Agreed, the comment above makes no sense. Mage is actually more popular because it is counter to quest rogue. If anything we are likely to see less mages post nerf because it takes a good match up away from mage and potentially lets other counter decks to mage back into the meta. e.g. Jade druid is a good counter to freeze mage with all the Armour gain but they are really weak to quest rogue.

It also needs to be considered what you are giving up, Finja itself has horrible stats for a 5 mana minion.

It’s pretty painful when they bring out warleaders but there is a much higher chance of getting something else.

Other decks that run Finja (e.g. aggro druid) only run warleaders and Bluegil so they gaurentee a good pull but that’s not the case with this deck.

Alot of the other murlocs have good battlecry effects so its not very good at all if they are pulled out from Finja.

Elise feels pretty important vs some decks. It can be a ton of extra value as well as hand re fill for those longer match ups. I can’t really think of any other card that is similar.

He went 25-10 which is the 71% win rate. he messed it up in the tweet.

You wouldn’t play this deck (or any form of control warrior) if you are looking to beat quest rogue. Quest rogue annihilates most control decks, it doesn’t mean that those decks are not strong. Just the same as quest rogue gets rushed down by aggro decks.

he said that he didnt even really like the babbling book much on stream.

Is the tittle of this deck as it was intended to be? I couldn’t figure out the class or what the deck was supposed to achieve until I actually came in to check it out.

Druid in general seems very strong in this scenario. The ramp effect of getting stronger minions out early is compounded by the deathrattle. Often the deathrattle minions are just as strong as the actual ,minions being played by your opponent.

54% is really high for a deck overall. The strongest decks ever were only around that level. anymore than that and its completely oppressive. Add to this the fact that some of these pro players spend alot more time on the game and are simply better.

I played this deck on both NA and ASIA from rank 5 to legend last week with slightly over a 62% ratio.

I think you need to adjust the play a bit compared to the old aggro shaman or even comparing it to control warrior. It is alot slower but you dont need to just zerg the opponent’s face the whole game. I find myself trading alot more often than i would have expected for this style of deck.

his list has more big threats than usual CW decks which druid especially struggles to deal with and the bully lets you get to them quicker.

He had favorable stats against both of those decks btw.