King is quite greedy. Reno Mage wins many matchups by just curving out. Barista is the sounder choice.
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TardisGreen posted a message on Lynchen or Phaoris in Reno Mage?Posted in: Card Discussion -
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TardisGreen posted a message on Blizzard’s logic center - does one even exist?Posted in: General DiscussionQuote from ThreeOfFifteen >>Yes fanboy. Any criticism belongs in the salt thread except there is no salt here. But congratulations on being the 10,000th member to post that link. Here’s a cookie.
Pure salt. But all you do is bitch and moan anyway,
Regardless of where you stick it, your posts are total rubbish. Nobody gives a chit what you have to say.
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Idwiz posted a message on Group therapy! Need to blow off steam? Mega salty? Here is the place! V2Posted in: General DiscussionIf you wait until after you've won to quickly "greet" your opponent, you are a f*cking piece of sh*t pussy.
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Trandorio posted a message on ** Highlander Mage - Zephrys Revenge **Posted in: ** Highlander Mage - Zephrys Revenge **The problem with people that have a lot of legendaries is they sometimes don't include a lot of thought into deckbuilding and they just throw in a card because it SEEMS good right?, i thought it was only a thing in wild, this deck can easily be made without at least 5 legendaries(Archmage Arugal,Luna's Pocket Galaxy,Kalecgos,Barista Lynchen,Siamat, and Alexstrasza) I was even generous enough to leave Khadgar in because unlike most greedy lists like this i've seen you are playing Conjurer's Calling AND Power of Creation where most lists i personally have seen only run khadgar with just power of creation. Reno the Relicologist is not a card that i have played or seen played but i have a soft spot in my heart for it as a "Meteorologist that always deals 10 damage.
I disagree with you on every count. :D Are there suitable alternatives? Sure. But all of these legs are valuable to the deck archetype and felt very useful when I play them. The deck you are building towards is much more aggressive, and I reckon you wouldn't even need to do a singleton deck. Just stick to burn mage, as you said you played before.
Your playstyle seems to be tilted towards the aggressive, whereas my goal is to win by turn 20. The current meta allows for this slower style currently. Many decks I face on ladder are not straight aggro decks. Mage, Paladin Warrior are all kind of slow.
With this in mind:
Archmage Arugal is useful as bait on turn 2, as opponents will want to remove it quickly. Later it is great when you combine it with Luna's Pocket Galaxy or Arcane Intellect. Gives you really sweet combos your opponent usually cannot foresee.
Luna's Pocket Galaxy is just a plain solid choice. Given, it is hard to find the time to play it facing aggro, but in all other matches it will start pulling its own weight 2 or 3 turns after you played it. It is just important then that you can stall the game long enough until you outvalue your opponent.
Well how can we stall the game then?Siamat is awesome for that. It's a 6/6 Taunt Divine Shield to slow the opponent. If there's 2 big minions on the field, Rush and Windfury can take care of them. Just one minion? Rush and Divine Shield has you covered. I never play this card aggressively. Siamat is there to bring me back when I fall behind.
So the last thing we need is value.Barista Lynchen has got you covered. 4/5 at turn 5 is decent enough to play and keep you in the game. so the question just is, how much value can you manage to squeeze out? Zephrys the Great , Vulpera Scoundrel,Reno the Relicologist and Meteorologist are all great single targets to copy. But having a 1 mana copy of a minion and then copying multiple of these insane battlecry minions will easily swing a game in your favour. Would definitely miss Barrista in the deck if she were replaced.
Kalecgos is insanely strong as you can get additional removal, freeze, card draw or a Conjurer's Calling. It often helps you get that one additional turn that you need to get lethal.
Alexstrasza is just an added bonus and generally strong card. Usually with Reno the Relicologist and Meteorologist along with Blizzard, Flamestrike you can easily delay until turn 9, where you can potentially use it defensively. I tend to not use it that way though. Oftentimes, opponents will overcommit to the board when you drop below 15 health. With the good removal options this deck has, you can oftentimes empty their board and put some stats on your side. The next turn you can Alex for a 2-turn lethal, or in some games have direct lethal ( 1-Mana Alex to 15, from turn before Reno for 4, 5-mana Pyro for 10, Heropower for lethal). Really satisfying.
Generally speaking, I agree with your sentiment, that many legendaries dont make a deck better. All of these cards are situationally great though. So unless there's a better alternative, I would not throw these out just because.
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Elementalcore100 posted a message on ** Highlander Mage - Zephrys Revenge **Posted in: ** Highlander Mage - Zephrys Revenge **I made several changes to the deck that I discuss in the video, but basically they were taking out the Barista, the archmage, the keysmith, the sand witch, AND Khadgar (although thinking about putting him back in) for King Phaoris, the golden scarab, the messenger raven, stargazer luna, and frost nova. I think these changes allow the deck to function more consistently, have better early plays that keep me alive rather than very slow combo builders that get me blown out by aggro but beat control a little harder, and just feel smoother cause I have more cards I can play sooner. Happy to discuss all these changes with anyone who wants hope you all enjoy the gameplay, the base deck was very good.
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RispyCrisp posted a message on Group therapy! Need to blow off steam? Mega salty? Here is the place! V2Posted in: General DiscussionMurloc Paladin, you win if you can play prismatic lens on 4, such skill!
Also of course the "new" taunt warrior is just an upgraded control warrior which is even more frustrating to play against.
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Trandorio posted a message on ** Highlander Mage - Zephrys Revenge **Posted in: ** Highlander Mage - Zephrys Revenge **Fun. Played only a couple rounds. As is usual with highlander decks, sometimes your draws just suck. But compared to the old reno highlander deck, this has a lot of versatility and plenty of options. I played it on ladder in Rank 10 and managed to climb to Rank 8 within the hour.
Other decks can certainly be competitive at a much lower dust cost. Since I already had all of the cards, it was well worth my time. Thx. :)
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clawz161 posted a message on ** Highlander Mage - Zephrys Revenge **Posted in: ** Highlander Mage - Zephrys Revenge **Upvoted deck btw
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TianBao posted a message on New expansion - already bored?Posted in: General DiscussionFor me, the new expansion has brought so many cool cards for wild. I enjoy it even more. I dont care about rankings. I am here to have fun :D
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TheOnlyVendetta posted a message on Group therapy! Need to blow off steam? Mega salty? Here is the place! V2Posted in: General DiscussionFuck all those cunts who play ladder decks in casual
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Because it's a dumb question. Big Mage is a counter to Control Warrior.
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"when playing Control Warrior"
LOL.
My advice would be to suck it up, buttercup.
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Imagine being a warrior player and unironically acting like an elitist about it.
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Highlander Mage destroys Warrior.
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Nope. I've had a lot of success against aggro with this list. Went from 7 to 3 over the last couple of days. Murloc, zoo and Hunter lists with over 65% winrate. Keysmith on 4 literally always gives you a clear for aggro, Zephyrs gives you an answer and coin blastwave is another clear. Vulpera is also extremely strong against aggro.
The whole point of this list against aggro is the comeback game. They can do damage to you early but you have turn after turn after turn of clears until they can't keep up. Some VERY fast lists with the nuts draw can get you but them getting you down to to 15 or 10 by turn 4 or 5 is not a big issue when they are completely shut out of the game until you zilliax, alex.
The mana curve is high but the comebacks are overwhelming. Play the deck first. This has a positive winrate against the popular aggro right now.
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I'm enjoying my Highlander Mage Deck and I've had fun playing around with the different archetypes. Quest Shaman seems particularly strong but I don't think anything is outright broken or too frustrating with a lot of viable decks out there right now.
I agree with what others are saying. You're burned out on Hearthstone. I've been playing since Beta and this happens to me periodically. Take a couple of weeks off and do other stuff, play other games. I often find a break reignites my interest.
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The meta being solved too quickly is just a factor of the success of the game and the vast numbers that play it. I hope they make it a staple of the game that they go back and buff lacklustre cards from the previous expansion once the new meta starts to get stale. That was a truly great idea from Team5 and it should happen every expansion.
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Captain Hooktusk says hi.
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Leeroy as well. Hardly consistent with the rest of the art style. It's nonsense, of course, just a really poor excuse.
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Ironically control mage is probably not a bad bet.