Was playing Wild last night at level 10. Had the Maelstrom Quest so I was playing some Shaman thing with Spirit Claws and Totem Golems, with a decent win rate.
I played a Mage who opened with Amani Berserker. I thought - oh, another Enrage quest! Nope. She followed up with Chillwind Yeti, Water Elemental, and Ogrefist Boulder. What was next, Shattered Sun Cleric? Because my early hand was bad, I wasted prime removal on her early beefy minions. I got her down to 2 life then ran out of cards while her Ogre went to town and she had ample removal for my stuff.
My deck tracker showed that besides Kezan Mystic, all her cards were either Basic or a Common from the Classic set. This was really cool to see. I find rank 10 to be very competitive, even if the pros on this forum sniff at anything lower than 5. The basic-only Mage deck was pretty darn good when I was starting out, and I guess it can still be good.
Basic mage is quite powerful if played correctly. I think that is why they start all new players out with Mage to learn the game and its mechanics. So cool to hear that you saw this. :)
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Quit complaining and just have fun with this game!
Understand that the reason Standard exists is to keep cards on the same power level. The power level of the cards in Wild is high, because of the amount of minions that you have to kill multiple times, broken cards for certain classes (Muster for Battle), and a general absence of balancing make Wild true to its namesake. Go ahead and run a Standard deck, just don't be surprised when you get Lightbombed, Avenged, or Sludge Belchered to death and don't be surprised when they coin out a turn 6 Dr. Boom.
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"Speculation is foolish when the tools of certainty are available." —Cinna, Vedalken Consul
Some people try some other decks or maybe even try out how far they come with an basic deck. Mage is one of the better classes for it. In the long rum competitive, surely not, but Mage is one of the classes that have actually quite a lot of useable basic cards
More like : Possible for basic deck to win 1 game in wild.
sometimes even a well known pro lost vs rank 25 noob live on stream. HS is a card gảme sometimes you have best hand while your opponent full of Nzoth and Ràgs starting hand. You may win that game but you will lose other 9 games if you keep playing.
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Was playing Wild last night at level 10. Had the Maelstrom Quest so I was playing some Shaman thing with Spirit Claws and Totem Golems, with a decent win rate.
I played a Mage who opened with Amani Berserker. I thought - oh, another Enrage quest! Nope. She followed up with Chillwind Yeti, Water Elemental, and Ogrefist Boulder. What was next, Shattered Sun Cleric? Because my early hand was bad, I wasted prime removal on her early beefy minions. I got her down to 2 life then ran out of cards while her Ogre went to town and she had ample removal for my stuff.
My deck tracker showed that besides Kezan Mystic, all her cards were either Basic or a Common from the Classic set. This was really cool to see. I find rank 10 to be very competitive, even if the pros on this forum sniff at anything lower than 5. The basic-only Mage deck was pretty darn good when I was starting out, and I guess it can still be good.
Basic mage is quite powerful if played correctly. I think that is why they start all new players out with Mage to learn the game and its mechanics. So cool to hear that you saw this. :)
Quit complaining and just have fun with this game!
"Basic deck viable in Wild?"
no.
Understand that the reason Standard exists is to keep cards on the same power level. The power level of the cards in Wild is high, because of the amount of minions that you have to kill multiple times, broken cards for certain classes (Muster for Battle), and a general absence of balancing make Wild true to its namesake. Go ahead and run a Standard deck, just don't be surprised when you get Lightbombed, Avenged, or Sludge Belchered to death and don't be surprised when they coin out a turn 6 Dr. Boom.
"Speculation is foolish when the tools of certainty are available." —Cinna, Vedalken Consul
Some people try some other decks or maybe even try out how far they come with an basic deck. Mage is one of the better classes for it. In the long rum competitive, surely not, but Mage is one of the classes that have actually quite a lot of useable basic cards
Frostbolt, Fireball, Arcane Missiles, Water Elemental, Polymorph, Flamestrike are strong basic cards, so mage is definitively one of the cheaper classes.
Also i don't think that playing in Wild even without an big card pool is wrong.
More like : Possible for basic deck to win 1 game in wild.
sometimes even a well known pro lost vs rank 25 noob live on stream. HS is a card gảme sometimes you have best hand while your opponent full of Nzoth and Ràgs starting hand. You may win that game but you will lose other 9 games if you keep playing.