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I agree, Zoo is in pretty good spot. The only problem is that everyone tries to counter Shamans by including AoEs and you need to learn how to play around it. If you manage to re-build your board after Flamestrike/Swipe/Brawl/Lightning Storm, probably you will always win the game.

Versus Shaman, Zoo needs also to remove Azure Drakes/Bloodmage Thalnos/Kobold Geomancer immediately. I like also to keep Soulfire in mulligan to remove Totem Golems on T2. If you manage to drop 1-drop on T1 and remove Totem Golem on T2, Shaman will be in really bad spot.

One more thing is to feel your best tempo swings turns like:

T1/T2: Malchezaar's Imp + Soulfire + discard of Silverware Golem + draw card
T6: Malchezaar's Imp + Doomguard + draw 1 or 2 cards
T7: Malchezaar's Imp + Malchezaar's Imp + Doomguard + draw 2 or 4 cards

Of course, many times you need to take risk of discarding important card (sometimes lethal damage), but I really like it because most of time it is skillful and manageable risk :)

Good luck!

I'm currently Rank 2 and since I was getting my Golden Mage. I used tempo, but I find the deck too unstable and I keep bouncing back and forth, either winning hard or losing with no hopes of comeback. I'm facing a ton of Shamans and I was wondering on what deck to use now; my options at the moment are:

Malygos Druid (usual stuff)
Renolock (I was thinking the one Amaz used to win the Heroic Brawl)
N'zoth Warrior

What do you guys think? I saw most of you had a lot of success with Zoolock too, but shouldn't have a bad matchup with Shaman?

P.S. No shaman please. I don't like it

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I'm currently Rank 2 and since I was getting my Golden Mage. I used tempo, but I find the deck too unstable and I keep bouncing back and forth, either winning hard or losing with no hopes of comeback. I'm facing a ton of Shamans and I was wondering on what deck to use now; my options at the moment are:

Malygos Druid (usual stuff)
Renolock (I was thinking the one Amaz used to win the Heroic Brawl)
N'zoth Warrior

What do you guys think? I saw most of you had a lot of success with Zoolock too, but shouldn't have a bad matchup with Shaman?

P.S. No shaman please. I don't like it

Thanks everyone for the help. I tryed with Malydruid initially, but I kept bouncing between Rank1 3 stars and Rank2, every match semeed to be a coinflip, especially against Shammy. After going back to Rank1 1 star I switched to Discolock and went 7-1, easily beating some Shaman too (only class I had problem with was Druid, strange). I don't know why I didn't do that before :S

Mglrlrgrl! I've reached Rank 4 with Dragon Warrior then got extremely salty and rolled back to 5. Is this deck reached his limits or I'll be able to hit legend?

Hello everyone. Struggles to get my first legend. I play aggro Freeze Mage, I was rank 1 only once but in average I'm playing on rank 2. Any suggestions how to get higher(but not to play shaman)

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Hello everyone. Struggles to get my first legend. I play aggro Freeze Mage, I was rank 1 only once but in average I'm playing on rank 2. Any suggestions how to get higher(but not to play shaman)

Happy to announce that I just hit legend with Mid-range Shaman for the first time ever. I am officially free from the cancer. See you guys when MSOG drops. 

Thanks for your advice, I actually did it!

http://i.imgur.com/plwNNCy.jpg

Finally reached Legend yesterday night for the first time ever!

wild is better

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Finally reached Legend yesterday night for the first time ever!

 

 Did you accept the friend request? :D

I'm 7 months in but happy to announce I made legend for my first time may it continue!