Welcome Back!!! Let's talk arena deck building. Today we have two decks a 7 win mage and a 9 win Shaman. I'm not really sure how different a 7 win deck is from a 9 win deck, or a 5 win deck for that matter. There is a lot of variance going on here. Anways I'm just going to review the decks and give them a general classification. I'm starting with Aggro, MidRange, and Control. I would say my default strategy for the arena is to play MidRange.Let's go!
This mage deck breaks down as follows:
Sweepers - 4
Big Fat Fatties - 3
Burn Spells - 9
One card answers - 1 (polymorph)
That looks as controlly to me as you are going to see in the arena. The molten giants play particularly well here. A few times I was able to go Blizzard + Molten Giant + Molten Giant. You do have to run your life total low to pull that off which can be a bit of an Icarus situation.
Overall I wasn't surprised this deck only managed 7 wins. I didn't play the best and it should have been at least 8 wins. Also there are a few clunkers in the deck (I'm lookin' at you Acolyte of Pain, even though I was able to draw more than one card off of you half the time I drew you).
Ok Shaman Time. First off I must acknowledge that this deck has some real clunkers. Elven Archer, Secret Keeper (you may remember me from a recent What's the Pick?), Raid Leader, Southsea Captain. Oh what could have been.
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like 100% of the time. Now I've got a 1/6 and my dudes all cost an arm and a leg. What's funny is I almost came back to win, but he lit me up with a
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Gross! what is this? constructed?
Anyways back to the deck analysis.
Sweepers - 0
Big Fat Fatties - 7 (I'm counting Chilwind Yeti on curve considerations)
Burn Spells - 6
One card answers - 2 (hex)
Really the power of this deck was just getting to the fire elementals. Multiple times I durdled through the early game and then was left with a board like this
how do you lose from here?
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