Budget Mage for Heroic Sapphiron
- Last updated Mar 26, 2016 (Explorers)
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Wild
- 8 Minions
- 22 Spells
- Deck Type: PvE Adventure
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Boss: Sapphiron
- Crafting Cost: 440
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 8/21/2014 (Naxx Launch)
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This is a budget mage deck for defeating Sapphiron on Heroic mode. The strategy is to control the board and survive in the early game. Your chargers and spells do not go to the face, they should be used to clear the board (charge wolfrider into shade of naxxramas etc). Mirror Entity and Nerubian Egg help you develop some sort of board at least for one turn in order to trade.
Turns 5-7 ideally should be about clearing board with Blizzard and Flamestrike and continue to control the board afterwards while Sapphiron starts topdecking.
The win condition is Thaddius. Play Feugen or Stalagg and get a Duplicate on one of them. After that, you spend 5 mana to summon 1 Thaddius every turn and swing to the face for 11 every turn. If you can get off another Duplicate, that's 55 damage. If not, just nuke with whatever spells/chargers you have remaining to finish.
3 NOV EDIT: If you are having trouble with Thaddius getting frozen, I have found a solution. I recently beat heroic Naxx on Asia server with mostly basic cards. I didn't have any blizzards or ice barrier which made the fight a lot harder. I put in haunted creepers and they are extremely useful in this fight.
Haunted creeper tokens actually make Sapphiron trade with them instead of simply ignoring everything and hitting your face. So if Sapphiron plays a shade which usually means you don't have anything to kill for that turn, you can play a creeper, it spawns 2 1/1s and next turn, the shade will trade with 1 which saves you 3 damage to the face. Sometimes I have even seen Sapphiron double frostbolt the 1/1s.
More importantly, if Sapphiron has blizzard in hand, the creeper tokens will make her use it which prevents your Thaddius from being frozen later on. So if you're missing any of the cards, consider adding in haunted creepers.
Only took two attempts - works great, thanks!
God, when he topdecks pure cold and you have lethal next turn...
crap luck. almost got it and bot top deck blizzard twice
Tnx dude, worked FIRST TRY, didn't have blizzard, replaced it with Flamecannon, now time for Kel'tThuzad!
hi, thanks a lot ! I've been struggling the WHOLE day (well I absolutely wanted to get it with a rogue but even Mill that seeems to work needs some big luck ) and I finally came across that deck. ...well, I didn't chang any card.. first try ! bingo!
awesome. The key is indeed (as opposed to other mage decks) to use all spells on creatures to control while reaching late game and the multiple Thaddius army ^^
Completely RNG deck. Zero skill involved. You either get the correct combo, or you don't. I've played about 25 games with this and have only come close once. The rest were fail games because I never got the combo needed. Those of you posting "Pawesome deck, bruh. Killed him in 2 tries!" just go extremely lukcy. RNG garbage.
Yea it's a heroic boss. Of course it's an RNG fight. Not sure what you were expecting. Some miracle deck that has 100% win rate?
it takes a lot of tries, but when it works it works:
he said "budget" not f2p, unlocking naaxramas stuff isn't particularly hard.. did it in a month when I started, never put any single dollar in that game, as for other cards, there's not even an epic involved, getting blizzards doens't take long either.
Fucking cancer, finally beat him after 20-30 tries, tried mill rogue and mill druid, didn't work, but after ~10 tries with your deck finally got him, god bless Thaddius, and god bless Duplicate.
I used 2x Explosive Sheep instead of bluegills, worked like a charm, 2 mana Consecration
Downed him on my 3rd time. Duplicate and Stalaag or Fuegen are key. Great deck!
Thanks so much for posting this. I subbed out two bluegill and two arcane missles though for two haunted creepers (to eat the blizzards) and two flamecannon since it was a life saver on those minions that cant be targetted.
everytime i get a thaddius he topdecks a blizzard, fuck this rng
3 Taddius the best!
works great! used three tries only =) triple thaddeus did it.
First deck i've tried that actually made sense.
Did it on the third or fourth try. Fantastic considering this is F2P-ish. Great deck. Only thing that worked (I tried like 3-4 of the other popular decks and found them wildly inconsistent) finally won on fatigue.
Thanks!! I had no idea how I was going to beat Thaddius until I tried this deck and on only the 3rd try I got him.
Did the -2 Arcane -2 Bluegill, +2 Vaporize +2 Haunted Creeper sub. And those 4 cards were joint MVPs - Vaporized 2 Spectral Knights and Spectral Spiders drew heavy removal. Still suffered from 2 frozen Thaddius (Thaddii?) and the lethal was 2 fatigue damage.
Thanks again!
Just wanted to say thanks for posting this deck, took a few tries but that was because of bad draws.
I only changed one thing which was 2x Arcane Missiles for 2x Haunted Creeper. I feel this change is very important as he uses some of his removal (blizzard) on them rather than Thaddius and if he doesn't then he uses minions to trade so it saves hp.
win in my first try with this deck. i change bluegil for explosive sheep because gvg.
... FUCK IT I AM DONE!.....Stupid AI RNG so much sads right now. :(