OurHeartstone Galakrond Shaman Deck List Guideis an early look at this archetype for the Descent of Dragons! Shaman is another of the classes that has received the Galakrond Hero Card, and will be looking to take advantage of it in the DoD meta. Their version of the card summons a couple of potentially powerful minions on the board with Rush, and the Hero Power is capable of producing a 2/1 Elemental with Rush each turn once you play it! That’s a pretty strong package right there for a class that was already dominating the previous meta.
Shaman has been one of the most powerful classes in the recent meta, and it looks like it got a bunch of pretty powerful cards in this new expansion. When the set releases, you’ll get all of the Galakrond cards for free, so giving this type a deck a shot is great way to try things out to see if you like what’s being played! Galakrond, The Tempest promotes a board-centric strategy due to its Hero Power consistently pumping out minions with Rush that can trade down your opponent’s board. While this will certainly be a strategy utilized by players, there’s likely other possible ways to build out this type of list.
Nerfs Coming Soon
It looks like this deck is likely going to be nerfed in some way, shape, or form. It was announced on Reddit that nerfs will be announced the week of the 16th:
Just to give a heads up - we’re working on a balance update that will arrive within the next week with card adjustments for Descent of Dragons, including some changes aimed at Shaman. Any cards that are affected will be given full Arcane Dust refunds.
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So, if you crafted this deck then make sure to take advantage of it in the next week!
Galakrond Shaman Deck List
Here’s a look at the highest performing version of Galakrond Shaman right now:
How Galakrond Works
Galakrond is a Hero Card that will replace your current Hero and Hero Power when played. Galakrond can be powered up by cards with the Invoke keyword. Each time you Invoke Galakrond, it gives you a trigger of Galakrond’s Hero Power whether it is in play or not. You can upgrade your Galakrond twice, each upgrade requires you play a card with Invoke twice (4 times in total for a full upgrade). Each upgrade powers up its Battlecry by double. If you can max our your Galakrond, you will equip a 5/2 weapon when you play it.
Play Strategy & Card Combinations
This deck features quite a few Invoke cards due to the power ofGalakrond, the Tempest’s Hero Power that produces a 2/1 Elemental with Rush. We can utilize these tokens to trade down our opponent’s board, as well as reduce the cost of ourMogu Fleshshaper.Invocation of Frostwhile appearing to just freeze something, actually also summons a minion. This is why it makes such a great keep in your mulligan.
With all of these Invoke cards in the deck, it makes it really easy to justifyDragon’s Pack. We should very easily be able to meet the requirements of it even without playingCorrupt Elementalistwhich immediately finishes it for us.
Due to all of the tokens we’ll be spawning,Faceless Corruptorfits insanely well in this list. It is such a powerful card, but with Shaman’s ability to pump out tokens it makes for an even more obvious inlcusion.
This deck has a pile of Battlecry minions, soBarista Lynchenis a natural choice. If we can get a board with some of these down, then we can get some additional resources in hand. This will also pile up more battlecries for the late gameShudderwock. We can also get a fair amount of burst out ofLifedrinkerif we can hit them with the Barista.
You have some big ways to take some powerful late game turns. Galakrond is an obvious one, if we can upgrade him fully we get two 8/8 minions with Rush and a 5/2 weapon. This is a huge swing and can spell disaster for our opponent. We’re also running Shudderwock with all of the battlecries, so we can have quite a big comeback turn by playing this in the late game.
