I played the other day against a similar deck and was very surprised by it, i won in the end (i was using a Tempo mage) but it was very close and i was impressed by how well a wild even mage worked.

One difference from this deck i notice, is that the other one had 2 copies of one minion that allowed him tu use his hero power twice a turn (not the coldarra drake that grants you the “any number of times”)

I’m currently playing this decks but with
-1 Fire Elemental
+1 Skulking Geist

The downside is that i have one less card to help activate Kalimos (and lose that 3dmg that is always nice), but the upside is that in the current meta, there are many decks running some very important 1mana spells, so disrupting that can even win you some games.

hahaha, you are right, noob mistake, for some reason i totally forgot about its mana cost when commenting that

Another tech card worth mentioning is the “Voodoo Doll”. It doesnt fit on every deck, but is very flexible in the uses one can give it. You can use it as a removal, as a way to prevent AOE, to activate a deathrattle, a target for silence/remove, you can buff it for extra annoyance, etc.

I would recomend you to craft at least the earthen might and the spark eel (both are really really good in this deck, and i believe EM will only be better in following expansions.
if you dont have al akir, i would remove the 2 corpsetakers cos, without al akir they lose their windfury and are less likely to have Divine Shield (now they could only get it from argent commander) and taunt (could still get it from saronite and LK). In this scenario i would add Leeroy if you have it and a 2nd Argent Commander. I think the giants are a nice bonus, but definetly not mandatory in this deck.

(Not because i lost, i won the first one, but that one game was just really looooong)

Was a fun game but i doubt i will play this tavern brawl again this week. It took FOREVER to win 1 game.

I think the post is incomplete, not because it lacks something, but because it literally end on “…over the ladder, so were the Voidlords. After the balance changes, the deck’s”

That has happened to me, but no, in this case it was just placing a minion on the right when i should have put him in the left, this lead to waste half a flametonge totem for two turns. Considering i left the hunter at 1hp, those 4 points of damage made the difference bettween wining and losing. =(

Yesterday i played from 12 to 9 with this deck and i really liked how it plays, Generally speaking it doesnt “feel” very powerful, but it allows you to be on control of the board almost always. As a fan of the Shaman class i’m really happy to have a competitive deck to play with the class. In my short experience with the deck, its great against aggro decks and is competitive against control. The only game (out of 8 i think?) i lost yesterday was against a spell hunter, but it was a mix of good luck in his draw and a few misplays on my part (didnt think well enough the positioning of some of my minions). it was very close tho. its an expensive deck tho, in my case, i had the luck of already having most of the cards, i only needed to craft 1 corpsetaker and i’m not using Grumble.

Well, i once lost to a quest rogue, leaving him at 1hp, and the next turn he killed me by attacking me for 30dmg. with 4/4s that would be much more difficult to do…

CtA is still good in Murloc Paladin. even if it costs 1 more mana..

Well, maybe 3? 4? i just think that 6 is just too late.

I think the main problem with lady in white is its cost. In my mind she is in the same category as keleseth, but you can drop him on T2 affecting most of the game if you get lucky. On the other hand, you can only drop her on T6 wich is a huge difference. I would have preffered her as a 2/2 (even a 1/1) two drop with the same effect,

I Like this deck, but it has some problems that sometimes ruin your game.

Things that had gone wrong so far:

1. With only 2 spells in the deck, is not that unlikely to draw them both before any Spiteful Summoner.
2. Drawing Keleseth too late (or not at all) Not that terrible tho, the deck is still good without his effect.
3. Drawing GA before any spiteful summoner and/or with a UI in hand. So using him decreases the chance / negates a succesful Summon.
4. Not drawing a Spiteful Summoner on time.

Most of this things are just bad luck and not very likely, but i’m considering getting rid of the Grand Archivist because, it has actually been good very few times to me. I think that with only two spells in the deck his chances of working fine are less. For example i dont have this complain at all with Spiteful Priest. when i use that deck, its almost always useful. in druid, him burning one of the two spells many times its not an option cos you dont want to make your summoners useless, and other times he simply does not have any UI in the deck to burn.

“the chances of getting two ultimate infestations in the starting hand/first six turns is less than 10%”

It Happened to me yesterday two games in a row :facepalm:

Still, its a pretty solid deck, i’m playing it (Rank 9 atm) without Lichking and Jenkings cos i dont have them… I’m considering getting rid of the Grand Archivist because so far it hasnt been very useful because:

1. I draw him too early (stuck in my hand until turn 8)
2. i draw him before any spiteful summoner and/or with a UI in hand. So using him decreases the chance / negates a succesful Summon.
3. I draw him without any UI left in the deck.

Some times it works perfectly but the chance of him being useful is a lot smaller in this deck than it is in Spiteful Priest because of the fact that here you only have 2 spells in the deck.

I tried the Druid deck and it didnt work… I mean, is a “Even” deck (i even draw Genn) but maybe there was a odd card in the deck? Because the effect didnt activate.

Still a good deck tho..

Noticed that grumble’s battlecry does not bring itself back to hand, so T10 would only work is in 9 you had a grumble on table, that way T10 would go “1mana grumble, 1 mana shudder, etc…to max of 5 shudders)

I was thinking:

Having 2 nightblades, Grumble and shudder..

T5– 1st Nightblade (5mana, 3dmg enemy hero)
T6– Grumble (6 mana, ideally brings Nightblade back to your hand)
T7– 2nd Nightblade (5mana, 3dmg) + 1st Nightblade (1mana, 3dmg)
T9– Shudder (9 mana, 9 dmg, return shudder hand)
T10– up to 10 shudders to deal direct dmg (do the shudders repeat other shudders battlecries?.. i mean a second shudder in this case would deal 9 dmg or 18 dmg.

Im starting to think that maybe i could try some sort of Even Elemental Shaman deck. Hagatha, Kalimos, Murkspark eel, Genn, Fireplume, seem to work well together… Too bad that Primal Talismans costs 3 tho..cos it could work very strongly with totem cruncher.. The main problem continues to be that the best shaman spells are odd cost.. meaning that you could only use them if you get them by chance trough hagatha’s pasive hero power. (And there’s also the fact that once you use hagatha you pretty much lose the ability to summon totems at 1 cost so you would have to use this minion before that to get any use of its battle cry… i dont know, maybe it wont be that good…i’ll have to wait to see the next reveals for shaman and neutral.