Hearthpwn

Somebody tested this deck in DoD? How actual is it now?

So far 3-16(basicly just played my way from almost 5 down to 9). Looks like it's pretty outdated and heavily relying on luck. First you need to draw the combos. Then the combos need to hit the right targets or give you the right spells. You got 4 minions(2 golems and flamewakers) as only halfway reliable way to finish the game...if they are taken out(or you don't pull at least 2 within your first 10 cards) you are dead. It snowballs like crazy...when you have the conditions on the board...but it snowballs just the other way round as well if you do not get your combos and/or have no other luck in time. Stargazer Luna pretty much stands for this deck...it can be a great card(if she gives you the right spells) or completely useless(if her first card is a high mana golem or some other card that you can't use or is too risky to play).

The issue of this deck is obvious: You got to wait so you can use the flamewakers or mana cyclone(and the mana cyclone is already a 2 card combo. Guess how often you get those 2 cards. I think I managed that in like 5 of the games). When you can really start, the opponent already got you at half HP and a full board...or got some nasty taunts(big priest). You then rely mostly on your flamewakers or that you get some great spells(in all those games I got 1 torch. 2 blizzard and 0 fireballs. That's about that.). You can't throw out your golems as long as your quest ain't done cause you got almost no minions so the enemy got all his board clears, sheep etc. just for those. If you want to make any damage with them at all you need the quest(and even if you have both and the quest you will likely not do more than those 16 damage with them).

If your flamewakers don't clear the board, you are toast(cause you got nothing to defend you but some single target freeze). If they clear the board they likely didn't do enough damage to the enemy hero so your golems can't finish him. Your flamewakers likely won't survive more than 1 round on board either.

And when you think it can't get worse than I can tell you that with this deck you'r gonna run into fatigue, have to play around burning your own cards and rope(cause flamewakers need a lot of time when you start bursting around round 10). On top of it it's basicly a free win for the most common top tier big priest. No matter which tech card out there your opponent plays: About all of them screw you.

From my experience: Hands off. If you make this work then you should better play lottery.

Hey, thanks for the deck! I've been having fun with it and I still feel like I'm learning something almost every game.

Has anyone considered/tested putting in one Echo of Medivh? How about one Conjurer's Calling?

Very nice deck! I just had an incredible game where I killed in one turn a Warlock with a full board, full health + armor and double Voidlord :D Here's the replay! https://hsreplay.net/replay/mprdpcCc5ss4Eu9uV5XfsJ

Thank you very much for this deck. I never felt that much joy playing a mage deck since classic freeze mage. Its really a miracle how sometimes just one card draw can turn the whole game around. Played 10 games, 9-1 so far. Thanks

No matter what I try, I mostly lose to Odd Paladins. Any advice for how to defeat them? I am stuck at Rank 2 because of them.

Mulligun for flamewaker and apprentice/cyclone.

Pull all AOE spells you see from RNG and try to clean the board on turn 4 (if you have the coin) or turn 5 (if you go first)

Odd Pally has very few removals so once you have the board they're almost dead.

Also try to keep shooting stars and arcane missles if you have them.

I mulligan hard for them, as I grasped the idea behind this deck. However, Never Surrender! is a problem that I can't deal with. That's why I lose most of the time.

If I may add, Mirror Image is often a game-winner against Odd Paladin, if paired with Flamewaker: as long as you can add some freeze, and/or if you the board is not already overwhelmed with dudes, mirror image will often save your flamewaker for one turn, which means the next turn you can nuke their board, and turn the game in your favor.

Personally, I'd use 2x Mirror Image if Odd Paladin is a recurring opponent.

And btw, Mirror Image is also helpful with Kingsbane Rogue.

I see. Guess I should use 2x Mirror Image rather than one. Thanks a lot, I will try what you suggested.

I've been having a lot of fun with this deck as well as getting a decent winrate (over 60-65% from 5 to 3), my main problems are big priest (mostly because of the taunt that remove one of your minions) and jade druid due to the infinite armor generation...but even when you think you cant beat all that armor....the miracle can happen: https://hsreplay.net/replay/KpK3L3QzBZW9j5bxfmUXhA

Thanks for this deck and congratulations :)

If it's not neccesary to kill BP's minion then don't do it. Try to start your combo early and don't give too much time to BP. If you don't have a good starting hand, then keep drawing until you can't and then play it off.

Any notable counters to this deck, kinda sick of loosing to this deck on pretty much everything. Don't want to spend loads of dust to craft this deck right now....

Tech Card: skulking gesit, dirty rat, Hecklebot (and other card that can discrupt combo)

Good Deck against this deck: Secret Mage (with Potion of Polymorph and Explosive Runes) Jade Druid and Odd Warrior (tons of armor)

Thank you.

I was strictly a standard player. I usually come back every few seasons, dust my cards that have moved to wild and make 2 or 3 top net decks of that seasons and play ladder til about rank 12 MAX before I get bored and leave and then come back and do it all over again.

I got bored of that, and said screw it. I'm sick of dusting my collection every few months and decided to move to wild since all I've been playing lately is vintage magic so it seemed appropiate to transition on hearthstone as well. When it comes to HS and most cards games I enjoy control decks. I saw no top wild decks currently are control so the only other thing I throroughly enjoy playing in HS is discover/burgle mechanic because it's so unique and doesn't exist outside of HS for the most part. After about an hour of researching the current wild meta I stumbled across this wonderful menagerie. For the last time I dusted my collection, crafted this clown fiesta and for the first time since HS was released I hit Play on the Wild Ladder.

I must say at first piloting it was a bit shaky but I was rank 25 in Wild naturally so I wasn't punished for that. At these low ranks often times merely having higher rarity cards will win you a match against someone using only Classic cards with no notable legendaries, no harm no foul, I had an environment to learn how to pilot this deck. Eventually I ran into some others like myself, net decking in the ~20 ranks. Every time I thought "Damn I wish this had a Flamestrike, Arcane Missiles, or a Frost Nova to deal with aggro or zoo." I pull exactly what I need off of Magic Trick or Mana Cyclone. After the first couple times doing that I realized the spirit of this deck is exactly what I enjoy about hearthstone and an itch I can't quite scratch with any other card game.

After a couple days I'm now rank 15 running only this deck and my current streak is 18:1 (95% Win Rate) now I know that'll change once I delve deeper into ladder but I'm having a blast getting there and looking foward to missing an answer through Discover to take that L I probably deserve.

My only loss was to a Warlock that I hadn't learned yet to hold onto cheap spells and got out valued by. Been undefeated since that match.

Notable matches:

Milled the mill rogue before I knew he was a mill rogue.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/AmxScd47k88gqwbKm4RpGc

Triple Arcane Giant + Time Warp
https://hsreplay.net/replay/kzZCi4DYsvumk2GFR6auJZ

Quadruple Giant ready against control warrior.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/vTjJe6g5kH8s3U6swjpWG7

Pulled 2 counter spells off of mana cyclone and completely shut down big priest.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/neuFgtKHjKhNDRvxCFYWMa

My only loss.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/b7AmBUuXGUG5nFLhjwBxuM

Hi LordDusk,

I am glad you enjoy this deck.

I totally agree that "the spirit of this deck is exactly what I enjoy about hearthstone and an itch I can't quite scratch with any other card game." That's also the major reason I play hs today - I played it since naxx and get bored recently before this expansion until I constructed this deck. Laddering becomes fun and creative since then.

I watched several your replays and noticed that you still have some misplays (maybe that's one of your early games with this deck) like dropping apprentice without comboing it with flamewaker or cyclone for no reason, or using the quest spell on turn 1 when facing big priest (you can save it to combo with flamewaker and cyclone as it is a spell too!). I would say you need to have a better understanding / overall strategy of this deck if you want to climb higher like to rank 5, but in the first place, I felt so lucky if this deck brought back the fun of hs to you again. Cheers.

Amazing deck, thanks ever so much!

Amazing deck, thanks for sharing

easiest legend, 20-4, all 4 loses to jade druid. maybe i played it not right vs them. had most fun in hs with this deck :) prove in here

also how about emperor thaurissan in this deck? many times i felt like deck needs it effect while playing quest turn