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I've been playing around with Priest, Control Pally and now mostly Token Druid since my Warrior hit gold (but still not legend) I'm finding the Token Druid to be very powerful against anything, except I ran into this "Control Hunter" the other day which took me by complete surprise... He played a Pyro, with arcane and deadly shots, even dropped Baron Geddon and Alex, I was so confused when he dropped that Pyro and I had Mulligan'd expecting the normal hunter deck and I lost convincingly... I think I would prefer playing against or with a control hunter than the usual though, but I hope control hunter doesn't become the next broken version of hunter :/

I'm not saying it's not winning, just saying that it's always going to be very long game where the outcome is never sure... Even when you got board control you can still get bursted out to death by the current meta.

At least that's my experience :p

hey guys ive only managed to play a few hours this season but i am rank 12 with high win rate. i think having both 2 cruel taskmaster and slam and cleave is vital for early game advantage in matchups. i finished rank 1 last season only playing warrior but this season i am concentrating slightly more on early game and dropping ysera hopefully hitting legend. here is my current deck:

http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/94898-control

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hey guys ive only managed to play a few hours this season but i am rank 12 with high win rate. i think having both 2 cruel taskmaster and slam and cleave is vital for early game advantage in matchups. i finished rank 1 last season only playing warrior but this season i am concentrating slightly more on early game and dropping ysera hopefully hitting legend. here is my current deck:

http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/94898-control

Is Tinkmaster the poor man's polymorph for the mirror?  I'm curious why you use him. Your deck looks very interesting. 

generally against hunter with unstable ghoul deathrattle and death bite deathrattle its very easy to keep board clear so when highmane is played, tinkmaster value is very high. also in control matchups with tirion, rag, ysera, alex plays on clear boards, again the value is very high. also although a much rarer matchup nowadays but in handlock matchups when reaching the end of the matchup and the lock plays both moltens and whatever else to create a full board, brawl + tinkmaster is a very strong board clear for 8 mana. overall its a situational card but very valuable and carried me in alot of matchups to rank 1 (not rank 1 legend, but the rank of 1)last season. i think it can carry me again this season, i am dropping some of my late game (ysera, harrison, loatheb) in turn for early game clear/card draw in slam/cleave so excited for this new season

In response to the last few posts: I am starting to think Tinkmaster might be a pretty good card, but don't think I could bring myself to actually craft him... Already just reluctantly crafted Harrison Jones and he has won a couple games for me, but now even the hunters aren't always running weapons. I really don't know why no control warrior decks ever have Abomination in them, I think he's awesome and am considering crafting and running a 2nd. Warrior is still my favorite class to play even though I already got the 500 wins, but I think it definitely needs to be faster and more aggressive to have a better chance of winning right now.

I don't think Harrison Jones is worth playing, and especially not crafting.  It's a situational card to begin with (sub-optimal against non-weapon classes), and then even against a weapon class, there are times when his battlecry works against you, so he's even more situational than normal.

The other day I had the dream scenario.  Shaman casts a Doomhammer on turn 5, swings twice.  I immediately cast Harrison on my turn 5... then burn 3 cards and lose the game by dying in fatigue.  In hindsight, it would have been better to play more cards and cast Harrison later, but when it's turn 5 and that shiny Doomhammer says, "Put me in a museum!" it's hard to pass up on the American Dream.

Here's another scenario, Shaman casts a Stormforged Axe and doesn't swing.  Do I take the three cards or wait for Doomhammer?  I ended up waiting.  He cast two Stormforged Axes and never played Doomhammer.  I recommend always taking what's in front of you, rather than waiting.  3 cards in the hand is better than a 5/4 in the bush?

Another time I waited a Shaman out with Harrison until the end of the game.  He casts Doomhammer with 4 cards left in my deck.  I ended up letting him smack me 6 times, putting it in the museum so I can draw 2 instead of 6, because the fatigue damage would've been lethal.  

In this meta, I think an Acidic Swamp Ooze is the better choice.  It's more useful against Zoo, and that battlecry is never a drawback.

I'm having the most luck winning with my weaponless Shaman deck right now ;)

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I found unst. ghoul being useless, maybe I can't use it properly but it was a "use it and forget" 

Hm, still synergy with Armorsmith and Acolyte, plus it kills doggies. Corsair is worse imo, 3 health taunt at 4 mana is not good enough to force good trades in your favor. Yes, you can play him for free sometimes, but when you don't have weapon, he's just not worth it.