Elemental Shaman Deck - Forged in the Barrens

Elemental Shaman Deck Mulligan Guide

Elemental Shaman is a minion-based tempo deck that aims to maintain a board advantage throughout the game. It is important to use your mulligan for early-game minions to get initial footing into the board.

• General Mulligan — Kindling Elemental, Cagematch Custodian, Wailing Vapor.
• Mulligan Against Aggro — Arid Stormer, Auctionhouse Gavel.
• Mulligan Against Control — Granite Forgeborn.

Elemental Shaman Deck Strategy

When playing Elemental Shaman you should aim to play out a solid and efficient curve in order to secure control of the board. Starting out with Wailing Vapors and Cagematch Custodians, you should be able to quickly follow up with an array of cards that can simultanously remove enemy minions and develop your board, such as Serpentshrine Portal and Arid Stormer. Nearly all of the other cards in the deck share the common trait of improving the strength of your board in the process, leaving any minions you have remaining to attack your opponent directly once the board is clear. This tempo style of play has the soft win condition of simply grinding down your opponent with any minions you have in place once after clearing the board each turn.

Against Aggro, you should heavily prioritise clearing enemy minions with Battlecry effects in addition to taking value trades wherever possible. This ensures that you will be in a strong position to react to the board being flooded by cards like Glowfly Swarm. Additionally, you should highly prioritise playing an Elemental each turn to ensure you have access to powerful Battlecries like Lilypad Lurker to clear off any larger minions that may come your way.

Against Control, you should try to maintain a constant stream of minions to pressure your opponent each turn. As Control decks will put up less of a fight on the board, you should not hesitate to use Battlecries like Fire Elemental to burn down your opponent if you they comfortably fit your Mana Curve and maintain your Elemental activation options for the following turn. Furthermore, you should also try to hold on to Instructor Fireheart as close to turn 10 as possible. This will provide you with more Mana to work with as you play the card and maximise the potential for the number of spells you can chain together in a single turn.

Elemental Shaman Deck Card Swaps

• Against Aggro — Add 1x The Lurker Below for 1x Fire Elemental.
• Against Control — Add 2x Earth Revenant for 2x Canal Slogger.

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