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Congrats! I myself like MTGA more than HS too recently, but play both. I’m glad the deck worked for you! 27 game winning streak is incredible. Yeah with that record I would change the nickname for sure!

Glad it works even after the balance patch!

I made this deck before the expansion launched before any deck actually got popular based on the idea of critical mass of burst. 

Pirates are good for board presence but if removed by control, they don’t give you burst. As top decks pirates are weak, and they are weak to get from Raise Dead. This deck is all around burst, and the deathrattle minions even if removed give face damage. Same with all the battlecry and inspire damage minions, even if they have removal for every single one of them they’ve done their purpose and dealt face damage, over time you get a critical mass of face damage and just win unless they have quite a lot of healing or manage to beat you before that time.

In the quest warlock and odd hunter meta before the last ban, this deck was working really well because quest warlocks and odd hunters could often use their removal to stabilize against pirate priest if the initial wave was cleared, while this deck had a consistency of burst from top decks, Raise Dead, and did damage even if all the minions were cleared and never got to attack.

After the ban this deck lost its best matchup in quest warlock, but apparently it’s still good as someone just got to legend with it with very high winrate just a few days ago. I personally haven’t played it after the warlock quest got banned from wild, I used it to get legend this month and last month but after that I experiment with new decks.

If you’re facing a lot of decks with giants try Big Game Hunter? Overall both this and Undertaker and Lifedrinker are the 3 weakest cards in the deck, this one might be the weakest for sure. I just haven’t found anything better so far, but as soon as a new card fitting this deck is released in a new expansion he will definitely be swapped out.

One other thing about Spawn of Shadows is that your opponent is forced to remove it as it's a major threat to deal another 9 damage next turn if it's left alive, 5 from attacking and 4 from its inspire effect. It can win some games indirectly by forcing them to use removal on it instead of proactive board plays, while they have less of a need to remove a Knife Vendor the turn after it's played as it can only threaten 3 damage on the following turn.

Try Knife Vendor, but are you using Tour Guide to set up Spawn? If you play Tour Guide turn 3 into hero power for free and Spawn on 4 that’s when it’s clearly better than Knife Vendor with 2 extra attack. To be honest both of these are kind of slow and I’m hoping to cut them either in the miniset or next expansion. 

Congrats! Just to confirm did you get legend with the priest or paladin deck?

I made another deck guide like that, for one of my favorite decks ever, it's called Divine Shield Paladin. If you're interested I'd love to get your thoughts on the guide! https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1396394-divine-shield-paladin

Try this deck, it works well for me against pirates and druids but it’s not so easy to play it correctly in the matchup so let me know how it goes.

### Divine Handbuff Paladin
# Class: Paladin
# Format: Wild
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# 2x (1) Crystology
# 2x (1) Prismatic Jewel Kit
# 2x (1) Righteous Protector
# 1x (2) Crystalsmith Kangor
# 2x (2) Grimestreet Outfitter
# 1x (2) Murgur Murgurgle
# 2x (3) Alliance Bannerman
# 2x (3) Argent Horserider
# 2x (3) Catacomb Guard
# 2x (3) Salhet's Pride
# 1x (3) Wickerflame Burnbristle
# 1x (4) Blademaster Samuro
# 2x (4) Corpsetaker
# 2x (4) First Blade of Wrynn
# 1x (4) The Glass Knight
# 2x (5) Glowstone Technician
# 1x (5) Overlord Runthak
# 1x (6) Cornelius Roame
# 1x (6) Highlord Fordragon
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

You can also try using Golakka crawlers instead of Glass Knight and another legendary if you don’t have it. If you do have all those legends then you can remove overlord runthak for the other crawler.

Try replacing Undertaker with Golakka Crawler.

Thanks! Yeah depends on the other cards in your hand if you have enough 2 drops then I’d play double embiggen turn 1 and hero power, then 2 drop, another 2 drop, and a 4 cost card from embiggen. If you only have one 2 drop it makes sense to only play one embiggen turn 1 and the other turn 2 or 3 or 4.

I’m curious how it does on ladder let me know! I already got legend with a different deck so I’ve just been playing it in casual.

Maybe teching Golakka Crawler would improve the warrior matchup if the deck is facing a ton of them.

That's really cool, thanks for letting me know! I've hit legend with it a second time too since this deck guide. For me on NA warlocks are by far my most common matchup and Spawn feels good for those, but I definitely have seen how it can be slow against warriors.

Yeah I think there are pros and cons to Knife Vendor, it’s faster but can’t be repeated multiple times and has 2 less attack. Maybe speed is more important, I think it depends on the matchups you see so definitely a good choice if it worked out well for you.