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Interview by monk
On Day 3 of ESGN TV Fight Night, Kripp faced off against Artosis in a rematch from Blizzcon. He eventually clinched the series in a close 3-2 victory, with an especially exciting game 5 victory involving a very obedient Ragnaros. Let's see what Kripp has to say about these games and his experience in Berlin.
monk: Hey, Kripp. Congrats on beating Artosis with a score of 3-2. They were definitely interesting games and I'd like to get your thoughts on some of the decisions you made. First, you made the decision to not run a Mage deck in a time when Mage was considered by many to be by far the strongest class. What was the rationale behind that?
I don't really play constructed much. Most of decks and cards I played were given to me by my teammates. Out of the Mage options, I thought Giants Mage would have too many counters as it was a highly anticipated and played deck. The aggro Mage variant that I tried didn't seem that great either, so I played what I thought would work -- and it wasn't Mage.
What about when the RNG wheel matched you up against Artosis? Were you hoping for a rematch of the Blizzcon finals? And how did you rate your chances?
Outside the players behind them, I think at Blizzcon my decks were favored to win and I was a bit disappointed they didn't. I was absolutely wanting to play Artosis again. I felt my chances were at least even.
There were a lot of interesting plays made by both sides in both games. For example, can you walk me through what was going through your mind when you Wrathed your Sylvanas to steal a Damaged Golem?
Basically when you have Sylvanas, you are blinded by the greed of stealing the best shit you can. This blindness led me to make a really stupid play.
In the final game, you made another very bold and interesting play, using equality on eight creatures and them setting up an Abomination so that they would all die. Do these kind of situations every come up in Arena and how hard did you have to think before making that play?
It took a while to figure out. The idea was, Artosis doesn't run silence and whatever creature he may have taken would die to the Abom. If he took the Abom i could kill it with the sword. In hindsight I should have killed the 1/1 with Tirion to increase the odds of rag hitting face. As Rag hit face anyway, the play went well enough. That and, at 10 life, if he doesn't take Abom, I can just go face.
As for arena, pretty much everything happens in arena. Patience is so important there, especially because you have to play around every card all the time. It's not like the match against Artosis where I made a play because I knew he had no Silence.
Ragnaros doesn't usually listen to its master as well as it did that game. I believe you got four perfect Rag hits in a row. How great did it feel to get those Rag hits and then heal him from 1/1 to 1/7?
Ragnaros is pretty insane. The RNG was very good but i think I was far enough ahead to afford a few misses.
And the healing?
More Rag hits more win!
What did you expect going into this tournament and how was it different from your ? If you were invited back again, would you return? If not, what would have to change?
I really enjoy watching and talking about the matches. I just don't like constructed much. I'd like to do this stuff from a caster, but I'd probably go back to play.
Has your opinion of constructed change at all after attending the tournament?
Nope, still pretty boring.
Yesterday, on Reddit, lots of people praised your casting of my match against Ek0p. You had said in one of your previous videos that you didn't think you did well in terms of casting. Has this widespread positive response enticed you to possibly cast more tournaments in the future?
I'm glad the response was good to my cast. I'm more hopeful about doing more of that in the future rather than playing constructed in tourneys.
Got anything interesting to say about any of the players on either team that you learned at Berlin?
Not really. everyone was pretty cool, played well, and had some mistakes.
Except ekop. he sucks
Alright, don't want to keep you too much longer. Any shoutouts, sponsors, plugs?
Nah, I got nothing.
On Day 3 of ESGN TV Fight Night, Kripp faced off against Artosis in a rematch from Blizzcon. He eventually clinched the series in a close 3-2 victory, with an especially exciting game 5 victory involving a very obedient Ragnaros. Let's see what Kripp has to say about these games and his experience in Berlin.
Shake
I don't really play constructed much. Most of decks and cards I played were given to me by my teammates. Out of the Mage options, I thought Giants Mage would have too many counters as it was a highly anticipated and played deck. The aggro Mage variant that I tried didn't seem that great either, so I played what I thought would work -- and it wasn't Mage.
What about when the RNG wheel matched you up against Artosis? Were you hoping for a rematch of the Blizzcon finals? And how did you rate your chances?
Outside the players behind them, I think at Blizzcon my decks were favored to win and I was a bit disappointed they didn't. I was absolutely wanting to play Artosis again. I felt my chances were at least even.
There were a lot of interesting plays made by both sides in both games. For example, can you walk me through what was going through your mind when you Wrathed your Sylvanas to steal a Damaged Golem?
Basically when you have Sylvanas, you are blinded by the greed of stealing the best shit you can. This blindness led me to make a really stupid play.
Drink
It took a while to figure out. The idea was, Artosis doesn't run silence and whatever creature he may have taken would die to the Abom. If he took the Abom i could kill it with the sword. In hindsight I should have killed the 1/1 with Tirion to increase the odds of rag hitting face. As Rag hit face anyway, the play went well enough. That and, at 10 life, if he doesn't take Abom, I can just go face.
As for arena, pretty much everything happens in arena. Patience is so important there, especially because you have to play around every card all the time. It's not like the match against Artosis where I made a play because I knew he had no Silence.
Ragnaros doesn't usually listen to its master as well as it did that game. I believe you got four perfect Rag hits in a row. How great did it feel to get those Rag hits and then heal him from 1/1 to 1/7?
Ragnaros is pretty insane. The RNG was very good but i think I was far enough ahead to afford a few misses.
And the healing?
More Rag hits more win!
What did you expect going into this tournament and how was it different from your ? If you were invited back again, would you return? If not, what would have to change?
I really enjoy watching and talking about the matches. I just don't like constructed much. I'd like to do this stuff from a caster, but I'd probably go back to play.
Has your opinion of constructed change at all after attending the tournament?
Nope, still pretty boring.
Enjoy
I'm glad the response was good to my cast. I'm more hopeful about doing more of that in the future rather than playing constructed in tourneys.
Got anything interesting to say about any of the players on either team that you learned at Berlin?
Not really. everyone was pretty cool, played well, and had some mistakes.
Except ekop. he sucks
Alright, don't want to keep you too much longer. Any shoutouts, sponsors, plugs?
Nah, I got nothing.
All hail Octavian 
