The Deck’s Sales Pitch

        Fine, I’ll admit it. I am a N’Zoth addict. Something about his concept I just love to use and abuse.  Ancestral Spirit and Reincarnate are the super glue of this deck. Early game overload cards and board removal allows you to stay in the game not to fall behind in board control. I came up with the idea for this deck by after opening my N’Zoth. I wanted to find a way I could play him that wasn’t just any old Deathrattle deck. I searched through the different classes thinking to myself how could I play Deathrattles with this class? I didn’t have a lot of good Deathrattle cards, and I needed cheap cards to base a deck around. Thus I stumbled upon the cheap shaman cards of reincarnate and Ancestral Spirit. 280 dust later and I already had the core cards of the deck, and I was coming off of playing mech rogue so I had my Shredders, Sludges, and Anubisaths ready to go. Then after some compiling I managed to have a decent deck. By decent I mean it was different. Problem was though we were lacking board control and summoning potential. Then came along Karazhan, and I was gifted with Barnes, and Maelstrom Portal. Now with Un’ Goro we are given Tidal Surge a single target removal that does do overload, and doesn’t have a pointless effect (summon the 1/1). We are given Spiritsinger Umbra I can’t even begin to speak the magnitude this card posses for this deck (View her personal section to see why). In one sentence though, “Her ability is a reincarnate aura”.

Mulligans (Incomplete)

        Even after playing this deck on and off ever since the release of N’Zoth I still have yet to fully understand how to mulligan with this specific deck. I’ll give you the run down though of what you should focus.

Cards to keep every-time 

Doomsayer

        This card is insane for this deck. I have found that the games that i play doomsayer from my opening hand I have probably a 30ish% better win rate with than the times I don’t. In the recent days leading up to the new expansion dropping I feel he has provided even more value, as a lot of the old slower classes turned to a faster play style. It used to be in wild that warlock, and hunter (if you ever saw one) were slower decks. Warlock as turned into Zoo, and Hunter into a strong early game burst. Your one advantage is playing a slower train-like-shaman that once it leaves the station takes a lot of effort to stop. 

Feral Spirit

        A great follow up to the already slowed board. Even if the board is not going to be cleared it can slow down the enemy very effectively. Serves it most value when you have a sludge belcher, Anubisath, or White play to follow up with on turn 5. 

Barnes

        If your opening hand are these three cards and you are going second you already are off to a good start. Barnes is good to keep though because in case he were to pull out that doomsayer you want him to do so early, not to mention that doomsayer is going to only be a 1/1 so more than likely they’ll spend a resource or two getting rid of it. Barnes also has won me games by pulling an Anubisath Sentinel on turn 3 (coined out Barnes). Then going into Ancestral Spirit  and Reincarnate the next turn, and after that you are left with a 6/7 and 2 4/4’s Anubisaths. On turn 4. 

Ancestral Knowledge

        The draw power is to good to get rid of. Even when I see warrior, hunter, paladin, or druid I always still keep. I just get rid of everything else that can’t clear board.

Only keep if certain conditions are met (fast or slow decks)

Sludge Belcher

        Only keep if you have Feral Spirits, maelstrom portal, and/or Tidal Surge

Substitutions (Incomplete)

        Out of the gate I would like to say that any minion that is not Barnes, Doomsayer, or N’Zoth. Anubisath Sentinel is the best replacement for it. Anubisath is so strong with ancestral spirit and reincarnate it can beat out most legendaries that you personally want to throw in. The only one who contests for roughly the same mana cost is Cairne Bloodhoof. Depending on how the deck plays in the new expansion Anubisath might might get his twin. We’d run two copies and drop Elemental Destruction or Volcano.

Card Playstyles (Incomplete)

Anubisath Sentinel 

        Whats great about this card is he sees so little play that people hover over him really often. Anubisath is such a powerful drop in this deck that he’s even worth playing when you have no other minions. When you do that he becomes a 4/4 with taunt, if they ignore his taunt then they just set you up for some very “friendly” return plays. As mentioned before with the summonings via Barnes, he has crazy potential there, so if you are ever hoping for a great Barnes pull Anubisath is one of them. The greatest part about it is because Barnes summoned him they can’t just kill him off right away, because Barnes would get the buff. What happens then is they leave him alone only to have you get to cast reincarnate on it and jump miles ahead. Imagine casting a 2 mana Blessing of Kings with a 4/4 attached that’s what you happens when you reincarnate an Anubisath. It is also worth it to drop Anubisath from your starting hand if you have a Barnes, because of that potential power of him summoning Anubisaith. 

• Sludge Belcher 
• Volcano 
• White Eyes Yes even him

Card Reasoning (Incomplete)

Barnes

       Barnes makes a great addition as it allows us to summon out our Deathrattles and enable synergies. Two of the greatest pulls are Sylvanas Windrunner, and White Eyes. In terms of synergies, Barnes only has only 1 card that doesn’t provide anything other than a 1/1. Even if you were to pull N’zoth and reincarnate it getting the 5/7 can be a nice tempo play. I only suggest doing the reincarnate on the N’zoth if you already have had 3-4 deathrattles die or if you are far enough ahead and don’t think you will need to use the reincarnate on your other minions. (see reincarnate below for ideal plays)