Scratch's Midrange Budget Mage
- Last updated Oct 23, 2014 (Naxx Launch)
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Wild
- 19 Minions
- 11 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 940
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 7/14/2014 (Live Patch 5506)
- Scratch741
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Battle Tag:
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Region:
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Total Deck Rating
256
Just went from R10 to R5 with only one lost game against a control warrior. Hope this deck has some potentional and will help other people to achieve good ranks in the game.
If you don't like druids, this deck just rapes them (90% w/r)!
New deck, slightly different and faster: http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/95220-scratchs-midrange-budget-mage-v2 (only 840 dust!)
Current replacements:
If you miss Kel'Thuzad, put anotherSunwalker, or Argent Commander
Put Ragnaros the Firelord instead of Pyroblast
Cairne Bloodhoof or Sylvanas Windrunner instead of Sunwalker
Full deck (with legendaries):
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/75123-scratchs-midrange-mage
Testing (You may consider adding):
- Mind Control Tech - Yeh, maybe sounds bad, but in this meta, this can be working very well. Update: Already tested and I dont feel it's a good card. Maybe I'm wrong but it really don't fits to me.
- Unstable Ghoul - Very good card to deal with annoying zoo's and aggro decks. Already testing! This card can be combined with Acolyte of Pain but still I'd rather play Arcane Intellect over Acolyte.
Update 5.10.2014
- 1x Azure Drake
- 1x Defender of Argus
+ 1x Loatheb
+ 1x Polymorph - Because of the handlock comeback.
Update 28.8.2014
Acutally trying adding more pressure to early turns. If it will work better for me, I'll do an update.
The following chages are:
- 2x Arcane Missiles
- 1x Mana Wyrm
- 2x Earthen Ring Farseer
- 1x Azure Drake
- 2x Sorcerer's Apprentice
+ 2xUndertaker
+ 2x Loot Hoarder
+ 2x Harvest Golem
+ 1x Loatheb
+ 1x Sunwalker
Update 24.8.2014
- Argent Commander
+ Kel'Thuzad - I was surprised, how this card is strong in this deck. Behind a taunt creatures, without opponents a hard removal, this is a win condition.
Update 23.8.2014
+ 2x Earthen Ring Farseer
- 1x Argent Commander
- 2x Harvest Golem Switched back, because of Hunters.
+ 1x Sen'jin Shieldmasta T4 taunt is now more important in this meta. (Even considering adding second one)
Update 15.8.2014
Update 13.8.2014
Actually playing without Duplicate and with one more Sludge Belcher. I'll give more info if it was worth it! Also considering adding one Spectral Knight instead of the Duplicate.
Update 11.8.2014
Update 7.8.2014
- Loot Hoarder
- 2x Earthen Ring Farseer The reason is T3. I often play T3 only the 3/3 body, because of full HP.
+ 2x Harvest Golem
+ Loatheb This is a individual choice, depends the on deck you meet. You may swap it for Unstable Ghoul, Mirror Image or Deathlord. (Only if you're facing rush decks / zoo). If you meet alot of control decks, swap it for second Duplicate
Update 30.7.2014
- Loot Hoarder
- Sunwalker
- Sen'jin Shieldmasta
+ Duplicate - The reason this deck can have problem with control decks, because this deck will run of steam at T10+. Use it for Yettis, Elementals, Sunwalkers and Drakes (the best if you taunted one of these).
+ Pyroblast - Well you need a finisher and no one cheap card provides it.
+ Sludge Belcher A little bit weaker than Sunwalker, but it's cheaper (by mana of course)!
Update 21.7.2014
- Mirror Image
- Blizzard (Maybe gonna take off Flamestrike instead of blizzard)
+ 2x Arcane Missiles
The reason is this deck is weak against fast decks and missiles can deal with the early minions. If you gonna face aggro decks or ZOO, mulligan for Arcane Missiles, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Mana Wyrm and Frostbolt.
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I'm only missing a Pyroblast, what would you recommend in its place?
I was thinking of Sylvannas or Faceless Manipulator (I have both)
I don't have sunwalker, does fen creeper is good replacement for it?
I did that but since i lacked 5+ drops i replaced yeti with loatheb. I think its reasonable especially against miracle rouges.
edit: i noticed that this deck need better early game its easy to fall back with it against various aggros at some point u just pray for flamestrike since enemy get rid of taunts easly, ill try your early game changes
In my experience, Duplicate is a huge tempo loss and only useful if you get low mana cost minions since this deck is already heavy on 4+ mana cost cards. I added a Loot Hoarder instead for some early minions due to zoo and alikes.
im missing duplicate, pyroblast, azure drake, defender of argus, argent commander, and sludge belcher. any idea what i can use instead of those? im really new to this game
yea i know, im very new to playing and working on getting everything from this deck. i just found out how to get duplicate and sludge belcher so i got those now,
thank you so much for the advise!
Cool deck. just went from r20 to r15 in one series of wins.I'm missing Sludge Belcher, Duplicate, Sunwalker and one Azure Drake so I replaced them with Amani Berserker and Tauren Warrior for the berserk bonuses.
I have tried this deck out for a couple hours now and i have to say im enjoying it. It took me a while and a lot of dust to find a decent mage deck and here was one thats almost free to play. I will say i disagree with you on the yetis i find Spectral Knight to be very useful and a better card than a yeti with all the hard counter spell removal.
I like this deck since it doesn't rely heavily on card draw like many mage decks tend to do. Ill keep playing it till Bliz tosses mages a bone.
Good work man
Big fan of this deck. I don't have any Harvest Golems and decided to try Bloodmage Thalnos and an extra Sludge Belcher. Seems to be holding up okay. What are your thoughts on a kind of out there card like Blizzard for controlling zoo? Unstable Ghoul is good for the price but I don't care to run cards that can sabotage myself. Arcane Blast feels like a better way to deal with a crowd, especially with a Mana Wyrm or any spell+1 card out there.
I didn't think the lack of golems was hurting me that much but it makes sense that they're important on T3. I'll work on getting one or two in there. Thanks for the reply! I'm looking forward to further evolutions of the deck.
Hi, could you explain a little how to use this deck?
Im still low budget so i don't have Argent Commander × 2 and one Defender of Argus, Which cards should I use?
Thanks!!
Thanks for the reply! Will try!!
The previous version without the Naxx cards had a much higher win rate for me...
How it was without the Naxx cards? I didnt see this version =/
dont understand why people rate this deck so highly, It is currently garbage in the meta. Handloc, freeze mage, tempo rogue, safari, zoo all rape it.
I really think Spectral Knight is an amazing card. I want to replace the Yeti's with it, or maybe 1 of them and Loatheb. Think it's a good idea?
I'm sorry, I have been playing this deck for about a week trying to see how you can get to rank 4 and there is just no way man. I am not trying to be a jerk but there is no way. At 19 I am running into guys with epic decks already and this deck doesn't have anything to fight them. When I am against a deck with a rare or two, I win maybe 60% of the time but as soon as you get into the next bracket and the higher decks, this thing gets destroyed. So you can down vote my post all you want and get your buddies to jump on and say yea this deck is great but it just isn't. It is a fun deck to play casual but it isn't a R5 deck.
If you could do 1k crafting and get a rank 4 deck don't you think everyone would be using your deck?