[Legend] Jade Shaman
- Last updated Mar 1, 2017 (Aggro Downfall)
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Wild
- 18 Minions
- 10 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Jade Lotus Shaman
- Crafting Cost: 5040
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 1/20/2017 (Gadgetzan)
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Total Deck Rating
167
UPDATE: Due to the recent changes in Hearthstone, a "new" meta has begun with slightly slower decks being used on ladder. Because of this I changed my deck quite a bit to combat the slower decks.
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This deck is by far my most consistent deck when it comes to laddering as I was able to get into top 10 with the deck. I feel like there isn't a single matchup that's not unwinnable. Granted there are matchups where it comes down to having the right card in hand or else your winning chance drops, but still winnable. This deck is basically similar to Jade Druid, where you draw cards, clear board, and put up Jade minions. The difference is that this deck can ramp up their jades faster because of the cheaper Brann Bronzebeard combo with the weapon. It also has a better chance of surviving against aggro decks due to the heals and AoEs. The hardest matchups are of course the aggro-type decks.
Tech Cards:
Earth Shock - This card can be replaced with Bloodlust if you find this card dead around your ranks. But this card has been performing very well for me. It helps deal with rogue, shaman, and pirate warrior. It also insta-kills Twilight Drake which helps against dragon priest and renolock. It kills Bloodmage Thalnos to prevent that extra card draw. Just an overall good card. But if it's not performing well for you, again you can replace it with Bloodlust for a more aggressive approach to this deck.
Devolve - This card helps against the low cheap heavy board against shaman. Seeing their Tunnel Trogg and Flamewreathed Faceless become puny minions is an amazing feeling. But realistically, this is to help deal with conceal rogues.
Mana Tide Totem - An extra totem to help summon Thing from Below and gives you card draw AND forces your opponent to deal with makes it an awesome card.
Healing Wave - An extra heal that can most likely give you 14 extra health against aggro decks or help keep one of your giant jade minions alive is really strong at the moment.
Jinyu Waterspeaker - This card can keep a minion alive in control matchups or help you stay alive against aggro decks. This with Brann Bronzebeard against aggro decks will usually seal the game for you.
Harrison Jones - A weapon removal is nearly a must nowadays in this meta. Harrison gives you an extra card draw potential, a decent 5/4 body, and removes a weapon. If this card is too slow for you, you can replace it with Acidic Swamp Ooze. But for now, it's been performing well.
Mulligan:
- Shaman (Slightly-Heavily Favored)
- You need to mulligan as if you are facing aggro shaman, unless you know your opponent's decklist. You want some kind of AoE (Lightning Storm or Maelstrom Portal), a weapon (Jade Claws, and either Hex or Devolve.
- If you are not facing aggro shaman, then you want to mulligan for your jade cards and try to be ahead in ramping the jade minions.
- Warrior (Slightly Favored)
- You need to mulligan as if you are facing pirate warrior, unless you know your opponent's decklist. You want some kind of AoE (Lightning Storm or Maelstrom Portal), a weapon (Jade Claws, and either Hex, Devolve, or Earth Shock. This deck can survive beyond turn 7 so being able to do the Brann Bronzebeard and Jinyu Waterspeaker seals the deal for you. Healing Wave will usually work out for you as well.
- Against dragon warrior, you want to be careful about your health total as draknoid crusher can activate. Dragon warrior's biggest weakness is their lack of draw, so once they commit to their board, you just need to wipe it and you will most likely win the game from there. Other than that, ramp your jades.
- Against control warrior, you have an autowin. You just ramp your jades and not overextend the board to Brawl.
- Rogue (Even)
- This matchup really depends on if you have an answer to their minions. Questing Adventurer and edwin van cleef are game-ending if you can't deal with it, which is why I decided to run 1 Earth Shock. You want to mulligan as if you are facing miracle rogue. You want to look for Jade Claws, Maelstrom Portal, Jade Lightning, and either Earth Shock, Hex or Devolve. While removing their threats, you want to ramp your jades, and you will eventually win the game. Make sure to keep track of their potential burst damage.
- Warlock (Slightly Favored)
- This matchup seems slightly favored but you can increase your chances by running Bloodlust in your deck if you so happen to face reno warlock a lot. You want to mulligan as if you are facing reno warlock. You want to look for Brann Bronzebeard, Mana Tide Totem, Hex, and Jade Claws or Jade Spirit or Aya Blackpaw. Don't overextend the board to their numerous AoEs, especially Twisting Nether.
- Mage (Slightly-Heavily Favored)
- This matchup seems really easy to me but it could be the luck of the draw for me. You want to mulligan as if you are facing reno mage. You want to look for Brann Bronzebeard, Mana Tide Totem, Jade Claws, Jade Lightning, Jade Spirit, Aya Blackpaw, or jade cheftain. You just want to ramp up your jades and you win the game from there as mage cannot remove all the jades as the game progresses.
- Priest (Even-Slightly Favored)
- This matchup can be really tough but it comes down to you being able to ramp your jades fast enough, while at the same time remove their board. You want to mulligan as if you are facing dragon priest. You want to look for Jade Lightning, Mana Tide Totem, Devolve or Earth Shock, and any of the jade mechanics. This matchup requires some thinking for sure.
- Against reno priest, you are heavily favored and just ramp your jades.
- Druid (Slightly Unfavored-Even)
- This matchup is the toughest matchup of them all for sure. You can edge out the win against jade druid if you run Bloodlust. Without that card, you can still win, but it's definitely harder to do so. I still think you are very slightly favored when facing jade druid but it's the combo druid that just autowins against this deck. You want to mulligan as if you are facing jade druid. You want to be looking for Jade Claws, Jade Spirit or Jade Lightning, Mana Tide Totem, and Brann Bronzebeard. Harrison Jones is quite useless here so if you are facing a lot of druids, you can sub it out for something like White Eyes as a replacement. You just want to ramp up faster than druid, so they are forced to use all their cards where they will eventually be playing top deck hearthstone. Totems are a real pest for them.
- Against combo druid, I'm not sure how to beat them without running Bloodlust. With that card, it's certainly doable. My initial thoughts are to just ramp as fast as possible but I'm not entirely sure.
- Paladin (Heavily Favored)
- I don't have too much experience against paladin due to the lack of paladin players. You want to mulligan as if you are facing murloc paladin. You want to look for Hex, Mana Tide Totem, Brann Bronzebeard, Maelstrom Portal or Lightning Storm and any of the jade mechanics. You want to either hex both Murloc Warleader or both Bluegill Warrior. This will shut down their win condition. I would aim for the Murloc Warleader as the paladin can run Bluegill Warrior into a minion to play around Hex. The AoEs are specifically for buff paladin in case you so happen to face one of them.
- Hunter (Heavily Favored)
- I only played 1 game against Hunter, which I won. You just want to mulligan for Maelstrom Portal or Lightning Storm, Jinyu Waterspeaker and Jade Claws. Clear their board and you win.
FAQ:
- Have you tried fitting White Eyes into the deck?
- Yes. If you want to fit White Eyes into the deck, I recommend you remove 1 Azure Drake for it. You lose a card draw and an extra spell damage, but you don't weaken your jade ramp. I am starting to lean into running this version instead of the current one as the extra taunt with a big body later on helps both aggro and control matchups.
- Why do you run Harrison Jones over Acidic Swamp Ooze?
- Harrison Jones is an insane value card when it's able to remove a weapon, draw cards, and put out a decent 5/4 body on the board. Yes, the downside to running the card is "slow," but we are running this deck more like a control-esque deck. If you have better success with Acidic Swamp Ooze then by all means, use that card.
- Can I replace Brann Bronzebeard and/or Aya Blackpaw?
- You can probably replace Brann Bronzebeard with a late game minion like Ragnaros the Firelord. Aya Blackpaw is irreplacable.
- What do you think about running 2 Devolve into the deck?
- I have tried running 2 Devolve before running just 1 Earth Shock and 1 Devolve and it just didn't fit right. The 2 Devolve felt clunky, where I wouldn't even play the 2nd one. So I substituted it out for an Earth Shock and my win percentage increased dramatically.
- What's your thoughts on Bloodlust?
- It's a very strong card that strengthens your win percentage against non-aggro decks. However, it's a dead card against aggro decks and since the meta is more towards aggro decks, I do not run the card. If the meta shifts, where the aggro decks die down, then maybe I would revert to running a Bloodlust in the deck.
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All right chums:P this deck is pretty damn good especially against all the aggression that we see on the ladder at the moment XD You aint dead till you lose your last HP! I really enjoyed this deck and I decided to spread the word!! give it a shot you'll enjoy it too
Here is a video showcasing the deck in action! (spoiler: get rekt face rogue)
Could you stop deleting your comment and repost it every couple hours? Honestly, this is just desperate.
Either get views due to good content or don't, stop bothering others and especially the comment section of the deck creator!
Devolved double concealed Questing Adventurers and Valeera insta-conceded. Feelsgoodman
sick climb! keep it up
I just create an account to say thanks.I become Rank 8 to 5 really quickly and destroyed so many aggro decks. Thanks for shar
Very nice deck mate just got legend with it Kappa
Pretty cool deck if I have to say so myself :D
I never post comments about decks on here but i have to say this deck got me unstuck beats pirate warrior consistently and has a positive winrate overall across the board in this meta good job bro.
Side note i did tech out earth shock for bloodlust it seems to hold up better agaisnt reno and mirror matchups.
I have been using the deck a bit today and I must say it really works nicely. You have the board clears, the Jade Golems, as well as the healing which work really well together.
In Jade decks, she's really a staple.
Earth Shock truly is King. pumping it into a pimped Faceless Shambler or a Twilight Drake is fun, that money can´t buy :-)
i just faced a Renolock, who threw Sergeant Sally/Power Overwhelming, Felfire Potion, Hellfire, Shadowflame and Doom at my boards to clear it. i am pretty sure, that Twiting Nether and Demonwrath were also in his deck. he used Reno, too. however, the growing Jade-minions do their job pretty fine
This deck is so overpowered, I'm beating expensive decks. Went from 15 to 9 in a few hours.
I look forward to testing this deck later on.
I play a more aggressive version of control shaman but I think that deck should fit better to the playstyle.
I wanted a new control deck for a while now and this definitely satisfies what I was looking for :D Plenty of heals and a lot of board clear, excellent against all those damn pirate! Very satisfied with the results i got playing this.
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I don't have brann either. Replaced him with Ragnaros the Firelord
Harrison Jones is actually arguably worse than Acidic Swamp Ooze right now- Harrison Jones is WAY too slow. Sub him out for Acidic Swamp Ooze
Bloodmage Thalnos is basically a necessity- as it offers card draw and spell damage when you need it. I guess you could replace it with Kobold Geomancer, but it's nowhere as strong.
Thalnos is a really good card - does not look like one, but he is. This your deck, spell dmg is often good (especially with shaman). I crafted Rag, then Sylvanas then Bloodmage Thalnos
What are your thoughts on using white eyes in the deck? What would it replace? I have all of the cards for this list but I crafted white eyes a while back and I always feel bad when I don't use him lol
If I wasn't facing a lot of weapon-heavy classes, I would replace harrison jones with white eyes. Unfortunately, the popular decks all use weapons atm. If you want to use white eyes, you can replace 1 of the jade cheftain.