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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 7 months ago

    If I were to drop a card, Sunreaver Warmage would be the card I put in its place. However even though it's consistently active, the tempo it provides isn't as useful as it is in other decks, because you have a lot of efficient board clears which come down soon after anyway, and you already have proactive 5-mana plays.

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 7 months ago

    Alright, you've convinced me that Lifedrinkers should be in the deck.

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 7 months ago

    You probably aren't holding that many big spells anymore by the time turn 10 hits, and of the spells you are holding, they would often cost 5 due to sand witch. It's probably a decent option if you need another big threat, but I don't think it's as obvious an inclusion as it might seem. It would be better in a version with the 10-cost spells.

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 7 months ago

    Fountains are much better at helping you fight for the board, while also usually healing more for the card slot. The burn damage from lifedrinker only becomes useful if you have sufficiently aggressive early game to get the opponent low, or with a critical mass of burn in the deck, both of which the current version lacks. For these reasons, I think walking fountains are superior in this deck, but Lifedrinker could definitely have a place in a more aggressive or burn focused battlecry shaman!

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 7 months ago

    I'd put in Giggling Inventor before Wyrmguard, that tends to be more consistent and harder for the opponent to get through. But I agree it's often useful to have some defensive battlecries that work with Shudderwock.

    Edit: Siamat now fills this role, albeit inconsistently, and is an excellent card in his own right.

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    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Obviously weak if your opponent has no large minions, but most decks have at least a few. They can play around it by dumping some small minions, but you can still randomly hit the large minion anyway, similar to Obsidian Statue; additionally, this opens them up to cards like Unleash the Hounds.

    Another thing this card does is potentially disrupt combos that involve spells plus minions, such as Archmage Antonidas shenanigans.

    Seems pretty good, will probably see play. Especially if Mountain Giant mages remain common.

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Probably finds a home in some kind of midrange Spirit of the Shark rogue, but not much else. I think other rogues would either prefer to gain their card advantage through Gadgetzan Auctioneer/Sprint, or simply don't have room for low tempo cards like this.

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    In terms of you average rush minions, they usually lose about 1 stat point to gain the keyword, unless they have other features that synergise strongly with Rush such as Divine Shield, certain Deathrattle effects, or stats skewed heavily to attack. Therefore, a 4 mana 3/5 with rush is about what you would expect from a neutral rush minion; something Swift Messenger confirms. Paying an extra 1 mana to generate a random card that has somewhat likely synergy with a particular archetype is pretty in line with other cards like Hench-Clan Burglar or Bone Drake. Additionally, like an earlier poster said it matches up very well against the current premier 5-drop Zilliax.

    Overall it seems a fairly decent card that will probably find a home in thief rogues, assuming that's a playable archetype, and possibly Spirit of the Shark rogue too.

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Bomb hunter can only get this from Cybertech Chip so I imagine it would be unlikely to curve this into a 3-drop.

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    In a similar vein to OP, I had some fun with a netdecked Wild big priest using Vargoth instead of Barnes. It felt pretty unfair to hit him with Shadow Essence or resurrect effects!

    Besides that I've just been playing meta decks to complete quests so I can quickly get back to theorycrafting, heh. But full elemental shaman is pretty cool, with a suprising amount of interesting decisions for such a straightforward style of deck; mostly from deciding when to use Bog Slosher or Fire Plume Harbinger, as well as the discover mechanic always making me happy!

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Was this deck a test? :D

    In reply to What the shit is this
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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Woohoo mana curve! Are some/all of the features added to Deck Listing going to apply to our profile page deck listing soon?

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Is the OTK to wait for the enemy to have an empty deck then Augmented Elekk + double Clockwork Goblin + Wrenchcalibur swing (equipped earlier)? Because that seems difficult to stall out long enough for, and anything else this deck does is not an OTK.

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I like to make a lot of decklists prior to new expansions, and I would appreciate the ability to sort them by class, date created, date last edited, etc., similar to how it works on Hearthpwn. As it is right now, it kinda bothers me that it's apparently sorted by a field that isn't visible on the profile page, making it appear to be a random order.

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Yeah this would definitely be a nice feature. If I don't think a deck is especially good I just don't upvote it and leave a minimal description of what it does instead of anything resembling a guide, but it would be nice to have the option to completely hide my terrible meme theorycrafts from the public!

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I definitely used to main warlock, and the first two times I hit legend were with classic Handlock. These days I play everything quite a bit at the start of every expansion, and I've had all heroes golden for years. I don't really have a main anymore, and when I sort the classes by number of wins, it's a gradual trend which roughly lines up with how much I tend to enjoy each class:

    ClassWins
    Priest1359
    Druid1226
    Warlock1202
    Paladin1104
    Shaman1066
    Mage1063
    Rogue953
    Warrior894
    Hunter772

    Edit: As for what I think will be meta, I think probably some variety Secret Paladin, it has some crazy strong support now. Rogue also has some cards with very high potential, and IMO will probably be #1 at some point this year.

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Mage already has Cosmic Anomaly if it wants a strong +2 spell power minion. I'm not convinced this will see any constructed play, but it's a potentially very snowbally effect for decks that can abuse spell damage.

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    The stats are quite poor, so I think you probably want to run at least some buffs to really make use of the effect. Not a bad discover when you already have the Dr Boom hero up to give it rush, though.

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    It clearly fits into some kind of control hunter, which historically was not good enough except when it had Deathstalker Rexxar to single-handedly carry pretty much any hunter deck. That said, the value of this card can increase a lot when it copies Dire Frenzy buffed beasts like Vicious Scalehide for great sustain+removal or Savannah Highmane for massive, mana-efficient threats.

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    150 42 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I'd appreciate seeing the mana curve of my deck like the bar chart thingy on Hearthpwn or in-game. It's not difficult to work it out but it would still be nice and save a few seconds here and there.

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