(w/guide) Vex Crow Tempo Mage
- Last updated May 17, 2018 (Witchwood)
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Wild
- 12 Minions
- 17 Spells
- 1 Weapon
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Tempo Mage
- Crafting Cost: 3740
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/15/2018 (Witchwood)
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Climbed to rank 75 with this deck. It crushes cubelock and is also great against shudderwock shaman. You see guilty on my friends list? He was rank 3000, here he is 1800 and now he is rank 350 by climbing with this deck.
The best common matchups
1) Cubelock, you can deal damage from turn 1 to about turn 5-7 using minions and some cheap spells. This should make them use the heals that they have drawn and cause them to make some sub-optimal plays. From there they will normally lack pressure and you can burn them down, especially once you draw Aluneth. Make sure to get as much value from pinging as you can, although once you draw aluneth you likely will not be able to ping as much as you will need to have mana to play all your cards. Just be sure to calculate damage and think ahead.
2) Spiteful decks, both spiteful druid and spiteful priest are very favourable. The current lists which run keleseth often don't have enough early game that you can do alot of damage with minions and build a wide board using Vex Crow. Even once they start summoning big minions, they won't be able to gain board control as they will only be able to kill a couple minions a turn whilst the rest of your minions keep hitting face. Just be sure to play around Primordial Drake for druid, and Duskbreaker for priest.
3) Baku hunter, this is a closer matchup and will take a while to learn how to play against it. You should be able to win by gaining early board control and then racing them. The most difficult part is knowing when to hard control the board, and when to go face. Often you can gain a massive board with vex crow, but still lose because you were not aggressive enough.
4) Control Priest, (the one that runs anduin, eg. something like theo's deck). This is a good matchup because they lack early board clear, unless they run duskbreaker or get a very lucky pyromancer, but even then they will have to draw duskbreaker and another dragon and it will likely be their first play of the game.
Generic Mulligan
Vs paladins (assuming you don't know if they are odd, even or murloc)
Best: 2x Mana Wyrm, Arcanologist, Mad Bomber,arcane missles, Sorcerer's Apprentice if going second or have a cheap spell (just think about your curve and what you plan to play when. Dropping a naked apprentice on t2 vs a paladin is generally not very strong though).
Okay: Breath of Sindragosa, Frostbolt (only if going 2nd).
Vs Warlock (hopefully traditional cubelock, control cubelock is not as good as a matchup)
Best: 2x Mana Wyrm, Arcanologist, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Mad Bomber. Aluneth
Okay: Kirin Tor Mage (if you also have Arcanologist), Primordial Glyph (if you have Sorcerer's Apprentice), Polymorph (if you already have a strong curve)
Vs Priest and Druid
Best: 2x Mana Wyrm, Arcanologist, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Mad Bomber, Frostbolt (if going 2nd or have apprentice) Mad bomber is good as a 3/2 contest a 1/3 better than a 2/3 does.
Okay: Aluneth, keep if you have a decent play already.
Vs Rogue
Best: 2x Mana Wyrm, Arcanologist, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Frostbolt (if going 2nd or have and minion).
Okay: Arcane missles and Breath of Sindragosa are okay if you have Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Variations on the deck and replacements
Budget players:
1) Aluneth is a key card and your win percentage will drop significantly if you are playing against tier 1-3 decks without this card. However you can try and replace it with value midrange cards such as The Lich King (if you have him), Cobalt Scalebane, or even value cards like toki, the time tinker or Frost Lich Jaina if you have them.
2) Primordial Glyph. I would highly reccomend crafting this card as it is so versitile and a great card overall. However until you get the dust you can replace it with cheap spells such as 2nd Mirror Image, Flame Geyser, or even Arcane Explosion if you are playing vs alot of paladins.
3) Pyroblast. If you have Archmage Antonidas then add him. If you do I would reccomend taking out a Mad Bomber to add a 2nd Mirror Image so you have more cheaper spells to play with him. If not then you should just add a second Counterspell or a cheap spell and hope you don't come to a point of needing pyroblast (if you play vs alot of cubelocks you will definitely need it).
"Tech choices" depending on meta:
-If there are alot of paladins then it becomes quite an rng based game. I would reccomend taking out the Polymorph and adding an extra Mirror Image. If it is mostly odd paladain, I would also remove the Breath of Sindragosa and add an Arcane Explosion.
-If the meta is cubelock dominated, then I would reccomend taking out one Mad Bomber and adding a second counter spell.
-I am still experimenting so let me know suggestions of tech cards for classes that you like, especially newer decks such as hadronox taunt druid.
-Overall cards worth to consider adding: harrison jones, 2nd mirror image, 2nd counterspell, arcane explosion, knife juggler.
Glad your enjoying it!
can you smeeeeeeeeeeeeeellll its a clickbait shittydeck.
No, but I can smell you playing like trash. FeelsGoodMan
I mean I gave it a very simple name of exactly what it is: Vex crow tempo mage. And perhaps I did just get lucky with the decks I played against on the day I climbed from rank 600 to 75. However it was the truth and similar decks on hearthpwn (eg trump's version of tempo mage) have high win rates so I stand by it being a good deck.
Awesome deck, a total blast to play! Vex Crow pulled it's weight and really put the pressure on our opponent to find answers. Here's a few of the games:
Games start at 3:53
Would love to know your thoughts behind Mad Bomber over something like Knife Juggler or including the second Mirror Image/Counterspell/Breath of Sindragosa.
Thanks for the list!
Yeah Sure! First off I want to say it is so cool you made a video based on this deck. It's the first time someone has made a video on my deck (or atleast including my name in the title), so I really appreciate it!
I chose to include mad bomber because the deck needed more minions for consistency and so it could take control of the board early game so you can have some hope of playing the vex crow.
I choose to include the mad bomber over other options (minion options) with the following logic in mind:
1) If you're against control and you miss mana wyrm it is a solid play as it is a 3/2 body that has potential to do up to 3 damage to their face.
2) Its great against kobold librian
3) Its a great card to play against paladins, even if it isnt on turn 2. You can think of it as a soceror's apprentice that draw an arcane missles with some risk involved.
I used to run double breath of sindragosa and 1 arcade missles however switched as I played vs less cubelocks. Arcane missles may just be better for the damage anyways and is certainly better vs odd paladin.
After watching your video I see you played against mostly board oriented decks, rogues and paladin. I can definitely see why a second mirror image would be good against these decks and it has given me good insight into reccomendations I can make to players who aren't quite a high rank playing against alot of cubelocks etc.
Once again thanks a ton and I'll be sure to test your suggestions out a bit for myself.
I like that you made a video but I really had to watch it with x1.5 speed because your turns took ages :D
I may have to revise my opinion... after doing the two modes jewrie and Into_Obscurity mentioned below, I finally got a win. Let's see how many this configuration gets me and I'll report back.
-2 mad bombers
+1 blizzard
+1 flame strike
deck lacks tools to deal with aggro and outside of the top end where everyone plays the same 3 decks, it's just not effective. Under rank 5 dont bother trying
Valid point. When I write the full guide up I'll try to include possible varients depending on what decks you play against.
-2 Mad Bombers
+1 Curio Collector
+1 secret of your choice. You can run Spellbender so your minions dont get silenced or another counter spell is good too.
20 games, wr 25%
What sort of decks are you facing against? It may just be due to a flood of odd paladins and this deck being tech'd for less aggressive/board flooding decks. I will add alternative options for the deck soon.
10 game on rank 7, wr 20%
this deck is shit) 5 rank