Omedus Burn/Discard Deck - Would like advice to improve deck

[vizier123]

Would anyone please give me some advice on how I can improve this deck? This is the first deck I've ever made. The main theme is to disrupt the opponent's rhythm through discard while burning him for damage. This is a casual deck although if it does well I might try to take it to a local tournment:

Hero:
Omedus the Punisher x1

Abilities:
Lose Control x4
Mental Anguish x4
Mind Spike x4
Mist of Corrosion x4
Omens of Terror x4
Shadow Word Agony x4
Shadow Word Pain x4
Shadowform x4
Soul Rend x4
Touch of Darkness x4
Vampiric Tendrils x2

Allies
Mias the Putrid x4

Armor
Mana-Sphere Shoulderguards x3

Weapon
Seal of Danzalar x2

Quests
Forces of Jaedenar x4

Location
Arathi Basin x4

Side Deck

Absorb Magic x4
Vampiric Touch x4
Ra'waza Stonetusk x4
Skumm Bag'go x4

I have several concerns:

1) My friends don't play many rush decks so I didn't include many cards to deal with allies. Would Ra'waza Stonetusk be enough of a wall to side deck in case I do run into a rush deck or should I add more ally removal?

2) I also don't have much equipment removal outside of Mists of Corruption. My circle of friends play some equipment but I haven't seen any equipment based decks yet. Are there any cards I should include to deal with equipment decks?

3) I included Vampiric Touch to increase tempo, was it a good choice?

4) Location and quest wise I have very little experience. Are there any cards that I should include that might improve my deck over Arathi Basin and Forces of Jaedenar?

Thanks for your help.

[Ian]

I can recommend adding some more quests - it can help to gain more drawing power to get those abilities out. Try looking for ones which are pay X to draw a card.

Ra'waza Stonetusk is much better than Mias, so if you can, put them in. Help protect you in case you get an ally based deck.

I haven't really played using priests an awful lot, so don't have much experience with them!

[vizier123]

Editing, sorry!

[vizier123]

Thanks for the comments! I thought about it and took out a few of the pure discard cards (1x Lose Control, 1x Mental Anguish, 1x Soul Rend and 4x Mias) and (4x Arathi Basin) for (4x Ra'waza, 4x One Draenei's Junk and 4x Question of Gluttony)

Hero
1x Omedus the Punisher

Ability
3x Lose Control
3x Mental Anguish
4x Mind Spike
4x Mist of Corrosion
4x Omens of Terror, The
4x Shadow Word: Agony
4x Shadow Word: Pain
4x Shadowform
3x Soul Rend
4x Touch of Darkness
2x Vampiric Tendrils

Ally
4x Ra'waza Stonetusk

Armor
3x Mana-Sphere Shoulderguards

Item
2x Seal of Danzalar, The

Quest
4x Forces of Jaedenar
4x One Draenei's Junk…
4x Question of Gluttony, A

Side Deck
3x Mias the Putrid
3x Skumm Bag'go
4x Tatulla the Reclaimer

Hopefully this improves the deck. I was trying to remove dead draws in the late game with the pure discard cards. Also Arathi Basin didn't seem to flow very well with the deck's concept. I recently saw Question of Gluttony really accelerate someone's opening hand, so that's why I put it in.

I decided to add Tatulla for anti-equipment and abilities, Skumm for quests and Mias for additional discard for my side deck.

Anyone with comments/criticism please feel free to reply. Thanks!

[PaladinPlus]

Deck looks great. Here are some of the changes I would make;

minus 4x Shadow Word: Pain
minus 3x Soul Rend
minus 1x Mist of Corrosion
minus 1x Omens of Terror, The
minus 1x Shadowform

add 3x Mias the Putrid (two for one, card removal and damage potential)
add 3x Eye of the Storm (Location to slow rush decks down)
add 4x Argent Crusader (more cards to rip from your opponents hands)

Something along those lines.

[Phallanx87]

the thing about discard decks, is once you get to a certain point (with discarding opponents cards) where your opponent will have nothing left and you will have a few discard cards in your hand that will be useless, as your opponent will often play or resource his next card immediatly

horde doesnt have many options as far as getting rid of those useless cards at this point, but omedus's flip power is amazing, 3 resources to deal 7 shadow damage!

i'd advise the following, "Power word: restore" and "Slash Dance" both of which allow you to use your hero's flip power again. with omedus this is especially powerful.

now if you change to the alliance side, for when you get in that useless discard card situation, dwarf cards with "Find Treasure" comes in plenty handy.