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[S15 Legend] Midrange Dragon Shaman

  • Last updated Jul 15, 2015 (Blackrock Launch)
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  • 22 Minions
  • 8 Spells
  • Deck Type: Ranked Deck
  • Deck Archetype: Unknown
  • Crafting Cost: 5600
  • Dust Needed: Loading Collection
  • Created: 6/23/2015 (Blackrock Launch)
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Brief Overview:

This is a relatively standard midrange shaman list that plays all of your typical cards that you would expect to be but with a few notable exceptions.  This list forgoes the more stock Fireguard Destroyer, Neptulon, Al'Akir the Windlord and some tech cards in favor of a suite of the full 4 copies of Blackwing Technician and Blackwing Corruptor as well two fat dragons in Onyxia and Deathwing to help increase the potential to activate the blackwing cards.

Why Dragons?:

So why play more dragons and their support cards over the more standard options, what do they do better than other cards in the current meta?  The answer is that the blackwing minions are some of the best 3 and 5 mana minions in the current Hearthstone card pool so finding a way to use them effectively is actually a fairly powerful thing.  Shaman has always had a traditionally weak turn 3 as their options were generally relegated to the now inefficient Feral Spirits, the incredibly slow Manatide Totem, the weak on its own Unbound Elemental or the 3 mana mech minions.  Blackwing Technician outclasses pretty much all of those cards if you're holding a dragon as a 3 mana 3/5 is an incredibly powerful body that generally trades 2-for-1 and doesn't have any of the downsides the other 3 drops have so long as you happen to have a dragon in your hand. Blackwing Corruptor is a bit easier to understand why its powerful as simply noticing that it's essentially a 1 mana cheaper Fire Elemental should be reason enough to see why its good; the tempo gained from this card can win games on its own against aggressive strategies and the incremental value it gains against control decks is equally as powerful.

Now lets talk about the real question you're asking, "Why play Onyxia and Deathwing?", those cards are bad, right?  I certainly don't think either of these cards are bad and I actually think they are the best big dragons you can currently play in this deck, even better than the more universally praised Ysera.  Onyxia on an empty board represents 14 potential damage, more than any single card in all of Hearthstone, also no class has more ways to benefit from a board filled with minions than Shaman, betweenDefender of Argus, Flametongue Totem and even Rockbiter Weapon it's not hard to get some very substantial value out of those Whelps; granted her title as a Dragon is a strong selling point but her actual impact on a game is substantial as well.  Then there's Deathwing, the epitome of a late game card, but I assure you it has a place in this midrange deck.  I'm certainly not the first person to play Deathwing in shaman, Gaara, one of the best shaman players in the world has included the 10-drop dragon in numerous incarnations of his shaman decks, and there's good reason for that.  Shaman as a class has very poor card draw and AoE options, what this means is that in the later stages of the game it's unlikely you'll have a large amount of cards in your hand and it's also unlikely that if your opponent can manage to flood the board with say, Grim Patrons it can potentially be difficult to remove all of them.  What Deathwing does is he blows up everything you can't deal with and discard a couple potentially situational cards while simultaneously developing a massive minion that is more or less impossible to remove without hard removal and if not answered immediately his massive 12 attack points can threaten to kill an opponent in a matter of 3 turns even if they're at full HP.  While a card you hope you don't have to use, when you do, no card is better at clawing you back in to a losing game than Deathwing.

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