uh, stalking shadows actually might help you draw spells, since it shuffles units on top deck back down, so if you get less than 4 options you are 100% going to draw a spell on the next draw, shuffling is something to consider
Dude, I started playing a month ago and just found your channel. I must say that among those I watched, u are the best in explaining your thought process. I have learned so much from your vids. Keep it coming!
The time shares have prevailed and showed long term value is worth it. Kinda like the card itself went for the long term to prove its spot in the ephemeral deck.
Yeah i considered stalking shadows to dig for chariots just looking at the list initially but your reasoning is spot on to why you cut it. Ill revisit this every now and then to see if i can modify the deck to fit the meta
I've tried to build this archetype before call of the mountain expansion It's satisfying how the expansion fill in the blanks and optimized to the max by swim
Hey Swim, I just had a quick question about your deckbuild explanation. In another recent video you had said that most meta decks have been cutting 1 and 2 drops in favor of combat tricks. In stark contrast, this deck as you pointed out has 11 1-drops and essentially no combat tricks. I'm just curious why.
Prob cuz this deck plays for its own gameplan and that gameplan is crazy 6 wide board attack( attacks if has lucian ) instead of stopping the opponents gameplan, and ofc this decks champions dying is not the end of the world cuz Harrowing exist
in this style of combo deck you ditch interaction for linearity interaction help you "not lose" the game, but here you only lose if you "don't win" so you mostly look for cards (and lines of play) that make you win since the gameplan is so linear, you want to maximize your odds of having the same curve (~ish) every game, this is why you see so many cards that fill the same role (11x chumpers / caretaker fodder, 6x finishers, caretaker overlaps with plaza as sole means of interaction, and literally half the deck is several units in one play)
I really like lucian and hecarim even long before grand plaza came live and have been refining them since then. Suddenly, because of this, everyone will be playing them 😭. I guess i'll just wait for this to get old again 🤔
@@astonerdarkly222 because usually, mirrors against this type of deck are usually (not always) one sided depending on the side that has a nut hand, since it's a combo-aggro deck. Kinda like a mirror between 2 discard aggros and with swim actually making this famous, you'd encounter this deck a whole lot more.
I think this particular deck almost won't be affected at all. Your units are either Ephemeral, which will die anyway, or you want them to die for stronger Harrowing. Yeah, there can be a few games you would lose against Avalanche that you would survive otherwise, but I doubt it would be significant.
I honestly prefer this style of videos when you focus on ultra refining a deck concept until you get a final beautiful product, instead of just uploading a bunch of different decks that just "kinda" work (looking at you Mogwai), thank you swim! 💕
Mogwai's target audience has always been the timmys who needs cool simple decks but yes, 4 us degen ladder sweatlords we need refined big brain high WR decks
I wish you had mentioned Kalista in your cards that didn't make the cut shpiel. I don't have all the cards so I'm going to sub one or two hecarim for her and I'd like to know how suboptimal she is.
Hello swin, I'm writing to make a request, there are many Latinos, many of us who follow your channel and play your decks, it would be a lot to ask you to put subtitles in Spanish for Latinos who follow your channel and unfortunately we do not speak English and we want to enjoy your deck guides please I hope you can please this request one health
UA-camrs or their editors are usually not the ones that make the CC subtitles, they are community contributions, If Swim enabled the option, would you be willing to sit down two hours every upload to translate Swim's content?
judgement gets countered by lucian or lucians but yes that last game he didnt hav lucian so if op has judgement hes fucked cuz he used 1st harrowing like a troll
Plaza buffing summoned units not just played units really. Being able to summon cheap challengers for 0/1 mana and having them get you 4/5 damage sharks because you pull blockers is pretty nuts
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CAN YOU STOP PLAYING SAME DECK OVER AND OVER PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE
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Finally you added islander !!! When you were first reworking it! Love the final iteration!
Man, i even watched all the streams with this Lucian deck! Thanks for your content, it's great!
You didn't comment on cutting Cithria.
Thank you for commenting on cards that you didn't include. That's exactly what i wanted to know and is the most interesting part to me.
Swim before he made this deck: Guys shark chariot is a terrible card
Swim after: Yeah this shark chariot card is really good guys
Tbf, that was before the lucian buff and plaza existing.
Thank you for bringing completely different decks every day swim, we love you ❤️
Didnt he just say he was playing this for a week
Swim playing Shark Chariot is literally Anakin becoming the very thing he swore to destroy.
Swim, eventually you will run out of names that essentially mean your hecarim lucian deck.
i have 3 versions of this deck that i'm experimenting with, Shark Tank, Shark Attack, Sharcknator - the possibilies are endless
@@diegoaragao6618 The Shark and the Chariot
2 Shark 2 Chariot
Shark Chariot: Tokyo Drift
Shark & Chariot
Shark Five
Etc
Detroit: Become shark
Still waiting for ... Daddy Shark
14:02
*Swim:* "when gamba came back"
*Me:* * _instantly close youtube to join Swim's twitch stream_ *
Thanks for the explanations and full guides. It helps improvement so much
uh, stalking shadows actually might help you draw spells, since it shuffles units on top deck back down, so if you get less than 4 options you are 100% going to draw a spell on the next draw, shuffling is something to consider
I'm absolutely in LOVE with this deck. When this goes off, it's so satisfying. My issues have been with Fostbite control.
I mean, there has to be SOME kind of weakness for this stupidly powerful deck
By frostbite control you mean feel the rush decks?
@@soleo2783 I guess. I am not entirely sure if it's because of an inherent issue with the deck itself, or my lack of knowledge of the match up.
Fantastic guide and watched to the end! Love the thought process on the deck build and critical thinking tips to pilot the deck easier
Oh no, my half of a brain cell won’t be able to comprehend another one of these
I love your full deck guides! And I appreciate your explanations regarding the deck building a lot. Thank you for creating all this content.
Dude, I started playing a month ago and just found your channel. I must say that among those I watched, u are the best in explaining your thought process. I have learned so much from your vids. Keep it coming!
The time shares have prevailed and showed long term value is worth it. Kinda like the card itself went for the long term to prove its spot in the ephemeral deck.
Hell yeah it did.
RIP Remembrance
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What a roller coaster of emotions... a couple of days ago he almost cut one Hecarim to make room for the 3rd Remembrance.
27:20 guiding touch into pesky specter would've saved him lol
This decks playstyle seems like it could inspire some fun lethal puzzles
i agree but man that blue eye icon is such a party pooper lol
Yeah i considered stalking shadows to dig for chariots just looking at the list initially but your reasoning is spot on to why you cut it. Ill revisit this every now and then to see if i can modify the deck to fit the meta
I made it this far, Swim. Please make decks that us 2heads will misplay until you make a deck guide about it, flex your ginormous brain on us, please
I've tried to build this archetype before call of the mountain expansion
It's satisfying how the expansion fill in the blanks and optimized to the max by swim
Im old enough to remember swim saying shark is the worst card in the game XD
This deck is amazing. Congrats and thanks!
a simple touch that make ephemeral worth playing, yet im not quite happy cs ephemeral itself always get trash card, its all about grand plaza
such a fun journey seeing this deck grow with you
i watch swim for the swim man, whichever deck u r trying out I think we all r gonna be here
Thanks for the special shoutout i love this deck
Thanks my master for this video!
Spooky Lucian swim favorite deck
Hey Swim, I just had a quick question about your deckbuild explanation. In another recent video you had said that most meta decks have been cutting 1 and 2 drops in favor of combat tricks. In stark contrast, this deck as you pointed out has 11 1-drops and essentially no combat tricks. I'm just curious why.
Prob cuz this deck plays for its own gameplan and that gameplan is crazy 6 wide board attack( attacks if has lucian ) instead of stopping the opponents gameplan, and ofc this decks champions dying is not the end of the world cuz Harrowing exist
in this style of combo deck you ditch interaction for linearity
interaction help you "not lose" the game, but here you only lose if you "don't win"
so you mostly look for cards (and lines of play) that make you win
since the gameplan is so linear, you want to maximize your odds of having the same curve (~ish) every game, this is why you see so many cards that fill the same role (11x chumpers / caretaker fodder, 6x finishers, caretaker overlaps with plaza as sole means of interaction, and literally half the deck is several units in one play)
«we’ll keep a shark chariot beause it’s really good»
Holy shit, could we ever imagine swim saying anything like that kekw?
maybe championsless Undying next?
I really like lucian and hecarim even long before grand plaza came live and have been refining them since then. Suddenly, because of this, everyone will be playing them 😭. I guess i'll just wait for this to get old again 🤔
Grand plaza is so nut for this archetype
but why do you *have to* drop the deck if it performs ?
@@astonerdarkly222 because usually, mirrors against this type of deck are usually (not always) one sided depending on the side that has a nut hand, since it's a combo-aggro deck. Kinda like a mirror between 2 discard aggros and with swim actually making this famous, you'd encounter this deck a whole lot more.
This deck feels so freakin damn op gj
i miss the old swim that only played prankster burn
Yes! Deck guide ♥️
Swim is my favourite champion!
I remember when Spooky OTK was an Elusive deck
How will this deck do when plaza will get nerfed? Lets say they remove the +1hp when you summon a unite will the deck be still good and playable?
I think this particular deck almost won't be affected at all. Your units are either Ephemeral, which will die anyway, or you want them to die for stronger Harrowing. Yeah, there can be a few games you would lose against Avalanche that you would survive otherwise, but I doubt it would be significant.
I honestly prefer this style of videos when you focus on ultra refining a deck concept until you get a final beautiful product, instead of just uploading a bunch of different decks that just "kinda" work (looking at you Mogwai), thank you swim! 💕
Mogwai's target audience has always been the timmys who needs cool simple decks but yes, 4 us degen ladder sweatlords we need refined big brain high WR decks
I love these videos!!
I hate to play againts this deck XD Soo strong
Later swim this was a great vid
I also thought that Lee can't be protected with 2 mana until I saw guy playing 2x spell thief
Hexcore Maokai next?
11:30 So if Rally doesn't make any sense at all, why do you use Lucian?
I wish you had mentioned Kalista in your cards that didn't make the cut shpiel. I don't have all the cards so I'm going to sub one or two hecarim for her and I'd like to know how suboptimal she is.
Shes kinda useless
@@jacek2690 She's "useless" in this deck variant of Shadow Isles. However, she's still really good in Endure Shadow Isles.
@@mathunit1 question was about this specific deck...
Hello swin, I'm writing to make a request, there are many Latinos, many of us who follow your channel and play your decks, it would be a lot to ask you to put subtitles in Spanish for Latinos who follow your channel and unfortunately we do not speak English and we want to enjoy your deck guides please I hope you can please this request one health
UA-camrs or their editors are usually not the ones that make the CC subtitles, they are community contributions, If Swim enabled the option, would you be willing to sit down two hours every upload to translate Swim's content?
Yes, why isn't it one of the youtuber with the best content
cutting all cythrias hurts my soul, but I guess when you rally half a dozen times, you really dont need fearsome huh ? Not even Remembrance ? oof
Double harrowing was a very 69head play
Who is behind you
I think the ideal evolution of this deck is prankster burn
hi im from youtube, what' are gambas?
Swim, how do you make so and so viable? :)
No "Remembrance" ???
The lee player in game 1 is so pepega
I made it to the end buddy. ♥
i watched the full guide bubba :)
Balanced like all things should be
spokillombo
The one of judgement could have ruined that last game
judgement gets countered by lucian or lucians but yes that last game he didnt hav lucian so if op has judgement hes fucked cuz he used 1st harrowing like a troll
shark chariot is so crazy good in this deck, how come all of the sudden it went from poopoo to greatness ? lol
Plaza buffing summoned units not just played units really. Being able to summon cheap challengers for 0/1 mana and having them get you 4/5 damage sharks because you pull blockers is pretty nuts
tfw swims unfavorable match--ups are still 100% WR
Unhealthy reletionship be like
Oh no swimm dont share my deck
I played this deck... if ur dont drop the wahrnzeichen, u will get rekt hard
deck pic
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This deck is so basic. Why do people call it big brain?
this deck is complete trash
Says you.
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