Inkmaster Reno Mage - Easy rank 5
- Last updated Dec 23, 2016 (Gadgetzan)
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Wild
- 15 Minions
- 15 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Reno Mage
- Crafting Cost: 12000
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 12/16/2016 (Gadgetzan)
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Battle Tag:
petomartinez #1221
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Total Deck Rating
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Hello everybody! I'm Peto Martinez, Hearthstone and MTG player from Argentina.
Inkmaster Solia is one of my favorite cards of the new set that's why I built this deck in order to get the most value of her.+10 likes - Mulligan guide+30 likes - Combos+50 likes - Screenshots+80 likes - Card Replacements+100 likes - Tutorial video+150 likes - Inkmaster Reno Mage v2.0
Thanks for the first 20 likes! We achieve our first goal, let's keep it up and try to reach the tutorial video.
This is scalating quickly! Thanks for the 30 likes, I will give you now all the combos that the deck have.
Thanks for the +50 replies! You're awesome!
80 likes and going! Let's look for some replacements!
100 likes! We've reached our objective! Thank you all!
Mulligan Guide
Against Pirate Warrior, Aggro/Jade Shaman, Pirate Rogue:
Keep Arcane Blast, Frostbolt, Volcanic Potion, Acidic Swamp Ooze, Doomsayer. If you already have one of these you can keep Ice Block or Ice Barrier.
Against Reno Warlock, Reno Mage or any Reno deck:
Keep Arcane Intellect, Babbling Book, Kabal Courier, Kazakus and Brann Bronzebeard.
Against Dragon Priest:
Keep Frostbolt, Forgotten Torch, Polymorph, Fireball and Arcane Intellect.
Combos
Arcane Blast + Azure Drake/Bloodmage Thalnos: Try to play Thalnos only when you are going to kill an important guy or clean the board. 4 damage for 1 mana with Arcane Blast is all you need to keep your board in a good position.
Brann Bronzebeard: This card is amazing in the deck, it has a lot of sinergy with most of the minions in the deck. Babbling Book, Kabal Courier, Kazakus, Mind Control Tech & Azure Drake are always good targets. Obviously what do you want to do is play Kazakus with this card. Never play Manic Soulcaster with it, I have lose a game because of this.
Inkmaster Solia + Kazakus: Revive 3 Minions and Draw 3 cards having a 5/5 extra minion for 7 mana sounds good, isn't it? Almost every combination of 10 mana spells works perfect with her.
Ice Block + Reno Jackson/Alexstrasza: This secret let you play in a more comfortable way if you have Reno in your hand. Try to worry about getting the more card advantage as possible and Ice Block without getting triggered. If your opponent tries to kill you he will have to commit a lot of board and if he doesn't he will give you all the time you need to stabilize the game.
Screenshots
Here are some screenshot when I reach rank 3 without losing a game.
Against Aggro Shaman:
Against Dragon Priest
Against Pirate Rogue
Against Pirate Warrior
Replacements
Epic Cards
Arcane Blast: Any cheap spell that make damage like Forbidden Flame or Arcan
Ice Block: Irreplaceable
Cabalist's Tome: Ethereal Conjurer
Doomsayer: I can't find a good replacement for this. Maybe you should play another 2 drop.
Legendary Cards:
Inkmaster Solia: Archmage Antonidas
Bloodmage Thalnos: Kobold Geomancer/Loot Hoarder
Brann Bronzebeard: Irreplaceable
Kazakus: Irreplaceable
Reno Jackson: Irreplaceable
Alexstraza: Ragnaros the Firelord
Just try to have an harmony beyond all your cards, e.g: If you're playing Archamage Antonidas play cheap spell.
Tutorial Video
I want to give special thanks to kiwiinbacon for this incredible tutorial video. He's a great player and the video is so fun.
Here you have a second video of a Latin American player like me. You have a lot of matchups and you can see how the deck works from another perspective. Follow Cythe O2 in his channel.
A third video from a nice guy called FraggedByDay, follow him on his channel!
Inkmaster Reno Mage v2.0
I have made a few changes to improve the deck against aggro decks, here they are:
-1 Emperor Thaurissan
-1 Manic Soulcaster
-1 Forbidden Flame
+1 Mirror Image
+1 Mistress of Mixtures
+1 Refreshment Vendor
It's still having some issues against Jade Shaman but it gets a lot better vs any Warrior and Rogue deck.
Went 3-7 with this deck just trying to finish the win 3 mage game quest.
Problem I kept running into is the hand getting over loaded with cards that cost 4+ mana making it difficult to play Cabalist Tome and not getting Kazakus at all, only got to play him in 1 game. Oddly enough on the first game I played Kabal Courier and drew out Raza the Unchained, that was fun :)
Now that LOE has been rotated, this deck is now WILD only. Farewell Brann & Reno
Loe hasn't been rotated out yet, *facepalm*
Did you dust all of your LOE, BRM, and TGT cards? lmfao.
So far 0-11. I guess i can do even 0-20. Got videos. lost 0-8 to shamans so far. no chance vs shaman. ANY shaman just rekt u.
I prefer call this deck - easy minus 5 ranks 4Head
How about a pyroblast?
this shit is unplayable, going 10-0, crap aggro ladder just eats this alive...
I don't understand the Mind Control Tech. In my experience, it's just a bad card. You rarely get any value from it. I'd much rather play Manic Soulcaster; it can provide way more value in the control mirror, and 4 health is significant when played on-curve against aggro.
MTC helps with aggro, since 99% of the time they'll have at least 4 things on board. It can also help if youre running Dirty Rat in the deck, since you get to pull something from their hand, then steal from the board.
Pirate warrior players rarely put out 4 minions.
what can i replace firelands portal and babbling book with?
You can get Firelands Portal for free from the Karazahn Prologue.
A Loot Hoarder should work fine instead of BB.
currently working on rank 5 and 65% winrate with this deck. only change i have is +thaurissan and -mirror image. seems to do fine against aggro without that. couple of thoughts:
-i'd say the legends are fully irreplaceable in this deck. in any game that goes to fatigue, you're going to need to extract every ounce of value possible from those guys.
-contrastingly, you should never attempt to be greedy against aggro decks. always play for tempo, extracting value is secondary
-jade druid decks are really tough, but i've definitely seen fewer of them lately. it's a very unfavorable matchup, but probably the only one. jade shaman doesn't escalate even close to the druid.
When is 2.0 deck coming?
read last paragraph
yeah, this deck isn't for braindead-vomit-your-entire-hand-out-onto-the-board type players. Enjoy your RNG topdeck wins and I'll enjoy putting an ounce of thought into the game.
Okay, why did you make the change to Mirror Image over Emperor?
playing at rank 8 now with this deck. 40 matches. 20 wins - 20 looses. its not in the meta, cuz u need to make zero mistakes to stay about 50% winrate. only one mistake and u got under it.
this deck have 0% chance to win jade druid and there are a lot of them.
most of other meta decks have chances vs any other deck. this - not.
deleted this deck from my collection...
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