Hero Power / Odd Jan'alai Mage - Rastakhan's Ru...
- Last updated Dec 7, 2018 (Rastakhan)
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Wild
- 23 Minions
- 6 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Hero Power Mage
- Crafting Cost: 13120
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 12/7/2018 (Rastakhan)
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A personal favourite that works incredibly well. Not only is the deck great for wins and to play but you even get to summon the Ragnaros the Firelord dream! The deck makes use of Hero Power, Elemental, and Odd-cost synergies. You've got plenty of AOE ability in the deck to combat aggro and even higher stat minions.
You are here to play a control game.
This flavor of the deck runs Baku for the Odd-cost shenanigans. After 4 hero power casts you've already set yourself up for Ragnaros via Jan'alai later in the game. Seriously, don't try to make non-Baku Jan'alai work, you're wasting your time!
New cards in the deck
Good things to start off with are
If you have Jan'alai in your opening hand, you can hold onto it to make the dreams come true, but it isn't recommended. There are a lot of ways to draw from your deck so throw him back!
Noteworthy Stuffs
Ragnaros the Firelord is a god with Frost Lich Jaina as your hero. HEAL MY HERO, INSECT.
Voodoo Doll is a really important card and you do want two copies of it. It will allow you to later fill your board with Water Elemental via Frost Lich Jaina while being able to get rid of the enemy's annoyances.
Alexstrasza has been invaluable in burning down opponents. You'll easily take someone from 30 -> 15 -> 7-9 Health in a turn by just having a couple of minions on the board. That on top of the fact that you are unkillable thanks to Elementals and Frost Lich Jaina = easy wins. If you still have not crafted her, do yourself a favor and find the dust for it. Worst case scenario in owning this amazing card is they move it to the Hall of Fame at some point and you get your dust back.
Replacements
I've also really enjoyed playing with Arcane Artificer for insane amounts of armor later in the game. It isn't strictly necessary though due to the amount of healing you can get through Frost Lich Jaina but it can be another method of survivability in your deck which gives you a better chance of drawing into something defensive. I would drop one of your Stonehill Defender cards for one Artificer.
Blizzard's Version
There's a version of this deck that Blizzard created and made available as a deck recipe. You can experiment with it via Whizbang the Wonderful. It definitely performs "good enough" but Stargazer Luna feels like a dead slot because ultimately, the card draw isn't necessary for success. It can be fun to have a few dreams come alive though through the deck. Ultimately it's just more expense for less winrate.
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I have much better results in the early game by replacing the slow Astromancer with 1x Glacial Shard and Zola the Gorgon (copying Jan'alai, the Dragonhawk or any taunt card pays dividends)
Do you get much value out of Blast Wave? It's either too weak to kill what's on the board, or my hand is already too full to benefit.
Is there an replacement for the two Arcane Tyrant's?
I don't know if I want to craft cards that rotate out in april. Or are they so important?
Thx for the help.
LJoshi
They're not important but 0 mana 4/4 are pretty good, even more after a board clear.
To be honest I'm not sure how to replace them, but yeah they're not super duper important. May I suggest you some Elementals (obviously odd-costed)?
Thx for the tip, you're right, these Arcane Tyrant's are very unique and hard to replace. Maybe I'll try some Bonfire Elemental.
Best regards
LJoshi
Yeah I forgot Bonfire Elementals existed: good choice since they're used in other good decks too
Any solid replacement for Astromancer? I think it's just a tempo card and not worth the dust. Thinking of combining zola, artificer or ironbeak but can't find a viable combo. Suggestions please?
Spiteful could work but I have better results with Astral.
How do you play against odd dragon control warrior? I can't kill him before running out of steam and Jaina's water elemental just dies to his clear.
Have you considered Zola?
Would change the following. 2x Ironbeak owl for Pyromaniac (You're hand is usually full and blastwave generates cards for you so you don't need to draw much + silence is premium against a lot of decks) and 2x Arcane Artificer for fire fly. You don't have any 1 drops with this build but it's better against deathrattle/combo decks and artifcer can really save you games.
I'm thinking subbing Gluttonous Ooze with Harrison Jones, but description says card draw is not an issue?
Its accually not an issue. 10 out of 9 games my hand is always full i cant even get cards from Blast Wave .
IS this worth it?
Well, it's annoying to play against, so yeah, probably a hit for the typical mage player.
Beating the ass out of them with my Pali though. I think mage took a hit on the expansion (FYI looking foward for a good Mage deck... Love mage)
Tiger Paladin. Odd Pally is boring