Masters Finals 2023 Pokémon World Championships TORD REKLEV VS VANCE KELLEY

from both of these players but at the same time a feeling of mutual respect yeah I mean this is an accomplishment in and of itself to get to this stage and of course you're playing against two and we have two incredible players on both sides of the table so I'm gonna be looking out for that to see if we see those opening hands like George was talking about it's gonna be a big deal battle VIP pass wins games yeah absolutely I mean the opening hands so important for both of these players both of them really relying on Battle VIP pass to get their set up rolling to get their optimal strategies up into play in that video we saw toward talking about you know this almost feels like one last step one last stone for him the only tournament he has been unable to take down and you know we talk about the goats in the Pokemon TCG Torrid is always up there but there's one person people always comparing to him to and that's Jason Kozinski three-time world champion Jordan Jason are from two different eras Jason won three worlds back in 20 2006 2008 and 2013 toured his one for international championships he's gotten the finals twice he's gotten top four worlds and now finds himself here in the finals of the world championships if he gets this win do we get to call it the Undisputed best player of all time I mean I think we're always going to do the little Braun and Jordan over and over again between these players but I think that this is the one if you win the World Championships here with the caliber of play that we've seen with all of the players throughout I mean you speak you speak about how many people are in those international events that he was winning that doesn't compare to the the size that we saw with Jason's tournaments they were much smaller back then so winning those even though it was a great accomplishment at the time towards doing it on a whole nother level different game different era both players of course playing it at the top level Vance Kelly going to do everything he can to take down Goliath at this point and that is what this feels like we see Vance's accomplishments has had some solid tournament runs but without a doubt adding this world's finalist or Champion record to this accolades list will be you know a big bolster to this resume this is definitely the one that you want to add to your resume even day one performance adding that in and getting through is such a tough beat so to add to now another muv Max Victory would be incredible for advance and he's been relying on this deck all year now I'd love to see one more go at it to get through toward redcliffe on the other side and his opponent of course toward Reckless the man who needs no further introduction 2019 world's top four laic champion champion NAIC champion euic champion I think there's an ocic to throw in there as well I think this just speaks to tort though he would rather show that top four World Championship because that's what's important to him that is so big for him and to get back to the stage it's everything it's going to be reliant on that Gardevoir EX is cool but we're gonna be looking at curlia it's trade it is effectively trade a card that tort had plenty of success with back then as well the zorg GX of course curly a very reminiscent there and you can see toward it kind of has strategies over the years that he has liked to come back to he wants to see a lot of cards he wants to build up a large hand size so that he has plenty of options Vance's deck will do similar things it's not going to be reliant on hand size as much as it is Turbo get through the deck discard cards draw more cards with Genesect discard more draw more put Cards into play and find the pieces you need for the various combos I'm so excited Kyle moments away from kicking off this Master's final match of course has all the cards in his hands at all times just drawing drawing drawing and can make all those decisions maybe one or two steps in advance advance always has the reach to go for those cards using Genesect to draw up the hand and then you have to make those intern decisions those my new choices and that really can be the difference each turn the ever important coin flip and it looks like Vance has one will be choosing to go first absolutely an advantage even though his deck can attack on the first turn win going second you know Tor can't do much on turn one going second so going first absolutely the strategy Advanced wants to go for it right if you're able to attack with you V-Max on the second turn having those hit points in place a little nicer than Meloetta or psychic leap a couple key tech cards we should mention in this matchup Advance playing the one copy of box of disaster absolutely something that can come up it is tech for this matchup specifically and toward recklev having two reversal energy in this list will make it much easier to reach for one-hit Knockouts and that lost vacuum is also something for Tori that could come into play yeah we've seen players they saw and anyic there was a lot of back and forth box of disasters sneaking into the mix and if you can remove that card you're not going to see your Gardevoir knocked out in return your sashian v may be able to stick around so got to be looking out for that card specifically as it is uh it's pretty interesting to see in Gardevoir prize cards going out and ever important moment here of the game James Kelly surprised that one path to the peak and an Alexa Sparkle not ideal toward prizing a Ralts not the best but Mirage step can make up for it historically torque pricing palpat is never good as well but I don't think it's going to be as big here all in all feels like a fair fight dance with that power tablet prized could definitely matter you do need to play a bunch of those in order to get a one hit knockout on a Gardevoir ex that doesn't have any damage counters on it so much math that's gonna have to be tracked here power tablets being played on advances and we're gonna have tord reclive with extra energy cards in play We're counting buyer threes and twos here and it is time the Masters finals underway Vance Kelly with the start and what a start it will be John is like V there starting things off being Nest ball in him but we did see the forest seal Stone so a good look into what could be a very great start at the World Championships finals fans going to take a moment to check the prize cards we see our best players doing this very often moving all the Pokemon to the front all the energy cards to the back try to get as best of account as you can to figure out what those six cards are what are the important things for veins to be checking in general but also just this matchup specifically yeah when I think about this matchup of course you're going to be looking to knock out those curlias you want to limit the draw power from towards so boss's orders is going to be a big one to look out for if you're able to find those cards back to back chain them together maybe you can slow down toward and you won't burn through his deck in three turns we see the note taking Vance wanting to make sure on the biggest stage no mistakes are made gotta take your time you gotta figure things out no reason to rush at this point 75 minutes for this three-game potential set that we have lined up Vance having that forest sealstone in hand will ensure that he's able to make something happen this turn but having to use it early always feels a little unfortunate doesn't it yeah I mean you have it in the deck so that you have the opportunity to reach for that but you'd love to hold on to this resource for maybe that mid game potential or finding that key bosses orders that you need if it's going to lead to you know two Pokemon added to your bench on turn one that's still fine we actually do see Vance shuffling the deck here it makes me wonder if he feels like he can get a fusion strike system for one maybe two cards in before having to commit to the force healstone if one or two cards drawn does lead to something like a battle VIP pass and you can save this Forest seal that would be excellent and I think that is what we're lining up for one single card drawn here we go Fusion strike system drawing a number of cards equal to the number of fusion strike Pokemon you have in play another seal Stone right one more try here as we see that four system played down Fusion strike system for one looking for that VIP pass unable to find it iono is decent on the next turn potentially depending on what tort is able to do and Van's actually choosing to pass the turn values holding on to this Forest seal what do you make of it and hold on for a second toward recklev two VIP in this opening hand yep added one right off the top there and that's going to be a bench filler that's exactly what torg wants to see but yeah as you mentioned four Vance not adding that card in that means that all four battle VIP pass in the deck are going to be dead cards you can maybe get some use of them with chromomatic but it could be some some choppy draws now the interesting thing here for tord is if he wants to make use of that Mirage step curlia even though he's got two battle VIP pass he can't overfill the bench really right so how should tord navigate this position how many Pokemon do you expect to see off the option of four that he has yeah potentially three here you could go with the double rolls and the radiant Greninja if you're thinking that you can work in the Mirage step but it doesn't always hurt to have that other rolls down you don't know if you're going to be holding on to this hand your opponent could disrupt you and maybe you draw into all those curlias so having rolled Stone never a Bad Thing starting the creselli is also kind of annoying for toward it's not really that good in this matchup it could come in and maybe if you get a bunch of damage counters in Play Take a knockout on a meloetta potentially or an oricorio to close out the game but you don't really want to have this in play Early he'd much rather it be pretty much any other basic in his deck besides save for that zashin yeah perhaps you work in the lunar blast to chip down on a mu Vmax but this is this is not the ideal starter here the choice off VIP pass will be that radiant Greninja and the Ralts and toward going with the shuffle here makes me anticipate a potential concealed cards wait to see what you draw before you commit to this next VIP yeah we'll see what is added from here you could always just draw into an additional Pokemon and that may mean that we see a full bench as adding an additional Pokemon and then battle VIP pass you get your two more you've got all five it will be concealed cards ditching that psychic energy allowing tort to draw two off the top fog Crystal and Ed Gardevoir EX do see it looks like a refinement curlia in this hand there is no supporter card here for toward Rec Lev at the moment not the draws you're looking for of course fall Crystal could lead to additional energy down the line you could draw more cards with radiant Greninja on a later turn refinement for an additional two but this turn would be a little slower unless you work this Mew into the mix and we do see that mu brought to the front of the deck it's excellent mysterious tail ability would allow tord to look at the top six cards of the deck and try to find an item card maybe looking for an opportunity to get a turn to Gardevoir ex into play through a rare candy that is something that there is the potential for and with a refinement curlia in hand distort almost feel like he needs to ditch that option of the Mirage step is it better to not go for that in this line or in with the way this hand has played out yeah I think you need to just commit to the draws at this point and focus on the refinements get these rolls down into play if you Retreat this Cresselia and even don't find the rare candy finding level ball here would be pretty solid fall Crystal as well you could just get the the final rolls down into play and you'll be able to draw plenty next year unfortunately though for Torrid mu is only able to find item cards so something like level ball definitely seems great for the next turn but it would not be able to find him something like that professor's research there I'm sure he would love to potentially grab something to just see him more cards this turn he's not going to have that option though it's going to be stuck with whatever this hand holds for him considering the Ultra Ball but likely it would be the fog Crystal here you would lose a lot of cards in this hand if you go for it but this does open up potential for searching through for a different Pokemon maybe you could find that luminion if we don't already have that yeah it looks like Ultra Ball will be the take luminum V is certainly an option it's luminous silence it allows you to search the deck for any supporter card but filling the bench with a little mini on at this point would be pretty bad you know towards got two support Pokemon in play already in the Mew and Greninja started the Cresselia if you only have two routes in play that's really not the strategy you want to go for yeah I think that this is definitely not the following turn you're just trying to get all these rolls down to play you know that your opponent is going to open up a bench please for you on the next turn they like taking knockouts on the other side absolutely toward crossing the fingers that The Knockout will be on something that is not a Ralts Vance not playing something like that block slider Ice Cube that we've seen in these mu lists so it wouldn't be an option to Target down or else that would be really nice in a spot like this be able to take that pretty easy KO on something you don't really mind leaving this Mew in play too much but now it will be the pass Vance Kelly draws return it is an Ultra Ball could allow him to thin the hand down potentially looks like he's holding on to a mu Vmax Fusion strike energy and iono as well I think this lines up pretty nicely you have your energy ready to go you can evolve this Pokemon and you're ready to take some Knockouts but you could work in the Iona there and although towards hand isn't the best you need to get your own setup rolling here Van's kind of hinted in our pre-game interview at some potential line some potential options that he has in this matchup you can tell he's prepared he's thought through the different opportunities that he could have and maybe would take it a strategy that's not normal do you have any idea what Vans could be keying into could it be something like a psychically play leaving up a one prizer potentially it really depends on what you want to to go with here leaving the prize cards out now doesn't seem like the worst strategy it's it's so unlikely that towards able to work in anything this early in the game Vance is forced to commit this Forest sealstone uses that star Alchemy V Star Power it now can search the deck for any single card and add it to the hand it looked like he drew a couple of VIP pass maybe wishing those were in the previous hand on the first turn but for now I feel like they will likely just be some Ultra Ball fodder yeah and that's exactly what you want those cards to be at this point in time just get rid of them thin this hand down and continue to draw it looks like a little more needs to be done if Genesect V is going to assist in drawing up it's it's wild to see on the second turn here still just three Pokemon and play on the side for advance on Vance's end is it worth respecting a potential turn to knock out from tour do you want to go for that box of disaster or are you trying to save that for later on that to me is a big question here when does box of disaster come into play yeah I think you have to find the perfect turn for it later in the late stages of the game if you can get this down onto the MU Vmax and combine this with perhaps path to the peak and iono then you have this uh spot that towards in where he not only needs to draw out of a low hand size but then find the counter play with that final loss vacuum Vance attaching another Forest seal Stone to this Genesect V not because it's able to be used but because he no longer wants it in his hands just get that out he does have a choice belt in this hand he could put that on the MU V-Max choice belt's not really a great card in this matchup you can use it to KO azashian V potentially but Josh and V is pretty much always going to have a lot of damage on it anyway and I think Vance is holding off on putting the choice belt in play because he wants to leave that tool slot open for the box of disasters potentially yeah if this Pokemon isn't attacked into it because he toured go for an Ultron strategy and targeting down Genesect bees then no damage is going to be on this Pokemon not a great draw here lost a city and a VIP pass you can see the lost city come into play but lost zoning the Mew doesn't really do too much at this stage and Vance also pretty badly needs to find another mu V he's gonna play it down anyways because he forced to the the draw is that important all four Pokemon accessorizing here as we continue to draw up primomatic could be solid here a big coin flip incoming heads fans can search for any card he wants and Tails means he gets nothing but does than a card out of his hand so can draw two more with this Genesect really hoping to find an out to another movie at a minimum and there it is Mu V that fourth card thankfully adding that down it was going to be a long shot to see this movie Max removed but you're playing against toward Reckless on the other side you got to be worried about everything mu Vmax able to use max Miracle taking the KO on towards own Mew Vance has taken the first prize of this Masters finals sending you to the Lost Zone thanks to Lost City being in play yeah lost city is a great card for this matchup if you're able to Target down pieces of the Gardevoir line if you can remove those results early or the curlia then maybe the super rod is not going to be nearly as effective finding some late key pieces to continue drawing towards hand is not that good he does have a curlia here to refinement and he has a fog crystal and a psychic energy it looks like so has the option to shuffle the deck but probably doesn't want to at this point since he knows there's no supporter on the bottom but you see the ditch of a VIP pass finding another curlia and this is exactly what tord wants to do chain these curlius together refinement after refinement and hopefully find something like an Iona this turn shiny narconic Gardevoir also added to the hand so rare candy gets a little more important to find could continue to draw even more here also having that Mirage step curlia could we see the interesting play of Mirage step just for one curlia this turn he's definitely considering it and if he's going to do this play I don't expect to see this other refinement be utilized because he wouldn't want to risk drawing into the other girl yeah yeah but I notice it's on the bottom of the deck right yeah it was Iona to the bottom on the last turn yeah you see the fog crystal in hand would like to do that and use the reading Greenwich but doesn't want to shuffle the deck right so we're really stuck here considering how to go about this considering all the options toward is if nothing else meticulous with this game we will see Mirage step being utilized and now we'll search the deck for that final curlia probably one of the weaker Mirage steps you could ever see yeah I guess literally the weakest Mirage step you could see I mean you could try and go for zero it is a legal attack to announce and it will be curly of found placing it directly onto the bench not having to worry about Ralts at all Kirlia is just in play and that will mean that Pokemon has been in play for a turn so it can't even evolve into one of towards pair of Gardevoir on the next turn door just hiring his replacement there for one curly in one curlia likely going to be out and with the lost city not being countered that means that this Pokemon will be removed from play completely if you are going to lose one curly though at least it wasn't refinement yeah absolutely it will send that Waltz to the Lost Zone as well which can definitely have an impact in the late game if you need the super odd one back and then try to play a rare candy into a Gardevoir a late game play like that is totally something you could line up Advanced now starting off the turn looks like another Choice belt in the hand really doesn't want to play that since you want to see save one of these mu V to be able to have that box of disaster and volvance does have cremomatic in hand you actually can no longer discard tool cards to crimomatic there's been a Narada all tool cards are their own classification you can no longer ditch that for a cranium if thinning is that important you could still play this card you have those copies of lost vacuum which you could eventually remove one of these but it looks like that is going to be the line there yeah Vance feeling like his hand is kind of clogged he needs to draw as much as possible it will just be a fusion strike system for only two cards another crimomatic and it looks like that Crystal Cave not a super good stadium in this matchup a pretty interesting Tech choice for Vance this weekend lostbox was very popular we are going to see cram getting rid of another cramomatic there's the flip and it's another Tails two tails for Vance so far in this final match cram for creme really hurts when you see the Tails two more cards hopefully something to get the ball rolling Vance has really not had a very powerful start here he's drawn a decent bit of cards but nowhere near what you expect to see from the high octane new V-Max deck yeah you really you're just looking to burn through the deck at this point you want to make sure that in the late stages of the game when your opponent is using naiono you have the resources available to close out and it's it's just clogged right now the hand is clogged the deck is clogged and you're not burning through at this stage fans did draw and Nest ball this can get one more Pokemon in play it does a couple things here thins the card out of the hand but also gets a Pokemon out of the deck and puts another Fusion strike Pokemon in play making your Fusion strike system all the more powerful effectively playing one card allowing you to draw two more we'll see this muvi added this could be the recipient of the box of disasters eventually if we see that as all of these Pokemon have found tools of course that's an option the Lost vacuum play you mentioned is pretty solid as well as it thins your hand down in addition to getting rid of the tools that really are not useful in this specific matchup Vance thinking about maybe some other cards to potentially play from this hand it will just be the draw on the Genesect looks like two cards added to this hand once again it is a lost vacuum so that's a way we can see some cards thinned out on the next turn but Vance has used all his Fusion strike systems at this point there's really nothing else you need to draw yep Ultra Ball in the end as well too so could find that final mu V Max if you'd like to but this is a great hand to work with on the next turn you have the boss's orders this is the only real thing missing was that double turbo energy so if fans can find that next turn we'll have multiple Pokemon that could start attacking here Max Miracle utilized once again taking the KO sending Kirlia and Ralts to the Lost Zone toward recklev draws for turn I believe has that zashin V now that's something that can pretty easily come in and one hit KO and UV Max you gotta look work a little harder if you want to use the Gardevoir The Shining Arcana Gardevoir to get the KO we'll see which way toward wants to go with it drawing two off refinement it's a rare candy and a level ball neither of those being much help at this point rare candy only does any good if there's a Ralts in play yeah we need to see a lot more psychic energies in the discard pile if you want to see a one hit knockout on a new V-Max this time around looks like one card was found the the psychic energy off the shiny narcana but chose not to take it as you would like to continue to use this to burn could draw some additional cards with the radiant Greninja at this stage and every card matters here toward just thinning at this point I think hoping to draw into one of the two copies of professors research more than likely in this stage just ditch the hands draw a bunch of cards and get some psychic energies into the discard pile now as toward you've got a couple of attackers the Gardevoir was shining Arcana and the Brain Wave attack and you've also got zashin with its powerful storm slash they're effectively the same attack they cost the same amount of energy they both feel 60 base damage and then 30 more for each psychic energy you have attached to the Pokemon how do you decide which one you want to attack with at any given time when is it correct to go with the two prize Pokemon and when is it correct to put your potential draw power at risk yeah occasionally it's about the hit points but most of the time it's about that reversal energy if you're able to work that into the mix with the Chinese iconic Gardevoir it really is that additional reach that you're looking for with physician it's going to have to be all those basic psychic energies and you usually don't see that until the late stage of a game toward will need nine energy on one of those two Pokemon in order to pick up the one hit knockout on a muv Max using that Gardevoir it could be that reversal energy plus six more basic psychics and we're getting to the point where he's kind of close to having at least six in the discard pile it looks like four there maybe five yeah I see four so far but of course we've got a little bit off the side there probably not going to be uh in reach this turn unless we see an incredible supporter uh being played and all the cards thrown down it probably is going to be that Cresselia having to work in the chip damage at this stage of the game which is not bad it's it's surprise cards you're certainly willing to give up at this point if you can soften this Pokemon up then it makes it a lot easier to work in the Gardevoir next turn yeah the thing about this matchup Vance has to attack a lot toward has one prized Pokemon and two prize Pokemon Torrid actually only has to attack two times to win the game KO one mu Vmax KO another mu V-Max so there is options as well to maybe take some Genesect Kos something like that but really if you can go all in on just two big Vmax Knockouts I feel like that's the normal strategy especially when you look at what's prized and you see the palpat there is you may not have the reach for bosses orders to continue to chain those together so leave it upon yourself to just reach for the two big Knockouts continued to throw away those psychic energies and you will have the resources there to close out at the end toward ditching another rare candy finding another psychic energy also that Artisan as a counter Stadium there is an important card in this hand that I think tort is wanting to be mindful of not discarding he has that Loft vacuum he does have professors research in hand but is lost vacuum really something he can afford to discard I think that is a key card here you need to hold on to that even though you see Vance has all of these Pokemon with tools attached it easily could be replaced for the box of disasters and that would be a disaster for you toward finding a psychic energy off of this fog Crystal could even just line up for the lunar blast on Cresselia this turn dealing 110 damage set up for that two-hit knockout you can attack three times to eat Kaling one Mew and that's okay still you do open yourself up to being psychically however I was afraid you were saying attack with Priscilla three times I don't think not quite not quite cresilia not gonna be around quite that long shining Arcana number two coming into play can draw two more cards adding them directly to the hand if either of them are a psychic energy toward would be able to get that extra attachment in play somewhere if you would like yeah seeing the commitment here of the shiny norconic Gardevoir almost guarantees we're going to see the Gardevoir ex this turn on that other curlia you can't leave a single curlia out there it would easily get knocked out by a boss's orders then you have no reach to get these energies into play in the later turns toward ditching two psychic energy off this Ultra Ball thinning out a Gardevoir ex needs to add that to hand of course needing to use that powerful psychic Embrace ability really the namesake of this deck using this Gardevoir in order to get those extra energy Cards into play it is what makes it so powerful well chip we somehow got here there's six energies in the discard pile if the reversal energy is found it's an easy Retreat sequence here you if you don't find it off of the draw here it is going to have to be that lost vacuum that's lost to the professor's research but maybe at this stage of the game you go for it is he going to go for this play does tort feel like even if he loses this vacuum he's at a point in the game where it may not matter quite as much that could be the situation and it seems like it is professors research will draw seven cards giddy up looking for the reversal energy here to get the job done line up a big knockout on that new V-Max two cards still to come however does have gardevoirs shining Arcana still and it could come down to that toward playing two copies of this reversal energy one count higher than we're used to seeing in these Gardevoir lists does he find it here the odds are not too bad he's drawn seven effectively nine with disability there's a research and a boss's orders missed here unable to get the reversal it's gonna have to be the three attacks this time around Cresselia still can work in that shift damage but that is a huge miss here throwing away the Lost vacuum he's looking at his deck saying there's like seven cards left how'd I miss yeah yeah I mean you have to wonder on this turn he's seen so many cards he's discarded so many cards it was probably pretty decent odds to see either one Universal energy or even gets nine psychic energy in the discard pile it seemed kind of hard with only three at the start of this turn but this deck can see so many cards or it may be even hitting a psychic energy offshining Arcana that was another option I think it's gonna have to be a two-hit KO line with this lunar blast Cresselia maybe even retreating what does he hit with here I mean you can work in a lot of damage here now with this guard of work I mean you might as well throw all the energies on there right I mean if you throw too many you make it pretty easy for your opponent to psychic leap and that's kind of what I'd be worried about at this point take all this damage out of play effectively erasing a full turn that's a great Point chip yeah we'll see if that comes into play there for Vance on the following turn of course can always copy that attack with the MU VMAX we're seeing seven energies right here gonna be short gonna be 270 damage into this mu Vmax the Colossal 310 hit points able to allow this Pokemon to hang on fans can actually breathe a pretty big sigh of relief here and that is a massive Miss on toward recklev's end and that is going to make Vance feel pretty decent about his position in this game red okay especially with that zashin being in play now that is a a big piece the fact that that two prized Pokemon that's pretty easy to KO is now down right you can remove some big threats here you can also just easily steal those two prize cards at any point in the game with the boss's orders it's just very tempting to just knock out the active here though Vance does have that box of disasters as the draw for turn we'll see if that gets worked in in this game but we might actually be in a situation where it doesn't even matter if ants can psychic leap and KO this Gardevoir he goes to three prizes he just needs to take another one prize KO and then you can close out the game on the zashin V on the bench Tor does have collapsed Stadium hanging around so Vance does need to be a little bit mindful of that that's an option for towards potentially just discard that liability at the end of the game take it away Vance's potential win condition so should he try to capitalize now go after the two prizes that is the question maybe yeah I mean those those price cards if you can if you can take those now sure you're going to be two prizes away from winning the game but you still need to have the reach to potentially knock out a guardivory X or just deal with the two threats at hand that you'll see uh toward bringing up the interesting thing however is I mean Vance would effectively Force toward Define reversal energy which I guess he should assume is pretty likely it was kind of unlucky for tord to not get it in the last turn so you should probably assume that tord needs the reversal energy or like a hit on The Shining Arcana because there's so much damage on the Gardevoir it can't easily have more energy cards added to it with the box of disasters added to the MU Vmax maybe there's a line here where if you can find one amplifier it bosses up the zashian V take the knockout then you're just watching toward have to knock out his own Pokemon there with the Gardevoir into the box of disasters Vance also could go for a one-hit knockout on a guard of Art EX to potentially close out the game so there is a world where veins could take out zashin here and then try to take out Gardevoir ex next turn that is really difficult to do you have to play a lot of damage modifiers in one single turn all four of your power tablets if there are no damage counters on the Gardevoir ex and Vance does know he has prized a power tablet so something risky I mean there's a 50 50 chance if he takes two prizes this turn he would take one off of the prize cards right and I don't believe he has played once thus far this game we'll see if Genesect can give us a little more information here as five cards are going to be added to the hand if we see all the amplifiers maybe we see this switch and there's two tablets added that is three tablets right there full hand of tablets all of them available having double turbo energy as well does open up plays to maybe attack with this mu V Max on the bench plenty of lines of play for Vance here psychic leaping option bosses orders potentially if the draw is there it looks like the find was a mu V-Max so Vance really not able to do too much this turn it will be a psychic leap the question here becomes now that this movie Max has shuffled in 270 damage effectively removed from play what does Vance promote well you have for your treat there in the movie but you also have another new Vmax ready to go in the hand I don't know if you're going to be holding on to that hand as torad as synonym six cards and Iona is starting to look pretty good so I I don't mind just bringing up a Genesect V and letting those two price cards fall is there a world where you put the Vmax up there with the box of disaster on it if your opponent hits into it I mean you get a prize card there right and then you go down to just two prizes if they attack with a Gardevoir yeah but I guess losing your only attacker is uh pretty scary at this stage of the game so the iono counter play in there would really leave this as a tough call Vance taking stock of towards resources what has been utilized vacuum is in the discard pile that I mean I honestly would not hate the box of disaster mu Vmax coming up into the actor I think if you were going to do that maybe van should have put the double turbo energy on this that actually would have been a pretty decent line of play forced toward to really commit uh to take the KO or find a boss's orders something like that to get around that box right you'd Force the boss's orders from toward and that means you get to hold on to the hand that you have which has all of the gas you need to close out in a match like this tour draws return finding the super rod can put back some of these Evolution pieces that have hit the discard pile thankfully for toward they did not get sent to the Lost zone no lost city and play for Vance it does look like tort has plenty of iono in the hand as well that is something that could be really strong using that iono putting Vance down to just three cards I don't even know if we have time do you see the board state where it's at now super rod may just end up being a great way to add some additional energies back in without damaging yourself we could see that with the shiny narcana to continue to draw up there's some really interesting lines here to play around box of disaster concealed card discarding a psychic energy in order to draw two cards does finally find that reversal energy lots of plays lined up for tord I think is there one rare candy at the rare candies and the prizes for tour to actually see I know he's discarded too he has one in the prize cards so I mean if he puts back rolls this turn takes a rare candy off the prizes he could get value next turn by Rare candying into that shining Arcana Gardevoir let's see what he goes for he is eyeing that up there and even the curlia too this this could just be a potential way to draw out of an awkward situation later on if your opponent does use Ayano we did see that Vance shuffled one of those back in with the pal Pat earlier on pretty solid Synergy here for tord using super odd to place those three Pokemon directly back into the deck and then instantly using Artisan to grab that Ralts putting it back into play still has that Iona toward taking a moment to look at the cards that were available in the deck he knows if he plays iono those are the cards he's gonna have to work with in his hand wasn't too much going on there we will see the psychic Embrace placing in damage counter on the Cresselia retreating it to the bench and Gardevoir coming to the active brain wave incoming this is a pretty easy knockout but it is only two prizes for tord he may still have to get through two V-Max Pokemon yep has the reversal energy he's gonna go for it with the boss's orders so he's committing to this play box of disaster will yield a knockout here toward holding on to collapse Stadium I think we're going to see the zashian V hit the discard pile that is a price card you cannot give up at this stage of the game you're gonna lose one of your prizes here with the Gardevoir attacking into the box of disaster hopefully the hit points of this Gardevoir ex hold up he's thinking through it Artisan was put into play last turn debating if it is worthwhile I mean it makes a lot of sense to me get rid of the easy win condition for your opponent force them to find a way to KO this gardevar but no we will see this knockout Gardevoir goes down toward promoting the Cresselia and Vance Kelly he's gonna take a prize card here and will be able to potentially win the game this turn yeah we know the amplifiers are in hand you only need one if you want to knock out the zashian V mu V is going to evolve into the movie Max looks like we are having a discussion at the table with our judges maybe just the order of operations here of who promotes a Pokemon first and who gets to take their prize card first all these things could matter I haven't looked at the compendium in a minute I'll Trust the judges to get the job done there very unique situations Vance promoting this Genesect having an escape rope in hand he does take his prize card now drawing for turn Vance Kelly can go up a game here in the world's finals if he finds the pieces this turn all four power tablets in this hand he also has an Ultra Ball as well that can guarantee the new V-Max is going to be able to draw a lot of cards this turn yeah I mean with Yori corio you can also just play that down onto the board you can Ultra Ball you can basically fill the board and draw every card that you have in your deck we'll just have to see if the ordering is there love seeing the Artisan plate here you're not going to search out any Pokemon unless we see Meloetta hanging out in there but just to see what's going on in there and where the bosses ores are yeah it's nice it's nice to get an eye on it could be okay to just grab the meloetta draw a few more cards I think it depends on if Vance has another genesects and it is prized right so maybe filling the bench here you know you've got or Aquario in hand you've got meloetta in the deck put those two Pokemon in play You're Gonna draw a bunch with the fusion strike system yeah I mean that's a full burn of the hands go time I think there are two bosses orders in the deck so two outs immediately for Vance Kelly to try to close this game out does still need an energy card however let's not forget and it needs to be double turbo energy Fusion strike energy not helping in this stage well thrown away the oracoreal means that you could just go and find that mu V I'd be thinning as much as Vmax was in hand yes yes UV Max in the hands and this discard of the oricorio does thin a card out of the hand and also a card out of the deck yeah this is beautiful you can play every single card here and draw six any one of those will uh if they are the boss's orders would be fantastic and even just find that energy too you need both those pieces if you want to close out it's a two-card combo at this stage bosses orders and double turbo energy toward having to think about what to promote here you could send up the Gardevoir it's got the most HP but it would force your opponent to no longer need bosses orders if they found all four power tablets and there they are laying them on the table four power tablets and now six cards drawn with Fusion strike system leading boss and double turbo energy there's the DT and the boss's orders I think Vance Kelly has it bosses orders Ko zashin B and two prizes taking the win in game one of our Master division finals what a way to close out in game number one here Vance Kelly for power tablet you could have knocked out that Gardevoir ex if you wanted to yeah it would have worked out so tort can maybe be thankful that it wouldn't have mattered if collapse Stadium had come into play or not maybe would have limited Advance a little bit it's one less Pokemon put into play but at this stage Vance finding himself advantaged in this final game up against one of the absolute best to ever even touch a Pokemon card in toward Rec lab 35 minutes that game took and we didn't see that many turns chip that's really just goes to show what these players have to do each and every turn to get the job done you got a lot to think about there and I think toward missing on that reversal energy that might haunt him if he doesn't see a good game too that was a really tough turn because it was pretty high odds he saw a bunch of cards and he didn't even have to necessarily find reversal energy he also could have found nine psychics a little harder to do but certainly possible and if you're not drawing reversal energy you got to be drawing something else right there's got to be good cards in the deck we did see the Ultra Ball with the double psychic on that turn so a lot of resources used there but sometimes it just doesn't work out even though you took a pretty solid calculated risk toy this was a big decision here from toward redcliffe taking The Knockout but also allowing his own Gardevoir to be ko'd he knew Vance had a win condition that turn but he just had the hope he had to cross his fingers and the Genesect was too strong finding the boss's orders to take that knockout here we go player shuffling up game number two underway you expect this high level play from both of these players they've done so much to get to this point toward being one of the best and toward being who he is in advance making it all the way from day one battling tons of excellent opponents through day two including Azul Garcia griego in the top four you don't expect to see many mistakes at this stage but do you think there's any other strategies these players could try to utilize as we move into a game too I mean we saw already from toward evalued that loss fact you really wanted to hold on to that for the right time but then pulled the trigger when he needed to it's all an opportunity where you could get ahead and not have to worry about sneaking in an additional attack if you can win this game in two attacks clearly you'd love to go for that we have seen counter play back and forth in this matchup before with bosses orders if we can see those early then maybe you do get some great Play Vance has those Lost City where you can Target down those curlias so it really just depends on when you find those cards and if it's at the right time if you do maybe you switch it up here we go opening hands being found both of our competitors looks like Tor did take a mulligan so Vance will have one more card to work with and a second Mulligan actually for toward recklev the last thing you want to do is be given new V-Max extra cards yep those uh those usually end up being battle VIP pass or something good grandma Maddox we've seen uh you don't want to give Vance any additional help the deck is already pretty strong and I mean we saw that opening from game one it wasn't great it really wasn't that's what's impressive to me about Game number one it was pretty clunky honestly for Vance the early game was a lot of fusion strike system for one Fusion strike system for two and even in the mid and late game it was not that good all the way till that last turn looks like a third Mulligan now for toward recliff it was only on that last turn that we finally saw a fusion strike system for more than three or four cards I believe well you talked about alternate strategies maybe towards going for the deck out plan here on Vance it's already gonna have three additional cards in hand I mean it is optional how many Mulligans you want to draw and maybe you just don't play the Iona three additional cards being able to be added to Vance's hand of course in the Pokemon TCG when you draw your opening hand of seven you must find a basic Pokemon you have to start with a basic if you are unable to do so gotta Shuffle that hand back in and draw what we call a mulligan and it looks like for toward once again that Cresselia will be the starter to the hand pretty good for silly is not the one you want to see these prize cards going to mean so much here double four seal Stone on one side it rolls again on the other side for toward Reckless that Meloetta being in the prizes for Vance is going to eliminate any potential for striking first going second you know taking the turn one melodious Echo KO no longer on the table we could see a psychic leap come out maybe tail of Ralts but a little less likely toward prizing that Mew that is really not ideal along this side forward toward has that battle VIP pass I guess look through we've seen this time and time again take your time figure out what all those prize cards are just gonna get the bad news that one else is down but it's not nearly as bad when you are playing The Mirage step not too bad at all same thing we saw in game one one ralt's being prized it's not going to stop toward if he's got any energy cards in his hand radiant Greninja could also be a nice card to get into play try to see a few more options a few more pieces for now it will just be a pair of Ralts hitting the bench once again a little unfortunate to start that Cresselia not the best in this matchup it's not terrible by any means you'd certainly rather start at mzashian or luminion V which toward also plays there actually is no energy cards at all in this hand it does have that Forest seal Stone however do you really want a forest sealstone to retreat I don't think so me neither so it will just be a pair of Ralts grabbed placing them directly onto the bench from this powerful item card really a card that has totally shaped our standard format so many decks playing it I think if we counted all the cards and all eight of our top eight competitors decks I mean was there anyone that didn't have four battle VIP pass in their list they'd be a fool not to draw for turn now for Vance does find a nest ball looks like an Ultra Ball in hand cram-o-matic waiting in tow but no battle VIP pass at this moment a few power tablet as well that's an awkward card to find early we'll see finally the first heads of the game there for advanced Kelly is that switch start switch cart is going to turn into a Vettel VIP pass absolutely definitely the card that you expect to see grabbed if you're able to search for any one card thanks to flipping heads you got to get the best card in your list on turn number one and it will be that VIP and we saw in the hands looked like there was Nest ball a couple other ways to get some Pokemon down into play but that thinning this opening hand could be tricky and that is a bit of a worry as Mu Vmax when your opponent takes a bunch of Mulligans whenever you get a bunch of additional cards in your hand it could actually be kind of awkward to get to a low hand size so that you can actually draw through your deck with Fusion strike system calculated by toward no I do think Vance did have at least an Ultra Ball so that'll be something that'll work get you a few cards down I also did see some power tablet in this opening hand here from Vance really a card that you want to save in this matchup give yourself that option to get the big KO on a Gardevoir ex having it in this opening hand is pretty awkward actually three in this opening hand forest sealstone was around maybe you could try to solidify iono at some stage just get these carts out of the hand because it's a it's unfortunate to see them so early usually if you see like you have to play one early you're probably going to throw away at least two or three more because they really work together vein signing a card to the hand I actually believe it is the escape rope choosing not to go for the battle VIP pass we could see an escape rope KO on a raltz this turn with an Alessa Sparkle play I think this is what Vance is going to go for just pure aggression this could get punished by toward if he's able to find the Mirage step on the next turn this is very risky I like it you're up a game in the finals of our TCG Championship try to push that Advantage go with the aggression I mean you think about the punish on the other side if Mirage step is waiting you just walk right into triple curlia and sure you're going to take some prize cards to begin but you'll end up in the same spot the clunky hands the clunky deck yeah it's going to be a pretty big commitment here from Vance for this play he's gonna have to use this for a steel stone let's go fetch out a fusion Trek energy he's going to have to probably play this Ultra Ball if he wants to draw any cards this turn he may have to play all three of these power tablets or at least lose them all this turn you either play all of them or none of them it's gonna be the forest sealstone and let's see if this is the fusion strike energy being grabbed here he does if he goes for a psychically play I mean I think he would he definitely needs to find another muv he's not going to necessarily be shuffling this one back into the deck he can choose to leave it in play but getting another movie would protect against toward finding something crazy like rare candy Gardevoir and you know just three psychic energy fans might be saying that's pretty unlikely though I mean Tor played a VIP pass and that's it turned I mean candy shinerakana get one energy from the Arcana and then reversal energy is a knockout here yeah that works you have to be very worried about towards if it was Gardevoir ex as well and you're burning all these power tablets even if it takes some damage from Psychic embrace it's gonna have a lot of hit points Ultra Ball will find a second new V prepping for that potential worst case scenario outcome and a less a sparkle targeting both mu V grabbing out those Fusion strike energy cards I mean this energy is not guaranteed right no E4 sealstone for it okay but it's a big commitment to do this yeah he's used that one V-Star power you only get one again the jokes about tord maybe having to do that instead it is Advanced going for The Knockout with them UV two cards in hand control one with the genesects if you don't play this down double tap for it okay drawing three cards here crossing the fingers hoping to find a VIP pass let's see what these three cards hold tablet and a movie and a double turbo energy that was if it was a Genesect you could continue to draw but there's only one in Play It's Just Gonna Have To Be The Knockout on the roads Vance still in an advantage I mean it's very unlikely for Tor to respond to this muvee so I don't necessarily dislike the aggression but it's maybe a line more most players would not have gone for but you see toward promoting the vaults right away however he does have forest sealstone in hand that can guarantee him one piece potentially iono minion was the draw as well a couple of Ultra Ball in this hand tort has plenty of options laid out before him yeah clearly with the four sealstone the reach with the supporters you could go very aggressive and go for the China chronic Gardevoir I don't think that's the line you want to go for here play it safe get the Mirage step rolling into yeah you're gonna give up some prize cards but Vance needs a lot going for him to continue things are going to be a little scary here for tord though he's got to play the cyano he does not have a psychic energy in hand yet so he is pretty forced into that line he also actually you know he knows his opponent's hand is not that good so toward not wanting to play Iona I mean his opponent did not do much I I kind of like this as well you do put blue mini on in play it is a bit of a liability but you really do not want to refresh your opponent's hand yeah the one risk of course is you don't want to draw into those curlias here that'd be unfortunate but you have the forest seal stone that you can play onto the luminion and then you can always guarantee that you find that psychic energy just in case things go really awry yep pretty nice to get used to that seal Stone of course for a while toward was the one popularizing the sky seal Stone and that's a card that can be really big in this new V-Max matchup two attacks he played it in his NAIC list but for this tournament it appears we've moved to the more consistent power that Forest sealstone provides attach of that steel stone to that Pokemon V on the bench professors research will discard that iono now seven cards being drawn really all toward is looking for is a psychic energy and hoping not to draw any curlias and that is exactly what he's been able to do yeah that is perfect there found exactly it was looking for you don't even need to use for a sealstone just hold on to that get all of these curlya into play I think towards gonna be drawing cards next turn plenty of refinements incoming let's get the coins ready place them on those Pokemon thinking through the rest of the hands the rest of the options don't really think there's much else you want to play here definitely don't want to put collapse down it would mean you couldn't get like earlier next turn next turn get rid of the little mini on after using Forest sealstone pretty solid and tort is actually going to use this for a sealstone right now can get any one card out of the deck what is the piece that he would like to see yeah maybe just uh honestly I think I think what towards doing here is he's using this assuming that Vance would have the option to boss his orders boss's orders yeah in combination with like a path gets value from the sealstone right now before your opponent has an opportunity to take it out of play also of course Vance playing multiple copies of lost vacuum could just discard this so really smart from toward even though he doesn't need anything right now get some value now before your opponent has the opportunity to disrupt you yeah even though you're gonna have all of these curly in play have six guaranteed draws once that guarantee the professor's research to really burn through the deck you need to have all those psychic energies in the discard pile if you want to get relevant attacks off in this game like one strategy and what we were unable to see in game one toward has found in game number two Mirage step placing three curlia directly into play a near ideal setup at this juncture Vance now drawing for turn finding a cramomatic that could become just about anything not before playing this Nest ball however searching the deck for any Basic Pokemon it will be another Genesect added to this field yep finally another Genesect added I'd love to see the draw there with Fusion strike system start to build up and start to burn through the deck here plenty of energies in play however we don't see a new V-Max just yet if you want to start taking some relevant Knockouts I'm thinking bosses orders we're talking about the lost city as well just these cards eventually start to really do some work Vance now drawing three with this Fusion strike system looking for a V-Max as well that is another piece that is missing Ultra Ball kin fetch it from the deck and also lost city could be pretty decent at this spot if it comes a question though do you want to try to Lost Zone curly and oral it's in the active spot or are we going for bosses orders this turn prize cards are there if you wanted to Target the luminion I don't think you ever really want to go after the refinement in a stage like this just there's already two other ones in play yeah taking The Knockout on the active seems like a pretty solid play it also conserves the resources of the boss's orders for later on and it really puts toward on a clock with that collapse Stadium play we'd like to work that into the mix next turn Ultra Ball ditching two not so useful cards here Alessa Sparkle and cremomatic that may have flipped Tails anyway just to fetch out some another Genesect drawing more with Fusion strike system a full board tons of draw Power available there is that mu Vmax guaranteed attack lined up here for Vance after seeing all of the Power tablets the play you're speaking about earlier maybe with attacking with the Pokemon is out the window that would have been a nice play where you could work in a two three three strategy with the prize cards making tort really have to work for it would you see Vance still not having played a supporter card can go for iono we'll Shuffle both players hands they will now place them on the bottom of their deck and then draw a card equal to the number of prize cards they have remaining very reminiscent of a very popular old card in something that we both played with plenty back in the day a little bit of disruption but also solid draw power in the early and mid game completely negating the V-Star from toward now I wonder if Vance is looking for the box of disaster this turn would this be a good time to play it you look at your opponent's discard pile there's no psychic energies in there but you also understand with triple refinement there's always a way that you could see plenty of energies flooded onto the board you have to be wary of that it will be the KO curlia and raltz going to the Lost Zone thanks to the lost city Vance down to just four prizes onto toward redcliffe's turn draws in level ball plays it immediately eyeing up a roll it's ready to put that into play maybe for a rare candy into Gardevoir later on did promote this Cresselia pretty easy to just pivot out once you put a Gardevoir ex into play have to imagine that is what tored is thinking with this it looks like another level ball coming in to get just that second Ralts really thinning the deck at this point thinning is winning we do see fog Crystal also in the hand so if you want to continue to burn psychic energies with a refinement that will be a strategy that we could see toward work in really just need to see all of those psychic energies hitting the discard pile also Shuffle of the deck pretty solid as you need to get that professor's research moving a big card that was sent to the bottom last turn for toward was that lost excuse me that collapsed stadium that would have been a great way to bump velocity get rid of this luminion and the dropper turn off that refinement did you see what that was double candies yeah those don't work right now it's too car tour definitely did not want to see too much playing this fog Crystal now to fetch one more psychic energy such a versatile card in this deck allowing in the early game for you to get your Basic Pokemon in the mid and late game finding you energy cards now refinement once again does find that lost vacuum but has it been found a little too early yeah this means finding the professor's research ends up being a bad card for you you don't want to lose the Lost vacuum again we saw how important that could be if you can work it in against the box of disasters towards does have iono in the hand can bench this routes and play the iono still has one more refinement to use and also now after evolving can you shining Arcana on the other end of this six card draw he's debating it wanting to see if there's anything else to play no reason to play this lost vacuum just yet iono coming down you're really worried about the rest of the psychic energies that would be necessary to get The Knockout on this turn reversal energy also basically has to be included in this combination here off the iono we don't see it just yet oh there's Ultra Ball double psychic though that is pretty good that adds two more to the discard pile I think there is just three at the moment so still needs one more in the discard pile choosing now to discard one hoping maybe to draw another there it is another psychic energy drawn but still no reversal energy have the Ultra Ball that can continue to thin down we have shiny Arcana Gardevoir to draw two more I'm going to use that before the Ultra Ball here and I like this decision because he knows he puts several cards on the bottom that are not helpful and that actually could work as well double energy hit off this shining Arcana he can accelerate both of these to the Gardevoir that's eight it's just short he needs one more energy card it looks so good still worth throwing these in play and I think this Ultra Ball may have to find the second shining Arcana God of War I think that is towards out at this point yeah needs to you'll get the other shining Arcana he needs to hit now just a psychic energy or reversal off of it understands the assignment here fog Crystal would work as well talked about that being such a versatile card it does mean you won't have refinement curlia on the next turn I think tord would have really liked to not have to put this shining iconic Gardevoir in play but Vance is already two prizes taken you have to make something happen this time one more psychic energy in the deck two reversal energies those are going to be the targets we're looking for here off of these last two cards four outs for toward Reckless still plenty of cards in deck this could be the difference of a winner and a loser in this game what two cards does tort find this turn needing an energy card any energy will do let's see what happens two cards what does he hit one at a time there's a psychic energy massive draw exactly what tort needs and he's gonna take a three prize KO this turn [Applause] you think about what had to happen in game number one for toward the miss the odds were so against him to find this knockout here and this has to be the most excited we've ever seen toward playing down these energies energy cards added from the discard pile three added from The Shining Arcana that powerful energy acceleration ability 12 damage counters now on this active but that is no problem a very worthy trade three prize cards taken from just a one prize Gardevoir what a turn of offense the potential to win a game with two attacks is back online for tort redcliffe taking The Knockout here half the game done in one single attack for Torrid Rec lab and sends that new V-Max and B to the Lost Zone promoting another mu V now drawing for turn has another UV to replace the one that was just discarded has that key box of disasters now but tort has not played that lost vacuum this game I'm really contemplating if there is a way that you can attack with this mu V work the two surprises into the mix at this time of the game the box of disasters doesn't really work that well if you see the reversal energy played but that's not going to be an issue anymore tord has overextended with all of his basic psychic energies they're they're going to have to come from the discard Pile in the gardevore X at this point yeah there's gonna have to be quite a bit of damage placed on at Gardevoir no matter what tort does maybe we see a super odd play in a shining Arcana but I think towards deck is still a little too thick for a play like that to happen Advanced gearing up for some powerful draws this turn thanks to Genesect V and where does the box of disaster go it looks like it will be the active hoping to attack with psychic leap this turn all fans needs to pull that off is any energy Card fusion strike energy which there's one of left and also double turbo energy either of those will work only needing to deal 20 damage and there is that double turbo yeah off the first draw finally a little bit of Fortune there for Vance finding the right card at the right time now the interesting thing here for Vance is that he with that box of disasters attached there is a world where tort could take the knockout without putting enough damage counters on something like the zoshin V so it's not a return KO potentially UV only having 180 hit points but this is a decent spot and I think Vans can also have the option here to not put a three prize Pokemon in play don't give toward a win condition next turn definitely and even in that situation if the sashian V is promoted and attacks you're going to knock that Pokemon out maybe you can combine that with an iono and then it's really hard for tort to find the right cards if he hasn't started to burn through the deck already there's the double turbo energy also the path to the peak that is a card we have not seen quite yet from Vance it can be really strong in this matchup for instances exactly like this take a knockout on this Gardevoir send all those energies to the discard pile maybe try to disrupt toward as well and put that path down toward has uh maybe a hard time getting those energies back into play yeah I can see a turn where that'd be real maybe maybe next turn you can work that in in combination with Iona you wanna I mean this turn seems not bad if you iono right putting toward just three plus down the path it could it could be great yeah there's it's certain there's certainly a world for it we'll see if Vance wants to go very aggressive and go for that play Grandma Matic is going to help out here if that is the case any card being able to be added to the hand now after this flip fans taking stock looking at the hand figuring out what resource he wants to go for has not played a supporter yet this turn judge is an option iono I believe was played already this game so that is not going to be the play it would have to be a judge which is definitely in a spot like this quite a bit weaker than the iono not sending your opponent's cards to the bottom they have an opportunity to draw the same ones and also giving them one additional card to work with it's going to be a tough spot to work through but this is what Vance is built for at this stage the plain new V-Max in countless tournaments to get to this point where he is potentially four prize cards away from becoming the world champion did you see that judge is the option still another Fusion strike system to utilize one card drawn added to the hand I think doing this does signify we are going to see this path play okay using this ability before path comes down always feels a little weird to see past the peak in a new V-Max deck but it is for reasons exactly like this think about the prize exchanges that we've seen so far this is going to lead to a three to three prize cards uh left which means that we're not going to see reversal energy at this point in the game to find any attacks tort will have to find a counter Stadium to get these psychic energies back into play by way of Gardevoir EX four cards drawn for each of these players Vance does not need much else here at this point can go for the psychic leap choosing not to shuffle in this muv good call leaving that box of disasters in the active and losing all those energies for toward recklev now what did these four cards yield for him I got a peek chip it's professors research okay that's pretty solid we'll draw plenty of cards here in this spot drop return is overall it's level ball can now be played grabbing out potentially that curlier that was put back earlier I do believe or no it will just be the manaphy just discarding thinning getting rid of it and leaving that Waltz on the bench open is a rare candy Target you see Artisan in there as well as the collapse stadium so a couple of good finds off of the professors research it uh it's failed them before if it can find the right cards here maybe torque can continue to put some pressure on it does also have radiant ninja or a vault two options of what Pokemon he would like to put into play Ready anchor ninja loses a lot of value when you've got that many psychic energy already in your discard pile but even if you still have one left it can be utilized yeah don't believe there is one left and we still see the path but obviously big piece here is we're going to see that lost vacuum and the collapse Stadium huge able to use that collapse and that is probably the perfect Stadium to draw at this point as you can use it to discard the luminum V yep we're gonna see the counter play here you can remove these surprise cards that would be very easy for Vance and you have the Lost vacuum for the box of disasters as well and this also forces Vance to discard a Pokemon from play has to lose either a Genesect or a muv potentially the Lost vacuum find is massive the collapsed Stadium toward hit exactly what he needed off of that research this is an interesting choice as of course you're only going to have one more knockout available after this you could attack with mu Vmax and but you you want to also have the ability to switch between that Pokemon if you can't find those resources at the end of the game we also could see a world maybe we're toward actually attacks with the Gardevoir ex wouldn't be too bad and he actually finds rare candy into the other guard of Rex that would make me feel a bit more comfortable about attacking with one of those two prize Pokemon could be a decent play here would take two prizes for toward and it's a high HP Pokemon that it's really difficult for Vans to deal with especially with so many power tablets already gone and that is the key card right now in this spot lost vacuum ditching the box of disasters resources left now can accelerate these energies with the Gardevoir ex and I do like what you're saying there chip you can use this Gardevoir ex as your attacker at this stage of the game and then maybe you have a big closeout knockout with the shiny narconic Gardevoir toward debating all the options does have the reversal energy in hand but is going for this Gardevoir ex play I think this is the better option I like going this route three to three prizes for both of these players oh gonna load up onto the Gardevoir here as well consideration for maybe additional path that may come down you want to have an answer to at least knock out a v Pokemon on the bench if you have a boss's orders we could even see the commitment of the reversal energy he did draw it could hold off on getting that extra attachment right now but could also commit it into play if he's worried about having it I own it back into the deck looks like that is not the case Miracle Force able to take this KO ascending toward to just one single prize card remaining this game three prizes left no way to take all those prizes this turn 250 hit points remaining on that carnivore ex all four power tablets are gone there's no way to take a direct knockout on this Pokemon any longer looking through the discard pile here for Vance checking what resources toward is utilized taking notes making sure he's aware of what is still hanging around his hand is a little clogged up he does have a boss's orders I wonder if Vance is checking for towards energy counts if Vance knows what towards energy counts are there is a world where he could go for a boss stalling play but I don't or if he thinks that Torrid only has like nine psychic energy something like that these lists are not public yet if tord was down too many energy cards that could be an option as he did actually prize a basic psychic energy but tort actually does still have reversal energy in hand to retreat yeah I think that's also what towards thinking about there while holding that reverse lunge on the last term just really have to think about every single way you can win or lose in the TCG if you want to win on the big stage well it will be an iono and it will send toward to just one single card in hand and the only way he has to draw more is that shining Arcana Gardevoir on the bench at the moment one single card Vance has to hope that it's not a helpful one see what his draw is here for turn switch cart for still Stone and an Ultra Ball off of that iono I think he has already used Escape rope this game yep used it in that opening turn and there is just one copy in this list so Vance pretty much has to try to two hit KO through this Gardevoir ex no option to get the one hit knockout gonna look through see there is just one Pokemon remaining in the deck at this point of the game it's gonna be that mu V Max so we'll have all the attackers necessary to continue to try to take prize cards in this game the prices are not lining up at this state too much hit points on the other side there for toward really just one more draw from toward Reckless if you can find that boss's orders could close out here and bring us to a game three could be all he needs really is all he needs at this point so many energy already on that Gardevoir on the bench oh there is a power tablet yeah just three played in that first turn so there is still one available but still still not enough to get this KO it will just be the hit 210 damage thrown into this Gardevoir in the active that means Vance is really two turns away from winning giving toward a little bit of breathing room draw for turn has the Artisan draw now is that super rod plays The Artisan to bump the stadium can Shuffle the deck if he knows there's good cards on the bottom that he wants and super I can't also put back something like luminion increasing the odds to find Boss's orders for the game can also add that psychic energy back into the mix if you use shiny Arcana and find that energy you don't have to attach it you could draw it and then use radiant Greninja to continue to draw so a few more outs here for toward recklev as he looks to close out here in game number two we will see the Artisan used but he's just tapping it moving on toward being an absolute Master knows exactly how to increase his outs as much as possible still a pretty thick return is on off that shining Arcana exactly what tored needs boss's orders brings up Genesect taking two prizes and we're going to a game three in our masters TCG finals [Applause] toward recklev nine psychic energies out of nowhere to take a three prize knockout then with some beautiful counter play finds everything necessary to close out there Vance Kelly had to use a lot of resources early on there did not have the answers to close out on the carnivore EX at a crucial point and the fish bails them out putting it back off the super odd turns out the rod was the perfect draw for turn from toward Reckless what a game what a set Vance went so aggressive in the early game using psychically taking a KO on a rolled was able to respond with the Mirage tip filled the board with plenty of curlia pieces and this was the key moment toward needing to find an energy card off of shining Arcana and it's the first card that he hits couldn't even believe it I couldn't believe it any no one could believe it everyone in the crowd here elated to see an amazing finals there to take it to game two the game two there and move into game number three I mean what are we in store for here chip well it could be interesting Kyle as we have less than seven minutes around seven minutes remaining here in our masters finals and we're in a world where the top cut rules could come into play of course in a normal game of the Pokemon TCG when you get to time you get plus three turns three additional turns to play things out and then if you don't have a winner by the end of those three turns the match is a tie we're in our finals we have to have a winner so Top Cut rules absolutely could be a factor here we'll get through it here in a moment in the meantime let's get down to the table these players are starting things off here for game three prize cards two boss for fans double Ralts on the other side for toward redcliffe at the tippy top two neither player loving to see that Grandma Matic this is massive does find a Tails not what you want to see it looks like look at that hand yeah Ultra Ball is gonna have to be the play to thin things down he could draw one two one or two cards I do believe here from Vance Kelly with only five minutes left in this match time rules are absolutely something that could become a factor here we'll get to if we get to those plus three turns After Time expires we play until those plus three turns are ended and at the end of that either player who is ahead on prize cards becomes our winner becomes our world champion and if our players are tied in prizes when we get to plus three turns we continue to play turn after turn until someone takes a prize it could become a situation of first to take a prize becomes the world champion now let's talk a little bit about tord he's got those two roles in the prize cards if you can get two down into play on this opening turn then you have the option to use that Mirage step get the curlias into play and then make it a lot less of an issue it's still going to be terrifying to go through that opening deck search and not see two rolls there's a lot riding on one card here for Vance Kelly he's going to be able to play out a couple cards from the hand energy attachments to them you just grabbed off the Ultra Ball it actually will be a three card draw so plenty to work with let's see can he find a VIP or a nest fall Ultra Ball is at a minimum acceptable but at the cost of having to lose box of disasters he recognizes he's thinking can he lose the box of disaster here it's the tech for this matchup possibly one of the most annoying cards to draw Vance doesn't think he can lose it yet just chooses to pass such a consistent approach to it look at this tour immediately finds two Pokemon it's battle VIP pass basically battle VIP not needed when you hit the Mew and the roads level well can find the other Ralts toward we'll take a moment to maybe check the prize cards but he's playing pretty quick here turbo toward potentially activated he's gonna get through this deck try to make this game happen and try to be the one who's ahead on prize cards he is aware of the time situation Vance is aware of the time situation if you know more about the time rules in the Pokemon TCG than torad reclev he knows what's Happening Here you have to worry this is not a matchup where you want to have only three minutes remaining on the clock easily the first prize cards generally go over to the new V-Max player toward is going to be zooming through trying to find the right resources finds battle VIP pass but does it even could hear there's no results you're just focused on using that level ball for the Mirage tip maybe you just go for the fall Crystal to guarantee the psychic energy or the Ultra Ball here now to hold on to maybe a better supporter play with the luminion just want to have all those options available torque did have aiono choosing not to play it of course knowing Vance didn't do too much draw for turn from Vance is the path to the peak that's an annoying card to have to lose here as well and it looks like he's going to choose to try to not lose it pinching the meloetta attaching box disaster now Genesect being able to draw two cards Fusion strike system looking for a nest ball or another Genesect trying to keep things rolling Vance needs to try to be the first to attack draws a cram oh Madden with the Ultra Ball it's a little risky he also has a new V-Max in the hands he is going to actually Ultra Ball away the new V-Max choosing to keep path to the peak really valuing that Stadium right now I mean you think about it tor didn't show you too much after that uh that mu there you saw the Ultra Ball which means that that could be the lumini on there so sure you easily want to have that Pat to the peak in play to try to block tort from finding that Mirage step that is basically going to be the only way the tort finds a big win here four cards drawn now for Vance off Fusion strike system looking for a switching card possibly a V-Max doesn't find too much kramomatic cannot ditch that choice belt it is no longer an item card I think Vance is gonna have to go for the judge yeah Alyssa Sparkles found but you can't Retreat this Pokemon too high of a retreat cost it's going to have to be the judge and not going to play the Pats of the peak wants to leave the potential for a Genesect V to help out here if the draw is that bad off these four cards Vance is really going to need to find energy Vmax and a switch card if he wants to attack this turn he can't really even put another Genesect in play because then he doesn't have room for another UV yeah if you find the Fusion Energy then you don't need the evolution but sure it's it's certainly not a great place to be at but you really want this prize card there is 60 seconds remaining in the world championships here we are definitely going to time in this game it is going to be big who is turn one who is turned two whose turn is it once time rules go into effect four cards now for each player what does Vance Kelly have access to VIP not useful there is the Vmax and a switch cart but I don't see the energy car he found the wrong pieces there and I've got bad news for Vance on the other side toward Reckless found just about everything he needs taking stock at the moment trying to figure it out advances unable to take a KO this turn toward becomes the one who's advantaged in this position with two psychic energies already in the Discord for tord there is the route where you just go very aggressive obviously just prize guards are important at this stage it's going to get the hit points in the active spot yeah choosing to send this up not wanting to lose a roll it's respecting the potential for Vance to have what he needs to take the KO I think it makes sense and just to pass toward draws very quickly one second zero seconds on the clock toward Ratcliffe should now be turned zero of time not a familiar place for Authority is going to be turned zero now which means he still has two turns he's gonna try to take some prize cards in this space of course it's so awkward when you want to draw with refinement but you want to leave the potential to rare candy yes into a Gardevoir at this state of the game the issue here is if Tor does not take a knockout this turn Vance becomes the first person to take a knockout and then tort is really going to be pressured to try to KOMU VMAX and mentored sorry toward will be really crushing to Kill movie mass and then veins will have the option to try to tie the game up this is really awkward a really interesting situation to try to navigate can toward really even afford to go for Mirage step is another question yeah I don't think so at this point I think you're just trying to draw into the best resources you can luminion V is also such a risk but that is one way that you could really push for that rare candy in a space like this is so difficult though with two vaults prized as well we can't forget these are all toward has to work with if he goes for Mirage step this turn and Vance takes a one prize KO and then tort takes a three prize KO I mean he's needing to hit just about everything to make that happen and with the send-up of the radiant Greninja here it's pretty unlikely tort is actually even going to be able to pull this off he needs to attach Retreat and then he can't attach again he would need rare candy Gardevoir this is going to be all in on the fish I think so Ultra Ball I'm gonna throw away that psychic energy have three of those in the discourpal for the rear candy Gardevoir and what does tord grab here could get this awesome v as a potential attacker but I mean that's something that can pretty easily be ko'd by Vance yeah you don't really want to get a curlia to put that in play because then you can't get a rare candy Gardevoir you think about the exchange here if you're using the the Gardevoir ex to attack in a state like this you're going to take the knockout if the return knockout happens the zashian V could be your only real attacker to take a knockout on the muv max at that point of the game because you're curlia that you're going to have played down has to evolve into Gardnerville reacts searching through the deck debating what to thin out here what does he want to get rid of taking a moment to check through the prizes maybe was playing pretty quickly now but I was playing pretty quickly previously but now has a bit more time we're in plus three turns the clock is no longer a factor with minion Luminous signs searching the deck for any supporter have to imagine this is a research research it's going to get seven cards in this state of the game you need to troll that rare candy that Curly would be also a solid find as it continues to draw up we see some psychic energies in the disco ball you can have enough probably to attack with that Gardevoir EX but because of the way that the time works tord will be turned two that means he's gonna have to have one big knockout lined up and have some hit points waiting behind tort is down on Ultra Ball he also has a gardevoort ex in the prize cards he's going to be relying on this draw here effectively nine cards he does have a curlia in the hand he can evolve one of these rods and he's going to research away this hand and draw seven new cards off the seven and off the refinement can he find rare candy Gardevoir and then also a basic energy to retreat this radiant Greninja seven cards coming emptying the hand out completely possibly the biggest professor's research of toward recklev's life has the Ultra Ball and the rare candy and the forest sealstone everything he needs to pull off and attack this turn almost not seeing a way to retreat this radiant Greninja which could have been a real issue there but the forest seal Stone yes could be the big bale out there guaranteeing any piece of the puzzle toward could need will Finn once more also still has refinement to utilize let us not forget such an awkward looking board but tort is going to find a way given the situation and that is what marks a great player being able to adjust to the situation tort could have said hey I want to go for my normal game plan I'm gonna Mirage that we'll put a bunch of curly as in play but he knew in time with the way Top Cut rules work he has to take a knockout this turn yep that Curly is not going to be relevant there need to throw that away search out of that Gardevoir ex you have the rare candy and skip the evolution stage get this amazing Pokemon into play which means that you're going to be able to accelerate energies onto your psychic Pokemon still need to see an energy card to move this radiant Greninja as we mentioned we did see the four sealstone this will involve toward placing six damage counters on this Gardevoir ex making it much easier for Vance to KO needing less modifiers and also Meloetta able to come in as a potential option or a new V-Max copying that attack yep that is going to be an attack to look out for if Vance is able to find some solid cards it's been all about toward here in this big turn zero far from over we're just getting started in time energy gets to save Forest sealstone actually could even concealed cards now to draw extra he has the backup of sealstone if he needs it at this point why not go for it you get more energies into the discard pile continue to draw another tort is hitting everything he needs being able to save sealstone is massive as he will likely need some combo pieces on the next turn to piece together another KO rare candy Gardevoir ex coming out and the attachment for turn to the active Greninja incoming to move it to the bench of course take your time here let's turn zero you have plenty of time to figure things out gonna take a look at what Vance has going on this Advanced has two turns to try to figure this out but it is going to be toward who strikes first Retreat of the Arena Greninja and we actually have enough energy cards in the discard pile for tord to go with the zashian vko protect this Gardevoir if tour detect with the Gardevoir there's a chance Vance could KO it so let's go with the zashin make sure Gardevoir is safe even though you're placing a lot of damage it'll be easy for Vance to respond with a knockout this is what tored wants to do 100 damage being placed five energies accelerated more than enough to KO this genocide this is really smart this means you can also incorporate that other curlia there as a shiny narconic Gardevoir at some point in the game could be a huge won a prize attacker when every prize matters here in time 210 damage storm slash takes The Knockout Tor taking the first two prizes here in game number three Vance Kelly left to promote this Meloetta if he can attack with a one prize of Alexa Sparkle will use the switch cart here at this moment however no less's prized this game or sorry no Fusion strike energy I should say and here comes the sparkle a fans can attack with Meloetta that would be really strong and he might be debating do I even play this or do I just draw two cards increasing my chances to draw Fusion strike energy yeah if you do thin those out you run into that issue of course you could draw into the forest sealstone more likely then and that could find the Final Fusion strike energy there's a lot to think about here Vance is turn one of time meaning he will have the last turn of the official time the official regulation of this match and that will mean he he's going to be in a position where he is able to with that last turn try to find a way to navigate and be ahead on prizes As Time expires two cards is that boss's orders and I don't know I think but another Genesect and we'll just go for the safer iono play this means he will be attacking with this new V-Max he does have the box of disasters attached to this Pokemon that is a huge card here for him now that that is in play toward will have a harder time responding without leaving Vance with a KO the the Lost vacuum for torg could be the biggest card in the deck for him right now on this next turn looks like energies were found I believe that Pat to the peak is also in the hand yeah I wonder you know is path the thing you need to play you normally want to save it for the late game but there's a chance that next turn is towards last turn this is the late game yeah on turn to the late game for sealstone able to be found as well fans able to potentially draw a bit more with Genesect also has a movie in hand debating potentially benching this Pokemon it would mean he's unable to bench another Genesect if he wants to draw he does also have Ultra Ball it looks like considerations there for thinning down finding another new V or just playing the one that you have in hand looks like you can thin down now and grab that Pokemon yeah maybe just get another movie out of the deck here exactly then a card out of the hand and the deck exactly what Vance is going to do want to make sure you have this Pokemon to replace if tord pops off and gets a three prize KO but if tour gets a three prize KO he'll be down to just one prize card left I don't actually think there's a way Vance can make that happen it could be all on the box of disasters big card in the matchup hanging out right there boss of disaster could be keeping Vance in this we do see Fusion strike system five more cards drawn here for Vance doesn't really need much else this turn does have that path in the hands can play it may be looking for a way to bump it on the next turn doesn't look like he found it of course Forest sealstone can still be utilized with that Stadium card in play is he going to put the path down is the question Vance checking his own discard pile wants to know what resources he still has available is it time for path it might be your only opportunity to do Advanced Kelly could be regretting this for a long time it could be so important to potentially locking out avoiding an attack from toward redcliffe and sure enough yes path to the peak toward going to be looking for so much this coming turn off the back of just one curly only four cards in hand this is a massive Mountain for toward recklev to climb Vance Kelly tying up the game four prizes a piece for our two competitors the word actually does have bosses orders in the hands multiple a battle VIP pass in the hand as well looks like really gonna need some help here starting things off with the Mew in the active spot the key card now is needing a stadium card I thought that was it but it's an iono piano could help draw out he also could mysterious tail and try to find the lost vacuum to just ditch the stadium with boss in hand he could lost vacuum it away this could be massive does he find it is that the line he needs no lost vacuum Ultra Ball and level ball as the choices Artisan is there but you cannot take that either way you can thin out one more card the rest of these cards will be going to the bottom of the deck with the iono so it's just about pulling one more Pokemon out you could use the Ultra Ball to find the sharnian Arcana Gardevoir to help out in drawing two more cards it's likely going to be your big attacker here this could be a big refinement in coming toward looking for a stadium or that vacuum or both either some some combination of these cards could be massive choosing not to play the Ultra Ball however going to go for refinement first not thinning that extra shining iconic Art of War out of the deck just yet two cards to look at there with the refinement here we go massive incoming draw has VIP pass that's of course a very easy discard see what he's able to hit any pieces to work with is there a stadium card draws it's a Gardevoir and a research no Stadium just yet but that Gardevoir can be evolved from the curlia better supporter to work with it looks like it's a tough situation you can see it on towards face trying to find a way to navigate this Arena he has found himself in if you if you found the stadium there it'd be such an easy knockout you can use the shiny iconic Gardevoir to try to go for this in combination with the boss's orders you can Target down a two prize Pokemon that doesn't knock you out on the back end with the box of disaster Ultra Ball being played for toward finding any Pokemon adding it to the hand not enough psychic Pokemon in play for the Cresselia to potentially come in take a knockout on like horicorio or Meloetta on the bench there's two water Pokemon in place so that would not quite work the most tort could do there with the moon glow reverse would be 80 damage yeah a true debate here trying to find the right resource shiny an Arcana it's gonna be two big cards we've seen toward in a space like this so often throughout the entirety of his career leaving it up to those two cards to try to get the job done it happened in game number two can he make it happen in game one game two toward found exactly what he needed can it come true once again if there's ever a time to do it it's here in the Masters finals of our world championships we saw the iconic double puzzle of time yes ocic here we go can he repeat history and find the right cards would love to find the stadium card here has the boss's orders play if he wants it draw for turn there draw for the refinement that shining Arcana excuse me does not hit what he needs another Gardevoir and a VIP pass two pretty useless cards right now and tort has a decision iono in hand research in hand he could try to dig for everything try to dig for the reversal the path the path counter the Lost vacuum and get the attack off with his shining iconic Gardevoir but that that's a lot that's tough it's really difficult to do and he doesn't have any additional draw it's really going to be onto the seven cards that he hits and I think it might be his best chance to win this game yeah there's a wild sequence where you could see this Cresselia come back into play if you use the collapse stadium and then lost vacuum it away Finance Pokemon here we go ditch the hands seven cards he needs to find the perfect combo there's the stadium there's the Lost vacuum what I think Torrid has found everything he needs how many psychic energy are in the discard pile that is the one question I have remaining 64 so far I think he's gonna be just short does have that for a seal Stone towards thinking through all the pieces all the math has he found everything he needs to pull this off are the energies all there to get the job done such a tense moment you can feel it in the room everyone on the edge of their seats none farther forward than toward recklev has just about everything he needs we don't know exactly how many psychic energy are in the discard pile he needs six basic psychic energy I only see four right now not sure if there's one hanging just off the screen the problem here is I don't think he has a way to discard energy cards there are so many energies right there super rod being right up is this gonna be towards one out something he can do he may have come up just short here it appeared as if the pieces would come together super odd is the grab maybe trying to gear up for an Arcana play on the next turn toward doing everything he can to find it out and just hoping Vance does not have a way to take a KO this turn could it be a situation of toward just having to push the Gardevoir ex and hoping it doesn't get ko'd put your highest HP thing in the active spots and hope your opponent doesn't have it I don't think he has The Knockout lined up so so close countering the stadium there this will remove that luminum V from play and also disrupt Vance just a bit forcing him to discard one of his binged Pokemon which is least valuable at this point for Vance in this situation you have to imagine if Ford had it he would have played it so toward not having the KO Vance needs to take a moment to figure out what is the most Expendable member of his bandage potentially that oricorio is going to be thrown away there with the collapse Stadium resources are so close even the Cresselia play where you get another psychic Pokemon into play and then you can move all the damage and knock out that Meloetta oh contort no there's no finding a way to search out the Pokemon is the issue you've already played your Stadium for the turn so lost vacuum counter and Artisan does not work no it doesn't work super odd putting back it looks like the zashin view potentially and the luminions potentially reuse it next turn you can draw with the reversal energy with the radiant Greninja you can and then if you draw into the psychic Pokemon with the zashian V then you have an opportunity to go ahead and reuse attack with that Cresselia you can bounce those energies around take a one prize KO this turn potentially that actually that could be it for toward yeah try to attack with moon glow reverse so use the radiant Greninja ditch the reversal energy and try to find that it would work for a one prize KO this turn this is going to be a big find if you can find it and the psychic energy huge this is going to yield toward a one prize turn but the problem with this is that he leaves a one prizer active and it still advances court at that point Vance only would need a gusting card in order to close out the game new V-Max not being dealt with it does need a way to retreat however tort has to go for it this is his line he's thinking through it's such a tough call it has to be this though collapse Stadium to the Lost zone credit to toward recklev for finding this play such a niche situation that I can't imagine has come up so big here to find this the energies are lined up you can Retreat the MU place all of the energies on each psychic Pokemon in play zashian is going to be the one to look out for though 220 hit points so many energy in play as well though for toward you have to wonder where he goes from here on the next turn pal pad able to put back boss that's his chance put this back that's what he's going to need to close out the game next turn will not be able to get through a V-Max this game it has to be a boss KO on a Genesect or a muv and he's gonna take this KO moon glow reverse move all the damage counters to the meloetta take that out and cross his fingers that Vance Kelly just doesn't have it Vance has been waiting patiently for the final turn of the match moon glow reverse moving all of these damage counters placing them on the meloetta toward Reckless pulls ahead but now Vance is in the driver's seat handshaking making sure he understands the situation completely draw for turn switch cart that can reset he's got a ton of cards in hand power tablet Vance is playing quickly does he have the pieces switch cart moving the MU Vmax into the active spot and bosses orders brings up the session V Vance Kelly the 2023 Pokemon TCG world champion [Applause] alive Vance Kelly 2023 Pokemon world champion in the Masters division toward Reckless wondering what could have been in a phenomenal match between both these players everyone leaving it on the line incredible play to find what could have been the most beautiful play we have ever seen to win a world championship but it was not enough as Vance held on with the boss's orders and the power tablet Ford retlet has found himself on many a final stage he's found himself with a handful of second places none stinging more than this one as Vance Kelly has become our world champion I think that dream of getting your deck printed is Gonna Come True I'm picking up a copy masterful play both of our players but in the end plus three turns not relevant Vance Kelly able to win on turn number three of time Kyle absolute chills up here man that was unbelievable the feeling in this room absolutely electric and none more related I'm sure than our champion dance you think about what could have happened for tord in that last game it had to be zashian V it was the only psychic Pokemon that he could bench the Ralts were prized right if he had any other psychic Pokemon yes he doesn't bench a liability

Channel: Balthazar Pkmns

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Keywords: pokemon, tcg, championships, pokemon championship, championship, pokemon world championships, pokemon go, tcg 2022, pokemon scarlet and violet, tcg scarlet and violet, tcg scarlet ex & violet ex booster box, pokemon cards, pokemon scarlet, pokemon violet, Pokémon, pokemon tcg worlds 2023, pokemon worlds 2023, pokemon worlds japan 2023, tord reklev worlds finals

Id: K7IXd-TE7aI

Length: 103min 33sec (6213 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 13 2023