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Been thinking bout swaping Ra-den for a viper since Ignis weapons are so predominant as a win condition. Also I havent used Ra-den succesfully a single time I think.

He is an intersting card and if you had to cut one minion, it would probably be him. 

That said, I won quite a few games with Ra-Den even just using him as a tempo play when he was only resummoning a couple of ignis's. 

He's also really good fun (imo) and it's lovely to ressurect a board of Titan's, copy a Behemoth, clear the opponents board, and heal to full!

As an alternative you can always copy your opponents viper after they destroy your first weapon!

I swapped out Holy Nova for something more useful like Dirty Rat so its not doing that badly against warrior and mage.

Certainly a reasonable swap.  Holy Nova was originally included to be used against Drum druid decks (either on it's own in the early game or in combo with silence when they get buffed), but  I didn't see too many of them at the end of last season. I did actually find it to be quite a useful card though outside of that match up though, and it is a card you can happily play on an empty board to reduce Yogg and clear a hand space.

Drum druid was also the reason why I went with Harmonic Pop over Lightbomb, as the latter wont clear a buffed board. Whirlpool is also a consideration, but given most of our minions should be copies it's not always something you want to play.

 Ra-den is kind of a confusing card to me: When you make a copy of a card and play the copy, does he recognize that as "not starting in your deck" or will any minion that was actually in your deck, regardless of whether it's a copy or not, not be acknowledged by him?

Copies made by creation protocol or power chord: synchronise will be resurrected by Ra-den.  The minions summoned by Aman'Thul's ability (6 cost with taunt and lifesteal) will not be resummoned as you don't play them.  The legendary added to hand after you use Aman'Thuls abilities will be resummoned if you play it from hand.

You do need to keep track of which minion was the copy though if they all end up in hand.

Worth noting is that a Ra-Den will never re-summon himself, even if it was a copy. 

Excellent, thanks for the information. Hopefully you understand why I had to ask, as the wording on that card could easily be interpreted a few different ways. One of the weaknesses of not using a token system like in a table-top game where it's visibly different when you have a "generated" resource in play/graveyard.

This deck is really fun and quite good! 

Glad you're enjoying it!

well as much as i liked this deck - it begins to ultimately suck ass after platine 10 :D

I did literally play it to legend, so it might depend on your match ups.  As I said in the write up, any OTK style decks are basically an auto loss, but every other style of deck is winable. 

Checking my stats, the highilghts for this deck were against Paladin and Death Knight, whereas the worst results were against druid (both flavours of OTK) and warrior (OTK.)

Either way, I'm not suggesting it's some crazy meta breaker deck - I just enjoyed playing it so I thought I would post it!  If it's not winning for you it definitely becomes less fun :(

edit: one interaction I forgot to mention in my write up is that you can use Deafen to silence Yogg (or Aman'thul) to allow them to attack.  This definitely won me a couple of games but it wont work the turn you play them.

nah man it's fine i love this deck of yours, just it became very hard after platinum in start of the season, i definitely would push legend again with this deck

Sometimes Yogg is not enough for clearing, if creatures have, for example, a divine shield, or gain stats too quickly through buffs, or at a high rate of crowding the table with large creatures in general, etc., but most often this is true in matches against paladins, a couple of times I felt the lack of Shadow Word: Ruin 
Steamcleaner is a great card against DK, Warlocks, Control Priests and decks with Fizzle
In general, E.T.C is such a life-saving card for special cases when the classic rock-paper-scissors scheme is somewhat not in your favor
The strategy of having 10 cards in hand IMHO is fraught with the loss of key cards for further play, not so necessary when there is a lot of healing

I've been thinking about a similar deck for the last 2-3 days and I have to say that you managed to make a pretty balanced build of this type. Regarding the cards that you described - yes, I agree with most of your conclusions. In fact, this particular variation is very good, it’s fun to play, the efficiency is decent, although I would probably add E.T.C. here with Steamcleaner and Shadow Word: Ruin, but I don’t know how appropriate this is when there is a strong dependence on Creation Protocol

Good job dude, and thx for for the detailed description

I think E.T.C could be interesting as you have potential to pick multiple times if you get copies of him.  That said, I think he's probably a little slow and the cards you typically inlcude in ETC arent ones that tend to all be useful against the same deck. 

Yogg is the main card to deal with large boards or a single large minion (rather than something like shadow word ruin).

Steamcleaner is an interesting one though.  I played plenty of (pre-buff) plague DK's and the trend seemed to be that the plagues just arent quick enough against this type of control deck.  They mostly won through an aggro style of game where I missed by clears. 

You can also try the strategy of having 10 cards in hand to protect from both curses and plagues (usually through summoning multiple Aman'Thul's).  It's not as easy without Cathedral of Atonement though.