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thanks! Swapped out 2x Flanking Strike for 2x Diving Gryphon

Thank you so much for this deck. Just went from rank 13 to 10 in about an hour. This deck is so much fun!

I can dig all of these except Barnes.
Barnes needed to be nerfed 2 years ago; but has gotten significantly less problematic with each expansion, and one can argue you don't even need it in big priest anymore, even at 4 mana.

I didn't have issues with Luna's pocket Galaxy at 5 mana, but I understand their reasoning.

I am surprised Mechwarper didn't get tapped in this round of nerfs.

If only there was a card that interacted with your opponents deck to pull cards like shudderwok and geist so they can't use their battlecry.
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This deck is great. Day one of SOU at ranks 10-8; I had 8 wins, 2 losses, and a draw against a  jade druid (which I didn't even know was a thing until now).

I'm having a lot of fun with this deck and its helping me climb in ranked. Thanks for posting

No C'Thun/ Y'Shaaraj/ N'Zoth/ Brann/ Zul'jin? I would have all 5 of those above shudderwock.

I would also favor wild growth pre-nerf over naturalize on the list.

Heh, Greetings.
Both are easy to play, and tier 1.
Ive used both, and win more with odd paladin. I still would recommend pirates though. Games are quicker, easy to streak, and the deck just feels so good to play.
Heh, Greetings.

Standard: Big Warrior

Wild: Quest Astral Communion druid; the ultimate meme deck.

Midrange shaman (favorite so far, and finally get to use my golden The Storm Bringer)
Big Warrior (because nobody expects The Boomship in this meta)
handlock
Looking forward to playing resurrect priest in the future

With those decks, its fun even when you lose. Playing with token, murlocs, kadgar, and bombs = more rage quits haha.

Ive also enjoyed building an 'Amalgam Zoobot druid' in wild from scratch. Im also waiting for someone to break jade druid again with all the new tools available.

I find playing fast aggressive decks the best to start climbing with in just about any format/meta.
Quicker games = learn your deck's faster/ learn the meta faster/ streak faster.

I wouldn't be surprised to see baku and genn get banned for certain problematic classes (baku- paladin, genn- shaman for example) in the future, but not anytime soon. I would imagine its hard to make cards that have good value in standard while avoiding simultaneously making  decks too broken with the baku/genn mechanic (Aviana/innervate before their nerfs comes to mind)

The shaman class overall is in good shape right now. 

I also don't think *any* hero powers should get changed.

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Even Shaman is a really good deck, has an extremely high win-rate, and is played a lot in ranked. I hate playing against it with almost all of my wild decks.

However, I don't think anything in hearthstone needs to be nerfed right now- especially in wild. #letwildbewild

 Oh please don't use this silly phrase: wild is not here for nostalgika, it's supposed to be a competitive mode for players who simply want to play ALL CARDS that exist in hearthstone and don't want to play the game: throw all your cards away after 2 years so that we can make more money-game blizzard plays.

 Exactly. I used to like playing cards like Aviana (the first legendary I crafted), Naga sea witch (spent $20 on LOE for this card), and Yogg; and due to unnecessary nerfs, I can't play these once competitive cards I spent good money on anymore.

When I started playing, I used to play mostly patron warrior and big druid. These decks were never standalone tier 1 decks. In fact, according to the data I saw, star aligner druid had a lower win-rate than even shaman, and typically lost to even shaman when blizz recently decided to nuke 3 staple cards of the deck. So logically, people stopped playing the druid deck, and picked up even shaman. If even shaman gets nerfed, you will see the same thing happen to odd rogue as even shaman in time (people complaining its such a good deck, and has such a high winrate, and blizzard needs to do something about it).

Wild is fun, because there are so many tools available to interact with your opponents deck, hand, and board; or tools to try to hit your opponent in the face faster than they can hit you. Remember all those OP decks that plagued the meta over the years (renolock, jade druid, big priest, pirate warrior, odd paladin, handlock [now called evenlock] burn mage, barnes hunter, zoolock, exodia mage, controlock, miracle rogue, etc)? Many of them do pretty well vs even shaman and on the ladder in general. If you want to play all your cards you should :) I guarantee you can find a deck to climb with other than even-shaman.

(source: I have climbed 6 ranks in wild the past couple days without playing even-shaman)

Even Shaman is a really good deck, has an extremely high win-rate, and is played a lot in ranked. I hate playing against it with almost all of my wild decks.

However, I don't think anything in hearthstone needs to be nerfed right now- especially in wild. #letwildbewild