Thanks!

Thank you! 🙂

I think that those are two different builds and both have their merits.

If you play Hagatha, you go for a Control Shaman with a combo finisher in a form of Shudderwock. You don’t entirely rely on the combo to win, you can also outvalue your opponent.

And this specific build goes all-in on the combo, basically it’s the deck’s only win condition. This one doesn’t need Hagatha – it closes out most of the games around Turn 10 anyway (if it doesn’t die before, of course).

Late game value generator. The 0/1’s it summons are also great after you turn into Frost Lich Jaina – pinging them means that not only you get a random Legendary, but also a 3/6 Water Ele on the board 🙂

It sure does – but it won’t be able to after the rotation 🙂 Ice Block rotates out to Hall of Fame.

Baron Geddon is a great card in Frost Lich Jaina deck, but not necessarily in this one.

This is a Midrange deck that wants to stay ahead on the board all the time. Ideally you want to be the one having a board advantage all the time.

Mirrored AoE damage will often be a dead card – if you have minions on your side of the board, you won’t want to damage them.

You can try building a bit slower and more reactive deck, then Baron Geddon would definitely fit into it.

Adding a Rush minion and Ashmore might actually be a good idea! I’ll definitely test it out.

It would be better if it was always a 5/2, but you never want to play it as a 2/5 in this deck 🙂 You want to maximize the face damage. The slight advantage of Panther is also being a Kill Command activator.

Apprentice is there, because Mage has no good 2-drops, and this is a 3/2 with a slight upside. I prefer it over Shimmering Tempest because of the stats – 2/1 is just too weak in a deck that wants to stay on the curve with strong plays every turn.

Same reason for Amalgam – Igneous is good for activating the synergies, but I don’t think that a deck full of Elementals will have any problems activating those anyway. And 3/4 stats are just so much better on curve than 2/3. E.g. against 2/3 2-drops, Amalgam can just clear it, with Igneous you still have to ping. Even worse – if your opponent drops a 3/3 3-drop (which aren’t that uncommon, actually) – Amalgam gets ahead out of that trade, Igneous doesn’t.

But like I’ve said, we’ll have to play around with the deck before discovering the best list!

2 mana 2/1 is not really great, and a random spell you can’t choose (like with Primordial Glyph) is often bad.

The only advantage is that it’s a 2 mana Elemental, but there is no 3 mana Elemental synergy to activate anyway, so you can skip that mana slot in terms of Elementals.

You’re right and I’m wrong – going to change that part. Thanks for noticing 🙂

The deck list at the top hasn’t been updated to The Witchwood yet – we just don’t know how it will look.

We posted the cards that are rotating out and a list of potential replacements in the Introduction, and we’ll update the deck & guide once the expansion hits and play test the new version 🙂

They had a single player adventure tied to the Knights of the Frozen Throne release! It wasn’t as long as the previous ones, but it was F2P and The Lich King fight with all 9 classes was actually quite fun to pull off and rewarding too (Young Arthas skin for Paladin).

The card is a better fit into a Control deck, not a more Tempo/Combo oriented one. For example, I theorycrafted using her in the Lady in White Priest, you can check it out here: http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/lady-in-white-control-priest-deck-list-guide/

Elise the Trailblazer is a solid Legendary, I believe that she should find her place in some of the decks throughout the upcoming Standard year!

Not sure if it’s a meme suggestion or a serious suggestion.

I think that Alex is still very useful – you will be able to clear the Aggro boards time and time again, but you might need Alex to stabilize at a reasonable health total after you get there.

Yes, “getting there” will be harder without Ice Block, but it doesn’t change the fact that Alex should still save you many times.

As for the card draw, I’m not entirely sure. On the one hand, you’re right, getting Jaina as quickly as possible would be valuable. On the other, this deck has a very high mana curve, meaning that more card draw might make your hand even more clunky. I’m also not sure what kind of card draw would you want. Loot Hoarder? Acolyte of Pain? You probably don’t want to put Arcane Intellect in, because another low cost spell would reduce the effectiveness of your Dragon’s Fury.

The main problem with this strategy is getting Glenda to survive a turn 🙂 There are lots of very powerful strategies involving that, but it will rarely happen – she’s a very high priority removal target!

Yep, I was considering this card and it’s definitely a viable choice, but it’s also a tech card. Spreading Plague won’t be a thing if Druid won’t take off, and right things don’t look great for the Druid class.

Like, if Dude Paladin was still a thing, it might also be good (e.g. to counter Stand Against Darkness), but some key cards are rotating out for that deck and it might not be viable in the current form, it might look different.

So we’ll see – if there will be decks that consistently flood the board with 2 or less attack minions in the mid game, then Mossy Horror will be a right card to add.

Quest is not good in a Face Hunter deck – it’s too slow. Not only you start with one less card, but this deck is not tuned to finish it quickly.

You might want to make an Odd Quest Hunter deck, but it would look very different from this build!

I was also trying to build an Even Shaman theorycraft today… Added like 20 cards and then figured out that I have to fill the rest of the list with garbage and I don’t really have a consistent game plan.

I believe that Odd/Even decks will get better later into the expansion cycle (like with the third expansion of the Year of the Raven), when we get more cards, which simply means more redundancy.