Ah Blizz devs, you did it again. You keep giving the average men what they want and you also gifted a deck to hate on to us uneducated haters. This time you got us Asteroid Shaman. A deck so simple to play a lobotomized ant could play it from their hive toilet with one hand tied behind their back. Do ants have hands? IDK. Anyway, the cherry on top is that sweet, sweet, drawn-out animation time, while the opponent waits to be randomly killed. Perfection.
Personally I prefer decks that make it so people have to think about what they want to do next at least once or twice per game, but then again, that is the difference between a well paid Blizzard employee and the average dude out here on the streets, eh? So well done you absolute legends, just keep them coming, never question yourself.
The deck is good, but nowhere even near overpowered. It can gets completely rolled over by Swarm Shaman and outvalued by Ramp Druid. It just punishes decks that don’t put on much pressure.
Armor can completely neuter this deck, as most of them are built explicitly around shuffling asteroids and powering them up. If you can dirty rat and hit an oracle or the elemental that powers up asteroids it loses a lot of its power. Heck, even starship decks can do quite well against it because of the armor gains. Most of these asteroid decks don’t have much in the way of minion threats because that means giving up asteroid generators.
Yes, you are right, I should just play the 1 or 2 decks that specifially counter this deck, I should have thought about that myself. This is great advice, I will take that to heart.
Totally sir or madam, just play decks that generate armor, absolutely great advice. Thank you so much. I am just a humble legend player, I love to be enlightened and take in different opinions.
My favorite counter against that deck is a libram paladin, because their many shields nerf their entire win condition because 1 shield turns one buffed asteroid into +0 damage and 1 removal of shield (it wastes both the damage and the +spell damage).
But it doesn’t do well against eruptions on top if they’re played correctly and it’s not too powerful against the rest of the meta.
I don’t believe the OP is correct about asteroid being that skillless because you can dance around a lot with the timings.
Seems like it’s a deck aim towards helping out those who just can’t figure out chaining cards imo. There’s no real setup other than multiplying roids and praying to pull the eruption legendary. I guess blizz gotta cater to everyone these days
Gets completely dumpstered by both swarm shaman and Dungar and is provable by how the play rate cut in near half just in the last week.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this gets sock puppet nerfed finally but yeah this is probably stronger.
Just curious how many plays these decks are getting compared to Dungar and swarm? The other two seem far more influential on the meta even if these do sport a fairly high WR just due to sheer quantity.
That topic has been discussed to death around here: popularity and WR do not have to correlate. We have had strong decks that barely anyone have played and weak decks that were massively popular.
play something else i tried the deck and didnt like it either so im havign fun playing crewmates dh and sometimes a controlw arrior deck with kiljaeden and blackrock and roll
An ugly antisynergy with that deck, is that Cactus Cutter tries to pull a spell to buff itself but it pulls an asteroid instead which is often just worse (especially if you wanted to +spell damage the asteroid later) and it doesn’t buff the Cactus. I noticed it playing it and I saw it again in the first few matches of Masters Tour today.