[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
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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.
Any reason behind no Mana Tide Totem
Mana Tide Totem requires board control to have any hope of surviving to the point of usefulness (otherwise you're probably better off with Loot Hoarder, sadly), and you also don't draw a card until the end of your turn -- so it doesn't actually help until your next turn. Don't get me wrong -- I usually run them, but in this case we have better options.
Instead, this deck leverages Azure Drake and Bloodmage Thalnos to provide the card draw (3 is all you can really hope for with 2x Mana Tide Totem anyway), while simultaneously providing some board presence and spell damage to boost your spells, primarily Maelstrom Portal.
Yes, this is a main reason. Dropping totem vs fast decks will lead to disaster.
Great explanation, thank you for that. Ive always thought that Mana Tide was an auto-add in most mid range shaman decks but this definitely makes sense!
"always" be best lel
Fun deck - having really good luck with it so far. Has a nice balance of options to deal with the threats out there.
I need to say how amazing this deck its is! Im running a similar list with alakir over doomhammer and some other little adjustments! Its not everyday we can do a 13-2! If you like i write my adjustments! Good job!
write them down if you would, please :)
Yes, feel free to share you preferences, I haven't Al'Akir but it maybe much useful against control which always have Harrison into my concede.
First of all I'm using the Al'Akir he a very good card for this meta... can be very situational for finish or for control.
How I incude the master of the wind, I replace the Doomhammer for Hammer of Twilight and im really like to use him in this deck. Since my version tends to control more the board i replace on Feral Spirit by one Mana Tide Totem. And to finish, the surprise,2 Master of Evolution over 2 4mana 7/7! Seems crazy no? But trust in my, without many overloads Maelstrom Portal with damage spell help much more to take the board for you. Sorry for the english =/See you guys!
fun deck, 2-0 v warrior+druid... its a mix between mid range shaman an totem imo, good job!
Replacement for Thalnos? Only card I don't have. FeelsBadMan
Probably loot hoarder. You need the draw more than the spell damage, I think. If you do want to play this deck, it is a relatively important card.
has 33 upvotes, plz make guides
Many thanks for upvoting, I'm in another city right now and I'll try to make it tomorrow.
I don't have LoE or thalanos so I replaced tunnel trogg with flame jugglers and thalanos with an argent squire, is that ok or did I just ruin the deck
Trogg is the most important in any shaman deck. id say buy LoE
Troggs aren't replaceable. There are so much synergies that without them this deck won't work above rank 15.
.... deck still got me to 10
good deck :)