I recently came back to Hearthstone, trying this Wild OTK Mage Deck. Quite consistent from the lowest rank 25 and I dear say piloting this deck do not require high skills. I suppose some of the cards used here are now "Hall of Fame" for a good reason.
I found this deck from HSREPLAY, but this deck can also be found on this website
Just completed a thrilling match against a midrange hunter with 1 HP left and managed to pull out the win condition at the last minute. Replay can be found in the link below:
I want to hear your thoughts on this deck and I will see if this deck remains consistent when I get to higher ranks. Certainly a good and not too expensive / fun deck to play with. This deck will probably mainly struggle with Mage but Mage is off meta at the moment. - so far in wild ranks I havent seen any mages.
Anything (as long as it's not too meme) can work in Wild. It's not like standard, where some decks get better or worse. It will only depend on new cards in expansions and card nerfs. If it works for you and you find it fun, then go for it. However, pro tip for ranking up: choose a deck and stick with it. Keep playing it, and you'll eventually learn to win even your bad matchups. If you're facing your hard counter deck a lot, then maybe switch for that session, but ideally, play the deck you want to rank up with as much as possible. Make plays thinking "What will happen if I do this?". You will then learn what mistakes not to make, when to play cards, when it's bad to draw, when to go face, when to go for the board, etc. For example, I have learned many things from playing Even Paladin constantly, and while I only had about a 50% winrate when I started my climb, I'm currently rank 5 with a 65%+ winrate.
Very good tip! Thank you. I will definitely stick with this deck for a while and see how I go. Just after I posted this, I played against Mage for the first, but unfortunately, this was not a secret mage that would have countered me hard and would have required me to play around the secrets and potentially its own Ice Block. Anyway, thanks again for your comments and tips.
Another 1hp win against Face Warrior. He made a mistake to ignoring my Arcane Artificer for too long letting me build up huge armours through spells reflecting perhaps the low rank pool I am playing in at the moment.
It's alright for lower ranks but from 5 and onward you'll probably have a hard time competing against fast decks like Even Shaman and Odd Rogue which will be the majority of the decks you encounter in the current Wild meta.
Against slower control decks (mostly Warlock), you'll have to watch out for Dirty Rat or other combo disruptions - try to keep some extra minions in your hand to counter this.
very good tips, thank you very much. I can see that at higher ranks this deck will face more challenges. In fact, one of my rare losses so far at low ranks was due to 2x Rag on the board at the early stage of the game... There was no mercy after that :)
Another 1hp win against Face Warrior. He made a mistake to ignoring my Arcane Artificer for too long letting me build up huge armours through spells reflecting perhaps the low rank pool I am playing in at the moment.
Face Warrior? He had all basic cards. Yes, he should have cleared it. On the other hand, you played your freeze spells way too early, prevented little damage with them and got no value at all from the Mad Scientist's Deathrattle in order to get that armor.
Thanks for your advice. My thought process was that he was going all my face I need to control his minion dmg a bit earlier and pick up some armours on the way. Also my hand was getting full if I had retained the 2x blizzard and 2 elemental - I needed to continue card drawing to find my combo.
With respect to your comment on Mad Scientist, I saw that the ice barrier drawn by its deathrattle was proc'd for 8 and I benefited from the ice block by it as well? Maybe did I misunderstand your comment on this?
I recently came back to Hearthstone, trying this Wild OTK Mage Deck. Quite consistent from the lowest rank 25 and I dear say piloting this deck do not require high skills. I suppose some of the cards used here are now "Hall of Fame" for a good reason.
I found this deck from HSREPLAY, but this deck can also be found on this website
Just completed a thrilling match against a midrange hunter with 1 HP left and managed to pull out the win condition at the last minute. Replay can be found in the link below:
Wild Exodia Mage vs Midrange Hunter
I want to hear your thoughts on this deck and I will see if this deck remains consistent when I get to higher ranks. Certainly a good and not too expensive / fun deck to play with. This deck will probably mainly struggle with Mage but Mage is off meta at the moment. - so far in wild ranks I havent seen any mages.
Anything (as long as it's not too meme) can work in Wild. It's not like standard, where some decks get better or worse. It will only depend on new cards in expansions and card nerfs. If it works for you and you find it fun, then go for it. However, pro tip for ranking up: choose a deck and stick with it. Keep playing it, and you'll eventually learn to win even your bad matchups. If you're facing your hard counter deck a lot, then maybe switch for that session, but ideally, play the deck you want to rank up with as much as possible. Make plays thinking "What will happen if I do this?". You will then learn what mistakes not to make, when to play cards, when it's bad to draw, when to go face, when to go for the board, etc. For example, I have learned many things from playing Even Paladin constantly, and while I only had about a 50% winrate when I started my climb, I'm currently rank 5 with a 65%+ winrate.
Very good tip! Thank you. I will definitely stick with this deck for a while and see how I go. Just after I posted this, I played against Mage for the first, but unfortunately, this was not a secret mage that would have countered me hard and would have required me to play around the secrets and potentially its own Ice Block. Anyway, thanks again for your comments and tips.
Another 1hp win against Face Warrior. He made a mistake to ignoring my Arcane Artificer for too long letting me build up huge armours through spells reflecting perhaps the low rank pool I am playing in at the moment.
You can watch the replay here:
Exodia OTK Mage vs Face Warrior
Here is the stats so far on this deck since started playing at Wild Rank 25:
It's alright for lower ranks but from 5 and onward you'll probably have a hard time competing against fast decks like Even Shaman and Odd Rogue which will be the majority of the decks you encounter in the current Wild meta.
Against slower control decks (mostly Warlock), you'll have to watch out for Dirty Rat or other combo disruptions - try to keep some extra minions in your hand to counter this.
Big Priest also recently got a resurgence (after Kingsbane Rogue was killed), against that you'll just have to pray their Barnes doesn't pull Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound or Ragnaros the Firelord.
very good tips, thank you very much. I can see that at higher ranks this deck will face more challenges. In fact, one of my rare losses so far at low ranks was due to 2x Rag on the board at the early stage of the game... There was no mercy after that :)
Face Warrior? He had all basic cards. Yes, he should have cleared it. On the other hand, you played your freeze spells way too early, prevented little damage with them and got no value at all from the Mad Scientist's Deathrattle in order to get that armor.
Thanks for your advice. My thought process was that he was going all my face I need to control his minion dmg a bit earlier and pick up some armours on the way. Also my hand was getting full if I had retained the 2x blizzard and 2 elemental - I needed to continue card drawing to find my combo.
With respect to your comment on Mad Scientist, I saw that the ice barrier drawn by its deathrattle was proc'd for 8 and I benefited from the ice block by it as well? Maybe did I misunderstand your comment on this?
On turn nine you played the Ice Block from hand to gain that 3 Armor before trading Mad Scientist while there still was an Ice Block left in the deck.