Control Shaman Deck List Guide - Descent of Dragons December 2019

Control Shaman Mulligan Guide

As a Control deck, it is important to look for key removal tools in your mulligan to ensure you are able to survive until the late game where the deck thrives.

• General Mulligan (keep regardless of what your opponent is playing) — Sludge Slurper, Far Sight, Menacing Nimbus, Hagatha's Scheme.
• Mulligan against Aggro (also keep if you think you are playing against an aggressive deck) — Thunderhead, Zap!.
• Mulligan against Control (also keep if you think you are playing against a slow deck) — Hagatha the Witch.

Control Shaman Strategy

The main aim of Control Shaman is to survive until the late game until you can stabilise using Hagatha the Witch and Walking Fountain and begin putting pressure back onto your opponent. You should use minions like Sludge Slurper and Menacing Nimbus, in addition to the minions they generate, to contest the board. If your opponent begins putting pressure on you, you can freely use Hagatha's Scheme and Lightning Storm to clear wide boards or Hex to clear large threats. As you can easily out-value opponents, your aim in the late game is to simply remove every threat your opponent plays until you can run them out of resources.

Against Aggro, you should use your resources liberally to ensure you do not take too much damage as Control Shaman has minimal healing available until turn 8. Thunderhead in combination with Overload effects like Zap! and Lightning Bolt is an excellent combo that can be used to clean up boards in the mid-game and develop a light board presence in the process. If you are able to survive until turn 8, you should be able to comfortably heal up and control the board for the remainder of the game.

Against Control, you should be prepared to play very long games, potentially reaching the turn limit. Playing Hagatha the Witch as soon as possible will allow you to get your value-engine running so that you can use resources liberally to pressure your opponent. Due to the length of the games, it is important to save Archivist Elysiana until you reach the bottom of your deck to prevent fatigue damage. If you make it through your additional 10-card deck, Shudderwock can then be used to trigger Archivist Elysiana's Battlecry one more time, for a final, random, 10-card deck to play out the final turns.

Control Shaman Card Swaps

• Against Aggro — Add 2x Ancestral Healing, 2x Wild Pyromancer for 1x Swampqueen Hagatha, 1x Shudderwock, 1x Acidic Swamp Ooze, 1x Menacing Nimbus.
• Against Control — Add 1x Cairne Bloodhoof for 1x Zap!.

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