Hearthpwn

Aaaand we're back to FatigueLocks, Pirate Warriors and probably to Quest Hunters too.

Oh boy, can't wait to see how that new upcoming expansion "Fractured in Alterac Valley" is gonna shake up the meta!

Great, three more "Fun" OTK lists popping up so early in the new expansion! Guess I'll check back when UiS rotates out or when that clown of a game designer Iksar gets the boot.

3 cards revealed and shaman is looking hopelessly irrelevant in the upcoming expansion. Time to join the drooling DH horde I suppose...

Team 5's design philosophy behind shaman seems to be "throw a big lump of shit on the wall and hope something sticks". We've only been shown three shaman cards and I can already tell shaman is hot garbage.

I'm using a slightly tweaked list, one that is more akin to Galakrond board flooding playstyle:

- 1x Instructor Fireheart (don't have it)
- 1x Lightning Storm & 1x Tidal Wave (imho this much small-AoE is just overkill & I just generally dislike L.Storm for Overload and the RNG in it)
- 1x Swampqueen Hagatha (pretty sure Dekks took this out too, feels too slow & doesn't really win you the games)

I made the deck bit more proactive with following changes:

+ 1x Marshspawn (Fireheart placeholder, not too sure of this one tbh... could do with another Gala card perhaps)
+ 1x Devoted Maniac (mostly as L.Storm replacement, doesn't Overload you and puts bodies on the board)
+ 1x Shield of Galakrond
+ 1x Dragon's Pack (activates Groundskeeper & great value with Notetakers in control matchups)

Currently at 71% winrate 10-4 (two losses vs ResidentSleeper Priests). Very favorable matchups vs DH, Hunter and Rogue, haven't encountered yet Bomb Warriors and Paladin is favored if you get to neutralize Librams.

EDIT: After 70 matches, still at 71% WR (50-20). Haven't seen many Paladins (which I consider the worst MU along with Gala Rogue), but generally this deck seems to have decent matchup spread across the board. Res Priest is manageable with Notetaker + Hex, Bomb Warrior with Sphere (keep placing bombs at the bottom & Elysiana them outta there), aggro Rogue & Hunter & DH is very favored and Mage is winnable if you manage to outheal their burst.

nice decks garrote rogue /owl lock /alignment druid / otk demon hunter/ quest warrior / face hunter / libram paladin/ otk shaman/mozaki mage such great lineaups kekw. We cant wait to watch who will get faster to combo pieces and win the game. #rip new expansion. 

From the last couple card reveals, I thought they would further support totem shaman or possibly a new aggro archetype. But no, we get this instead. It's basically a worse Underbelly Angler. Random legendaries have never actually been good. For every good helpful legendary that you get, you get another seven before that that are just garbage. With how things are looking, Shaman is going to be the worst class this expansion. I will continue to roll in my grave that they keep murdering my boy Thrall.

One final word about the card art. It is truly unfortunate that they wasted the art of the little frog on a murloc.