With all those taunts from the Elementals you should be able to protect your Mana Tide Totem pretty good. You will probably see Harrison Jones being played more when Azure Drake is gone.
Before you start complaining about lack of card draw, please wait until all the shaman cards have been revealed! not to mention all the elemental synergy cards yet to be revealed. And honestly if shaman had very little card draw it might not even be that bad(no more shamanstone)
Shaman has always been a class designed with bad (not exactly bad, but more situational) card draw, opposite to Warlocks, and I think this is intentional.
With all those taunts from the Elementals you should be able to protect your Mana Tide Totem pretty good. You will probably see Harrison Jones being played more when Azure Drake is gone.
Harrison Jones will rotate out of Standard with alle the LoE adventure.
Butto ad others said, we still have ti see lots of cards from Un'goro so anything now it's Just pure speculation.
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For what profit is it to a man, if he gains the world and loses his own soul?
With all those taunts from the Elementals you should be able to protect your Mana Tide Totem pretty good. You will probably see Harrison Jones being played more when Azure Drake is gone.
Harrison Jones will rotate out of Standard with alle the LoE adventure.
Butto ad others said, we still have ti see lots of cards from Un'goro so anything now it's Just pure speculation.
Harrison Jones is from Classic so it will not rotate
Lack of card draw is an age old shaman mechanic. We'll survive...somehow.
Typically the way to generate card advantage came through pure value. Totems used to play a decent roll in that, and Fire Elementals, too. All the 2-for-1s.
Coin Tar Creeper into T3 Mana Tide will be a thing. Quickshot and bash are rotating out so only a handful of classes have a way to deal with that.
Curator is a thought for murloc shaman. Hungry crab and gentle megasaur are both beasts with murloc synergy. Twilight drake has synergy with megafin. Onyxia works in a bloodlust deck and I like my Ysera as well.
I use to run 2x cultmaster when naxx was out. Eggs, spiders, shredders and belchers kept things on the board for you to abuse flametongue or rockbiter. Adapt minions with divine shield or plants may do something similar but I'm skeptical until I test it out.
Thalnos is always a regular for me as well. Acolyte and volcano seems like fun as well. There's definitely options out there for card draw. It's going to be different than we're used to though.
Hopefully no more shaman. The dude has been top tier for over a year despite every new expansion and recieiving several nerfs. There is no excuse for him to continue being anywhere close to as strong or over represented after the rotation. Hopefully losing broken cards like totem golem and trogg weed out the bad shaman players.
and no tunnel Trogg too.
'Twill be hard without good card draw.
And Far Sight. Such and underrated card, hope to see people using it more now.
I like Far Sight myself, and a whole lot more than Mana Tide Totem.
It just sucks if you draw Lightning Bolt or Forked Lightning or any other 1 mana card, it's a great control card.
With all those taunts from the Elementals you should be able to protect your Mana Tide Totem pretty good. You will probably see Harrison Jones being played more when Azure Drake is gone.
Without early game cards like Totem Golem Loot Hoarder could be an option or when we speak about taunts even Cult Master could be ok.
But still we have not nearly enough information about the upcoming cards to talk about card draw problems in the upcoming Meta.
We don't even have the half of the upcoming "elemental-related" cards revealed.
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Before you start complaining about lack of card draw, please wait until all the shaman cards have been revealed! not to mention all the elemental synergy cards yet to be revealed. And honestly if shaman had very little card draw it might not even be that bad(no more shamanstone)
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Shaman has always been a class designed with bad (not exactly bad, but more situational) card draw, opposite to Warlocks, and I think this is intentional.
They at least still have 4 mana 7/7.
My greatest achievement yet:
Not disenchanting my double Shadowbomber
For what profit is it to a man, if he gains the world and loses his own soul?
Harrison Jones is a Classic Card and not a LOE Card, so he wont rotate out.
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For what profit is it to a man, if he gains the world and loses his own soul?
The title of this thread gave me a good laugh haha. Well done.
Lack of card draw is an age old shaman mechanic. We'll survive...somehow.
Typically the way to generate card advantage came through pure value. Totems used to play a decent roll in that, and Fire Elementals, too. All the 2-for-1s.
Coin Tar Creeper into T3 Mana Tide will be a thing. Quickshot and bash are rotating out so only a handful of classes have a way to deal with that.
Curator is a thought for murloc shaman. Hungry crab and gentle megasaur are both beasts with murloc synergy. Twilight drake has synergy with megafin. Onyxia works in a bloodlust deck and I like my Ysera as well.
I use to run 2x cultmaster when naxx was out. Eggs, spiders, shredders and belchers kept things on the board for you to abuse flametongue or rockbiter. Adapt minions with divine shield or plants may do something similar but I'm skeptical until I test it out.
Thalnos is always a regular for me as well. Acolyte and volcano seems like fun as well. There's definitely options out there for card draw. It's going to be different than we're used to though.
Hopefully no more shaman. The dude has been top tier for over a year despite every new expansion and recieiving several nerfs. There is no excuse for him to continue being anywhere close to as strong or over represented after the rotation. Hopefully losing broken cards like totem golem and trogg weed out the bad shaman players.