season 1 aggro mage
- Last updated Dec 12, 2018 (Rastakhan)
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Wild
- 18 Minions
- 12 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 2400
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/19/2014 (Live Patch 5170)
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Battle Tag:
ur2ez#1175
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Total Deck Rating
921
This deck has caused a sudden meta shift and after testing it out for several hours myself, it works amazing on ladder.
Its like all your basic aggro rush decks, just yolo all to the face and your opponent ends up dieing somehow.
This deck has a very weird feel to it at the beginning, i felt like i was losing during the entire match then you pull out like a frost bolt/ice lance/ice lance/fireball and GG.
Combos: the combos are fairly basic
Knife Juggler + Mirror Image/ 1 cost minions
Sorcerer's Apprentice+ Mana Wyrm + all spells
Mulligans: the dream hand would be Knife Juggler Mirror Image Mana Wyrm and draw into a Sorcerer's Apprentice as you can gain immense value and take control of the game very quickly. you always throw back Water Elemental, Azure Drake, Arcane Intellect and Bloodmage Thalnos.
NO Leeroy Jenkins??? WHAT ?: in a mage aggro deck, Leeroy Jenkins is only a Fireball that cant go through taunts, which are usualy up when you do your frost bolt/icelance/fireball KO combo. so it just sits in your hand and never gets used.
Why not Arcane Golem or Coldlight Oracle?: the goal of this deck is to burn your opponents health as fast as possible, and often your first 10-15 damage will come from direct hits from Wolfrider, Loot Hoarder Knife Juggler, etc. if you Arcane Golem your doing 1 extra damage compared to a Wolfrider and speeding up their taunts by 1 turn, effectively lowering your damage by 6 in the case of druid. Coldlight Oracle draws you 2 cards, but it also spoon feeds your opponent answers to your board. you go to search for that Knife Juggler or Frostboltand you give that druid 2 Swipe. also vs zoo giving him 2 cards is basically healing him for 4 and giving him 4 mana.
You Dont have Bloodmage Thalnos?: you can sub him out for 1 of 3 things, Novice Engineer, a second Elven Archer, or a Kobold Geomancer. i feel like the best sub is the Elven Archer, as its utitily is very usefull in this deck. a Novice Engineer is just for more card draw which is essential for the burst combo. so whichever you feel is better
VS zoo and hunter?: it is a roughly estimated 70-80% win rate vs the popular zoo and a 50-60% vs mid-range (kolento/lifecoach) hunters
what does this deck lose to?: control warrior will ruin your day, its literally a 90/10 in favor for the warrior. watcher druid, and control priest can cause issues the win/loss rate is about 65/35. you have a chance to win but its fairly unlikely.
CHANGES: -1 Argent Squire +1 Elven Archer: an early argent squire sticks around and is pretty effective, but if you topdeck one mid or lategame its useless. an elven archer is usefull no matter when you draw it, acting as an extra hero power to get rid of that 6/2 fire elemental or to get that last 1 damage off to finish the match
personal changes: -1 wolf rider +1Millhouse Manastorm
i know what your thinking, theres no way millhouse can be good in a deck. but after playing with this change personally ive noticed an increase in win rate. no one is going to keep strong spells in their opening hand and coining out a millhouse can pose a huge threat. remember that you only need to lower their health below 20 and their dead to spells afterwards
Are you having trouble against this deck? here is a decklist that will win almost 100% of the time vs the aggro mage: Warrior control (anti-aggro)
after around 30 games, im with a 70% win rate (83% against zoo and 67 agains miracle), the only problem are warriors and druids.
-1 loot harder + 1 fairy dragon
-1 wolf raider + 1 pyroblast (still testing this one)
Good job!
This deck is really a 50/50 chance of winning. I have been testing it for a while and sometimes it wins like in 7 turns, others I run out of cards and my opponent is with 20 or more heath. Totally not worth it for my personal case :/
deck hasnt been competitive in the least. zero late game. even if you control the game early. deck lacks any kill power.
it is pretty RNG based being able to draw into the win condition but you have ample amounts of card draw to get to that point. its carried multiple people into legend rank and i have made it to rank 2 with it personally. but that was quite a while ago and the meta has shifted tremendously. i feel like it is not as strong as it was before but it is still definitely a viable deck to run
swapped out the Bloodmage Thalnos for Gadgetzan Auctioneer - tag team GA with [card]Sorcerer's Apprentice[/card] for explosive power in turn 9 and 10.
Really nice deck man, loving it!
thx ^-^ good luck on the ladder
you can swap out whatever you like if you personally prefer something else, its all about what you run into and what works for you
This deck is pretty problematic against good mid-rage decks, I have replaced some cards for Polymorph (helps for comeback if you have bad start) Argent Commander (great in bad and good situations) and Counter Spell to protect your minions.
i feel like poly is a bit to slow to only take care of 1 minion and if you draw it and other big cards early you will have some issues getting their hp into combo range
Man every time I face one of these decks I win.
This deck is overrated. its a 50/50 win/loss by its best.
Ice Queen deck is way far better.
personally i feel like pyroblast is too slow for this deck because you can deal more damage with fireballs/frostbolt/icelance combo with the mana you have even at late game. also if you draw it within the first 3 turns you will most likely lose, so potential 6-7/30 to lose off the start is kind of problematic
Any thoughts on violet teacher in this deck? I ran one instead of an azure drake and the combos can be really devastating. Violet teacher + knife juggler + mirror image has been pretty fun.
This deck is not even near as good as you say it is. Getting to enough mana to have an "frost bolt, ice lance, ice lance, fireball" seems near impossible against most decks being run rihg tnow.
- 1 Azure Drake/+1 Pyroblast and I'm on a 8-2 run through mid-teen ranks at the moment. Pyro has gotten stuck in my hand a few games, but also won me 3 of those 8.
I'm up to rank 15 and climbing - thanks for this deck! I love Mage so I'm glad there's some good for her out there now.
It's an aggro deck, there's not supposed to be strong high cost minions. You're supposed to get out as many minions as possible and do as much facial as possible. Then, while your opponent finally starts to drop his larger taunt minions you ignore them altogether and go Frostbolt / Ice Lance / Ice Lance / Fireball / Goodnight.
Just tried this deck replacing archer with kobold geomancer - win streak from rank 15 to rank 10 . Seemed like I had a bad draws against other aggro decks but still won.
Looking forward to see how it behaves around rank 10.
15 to 10 against what mostly?