Let's make thew new mage Legendary work like a charm!
So my dear mage players/lovers, I am sure you all are play testing all the possibilities, as we all do every expansion. Thus far I am yet to see a deck that makes full use of Archmage Arugal mostly cause it's used in elemental based decks which are slow, hard to use all the extra value and you get out tempo or aggro by everything else.
Here is where I ask for your help, lets try making a deck (theroycraft and play test) version of decks that base them selves on Archmage Arugal , but lets not focus completely on elemental synergy plox :)
My 1st version of it is called "Spiteful Archmage Arugal" . //note don't have all the cards so this was built and based on some funny results without Archmage Arugal and Book of Specters//
The thing is I've manged to beat deck with it, that made me laugh and later think to actually build an legit deck. Early game aggression in combination with Fungalmancer if you get it and later on tempo with Spiteful Summoner poses problems for some decks that are on ladder atm (not that I am high ranked, rank 11 atm but still). If that fails and you get swarmed, you have clears and if my theory is correct, Archmage Arugal+Book of Specters draw (with maybe Leyline Manipulator) can swing you back right in fast. On top of that you do have some elemental potential synergy with Frost Lich Jaina (to stabilize if it drags on) and occasional proc from Steam Surger that gives you that one extra ping if you can get in on curve, if not well 5/4 is not bad of a tempo play.
Pyroblast are here for Spiteful proc and a finisher.
Again, I am missing 2 key cards Archmage Arugal+Book of Specterstho even w/o them it's looking good. So would really like some feed back.
I can understand where you are coming from with the Book of Specters and all that, but it makes Spiteful Summoner a LOT worse. 1/4th of your spells is going to result in a 2 drop, which doesn't sound that bad, but having that chance of winning the game drop just isn't worth it in my opinion. Mossy Horror also is a little weird.
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I don't have something witty about this deck, I just like it because Malygos is fun.
Yeah it can be worse, but as shown from Thijs, even 1/2 is strong. But he made a deck based on dropping early giants. Book of Specters is here to fill your hand with Arhcmage, or simply to fill your had when you drop everything early on. Burning spells is also not a huge problem.
I was playing Elemental Mage with Archmage Arugal on Rank 5 and had a 55%+ Winrate which was pretty good but if u face too much aggro u won´t even get a consistent 50%+ Winrate. The problem about the Archmage Arugal / Book of Specters Deck idea is how RNG based it is against aggro since u need ur taunts early on to generate value with Archmage Arugal
That's why I am asking you folks to flood this post with ideas, decks and what not you played so far :D! I am simply not satisfied with mage having at best tier 2 deck again in this expansion. When all settles, we are all aware that dude paladin is not gone and Warlock is still here.
So really want to see if we can build something good with this cause I think Toki, Time-Tinker is a bad card So building decks around it is horrible. "Crow mage" is not consistent enough for me.
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Let's make thew new mage Legendary work like a charm!
So my dear mage players/lovers, I am sure you all are play testing all the possibilities, as we all do every expansion.
Thus far I am yet to see a deck that makes full use of Archmage Arugal mostly cause it's used in elemental
based decks which are slow, hard to use all the extra value and you get out tempo or aggro by everything else.
Here is where I ask for your help, lets try making a deck (theroycraft and play test) version of decks that base them
selves on Archmage Arugal , but lets not focus completely on elemental synergy plox :)
My 1st version of it is called "Spiteful Archmage Arugal" .
//note don't have all the cards so this was built and based on some funny results without Archmage Arugal and Book of Specters//
The thing is I've manged to beat deck with it, that made me laugh and later think to actually build an legit deck.
Early game aggression in combination with Fungalmancer if you get it and later on tempo with Spiteful Summoner
poses problems for some decks that are on ladder atm (not that I am high ranked, rank 11 atm but still).
If that fails and you get swarmed, you have clears and if my theory is correct, Archmage Arugal+Book of Specters draw (with maybe Leyline Manipulator) can swing you back right in fast.
On top of that you do have some elemental potential synergy with Frost Lich Jaina (to stabilize if it drags on) and occasional proc from Steam Surger that gives you that one extra ping if you can get in on curve, if not well 5/4 is not bad of a tempo play.
Pyroblast are here for Spiteful proc and a finisher.
Again, I am missing 2 key cards Archmage Arugal+Book of Specters tho even w/o them it's looking good. So would really like some feed back.
I can understand where you are coming from with the Book of Specters and all that, but it makes Spiteful Summoner a LOT worse. 1/4th of your spells is going to result in a 2 drop, which doesn't sound that bad, but having that chance of winning the game drop just isn't worth it in my opinion. Mossy Horror also is a little weird.
I don't have something witty about this deck, I just like it because Malygos is fun.
Yeah it can be worse, but as shown from Thijs, even 1/2 is strong. But he made a deck based on dropping early giants.
Book of Specters is here to fill your hand with Arhcmage, or simply to fill your had when you drop everything early on.
Burning spells is also not a huge problem.
Burning Spells isn't an issue in my opinion. The issue is playing a 6 mana 4/4 and getting a crummy two drop minion since there are a ton of them.
I don't have something witty about this deck, I just like it because Malygos is fun.
I was playing Elemental Mage with Archmage Arugal on Rank 5 and had a 55%+ Winrate which was pretty good but if u face too much aggro u won´t even get a consistent 50%+ Winrate. The problem about the Archmage Arugal / Book of Specters Deck idea is how RNG based it is against aggro since u need ur taunts early on to generate value with Archmage Arugal
That's why I am asking you folks to flood this post with ideas, decks and what not you played so far :D!
I am simply not satisfied with mage having at best tier 2 deck again in this expansion.
When all settles, we are all aware that dude paladin is not gone and Warlock is still here.
So really want to see if we can build something good with this cause I think Toki, Time-Tinker is a bad card
So building decks around it is horrible.
"Crow mage" is not consistent enough for me.