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I think they just made the hero power oversynergistic. The discard mechanic should be more fair. Atm you don't give anything away in order to draw card. On the contrary, you get strong advantages - 3/3 Silverware Golem on turn 1..., 2 x 2/1 Boneweb Spider, etc.

Killmox, the Banished One is busted as well. Paired with Felosophy it just win games on his own. Needs to get only + 1/1 and become discardable. Would still be etxtremely strong as he is rush and lifesteal.

Total amount of epics in the set is 23. Transfer Student counts. So you need to be missing only 3 epics from the set if that helps you.

For example I miss Ancient Void Hound, Guardian Animals and Enchanted Cauldron and I have unlocked the 3rd treasure

Otherwise a single Aldor Peacekeeper would deal with the card :D

My opponent played buffed 12/12 Rattlegore. After I killed it, it ressurected as 8/8.

So you can conclude de/buffs don't count on Rattlegore. You can track the mana cost of the minion instead to predict precisely

IMO when you Shadowstep Leeroy it would always cost (3), despite previous reductions.

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This can also work as an anti-Bomb tech, because Bombs are spells.

Cool.

 You got me thinking about Hakkar, the Soulflayer shenanigans. Nonetheless it's always hard to pull off Hakkar combo.

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I'm honestly finding it interesting they're charging so much per back, especially when a vast majority of players are saving up gold for the next expansion that's supposed to hit pretty soon... I mean 500G is roughly a epic card, and the epic card at least affects gameplay somehow.

 You named it - it's their way to siphon gold out of the players, so they buy new exp content with real money.

Highlander mage has quite good matchup against Gala rogue in my opinion. According to my tracker in 90 games I faced rogue 9 times, won 7. Y

I doubt Blizz would make and expansion with hero cards for each class ever again and I don't believe they plan on making the number even so all classes have the same amount of hero cards. I guess we'll see some releases every now and then depending on the lore/story of the exp

I expect and hope we see some quest cards as well.

@Rradogs: In fact Scourgelord Garrosh saw play b/c the card was nuts against odd paladin and zoo lock

Wow, I have to admit some of you have impressive numbers :O I play since 2016 and my only accomplishment so far is Fire Mage Jaina lol Druid and hunter are lvl 30-40 only b/c of quests and PVE. Had around 20-ish arena wins thanks to free tickets every now and then, but lately I started playing more arena and I find it very refreshing after standard.

Тhe fact the deck is played means someone is enjoying it. I don't like it either but that doesn't mean anything. Sometimes I like to jam some casino mage which is quite hated by some. Some guys don't dig thief rogue/priest either. Yes, those decks aren't consistent, but they're quite fun, we have to deal with it.

You know there's a problem when playing against face hunter feels chill compared to matches against DH...

The art is from Alex Horley. He did ton of artwork for Blizz. He's author of both Gul'dan and Malfurion portraits /and regular Illidan/

Check his work out if you're interested.

http://www.alexhorleyart.com

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After playing Mage almost exclusively for last 2 weeks, I'd say 10 - drops are pretty much winmore. Yes, both Reno and Kalecgos are amazing cards. But the deck to beat is DH. If you live to turn 10, you are good, why would you need a 10 drop?

Who can afford to keep Blizzard in hand till turn 10? Unless you have just literally topdecked it, you probably had to use it already.

10-drops in Mage were used to combat Priest boards and Galakrond decks to some extent. But now DH is absolutely the most popular class in the game and Hunter seems to be competing for the 2nd spot lately. I wouldn't say Kalecgos is of any use in these match-ups.

I don't run Kalecgos or Reno or even Malygos. My late game vs control decks is Khadgar + Power of Creation / Conjurer's Calling / Tortollan Pilgrim combo + Dragonqueen Alexstrasza + Zephrys the Great. I don't think you need more late game. You need stuff to combat aggression.

Edit: Frogot about Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron and Solarian Prime.

 

 That line of thought is a bit flawed. Sure, you may face a lot of DH, and against any very aggressive deck, 10-drops like kalecgos are usually useless. But if you don't have cards like Reno (hero) and Kalecgos against non-aggro opponents, or even against a mirror, your deck becomes really unfavored to win.

 

 You can't win against everything. If you could this deck would be tier 1. Priest is 50-50 with or without Kalecgos. Galakrond Lock is very hard to win with or without it and Reno too.  Other than that I don't really know what "Control Decks" you mean, since vast majority of the meta is DH, followed by Hunter. Also both Lock and Priest are in a decline.

 

The deck already has tons of late-game. Alex + Khadgar combos + Solarian + Box + Zeph is plenty. This is not Warrior to drop 10-drop after 10-drop. Another thing is that Reno isn't really a threat. It's a board clear. Really late board clear. It's good basically only against Priest, maybe Big Druid (which I didn't see a single one in last 2 days). 

It's all about numbers. If you face mainly DH you build your deck to beat mainly DH. I'd rather have weaker occasional match-up, than my main match-up. 

 

In my experience Galalock is one of the most favorable matchups for Reno mage. Galalock has 2 mature win cons - Gala board, Dragonqueen board and two smaller -  Kronx and Zeph. You have plenty of resources for removing the boards the warlock creates w/ The Amazing Reno, Malygos's Flamestrike, Zephrys the Great, Rolling Fireball, spell dmg + Blizzard, nova + doomsayer, Reno the Relicologist, even simple minion trades, not to mention Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron and Solarian Prime as they're not as reliable. The rest is to keep out of Alex /set to 15/ + Gala claws + kronx battlecry. But sometimes Kronx is played to draw Gala. You just need to not play into warlock's board removal as he can swing easily with 1 mana board clear.

that's just like my opinion, man :)

You should have considered Barista :)