Hearthpwn

Hello, I'm playing this tempo mage right now and it got me to rank 5 last season, I'm looking for an update to my deck. until recently I ran it with:

-1 Sylvanas and +1 Azure Drake

just got a Toshley out of a pack from arena, I dont really like his Idea, but he might fit in. either way, if I disenchant it I will have enough to craft another legendary, which should I?

 Archmage Antonidas and Rhonin are looking like best options, but I might be looking for a neutral one to make it viable to other deck, what do you think? any suggestions will be nice (:

Definately craft Antonidas. He makes this deck so much better. Once you have him Toshley also becomes good/ok, since those lategame spare parts can be used to trigger him.

Afterwards craft Rhonin that guy is awesome.

ps. now you say you also want to craft neutral legends for other decks, im afraid we cant help you there since we dont know what you have or what you play. So my suggestions are solely based on Tempomage and those cards would make the deck a ton better.

Hi,

At the moment I believe that Toshley is too slow for the meta. Toshley is a card that works great with Archmage Antonidas and if you do not have him, Toshley is not good. I would craft Archmage Antonidas as it is a card that is used in most of the mage decks.

I have some other questions regarding your deck. How are the two Arcane Blasts working? You do not have that much spell damage boost, only one Azure Drake. I think one Arcane Blasts is enough for this deck. I would consider Bloodmage Thalnos in stead of Flamecannon in order to get another spell damage boost in the deck. (and more cycle) Then you can keep both Arcane Blasts. (your druid match-up might suffer from this change, but then you can change the Mirror Image into a second Arcane Missiles.)

Also Effigy is not ideal with Mad Scientists as you do not get that much value out of it. I would consider using Counterspell as it provides more tempo.

well, I will start from the end. Effigy was surprisingly good after I tried it, and goes very well with Kirin Tor Mage (and belcher)

but, right now im considering bringing back 1 azure drake and taking out effigy and kirin tor both. Counterspell might be a good replacement.

sadly, I havnt got Bloodmage Thalnos yet, and I dont think he will be my favorite crafting option.

If you want to know how it's going with those Arcane Blasts, well, its a great early removal, first turn block and works so good with Flamewaker (funniest thing when I got Malygos from an Unstable Portal and each of those made 12 dmg to take out enemy's taunts.

So I see Archmage is the thing, thanks for the opinions!

one more thing, I might combine Toshley with my Gazlowe to make a Mechmage comeback, Archmage is good for this kind of deck as well isnt it?

Antonidas is probably the 2nd best class legendary in the game. It's a staple.

If you're playing tempo mage, btw, then I don't know how well Sylvanas and a Sludge Belcher fit into the deck. While Sylvanas is a tier 1 legendary, it doesn't pressure the opponent as a tempo mage should be doing. Effigy isn't consistent enough to make it worthwhile.

You have 2 arcane blasts and only 1 azure drake to enhance spell damage btw.

 OK based on your opinions I updated the deck after crafting Antonidas.

basicly replaced sylvanas for archmage, counterspell for effigy as recommended up here and azure drake back for belcher... (gonna miss him)

any thoughts? 

 The deck is decent now. What you need to do now is play and tech accordingly to what you meet on the ladder.

As for the Toshley, Gazlowe combination I do not think it is strong enough. I just think that Archmage Antonidas is so much stronger.