Legend Freeze Mage [Standard + Wild]
- Last updated Apr 25, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)
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Wild
- 13 Minions
- 17 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Freeze Mage
- Crafting Cost: 8200
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 1/3/2015 (GvG Launch)
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Freeze Mage
"The end is coming" - Doomsayer
Hello! I'm James1. I have achieved legend 7 times with Freeze Mage including season 10, 15,16, 17, 18 , 19 and 37. Proof in spoiler Below. The list you see now is the standard Freeze. Most people including myself thought this deck would be dead with the rotation of standard, however its really good right now.
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season 37 :
The Guide
A cold welcome to newcomers of Freeze Mage. I would suggest start studying LaughingHS- if you are unsure how to play the deck. In the spoiler below is a list of streamers wh
Card Replacements
Alexstrasza : sorry there is no replacement for this card
Archmage Antonidas : If you would like to play this card remove a Forgotten Torch
Bloodmage Thalnos : 5th freeze spell like Cone of Cold is a excellent replacement. Lots of people seem to recommend Kobold Geomancer, however kobold is not very flexible, so I don't recommend it.
Match Up Guide/ Mulligan
Mulligan is really important in Freeze Mage. You dont want any secrets, Alexstrasza or Archmage Antonidas in your opening hand. The one card that is a 100% keep all the time is Arcanologist, Loot Hoarder and Acolyte of Pain.
In general aim to get this kinda of hand. This hand is completely nuts.
In general you should : draw or contest board > healing, unless you're close to death. For example: if you have the choice between Arcane Intellect or Ice Barrier on turn 3, play Arcane Intellect.
Vs aggro decks: you want a defensive card like Frostbolt or Doomsayer. Then ideally 2 draw minions such as Arcanologist or Loot Hoarder, to fight there 2 drop. Turn 5 is massive vs zoo, typically you want to Frost Nova, Doomsayer. This allows a turn 6 clean board to play your secret's, acolyte or Emperor Thaurissan (in wild), putting tempo back on your side.
Vs midrange decks : Keep 2 cost draw minions like Arcanologist, loot, thalnos. Arcane Intellect and Acolyte of Pain are also great here. Draw early so u can optimize later plays. Freeze spell get the best value later in the game, were as draw spells get weaker late game.
Consider keeping Acolyte of Pain till five mana against slow decks . With a ping you can guaranty at least 2 draws from him.
Key play: If you haveAlexstrasza them and are burning them out over 2 turns then priority is to Pyroblast turn 10. This is because pyroblast takes a hole turn. Thus if u get ice block popped on your 11th turn u can ice block while burning there face. Pyroblast first also plays around Loatheb in wild.
Important Combos
Turn 5 Acolyte of Pain + ping (Careful of overdraw)
Turn 5 Frost Nova - Doomsayer
Turn 6 Cone of Cold - Doomsayer
Turn 8 Blizzard - Doomsayer
Turn 10 Frost Nova - Archmage Antonidas
Where is the [card]Archmage Antonidas[/card] wtf
Hes too slow in torch freeze. There's already 54 raw damage in this deck. Therfore toni serves no purpose. But if you want to run him just take out pyro or torch.
I'm currently getting blocked by aggro shaman, I have a 33% win rate against them and unfortunately they are the class I am seeing the most at rank 2. Any suggestions on what to replace to tech against aggro sham?
Thalnos isn't as important but it gives more burst. Kobold Geomancer if you think you need more burst, but I'd add another spell. Forgotten torch isn't 100% needed and can be replaced with another stall spell.
The attack of pretty much every minion in this deck is irrelevent as freeze mage doesnt rely on trading with minions or attacking face. The only two purposes that the cycling cards serve is 1.To cycle your deck for the necessary pieces to win you the game and 2.Act as decoy/stalling pawns to get you into the midrange/late game without using any freeze spells. Engineer is actually a better card in this deck than horder because it allows you instant access to the next card rather than horder that is extremly slow in the late game when you are searching for the final damage you need.
Ideally yes it would be better. All of the cycle cards in the deck get worse with every turn. Which is why you want to get rid of them as early as possible. That being said every source of damage is already included in the deck. There's simply no other spell cards that can be used to throw at the face. So it only makes sense to replace Mad Scientist with more early game pieces that you can mulligan for. There may be other cards that some may want to replace it with besides Novice Engineer, like maybe Kirin Tor Mage but that's just personal preference.
To be fair, Novice Engineer is pretty weak as a drop. But since i run a Malygos version of this deck, I can tell you that card draw in any form is VERY important. About the loot hoarder thing. Loot hoarder does compesate for most 2 drops in terms of trading. But it is a deathrattle which is sometimes neglected in the late game. It would rather be pretty awkward to play loot hoarder and ping it yourself later because that is unessecarily attempting to draw cards when your focus should be stalling the game in order to use your combo. I would say that Faster card draw and survivability prioritize over utility.
this deck is like shit played 3-5 game in rank 15 and 0 win ( I got 4000 normal mode win , and 3500 arena )
Get's hardcountered by:
Any Reno Deck. Which means about 2/5th of decks.
Any Control Warrior, particularly with Justicar.
Any Priest Deck, particularly with Justicar.
GG Every game is a coin flip.
What about Archmage Antonidas and Malygos in this deck as extra win conditions?
Consider dropping a Novice Engineer. The deck needs draw, but 2x Loot Hoarder, Thalnos, 1x Novice Engineer, 2x Arcane Intellect, and 2x Acolyte is a ton of draw. The one extra card from Novice Engineer will rarely make or break, but Antonidas can win games by himself and is very useful in the mirror matchup.
Been running a freeze mage deck i got ready for standard almost identical to this one, but without enough card draw (no engineers, +1 torch +1 antonidas) and found i didnt have quiiiiite enough card draw. good to know i was on the right track :) thanks for the list, win % is up about 6% with the changes.
Why Not include Kirin Tor Mages as a substitute for the Mad Scientists? Why include both Loot Hoarders and Novice Engineers instead of considering swapping one set out for the mages?
Kirin Tor Mage isn't the greatest substitute for Mad Scientist, the best part about Mad Scientist is the deck thinning aspect when it draws the secret.
What do you think about putting Shatter in freeze mage?
Alexstrasza dont have replacement
So is there any viable replacement for scientist?
Hey, thanks for the deck, just got my first win with freeze mage on ladder this season!
Hey!
Any good replacements for ice block and doomslayer?? I'm currently working on getting the dust for them but it takes time.
Thanks!