Hearthpwn

Got a golden Hex Lord Malacrass from my packs from Bunnyhoppor, found this deck to test it out.

Just played a game against a Reno Mage.. easily managed to outlast him thanks to the Hex Lord Malacrass and the trio Manic Soulcaster, Baleful Banker & Zola the Gorgon.  

Also played against a Secret Paladin.. lost miserably.

First impression: Deck is too slow to be top tier, but great fun to play. I often try out a deck and delete it after a few games, but I can already tell I'll keep playing this one.

Would you consider replacing Pyros? It's kinda vulnerable to silences.

Only missing ragnaros, any sub?

Lich King is always a decent sub for Rag

nice deck 21-18 my stats 

Nice deck but any decent version of Big Mage (BM) outclasses Reno Mage nowadays. BM is the ultimate control mage. Don't get me wrong, Reno and Kazakus are still one of the strongest cards but even so the whole BM package surpassed them. So yeah, Reno decks are always fun but if you look for consistency and want to play some control mage, then I'd say BM is the safest option.

Why not include both Reno and BM packages in the same deck, lol?

Well, what I mean is that the consistency of having duplicate cards in BM is something stronger (with the current pool of cards) and more reliable than having no duplicates with Reno and Kazakus. At least in mage. Reno mage is still so incosistent if you compare it for example to any Renolock. Not saying a Reno mage deck can't be good or something, any Reno deck is always fun and interesting to play, but in the case of mage, in my opinion BM is the ultimate control mage as I said.

BSM is a deck that starts playing on turn 3-5 and even then its options are not impactful. That is really bad for such a mana tempoed game like HS. Especially in Wild. Under no circumstances I would pick BSM over Reno Mage :D

Well, you usually run x2 Doomsayer, x2 Tar Creeper and x2 Stonehill Defender, so I wouldn't say you don't have early game really. Well, unless you go greedy and play some version with Prince Keleseth. I even run x2 Water Elemental in my version which is a balanced one. I think BSM have more chances to survive vs aggressive decks overall because with Reno mage if you draw poorly at start you are totally sold no matter what. Also having x2 Dragon's Fury in BSM is just too good. Even with not the best draws, with BSM you have more chances to get the AoE spells you really need and the late game is also stronger. As I said, Kazakus can be amazing yep but the consistency of BSM surpases him and we all know that nowadays early Reno won't save you vs super aggressive decks anyway unless you draw the nuts which doesn't happen often. Matter of opinions/experiences I guess. 

Ok Im gonna take a different approach if you assume that Reno Mage does nothing besides playing Kazakus and Reno.

If its a superior Control version. Why it is not at Tier lists nor Tempostorm nor Vicious Syndicate?

I didn' say it's a top tier deck or something, I'm saying that BSM is way more consistent and has higher winrate if you try to climb with than Reno mage. I'm pretty sure of this. Or let's say it so, if we take winrates, I'm also pretty sure than even if both decks are tier 3 or something, BSM would be still more solid. And yeah, the thing is at the end you play a deck with no duplicates specially because you can use strong cards like Reno and Kazakus, that's the price. You sacrifice consistency for includding those cards. What more you can do compared to BSM besides of having Reno and Kazakus? What more can offer the archetype if we talk about consistency? You can't say that you can also play this or that, that you are not playing only those two cards, because BSM can run a second copy of any card you can think of (legendaries excluded ofc). BSM would even win a direct match vs Reno mage more often than not. 

At this point I still don't know if you got my point. I'm not talking about which deck is funnier, original or whatever, I'm talking about consistency, and BSM is stronger on this. I'm the first here who enjoy Reno decks. 

It sounds like you are living in 2015 in the LoE meta where Reno decks were truly inconsistent. One of the reasons why Razakus Priest was so powerfull was the fact, that he didnt had any genereal weaknesses whatsoever apart from drawing poorly. Thats how "inconsistent" it was as a Highlander deck. Now apply this on a Wild mode with every card accessible and you have pretty much inconsistenty cut from a Reno decks. And what is Reno decks? Right. Reno Mage for example! Applying your "inconsistency" point is like saying that Odd and Even are limited enough mechanics that there are some decks that are the same archetype and are better. Yet we are seeing both even and odd decks dominating both formats and not some other decks like Pirate decks or Murloc decks. There is no way that reactive Standard deck like BSM is consistently beating Reno deck with all its options and Kazakus potions and so on. Renojasckons list, mine list, Bananaramics list, Elemental91 list are well build decks that are having success against anytyhing. If this statement wouldnt be true, then we wouldnt be hitting a legendary ranks and BSM would appear in Meta Snapshots

It looks promising, please keep it updated ! :)

His decks are always creative and fun to play, no wonder if this deck will be. Last season, I used one of his creations called "trap hunter". Even though I modified a bit to match my taste, it's the most interesting deck I've experienced.