Hearthpwn

 Hey Quinton381, how has your hearthstone life been? Made any tweaks to this deck recently? How are the nerfs treating your matches?

It's been great! I've been playing exclusively this deck archtype since release and been having a blast! 

After the recent modifications (Updated above) I've been winning quite consistently. The deck feels better than ever after the changes! Especially the changes with Reno.

I'll update my list and try it tonight !

I loved it :)

Awesome!! I think you'll enjoy the changes to it as well in the new Update! :)

I removed Zilliax Deluxe 3000 and put Sif in their place, feels better another kill condition, this deck can already generate a lot of armor and life

For the same reason I removed Wisdom I think it's better to pull Sif. It's inconsistent a lot of the time, sometimes you don't get enough of your rainbow complete and by the time you do you've probably already used the spells you'd like to use with Sif for clear or burn. Let me know how it works for you though!

This deck is shit, mage is shit this expansion. You will get high draws, even when you mulligan, tried it for 50 games 29 vs 21 win loss. RNG does not favor this deck. Go play a different class this expansion.

Here are some replays:

https://hsreplay.net/replay/YwseKJ9a8m6ZdRhD2mkuhj

https://hsreplay.net/replay/ede8ZniuLGFWgWCfPZLQLo

am I crazy for thinking a 58% winrate is actually really solid?

5 games, 5 braindead hunters, 5 loses. Nice

I'm 11-3 after the rank reset today. This deck feels really fun, sometimes you brick in hand and lose to giant warlock minions, but other games you're pulling the 4th freeze in a row against a hero power druid who can't whack you for 12+ damage.

The burn spells in this deck offer a serious wincon. I made a similar mage build, but focused more on generating random stuff and less on winning. Against wheel warlock or zarimi priest you can point every spell face and kill them faster than they can combo you. Against aggro you keep the board clean and try to maintain as much tempo as you can until you have enough mana to cast your big spells.

I just swapped my zilliax from perfect+recursive (6 mana 4/3) to perfect+haywire (7 mana 7/6) that mitigates it's own downside. 7 versus 4 rush damage has felt really relevant, it's one turn later but it's a lot more healing and tempo.

The orb doesn't have to be lethal, often I use it as a board clear plus face damage plus a 10-drop on board to set up a lethal next turn.

I won a few games against plague DK by playing Reno ASAP instead of waiting to use it as a board clear.

Great deck, tons of fun

Great Deck.  Heaps of fun playing this.  Did struggle after D3 but that's probably me!  Just good to play Mage again :)

Too many bad cards like dirty rat without hard removal or armor vendor. Disscounting frost spell also not worth it. Flame strike would fit much better.

You have plenty of spells that clear with dirty rat, just for example, reverberations and playing it with Reno. I agree about the frost thing though, updating now with a new version. Flamestrike is bad though because it can replace portal in your orb, and thats part of your final big damage burst.

a man after my own heart, I've been running a similar idea. mine has a few more forge cards and ignis, that 10 mana weapon can get mage really far if you have time to play it. will give yours a shot. my go-to zilliax is recursive+perfect.

I considered running more forge cards, but I like the consistency of how it feels right now! Let me know what you think!

"wait for the enemy to draw their win condition" the deck.

It's a control focused Reno deck centered around a 10 cost card... Yeah, it's a long con deck. That's the point lol.

I feel like every Reno deck I play I end up facing plague Death knight.