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Yeah I'm actually trying the list without her at the moment. I realized I never had time to play her correctly, and most of the time I don't even have enough space in hand to play Barista + HP anyway.

I'm also thinking about cutting one Giggling to keep on lowering the curve. I don't have Plague of Murlocs in yet, but I often find myself trying to get it from discovers so I might just add a natural one. Also trying the 7 mana rush shaman card, seems ok against very aggressive decks but bad to get from Jepetto (once again)

Kinda weird to run so many overload cards and not include Thunderhead no ? It also creates board to bloodlust with.

Because by turn 8 every control deck will have an answer. The only time you win against a control deck is if you cheat it out turn 4/5 and you are lucky they don't have an answer yet. Just spamming neutral murlocs is bad against any deck. 

At least for me, I win 100% of my games against it when they don't draw Lens. And if they do, I still win if I have an AoE by that time.

Unfortunately I didn't open Siamat and I'm super short on dust ! You really like him in the deck ? I was thinking about trying Storm Chaser instead of Zilliax today, since I feel you almost always need your big AoE to stabilize at some point.

edit : also, maybe I'm wrong about Bog and it's one of the best cards in the deck xD I see many people including it in theirs, but it's usually faster versions so idk

It's true, happened to me recently. I was playing Rogue vs Shaman and my fox gave me Hagatha The Witch

I think there's a salt thread out there you should go there

Problem is if you don't draw Lens early it's a really shitty deck

Quest Priest and Questless Priest (same deck pretty much but without the quest) seems ok, but as always when Priest doesn't have a real deck archetype, it's either you draw Cleric + Circle of Healing, or you lose the game.

Hey ! I'm not a fan of Bog Slosher. I've tried it in the deck but it's way too slow in my opinion. The early game is the stage of the game where you're the most vulnerable, and you clearly don't have time to sap your own minions. You need to try to survive until your AoEs / Gigglings to stabilize the board.

In the late game, you already have near infinite things you can do and you never run out of value, so doubling up one of your battlecries with Bog Slosher is really unnecessary in my opinion.
When you have exactly the curve Lackey generator into Bog against a slow deck it's good though, but I don't feel like you need more help against slow decks anyway with this variant.

For Zilliax you're right, I don't think it's a mandatory card. Fishing it with Jepetto feels bad. But it's a good tempo play that helps you survive exactly when you need to : in this awkward moment of the game between your early game and your late game, the moment when you try to make it to Gigglings/Scheme/Earthquake.

So, he's not incredible, but I definitely think it's good card, even though it doesn't synergize with the rest of the deck.

That's what I'm trying to figure at the moment. I haven't enough games against Warrior to be sure, but so far it seems like you can finish the game before that point. Especially if you cast Shudderwock twice or more (just had a game against warrior with a 1-cost Shudder, I could play HP + Shudder + Barista giving me two more Shudders, was pretty insane)

I know right ? Killing a Warrior with bombs is the best feeling of this expansion so far haha

Hi thx for your feedback !

Yes I agree about the ultra aggro / ultra control way of building the quest. At least when I try to build it midrange, I end up with a 0 spell version that has no catch-up mecanism, and it's very hard to recover from a lost board, even with double battlecries. I haven't tried yet an Overload package in that, but it feels like adding 8/10 cards that have 0 synergy with the quest isn't the best idea.

I personally like a lot Giggling Inventor in the list. HP + that is often like if you casted a frost nova this turn, and the following turn as well ; it can help gain a turn or two if you need your Scheme to grow bigger ; it can also help damaging a mid-sized board to then cast a double Sandstorm Elemental to finish it. And when you're in real trouble, having divine shield taunts popping out of your shudder can be salvation. 
The thing about Plague of Murlocs that I don't like is that you often still need to AoE again after using it. I think it's very powerfull in the exact situation of Moutain Giant + Conjurer, but beside that almost anything you'd want to clear would die to an Earthquake anyway. I can see running one, as it's also good against the big board quest priest / quest druid can do, but 2 seems too situational in my opinion.

For the Questing Explorer / Novice Engineer debate : I can see your point, and I'm still not sure about which one to run. But here's my thought about this choice : The extra stat line does matter in the early game, it's the moment of the game when you need to not fall too dramatically behind. It helps a lot controling the early board alongside lackeys and sandstorms. And when you reached the late game, I personally find that you don't even have hand-size to draw anymore. You can generate soooo many lackeys, Barista them, replay them, + the Vulpera Scoundrel. Sometimes I don't even Hero Power because I would just burn cards ! 

Also, do you play Elysianna ? I haven't faced enough Warriors yet to figure out if it's needed in the match-up or if you can win without her.

Changed the deck again. From all the variations I tried, I always felt like I was playing from being trying to catch up on board, so I think building it in a very control way is nice.

I cut the Elekk, which was indeed feeling like too much. Just the 2 bombers, without Barista/Shudder shenanigans, are on their own 20 damage. It's already a lot of pressure in a Control Mirror, and it helps finishing games without giving the opponent infinite time to play (worked really great today against quest/nomi druid and quest priest)

I went back to full AoE, because I felt you can be so much behind sometimes. 2 Schemes and 2 Earthquake helps a lot, and Earthquake is particularly insane. Also included double Sandstorm Elemental : I'm not quite sure about this one yet but it helps when you need to clean a low hp board without spending the Earthquake you have in hand.

Cut the Fountain, doesn't fit the deck much even if sometimes you could use the heal.

Double Vulpera, I love it. You can discover more aoes when you need it, healing, or just a lightning bolt. Very versatile and very solid statline for what it does.

This deck is very oppressive for any unrefined strategy. Award for the most anti-fun deck of day 1 xD

I see ! Twilight Drake is always a card you're ok playing in Control Shaman and the deck was lacking turn 4 drop so I like the idea.

Is 2xScheme enough for AoEs ? I was feeling like Earthquakes was pretty nice to survive the insane amount of Zoo on ladder.

Thx for posting a video, I'll add it to the description !

ps: also, how is Siamat ? Didn't open him and I'm very tight on dust