Al'Akir is a strange card man, he's perfectly great for what he is, but he just can't seem to make it into decks. There are a lot of 6+ cost cards in a control oriented elemental shaman. 2x fire ele, 2x blazecaller, 1-2 stone guardian, and kalimos, thats already 6-7 cards 6 cost or higher, which already is a lot, to add another w/ al'akir well then you probably want to cut something else. I have 1 stone guardian and no al'akir and even then I get slow starts sometimes. I had him in the deck when I was first building it, but just looking back at it, its like holy crap, I can't put ALL of this in one deck. I think you're better off trying to get al'akir off of servants.