Maly Shaman

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• clawz161 LV.11

  7 years ago

  I mean it's a nice deck and i tried making it but you don't even need the tick from thaurissan; eureka, bolt, bolt, smash, smash, is ten mana in itself, and you don't run any other spells that damage face(not counting the one frost shock which you could save the coin for if you needed the extra damage), so idk why it's in the deck.

   

  If you want more damage so the enemy isn't at full health for the exact 30 dmg combo, you could make it more tempo oriented adding lackeys to it, they'll help with board control to where you wouldn't need as much AOE anyway.

   

  Spirit of the frog is a good card draw engine it's true but you can't use 5 of your spells with it(counting the frost shock), and if you need the beakered lighting for aoe you wouldn't want to use it with the frog anyway and it would draw a combo piece that you couldn't play after.

• FunkiMonki LV.12

  Creator

  7 years ago

  Firstly, thank you for checking out the deck! :)
  
  I have already addressed most of your points in the first 5 minutes of the video posted, so if you haven't got a chance to I would highly recommend watching it as I address other aspects as well! 

  I'll summarize for your comment though; You're absolutely right that Emperor Thaurissan is not NEEDED in this deck, as this combo has existed for awhile.  What Emperor Thaurissan does do is improve the VERSATILITY of the deck.  For example, if you have to use up a Lightning Bolt or Totemic Smash early on to survive,  we can discount both Eureka! to 5 and 3 spells for our OTK that way.  Or, if we have Malygos in hand but no Eureka! we can still get an OTK with 4 spells. Additionally, because this combo requires 3-4 1 mana cost spells, sometimes finding them all is hard, so Emperor Thaurissan can discount a Frost Shock, or Earth Shock to use with Spirit of the Frog to be able to cycle into our combo spells. Since most of the cycling comes from Spirit of the Frog it makes it that much easier to dump our hand and cycle for what we have left. Also, Beakered Lightning and Zap! are great 0 mana cost spells to not only control the board, but to start the cycling.

  As far as early board control with lackeys, I've found that I survive well enough with 6 AOE spells in the deck already and prefer more value-oriented cards to make more room in the deck for versatile cards, and cycling.  Every minion we put in this deck is 1 less card draw and really slows this deck down.