Hearthstone Player Rates the New Runeterra Cards 

I had 10 cards to show Rarran but unfortunately had to cut Cosmic Call from the final video because there wasn't enough context to make it fair... if you can guess what his rating was I'll give you a cookie though

I have a tiny little critique point in the editing of the video: Since Rarran is facing right on his facecam, it seems quite unnatural to me, that sometimes Snnuy is on the left side and Rarran on the right side, so Rarran is basically facing away from Snnuy. I would personally either mirror Rarrans cam or swap the 2 cams in these specific shots. Obviously, the video was still great 😂

One of your first videos with Rarran was how I discovered you on a YT recommendation. Absolutely love these videos, as some of the "in a vacuum" discussion is phenomenal, plus the chemistry you both have is top notch! And this latest was wonderful!

Great video as usual, love to see these collabs! You look so happy when you're talking to Rarran.

I'll say it again, I think Rarran does a better job at predicting success than most LOR creators. There have been several times where he was more correct than Sunny (ie. deep has a 49% wr as of this video release). Skip is in a strong deck right now as well

As a Boon player, Backpack is way better than people give it credit for, it helps A LOT to make Boon cards "If one of your traps or boons activated this round" more consistent. I can actually run Proximity Puffcap in non-Bard or Teemo decks now because of Backpack. I like to play Norra swarm/impact decks with Realm's Caretaker and Backpack allows for both not missing on Caretaker and gives you the extra burn you need to win the game later on. It counters Janna decks too btw, which is great.

I hate that you can deny wildfire and the next one still gets increased damage...

Weiss Schwarz is an interesting one for decking like shuffling your deck is a mechanic

I recommend you also collab with content creators from other card games like MTG as well. Maybe Voxxy would be nice. You'll love her energy.

Sunny not even mentioning how valley can transform into that thing that doubles stats, making the valley a big meatball, that's what I fear more when I see that darn rock. Day 15 of asking for Janna Vayne

With skip. If you lucky, you can also capture the transform card for nidalee

There's a story of why hearthstone has the fatigue mechanic. Originally the game had the mechanic of losing when you run out of deck; while the game was in development, one day they invited a senior dev from another one of blizzard games (I think it was jeff kaplan) to try out the game; he was having a lot of fun playing all the different cards until he ran out of deck and instantly lost the game. He felt so bad because he was having so much fun, so they decided to add the fatigue mechanic to allow the game to continue a bit more even if your deck got empty.

Thank very much to whoever does the editing, its so good!

"Dedicant of the Challenge" goes pretty well on the "Turbo Jinx" Deck that wants to keep showing her an Empty Hand (as well as drawing for Nilah)

Cool video! I would have been interested to see his take on the Explorers. They're a kinda interesting cycle from a design standpoint as the universal tech card.

Honestly, this is the part I look forward to the most when a new expansion drops👌🏻👍🏻

"I don't know what Shadow Isles is doing." That's fine, Riot doesn't either.

Im so happy you are doing more colabs with Ratrace

my fav. type of vid from snnuy lets go

14:30 if I remember correctly, Jeff Kaplan inspired (or came up with) the concept of fatigue because when he was helping the Hearthstone team playtest he said losing the game immediately when running out of cards felt bad.

THE COLLAB WE ARE WAITING FOR!!

Personally I like more this videos with variety cards than with just thr Champions of the expansion

been waiting for this

A curiosity regarding having no cards in deck: There's Wixoss, another card game, where you don't instantly lose the game, but instead shuffle your graveyard back and lose 1 shield (it's kind of like hp). You can't lose the game because to lose you have to be hit while you have no shields, but it can accelerate the process. Not that I've seen that in action a lot except for my self mill/graveyard deck, where I basically mill my entire deck and then "draw" whatever I want by returning a card to my hand and then suffle it back again

There's no way he read proliferating darkwraith correctly at first attempt. This is unusual for the card and especially for Rarran.

I for sure would have given Rarren the draw spell context for Wildfire. Great video tho. :)

Bomb warrior ALSO disabled highlander decks with zephrys and reno. It was a spooky meta

Let's gooo, been waiting on this one

Seamonsters were my favorite archetype when I played so satisfying.

wildfire with ionia makes sense, flow, draw spells only, thats smart combo

when I played Runeterra, Maokai Nautilus was my JAM

Banger of a video as usual

cant wait for this again with the new expansion

With Rarran trying LoR isn't your format in danger now? 😁

rarran is a proud citizen of kurtistown i see

1 Decimate: 6 mana deal 4 6 Wildfires: 6 mana deal 21

Proliferating Dakwraith gets overwhelm with leveled up Volibear :) although Voli is a wincon on its own, now u can have massive stats cheap and give them overwhelm.

Waiting for this one for a while now

6:57 "i wish i could say the same" lol me too. i die in path of legend.

The boardgame Unmatched has you take damage whenever you can't draw a card, kinda like in hearthstone.

Snnuy with his puffcaps flashbacks 😂😂😂.

Skip is in a super high winrate deck. He is not bad.

seeing hearthstone cards makes me appreciate LoR cards so much more. The art we get on each card is of such high quality, it's crazy.

I felt like Skip was better than people though initially because he gave you information and could potentially snag a win con or answer from the opponent. My thought was if chimes hit him he was instantly a problem because he would reveal two cards, take one, be a bit beefier AND is elusive. Even in a vacuum I feel like cards that give information like that are good own their own. You play him for two mana, see two cards then can play accordingly. Even if he dies as soon as you play him if you see two cards (that are at least useful) you probably have a better chance at pulling things off. Maybe you want to make a risky play but are uncertain if they have an answer. You get lucky and Skip shows you them having the answer so you do not do it and maybe win. Information is kinda op in card games.

I just had a the most annoying match with someone who used Banquet + Swindlers den + wildfire + way too many 1 cost to constanly play and kill units and to draw in the wildfire copies in turns that took a freaking eternity, I quit because I was gonna lose but also because it was so damn tedious.

12:34 where is the sample of Watery Grave's art playing out from? That looked dope just curious of the source

Yo Rarran with the Kurtis Connor shirt

I love these videos! 😍

wait proliferating with sunken landmark is kinda work no? just keep replacing your hand until this bad boy come out, just remember dont play all 3 if they not big enough

Tbh bursting backpack is probably my favorite card ever

beast videos, lovely content mr snnuy

Skip is super interesting, since it's an adaptation of a classic MTG creature. The reason why it's not as good in LoR far as I can tell is because for one, you don't see the entire hand like you do with those creatures in MTG. And the limited board space in LoR puts more of a premium on what creatures you keep around.

I think i have a 70% wr with deep rn and a 1 of watery grave and its won me quite a few games

Snnuy and Rarran

I played Maokai Nautilus every expansion since their release, it is my favorite deck. But the games that I lost after leveling Maokai are extremely rare (not counting mirrors). Because of your Nautilus champion spell you can very easy stall long enough. Thats why I dont play Watery Grave in that deck. Before leveling Maokai it is a dead card. I would rather put more control/heal in the deck to have better matchups against aggressive decks

My favorite part of every expansion

Were is our poro king deck😢?

I would like it if you brought creators from different ccgs at the same time and let them rate it together...

9:45 Felsoul Jailer *Stares at Rarran* 9:50 Felsoul Jailer *Leaves in Silence*

ANOTHER BANGER VIDEO best couple btw

"The bigger the better" -Rarranch 2023

Lorcana I’m the back rarran

is wildfire basically better decimate/blowback

I don't think bursting backpack is bad/meme at all. In Standard it doesn't yet have good support, but it will be incredible in Standard when we get to Shellfolk infinite creating 4k shrooms and more

He kinda brushed over that whole "Deep is probably one of the most famous decks in Runeterra" so I thought I'd explain it for any new Runeterra players or any Rarran viewers. So Deep uses 2 different archetypes of cards Sea Monsters which are generally horribly statted for their costs, as a general rule of thumb expect a Sea Monster to cost 1 or 2 more than it's statline should suggest, 4 mana 3/4, 5 mana 3/3, 8 mana 6/5 for some examples And Toss which is just discarding cards from your own deck, generally for decently cheap effects These 2 archetypes of cards are awful and if you generate a card from one of these archetypes when you're playing a deck outside of Deep you're probably mad as heck. However Sea Monsters have the keyword Deep which activates when you reach the bottom 15 cards of your deck (deck size in Runeterra is 40 so you need to discard 25 cards to activate this keyword) and when you do your Sea Monsters get +3/+3. The deck is pretty famous because it grabs 2 of the otherwise worst meme archetypes and has made a deck that has consistently floated between a tier 1 and a tier 2 deck. Even in it's worst incarnations Deep is still a relatively competent deck. Deep has always been, some definition of viable but has never been annoying and oppressive. Runeterra's other unique deck Lurk (Still extremely popular on it's own merits) can't say the same and has commonly broken a lot of metagames with some people asking for it to see some massive changes or rotations to it's key cards, specifically it's Champions. Deep is also just a really unique deck to play because you're discarding over half your deck every game you rarely play with the same cards on curve as you attempt to sabotage yourself and get Deep before your opponent can kill you before you're deep. 1 Game you might win with a card, the next game you discard all 3 copies of that card that won you the previous game on your first toss. It's a wildly unique, satisfying and changing deck that has never really made the game worse which is pretty impressive for a deck that has been around for almost 2 years.

PORO KING

I would vote for poro king to be poro president

Can we have Rarran at LoR?

19:35 is it unfair to use standard? as he wouldn't know whats rotated and what isn't. because would be viable in Eternal

The warhammer card game legions has fatigue for when your outta cards

I think Janna and Sunken temple should lose their draw 1 effect at round start

isn't dedicant of the challenge pretty okay in VERY cheap jinx aggro? I mean you basically go all 1 and two costs, swarm the enemy and this card becomes a draw 4 mana draw two with no downside and the deck is pretty cheap besides jinxy anyway... or am i wrong?

Wuchamp

How the hell is skip bad

As someone who used to play Hearthstone (very casually) seeing this comparison is very nice.

Every time Rarran pronounce Nilah the wrong way, bli$$ard lay-off another person from HS development team.

Theo goats

rarran 'hearthstone has a card like this' jones

ironically a card like skip would be broken in yugioh

>skip is bad say sike rn

The art is so good

he's getting too good

The stats of Proliferating Darkwraith can absolutely win you the game alone because you get so much value by trading down all of their units. Also the strongest version for this card is pairing it with piltover (in my opinion). So you could absolutely put in Scavenged Camocloaker to give it elusive (if you want to win by elusive). The deck is actually pretty good

Rarran continues to make comparisons to hearthstone cards with absolutely no understanding of why those cards are good/bad in hearthstone

Day 7 of asking for guess who with lor champions

Rarran actually is right about wildfire, though. Wildfire decks are not that great.

Watery Grave is so much better than traditional mill cards, because it's the bottom. When it's from the top, you can potentially help your opponent by making it so they draw something next by milling above that point, there is the possibility it hurts them by getting rid of something important. When it's off the bottom, you eliminate that risk that normally accompanies traditional mill decks in a game like Magic. It can only be bad for them, by end their deck faster.

Crimson is not bad card ! Just now no deck compatible but the days a combo deck come it will be nerf or reworked

Crimson Banquet Hall is nothing like Risky Skipper so I dont even know why Rarran made that comparison. Huge fail in that analysis.

Hearthstone is the most casual unga bunga Cardgame there is. Its cool for fun, butt competetively super unrewarding