The level of analysis that he provides to his answers is wonderful. Really thinking at another level

@coolyeh1017

8 ай бұрын

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.

@sunnysangha2097

8 ай бұрын

yeah this bruv can think for reals

@ThundaFuzz

8 ай бұрын

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".

@cs16Tactics

8 ай бұрын

Ye it was nice to hear his analysis! Seemed like calm and analytic dude

Bring this guy back for more, it’s really cool seeing his high level analysis.

@aaaqui__9761

8 ай бұрын

you should check his channel out. crazy high level of playing the ptcg and very informative in terms of sequencing and resource management.

Rarran: first pro player from a different game that I talk to PVDDR: excuse me what

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

@khdo12346

8 ай бұрын

well you don't have to cut it, it was the most fun part of the video with how the guest reacted to it

@ColBanana

8 ай бұрын

Tony still living rent free in your head?

@freshjori

8 ай бұрын

Just add the proper card image. Shouldn't be too much work.

@N12015

8 ай бұрын

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.

@adi9075

8 ай бұрын

i thought the same @@N12015

When you think about it, Brass elemental is better than Restless Mummy, which was a very good card in control war at the time. Crazy powercreep

@paperknigth2263

8 ай бұрын

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.

@lesiegelad

8 ай бұрын

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.

@Opno

8 ай бұрын

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

@drewpeacock9087

8 ай бұрын

@@Opnonah lol nobody is playing restless mummy nowadays, not priest nor warlock nor warrior. The game has been turbo powercrept.

@Opno

8 ай бұрын

@@drewpeacock9087 well it's not in standard anymore and wild has always had a completely different power curves, of course it doesn't seem play now

You should have included Odyn, Prime Designate right after Hodir, Father of Giants. Both are 8/8 for 8 with Battlecry affecting your next turns.

I see Rarran has found a formidable foe in the "World's Fastest Talker" competition.

@Otzkar

8 ай бұрын

have you heard of ben shapiro?

@ThePuppy009

8 ай бұрын

​@@Otzkarunfortunately yes

@20quidd

8 ай бұрын

​@@Otzkarwe r talking ab speaking not yapping 😂

@andreskg8479

8 ай бұрын

@@Otzkar They make a helluva Top 3!

@Otzkar

8 ай бұрын

@@ThePuppy009 my condolences

Runthak absolutely saw play back when rush warrior was a thing in barrens. It was a hand buff warrior and was surprisingly good

@redsnipingshot

8 ай бұрын

I was wondering if I had a fever dream or something because I absolutely remembered Runthak into Samuro being a legit board clear for a while.

@SuctionCat

8 ай бұрын

Yeah it was played in handbuff Pally in Stormwind too.

@amaranthus4206

8 ай бұрын

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. 😂

22:05 Pyro Ball is a signature move in Pokémon, please forgive our boy Azul for the mixup

@forestskilbred9461

8 ай бұрын

​@@somerandomgamer8504you got it.

Gotta be one of the more interesting guests for this series! Really high level analysis, pretty much spot on for most of the cards, impressive!

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

@ce8539

8 ай бұрын

Facts, he's was a true bro

Never knew Tony was a keyboard :> . Awesome video as always

Overlord Runthak saw play in coaster rush warrior! It was such a strong deck when I was playing it.

@WavemasterAshi

8 ай бұрын

I *LOVED* playing Rush Warrior back then! Playmaker, E.T.C. God of Metal...

@mikerenfrew9974

8 ай бұрын

@@WavemasterAshi yeah it was really legit! No one was playing it and was an easy climb

Having watched a metric buttload of both Azuls and your content, I didn't know this was the collab I needed. Thanks Rarran ❤

love seeing two of my favorite creators collaborating!!! please review pokémon cards

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

Tony Jailer druid literally appeared out of nowhere last thursday and started destroying standard lmao

need more of these kinds of videos find them funny and very amusing having played most the card games myself

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 :)

Has me dying when talking about ice block. "They realized quickly after a couple of years"

This guy knows his shit for not playing modern HS get him on again!!

Hey I didn't expect to see Azul here! That guy is great, crazy good player. Awesome video Rarran!

Best video of that kind on the channel. Definitly should make more with that awesome dude. Great analysis

love the video, and love too see an Azul collab. would love to see more videos wityh azul or some pokemon videos

That was very interesting to have a high level analysis. I loved the fact that he voiced his thought process. I'd love to see him again.

I haven't played since Karazhan, but your videos have got me back into hearthstone. Keep up the good work!

This guy is GOOD. So much fun to watch a pro analyze these so well

I love these videos, so interesting to hear outside analysis

FINALLYYYY IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG

Loved this episode! Hope we get to see Azul back on the channel

I've seen shadow suffusion played! Great video as always rarran.

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!

Love these videos, I will never get bored of seeing people from other games try to rate Hearthstone cards. You struck gold with this idea imo

Runthak did see play before stormwind

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.

I am stunned by how on point the analysis of The Jailer was, especially with the Druid deck versus control (Blood DK)

@FafliXx

8 ай бұрын

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.

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

@satibel

8 ай бұрын

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

@byeguyssry

8 ай бұрын

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.

@satibel

8 ай бұрын

@@byeguyssry yeah decks similar to "midrange"/dragon hunter and math warrior would probably be dominant in a meta like that.

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

@FafliXx

8 ай бұрын

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?

"you're the first pro player I've talked to" PVDDR: "Am I a joke to you?"

Here before raran edits this so teh cards are not on azuls face

Kibler had a neat deathrattle shaman deck with shadow suffusion

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.

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.

Overlord Runthak is honestly the power level that I'd really like most of Hearthstone to be at

@H0C0X

8 ай бұрын

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.

@hurtsaabayaraa2277

8 ай бұрын

​@@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.

I notice your giving your guests the un-nerfed versions of cards now. I appreciate it, it makes the analysis much funner

@nimblesheepvenomous3811

8 ай бұрын

well you showed him unnerfed renathal, but then nerfed secret passage. Its ok, secret passage is still broken so it works out

I need more videos like this

Crazy analysis gdamn

I've never played Pokémon TCG but I've always heard that game is surprisingly more complex and thought-provoking than I give it credit for

OHHHH this is going to be exciting!!

Awsome job!

Yoooo Azul is one of my favorite creators, seeing him here is incredible!

Really liked this episode, Azul is pretty f-ing smart

Runthak was pretty good when it was in Standard as a Barrens card before it was added to the core set. It was a key part of handbuff Paladin.

azul jump scare

looove azul! one of the best deck creators and pilots in ptcg

Love Azull this was great

Yo, please you have to do one of these with Metropole Grid and Netrunner! Bringing games and communities together with these is such a great thing.

runthak absolutely saw play in rokara rush warrior

Overlord Runthak was played in rush warrior like 2 years ago, and that deck was tier 1 back then and it had to get nerfed.

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.

"They realized quickly ice block wasn't good in standard after a couple of years" -rarran 2023 lmaooo

ok so hes pro Pokemon TCG player no wonder. The way he analyse card is so good.

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

@sqentontheslime1967

8 ай бұрын

Very true! Even if It’s berated for being bad, seeing cards in vids like these does give an appeal to trying them out

@saphironkindris

8 ай бұрын

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.

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.

@sqentontheslime1967

8 ай бұрын

How many of them lived long enough to attack or draw a second time in the first place?

What i want to know is are we going to get a rarran series of him rating pokemon cards just like he does with yugioh and runeterra

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.

LETS GOOOOO AZULLLLLLLLLLLLL

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.

@amethonys2798

8 ай бұрын

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.

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 like the new Tony art

@Seekmire

8 ай бұрын

Tony, King of Being a Keyboard

"your the first pro play" rip PVDDR, bro just got completely forgotten by Rarran

Big sad that rarrans tony got banned in wild.

@jamiehughes5573

8 ай бұрын

Good riddance

Rarran just forgot to mention that Jailer is key part in the best deck in standard at the moment...

Hidden passage is still used in every single rogue deck in wild from my experience.

Rarran featuring Azul? Sweet! *Sets video speed to 0.75*

"They realized very quickly after a couple of years"

They do have a 15 health/card mode but it's only on the first round its called duels low key my favorite mode

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.

TIL that “pro Pokémon player” is a thing that exists

I like when Rarran said they nerfed Ice Block very quickly... after a couple years lmao

AZUL?! YOU GOT AZUL? FUCK YEAH!!!

i played brass elemental to good effect. Great for aggro matchups.

Runthak was good a couple years ago in pirate/rush warrior.

renathal has been unnerfed

The irony of the jailer getting banned the day this video goes out xD

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.

This was a lot of fun! Maybe we can see the options reversed?

Azull is the goat... Rly hope for some more content with Azul, maybe this time in reversed roles, when Azul would show Rarran cards from the past meta

Very quickly after couple of years :D :D

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

12:30 as a Magic player, this is the one that looked overpowered to me

meanwhile overlord runthak was played in tier 1 deck during forge in barrens 💀 this was when standart had quite a low powerlevel but still...

@amethonys2798

8 ай бұрын

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.

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?

@youtubehandle102

8 ай бұрын

need spell damage on board when the dr goes off

Hearing that Runthak would be good with windfury gave me Duels ptsd lol

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.

now i want an pokemon player rating mtg ~-~

I love how Rarran has never accurately explained what Immune does in any of these videos.

I love how AzulGG says "mingions", is that a dialect thing? Asking as a non-native speaker.

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

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!