Can Magma Rager be good?
- Last updated Dec 5, 2014 (GvG Prelaunch)
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Wild
- 28 Minions
- 2 Spells
- Deck Type: Theorycraft
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 2500
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 8/30/2014 (Naxx Launch)
- RevScarecrow
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Total Deck Rating
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No.
I tried I really did. I spent night after night trying to figure this guy out. I thought "Hey I'll make another silly gimmick deck" but no this card is actually more useless than my bachelors of fine arts. This card is the hearthstone equivalent to someone who gets surgery to have fake body builder muscles. They look tough until you take a swing and they go down like a sack of bricks.
LOOK AT THIS LOSER
Captains parrot trades better than he does because at least then you can get a kind of draw power out of it. He dies to everything. He is the alternate universe harvest golem. But instead of having a goatee and doing evil things he dies in one shot for absolutely no value. Literally not having a card in your deck would be better because at least then you could draw something good.
The only combo I could find that works with him is void terror. His most useful function is DYING.
He'd be an ok card if he just had ONE MORE HEALTH. Then he'd be playable and in fact kinda ok but right now he's that kid on the playground that all the teachers are worried might not pass kindergarten again.
Magma Rager is guy you take with you to a bar that is suppose to be your wing man but then totally tries to get with the girl you are chatting up. He comes over and says something weird like "Are you an angel because my arms sure are tired?" (yeah with a question mark) Then he spends the rest of the evening talking about how awesome he is because he used to be a little league baseball team's waterboy. THAT'S MAGMA RAGER.
Any slightly valid strategy you could have with him would work better with any other card. Think about it you could use a wisp+power overwelming+void terror for 4 mana! Is that bad? YEAH BUT ITS STILL BETTER ISN'T IT?
Magma rager is more of a disappointment to my life than finding out that Santa isn't real.
Side note: Do you know how soul crushing that was for me? I cried dude.
Combos:
Magma rager+ power overwhelming+Void terror: Kill him from your deck
Spam your hero power: End the suffering
Strategies
Call your mom. Tell her you love her.
Use the sorry command constantly no one deserves to have to deal with this.
Future improvements
Remove magma rager and replace him with literally any card.
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Edit: Video
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I had limited success with Magma rager pre-Warsong Commander nerf when everyone was doing the OTKs with Molten Giants. But that was way back in beta. Haven't given it a single thought until now. And even now, it's starting to give me a bit of a headache.
hilarious dude
I like to imagine this card came about after the devs had run out of ideas and just decided to roll 3 dice.
"So that's a three mana, five attack.......one health. Sure, why not"
I actually used this in constructed and to my surprise I won 4/5 games o.o this is actually a pretty good deck imo. Also, a suggestion is that if you don't have [card]Ragnaros the Firelord[/card] you could replace it with Shadowflame. 5 damage to all enemy minions is pretty good :)
That's the point. Killing off Magma Rager is key to this deck :)
Magma Rager/10, would play to Legend rank 1
Fun that you try this, but if the only thing this is usefull for is dieing, better would be a deathrattle craeture.
And the Ancient Watcher is in every way more superior, less situational.
Costs 1 less mana and has nearly as much attack as the magma rager,
Combos way better with void terror too, and can become a strong taunt when argused or sunfuryed.
That is where the quote "Remove magma rager and replace him with literally any card." is usefull
yeah that write up was really hilarious, thanks for the laugh
That was a humorous write-up.
Magma Rager -> Charge -> Cruel Taskmaster -> Cry
Or a Rogue deck with Master of Disguise/Conceal. But even if he's ok in these specific combos, he's still not worth including in a Charge or Stealth deck since he'll be so terrible all the times that you don't draw the combo.
Really Funny read! LOL
Lighten up.
Read the deck description. /Facepalm
Man, I was thinking along the same lines a few other days, like "It could trade with a Chillwind Yeti" or "it's safe behind a taunt", but nope. I tried it in arena (over two other bad cards), but all it did was die to a Swipe
Maybe try a paladin build with it all kinds of buffs and even protected by secrets at times
I liked this guide and died reading it, I was crying laughing. Also, it's by Rev.
Magma rager should go in the Rad bomber deck Kappa
Adding Shadowflame will make Magma Rager die with glory.
This is my new favorite deck.