193s	exactly what you
19194s	wanted are fine not a lot of uh yeah
19198s	this is where the Reckless starian are
19199s	really going to start to catch up with
19200s	fire Club this is something we talking
19202s	about in a previous match up just so
19203s	many Camp block units in this deck and
19206s	it looks like nnn3 is now 1 over pin
19208s	ping ho so we might not get into that
19212s	second game all these players fighting
19213s	for their chance to qualify directly
19215s	into the World Championship Double Ash
19217s	actually coming out an aggressive use of
19219s	the mirror image threatening lethal if
19222s	no blockers come
19224s	through I quite like this you still have
19226s	eight mana on the side of firecloud to
19228s	be able to do three uh harh wins plus
19231s	the the flash freeze which is quite nice
19233s	and threatening the Nexus is the same as
19235s	challenging one of these units away and
19236s	that's all you really want to be doing
19237s	so I quite like this attack you're not
19239s	really getting that much use out of the
19241s	mirror image outside of that it's always
19243s	blocking something or threatening
19246s	something exactly enough Mana to run out
19249s	both units and the for Deasia for please
19251s	play your cards faster meanwhile another
19253s	unit that can't block on the side of
19255s	fire Cloud but doesn't really matter
19257s	you've got harsh winds plus flash freeze
19259s	and that should be enough misfortune
19262s	is
19263s	at two out of four production bail me
19267s	out
19269s	please uh misfortune's at less than
19271s	three right now which is around the
19272s	ballpark that I think matters um okay
19276s	two out of four yeah I I was also like
19278s	okay it's less than three but that
19279s	doesn't give me the information that I
19280s	need so it actually looks like
19281s	Misfortune will be leveling here and
19283s	that is a bit of a
19286s	disaster I have
19288s	to if they just attack fully right now
19290s	is that lethal if not are they going to
19292s	have to scout attack to try lethal is
19293s	the three damage more important or is
19295s	losing a unit going to be quite relevant
19297s	here uh fullon attack was not
19299s	lethal
19303s	okay they're going to have to decide
19305s	between harsh winds and three sisters I
19308s	presume it's always just harsh winds
19309s	there's very few reason not to do that
19313s	Ash is going to flip which does get the
19314s	arrow which means if they survive until
19316s	next turn the arrow is probably just
19318s	going to be enough to freeze everything
19320s	and go in for the lethal
19322s	I can't imagine that ever not being the
19325s	[Music]
19329s	case do some quick math I think I think
19332s	this is lethal you might be right now
19335s	looking at The Bard no sorry flat flash
19337s	R saves you from lethal but you do then
19339s	lose your Ash you lose both ashes in
19342s	which case yeah this isn't lethal but
19345s	without either Ash and just a bunch of
19348s	Reckless trifarian I don't know if
19351s	that's
19355s	enough if you so the crystal Arrow does
19358s	give you a draw and there will be two
19360s	ashes in the deck you could do crystal
19362s	Arrow
19364s	into Ash and that should be guaranteed
19366s	lethal unless uh F player cut quickly
19369s	draws a unit and then just holds it
19370s	doesn't play it immediately oh this
19372s	Crystal Arrow actually isn't hitting
19374s	much never yeah this uh the Duran
19377s	sculpter being able to buff the the
19379s	three4 definitely changes things a lot
19380s	and the form up also would bring it
19382s	above rate as well but even an ash is
19385s	not enough is there anything that fad
19386s	could be looking
19388s	for
19390s	um cesa Omen Hawk actually isn't awful
19395s	because it is a card that they can
19397s	play um okay is that the bar Boulevard
19401s	it's a card you can play look
19405s	it's sometimes yes that's the bar it
19408s	unfortunately not going to be enough
19409s	there but now we get into the matchup
19411s	that that you and I were highlighting
19413s	the darus Nar versus the frostbite
19415s	mid-range again we we talked about how
19418s	those Reckless trifarian can really
19419s	start to bite you in those aggressive
19421s	matchups and that's just kind of exactly
19422s	what we saw and now we're going to see
19424s	how quick can this Darius Nar go we'
19426s	kind of theorized you know there's nine
19428s	one drops in the deck the Crimson
19429s	pigeons and Legion hurus can do a lot in
19431s	the early game but sometimes you just
19433s	don't draw nine one drops sometimes you
19435s	draw some darius's and some battle
19437s	Furies and some other cards that just
19438s	lose the frostbite which is a larger
19440s	portion of your deck and the One
19442s	Drops imagine if you went to someone a
19444s	year ago and said the final decks in the
19446s	lcq OR at least in the semi-finals are
19448s	ash Blanc and Darius Nar Champions that
19450s	have never been good for like a year at
19452s	that point they pry respond with what's
19453s	an lcq when's the next seasonal but we
19456s	do see the omen Hawk drawn and that's
19458s	pretty good I mean in these FR odd
19460s	matchups sometimes you can joke around
19461s	and say whoever gets Omen Hawk wins and
19463s	we do see an omen Hawk on one side for
19466s	what it's worth I do have a bookmarked
19467s	tweet from Joy sticks that said they
19469s	just had a dream about nefari kindred
19471s	being meta in 2025 so I'm sitting on
19474s	that one and then you know when 2024
19476s	when like nefari comes out we're going
19477s	to be like oh man this Champion sucks
19480s	who would ever guess when it'll be meta
19481s	and then you know a year later in apack
19483s	quarterfinals
19486s	again this hand looks pretty good from
19489s	play faster I think having the three
19491s	drop into the four drop into San is a
19493s	pretty good space to be in but these
19495s	player C quickly does have two pieces of
19497s	interaction in the brittle steel and the
19498s	Bloody Business and is going to be able
19500s	to be relative aggressive for the next
19503s	couple of turns but possibly not
19504s	aggressive enough I think it's really
19506s	going to come down to is that three
19508s	sisters flash free is available when
19510s	firecloud goes for the bloody business
19513s	line and we're a little bit of a ways
19515s	off of that and at the moment actually
19516s	there's no way to deal with the Darius
19518s	and battle Fury is terrifying something
19521s	like the history of battle Fury
19523s	competitively is what am I started
19525s	jamming this in indor as a way to deal
19527s	with flat like frostbite it's like oh
19530s	yeah you you know you frost crit myor
19531s	okay well now it's an 84 and a similar
19534s	Theory applies in this overwhelm
19537s	deck I really like this open attack it's
19540s	hard not to let Nar level from it and
19543s	developing Nar would run into an ash
19545s	plus a brittle steel really really badly
19547s	so being able to get the you miss out on
19549s	the Pokey stick but honestly having a 55
19551s	Nar is way better than running into
19553s	something like a brittle steel really
19554s	interesting play it gives vulnerable to
19556s	probably the wrong unit you would have
19557s	rather given it to the ash but I mean
19560s	you're not going to compl too much about
19561s	having a four Mana 5 five quick attack
19563s	overwhelm absolutely not and
19566s	now I need okay going to bank a little
19569s	bit of spell Mana brittle Steel Plus
19571s	Bloody Business available reputation
19573s	should be activating this turn unless
19575s	the flash freeze gets used that' be a
19577s	little wild but I would I would imagine
19579s	a pass out of please play your cards
19582s	faster from here not a lot of reason to
19583s	jam the glacial SAR in into all of
19586s	this especially with two units that
19588s	can't block if they trade passes here I
19590s	think please play a cards faster is
19592s	definitely going to be in a very happy
19593s	position you do see the the famous thing
19596s	that Ash like the whole point of this
19597s	ash deck is to do this thing you pull
19599s	with the trian glory seeker and you
19600s	freeze what's being pulled it's I'm
19602s	surpr we haven't seen that this
19603s	tournament actually but we are going to
19605s	see that come down here do you try to
19607s	play The Elixir of iron to protect the
19610s	Nar or do you go for a fury the North
19612s	and try and do the trade I think that
19615s	three sisters is going to be really
19616s	valuable either down the line is either
19617s	a flash free or an inum um you know in
19621s	great offensive capability in a deck
19622s	like this and not something that you
19624s	have an answer for as frostbite midrange
19626s	so I like going for the Elixir IR I
19628s	don't think that's a card that gets a
19629s	lot more valuable from here on out and
19631s	still leaves you to play the glacial San
19632s	on turn on curve this turn with the the
19635s	Nar alive so you get the yal so you get
19637s	the draw and you find a crimson pigeon
19641s	Crimson pigeon is a pretty good draw
19643s	it's the only thing that can be comboed
19644s	with another glacial San is being a one
19646s	drop we are going to see glacial San be
19648s	Bloody Business down makes sense to do
19650s	it this this turn as you were saying it
19652s	was going to come down to if three
19653s	sisters would be able to interact with
19654s	it and it seems like that was not the
19656s	case unless another bloody business is
19657s	drawn and we can do that song and dance
19658s	once more but uh please player cards
19661s	quicker has now got a tough decision to
19663s	make between Darius who will be flipped
19665s	or sorum plus pigeon to try and go
19668s	wide it's a tough call and I think
19672s	either way with eight Mana flash freeze
19676s	and harsh winds fire cloud has all their
19678s	bases covered now whether or not they
19680s	have lethal on the next turn is a little
19682s	up in the air if they get forced to use
19684s	all three frostbites here then Ash is
19685s	only taking one blocker off the table
19687s	next turn and there will still be
19688s	presumably a three sisters in the hand
19690s	of please play your cards faster so the
19691s	open attack is locked in only one
19694s	blocker available but this also isn't
19697s	lethal let me check what the
19699s	over-the-top options are here
19702s	perette
19705s	and check yeah Pokey stick off the Nar I
19708s	was I confused decisive maneuver for um
19711s	a rally spell for a second
19713s	there Shan can't hit the
19716s	NEX I was hovering the card to see if it
19719s	could hit the Nexus and I'm like stun an
19720s	enemy that doesn't hit the
19723s	Nexus uh there was another time that we
19725s	saw an open attack from please play your
19727s	cards quickly which makes sense trying
19728s	to beat a lot of the developments that
19730s	were trying to come down this is it
19731s	though this is it though spids they
19734s	didn't force out the harsh winds and now
19736s	it's just ash harsh winds open attack
19737s	and that's
19738s	lethal is Ash at two ashes must be two
19741s	right we've seen a flash free in an open
19743s	yeah Ash should be a two we've seen a
19744s	flash freeze defensively you are right
19746s	provided there's not another three
19748s	sisters top deck which I presume they I
19751s	mean there won't be there's only one
19753s	yeah there's only one um might might
19754s	could uh throw things in out of the
19757s	whack would give attack over to a
19760s	unit but but that's not what is drawn
19763s	and if firecloud decides to go for they
19765s	can go for the open attack lethal Three
19767s	Sisters Fury whirling death is that
19771s	anything
19773s	ooh is that
19775s	enough you can so you can buff up the
19778s	Nar and then you
19780s	can whirling death
19782s	from onto the four the
19786s	62 I and that would let you stay alive I
19789s	think I really would have liked LeBlanc
19791s	to have been developed by firecloud
19793s	before they went in for this because the
19794s	ash attack is sort of wasted here in
19796s	that if your opponent developed a unit
19797s	you still would have had three units
19800s	that can't block cuz it's the same as
19801s	two units that can't block and now this
19802s	man is just kind of going to wasted yeah
19804s	there's the
19806s	fury there's the I understand why but
19809s	you don't want Ash to be stunned by
19810s	pette that would reduce the open attack
19813s	lethal entirely this is actually still
19815s	going to do Sky spitter is going to save
19816s	this unit and that is going to be lethal
19818s	that is going to be fiery Cloud moving
19819s	on to the world
19825s	championship what an insane match up
19827s	this is I mean Ash Blanc just showing
19829s	that it made it I did didn't expect Ash
19831s	Blanc to be one of the two winners of
19834s	the apack tournament yet that's where we
19835s	are it ended up doing exactly what it
19837s	needed to do fighting mid-range decks
19838s	and getting someone qualified into Wells
19840s	I didn't expect to see Scouts uh running
19843s	in the finals I I really didn't even
19844s	expect to see Darius Nar make it this
19846s	far but I believe we never got a final
19848s	update on the nnn versus pin pingho
19851s	matchup so we're going to see if we can
19852s	jump into that or get confirmation from
19855s	production before we throw a break on
19857s	who was the winner of that match because
19858s	we don't want to leave you hang on that
19861s	but we're going to have to for the time
19862s	being but spids with all of the Decks
19865s	that we saw I mean okay let's be honest
19866s	jaxen qualified for worlds like that's
19869s	okay whatever man like that's that's
19871s	cool I guess like you could do that um
19873s	but ashle Blanc is not something that we
19875s	really had on the radar now a lot of
19876s	people were talking about like Shen
19877s	jarvin earlier in the week but I think
19878s	as a community we're starting to
19880s	understand that like if you're talking
19881s	about Shen jarvin on Monday no one's
19883s	playing it by
19884s	Friday yeah Ash blun only had one of the
19887s	two people bring it this was one of the
19889s	two people that made it so I wonder if
19890s	it's going to be a sleeper pick that we
19891s	see in EMA and America it does I think
19894s	beat Riven Gwen which is a deck that
19896s	we're expecting to come up on the r is
19898s	being able to play Flash fre definitely
19899s	comes into this so it's going to be
19901s	interesting if we see that in the other
19903s	regions as well we see Jan versus the
19905s	POR King in ping pingho versus three one
19909s	card in hand for pin pingho one HP on
19911s	the Nexus a dream alive we know that
19915s	nnn3 was up a game the last time we
19917s	checked so even if this is game three
19918s	it's still looking really good for poro
19921s	that wasn't on my bingo card like
19923s	frostbite mid-range and poros were not
19926s	on my bingo
19928s	card or making it
19932s	through this
19934s	game there there's no way this is not
19936s	game is there any draw I'm thinking it's
19939s	probably it's like eye of the storm into
19940s	double Mystic shot okay or S stream SLI
19944s	stream into double Mystic
19946s	shot depending on how much burn is left
19948s	in the deck
19951s	there another tide callar
19953s	oh so close it wasn't even the Nerf that
19957s	did it it almost was but no that is
19959s	going to be pin pingho eliminated not
19961s	able to get that run back in nnn3 is
19964s	your second player qualified out of the
19967s	world championship qualifier that is it
19969s	folks not for the tournament but for the
19970s	world's qualification of course you
19972s	still want a champion don't you you want
19974s	to congratulate these players but you
19976s	want to see who gets to celebrate more
19978s	who gets to celebrate harder and I got
19979s	to say
19981s	very proud of nnn3 for making it this
19984s	far for making it into the world
19985s	championship and doing it with um
19987s	believe they were running something of
19988s	an anti-control lineup the puff caps
19991s	puff caps poros and
19993s	formidable it's very cool imagine if
19995s	you're anti3 trying to get into the
19998s	qualification and your final boss into
19999s	making it there is someone that's
20001s	already been in Worlds it's got to feel
20003s	amazing to actually get over there
20004s	you've already proven yourself as
20005s	someone that's great into Worlds right
20006s	now you've beaten someone that's already
20007s	made it and now you're there yourself
20009s	yeah and shout out to Boulevard for the
20011s	prophetic Powers calling out nnn3 at the
20012s	top of the day you still got it buddy
20014s	but that means we are going to throw it
20015s	to a midsized break before we come back
20018s	for the grand finals here at the last
20020s	chance qualifier again both these
20021s	players already made it in but we just
20023s	want to see some more L we want to Crown
20026s	a winner we need to be able to put a
20028s	number one at the top of the scoreboard
20029s	do not go anywhere we're playing for all
20031s	the glory here at the World Championship
20033s	last chance
20036s	[Music]
20039s	qualifier
20041s	[Music]
20069s	no
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20279s	n
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20309s	he
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20368s	he
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20458s	oh
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20488s	oh
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20506s	[Applause]
20513s	[Applause]
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20608s	he
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20656s	[Music]
20679s	is all you
20697s	got St step down watch through your
20728s	way
20731s	is that all you got to
20756s	say one you
20769s	step by step step by
20772s	step to
20788s	your
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20804s	you got to
20818s	say
20832s	[Applause]
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21719s	hello everybody and thank you for
21720s	sticking with us after a very long break
21722s	as we head into the finals of the World
21725s	Championship last chance qualifier again
21727s	these players are playing for Pride and
21729s	Glory which is honestly arguably one of
21731s	the most important things that you can
21733s	play for in a card game we talk to world
21736s	champions all the time and they're like
21737s	yeah the money's cool but really it's
21738s	that world champion title that I wanted
21740s	so yeah lcq winner that's what the
21742s	that's what we're going for here both
21743s	these players are going into the world
21744s	championship anyway but let's take a
21746s	look at the bracket to remind you who
21747s	who is going to be playing this finals
21749s	who they had to eliminate to get here
21750s	pin pingho and uh can you play a little
21753s	bit faster unfortunately eliminated at
21756s	the final step and it will be nnn 3 and
21759s	firecloud moving on to the world
21761s	championship and now playing for
21764s	Glory it's kind of crazy to think that
21766s	no teams made it past the top eight we
21768s	were talking about earlier about how
21770s	teams are quite important and then it
21771s	turns out these players that almost
21772s	certainly had you know scrim mates and
21774s	teammates trying to like help them
21776s	around and friends they can talk to but
21777s	no like massive team backing no at least
21780s	prominence in their name uh proclaiming
21782s	their allegiance to you know ABG or kdf
21785s	or something it's it's interesting to
21787s	see that they sort of all faulted off a
21789s	few rounds ago yeah and part of it I
21792s	think is that a good number of team
21795s	players are already qualified or you
21797s	know are basically locked in on points
21799s	but yeah there were certainly still a
21800s	lot of leftover teammates in this
21802s	tournament and you know top Eight's not
21804s	a bad showing but we kind of expected to
21805s	see at least one in the finals or maybe
21807s	all the way to top four instead kdf and
21809s	end making it all the way to top eight
21810s	before getting eliminated ABG out in top
21812s	16 but I think they already have a
21814s	couple of players in the world
21815s	championship but now it's just down to
21816s	individuals two individuals in fact
21818s	that's right it's Boulevard and spits
21820s	and we are the ones who have to do the
21821s	Battle of mental fortitude of once again
21824s	telling you about Jax or and selling you
21827s	that
21829s	propaganda before we get to Jack's or we
21831s	get to talk about formidableness
21837s	last three rounds in a row two copies of
21839s	champion strength one copy of Shield of
21841s	J no Omen Hawk but as we've it's been
21843s	proven you don't need Omen hawk in this
21844s	deck it's clearly good enough on its own
21847s	I'm getting sick of the darken spear all
21849s	right last World Championship poro
21851s	cannon that card started to get on my
21853s	nerves I was like boy I can't wait for
21854s	rotation hope we rotate okay then we
21856s	nerfed it and rotated it and I was so
21857s	happy and now darken spear you know I'm
21860s	starting to look at you a little
21862s	sideways oh you look at that spits it's
21865s	the darken
21866s	spear and I mean the dark and spear has
21868s	come in handy in these last few matches
21870s	I think every single time we've seen
21871s	anaka pull something important and have
21873s	that 68 body which is not insignificant
21874s	at all be quite relevant in all of these
21876s	matchs I can see why you dis like Dr I
21879s	think it's kind of based that you can
21880s	have weapons and units at the same time
21882s	I think the dark and weapons is one of
21883s	the coolest editions they had this game
21885s	sick I love it so much but the spear
21887s	specifically is starting to get to
21890s	me finally we've got Jack you want let's
21892s	talk about Ash blonc some more actually
21894s	let's in front of us on the screen uh
21896s	Ash blanc's pretty cool it's been doing
21898s	quite well only two people brought and
21899s	one of them made it to Top Cut and well
21901s	top two and able to qualify for worlds
21903s	with it uh do you think it's going to
21905s	have representation in the other agents
21907s	I think I've asked you this before uh I
21908s	think we're probably going to see a
21910s	similar uh representation to what we saw
21911s	in APAC like two or three players um for
21913s	example like over in EMA you know if you
21916s	were like oh what do you expect to see
21917s	I'd be like a cocky boak's probably
21919s	playing ashle Blanc in Top Cut there uh
21922s	and then on the side of nnn 3 we've also
21924s	got formidable so deck of the weekend
21926s	right now formidable which honestly I'm
21929s	a little surprised by because we saw a
21931s	highrise in control and eradication but
21933s	I guess like the controllers we're
21934s	seeing aren't eradication list right
21936s	like himr Nora isn't running it karma
21938s	set obviously isn't running it because
21939s	they're PT over in Z and not Shadow a
21941s	it's really just like the war mothers
21942s	Decks that are on the eradication and it
21944s	looks like all of those fell out pretty
21946s	early it doesn't seem like there's a
21948s	good way of dealing with pite Chara plus
21950s	gentleman's Jewel it's able to deal with
21952s	decks like red Gwen it's able to deal
21954s	with anything that's sort of janilla
21956s	esque and so for it it makes sense I
21958s	don't think we've ever broken down this
21960s	deck we've we've seen three play but it
21962s	wasn't the first game we were talking
21963s	about this is their version of Teo
21965s	Caitlin what do you think about this
21967s	list it looks very standard to me and
21970s	honestly I've never really been a big
21971s	puff cap fan once we introduced like
21973s	Kina Mastermind into the list when it
21975s	was like Ezreal and Frostbite Foundry I
21977s	I could get behind it a little bit more
21978s	but stuff like this I'm just I get that
21981s	it's got its place in The Meta it's very
21982s	good against slower decks but it's just
21984s	it's not for me and then poro King is
21986s	actually like if I wanted to take on a
21987s	slower deck then poro King I think is
21989s	where I would actually want to be this
21990s	is something that I like a lot into
21991s	control
21992s	piles we do see the one poris I was
21995s	mention to you ear I think por Alis is
21997s	stock in this deck although nessi was on
21999s	two which was a little bit weird this
22000s	version is the targon version running
22002s	Sunburst as opposed to the F version
22003s	which I think runs like inar and just
22005s	more go wide stuff right uh interesting
22008s	list only one t on T is pretty weird I
22010s	feel like these List have typically
22011s	tried to run as many hushes as possible
22013s	and instead we're seeing very very few
22015s	which is probably good into this match
22016s	up you don't really need a hush all that
22018s	much outside of maybe a
22019s	formidable hush like when you think
22021s	about what's going to be the most
22023s	represented deck you look at Jax horn
22025s	hush not super useful but then you look
22027s	at like Riven Gwen and I feel like hush
22030s	is actually quite useful in a matchup
22031s	like that so yeah I am a little
22032s	surprised to see down on the number of
22034s	targon tellstones um spit got a little
22036s	bit of trivia for you here as it
22038s	pertains to Legends of Renta um I I
22040s	don't think this was ever seasonal
22042s	worthy but do you know the only other
22045s	deck that I've ever seen Aurora por Alis
22048s	in oh no why are you doing this meet
22050s	bouevard why is there a pop quiz in this
22052s	tournament Pop Quiz spits where was
22054s	Aurora poral
22057s	played I have no clue where would it be
22059s	played there was a lux
22062s	deck there was a solid like month where
22065s	there was just like it wasn't even like
22066s	poros it was just Fjord Lux and they
22070s	were like heyy orora poral is 12 Mana
22073s	worth of
22074s	spells I can't imagine AIO deck being
22078s	good uh like before like you know 3
22080s	months ago or something it's crazy to
22082s	think that was something in there it
22083s	dark times we didn't have a lot going
22085s	every time I see a lux deck pop up in
22087s	the meta you know previous uh like you
22090s	know a year and a half plus ago I'd be
22092s	like oh we're just we don't got a lot
22093s	going on right now
22095s	huh I mean Lux Jace does well in a turn
22098s	a little bit but I think that's just
22100s	like it's the best aasia deck that has a
22102s	mid-range Presence at that point right
22104s	yeah I miss aelio Lux that was probably
22106s	my favorite Lux deck deck any any targon
22109s	Lux I was actually a big fan of cuz when
22110s	when targon first came out like ASO Lux
22112s	was a huge deck and I was I was a very
22114s	big fan of
22115s	that um I don't think I played a lot of
22118s	AOS Lu I did play a lot of aelio Victor
22120s	when AOS released it was the first de I
22121s	got the masters with which I felt pretty
22123s	proud of bad at the time uh AOS has got
22125s	a a happy place in my heart mine as well
22127s	I think AOS Lux was like after aelio had
22130s	already been nerfed and then rebuffed
22131s	back into viability I remember aelio Lux
22134s	was what I was playing right before
22135s	petricite broadwing got nerfed
22138s	and that kind that's actually kind of
22139s	what took the deck off was the Nerf to
22141s	petricite
22142s	Broadway yeah I mean it was a pretty
22144s	good Nerf I think it's one of the more
22145s	creative Nerfs that have come into the
22147s	tournament and it's still like not the
22148s	tournament just in the game sorry it's
22150s	it's a cool way of making the card still
22152s	feel relevant like it's over sted on
22153s	curve but you need to buff it for it to
22155s	be something you can actually trade with
22157s	and the formidable keyword does do some
22159s	interesting things with how the game
22160s	plays out I quite like that Nerf I think
22161s	it's one of the better ones they've
22164s	done absolutely uh talking about the
22167s	match up in front of us I want to see
22171s	jackor banned because yikes I'm already
22174s	falling asleep as it is over here the
22176s	last thing I need is something to send
22177s	me over the edge and I want to see uh
22179s	puff caps and Yumi play out but again
22182s	obviously like these players want as
22183s	much practice as possible going into the
22185s	world championship I imagine they're
22186s	going to take this very seriously so
22187s	we're going to see a formidable band
22188s	we're going to see a Yumi horo King ban
22191s	and that means puff caps will play I
22194s	don't know if you heard that Boulevard
22195s	this is the first time I've heard
22196s	production last at something you said
22198s	which is very very nice um we are going
22200s	to have traps versus uh this has to be
22203s	Jack's on no it doesn't it doesn't have
22206s	to be we can we can make it up we can
22208s	say this is something this is or Jax
22210s	actually it's very different from Jax
22215s	or surely jaon wins surely jaon is going
22218s	to just punish this deck and without any
22220s	Teo without any puff caps is just not
22222s	going to get there yeah I want this to
22224s	be the master class in why you don't
22228s	play things like this why you bring jaor
22231s	first of all Omen Hawk and omok I
22233s	mentioned that sometimes jaor just gets
22235s	do really broken things like play a 66
22237s	on turn three would have been possible
22238s	if this uh Apprentice had come a little
22240s	bit earlier but honestly three wide with
22243s	what what weapon was taken here all
22245s	right three
22247s	wide like 10 stats on board and two
22250s	spell mana on turn three that's a good
22252s	deck yeah we do see the Caitlin come
22254s	down which sort of sounds nice until
22256s	you're that everything's going to be
22257s	buffed into obliv the The Flash bombs
22260s	aren't going to be doing too too much I
22262s	do like that Mystic shot and you can
22264s	probably make a read that there's no Sky
22267s	splitter and there's no elixir of iron
22269s	just from that cuz I think you always
22270s	protect that every single
22271s	time and even if there was there's still
22274s	the Caitlin spell there's still the
22275s	elixir of iron I'm sure that this is
22277s	where the puff cat Peddler comes down
22278s	there's not going to be enough Mana for
22280s	the fish fight so and even once Mana for
22282s	fish fight is available uh fire cloud is
22284s	going to have to pick between The
22285s	Peddler and the Caitlin but again don't
22287s	think Caitlyn is a significant threat in
22288s	a matchup like this and with the double
22290s	Omen Hawk Teemo is not touching down
22292s	anytime soon
22295s	either on Jax is like even with just
22298s	like these two combat cooks are going to
22299s	be pressuring the game every single time
22301s	if they draw nothing over the course of
22302s	the rest of the game I still think that
22304s	onjax is probably in a much better
22306s	position and it's probably likely to win
22308s	it's just that the lack of stats that uh
22310s	pnz like fot has access to and in traps
22313s	just doesn't do anything against these
22314s	Decks that are massive every single time
22317s	I think if firecloud was not allowed to
22319s	take any action other than blocking for
22321s	the next three turns but was guaranteed
22323s	an or top deck on seven they would still
22325s	win this
22327s	game that that's probably true and a
22330s	little bit unfortunate uh for like you
22332s	know the the creativity and the coolness
22333s	of the plays uh I better an investigator
22337s	doesn't really change any of this you
22338s	can't really Shuffle in that many puff
22340s	caps with out Teemo or a second puff cap
22343s	pedler there's not even like spells that
22345s	create spells in
22347s	three deck I think there might be ch
22349s	right that creates a couple of spells
22350s	but that's about it that's the only like
22351s	spell spam card in that deck yeah like
22355s	Advanced Intel is a three of in here but
22358s	that I mean there's also just like no
22359s	frostbite in the hand for three you know
22362s	no harsh wins again just like an Insider
22364s	knowledge top deck which really not
22366s	something that you want to be playing in
22368s	against this and that's sort of always
22369s	been the Hallmark of these puff cap
22371s	decks right is it's like okay yeah my
22373s	deck is built such that I will
22375s	eventually need to play my card that
22376s	draws us all additional cards but then
22378s	my opponent who is already beating me
22381s	just gets more cards and my deck is
22384s	built to play inefficiently like triple
22386s	brittle seal triple elixir of iron
22387s	triple Skys splitter if you're not
22389s	getting favorable combat trades with
22392s	these cards that catches up to you
22393s	eventually and then you need to do
22395s	things like fire off an Insider
22396s	knowledge to
22397s	rebuild we did see these Omen Hawks
22400s	attack I wonder if we're going to see
22401s	the shares used to try and protect one
22402s	of the OM Hawks there is still a blocker
22404s	for the team but it felt like these om
22406s	hwks want one of the last vestages as a
22408s	protection piece for uh not having Teo
22411s	strike the Nexus there is still fish
22412s	fight that can go against Teo but if
22414s	three decides to play teu this turn they
22419s	still can't attack right and then if you
22421s	do the pen Cast Away it would go into
22423s	fish fight Al P Cast Away was not a real
22425s	Castaway it was actually just Caitlin a
22427s	whole
22428s	time surprise oh man another veteran
22431s	investigator a snipe onto the omen Hawk
22433s	not that it means much unless a second
22437s	okay that's the wrong puff cap or the
22439s	wrong trap
22441s	rather and uh I'm looking at the hand of
22444s	three here spids do you know what I
22445s	don't
22446s	see a way to win an answer to
22450s	or or is technically not flipped there
22452s	won't be an overwhelmed threat but I
22454s	don't know how you're supposed to deal
22455s	with a a 2020 you know attacker for one
22457s	turn yeah I also think I think or can
22460s	just flip with fish
22464s	fight one can flip with fish fight
22467s	you're going to have to explain this one
22468s	to me okay so you you're going to take
22470s	the weapon from combat
22472s	cook I mean you take any weapon I think
22474s	and that makes you big enough right okay
22477s	not that one I
22478s	guess uh on does not Forge himself when
22481s	he does the equipment right so it's
22482s	always going to be six strength well
22483s	actually now or's going to flip because
22485s	it's a scout so he just going to combat
22488s	up to eight yeah this is a examin the
22491s	that will flip War this turn so you got
22492s	to draw some kind of frostbite here
22494s	three and by some kind of frostbite I do
22496s	specifically mean harsh winds which you
22497s	can no longer have an out to because it
22500s	is five mana and a second copy of inser
22503s	knowledge will put you at
22505s	four Caitlyn is dealing four damage this
22509s	time am I right in saying that hold my
22512s	bear it doesn't matter but you know
22514s	there was worlds in which you get a
22516s	frost bite get Caitlyn to block twice go
22518s	down you know there were outs there that
22520s	could have been possible with Insider
22521s	knowledge but must to be the case you
22523s	can shoot your own veteran investigator
22525s	to prevent the on flip
22527s	but all of these units are still going
22529s	to be attacking in rather aggressively
22530s	and three even with something like a
22533s	Karina Mastermind or trying to set up
22534s	the Teo into a Kina Mastermind doesn't
22536s	seem like it would be dealing 16 worth
22538s	of damage only eight puff caps in the
22540s	deck last time I checked eight does not
22542s	deal 16
22544s	damage
22548s	unless you generate
22551s	AA and get her into play somehow in a
22554s	deck with as far as I can tell
22556s	absolutely no random card
22559s	generation is there
22561s	condense no condense could let okay well
22564s	we're not even bandal City ah that would
22567s	be a good reason why you can't like it's
22569s	we're tired we've been doing this for a
22570s	couple of hours now we already have the
22572s	winners crowned for the the world's
22574s	qualification these guys are just
22575s	playing for Glory as we said so we don't
22577s	have to think even about this okay well
22581s	okay well if there's 11 puff caps in
22582s	deck then I guess technically if all if
22584s	all 11 of them are in the top five this
22586s	Karina could
22588s	kill we have a percentage check on that
22590s	production can you tell us the chance of
22592s	drawing all 16 puff caps if we play uh
22595s	the second Teemo plus the three puff
22597s	caps from the the puff cap
22602s	ped production said
22605s	no oh I actually kind of thought this
22608s	was I guess like there's still a chance
22609s	for three because you get to
22613s	go chump wump put all the shrooms in the
22616s	deck and then okay never mind The
22617s	Insider knowledges are coming out now 19
22620s	puff caps two draws also this is lethal
22622s	right one's flipped one yeah or's going
22625s	to
22627s	flip okay there's uh well two is a lot
22632s	less than the necessary number for three
22634s	to pick this one up you
22636s	got on Flipping showing that you know
22639s	all you need to do is draw good units on
22641s	curve play Omen Hawk play a second Omen
22643s	Hawk play some stats and eventually get
22644s	on to Pummel down
22647s	this should be lethal there are four
22648s	attackers all with three strength on
22649s	more against 10 Health it's it's just
22651s	not
22653s	enough spoil the
22656s	surprise that was cool that was awesome
22659s	you know what this means though spits we
22660s	get to see puff caps again because it
22663s	also means no more on that's pretty good
22665s	oh man blessed are
22668s	we if I just don't watch the other last
22671s	chance qualifiers then surely I never
22673s	have to look at jaor again surely
22675s	whatever is coming in the world
22676s	expansion will just completely nullify
22679s	jackor and there's going to be like a a
22681s	one Mana fast speed spell that's just
22683s	like destroy all weapons in play or
22685s	something like that and I never have to
22686s	worry about these again because I I
22688s	think people I think your casual player
22690s	kind of overestimated how much work
22693s	explorers were going to do in taking
22695s	jackor out of the
22698s	meta yeah I mean Explorer is a they low
22701s	Tempo when you play them and you're
22702s	spending two mana on equipment remover
22703s	which honestly isn't good enough like
22705s	why heavy metal is good as cuz it also
22706s	does two damage why quietus it's good as
22708s	cuz it also kills units right the
22710s	flexibility just doesn't actually mean
22712s	enough we're going to see Ash Blanc
22713s	versus formidable which is favored for
22717s	forides right by a long shot
22721s	yeah it's one of those things where it's
22723s	like it looks so clean for
22735s	formidableness in case you're unaware
22737s	the big reason why is cuz
22738s	formidableness
22741s	biting a unit that has no strength
22743s	anyway and attacks with their health
22745s	doesn't really accomplish the goals that
22746s	you're looking for yeah that cute little
22749s	Ash trifarian Glory Seeker combo that we
22750s	talked about earlier the sort of thing
22752s	that the deck was built upon doesn't
22754s	work on formidableness
22767s	kind of underplayed but we're going to
22768s	see it come down here the problem is
22770s	like I do love the darken spear I just
22772s	don't love what it facilitates it's the
22774s	same thing with dark and harp I looked
22776s	at that I was like this is the coolest
22777s	card I've ever seen and then we got vain
22779s	Fiora that was pilt over in Zan just to
22782s	play darken spear or dark in harp rather
22785s	and I was like that's that's not what I
22788s	wanted that's so weird cuz I thought
22790s	that was the coolest thing ever we
22792s	finally had p and z in a demasia deck
22794s	being aggressive and being cool but like
22796s	we had seen that before and the docken
22798s	Hop was one of the coolest things we've
22799s	seen I think we just disagree heavily on
22800s	this it's possible I also thought like
22802s	atrox was really cool until it just
22804s	turned into Ranger Knight Defector
22805s	darken harp I was like oh that's not
22807s	what I want I wanted to be slamming like
22809s	giant dark in units I wanted to be
22811s	leveling the world Ender and like it's
22812s	not even really atro's fault he just
22814s	kind of got nerfed into that
22817s	position it's kind of interesting I
22819s	haven't really thought about Ranger
22820s	Knight Defector in the past few months
22821s	as a strong Contender it used to be like
22823s	the mid-range card right it used to be
22825s	that the only only card that would be
22826s	played in opens and the whole reason you
22828s	go into demasia and now it seems like
22829s	all of the mid-range is converted into
22831s	frelard and
22834s	formid pretty much wonder if the second
22837s	elixir of iron gets used to yeah might
22838s	as well I mean it's not like you have
22839s	any other units to protect but man is
22841s	this looking bad the cool thing about
22843s	being a a 7030 matchup is that uh
22847s	sometimes you find that
22849s	30% so what went wrong for three is it
22852s	just like everything being a combat
22854s	trick and nothing being a gar nothing
22856s	being a a Balin no just no formidable
22859s	units like you're trying to be frostbite
22861s	resistant instead you drew double elixir
22863s	of iron skysplitter the weakest
22866s	formidable unit in your deck so you've
22867s	got to pump extra combat tricks in it to
22869s	have it effectively trade onto things uh
22871s	dark and spear is cool but again you're
22874s	pumping up a rather weak unit this Omen
22876s	Hawk is whatever like we're on turn five
22877s	and you just drew your second Omen Hawk
22880s	unit and it's not a
22884s	formidable fire Cloud's definitely got
22886s	an interesting couple of turns coming in
22887s	front of them they can play Ash to try
22889s	and accelerate some sort of Ash I I
22892s	guess playing for ash doesn't even
22893s	matter you just want to play for LeBlanc
22894s	and play for reputation try and find the
22896s	rally guy and eventually win and what is
22898s	unfavored match up you're still looking
22900s	to just play AOS andard and rally and
22902s	try and get through that
22905s	way skysplitter to trade onto a
22908s	trifarian
22910s	assessor is probably one of the like
22915s	weakest corre plays I've seen all
22920s	night the only play that is weaker that
22923s	I can conceive that I've ever had to do
22924s	myself that I felt was 100% correct was
22926s	a turn one zero
22929s	Mana uh predict card into a skip that
22933s	was like easily the worst correct play
22935s	I've ever made in a card game
22937s	ever baral pressions definitely hurts a
22939s	lot when you when it just doesn't give
22941s	you what you want if you don't get the
22942s	drop borders that we saw earlier today
22944s	many many hours ago it just doesn't
22946s	doesn't feel great we do see the
22947s	equipment on the Duran sculpter trying
22949s	to protect a little bit and pide charge
22951s	are finally coming down as a
22953s	27 sort of good to see it's finally some
22955s	pressure and they don't have a way of
22956s	killing it outside of a big Bloody
22958s	Business this does curve into Gallo this
22961s	game is far from
22963s	over yeah the spear doing work finally
22966s	drawing the units Gallo gets to come
22968s	down my concern for the time being is
22971s	actually I guess it's not really
22972s	warranted I was going to say you know
22974s	could still play for an ash level up if
22976s	you do get that off with a wide board
22978s	which is just like something that
22979s	doesn't happen in this match up very
22981s	often uh then yeah all the formidable
22983s	units have zero attack they can't block
22984s	Ash but because the darken Spear and
22986s	Omen Hawks have been in play so long
22987s	they actually do have attack attached to
22989s	them at this
22990s	point Alo is able to flip it's quite
22994s	large enough do you ever if the pass is
22996s	offered by fire CL do you ever take it
22999s	as three do you ever say I finally you
23001s	know Gallo you can't really do anything
23002s	against me I am going to try and beat
23004s	you down I think because you are at 33
23007s	Health in play you can attack with at
23010s	least one
23013s	unit it's as if there is some
23015s	disagreement by three just trying to
23017s	protect everything you don't really want
23018s	to run into a Bloody Business right like
23019s	right now Bloody Business doesn't
23020s	prevent the level up but in future if
23023s	you attack with something like the Jan
23024s	sculpter it could I do like attack with
23027s	the Jan sculpter to also try and get AA
23029s	back otherwise you have to block with it
23030s	and they might just never kill Duran
23032s	sculpter the pting damage on her might
23034s	be nice in order to get your AR try and
23036s	find more cards but we're just going to
23038s	see more trades back getting the Gallo
23040s	flipped and trying to like create a wall
23042s	that can't be interacted
23044s	with unfortunately I don't think it's
23046s	going to quite work out that way but
23049s	again like the health on these units is
23050s	so high it's going to take a little
23051s	while to chew through firecloud draws
23054s	arguably the worst card in the
23057s	matchup HH winds does accelerate the ash
23060s	level up a little bit and can help you
23062s	go for the like the ash lethal right you
23065s	are right that
23067s	formidableness
23068s	but if you can combine that with the
23071s	harsh winds you can get the ash to
23073s	actually deny attackers and we've
23075s	already seen like a sky splitter come
23077s	through you can't rebuff afterwards
23078s	unless you draw another one or a three
23079s	sisters or something so
23082s	oh they want a game
23085s	three firecloud said show me game three
23088s	I don't I don't want to play Frost by
23090s	mid-range anymore I want to play I want
23093s	to play farest by mid-range versus puff
23095s	caps
23097s	that was unexpected that was so I did
23099s	not see that coming at all funny enough
23100s	I was going to say this is actually kind
23101s	of what we expected out of the quote
23103s	unquote finals where like there's
23104s	nothing at stake we're we're mostly
23106s	playing for fun at this
23109s	point I I I mean I was expecting maybe
23111s	if they're going to surrender do it
23113s	immediately not play eight rounds and
23115s	then decide you know what I've had
23116s	enough let's just do something
23118s	else yeah actually just pick up your
23121s	cards in the middle of the game like I'm
23122s	tired of this pull out your other deck I
23124s	want to see the puff caps again
23127s	get to see teamer have a final you know
23129s	harara in this was Galler already
23132s	winning like was that a surrendered
23134s	genuinely out of already l i felt like
23135s	there was definitely game still in there
23137s	oh no I I thought frostbite was going to
23139s	take that like
23143s	80% that wasn't a yawn sorry that was
23146s	production I was answering production oh
23148s	no the voices in my head are coming to
23150s	life uh so in a matchup like this though
23154s	Glory yeah
23157s	oh that's a great brittle
23160s	steel it is a Teo and like Teo I think
23163s	is really important in this it's sort of
23165s	sad to have a deck that's so reliant on
23166s	Teo but the extra puff caps is really
23168s	like critical for making it so that on
23170s	your turn six your turn seven you are
23172s	play Kina and actually threaten
23173s	something especially against a deck that
23174s	is going to punish you down and Trier
23176s	and assessa which is one of their power
23177s	cards is going to be drawing a bunch
23179s	it's really important to have this team
23180s	down and there's no other way of
23181s	interacting with it outside of
23182s	Challenger and Bloody Business and I
23184s	really like the for here even if you
23186s	ended up going for the ice Veil Archer
23187s	to take out uh say the Teemo then this
23190s	is a deck especially pre Hearth guard
23194s	pre- Omen Hawk where the flash bombs can
23196s	do a little bit of damage if one of them
23197s	comes off the top here kills traran
23199s	assessor Or Glory Seeker rather we are
23201s	looking at a totally different game and
23202s	three is what Champions are made of
23205s	faster than my arrow I think not three I
23208s	mean maybe wasting they like a little
23210s	bit early in this uh you know fight that
23212s	doesn't actually matter as much they
23213s	probably should have saved that for
23214s	worlds if they could
23216s	fling later we do see
23220s	the come down I don't know how important
23224s	that is there's only three spells in
23225s	hand it's only going to shuffle a couple
23226s	of P caps in you can flip Teo before he
23230s	attacks and you can beat a frostbite
23232s	that way as well if you attack the
23233s	frostbite and then you do the Spells you
23235s	can get the extra strength on Teo but I
23237s	doubt we're going to see spells
23238s	pre-committed
23239s	anyway you think Teemo should be buffed
23242s	to instead of a 15 puff cap level up
23245s	condition in a 15 trap level up
23248s	condition something I've thought about a
23250s	little bit I can see why but I kind of
23253s	like having Teemo be his own little
23255s	thing and not like I don't want them to
23257s	not release another trap champion
23258s	because it'll be too strong right if
23260s	there's some other trap that happens in
23261s	future that's
23263s	true the I guess reverse
23268s	Boon just minus one minus one a card in
23271s	your
23272s	hand that would be so strong if they
23274s	that is what and then puff cap somehow
23277s	in the way they're applied that would be
23278s	very very strong eventually we go to the
23281s	upside down we just see all the reverse
23282s	cards of the
23285s	champion yeah had to you had a trap that
23287s	inverts all the card art so instead of
23289s	being this happy Teemo it's sort of a
23290s	shadow Teemo with the inverted card art
23293s	I'm glad you said it that way because I
23294s	just pictured an upside down
23297s	Teemo yeah it's from Australia it's my
23299s	version of Teo uh we are going to see
23302s	the attack come in uh I we could see a
23305s	Bloody Business that was top decked and
23308s	would prevent some of the puff caps
23309s	coming through we don't see it in the
23311s	end it's a lot of Mana to be spending on
23312s	a one Mana y but there's so many puff
23315s	caps in the deck now and every
23316s	subsequent attack from Teo is going to
23318s	double that amount and it's also really
23320s	scary to use a Bloody Business in a
23321s	situation like this just because you are
23323s	against a harsh winds brittle steel deck
23324s	your Ash is only at 3 HP that would be
23327s	your entire turn while you're already
23329s	behind on board uh just to get negated
23331s	by one mana and Shuffle three puff caps
23333s	into your deck before the Teo connects
23335s	like it would be such a disastrous play
23338s	if there was a brittle seal waiting in
23340s	the Rings but there wasn't and now
23343s	trying to get another flash bomb and are
23346s	we going to see it happen again not this
23349s	time 50/50 did not go through but if
23352s	there is a development we could see the
23353s	Karina come down and Karina does see the
23355s	top five cards or top yeah top five
23358s	cards which is where most of the flash
23359s	bombs will
23362s	be
23364s	debating ging Blossom or volatile
23367s	Bloom don't ever see a reason like I've
23371s	almost never see anyone go for the five
23373s	flash bombs and I I never really see a
23376s	reason to if your opponent's board is
23377s	getting out of control you know it's
23378s	better than putting flash bombs in their
23380s	deck killing them just kill them they
23383s	fun fact for everyone at home if your
23385s	opponent's Nexus hits zero it doesn't
23387s	matter what their board looks like you
23389s	win the
23391s	game I have seen so many flash uh like
23394s	five Flash bombs in and every single
23396s	time it's because they didn't have units
23398s	from turns 1 through five um this time
23401s	there are units and there are definitely
23402s	reasons to play The Flash form card
23404s	three is just thinking do they want to
23406s	play might be thinking about Advanced
23408s	Intel first and and just I don't see a
23411s	reason not to you know maybe you'll
23413s	regret not using that or having that
23415s	alixir of iron later but who
23417s	knows yeah show me show six spash bombs
23421s	and a bunch of puff
23423s	caps see what ends up happen there are
23425s	24 puff caps in the deck and eight flash
23427s	bombs we see the emotes coming
23430s	down flash bombs don't wipe
23435s	out yeah the unfortunate Overkill
23437s	mechanic of The Flash Bombs all coming
23438s	out at once does mean Ash is going to
23440s	survive this with one
23443s	HP but it does seem a little bit too
23446s	late I mean can't attack Caitlyn would
23451s	kill and three has got so many ways of
23454s	adding more draws we already know how
23455s	many puff caps are in the top so if you
23458s	know fire Cloud draws five cards we
23459s	already know that's guaranteed lethal
23461s	but it doesn't even matter cuz this
23462s	attack will be threatening that anyway
23464s	the Ash dies which gets rid of a flash
23466s	phrase you see the emotes coming down
23468s	and we know who is going to be the
23469s	winner of the LC is going to
23473s	be
23476s	technically
23477s	technically technically in
23480s	theory uh yeah technically no Theory
23483s	even not anymore uh
23487s	technically technically uh you would
23489s	draw your this is your second third and
23491s	then you would draw your fourth card for
23492s	turn so if all the shrooms were on the
23493s	fifth card you would have one turn to
23495s	try and push back lethal with no board
23498s	and 20 hp on the opposing
23500s	Nexus but that is going to do it
23504s	nnn3 technically going to be your
23507s	champion after sort of an odd surrender
23509s	game two out of fiery
23513s	cloud look this final game was always
23515s	going to be a little bit weird because
23516s	all the players have already gotten rid
23517s	of all of their stresses and their
23519s	nerves from trying to get into Worlds
23521s	they're already there they're just
23522s	having a good time you know little bit
23523s	of a blaze of glory seeing what's gonna
23525s	happen and we also uh actually looking
23529s	at a tweet from Aurora our previous I
23532s	believe it was the Eternal or maybe even
23533s	world's qualifier Champion saying that
23535s	uh
23536s	nnn3 is silver rank currently on the
23540s	legends of Renta standard ladder I
23542s	assume so that as as far as I know if
23546s	that's true that is the lowest ranked
23548s	player we've ever had win an event like
23551s	this and it's it's possible that they've
23553s	been Masters in the past but if they are
23555s	silver now that's something that I'll
23556s	need to confirm I love that I love that
23558s	for nnn3 because again this is a player
23561s	that like I recognize from multiple top
23563s	Cuts so it it don't don't take the rank
23565s	to think they're a bad player maybe they
23566s	just don't like playing ladder we're
23568s	going to take an over look overall look
23570s	at the bracket here to remind you all
23572s	how we got to the situation how nnn3
23574s	became your world championship last
23577s	chance qualifier Champion for the APAC
23579s	region defeating uh Peta and
23583s	fundamentals Bruce 1915
23587s	Ray and that's it I mean we've seen a
23589s	lot of play throughout this entire time
23591s	we've seen some very interesting decks
23592s	we have seen like the propagation of
23594s	some things like the formidable lineup
23596s	which we weren't I wouldn't have S
23598s	expected that the top two decks would
23599s	have been formidable I would have
23600s	expected more things like uh green Riven
23603s	or red Gwen uh but as we've seen
23605s	throughout this tournament a bunch of
23606s	things that we expected didn't end up
23608s	winning and a bunch of things that we
23609s	didn't expect winning winning yeah I
23611s	actually noticed that reden 2.0 was
23613s	completely absent from the top four I'm
23615s	sure we had if I had to guess a number
23618s	for top eight I would say somewhere
23619s	between two and three I don't think it
23621s	was just one and again that is a deck
23622s	that I fully expect to have more of a
23625s	presence as we get into EMA and the
23629s	Americas seen some great players play in
23632s	this you know final opportunity they had
23634s	to make it this was our top 16 a really
23636s	tight top 16 lots of tough play you know
23639s	lots of players that we recognize such
23640s	as ping Pingo and pukari not even making
23641s	it to the top four despite you know
23644s	having great success over the past
23646s	couple of years but we finally have our
23648s	winner that we do and with that uh
23651s	there's not much else to say spits um
23654s	once we get back to the desk here I
23656s	guess it's time for us to say our
23657s	goodbyes to the lovely APAC region now
23659s	that you have your two players that will
23661s	be moving on to the world championship
23662s	again once all the points qualifiers get
23664s	sort of finalized and everything then we
23666s	will know our 64 players for that event
23668s	but for now at least two more have been
23670s	solidified spids has been an absolute
23672s	pleasure to cast with you today is there
23674s	anything that you want to say to
23675s	everybody before we sign off for the
23677s	night want to give a quick shout out to
23679s	Boulevard and absolutely no one else uh
23681s	thanks for being amazing in this cast
23683s	I've had a fantastic time this has been
23684s	a wonderful tournament uh thanks for
23686s	having us you know spids I couldn't have
23688s	said it better myself but I'll try
23690s	anyway shout out to Boulevard and
23691s	absolutely nobody else absolutely nobody
23693s	else R I hope you're listening because I
23694s	mean abs absolutely nobody else thank
23695s	you so much to all of you viewers at
23696s	home though congratulations again to
23699s	nnn3 and of course fiery Cloud as well I
23702s	hope you have a splendid Time in the
23703s	World Championship which you can check
23705s	out later a couple of weeks away
23708s	December some dates middle of December
23710s	you can find it online you can find it
23711s	on Twitter you can find it anywhere but
23712s	you can't find it here because this is
23714s	the end of the broadcast thank you so
23715s	much for
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23723s	watching
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[2023] APAC | World Championship Last Chance Qualifier

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