game 5, 33:14, turn 1, you open with caravan enforcer in shadow lane. turn 2 you summon m. traitor an b. speed, where you math prove it would have been better to have swapped your summon order. there only 14 2 cost cards that can handle m.t. by standing in front of it, and only "crazed hunger" is a 2 cost 2*/2 with charge, so i do find it better to open field lane.
@43:55 - You can play Bewildering Speed with one empty lane I believe (the card is glowing in your hand before you play the Wardcrafter) and saved two magicka that way. Obviously a lot easier to say when you're just backseat gaming though! (Congrats on the first video. :D)
You're right, I would have had lethal if I skipped the Wardcrafter, since I would have had 9 magicka to play Sentinel Reclaimer + Steel Sword + Swift Strike. I think in my head I was trying to set up my next turn with Wardcrafter, but was so focused on looking for lethal that I didn't realize how close THEY were to killing ME. But yeah, sometimes you gotta just trust the Rootbender and use it to draw into your lethal. One memorable recent game they were at 20 and I had a Rootbender and unbuffed Caravan Enforcer. So I played two Swift Strikes on the Rootbender before attacking with it at all, and on the 2nd draw picked up a Crown Quartermaster. That let me swing with it 3 times for 18, plus the 2 from Enforcer hit exact lethal. It was a weak play to prophecy Harpy or Lightning Bolt or so many other things, but sometimes you feel the force is with you and you just gotta go for it!
@@RumpinRufus haha Rootbender and Dragonstar Rider are such fun engines. I haven't built a deck around either myself before (I don't have a full collection) but I've definitely gotten smacked by both. 😂 Anyway, the tunnel vision is real. I feel that in my soul.
@@TRXSTA38 and while we're on the subject of ways I could have won that game, I had another line at 37:47 that would have won, if I had doubled up Steel Swords on a single creature and hit with it twice. The line that I took played better around Lightning Bolt and Harpy, but obviously not around their prophecy guard. I don't think I realized I was breaking two runes by splitting, whereas I could have skipped a rune by doubling up. And the combination of breaking that 2nd rune and them hitting a prophecy guard ended up sealing my fate - I think it was wrong of me to choose the line that didn't skip that last rune.
@@RumpinRufushah yeah, that crossed my mind too but there were pros and cons to each. I probably would've erred on the side of skipping as many runes as possible but your downside is worse in that case (ie: less chance to go wrong but when you do, you're worse off). I both love and hate ESL's rune system.
