[Spark] Elemental Spirit (S34)
- Last updated Feb 3, 2017 (Gadgetzan)
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Wild
- 11 Minions
- 19 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Control Shaman
- Crafting Cost: 15520
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 1/11/2017 (Gadgetzan)
- Sparkaz
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Hello everyone! I'm Spark, Legend player from France. Today I wanted to share with you my updated Control Shaman, which is designed to beat consistently Aggro decks while still keeping up against Reno decks.
As always, it runs the full set of board clears to annihilate the swarm of aggro decks. You also have access to a solid healing potential thanks to Healing Wave and Hallazeal the Ascended. On top of that, I'm also running Earth Elemental with a single Ancestral Spirit to prevent further aggression.
With all the overload cards in the deck, Lava Shock is a natural choice to compensate the downside while adding a little bit of damage to control some minions. Lightning Bolt help dealing with early aggression and Hex is obviously here to deal with stronger threats.
Besides the standard set of Control tools, I chose to run something different from my previous N'Zoth, the Corruptor variant. This time I'm using Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound instead!
As I want to optimize the chance of getting a solid Barnes play, the deck almost only runs valuable targets for it! That's why I chose to run Ancestral Knowledge and Feral Spirit instead of Azure Drake and Thing from Below.
To make use of Barnes and Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound, I chose to run solid win conditions : White Eyes, Emperor Thaurissan, Sylvanas Windrunner, Ragnaros the Firelord and Ysera.
Update
As the Miracle Rogue matchup felt really annoying and Aggro Shaman gave me a little bit more issue than expected in the long run, I tweaked the deck a little bit.
I'm now running Devolve to deal better with Miracle Rogue boards and Shaman Aggro when you can't really clear them properly.
Stormcrack comes in to deal with 4-health minions such as Totem Golem and Azure Drake.
Finally, I added the second Ancestral Spirit for its synergy with the win conditions and Barnes summoning mechanic.
Replacements
Please don't ask for replacements, I know the deck is pretty expensive but it's just impossible to find similar win conditions in term of value and synergy.
However, If you only lack 2 of the final conditions, it is possible to replace them with a combination of Cairne Bloodhoof and N'Zoth, the Corruptor. And if you only lack one you can run this set up as well by giving up on Ancestral Spirit. Malygos is also a fine win condition although a bit more situational.
Matchups & Mulligan
I've written a full in-depth guide about the deck at Good Gaming. I definitely recommend to give it a check if you want to learn how to pilot the deck properly.
Link Removed: https://www.good-gaming.com/guide/760
Results
I'm eating Aggro decks all day long with this build and Reno decks aren't really an issue. Jade Druid is obviously an awful matchups as the Jade Golem are just getting out of Control.
I hit Legend on EU during S34 using mostly this deck. Here are my win-rates :
Gameplay Video
Here is a cool win streak I've had on stream facing some aggro decks and a renolock (french commentary)
Bonus : N'Zoth Jade Variant
As a bonus, here is my other Control Shaman build, which is centered around N'Zoth and Jade synergies : Jade Zoth Control Shaman
The deck also counters pretty well aggro decks but feels slightly less efficient to me, feel free to try it as well ;)
Closing
I hope you'll enjoy the deck as much as I do and maybe it can help you reach Legend this season. Don't forget to show your support by upvoting the deck if you liked and don't hesitate to discuss about it or ask any question in the comment section below ;)
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Is this deck viable in current wild ? i dismantled this deck but im getting the itch to play it again
I think it is, but it could be optimized a little bit towards a N'Zoth variant I guess to be more consistent in Wild
What cards would you take out for 2x Ancestor's Call?
Maybe a Stormcrack and a Devolve, but I would probably not use 2 ancestor's call anyway
Yeah it can be a final win condition as well, but it interacts badly with Barnes
jesus 0-3 so far
Well, recent nerfs hit aggro Shaman, one of this deck's good matchups, really hard. But you know what archetype was left untouched? Jade Mid-range Shaman, which is pretty terrible matchup for every control deck that doesn't run Jade package as well. What's more, Jade Druids reappeared, and that's almost an automatic loss for anything that isn't either other Jade Druid or hyper-aggro deck. I'd say that, however awesome this deck used to be, you shouldn't try playing anti-aggro control deck in anti-control meta.
Don't bother, he just didn't read anything explained here :P
Loving this deck at the moment. Great work!
Thanks! Have fun :D
C'est jouissif comme deck ! une vraie forteresse contre les aggro et un déluge d'énorme créa sous esprit ancestral contre contrôle ! vraiment bravo pour ce deck que j'adore déjà 6-0. Moi qui adore jouer contrôle c'est un régale ! J'ai mixé un peu en gardant les loups mais en enlevant toto et coup de tonnerre car pas mal d'aggro encore rang 10. je vais te suivre pour voir ce que tu propose d'autres gros GG à toi en plus un fr !
Merci beaucoup! Content que ça plaise, hésite pas a suivre le Facebook je poste très régulièrement des articles sur Good Gaming ;)
Sparkaz man, another great deck from you. I was waiting for a new shaman control deck from you and as always you are the best. I also like jade zoth shaman, but it's a little bit hard handle the 1 card type decks of mage and priest. Anyway you have my upvote for sure
Thanks man! Yeah I think I love this version better than every other Control Shaman I built before :P
Hallazeal + aoe kindles aggro decks' butts. Great deck!
Yup! Thanks :D
Knowing the next standard rotation will come march-april, have you considered making a decklist replacing al the brm/loe/tgt cards?
would love to see a 2017 standard list!
9 cards will disappear from the deck, including thaurissan. any ideas for a replacement for him?
I didn't thought about it yet, but the exclusion of Elemental Destruction will be very very very hard to deal with ... Honestly I won't dig too much into updating lists until we see the new cards. But if we find other options to replace Elemental Destruction, the archetype could survive easily ;)
Hey, big thanks for the updated deck. I originally put this together on your first decklist and did well against aggro but was running up against too many control decks at some point. So I went back to this deck and updated it since I thought I'd see lots of aggro beginning of the season. No! I've only come across 1 pirate warrior/1 dragon warrior, renolocks, priests and control shaman. But I am happy to report that I won the majority of those games. What I'm pleasantly surprised is how this deck performs against both dragon and reno priests. I'm 5-0 with priests. Even the last priest match, I was 99.9% i was going to lose but somehow I pulled it together and won. Against aggro, it's still does great. Against Jade decks, it does suffer a little bit. And Renolock is about 50-50 which isn't terrible. But thanks for the deck. Even when I lose, I still have fun pulling out insane minions.
Hey! Thanks for the feedback mate :)
Indeed I feel like with the update, the deck stands a chance against anything and I'm also using in this early season :P