So, i just crafted Ysharaaj even tho its rotating soon. Built a big priest, and proceeded as i always do with every new deck to play it vs the innkeeper's shaman to have a rough idea of what to keep in the mulligan, etc. I got stomped. Not once. Many times! Some clarifications:
1) Im by no means a pro player, but i reached legend 3 times, once top 10, and usually always rank 5, so i don't think i totally suck at this game
2) The big priest was 100% complete, there were no suboptimal cards, it's a standard big priest list
3) Im not the luckyest player. In around 10 games i drew Barnes by turn 4 two times. One of those times it happened that i already drew all my Ysharaaj, Ysera, LK and obsidian statues.
Now, everytime i played against a big priest they always seemed to perform well. For sure it helps that i never play aggro, so they have time to setup,but still, i wonder how people can bring on ladder something so heavily RNG dependent. There are games were you draw nuts and the deck seems god, and others were you are stuck with lot of high cost spells / minions that you can't play.
Well, to be fair, big priest tends to lose badly vs any sort of aggro deck.
Your top priorities are Barnes and early game removal (aka SW:P, Spirit Lash, Potion of Madness, and maybe Holy Smite if you run one), maybe one Greater Healing Potion, and in case of shaman I'd say SW:D because of how easy can a Flametongue Totem put things out of control. I mean, you won't have to take care of the fatties because you'll have more fatties later, even despite shaman having Hex as well.
And if you have played for a long time (which I can only assume since you’re reached Legendary top 10) then you also know we are all equally lucky over a long period of time and do not have the right to complain about bad luck over a short period of time.
So:
1: Maybe you had bad luck. Get back on the horse and start laddering with the deck.
2: The Innkeeper has a favorable match up against that deck.
Some decks of the Innkeeper are build like Zoo and played like face hunter, some of them can have absurdly strong start (Warlock & Shaman), so if you have pretty bad starting hand, it snowball for them and you lose.
Shaman deck is Windfury minions, Taunt, cards for increase attack value, blasts. Nothing else.
As said here, if your deck is not built against aggro, then it's logical you lose often against this.
It's just big priest things. Sometimes your hands auto-wins you the game, sometimes - loses (just watch Game 7 of Senfglas vs AKAWonder series on Seatstory). One of the most highrolly decks, so it can happen.
So, i just crafted Ysharaaj even tho its rotating soon. Built a big priest, and proceeded as i always do with every new deck to play it vs the innkeeper's shaman to have a rough idea of what to keep in the mulligan, etc. I got stomped. Not once. Many times! Some clarifications:
1) Im by no means a pro player, but i reached legend 3 times, once top 10, and usually always rank 5, so i don't think i totally suck at this game
2) The big priest was 100% complete, there were no suboptimal cards, it's a standard big priest list
3) Im not the luckyest player. In around 10 games i drew Barnes by turn 4 two times. One of those times it happened that i already drew all my Ysharaaj, Ysera, LK and obsidian statues.
Now, everytime i played against a big priest they always seemed to perform well. For sure it helps that i never play aggro, so they have time to setup,but still, i wonder how people can bring on ladder something so heavily RNG dependent. There are games were you draw nuts and the deck seems god, and others were you are stuck with lot of high cost spells / minions that you can't play.
Well, do you know what to mulligan for? It's pretty important for big priest since as you said the hands can be quite clunky
No deck is 100% win rate. The High tiers are usually 55-60% for Standard and 65-70% for Wild.
Instead of feeling bad for this, take this as proof that the universe is still working.
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Well, to be fair, big priest tends to lose badly vs any sort of aggro deck.
Your top priorities are Barnes and early game removal (aka SW:P, Spirit Lash, Potion of Madness, and maybe Holy Smite if you run one), maybe one Greater Healing Potion, and in case of shaman I'd say SW:D because of how easy can a Flametongue Totem put things out of control. I mean, you won't have to take care of the fatties because you'll have more fatties later, even despite shaman having Hex as well.
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It’s called selective memory.
And if you have played for a long time (which I can only assume since you’re reached Legendary top 10) then you also know we are all equally lucky over a long period of time and do not have the right to complain about bad luck over a short period of time.
So:
1: Maybe you had bad luck. Get back on the horse and start laddering with the deck.
2: The Innkeeper has a favorable match up against that deck.
Some decks of the Innkeeper are build like Zoo and played like face hunter, some of them can have absurdly strong start (Warlock & Shaman), so if you have pretty bad starting hand, it snowball for them and you lose.
Shaman deck is Windfury minions, Taunt, cards for increase attack value, blasts. Nothing else.
As said here, if your deck is not built against aggro, then it's logical you lose often against this.
It's just big priest things. Sometimes your hands auto-wins you the game, sometimes - loses (just watch Game 7 of Senfglas vs AKAWonder series on Seatstory). One of the most highrolly decks, so it can happen.
I've learned 3 things. You either steamroll people, get steamrolled, or make epic come backs from what looks to be a 100% loss during the match.
It's a high roll deck. WTF were you expecting?
You either high roll and stomp or low roll and get stomped. It's not a skill deck, just dice roll.