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I'd concur. Voltaic Burst might be marginally better if you're seeing a bunch of Galakrond Warlock and/or Hunter Quest, but Frost Shock is probably best all-around. Forked Lightning overloads too much, Blazing Invocation is too slow in a deck that already has plenty of value, and between the remaining Lightning Bolt, Totemic Smash, and Frost Shock the damage from all 3 is fairly trivial but the freeze has the potential for a huge upshot.
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I'm of the impression that Embiggen still needs to be "solved" before it can be competitive. I watched an ambitious miracle druid deck from RegisKillbin last night, but the Embiggen was hurting as much as it helped due to making it more difficult/expensive to manage his hand. I've also seen lots of Big Druid decks where you play Friz and/or the sidequest to help defray the higher mana cost, but that just seems like such a lackluster strategy in a meta of Necrium Apothecary and Dragon's Pack and Dragonqueen Alexstrasza.
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Anka: if you don't have Anka in this deck, there will be games that you lose and otherwise would have won. She lets you convert your unplayable 9 mana Anubisath Warbringers into playable 1 mana cards. That said, she is your backup plan, not your main win condition. Also, her use is extremely niche and there's a fair chance Necrium Apothecary will be nerfed in January. I'd say: try this deck without her for a few days, see if you enjoy it--if you do, think about crafting it to increase your winrate; otherwise, move on.
Flik: again, he's not directly tied to your win condition, and you should still win most of your games without him. He's the reverse of Anka, though: he doesn't greatly synthesize with this deck, but he has ubiquitous utility that fits well in pretty much any deck. At his worse, he's a Vilespine Slayer that doesn't need an activator; at best, he can utterly destroy decks like Shivalla and Pogo. I anticipate him getting comparable levels of play to Zilliax and Miscreant. I'd say: if you think you're going to play Rogue a lot for the next year then craft him, but the con is that he's not going to increase your winrate for this particular deck as much as Anka will.
UPDATE: I looked at some actual data on HsReplay. It looks like Anka has a winrate around 67%, around as much as Apothecary. Keep in mind a lot of that is "win more"--e.g., you play Blade on 3, Apothecary on 4, Anka on 5, and your opponent just concedes; Anka didn't really win that game, she just ended it quicker. Conversely: Flik has a slightly below average winrate (~50% versus the average ~55%), but I think a lot of that is "lose less"--e.g., you're in a hole, you play Flik to remove a threat, and sometimes that edges out a win and sometimes it doesn't.
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Either go aggro or tech in silence.
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You have:
Each is a 1/13 (~7.7%) chance. I don't know how that compares to the 8-drop population in general, but what I can see: 10 out of these 13 cards (77%) will end the game quickly if not dealt with.
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No Embalming Ritual?
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Yes and no. Yes: at any given day in HS history, there was a deck indicating > 55% winrate on HsReplay. But No because those winrate numbers belay how disgustingly overpowered that deck is. Go to https://hsreplay.net/archetypes/346/galakrond-shaman#tab=matchups and look at those numbers. It's "only" 59% winrate average, but its > 50% on every archetype besides Holy Wrath Paladin and between 60-75% winrate on most. So many new and fun archetypes are just being annihilated by this stupid deck. Usually the decks that peak above 55% do so because they find an advantage against the most popular decks, and then other players find out and copy until it eventually pushes out the vulnerable decks. Here, though, EVERY deck (besides HW Pally) is vulnerable. That 55% number isn't the peak--it's the valley.
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Huh? As of right now, HsReplay has non-quest at 17.2% played / 59.6% winrate and quest at 9.6% played / 53.7% winrate. https://hsreplay.net/meta/#tab=archetypes That's 27% total played, and it is averaging over time--non-quest was actually 20.04% yesterday, for example. As for the winrates: the weighted average of those numbers is 57%, but it include mirrors which are very common. If you dig into the matchups for both archetypes, you'll see win-rates in 60-70% range against most non-shaman decks.
I'm not saying it is 50% played / 100% winrate either, but it is clearly well beyond the acceptable limits for a competitive game.
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No Gonk?