[LEGEND+GUIDE] Midrange Karazhan Shaman
- Last updated Sep 2, 2016 (Karazhan)
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Wild
- 18 Minions
- 9 Spells
- 3 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Midrange Shaman
- Crafting Cost: 3320
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 8/14/2016 (Karazhan)
- TjornHS
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Battle Tag:
Tjorn#2953
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
440
I played this deck from rank 4 to legend.
Proof:
http://i.imgur.com/HrZ0KFl.png
http://i.imgur.com/UbHTRVa.png
Card Choices
Cards in the deck
Tunnel Trogg, Totem Golem, Flametongue Totem, Feral Spirit, Tuskarr Totemic, Thing from Below - it's a core of almost any non-control shaman deck, cards just powerful to ignore.
Rockbiter Weapon, Lightning Bolt - early removals or burst face damage. Can be buffed several ways.
Hex - we aren't aggro, so this is auto-include
Flamewreathed Faceless aka 4 mana 7/7 - our big threat.
Fire Elemental can swing tempo in midgame
Azure Drake - overall good card. A decent body with card draw and spell damage that can be very useful.
Maelstrom Portal can swings our games against zoo and token druids. Can clear those spiders from Infested Wolf. With a little spd turns into Consecration and provide us a little minion. Sometimes it will be Tunnel Trogg, Injured Kvaldir or Flame Imp and it often leads to victory. But don't overvalue this card and prepare for Angry Chicken. This is your only chance to play this card.
Doomhammer can be used as small removal or just go face. Only one because it isn't our main danger and have two in hand against Harrison Jones is bad.
Lightning Storm Sometimes a portal wouldn't come and it will be used instead.
Bloodmage Thalnos A little brother of azure drake that can be played with maelstorm portal turn 4 or Lightning Bolt turn 3.
Thunder Bluff Valiant - turn board of totems into threat. Only one because you wouldn't stick with two of them against any aggro or tempo deck.
Cards not in the deck
Argent Squire - too weak if drawn late.
Al'Akir the Windlord - I don't have it. Feel free to sub doomhammer and tell us results.
Mana Tide Totem - too slow against aggro
Replacements
Bloodmage Thalnos Acidic Swamp Ooze, Flame Juggler But this is a very good classic legendary and can't be replaced without some drawbacks.
Doomhammer - Al'Akir the Windlord, Thunder Bluff Valiant
Matchups and mulligans
Warrior - Keep Tunnel Trogg, Totem Golem, Feral Spirit, Tuskarr Totemic. If you have some early cards you may keep rockbiter weapon and lightning bolt. If you have lightning bolt you may keep Bloodmage Thalnos,
Dragon warrior and tempo warrior - normal. In early game you may suffer, especially against dragon warrior, but if you will be able to swing tempo in turns 5-6, it will lead to win. Don't be too greedy with hexes.
Control warrior and C'htun warrior - bad. Try to rush them, but consider Brawl in mind. If you will have spare mana, portal can be played just for a 1 mana minion. This is only one purely bad matchup with less 50% wins. If many of them, try hunter instead. I haven't met OTK with this deck.
Druid Keep Tunnel Trogg, Totem Golem, Feral Spirit, Tuskarr Totemic and Maelstrom Portal. If you have portal you may keep Bloodmage Thalnos.
Token druid is very favourable. You have portals to deal with tokens, you have better early game to rush them and prevent their card draw, you have hexes to their bit threats.
I have met only one beast druid that was easily beaten and no another.
Shaman Mulligan same as warrior. Keep Tunnel Trogg, Totem Golem, Feral Spirit, Tuskarr Totemic. If you have some early cards you may keep rockbiter weapon and lightning bolt. If you have lightning bolt or portal you may keep Bloodmage Thalnos.
Aggro shaman and midrange shaman are both ok. Just fight for board and it's all. Portal+thalnos as an answer to Tuskarr totemic is great. I haven't met control shamans.
Warlock Same as druid. Keep Tunnel Trogg, Totem Golem, Feral Spirit, and Maelstrom Portal. If you have portal you may keep Bloodmage Thalnos. You may keep both portals if you will have them in starting hand.
Zoo is another very favourable game if you'll draw your AOE. Portals at the right time will destroy their board and create our. Feel free to use hex on their 3 mana cards.
Renolock is also favourable. Just keep pressing them from beginning and if they wouldn't have all the answers, we will win.
Hunter Keep Tunnel Trogg, Totem Golem, Feral Spirit, Tuskarr Totemic. You can keep small removals and Maelstrom Portal or even Hex if your hand is already good. This game will be hard, short but fair and 50/50 to win. Fight for board and try to prevent his beast synergies.
Rogue Keep Tunnel Trogg, Totem Golem, Feral Spirit, Tuskarr Totemic. It's an equal game. Press them as you can, but usually don't just drop your 7/7 turn 4. Feel free to hex their 5/4.
Mage Keep all of your 1-3 mana cards except hex, but only one 1-mana removal. Game with tempomage is favourable to us if you could destroy their 2-health minions board. Press them in mid game with your strong cards and they will run out of steam.
Paladin - Keep Tunnel Trogg, Totem Golem, Feral Spirit, Tuskarr Totemic and Maelstrom Portal.
Priest Keep Tunnel Trogg, Totem Golem, Feral Spirit, Tuskarr Totemic, Hex.
Other stuff
Kiwiinbacon made a video about this deck. There are some missplays and replacements but you can watch about how this deck work.
If any questions or suggestions please feel free to post it in the comments.
SOO much pain
i gave it a shot and it was a train of pain to my opponents
i replaced thalnos with Al'Akir, and added Hallazeal (throwed out 1 Fire elemental)
(proof : http://imgur.com/a/2y4Ot )
Got me from rank 9 to rank 11.
I wanna say this deck is OP OP.. Went on 30-8 today with it climbed to rank 3. Thanks for posting it.. Ohh and just so you believe me here is the charts. Cheers
Wow no way you got legend with a midrange shaman with one Karazhan card swap lol
Legend was reachable with Mid-Range Shaman before Karazhan, why would it not be reachable after Karazhan?
That's not all he's swapped though - his deck is very different from the standard midrange shaman that has been a top tier deck to reach legend with. They don't run lightning bolts usually (only the aggro versions do), and very rarely run Fire Elementals, and when run usually only one copy like we've seen in some tournaments (but this version runs x2). In a midrange deck that focuses on totems flamewreathe faceless is often a 1 of or omitted, but this deck again runs 2 copies. Bloodmage thalnos is never run in midrange shaman, as lightning storm is the only spell in midrange shaman usually, and the card draw isn't good enough - they usually run mana tide totem for card draw. But this version has bloodmage thalnos as there are lightning bolts and maelstrom portal for extra value from the spell damage. Azure drakes make appearance for the same reasons, which are cards that again, are not in most midrange shaman decklists that were reaching legend. And finally the new maelstrom portal which you also mentioned as the only swap. Its the only kharazan swap, but there's a lot else that he changed with the standard midrange which makes this version refreshing and different enough decklist to be looked at.
Note: Also worth mentioning this deck does not use Bloodlust - an important finisher in all midrange shaman decks that were top tier pre-Kharazan. All in all its a great achievement that this many swaps were made to accompany the new maelstrom portal, and many totem synergies and low cost drops were removed and yet he still reached legend.
Great deck! I don't have doomhammer or al'akir how do u feel about using deathwing instead?
hi, very nice deck, i will try it, can replace thalnos for ragnaros or thaurissan? (sorry for my english)
Hi guys, did anyone add AL'Akie The Windlord into their deck and if so how did it go?
i feel like replacing one of the fire elementals
with ether the blackknight
or harrison jones?
I think this cards are really greedy. Harrison Jones might be ok, but The Black Knight doesn't worth It.
Maybe try Sylvanas ;) great for midgame also, and opponents always thinks their moves when shes in the game.
4-0 at rank 14, but 3 of the games were against ppl with legend backs
Didnt have any troubles , even without bloodmage thalnos (replaced it with kobold and it works wonders)
won against tempo mage, secret hunter, ct'hun warrior and another midrange hunter
very solid deck, hope to play more tonight ^^
This. Deck. Just. Awesome. Probably will be nerfed soon or will change global meta. WELCOME BACK SHAMMEEEEEEEZZZZ!!! Cheers
Just went from rank 13-9 on a 10 game win streak. This is one of the best decks I have played. Thanks!!!
Replacement for thalnos? Im f2p player :(
so basically it's like regular shaman but with less winconditions but more boardclear. How does it work?
Seems pretty tough if you don't draw a good starting hand and your mulligan sucks too.
Guess could be said for any deck though, just seems exponentially more difficult with this deck.
Great deck, but I will add another big finisher like Al'Akir or Ragnaros for more "bums" (like we called it in germany): VOD on YT
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