EU Legend #1 Tempo Mage *UPDATED*
- Last updated Apr 18, 2016 (Explorers)
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Wild
- 17 Minions
- 13 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 5740
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/10/2015 (Blackrock Launch)
- FreiKuk
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Battle Tag:
FreiKuk#2920
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
1280
Twitch channel - http://www.twitch.tv/freikuk
Updated version! Still decent after all this time :)
UPD 4/18/2016: Got Legend in two days climbing from rank 19 after an 8 months break in Hearthstone.
This is the deck I used to climb to rank 4 legend on EU. It's an old tempo mage deck originally created by Shtan with a few changes to adapt to current meta.
4/12/2015 UPDATE: I JUST GOT #1 LEGEND! Took me 8 wins in a row from rank 8!
Stats from rank 190 to 4:
The stats to rank 1 legend: 26-1
Current stats, as I'm playing everyday to keep my position in top 5:
Card explanations:
- Mana Wyrm: Strong 1-manacost minion, good against all kinds of decks. Cannot be replaced.
- Mad Scientist: One of the "perfectly balanced" cards in game. Cannot be replaced.
- Sorcerer's Apprentice: Has a great synergy with cheap spells.
- Unstable Portal: Amazing card. Buffs Mana Wyrm and can be played cheaper with Sorcerer's Apprentice. The chances of getting a decent minion are quite high.
- Flamecannon: Very strong early game removal. Gains huge tempo when played along with Sorcerer's Apprentice on turn 3.
- Frostbolt: No need to explain this card.
- Counterspell: Very good secret against most of the decks that are played in current meta. Worst case scenario when it comes out of Mad Scientist and your opponent still has the coin. It's disappointing but there is nothing you can do about it. Other than that it's okay to burn any opponent's spell.
- Mirror Entity: Amazing secret for any tempo deck, needs to be played out of Mad Scientist or with Kirin Tor Mage for maximum value.
- Kirin Tor Mage: Many people doubt this card but I think it's pretty good to have one, since there are 3 secrets in deck and you will not be getting them out of mad scientists all the time.
- Piloted Shredder: No need to explain, strong 4-manacost minion.
- Kezan Mystic: Insane card, helps sooo much against aggro decks like face hunter or mech mage.
- Fireball: No need to explain, an autoinclude card in any mage deck.
- Loatheb: Great card. Shuts your opponents spells and has good stats - must have.
- Sludge Belcher: No need to explain how good this card is.
- Sylvanas Windrunner: One of the best cards in the game. Can put your opponent in an awkward position, force him to make an unfavourable trade. Cannot be replaced efficiently.
- Dr. Boom: Blizzard fix this one please.
- Ragnaros the Firelord: Can snipe out a big minion or deal 8 damage to the face. Cannot be replaced efficiently.
- Kel'Thuzad: Most of the time you're the one who controls the board so this card can provide an insane value plus its BGH-immune.
If you have any questions about muligans, some match ups or replacements - feel free to ask in the comment section.
Really like this deck yesterday for 2 hours or so got from 20th rank to 14 (did not play this season yet ) It does perform really well.
Lost to zoo couple of times as I can see this matchup it is very starting hand dependant. If you can not take board early really difficult to catch up and even if you do. You already have low hp so he just push you down since you don't have heals.
But in general I like this deck much. Not too slow not "In the face!" like most of the meta now.
Will see how it will goes on higher ranks.
How to face rogue? Any tips?
You have problems with this deck against face rogue? You are probably doing something wrong.
Maybe a well timed Counterspell if you really got problems.
antonidas is useless in this deck
Is anyone actually having any synergy with the flamewaker it seems like i never get to use his ability and when the very rare chance that i do get to use it the rng screws me over in the worst way. Loved the previous version with counter and kirin tor might try that one again ill give this flamewaker a few more games. Just wanted to see if anyone else was having luck with him.
YES! LOL. You need to give it more a chance man, flamewaker rules the dang world in this deck.
I will be replacing Sylvannas with TBK :/ Dont have Syl sadly. But I think both have different high vales.
you should consider dusting that leviathan and craft a legendary. leviathan is shit
I wouldn't say it's shit but the only time I've seen it played the mage (my opponent) had 2 hp left....
....so theres that
I switched out the Sorcerer's Apprentice for Acolyte of Pain because of Grim Reaper and Midrange Hunter meta. As I found that my hand was dry when I needed to deliver. I feel it's also better to pick up minions from the board and even low damage spell so more threatening minions will go unchecked on the board.
I'm starting to get the feeling for this deck, thanks for sharing.
I don't have Flamewaker .-. any replacements
Use the Counterspell+Kirin Tor Mage as the previous version did :)
Remove Kezan? Meta update? Really? Yesterday I played 25 games and in 18 of them, opponent had Kezan Mystic, even a handlock use this card...
Meta is different on every rank, Im playing on rank 2 atm and I face mostly grim patron warriors, zoo, handlocks, druids.
So far (in my 5 games), deck seems solid if you can keep your wakers alive. This seems to also be the bane of Warrior. I pretty easily handled the 2 I faced, but the 2 hunters had me dead too quick. With no healing and only 2 taunts, it's tough...
This deck looks great, I've tried the more aggro versions and they just seem to fall short all the time. Can't wait to give this a try, any changes you'd advise for rank 14-8ish? I feel that is the "elo hell" of hearthstone and everything seems to be either face hunter or overcompensation for face hunter (8 taunt druid or other silliness)
I really like this deck and I'm having good luck so far. I took out Kel'Thuzad and replaced it with Flamestrike to deal with grim warrior decks and replaced Ragnaros the Firelord with Pyroblast. I can't tell you how many times pyroblast has won me the game.
Played 3 games so far and its already looking great (won all 3)! I have swapped out Sylvanas for a Polymorph as I don't have Sylvanas yet. It's working quite well for me.
Also that moment when both you and your opponent have Dr. Boom and one other minion out and he pings one of your bots, which triggers a chain of bots getting bombed. xD
Ask and ye shall receive.
wow i have played just 3 games and won easily.it seems it will work so hard ;),thanks for deck :D