Hearthstone: GvG Cards - 176 - A Blazing Experience (Mage Arena) 

Every single time Trump remembered that he had Flame Leviathan, he drew it immediately after.

Something I find immensely hilarious is that EVERY TIME Trump talks about the Flame Leviathen it shows up right on the next draw without fail XD

Flame Leviathan's effect is Hearthstone's answer to the shaking water glass from Jurassic Park.

I watched this run live. It is amazing that Flame Leviathan only seems to pop up when Trump mentions it. Spooky.

First rule of Flame Leviathan: You do not talk about Flame Leviathan..... or you will draw it! :D

I love the mechanic of flame levi ~ really want more of these top decks that influence the board without being played, makes it so much fun.

since GvG came out, he hasn't gotten a part 2 arena... I also have a similar problem, not able to adapt well in the new arena meta

GVG seems so fun. I've played a few rounds of arena myself aswell, but the RNG value of these cards is so awesome, and I bet I'm going to have so much fun with it.

"No late gmae, how do i get these arenas?" "WoW Force Tank MAX... Ahh Duplicate"

While we were in middle school I beat Trump in a tickle fight and ever since he hasn't returned any of my calls.

Man, dat leviathan. The fact that Trump called it right before it hit both times made it super-hilarious

I love that as soon as trump goes like "Oh yea! I have a flame leviathan somewhere in the deck!" It appears

Using the term "speaking of the devil" has never been more appropiate than in this episode. DAMN YOU LEVIATHAN!

I think it was three times that Trump spoke aloud Flame Leviathan's name, and then immediately drew him. Amazing.

Hahahah, I had almost the exact same first pick once. On the right too, but up against Gruul and Leeroy. It proved surprisingly good. What I noticed is that drawing at the start of your turn, when your opponent's board is usually strongest is on average an advantage. Also, no late game because you passed up Force Tank Max, which is really, really good late game.

I love how every time Trump mentions Flame Leviathan, it appears xD

A great pleasure to see realistic games uploaded as well. Players might get a bad impression that only them have shty luck.

Flame Leviathan is awesome, so many hilarious moments will be spawned with this card.

That's completely unbelievable, i can't believe he 'predicted' flame leviathan that many times lol Hilarious fun to watch! lol

Anyone remember those goblin blimps from Warcraft 3? They would say "Whassappenin'?" sometimes. I liked those blimps.

How does Flame Leviathan always get drawn when Trump calls it? Hilarious

Flame leviathan is so fun. Can just imagine the hail mary arcane intellect play clearing a zoo board and leaving enough mana to go straight into the leviathan drop.

keep it up these gvg areana runs are cool

I love Trump's reaction every time he gets the Flame Leviathan =D

Does this 'creative accounting' concept work with all cards that have a passive stat boost ability (like his dire wolf) or just Stormwind Champion? I had no idea that's how it worked, but I guess it makes sense. I bet a lot of people don't know about this. I hope it works for all cards.

I drafted flame leviathan my first arena run in gvg and went 12 wins it was always an upside to drawing it, it never hurt me that much, and it saved my one zoo game

I'm loving these GvG videos, it's fun to watch Trump lose every now and then. I'm sure he will get back into it soon.

That shady play was so good that even trump didn't expect the ending. :3 Kappa

My god,its so fun seeing trump trying to adapt! XD

I got Flame Leviathan from an Unstable Portal. Unstable Portal, Piloted Shredder, and Piloted Sky Golem are all insta-picks for me, they're just way too much fun.

in arena, i used webspinner and got the new druid legendary (if you don't know, it's a 7 mana 9/7 "put this back in your deck when it dies")

That description... luv u jens

it seems flame leviathon is the devil as it only apears when you mention it :P

I love how every time he notices that he doesn't the card appears almost as if it was called from the deck.

Flame leviathan: “you draw this card every time you remember about it, dealing 2 damage to all characters“

Love that fresh-video smell.

Jens, how do you think about adding a "Part 1" to the Title even if its the only part. Because it kinda spoilers sometimes. You could change it after 1 or 2 days maybe. I would really like that :). PS: Gute Arbeit :) Mach weiter so

Everytime he mentions not wanting Flame Leviathan, it comes up XD

Oh wow, both times Trump was warned about drawing Flame Leviathan, he ends up drawing it that very turn.

Hey Jens what editing software do you use? I wanna edit my own video but with movie maker it's a real pain in the ass to go about and remove silenct moments from the video

Strangely enough, I think that the GvG cards have made Arena more minion focussed, at least for now. Because there are so many options people are not focussing as much on hard removal spells, leading to much longer games, often going to fatigue. I'm actually really enjoying it at the minute. All Trump needs to do is draft for synergy and heal in order to survive into the late late game. Heal is key at the minute imo.

"My Magic WILL clear your board"

What is the best class for GvG after the release, iam from europe but i may create a new account on NA, give me some of your knowledge

Oh god, I felt that deadly poison through the screen :(

Wow dat flame leviathan though!

that flame leviathan doe LOL

Trump. Welcome to the noob club. It's how we feel a lot lol

Why wasn't arcane golem retconned to be a mech? Anyone know?

Last few arenas I've done, I've had no late game too :(

I too drafted the Flame Leviathan on the first pick :) It lost me two games because of bad timing. So, not brilliant.

I spotted another problem with Trump's draft, it wasn't really his fault but he didn't draft enough taunts. He'll struggle to get through the above average rushy decks in the mid-arena stage. If you can get through them a strong control-type deck can go all the way to 10-11-12.

every time i thought he would draw flame leviathan, he did

every time he mentions flame leviathan the card shows up XD

I actual got my first 12/0 2 days ago with a really bad mage deck... I have no idea how that happend - no flamestrike, no blizzard, no frostbolt and only 1 fireball, sheep and flamecannon. Also got 12/2 today with a warlock deck that I would consider bad. Maybe bad decks are the new meta :)

in his second losing game getting the corehound and hitting the turtle was probably the only case in which he lost

Flame Leviathan is really cool.

I remember watching this live and the chat freaking out when he drew flame leviathan and killing his guys

how to dodge Flame Leviathan? draw in 1st turn

trump reacts to flame leviathan 30:35!!! lol

Arena is finally FUN at the moment. I was getting SOOOO bored of Trump's arena videos before GvG with 80% of all games being vs. Mage. Mage/Paladin was ALL that existed in pre-GvG Arena. It was boring as all hell.

In my experience the nerfed Gadgetzan is better than the other picks that you had if you have spare parts cards like mech yeti. Gadgetzan actually got better with gvg even though it was nerfed.

I guess because of all the new cards which have more random effects its harder to get a high ammount of wins in the Arena

30:34 thats going in the next Trump Reacts vid

I've just got my first 12 wins using Mage after the GvG cards had invaded. I really see the arena meta has changed somehow. Didn't expect to go 12 wins with that deck. I have like 9 2-drops and 8 3-drops, just 1 Flamestrike. Somehow the Snowchugger was doing serious work. Not sure if Mage is still so strong in Arena or I am lucky though.

ok does the Flame Lev.. new Mage Legendary Card... trigger twice when you got duplicate on it? :D

Every time Trump talks about the Flame Leviathan, the following turn, he draws the Flame Leviathan...

*Sees description* *Sees first pick* *fetches popcorn*

I dont understand Flame Leviathan. What is his purpose? In what kind of decks is he good in? Btw Trump, since Goblins and Gnomes have invaded the Arena I also started getting less and less wins. Maybe we are still not used to it or something :-/

at 31:19 i think it would have been better to play stormwind first and keep the mechanical yeti alive, could even play bomber on top of it

Could GvG have added more early-mid game commons? That would explain why Trump has trouble getting enough late game... the randomness just has a higher ratio of early-mid game cards to pick from, rather than late.

you could make a video that was just trump reacts to flame leviathan

Blastmage is op. I played against one turn 3 harvest golem turn 4 blastmage turn 5 blastmage again and that's a free avenging wrath! It's lucky but it can work with other mechs and a blastmage deck is certainly viable

leviathan really needs to have that ability and also do it again when u play it or somthing.

You guys complaining about him not going 12 wins anymore,before only interesting/good arena runs were posted so usually they were 2 parters. But since GvG came out he is posting every game he ran that day so of course u are going to see a lot of not the best arena runs because no matter how good u are at the game, arena still has a lot of RNG in what cards u are offered in draft and what u and ur opponent draw during the game.

Trump any chance of you doing a 'first thoughts on the expansion' video now you've had some time in the arena? I've found my average win rate has plummeted the last few days too, so it'd be really interesting to get a pro's take on what factor's are actually driving the apparent difficulty increase in arena. Is it that GvG cards lack late game, and I'm also failing to increase my evaluation of any actual late game card? Is it GvG adds so much randomness you'll just see more variance in runs? (I had one game where a lucky madder bomber broke my 0-2 unlucky losing streak which let me steamroll to 8 wins) Is it that with the new cards have had such a large effect on the value of all cards that I'm actually drafting substantially worse without realizing it? Or is it (as one commentor here theorized) that high level constructed players have been diving into the arena to check out the new cards and thus raising the average skill level? Anyway would love to hear your thoughts.

Noticed you skipped out your deck list for this one, how come? I miss it...

trump should make a video of his magical Flame Leviathan jinxes.

Dat Leviathan LOL.

I got super lucky with my piloted shredder. i had it out, it traded into a cobalt, then it gave me milhouse :D

1warlock 11 3 1warlock 6 3 1warlock 1 3 1druid 0 3 the rng of arena increased it seems at least for me (got once wrecked because of mageportal into mallygoss) btw the flame levi has voice recognition when you talk about it it comes ^^ (12:55)

Against rush decks it might be okay to kill a bunch of small minions. :D

No more deck list??

Every single time he mentioned Flame Leviathan it was the next thing he drew... Do dooo do dooo do do do dooo

Dat Leviathon hahahaha

I wonder if this new expansion is going to diminish the skill factor because of all the Rng that's in it. You can make the perfect play but if that number generator says screw you then what can you do? Does that make one person better than another? I'm sure it's all variance and as often as the Rng gods go against you they will go for you. Was just something that popped in my head.

not a very popular opinion, but i think arena has gotten even easier since GvG came out, there is alot of strong picks that people don't seem to pick at all ^^

Strangely enough i made a 11 win and a 9 win arena with this new expansion, although i agree that arena is now kinda confusing...

I do wish that when Jens(?) puts a reference to something in the video that happens, he'd put a timestamp with it or something. I love trump, but when he's routinely uploading hour plus videos, I want to see the highlights

Tried this in arena. Calling out flame leviathan's name really DID call it out. Ez 2 dmg

Trump is a shell of his former self since GvG. It's like watching Jordan play for the Wizards =(

its so weird. i'm actually doing better than normal at arena with gvg cards. i recently went 9 wins on warrior with 3 warsong commanders and a cultmaster :D

Why aren't you going 12 wins anymore trump T_T

At least i can say i am doing as well as trump in arenas post gvg

Someone please make a Lorewalker Cho + Spare Part milling deck! Thank you!

I've noticed something weird about Trump's arena record: he has a really hard time with mages. For example, in his last nine arena runs he's 9/26 against mages (34.6% win rate) and he has lost his final game to a mage in 7 of those 9 runs (the other two were vs one shaman and one druid).

every time he worried about the Flame Leviathan it happened.......

what if leviathan is in your opening hand? :(

Here is a question, in this case trump has a bunch of good minions. However, instead of taking duplicate, a card that can be played at nearly any time and gives him more of his good cards, he takes raptor an early game card which he could've duplicated off of one of the cards he already picked. What was the point and/or benefit of doing this?

feels like flame leviathan mostly show upp when trumps speak of it

Dat Flame Leviathan