Pro Pokemon TCG Player Rates Hearthstone Cards

[@tobal11385]

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

[@coolyeh1017]

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]

yeah this bruv can think for reals

[@ThundaFuzz]

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]

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

[@NoMoreQuestions]

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

[@aaaqui__9761]

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

[@Rarran]

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]

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]

Tony still living rent free in your head?

[@freshjori]

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

[@N12015]

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]

i thought the same @@N12015

[@LucasRoth42]

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

[@Granolax]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@Opno]

@@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

[@amethonys2798]

​@@Opnoexcept it wouldn't see play period in Standard even if it was around AND it filled out undead tag for Menagerie. The card is just not good especially if you HAVE to use both halves to trade. 4 mana deal 3 to 2 minions or 6 to 1 is just not efficient in the slightest especially when it doesn't go through taunt and there are vastly better options available. In Shaman I can play this and do 3 to 2 minions for 4 or I can play Lightning Storm for 3 or Crack of Thunder (or what the name is) for 0 to do 3 to the WHOLE board. In Warrior they have 4 billion better removal options at their disposal like Forge in Flames which is at worst 4 mana in one turn (forging same turn) for 10 damage on the board where the guaranteed 5 is pretty much always killing any minion in the game on curve.

[@andreskg8479]

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

[@Otzkar]

have you heard of ben shapiro?

[@ThePuppy009]

​@@Otzkarunfortunately yes

[@andreskg8479]

@@Otzkar They make a helluva Top 3!

[@Otzkar]

@@ThePuppy009 my condolences

[@nurrohmatadiputra5378]

I talk faster (sometime if i didn't fumble all my word while at it) and i am not that fast. Honestly rarran is pretty slow.

[@PeterZaitcev]

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.

[@Mrlonefighter]

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!

[@adamn7777]

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

[@redsnipingshot]

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]

Yeah it was played in handbuff Pally in Stormwind too.

[@amaranthus4206]

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. 😂

[@Vaudrin]

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]

Facts, he's was a true bro

[@joshuaosgood6494]

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

[@coreycubed]

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

[@forestskilbred9461]

​@@somerandomgamer8504you got it.

[@Ocanza]

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

[@zigster1298]

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

[@timepopsicle3495]

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

[@Jolron14]

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

[@bigfish9105]

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 :)

[@Mkrfw]

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

[@WavemasterAshi]

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

[@Mkrfw]

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

[@Oldmantic]

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

[@doodledeedah]

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

[@sohanalleshwaram4340]

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.

[@PRoDMG395]

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

[@Galdeater]

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

[@coolbasegaming9162]

FINALLYYYY IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG

[@gnomeking1225]

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

[@mrbones123]

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

[@fritothedemon6647]

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

[@ArasmusSOU]

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]

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?

[@possibear]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@EJDmesman]

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

[@gem3763]

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

[@FafliXx]

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.

[@damionlynette6512]

I love these videos, so interesting to hear outside analysis

[@herk3812]

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.

[@BortSamsung]

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

[@georgholubetz7291]

Kibler had a neat deathrattle shaman deck with shadow suffusion

[@BDPnix]

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.

[@MEngelberts]

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

[@Jedicake]

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

[@DarkMarkGaming94]

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!

[@Chocolatepain]

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

[@sfcpudding]

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

[@OmgPuppies]

27:02 "The first pro player" is wrong. PVDDR is a pro magic player.

[@totakekeslider3835]

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!

[@nimblesheepvenomous3811]

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

[@nimblesheepvenomous3811]

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

[@paraphilicanalysis1737]

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

[@stephanblake6]

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

[@chrisreece4474]

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

[@Very_Bord]

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.

[@trobtx3538]

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]

need spell damage on board when the dr goes off

[@kaigelling7157]

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

[@KuroroSama42]

I think the only way a 15 card deck works out isn't for aggro... For aggro, I think you need more than 15 card. It's not about your card consistency, it's about the opponent's answers. Yeah you can rush an opponent down by turn 5 and have only drawn ~10 cards, but often you'll be drawing extra cards and refilling your board for an extra push to win. With 15 cards, you never get that extra push. Basically, 15 cards mean you "always" get your ideal opening hand, but if that ideal doesn't work out then it's an auto-lose. Rather than that, it would be for some kind of 1 turn kill combo deck. You have your combo and the rest is just answers to the early game. You survive to gain the mana and then drop your combo to win. And with only 15 cards, you'll always draw your combo by turn 10 or so.

[@Kuddrayntanth]

When was this recorded?

[@Rarran]

uhhh 3 weeks ago i think

[@Lightn0x]

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.

[@saphironkindris]

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]

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]

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.

[@michaelryan1767]

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.

[@ElasticLove12]

Love Azull this was great

[@anthonybeutel9429]

LETS GOOOOO AZULLLLLLLLLLLLL

[@repulsivefish]

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

[@TheWormooo]

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

[@TrimutiusToo]

Runthak did see play before stormwind

[@EZ-eu1cv]

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

[@amethonys2798]

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.

[@LostG04]

as someone that played pokemon competitively for 8 years i can confidently say that azul helped the community advance more then any other content creator, the level of the average player advanced by a lot when he started making more videos/podcasts. i was glad to finnaly see a pokemon player on one of these. great video

[@spacedoubt15]

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

[@Sonicmaster4]

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

[@H0C0X]

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]

​@@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.

[@greggp4840]

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.

[@fredericpoupart2552]

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]

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.

[@tannermattingly4462]

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]

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

[@xyzen9673]

Big sad that rarrans tony got banned in wild.

[@jamiehughes5573]

Good riddance

[@FafliXx]

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.

[@ssspikesss]

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]

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.

[@pursuantspy1557]

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

[@werewolfking65]

12:05 I dunno about that man, Odyn is also 8 mana literally do nothing, same as Hodir, but you love to see him turn 8. I feel like Hodir should have seen more experimentation

[@edrodriguez4482]

Crazy analysis gdamn

[@fuccini3181]

runthak absolutely saw play in rokara rush warrior

[@alexrivera5747]

What class do you think arceus would be in?

[@ianjordan8964]

Prolly priest

[@mushroomduck1345]

It’d be an all class card with different effects based on the class, probably pretty powerful effects.

[@Klaital1]

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

[@lukascowan6357]

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

[@Crause88fin]

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.

[@tbcfrankee]

"They realized very quickly after a couple of years"

[@slash219]

i like the new Tony art

[@Seekmire]

Tony, King of Being a Keyboard

[@Ninterd2]

OHHHH this is going to be exciting!!

[@alexspeedwagon3701]

"reading the card explains the card" is hilariously untrue in hearthstone

[@romain_lemarchand]

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

[@erikbladh7464]

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

[@thunderstruck560]

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

[@cruseder2336]

Awsome job!

[@byeguyssry]

Astral Serpent can be thought of as being worse than a 4 Mana Draw 2 cards, deal 3 to a random enemy.

[@vli9375]

Why would they print brass elemental when command of neptulon was already out?

[@lindsayssbm]

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.

[@hunterpierce7350]

I need more videos like this

[@alek4ever646]

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

[@cocoaplier_2237]

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

[@JoeSaidWut]

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

[@jackiespaceman]

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

[@takeazelfie6584]

azul jump scare

[@Kingi469]

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

[@dollenrm]

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

[@DrakonPhD]

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

[@eminiclam]

anybody knows what happened to the shadowverse stream? i was gonna watch it live but i didn't and i don't see it anywhere.

[@Haz102938]

He wasn't enjoying the game then the environment got pretty heated and things got kinda toxic so Rarran stopped playing it and unlisted the stream. He's almost certainly not gonna go back to it.

[@juliandacosta6841]

​@@Haz102938damn, played shadowverse for a bit then quit when they made the 10/10 immune guy. Would have liked to see a video on it.