![]() ![]() All we want from them is to deal damage in various ways and carry us to victory. Both Fire Elemental and Al'Akir the Windlord have been buffed slightly, which is great for us. Our top-end looks to pick up where our cheaper minions and burn spells left off to take control of the board or deal the last bits of damage to end the game. Thanks to Lightning Bloom, we've got a slightly easier time finding the mana to cast Vivid Spores on a quality board. Our biggest swing in terms of out-scrounging our opponent for every last drop of value comes from our one copy of Vivid Spores landing on a decently threatening board and making it that much more of a pain to deal with. Menacing Nimbus also fits into this category by providing us with another Elemental when played. Our Spells package is built to give us a lot of extra cards, whether they are extra minions from Primordial Studies or extra spells from Guidance and Diligent Notetaker. The best enabler of our 3-Drops comes in the unassuming package of Kindling Elemental, a 1-Drop that can get them on board and activated as early as turn two. Let's start by looking at the Elemental synergies, which exist mainly to take advantage of a pair of powerful 3-Drops: Arid Stormer and Gyreworm These two can create some big tempo swings on curve if we played an Elemental the previous turn, so to make sure that we can get them online reliably we're running cheap Elementals like Cagematch Custodian, Menacing Nimbus, and Imprisoned Phoenix. ![]() Basically, it's your standard curve Shaman deck that uses Elemental synergies and Burn spells to overpower their opponent. It's got good efficient minions at lower mana Costs, chunky bodies for the late game, a decent amount of card generation (which is Shaman's best impression of card draw in its current state), and a few extra ways to punish their opponents in ways they might not be expecting. Spellemental Shaman has a few things going for it, which is a few things more than most other Shaman decks have. Did that stop us from working to find a budget Shaman deck to feature for this week? Of course not. ![]() No Grandmaster has deigned to bring the class across three weeks of play, and Thrall himself is a rare sight on ladder. Sadly, Shaman as a class doesn't really have a place in the Barrens meta. Elemental Shamans wanted only to curve out by playing Elemental after Elemental on every turn, gaining incremental advantages over their opponent until eventually, they conceded (the Shaman, that is). Let's talk about Spellemental Shaman.Įlemental Shaman might be the "fairest" deck in the history of Hearthstone. Thanks to a handful of quality minions from Forged in the Barrens, it's a fresh look at a deck that wants to play good Elementals on curve first, last, and always. This week we've got an old classic: Elemental Shaman. Welcome to Budget Deck Breakdown, the series where we take cards that just about every player has in their collection and make a deck out of them. ![]()
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