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It's really odd he has just 1 death's bite.. the burst potential with grom on turn 8 is insane, not to mention you want to avoid as much face damage as possible against hunters (looking at you, gorehowl).

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It's really odd he has just 1 death's bite.. the burst potential with grom on turn 8 is insane, not to mention you want to avoid as much face damage as possible against hunters (looking at you, gorehowl).

You're right, esp since he still has 0 Whirlwinds OR Taskmasters for Grom activation or clearing lil hunter-y minions.  People need to remember that Gorehowl is still an amazing card, though.  Sometimes you don't have Grom on turn 8, but you can get a kill with Alex on turn 9 and Gorehowl on 10.  I have always loved Gorehowl for it's ability to finish off my opponents (esp in top-deck situations, lol).

Btw, how often do you actually WANT to activate Grom on turn 8?  I still try to use Grom as a finisher.  It's pretty rare that I've got my opponent sub 15 before turn 8.  Death's Bite's aoe is mainly used to draw off Acolytes, clear spiders, and enable executes for me.

And right after I typed that I got an amazing win over a handlock because of Gorehowl.  Enabled exact lethal when I was facing a board of 3 giants, drake, silenced watcher, owl, farseer and had no minions out.  (I'm currently trying 1 Death's Bite 1 Gorehowl)

Edit:  Oops, I totally forgot that the turn prior to that (8 mana), I had dropped him to 7 by using Death's Bite + Grommash (was my only chance at winning to go for face and hope he didn't drop a taunt next turn), lol.  I guess they both worked out for me there.

I don't think he's even decided which way to go, I think he swapped b/w the two 3 times the last night I was watching him. Watching him and several other CW streamers, I see alot of back and forth on the correct removal/whirlwind effect cards too. Right now Kolento is running 2 Death's Bite, 2 Taskmasters, 2 Ghouls, and 1 Slam.

did he make top 16?

Don't think he did, I saw some of his stream, he went to 30 at some point I believe.