Legend in 3-Days: 64%W Secret Tempo Mage
- Last updated Sep 28, 2017 (Evergreen Nerfs)
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Wild
- 16 Minions
- 14 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Tempo Mage
- Crafting Cost: 3720
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 9/15/2017 (Frozen Throne)
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Hello! [Big thanks to TwoDoorsThePlebLord and Kreptoman for helping out people in the Comment section! I haven't had time to be around lately as I have a big offline LAN to prepare for. It makes me really happy too see that a lot of people have had success with this deck! :) <3]
My name is RDee and I am a Pro player for Vexed Gaming.
I always try to look at the meta and predict what the next big thing could be.
As we all know Druid dominates the ladder, but Priest is also on the high rise and looks to become even better when the nerf hits 18th September.
If you check out my stats from rank 8 to legend you will see that I am 16-2 vs Priests, my matchups has mostly been Kazakuz Priest with 2-3 Big Priests. You will also notice that the only negative matchup is against Paladin.
Paladin will get hit a little bit by the nerf, meaning the matchup could become better.
So..This deck is working right now and seems really strong when played right, but could it become even stronger when the nerf hits? This is why I want to share it, I have barley faced any Secret Mages on ladder, but still the deck seems so strong. So why is no one playing it?..
The two biggest classes that people play right now is Druid and Priest, I played 151 games from rank 8 to Legend. I went 38-27 vs Druid 58.5% win rate. I went 16-2 vs Priest 88.9% win rate. I believe my sample size is big enough to prove this deck to be Good in this meta.
Alright so advice I can give you:
Mulligan: Mana wyrm / Babbling Book / Frostbolt / Glyph / Arcanologist / Apprentice.
We want Early game, It looks great to save Kirin'Tor + Secret to get an insane tempo start, but it easily backfires.
It's hard to snowball into the midgame without a 1 or 2 drop, even if we coin 3+3 drop (Kirin+Secret) it's rather weak. Mirror + Countespell has different effects depending on your matchup, it can be really weak or really great depending on what deck you face and which mana you decide to use it. But coining it turn 2 into a turn 3 Kirin+Secret usually gives you little value and negative 2 cards in your hand.
So what we want to do is try to mulligan and develope a board turn 1-2 and snowball and not skip 1-2 and go straight to 3. A dream scenario would be go first into Mana Wyrm > Arcanologist > Kirin'tor+Secret > Kabal crystal runner.
Tho the odds of this happening is so small that we can't save Kirin'tor and Kabal in our mulligan on random unless we have all 4 at once, we want the other 1-2 drops more.
The basic of this deck is tempo and that's how we have to look at it, play tempo and not the best value card.
Using secrets is really fun and I'll give you a few examples.
Let's say you have counterspell in your hand vs a Paladin, great! Now we can mess up his Steed, tho has he played Hydrologist? Because that card is great at messing up your CS's, what you want to do is play it at 3 if you think it's aggro pala to counter Blessing of kings, otherwise you play it on 5 to counter steed, but only if he hasn't played a Hyrdrologist and saved the secret in hand.
Vs Priest it can be great to get your board out and use a counterspell first at turn 5, to counter his Dragonfire potion play.
Vs Druid you want to think about turn 4-5.
Jade Druid: Turn 4, if you can do counterspell go for it because it can mess up his Nourish or he has to sacrifice his Innervate to stop your CS.
Vs Token Druid: This is a fun mind game! If you can play a secret turn 4 it's cool, from my own experiance very few Druid players then dare to play Living Mana.
So a dream scenario is you play Mirror entity he tries to play around it and plays Hydra. All of a sudden you get a hydra and board control = GG.
Otherwise if he plays Living mana into a counterspell it's also GG. It's because of mind games like this I managed to hit 58.5% vs Druid.
*You always want to save a Frostbolt vs Druid to counter a turn 1-3 Viscious Fledgling.
Replace:
You can replace the Lich King for one more Bonemare/Medivh/Antonidas - A late game finnisher.
Lich King is a good late game threat as he replenishes your hand when you are really low on cards, he forces a reaction as he is an 8/8 with taunt and a unique card draw effect.
Using 2x Bonemare increase draw consistency but makes you focus more on board to not dead draw a Bonemare without being able to use it.
Medivh has good synergy with spells like Portals for board control/tempo and a nice unique battlecry effect as Bonemare.
Antonidas will usually not see play until turn 9 when you can combo him with a glyph or frostbolt, if lucky can combo with Conjurer's Mirror image at turn 8.
*Cool idea is using 1x Bonemare 1x Antonidas and putting in a Bully or two!*
You can replace Conjurer for 1x Babbling book or 1x Acolyte. I've tried both and Book is nice for more early game while Acolyte is nice when you face more control decks for a better late game.
Conjurer is a nice card to curve into and better vs all the Face/Aggro decks!
Conjurer also gives you a good midgame boost with Mirror images into value Bonemare.
I hope this deck can help You to climb the ladder and have some fun in HS :)
Gameplay video vs Highlander Priest by Kadakk:
Gameplay video by TheSynch:
Let's play by seancool_com:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/VexedRDee
Twitch: https://Twitch.tv/RDeee - I stream a lot!
Hi!
I think you should wait a bit so you are totally sure it's a deck you really want to play, the cards are good staples tho for future tempo decks. Glyph is also used in all Mage decks.
The lich king is a sweet card, but see little play right now. Right now in legend ladder Pirate Prince Rogue + Mid Hunter dominates the ladder, I am still having good progress with this deck tho :)
I don't know what cards / decks do you have in your account. But I'm going to give my opinion anyway.
I decided to craft the deck, I have to say that it's really strong, I'm winning a lot. If you want to have a strong deck to climb faster, craft it. Secret mage is propably going to be strong for months right now.
In my opinion (again), it's always worth it to use the dust to craft a deck than spend in one legendary. I don't have the lich king, so I replaced him with Medivh, like the RDeesHS told to do, and it's working very well ! If you don't have the Medivh, use another Bonemare.
Resuming: Craft the deck
Can someone post some instructions about this deck? I see everybody saying the best stuff about it but I lost bunch of games with it today, I can't understand how you tempo with it? It seems to me it's too much draw dependable and often I don't get what I need at that moment...
Any videos would also be nice.
Yeah mulligan is really important in a deck like this, I have written down a lot of info in the info section about the deck as a form of instructions. I saw a guy two comments down post a video with gameplay hope that can help you out! :)
I play with this deck 6 games and i won 5. I rank up from 3 to 2 in 45 minutes. Pretty amazing. But i dont have second Primordial Glyph and i replace it with Kabal Lackey. Holy combo first turn Mana Wyrm + Coin + Kabal Lackey + secret
Yeah the best part is the games are very fast so if you get a streak the numbers start climbing fast.
Well I would not play a Lackey as it would remove your whole hand very quickly and a turn 1 secret can be easy to counter.
Feel free to try and come back to me tho! :)
Hard to replace a card like Glyph </3
very nice tempo deck, totally love it, fast and stable
here my 3 win streak games vs mirror, evolve shaman, paladin (sorry for little misplay) enjoy :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgiBCjfabs&feature=youtu.be
Cool! Thanks for making a video saw a guy ask for some video gameplay and you fixed it! :) I'll put it into the description and credit you! <3
thank you very much :)
3 games.
3 aggro druids
3 losses.
It doesnt even make sense if you got a good hand. No sense in copying a 1/2 fire fly or counterspelling a savage roar as they have lethal next turn anyway.
*rank 4, just went 5
I like this deck a lot, currently 6-0, works really well against Priests. I replaced Primordial Glyph with Arcane Giant because I didn't want to spend my dust, works fine tho.
Why not Un goro secret mage version with Arcane Giant s and Pyroblast as finisher? No doubt i will try this list but is The Lich King cards worth it? I assume bonemere is good because 9/9 of stats for 7 mana is good, but lich king? Is it worth a place in this deck? I didnt tryed myself yet but is Ghastly Conjurer better than some aoe/tech/named Pyroblastas finisher?
Thx for your future answer RDeeHs
You dont need to finish with a pyro because you will not arrive to round 10 if you play the best curve that this deck offer to you. Imo the ghastly conjurer is a great card vs aggro decks , helped me to win vs 2 pirate warrior. About the lich king i think that isnt worth it , i use antonidas sometimes or yogg that get more value in this type of deck.Lich king is a good taunt but his card are horrible for this deck. (sorry for bad english)
Hey! Arcane giants would be cool but prob too slow as Pyro.
The Lich King is a nice late game card when your hand is really low on cards and you need something big on the board that they have to remove. It's ok to switch him to Bonemare, Medivh, or Antonidas tho, but they all will have different synergy.
Medivh works nicely with Portals, having two Bonemares gives higher draw consistency but forces you to focus more on having a board, Antonidas works but he usually don't see play until turn 9 instead of 7-8.
Conjurer helps a lot vs aggro, curves out and gives good board control to combo with stuff like Bonemare, Apprentice and Mana wyrms as examples.
We don't want to tech in AoE as it will decrease our tempo, if we are way behind then we would probably lose anyways with AoE or not as the deck is built for tempo. Glyph can fetch some lucky AoE draws with tempo potential tho as lower mana cost, spec with Apprentice out. Hope the info helps!
Yeah it works as a finnisher, a bit different playstyle but nothing wrong with it.
I'm using it because I don't have the lich king too, it's working ! Even if I don't get a lot of big spells, playing a secret and summoning a random 3 mana guy is very good too.
Well I streamed most of it so.. :D But I did start at 8 and not 10 with this deck!
I've always loved playing anyform of tempo mage and luckily it seems secret mage will keep its place in the meta.
//Oh yeah if you check the Track-O-Bot picture you can see it says "Last 3 days" :)
Hey,
Can we fit in a Skulking Geist?
Absolutely not! You are trying to end the game before the Jades get to big with this deck and Skulking Geist is a terrible tempo card.
What's the strategy vs priest? I manly lose, instead you say it should be a favorable match up...