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Hello!

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 Can you understand me?

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 Hello everyone,

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 Kier here,

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 and welcome to the InfiNOT Podcast.

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 I'm focused on the casual nature of the game,

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 and each week I discuss the new patch,

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 the new card,

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 and my feelings on the game.

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 I am also a part of the Snap Judgements podcasting network,

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 and I'm going to talk about...

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 Snap on this,

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 with two exclamation points.

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 This is hosted by

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 Lauren Whatevs,

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 Ben Roller,

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 and Rhi,

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 and it is a fantastic podcast.

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 Sorry if I sound a little disoriented,

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 but genuinely,

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 they are a very good listen.

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 They talk a lot about the game and their experiences and what they're playing.

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 They also have a lot of things to spice up the show,

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 make it unique.

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 They don't just talk about the news,

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 they also talk about a lot of fun stuff.

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 So definitely check that out if you're interested.

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 let's hop into it.

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 Okay,

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 so normally this week would be pretty boring.

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 The only card to talk about is Elixir,

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 and we don't have any updates or anything,

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 There's going to be a segment at the end here where I'm going to talk about the Golden Gauntlet,

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 my experiences watching it,

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 and just the whole shebang.

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 Let's get into the new card first,

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 and then we'll talk about the

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 I'm not too happy about it.

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 And then we'll talk about the Golden Goblet.

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 I want to save the best for last.

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 so let's talk Elixir.

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 Elixir is a 2-3 that says,

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 one of your cards destroyed last turn gets revived here.

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 and this is where they landed with it.

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 and despite really liking the animation i like the character i think you know the effect is cool i'm gonna be skipping this card just because it's so so niche i do think that there's a use case for elixir um in like misery decks and

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 i think there's also something to be said about um big card decks like starter decks using elixir as like a way to bring back something that's been shang chi'd

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 That does have legitimate use.

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 it's just really restrictive right now on Snapfan.

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 which is really bad for a card.

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 And obviously this is like a go big or go home sort of card.

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 the saving grace of Elixir

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 is that he's a 2-3 if he was anything less than a 2-3 i think putting him in a deck would be genuinely a bad use of your slot but i think because he is a 2-3 that's probably allowing him to go into decks that he wouldn't normally see um

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 so for me i i don't know man i this might be like uh this might be the first one out of five that i give a card um in a very long time

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 if you come up with something creative.

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 a specific section for the card of the week?

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 Finally talk about the golden gauntlet.

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 so this tournament is huge hundreds of players in it tons of content creators and

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 It just completely squashes all of the things that I like playing and they have tech for everything.

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 I didn't get to watch the whole thing.

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 I watched a little bit of the beginning and then I stuck around for top eight and above.

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 shoutout to KM Best.

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 I'm sure he's also going to talk a lot about it.

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 But uh,

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 but yeah,

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 so with the whole

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 tournament was was really really fun to watch and i i'm i'm like i'm so blown away because this seems so natural for snap like the feeling i'm i have right now of like getting rallied together with the community to watch some people play snap um under some high pressure it's like it's so invigorating

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 i i love it i love this feeling um especially in that watch party uh where i was you know i got to chat with some other people

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 And,

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 you know,

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 we were all watching it at the same time and seeing the big reactions and stuff.

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 Just super,

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 super fun.

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 I'm like,

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 I have to know why they don't do this that often.

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 I really,

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 really hope that this tournament showed them that there is interest.

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 At the very least,

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 I hope that it showed them that people do want to see an officially supported Snap tournament.

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 And the best part is,

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 it doesn't really cost them that much.

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 They don't have to shell out cash,

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 right?

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 The top prizes for this were currency in-game with some exclusive titles,

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 a bunch of tokens.

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 First place got 30,000 tokens to be exact,

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 which is insane.

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 But they're losing some virtual money.

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 Maybe those people were going to buy that stuff,

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 but it really doesn't come out of their pockets,

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 right?

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 It's not like an out-of-pocket expense.

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 So I would really,

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 really hope that this happens some more on the official

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 Marvel Snap Twitch channel.

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 um huge shout out by the way to uh the guys that set this up it was a collaboration between um quite a few content creators um and some people who have been in the community for a while like gunny t super tech god km best it's

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 guest gaming and if i'm forgetting anyone i apologize but those guys coming together to make this tournament happen is um genuinely a joy so a huge shout out to those guys it was it

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 genuinely super,

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 super fun.

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 If I seem all over the place,

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 it's because again,

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 I,

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 it is late.

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 I have just got off of watching a lot of snap.

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 It,

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 I hope that I get to feel this again.

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 Let's,

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 let's get down to brass tacks though.

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 What were the decks being used?

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 Who was in the top of the top?

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 I'll probably just talk about the top four.

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 Um,

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 just because I think it has some of my favorites in there.

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 Okay.

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 So I have the list of,

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 uh,

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 top contenders here and,

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 uh,

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 In the top four,

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 after a ton of games,

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 again,

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 shout out to everybody who participated.

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 There were some legitimately really cool decks that I saw,

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 especially on the earlier pools.

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 But we have

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 Derek

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 Naka, a Japanese player,

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 but which is a crowd favorite,

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 and Sizer,

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 a really good player.

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 So watching the top four was genuinely really,

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 really,

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 really fun.

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 I think

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 there were a lot of um like nail biter decisions they were really good at at snapping um i want to talk about but for a moment here because he was my champ okay but was running a an emperor hulkling pixie deck and you

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 know what's crazy is this is the deck that i've been playing in conquest um not this deck exactly i think his is actually much better than mine but but it's the same idea

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 Which is super,

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 super cool.

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 I mean,

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 you guys know I'm a huge fan of Hulkling.

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 I've been really championing the card for a while.

352
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 I think

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 Butt showed off the best of Emperor Hulkling in this tournament.

354
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 Really,

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 really fun to watch.

356
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 Again,

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 I won't be reading the full list or anything like that.

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 But the idea was that you had some top end with

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 Emperor Hulkling and Magneto.

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 He had Uncle Ben in here with Killmonger,

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 which is smart.

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 because if you're going against a lot of Thanos,

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 especially the ongoing kind,

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 having Killmonger with a payoff with Uncle Ben is actually a really good idea.

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 And then you had some just sort of regular good cards in here,

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 some tech,

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 that kind of thing.

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 So really,

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 really fun to watch.

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 I really enjoyed watching that.

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 Sizer was also in the top four,

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 and he was running a move bounce list,

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 and watching him play that deck makes me feel so,

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 so dumb,

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 but genuinely really fun.

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 You had,

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 you know,

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 Frigga and Beast at the highest cost to copy and bounce stuff.

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 You also had Toxin,

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 of course,

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 and a bunch of different move cards.

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 I was happy to see Iron Fist in here.

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 I've seen Iron Fist getting cut from a lot of lists,

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 but...

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 In this deck,

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 I think he was used to a really great effect.

387
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 So yeah,

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 you get your Dagger and your

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 Vulture very big.

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 He also had Sage in here,

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 which came in clutch quite a few times,

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 because even just doing something as simple as Sage into Frigga can get two lanes to a pretty big number.

393
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 So that was a really enjoyable watch.

394
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 Now,

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 the villain of the top four was Naka,

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 who was running your very stock standard tech.

397
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 uh thanos list so they had thanos they had mockingbird uh they had a bunch of tech cards red guardian change the enchantress and then you had the strange supreme the only like spicy thing in this list was loki um which

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 they really had a tendency to play at the wrong time um i've noticed but uh as a player i think that they they proved themselves without you know necessarily leaning on the deck all that much.

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 Um,

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 but it,

401
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 you know,

402
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 it's hard to deny,

403
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 like a lot of the games where they won,

404
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 they just like bullied out with big numbers,

405
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 right?

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 Again,

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 you have that Thanos and Mockingbird at the top end,

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 and then you have so much tech to take,

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 take care of a lot of other decks.

410
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 Um,

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 so that was,

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 uh,

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 the,

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 the big bad guy of the tournament and,

415
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 uh,

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 the ultimate winner of the tournament and undefeated,

417
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 by the way,

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 didn't drop a single one of his games throughout the entire tournament.

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 was Derek,

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 who was running a regular old bounce list.

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 You have things like Hood,

422
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 Rocket Raccoon,

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 Silver Sable.

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 You bounce those with

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 Beast and

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 Falcon. And then you have an Iron Man in here to really push over the top of certain lanes.

427
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 He also had Bishop in here,

428
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 which is like,

429
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 again,

430
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 this is like classic bounce.

431
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 It's kind of crazy.

432
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 You would expect with all these new cards coming out that he might opt for something a little more explosive,

433
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 but it really paid off in this tournament.

434
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 He did a really great job,

435
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 and watching him play again makes me feel super dumb.

436
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 He's a very smart,

437
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 very good player.

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 So all of these guys duked it out in the top four.

439
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 Ultimately,

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 what we ended up with is

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 Derek at first,

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 Naka second.

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 Butt at three,

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 and Sizer at four.

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 And I think they all did incredible,

446
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 but Derek has clearly proven himself to be an extremely,

447
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 extremely smart player,

448
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 so kudos to him.

449
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 This whole tournament was a joy to watch,

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 and

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 I genuinely hope that we get to see more of this.

452
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 If you have not checked it out,

453
00:17:51.223 --> 00:17:51.843
 please,

454
00:17:52.283 --> 00:17:52.804
 please,

455
00:17:53.965 --> 00:17:56.006
 go support the people who are a part of the tournament.

456
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 Go check out the stream.

457
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 The VOD is still up.

458
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 I have no idea if they're going to make a YouTube video on the tournament or not.

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 But if they do,

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 if we can prove to Second Dinner this is something that we want to watch,

461
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 we can have more tournaments,

462
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 we can have more hype,

463
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 we can bring people into this community that haven't been here before.

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 It makes me really hopeful for things.

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 I genuinely get to feel a lot of excitement when tournaments are happening.

466
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 In totality,

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 that's everything.

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 I know that was a bit of a rambly one,

469
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 but...

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 I'm just like I'm so hopped up

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 I'm not

472
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 I feel like I just drank you know 14 sodas I'm just like so jittery um this is this is a lot of fun as a little reminder uh I am posting on YouTube again some Marvel Snap content and

473
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 I stream once a week on Wednesdays at 7 or 7 30 p.m EST uh if you have not checked me out there please do uh I'd appreciate a like or a comment on those videos um and if there's one thing that you can remember

474
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 It's that I'm Infinite.

475
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 Thanks for listening.