Gaara's Pinnacle 3 Shaman Deck
- Last updated Mar 1, 2015 (Undertaker Nerf)
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Wild
- 21 Minions
- 7 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 6020
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 2/25/2015 (Undertaker Nerf)
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Battle Tag:
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Total Deck Rating
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This is the Shaman deck that Gaara used in the Pinnacle 3 Tournament. I can say that this deck is quite unique because he is not running the common shell that other shaman decks use.
The deck was originated by GOOBYSENCHOU
Tell me your opinion on the deck and I THINK this is the exact list from watching the tournament.
Gaara coming back from 0-2 to 3-2 with this Shaman deck against Kolento.
What makes this deck interesting are his 5 drops and he compensated the card draw from the commonly run azure drakes with the gnomish inventors.
I will definitely be trying out this deck and determine if it is viable in the current meta. I will be doing a gameplay video for you guys if you want to check it out before crafting it since it is quite expensive.
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saw some games yesterday and he had crackle and Thalnos along
Replacements:
Alakir: Doomhammer
Neptulon: Piloted Sky Golem, Ragnaros
Boom: ^^
Piloted Sky Golem: Sylvanas
Loatheb: Azure Drake
I was testing around with Arcane Nullifier... Might be a solid replacement for Piloted Golem, I haven't done enough testing to see if the deck can maintain pressure especially after a silenced Mace/Nullifier
Why the gnomish inventor for card draw over azure drake that has card draw plus spell power? I get you have three other five mana drops but otherwise i don't understand why.
He does that to have a more balanced mana curve as you noticed and also he runs less damages spells (no crackle, only 1 lightning storm vs weapons and the usual rockbiter weapon) so the +1 damages doesn't change much.
Gotcha makes sense. I just like the 4/4 body on top of the spell power for just 1 more. I just dont see why its better all together. I get you can play inventor earlier and get a card draw earlier but then you only have a 2/4 body easily traded with for another 4 mana cost minion
If he ran Drakes, he'd have 7 5-drops. That's really bad. Having a smooth mana curve is VERY important.
I like playing this deck a lot. It's early in the season, so it's a little tricky to measure how strong it will be once I move up a little in the ranks, but as of today I'm Rank 14 and my stats with this deck look like this. The total win percentage is 53.19, and I do pretty well against classes that frustrate me, generally. The weird standout, so far, has been Warlock. I'm not sure why I've been getting consistently beaten by them. I think the ZooLock has been super popular the last few days, and this deck does seem to struggle if it gets behind. The hunter losses pretty much all came in turn 6, 7, or 8, so obviously it's not the solution to FaceHunter, but it holds its own better than a lot of decks I've tried.
Diamond? Too much league of legends , bro. Kappa
The problem with this deck are the 2 drops. Creepers are only good with flametounge but then that leaves a naked flametounge which dies easily becuase theres not taunts in the deck. I switched both creepers and flametounges for mech warpers and annoyatrons and never looked back.
diamond? lmao league of legends addict Keepo
Do you guys think the normal midrange shaman (Loyan style) or this one is better?
i think this one is better cause of bomb Lobber and some less cards have overload... also the powermace with some mechs is rly good... i can climb ladder mutch better then with the standart version of midrange shaman
swapped al'akir for sneed's since i didnt have him and works beautifully
How do you feel about a bloodlust for a fire elemental?
You wanna replace fire ele ? that's insane , it is one of the best 6 drops in the entire game ...
great deck, seems very consistent so far, it helped me easily pick up the 5 wins for the daily quests :D
Neptulons tough to replace, he's in the deck to refill your hand and I can't think of a single card that replicates his ability tbh.
Ysera has a hand refilling purpose too. It's a bit slow for shaman though.
Yea she's much slower in every aspect, takes a couple turns to equal Neptulons card replenishment(although her cards individually are much better), plus she can't be played a turn after you've lightning stormed either. The other thing about Neptulon is he's a second BGH target so your opponent can't just save their BGH for you dr. Boom(or vice versa), the two of them help each other out in that regard. You could give it a shot, nightmare + al'akir also seems like a crazy combination.
yea, it's very tough to replace neptulon, because it's a big threat + card draws, the only one that can draw that many cards for u is maybe jeeves? not a very good replacement though.