Brann Reno Control Mage!
- Last updated Nov 26, 2015 (Explorers)
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Wild
- 17 Minions
- 13 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 7320
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 11/20/2015 (Explorers)
- MambaShane
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Battle Tag:
MambaShane#1113
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Region:
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Total Deck Rating
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Hi Guys, MambaShane here! Top 100 Legend Mage Player this Season.
This is my own version of the Control Mage with Brann Bronzebeard & Reno Jackson! This deck is insane amounts of fun, and potential to climb to the highest of ranks in constructed play.
Core Cards Analysis:
Brann Bronzebeard is a remarkable and powerful addition to the current Control Meta, this deck synergizes extremely well with Brann Bronzebeard, but yet the deck performs amazingly even when the Bronzebeard is not drawn! Cards that synergize with Bronzebeard include; Coldlight Oracle, Defender of Argus, Antique Healbot and the Newest Ethereal Conjurer!
Although Big Game Hunter also has a battlecry, I don't think you can choose to annihilate 2x minions (TBD) Let me know if you guys have experienced this!
Reno Jackson enables a full heal, and the effect will trigger the moment you have a single Mad Scientist in your hand, as this is the ONLY card that I run 2 copies of.
Mulligan: Mad Scientist, Duplicate, Doomsayer, Brann Bronzebeard, Loot Hoarder.
You want to cycle through your deck asap, Duplicate is a great early card, as potential Turn 5 Duplicates include Sludge Belcher, Ethereal Conjurer or Antique Healbot. Duplicating an early Doomsayer is also a great play.
Card Choices:
Brann Bronzebeard: Nuff said.
Coldlight Oracle Although it gives your opponents 2x cards, this is a great substitute for a second Arcane Intellect, and provides a body on the board. This is a card that can be used in the late game to completely FATIGUE your opponent out. You can synergize this card with Brann Bronzebeard and Echo of Medivh, giving both players 4 cards on Turn 10. Crazy combos with this card.
Ethereal Conjurer: A great control card, if played with your Secrets, you will have a sticky minion with Effigy, and the Discover mechanic will be insane to give you some late game options. Don't forget on Turn 8 with Brann Bronzebeard, this would give you 2x spells!
Effigy Finally, the card that can be utilized properly in Control Mage. Try to use it pre-emptively on a big minion, such as Archmage Antonidas or Alexstrasza
Big Game Hunter With only 1 Fireball, BGH will be a decent body to control the annoying 7+ minions.
Bloodmage Thalnos Decent cycle with sudden late game burst, try comboing with Roaring Torch damage!
Molten Giant This card shines in the late game. Throw it down for 0 mana, play Reno Jackson, Echo of Medivh them, and you're back to full health with another Reno & Giant in your hand...
Winning Conditions:
- Duplicating or using Echo of Medivh on strong minions to drag the game out, you can have 2-3 Reno Jacksons in hand if played on curve with Duplicate
- Recognizing when to use Reno Jackson, best before your Ice Block is about to pop.
- Comboing Brann Bronzebeard with your Battlecry cards.
- Extracting Maximum Value with Archmage Antonidas
- Delaying the game with classic Freezemage setups
- Effigy late game minions
Have fun!
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More to come with in-depth match-up analysis!
Could you add ragnaros, instead of archmage to speed up the tempo? Or ragnaros for anything else?
What do you taunt with Argus? I hardly have minions on the board to benefit from him... The only good one is a silenced Doomsayer.
Hi. I was trying different versions of RenoMage to get legend but i stuck on 3 rank, and can't climb higher. I will try out your deck, it looks way more interesting the decks i played. Only one problem - i dont have a [card]Bloodmage Thalnos[/card]. Any replacement for it?
Hi Nickster,
You could sub in a Acolyte of Pain for the cycle :)
17-4 with it so far, getting rekt to secret paladin and beating everything else at rank 4. Pretty good deck, +1
Stat so far: 11-1, feels like an old freeze mage but incredibly improved. I suggest taking something instead of bloodmage thalnos
This deck sucks.
Hi Bruzzers,
You could try running Rhonin over Thalnos, but I do prefer the Fireball over the lance for the face damage. Thanks for your suggestions, let me know how it works out :)
Putting 2 mad scientists doesn't make sense : How are you suppose to control effigy and play it on the right minion ?
putting a duplicate of scientists doesn't make sense. If you do the maths, it reduces the chances of having the reno effect by a large margin.
If you plan not to build your entire deck around reno, might as well play duplicate on other important cards like molten, echo etc.
Thanks pussy_galore,
So what would you recommend to substitute over another mad scientist? I've tried an acolyte and its working fine.
BGH does NOT trigger twice. I tried. Was saddened.
As an aside, this is my favorite mage deck. I replaced Bloodmage with Faceless and am loving it.
Good suggestion man, Faceless could definitely be strong in this type of slow deck!
Glad you're enjoying the deck NuttyPlays :) thanks for the feedback
So after a few more games, I dont know if its bad luck but I've lost a few game from not being able to use Reno because I never drew a mad scientist. I also had a few game where I had to play coldlight oracle or bloodmage at bad moments because I desperatly needed to draw a mad scientist so I could Reno. So I was thinking about replacing a mad scientist for a jeweled scarab. The mage cards you can get from the scarab are great, if you can get another duplicate that would be huge, even cards like forgotten torch, polymorph boar or frost nova are good enough. Jeweled scarab would also synergize extremely well with Brann and you can play it pretty early, turn 5 or 4 with coin. I'm going to try it out and see what happens.
Hi Zylph, thanks for the suggestion. How is Jewled scarab working out for you? Seems like it could work very well :)
I like the deck but it just sucks that decks like Huntard and secret Paladin are making it near impossible to try out fun / innovative decks like these since you just have to throw out whatever you have in your hand and beg that it's enough to survive till the late game...
Hi Twitchy,
Timing the duplicates on doomsayer/healbot/sludge are key against heavy aggro decks :). I'll be streaming this today at 9:30pm - 2:00am PST on my twitch, all are welcome! :)
-MambaShane
My point is that in a lot of games you don't get to 'time' anything vs aggro, since you'll often have to throw out whatever you can in order to survive.
For example if Effigy is the only card you can play on your third turn, and you just HAVE to because you know that if you don't you most likely won't even get a chance to play it later on.
I'm 0-6 with it. getting crushed by agro (paladin, hunter and rogue).