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Here's the thing about Roots - it is so low value without Auctioneer. But, you don't want to play Auctioneer because you're having problems with aggro. It's also going to trick you into thinking you should keep it instead of hard going a hard mulligan for ramp (and sometimes swipe?) every game.

I suspect that the reason you've been struggling against aggro has something to do with improper mulligans and failing to prioritize ramp. Like, your first Nourish should probably be for mana in most instances.

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Here's the thing about Roots - it is so low value without Auctioneer. But, you don't want to play Auctioneer because you're having problems with aggro. It's also going to trick you into thinking you should keep it instead of hard going a hard mulligan for ramp (and sometimes swipe?) every game.

I suspect that the reason you've been struggling against aggro has something to do with improper mulligans and failing to prioritize ramp. Like, your first Nourish should probably be for mana in most instances.

How can anyone lose having the most OP card in HS?!

Thanks all for the suggestions.  I took out Acidic and put in Roots.  As it turns out, if you have enough good taunts in your deck, Acidic is not really needed, and Roots are definitely a big early game helper.

I hit rank 10 tonight.  :)

Man I'm losing against every match up as well at rank 5. What angers me the most is losing the slow matches.

Just wanted to thank everyone for the help.  I hit Rank 5 yesterday evening, on a pretty sick run from rank 9 to 5, going basically undefeated for around 12 straight.  I made a couple of tech choices that I think helped.  I cut 1 each of Ancient and Druid of the Claw, and added a second Living Roots and a Starfall (not sure why that card doesn't see play, it's basically a third Swipe with spell power).  

If I were giving any recommendations on a list, I would say that if you're facing a lot of Dragon Priests, cut out Ancient of War entirely and replace with 2 DotC's.  The tempo loss of getting your Ancient SW: Death'd is far too big to come back from, and DotC is immune to Priest removal.   And IMO, in this meta, 2x Roots is essential.  

edit: Final deck list:

If I were going to cut anything else, it'd be Jade Spirit.  This deck already generates enough Jades and a 4 mana 2/3 is hot garbage, especially since this deck doesn't run (and doesn't need) Brann. 

Nice, congrats man, glad to hear you persevered with it. I like the AoW / DotC split, makes sense especially with all the dragon priest around. I see the Starfall in there, what was the thinking behind teching it in and how is it working out?

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Nice, congrats man, glad to hear you persevered with it. I like the AoW / DotC split, makes sense especially with all the dragon priest around. I see the Starfall in there, what was the thinking behind teching it in and how is it working out?

don't queue into an Aggro deck

thats literally it 

Not sure if serious

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don't queue into an Aggro deck

thats literally it 

Depending on how you've teched your deck, but generally I would keep WG even without the coin; with the Buccaneer nerf there isn't anything in-specific I would root and getting tokens only deals with one of the two 1/1s so it's not worth hard mullying for IMO.

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Depending on how you've teched your deck, but generally I would keep WG even without the coin; with the Buccaneer nerf there isn't anything in-specific I would root and getting tokens only deals with one of the two 1/1s so it's not worth hard mullying for IMO.

I've got a positive winrate against Pirate Warrior with my Jade Druid. Usually win after dropping to 10 health or so. Roots is absolutely your best card in your opening hand unless you can Innervate into a Blossom or something. Just plan your early turns out and mulligan aggressively, trade with the board (literally no point going face) and if you reach Turn 5 you'll probably win. 

Honestly the deck is not very good. I am playing Water Rouge and Dragon Priest I don't remember the last time I lost to a Druid. You lose to pressure. Which is a bad place to be in a game that rewards tempo. I would not play the deck right now. If i was to play Druid it would be a combo deck.

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Honestly the deck is not very good. I am playing Water Rouge and Dragon Priest I don't remember the last time I lost to a Druid. You lose to pressure. Which is a bad place to be in a game that rewards tempo. I would not play the deck right now. If i was to play Druid it would be a combo deck.

Are you playing on Eu or Na? If you play on Eu, i would love to help out spectating your games.

I've been playing a healthy amount of Jade Druid myself, and think i've climbed to rank 2 with it, until i got bored.

My Gametag is Maldoni#2384

I have a similar experience myself, most of the times is due to bad draws to be honest, if you don't pull taunts or Feral Rage in time things can go really bad no matter how many golems you have on board you will eventually die.

-2 Druid of the Claw , +1 brann +1 acidic

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-2 Druid of the Claw , +1 brann +1 acidic