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Strange. Shaman is almost always autoloss for my handlock. You have a million answers you just have to play smart.

No offense, but I'm coming to a forum to ask for advice/feedback on a particular deck.  

Suggesting that I "play smart," like I'm banging my head against my desk and using every card in my hand is hardly helpful.  How exactly do these shaman dominate you?  Whenever I try to put out any early minions, most handlocks do everything in their power to clear my board and keep me from establishing any kind of presence (which is what most classes do when they face shamans). What are they doing once you shadowflame and clear their early board and use large taunts that are not drakes?  

Btw, If every shaman completely dominates you, then these questions may help your play. Overload and a lack of card draw can undermine the shaman, so how do other handlocks take advantage of these impairments?  

I'm thinking I might remove flame shock (it doesn't get much use) for tbk, along with a lightning bolt/nerubian egg for sylvanas and faceless.   Is big game hunter worth crafting? I don't have that card.  I have a few legendaries collecting dust (Loremaster Cho, Nozdormu, etc) that have never gotten much use outside of novelty decks. 

I'm getting pretty overwhelmed with them and can't keep up with the shadowflames, taunts and siphon souls.  It seems like earth shock is always sitting at the bottom deck during these match ups and I'm wondering if I should run black knight.   Or perhaps even sylvanas? 

Most of the time it feels like, "Okay, I cleared that taunt.  Now, I'll be able to flametongue... Oh great, he's running Rag and putting up another taunt.  >.<"

This is my current deck.

I take back what I said, just bought a deck from the store and got Al'Akir in my first deck. Very nice find! :D

Sadly, it's not the case for me... I've been doing arena all week, and the best I've gotten is a golden rare.  Usually it's just 40 dust. 

Yeah, I've had it happen.  It's the worst when you're playing the same class and running similar decks and could benefit from the coin, but they always get it..

I lost a whole lot playing this deck.  I don't know what I did wrong.  But I dropped two ranks because I faced so many priests (getting my best cards with thoughtsteal), zoo and warriors and no matter how much I tried to mulligan for low mana minions, I'd get Sylvanas, Rag or Black Knight sitting at the top of my deck along with Azure Drake.  Perhaps I have terrible luck.

The only class I was able to beat consistently were druids.  Thalnos would always be the only low mana drop I'd get when I played zoo.   :-/

This deck hasn't been consistent.  There's a lack of card draw, and when you're facing a priest/druid/paladin (with some powerful heals) and you can't take them out before round 6 or 7... Then you're doomed.  Especially when they wipe your board early and you have to spend the match praying that your next card will be a hunter's mark/kill command/tracking.  Meanwhile you sit with one to two cards in your hand, in my case it felt like it was always an undertaker or leper gnome...  while they build up strong minions. You really need a starving buzzard and uth, otherwise you'll get overwhelmed quickly.

I can see people doing well at rank 20-10, but it feels really luck based.  Every priest I played under rank 5 wiped my board by round 6, and it seemed like a lot of my opponents were waiting for uth.  When it was obvious that it wasn't coming, gg. 

It's a good deck, but it's not without flaw.  People aren't criticizing or attacking you, they're simply providing their opinions. You needn't be rude or defensive about this... Sometimes in life, people will praise your ideas and others will critique them.  Look at the best players in this game. Have  you ever seen Trump tell someone to obtain a brain, because they countered his opinion?  

It worked yesterday. Then apparently every hunter and t heir mother decided to run this exact deck under rank 5... ugh! Now it's a race on who has flair first.