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Welcome to a shoutcast of a match of Hearthstone.
We’re finding an opponent now,
and in this match,
we’re playing as Garrosh Hellscream, the Warrior.
Looks like we’ve got an opponent here,
a reasonable opponent, that’s good.
Garrosh versus Uther!
I will fight with honor!
All right, our opponent is Uther the Lightbringer, the Paladin.
Here’s our opening hand,
not a great opening hand,
there’s no minions here and
you definitely need some minions
to play early on in the game,
keep pressure on your opponent and to
help attack their minions so they don’t
keep pressure on you.
So here’s some, we’ll play some of those.
Got some new ones.
These are better, there are some more minions,
although we got Leroy Jenkins.
I don’t know if that’s good or bad yet.
All right, the Paladin starts the game,
uses his mana to play a Secret card and
we don’t quite know what that card is yet.
It may have an effect depending on
what we do in the game here.
And the Warrior begins with a Shield Bearer.
It’s very defensive.
It doesn’t have any attack, it’s got Enrage,
which means if it takes damage
it gets an effect and in this case,
it’s got plus-1 attack when its taken damage.
All right the Paladin follows up with a Knife Juggler,
very strong in the Paladin deck.
Any time a minion enters the battlefield over there,
he gets to deal one damage to a random enemy,
and the Paladin usually has lots of minions
as Hero Power creates minions as well.
So this point uh,
we’d l—the Warrior would love to kill that Knife Juggler,
but he doesn’t have a lot,
he can deal one damage to it with the cool Taskmaster.
Oh, it looks like he’s gonna deal one damage to that minion with an Enrage,
giving it plus-2 attack from the,
from the Taskmaster and one attack from the Enrage.
But it looks like that attack triggers the Secret,
it’s a Noble Sacrifice that
creates a 2-1 minion which jumps in the way,
causes Knife Juggler to trigger,
dealing one damage there.
And Noble Sacrifice, that defender
jumped right in the way,
protected that Knife Juggler from being destroyed.
And that’s huge for the Paladin player,
because now that Knife Juggler is a big bonus.
Any time he plays a minion it’s gonna,
it’s gonna deal one damage that could kill off that cool Taskmaster.
The Paladin plays Blessing of Wisdom,
and now whenever the Paladin attacks with
that minion he’s gonna draw a card,
and that could be a huge card advantage.
And that was an interesting play.
He has two mana left,
he could have summoned a minion with his Hero Power,
potentially used Knife Juggler to deal—it was random,
but he could have killed off that 2-1 that way.
Instead he wanted to use his mana to play another Secret card.
We don’t know what it is,
could be another Noble Sacrifice.
The Warrior uses Execute to finish off a damaged minion,
killing that Knife Juggler.
He’s looking at either his Hero Power or Crazed Alchemist.
Crazed Alchemist is good to swap the attack and
health on a minion but there’s no other minions right now,
so he just plays it, ‘cause he wants to
keep a little pressure on the board,
and it triggers other Secrets, Repentance this time.
It makes that Health-1,
and that would have been much better against the stronger minion.
I’m not sure why the Paladin played it this early in the game.
Usually that’s better later in the game,
but it’s good that the Warrior was able to,
to kind of bait out that Secret now,
with such a weak minion.
And though—the Paladin has a little more cards.
He started first, he got a little bit more—more mana.
The Warrior has Leroy Jenkins,
which could be good, could be bad.
The Paladin plays Sword of Justice.
It’s a weapon so he could attack right away.
And he could use those durability
to attack or anytime he plays a minion,
it’ll use one of the durability on that weapon to buff that minion,
give it a little extra attack and health.
So he’s got Leroy Jenkins, but Leroy Jenkins,
maybe not as good right now as this Kor’kron Elite.
Kor’kron Elite’s got charge, he gets that right away.
He gets in there for 4-damage.
It's got 3-healths so it can withstand attacks from that sword.
And the Paladin now playing some minions that
are gonna get a little bit bigger
because of that Sword of Justice.
Every minion the Paladin plays gets a little bit stronger.
And he plays the Secret Keeper
who gets even stronger every time a Secret triggers,
so there’s got to be more Secrets.
That could get out of control.
The Warrior drives Whirlwind, that does one damage to everything,
including your guys,
which could be good if you have effects
that care about guys being damaged.
And the Warrior goes right in to attack Uther directly,
and it plays Leroy Jenkins!
And Leroy summons whelps for your opponent when you play him.
And those whelps got a little bit bigger ‘cause that Sword of Justice.
So he used up those last two durability,
probably not on the guys he wanted to,
but he’s given Uther a lot of whelps.
Now Uther’s down to 14 so he’s a little bit low,
but now he’s got a much better board position.
He’s got that Harvest Golem on the left side who’s got Death Rattle,
which means whenever it dies, it is an effect—
And there’s Cairne Bloodhoof,
also has a Death Rattle effect,
it summons Baine Bloodhoof, his successor.
There goes that Harvest Golem,
who summons a damaged Harvest Golem when he dies.
And Cairne has a custom sound effect when he goes against Garrosh,
to call him out specifically.
All right. The Warrior’s got Brawl here,
that takes every minion on the play field,
they get into a big fight and
only one of them remains—oh, this is great for the Warrior!
The whelp is the last one standing,
which is the worst minion on the Paladin side,
but causes Cairne Bloodhoof to die,
which ends up summoning his successor, Baine Bloodhoof.
He’s just as strong as Cairne, though.
All right. So now the Paladin—
Oh, follows up with Illidan Stormrage and
it’s unfortunate because the Warrior had to discard Big Game Hunter,
which is a great card.
It kills a minion with 7-attack,
which would have killed Illidan.
Now it’s just starting to turn around here.
The Warrior down to 19-health, he’s got huge minions,
as the Warrior draws Arcanite Reaper.
Now Reaper would’ve—definitely finished off
Baine Bloodhoof but he’d really like to
be able to finish off Illidan
so he doesn’t take 7-damage next turn.
All right, looks like he’s gonna slam Illidan,
slam does 2-damage and if it survives, you draw a card.
And that minion definitely survived there,
so he’s got to finish them off with Arcanite Reaper.
He does take seven immediately,
he doesn’t have a lot of cards that can help him here.
He’s got the Inn Master that
can summon some extra Imps.
He’s got Battle Rage,
they’ll draw him cards if guys are damaged,
and then the Paladin follows up with the Guardian of Kings.
It’s a huge minion,
it also heals him, as he lays down another Secret,
and it’s starting to look pretty bad for the Warrior here.
Only at 6-health here.
Warrior needs to draw something to stop this,
He draws King Mukla, King Mukla’s definitely not good right now.
It—it’s a huge minion for the cost,
but it gives your opponent bananas which
they can play to buff their own minions.
And you definitely don’t want to give those minions any more attack.
He’s, he’s only at 6-health remaining as he uses Inner Rage to deal,
looks like one damage to that,
opposing Guardian of Kings,
and he uses Battle Rage now,
deals like—draws you a card for every damaged minion,
and there’s only one damaged minion,
so it draws him one card.
He’s looking for ways to come back here
as he plays King Mukla,
give his opponents some bananas.
He starts to attack the enemy Hero
at least with that Arcanite Reaper
did a little bit more damage.
Of course that triggers Noble Sacrifice,
another one of the Paladin’s Secrets.
Jumps right in the way,
prevents it from dealing any damage to Uther.
And then he plays Inn Master.
Inn Master—every turn summons one more Imp at the cost of lives,
so that could get out of control,
but at this point, with only 4-health remaining,
the Paladin just has to attack with either Cairne
as he feeds Mukla a banana just to mess with Garrosh,
and finishes him off with Baine Bloodhoof.
Revenge from Cairne!
Defeat for Garrosh, thanks for watching!