S20 Reincarnate Shaman
- Last updated Nov 5, 2015 (Warsong Nerf)
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Wild
- 20 Minions
- 10 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 4200
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 11/1/2015 (Warsong Nerf)
- Ozzin22
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Battle Tag:
Joz#1508
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Total Deck Rating
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Hello there, my name is Joz. I'm a 2x legend player on the NA server. Today was the start of the new season, and I was watching Sjow use this deck on his stream, and it seemed like a lot of fun, so I thought I'd try it out. I swapped out a 2nd BGH for an Earth Shock, and so far I am at rank 11 with a 12-2 record, and I plan on playing it for a while longer
When playing this deck, I was surprised by its consistency in curving out well as well as its ability to maintain board control. The deck itself is filled with sticky minions such as haunted creeper, piloted shredder, sludge belcher, and sylvanas. The main win conditon of the deck is to control the board in the early game, create big tempo swings in the mid-game with reincarnate combos, and lock the game out with Kel'thuzad.
Having a board is crucial as it allows you to maintain pressure while at the same time setting up for huge reincarnate turns. Cards such as Sludge Belcher have Sylvanas have the stats to trade with smaller minions, and then be reincarnated for a full heal while activating their deathrattles. This can be devastating for the opponent if you have Baron Rivendare on the board.
Most games are going to be a hard mulligan for Chow, Creeper, Egg, attack buffs, and removal in certain matchups. The early game minions are sticky enough to trade with multiple minions and secure board control going into the mid-game. I have Abusive Sargent over Flametounge Totem because they fill the same roll, however, Abusive Sargent is cheaper, and most of the time an enemy minion is able to kill the Totem for free while the Sargent can usually trade one-for-one in the early game. NOTE: Reincarnate can be used on egg or creeper if necessary.
Cards such as Lightning Storm can wipe the board of a Secret Paladin or Aggro Druid, while Hex and Big Game Hunter allows for removal of their late game threats such as Mysterious Challenger, Boom, Tirion, and Fel Reaver (BGH can remove Challenger after and Avenge buff).
The mid-game is generally where you are looking to gain tempo with reincarnate. Shredder, Belcher, Sylvanas, Fire Elemental, and Baron Rivendare are used to maintain board control and hopefully swing the game in your favor. Baron Rivendare is great behind a Sludge Belcher. Even without Baron, the cards are great on their own and you can use Reincarnate on any of them to gain tempo.
In the end game, try to drop Dr. Boom on Turn 7, and if you have Kel'Thuzad for turn 8 with any sort of board you can usually lock out the game from there.
You want to maintain pressure so don't trade if your opponent will do it for you. This deck has very little burst outside of the attack buffs so make sure you maintain a board. This deck thrives on playing minions that are difficult to remove so use that to your advantage.
UPDATE: http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/360077-s20-reincarnate-shaman-2-0
After reading a lot of the comments I tried making a deck that is more control-oriented and stands a better chance against aggro (sort of). I encourage anyone reading to check it out and see what you think. Thanks!
Fun Combos:
Turn 10: Kel'thuzad + Reincarnate = 2 Kel'Thuzads and you will most likely never lose board control.
Turn 8: Sylvanas + Reincarnate w/ Baron on board to steal 2 minions
If you are playing a Druid, you can reincarnate their Darnassus to make them lose 2 mana crystals.
If you want more burst, you can add Leroy Jenkins an on Turn 7 , play Leeroy, hit face, Reincranate, and hit face again for 12 damage.
I hope you enjoy this deck, feel free to try it out for yourself. I've been playing the deck for less than a day so I'm sure there are still possible improvements. If you want to suggest or ask anything regarding the deck or anything else feel free to leave a comment.
Good Luck I hope you have fun with the deck!
Sylvanas is to good to be replaced!
I haven't been keeping stats on it this week, but this deck really feels good. I'm winning games more often than not, often getting a concession with Sylvanas Windrunner + Reincarnate. The early game feels solid enough to wait for the combos, which I haven't always felt running other reincarnate shaman decks. Nice build.
I'm glad you're enjoying it
Play Secret Paladin
0-4. Just can't maintain a board to make Baron or Kel relevant.
Really? I wonder why because the deck is filled with sticky minions that fight for board well.
I think it's because they are 1 health minions that die to all AOE, while opponent can attack with higher minions and not die.
But like all decks, it needs more like 20 games to be said to be "good" or "bad" and it depends on what we're fighting.
With that lot of undying minions, Bloodlust would be nice, wouldn't it?
Yeah you can definitely try it. My concern with it in this deck is there is no draw mechanic without stuff like Azure Drakes to consisently close the game with it, and if you draw it early it can be a dead card most of the time
I do, but it won't counter the deck, to win against face hunter you have to constantly control the board and hope they don't draw Unleash. This deck is very good against midrange because of it's ability to flood and control the board. Decks like Secret Paladin win by dropping huge swing cards such as Mysterious Challenger on turn six after fighting for board in the early turns. This deck has enough early game, mid game, and removal to deal with all of SP's big threats such as Dr.6, 7, and Tirion with Hex and BGH, and can usually outlast decks Faster deck such as Paladin and Tempo mage if you have the early game to compete with them. The face hunter matchup has such aggressive early game that you have to win with board control, drawing belches and lightning storm, and hope they don't draw Unleash. Even if you add Healing Wave, I don't know how effective it will be. Most other match ups I feel like it would be too low impact but for sure, try it out and if you're winning games as a result, by all means let me know because I still don't believe the deck is perfect yet.
In my screwy reincarnate deck, I have explosive sheep instead of lightning storm, since I despise overload. Only negative is killing your own board, however, it is sometimes necessary to clear all the damn pally minions.
not getting good results with the deck. i had to replace sylvanas for saraad because i don't have syl but i don't think it's the main issue.
board control is a bit of an issue from my exp.
lol seems like there isn't much you can do if you don't draw egg early.. or reincarnate. Why are these always in the back of the deck? :(
This synergy between chow and rivendare
At this time Shaman is almost dead anyhow. I`m gonna try it, its wurth a shot.. I like the layout and the idea behind it.
do you really need big game hunter with two hex?
Mysterious Challenger
None of your business!