" Ah, welcome to another Trump Deck Teachings." "This deck is one that really took off with Whispers of the Old Gods because two really good Shaman cards came out." "Thing From Below, which costs one less for each totem you've summoned." "With all the totem cards in this deck you have two Totem Golem two Flametongue Totem two Mana Tide totem two Tuskarr Totemic." "This thing will often end up costing zero, a zero mana, five-five is pretty good." "You also have Thunderbluff Valiant giving all your totems +2 attack." "Don't need to run Bloodlust because there's two copies of Thunderbluff Valiant." "Of course, the four mana, seven-seven it's a really strong card." "If your opponent doesn't have an answer, you can just beat them down with it." "Notably this deck is not Face Shaman." "It doesn't have another Lightning Bolt." "It only has one Argent Squire." "Midrange Shaman decks have very high quality cards, so having two Lightning Bolts, having two Argent Squires that's not ridiculous." "Notably only one Doomhammer." "Unlike Face Shaman, this deck doesn't hit face as often with the Doomhammer." "It has Lightning Storm, which is not in Face Shaman decks" "It's a really nice AoE." "It has two Mana Tide Totem to get the late game going." "Tries to keep the early game with the Argent Squire and the Tunnel Troggs into the Flame Juggler, Totem Golem" "Flametongue Totem, a very big board control deck." "For once you control the board, you can just summon totems with your hero power and then finish them with Thunderbluff Valiant." "Other than that, just love very efficient minions to play on curve here." "So just like the Face Shaman deck, with a Midrange Shaman deck, you're looking to get early game plays, which you can play actively." "So not Rockbiter and not Lightning Bolt, unless you're going second against classes that are good to Lightning Bolt and Rockbiter, such as Shaman." "since you can get their Tunnel Trogg." "But you want Argent Squire, Tunnel Trogg, Flame Juggler, and Totem Golem." "Eh, got one of the four." "And the Rockbiter is worth a keep against Shaman specifically since he can since they have a lot of three health guys." " [Tunnel Trogg] Trogg rules!" " [Tunnel Trogg] Trogg rules!" " [Trump] At the same time though," "I'm probably gonna be playing Totem Golem into Totem Golem just because it's very important to stay on curve." "And Totem Golem also does three damage." "So this is gonna be Tunnel Trogg versus Totem Golem." "(roars)" "(lightning charges)" "What a showdown." "(roars)" "I suppose the good news is, in this match up" "Totem Golem is pretty decent against Tunnel Trogg." "By the way, that's how you play Shaman." "Tunnel Trogg, Tunnel Trogg, coin into Totem Golem is a good play, but" "Totem Golem, Totem Golem, is also a good play." "(whispering) Totem Golem, Totem Golem, is also a good play." "(whispering)" "(screams)" "I'm surprised he did not trade this since it allows me to kill the Flametongue Totem." "Shamans have a few random effects." "They have the Tuskarr Totemic they have the Lightning Storm they have the totem hero power they have Flame Juggler." "But at the same time, a lot of it comes down to knowing when to use these cards." "And in this case, if I hit the three, on here," "I basically win the game." "Plus I have a decent follow up with Mana Tide." "It's not even that good." "It's more of you comparing it to the alternative, and the alternatives are all too slow so you just Lightning Storm and you know, sometimes you get really lucky and that's pretty good." " [Argent Horserider] Don't worry lads, the calvary is here!" " [Trump] In other words, hope you are the ultimate luckster if you are playing this class." "This is not a great follow up you wanna play the Mana Tide totem when you're ahead on the board." "But it's tough to be ahead of the board ahead on the board against a Face Shaman." "Perhaps they" "I have to play that, it's too slow to pass and it's too fast to do that, plus that." "The Mana Tide totem is simply too slow to play." "Have to play the card that does something, the Argent Squire." "The opponent is playing a faster deck than this deck." "It will not run Lightning Storm, it will not run Hex, so" "The key of this deck is to be able to use the-- in this match up, use the Hex against their seven-seven use Lightning Storm against a bunch of stuff." "Don't fall too far ahead, I don't" "Don't fall too far behind." "But it's tough to beat a start of" "Tunnel Trogg, Tunnel Trogg, Totem Golem." "Who knows, maybe we can do it." "I was saying I definitely won after the Lightning Storm, well..." "I said that a bit too fast because" "The followup wasn't very good, Mana Tide Totem when he has the board advantage is quite poor." "Not so fast, in other words." "So here I want to get as much stuff on the board as possible." "I probably wanna play all the totems and then get the totems buffed." "Play this totem first, hopefully it's taunt." "Cheat." "Oh no, that's why I don't play it first!" "(laughs) Oh no, what did I do?" "So, this is a cool card." "The Thundebluff Valiant, when you press it you give all your totems +2 attack that's why you wanna sometimes play these cards first, even though you wanna figure out the random nature of that card." "Anyways." "Yeah, pro tips, just saying." "Very aggressively remove the board to be in your favor." "Especially against such a Face Shaman." "Fortunately it's probably not going to-- he could actually meant it that I pressed the button incorrectly because I would have plus four attack right now." "which would mean that I would have, five, eight, 11, 13, 15 damage so if I pressed the button again, it'd be 17, 19, 21" "Rockbiter is 24." "Five." "Ooh taunt, that means he needs exactly Lava Burst to win." "Fortunately it wouldn't have made a difference whether or not I'd have played it in the right order here but, terrible for him, I'm sure to make such a trivial error." "One of the cool things about Flametongue Totem similar to Zoo, is he can kill off your weaker guys then buff the next one in the congo line." "So look for opportunities to do that." "Willing to try to deal that random damage to that thing." "Great success, one wolf." "And hope he doesn't have exactly Lava Burst." "We did it, it was messy but we did it." "Looks like a great curve with a one, two, three, four." "Hex is a reactive card though though really good in this matchup when you Hex the Highmane." "I will keep the Faceless because the opening cruve is so good." "Sometimes when you have such a good curve you can decide to keep that four drop or that three drop." "We'll show the opponent enjoy, I have three mana, seven-seven." "I would not keep the Mana Tide totem behind the one and two though, that is a bit too hopeful." "Perhaps specifically against Hunters, they don't actually have an answer to this." "And so it makes it extremely good." "Important to think about overloading so this is normally the better play, Totem Golem, however, in this case, it looks like Flame Juggler into Faceless against specifically Hunter, it's going to have more success." "Since they have very few tools to deal with one really big guy." "In this current metagame, they have Hunter's Mark, but not seeing it that much at the moment." "They have Deadly Shot, but the Deadly Shot wouldn't be that effective since I have other minions on the board." "So I'm going to go ahead and play it here." "I'm playing it first, because I want this" "Argent Squire not to take the random damage from this so it reduce the odds." "So if he has Deadly Shot, it's at best, 50-50 for him." "I have a good turn two play." "I have a good two mana play." "Herein lies the importance of knowing what your opponents are capable of." "If there were anything different about the opening if I didn't have an Argent Squire, if I didn't have a Flame Juggler then I would not keep Flamewreathed Faceless of course and I wouldn't have played it in exactly that way." "Probably have played Feral Spirit instead." "but know what your opponents are capable of." "and then start beating on down the seven-seven, 50% of the time." "Oh, hey." "Say hello to my little friend." "Well, that was a... that was the Shaman that you know and love and grumble about." "Sometimes Shaman has this kind of power too," "but look at all the late-game that's still possible wtih this deck." "if I hadn't gone that good a start, if I had any board control" "I can still play the Mana Tide behind and I could still have big effects at the end." "if they managed to use their resources on my big cards." "(cheerful music)" "Better for him to take the one-one." "Oh crap." "Aah!" "Oh my gosh!" "Okay, we're not putting this into the video." "Oh, oh!" "What just happened?" "Oh my goodness!" "The fumble."