If you dont have Malygos, I dont think you should play this version of dragon shaman. Its based around winning with burst in the lategame. I uploaded Dog's dragon shaman, so you can try out that one instead. And I also posted Kolento's Ancestral spirit control shaman if youre interested.
I should have made it clear that Varranis got to rank 4 last season with this deck, not this season.
Also, I cant make any judgment calls about your deck without seeing a decklist. You should post it in your youtube video description, and show it at the beginning of future videos. Also added links to some shaman decks above.
Did you actually make this deck? Ran into this deck on ladder last season and even saw some streamers play it, but no one mentioned who made this leper gnome/fel reaver aggro druid.
The biggest reason to run Chrommagus was because of double Ancestral Knowledge. The turn 10 combo is just so powerful from drawing 4 cards. The problem is that dragon shaman goes to fatigue a lot, and in those matchups, you actually want less draw. And once you cut 1 copy of Ancestral Knowledge, its hard to justify Chrommagus anymore. Combo is not as reliable to pull off, and by itself, its not a good 8-drop. Kel'Thuzad, Ragnaros, Sneed's Old Shredder would all be better, even though theyre not dragons.
Im playing this list, except Im running one Rockbiter instead of Ooze. I dont get enough value out of it and its cost me Healing Wave jousts. I guess Tides just ran it as a pure weapon hate tech card.
Cant cut lightning storm, as Dragon Shaman needs to run all four AOE's. It has no early game minions because of Healing Wave's jousts, and you lose games when you dont draw into any of them. Running one less makes it more likely. Far Sights are unnecessary, as the deck already has enough draw and value. The late-game minions are all interchangeable.
Tides replaced Crackle with Earth Shock pretty early on. The RNG wasnt worth the overload in this kind of deck. Towards the end of his stream (like 6 hours later) he took out Charged Hammer after getting Harrison'd and losing against a control warrior. He also tried playing without Fire Elemental, Alexstraza, and Chromaggus, and tested the deck out with Chillmaw, Sylvanas, Ysera, and Frost Shock. The card replacement suggestions in the description are what Tides played with on stream. But at the end of his stream, he still recommended his original build that I posted, and said he considers it a Tier 2 deck behind Tier 1 Dragon Priest, Handlock, Patron Warrior, and Paladin.
Edit: Actually, I think Ill put Charged Hammer back up. It was usually decent, and won some games on its own with the 2 damage heropower. Against aggro, the 2 damage weapon was useful in clearing minions, and against control, you can just take it slow until you get the new heropower. Harrison Jones is a looming disaster, but thats part of the game.
Firebat explained it on stream when someone asked him about it. He said that by the time Justicar generates enough value, you've already won the game. That the other 6-drops, Shieldmaidens, Sylvanas, and Emperor, have a better body and do more on the turn theyre played, and thats how he measures the strength of the card. And Firebat said that in the matchups you normally face on ladder, by the time youre generating so much value because of Justicar, you already won the game, so its currently a win-more card in control warrior. And that as control warrior, you can easily outvalue other decks in the late game, you just need to able to stick with them in the early game and mid-game and just need to survive until then, where you can just dominate with all the big bombs in the deck.
Just early board presence. You dont want to always be forced to play the Goblin Auto-Barber on turn 2 when you dont have a weapon out and lose the battlecry. I really want to cut both Haunted Creepers for a second Shade of Naxxramas and a second Ninja Ogre, but its too greedy with all the aggro decks out.
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Its the abbreviations of the two heal spells - Flash Heal and Light of The Naaru.
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If you dont have Malygos, I dont think you should play this version of dragon shaman. Its based around winning with burst in the lategame. I uploaded Dog's dragon shaman, so you can try out that one instead. And I also posted Kolento's Ancestral spirit control shaman if youre interested.
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But you can make the deck you played and screenshot it right? Then post that in the description of your video.
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I should have made it clear that Varranis got to rank 4 last season with this deck, not this season.
Also, I cant make any judgment calls about your deck without seeing a decklist. You should post it in your youtube video description, and show it at the beginning of future videos. Also added links to some shaman decks above.
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Varranis piloted this deck to Rank 4 (Regular not Legend) last season before missing the last few days of the last month due to personal reasons.
I actually have a lot of TGT shaman decks uploaded - Loyan's midrange shaman, PPH's midrange mech shaman, PPH's Mistcaller totem shaman, Tidesoftime's dragon control shaman, Dog's dragon control shaman, and Kolento's Ancestral Spirit control shaman. You can check them all out and see what you like.
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Did you actually make this deck? Ran into this deck on ladder last season and even saw some streamers play it, but no one mentioned who made this leper gnome/fel reaver aggro druid.
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The biggest reason to run Chrommagus was because of double Ancestral Knowledge. The turn 10 combo is just so powerful from drawing 4 cards. The problem is that dragon shaman goes to fatigue a lot, and in those matchups, you actually want less draw. And once you cut 1 copy of Ancestral Knowledge, its hard to justify Chrommagus anymore. Combo is not as reliable to pull off, and by itself, its not a good 8-drop. Kel'Thuzad, Ragnaros, Sneed's Old Shredder would all be better, even though theyre not dragons.
Im playing this list, except Im running one Rockbiter instead of Ooze. I dont get enough value out of it and its cost me Healing Wave jousts. I guess Tides just ran it as a pure weapon hate tech card.
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Just put in another value card - Harrison Jones, Sludge Belcher. Or you can try a second Lightbomb, second Flash Heal.
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Cant cut lightning storm, as Dragon Shaman needs to run all four AOE's. It has no early game minions because of Healing Wave's jousts, and you lose games when you dont draw into any of them. Running one less makes it more likely. Far Sights are unnecessary, as the deck already has enough draw and value. The late-game minions are all interchangeable.
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Tides replaced Crackle with Earth Shock pretty early on. The RNG wasnt worth the overload in this kind of deck. Towards the end of his stream (like 6 hours later) he took out Charged Hammer after getting Harrison'd and losing against a control warrior. He also tried playing without Fire Elemental, Alexstraza, and Chromaggus, and tested the deck out with Chillmaw, Sylvanas, Ysera, and Frost Shock. The card replacement suggestions in the description are what Tides played with on stream. But at the end of his stream, he still recommended his original build that I posted, and said he considers it a Tier 2 deck behind Tier 1 Dragon Priest, Handlock, Patron Warrior, and Paladin.
Edit: Actually, I think Ill put Charged Hammer back up. It was usually decent, and won some games on its own with the 2 damage heropower. Against aggro, the 2 damage weapon was useful in clearing minions, and against control, you can just take it slow until you get the new heropower. Harrison Jones is a looming disaster, but thats part of the game.
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Firebat explained it on stream when someone asked him about it. He said that by the time Justicar generates enough value, you've already won the game. That the other 6-drops, Shieldmaidens, Sylvanas, and Emperor, have a better body and do more on the turn theyre played, and thats how he measures the strength of the card. And Firebat said that in the matchups you normally face on ladder, by the time youre generating so much value because of Justicar, you already won the game, so its currently a win-more card in control warrior. And that as control warrior, you can easily outvalue other decks in the late game, you just need to able to stick with them in the early game and mid-game and just need to survive until then, where you can just dominate with all the big bombs in the deck.
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If you watch the VOD with the BetterTTV plugin, youll see the mods and Deathstar himself posting links to his hunter decks.
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Kripp linked this deck on his youtube video. Its how I found it.
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For the cardback.
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Just early board presence. You dont want to always be forced to play the Goblin Auto-Barber on turn 2 when you dont have a weapon out and lose the battlecry. I really want to cut both Haunted Creepers for a second Shade of Naxxramas and a second Ninja Ogre, but its too greedy with all the aggro decks out.