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Mulligans
General Mulligans
All of these cards are great to get board control early and kill of your opponents minions. Maelstorm Portal is especially good in the Gadgetzan Meta with alot of pirate decks in the ladder.
Combo Mulligans
This is what you need for the combo, but i recommend to mulligan for early game board control or plain card draw instead.
Gameplan:
The gameplan is to play like a normal mid-range deck at the start of your game, and just try to board clear a lot and gain board control. It’s also important to get your opponents health total under 24 or ideally 18 (or lower). If you have a hard time doing that or if you just meet a lot of Priest or other healers, you can switch out a Jinyu Waterspeaker for Alexstrasza. If you feel that it’s hard to gain board control, you can switch out the Jinyu Waterspeakers to Flamewreathed Facelesss or something else with a high statline. When you have a Leeroy Jenkins, Rockbiter Weapon and Windfury in your hand you are ready to do your OTK combo.
OTK Combo:
Summon your Leeroy Jenkins, buff him with Rockbiter Weapon and Windfury and then kill him. This combo will deal 18 damage. If you started second, you have the mana to buff Leeroy Jenkins with an additional Rockbiter Weapon with Coin. That will deal 24 damage. Also, you can place your Flametongue Totem adjacent to each other the turn before and then place Leeroy Jenkins between them. That will deal 32 damage with 2 totems or 28 damage with 1 totem and finish most opponents, but it can be hard to make that happen, so don’t focus on that to much. To make your combo easier to accomplish you should try to Emperor Thaurissan your entire combo. If you have Leeroy Jenkins, 2 Rockbiter Weapons, Windfury and 2 Flametongue Totems in your hand when you summon Emperor Thaurissan, you will have the mana to do your 32 damage combo in one turn.
Substitutions:
Leeroy Jenkins is the most crucial card in this combo and you defenitely want to craft him if you want to make the deck to show it’s full potential. If you are desprate, you can switch it with Reckless Rocketeer. Bloodmage Thalnos is not that important, but it helps a lot when you want to activate your Spirit Claws or make your board clear harder, better, faster or stronger. You can switch it with Kobold Geomancer. Emperor Thaurissan is really important to have and make your combo much easier to make, but if you have to switch it your should just switch it out with a classic mid-range shaman card like Flamewreathed Faceless or Thing from Below, but i recommend to craft Emperor Thaurissan instead.
Bonus:
It’s very effective to craft golden Leeroy Jenkins to offend you opponent so much that they will rage concede before you even do the whole combo.
Any replacement of Bloodmage
Can i replenish 1 lightining storm with elemental destruction..just in case
I think that would be fine, be aware of the overload though. Good luck with the deck btw!
Yeah that works just fine. You can change most of the deck except for the combo itself. Just take what you find out best working, the cards that I chose were the ones I find out were effective to clear and gain board control without gaining too much overload.
if u play thaurissan, why not swap a windfury for faceless manipulator?
Windfury does basicly the exact same thing, but for a lower mana cost. You can change it if you want to, but the combo may be harder to succed with.
Windfury doesn’t do exactly the same thing as faceless.
You can leeroy, rockbiter, windfury, facelss (each with a tick from Emperor) without the coin and deal 36 (9×4=36).
As long as you have 1 flametongue on board and you can play leeroy on one side and the faceless on the other (with the 10 cost combo) you hit for 44.
The great thing about the faceless combo is that you only really need 3 cards in your hand when you play emperor: leeroy or faceless + 1 windfury + 1 rockbiter.
You can play potentially play Thaurisan much earlier, with fewer cards in hand, and then draw into the remaining minion. This encourages your opponent to drop big taunts early from their hand; which with the exception of dirty rat is good for you.
Tinkering with Abusive Sargent may also be worthwhile as it ticks down to 0 mana if it’s in hand for thaurisan. 1x Sargent + leeroy + windfury ticked down followed by a full value faceless = your original 32.
This allows for a more psychological game in that you can commit both of your rockbiters and totems in the early game against rush/control decks and still pull off 32 while your opponent thinks you can’t.
Wow, I didn’t really think of that. Are you okay that i change the deck so it has faceless, or do you want to use that in your own deck (or something)? Thanks for pointing that out!
Very solid deck. Tried it from rank 10-5 with pretty good succes. The feeling when u get to otk them as a shaman, mm feelsgoodman.
Dope deck! u guys really have to try it