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0% Winrate Albatross Undatakah Shudderwock Shaman

  • Last updated Jan 19, 2020 (Second DoD Nerfs)
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  • 18 Minions
  • 12 Spells
  • Deck Type: Ranked Deck
  • Deck Archetype: Shudderwock Shaman
  • Crafting Cost: 9160
  • Dust Needed: Loading Collection
  • Created: 1/15/2020 (Second DoD Nerfs)
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    StareMaster#1907

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    US

  • Total Deck Rating

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I've been pretty bummed out since the last set of nerfs to Shaman that I tried to theorycraft an anti-highlander Shaman deck that uses Da Undatakah and Shudderwock to put enough birds in an enemy deck to be annoying. I tried to shove Spirit of the Frog combos which requires a lot of spells, leaving Shudderwock incredibly underwhelming when played.

Maybe if you keep Voltaic Burst, the Faceless Manipulator battlecry on Shudder would have an easier target to work with. The problem is that saving Voltaic (for a late game Shudderwock combo) can be difficult when you just want to use it to remove minions or use it with Spirit of the Frog.

Also Quest Priest will have x1 Mass Dispel x2 Mass Hysteria x2 Plague of Death and will likely play around Zentimo + Hex if you are Rank 5 or above. (As they don't need to overextend and have more than 2 minions on the board.)

Right now Shaman is in a really terrible spot starting from the top of the tier when DoD came out; shoveling all the way to the bottom with every recent nerfs. If anyone thinks that they can be a deck doctor or just agrees that this meme is hopeless please let me know. My next attempt will try to take out Spirit of the Frog and Zentimo and try to apply a Quest Revision with more battlecries minions so that Shudderwock will be a more powerful late game play. But I don't think it will be any good. With no way to go infinite with Shudderwock in Standard, there really is no way to get value out of this type of deck. 

Also if anyone knows of an actual possible competitive deck for Shaman currently let me know. 

 

UPDATED 1/18/20: Influence taken from SlipperyBum's deck which he linked in the comments below. I would probably put Jepetto in the deck if I had it. I think this possible could be a more refined version but without the Jepetto highroll possibility. I'll play some games with it to find out. I also added a Seaforium Bomber package to mess with Highlander decks even further. Good Whale Hunting out there brothas!

 After playing a little bit I noticed the deck was a bit draw heavy. The deck really suffers if you fail to play Undertakah during the match so you are likely holding off to play Shudder in the end game. The other big problem is only having terrible ways of generating Shudderwock. So the orginal concept from SlipperyBum was to use Jeppeto Joybuzz and Baleful Banker along with Tunnel Blaster to get a high roll infinite Shudder. This likely is hard to pull off and is incredibly draw dependent. Instead because I lack Jepetto in my collection, I suggest a substitute of Khartut Defenders because it's still a good card on it's one. Having two will increase sustain while cutting some of the draw battlecry minions hardly hurts since you still have a great draw/cycle package already. I had to sacrifice Seaforium Bombers to put in Faceless Corruptors. DO NOT USE VOLTAIC BURST--this was added to play on a turn 10 Shudderwock to have more consistent results with Faceless' Battlecries. Also I decided to add Sunfury Protector like in the original deck back in to create a more defensive approach and also helping complete the quest faster. I will play some more games to see if this helps with tempo/sustain issues I am having. 

Quick Revision: I think I will add Barista even if it's a little greedy. Removing one Khartut Defender might hurt but I think the high roll my be worth it.

[1 hour later] UPDATE: I just had the worst run in with a Highlander Mage that Polymorphed my First Albatross, used a SkyShiv on my Faceless (Yes, I didn't mistype Rogue--this MAGE got it from a random generation spell generated by a removal spell). then proceeds to Zephrys and get Hex to deny me my Khartut Defender. I'm giving up on trying to work this deck into a possible threat. There is just no tools available to activate or copy your Shudders like in the past. I'm off to try a terrible deck with only Spriit of the Frog, Muckmorpher, and Underbelly Ooze...because I'm a masochist.