This week’s Tavern Brawl is “Shadow Reflection”!
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Official Description for Shadow Reflection
Build a deck of any size, and we’ll fill the rest of the 30 cards with Shadow Reflections that copy the last card you play!
Shadow Reflection Chalkboard
General Information
- Earn a Standard card pack for your first win in this Brawl.
- It’s the third time we see this Brawl. Last time we’ve seen it on June 20, 2018.
- It’s a PvP Brawl.
- Brawl’s format is Standard.
- It’s a Constructed Brawl. Pick a class and build a deck.
- You can put up to 30 cards into your deck, but you don’t have to fill all 30 slots. The slots you don’t fill will be filled with Shadow Reflections (originally from Valeera the Hollow‘s Hero Power).
- Shadow Reflection simply becomes a copy of the last card you played. Any card type – it can become a minion, spell, weapon, Hero Card or a location.
- You can either try to build some combos around it, or simply build a strong Standard deck with a few slots missing so you can double up on your strongest cards.
- Frankly, you can even try simply playing a full 30 cards Standard deck and it should still work fine in this format.
Automaton Priest is definitely the way to go. Just cut all the worst cards from the deck and keep the top 18 and get even more automatons!
### Automaton Priest
# Class: Priest
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Wolf
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# 2x (1) Animate Dead
# 2x (1) Astral Automaton
# 2x (1) The Light! It Burns!
# 2x (2) Celestial Projectionist
# 2x (2) Creation Protocol
# 2x (2) Power Chord: Synchronize
# 2x (3) Switcheroo
# 1x (5) Ini Stormcoil
# 1x (5) Zilliax
# 1x (6) Ra-den
# 1x (7) Aman’Thul
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I’ve also seen warlock decks playing 7 8/8 taunts by turn 4 or 5. That’s pretty nuts as well. Lost to that twice but I think it’s much less consistent.
which 8/8 card did they copy?
thumbs up for finding that automaton strategy 🙂
The one that can be forged infinitely. Forge it 4 times, get it down to zero, play 7 of them.
storm giant.
Honestly, the card is neutral and definitely belongs into your deck.
It has taunt and saved me in so many games in which i was behind, only to fill the board with 8/8 taunts, giving my opponent no way to punch through that wall.
It even combos with Animate Dead and Celestial Projectionist, but not with Zilliax and Irini, because it is not a mech.
Storm Giant can also be seen as backup if you fail to draw an Automaton
I tried your deck, going 10-1.
The loss came in the mirror, because he drew the mirror braker and i did not: Shard of the Naaru. That card neutralizes all opposing Automatons and also opposing magnetized mechs – mech decks were the only opposing decks that could make games close in any way. And if this was not enough, it can even be traded. What’s not to like?
(In turn, Storm Giants suffer less from opposing Shards of the Naaru, but I only had 2 mirror matches and I am not sure if the Giants would have saved me against Automatons backed with Shards.)
Bottom Line: Your deck is very good, but can be improved by cutting Ra-Den and Aman’Thul (just as you suggested), adding Storm Giant, and replacing The Light! It Burns! (which was never useful in 11 games) with Shard of the Naaru.
I tried shard. It’s great in the mirror but not good otherwise. The light it burns can kill 7 giants on the turn they spawned, automatically winning that matchup.
As posted below however, I did eventually added Shard for the mirror.
It’s good but I suggest cutting Ini, Ra-den and Aman’Thul as I did, and adding the 1-mana silence for the mirror.
Actually you never get to turn 7 so you should probably cut Ra-den and Aman Thul as well. Maybe even Zilliax and Ini should go, hard to say.
honestly, without radiant elemental and sorcerer’s apprentice there is no point in this tavern brawl.
all the great options are in wild
So, first time since 2018 we’ve seen this and it’s limited to Standard cards.
Honestly, everything that I can think of that would be great here is Wild, now.
Thoughts?
Answered my own question…
Enrage Warrior, dump the second instance of every card.
how would this improve the deck?
i also played enrage warrior, but with zero shadow reflections.
i had location/anima/acolyte in my opening hand and was happy that none of them was a shadow reflection.
Hunter Baku 10 wins in row in 15 min.
Been having a pretty good win rate with this.
### Brawl Deck
# Class: Mage
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raven
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# 1x (0) Shifting Scroll
# 2x (1) Mirror Image
# 2x (2) Sorcerer’s Apprentice
# 2x (3) Arcane Intellect
# 2x (3) Cinderstorm
# 2x (4) Fireball
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Fireballs for some removes. Need to get out 3 Sorcerer’s Apprentice and have Arcane Intellect in hand. Then you get infinite draw for Cinderstorms/Shadow Reflections and kill. Can win as early as 4th round.
Warrior beat priest consistently.
Just keep a deck which make armor and boardcler + the combo: togwaggle, explore ungoro, skulking geist
Easy & fast win:
1. Choose Priest
2. Add a single card
3. Start Brawl
4. Opponent concedes instantly
You mean fastest lose?
Funny enough, that’s exactly how it went for me
Problem I had over and over again was Elemental never showed up
Brawl Deck
Class: Priest
x2 Circle of Healing
x2 Inner Fire
x2 Northsire Cleric
x2 Power Word: Shield
x2 Mind Blast
x2 Radiant Elemental
x2 Shadow Visions
x2 Wild Pyromancer
This deck relies on a few strategies, mainly ending with double Radiant+mind blasts.
I usually mulligan for Northshire/ Pyro/ Circle of Healing or Shadow Visions.
If you manage to get Northshire/ Pyro/ Circle of healing/ Shadow Reflections in your hand then your chances of winning are pretty high. Either start with Circle of healing or just toss a spell so that Pyro’s effect triggers. (Deals 1 dmg to all minions when you cast a spell) Shadow Reflection + Circle of Healing means you’ll get close to a full hand if you had double Northshires. I usually don’t try to pull this off until i have 3/4 mana.
I usually finish off the opponent with Double Radiants and 0 cost Mind Blast. (Which is relatively easy to get with your draw power)
Inner Fire was added in the event that a opportunity to attack arises, but it’s somewhat unnecessary. I mainly use it as an alternative to test or distract my opponent.
Wild Pyromancer + Power Word: Shield is great for clearing the field and a lot of people are using pretty low health minions. But if you manage to get Radiant Elemental you can pretty much clear the field if you alternate PowerWord between Pyro/Radiant.
This deck works pretty well:
1: get some reflection
2: get some aoe from scroll and glyph
3: draw the 3 elements of the combo and burn the enemy:)
### Brawl Deck
# Class: Mage
# Format: Wild
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# 2x (0) Shifting Scroll
# 2x (1) Ice Lance
# 1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos
# 2x (2) Frostbolt
# 2x (2) Loot Hoarder
# 2x (2) Novice Engineer
# 2x (2) Primordial Glyph
# 2x (2) Sorcerer’s Apprentice
# 2x (3) Arcane Intellect
# 2x (3) Flamewaker
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### Brawl Deck
# Class: Rogue
# Format: Wild
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# 2x (0) Backstab
# 2x (1) Cold Blood
# 1x (1) Patches the Pirate
# 2x (1) Sinister Strike
# 2x (1) Southsea Deckhand
# 2x (2) Eviscerate
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Priest should be banned from this travern brawl.
Radiant and mind blast are the worst.
And radiant with power word: shield and inner fire is even worse. E
Almost every is playing this.
### Brawl Deck
# Class: Druid
# Format: Wild
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# 2x (1) Earthen Scales
# 2x (1) Jade Idol
# 2x (2) Wild Growth
# 2x (3) Jade Blossom
# 1x (4) Fandral Staghelm
# 1x (4) Twig of the World Tree
# 2x (5) Nourish
# 2x (10) Ultimate Infestation
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Worst tavern brawl ever.
Zero replay potential.
Paladin –
Holy Light X2
Lesser Pearl Spellstone X2
Benevolent Djinn X2
Blessing of Kings X2
Blessed Champion X2
You will lose if you don’t draw spellstone, just get spellstone, heal yourself, play 3 spellstones on turn 6 and buff them.
Warlock Brawl
2x Flame Imp
2x Malchezaar’s Imp
2x Voidwalker
2x Demonfire
2x Succubus
2x Vulgar Homunculus
2x Bloodfury Potion
2x Crystalweaver
Start early with the 1 cost minions, and then copy the buff spells to overwhelm!
Power Overwhelming is amazing, I would just sub it for the demonfire or put it in on top of everything else
Agreed.
Worked great 🙂 thanks
### Brawl Deck
# Class: Priest
# Format: Wild
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# 2x (1) Mind Vision
# 2x (1) Psionic Probe
# 2x (2) Mind Blast
# 2x (2) Radiant Elemental
# 2x (2) Shadow Visions
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Turn 4 Radient Ele x2, Mind Blast x 6, win, repeat
Mind Vision and Psionic Probe are to get more Reflections btw
Make sure you always have 6 Reflections and at least 4 mana before playing combo, Then Radiant, Radiant copy, Mind Blast, Mind Blast copy x 5
It does not make sense to play mind vision and psionic probe to get shadow reflections when you could just not play them and draw a shadow reflection from your deck without having to pay mana for it.
exactly xd only thing you do is risking the chance you get a card your opponent put in his deck himself and thats most likely not what you want
Thx, very good deck
Love it! Got my pack on Turn 4, just like you promised! 😉
Didn’t really work for me. Could never get any radiant elementals…… Sub out Mind Vision and Psionic Probe. Sub in Power Word: Shield, Cold Light Oracle and Novice Engineer for draw:
2x (1) Power Word: Shield
2x (2) Mind Blast
2x (2) Novice Engineer
2x (2) Radiant Elemental
2x (3) Cold Light Oracle
Mulligan for Radiant Elemental and Mind Blast…. then just cycle through
Paladin –
Forbidden Healing X2
Holy Light X2
Lesser Pearl Spellstone X2
Mulligan for Forbidden – once you draw its auto concede. 4-0 in 10 mins of play
Not so great when you keep drawing Shadow Reflections and end up milling yourself.
Yeah, tried few game and lost all of them.
How does shadow visions work with this brawl?
Reflection will show up too.