Odd Tempo Mage ( rank 5 )
- Last updated Jan 13, 2019 (Level Up Nerf)
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Wild
- 21 Minions
- 9 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Tempo Mage
- Crafting Cost: 8840
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 1/7/2019 (Level Up Nerf)
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Battle Tag:
coolhandluke#11528
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Region:
US
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Total Deck Rating
417
Greetings fellow mages!
Welcome to my Odd tempo mage guide. But first let us get the formalities out of the way!
I’ve been playing card games since the late 90’s, my experience with paper card games has transitioned and flourished in the realm of online. I was able to Alpha / Beta test some well known online TCG’s such as Gwent, Artifact, ESL, Magic Arena and our beloved Hearthstone
In Hearthstone early days a few friends and I brewed up a deck list we named the ‘Freeze Mage’, may she rest in peace.
After a few years hiatus from Hearthstone, I’ve returned and tried to make Mages popular again.
Enjoy! CHL
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Introduction:
The following decklist takes some amazing old cards and mixes a brew with some new cards from the latest expansion. The first question we ask with this deck is how do we win?.
Basically this deck preforms well at having a nice mana-curve to throw out our minions that synergies with our hero power.
Because we have ( baku ) this make our hero power deal two damage instead of one. Once we transition from early to mind game, we want to be try to establish a board presence while controlling the board as best we can.
Into the late game we can setup a strong board with janna a card that drops rag to deal 8 damage to a random enemy.
Synergies / Combos:
This section will explain my overall card choices and some cool little combos to look out for.
Key cards:
In this section I will outline the key cards that are too valuable to sub out, while offering some alternatives for the ones that can.
“This deck overall is really affordable!”.
Baku allows our hero power to transform, accelerating us into a mid to late game Jan'alai, the Dragonhawk
Just a great card that allows us to play a secret for free.
Speaking of secrets
3. Counterspell Counterspell is hands down one of the best secrets in the game. Save this around Secret hunters turn 4 - 5 and watch the concede when their emerald stone is countered
Mulligans
Card crafting priority:
- Baku the Mooneater *
- Counterspell
- Kirin Tor Mage
- Explosive Runes
- Argent Squire
- Secretkeeper
- Daring Fire-Eater
- Black Cat
- Pyromaniac
- Fungalmancer
- Jan'alai, the Dragonhawk *
- Blood Knight
- Clockwork Automaton
My deepest apologises I will continue updating this over the next week, University is just kicking some butt at the moment
But feel free to discuss and ask any questions.
I still play with your deck. It is fun to play and strong. Did you change any card of deck? Just I am not sure about Nightblade?
Replace 1 Blood Knight with Drakkari Enchanter to double hit with Ragnaros damage at turn 10!!
Is Stargazer Luna a necessity?
Wondering same thing, running a similair list but missing Luna and unsure how to replace
Any draw should do tbh, can't remember the last time I actually drew a card with Luna..
You can replace her with Acolyte Priest
With no strog removals, no board control.... You are cannon fodder
Thanks for great and fun deck!
Can you tell little bit about mulligan of deck please?
Sometime I am confusing at mulligan stage...
Of course,
Almost all the time you want to aim for:
The reason being, versus aggro decks, we want to have minions on the board to have good trades.
Versus control decks we want to apply a lot of early pressure.
A good rule of thumb with any deck is try and get full value out of your cards. Hope this makes sense
Did swap Nightblade for Chief Inspector because of all the spell hunters I've been up against.
Recently tried another version but this seems REALLY strong and fun to play!
Man, your last iteration of the deck is really good. I'm currently Rank 3. The only modification I made was:
+Chief Inspector -Nightblade to improve my winrate against hunters.
Great Deck! Had a lot of fun! Thx!
I'm really enjoying this deck! Also having quite a bit of success! I subbed out Blood knight for Blackwald pixie. Already had to craft stargazer luna and didn't have any dust left. It's doing pretty well, good body and the double hero power when above 7 mana is really nice.
Dude! The best damn deck I have played in I don't know how long! Big win streak. Even my losses are close.
Huntards actually playing secrets into Secretkeeper...fun to play..great deck man!
I don’t see why that’s bad if it gets bounced back. How do you get around it?
great deck guide
I played 30 games on this deck. I like her madly for the idea, but: a Fungalmancer is really useless, absolutely. The deck does not cope with the hunters (against the talisman for 5), everyone get round Anti-Magic. It seems to me that this deck can play, but it needs serious transformations.