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Don't worry about reaching his final stage, in Highlander decks you rarely reach the final stage of Gala anyway, just use him as a small clear/survival tool against midrange/aggro and use him ASAP against heavy control decks to generate as much value as possible.
Also as Julmanda said there are several games where you'll steal enemy Gala activators anyway, especially against Invoke heavy classes like Shaman (You'll end up stealing that double invoke card about 10000 times)
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this deck is very expensive but crazyyyy, I like it!
I used to play both Druids : Embiggen and Quest, but I could have never imagined them being combined. It is good that you have Untapped Potential here since Embiggen is super hard to pull in the beginning; same problem with Frizz Kindleroost
But it is nice that this deck is so flexible!
I wish you could write down how you play this deck usually
edit: as Deathrattle Rogue and Aggro Hunter are currently dominating the Ranked mode, I would prefer adding some silence to this build like Keeper of the Grove instead of Evasive Feywing and one Nightmare Amalgam
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Shaman is broken, so I've been playing fun decks at rank 5. Dragon druid is cool - just loses a lot.
All those sad fucks stuck at 5 playing Shaman tho.
Imagine playing Shaman in this meta and NOT being able to progress. What a bunch of lame little fucktards.
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Didn't play for a while, came back to see shaman playing double mogu and evolving into 1 warrior legendary rhino shit which draws him a 10/9 faceless corruptor, so I get to play against two 10/9 and another random big ass 8 mana minion by turn five.
Ofc the subhuman starts spamming emotes.
Whoever he is I hope he gets to enjoy nothing in his life from this point onwards, along with all other shaman players.
Blizzard you are just pathetic at this point, cashing in on mentally impaired fanboys without even trying to hide it.
You have lost any semblance of decency with this game... as if you had any left anyways, hope you get what you deserve.
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Everyone who defends galakrond shaman is probably bellow 40 iq
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Look all these shamans trying to defend their op deck XD
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Are you seriously looking for validation? Yes you can play whatever the hell you want and yes shaman is the best deck to climb with. But don't expect to get an ounce of pity. Other things work, and can get you to legend just fine, so there are other options. My issue is in some backwards warped mentality half the shamans I play bm spam or emote when they win. It completely eludes me how these players think that it required more than a single brain cell to pilot a deck that literally plays itself. A bot could pilot the current iteration of shaman to legend with no issue. You just vomit stats onto the board and then win.
And the icing on the cake is shaman can even play cocky and win however it wants. You can outvalue any other class. You can out board control every other class. And you sure as shit can out tempo any other class.
Hearthstone used to be a game where flooding the board was punishable by a clear and then you were out of gas. I have played shamans that flood the board for fear of overdraw. That's a completely backwards notion and goes completely against the grain.
But yeah, do what you want, it's a game. But shaman is scummy right now, and you'll get no pity or validation for playing it.
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Once you're aware of how powerful it is, relative to the meta, you've made your choice. You clearly will rationalize whatever, but you have made a choice, and that choice is to play an OP deck that locks out much of the other classes. Own it, enough of the disingenuity.
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game is broken
cya in april
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At which rank do you play because I have not seen a single shaman:
hunter mage rogue mage hunter rogue rogue mage hunter....
I'm playing at Rank 5. My last ten games were shaman, shaman, shaman, druid, paladin, druid, rogue, shaman, rogue, shaman...
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lol at Shaman players in this thread moaning that they can't win as much with their utterly degenerate netdeck. My heart bleeds for you.
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Allow me to join the chorus of disapproval over fucking Shaman.
It's actually incredible that this managed to get through playtesting. I'm convinced Team5 is actually incompetent. They must be. There is no other explanation.
It's already clear that Corrupt the Waters is a dangerous quest that limits design space when you consider the power level of spending 2 mana to double all battlecries for the rest of your turn.
So do they tread carefully and make sure that they don't give Shaman more broken cards? LOL. Of course not. They just ignore the issue entirely.
4 8/8's with rush AND a 5/2 weapon not enough to kill your opponent? Play Shudderwock and try again.
Dragons Pack? Who the FUCK thought this card was OK? Invoke twice to get TWO 5/6's with taunt for 5 mana? Oooh, twice you say? Quickly, print a card that double invokes and give it to Shaman!
They're fucking useless. TRASH unbalanced shit all over the place. And now every fucktard is playing this broken shit on ladder meaning that any sort of experimentation with anything else is pointless. This whole expansion has been a disaster and I don't give a fuck that they are fixing it. It's still taking too long. Why do we have to wait for another week?
The fucking indie company, right. Idiots!
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10 games today. 8 of them netdecking Shaman cancer. Roped the fuck out of every single one of these fucking unimaginative shitters.
Honestly fuck you if you're playing this deck. Fuck you even harder if you BM whilst playing this deck and a special FUCK YOU to Blizzard and Team 5 for being fucking useless.
Yes. Yes, I'm salty. Fuck you too.
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Just remember that Blizzard wants to nerf the fewest cards as possible and REALLY doesn't want to nerf any legendaries because they want to keep the potential dust refund as low as possible.
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Truly an idiotic take. Really? The "git gud" response? Are you 12?
I play rank 5 and below consistently and when I can afford the time I make legend. We get it. You are playing Shaman and you like that it's powerful and you can beat people and it makes you feel like you're the shit.
But if your theory was correct then why, pray tell, are Blizzard responding with their quickest nerfs in the history of the game aimed at Shaman? Hmm?
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The golden age of Hearthstone is firmly in the rearview mirror. Meaningful experimentation is over. Finding interesting interactions and strategies is over. Everyone knew exactly what would be OP as soon as they released the cards and any attempt to homebrew against the established power curve is hilariously pointless.
The game is too swingy and they seem unable to playtest their own game before releasing it. I've been here since beta and have watched misstep after misstep with Hearthstone.
Remember when academic espionage rogue was almost viable? Probably one of the healthier metas but even then Odd Pally made too many matches an oppressive slog. There was still room to try things though.
I really feel that the lackeys were a mistake. 1 mana 1/1's with ridiculous effects that combo off tons of other things makes the game a race to lethal instead of an interesting strategy of counterplay.
But if we want to talk about the design issues for a moment look at Corrupt the Waters and the Druid quest, Untapped Potential (one of the stronger quests).
With the Druid quest, you have to have mana unspent for 4 turns. This is an actual sacrifice. You are losing tempo for 4 crucial turns to get a strong effect for the rest of the game as a reward. The strong effect is that the choose one cards are combined. It's a good quest and well designed. It doesn't automatically steamroll opponents but is a strong effect that is worth the sacrifice of tempo loss in decks that design around it.
Now, look at Corrupt the Waters. Play 6 Battlecry minions and for the rest of the game, you can spend 2 mana to double all battlecries.
Now on the surface, this looks like it has some disadvantages to the Druid quest. Firstly 6 minions vs 4 turns. Well, we all know that with lackey generation and the fact that you WANT to be playing Battlecry cards anyway this is no hindrance and the quest can often be finished by turn 4 anyway without any of the tempo loss. The requirements are much better than the Druid quest.
So the reward is clearly better than the choose one combined effect so you have to spend 2 mana each turn activating the effect as opposed to the Druid quest that remains passive.
You can see the logic behind how they attempted to balance it but it shows how badly thought out their balancing actually is. It simply doesn't take in to account how easy it is to spend 2 mana a turn with the sheer amount of strong Battlecrys attached to cheap bodies in the game.
OK, so it's a bit of a screw-up so you expect them to not make the same mistake twice...
Nope. They don't just ignore the issue they actively decide what it really needs is to be buffed with even more ridiculous Battlecry cards that make it even stronger.
How is this stupidity getting through playtesting? It's not feasible for a competent team.
If you are still not convinced imagine you had seen all the cards for DoD on the Custom Hearthstone subreddit. What would have been your honest reaction to most of them?
Be honest.
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Friendly reminder that the Chinese government is currently involved in state-sponsored organ harvesting of those it deems undesirable.
The whole world should be on the Hong Kong protestors side for liberation from these monsters in complete and utter unity.
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Let me make this crystal clear: FUCK YOU BLIZZARD you dirty pieces of shit. Utter scumbags bending over backwards for an authoritarian regime with an absolutely atrocious record on human rights. I hope this costs you a fortune.
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This has been Hearthstone for a long time. Basically, any deck that is "fair" will be hopeless in ranked play. Every deck that reaches Tier 1 or 2 has to have some mechanic that lets it do unfair things to be competitive. The game is literally who can pull off their OP plays before the other one can.