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There is a reason why Azul is considered one of the best players in the Pokemon TCG. It is great he has content that breakdown games on stream and his thought process.
I've gotten to the point where when new cards are announced for HS and they interact someway with other cards, I'm always now like "well it depends on how good the other cards in conjunction with this one will be".
Yeah I am not sure what happened with Tony, sorry for the confusion. Gonna cut it from the video. Also this video was recorded around the release of the mini set, where the jailer wasnt super good
Also, isn't Jailer seeing tons of play lately on Druid due to degenerate Tony Combos giving the opponent the empty deck? Talking about awkward timing, although the thing with Tony is that he has been broken for almost month at this point... AGAIN. I really hate Tony as much as the Mischevious Imp.
The thing is that Restless Mummy was a Warrior card. Shaman always had better options to clear the board for around the same Mana Cost if they really want to do that.
I wish we could get more keyword vomit cards in the game, but actually make some of them decent. Such a fun type of card. It's a bummer it always sucks.
I think it just has more to do with class identity. Warrior, especially at the time, was extremely control oriented, so they were fine having 3 damage removal X 2 and not sticking anything. Shaman doesn't really want to do that
I remember an earlier video where Rarran said something similar about Rokara (the minion version) which used to be good in that exact same deck. Guess Rarran completely blocked that deck out of his memory. 😂
Ancient of Lore will always have a special place in my heart even if it's unplayable today, during classic that card clutched me so many games I should have otherwise lost
Dayyyyyum, love to see this. Love that you bring content creators together from across the card game sphere. A Worlds Semi-finalist rating Hearthstone cards will be interesting
I haven't played hearthstone for years but your videos are really entertaining. I remember how to play hearthstone really vividly so I get everything that's going on, besides some new card context. seems like there's been a significant amount of power creep which isn't really unexpected. I'd love to see some more magic the gathering collaboration videos but I think you making content you like to make is more important. keep it up :)
Great to see Azul here! If you plan to do another video like this with a Pokemon TCG content creator, I would LOVE to see Andrew from Tricky Gym on the show!
15 health 15 cards is too small even for aggro. it breaks the threshold of too few cards being good and it becomes really bad and 15 health is just throwing in current HS
How often do you get to 15 cards left in aggro? Not that much. It's very polarizing, but you can definitely rush down your opponent. It probably isn't that good in current aggro decks, but this basically guarantees getting specific cards in hand, so if you can have a board with like 3 3/3 on turn 1 or 2, you probably win quite often If there's something like quests that are aggro, you can basically guarantee them proccing early
But you can extremely reliably create "mini-combos". You're gonna aggro your opponent down before they can reasonably deal 15 to you, unless they're also an aggro deck. In which case you're gonna lose to aggro decks but win against everything else.
Right now yeah, but when it came out it literally defined like 3 different decks. Order Paladin for example was a top meta deck for a while specifically because of Jailer.
Runthak saw quite a fair amount of play in the Barrens in both warrior and paladin. I think the Barrens meta was by far the most boring meta I've ever played in.
@@H0C0X Not overpowered = Not that fun. Rastakan and Barrens were expansions where they tried replacing power creep for complete syngerize between 30 cards. Did not work.
Great video. I love the guest and his analysis. One thing though…jailer is warping the meta at top legend right now. I’m surprised this is not mentioned
Jailer has been a thing for a while tbh. Tony Druid has been around since both released, and Order in the Court Paladin with Jailer was a top meta deck for a while. The whole point was to draw the Jailer with Order. Nowadays with Pure Pala they don't anymore, but people really forgot that quickly?
21:43 He literally just described control jailer paladin lol. Gameplan is play order in the court --> wait till 10 --> play jailer. The deck was actually quite good during Nathria, probably off the back of Cariel though.
There is a hodir father of giants deck in standard that I have lost to a couple of times in diamond. It’s a burst/mid range otk style deck to where you play hodir then the next turn play the hell hound card with two always a bigger jormungar. If you have three minions on the board you just lose.
One of the best episodes in this series. The card choices were great! Made for great analysis. I wouldn’t find it ridiculous if a few months into a new meta game we realised “oh yeah, that player Rarran interviewed who hasn’t played standard hearthstone in six years was absolutely right about this card”. It’s easy to become biased against cards that see no play and start adding up supposed reasons they never saw play when they were released. Very often the reason is not lack of support for them but other options for the class and general meta. It wouldn’t be the first time that after a rotation or a nerf a deck that seemingly consists only cards that are “low impact”, “too clunky” or “too easy to remove” just comes out of nowhere and becomes high tier deck. It’s easy to equate an unplayable card as a weak card, but in reality there are plenty of strong unplayable cards, waiting for opportunity to shine.
Just to note, I have seen a few rare Paladins running Astral Spirit in Wild. I've seen it in both a midrange Death and Taxes style Even Paladin, and in a really cool Dragon Paladin list that was probably just looking for any playable dragon. Both times it was played as a 4 mana 3/3 with battlecry draw 2.
To be fair about Renathal, it was only good in a handful of decks (prestor druid, quest hunter, quest priest) when it released before Castle Nathria as there weren't enough generally good cards to make it work in decks that didn't specifically gain from the extra deck size in addition to the health. Also I'm not sure if it's correct to say that Volume Up has been that impactful for mage; it's pretty decent but it hasn't been an autoinclude (there were multiple iterations of rainbow mage without it for example) as it can be a bit awkward to use sometimes.
The renethal argument is the same for MOST decks only working on 4 expansions of card pool though. Historically throughout the years aggro as an example is usually far better in expansion 1 when compared to expansion 3 because zoo tempo decks playing good stats for cost can win games in limited formats where control decks either don't have enough removal options or just don't have a way to win the game at all (see Control Warrior pre-Odyn). Obviously there are outliers like Blizzard printing practically custom cards for aggro in MotLK, but that isn't always the case.
I played control paladin to legend last season (not pure). I like astral serpent, but the biggest problem with it isn't that I want to be doing something else on 4 - it's that if I'm throwing down Tyr to try to ressurect a Kangor or Annoyotroupe and hit this instead, I've probably just lost. Ironically it would be better as a 2-3 than as a 3-3 just because of that conflict.
Runthak has been a meta card ~2 years back in a couple different warrior decks (i think enrage and control from couple years back) so its seen some play in standard
I think one thing about this episode that was missing was Azul making power comparisons to Pokémon. It didn't really feel like him being a Pokémon player mattered in his analysis, it was more like asking an old school Hearthstone player.
Honestly the "reverse Renethal" effect wouldn't even be THAT bad in say aggro vs control. The big issue is Aggro mirrors will be even more coin flippy and blowout than they already are since the game is probably guaranteed over on turn 4 if someone can establish a remotely okay board since they only have to push 15 damage.
Did rarran film this before tony druid started warping all of standard after the huge nerf rounds? Cuz he talks about the jailer without mentioning hes 50% of the best meta decks combo rn lol
Runthak was absolutely played a lot back when it came out. It got power-crept out of the meta, but tbh Paladin might actually still play it if it didn't have to go Pure.
In regards to Shard of the Naaru, from a MTG perspective, that card is insane. It's a cantrip/cycle with an incredibly good ability if you choose not to.
1st expansion power level is always in the toilet. I mean one of the best decks was priest which literally didn't have a win condition in the deck besides fatigue and hitting the galakrond button hoping for something not completely useless.
This video kinda makes me want to try making shadow suffusion work. It can't be THAT bad of a card, right? Shamans can get big boards pretty easily, and even if you only have 3 minions out which can happen easily in a single turn later in the game, that's a 3 mana deal 9? I mean, it might not be a meta-breaker, but It can't be BAD... Hmmmm
I tried it in duels and can say: It's aight. You can definitely put better cards in your deck, but I wouldn't turn my nose up at it coming up in one of the buckets.
for a card like 8:20 how would spell damage interact with it. Like do you need the spell damage active when you cast it? or when the deathrattle procs? or does it just not work?
While i did expect a pokemon player at some point, i Never expected it to be AzulGG. Maybe a Andrew Mahome type. BUT THE JAILER IS A BUSTED CARD WITH TONEY
This was awesome! AzulGG is one of the most beloved content creators in the Pokémon TCG sphere and is also one of the top players in the game too, like literally top 5 in the world at the very least. Hope there’s more collabs like this!