TinSonSay’s Shudderwock Boar Shaman (December 2018)

“Shudderwock Boar” Shaman  — guide by TinSonSay

Mulligan:

– The only card you’re really looking for here is Prince Keleseth. My mulligan recommendation is actually to send everything back looking for him. There are enough 1-cost and 3-cost cards in the deck that even with a mulligan strategy as aggressive as this you still end up with decent hands in the event you miss Keleseth.

Gameplay:

– Shudderwock: the strategy here is straight forward, especially if you’ve played any sort of Shudderwock deck before. Simply, remember which battlecries you’ve triggered and only play Shudderwock if it’s lethal, or if you have no other option.

– Volcano: sometimes, it’s correct hold out on playing volcano. It’s the only AoE spell this deck has available, and many times it’s needed to navigate through later turns of the game while trying to set-up your Shudderwock lethal.

– Zola, the Gorgon: Zola’s function in this deck is quite different than it is in the popular Shudderwock deck. Here its best target is usually Prince Keleseth, but many of the other battlecries can be useful to double as well.

Pitfalls:

As always in my deck deck guides, I like to point out some of the pitfalls of the deck. By pitfalls I mean the ways for the deck to really fail at what it’s intended to do. These are things to watch out for…

– The obvious pitfall is that without Shudderwock, this deck relies entirely on early pressure to win the game. It can still win in this manner, but it can be difficult.

– As mentioned above, this deck has limited removal, so maintaining constant board presence and managing this limited removal is important to keep from falling behind.

– While this Shudderwock combo cannot “fail” due to the ordering of Shudderwock’s battlecries like the standard meta deck often does, it is still inconsistent in its ability to close out a game. This is due to the fact that this deck packs a limited amount of damage and some opponents end up out of it’s range by the time this deck is in striking distance.