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The Egg is back
I personally loves J4ckiechan’s Egg druid before Standard, thanks for remaking the deck. However, in my opinion, wouldn’t innervate be a really bad top-deck in mid games when your hand is empty? I personally would run just one innervate instead of two to try to do some early combo in the beginning of the game. Not sure what to replace it with though? Any suggestions? Thanks.
A matchup and mulligan guide in the comment as I reached words limit above:
Favourable Matchups and Mulligan
C’thun warrior: 85/15. Very favourable matchup, as mention above, bait out two brawls, ‘Ashbringer’ swing face, N’zoth to win the game. Mulligan for any 2 drops, ‘redemption’ is ok to keep, and 6 drop if you have coin.
Dragon Warrior: 70/30. Avoid playing a 2 attack 2-drop on turn 2 to play around ‘Alexstrasza Champion’. Mulligan for Huge toad, Flame Juggler and redemption, a 3 drop if you already have two drops.
Midrange Hunter: 65/35. A good matchup as hunter does not have AOE to clear your board. Try and stay ahead of tempo and kill any beasts to avoid beast synergies. Make sure you clear everything before turn 8, or ‘Call of the wild’ would give those minions +1attack and give them favourable trades. Mulligan for any 2 drop (ideally flame juggler to kill Fiery bat), redemption you can keep if you have a good deathrattle to follow up,3-drop if you already have a 2-drop and Truesilver Champion.
C’thun Druid: 55/45. C’thun druid is an ok matchup as you have few big game removal such as ‘Keeper of Uldaman’ and ‘Aldor peacekeeper’. Druid also has no way to deal with ‘Tirion’ apart from Mulch. Mulligan for any 2 drops and Keeper of Uldaman’ or ‘Aldor Peacekeeper’ to counter any innervate+big minions.
N’Zoth Rogue: 55/45. Rogue only board clear is ‘Fan of knives’ whilst ‘Sap’ on Tirion can also be painful so watch out for that.Whoever plays N’Zoth first win in this matchup.Mulligan for Redemption and flame juggler to play around backstab, you can also consider keeping Truesilver Champion.
50/50 average matchups
Miracle Rogue: 50/50. As you can see, this deck does not have ‘Equality’. Therefore there is almost no way to deal with a concealed Gadgetzan. However, if you apply enough board pressure in the early game, you might be able to win. Mulligan for Redemption and flame juggler to play around backstab, you can should also keep Truesilver Champion.
Midrange ‘Totem’ Shaman: 50/50. Surprisingly, this matchup is a 50/50 matchup. Of course if your opponent curve out insanely there is nothing you can do, but most of the time they don’t. There only board clears are Lightning storms so play around that, kill all totems so chances of getting spell totem into lightning storm is lower and also plays around flame tongue and Thunder bluff Valiant. Try and bait out the one or two hex before Tirion. Most midrange shaman only run one or no doomhammer now, so keep Harrison Jones for it.
Token/Yogg Druid: 50/50. Despite having 2 consecration, it can still be insufficient enough to deal with Token Druid’s constant board. Watch out for savage roar and make sure you kill Fandral. Mulligan for ‘Keeper of Uldaman’ or ‘Aldor Peacekeeper’ to counter any innervate combo and consecration and again any 2 drops.
Tempo Mage: In theory it should be a 50/50 matchup or even a good matchup. But with the addition of ‘Yogg Saron’, once you go ahead on board, your opponent just plays Yogg, clear your board, draw some cards, play some secrets, then by this way you go from having lethal next turn, to getting killed next turn. They also have polymorph for ‘Tirion’ so beware of that. You can maybe consider this a unfavorable matchup purely because of Yogg. Mulligan for any 2 drops and truesilver champion to kill flamewaker.
Unfavourable matchups
Renolock: 45/55. This is a tough matchup as renolock has so many board clears. The way to win this game is swing ‘Ashbringer’ face 6 times, 3 charges from the first tirion and another 3 charges from the resummon tirion’s ashbringer. Try and bait out shadowflame and twisting nether before N’zoth. Watch out for leeroy’s 20 damage burst and if your opponent somehow managed to play ‘Lord Jaraxxus’ on an empty board, you have most likely lost.
Aggro Shaman:40/60. Follow the guide above to beat aggro shaman. This matchup requires you to draw extremely well by getting ‘forbidden healing’ and ‘Tirion’ on time. Mulligan for redemption, any two drops, Aldor Peacekeeper or Keeper of Uldaman to neutralise 4 mana 7/7s.
Freeze Mage:35/65. An extremely tough matchup as this deck wins by having board control and freeze mage have so many AOEs. Fortunately there aren’t many freeze mage in ladder due to shaman and warrior popularity. You can tech in ‘Ragnaros’ to have a more favourable matchup if you face freeze mage a lot.
Zoo: 35/65. Zoo is extremely hard to beat as it is extremely difficult to have board control against them. Zoo can build up a threatening board much quicker than shaman with the power of lifetap. Make sure you use ‘Consecration’ at the right time. Mulligan for redemption, two-drops and consecration.
Any Priest: 35/65. Wait what? A deck that is weak to priest? Priest has an insane amount of board clears along with ‘shadow-words’. Also watching your ‘Tirion’ getting entombed is not a good feeling. Fortunately priest does not show up in ladder. Mulligan for huge toad to play around ‘Northshire cleric’, harvest golem and you can keep Mysterious Challenger if you have coin.