....wait did they BUFF SANDMAN?!?

yeah I think reports of sandman's death have been greatly exaggerated this card got a big change in this week's patch alongside a bunch of controversial changes a lot of discourse out there you guys feel free to talk about the patch in the comments below love it or hate it and um for Sandman he went from an ongoing effect to an on reveal so instead of impacting the rest of the game he only affects a single turn which is really important for uh ramp Decks that were playing Sandman cheating him out early hoping to impact multiple turns at the end of the game now Sandman limited to that one single turn of disruption but to make up for that importantly Sandman got three extra power which is a really significant power difference and it makes s man less of a risk to play on turn five when it comes to maintaining a lead or priority so what you can do now with Sandman is kind of shift how you play this card and just go for a bunch of early game stats and Tempo just playing down bodies on curve every single turn making sure you go into turn five with a big power lead across multiple locations and then what happens is if you play Sam man on turn five and your opponent can only play a single card on that turn six they can't flip multiple locations so when you're ahead in two spots maybe you can flip that third sometimes you're head in all three spots the opponent can only flip one with cards like Dr Doom and leader to either match or just cover across the entire field on your own turn six you can often just overcome whatever they're trying to do anyway so basically creating a kind of Checkmate scenario where you get so far ahead with Tempo that you just lock them out of the game on turn six where they don't have any plays or options they just can't flip enough locations because they're so restricted to a single card you some decks will have a Dr Doom to accommodate some decks will have Hela to overcome that as well so this doesn't work perfectly in this specific meta specifically because of Hela right now being a great turn six way to kind of work around this game plan and dump a bunch of stats later Silver Surfer can also kind of do that as well if they get enough stuff down that singular Surfer can sometimes overwhelm you as well uh that said I still had a positive win rate with this I went eight and six with this uh today which is you know not amazing but pretty pretty solid result but I think more importantly this is not refined so number one this deck could actually just be improved a little bit better cards better Tempo whatever I saw lambi uh series had a list as well that did a similar sort of thing so his might already be better than this one for instance uh but more importantly perhaps I think this is a strategy and an archetype that we need to keep in mind moving forward because if Hela for instance kind of goes away in the meta loses some popularity something like this could be an absolute monster could be actually terrifying in a new meta could be an overwhelming force that just really limits people for those final turn uh sixes and by the way this is called Loeb many of you have no idea what that name means if you didn't play Hearthstone but there used to be a five cost card in Hearthstone that would increase the cost of all of your opponent's spells so what you could do is like play a bunch of stuff early slam loab on turn five and kind of lock out your opponent from reacting to your board of stuff that's exactly what samman does in this case you play a bunch of stuff early slam s on turn five and kind of lock out your opponent not in the exact same way but honestly a pretty similar play pattern so um obscure reference here but it made sense to me some of you might love that indeed so anyway uh interesting deck right now a promising deck one that with some refinement or maybe just a shift in The Meta I think could become a really scary sort of force there's also a possibility here that you might want to run a big six drop instead of something like Dr Doom there were a couple instances where I was ahead in two spots and I needed to flip the third spot so that the opponent kind of covered one of the other two I needed to flip it back and I needed more stats than like Dr Doom can provide particularly cuz crossbones is like the tall card in this he can't flip it back because you're behinds you can't play him and Jess on turn six isn't great so that's what I talk about with refinements a little bit you know maybe you know cutting you know a Nico or something or a Nightcrawler or one of these small cards and just running a big red Hulk or what whatever could actually improve this deck or maybe not you know that's what data and time tells us but just something to keep in mind there both of these kind of wide card six drops might be Overkill there might be a better shift elsewhere so anyway uh cool little deck and I think gives Sandman a really promising future and an interesting home already I do not think this card was killed it was just changed and trying to play it in the same way it worked before isn't going to work you got to find new ways to play it and this looks like the way to do that successfully at least for now it's a good start anyway okay uh Red Hulk early leader is just salivating just sitting in hand he's like yes show me the red hul I don't know what leader sounds like what is leader talk like does he talk like that he wants to see the red whatever the case he's pumped uh yeah Zemo Sor Tower seems pretty smart we could still go to holla I think but maybe if I got Gladiator plus something small oh Shong Chi turned off okay Gladiator Nightcrawler garbage absolute utter garbage really do want to flip back mid here so it's probably Jessica this is a pretty good turn five if we don't hit s man yeah double discards power is pretty cool on Stark Tower actually so we could finish on this next turn too we go to eight cuz we go to four off star Dark Tower and then to eight that's pretty sweet that increases my chances of finding Sandman so what is that I have a one and two to hit Sandman now but they did get very strong all the same that's an enormous turn uh Sandman problem is we're behind now but if they try to win left or mid with leader with with red Hulk the leader just matches as long as we think they don't beat nine here or 14 here I think we got to try I don't think we win right this game so I think we just hope that we're not behind Black Bolt is actually exactly the right size CU now leader can match left any bigger and more screwed you can really see the buff coming to fruition here so they play this red Hulk we just win right we just win I think you play it mid don't you what if they're expecting the leader though they could maybe pivot into multiple small well no not multiple small cards no no reg just no that's the whole point of the deck that's what Sandman is for you have to play one thing if they had like a Dr Doom I guess we'd still be fine I I don't know I think this there's probably some card that beats this I'm sure you guys are going to start commenting in the comments down below reg just there's 47 cards that beat this uh they do priorities like elath you know for instance beats this cool cool nice that's the Sandman buff exactly by the way this if you ask hey why couldn't you do this before Regis the same plan worked it didn't because sandman's a four before and the opponent played a seven and we would have had too big of a power differential to make this work but when he's a seven it doesn't always work still of course right there's Still Moments where they play an eight eight power here well I guess actually it needed to be kind of nine nine power to outpace the leader but you get the idea right is he has to be able to keep up on Tempo to maintain a priority match for these sorts of games so then we just get the free red hulks and so on so all right Maxim is not too chill in this deck clearly not your favorite you'd rather play it a little later if you can but not a problem uh what is this Nico I I will I promise I will learn these icons someday today is not that day yeah we can go for Hala um just kind of manipulate the opponent's plays a little bit maybe Gladiator here then we have kind of crossbones left probably cuz we still don't expect this Maximus to lose do we maybe it's Gladiator maybe we do I don't know maybe it's Jessica but is kind of risky Sunspot deck what is this Cyclops magic oh that's fine too magic does make this Amman a little weirder cuz he comes down a turn later and we don't have any way to turn off limbo but that's okay still good good lines overall I think uh next turns probably Jessica Nightcrawler think we put the Nightcrawler right for now yeah maybe not because we don't want to empower Cyclops with a second card right we want to keep Cyclops chilling so yeah Sandman on six with Nico and then we'll hopefully have drawn one of our two big boys if not we'll try to get by with Baron and maybe some sneaky Nightcrawler moves opponent might pass on six if this is like INF shehulk civo stuff so that could help uh maybe this Sandman does go right here Nico if you play your next card destroy it to draw two I can't can't play that sadly kind of sucks I'm just losing two power here I think maybe it doesn't really matter cuz we're just ahead enough here and we kind of think the opponent's trying to play two cards and now they can only play one um and of course one red Hulk here is not enough to flip three spots and we H the Dr Doom so even better just fully covered I mean leader also of course would have matched and yeah it's just like this every game so far this just works really well I don't know man uh the you know this is working so effectively right now that old Sandman would have been fine in most cases in most games I've played so far but of course him having seven just gives you more likelihood that you're able to lead into that final turn Okay so car is fine on all of these leader gets a little weird I guess with epony ma but honestly not that bad still pixie for them seems really good to cheat early uh Gladiator please be small okay nice so hopefully we're okay left but you know ebony mom makes me think they're cooking right like they're they're thinking about it bro wait why is this seven bro that's a pain where is the ice man text of Max six please oh my God I also have no cards right now uh maybe I should have moved Nightcrawler here to potentially play a crossbones uh cuz you'd rather play Jessica on five cuz now crossbones gets kind of wasted um oh also I can't that that's not it no that's not it I mean we realistically do want to play Sandman if we find him that's the goal but um oh uh Jessica covers this actually minus Shenanigans right oh nice s man 2o let's go um yeah I mean Sandman leader would cover a Jeff if they're planning to Jeff mid maybe not if they do it this turn I guess okay so War Machine creates a wrinkle because now they can just play whatever in anywhere I guess leader just tries to match I don't think leader Works in Professor X cuz we don't have the War Machine Tech so leader tries to summon and fails but maybe we just cover you know both spots anyway cuz leader we're ahead in both and leader matches anything played outside of the Professor X so I think that's okay oh She Hulk and infan not a problem yeah the Sandman plan denied by War Machine but uh the leader uh I'm ahead plan still working just fine working wonders here uh that's a pretty spicy win kind of directly countered in a way but by being just bigger right 7 to six okay night crawler yeah man you can do that um I usually like to overcommit too much to a spot but white room is so good that it might be worth it can we get a good two drop here come on baby any of n too to bail out yeah this is this is actually pretty sick Maximus pretty great draw before Zemo too so that's nice we have Sam man leader so even if they stole like a Dr Doom that's chill if they do have two cards here I guess we could be in trouble but since ours is on reveal and theirs would be on play but I kind of doubt they have two they're also going to play a Zemo I think uh in which case ours reveals first cuz we have priority in which case we benefit from White room now I actually don't really technically have much to do with white hot room at the moment oh my god dude the second Maximus they got Nico into demon so a tiny buff on their um Zemo there that's kind of cool yeah I mean I guess we can play the Dr Doom now it it locks me up here but we don't really anticipate them having a huge card maybe leader on turn four seems bad I do need to be ahead right when I play Sandman next turn so 12 theoretically could be enough alternatively they haven't played anything here I mean which one are they likely to be bigger at I don't know we're more behind here I'm going to put Nightcrawler right but it's it just depends how big disc card is really whether or not that's a good idea absorbing no Target because the Baron Zemo got transformed I wonder if they knew that was that the plan I guess or not oh actually Sandman Gladiator or Sandman Medusa we pulled a Maximus we know there zemos gone there may not be a small card for this Gladiator I think he's actually just too risky for no reason I think Sandman plus Medusa just gives me a good leader play next turn I think we'll be ahead mid and right and left maybe not mid we may not be ahead mid but we'll oh okay this is still kind of the same same result right cuz we're going to be ahead mid here I think I hope maybe maybe not actually but I hope oh yeah we are okay nice sh's a great hit so they just they can only play one card they can't flip three spots even a Dr Doom is not big enough here to flip three spots so actually just completely chill yeah they see the writing even the dock ox's not enough here to counter this game plan all right uh no early game literally the five cheapest cards missing from our our opener is kind of tough to work with oh I mean Zemo is a good catchup right he he's potentially a ton of tempo lab kind of Suits us as well I would say not exactly but kind of we can just you know try to win these two spots a little harder dude I always hit blade off the Zemo today Captain America we got hit monkey which is pretty bad uh crossbones into Jessica Oh no I got to play Sandman crossbones into Sandman that's fine I guess crossbones really locks us up here and then you hope you know between s man and lab you hope you're in a good spot uh this feels like hella deck again Magneto sadly creating a tie but Dr Doom's still really good at ties so that's not necessarily a problem the opponent also just hasn't discarded anything for a Hela so Hela at the moment is hella weak see what he did guys he's really funny see what he did okay well that's not hella weak that's hella bad oh never mind they discarded H we're back in we're good to go again just kidding uh yeah I mean this this is a good shot I mean I don't know what they have do they have a Ghost Rider they can pull back a Hela that would be something I guess but other than that maybe they're in trouble if it comes down to just a straight card you know um kind all dude what I'm not even mad deserved deserved absolutely the Heim doll Tech dude this is the first game I've lost with this Tech and they've earned it that's in the deck and everything I'm not even mad dude that's insane Heim doll tech for the win let's go yeah n the left is good some people don't really want to play into the Sentinels some people like to though depends on the deck but also just giving me a good two drop is nice uh would we rather go for draw two on the Nico with a Nightcrawler I don't think so actually no I don't really desperately need to draw cards with Sandman in hand we kind of have our wind condition already lined up so I think a little less important um ant maze bro that's insane with um with doubling that's really nuts okay great web is weird it's one of those where we don't want to like you know you you want a lot of power there basically right but this Nico is really nice hit for that cuz now we have a big commitment there like Green Goblin okay I'll probably just put the Jessica oh well okay nebula's actually kind of chill too that's fine yeah Jessica can go left and then s man wherever it needs to go obviously not in mid but hopefully this feels like enough I don't know oh doesn't feel like enough guys oh void gets pulled mid though of course so that actually helps because it means we don't get as contested by void right I said Sandman wherever but obviously Sandman has to go right uh so this is just annihilus I guess right but the thing is they still they still actually have to play a card there there cuz nebula ties right like they need to play here or nebula ties uh they can't really move Jeff either much is this leader risky at all I don't know if it is but I guess I guess it doesn't matter because they have to play the all three with the nebula tie I guess they're not confident in winning a tiebreaker because we're head by 13 that's a pretty big difference and I'm playing a card of course we could have a big ccoa here something is weird with my seat there we go salv uh Blu is good yeah Zemo CCO is probably as greedy as we would to get I mean I guess a gladiator top deck would be pretty sweet lizard for them so this is interesting right I built this deack um last night and started trying to play it and the freaking um what's it called uh the the hot location whatever it is maybe we just passed here actually still rocks are important for us um the castle thing is it Castle something that sends over your first played card like everybody's playing havoc and Electro and I was like I am not messing with this garbage this is a miserable experience held off till today at 2:00 it's just after 2 playing this once that location went away I mean it's insane they make these locations that are so toxic the hot locations um oh they tried to turn off the uh the buff here but we got around it look at us so anyway um in the meantime I saw a few different people experimenting with this Sandman kind of same idea different deck lists um like lambi series was playing around with this right there were a few oh that's actually the Jessica location so yeah I mean here's like sand man into Doom or maybe leader the problem is we're behind by two right and that may get worse here um oh or not we're totally happy we uh I guess we kind of memed on their game plan here a little bit so um yeah leader here typically would tie and we do have a favored tiebreaker here we could also try to create a tiebreaker with Dr Doom if we think we're more favored here for a tiebreaker but I actually think the opponent might play a do Doom so I think I can just get a leader B bonus and match their Dr Doom but this Nightcrawler can still move so there's some wackiness there I'm not sure it wants to though cuz it really help mid it might help mid if they play Dr Doom actually that could be a reason to move in mid so anyway there's been other people experimenting with this shape of deck uh with different cards you know I I don't know if this is actually going to be a real thing I had some success with it for the non toxic castle games I don't know what that's called Castle toxic I can't I already forgot the name cuz I just zoned out so hard but there might be something to this kind of idea like gain priority play Sandman lock out the game right um oh it's Magneto instead interesting um we rip storm which um is fine for a tiebreaker right yeah yeah for sure cool yeah not the traditional way we win this necessarily but a totally fine fine to win this I think they had a great line you know Magneto is a big play to this so Castle Zemo I finally got the name of it Castle Zemo um let's go nebula here I don't want to go in ant maze it's like a little exposed as a one drop sometimes to removal that seems risky now Medusa that we love honestly Maximus Nightcrawler is totally fine Maximus left is pretty good he goes into that nine power spot where he's still Dodges Shan Chi if he rolls mid for Asgard you know that's a bonus but I I don't think mandatory or anything by any means uh okay want get into crossbones we're [Music] getting Baron Zemo Baron Zemo is their highest cost currently that's kind of wild uh I guess night crawler goes here for asgard's sake we can always move him of course so uh I think we're very likely to have some crossbones possibilities here although yeah see it depend on where Maximus goes it may or may not want to go mid that's just Nico could be a negative one here oh um that is negative for them that hurts like they can't contest Asgard hardly at all now uh and they didn't get the benefit of like turning off nebula but still ended up there so that's kind of tough this is exactly where we want Sandman dude we're in a great spot for Sandman just a really good Sandman position here great tempo way ahead on priority in two spots leader pulls their their Gladiator which pulls Elsa that's great dude we they we basically just killed their turn via that that's awesome oh they did move their's mid but that's actually even better if we get Sandman yeah now we're just ahead in three spots so here um I guess we play Amon wherever we think they're like most likely to play now we don't have leader so we just want to go for like Dr Doom here probably to cover you know a wide gamut of areas and we hope that um they just can't match the Dr Doom across all three which is usually pretty impossible minus like hella stuff yes Sarah sandance not the dream dude they are a little cooked um they're a little cooked course we don't have to worry about elith in general as much anymore I mean still technically kind of good against stuff like Dr Doom really not as much of a concern post Nerf thank God these are really my first games since the Nerf I played a little bit in that stupid Castle Zemo and I was like I'm done with this this is just garbage yeah opponent recognizes I mean literally even if I didn't play a card here they probably can't win you know okay nebula raft yeah well that's actually kind of a bad I was out of time I was reading a tweet yeah that's kind of the worst place to put nebula in theory Al P Mansion saving the day maybe um we don't love Maximus hunt 2 but we'll take it ultimately you know okay the opponent has a bunch of extra cards yeah you don't get to play them anyway because of Sandman you fool I am only going to get the raft done well I guess if I hit Baron Zemo I could do it next turn but it'd be really off curve I'm just thinking like you know if I play Sam on five you know this is a symmetrical effect I can't really play the zero cost raft card anyway now that said you know there's still some advantage to denying the opponent potentially although currently the opponent is not playing any cards Red Hulk okay oh we actually hit the Zemo we're Geniuses now we can play the uh now we can play the raft card with Sandman so I think that's definitely better than a four oh bro not like this dude bro I need to be fair the Zola was probably going to be hard to use anyway um okay so this if this is a hel deck uh as it appears it might be we still have some problems here because Hela is certainly a card that can match a sandman right you only need hel to beat Sandman so this is probably this deck's one big weakness which unfortunately it is a big part of the meta right now hella so we'll see um yeah and sadly we did not hit where is he to play didn't hit either of our sixes either I think we're going to lose right cuz Dracula is so insane I mean maybe not the opponent has a full hand guess if they have modok I mean maybe this just traditional discard with Jubilee no they had a giganto so no that can't be true no I think we lose right I think we just lose I think hella beats us usually yeah this is the one the one weakness for this deck so actually pretty relevant um oh uh oh never mind they just didn't get enough done uh okay stealing the blade maybe made the difference I don't know all right uh just kidding it is I think this is this deck's weakness right I think if anything keeps the sort of deck and check it will be hella uh but sometimes I guess you get there anyway okay five know so far with this one okay yeah Nico we're chill with you we'll hit a two drop or you know one drops are cool too buddy relax I am on the toilet I guess I guess the suggestion is maybe they're taking too long it's like hey man I'm I'm working on something here I'm on the toilet okay uh yeah no this is this is really solid man just the goal here is you know spreading power getting you know getting priority we got Sam man in hand so kind of delightful that could steal one of my big six finishers but if we get the other one we're okay sometimes okay anyway uh Zemo I dig it yeah let's do Zemo what it sort of wants to play the cloning Vats and I need space here so maybe we'll play uh play nebula mid zemo's weird it may not be any good in a deck like this but sometimes it's okay yeah all right we don't really I guess have a lot of sh CH plays but I dig it Mobius no problem we can sort of put this Zemo anywhere because we are expecting to play Sandman into Doom so Sandman here Doom wherever this is good one spot open tons of tempo I mean just look how many plays I have compared to the opponent Right Now cards on board you know part of that Zemo of course but that's that's oh my order at least maybe dang it dude that is garbage I'm very annoyed now it's like sandman's kind of risky we might have a natural Advantage with Nightcrawler right um we'll see we'll see how this goes on this turn Shaw's also making me think a lot about Surfer which unfortunately is a one card way for them to spread a ton of power also the broodling so now Surfer becomes this real check doesn't it I do if I play leader weirdly benefit quite a bit from Surfer myself maybe not quite as much as the opponent cuz they gain plus four here I would only gain plus two so leader would result in a tie they would gain two here plus maybe the surfer I'm ahead by four here they play the surfer here same I would tie do I a tiebreaker yeah because I get two threes here they have three threes here so they would net they're ahead by one they would net a plus two that's a three-point Advantage I have a fourpoint Advantage here but I guess it would only be a two-point Advantage so no this would actually lose a tie does Dr Doom just win Surfer could beat this here only five here is 13 we think they're at 15 yeah I think I think we lose to Surfer tiebreakers I I think Doom's too small I'm going to play it out cuz it's funny but I think we lose to Surfer tiebreakers right um I don't I don't think there's any way for us to win it's it's very close though look at this wow this is cool dude this is cool so see we moved the Nightcrawler mid as it was we would be ahead 9 to 7 and the opponent would be ahead 15 to 12 it's literally a onepoint difference that's cool dude yeah I don't think Doom got there right we decided okay TV8 man that's my second TVA game of the day we're like pretty good at TVA we hit the right stuff but currently oh okay that's potentially helping the opponent but I you got to play you got to play cards in TVA games no question not really thinking raft is relevant oh zabu pretty cool oh this could really come down to X mansion huh uh I'll give a little boost since we're had the other two spots maybe wasted if x Manion rolls better I really do need something better than Jessica though I think like [Music] Zemo crossbones is maybe not helpful depends on how what the opponent does you know a big Jubilee okay rona's flippable that's nice Juggernaut and into Dar okay nice so we're ahead here we can flip here and we're ahead here which is all pretty good stuff uh Let's [Music] do let's do this I guess cover all three I mean there there's definitely combinations of cards that lose this though like a two and a two that are the right size or Rona has discounts so you know a Green Goblin and a two drop or something there's combinations here but it's hard it's not easy zabu you know he only discounted last turn so we don't wor about zabu discounts this turn so no like four and one if they play a four they're only going to get a four minus raona I guess but you know maybe it looks like a negative deck by the way like some of this looks like negative stuff yeah there's it early curve doing work thank God and and winning here helped too you know like we we had a little bit of Advantage anyway but just three might have made all the difference who knows [Music]

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