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Essentially I've been seeing some interesting decks running around for tempo mage but I thought of my own list.

Basically the core of this deck is the silvername's variant I guess? (core as in all mage cards)

I swapped somethings out and in just to get better results

I play the blood mage and barnes still and azure drakes since they are pretty solid

I play 2 gad auctioneers for their draw power instead of 1

 I play 2 bullies since they are good turn 4-5 drops depending on coin and generate coins really well for gad or your other minions that like coins (4/6 is also really hard to deal with without a spell)

Malygos and thaurissan. Basically how you easily win against reno decks and can cheese jade druids when they set up an impossible board to beat in the later turns.  (can be replaced with archmage if you feel its better)

Deck can suffer against aggro pirate and sometimes miracle(unless it out paces miracle that is)

Aggro can be beat however with decent mulligan like sorc apren + mirror images and then just starving them board control. 

 (can also imagine struggling against reno mage if they get reno and ice block before you can beat them but bully is pretty good against that mage decklist)

Looks cool but do you get enough out of malygos seeing as mage doesn't have enough cheaper burst spells to use him with? Fireballs are too expensive even with the thaurissan discount. Frostbolt is too.  I know the later game board clear is there and that's great but what's your win condition?  I love the idea though. Been trying my own tempo style mage that's been OK. I like the effort to try something new.  

Quote from s2mikey >>

Looks cool but do you get enough out of malygos seeing as mage doesn't have enough cheaper burst spells to use him with? Fireballs are too expensive even with the thaurissan discount. Frostbolt is too.  I know the later game board clear is there and that's great but what's your win condition?  I love the idea though. Been trying my own tempo style mage that's been OK. I like the effort to try something new.  

I switched off to using atonidas at one point but I will say I really had liked using Malygos since it was way stronger in control match ups.

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Quote from s2mikey >>

Looks cool but do you get enough out of malygos seeing as mage doesn't have enough cheaper burst spells to use him with? Fireballs are too expensive even with the thaurissan discount. Frostbolt is too.  I know the later game board clear is there and that's great but what's your win condition?  I love the idea though. Been trying my own tempo style mage that's been OK. I like the effort to try something new.  

How do you mean now enough cheap burst? He's running 2 x frostbolt, 2 x icelance, 2 x arcane missles. If you hit these with emperor then you can Malygos burst for 2x8 + 2x9+2x8=16+18+16=50 damage. Seems enough to me (of course I realize arcane missiles don't necessarily go face, but still).

Sadly can't try out this list, as I don't own malygos, nor Antonidas, but looks fun!

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I refuse to call tempo deck to a deck with Arcane Intellect.

 

Deck looks cool though.

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Quote from Denegaar >>

I refuse to call tempo deck to a deck with Arcane Intellect.

 

Deck looks cool though.

 Almost all Tempo Mage lists run double Arcane Intellect though.

I like this deck but it loses to tempo alot, especially when playing opponents like dragon priest.

Ice block is real champion at setting up lethal when the board is lost. Also, as stated with maly and Emperor in the deck you've built a combo deck, not a tempo deck (even if tempo traits are there).

The win condition is dependant on maly and burn spells being played the same turn. If maly gets killed in a setup turn your pretty much F'd. 

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Bully Tempo Mage Tempo Mage Deck by KitsuneRTC - Feb 14, 2017 View Deck String Export to BBCode Export to Cockatrice Export to MarkDown Export to Html Clone this deck
Minion (16) 1x Barnes 1x Bloodmage Thalnos 1x Emperor Thaurissan 1x Malygos 2x Burgly Bully 2x Azure Drake 2x Flamewaker 2x Gadgetzan Auctioneer 2x Mana Wyrm 2x Sorcerer's Apprentice	Ability (14) 2x Arcane Blast 2x Ice Lance 2x Arcane Intellect 2x Freezing Potion 2x Arcane Missiles 2x Frostbolt 2x Mirror Image
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Essentially I've been seeing some interesting decks running around for tempo mage but I thought of my own list.

Basically the core of this deck is the silvername's variant I guess? (core as in all mage cards)

I swapped somethings out and in just to get better results

I play the blood mage and barnes still and azure drakes since they are pretty solid

I play 2 gad auctioneers for their draw power instead of 1

 I play 2 bullies since they are good turn 4-5 drops depending on coin and generate coins really well for gad or your other minions that like coins (4/6 is also really hard to deal with without a spell)

Malygos and thaurissan. Basically how you easily win against reno decks and can cheese jade druids when they set up an impossible board to beat in the later turns.  (can be replaced with archmage if you feel its better)

 

Deck can suffer against aggro pirate and sometimes miracle(unless it out paces miracle that is)

Aggro can be beat however with decent mulligan like sorc apren + mirror images and then just starving them board control. 

 (can also imagine struggling against reno mage if they get reno and ice block before you can beat them but bully is pretty good against that mage decklist)

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Bully Tempo Mage Tempo Mage Deck by KitsuneRTC - Feb 14, 2017 View Deck String Export to BBCode Export to Cockatrice Export to MarkDown Export to Html Clone this deck
Minion (16) 1x Barnes 1x Bloodmage Thalnos 1x Emperor Thaurissan 1x Malygos 2x Burgly Bully 2x Azure Drake 2x Flamewaker 2x Gadgetzan Auctioneer 2x Mana Wyrm 2x Sorcerer's Apprentice	Ability (14) 2x Arcane Blast 2x Ice Lance 2x Arcane Intellect 2x Freezing Potion 2x Arcane Missiles 2x Frostbolt 2x Mirror Image
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Essentially I've been seeing some interesting decks running around for tempo mage but I thought of my own list.

Basically the core of this deck is the silvername's variant I guess? (core as in all mage cards)

I swapped somethings out and in just to get better results

I play the blood mage and barnes still and azure drakes since they are pretty solid

I play 2 gad auctioneers for their draw power instead of 1

 I play 2 bullies since they are good turn 4-5 drops depending on coin and generate coins really well for gad or your other minions that like coins (4/6 is also really hard to deal with without a spell)

Malygos and thaurissan. Basically how you easily win against reno decks and can cheese jade druids when they set up an impossible board to beat in the later turns.  (can be replaced with archmage if you feel its better)

 

Deck can suffer against aggro pirate and sometimes miracle(unless it out paces miracle that is)

Aggro can be beat however with decent mulligan like sorc apren + mirror images and then just starving them board control. 

 (can also imagine struggling against reno mage if they get reno and ice block before you can beat them but bully is pretty good against that mage decklist)

 I just realized that there are a lot of cards from freeze mage. May I please have an explanation as to why that's the case?  I love the deck, I just want to clarify.

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Bully Tempo Mage Tempo Mage Deck by KitsuneRTC - Feb 14, 2017 View Deck String Export to BBCode Export to Cockatrice Export to MarkDown Export to Html Clone this deck
Minion (16) 1x Barnes 1x Bloodmage Thalnos 1x Emperor Thaurissan 1x Malygos 2x Burgly Bully 2x Azure Drake 2x Flamewaker 2x Gadgetzan Auctioneer 2x Mana Wyrm 2x Sorcerer's Apprentice	Ability (14) 2x Arcane Blast 2x Ice Lance 2x Arcane Intellect 2x Freezing Potion 2x Arcane Missiles 2x Frostbolt 2x Mirror Image
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Essentially I've been seeing some interesting decks running around for tempo mage but I thought of my own list.

Basically the core of this deck is the silvername's variant I guess? (core as in all mage cards)

I swapped somethings out and in just to get better results

I play the blood mage and barnes still and azure drakes since they are pretty solid

I play 2 gad auctioneers for their draw power instead of 1

 I play 2 bullies since they are good turn 4-5 drops depending on coin and generate coins really well for gad or your other minions that like coins (4/6 is also really hard to deal with without a spell)

Malygos and thaurissan. Basically how you easily win against reno decks and can cheese jade druids when they set up an impossible board to beat in the later turns.  (can be replaced with archmage if you feel its better)

 

Deck can suffer against aggro pirate and sometimes miracle(unless it out paces miracle that is)

Aggro can be beat however with decent mulligan like sorc apren + mirror images and then just starving them board control. 

 (can also imagine struggling against reno mage if they get reno and ice block before you can beat them but bully is pretty good against that mage decklist)

 I just realized that there are a lot of cards from freeze mage. May I please have an explanation as to why that's the case?  I love the deck, I just want to clarify.

 It's just how the deck works. Cheap spells work well with sorc/flamewaker/gad

ice lance/frost bolt just happen to be some cheap spells

malygos is generally there to put down midrange decks late game who need burst to finish off.

I think forgotten torch would be a pretty quality addition here, especially since you don't run fireballs. Good early game removal that can lead to efficient late game removal/burst

Quote from Lipophob >>

I think your list pretty greedy vs. aggro decks. I mean double Freezing Potion and Ice Lance are gonna be "dead cards" against aggro compared to potential double Doomsayer. Also your only legit turn-4-plays are Barnes, coin into 5-drop or some Flamewaker combo. Imo you are trying too many things with this list, you are trying very early game and miracle-like midgame with burst-finisher-lategame. I can see this working at lower ranks pretty well, but it should be exploited later on better ranks...

If you wanna play with combo-type version I would suggest adding double Doomsayer for the early game and those basic mage spells (Fireball, Flamestrike, just too good..) plus Rhonin for the classic lategame combo with Malygos.

Otherwise, tempo lists like this will have more value imo:

Tempo Mage Tempo Mage Deck by Lipophob - Mar 8, 2017 View Deck String Export to BBCode Export to Cockatrice Export to MarkDown Export to Html Clone this deck
Minion (15) 1x Archmage Antonidas 1x Barnes 1x Bloodmage Thalnos 1x Burgly Bully 2x Azure Drake 1x Babbling Book 2x Flamewaker 1x Water Elemental 2x Mana Wyrm 2x Sorcerer's Apprentice 1x Acolyte of Pain	Ability (15) 1x Arcane Blast 1x Flamestrike 2x Arcane Intellect 2x Fireball 2x Firelands Portal 1x Forgotten Torch 2x Arcane Missiles 2x Frostbolt 2x Mirror Image
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