WingsOfWax's Top 100 Finish Reno Mage
- Last updated Feb 13, 2017 (Gadgetzan)
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Wild
- 16 Minions
- 14 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Reno Mage
- Crafting Cost: 12400
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 2/1/2017 (Gadgetzan)
- wingsofwaxiii
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Battle Tag:
WingsOfWax
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Region:
US
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Total Deck Rating
7351
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A Little About Me
I am a 19x Legend Player with 3x Top 100 finishes who goes by the battletag WingsOfWax or WingsOfWaxIII on other social media (Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, and YouTube). I have over 15+ Years of Magic: The Gathering Experience, but as of the release of Hearthstone: Beta been converted to this new and exciting card game.
Over the past year, I have been creating videos, articles, and casting live streams to help educate newer players about Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. As of right now, I am mostly known in the Hearthpwn.com community for creating a Naxxramas + 2,000 Dust Budget Guide 11 Deck series as well as putting Burst Rogue back into fruition.
These days I am working full time, go to school, and still create Hearthstone content whenever I find my schedule allows it. I love educating all types of players whether new or veterans about becoming a better strategy card gamer. I am creating this guide (and others) to help educate and grow the Hearthstone Community even further.
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Lets Begin:
To start us off, this is not a new idea of any kind. Reno Mage has been around for quite a while now and this is only here to inspire players to try it on there own. Reno Mage is in a great spot in the Meta since it has solid answers to everything and enough card advantage to out-do your opponent.
Why this version over the more Antonidas ones?
The Antonidas decks feel more like a Combo/Control deck, which is great versus opposing Control decks. I found myself losing more often than not to the Aggro decks because there were more dead cards to help trigger the Antonidas. After some tuning, I came up with a more controlling build that I liked and started seeing stronger results.
Top 100 Proof - Finished between 80-85 at the end.
Deck Stats:
Deck Variations:
The list proposed above is more suited for combating Aggro Decks. Earlier in the day I was running a more Anti-Control version that still had a solid Aggro matchup. Here is the more Anti-Control version I ran.
Anti-Control Version
The biggest tech choice was Big Game Hunter. I was using it to kill Alexstrasza, Mountain Giant, Flamewreath Faceless, Jade Golems, etc. I started running into more Aggro decks and decided I needed to cut the BGH for Mistress of Mixtures.
The next cut I made was Ethereal Conjurer. It is a great card in the Control matchups, but is extremely weak to the Aggro. Typically your Aggro opponents can just ignore it or clean it up easily with a 3 powered weapon. The next viable option in my opinion was Refreshment Vendor. It was a body that could deal with the early to mid game minions and restores much needed health versus Aggro.
Mulligans:
Versus Aggro - Arcane Blast, Babbling Book, Mistress of Mixtures, Acidic Swamp Ooze, Dirty Rat, Doomsayer, Frostbolt, Kabal Courier, Volcanic Potion, Kazakus, and Reno Jackson. Also consider keeping Polymorph versus suspected Flamewreathed Faceless decks.
Versus Control - Babbling Book, Mistress of Mixtures, Acidic Swamp Ooze, Dirty Rat, Doomsayer, Kabal Courier, Brann Bronzebeard, Kazakus, and Cabalist Tome.
Matchup Tips:
Versus Jade Shaman - You are in it for the long-haul of fatiguing your opponent. Be sure to prioritize your removal spells weakest first to strongest last. If you can't kill the Mana Tide Totem with a Frostbolt, Forgotten Torch, Arcane Blast or AOE try not to fret too much about it. I have won many games where my opponent has drawn 8+ cards from Mana Tide Totems. Your life total can be relatively low since they only runJade Lightnings for burn so be sure to prioritize killing the strongest minions on board. Most of the games won are by setting up a turn to safely play a Medivh, the Guardian and ride him to victory.
Versus Pirate Decks - Stem the bleeding as quickly as possible. Make sure your concern is about killing minions on board rather than drawing cards or developing board when given the option. If you get to 6 mana with a Reno and your at or around 15 health, more than likely you should cast it. Pirate decks tend to run a lot of burn spells and can easily kill you from 15 health with only one or two minions on board.
Versus Control Decks - You want to assemble combos as quickly as possible or just keep playing value cards. Try to save Reno for after your opponent Alex's you. Don't be afraid to burn weak cards (Volcanic Potion, Flamestrike, Arcane Blast, etc) in your hand to make room for Cabalist Tomes or Kazakus/Demon Potions.
Kazakus Potions to Seek:
This is a rough guide to figuring out your potion choices.
Versus Priate Decks - Deal X Damage to All>Transform All Minions (10mana only)>Gain X Armor>Deal X Damage>Summon X Friendly Minions that Died>Summon X/X Minion
Versus Jade Decks - Transform All Minions (10mana only)>Deal X Damage to All>Summon X Friendly Minions that Died>Deal X Damage>Summon X/X Minion
Versus Control Decks - Transform All Minions (10mana only)>Deal X Damage to All>Summon X Friendly Minions that Died>Deal X Damage>Summon X/X Minion>Random Demons to Hand> Gain X Armor
Gameplay:
Epic High and Low for Top 100:
Here's to hoping this deck/guide is in some way beneficial to your Grinding Experience! The deck has performed extremely well for me and won games I thought were not possible to do so.
Interested in learning more? Feel free to stop by my Twitch Stream and subscribe to my YouTube, in which I'll either be playing Ranked mode with a variety of decks.
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Thank you for checking out this deck and I hope it serves you well.
Good luck and grind on,
-Wings
How do these sound for replacements?
"Who goes thar?"
"I'm in charge now!"
All seriousness tho, you are better off playing a different deck.
ty for reply :) g back to play pirate deck and miracle rogue xD
Missing KAzakus, any replacement? should I run Brann w/o KazakusTrying out Prince Malchezaar :/ bad idea?
Kazakus is a major win-con. You shouldn't play this deck without it.
i can't get values from Dirty Rat. (or im a noob) I think. Can you explain how is it work on this deck or is it necessery?
Cast Rat when you are either desperate and without an answer or save it for when you can cast a removal spell in the same turn.
You're probably just super unlucky. Ideally you want to use dirty rat when you have a flamelance or something ready to remove it. Ideal situation would be to play dirty rat and it pulls out reno. you can remove it easily and takes away the opponent's heal.
Whoaaa... what a nice deck..
You can even make Medivh, the Guardian works !!!
I always think it's too slow and have no instant impact like Ragnaros the Firelord
But this Medivh guys can really swing the tempo back..
Nobody expect to see Bog Creeper after a Flamestrike lol
nice version of reno mage, especially because lot of aggro decks right now
this was my perfect game play vs aggro shaman, sorry this was my game play when rank 7 (right now rank 3)
Didn't even use ice block ,reno to win. Win with spells to his face :) enjoy :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T751tmcD9-k
This deck is garbage for climbing ladder
maybe you are garbage, not the deck
I disagree, but can we at least agree that this meta is garbage? You can think what you want about my deck honestly, but I know it's powerful enough to reach Top 100 Legend.
Hi, why no solia?? :o
We like control cards, not tempo.
Hey there, do you have a replacement for Alexstrasza?
Soggoth is the only card even close to Alex.
Thanks WingsOfWax for the deck.
I dont have 2 epic cards: [card]Arcane Blast[/card] and [card]Cabalist's Tome[/card]. Are they must-have cards or there are good replacements for them?
Thanks All,
Arcane Blast is necessary since it's your best answer early game but Cabalist Tome can be Ethereal Conjurer.
No Manic Soulcaster that card is just gas though, really helps the control mirror
Your welcome to play Manic over Second Rate Brute. I personally did not have success with Manic.