Control Burn Mage - Top 4 LEGEND
- Last updated Nov 2, 2017 (Triggered)
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Wild
- 10 Minions
- 19 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Burn Mage
- Crafting Cost: 10020
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 11/2/2017 (Triggered)
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Amazing deck! Hit rank 5 from rank 8 in less than 2 hours ( and is a slow deck)! Thank you :D
The Baron synergy for Heal is extraordinary
P.S. For those who use this deck!!! Almost NEVER go face. It's not burn mage. Is mostly control. If you go late you have more 80% chances to win! At first I made this mistake and I lost almost in every deck when I decided to go face
- baron - meteor +2 doomsayer (i don't have baron and have only one meteor). - spellbender (i don't like it) + pyroblast, i advise everyone to play it, it gave me ez wins many times, no one expects it, people still think they are safe at 10 pv and don't play around (it was played in the old burn mage and was a must have). It works well atm, only one loss (against secret mage) from rank 11 to rank 8 (beaten mirror, jade/aggro druid, tempo rogue, control/aggro warlock, mid hunter, murloc pala, control warrior, control pala)
Sadly, I believe this deck may have experienced its rise and fall in popularity. Starting to see it conquered by the very decks it is obviously constructed to counter: jade druid via Eater of Secrets , many aggro decks which have abandoned their complete reliance on Patches the Pirate . I'm not entirely sure whether I've just had a very unlucky set of 20 games, but when this deck was published, it worked beautifully for me. Since hitting front page on Hearthpwn, however, I believe it may have been played out.
Agreed. I was cruising along at ~58% WR with it, but in the past several days i've fallen down to the 30s with it. It's still good when it works, but I always feel like I'm on the ropes and if you don't draw exactly what you need to last another couple turns you're dead.
This seems to be the current state as well. You fall behind so fast that it's not possible to recover enough to play the big cards without getting lethal.
Great Deck !!!
Edit 20-11-17: Now at rank 12, haven't played that much but got 62% winrate.
I have played 33 games with this deck - got from 20 - 15 with a 61% win rate.
My new favorite card is skulking geist - it is beautiful when you destroy Jade druids and evolve Shamans in round 5 (with coin). I have been having a hard time against hunters, but all in all this is a solid deck (for me at least).
the Geist is good against Priests too, as someone mentioned, it takes a bit of their machine gun capacity. Altough I yet have a way to find to beat Raza priest with this deck after he gets his combo pieces.
I was actually surprised how good this deck holds up against BIG druid which is a very popular choice in the upper ranks this season.
nice deck, see a lot in the rank, so I decided to try
here my 3 win streaks using this game (reversed order because last game is the best) vs warlock, agro druid, jade druid
-1 meteor +1 bubbling. enjoy :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL4DY7PpKEs&feature=youtu.be
This deck has been very popular as of lately. Good time to be climbing with priests I guess.
In my opinion you can try Blizzard instead of Geddon. Out of now ~50 Games the heal from Geddon safed me in 4 games. Most of the time i play Baron Geddon as a Control Minion to fight for the Board. Blizzard seems good against Zoo. I dont see any replacements for Alexstrasza. The flexibility of either rescue yourself or push a lot of damage in your Opponents face is to good.
Alexstrasza is irreplaceable here IMO
Baron Geddon can be replaced by Volcanic Potion as people wrote below.
There are several classic legendaries that will probably always be used in certain archetypes (or at least quite often), such as Alexstrasza, Leeroy Jenkins, Bloodmage Thalnos etc. You should craft them all eventualy.
As were my beloved ones Dr. Boom and Sylvannas, the Windrunner! :(
Out of 10-12 games Baron Geddon has saved me or healed me up out of range for my block to be popped maybe 4 times. That's a low amount of games and high luck to draw him and be able to play him in the right situations but I came here just to make this comment. The last game I was at 1 hp against a secret mage. He had 3 minions up and I had my one Water Elemental up from Frost Lich Jaina. Hit face to heal me to 4 and Geddon healed me up to 16 and cleared his board at the same time. He then said well played and conceded. Both of those cards are classic set cards and will not be cycled out unless they are moved to hall of fame in which case you will be refunded the full amount. If you can spare the dust craft them. Craft Alex first, then Geddon.
This Deck is awesome. It does really well for me. Last Season i hit Legend with Tempo Mage, this Season with Burn Mage.
Priest is an easy Matchup if they´re not going 4-5-8-7 Mindblast. Druid is also really good Matchup, the Skulking Geist won me a lot of games against Druid and Priest. I always keep it in my opening Hand against them. All cards in this Deck are feeling super valueble.
Good Work!!
I want to Edit: I am currently 8-1 vs Priest, 5-0 vs Druid, 4-2 vs Rogue. Zoolock seems to be a bit hard since they´re curving out extremly powerful most of the time. Currently 50-50 Matchup for me. Mana Wyrm helps a lot there as you might know. Against Quest Mage its kinda funny, i try to get 1 Drop 2 Drop Secret and then i start shooting all ive got in the Face. If you manage to proc them first which isnt that hard you win even if they complete the Quest.
!! I will not change the List because of some Zoolocks, you can win the Matchup, its imho not good to change a well made Decklist just because you loose some games. I dont mind it as long the Winrate is over ~65% which it is easily at the Moment. I hope to meet many Mirrors on the Ladder, will be cool Control Matches :)
90% of a time, my doomsayer gets cleared. + if u combo it with Frost Nova (for eg) it turns out you wasted 5 mana. Yes, you stalled one turn, but if u have non of follow up clear you are in deep problem, enemy will only stack dmg.
Also this decklist does not have Freeze like Blizzard or Frost Nova.
Mage to me was always like kind of 'reactive deck' where you react on your opponents plays. Clearing board, until you can maintain it using Ice Block on board, Jaina etc. Scenarios are huge.
One thing is clear. This deck is heavy to pilot with. You need to think.
I honestly tell you Doomsayer is not needed. Also playing with no Baron Geddon, having 60% win ratio from rank 9-3 last season.
Cheers!
edit. Yeah, this deck is not clear BURN MAGE, its more Controlish. It's primarily Control actually. Added burn like fireballs and firelands are just flavor. You could cut that and make it more freeze with your Doomsayers, Blizzards, Frost Novas... It's just part of what you like and what fits your play.
I like little burn, so i can go from full defense to full aggressive with Alex and cards that i mentioned.
After extensive use, its is more likely a bottom 4 half as bad as control half as bad as aggro mage
Don't waste your time/dust; absolute trash deck
Advice to everybody who just copy the list - you should try to tweak it to your local meta. My experience is that I meet a much bigger number of Zoolocks at my rank than Jades, so for me it's wise to let's say put +1 Volcanic potion/Blizzard, -1 Skulking geist (this also helps for Token druid matchup). For Control mage Skulking Geist is included when meta was flooded with jade cancer, but their number has significantly lowered over time since the nerf (now I meet more Warlocks and Priests on ladder than Jade Druids).
Control mage is hard to play now since the meta is very aggresive and you often won't be able to survive until you draw Jaina, so tweak your deck according to what you meet on lader and try to use your removals as efficient as possible.