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Hello, Andy here.

First I would like to thank Blizzard for this expansion. It's the best time I've had in the game since its first year of release and finally the day to craft new decks has come

This time I bring you this archetype which is I believe played in other card games like Yu-Gi where your deck consistently can carry on without playing minions and having great mid to late game.

This is a very control deck oriented to revive minions that are summoned from spells or barnes. Yes the only backside with it is barnes itself because sometimes he will be summoned by Shadow Essence  but is rare and luck in this game is a factor.

So this is the thing. I've never played a deck in hearthstone where I felt chance and luck was a variable so important in decisiton making than in this deck. It has unbelievable potential and its by far the most consistent preist I've played in a while. Yes the expansion is today so many decks are coming and going without refinement, but this is Wild. I love Wild and I define myself as a more wild mode ranked player so if you want to have a good time laddering and you manage to have this set of cards I would recommend to check it up because and only because I can guarantee you'll have tons of fun.

Thats for now if anyone wants a guide I can do it if requested. The deck is REALLY hard to play but once you've master the essencials its nuts. Beast every other control except for Jade sometimes which for the moment is on check because of the counter card.

Guide:
So it seems a bunch of people is asking for a guide. Basically you want to mulligan always for Barnes (be very careful against nzoth priest because they run Potion of Madness which will screw your gameplan). No matter what the matchup its always a good choice to keep shadow visions you'll deal with a lot of dead turns. Against control you can definetely keep Shadow Essence even if its hold up for 6 turns. If your opponent is warrior or druid its very likely they will be aggro so mulligan for aggro. Best cards for this are Shadow Word: Pain, Power Word: Glory (which is a surprize for me in how it performed in mirrors for 4 attack minions) and Silence. Silence is a huge card in this deck, sometimes you will want to silence Barnes summon even if its an End up Turn effect because of the stats.

If you are having a lot of dead turns dont hesitate to shadow vision into shadow visions, just count up your mana and what are you going to do with it on the next turn.

Against Priest Nzoth (which I find is the hardest matchup) risk all in the mulligan hand. Dont go for boardclears. Just go for Barnes, Shadow Essence and Resummon Cards if you have one of those mentioned before. And dont be much afraid of going all in, do not be greedy agaisnt nzoth priest, you need to out-play them as aggresive as possible and Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound excels in that. If you are matching into too much aggro you can replace Ysera for another Silence, or Spirit Lash. I think that summs up most of it. Any aggro game the strat is to stay alive at all cost. Remember to not concede inmediately, once you've summon your Obsidian Statue 's you will go back into full health.

Managed to get from rank 15 to 5 with a 53% winrate with the deck in the run of 91 games. Stats are below. Please also note that a vast majority of the games I was still learning how to use the deck at its best. I still make mistakes it took me about 4 games to defeat the final boss to rank 5

Hitting legend: stats below

Took 53 games from rank 5 to legend 30. Ended with 55% winrate as I did better when I knew how to pilot the deck against nzoth priests and most matchups.

Top 10: Took only 11 games to get to top 10 .

Good luck and have fun!