I didn't expect it, but I WANTED to believe ;-) I miss firebat and disguised toast. i know that toast is still streaming, but without all the interesting combos/bugs/interactions he found, it's not the same.
it was nerfed after the championship: mana 5->6 this nerf was impactful, not as destructive as the old gods change, taking the combo from 8->9 did drop the impact of the combo dramatically. Even when Rarren said it live to Roffle he didn't really correct him, now that was probably about him agreeing about it being nerfed.
Whoa. We let Rarran know we liked the Heathstone expansion series and wanted more like it, then he actually delivered!?! That's my fav TH-camr right there!
I've had an idea similar to this for years, 'Hearthstone cards from 2014 (or later) if they came out today', or in essence, 'buff ideas for old cards that never saw play and never got buffed'. Could be an interesting re-look at old cards, and potential for a lot of videos worth of content. So many old cards that never got some love (including many we dunk on regularly but we rarely actually offer ideas for what they could have been), they deserve some love I think.
there is a high rank hearthstone youtuber called "Flare" that basically does videos like this, his recent one in the series is called "How To Fix The Witchwood" and he showcases interesting reworks/buffs to old obsolete cards, one of them that i thought was really clever was making duskfallen aviana dormant so that you will always benefit from her first and could set up combos ahead of time
I always thought that the stupidest thing about 14' world champ was that it was revers conquest (lose with a deck you cant use anymore) and firebat just played the druid and got wild growth 2 games and a turn 1 yeti one game
One of the biggest changes is that sac pac not only targets friendlies, but J man isn’t minion before it being a hero card so you can’t insta kill the hero
I miss firebat every day. First streamer I ever subbed to. I hope hes doing well and enjoying life, he deserves happiness after he had some rough years towards the end.
Editor I want you to know you've been cooking for so long now, I can almost feel the W edits before they happen. Thank you for making this a thing you do and share with us.
Entire video is overshadowed by the peoples intense nostalgia for Firebat. He was the reason I got into hearthstone. Not to get too parasocial, but I miss him every day.
Well, Rarran played that priest vs druid terribly. Passing on two was crazy, then he kept not using his cleric properly. I guess because that card isn't in standard anymore and not used to it at this point.
Really happy to see Roffle in another of your videos. You are the two Hearthstone youtubers I watch the most. I think the main problem with the thumbnail is the speech-bubble. Makes it seem like it'd be a quote from this video, at least to me from a first glance.
Big fan of this series, at least with the older expansions. Also wanted to ask if the neutral only challenge could make a part 2. Love the content bro!🎉
I kind of gathered from context that the premise of this vid is 'replay the first hs championship finals - but with modern balance' but the intro didn't really make that clear to me.
Great video!! Only thing is that I'm pretty sure the format you guy played is not the format for the first world championships. Was it not first to beat all the opponents decks as opposed to first to win with all their decks? Would be curious to see how that would affect the game (though I think the format you guys played is far superior)
I wish I could go back to this time and take HS more serious and stream. Cause I used to get legend every month and all I did for 2 years was play and watch the game. I was too scared to stream. I also was scared if I try to go pro, I will fail so I never pushed for top 100 Legend finishes at end of every month. I've play card games for little over 20 years and the first 4 years of HS is probably my 2nd favorite card game of all time. Maybe the one I had most fun playing.
You can still play Classic HS (competitive) in the ¨'Twist"' mode, but the downside is that it is only avalaible for like a week or two, every 5-6 month. :( Damn I miss HS 2015-2017.
Rarran abusing the baitlick meta and making us think he was doing a firebat video like the ones he does with Reynad but then SECRET triggered, BAIT AND SWITCH.
I thought the world championship rules were different in the first tournament compared to your video but maybe I'm misremembering? Coulda sworn in Firebats tourney players could keep using a class until it lost?
Idk if it's a symptom of my deck building style but I had to take three or four draw spells including the 2 mana weapons that draw when you attack from the current DH deck cause I'm always at like 9 cards in hand from all the discover, mini, etc. I never want to play CiCigi and risk burning cards off the top. Lol
I’d love to see you play an arena run with your language settings to Mandarin, so you have no idea what the card says. You know a lot of cards by heart, but will be more difficult than you might think at first glance I think!
So, I only played Classic like once when it came out. Did the Classic format include Naxxramas? Because I was VERY confused seeing cards like Webspinner, Shade of Naxxramas, and Undertaker in this video.
the first "championship" did include Nax, before that it was show tournaments/matches (the first and last time Kripp participated as a player in a tournament)
I feel like one of the last videos i watched of his had him talking to his GF / Roomate(?) about a job interview coming up. And then poof. So i hope hes doing well:)
honestly--i wish that this was just talking about. okay, suppose someone from 2024 can go back in time to 2014 hearthstone--were there any concepts or cards we (or ig specifically pro players) undervalued back then? could someone from 2024 beat the best of the best in 2014? (e.g. in SC2, the general consensus is that anybody in the top ~100 would stomp the best of the best in Wings of Liberty days, just because we got so much better at understanding the game vs where we were at launch.
TH-cam comments are pretty degen but nothing compares to the blubbering, simpering degeneracy of a good twitch chat. I love it. I once was timed out for telling someone they acted like they act kraft single slices by themselves.
30:08 That's a man who forgot about innervate into shade of Naxx turn one. Or my casual brain just remembers it worse than it was dunno I hated that card.
"force of nature was nerfed promptly after that world championship" Well...2 years after the world championship. I wouldn't call it promptly, but hearthstone is getting old enough at this point that maybe you could let it slide.
it was nerfed after the championship: mana 5->6 which was impactful, and dropped the over all lethality of it (most decks were valuing healing, and Warrior started to really pick up steam around GvG which also dropped the impact of Force of Nature Savage Roar.
bro what is this thumb lmao. why wouldn't you include some reference to roffle so peeps know what's going on? I ignored this video when it came out bc it looked like something you did awhile ago. then when i finally clicked on it i thought it had firebat. had i known it had roffle i would have insta-clicked.
For a second, I thought you managed to track down Firebat after he disappeared into the aether.
Lol he went to another universe
If only.
I didn't expect it, but I WANTED to believe ;-)
I miss firebat and disguised toast. i know that toast is still streaming, but without all the interesting combos/bugs/interactions he found, it's not the same.
That's exactly what I thought this was! I'm glad you commented this, I'm only 7 seconds into the vid, you saved me a half hour
Saaame, was so excited
I love how the first 40 seconds of the vid are him yapping meanwhile Roffle is just sitting there.
The Yapper
How dare u assume roffle has legs everyone knows he's just a floating torso
"force of nature was promptly nerfed" bro it stayed that way for years, it wasnt nerfed till old gods
I was thinking the same but maybe we missed the joke there
it was nerfed after the championship: mana 5->6 this nerf was impactful, not as destructive as the old gods change, taking the combo from 8->9 did drop the impact of the combo dramatically.
Even when Rarren said it live to Roffle he didn't really correct him, now that was probably about him agreeing about it being nerfed.
@@gardian06_85Dude what are you talking about, Force of Nature has always been 6 mana, it wasn't nerfed till WotOG
Ahh firebat. Miss the content from him
I fell out of heartstone when he left. Rarran has brought me back atleast, maybe one day he hunts firebat down for a collab
@@ktownpunkjr.1946exact same for me
@@ktownpunkjr.1946firebat passed away man...
20:17 that expression said more, than a 1000 words could say XD
Holy shit that edit at 13:43 was OD.
Shoutout and best wishes to Firebat, wherever he may be nowadays.
I think Frodan once mentioned that he met Firebat at a party and he now has a normal job and lives his life completely outside of the online bubble
@@shokoeis8437he recently passed away sadly.
Got so baited cause firebat on the Mini :(
Whoa.
We let Rarran know we liked the Heathstone expansion series and wanted more like it, then he actually delivered!?!
That's my fav TH-camr right there!
I've had an idea similar to this for years, 'Hearthstone cards from 2014 (or later) if they came out today', or in essence, 'buff ideas for old cards that never saw play and never got buffed'.
Could be an interesting re-look at old cards, and potential for a lot of videos worth of content. So many old cards that never got some love (including many we dunk on regularly but we rarely actually offer ideas for what they could have been), they deserve some love I think.
there is a high rank hearthstone youtuber called "Flare" that basically does videos like this, his recent one in the series is called "How To Fix The Witchwood" and he showcases interesting reworks/buffs to old obsolete cards, one of them that i thought was really clever was making duskfallen aviana dormant so that you will always benefit from her first and could set up combos ahead of time
I always thought that the stupidest thing about 14' world champ was that it was revers conquest (lose with a deck you cant use anymore) and firebat just played the druid and got wild growth 2 games and a turn 1 yeti one game
The reason Roffle is a better hearthstone player than Rarran is because Roffle knows green joker is the goat
One of the biggest changes is that sac pac not only targets friendlies, but J man isn’t minion before it being a hero card so you can’t insta kill the hero
I miss firebat every day. First streamer I ever subbed to. I hope hes doing well and enjoying life, he deserves happiness after he had some rough years towards the end.
Man I love when you work with Roffle, two of my favorite people
I'll take any Rarran & Firebat content I can get, regardless of tangentiality.
fr tho 😂
Editor I want you to know you've been cooking for so long now, I can almost feel the W edits before they happen. Thank you for making this a thing you do and share with us.
"Health seems like a resource." *then proceeds to not use life as a resource*
I started playing HS back when it was first released and this was the golden age of HS by a mile.
You did Roffle so dirty by making your viewers think it was firebat on the other side for the first 30 seconds lol
Entire video is overshadowed by the peoples intense nostalgia for Firebat. He was the reason I got into hearthstone. Not to get too parasocial, but I miss him every day.
12:39 was cinema
Dude that priest vs druid game brought back some old ass traumas about 4 attack minions. I was a priest main in classic man. The pain.
Well, Rarran played that priest vs druid terribly. Passing on two was crazy, then he kept not using his cleric properly. I guess because that card isn't in standard anymore and not used to it at this point.
love the banter between rarran and roffle. Such an entretaining duo
Crazy how much the game has changed
Really happy to see Roffle in another of your videos. You are the two Hearthstone youtubers I watch the most.
I think the main problem with the thumbnail is the speech-bubble. Makes it seem like it'd be a quote from this video, at least to me from a first glance.
Started watching Roffle's balatro videos a ton recently, was not expecting him to pop up in this video.
Big fan of this series, at least with the older expansions. Also wanted to ask if the neutral only challenge could make a part 2.
Love the content bro!🎉
So many good Memorys
Much love for the Editor ! He is a legend
14:00 Roffle is the entire competition confirmed??
if this is the start of a new series Im very excited for it
telling another man he has a nice curve when it isnt even june yet is kinda suspect rarran
I like how both you and roffle have a demonseed deck in your collection:)
Great content. love to see you collab with other HS content creators! keep it going man! Specially nowadays, there so few HS creators...
I kind of gathered from context that the premise of this vid is 'replay the first hs championship finals - but with modern balance' but the intro didn't really make that clear to me.
I miss firebat and the Omni crew , peak HS. Thanks Rarran for carrying on the flame
i really miss firebat my goat
This was awesome! I miss Firebat's streams so much!
Whoa hang on, new series? Doing each championship decks? Sounds awesome.
Great video!! Only thing is that I'm pretty sure the format you guy played is not the format for the first world championships. Was it not first to beat all the opponents decks as opposed to first to win with all their decks? Would be curious to see how that would affect the game (though I think the format you guys played is far superior)
Dude I was such a huge Firebat fan back in the day, I got baited! (video still good (I assume I haven't watched yet) dw)
I wish I could go back to this time and take HS more serious and stream. Cause I used to get legend every month and all I did for 2 years was play and watch the game. I was too scared to stream. I also was scared if I try to go pro, I will fail so I never pushed for top 100 Legend finishes at end of every month. I've play card games for little over 20 years and the first 4 years of HS is probably my 2nd favorite card game of all time. Maybe the one I had most fun playing.
You can still play Classic HS (competitive) in the ¨'Twist"' mode, but the downside is that it is only avalaible for like a week or two, every 5-6 month. :(
Damn I miss HS 2015-2017.
7 mana Auctioneer feels so bad. Poor Miracle Rogue.
Rarran abusing the baitlick meta and making us think he was doing a firebat video like the ones he does with Reynad but then SECRET triggered, BAIT AND SWITCH.
13:48 Rarran is a Joe Rogan supporter confirmed?
Do 2015 next. I want to see the Patron Warrior mirror match.
Now this is a good video. I miss the old days. Firebat too lol
hard to play in classic brain but going bear form to play around bgh mightve been the play
Finally another video with Roffle! Oh... and Rarran here
always love to see roffle great vid
I thought the world championship rules were different in the first tournament compared to your video but maybe I'm misremembering? Coulda sworn in Firebats tourney players could keep using a class until it lost?
lmao i got clickbaited so hard by the firebat thumbnail
The editor put in work
Nice video and it's always good to see Roffle c:
Idk if it's a symptom of my deck building style but I had to take three or four draw spells including the 2 mana weapons that draw when you attack from the current DH deck cause I'm always at like 9 cards in hand from all the discover, mini, etc. I never want to play CiCigi and risk burning cards off the top. Lol
Naw same. It's crazy when I finish a game and think, "man I need to take some card draw out of my deck". What a time to be alive.
That edit was really funny
I’d love to see you play an arena run with your language settings to Mandarin, so you have no idea what the card says. You know a lot of cards by heart, but will be more difficult than you might think at first glance I think!
9:36 Malganis never pulls out
Firebat the Goat
Old school miracle rogue is miserable now
would honestly be hard to win against a bot in practice grounds with the old list
So, I only played Classic like once when it came out. Did the Classic format include Naxxramas? Because I was VERY confused seeing cards like Webspinner, Shade of Naxxramas, and Undertaker in this video.
No you right, changed the title
the first "championship" did include Nax, before that it was show tournaments/matches (the first and last time Kripp participated as a player in a tournament)
I miss him still
first video of yours i've ever watched where i know the cards
20:19 the pure disappointment in Roffle’s face.
Saw the thumbnail, thought Firebat was back :(
Amazing video Rarran!
TH-cam comments know when they are being batted...
We also bite happily!
13:47 instead of Joe Rogan, it shoulda been a stupid GTA car going down a segmented ramp lmao
13:40 the editor popped off
Was Firebat unavailable to be the guest in this video?
if ramranch listens to youtube comments, glodshire footman is the goat
Wait, Innervate can you take above 10 mana??
Amazing! He's doing it!
We are his boys!! take that Twitch chat :P
super common Roffle W
Yooo it's that one idea I randomly commented ages ago, let's go!
Loved seeing this!
I thought they reverted ironbeak? Guess they didn't lmao
I feel like one of the last videos i watched of his had him talking to his GF / Roomate(?) about a job interview coming up. And then poof. So i hope hes doing well:)
Druid mirror really is classic
Such a great video!
Damn Rarren looks handsome in this video 🎉
I feel click baited lol. It would’ve been so sick if you got Firebat for a video.
Good idea for a video.
honestly--i wish that this was just talking about. okay, suppose someone from 2024 can go back in time to 2014 hearthstone--were there any concepts or cards we (or ig specifically pro players) undervalued back then? could someone from 2024 beat the best of the best in 2014? (e.g. in SC2, the general consensus is that anybody in the top ~100 would stomp the best of the best in Wings of Liberty days, just because we got so much better at understanding the game vs where we were at launch.
TH-cam comments are pretty degen but nothing compares to the blubbering, simpering degeneracy of a good twitch chat. I love it. I once was timed out for telling someone they acted like they act kraft single slices by themselves.
The Firebat thumbnail bait, I swear......
30:08 That's a man who forgot about innervate into shade of Naxx turn one.
Or my casual brain just remembers it worse than it was dunno I hated that card.
W editor
For the algorithm
Rarran clearly looked up the opponent's decklist multiple times during the game. Wouldn't be the first time he's cheating...
"force of nature was nerfed promptly after that world championship"
Well...2 years after the world championship. I wouldn't call it promptly, but hearthstone is getting old enough at this point that maybe you could let it slide.
it was nerfed after the championship: mana 5->6 which was impactful, and dropped the over all lethality of it (most decks were valuing healing, and Warrior started to really pick up steam around GvG which also dropped the impact of Force of Nature Savage Roar.
When did Engineer get nerfed to 7 mana? Rip every otk. Lol
I'm always rooting for Rarran because I just can't _stand_ the smug way Roffle talks. :v
@rarran when is that top 100 video coming out you keep teasing it 😡🤬
bro what is this thumb lmao. why wouldn't you include some reference to roffle so peeps know what's going on? I ignored this video when it came out bc it looked like something you did awhile ago. then when i finally clicked on it i thought it had firebat. had i known it had roffle i would have insta-clicked.
Damn, this old Hearthstone gameplay is so boring where is the subway surfers and the extreme low cost draw cards?
Day 34 of asking Rarran to play Library of Ruina