[Legend] Karazhan Tempo Mage
- Last updated Aug 31, 2016 (Karazhan)
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Wild
- 15 Minions
- 15 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Yogg Mage
- Crafting Cost: 7820
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 8/23/2016 (Karazhan)
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Battle Tag:
Loko#2591
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
178
Hello guys !
Who am I ?
I hit legend for the first time while playing since beta with my favourite archetype : Tempo Mage. I wanted to share the list I used to make sure people can enjoy playing it too !
I went Legend from rank 5 in one day with a final rush of 37w/13l (74% winrate). I am not saying you will end up with that kind of awesome stats, I probably got a bit of help from RNGesus, but I think you can still manage to have at least 60% winrate.
General strategy
This deck is a tempo deck, so the main goal is to get the tempo on the board (which means make sure you get more presence in the board than your opponent). However, this deck has a lot of direct damage (Frostbolt Fireball Forgotten Torch Fireland Portals+ random missiles) so its important to check your available damage. You can win some games with just giving up to get tempo and hit face with spells before your opponent kills you.
Disclaimer : Praise RNGsus
If you are one of those who hates playing with RNG, I highly recommand you not to play this deck. This deck is all about RNG, and a great part of your choices are directed by calculating probabilities of your best play. I would suggest you to give a chance to RNGesus and join the light of randomness Kreygasm.
Karazhan Review
This new adventure give to mage Tempo some new possibilities :
Barnes : This card is awesome in this deck, every single target in interesting except Yogg-Saron, Hope's End , you get a lot of tempo and sometimes a funny YOLO Ragnaros the Firelord
Firelands Portal : This card has evrything this deck needs : you get direct damage and tempo as well, even if the RNG can hurts pretty bad, its still a good card
General Mulligan
Always keep : Mana Wyrm, Cult Sorcerer , Sorcerer's Apprentice
If you have one of those, you can also keep a 1 or 2 cost spell to make the tempo early : Arcane Blast , Arcane Missiles, Mirror Image ,Frostbolt.
If you want more tips about detailed mulligans, see the next chapter.
Match-ups
I will detail the matchups you will see the most, feel free to comment if you want me to add more matchups.
Agro Shaman : slightly favored. The first 5 turns will make you win or lose. You must have a decent board and spells to clean to make sure the shaman has to trade and cant hit face. You can keep Arcane Blast and Frostbolt.
Druid Token : slightly unfavored. Druid is in my opionion the strongest deck actually, and if he has good start its very hard to take the tempo back.
Dragon Warrior : favored. It's probably why mage tempo is very strong at the moment, you have an easy match-up against this Warrior deck.If you somehow lost the board, Flamestrike will carry your game and you will win that way. Just remember to check your lethal possibilities in hand, sometimes you will just use 3 turns hitting face to get lethal.
Midrange Hunter : even. If you consider both opponents have an average start, the match-up is decided by this : do you draw Flamestrike / how many Call of the Wild your opponent has ? Dont forget to try every turn to spot multiple turns lethal since hunters are not running healing. Yogg-Saron can be a win-condition as well. Try to mulligan for Arcane Blast and Frostbolt.
Zoolock : slightly favored. You have the tools to remove early threats, and Flamestrike is a powerful card in this matchup. If you are able to fight for the board, warlock will end up life tapping and making your way to lethal easier.
Upvote Goals
If I get 50+ upvotes, I will write a mulligan guide, detail some matchups
EDIT 30/9/16 : A lot of positive feedback from you guys, thanks for the support, I will work on mulligan and matchups asap
EDIT 31/9/16 : Add of General Mulligan guide and Detailed Match-ups. Support keeps coming, I appreciate a lot your your feedback !
Feedback
Do not hesitate to upvote if you like my deck and comment if you want to share your thoughts or ask for a card replacement, I will checks comments and answer as soon as possible
P-S : I am just a french baguette, so be cool with my english
FYI there will be one more expansion this year. TgT will rotate out of standard at the first rotation next year.
Maybe he just spent his removal on the turn 1 Mana Wyrm? Maybe it's a good idea to hold back on a spell damage minion, if you feel you need the four damage. It all depends. Cult Sorcerer plus, possibly coined, Arcane Blast is a clean answer to a Turn 2 Totem Golem. Look at the tempo mage lists on this site, there is a reason every optimized, non-budget tempo mage runs Arcane Blast as a two-off.
Hey man!
I'm playing this awesome deck with Archmage Antonidas insead of Bloodmage Thalnos. When you summon him with Barnes it's getting really crazy! ;)
replacement for barnes?
what would you change in this deck for wild?
Just asking, is Arcane Giant too slow for this deck?
Deck full of spells => asks "is a card, which manacost DECREACES with each spell to slow". whut? Ofc no
Why Barnes?
You don't want him to summon Yogg or drakes
Why dont you want? Azure drake is usefull even as 1/1
Loot hoarder
This deck is amazing and greatly underappreciated I think. I've been on a massive winning streak with it :)
Some changes I made to it (just for preference) was -1 Mirror Image and -1 Arcane Blast (because I only own 1 Arcane Blast) for 2 Babbling Books, and I also did -1 Azure Drake for +1 Servant of Yogg-Saron , however I think Azure Drake is the much better pick, I just really like Servant of Yogg-Saron :P
I put a Sylvanis Windrunner instead of an Acolyte and it's been working pretty well, any way you think I can add a Baron in this? I also switched a mirrors image with a Babbling Book.
any replacement for Yogg-Saron, Hope's End? haven't gotten it yet
I'm currently using Nefarian
I played a very similar deck. Changed some cards and tried it with yours. About 15 game loosing streak right now :D went from rank 5 all the way back to 8
I love the rng yay -.-
Edit: 3 more losses (Funny thing is i changed about 3-4 cards and had a lot of succes O.o)
Yeah never mind I'm pretty sure it's just really bad luck. Because our Decks don't differ that much.
Never mind. Read the decklist wrong.
Any replacement for Barnes? I haven't gotten Karazhan quite yet I have everything else in the deck. Perhaps Water Elemental?
Do you think babbling book is good enough for the deck? Love it so far though thanks man!
Yo I dont know who you screen shot but this deck is garbage. Lose to every Hunter that I bumped into in rank 6. Lacking ways to clear the field
You aren't running a FlameStrike in an Agro Meta?