the following is my thought process for every card in the deck:
scroll as a cheap spell to trigger naga effects and gets me more frost.
geyser to help with naga but the dredge also helps us get the cards we need when we need them
finley is here because the shaman hero power is really bad. he also can serve as a cheap way to trigger bolner
windchill slows the opponent, activates naga effects, gives power to glashier and draws cards.
gavel will almost always get the full reduction which really helps make brann and bolner more flexible.
bolner gives us our win conditions multiple times. ashara for multiple relics, okani to block both a spell and a minion, teacher to get a swarm of students (each student will trigger the teacher again giving you another student).
frostbite is a great removal spell which also acts as a cheap spell for our nagas, frost to help glashier and can slow our opponent if we get the secondary effect
sleetbreaker gives us windchill, and acts as a cheap battlecry for bolner
brann is brann. do i really have to explain why he is here?
mccaw is great on every battlecry in this deck except for finley. more students, more relics, more glashier board fills, more okani disruption
crushclaw tutors for azshara, zola and teacher, three of the best cards in the deck. you could only run one copy because it really sucks when it draws itself, but there's not really anything great to replace it with. also it's kind of a cheap battlecry for bolner?
slimescale diver is a great way to slow our opponent down and to get rid of big threats when we need to
zola gets us more of the cards we really like. its important to remember you can also use it on colossuses created by ashara. she also lets us play brann and bolner riskier, by giving us multiple copies of them.
okani on his own is pretty weak but doubling his battlecry or repeating it with mccaw will get very annoying for your opponent very quickly. in this deck i reckon you want to stop spells most of the time, since we can freeze minions.
teacher is beyond crazy in this deck. looking at 22 the shaman spells that it can teach, 3 of them are useless, 4 of them are mid, and 15 of them are really good. this means that each discovery option has about a 70% chance of being very powerful. (noteable high rolls include far sight, ancestral spirits and tidal surge.) the students are incredibly versatile in this deck. they are cheap battlecries to trigger bolner, cast spells for ashara, learn frost spells for glashier, draw you cards, control the board, heal you or burst your opponent if they are low. also, think about playing teacher with brann. not only do you get two students, but their battlecries are doubled as well! or student with bolner! the student would reactivate the teachers battlecry, giving you another student for a loop! at ten mana thats 4 students, but if you had bolner out the turn before that is 6! i cannot stress enough how powerful the students are. we would still want to play them if they were three mana, but they aren't - they are 1!
don't stand in the fire is board clear. it is also very useful against colossuses as it destroys many of them entirely, and the others are left with very few hit points making them easy to clean up.
azshara is the card the deck is built around. take the horn to get a cheap colossus, take the ring to get a cheap horn, take the dagger to finish of your opponent, take the stone to trigger the dagger many times.
tealan tutors for azshara and glashier, both of which we really want to find. taunt is also very useful in this deck as it helps protect cards we want to stick, such as brann and bolner. (i was thinking of running treasure guard for this very reason but i feel it's not worth making crushclaw weaker)
we would be running many frost spells anyway, so glashier is an easy choice.
cards you could consider running and why i have chosen not to
brukan: this deck does not need brukan to win.
glugg: our board will either be not full enough for glugg to benefit from, or too full thanks to glashier and glugg will not spawn his parts. he also makes taelans tutor effect much less reliable.
treasure guard: it makes crushclaws tutor effect much less powerful. if the meta is super fast, you might want to swap out both crushclaws for this, or run it instead of some of the greedier cards, like zola and finley.
rustrot viper: i really want to run this card as i am very scared of swordfish, but am unsure of what to remove for it. i will have to wait and test the deck to see.
Dang, now I want to fit Auctionhouse Gavel into my NagaBurn shaman. I had forgotten it wasn't rotating.
If I were refining your deck, the cards I'd question including the most are Okani, Slimescale Diver, and maybe Taelan. Okani is just pretty weak and the other two don't have much synergy.
okani on his own is pretty weak but doubling his battlecry or repeating it with mccaw will get very annoying for your opponent very quickly. in this deck i reckon you want to stop spells most of the time, since we can freeze minions.
Honestly not a big fan of sir finly and a big fan of bru'kan, but that's just me. What I do think would be a fun pick for this deck is Amalgam of the Deep, since it can hit a naga, elemental, beast or murloc. Plus it is cheap enough to use with bolner for great effect!
Other than that, my first instinct was to try to crowbar tricaster and a few nature spells, but that would require a lot of reworking.
Honestly not a big fan of sir finly and a big fan of bru'kan, but that's just me. What I do think would be a fun pick for this deck is Amalgam of the Deep, since it can hit a naga, elemental, beast or murloc. Plus it is cheap enough to use with bolner for great effect!
amalgam of the deep was one of the cards i ran in the initial draft of this deck, so i see where you are coming from but i soon realised that it didn't really make much sense. this deck does not contain any support for any race, so there is no synergy to support any minions it creates. furthermore, it makes Crushclaw Enforcer so much less valuable as it changes its chance to not draw a key card from 1/4 to 3/4.
we really really want crushclaw to be tutoring azhsara and teacher, so much so that ive considered running only one copy of it, and removing zola.
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I think this deck will be very solid but i want to know what other people think and want to hear suggestions of what cards i could run.
the following is my thought process for every card in the deck:
scroll as a cheap spell to trigger naga effects and gets me more frost.
geyser to help with naga but the dredge also helps us get the cards we need when we need them
finley is here because the shaman hero power is really bad. he also can serve as a cheap way to trigger bolner
windchill slows the opponent, activates naga effects, gives power to glashier and draws cards.
gavel will almost always get the full reduction which really helps make brann and bolner more flexible.
bolner gives us our win conditions multiple times. ashara for multiple relics, okani to block both a spell and a minion, teacher to get a swarm of students (each student will trigger the teacher again giving you another student).
frostbite is a great removal spell which also acts as a cheap spell for our nagas, frost to help glashier and can slow our opponent if we get the secondary effect
sleetbreaker gives us windchill, and acts as a cheap battlecry for bolner
brann is brann. do i really have to explain why he is here?
mccaw is great on every battlecry in this deck except for finley. more students, more relics, more glashier board fills, more okani disruption
crushclaw tutors for azshara, zola and teacher, three of the best cards in the deck. you could only run one copy because it really sucks when it draws itself, but there's not really anything great to replace it with. also it's kind of a cheap battlecry for bolner?
slimescale diver is a great way to slow our opponent down and to get rid of big threats when we need to
zola gets us more of the cards we really like. its important to remember you can also use it on colossuses created by ashara. she also lets us play brann and bolner riskier, by giving us multiple copies of them.
okani on his own is pretty weak but doubling his battlecry or repeating it with mccaw will get very annoying for your opponent very quickly. in this deck i reckon you want to stop spells most of the time, since we can freeze minions.
teacher is beyond crazy in this deck.
looking at 22 the shaman spells that it can teach, 3 of them are useless, 4 of them are mid, and 15 of them are really good. this means that each discovery option has about a 70% chance of being very powerful.
(noteable high rolls include far sight, ancestral spirits and tidal surge.)
the students are incredibly versatile in this deck. they are cheap battlecries to trigger bolner, cast spells for ashara, learn frost spells for glashier, draw you cards, control the board, heal you or burst your opponent if they are low.
also, think about playing teacher with brann. not only do you get two students, but their battlecries are doubled as well!
or student with bolner! the student would reactivate the teachers battlecry, giving you another student for a loop! at ten mana thats 4 students, but if you had bolner out the turn before that is 6!
i cannot stress enough how powerful the students are. we would still want to play them if they were three mana, but they aren't - they are 1!
don't stand in the fire is board clear. it is also very useful against colossuses as it destroys many of them entirely, and the others are left with very few hit points making them easy to clean up.
azshara is the card the deck is built around. take the horn to get a cheap colossus, take the ring to get a cheap horn, take the dagger to finish of your opponent, take the stone to trigger the dagger many times.
tealan tutors for azshara and glashier, both of which we really want to find. taunt is also very useful in this deck as it helps protect cards we want to stick, such as brann and bolner. (i was thinking of running treasure guard for this very reason but i feel it's not worth making crushclaw weaker)
we would be running many frost spells anyway, so glashier is an easy choice.
cards you could consider running and why i have chosen not to
brukan: this deck does not need brukan to win.
glugg: our board will either be not full enough for glugg to benefit from, or too full thanks to glashier and glugg will not spawn his parts. he also makes taelans tutor effect much less reliable.
treasure guard: it makes crushclaws tutor effect much less powerful. if the meta is super fast, you might want to swap out both crushclaws for this, or run it instead of some of the greedier cards, like zola and finley.
rustrot viper: i really want to run this card as i am very scared of swordfish, but am unsure of what to remove for it. i will have to wait and test the deck to see.
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How in the world do you omit Snowfall Guardian in a battlecry deck. I cant take it seriously!
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i do not want taelan to draw snowfall. i also do not know i would remove for snowfall.
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Dang, now I want to fit Auctionhouse Gavel into my NagaBurn shaman. I had forgotten it wasn't rotating.
If I were refining your deck, the cards I'd question including the most are Okani, Slimescale Diver, and maybe Taelan. Okani is just pretty weak and the other two don't have much synergy.
not every card in the deck has to have synergy, sometimes you just have to stay alive. all of these cards fill that gap in the deck
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My bad, I thought you were looking for feedback/suggestions. And what to cut is usually the hardest part of deckbuilding for me.
+1 for not include Snowfall Guardian , dont play this toxic card you can do better than this :)
PS: Worst card in your deck is Slimescale Diver , you can problably replace it for something else.
i am, im just giving my reasoning as to why i did not include those cards.
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i do not think slimescale diver is weak in this deck. is the the only card that can hard remove a big threat.
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yeah!
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Honestly not a big fan of sir finly and a big fan of bru'kan, but that's just me. What I do think would be a fun pick for this deck is Amalgam of the Deep, since it can hit a naga, elemental, beast or murloc. Plus it is cheap enough to use with bolner for great effect!
Other than that, my first instinct was to try to crowbar tricaster and a few nature spells, but that would require a lot of reworking.
amalgam of the deep was one of the cards i ran in the initial draft of this deck, so i see where you are coming from but i soon realised that it didn't really make much sense. this deck does not contain any support for any race, so there is no synergy to support any minions it creates. furthermore, it makes Crushclaw Enforcer so much less valuable as it changes its chance to not draw a key card from 1/4 to 3/4.
we really really want crushclaw to be tutoring azhsara and teacher, so much so that ive considered running only one copy of it, and removing zola.
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