This was a great Masters Tour to watch. Extremely happy to see Floki do so well again, and great to see Gaby get his well-deserved GM spot.

Control Warlock is a pretty easy match-up for rush warrior. Just try to set up boards where they have to use their removal inefficiently. No wide boards of 2 health minions, no solitary 3 health minions, no boards where hysteria cleans everything up (this one can be hardest, and requires a lot of practice. Try providing lots of pressure without over-extending.

Rush warrior is an amazingly strong deck, but it can be quite tricky to play. The only truly bad match-up is priest. Instead of just complaining about the deck being bad (it's not), try sharing replays so that we can actually help you.

Just don't lose games ;)

Rami SMOrcing his way to top 1, you love to see it!

This is why I love this website, you guys really listen. Thank you! Really rooting for Rami the Hunter underdog

Congratulations! I remember the feeling of my first legend, especially the huge amount of relief after finally beating that final boss. What was your final boss fight like?

Really impressed by Warma's performance, was convinced his button mage was a meme at first but he performed really well.

Secret Paladin, Libram Paladin, Rush Warrior, Control Priest, Gibberling Druid and Miracle Priest have positive winrates against hunters. If you don't want to play Paladin or Druid, choose either Rush Warrior, Control Priest or Miracle Priest. If you consistently lose with Priest against Hunter it's probably a piloting issue. Keep practicing and reflecting on your games and try to watch videos of the match-up (Grandmasters is currently going on, try to watch some Priest vs Hunter games there).

Would have been nice if they would have announced before 23:00 on the day. Oh well, hopefully they'll do it earlier next month.

Thanks! Sucks to see Shaxy, Tyler and Fled already be out. They really messed up disqualifying Zalae so late so that nobody could take his spot, makes people take Americas even less seriously as a region...

Hey look, it's the same few people again. Would be nice if they would've put this money in actual competitive Hearthstone, which saw its prize pool get slashed this year, instead of giving already wealthy streamers a free $100.000. Also only 2 women, really Blizzard? I think they could highlight a more diverse cross-section of the community than almost entirely North-American men.

Thanks for putting this together again! Would be nice if you could already make a short overview (in spoiler of course) of which players we're actually gonna see on stream this weekend. Hoping to see Shaxy's cat again!

Hunter feels very strong. I'm not running your featured list (I prefer the [Hearthstone Card (Kolkar Packrunner) Not Found], Warsong Wrangler, Barak Kodobane list) but it feels so, so strong. I have a 75% winrate with it over 40 games, including an 11 game winstreak to legend (plus one more at legend to get the achievement).

How about Ancient Mysteries instead of Kabal Lackey?

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I completely disagree.  There are times when you don't auto play Deck on 2, and in some cases, you don't play it at all.  Even w/o Deck, Spell Mage is ridiculous because of how much burn it has (assuming there are no minions on board, there is 42 damage from hand, minimum).  The deck is incredibly strong, NOT JUST because of Deck, but because of all the burn it has.

Yep it has a ton of burn + draw + high roll with lunacy + mana cheat 

It's basically demon hunter.

Yeah, the  reason it's busted now is not just the increased consistency and power level of Deck of Lunacy, but also Refreshing Spring Water. That card is 0 mana draw 2 at worst, and usually 0 mana draw 2 refresh 1 or 2 mana crystals. Incanter's Flow was already insanely strong in that deck, but combining it with Refreshing Spring Water made it the T1 behemoth it is now. Both Deck of Lunacy and Refreshing Spring Water should probably have their cost increased by 2.

Very late, but great that Blizzard finally found their conscience.

Rustwix looks to me like it takes place approximately at the same time, or even that Ashes of Outland takes place later than Darkmoon Faire. Since we see the Rusted Legion defeated in Trial by Felfire, what would Rustwix be an Envoy of to the Darkmoon Races?

Similarly, I'm not too sure on Ivory. Alabaster looks pretty old (70+) and Ivory looks pretty young (low 20s), might be that Darkmoon Faire takes place before Scholomance.  However, the keys around her neck might indicate that she inherited them (as I believe they're the same ones as from Alabaster's art), which would place it later than Scholomance (maybe Alabaster just looks older than he is).

You might have a point with this whole rabbit hole of madness... (at the Darkmoon Faire)

I'm sure there's an answer to the riddle! I'm sure of it! ;)

Which cards precisely point to Darkmoon Faire's placement relative to AoO and SA?

Good point, that's probably the end point. I also realised that Aranna Starseeker is related to Elise Starseeker, saying something about Ashes of Outland's relative point in time to the other ones, but not a lot because of how old Night Elves can get. Same thing with Kael'thas Sunstrider appearing in that expansion, it gives us a rough point in time but nothing conclusive.

With this information, we're also a lot closer to constructing a timeline on which to place the different expansions. We already know the following:

Un'Goro takes place before Forged in the Barrens (Elise's young explorers all grown up), while FitB takes place before Mean Streets of Gadgetzan (Kazakus). Scholomance Academy takes place between Un'Goro and Forged in the Barrens, because of Tamsin Roame's appearance as Judicious Junior (while being clearly older than the young explorers in Un'Goro). Scholomance Academy takes place before Naxxramas, because Kel'Thuzad is still alive. The Grand Tournament takes place after Forged in the Barrens, because Varian Wrynn is no longer imprisoned.

While we don't know when Whispers of the Old Gods, The Witchwood, The Boomsday Project, Kobolds and Catacombs and League of Explorers take place, the defeat of the villains in them takes place before Rise of Shadows, which is followed by Saviors of Uldum, Descent of Dragons and Galakrond's Awakening. We do know that at least Kobolds and Catacombs takes place after Un'Goro, because of George and Karl.

For Blackrock Mountain, Goblins vs Gnomes, One Night in Karazhan, Knights of the Frozen Throne, Ashes of Outland and Madness at the Darkmoon Faire I have no idea where to place them.