Climbing the Ladder: Close the Season Strongly

炉石由 Skiffington 发表于 2016/05/31，13:21

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Shaman has finally made its triumphant return to the meta! The class struggled for a while being only able to play extreme aggro variants like Mech Shaman, and more recently Aggro Shaman. While the Aggro deck still exists, Midrange Shaman is a bit more rounded and allows you to play more of a board control game. This deck can still be very burst-y with cards like Bloodlust, Doomhammer, and Rockbiter Weapon, but can also hang with Control decks because of things like Hex.

This particular Midrange Shaman deck list is centered around totem synergy. It uses Primal Fusion, Thunder Bluff Valiant, and Thing from Below to take advantage of your Hero Power and the rest of the totems in your deck.

This is a slightly more aggressive zoo. Most of the time you want to control your opponent, but you also have some nice aggressive options such as Power Overwhelming and Leeroy or Abusive Sergeants.

More or less your goal is to slowly lower your opponent's health until you can use Leeroy + Power Overwhelming for 10 dmg and anything you have on board. Sometimes, due to Dark Peddler, you might have even 4 power overwhelmings, which is ridiculously strong with Leeroy as it allows you to create a 22 damage combo and noone expects that.

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Beast Druid is a take on the aggressive form of Druid that aims to take board control and then finish the game with burst damage from Savage Roar. Previously, it offered no real benefits over the standard build of the deck, but with the release of Standard format, many of the options that made other Druid decks superior choices have been taken away, leaving this deck in a good spot.

Unlike most Druid decks, Beast Druid does not choose to include Wild Growth in their deck. The reason for this is that you play a reduced amount of late-game when compared to a regular Druid deck, and you play a more consistent curve of minions to play out on the board. With this in mind, you would prefer to play out a minion on each turn and not skip your turn 2 just to accelerate your Mana.

Even without Wild Growth, the deck still features Innervate as it is too powerful an effect not to include. Using Innervate to get out an early Fandral Staghelm or Savage Combatant can simply carry the game for you, and it also has excellent utility in the mid-game with Violet Teacher and Azure Drake in order to activate Spell combos.

Your early turns will function much the same as standard Control Warrior. You will look to kill your opponent's early minions using Fiery War Axe, Slam, and Blood To Ichor and stall out the game into the later turns. You also have multiple removal cards and early game minions at your disposal to help you to navigate your way through these early turns.

Going into the mid-game, you start to create more proactive turns with cards like Bloodhoof Brave and Frothing Berserker. Your best play is usually simply developing the board into the best position that you can with your available resources. Cards like Battle Rage can help you to refill your hand on options, but it is less often correct to take the low-tempo play of drawing cards when you have a strong board development play available. If you are able to maintain board dominance with your powerful minions, then you can usually wait until a turn where you do not have powerful play using all your mana to activate a big Battle Rage. There is of course the possibility of a Battle Rage that is too good to pass up and if you can draw 3 or 4 cards on a turn, then it is usually never far from correct do so.

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