[Barnes] NoYogg, or the new Tempo Mage
- Last updated Oct 9, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)
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Wild
- 17 Minions
- 13 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Tempo Mage
- Crafting Cost: 11360
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 10/3/2016 (Yogg Nerf)
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Battle Tag:
liken#2163
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
202
Upd 10/6/2016
Replaced Flamestrike with Acolyte of Pain in the list. There were only 2 games of 30 where I missed the replaced Flamestrike.
Rewrote the guide to make it solid and structurized.
Replaced Acolyte of Pain with Rhonin. Not a must, slows the deck, but empowers it a bit.
I appreciate the attention to this list and want to thank everyone who likes and comments it. If you play this deck in ladder, and have some ideas how to improve it, please comment. You are welcome to share your stats, coz all info will help to make this list better.
With the fix release, The Best God is getting nerfed (I appreciate this nerf a lot), and probably he will be gone from ladder decks. Tempo Mage used Yogg in hard matchups to draw some cards and remove enemy table or to set up the lethal. Mostly, Tempo Mage dont need Yogg to win, but can get out of steam playing against control.
This list is based on Tempostorm meta-deck and Gnoki's 83% winrate deck, with few changes. I wanted to try Barnes in mage, and I think he is pretty useful.
1) Card choices:
Nothing can replace the core! Replacing other cards can make the deck budget, but of course, less efficient. Consider this cards as replacers for legendaries - Faceless Summoner, Forgotten Torch, Ethereal Conjurer, Firelands Portal. Note that deck will lose 40-70% of power and best Barnes synergies.
The Core (22 cards)
2x Arcane Blast - low cost target removal. Combine with +spd and Flamewakers to take the board. The MAIN card for tempo mage archetype.
2x Arcane Missiles - spell synergy activator, RNG board clear, sometimes even a match finisher.
1x Mirror Image - protection for you Wyrms and Sorcerers. Spell synergy activator.
2x Mana Wyrm - one of the best 1 drops in game. Tons of damage and a target for enemy to focus.
1x Arcane Explosion - with 5 +spd cards and flamewakers becomes really powerful.
2x Frostbolt - any mage will run this one.
2x Cult Sorcerer - 3/2 with +spd, one of the best 2 mana drops in game.
2x Sorcerer's Apprentice - spell discount for high tempo turns, combos.
2x Arcane Intellect - card draw and minion synergies.
2x Flamewaker - the MAIN card for tempo mage archetype. Don't play without using some spells immediately.
2x Fireball - any mage will run this one.
1x Barnes - Not a must, but makes this list special. High synergy with almost every card in the deck. More info in 3 section.
2x Azure Drake - Solid body, +spd, card draw. Musthave.
Win-condition
1x Archmage Antonidas - makes Fireballs for your finisher. Almost impossible to win control decks without Antonidas.
1x Emperor Thaurissan - second part for Antonidas combo. Nice 6 drop when you have 5+ cards, especially if you have 8 drops or parts of the combo. If you dont run both Antonidas and Tome - replace Thaurissan.
1x Ragnaros the Firelord - 8 mana, 8 damage. BOSS drop from Barnes.
Replaceable
1x Babbling Book - getting additional spell is crucial for Tempo Mage, coz you will get out of cards very quickly. Can be replaced by Loot Hoarder
1x Cabalist's Tome - nothing can replace the impact of this spell, but if you dont have it or dont like it, you can use Ethereal Conjurer or Forgotten Torch (Torch wouldnt break Barnes summon list)
1x Bloodmage Thalnos - good drop for +spd and cycle. Can be replaced with Kobold Geomancer (+spd) or Loot Hoarder/Acolyte of Pain (cycle). Cycle replace is recommended.
1x Rhonin - solid body and 3 missiles for your Antonidas/Flamewakers. Helps vs control decks a lot. Very nice with Barnes, or Thaurissan discount. IF U REPLACE ONLY THIS CARD RUN Acolyte of Pain
2) Mulligan:
Always keep: Mana Wyrm, Babbling Book, Cult Sorcerer, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Frostbolt
Keep with coin: Flamewaker
Combine your Mirror Image and Arcane Missiles with Mana Wyrm, Flamewaker and Sorcerers. Combine Arcane Blast with +spell damage or Flamewakers, or keep against classes playing 2hp drops (Hunter, Mage, Warlock, Shaman).
Never keep 2 copies of Arcane Missiles, Arcane Blast. Consider 2 Mana Wyrm only if you are sure to save at least one of them for 3 turns. You can keep Barnes in slow matchup if you are super lucky.
3) Barnes synergies:
Bad - Babbling Book
Below average - 2x Mana Wyrm
Average - 2x Cult Sorcerer, 2x Azure Drake AND Acolyte of Pain
Above average - Bloodmage Thalnos, 2x Sorcerer's Apprentice, 2x Flamewaker
"Perfect" - Emperor Thaurissan, Ragnaros the Firelord, Archmage Antonidas OR Rhonin
4) My climbing and stats:
1st day 10/6/2016: rank 18 to rank 10 - overall 26/14, 65% winrate, about 4 hours.
5) Community tips (gameplan, mechanic explanation):
ColouReZ tips:
Very good deck, climbed from rank 15 to 9 in a few hours today with a winstreak peak of 10. Although I changed the babbling book for a polymorph, which I've find very good use of. It was quite difficult to tech that in since there are barely any bad cards here but I thought that the babbling book might have been the weakest link.
If someone has a difficult time winning with this deck I can explain how I won with it.
It's all about knowing your win condition. This deck is very flexible so the first strategy which is best against other board control dependant, early game, fast decks that does not have heal is to pull out mana wyrn, 2 drops and flamewakers pretty much on curve, with a little spell comboing still. To get the board control and then just finish it off rather quickly with burn and repetitive face damage.
Against controlly decks especially paladin who has lots and lots of heal, antonidas is the most important card. Try to play value in the early game and don't overextend on the board like you would do against aggro/midrange decks. Then you want to setup a combo, save up some 1 mana spells, emperor them if you have emperor, then create a lot of fireballs with emperor to be able to deal a very high amount of damage in a few rounds. Ragnaros is very useful as a kinda board comeback card, opponent removal waster whilst it's already done 8 dmg.
6) Deck gameplay on YouTube:
Fur0 gameplay video
kiwiinbacon deck showcase
Kristophesaurus deck spotlight
Can you do a MSoG update? I've tried so many Reno mage decks but I always find myself coming back to this one. I've been trying to put MSoG cards into this deck but every card is still so useful. I play with Acolyte of Pain, not Rhonin. Too slow for me, which is what ends up making me lose most of my matches. I'm trying to put in a Kabal Courier and maybe a Volcanic Potion
Before MSoG, I got to rank 9 with this deck. Now I can't get past rank 12
Great deck, I never have much time to play with work and family. But this deck with one change took me from rank 11 to 5 with a few win streaks. I dropped Ragnos and added Flamestrike. Rag felt like a win more. Flame strike gives solid recovery against most decks.
This is a great deck, but I'm struggling a lot against shamans, which I meet all the time.
Far too many highdrops to be tempo
Not a good deck,wish I could downvote this trash deck more
You're the one who made me play tempo mage this season and thanks to you i managed to reach the legend rank for the first time four days ago! I made some edits but i wanted to thank you for this brann tempo mage deck !
What edits did you make, if I may ask? Would really like to know
Like others said, this deck is garbage without board clear.
any replacements for Rhonin?
Acolyte of Pain or possibly Medivh.
A good card
Very solid deck! Tempo Mage is one of my favorite decks ever.
I was playing at low ranks because I don't enjoy ladder too much, and I felt the need to fit a Flamestrike mainly because of Mid Shamans. I subbed it for an Arcane Explosion because it was often underwhelming. Flamestrike is able to deal with Totemic Might-buffed totems and Concealed Gadgetzan Auctioneer, and is also good in the mirror match.
What do you guys think about it?
Dude i think it needs a heal. So what heal would you suggest like something to get you back when you are behind on hp
So I'm lacking 2 cards, whi are: Bloodmage Thalnos and Rhonin. Is it ok to sub Rhonin for Sylvanas Windrunner and Thalnos for an Acolyte of Pain or would I miss the spell damage and should stick with kobold and acolyte replacement?
Considering the owner of the thread isn't answering I'll take my chances and go ahead saying that those replacements should be good enogh. Getting a free token off barnes (considering it's a Cairne summon) is massive value, and I would pick an acolyte instead of the kobold.
Playing this deck and having tons of fun! I use an acolyte of pain instead of ronnin. I have hard hard times only against control pala with those 18k dust deck ( ragnaros - light ragnaros, sylvanas, tyrion and so on ) any tips ? anyway climbed from 18 to 10 in two days ( 4-5 hours )
well went top 10 legend today morning with this deck on NA using acolyte of pain in place Rhonin..
btw m trying to modify it to get it to top 10 back again.
GJ mate. Pityful I have no time to climb :D
Can You give us some gameplay or atleast SH of legend?
i play on mobile mostly.