“Put them in the arena!” :-)))))

One nuts & bolts situation I wanted to bring up:

R1G1 at 9:57:
You attack with the Soul, the Swarm and the Rhino, opponent has Arbalest Elite and Azure Mage and 3 mana up.

Your decision was to clear his entire board and lose everything but the Soul and deal 1 damage in the process.

I believe that attacking with just the Rhino here is a much better move.

It leaves opponent with these options:

- no block (go to one, you have “even more lethal” on the board

- block with Arbalest Elite, shoot, take 1. End result you stil have dealt one damage, and you keep two evasive threats.

- block with both, take no damage but lose both guys. no damage, but whole board gone.

At this point, the Azure Mage does absolutely nothing for your opponent except he can sort of trade for the Rhino damage.

The Arbalest Elite is what holds down your Soul. But in this situation he has to put it in front of the Rhino if he doesn’t want to drop to 1.

So thi seems to be like the perfect opportunity to get the Arbalest Elite out of the way.

Remember: Azure Mage is irrelevant because it doesn’t block either of your evasive guys.

So why bother risking any of your evasive guys to “clear his entire board” when you can just trade the Rhino for the specific part of his board that you care about?

The Swarm he can probably block with any of his flyers (he is UW after all).

The Soul, though, he basically has very few outs to. If you manage to take down the Elite, you put him on “Draw Pacifism in 4 turns or die – less turns if you don’t have a flyer for the Swarm”.

This way you gave him the option to take one last shot at taking out the deadly Soul. He still needed an out to the Swarm, but he is UW, any flyer will do.

What do you think?

I also echo the comments that the snap use of Doom Blade on early threats was suspect…I watched the vids yesterday and don’t remember all of the details of those scenarios now so it’s possible that sometimes it was the correct play, but it at least warranted stopping and thinking through. Unless I have a deck loaded with removal, I look for reasons not to cast Doom Blade on a two drop.

All that being said, I’m a big fan of your work and appreciate your videos! Keep it up!

-Some Guy

You also liked to clear the board a lot depsite having an overrun. In game 2 (I believe game 2) you traded off a bunch of stuff against an Arbalest Elite, drew into an overrun (called it awkward), and lost to a throne. If you held back there and waited instead of clearing the board, it is likely you could have won with your Overrun.

And yeah, Doom Blade on the Pegasus is th worst. If the Pegasus blocks, he kills a Gravedigger, so what?