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Quote from Mhantra »

Good points asteroidm.  I wonder if ultimately it is the existence of those archtypes/cards that will make it so it will never be a ladder mainstream.  Similar to my BIG 'SPLOSHUNS!!! deck that has every exploding card I can find (mad bombers, madder bombers, Flame Leviathan).  It is oddly powerful, and I go through huge win streaks, but I come across those types of deck (esp patron warrior) and I think it is literally unwinnable.  But holy crap it is fun as hell!!

Yeah this is how I feel.  The deck is really fun, and potentially really effective.  I just see a lot of Pain warrior and demon lock/ demon zoo and this deck can struggle against those.  It also struggles against beefy mid range decks, all of these received large buffs in BRM.  Incidently this card is fantastic vs small aggro based decks.  I have stomped the crap out of regular zoo (no imp gang boss lol) and mech mage with a similar deck as the one above but I am seeing less and less of those already.  Mind you I am barely rank 10 so that may have a something to do with it.  Although with a good hand it is pretty impressive how much damage you can push out with this guy.  

That is why I put polymorph in, along with the usual burn, which often need to be used as removal. Flamewaker is really good at killing sheep also, so there might even be reasons to play 2...

Yes, there are tricky matchups, but not impossible ones like freeze mage/ctrl warrior.

Trying it in mech soon, and the golden ones look yummy...

Man, Flamewaker really buffs up Tempo Mage at least in ladder. That two random damage means so much, and it can tumble out of control.

flame waker is not good for building an entire deck around it but its a very strong card in tempo mage. it also fishes removal cause no one want it to stick around

Quote from Balthier21 »

flame waker is not good for building an entire deck around it but its a very strong card in tempo mage. it also fishes removal cause no one want it to stick around

I haven't made a deck for it yet, but I totally agree with this.  I've run into a few decks that seemed to be built on the premise of "Put out Flamewalker, cast lots of spells."  The problem is they are very uninspired if they don't get that Walker and in a world where Antique Healbot is popular, spell based decks have a problem of shooting their load and having nothing left.

My little new favorite, after turn 4 fun begins 

A must in any mage deck.

Really?? Tempo mage, yes, and there are many versions of it, but it is

-Very rarely seen in mech mage

-Never seen in freeze mage

-Never seen in echo-giants mage

-Not seen in other weird mages like Majodormu control or dragons.

Absolutely love this card.  I've built a deck around it and the goblin blastmage, and it's been great!  

Nonsense, mech mages run like 2 spells.

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A must in any mage deck.

Really?? Tempo mage, yes, and there are many versions of it, but it is

-Very rarely seen in mech mage

-Never seen in freeze mage

-Never seen in echo-giants mage

-Not seen in other weird mages like Majodormu control or dragons.