Mulligans
Basically mulligan for draw cards or doomsayer depending on the match up, you don’t want to keep the spells.
It’s impossible to execute the combo without raza’s effect, sometimes he’ll be the last card in the deck and that’s just bad luck because by then you’ve probably had to burn through your spells to stay alive.
The combo requires embrace the shadow. Only use it preemptively against aggro match ups, as they don’t go long enough to run the combo so there is no point saving combo pieces like beardo. You win those match ups by fighting for the board, you’ll die before you ever get a chance to combo if you save cards.
Embrace + Beardo + Prophet are the core after raza and justicar’s effects.
Without prophet, it is still possible to OTK a player from full if you successfully reduce mind blast + flash heal, but it’s very difficult to pull off.
Without prophet velen, you can do embrace(4) + mind blast(9) + flash heal(9) +2 additional spells(8) = 30.
With prophet velen, if you are able to reduce mind blast or flash heal, it takes embrace + 2 spells to kill someone from full, otherwise it takes embrace + 3 additional spells when you reduce with emperor.
I like the shadowfiend because it combos well with draw cards. Bran combos well with novice, inventory, kaza, and courier. If you don’t have shadowfiend, you can replace him out with acolyte as he’s going to be cycled out soon and costs a lot of dust.
Kaza + bran sometimes is good to get double 1 spells to reduce to 0.
Burgly bully is great to play to get coins to refresh your hero power with beardo + use addition spells which were not reduced by emperor. I always try to save coin if I go second.
Will post a video later of gameplay if this deck gets upvotes.