Mulligans
General Mulligans
Gameplan: Turn 4 you play Sketch Artist. Without the coin, you need to generate 2 extra cards before turn 4. With Coin, you need to generate 1 extra card before turn 4. The Sketch Artist will either pull Wheel of Death or Table Flip. If you get Table Flip, you drop the temp copy to do 3 AoE to the enemy's board.
Turn 2 HP unless you have Geode. It is the best as it acts as 1 free HP when it dies. Turn 3 you'll need to tap again to get to the desired 8 card hand size. This way we can play Sketch on 4.
With Coin, we can play Geode turn 2 and when it dies, we can play anything that generates an additional card to hand. BE CAREFUL! If you play Sludge Wheel and your opponent trades, you'll end up with too many cards.
With this deck you give up the board the first 3 turns but we can hopefully stabilize with the Table Flip on 4.
This deck runs only 3 Shadow spells + Sludge. Why? Because we want Sketch Artist to get Wheel or Table Flip
The goal. Keep your hand full. Play Sketch Artist on 4 to get a 1 cost Table Flip. You will need to HP twice before turn 4 OR play cards that can generate additional cards in hand. For example Geode on 2 and tap turn 3, or tap 2 and play Sludge turn 3 and hope your opponent trades into it (2 Sludge).
ETC would have your control spells like Defile, Siphon Soul, and Twisting. Reverb could also be an option. Amethyst might be too slow. Because I want to play my Geodes immediately for the draw.
The Sludge Barrels will trigger once we play Wheel OF Death, so we can clear some threats. And if we can keep Popgar on the board (heh, good luck), we will HEAL.
Our hand is always full if we run the sludge barrel package, so we can get maximum value from Sketch Artist. And it makes hits on Wheel of Death much more likely.
V3.17
Removed Opera Soloist. This deck wants to play for early board. We have 3 damage with our Sketch Artist into Table Flip play.
Added Sheriff Barrelbrim because the Badlands can lock a powerful minion for 3 turns.
Also added more 2 drops with Hipster. And removed Taelen as well to run Guldan’s Gift. A 1-mana ETC holding our control shadow spells. Not 100% convinced of this, as you basically are paying an unbuffed Siphon Soul. The 1-mana tax might be worth it though for the flexibility.
Finally added Zola. Why? If we can we copy Sheriff to generate a 2nd Jail. OR, we can copy Sludge or if we are lucky another Sargeras.
Zilliax construction – Haywire + Perfect = can heal us for 9 (3 damage that is prevented with Felstring Harp – I believe that this does not trigger an additional 3 Health) and only costs 7!
Also possible to go Twin + Perfect to Heal 12 for 9 Mana the turn after you Wheeled