WOTG Standard Control N’zoth Shaman

Class: Shaman - Format: kraken - Type: control - Season: season-26 - Style: ladder

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Been experimenting with this control shaman deck. Has the benefit of ‘misleading’ your opponent to assume you are an aggro/midrange which lead them to sometimes do weird stuff. 

It actually performs well against any n’zoth decks with 2 hexes (was actually running a reno variant but figured i need the 2 hex way more than i need the reno) A paladin hasnt got much to call back after you hex both cairne/sylvanas and tirion do they. 

I feel that it performs generally well against aggro deck with the healing wave and a timely hallazeal + board clear. and the stickiness of minions such as twilight summoner + ancestral spirit / cairne etc. Regarding ancestral spirit, try not to use the spell the same turn you drop the minion unless absolutely necessary in the situation. Its much better to drop a sylvanas against, for example 2-3 enemy minion, where he feels that it is not of value to trade all 3 into sylvanas, thus choosing to face or something – allowing you to put the spell on sylvanas next turn and trade sylvanas into his minion, effectively allowing you to get 2 sylvanas back from nzoth later on. 

The win condition is usually just out-lasting your opponent through board control. N’zoth could win you the game, if not just maintain board till golden monkey. 

The mulligan against all opponents are the same. The hardest opponent I feel is actually miracle rogue and it largely depends on whether you have the spell in hand to clear the stealth minion followed by a timely argus to block the leeroy, if they are running leeroy. 

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  1. JDbusta
    May 23, 2016 at 1:16 pm

    Pretty control deck…but i think that is worst than other control decks, like Paladin or Warrior, bacause Shaman lacks of efficient area removals…

    • Yodeaus - Author
      May 23, 2016 at 8:10 pm

      yea i do agree with you that warrior makes better control deck, but for paladin I beg to differ. Sure paladin has equality combo/forbidden healing. Shaman has ed/lightning/hallazael/healing wave. If you compare mana for mana in its efficiency, healing wave out performs forbidden healing everytime and hallazael+ed combo is just too good. Sure, its a 2-card combo, but so is equality pyro.

      I havent seen much success with this deck in the current meta. currently shifting towards a yogg-saron control variant.