Legend Dragon Mage
- Last updated Nov 1, 2020 (Scholomance Academy)
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Wild
- 22 Minions
- 5 Spells
- 1 Weapon
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Reno Mage
- Crafting Cost: 23960
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 11/1/2020 (Scholomance Academy)
- Tesla95
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Battle Tag:
Tesla #1262
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Region:
US
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Total Deck Rating
18
Hello everyone,
I'm Tesla and recently hit legend for 1st time on NA server using a Dragon Reno Mage variant. The deck is quite powerful as it has a good match up against most deck archetypes of the meta, specially Raza Priest, token Druid and weapon rogue.
I went 44-21 with a 68% Winrate!
The overall goal of the deck is to survive early game while out valuing your opponent on later turns of the match.
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Dragon package = More cards discover and board clears,
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Jaina DK = More sustain and value,
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The Amazing Reno = Emergency clear + utility with random spells.
Against Agro decks (Pirate Warrior, token druid, token paladin, Zoo warlock and even shaman): You want keep all your anti agro stuff such as Explosive Sheep, Flame Ward Zephrys the Great and Arcane Breath if you are holding a dragon. If you are up against a heavy weapon deck, keep Gluttonous Ooze.
Against secret mage: Hard mulligan for early clears and Reno Jackson. This is a very hard match up but with enough healing, clears and luck it should make the trick.
Against Priest: Grizzled Wizard combo is your best friend. Keep drawing and hard mulligan for those. The trick is to have Sir Finley Mrrgglton and Grizzled on hand to steal and change priest's hero power. I always change it to shamans one lmao. This combo also helps against other hero power reliant decks like: Odd paladin, even warlock, odd mage, odd warrior and hunters death knight.
Against other reno decks: These are long matches, do not expect to win them fast and easy, everything comes down to whoever have more value per turn and resources left on fatigue. When going against Reno warlock, polymorphs and board clears are your best friend. Try discovering those with the dragon package and try generating more and more resources with Brann + Razakuz/ Zephrys / Malygos, Aspect of Magic [/card]and [card]Barista Lynchen. The amazing Reno also helps a lot too BUT... you should always use it on emergency, is only a 1 time clear. Against Reno mage is the same as warlock but instead of polymorphs, focus on more minion generating spells.
Against Big Shaman: Try discovering polymorphs, unfortunately there's not much you can do here but to wait they don't summon huge minions... just pray for a good spell.
Give it a try if you have the cards, I know is a very expensive deck but is strong and versatile.
Note: I did many revisions of the build but I believe this last one is the best as it covers pretty much every match up.
Any feedback and questions are well welcome.
Thank you!
Why explosive sheep instead of volcanic potion? I've seen a lot of people use sheep but isn't volcanic potion just better?
No counter against Mill / Dead Man's Hand Warrior? What about Archivist Elysiana instead of Luna (which is kinda pointless)?
Stargazer Luna is a bit pointless here while you have almost always 7+ cards in hand. Otherwise nice deck.
Been trying it out. Fun deck!!
Definitely 3 major weak points:
- Very weak aggro defense
- zero single target removal
- 5 dragons are far too few for a dragon deck and synergy
What did you change?
I'm excited to try this deck, but am missing three legendaries. Which do you think can be easily replaced, and which are critical? I'm missing:
Thanks!
Hello Saxelfur,
Unfortunately Malygos, Aspect of Magic is a must have IMO, the value that generates and synergy with the dragon package is really good. Is part of the key strategy behind the deck, survive early and out value your opponent. When adapting the deck from standard reno mage to a dragon variant I thought about using Kalecgos, but realized is was slow and couldn't combo with Brann and Barista on same turn.
Jandice Barov : This can be replaced with a Doomsayer for a better agro match, a Brightwing for a little bit more tempo and synergy with dragons or polymorph for warlock and big shaman.
Siamat : I wouldn't recommend replacing this card as it function as a wall, minion clear and sometimes healing when you have played Jaina DK and with Brann on turn 10 it becomes a better Al'Akir the Windlord. It just have saved me many times and almost always use it on turn 7. BUT, if you dont have the dust this can replaced with another strong 7 mana minion like Chillmaw or Crowd Roaster as they also helps with the dragon synergy package and board clears.
Hopefully this helps you, I believe those 2 legendaries cards are very good even with the upcoming expansion as the deck is flexible when it comes to meta adapting it.
Regards,