Yesterday, I took you, the faithful readers here at Blizzpro, through my thought processes while playing ShocLock Aggro.
In the process of doing that, I also provided everyone with an list that had been updated since my last article talking about the deck; this included Sunfury Protector, a card that you don’t see in aggressive decks.
In fact, I’ve never seen it in an aggressive deck until now.
I think that it is an outstanding card in this deck and this video is a great demonstration of why. Note that, in this game, I’m down to 18 before my opponent even reaches their third turn; with the help of a certain protector, I’m able to turn the momentum of the game and bounce back.
Keep an eye on how having a two drop that gives two of my minions taunt completely changed the dynamic of the game in this clip.
Note that, after the protector gave my minions taunt, my opponent had to take care of both of the agitating minions which gave me time to get Voidwalker set up as well. All of this culminated in my opponent having to use Force of Nature to just get rid of a Voidwalker and Knife Juggler.
If the Sunfury Protector had been, say, a Faerie Dragon, my opponent would have still had free reign to continue attacking the minions they wanted to instead of the ones I say “you have to”. This snowballed to the board state that I mentioned above which led to me having exactly lethal the following turn.
Note that the two mana cost also allowed me to give two minions taunt; Defender would have also been great there, but it would just been one minion with taunt.
Give Sunfury Protector a shot in your ShocLock decks; you’ll be glad you did.
Michael “Shoc” Martin
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