Anti Pirate Freeze Mage | Mean Streets of Gadge...
- Last updated Dec 18, 2016 (Gadgetzan)
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Wild
- 10 Minions
- 20 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Freeze Mage
- Crafting Cost: 5320
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 12/8/2016 (Gadgetzan)
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Battle Tag:
Ashley#22199
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Total Deck Rating
1090
Guide and Gameplay: 4 games vs Renolock, Dragon Priest, Pirate Warrior and Jade Druid are below.
UPD. Replaced Forgotten Torch for Flamestrike. Too many Shamans.
I play Freeze Mage every Season, got nice results versus Midrange Shamans in November, win rate more than 70%. In December I tried to play too, but it was very hard to win Pirate Warrior, but there were good results versus other decks. Especially high win rate with Priests, Warlocks and Rogues. I started to think: what can improve my win rate versus Pirate Warriors? Bingo! Mirror Image! Warrior needs two turns to pass through them, and that is exactly what Freeze Mage seeks.
Mulligan.
First of all we should divide decks on types: agro or not. My default is: Warriors and Shamans are - Aggro decks, other are Midrange.
Vs Aggro decks we keep: Mirror Image, Doomsayer, Loot Hoarder, Novice Engineer and Frostbolt. Acolyte of Pain with a Coin. You can keep Arcane Intellect with a coin depends on other cards. But it is too slow as for me anyway.
Vs other decks: we need maximum draw, so keep just: Novice Engineer, Loot Hoarder, Acolyte of Pain and Arcane Intellect. We don’t need Doomsayer, because we want to use him with Frost Nova in later stage of the game.
Gameplay.
Warriors and Shamans. Do not save your damage for their face. Remove all threats as soon as possible. You need to exhaust his hand to win the game. Alexstrasza is often the key win condition in this Match up. If you are still alive on 9th turn, play Alex on own face and Pirate Warrior can’t find 15 damage more to finish you. Extremely good versus Pirate decks are Ice Barrier. Do not forget that Pirate Warrior has big problems with Doomsayer, but Shamans can remove him easier, so play him on 2nd turn or on 5th with Frost Nova.
Druids are not easy match up, because of Raven Idol and Feral Rage. Win rate is about 50%. Try to draw fast and not waste your damage on single targets, keep it for his face. Remove minions by Doomsayer + Frost Nova, Blizzard and Flamestrike.
Hunters are not hard for Freeze Mage today. So, draw and use mass removals to find fast lethal combo or Alexstrasza.
Mages are hard because most of them are Reno. If he can draw Ice Block and Reno Jackson both, we will lose the game. Tempo Mages are favorable. Play 2 Ice Barrier for 16 additional Health and it almost win. Just Goldfish or Pavelbooks can help them.
Paladins. If it is agro – see Warriors and Shamans, if Murloc or N’Zoth Paladin, then you should find OTK Combo with Emperor Thaurissan and Bloodmage Thalnos. It is more than 30 damage.
Priests. See the Paladin’s strategy. Remove threats until OTK Combo. Alex is good in this Match up, because Dragon Priest doesn’t have any good heal. If Reno Priest see Reno Warlock below.
Warlocks. If Zoo or Discard – just remove threats and go face, it is very easy match up. Same as RenoLock or Reno Priest. Remove minions, play Alex to force opponent to play Reno Jackson, and then play OTK combo.
Rogues are pretty good too. They have no heal and not enough burst damage to kill Freeze Mage until 6th turn. After 6th turn we often have enough Freeze spells to play for time and find our Lethal. Frost Nova + Doomsayer is hard to remove for Rogue.
Replacements.
We have just one question about replacement.
Alexstrasza can be replaced just by combo: Escape + Concede.
Bloodmage Thalnos can be replaced by Cult Sorcerer or Kobold Geomancer.
Combos of Freeze Mage.
Frost Nova + Doomsayer to clear the board.
Blizzard + Doomsayer to clear the board.
Frost Nova + Emperor Thaurissan is good chance to reduce cost of card by 2.
Tips.
If opponent plays Sylvanas Windrunner and you have empty board, play Doomsayer and kill Sylvanas to clear the board.
If you see that Mage plays a Secret from Babbling Book, you can check it with Doomsayer, what if it is Mirror Entity.
hey dude i love to play freeze since ever and in my latest version i put i the Kabal Lackey as a sub for the ma dscientest you shoudl try it its pretty strong :D
How can you say this deck is anti pirate when it loses to every pirate deck, pirate warrior, pirate rogue, pirate shaman. Every game they pop all ur secrets and ice block by turn 5. You dont even even have a chance to get to turn 6 to blizzard and in most cases blizzard cant even kill the board all his minions are 1 or 2 hp.Even if they are frozen they have nukes and weapons. This is the absolute worst deck in the aggro meta.
Man, I think the problem is not in the deck...
I just show you my stats. Rank 4 - Rank 3 is enough?
You say Flamestrike for Shamans which is presumably the aggro version. Isn't it too slow? I'm thinking that Volcanic + Thalnos for a 5 mana 3 dmg clear would be a better Shaman tech and it gives you some flexibility for clearing annoying early pirate boards.
How do you do against Reno decks with this list? You have -1 Torch, Acolyte and Evolved Kobold vs. the standard kobold list. Do you have problems accumulating enough burn for the OTK against decks with healing?
Freeze Mage looks poised to be really good against this meta if it can shore up the aggro matchups without giving up too much in the slower games. I'm thinking that your list would be rly good with Antonidas. The mirror images are a perfect Tony activator with the added bonus of being able to save them for the combo in matchups where you'd need him. I'd probably cut the Flamestrike, but that's the slot I'd want to use for a Volcanic potion. I think the only other option that leaves is dropping the 2nd torch and relying on Tony for the extra reach.
Have you experimented with any of these substitutions already?
Thank you for comment.
1. Flamestrike is really good, I use it often. I thought about Potion, but several days my opponents are not Aggro Pirates. Most of them are Reno, Druids, Midrange Shamans, Priests. I think it can be value try.
2. I have something like 12-3 vs Renolocks. All my loses were to Raganaros. It is not so hard for me. I just gather OTK Combo, then Emperor. Or Renolock plays Reno at 16-20 HP and then I play Alex.
3. I play Freeze every season more than a year and never liked Antonidas here. I like fast sraw and 30+ dmg combo.
But it is just my feelings.
This deck looks so nice to me and interesting to play i just wondered... Is the Emperor Thaurissan one of the core cards without any raplacment? Cuz i am interested in this deck but i dont have him and i am not willing to play the adventure that will soon go to standard... Thanks felas
Emperor is needed for OTK Combo vs Priests and Renolocks.
Thanks for comment.
I am not ready to speak English myself, maybe later))
Here is my stats yesterday. Before Freeze Mage was rekt by all possible Aggro 1-8. Then Dave played Freeze 8-2 (2 times was really unlucky IMAO). I don't know your Rank now, but there are a lot players in Rank 5-Rank3, who doesn't know what to do with Freeze.
I have every card except alexstrasza and bloodmage thalnos, i have enough dust to craft 1 of them
I assume alexstrasza is more important, and if so what's the best replacement for bloodmage?
Kobold Geomancer the same, but has no draw.
in that case isnt cult sorceress just better? +1 attack kobald basically
yes! you are right.
fixed
Out of curiosity, do you think there is any room for Freezing Potion to combo with Ice Lance? My bets are on no, cause there's too many vital elements in this deck to make room for one or two of the Potions.
Ice lance in freeze mage is generally wanted to do 4 dmg to the face for 1 or 0 mana. Any minion you'd want to destroy, you're better off freezing and delaying until you can do the face damage to kill them.
Sure, but now I am recording the guide, hope today it will be ready and uploaded.
So, I have no plans for playing Freeze Mage for two days at least.
But I have some recorded games.
Do you want to spect game vs Pirate Warrior or other deck?
ok, we'll make video with full gameplay vs different decks.
Started record guide for Freeze Mage.
#NewFreezeMage
Alex is a key card for Freeze.