Nice commentary man although unless you mention it later Shuri's lab heavily favors Freddy and not Dera. Dera has at most 6 power if I am not wrong while Freddy can get off the effect 3 times on a card which is like very good no need to mention. And he can spread them even after 2 triggers. So even with Shang Dera just loses.
Better to go into round 5 with an odd number of cubes, rather than an even number of cubes. Losing 2 cubes in round 4 was not automatic for Freddybabes, a bad read by caster Specimen (with 7 cubes left you can play 4 times, with 6 only 3 times).
Once I heard the words “Saturday morning cartoons”, i immediately knew a magic spoon commercial was coming. I don’t know if it’s part of their ad copy they want people to repeat but I have developed a Pavlovian response to hearing those words after years of hearing their ad reads on all the podcasts I listen to.
I’m glad the casters finally started talking about odd cubes into high stakes, but they have it reversed. Going into high stakes with 5 cubes is the equivalent to having 6, not 4! You never want to concede your odd cube right before high stakes.
10:47 Correct me if I’m wrong… but couldn’t Cozy have just Professor X right, then surprise storm Limbo? And even if he didn’t want to go with the storm play on turn 6, he could’ve preserved Power Stone to secure a 20 power Thanos for turn 7
Imagine of freddy has all the cards access like jeff. With his skillset he would have alot of arsenal to play with. Too bad his just stuck with series 3 and a couple of series 4. Freddy likes to be the underdog even in gwent.
Caster: "Oh hey Shuri's lab Freddy must be real scared to see that!" Freddy: *snaps* Opponent: *retreats* How did you hire people who have absolutely no clue how this game works? Not only are they missing a ton of stuff they are claiming things are the OPPOSITE of the way they actually are. The lab was a fantastic location for Freddy's deck and terrible for his opponent. Both players and most viewers realized that but somehow the people who are getting paid to know stuff about the game don't. For the love of god, find some decent casters for your next tournament.
I have tried a similar deck to Cozy's Thanos deck and it's super fun and competitive, sadly his last turn snap was quite unfortunate. Freddy is also quite an amazing player but those locations were such a bummer! Such an heavy Rng and card aquisition problem of the game kinda limits these amazing tourneys to go all out on fun express! But still this is an amazing tourney in terms of matchups, production value and commentary of course!
Freddy lost to location variance and not even on the actual matches, they really need to tone down the bad locations 💀💀💀 He's a really good player who have limited cards too, goodluck next time bud
Eh, Freddy lost his nerve. Walked from some bad locations that weren't absolutely killer, then hung in against an even worse set of locations because he saw all his cubes trickling away. His deck has a *lot* of bad location draws, he needs to respect that and play out some of the less-bad bad draws or else this you-snap-I-retreat will beat him almost every time.
It's absolutely not completely pointless. You're forgetting I'm not even always winning if I hit the 1/3. Based on Deras play I was, but I don't have the knowledge of what cards he has and play he makes. You also wouldn't know from the match, but I was actually pretty favoured in this match-up so felt I could mount a comeback.
@@SpeciSnap come on man, even 60/40 odds three times in a row (21%) is way worse than 1/3. (Which i dont even believe you had that odds, you miss electro just once and you're done.) 1/3 isn't even bad odds on its own in that situation.
@@jootpepet I hardly even play Electro in this deck. Me & Dera both agree I was heavily favoured in this match up. I have so many other lines I just drew horrifically the whole series & locations went against me. Dera agrees I should have gone for it, but again, I'm not even 100% winning if I hit the 1/3. I think my play was correct with hindsight, it's a tight call either way.
@@jootpepet like sure, if my Zola 1/3 is winning here I absolutely go for it. But it's absolutely not just winning, there's loads of stuff I'm losing to. You're just not considering the fact I don't know my opponents play & severely underestimating how favoured this match up is for me. It's like a 75%er in my favour
I'm sorry because the tournament is very good but oh my god the casters are SO BAD (not the players casting, only the "normal" casters). They literally have 0 knowledge of the cards and locations, they always use same phrases and theirs emotions and reactions are so fake is not even funny... I am not a super active player yet i understand situations better than the casters, which are PAYED to do so. This is very very sad in my opinion
Uh, the biggest caster flub was by KMBest -- a player -- not realizing Dera was setting up for a tiebreak loss with Shang left. (To be fair, I think Dera flubbed it too). That was right up there with all of KM's mistaken commentary on Hoogland matches. First he thought bounce works be weak into Shuri's lab when our absolutely loves the opp for mirror doubling, then he was saying bounce was a deck built to beat the meta-killers and not the meta decks, just before it proceeded to dismantle Thanos. KM certainly gave some insightful commentary too, but he's definitely a notch or two below where he thinks he is in terms of awareness.
