[84% Winrate] Totem Shaman - Easy Climb
- Last updated Nov 12, 2017 (Marin's Treasure)
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Wild
- 18 Minions
- 11 Spells
- 1 Weapon
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Midrange Shaman
- Crafting Cost: 1880
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 5/8/2016 (Old Gods)
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Battle Tag:
DontBePotato#2748
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
1393
TIPS ON HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR GAMEPLAY:
UPDATE: This got to Rank 1 of Hot in just a few hours, thanks to you guys. This is by far the best deck to climb right now and I actually haven't lost a game with it since I created this guide ramping it from a 80% to a 84%. I'm quite sure this deck can stand at a 65% winrate in competitive play.
This is the current version of the Totem Shaman, which turned out to be far superior to other shaman decks that run Flamewreathed Faceless
Pro-Player Xixo played a variation of this deck at dreamhack and the legend player Loyan created the archetype for this deck.
It's super easy to climb with this as it can be super aggressive and you can win by turn 6 easily. It seems like Priest is actually it's worst matchup and you don't see those often on ladder.
Card Explanation:
I made this video real quick explaining how and in which combination to use the cards. It's a card guide and nothing more, but I hope you still enjoy it. Full gameplay and explanation is coming soon.
MULLIGAN:
In general you want to mulligan for your early game.
Argent Squire, Tunnel Trogg, Flame Juggler, Totem Golem, Tuskarr Totemic
As you can see there are ALOT of cards you can mulligan for, so you usually start with a good hand. There are a few decks where you want to keep specific cards in your hand to counter the opponnent sooner or later.
vs. SHAMAN
Keep Lightning Bolt or Rockbiter Weapon + your early game cards. You can also keep a Hex instead and use it on their Dr.4 aka. Flamewreathed Faceless once they play it, putting them in a huge disadvantage.
vs. WARLOCK
Keep Lightning Storm or Tunnel Trogg + Lightning Bolt most of the warlocks are Zoo and a well timed Lightning Storm just fucks em over, but be careful not to use it too early, or they'll just fill the board again. Trogg + Lightning Bolt destroys their turn one Voidwalker and challenges any of their 2 drops without dying itself.
vs. WARRIOR
Nothing special to keep, except Harrison Jones IF you techd him in. Just look for your early game and try to accelerate before the warrior gets too much armor or board control.
REPLACEMENTS:
There aren't alot of replacements to be honest. NO YOU CAN'T REPLACE Tunnel Trogg!
You can replace Lightning Storm or Feral Spirit or Argent Squire for a Flamewreathed Faceless and Harrison Jones
VIDEOS MADE OF THIS DECK:
Wow...
really good deck!
My stats on Asia (play without trogg(take sergant))
20 Rank
druid c'thun = loose
shaman murloc = win
mage budget = win
19 Rank
rogue miracle = win
mage tempo = win
18 Rank
hunter midrange (deathrattle) = win
17 Rang
mage tempo = win
priest control = win
16 Rank
shaman midrange (evo) = win
15 Rank
mage tempo = win
warrior c'thun = win
14 Rank
warrior patron (worgen combo) = win
warrior patron = win
13 Rank
priest control = win
shaman midrange = win
to be continued ... thx for replacement secret pala deck ;]
Trogg is such a good card though... :S
Unfortunately no Explorers' League ;[ but Sergant very nice too, and help me sometime
How about putting Al'Akir the Windlord? What would you replace?
Too slow. Wouldn't play him in this deck. Maybe a midrange type.
Played fine when this first came out, now i've gone from rank 13 to rank 16. Not once have i drawn Tunnel Trogg in about 20 games. Whats up with the RNG gods
Can I use Al' Akir too?
Normally I dont like Tempo Shaman that much, but I just needed a few wins after failing with N'zoth hunter...
10-2 - 83% Winrate. Rank 12 so far --> Prove of Stats
WTF is this deck!?!??!
Streaming Gameplay with this deck now! Stop by and chill
Twitch.tv/0dgreen
Thanks for stoppin by Potato and everyone else, I went 9-4 with my frist session playing this deck, However, I am not experienced in shaman and made some critical misplays. My overall impression is that this deck is strong, and having RNG in your favor goes a LONG way, I have very bad luck with Tuskarr and Flame Jugglers, but you might not! I'll continue to play this deck as I have grown bored of the control deck meta. Thanks for the fun deck Potato!
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Wow, man. Climbed from 18 to 13 in about two hours. Went 10-0 with this deck, facing two Warriors, two Rogues, two Paladins, and a Hunter, Mage, Warlock and Druid. Was pretty close against the Druid, but pretty easy overall. I love the fact that it's not a stupid smorc deck, but it still allows you to accelerate quickly if needed, with either Bloodlust/Flametongue, Thunderbluff/Heropower or Doomhammer/Rockbiter. Nice job, thanks!
12- 2 right now. Rank 7 and climbing. Thanks.
I keep floating around rank 8 with this deck, as soon as I get into 7 I keep getting hard counter (mostly priest) decks to this deck. Then I lose streak to 9 and then winstreak back to 7 and repeat.
I'm the exact same! Cruised up until then but I've spent three days now sitting on 50% win rate and bouncing between ranks 6 and 8.
I've been to legend with Shaman and have the golden hero, I don't think I'm making that many misplays!
I'm crushing Priest right now with this deck, 4-0. I sellout hard to clear everything they put on the board (if possible), and if you're lucky enough to skate by a turn 5 Nova/EE.... it's down hill quickly from there with the buffs you have. They have so much heal I don't bother with chip damage, just control their board and build mine for burst/lethal, and pray for no AOE (also keeping this in mind and trying not to over extend into one after T5, as well as leaving 2 open board slots for Thunder Bluff on T7).
I often get turn 2 doomsayer and from there on dragon priest has the board with auchenai circle, nova's and EE. I do win against priests about 50% of the time but for some reason I got board wiped after board wiped by priest. Bad rng is bad I guess. Im not saying the deck is bad, I went from 15 to 7 on a winstreak, I just keep bouncing around 8 with it for 2 days now.
What are some possible counters to this deck? Literally my last 5 matches have been against this deck and it's pretty damn annoying.
Priests and control warriors seem to wreck it. I am kinda new, so I might be wrong...