Hearthpwn

I've been working on this Wild Highlander Malygos Mage deck for a day or so now, and I was hoping to get some help with how to improve it. This is just a Theorycrafted deck, and I do not own over half of these cards, so I cannot attest to the actual performance of the deck, but I do feel it has the potential to be a decent deck.

I've been thinking of adding Loatheb and Fireball, but I am unsure of what they would replace. I'm open to any reasonable suggestions for the deck, and I hope you all think it's a neat idea at the very least.

I'm also now considering replacing Psych-o-Tron with Antique Healbot or Azure Drake for a little healing, or some additional draw. Would this be a good idea?

I've swapped Psych-o-Tron for Loatheb, and Molten Reflection for Azure Drake, so over the weekend I should be updating the guide to fit them in, if needed. Let me know if you think these were good changes to make, or if I should put Psych-o-Tron or Molten Reflection back in the deck. I personally want to keep Molten Reflection in the deck, but I feel it needs to be replaced with Azure Drake for a little more draw. Also, let me know if there are any other changes you think I should make.

I've updated the "guide", so I hope that helps anyone who checks it out, and I am still open to suggestions and help on improving the deck! Thanks in advance to all those who are kind enough to spend some of their time reading this, checking out the deck, and/or helping me improve the deck!

I think you should swap MoM for zombie chow, and add tar creeper against aggro. I think fireball should be added because is one of the best cards. 

I was considering Zombie Chow, but was unsure if it would be important enough. I suppose it would be, since the combo is 30+ damage. And, Tar Lurker is a Warlock card, did you mean Tar Creeper? Fireball was originally in the deck, but Forgotten Torch is just better, but I am still looking at ways to add it. I am adding Zombie Chow right now.

The Curator and Coldlight Oracle (instead of Arcane Intelect) for drawing Malygos? Barnes could be usefull but scary with doomsayer.

The Curator was not a card I originally considered, but if I have Coldlight Oracle in my deck, I suppose it would be useful. The only reason I had not added Coldlight Oracle was because I was unsure if it would be wise to allow the opponent to benefit from drawing as well.

What would you swap out for The Curator? I'm not 100% on adding it, but I am curious to know what you would do, at the very least.

Your deck seems really confused, if this is a Malygos deck, our win condition is burn, and the only reason you play Kazakus / Reno Jackson is for the unique and cheap 1 mana potions for burn, the 5/10 for survivability, and Reno Jackson is just for survivability. 

Pyros serves no purpose, Inkmaster Solia and Steam Surger is useless, Counterspell over Ice Barrier is really questionable, even Duplicate for more Emperor Thaurissan ticks would be better. Fire Fly and Mana Wyrm are bad because chances are you are going to lose turns 1-4 as Reno Mage anyways.

You need more draw to acquire combo pieces, (Loot Hoarder, Novice Engineer, Acolyte of Pain) and more AOE to stall, (Volcanic Potion, Flamestrike, Frost Nova) oh, and you're also missing things that are all important to Burn Mage, Primoridal Glyph and Fireball.

This deck needs work, but have fun tinkering with it, hope you take my advice.

Inkmaster Solia is part of the main combo, and Steam Surger is to piggy back off of Fire Fly/Flame Elemental. If you'd read the "guide", you'd know that, but I do see what you are saying about draw (which is also something I did mention in the "guide"). How would you edit the deck, then? I noticed you said Ice Barrier/Duplicate over Counterspell (which would you choose?), but how would you put Fireball, Primordial Glyph (which you misspelled, in case you wish to fix it, and I did not point that out to be rude or insulting), Loot Hoarder, Novice Engineer, Acolyte of Pain, Volcanic Potion, Flamestrike, and Frost Nova into the deck, and can you explain your reasoning for each specific card you would remove? That may be a bit too much too ask, but I am curious to see what you would say to remove and why it doesn't support the deck, so I can improve my deck building skills.

Okay, ill re edit the deck with my personal choices, but first, what is the combo then? I must be missing it or something, it's discounting burn and Maly with Emperor and Drakkari Enchanter for 30+ burst right?

Once again, if you'd read the "guide", you'd know. Just check the deck page out, it's easier for you to go there and read it than it is for me to type it out.

Also, making your own version doesn't help me learn, which is the overall point of the thread. You could instead tell me a few of the changes you'd make and why, so that I could go over the changes and learn from it, and explaining a few changes here would probably be less work for you overall.

I would recommend cutting the elemental package if you really want to push the malygos part of the deck. With double discount off thaurissan you should be able to deal 30 damage with ease. I’d also recommend a curator package as some others have said. Rhonin would actually be a solid choice as well, but it fills up your hand a bit much, which is why it’s risky pick. If you’d like, I can test the list you’ve got and see how it does on ladder

 Okay, I understand the combo now, but its seriously so meme it can't possibly be viable. If you're just looking to have fun and for the deck to be slightly better,

Counterspell -> Ice Barrier

Mana Wyrm, Fire Fly, Mistress of Mixtures -> Frost Nova, Flamestrike, Acolyte of Pain

Pyros, Steam Surger -> The Curator, Coldlight Oracle

Babbling Book -> Primordial Glyph

Sure, I'd love if you could test it out! do you have a deck tracker that can keep track of wins/losses, because it would help a lot if you could also keep the stats. You can pm all the info first if you want, or post it here, if you do decide to test it out as is on the deck page (since it isn't updated on this page yet).

kvist56 might be testing the deck out for me, since I don't have the cards, but I've already removed MoM for Zombie Chow before you had posted here for the first time.

I'm off for the night, so I am going to check in the morning and see the responses, and I'll respond to everyone then.

After about 10 matches with Reno malygos mage or different variants, I can safely say that malygos is just unnecessary. There so many easier ways to successfully OTK someone in mage that it kind of negates the point of running a 9 drop that is hard to play. You could literally run infinite damage if you just threw in two sorcerers apprentice, echo of medivh, and antonidas with a discount on those cards to get infinite damage. Malygos is awesome, but he really shines in other classes. If you are determined to run malygos anyways, I’d recommend a eater of secrets to destroy iceblock before it’s a problem. Rhonin is also just unnecessary and very difficult to avoid burning cards with. Card draw is extremely important, and I’d recommend basically every card draw minion in the game to speed up your access to a kill. Good luck, meme hard, and enjoy wild for everything it is