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Hello, hello? Are you there?
Hey, I was talking to you, my microphone is muted. How are we doing?
It's okay, I'm just trying to keep trucking on along
Fucking shit's crazy out here
I'm nervous about this one Flux
I really don't know how we're going to go on with Iraq, but we'll give it a go.
We can do the best Iraq that we have for now.
I mean, you spent a lot of time on Iraq, so if anyone's qualified to try.
But I do feel like, I mean, I'm curious what you think.
I feel like this meta, like, it's more punishing than ever.
I've been memeing around a bit with the content, but i was trying to play asio last night and i'm not giving up yet but
it's it's like even worse than it has been at other times it feels like it's really hard to pull off
some stuff right now i don't know yeah like a lot of the cafes are running like really burn heavy
decks as well um which doesn't help like a rack but we'll see
we'll see how we get on i guess it all depends as well i don't know what rank you are at the
minute but like if we end up running into like all the starter deck noodles that's also going
to be a big issue so yeah like the thing is i am not at super high ranks right now but
it's i'm willing to concede if we get a really stupid match that's wasting time.
I mean, I'm not at high ranks,
but I'm also only 400 away from Master
because everyone's so close.
So we're still kind of in that zone.
Yeah, it's weird at the minute.
Everyone's so bunched up.
Winning one game and jump up 30 ranks.
Yeah, I mean, everything's weird.
Like, the ladder is weird, content's weird.
We're just in like this very interesting place, right?
We're all just kind of like holding on...
Holding on through this like kind of awkward time,
but hopefully, you know, it's all heading in the right direction.
Pulling up the list oops so this is an extra thousand players would be good yeah that'd be nice it's I mean it's more because it's
because of the the hard reset on the ranks they're trying different stuff so
funny i was watching my friend play uh just before i went live and she's like brand new to the game
and it's like watching a new player play and seeing how little they know like seeing a real
beginner who's like i don't know where the confirm button is you know what i mean like little like
not understanding like what do the keywords do and stuff yet
it just really reminds me of like
This game how this game only has like 95 sweats and like 5%
Intermediate players who call themselves beginners and like we we've we've man
Once we have like a bunch of actual like casual players, the latter will just be so...
It'll be so easy to separate out people
based on their skill levels.
It's going to be so much better.
Yeah, it's definitely not an easy game to get into.
But to be fair, I think every TCG is like that, right?
I couldn't even imagine trying to play Magic now
Or even Hearthstone, how crazy some of those cards are.
Just to try and jump in and play that yeah it's definitely like all cards all card games
all right so this is the iraq list we've got let's do a little review here so we've got i gotta move
my camera so we've got iraq all right let me do a quick intro actually because that was kind of
here let me do a proper intro now it's okay kind of here. Let me do a proper intro now. It's okay for the video.
All right, I've got Diesel with me, one of the top ranked players in Paragon's DAO and in the game overall.
He's going to teach us a deck that sometimes can be very powerful and other times struggles depending on the meta.
It's a good one to know if you want to play with it or against it. It's A Rock.
It is the secret powerhouse of augen core you see a
lot more people playing juggernaut workshop but a rock has seen play both in tournaments and at
high ranks on the ladder so uh diesel welcome to the video how's it going hello hello we already
said hi on the stream so he's like what the hell is flux doing um but this is for the youtube recording uh so basically let's break down this list and you can kind of explain before
we even go through all the cards one thing i find helpful can you explain what is the play pattern
of a rock like even before you get into individual cards like is a rock like what kind of a deck is a
rock like what kind of deck is it and like how does it tend to play out
yeah so a rock is very different to any maybe just describe what a rock does for people who don't know yet just in case yeah yeah so it's a very different deck it's compared to anything
else i think in parallel um and the whole concept just works around the actual paragon itself so
whenever an upgraded unit dies it spawns a uh 1-1 nanobot which you can then equip
onto another unit and it basically just cycles so you can get like an endless loop of you know
upgraded unit which gets buffed into then another nanobot which you can pass on
and your whole gameplay revolves around that keeping things upgraded basically
so with a rock we're gonna spam a lot of units early and then try to keep that going basically
and then what's the what's the later game look like how do we tend to end up winning
yeah so the early game is obviously um the main goal of the early game really is just to get units
to stick you need units to stick on board either with or without upgrades ideally with an upgrade
and you then just sort of uh work into your mid game and try and spam up big units with your up cycles or go wide and clear layered large units with your master
poisoners um this deck in particular we'll do a full breakdown of it in a minute anyway but
there's a couple of cards in there which have not that many people run you can see we've got trade
secrets um memento and obviously the energy base but the main one being the trade secrets and you
can do some crazy combos with trade secrets and memento and your the energy base but the main one being the trade secrets and you can do
some crazy combos with trade secrets and memento and your little units which are just one ones can
you know turn into massive units towards the mid game and in case anyone doesn't know trade secrets
is a two mana effect that says copy all upgrades attached to a friendly unit onto another friendly
unit so you copying a buffed up memento with that is that one of the yeah exactly yeah wow that's actually really cool then i never i never seen that one played
no one's ever played that card against me yet um okay well we can go in depth then so do you want
to do a full deck breakdown like what what do you want to go more in depth on yeah sure so i'll just
run for the units that we've got in here. So the biggest problem with Organcore, and it always has been, is they have no good 1-drops.
So in this deck, we've got Heartleak Pilot, which is probably the best 1-drop you can have.
It's not that great in Organcore itself, as the Workshop builds, but for a Rack, it's insane because it's got the salvage ability.
And you'll notice quite a few of the units within this list will have that salvage mechanic.
So again, you can keep passing your upgraded onto another unit and keep spawning more nanobots okay so
got a one drop's got target painters a free off um fordome companion well that's a one one drop
very rarely you will play that as a one drop that normally gets played on turn two or turn three
because it can um kind of what the ability now but you, but you can... Overclock. That's the overclock, yeah.
And you can upgrade it for one mana, basically.
Yeah, your Heartlink Palliates,
your Mercenary Gunslingers,
and then also your PS8s as well.
So the Gunslingers pair nicely with your Target Painters,
I've included one no snitching in here,
and it's mainly for one matchup and one matchup only,
and that's just the Nehemiah. Just to no snitching in here. And it's mainly for one matchup and one matchup only, and that's just Nehemiah.
Just to no snitch that Stewie,
or even a Stewie early if they play on one against Shroud.
But I'll be honest, when we did a breakdown of sort of, you know,
different parallels we play against,
if we play against Shroud, you just lose anyway, okay?
So don't worry about that too much.
Yeah, Rock is like super hard countered by Shroud,
especially Neve, right? Yeah, Iroch is like super hard countered by Shroud, especially Niamh, right?
You've got your Jan's Tactical Provisioner
basically as another unit you're going to be playing on too.
We've got two Saboteurs in there,
purely for tech for Sippy,
but also good into your Nehemiah matchup
Astor's Glaive is actually insane in
Iraq. We don't have many good sort of mid-range units and Astor's Glaive is one of the best and
especially if you can get a nano-bought out early and you can buff that Astor's Glaive up to a 4-7
I believe it would be. It can just completely deal with any wide boards from Sipi or Kaffi
just with that unit alone. You've got two Master poisoners in there now one thing you'll notice with a rat list is they
can be really really flexible okay so you can build this list in many many ways some people
run free poisoners i've seen some people run none um i'm running two here because when you get the
energy bay out white and you get some white units you can clear off some big units uh with those
master poisoners this is something that will change when poisoner gets nerfed right that card is going to
become so if you're watching this in the future right now poisoner gives all units lethal once
it's been nerfed it only can give one other unit lethal that's probably going to be taken out of
the list yeah exactly i mean i might yeah i may just end up cutting it completely and then what
i would probably do is i I would include another upcycled
and probably another AOP,
and then I would use that to be clearing big units.
You may even be able to find room for kill switches
or something like that, potentially, instead.
Got Wong as a 5-drop, which in a rack is absolutely insane
because we're running upgrades, we're running spells.
You're more than likely going to draw free from Wong,
a good way of buffing up your sort of 1-1 units that are on the board. Teva Star there
is a six drop. This is key to the deck, and you'll find lethal with this multiple, multiple
times. Especially if you've already got little units out from your energy bay, with Teva
Star, you can sacrifice three of them, and you can instantly play another energy bay with Teva Star, you can sacrifice three of them and you can instantly play another energy bay
and Memento onto any units on the board.
So you can just pull them straight from your deck.
It's a really good card in the rack.
You've got a typical seven and eight drops
I don't need to say a lot about those, to be honest.
And then on the upgrades themselves,
so we've got the ocular implants.
Another reason I'm running the Target Painter
is because it's got the free HP. It's a great target for your ocular implants. Another reason I run the target painter is because it's got the free HP.
It's a great target for your ocular implants.
You'll find you can often get one or two swings with that to draw some cards with your target painter.
Hold on, we got raided. You're getting obliterated right now.
Carmen, how could you? We're trying to do a coaching session.
How can you raid me? Just chill.
Thank you very much for the raid, Carmen.
Hope you had fun playing your first few games.
All right, Diesel, continue.
Yeah, so just got the upgrades left.
So you got your portal energy base.
Again, insane in Iraq, okay?
Because you've got those cheap salvage units like your Harleek pilots and your Forlorns and your Jans.
You can often go really, really wide
and keep cycling those portal energy bases, which combo with your memento and you can find lethal in like turn four
or five quite easily with this list if you play it correctly um your up cycles get out your big
units and then the one thing we haven't mentioned actually and it's a car which i keep swinging
between two or three off is your reclamator yeah reclamator is interesting so this is one that when
you bank it it makes your next upgrade cost one less correct yeah exactly and it's it's insane because if you can get a hard
link pilot out on one then turn two if you can line up a reclamator into a moment into either a
memento or energy bay you can get that out on turn two which is just insane i mean that's and then if
it dies it salvages onto its own token, so it stays on the board.
Yeah, and then your two AOPs as well I didn't mention,
but that's just a nice big board clear if things go a bit power-shaped.
So correct me if I'm wrong, is this one of those decks?
Because here's how Aesho feels.
I've accidentally become the number one Aesho player
because there's no one else in the game who plays Aesho,
now that no mega's chilling.
And with Aesho, it feels like it's super swingy where a lot of games at least based on
when i was grinding it in uh february we'll see how april feels but like it feels like a lot of
games you either get a good start and you win fairly easily from there or you get a bad start
and it's almost impossible there's some close games there's definitely some but a lot of them
can be very swingy uh does a rock feel that way yeah 100 and it's one of the biggest issues with this deck and
why it's probably not a meta deck a obviously the shroud matchup you it's hard to play on ladder
when there's a lot of shroud about right but b is just b is just his consistency because you can
have some games where you get your god hand like like I just mentioned, and nothing will beat it. It will beat any aggro deck, it will beat anything.
Or you can just draw bad.
Or you can not have certain things line up.
So you could end up with four long companions in your hand, which you don't want to play on one.
So you skip turn one, and then you play on two, but it just dies, and you can't get any of your whole game plan cycling.
good start of a rack yeah okay that makes a sense a lot of sense and that maybe that's just how it
is with these what are considered to be off meta decks it's not that they can't work i mean a truly
bad deck just won't work like a john kind of situation but usually it's more that they're
just not as consistent so you'll have decks like a rock or asia or maybe adhq is sometimes like this and when it works it looks so appealing
and then beginner intermediate players are like that must be playable at a high level but at a
high level the problem isn't it's not that the deck can't work the problem is the consistency
of how often it works yeah yeah precisely yeah and then i actually brought this to the i brought
this to the tournament brought this to the
tournament a couple of weeks ago um purely because it is actually very very good into
these aggro decks and it performed really really well for me but this was the most consistent list
that i could come up with and this is what i brought to the tournament so hopefully we get
to show it a little bit and in tournaments you have you're able to play the matchups
like you're trying to get good matchups so there's more room for this on ladder you're just like you queue into neve and it's like there it is i lost like in turn zero yeah
um what's up lofty welcome in uh okay so last thing before we get into gameplay
matchups um we've already discussed that shroud is absolutely abysmal but in general
uh good matchups bad matchups and things to adjust depending on the matchup
yeah so i have got your spreadsheet which i've sort of filled out here and i did yeah
on the one underneath versus shroud i went you can't play it you lose so we'll forget about shroud on this one um but we can do the aggro sort of matchup so how you lose against either
kathy or sippy or something like that is they keep your board clear and you cannot get any of your game plan going.
If you can't get one unit to stick with an upgrade, it all just falls apart and you're then playing into hoping you can get like a hard link into an upcycling into an AOP or Sesame on turn 5.
Which with the way the meta is now, sometimes you're just dead by 5. So that's how they're going to beat you.
way the meta is now sometimes you're just dead by five so that's how they're going to beat you
um sort of how do we stop that is we need we just need a good hand we need to mulligan correctly
um and now on the play like you want your harling pilot and try and set up the combo i spoke about
or you can go the other route where you go your target painter and try and play more control and play it for like more mid mid-range game um and then you can start doing your swing turns with glaive and
your your wongs or your up cycles sort of in the mid game so you can play a couple of ways with the
aggro matchups just depending on what you get in your opening turn um and i guess the other one we
can mention here is the organ and nehemiah because they they play fairly similarly actually the two decks because they're mid-range decks themselves right right
so again against both of those uh the key card in that matchup really is memento against both of them
because if you can get memento out early enough against uh orncore or nehemiah it's quite hard
It's quite hard for them to remove it unless they want to spend four mana on a solid street confinement.
for them to remove it unless they want to spend four mana on a solid street confinement
So that's basically your game plan with those going into it.
I guess with Wokencore more specifically as well, what we need to keep in mind is we want to be killing off any upgraded units they have themselves.
Because it always gives us that opportunity to wipe the board of AOP.
Because we're going to have upgraded units if we're in a position to do so.
Yeah, whoever gets a good aop is likely to win
yeah precisely and with nehemiah uh in particular one thing you need to keep in mind with nehemiah
is you always want to have your energy bay on on a unit you don't want to wipe your board of
upgrades and then you have no unit left for the following term because you you your whole game
plan with nehemiah is to be able to keep swinging boards with master poisoner so if you end up with
a dead board you're probably going to fall behind so yeah just be aware of spores and make sure that
you know even if it does you're going to have a nanobot spawned at the end of it so against aggro
decks tempo tempo tempo early game board control establishing a unit with an upgrade otherwise
desperation plan upcycling into aop against more mid-range decks looking at that memento value
especially against augen core poisoner value especially against earthen and uh
also yeah i mean that's like the very very simplified kind of like way we're thinking
about these matchups so we're gonna we're gonna have fun with this this uh guide in this gameplay
i think because no game is the same as with a rack every game is different and it all depends
on what you end up in your hand uh whether you get your mentors early enough so yeah it's gonna
be interesting yeah this will be good because that's exactly what i've experienced is i have
no idea what the hell is going on whenever i try to play Iraq and I play like three games and I run back away to my juggernaut workshop.
But today is the day that all changes.
Importing the deck. Let me share the screen with you on Discord.
What's up, Penzo? Welcome in, brother.
We've got a fellow Iraq enjoyer in a chat as well.
All right, you see my screen?
Okay, yeah, I got it mate awesome and then we will jump in and yeah too much to my detriment if we get a really slow bot or beginner we will just concede it and look for a real match
since we don't have time to spend an hour farming two Nea spots.
Although I'd love to, don't get me wrong.
To be fair, getting one or two might not be the end of the world,
because it's probably a good little way for me to teach you the deck.
Unless it gets a slower go.
If Diesel starts getting bored, I'll opt out.
And this is what we thought was going to happen.
See, yesterday with Asio, no Shrouds. None. Even though at least in intermediate ranks, that's like an easy
win usually. And then Arak instantly
into Brand. I swear, I don't know what.
And the annoying thing is, you can actually
is it then just makes all your matchups into the aggro
decks worse, so you give up too much trying to do it you have to run turrets
and Alvaros basically is my guess yeah you can run Alvaros you'd run the
security officers and you play it more mid-range and you run growls and things
like that too gotcha yeah the security officer is a very interesting card.
So, I mean, we'll play a few turns.
I can concede early if it feels like it's as hopeless, is it?
So, we're going first here, right?
You'd get rid of Trade Secrets,
and I would get rid of the Forlorn Companion and the Energy Bay as well.
We just need Hardlink Pilot here.
But at least we got one drops.
We have cards that can be played.
Unfortunately, they're all life safe in range, which is not great.
They can be played, technically.
They don't lose me the game as soon as I play them. It could be worse.
Nah, I'd probably just bank the upcycled and slam the gunslinger, just for a little tempo.
Looking for... I would bank your upcycled, but I wouldnlinger just for a little tempo looking i would bank your upcycled
but i wouldn't bother playing the slinger really reason being if they play embedded agent we've
got a way to kill it next turn right um if you play it now that it can just set up for an easy
siphon anyway yeah all it really does is clear the shield pod and then become a siphon target
pod and then become a siphon target.
Playing around the early game Singularity Steward can be really like odd.
Yeah, we've only got one of those snitching so there's not really any way for us to deal
There's our snitching. Okay.
So, I mean, Bran can run the relic that pulls stuff from the singularity here i'd be thinking
go for the i mean what penzo said go for the high roll on the forlorn like just bank
yeah bank the i guess keep gunslinger for Agent. Bank Tacticianer or Saboteur.
And then, yeah, try and see if we high roll something.
So the only thing we can high roll here is the shielded, right?
Yeah, it is ramped if it doesn't get banished.
The amperage is ramped if it doesn't get banished.
But it's getting banished.
Yeah, only this is gonna happen.
We're gonna save time during the session and concede uber early when it's a bad start against Shroud.
I mean, you'd probably play a turn or two just in case on a ladder maybe, but... We ain't got time for that when the coach is in the call.
There's no way we just hit Shroud over and over. the call there's no way we just hit shroud over and
over like there's no way because i wanted that yesterday and i got none it was all skippy it
was all kathy there's no way it's not allowed it's no no way no shot this this was my biggest
worry about doing a rock no shot i almost pivoted and asked you to teach me the new Skippy list,
but I felt like Iraq would be fun.
I haven't even played it yet.
I might just concede turn one and eat the DC penalty.
It's such a waste of time, I feel like.
Yeah, I mean, the thing is I could build you a deck,
which plays well into Shroud.
No, because then we're going to Q into Cathy three times in a row.
And we did just do the whole breakdown of this deck,
which plays well into Wyrgro.
You can see really clearly how, I feel like everyone,
it's so easy to assume the worst.
You don't do this, I don't think.
But it's easy for people who don't know me as well
to assume the worst and think I'm being lazy at my ranks
I had my brief moment and now I'm just playing like shit.
But literally, it's just like when we're doing this stuff,
throw ranks away and lose 50 points, 100 points
because then you can get your
video done you know what i mean yeah or you can sit play against brand and waste you know
what i mean like actually kind of waste like i'm just gonna speed run this and concede on two
and we just need to get a match what i mean by um by a rash consistency here right because we're
running three six seven eight eight one drops plus ps8s and no snitchings and gone first here twice and
we've not drew them so we've got 10 one drops in the list yeah exactly the consistency and this is
what i've always seen with a rock is i'll lose to it in some crazy way and then so we're just
The thing is, I kind of want to be sweaty again.
I guess I have to be honest.
Part of me feels like... I have a chip on my shoulder now.
I feel like people have written me off.
And I'm just like, fuck you guys.
It makes me want to do a sweaty seat.
It makes me want to just turn around this month and start grinding again.
Like, fuck you. I'm gonna play Skippy and Kathy for a few weeks and we'll see who the fuck is washed up
Like it just it'd be easy mode. I feel like I would honestly like it's like I've been playing these terrible decks for so long
like when I play Skippy or Kathy
Crazy how easy it feels. You know what I mean?
Yeah, it actually feels like like you lift a bunch of you throw a heavy ball around then you throw a basketball It's like crazy how easy it feels. You know what I mean?
It actually feels like you lift a bunch of... Like you throw a heavy ball around,
then you throw a basketball,
and it feels like it weighs nothing.
We're just going to keep speed running,
If we get a good hand, we'll play it out,
because there is a way we can win.
But we do need a good hand to do it. You know who's saying it lofty to be honest. It's just like I
Don't know. I just feel like if I try to chill and play off meta decks
People don't really want to watch. I don't know. I don't know. It feels like a rock and a hard plate
If I play Skippy and Kathy, it's like well, this is kind of of boring. If I play something off meta, it's like my rank is lower,
and then people just kind of disengage.
Even if no one is, like, thinking about it.
But I don't know. Maybe it's all in my head.
All right, so do we have...
Do I mulligan this whole hand here?
You can keep the PS8, yeah.
Mulligan everything else. A rock in a hard place.
Yeah, yeah. What's up Seneca? I appreciate you.
So, interestingly here, if we would have been against aggro, I may have kept a sesamere.
It's nice to get in the bank very early going second because you can, like that, if you get an upcycle, you can just get out nice and early.
Here, do I want to do like this?
It's probably in my head, chat.
It's probably in my head a little bit.
Alright cool, let's see if we can actually do something against Brand.
Let's see if we can actually do something against Brand.
Nah, I'll keep doing what I'm doing. I think switching back to Kathy Skippy grinding now is probably not.
I should keep doing what I'm doing I guess. But part of me really wants to just like go back to like top 100 just to be like, look I can do it. Fuck you guys.
This is definitely playable.
So we just bank the AOP here.
And then just drop your hard link.
Oh, we're going to play hide link.
So we're not going to kill this.
Because if you think about it,
there's no way you can kill this, okay?
Yeah, I guess like with upgrade in hand, it's super obvious to want to set this up, right?
That's our actual win condition.
What were you going to say, though?
We can't actually kill this.
So, obviously here, he can't kill that hardlink next turn.
Unless he's got double gunslinger as some weird stat.
There's no way you can kill it, right?
That's true, Seneca. Now, you guys are right.
Now, you guys are right. You guys are right.
The views have just not been great, so it makes me question things sometimes, but I think it's the right path.
Anyway, it's okay. This is a coaching session. I'll stop being distracted.
So he does play the steward. I don't know if he thought that was going to work, but it doesn't.
That used to work for a few patches, but it's not supposed to, and they fixed it.
a few patches but it's not supposed to and they fixed it steward does not get
Steward does not get buffed when you banish the pod.
buffed when you banish the pod and indeed we have this pilot still alive so
yeah just like you said and now so when I look at this I see that we can kill the
steward and we can get this it's tough no is i mean is it obvious so basically just like ps8 okay we would want to
draw first so a clip equip the ocular hit here and then most likely ps8 this second and clear it
yeah yeah i think that's the line i would go and then i would probably bank the uh saboteur here
again because against brand it's just not a priority to keep this.
Yeah, and because then next turn we can just charge the Forlorn for one and play a slinger
afterwards as well, right?
We'll see what we draw first.
So yeah, bankness happened.
We can salvage onto this in the future.
If we get a chance, this is going to die.
So we're managing to have a little bit of a board.
He can just bop into this.
We get the nanobot, and then we'll see if he can banish that.
But if not, we'll maintain at least a little bit of board here. What?
Well, maybe we can... I don't want to be disrespectful, but maybe we can beat Goldbrand with the Rock at least.
but how do we play this turn?
could be an option, although it can get Steward.
John and then we trade this in here
and salvage over here here we can make it a
a two four yeah um yeah um i'm thinking we kind of want to go as wide as we can here though so
uh let's let's just swing face with that one one first okay
feels dangerous keeping leaving twoperers on the board.
Okay, we draw Target Painter.
So I think we slinger the 1-1.
Okay. And I think you played a Forlorn and just charge it one here.
We can keep the AOP, bank the Painter, yeah.
Because we've already put one AOP in the the um in the bank right and that's our last one
so yeah true right we already have one there for upcycle this is our other one
it's also a decent scheming target maybe to stop him from taking something else i don't
know that might not make sense but yeah we have established a board three units or wider than him I
mean the whisperer can kill the gunslinger but he's only got two cards
we have the card advantage well he can't kill it because he's got a defender right
oh I forgot this gets defender right right
right. I didn't even see what upgrade was on that actually. Oh, it was Pulse Thruster.
Okay. So block. Yeah, now we allow that. No, no, no, we allow it? Oh, no, no, no. Into
the hardlinked. Yeah, okay. Salvage onto the gunslinger.
If you like clicking as many buttons as possible during a turn,
even more than Earthen, play Agencore.
You will get to click your mouse so many times.
And now we've got a really nice turn here oh it's their turn still what am i doing
right so this becomes a plus one plus plus one. Yeah, okay. Yeah, 4-7 Estelle chat's freaking out.
The question is, do I want to kill this or just go face for my draw attack?
I mean, I'm sweating that this is on the board still.
But you seem to prefer going face, keeping this alive.
No, so what I would do here is I would kill this Engine Whisperer with your Gunslinger.
You're going to get two nanobots, correct?
Now I think we've got enough card draw.
So here I would bank one Ocular.
And then we can play the glaive and just double
buff it wow the reason i'm saying to do this is because um he's already used yeah attack phase
first he's already used one honored steward he's only got two cards in hand so he's got no way of
killing this assholes here unless he happens to have a second one but you're saying that it's
unlikely basically okay so if he did have a second ste but you're saying that it's unlikely basically
okay so if he did have a second steward we'd probably get cooked here but if not we're in a super super strong spot yeah also what what's gonna happen here which is really really nice
is if he plays brand this next term which he's likely gonna do we can bot the 4-4 yeah um and
hopefully we can draw a slinger or something or PSA and we can just kill the brand off.
That would be crazy. Yeah, it'd be super good.
Yeah, it's crazy how even someone who's just kind of playing cards clicking on buttons not like super optimized and
it's still just like a rock is like everything is a is a huge threat to us like every card they have
is just threatening everything we do it's crazy just banish is so utterly destructive to a rock
it's crazy right so we got a nice clean kill here actually so i'll let you i'll let you think about this
turn but we can clean kill this brand i need to get more damage where is it coming from
i can kill brand what the? I'm not seeing it.
Yeah, so something we didn't speak about, but with the Paragon itself, okay?
If we play it, it creates the Swarm, which we can destroy and we can buff the Glaive Electro 1 damage.
And we can clean the Brand up.
We can use it as a plus 1 plus 1, is that what you're saying?
So, here I would probably bank one one of your yeah one of your provisioners
yeah okay slam a rock and then buff wow yes penzo and diesel are on another level
been way too long since the previous coaching session i mean the the brand coaching session
is kind of funny this is the previous one um well I never thought to do this with the swarm that's such a smart line
You immediately that's that's part of what it having that aftermath is so good for Wow
I never in a million years would have thought about that Wow
Yeah, let me swing the 4-4.
And then I would buff up your Paragon.
What's the reasoning here?
Just in case he trades into it we're gonna get um
we're gonna get an upgraded unit back
oh right right right that makes sense okay wow i wouldn't have seen that win ramshackle for armed
you can't run ramshackle directly right you gotta overclock for it
also something worth noting about buffing the Paragon there
and not the Forlorn is it plays around Siphon, right?
So if we give that Nanobot to the free one,
like that Siphon, we're just about to see, okay?
I like how you said it, and he immediately played it,
Yeah, but if we had put it on the Forlorn there,
it would have only buffed it to 2 HP,
and it would have been in range of Siphens still yeah so this way it actually like if we put it on here it's not actually protecting it from anything we put it on here
it's making it safe against a threat and that's like what helps so much with thinking about
specifically what the opponent can play and not just like generically trying to build your board
but it's like what are the actual threats they could be holding play
around those in this case it's life siphon makes a lot of sense no this is
good I'm glad we're doing a rock cuz like what I'm doing this month is I'm
trying to get I'm trying to I'm like really trying to become a good off meta
player and so this is actually the perfect thing for me is like you walking me through a deck that isn't perfect but seeing how you approach it and make it work
is actually super helpful i think anyone who enjoys more creative decks because it's easy to
like use it as an excuse to play badly which is always super weak but when you actually like
commit to be as good as you can but you're also running the off meta then it gets interesting
okay lots of cards in hand and i'm rambling So Glaive hitting the Siphoner seems incredibly free.
Captain, thank you so much.
Definitely attacking here, right?
Yeah, so I think we do that just to clear both, right?
What I'm wondering is whether he's got another Siphon in hand.
Because if he does that, it's going to drop us down to 2 hp um so we probably want to buff
that buff up again potentially with the other nanobot yeah i mean we could also attack with
foreign companion just use ps8 and then trade in this and keep us at full health i don't know if
yeah we yeah we could do that as well and then re i could actually go i think i see it i think i
see it i actually see it i see it I see it the student becomes the master
even though I'm like play play hard link play hard link play hard links put it on there afterwards got it got it got it
Okay, the master is back to being the master
When or I um unsub thank you very much for the sub captain and welcome in sir good to see you
Yeah, this is this is super sick and we get to do some damage before they get to the demo on turn 8.
I'm guessing they're not running coins.
It's... can't be sure, but in general, my rule of thumb...
Yeah, you know exactly what's happening.
I give myself a tribute. See, Diesel gets me.
Forgot that we hadn't banked yet. There we go.
Oh, I was saying that my rule of thumb is if they're platinum or lower, I assume no coins.
If they're diamond and above, then I actually think about the coins.
Or if I recognize that they're a strong player who just started playing for the month.
But I just feel like coin is one of those cards that's like good players love it,
and then more amateur players don't always get it because it feels so bad if you can't bank it in like a certain spot or whatever maybe.
I've come to love the coin, which I used to have a hard time with.
So, something to take note of here.
You notice he floated five mana and he kept that card on the far left, right?
So, triumph? Yeah. So triumph?
I would be amazed if that's not a demo.
I wasn't actually thinking.
So we want to play around demo.
I swear to God, if we did this off stream
I'll be twice as smart. It's a stream tax. Okay, so
We don't want to play a bunch of stuff because demo is gonna wipe our whole board
We want to send face and get a bunch of damage
What do you I mean are we basically just attacking face and waiting do you want to play anything?
So I would use your ocular here on uh just put it on the uh yeah put on the the
hard links we can salvage it anyway if not after just send everything face here all right
if we needed more draw we could trade in and salvage to get that extra draw, but we don't really need that here. Oh, I can actually
Managing your damage and like attacking with a nano bot in the right order seems super important
Like if I did it in the wrong order I could have missed that damage right there
Yeah, I know I think we just banked the no snitching. Banked the no snitching?
Alright, demo me. Raiders, roll! D. D. Moby.
called it easily card tracking guys it really works not I mean I remember when I was at my most sweaty and I was doing that it's amazing how well it works how
much information you can glean I found it was easy to start by just tracking the
leftmost card instead of trying to track the whole hand I just be like, have they played the card on the left?
And then from there, it actually, it's like not that hard once you get used to it.
Right now, I'm at like the opposite side of my play style where I'm utterly distracted by chat.
I really got to start ignoring chat again.
Complain about viewers and then complain about chat distracting me.
Okay, so here we want to reestablish our board.
Do I want to start with a max overclocked companion?
Like, at this point, we're just pacing ourselves to not get
plus one still in range of syphon anyway
True and plus it has salvage so even though this is small it'll salvage
Bank reclamator yep uh so the question is how much do you want to commit here
like i would maybe pilot bay pass or would you go harder than that or i would go all in here
all in so i would go i would go pilot bay and just play the provisioner as a two two
and if he demos again then we cry
but i guess yeah if we don't go all in we're not attacking enough because it's still only
four attack on the board right now yeah uh this turn okay
the board right now yeah this turn okay
hey could you say we've not seen any endgame units yet so we're in a really
good spot right our deck is stacked with sesame or tetsu and other stuff Iraq's
flagship flagship black market fixer in a brand deck that's the most incredible
i'm not gonna say why i don't want to be mean i'm just gonna say that's the most incredible
thing i've ever seen i don't know about you as if as if they've not got enough removal right
yeah yeah like of all the decks to run fixer and oh my god pass that to your provisioner let's go.
Honestly, this isn't bad.
Like, a lot of people need beginner level advice.
So, they're going to, I mean, people who play play at these ranks this match will be a perfect example of like
how to play it hopefully in our next match we can get like a higher level
aggro player or something otherwise I just got to grind up some ranks we can
run it back next week do another do another a rock sesh put them together
Yeah, he power instructors, so probably grabbed a Demo.
Do we want to hold back Cestmere, or how would you think about this?
We could attack face Nanobot, activate this, move this over here,
hit face with the other two and just aop their units
yeah so that's exactly the line i was thinking is whether we played aop or not right because
if if he's gonna demo anyway there's no benefit to us aop in here it would force him to demo
maybe instead of letting him trade in but i guess if attacks in, we just get tokens and we're okay.
So I think bank the painter, yeah.
Otherwise, do the same sequence, but just don't AOP?
Let's do everything in the right order.
Reversing the order is so evil.
Trying to make me misclick.
Like gunslinger phase ever?
I guess I can do that when I need to.
Alright, see if they demo.
They can't even go face first.
Erasure to take off the shield.
Or did you get confused about the shield?
So that has to be potentially a demo
We'll see if he plays or not if not we can go all in
So as a demo wouldn't he have played it at the start?
You would have thought so yeah yeah so what i would do here is i wouldn't give it to your provisioner give it to your nanobot yeah
the reason being that's what he wants to kill off next term right so just having it on there
makes it awkward you can't you can't trade that So next turn, we're going to get an extra one point of damage, potentially.
Because we're going to have that on board as well.
Oh, or otherwise, he would have wanted to attack it.
We had Defender anyway, but I understand what you're saying.
I get your logic, though.
If this didn't have Defender.
But it should be lethal next turn from the looks of it.
Nice. We beat a Shroud.. Nice, we beat Shroud.
Technically we've beaten Shroud with Arak.
It was kinda a mismatch of skill between Diesel and this player, but we did it.
And we did learn how the deck plays and we saw some good tricks.
We're definitely learning some stuff. We need to get a game against not Shroud.
We can see how it works in other matchups.
But you've got to see why I still glaive so good in this deck.
Yeah, with the nanobot buffs.
That's a really interesting strategy you can use there.
Especially with the way...
The big one there was playing the Paragon
and then sacrificing the Swarm immediately.
I never would have found that.
Yeah, I mean, I kind of...
Man, if I actually lock in and play as well as I can
with these kinds of decks,
they can do a lot of work, you know, just gotta just gotta be locked in and committed
Another reason why you don't see decks like this on ladder all that often is because they do take a lot of brainpower
Compared to sip you or cafe
But you play a few games of this at like high ranks and yeah, you're pretty burnt out afterwards
Right compared to just jamming a skippy rush the board slamming your relics yeah well it's a good sign we're not getting a
rematch against one of these brands come on come on thank you okay all right gerald Okay. Alright, Gerald.
Don't see much Lemmy these days.
Oh, my camera's in the corner the whole time.
I've been playing it a little bit, actually, recently.
You can feel good, depending on what you're... Okay, hold on.
Yeah, it's a bit of an awkward hand, this one.
I'm tempted to keep Memento.
Keep Memento and send back Sabo.
I mean, tactical provisions
eventually become problematic.
Yeah, they depend on if they're playing it right.
I assume at lower ranks, they're probably running it.
At a higher end, Lemmy decks won't run it,
but more intermediate ones will, would be my guess.
So bank the Sabo in that case, you thinking?
Or I'm assuming he does run tacticals.
And the thing is, we don't have an upgrade.
We could bank the Proers here essentially because we have to play the ocular right next i was thinking is like we have this
and then that yeah but then obviously that token can swing next turn so if he just ps8s the painter
then we don't have a play right so? So, let's bank the Sabo.
And then we still play Painter, but now we have a play if they do that.
Making sure we don't miss that turn
too, no matter what. Sacrificing a little bit
But we also have a second Sabo in the deck.
Does this make this cost zero?
So now we can upgrade it.
So we can do the activation and everything.
So now we're going to get two, four, and then we can get the Mento rolled in as well afterwards.
Yeah, it can be a 3-5 next turn.
And it's got the salvage on it.
That reclamator value was crazier.
I'm in the wrong parallel category?
The problem is this multi-stream plugin doesn't show me what image it is. How did no one else tell me? Thank you, Pandeple.
That whole hour just didn't count on my stats now. Fuck me.
So we got another tacticianer.
So the problem now, if we memento and it dies,
it won't get another token because this is a token.
Yeah, so I think you just drove first here.
Bank gunslinger, play these two?
Yeah, we could charge this and activate and put this on here if we want.
Yeah, because realistically there's no way he kills the Hard Links unless he's got Double
Slinger this next turn, right?
So then next turn we can Memento onto the Hard Links, potentially.
So we definitely do this?
Yeah, using the nanobots as upgrades is super important in this deck. Like, you really got to take value. You got to get the value from that.
You can't just leave your nanobots on the board all the time and be like,
Ah, it's fine. Definitely can't do that.
So, yeah, we're just hoping we could we draw something we can bank this through um because we want to keep that there we go we need to keep this called that
oh perfect yeah yep so just sabot easy or would you ever hold off and memento first?
Yeah, let's sabot. Let's sabot. Okay.
I guess because if we don't sabot they get the assault off of this and then it just can snowball.
Yeah. Kill that stupid relic a million percent. Engaging target. Equalizing supply.
Kill that stupid relic a million percent.
We're going to go fast now, so it's fine.
Yeah, now we go aggressive.
Now the memento starts ramping up.
Okay, so I would be tempted not to memento here.
I would use your paragon, yeah.
So would we just bank the PS8 and save the reclamator bank for next turn?
I would just bank your reclamator here, even if we're not going to play the memento? Is that overthinking it? I would just bank your Reclamator here,
even if we're not going to play the memento this turn.
Because we might want the PS8 to clear out some something,
like his little tokens or something. I guess mana ramp isn't the thing here.
Card value is the thing here.
Can't just go face. Yeah, you can you can say we're gonna buff if you buff buff up the sabo and buff up the
Yeah, so we're all we're basically always using this to get buffs if you already have a board or often
Yeah, usually the only time I don't is when I'm behind on board. I tend to just leave it up
It's like immediate tempo if you need it, or it's like...
You said you want me to trade in the Sabo?
Yeah, buff the Sabo, yeah.
It's immediate value if you need it, otherwise you can save up value by leaving it on the board.
Let's put it on the Paragon, actually.
Because it gets out of range of PS8, right?
Getting things above 2 health is definitely a common goal here.
Whether it's PS8 or Life Siphon or whatever.
Utilizing whatever. Okay.
Total control of the board.
All they've got is their Relic, which does put some pressure on us.
He is determined with that tactical.
So next turn, he's setting up an LPC.
He didn't have one already, he's probably drawing it now.
This is an obvious play of Bank Painter, PS8, their unit,
play pilot, and then put the knife on this after charging it?
Or no, put it on the pilot.
Do we hold anything back or just slam this down?
So the only thing we could potentially be playing around here would be Sendralon, right?
But we can pass Memento to the Hard Links anyway,
because it's going to kill it in order from we played it right and then we played that last, so yeah, play it.
Yeah, so Teva Starve is lethal
I mean yeah, they'll heal up a little bit.
If he clears anything, or heals you.
Well, if he does, we can sack our own units with Tevastar,
and we'll have lethal anyway.
Okay, you can hit with the knife, and then sack it, and then move it on to...
So what you'd do is you'd swing with your hardlinked, then you'd sack the hardlinked, and then move it on to... Yeah, precisely. So what you'd do is you'd swing with your hardlinked,
then you'd sack the hardlinked,
and then say sack the sabo, sack the paragon,
but you'd keep passing the knife every time
Don't you have to sack them all at once, though?
Isn't it like a one-time thing?
It goes in order, I believe.
Oh, so you can choose multiple
and move them in the middle. Move it like you pick them with the knife first. Oh, so you can choose multiple and move them in the middle.
Move it like you pick them with a knife first.
Love tacticals. Tacticals
I mean, three... Three plus two, just to clear out the defender, we can draw with one of those.
Do I have any other oculars out right now?
Yeah, so I'd throw your oculars on the other one too.
So yeah, clear as you were going to with the three and the two.
At this point, I don't think we need to.
So we got two defenders and we can just choose the block with the one with Memento on, right?
And we can just pass it over.
So I don't think we need to.
I think we can just keep pushing face here.
Play Wong, or do we just want to slam Glaive?
Yeah, play Wong for something we can bank, yeah.
It would have been nice to develop Glaive here, but we need something to bank.
Yeah, take a Forlorn. Yeah, we don't need Poisoner yet.
So, maybe bank your 4 on here.
And then just PS8 on the units to 1-2.
They have tacticals, but not too much in hand.
It's a very strong position.
And just going face, not even trading into these tokens because of these big defenders.
Stay he's played two machinists right so he's got another LPC at least
So this Block with the one
Engaging target. What's the reasoning here?
Because he's gonna play Lemmy right?
So now we can block with, no, not with the one, no, now block with the five six.
Can't Lemmy just target this now? Because, yeah, he will.
We'll pass the Memento to the one, one now.
Just absorbing one extra damage that would have gone somewhere else?
He would have just Lemmy me one attack sooner i see because if imagine if we blocked out that one first look now he would have killed this
with this uh because he would have had one more unit on the board right right right right right
he would have two two attack units yeah yeah. So this way we have one more unit alive.
6, 10, 13, 14 damage on board.
I mean, we could attack everything and then use AOP,
but we don't have to do that.
With the knife or something?
Yeah, because we can energy bay onto the free one.
Bump it in, pass it over to the...
Oh, pass the knife onto all of them?
Right, so this is the big endgame combo we can pull off a lot of the time, so...
Better hurry up if you want to do that
So attack into whatever we get a bunch of tokens and we move like move the knife
Can I put on the nanobot first or does it have to be the no doesn't work on the end of our right?
It doesn't work on the end of our
No, when it's trying a class is transformed so it doesn't pass the noise, right?
That's what happened to was it Zeliazer in that one tournament?
Yeah, so it only works on energy drones because they actually destroy themselves.
So this will get us lethal, but it takes a while to do it.
So now we sacrifice this.
I haven't calculated this, by the way, but I'm just going off a gut feeling that it works.
Oh, I'm sure it's lethal. If this isn't lethal, I'll be surprised as well.
I share your gut feeling.
We gotta be careful not to kill ourselves too, I guess. Be mindful of that.
Yeah, we should have just enough HP.
Back in the day, the memento didn't always damage you, so this used to be a little more free.
Is it lethal? 6, 10, 11...
Is it lethal or is it like a one-off?
You can't put it on this one.
So just 8, 9, and then 10 on one of these three.
We can buff with the mana bot as well. It's exact 16, 20, 21. Exactly.
It's exact lethal, right?
I think so. I think it's actually exact.
Oh, no. We don't have any defenders either.
15, 19, 20. No, it's one off next we can start the other nanobot right oh there it is there it is forgot about that in the chaos there it is then just make sure you swing with the other one. Oh true. We actually have one more. I'm forgetting the basic tech
Yeah, we we could sacrifice this for one more damage
I was like, you fucked me, we're still one off!
No, no, we're good, we're good, we're good!
Oh man, he scared me, I thought I was messing up.
This deck is so complicated, what the heck?
Do we have time for another one?
Yeah, we can do one more.
One more, awesome, let's do it.
Okay, that was a good example against Marco.
Definitely we're playing against more beginner
level players, intermediate level players, so we're not getting to see the top level,
like a rock versus optimized stuff, but this is still a really good primer on how to mulligan,
how to handle the gameplay. I feel like a rock is so complicated that I'm actually kind of glad
we're getting the beginner level thing, because I feel like we could have a whole nother session
at some point where we played the sweatier matchup. Even just
this, I'm learning a ton.
Yeah, I mean, I rip the turns
every time with a racket, and that's with
Is that Freeze Spring? No.
He's got the nice Ogincore skin there.
I thought that was Freeze Spring.
Blindleaf, I recognize the name. He's definitely been around a while,
He's a nice nice looking skin
So all again core mirror match. Thank God we got the three brands in a row now. We're getting the actual matchups. We're looking for
Now we're actually getting those matchups
Going first in this matchup. How would you think about this mulligan?
Let's bank the secrets, the Provisioner, and the PSA.
Yeah. I'm good at that keeping the forlorn
because we can play on two as an upgraded unit right so we're just giving ourselves
three cards to look for the one drop i'm surprised it feels a little risky
um okay so like poisoner is the most expensive,
but it's also really good for dealing with their big tokens,
Yeah, and we've also got the Energy Bay, haven't we?
So here I'd be tempted to bank the Provisioners.
Same as last time, kind of.
Because without a hard link,
which we can or any sort of upgrade we can pass onto it,
it's quite weak on turn two.
It's more like a turn three card
unless you can already buff it.
Yeah, because a 2-2 on two is not exactly...
Not exactly the best turn two play.
When Cathy's playing like six six of stats on turn two
or whatever the hell she's doing okay nice they don't do anything on turn one immediately for
Lauren companion feels pretty good is this just a glaive bank like as good as
it can be it's not really what we need in this spot necessarily okay so this is quite interesting here it's either it's either
yeah one of the fours right um problem we've got is if the fordorn dies to like a slinger if it
doesn't get buff then the poisoner is kind of going to be useless we're going to have nothing to actually do with
it anyway are we so i'd actually bank poisoner here okay yeah because i would rather have a
glaive we can play and buff okay makes sense it's it's the safer play although it does just leave
us with less options against defender juggernaut.
One damage to all enemy units.
What did he do this time?
Did he fix it with cement again?
He fixed his monitor. I don't know what he used to do it.
But he fixed his monitor.
Yeah, I don't know what's going on with all that.
I still crack up to that when you say you have to fix his desk of cement.
Yeah, I don't know what's going on with all that.
Which one would you target?
So we could just put the bay on the companion.
Otherwise, we could play pilot and overclock this.
Then we've got to bank one of these two, which seems really awkward.
Because what we do have is we do have the hard linked into energy bay next turn or we can just
go ahead and put the bail on the for on now um like if we wanted to i don't know like double
overclock this bank the glaive and then next term we play one into three it just doesn't it gets us
wide but we don't really have
something to do at the end of that.
Yeah, because we banked our Poisoner, right?
I feel like Bay this turn probably is the realistic
And then Glaive next turn.
Like, it's not great, but it's something.
Let's bank the energy bay.
And play the Ever-Forlern.
Yeah, and then just swing with the Ever-Forlern.
Oh my, okay, that's right.
I'm not sure if there's a reason, but the extra attack could actually...
We don't need... let's not swing here.
Let's not swing? Okay, good, because we're out of time.
I wasn't sure if there was any world where having the 5-1 would be worth having this die.
Because then it could one-shot the ASV but I guess not not worth it
So the reason I bank the energy bay there is we've got nothing to combo it with right so yeah
We can go wide with one ones, but it doesn't really do a lot
I kind of want to just get more upgrades out on the board and this is the way of doing it
Because we kind of want to get glaive out next turn
We can pass one of these nano bots onto it and then that's gonna be our way of dealing with
Yeah, that makes sense cuz I felt like we're gonna get wide and then have nothing to do with it. So this is more of a
It gets defender so put it on this right
Yeah Cuz it's not upgraded right right? Right. More upgrades. Okay.
More tokens, more upgrades.
This is a challenging-ass deck.
I can see what you mean about how much brainpower it takes.
This is a really challenging deck.
I'm understanding why I've struggled with it.
I'm understanding why I've struggled with it.
You have to really be piloting with precision.
Every little... lots of little decisions that really matter.
20 minute... 25 minute games even versus aggro decks.
Yeah, Arak is like hard mode. It's doable, but it's like hard mode.
No wonder a diesel likes this deck.
Okay, now... okay now would this want to go on the defender since it's these aren't gonna yeah put it on the defender because he's obviously gonna use the turret of one of the one ones and he's gonna
buff it by one anyway so they're gonna die regardless right it'll again it's that two
making it go okay this is like the rule of thumb that I didn't realize is if
Buffing from one health to two health isn't really a thing that helps very much
You need to buff above two health if at all possible like whenever there's the option like taking something above two is always better
Like there's so many ways to ping for two damage. That's what you're making me realize today.
So bank, reclamator, and just slam the glaive.
Is there anything else to think about?
And then thanks to the painter, we're going to kill this.
Does it matter which one I attack with first?
because we want to buff that glaive up with the nanobot, so swing the painter first. If he blocks
with the shield pod, then we just upgrade the glaive and we don't. Oh, okay. Really, so it's
more important to get this buffed and upgraded right now than to guarantee we clear the ASV.
Why is it so important to buff it immediately?
What are we playing around by getting it buffed before the start of our next turn?
Or is it just before this dies?
Or wait, sorry, what did you say?
Slinger is all snitching.
So we're not protecting the glaive.
We're getting value from this before they can kill it.
That makes sense. So with the nanobots, we really want to use them as upgrades before they can kill it yeah got it that's that makes sense like with the nanobots
we really want to use them as upgrades before they can get killed is like the the theme here
yeah so there's like a time and place of when you leave them out going wide and it all depends on
what decks you're against all the cores they always run slingers right so it's i don't like
to keep them out if i can't use them okay whereas some
decks you know they aren't as likely to run slingers like maybe earthen although
they have spores but yeah feels like most I'd like say yeah if I'd like two
or three of them out on the board I probably wouldn't bother upgrading but
because there's only one I'd rather have that used to get potentially never
upgrade in the future yeah all the hardlings I'd rather have that used to get potentially another upgrade in the future.
All the hardlings. I know, we have so many options next turn.
Captain's eating this up.
Imagine drawing the energy pod here. I can imagine that.
Did he overclock into that?
I guess now we can actually clear it with these two attacks.
I can't think other than playing Wong now.
Okay, so we can full clear this board, right?
Yeah, I got to think. So a rock turn five gives us two buffs.
If I make this a six and just attack this, it clears both of those.
Although, wait, but then the energy pod breaks.
clear up one of them with the painter anyway right and then they only have two units left okay that
seems really good and then we just bank a pilot and we have glebe we have long next turn yeah
okay yeah i just okay this is a oh so we only need to buff the glebe once don't we uh twice
no we need to buff up twice it here is it it'll get plus
one damage from the painter so it needs to be six attack right yeah yes we have to buff it twice
okay yeah like this is it's amazing how often this is the correct line and yet i was oblivious to it
even being an option yeah this combo is just insane. Glaive into this.
and immediately buffing it.
It's so obvious when you point it out,
I never realized self-destructing
the Paragon Summon had that...
We're not even playing any spells so we're not juicing up his turret at all
Now I feel powerful. This is like a real game like they're playing a reasonably good deck
They're playing it in a reasonable manner and we are
slapping them in this opening that was crazy like I
Would have not gotten here at all but like I would turn, like banking the energy bay on turn three,
banking the poison, we had to bank so many cards
that I would have wanted to keep.
They were really tricky those first few turns.
Just goes to show how much you can misplay in a very small amount of turns in this game if you're not doing the right thing.
Like, five turns and I could have made like five misplays easy by now.
Yeah, the banking decisions are kind of everything sometimes.
They make or break the game.
So tough, but so important.
Yeah, we got them backed into a corner right here.
All they're doing is turrets, which we don't even...
We're barely running spells.
You didn't know you could actually play your Paragon until like two weeks ago?
Captain, I'm pretty sure you never even played a card game before like a month ago, right?
Good thing you're a fast learner. slam the wong with impunity slam the wong
slap them with our wong oh hell yeah correct yep yep that one that there's an argument to take the Ocular Implant there.
With all these cards, really?
Yeah, but I think having a Memento is just better.
What's the argument for wanting more draw?
Don't bank the hard links.
And then let's play the Painter.
So PS8 we're not going to be playing, right?
Because he's got three turrets up.
I would keep the PS8 potentially
because he's going to be getting a token this turn,
which if he buffs it with a Workshop Engineer,
But because we had the Painter in hand,
we can now target the token again with the Painter,
and we get the same kill as what we had the last time.
So we didn't need the PSA.
Okay, that's fine. Kill the painter.
No, this session is a wake-up call for sure.
I'm talking about how much easier it would be to play Skippy and Kathy, and it's true.
But then, this is making it really obvious that I could The amount of improvement that I could have on these decks is very high like I mean I rock as extreme because I've never really played it
This is a good reminder that I need to get good and stop complaining
As always, okay, so five nine
We have lethal. I found it. Does he have defender? Okay. I found it does he have defender okay I
found it I did it I'm good at the game yeah easy game correct me if I am wrong
I believe you're right I believe this adds up to 20, this was actually
great. That's not bad going. I'm actually
really happy. We beat a Shroud
and we just won two other matches too.
Yeah, and that last one was a
really tricky one and their deck was reasonable.
I mean, it's Augincore. It's not the top
optimal meta deck, but they were playing a strong deck
playing it reasonably well. And we
clowned them. Well, you clowned them while correcting all the bad moves I wanted to make,
so you clowned them, but yeah, that was quite good. You definitely showed me that a rock makes
sense and can work, and that while it is a bit inconsistent, it's also just really difficult
to play, which makes it potentially a good deck to practice, because if you can play it,
that's an advantage for tournaments and stuff, if someone else isn't as comfortable with it and you really know how it
works there's so much going on there i don't know that's a rock is a very interesting deck
very interesting yeah i love it it's probably my favorite paragon to play that and brand are just
like yeah there's just so much to this deck. And yes, every game's different.
It's interesting playing it.
So yeah, that was really good.
Thank you so much for the coaching session.
We will chop this up for YouTube.
I'll bug you if I need another thumbnail picture.
We probably use the same one from last time though.
But yeah, chat, please say thank you to Diesel
for sharing his hard learned knowledge.
And yeah, man, I really appreciate this.
Thank you so much. Yeah, you're welcome, guys. Thank you for coming and watching. And yeah, I really appreciate this thank you so much
yeah you're welcome guys thank you for coming
and watching and yeah I look forward to the video
hop off then mate but I'll probably go lay
in bed and I'll watch your stream a little bit longer so I'll hop and chat
with you guys sounds good brother
we're gonna keep on going.
We should play a few more games with a rock
and see if I've learned anything from what Diesel taught me.
Let's see if I've learned anything now.
That was very, very informative.
The path is open to you Of course I queued right back into shroud
Soon as diesel leaves I try to get a match right four out of six games leaves and I try to get a match, Shroud. Four out of
six games, Shroud, and we try to play a rock.
Yeah, I mean, keep the PS8
Please give me some hard links
It's a sign I should play a show for running into a bunch of shroud although brand is the worst shroud for a show to deal with
worst shroud for Aishio to deal with I think but still. What beats brand the
best? I forget. Weird flood of brands today. Weird brand situation. Hmm
PSA or just play forlorn. Yeah, we just got a PSA
Bank trade secrets here probably because it's way too early.
Although we do have the trade secrets memento,
but it doesn't work against Shroud.
I'm pretty sure this is an absolutely cooked situation.
This is like a really bad start,
but we can try to Forlorn on too.
We can try to Forlorn on too. Let me change my title.
Although I really want to stay locked in.
This one feels like an almost insta-concede, though.
We can bank Sesamere and try to upcycle it out somehow.
I guess that's the closest thing that looks like a plan here.
We get to put our ocular on it.
Upgraded unit has on attack.
Attach a random upgrade from your waist to this unit.
Offensive salvage subsystem. Yeah, I feel like Arak, Aesho, Lemmy, or ADHQ,
uh, Brand, and then Shoshana, I guess.
I want to see if I can be the best player at the worst Paragon for each one, except for John.
Want to redo the sweat arc but with off meta decks and see how good I can get I
Got to get back into my mindset like reviewing spots reviewing matches like doing the whole thing
We need to note down the time hold time of this session before I forget.
Do we even want to keep playing this one or do we want to give it up because we're against Bram with a bad opening?
I can jawn Tactitional and put an upgrade on it.
I can play another turn or two and see if anything opens up.
It's just such a... Even Diesel admitted that this is about as bad as it gets for a rock.
Okay, if they don't have Honored Steward in their hand and we get the Glaive down,
and then they also don't...
Then they play Brand on 5,
and then they remove it with Brand.
That doesn't work. Then we draw AOP and upcycle into Sestamere, then they remove it with Brand. That doesn't work.
Then we draw AOP and upcycle into that.
Well, this can at least get a token. I mean, we're starting the plan.
The plan is to get the board, get upgraded units on the board, and then start cycling and salvaging and getting token value.
He hits face and gets a glaive.
Fuck, I didn't see if he banked it.
That might be enough to end it.
Draw two and hope I get two more units.
If I memento, I can kill the what you're doing. I'm not sure what you're doing. I'm not sure what you're doing. I'm not sure what you're doing.
I'm not sure what you're doing.
I'm not sure what you're doing.
I'm not sure what you're doing.
I'm not sure what you're doing.
I'm not sure what you're doing.
I'm not sure what you're doing.
I'm not sure what you're doing.
I'm not sure what you're doing.
I'm not sure what you're doing. I'm not sure what you're doing. I want to play more rock, but not if're gonna cue into shroud over and over you think you have bested me
Here let's I feel like we should play a rock but I just these stupid shrouds
Yeah, let's go back to...
Go back to Ishiyo, maybe?
Did I want to keep playing with this list?
I did want to try a different list, maybe. That's a good question. Let's feel around.
Let's try a few different things and see what feels good.
Let's see what deck feels good for today.
rock. Well hello there. But my goal is to start climbing. My goal is to just get better at these
decks. Let's just be the best off meta player i think i can do it i just it's a challenge
i have to just lock in i have to choose to not ramble to not get lost inside conversations we
have all the other games i play for that when i'm chilling getting s ranks and cuphead or checking
out a new game or whatever it is like we can we can have all our conversations i need to make
myself focus while i'm playing the card game and play good i need to i need to lock in and like really get back on my focus ironically when i my
voice was getting messed up i think i started playing a lot better because i was just not
talking as much i have to like go back together this fight is ours let's turn down the audio now that diesel's not in here
Okay Go first against Neus so here
Striker with tabula is good. Skippian is fine
We need to control the board first and then draw through our deck second against Neus and this is okay I
Should spill out I should fill out that spreadsheet, too.
Like, Diesel even used the...
Yeah, I gotta go back into my sweaty arc.
Alright, I'm on my sweaty arc, but with off-meta decks.
I guess that's what it is.
I mean, we can wait before we decide what else we have to get rid of.
We can just use a tabula here.
I don't think there's any reason not to.
I think I'm seeing the path.
I think I know how to bridge the gap between the off-meta content
and actually sweating and getting better at the game.
I think I see it. I think I see it now Please don't run your timer all the way down.
So it's either Skippian or unnatural.
The thing is, Skippian gets us a little wider,
but we don't have a great way to take advantage of that.
Whereas this gets us less wide,
but gives us more answers in our hand.
We have Subjugate in there already.
Okay, so next time we play Meridus, we need to get something else in the waste actually for meredith
So that's a reason to play unnatural selection. I think we
Bank skipian unnatural discard this next turn meredith becomes a three three
Meredith just becomes a subjugate directly Fuck.
That's the problem with this card is that it doesn't always work but
the only other thing would be
raven doesn't work like raven does not work
you need some way to discard
raven there's no fucking way
Either a bot or a very beginner player.
We have to go with the plan, but Meritus still.
At least Meritus can trade into the double agent.
I could make Meritus a 4-4 just so it has a value trade,
but it doesn't have the subjugate effect since we're not actually going to get the subjugate value
if it just trades into the 3-3.
It's kind of weird, but I think that makes sense.
And then next turn, we can Unnatural Selection.
This is weird, but we play it and we just take the stats from Subjugate.
Now the Exalts and the Waste.
We got an even better play.mind that's even better. Meritus for three is actually ridiculous
it's actually ridiculous it's actually ridiculous Meritus for three is insane
Meritus for three is insane. I gotta turn the music on again, the in-game.
I don't know what to do because I'm multi-streaming to YouTube.
I do miss the music, but we can at least put on the in-game. Who's winning?
I was gonna unnatural, but now we have subjugate.
Okay, we have to make sure we don't actually mill too fast.
Make sure we don't win too fast and then lose instead to fatigue damage. thing is i have to kill the standard bearer before the double agent i guess
although this is going to go to our waist so we're probably going to get to play
ratio on seven the way this hand is shaping up
i guess i just bank on natural selection in this case Let's do some science.
Meredith is actually nuts dude
This is what I'm talking about this is what I'm talking about
This is what I'm talking about.
That's what I call Aishio.
I gotta start watching the hand again.
That one hour with diesel, it shows me how far I've slipped.
It's okay because it was for good reasons.
I was locking in the content, but I just got to get my sweat.
I got to get my sweat mode back.
I got to learn to turn it on when I need it.
I got to learn to turn it on when I need it.
She's not good in this meta, but we're going to make her work.
I'm going to become the best player in the game at the worst Paragons. That's my new goal
I'm turning on my sweat mode again, but exclusively for the worst Paragons
It's gonna be a really funny way to try to get good
Okay, so we definitely triumph Kalar looking juicy no John. I make no no sorry John John is a stone's throw too far. No John
Everything else but no John Okay, I just need to not over mill if I play like how many cards Kalar plus
okay I can trade in I have no other one drops okay so Kalar I'm gonna play
four cards yeah we're not going to over mill.
No, this is going to be fine.
Making sure I'm not milling too fast somehow.
The thing is, I'm only two turns away from having eight energy because of the double agent.
There might even be a more optimal line, but this is definitely winning and it's pretty easy.
Nah, Jon is too much even for me.
Jon asked- they need to rework Jon before I'll touch him.
All the other worst Paragons, though.
The most- the most fun Paragons, is what I should really say.
Nah? But the most fun Paragon is what I should really say. Oh, here we go. Nah.
Oh, they're going to rework Jon eventually.
I hate to break it to you.
Jon is definitely getting changed eventually.
Veen has mentioned that he knows...
He knows that Jon is not...
He knows what we all know.
I'm a proud Jon hater. He knows. He knows that John is not... He knows. He knows what we all know.
Yeah, you're the only John enjoyer in the game
Someone's got to enjoy I'm the only Acio enjoyer right now.
I'm literally the only person.
Everyone has given up on Acio.
Everyone has given up on Acio.
I'm actually the last one.
Hamhox has definitely put in some Acio time. Shoutouts to Ham. He's great.
He's the only other one, but to be honest, he's not sharing his game data to priming then,
because his decks don't show up on the priming. I have to get on him about it. Maybe I can get
him to share his data. Because if you pull up Aesho on On priming there's no decks for the last month
Which means no one has played more than like 15 games at a sheo in a month. Please ask him next stream
Ask him if he'll share his his data to the priming
Or all he has to do is turn it on on the API I think
I can tell him Flux and help him set it up if he wants.
You don't share in the priming because it doesn't work for you?
What doesn't work? We gotta fix it.
We need you to share in the priming.
You don't understand. We need you to share in the priming.
Don't know how? Are you on your computer right now? I can tell you how want to do right now
Oh, you're on your phone well when you're on your computer I can tell you how to do it
Ham hawks was having issues. Do you know what issues he was having?
Because HamHawks was having issues. Do you know what issues he was having? Because, uh...
Well, you work on it, right, Lofty?
You work with the team on the priming, right?
You've worked on it a bit.
So you already know, but...
I'm sure they'd love to know whatever was going on.
The number one thing that would make the priming better right now is more people sharing data
That's the number one thing. I feel like
We should make a video just a short video asking people to do it just a straight up
Or we should do like a giveaway for people but only for people who have connected we should take everyone who connects their account
Can we do a giveaway for people...
Can we do something where we...
Where anybody who connects their game data to priming is entered for some kind of monthly giveaway.
entered for some kind of monthly giveaway. This could go along with the other thing. he had it all linked in the permission set but nothing showed up
He had it all linked in the permissions set, but nothing showed up.
You used priming on your site.
So he added all linked in permissions.
What do you mean nothing showed up?
Like, nothing showed up where?
if it's built for mobile.
at least for mobile. It's definitely more it might be more of a PC thing right now at least for connecting
Was related to parallel stats specifically okay, because that's a different site entirely
So parallel stats specifically okay, because that's a different site entirely So parallel stats
Although the stream overlay has nothing to do with priming we want to do a stream overlay
The you you know how it is we want to do it
We haven't been given access to some of the stuff. I think that we needed to do it
But we'd like to have our own stream overlay
I do love parallel stats plug-in as well, but that's that's sort of a different thing like what I'm talking about is
Just like on your account
Like if you connect your wallet on the bottom left and you click here and you go to settings
Like I think that's where you can set it up. Like you go to settings
Just making sure there's no private info here and then like from here
You can go to wallets and connect. So that's all you got to do in the priming is connect
Like sign a trans sign a thing to confirm. It's your wallet and then you can go in here and like set up your sharing
That's all any of y'all need to do
I'm taking notes right now. Do we have a short that explains how to connect and share data with priming?
If not, we definitely should make one.
There's no link to parallel on that page.
I don't think you have to directly...
Well, the thing is, you have to turn on data sharing in your parallel account first.
But if that's already done
Assuming assuming you're already sharing data on your account then you're fine
You're a little scared of the NDA I'm gonna give you some advice that might be stupid. I'm not a lawyer so this might be really stupid, but I
but I don't think you have to worry because like what are they gonna do?
Don't think you have to worry because like what are they gonna do?
Are they gonna sue you? Are they gonna take you to court for tweeting about the game?
I mean, I guess just like ask them what you're allowed to say and what you're not allowed to say, but I don't know.
I mean on the other hand if you want to be super safe you can just not sign anything.
But NDAs are pretty standard. They're annoying, but...
Your page there shows the permissions you have enabled let me see
it's been a minute been a minute since i signed into your site
The NDAs are definitely annoying.
Companies covering their asses and stuff, but...
Hey, if they can afford to have lawyers set that shit up for them,
at least they have money.
Yeah, the priming just migrated to the new API.
I believe we just did. Oh, yeah, okay.
So you've got a thing that says manage permissions.
If you click on that, it takes you right there.
I'm not getting anything on this page, though.
Oh, I haven't linked my account yet.
Well, that would make sense.
Imagine clicking the giant button that says connect account or whatever.
There's only a giant fucking button.
So this is, I can like...
So I'll send people here and I'll be like go here
And then this will help you manage your permissions and then once they do that. I just send them the priming
And all they got to do is go to their settings
I know it's embarrassing because I don't have a loadout anymore
If I want to start grinding play to earn again, I can I can have a full loadout again whenever I want but
Right now I don't have it um all right they go first we definitely want a ps8
in case we want to clear something early well we have gamma term but we want ps8
all right speed sounds good man see you around
we want to go wide, not tall.
I really want Cunning Skipion.
Or else just one drops, I guess.
Yeah, that's great, Puma.
That's a great profile. I played against this guy once before recently, I think.
His name rings a bell a little bit.
I guess I have to try to play a Gamma and see if they have another gunslinger or something.
One, two, three. Have another gunslinger or something One two three
Trying to work with a parallel team to show more info there too awesome
I'm glad to see you're still doing cool stuff with the website. That's good.
Why is there so many brands today? I've never
seen, I've never queued into brand so much.
Is brand like the new gold
platinum meta or what is up with all these
I uh... buddy got to admit I didn't expect so much brand
today I could just clear the trapper if I'm willing to trade in but then all I
can do is play the other gamma which the gunslinger trades into is not very good probably better just
Skippy and if I play hard if they can make their own copy that feels really bad
Yeah, I guess I haven't seen any brand deck guides
Yeah, this is kind of awkward
Legit have no fucking idea what to do here
Just spent a full minute looking and I was like seeing nothing that I like
There's just no great way to answer a void trapper.
But next turn I can 2 plus 1 with the PS8.
We can actually do something.
They didn't want to clear my board.
They could have full cleared my board.
Okay, they can still full clear my board.
They're not doing too much, but they're getting a lot of Void Trapper value.
See, I could have dinged this and I'd be able to clear it now
I would have given him an air card in the process
Harf PS8 is tempting then they attack Harf to get a copy, but at least they lose the Trapper in the process.
Well, it forces them to spend all four energy if they want to use Erasure.
And then maybe next turn we can 3 plus 1, or we want to get Subjugate value.
Only thing is we don't get to waste a card from our deck, which
we do if I play Bearer plus PS8.
get a little bit of momentum here
Also, I guess if Harf survives, we could
Also a world where I could have
Harf plus Unnatural Selection.
discard the beast, or well, soon.
Okay, they banked the Harf.
watch the hand. That was the leftmost card.
Glaive is not necessarily as bad as it would be sometimes.
Okay, I could just triumph. We have a guaranteed two.
The three plus one is really nice, though. Into the zero, even.
Although, I have to bank in there. I have to bank something there I have to bank some that's a little awkward
I mean if it wasn't a glaive I'd slam triumph all day
But since it's a glaive I think we got to go subjugate, but can I can I bank?
Can't bank the draw I want to play the unnatural after I play subjugate which means I have to bank first
Otherwise that would be correct
We can bank the beast I guess it's just the whole reason I run this is for shroud
I think we just bank the tabula
I think we just accept it just accept it and bank the tab
I can't afford to get to the end of this match and then not have enough damage.
I'm just going to bank the tabula.
Yeah, I was trying to figure out how I could still get the draw before I have to bank, but I didn't see anything.
So now I discard the beast.
Draw another spell. Fuck!
Zero for two on unnatural selections so far.
Zero for two. Yeah, great. The whole point was we'd get something- a token and then I'd buff the subjugate to 4-4.
That was the whole fucking point.
There's a whole fucking point of that I
It was the whole fucking point of that.
Should have run half into glaive that no that's correct. I got I got tilted and I just ended the turn
I should have run half into glaive. I got tilted and I didn't think it through at that point
That was a misplay for sure. I should have then this would at least be down to two health
Fuck me in the ass. i mean we can subjugate double striker
we're in a really bad place with this brand now we don't have an answer for it
we can try to just get to asio in time at this point like maybe
somehow against the odds we can get to
Definitely gonna get through my deck
buff the things around the subjugate
because they're gonna hit the weakest.
the subjugate. How am I being stupid?
How can I be less stupid here?
I can buff the subjugate.
They can attack this one.
There's no magic buff here.
There's just no magic buff.
Thank you very much for that.
They want to attack one of these two with their glaive.
So we buff those. Brand still gets in the way of shit, but
16 cards left in the deck
Yeah, if I'd run half into this it'd be a little better because that glaive would be dying a little faster. That definitely would have made a difference.
Eclipsed fate. Ripped. But we couldn't play around shit there. We were just like desperate to try to build a board at all. Oh they didn't use it on the... Okay all my subjugates are gone. That's fair.
Thing is I have a lot of draw left. We might actually get there. 11 15 16 19 already 19 damage in the waste since i discarded
the beast we should have enough damage in there we actually don't want brand to die too fast probably
like don't let him get a big board i don't know there's a world where we get there
nine damage on the board They're not hitting my face.
All of our subjugates are gone though.
So it's just all this shit.
Also, Triumph's going to pull damage out of the waste, which is problematic.
But Magna can at least kill the glaive they did kill some stuff i
think we have to pull magna out with triumph and then maybe just like hearth because it's like very
low or skipian for example which gets us wider but doesn't take too much damage out i think that's
the way we have to do it here i re-entered the cycle We might actually win. I'm actually starting to think we can win this.
The Glaive really got in our way, but Delta is actually huge on a wide board so all we do now is get our board
wide to set up Delta while also taking the minimum attack out of the waist
minimum attack out of the waist I don't know.
Two more turns to Aishio.
I think we're going to get there.
We can definitely get through the rest of the deck fast enough one way or another
Yeah, I think we're good. I think we're good actually very nice
This is the big thing we have to do with a she oh is just
Be like whenever there's the opportunity to stall and just get to a she oh that's a really important way to win
Like when the opening is not great We have to like this is how we have to like handle the games that don't go that well is you just got a
Fucking stall them out and get to a she oh some of the time and turn some of these worse openings into better endings
Shio some of the time and turn some of these worse openings into better endings.
Trusty Belt Brand seems so bad, but I don't know.
The Wong buffing him is actually really good.
He can't get rid of it this turn.
He literally can't get rid of it until next turn.
Unless he had something from hand, but he's out of energy.
So he doesn't get all of his tokens until two turns from now, and we win by then.
So he doesn't get all of his tokens until two turns from now, and we win by then.
Not enough damage in my waist, though.
Oh, the Poisoner is something.
I can discard more things if I Triumph of Europa.
We're just a little bit short on fucking damage.
If I just use this and then this, we'll be able to play Acio next turn.
So I can discard the delta.
Which puts two more damage in the waste.
And I don't have to actually play any units off of Triumph.
Well, I'm zero for three on Unnaturals today, but that's okay. Pass. We're coming up like just short on one HCO discards will get us there. We're three off. So fucking close. And no, I don't have battle ready. I gotta get, I gotta put Scanner Probe in the deck. I gotta do it now, clearly. This is the one where, yeah, if Scanner Probe was in there, it would get us to lethal.
If Scanner Probe was in there, it would get us to lethal.
Although he still can't sacrifice Brand, but the problem is...
All they have to do is Erasure the token and they win.
I mean, if the token survives, then they can hit him again the next turn.
I don't know, though. Do they have lethal next turn anyway? Probably.
Oh, yeah. No, they have lethal next turn.
I need Aishio to waste a Formatition off the top.
I forget if there's one left. there maybe one left is that pure copium
If there was one left, but it would I drew it when I needed to okay. I would have won if this was on the bottom of the deck
I would have won if that was on the bottom of the deck
Would have won if that was on the bottom of the deck
Would have won if that was on the bottom of the deck. I would have won if that was on the bottom of the deck.
Literally, I would have won if it was in the opposite order, man.
Alright, we gotta put in...
Scanner Probe would have saved that.
We gotta find room for the Scanner Probe.
I actually did a good job stalling it out.
Discarded the enraged beast in the early game.
All of that just to come up...
There's other styles of Aesho. Other ways to build it that I want to try, but I'm not done with this one yet.
So for here, I feel like I might...
I feel like I have too many spells with 11 effects.
For unnatural selection, we want to run mostly units.
We want our deck to be actually almost all units.
So maybe cut down to two ps8s
we can't cut triumph i could cut no snitching but i feel like it's really important
and then we can put in the uh the uh the scanner probe for the battle ready and then honestly what
if we run no ps8s and just run two gunslingers and that way I still have that early game removal somewhat
But it's a little more tempo like there's more board presence rather we have a unit and
Unnatural selection I could even go three gunslingers and one no snitching but that feels a little bit too much
That feels like a little bit too much that feels like a little bit too much
Trickster has switched to Kathy.
This is... He played Brand a few games ago, didn't he?
He switched to Kathy. Oh, another test subject. Let's see how this goes.
Catherine LaCroix, at your seat. I
Win rate for placements is 100% going second and 57% going first I mean going second can be better a lot of the time depends on the deck. It's way less clear than it used to be I think
So I'm not even too surprised
One two three blank five get rid of the formatician I'm not even too surprised. 1, 2, 3, blank, 5.
Get rid of the Formatition. The fleet shall triumph
Poisoner not against Kathy not against Kathy
We have some board control here
So I think we can just discard Kalar with unnatural and then we can get it back with triumph if we want to
We have a nice two plus one if we do that. Well, we got a bank what we draw but
Also playing striker will let me trade into the trooper. Yeah, okay, so
We just got a bank what I draw
How bad could it be I better not whiff on this one honestly, I've whiffed on all of them not this one
Wow lots of strikers do I want all three though? I think I need to keep one of these gunslingers
Although this does not put as much damage in the waist no that shouldn't that doesn't matter in this matchup.
Now let's see how much they can burst here.
If they're smart, they'll kill this.
But I'm guessing they'll just... Yeah.
Okay, so we can kill the Bannerman.
Bank the probe in this matchup.
You are done. Let's do some science. Good chance they end up just playing Kathy here.
They're hoping they have a gunslinger or something to clear my subjugate.
My cat must need food or something.
I got to check after this game.
Let's see what we draw here.
That was a clutch top deck.
So I can't really play Unnatural Selection
because I'd have to bank or discard the
So we just want to keep ahead on the board in this case.
Sucks that we don't have a lot of cards.
But we have triumph. That's all we really need here.
We have triumph with subjugate. What else can you really ask for?
Subjugate, double, stri striker get big on the board
Could play hard but I don't want to discard I don't want to bank the subject is so
Plus they have like no cards anyway, so Harf's not really doing much here Double gunslinger would be nice to clear shit out, but there's no way.
No, we definitely don't need to.
We actually keep everything... Yeah, we win.
Easy. My way back All right GG
I don't care if you top deck Wong.
Or no, down to 5. Down to 6. This takes us down to four
Bank end up down to three. Oh, this is perfect actually because then be a token at the end
Assuming I don't have lethal here, which for all I know I do, I haven't added it up.
I probably just have lethal now.
I am pushing into fatigue now, with that extra token.
I should probably just go face, right?
7, 10, 13, 19, 23, 24, 25.
So we'll clear the Wong, I guess, to be super safe. Okay.
You can't fatigue from Subjugate.
Subjugate takes it at zero, but it doesn't fatigue you, so we're fine.
I'll only take three fatigue damage. Subjugate and we're fine. Subjugate takes it to zero, but it doesn't fatigue you, so we're fine.
I'll only take three fatigue damage. Nice rend, feel good. Real cool. Nice try.
Thank you very much. I'm going to go ahead and get some more of the details. so I'm going to go to the next episode of the show. Okay. All right, I'm gonna I'll be right back.
I'm gonna take a quick break.
Hey, hey, hey. Thank you. E aí . Thank you. E aí . All right, let's see what's good. Well, hello there.
Let's go. Oh, another test subject.
Combat protocols initiated.
Hmm. Greetings from the Agencorp.
This would hurt you more than to ask me. I The double striker is actually really important to get to three attack
In these openings, I think I'm underestimating how important that is Oh, my God. So he's gonna do nothing.
He's gonna do literally nothing.
I don't want to bank my draws.
We got a scanner probe though, right?
Do I just bank the gunslinger, I guess?
I don't need to go maximum wide I
Can also just bore him to death which is a pretty valid strategy as well
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Security officer, juggernaut.
What kind of deck is this?
Now we can use magna, so that's good that he killed that.
So artillery juggernaut to clear the scanner probe.
So we can magna the security officer, just kind of ignore the juggernaut.
People usually watch on Twitch or on YouTube on X excuse me on X
Okay so Harf's not that important let's let's see what Magna gives us
I mean, they clear the pod.
Magna can hopefully stay alive.
Next turn triumph is okay.
Might want to save triumph until we get subjugate though.
Might just 4 plus 1 next turn.
That could work. Thank you. He's deep in the tank.
What's he doing? This will put you up in place, eh? Sensory Links, engage! Okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
I just need one of my subjugates.
I have to hold for a subjugate.
Um... Can I bank the researcher?
Yeah, we actually don't need the researcher.
We just need to keep playing units.
Save this for a defender.
19. I just need to find a subjugate so bad I
Guess Delta could be okay in some spots. I
Need subjugate and then triumph when we get through the deck and we win with a shio
Three subjugates in the bottom 19. Surely I'll draw one soon.
He's got a kill switch on one of those.
Give each friendly un-upgraded unit a random upgrade,
and then when it's destroyed, repeat.
This has the kill switch.
Okay, Artillery Juggernaut has kill switch.
Alvaro has Aegis Generator.
This is the most Mind Flood card ever.
It immediately plays five other random cards.
This is the most Augen Core ever like it immediately plays like five other random cards This is the most augen core mind flood type of card ever
Like ever Maybe just go triumph now.
Can I afford to wait any longer?
Triumph now. I don't know. Can I afford to wait any longer? Not really. Triumph now. Unless I just want to go unnatural. I think we just triumph now.
I'm trying to wait for the subjugate, but at this point, I just need to put shit down on the board.
I should have killed this first. Okay. Ordering error. Do I just go Magna here?
This has the kill switch.
I guess we're going to Magna.
Skipion. Okay. Weippy in.
Okay, we should be good here.
All the subjugates are on the bottom of my deck,
who cares about that, right?
wide. I'll probably just snitch
Ishker. I don't have to do it yet
We can stop this from triggering. I mean we're good now. We just keep the pace slow. Oh
The Cape of Sharma Hall I forgot that was even on there. Yeah, we just keep the pace slow
Keep the pace as slow as possible
We don't have to play the zeros
Go ahead and kill the kill switch guy
Go ahead he's got five damage on the board
Got cards left in the deck, but you should be able to get through them pretty quickly
All three subjugates are on the bottom 14.
I just need one of them to show up.
From Emeritus to get it or something.
I need one of them to show up.
I need one of them to show up.
I need one of them to show up.
He's playing retired officer.
I tried so hard to make it work.
I tried so hard to make this card make sense.
I really wanted to believe.
I really wanted to believe. It just doesn to believe. It just doesn't work.
It just doesn't work. There's just no way.
I could actually play Enrage Beast for real if I wanted to in this match.
But we probably shouldn't take any unnecessary risks here.
The board is getting a bit hairy.
There is the damn Subjugate.
Can I get there next turn? So Subjugate. I guess I could... Okay, hold on. Can I get there next turn?
So Subjugate, Unnatural, get rid of this.
It depends what I draw, if we have some good options there or not, though.
I mean, I could play an 11, 11 Meritus, but it's not enough to like threaten lethal next turn
I'm like zero for all everyone.
i'm like zero for all everyone every single unnatural selection i'm drawing a spell
Every single unnatural selection, I'm drawing a spell.
I reduced the amount of spells in my deck,
and I'm still drawing spells.
I really needed to draw a unit.
Like, I really needed to draw a unit.
I really needed to draw a unit there.
I really, really, really, really needed to draw a unit there.
What the hell? I really needed to draw a unit there What the hell I really needed to draw a unit?
I mean he's got a clear stuff out or else I can triumph and grab the poisoner and if he clears the stuff he trades the units value trades
Value clears whatever the word is then he won't have lethal next turn right so I think we're gonna be okay
next turn right so I think we're gonna be okay but that unnatural pulling the
But that unnatural pulling the triumph
triumph to be fair I gotta start using the deck tracker I gotta know exactly
how many units are in the deck to understand my outs better I give
So this takes us down to six.
And then I grab subjugate.
We get ourselves down to three.
How much damage is in here?
Three, four, five, seven, nine, eleven, twelve.
Fifteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty-nine.
Thirty-two damage in there.
Not as much as they might think, but it's enough.
Also scanner probes in there. All right, it doesn't really matter they don't have lethal next turn we're basically guaranteed I
Can spread the stats if I want it shouldn't matter
It shouldn't matter if it was closer I could avoid pulling stats out of the waist, but I don't have to
That's it end turn pass Alright.
Oh no, the kick following notification?
notification we got to turn that off it's like all bots
note to self turn off kick notification because they're almost they're literally
always bots there's the win there we go Okay.
Alright, well, I would go longer, but stream has pretty much died, so we'll do one or two more, and then I'm going to wrap up.
I would go longer, but it pretty much died so we'll do one or two more and then I'm gonna wrap up I would go longer But it's it's just tough man
For for whatever reason streams just really struggling so I'm just gonna keep them short to be honest until hopefully
Things start juicing up again. I don't really know Well, hello there.
Well, Matt. Zobaczmy, jak to się dzieje. Oh, another test subject. Let's see how this goes.
Stand together. This fight is ours. . I
Hate baiting I hate banking Meredith, but I feel like we got to do it
And next turn we skip in unless they pass turn one then we can just unnatural selection maybe
But we'll save this for a bit. We'll need the draw eventually
Let's take a look. Just give up the no snitching then.
Play the skippy in, but just keep holding back the unnatural.
We shouldn't need the no snitching from here.
No snitching is for if they get an early standard bearer or subjugate that we can't answer,
but that shouldn't be a problem now.
I should try to aim for this, but I don't want to wait for extra timers.
That I do not want to do. By the tides Let's get a closer look So just 3 plus 1, GG.
Actually perfect because now this can buff the Skippy in again get it above
Get it out of range of this trading in if I had something at two health
I'd maybe buff it to three but since I don't we can just buff the Skippy into two
You know another double agent Neus is this the same guy the same beginner I played earlier or is this a
A bot or is the starter deck or what's going on? What are these double agents doing? All right.
Discard the Formatition. Easy peasy.
Just trade this one in and then keep my other stuff healthy. The Hydrolem calls. By the tides.
Easy win from here, not too much to say.
Just kind of farming this Naya spot.
Gotta get up the ranks so I stop queuing into these now.
I'm tired of queuing into these. We're starting to dial in the ACO a little bit. It's getting a little closer so
I think the climb is gonna begin. The climb is pretty much beginning. Gotta get up to where I
get some decent matches. It's boring playing against Neospots
Literally too easy I'm sorry. Alright, GG. Thank you. End it. End it. All right GG thank you end it
End it it's not lethal though right 10 14 16 17
Oh it's lethal it's lethal it's lethal it's lethal it's lethal end it
End it I re-entered the cycle
All right, awesome awesome. Well listen I would keep streaming it'd be fun, but honestly streams dead as fuck so
Appreciate the couple of y'all who are watching. I really appreciate you guys greatly. I'm gonna try to fix it
I guess I've been streaming and not doing good streams lately
So I'm gonna try to figure out what's wrong with it and fix it. We guess I've been streaming and not doing good streams lately, so I'm going to
try to figure out what's wrong with it and fix it. We'll get people coming back in. I take responsibility.
It's my fault. I'll figure it out. I've got to play just maybe more focused and stronger. I think it's
one thing I can do. Maybe the off-meta decks have been getting a little sloppy. Well, I'll try to
figure it out, but I apologize. I take responsibility, and I'll try to get these streams working again.
It's just tough. It's like the viewership has
completely died even though I've been working pretty hard so I don't know I
take responsibility it's all on me I hope to fix it soon and that's all I got
today since it's just kind of dead so I would go more but just kind of dead so
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