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[@MattHembling]

Babbling book is quickly becoming one of my favorite cards. It's just so positive and generous. Practically costs nothing at all at one mana you drop him on the board and that chill ass mofo gives you a spell to use later in the game. And you also get this adorable little 1/1 can ping things but usually is too harmless to be removed. But more than the BB is just so positive. It comes on the board like "do you want to cast a spell?" and I'm like "yeah BB i do want to cast a spell let's do this shit" and when he attacks he's like "SPELLS ARE FUN" and I'm like "yeah they are SO FUN." He doesn't say some bullshit macho shit like "I will destroy you" he's just like "nah spells are fun." And it looks so happy. I mean this is an inanimate object literally brought to life by magic. It understands it's life is a temporary magical gift and the dude is just fucking loving it. I mean look at his face he's just so happy. I am literally never sad when babbling book is on board. IDK if he's gonna make it into the metagame or not but for now he (or she) a pretty chill card

[@Arcavi0us]

legendary post

[@CountFab]

Loquacious tome

[@iuricunhamurakami8261]

New copy pasta just dropped

[@blushingralseiuwu2222]

We love casting spell

[@8dolfonrunescape]

paveling book

[@BaneHydra]

In an alternate universe, some boomer did play Chillwind Yeti in the top 16 and this video ends with CGB renouncing card games altogether to live in a Tibetan monastery

[@atoucangirl]

5:33 FOOOL, it's the only other minion in the whole deck *and now* I SUMMON *THE ANCIENT ONE*

[@WeAreOutOfWeed13]

🅱️ancient one

[@SleepyAmateur]

@@WeAreOutOfWeed13 Zncient one

[@Gadzinisko]

I just need to live until next turn!

[@user-dq1fd9tp4x]

It's criminal that you didn't bring up the 🅱ancient One.

[@klevinduck]

Or the Cancient one!

[@Cassapphic]

The fact that he very quickly went "what if we put one specific card in your deck that barnes always pulls" and we don't immediately mention the zancient one.

[@alex_marr]

5:40 "And at the end of my turn, I SUMMON THE ANCIENT ONE"

[@janehrahan5116]

THE BAINCHENT ONE!

[@hastamanasti]

THE MAINCHENT ONE

[@mitochondria6247]

ITS GOLD, JERRY, GOLD!

[@GumshoeClassic]

I'm going insane, I *know* that quote but I can't for the life of me come up with who it's from, this is driving me nuts. *I should know this.*

[@mitochondria6247]

@GumshoeClassic A: its from a Darkkmane video on hearthstone. B: Your salary has just been cut for not remembering, detective.

[@TheEJROBERTS]

13:15 i think im going to have to agree here. 6 mana for 6/7 is indeed very good stats for the cost

[@frumpyglint]

He said the thing!

[@ovarer]

After rewatching this for the 14th time I can verify this is officially a certified Rarran and CGB video

[@Pedun42]

Who's CGB? Do you mean Mesa Falcon Guy?

[@CountFab]

I'd like Rarran to make more CBT content

[@suwsi6842]

This man is watching at 10x speed no wonder it took 14 rewatches to notice

[@Pathoslogical]

May they never stop coming

[@martinprince8253]

This is one of the videos of all time.

[@noanimationexpert3843]

covertgoblue writing in his notepad after every card is so funny for some reason

[@Brandon11746]

Reminded me of the "noted" emotes you see on Twitch. LUL

[@timtheenchanter4803]

Bro I'm so cooked. He said 4 mana 7/7 and I laughed

[@gregsmw]

i saw the card and immediatly said "oh my god a 4 mana 7/7" the card is ingrained in my brain

[@marmics96]

26:26 goes so hard, I would have believed anything he could have said at that moment

[@shouwalzthefirst5752]

you should've captured it and don't let it slim

[@PenguinWithInternetAccess]

it's simple, really, I play Barnes, he summons blood of the ancient one, shadowstep, play him again to summon another blood of the ancient one and at the end of my turn, I summon the 🅱ANCIENT ONE 10 out of 10, 30 out of 30 and now I win the game

[@kriskitt]

I cast Hex

[@CountFab]

RANK 25, THAT'S THE HIGHEST IN THE GAME

[@felixma9192]

then the mage plays a card and the ancient one goes baaaa 🐑

[@colboy1fish]

Sengin shieldmasta goes "taztingo hehehe"

[@osmium6832]

You could play that combo for literally WEEKS and even if it got you lethal 10% of the time you'd NEVER hear the attack sound of ancient one because the opponent would always concede. I remember watching streamers try this combo and it took someone over a hundred matches before their opponent let it attack. Either it got crowd controlled, removed, or concede.

[@MrFoillo]

You are the greatest HS creator and it isn't even close. You made me come back to the game after a 5 year hiatus, you have an amazing mix of funny and interesting content and on top of that you bring in other content creators and allow them to get exposure. I really hope you continue making videos for as long as you are happy with doing it, because seeing one of your new videos sure makes me happy!

[@peterkirk8510]

I feel like the cursed blade conundrum was just “what if you draw it literally anytime after turn 1” and suddenly it makes sense why the card sucks

[@2starkiller]

13:05 The Classic set also had Gruul, a strictly better Boogiemonster. One more attack and it grows at the same rate automatically. The only "downside" it could theoretically have is that it can be killed with Big Game Hunter before it gets to swing.

[@Alter292]

Ah the classic "Dies to BGH" Meme. Boulderfist has good stats and doesn't die to bgh. Ogre stocks rising

[@shindalah1794]

clicked faster than Rarran when he first saw Aya.

[@VidyeoGamerer]

i got chills when he said 4 mana 7/7

[@rexw2]

29:30 PLEASE show him the Mage Kel'Thuzad, which procs al the skeletons that couldn't fit in the board. I wanna hear his take on it

[@Kevmoeman]

I am glad that cgb knows that minions are not spells, it is critical that he knows that minions are not spells

[@lesiegelad]

Holy smokes CGB knowing the Barnes text was insane lmaooo

[@TooMuchDad]

CGB and Rarran both putting these out back to back makes it a good weekend

[@Dopamine_Drop]

Im a simple man, I see Mesa Falconer and the Sku-E God himself- i click first and ask questions later.

[@infinitystake]

0ppppp

[@infinitystake]

00p

[@bmccarthy9]

As someone playing both MTG and HS back then - the tentacle set comment is very funny because at the exact same time as whispers of the old gods came out mtg had their own tentacle set with shadows over innistrad and eldritch moon. Some thoughts on the cards from what I remember. Barnes: A common thing in hearthstone that became apparent at this point is a card that is slightly below rate that has a small chance to highroll and win the game is very good. That's barnes. Play like 15 minions, get the one or two best ones and win or get like 5-10 more that have some effect. It was only in later expansions that the dream of only playing barnes and huge minions and removal was figured out and made meta (but we could probably have done it at the time). Flamewreathed faceless/shaman - rarran is talking nonsense. Shaman had two decks based on the busted early start of tunnel trogg totem golem - aggro shaman which used the busted early start to set up burst to kill you dead, and midrange shaman which used the busted early start to win the board and never let it go. Flamewreathed faceless only went in aggro shaman, and was never cut. But at the time of the tournament, Blizzard had nerfed some of the Shaman burst so almost every top player was playing the midrange shaman deck because that still had its whole gameplan. Shaman was so busted it probably saw no play in the tournament, because everyone got to ban one deck from their opponent and it usually went on shaman. Cursed blade: I think a big issue beyond the card itself is that for the low price of 1 more mana you get a weapon that is as good, maybe better in the specific warrior aggro decks that would think about it, that doesn't have the downside. Add in first mate and that's just too many weapons because you can only really play one every few turns to get value from them. It eventually got played in wild once fiery war axe (the better weapon) was nerfed. Mana wyrm: 1 mana 1/3s are kinda tough to kill. If they grow attack they're just really overstatted at this point in hearthstone's history. When aggressive mages were bad they still played wyrm and got carried when they drew it. N'zoth: the thing about n'zoth is that it usually summons a full board of deathrattles. The opponent probably needs a sweeper or they just lose (especially if the deathrattles are taunts). Even if they have the sweeper you still get value off every deathrattle - maybe you summon another board after they already killed everything. The biggest thing holding it back was that the good neutral deathrattles all rotated and we didn't get more until the year afterward. C'thun - was probably tied for second best old god with n'zoth when old gods got released (behind yogg, and I would give the edge to n'zoth) and it got worse with every expansion because of how constrained you are to the specific deck versus y'shaarj and n'zoth getting more tools to make them work. Chillwind yeti: F. Never forgeti.

[@Dannymiles1987]

Barnes gives me PTSD on levels Blue will never know. I loved watching Barnes bring in a 1/1 Y'Shaarj. ☠️☠️☠️

[@colboy1fish]

That may have been me 😅 I ran barnes in a high end paladin deck that tried to get to 8 with dragon synergies and then overwelm with dragons and legendaries.

[@KotikKelTuzada]

26:00 of course he will, this man put 3 mesa falcons in his lineup lol

[@timedone8020]

26:27 “ *His palms are sweaty, knees week, arms are heavy* ”

[@Prowl76]

"There's vomit on his sweater already, Yogg's spaghetti."

[@saemj]

cant wait for Rarran to show the MECHANICAL YETI next video :D

[@wernerlindorfer3693]

Including Yeti was a genius move!

[@norbelarchilla5578]

26:30 editor, thank you. The subtle Lose yourself reference *chef's kiss*

[@aeong2889]

17:33 There was a real experiment on the ladder using Cursed Blade. At the height of Pirate Warriors plaguing the meta, Cursed Blade Pirate Warrior emerged to achieve a more consistent early game. I’ve tried Cursed Blade myself; it was okay. Great for early game board control, sometimes even getting upgraded many times until I finished off my opponent using it. But is that enough to offset its drawback? Almost, but not quite. I think regular Pirate Warrior is a bit better against other decks. However, Cursed Blade definitely was played on the ladder.

[@dstreetz91]

Yeah honestly the point of the card was just 6 face damage and hope opponent doesn't attack you because they're attacking your minions instead. Sometimes it would clear a minion and rest face and that would be fine for an aggro deck like pirate warrior. Just an abysmal topdeck late though because you play it you're taking 10 to the face from an arcanite reaper in one turn.

[@amethonys2798]

First of all, Pirate Warrior didn't take off until Mean Streets which wasn't out yet. Secondly, it was still an unbelievably fringe card in that deck that still got filtered out because if you have this in hand next to literally any other one drop besides Upgrade....you're playing the First Mate or the Buckaneer or whatever instead to pull Patches and snowball the board. Also, the card was really mid on ladder itself especially since MOST games were the mirror where the card is literally unplayable. Tournament where you control the match ups better it would be a stronger card where you play it into like Jade Druid and just run them down.

[@teelo12000]

I don't think Cursed Blade was ever made to be played, it was made to pollute the pool of "summon a random weapon" effects.

[@0047David]

I love this back and forth series between both your channels

[@abrvalg321]

3:32 it was 1 out of 16. But nobody brings up how bad of a luck he had before that, loosing so many coin flips.

[@ProsperLogic]

There was only 16 mage spells?

[@abrvalg321]

@@ProsperLogic yes. Even worse, 3 spells could have worked for him.

[@DonQuixoteFan]

Yeah because that’s the gamblers fallacy.

[@darkmega97]

Always nice to see Mesa Falcon Guy

[@strictfrozen2143]

Ain’t a rarran and cgb video without cgb mentioning he knows the difference between minions and spells

[@harristauffacher5935]

when rarran mentioned Boulderfist Ogre I literally stared at the screen for like five seconds until he said The Thing and then I just went "HE SAID THE THING" and I was very happy.

[@user-jy3tp8mh7w]

This needed to be AT LEAST twice longer! One of my fav series

[@alonelulz]

CGB is such a great guest, you guys' dynamic is so good

[@drakedavis7473]

Love seeing this collab! Been watching both of you guys for years! And as a magic and hearthstone player this is great stuff to see

[@Rohkeus_]

I love these videos so much (both yours and CBG's). As somebody who played a TON of Magic and dabbled a fair bit in Hearthstone it's really fun watching the guesses and trying to guess along as well. Gonna be so sad when you finally catch up to current-day HS and MtG and don't have as much content to go back to, but for now this series is gold. ♥ Thanks for the content!

[@dobbersp]

Always love the collabs with CGB, thanks for another great video!

[@NewmansPwn]

Loving the series. Great banter with CGB. You have to show him the clip of DisguisedToast getting the miracle Yogg-Saron -> mind games -> mechathun -> miras unstable element -> cataclysm.

[@stevenoneil8563]

Man, I remember the exact moment a buddy of mine quit Hearthstone, and it was because of the card at 12:00 . He was cracking packs while we were talking in Discord, and for the first time EVER he got a legendary! Ever! He'd never opened a legendary before! It was this shitter. I told him that sadly the card was bad and he'd be better off dusting it. He literally just quit on the spot.

[@sallomon2357]

Recently I opened one pack of Old Gods to get C'Thun and Beckoner for free. Guess what legendary I opened...

[@chairwolf5446]

Sounds like you made your buddy quit the game, not the card. Come on, his first legendary, and you have to ruin it for him at the exact moment he opens it?

[@rajkanishu]

​@@chairwolf5446 better to quit like this than trying to make it work and getting destroyed in the process

[@quantummidget]

My first legendary was Captain Greenskin. My second legendary was Lorewalker Cho. I dusted Captain Greenskin. My third legendary was another Captain Greenskin.

[@stevenoneil8563]

@@chairwolf5446 I *may* have fucked up on the delivery of the news there, but I was trying to stop him from going out there from throwing games and having a bad time. But yeah, definitely me saying "lol that legendary sucks sorry man" didn't HELP.

[@Jack-fh1qh]

the evergreen HS videos for old fans is so legit rarran. never stop. haven't played this game in like 6 years because i don't like what it's become, but i love content about the old game still

[@xoxar1]

Bro I love you both rate cards. Its so fun as a player that played both card games and know what the meta is. Please Rarran and cgb never ever stop with this format.

[@DrBob66]

I love your collabs with CGB, as a hearthstone and mtg enjoyer its great seeing both perspectives.

[@YMasterS]

Everyone remembers Babbling Book winning that game, but everyone conveniently forgets the reason it was even needed was because Amnesiac had literally everything else go his way to put Pavel in that position. Pavel got no luckier than Amnesiac.

[@ryanbenz3639]

love the collabs - best vids!

[@Chocolatepain]

I love this series. It's cool seeing his reaction to the sets over time and also cgb is just hilarious. Perfect compliment to rarran.

[@JDo-db1ju]

Love these videos. Thanks for doing so many but I only want more lol

[@beatriztneves]

I can't get enough of these. On both channels. I hope you keep doing it with Runeterra or something else when you run out of sets; you two have good chemistry.

[@idontcommentonstuff8]

CGB perfectly reading Spanish based on card knowledge is insane, he's cracked out of his gourd

[@sautee7598]

Hey Rarran love your vids!! I've been following you for a long while-super glad you're still doing these crossovers with other card games; I'm mad based toward the MagiTubers & YugiTubers-it's just that heart of the cards love. However I ❤ your content for Hearthstone, some of the best since Kripparrian, Trump, Day9, Firebat, Kibler and Lifecoach. As you can tell I'm pretty fond of this area of hearthstone. Lots to love with year of the Whisper of the Old Gods!! Drake dropped Views this year. K-Dot dropped Untitled. Tzuyu and the Twice gang nearly caused world armageddon with their flag drop by nearly Yogg-Saroning all of East Asia....fun times...Kinda of miss Eloise in the scene, so I'm glad you created a video covering her "disappearance" from the HS scene...Players like you bring such joy to the game, makes me glad to have been part of this gaming community for as long as I was.

[@caciocavallo420]

love these videos man

[@Gronmin]

This is maybe Rarran's best series idea and he picked a great guest for the series. I look forward to this series going all the way through the modern sets

[@im_spiffy]

@Rarran Would be cool if you watched some of the super RNG tournament games with CGB and walked him through what happened that would be sick

[@waifucards]

Great video cgb, thank you!

[@lukusridley]

Another CGB banger, incredible consistency on recent vids

[@oreledoria2537]

I love watching these videos even though I haven't touched Hearthstone in years.

[@dyggas]

Rarran the content machine

[@himuragoXD]

The Barnes analysis was sooooo sick 😂

[@AwesomeSalsa]

I love your version of these videos so much more cause they aren't 2 hours long

[@VictouffeVideos]

Is there a video of CGB reacting to the hearthstone championships? Since he apparently watched it.

[@user-jy3tp8mh7w]

I was wondering the same thing!! Hope that someone tells us

[@erfarkrasnobay]

Chillwind yeti is midrange card. Issue is - you have C'Tun as Midrage deck strategy and have no slots in deck to put vanilla 4/5 over Azure drake for example.

[@CAMERONJTC97]

Your content with CGB and Voxy is some of my favourite, love to see them.

[@eldenbling2615]

I hope this series of videos never ends

[@quieness]

I didn't even see the thumbnail for this one but boy u got options hahaha

[@brankovr1]

the energy in this video is top notch

[@claptrappington5895]

Oh hey, it's CovertGoBlin again.

[@jonathanpatze87]

This was my era of HS, lot of cards brought back memories. Tempo Mage is still a deck dear to my heart, although I left HS like a year or so later (when even/odd Paladin was nerfed, can't even remember which one I played

[@AdvanceWarrior]

Whispers of the Old Gods was my first expansion and I NEVER questioned the tentacles theme until Covert called it out and now I'm beginning to question it 😂

[@badassoverlordzetta]

This is easily some of the most entertaining content from card game enthusiasts, great stuff. 22:50 Holy moly lol.... 27:50 that smile to the camera XD 34:35 The Revengeance

[@Q_z_]

It would be cool if you showed some reviews from other hearthstone content creators after CGB did his analysis before giving him the final reveal! Maybe ask him if his opinion changes aftwr hearing them, because I would love to see his reaction to some of the hearthtone streamers' ratings of Zerus

[@SaltyVest]

Fun lore missed on the Barnes Y'Sharrj meme. The main deck that utilized this combo was called "fun and interactive Hunter" and it was actually a MENACE on ladder because pulling the combo was a instant win like 90% of the time.

[@Cuestrupaster]

Hunter? I remember Rogue, and I remember Toast playing it... after all 33% of the time, it works every time!

[@lavandereisly4194]

Shaman is those weird 5 color piles of good cards. Sometimes, they don't even need a plan, just shear card quality just gets them through, other times it's a broken combo enabled by being in all colors.

[@WowWeAreOblivous]

Love the back and forth rarran has!

[@andreikleshchev4911]

Babe wake up, new Rarran CGB collab just dropped!

[@Kuzmorgo]

Cursed blade was also not played because fiery win axe.. That was a pretty big part of it imho.

[@DjSimiliar]

@26:28 when the eminem song plays briefly I started laughing so hard 🤣🤣🤣

[@Anoarai]

best parts of these videos is watching rarran losing it :D

[@Ashadow700]

16:46 Rarran's internal monologue: _"Please give me my funny thumbnail, PLEASE give me my funny thumbnail!"_

[@waltermallard5565]

N'zoth was the first card I pulled from an old gods pack when it launched, and I still run a consistently updated dragon/n'zoth paladin on my wild ladder climb to this day.

[@darkumineru1681]

23:18 well am sure my grandfather will disagree with that statement xD

[@Nepomniachtchi_Austin]

I love this kinda content, and I love Covert

[@doomfeast1102]

Everybody's talking about CGB turning into Mesa Falcon Guy, but I'm more fascinated by his gradual transformation into Matt Smith.

[@Levi_the_Med]

8:05 funny how he spotted the latest wild meta tyrant right there

[@notspoileratall5471]

4:00 DO IT, PLEASE AND THANK YOU😂😂😂😂 Wasn't expacting spanglish lessons today, this took me offguard

[@GageHawkins-jq3ln]

@rarran imagine how next level this would be if you also played the sound effects/animations of the cards too. That would bring this 3-star video into a 5-star fully immersive experience.

[@grandlancer]

Watching MFG getting so many spot on is awesome

[@marosvarga9198]

12:55 Rarran: "Your version might be too broken" Crusader Aura with 2 copies at 4 mana and buffing when attacking: *hello*

[@lesiegelad]

Rarran, would you ever consider posting longer versions of these videos with CGB on your second channel? I enjoy your chemistry and based on how long cgbs videos are with you, you could also post an hour+ version. I would totally watch!

[@christiangudmundsson8390]

These are great. Only leaving a comment for the engagement.

[@hunterpie7965]

mesa falcon guy's notepad tech in this is the biggest brain maneuver of all time tbh

[@TheBiomedZed]

Rarran looking fresh with that haircut

[@thorakvideos2495]

Finally, another video created for me! ;)

[@DrSpasticat]

Questing Adventuring is so satisfying cause the buff sound effect is the quest complete sound effect from WoW

[@8dolfonrunescape]

The true scientific name of 4 mana 7/7 is four mana seven seven, not flamewreathed faceless.

[@kaylee42900]

ty barnes for getting me to legend with res priest and spell hunter.

[@KumaTorey]

2016 was the high point of my time with HS while I was wrapping up college no wonder I got back pain

[@JoboTheBestEU]

Oh good, another episode of my favourite Emotional Support Hearthstone Content series :)

[@MrGhosta5]

I remember a trick you could do with questing adventurer was play emperor thaurissand to make your youthful brewmasters cost zero and then you can just keep bouncing them back to your hand.