Hearthpwn

Hey guys, quick question, which may be more complicated than I realize, is Exodia Quest Mage better than a classic style burn/freeze mage with Alexstrasza and Archmage Antonidas to refresh any Fireballs you used for board control? 

I see the differences being 1: Exodia always kills given the combo and can generally run a little more card draw

2: Burn mage is weak to heal/armor but actually puts a few minions on the board if you run Firelands Portal and then Alex might survive. You pretty much have to use her while you still have an Ice Block up though, so that's a bit tricky sometimes. I'm playing this list right now, would love some critiques on it.

I did run a second Pyroblast over Yogg-Saron, Hope's End and a Medivh's Valet for each Firelands Portal since I needed more burn against some decks, but Yogg-Saron ends up not saving me most of the time but by then Pyroblast couldn't get the job done either,

oh,Medivh, the Guardian feels kinda slow sometimes, I'd love suggestions to replace him since I see that if I can play him, I'm already gonna win.

Burn mage is better all day long, against exodia mage is just a matter of switching mentality as soon as your opponent plays the quest, I play a lot of Highlander priest (which is really one of the very very very few match-ups that are supposed to be good for quest mage) and when my opponent plays quest my control priest deck switches to a smorc priest, just go face with every card you have, maximize face damage every turn, and pop the ice blocks as fast as you can, that way in most games the quest mage just concedes when out of blocks or they go for the hail mary quest completion, get extra turn and pray they draw the part of the combo they're missing, sometimes it works for them, most of the time it doesn't.

Exodia, the only thing burn mage is better is against heavy agro

Btw try switch curator to hemet . Its pretty good at 10-5

1, I don't have Hemet, 2 The Curator always gets Alex and has taunt so no way.

What do you do when priest heals back to 30 after Alex? What do you do when druid casually armors up for 25 with 2 1-mana spells? Your only decent matchups would be rogues and warlocks, but if you go after them it's better to use control mage anyway.

Exodia mage, on the other hand, provides a neat counterbalance to priests and big druids.