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G'day, for hands it's Blistigai and for Friday the 1st of November it's episode 1380 I've walked to work a mobile Hearthstone podcast. See the problem here is that I didn't get my phone in my pocket look at any of the details and doing it all from memory. I do know it's the 1st of November though, that bit I didn't need to look up and that's good. But I can't remember what I called the episode was it? Oh yeah I think it was... I grazed it a 6-2 in the heroic, not heroic in the pre-release tavern brawl. Look okay I had the phone open now we can check all the things. Alright first of all first of all the patron channel where I have the graphic ahead of time it says "Star Grays at a 6-2" yes there we go. So the game I played yesterday in the brawl where we were what 3-1 and went to 4-1 I think? Yeah I think that's how that went. Obviously quite good, ended that run at 6-2. The second loss was to a pirate demon hunter who was running out of the gates quickly. These things happened sometimes you can't stop them and they didn't but I won the other game so that was great. I'm going to talk a little bit about this today. I can't remember that much of it to be honest I'll talk a bit about that but also how the meta game has been shaping up and what exciting things people have been coming up with but that was very cool. Also I should remember to thank a patron while I have my phone open. Today we're thinking joltic it could be G-O-L-T-C so jolt-C but it sounds like joltic which is like a pokemon so that's fun. Anyway thank you to joltic and all the other patrons who support the work we do here. It goes along way to support the work that we do do and it is very helpful so patreon.com so that's just a guy if you can afford a sport if you can't tell a friend leave a review all of that stuff helps just hang out and discord even or respond to my posts on social media or on youtube. That stuff all works towards doing things. In fact as much as I appreciate the monetary support responding to my posts on any form of a social media platform especially stuff like youtube I suspect is actually very helpful in the wrong one and possibly even more helpful. Anyway that's beside the point where are we okay so yes that druid deck now I enjoyed playing that druid deck so much even though technically the overall result ahead if you combine the two rules I did was six and five remember that two of those losses were too spectral cutless rogue in a way like you you can't really play around that like people just don't play that and then the single brawl I faced it twice maybe even been the same person is that possible I guess it is possible I don't think it was but imagine if it was like that that's just an outlier right so the outside of spectral cutless rogue six and three is a much better result and it's fine and two of those losses were pirate demon hunter which you'd expect the downside there of course is that pirate demon hunter is it's kind of a popular thing or was um the metagame as it's shaking down is that mech warrior so you know testing gummy and all that stuff uh not the mr yagute version that I played but otherwise you'll see them out there you know stuff that has epics from the previous set but it's still quite good uh you know cheating at aziliacs with chemical spill that kind of stuff having kind of risk not can there is cubicle is that what it is uh to duplicate and that kind of stuff very powerful does not need any new cards uh and is I don't want to say the best deck in the format but it's pretty good because it is also well positioned to be good against pirate demon hunter which is also the best deck in the format kind of there's a lot of best decks in the format really or which technically means not the best deck as I'm sure you can tell I'm crossing the motorway I've just dropped mongers at school on a friday which is unusual uh so I'm running late for work but it's fine we should be okay anyway so that mech warrior being a warrior deck that can both generate armor and create big uh board clears with their their testing dummies I don't know if you heard it there's an older woman just walk past and swore and I hope you didn't hear it because this is a family friendly podcast but I don't think I can hear that I heard it though anyway this I guess what are we 1380 episodes and there was always the risk of being being that I'm recording this in Australia that we were going to hear somebody swearing at some point uh I guess Sydney is less likely than say uh more rural areas like where my mother-in-law lives and things and no discredit to her but uh I think you're more likely she doesn't swear she's very good at not swearing uh you know outside of maybe stubbing her toe or something but uh some of the others around here you might hear being a tad profane and we don't record there and so we don't get that very often anyway where were we yes this mech warrior is good at defending good at cheating stuff out and having big scam boards basically and making you feel like you couldn't beat it but of course it doesn't do that every game and pirates demon hunter is a lot more consistent at doing what it does so it's more like pirate demon hunter does this thing where it's like okay here's the plan I'm gonna attack you and I'm gonna make a lot of pirates I'm gonna make them big and then you'll be quick can you deal with it or not that's now on you so that the quote and I've referred to this before and I honestly I'll refer to it again I believe is attributed to Dave Price who was a magic player he uh it's about to go down a rabbit hole he was part of team dead guy now I believe dead guy was a punk band uh and a lot of the members of team dead guy were fans of uh dead guy uh so they named their team there um also several of them vegetarians I believe so like it's definitely that whole uh straight edge punk scene where it's like nah man none of that you know and they won an early pro tour well Dave Price won an early pro tour uh Tempest was the set and like this 1997-98 kind of things and I remember being inspired by their performance and their attitude another one of the people in that team was Chris McCooler who is still someone who is active in the magic scene even if all he does is post about his new favorite band which is into armor uh which is another punkish metal band um Chris McCooler famous for he has an invitational card one of more popular invitational cards basically the invitational was an event that had had every year where they'd invite the top players and they'd battle off and the person who won got to have a card with their face on it kind of the same way Hearthstone has world championship cards anyway Chris Chris McCooler met him lovely guy uh he was a pioneer in the early days of fair play and not cheating because there was a lot of cheating in the early days of magic and so I really resonated the idea of team dead guy being standing up against cheaters and all that stuff so I was like down with whoever's on the team I didn't even remember half the people who were like I vaguely remember some names but Dave Price and Chris McCooler the two names I do remember Dave Price won the pro tour was famously an aggro player now you might be thinking but Blisty you're not an aggro player at all so now but I was I was for the longest time when I was doing well at magic in 2005-2006 I was an aggro player I enjoyed control but I knew that if I wanted to do well I needed to play aggro and the quote to Dave Price that I've I guess buried the lead on and beat around the bush on is there are no wrong threats only wrong answers so a control deck is built of answers right answers to what the opponent's doing but you draw the wrong answer to what they're doing and then you kind of stuffed talk about their spectral cutless road right if you don't have an answer to the weapon well you've got the wrong answers in your hand haven't you but if you're just promising a threat you're creating a threat it's on your opponent to find the answer you just got to make threats pirate demon hunter makes threats it goes no wrong threats threats will win the game if they're not answered and if you don't have the right answer well I guess I'm gonna win the game and that's what pirate demon hunter is doing and it does it very well especially running cane sun fury if you see a pirate demon hunter list not running cane sun fury these days in the brawl you should probably add it because at this point you're going to start running into early testing dummies and things and one of the ways you beat them is just probably going wait but you're not blocking taunt doesn't happen sun fury coming through let's go that kind of thing which is great for the demon hunter but also like sometimes what happens is the demon hunter's drawers good but the the controlling deck has the answers and they stabilize but again that's not on the demon hunter the demon hunter can probably do what it's going to do almost every game and it's on the other deck to figure out what it can do it so pirate demon hunter is still good mech warrior good because it is good at having big scam board things and stopping what the opponent does I think actually my other loss in the brawl I went 6'2" might have been against warrior but actually maybe it wasn't but maybe the loss I have in the current brawl is to warrior they just get a fast draw and you're like oh I guess I'm dead like cheating out a testing dummy and then having the boom wrench going off multiple times like I'm on three health and used to have a minion I guess I'm dead I don't know anyway so the mech warrior does that but that's not to say that's not to say there isn't a loud truck going past there is a loud truck going past that's not to say there isn't still a lot of exciting things to be doing in the brawl the taunt warrior I played yesterday or turtle sorry taunt druid turtle druid as we're calling it the one with star grazer is doing quite well last night I was like okay so what am I queuing up next I went 6'2" in the brawl with star grazer very happy with that made a tweet it's getting engagement and so on if you want to help this podcast go engage that tweet it's good anyway I was like what am I going to play next and so just right left work I quickly looked in on a couple of streams to see what people are playing oh they're playing turtle druid and they're playing turtle druid and they're okay they're all playing turtle druid now just to be clear I'm not claiming that they're copying me because technically they're not they're copying the person I copied because they all have aviana in the decklist and I didn't have aviana aviana being the wisbangs workshop five mana five five legendary shuffle 10 one cross well 10 legendaries in your deck and set them simply cost one that is a reasonable thing to do if you're going to draw through your deck a lot you suddenly jam your deck full one mana legendaries and just draw a bunch of them on one's solid late game plan right but as you've seen from the decklist that I played yesterday I wanted to play kill jaden instead I thought kill jaden would be better I don't know that kill jaden is better but the thing that's cool about this brawl and I haven't even talked about this today maybe that's what I'm going to be talking about is the fact that not everyone has killed jaden or everyone can play it I still haven't opened the ceaseless expanse well it's still it's not like I can open very many packs right I haven't done that many brawls did I get a screenshot of what it opens so when I went 6-2 I won my four packs and I opened a legendary I did is this it yes I got my four packs and the last one had a legendary and I was like yes is it time for my ceaseless expanse I can finally play it or not it doesn't matter but it was a dirt or a rebel captain the demon hunter legendary which is a good legendary if you want to play among us crew demon hunter but I don't know that I want to but it wasn't a ceaseless expanse I still don't have a ceaseless expanse and a lot of people still don't have kill jaden which is fine which is fun I don't think kill jaden was the reason I was winning with it but like as a wrinkle this is kind of a fun part of the brawl I guess actually other than so I've seen a couple of takes early on where people like I don't like this brawl like I couldn't afford to pre-order I feel like I'm shut out of this brawl well that has been very effectively managed by the fact that the best X don't use any of the new cards and you can play the downside is of course that do I really want to be playing something where I'm not getting to play with new cards even if I'm winning and my opponents I get to play with new cards well if you're winning you're earning some cards then if you couldn't get the pre-order you could have but maybe that doesn't feel very good and people people are not wanting to engage with that because they're like I just want to wait till release day so I can spend my gold on packs and then feel I can play on new toys I can understand that I've certainly seen some people upset about the idea it's just everything's out of order oh that's what I should be talking about I've remembered it now spaceships we like spaceships the druid deck has a lot of spaceships I talked about how the plan is basically to open someone's out the arcanate defense crystal build a six eight double arcanate defense crystal spaceship and launch it and then when you're playing a hydration station you're bringing that back as well and you're getting a million armor a lot of games I had like 40 armor when I finished anyway spaceships the key centerpiece to the spaceship mechanic is the legendary card the Exida very exciting we haven't seen a lot of the Exida in this brawl let's not say we haven't seen any because you can't discover it but you can't open it in packs because it is the first legendary given way on the reward strike the reward strike always has a legendary at the start a neutral legendary from the expansion that everyone can play when the expansion launches expansion launches here's a legendary you can play straightaway nice idea really good idea because then the day the expansion launches people may not be able to get a lot of cards but they can get that legendary next start trying to build around it we don't have the reward strike yet we can't get the Exida yet and yet we're playing with the expansion but without the Exida whoops it's very apparent that this is a rough edge that either needs to be sanded down or figured out and I know that the team are already discussing whoa whoops probably should have thought about that I don't know what the solution there is do we get access to the Exida early is it just the thing we get popped up instead of it being the rewards track legendary I don't know I don't know what the solution is it's also as an alternate take to that I've heard people saying you know it's entirely possible the Exida might have been too good in this format and it's probably a good thing we don't have it well okay okay uh that's like saying I stubbed my toe but I also missed banging my head on the cover door because I stubbed my toe so maybe stubbing my toe was a good thing no no I don't know that something my toe was a good thing even if I don't some additional injury I still got injury I didn't want it the Exida not being available in the brawl is not a great thing even if it would be too good of a card in this brawl before we realized it was a rewards track legendary we didn't have it people were speculating I feel like the Exida might be fine and standard but might be overpowered in the brawl I wonder if it gets nerfed in the brawl and say look no apparently not because it's just not there although if you play marin the manager and you play zorog's crown and you get to discover a legendary to put two copies and play in one hand you could have an Exida and so we've seen Exida's from that but not really otherwise same way that I've had multiple ceaseless expansive play without opening it thanks to zorog's crown thanks marin probably was a good nerf actually that nerf to the wondrous wand to make it only reducing by three still worth playing in this format may not be totally worth playing standard but again he's committed crimes marin can sit it out if he needs to but overall I've had fun playing this anyway let's talk more about what I'm playing next now that I've done 162 I wanted to try something different I was tempted to play druid again right but I also knew that I wanted to be playing the brawl on the podcast today I didn't want to start another run with druid last night have it still be going I was like I need to go to bed but I need to finish a start at you run you know that kind of thing so that I'm playing a different deck I don't want it to be playing the druid deck a second day and they're on the podcast even though maybe some of you might like that I think I might like that honestly but it didn't I didn't start another run I found an asteroid shaman list now the problem here is there are a lot of asteroid shaman lists and they all look cool but they don't quite look perfect now the the result here is that I maybe I should be building my own perfect version of the asteroid shaman but I was like I'm wavering a little here as to what it is so I've just taken a list I saw I think from pilot from the coin concede discord played this to six and one or something it may not be the perfect list it probably isn't but there are a bunch of different asteroid shaman lists around and you know at some point hopefully there'll be a good version I don't know that this is necessarily it but I'm three ones so far in this brawl so good start so that's why I started playing last night and that's what we're going to play today now let's talk a little about this asteroid shaman decklist which means I have to close out of that app close into this app page there we go decklist asteroid is a spell that you shuffle into your deck that castman drawn it does two damage to a random enemy we've talked about this reveal season bullets recap uh you don't have a lot of control about that you don't get to choose to draw them uh just when you draw them they far off good fun good fun to watch that two damage isn't terribly much uh so having some plus spell damage does help that a lot the the new card that we have talked about the ethereal oracle when talking about the rogue version of asteroid uh rogue where they only have the moonstone more to be able to shuffle asteroids in it's not really a lot uh obviously that card does a lot of heavy lifting there the ethereal oracle is the three mana two three plus one spell damage spell burst draw two cards so you want to have cheat spells in your deck to be able to play the oracle and then play a cheat spell so that you can immediately draw two cards and then if you start drawing asteroids while you have this out the asteroids start dealing three damage that's neat uh now on top of this it's called shaman has a lot of ways of shuffling more asteroids in so they get a lot of asteroids so it's even more effective here the the reason rogue can do it is that rogue can draw a lot of cards like a heck of a lot more cards than most people but anyway uh shaman of course has the moonstone molar neutral it also has the uh where is it uh ultraviolet breaker if i remember correctly that's the three mana three two battle cry shuffle three asteroids into deck and deal three damage to an enemy minion uh i would compare this to the flameton carvoo and i think it's a very good card uh great that let's this skip ahead a little bit in story to talk about shutter block shutter block is um the legendary from wiz bingo looks up the uh six mana five five i think it is yeah six mana five five uh with miniaturized your next battle cry triggers three times very strong obviously i have at least played a shutter block on i think it was turned five maybe because of fairy tale forest or parrot sanctuary i'm not sure and then followed up the next turn with an ultraviolet breaker which did three damage to something three times so that killed it well and truly i'd also shuffled nine asteroids into my deck so you'll shutter block shutter block really is the glue that makes this deck into an exciting beast which is why i've always wanted to play it's why i'm playing today i've always wanted to have exciting shutter block things to do that aren't just incendious and this deck also has incendious uh but it's been really exciting to do that the next can't talk about out of breaker is the uh bull-eyed behemoth now not everyone is playing this in the decks which it's understandable it's an epic maybe they haven't opened it also maybe it's not great but as battle cry is for the rest of the game your asteroids deal one extra damage uh and spell burst shuffle three into your deck now it's a four mana three six so what seems to happen is often you end up playing this going well i've buffed my asteroids uh but i can't play a spell and they remove it before you get to do anything which doesn't feel great and maybe that's why it's perhaps a cutable card but talking about shutter block i have played uh bull-eyed behemoth after playing shutter block and buffed my asteroids plus three damage which is nice now spell spell is still only shuffling three asteroids in but that was good the other card of course is triangulate two mana discover spell from your deck shuffle three copies in uh you'll still have a copy ahead at that point but of course if you discover an asteroid immediately cast from draw you do shuffle three asteroids in but you're getting extra ping out there so more asteroids going in and of course lastly we have meteor storm which is the uh six mana five damage to all minions shuffle five asteroids into deck uh that adds up a lot if you have uh hagatha and this version we're playing doesn't have hagatha but looks at it this version doesn't have hagatha because it doesn't have a lot of expensive spells if you want to be playing hagatha you need more than just meteor storm you need to maybe have uh frosty decor and things like that uh to make it work we don't have that so this version doesn't have hagatha which is a shame because i like the idea of going uh shutter block into uh one of the slides from hagatha and playing meteor storm three times 15 damage to the board 15 asteroids into the deck anyway last night i definitely had a game where i shutter blocked the behemoth uh and then just you know was drawing asteroids and the things when you get shutter block you're doing too so you really want shutter block because you get the miniaturized version so you're getting like it's not just that you get the shutter block something once if you draw a shutter block you're getting to shutter block things twice which is lovely and so i had a bunch of asteroids in my deck and uh when i started drawing them they were doing five damage each and i think it was a mech warrior and it's like well you had gained some armor but my goodness i think you went to like negative 11 this turn that kind of thing which felt great for me uh maybe that's a great for them but anyway the deck is fun i love doing this asteroidy stuff and you get to do incindia stuff as well you through the whole shutter block and doing syndias if you want and things like that now we're past the park i should be getting to the game to play some of this asteroid shaman uh but it's been fun i've been really enjoying this brawl um i think i thought i only had like two or three arena tickets but it turned out i had like nine i'm not i'm sure i'm gonna have time to use all of my arena tickets before the end of this thing just because as i mentioned yesterday you know i don't have that much time to play but i'm certainly gonna try and i'm certainly enjoying it there are certainly other things i want to play like there's an arkwing pilot rogue i think glory had a version it was just arkwing pilot the mage thing uh then i saw a jambre posted a version that had uh was sort of crossed with big spell mage so it can't do buy one get one freeze on the arkwing pilots but it can't just make uh tsunamis and that's pretty good like that stuff is exciting i want to try that um there's you know all kind of stuff anyway let's unlock the phone unmute the phone turn the volume up and open half stone and we're getting there we'll play uh a game in the brawl so about three and one so i'm either going to be three and two or i'm going to be four and one so that'll be fun but i've been enjoying this dick maybe not as much as the turtle droid because the gaining so much ammo the turtle droid is so much fun it killed jayden but you know this is uh still a funky kind of dick it is lower curve i think i would rather have pegasa so nice of you to say huh so nice of you to say um i am enjoying this dick even if it's not exactly the kind of build i would like i thought it was worth trying and it is fun where are we tim roll oh other thing i talked earlier to speak about how i was saving my uh uh play 10 games of standard quest until tonight basically when uh the new month rolls over and i was like i don't know i don't feel like doing it still feel like playing any standard tonight like i do i want to play 10 games of standard or wild between narrow and choose day at any point what's the name choose there it has to be narrow monday and like i don't feel like i just would rather be playing more brawl so i re-rolled it i re-rolled the maximum quest weekly quest into a less experienced quest and it was like play five 10 broad games and i was like perfect now i can just keep playing the brawl and not have plenty standard or wild which i'll do pretty once the expansion launches here we go let's queue up i think it's pilot's version of asteroid shaman let's see how we go i think if we queue into druid we have to be fast another loud truck we have to be fast because if they can gain a lot of armor we could be in trouble i don't see how we go i'm pretty sure i beat at asteroid shaman because the last opponent is rude so they are a warrior and we are a shaman so neck warrior we're just hoping they can't scam us or that we can get a good scandal so we have only hand with a first contact which is one mana spell that overloads sometimes a couple of one drops totally reasonable thing to play we also have a shutter block and we have a turbulence i kind of want both those things we also have a moonstone molar so we can curve out first contact turn one turn two coin out the moonstone molar turn three turbulence and we're curving we're getting some good attacks in the early and we have a shutter block for the late game i'm just going to full-keep like it looks like they get cards one or three just keeping a shutter block here because it's so key to my highest role of players to burn them out there's a town garage in one excellent for them obviously that finds them a ziliax and we'll contest whatever we play that's fine all right we're just we're just drawing maligos i didn't even talk about maligos maligos is the nine mana dragon that just draws spells into your hands full you should see what happens when you just keep drawing asteroids with that thing anyway first contact let's hope we don't get totally we did get a little bit boned okay so we got a 1-1 astral vigilance the town cry is going to take that out and we got a 1-2 psychic conjurer i guess okay anyway they're hero powered and they have taken out my 1-1 fine we'll drill a mental that'll do so we're going to coin out the mooster molar we are going to tag that uh town cryo down just because if i let them attack into my mooster molar they could maybe use something to remove the molar instead i'd rather keep the 2-2 so i've got a 1-1 in the 2-2 now melter mental is a 3-3-8 taunt this is permanently frozen right which isn't very aggressive which is good for surviving against agro demon hunter like some people play more expensive slower things but the good thing about the melter mental here is it also protects your minions and things from their stuff so i'm going to play turbulent this turn it's going to buff the mooster molar it's also got to buff the psychic conjurer which is nice and the next turn i can just run out of the turbulence and also just run a first contact we could play that um and if they play anything and want to attack by minions they're going to go through the melter mental first it's not as bad as it sounds anyway turbios buffing all my battle cry minions plus one plus one everywhere including the two i haven't played and we attack for five putting them to 27 so we have 2-3-3-7 and 2-2 and play on 2-3 not bad so why is the auto is because of the things i make between just the button to cross here i was like why is it not letting me turn but that because i'm not supposed to there's a boom wrench boom wrench is space tanking the mooster molar putting them to 24 and then they're here repairing putting themselves up to 26 fair enough now but this is where melter molar is going to be great oh which is drawing asteroid two damage to the base one this is 24 and there's an ethereal oracle so we can play ethereal oracle and first contact this turn which will immediately draw us two cards uh it means the melter mental is not protecting any of our minions from the boom wrench but i think also they want to play actually i feel like i do need to play the melter mental this turn if we play the ethereal oracle next turn with no spell though we don't get to draw any cards if they remove i think it's just melter mental this turn and not play the first contact we're going to face the fire putting them to 19 then next turn we play the ethereal oracle and the first contact which means we get to draw a spell now which it doesn't mean we're overloaded going to turn six which means we can't play shuttle box see there's the testing dummy on turn they're six mana because they played new uh new heights before it's gonna say horizons but they didn't attack because uh like and this is why i wanted to play the melter mental so we've drawn a parrot sanctuary um parrot sanctuary oh this is tough i have a 3-3 and a 2-2 and if i attack them into the testing dummy the testing dummy will die if it attacks into the melter mental they're going to attack into the melter mental next turn and then they're going to attack with the rest of the boom wrench or they're just going to play the um the miniature boom wrench and they're going to get a lot of pings off which is not terrific for us what we possibly need to do here is focus on getting down shutter block next turn no we don't need great battle cries to us no i think we have to go if i play the oracle and the first contact the testing dummy is just going to burn all my stuff we're going to draw some cards yes but i was thinking that what i want to get down is the parrot sanctuary so i can get to a maligos early but i don't think we have enough asteroids and i deck to make that worth it we got like two so ethereal oracle first contact let's see what we find we got a one three and a three three and we drew two cards both of which are triangulate which is new and then we just don't attack because we don't want the testing dummy to die when it attacks into the um melter mental because it'll just be an extra round of death rails we want to be able to play something else first there's a chemical spill putting this little x in play i think this is the draw they want and i think we lose having a new height i forgot to even call it because i still need something new heights in turn three i land them to get a testing dummy on turn five into a chemical spill zelik's doing six that's the draw they want anyway they then use one minus to override their existing boom wrench with the mini boom wrench and i think attack with the mini boom wrench so that's 16 damage worth of testing dummy pings going everywhere i have no minions left and i'm on 24 they have a four three ziliax which has healed them up to 26 it's still got reborn and they have a four five testing dummy like we're in a lot of trouble we are losing this so what are we going to do we've got five mana this turn hmm so we can we can't play shuttle block this turn which means we need to play shuttle block next turn and when we play shuttle block next turn we need to do the other things immediately it's not going to happen what we need is we need to triangulate now for a what's that thing called the um the meteor storm and we're going to play meteor storm next turn and it's not going to be enough right because they're going to attack us before eight this turn and then we're going to take another eight from the death rattle from the uh testing dummy which is going to put us effectively down at eight health and then it's still going to be ziliax attacking but it has to be what we do and because of that we also are just going to play a parrot sanctuary now we're going to use the parrot sanctuary we're going to first we're going to pass triangulate first before we shuffle some more asteroids in there's a meteor storm in a mouth with magma mocha magma it's not bad now we play the the little little little thing we use the parrot sanctuary again so now our battle prime means they're again one less mana the reason i'm doing this is because we want to shut a block next turn and then i don't know i don't know if shut a block into the malagas does what i want it to do but it's that kind of stuff like i think we're looking to hire all here so a shuttle block next door up there's a recommend decum i think we just died recommend decum copies the mech uh and it attacks a random enemy and then dies and so there's a lot of things going off here oh and there's a carnivorous cubicle yeah so it's turn seven rick and decum and the carnivorous cubicle and they're here at ziliax and testing gummy that's the draw the mech wants to do the mech warrior wants to do we just died we took a heck of a lot of things uh editor and they were going to summon another uh testing dummy from the like really what we need in our deck to be able to beat that draw is way of nostalgia not because we are an evolved deck but because it kind of counters what they had if they had a damaged testing dummy in the ziliax and play there even though they were back up to 24 we would play away from the stealth drawn them um it just turns them into two random ninja dairies which could be bad but also not as bad as what what they had because being able to follow up with carnivorous cubicle and recommend decum on what they hadn't played well killed us which is fine so three until two in this role i feel like this is one of those things where i talked about demon hunter having an aggressive draw that if you can't beat it like that's on you mech warrior isn't like that every game so mech warrior isn't always posing uh threats and there's no wrong answer uh there's no wrong threats on your wrong answers but it is capable of high rolling like that and when it does you need to either have answers or to have been faster and we weren't faster i think our draw was pretty good like turn three we had two three threes and a two two and play pretty good right but also what they did was new heights i'm still getting used to calling it new heights instead new horizons uh and then turn four i think that was when they played their uh boom wrench no they played boom wrench early on that so it was town crier oh maybe they coined out no i had the coin town crier hero power new heights boom wrench testing dummy but they didn't attack with the boom wrench they did attack the turn i've had the boom right after new heights they played boom wrench uh and attacked into one of my threes that's right then i played the melton mental and then they got to play uh testing dummy on turn five and i was like i just had my turn four which was the melton mental their turn five was playing testing dummy they have a boom wrench up not great for us because you don't want to kill the uh testing dummy obviously but you also don't want to make it easy for them to trigger its death rattle too many times but of course leaving it in play makes it hard not to do it even if after their turn five testing dummy it's still in play next turn they get to play kind of cubicle we're just not in a great spot uh but it said what they had was uh chemical smilin desiliacs it was still not a great spot uh but there's not a lot we can do about that uh in a way that's useful if you're gonna say wave of nostalgia like i just did like that's having an answer and that's a wrong answer in some cases whereas the warrior in that case was making no wrong threats and that's right that's how it goes what am i banking i like i think it's reasonably likely they will pick up a third loss before we pick up any more wins with this deck just because the higher you get through the brawl the more likely you are to run into more decks like that uh that are capable of those high roles now it doesn't mean we can't get a win so maybe i will get an extra win out of that if i cue into a demon hunter i think i'm in a reasonable shot there but again if they come out too quickly even a turn three melton mental might not save me you know uh so we shall see like but if you can rush out and send yes he gets them you just keep clear in the board it's a lot of fun but that's by the way overall the stick is fun and good and can win but also i think it might struggle if our opponents high role so that's okay and i think next up we'll be trying probably jambre's archwing mage because i want to try that if you don't remember archwing it's like the seven minor four three draenei and mage you're like that's not a good deal and it has spell burst maybe play spell uh obviously no it's spell burst so it's only once i use some in a copy of it and of course that copy will have well some in another one not a copy of it and the next one will also spell both so the turn you play archwing pilot the number of spells you can play determines the number of archwing pilots you're going to have it play in the turn and at the end of turn archwing pilot does three damage to a random enemy the combo that i think glory was playing was that you had watercolor watercolor elemental to get you but i want to get one freeze that's the three minor spell that is freeze a minion summon a copy of it um the idea is that you draw with watercolor elemental it gets cheaper so that you can go archwing pilot immediately make a copy and freeze it now make a copy you're making a copy of the one with spell burst so immediately you've got two now and the first one goes well i saw you cast spell mate so some's another one so now you got three and two of them still have spell burst so all you have to do now is cast another spell give me a cheap spell you've probably got the uh five minor four six draenei that says the next draenei player freshers mana christmas crystals next to his attack so you had some extra mana hopefully so now you play another spell and those two that you hadn't played create two more now you got five as assuming you had no other minions at play that's fine all it takes is one more spell and your build is full of those things and you're dealing seven damage now i think jambre looked at this and was like oh that's actually a lot more archwing pilots than you needed uh and you don't actually need to have the buy one get one freeze to combo it off we could just instead be playing tsunami instead of buy one get one freeze so jambre made a version that crosses the expel mage with archwing pilot so we're not getting as many archwing pilots in play but like if you have an archwing pilot that refreshes four mana crystals you just play two or three spells here's chalice um the what's the chalice the drink i don't know you know one mana two damage randomly so as long as you're refreshing four mana crystals when you play your archwing pilot you can then cast the chalice three times you're just going to have three archwing pilots on top of the first one so four archwing pilots that's good enough i think that's what jambre's thinking was well that's a frost spell right does that mean that the watercolor element is going to draw those as well so now it's anyway doesn't it doesn't matter well i mean actually you draw that it's going to become zero mana immediately which makes the first archwing pilot even if not reduced a bit well could be on something jambre we know cooks and he makes the good stuff so that's what i'm excited to try next there's a lot of fun things to try there's other stuff i haven't been out to play there are certainly legendaries i haven't been able to play like uh ceaseless expense i like i that's going to be a thing i'm going to acquire on day one very easily but still look overall this brawl has been about as fun as i was hoping it would be uh even though some of the best decks are decks without new cards the thing that's fun about that i think is that it lets everyone play even if like someone who's complaining i can't afford to get new cards so i can't play like well that's clearly wrong i don't want to play with an old deck i want to play with new cards you can do that but the best deck is only old cards well you get to choose which one it is you want to do and i proved yesterday that i got uh i got uh six wins with two star grays that are kill jadon and two oh what's that thing called the uh the one mana spell that draws the spell and i think there was something else i was playing as well i don't quite remember what but like i had several new cards in there uh and that was fun so there's plenty of things you can play with new cards or not new cards if you want so the brawl is pretty great but if you don't play that's fine i don't mind i'm enjoying it i think it's great and i think they should do it again even if they do need to figure out i don't know that's a tough one do you want to actually make it so people have to play with new cards or are incentivized to play with new cards because i think the feel is bad is even higher it's like well i can't play in the brawl because i can't get new cards and not only the good deck the only good decks are card decks with new cards that i'm not so sure about that there's a train here i should get on this so they'll figure out for next time if there is the next time i really hope there is the next time but anyway look follow me on twitch twitter and use your betless to guide follow the podcast walk to work hz on twitter i didn't have a blue sky account for that yet but maybe i should it's a lot of work but um maybe i should anyway look it's oh i come hang i discord discord dot me slash mr guide that's not changing at least look it's always a pleasure to have you join me for my walk to work good luck everyone and everything you do because you're absolute bloody legends 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