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The devs need to seriously rework arena. Right now every deck is absolutely insane.  Now, you see better decks at 1-1 and 1-2 than you used to see at 11-1 or 11-2.  Heck, at 1-2 I just saw a tunnel trogg-totem golem-power mace opening hand. When card quality is lower, skill is at more of a premium.  When card quality and decks are insane, that is when you get people who win by skillfully drafting 5x Talon Priest, 4x Spikeridged, etc

THe Best secret mage decks, (the ones with the Highest win rates) don't run Entity. Generally, if their deck includes Mirror Entity then that means they are using an inferior version of the deck.

Also, even if the run it there is no guarantee the draw it to start the game and it isn't too difficult to test for.

I played Reno Mage to Legend and I completely rolled over Secret Mages.  Drawing either Secret Eater or Original Reno were basically auto GG. New Reno clears their board, Zephyrs can destroy their secrets or give you healing, etc. They also often have no chance if you land an early giant since either they struggle to kill it or have to waste important burn cards trying to kill it. I even fatigued some to death after they played Aluneth

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It isn't designed to be an arena card. It basically serves as a Frost Nova type card designed to stall for a turn.  

I could see a freeze mage or silence priest deck use it

 

Why on earth would Freeze Mage play this? They have actual freezes that work.

 You can't use the same Frost Nova 4x in a game. 

I reached Legend today, going from 20-Legend with my 2x Reno Deck. I dont track win rate but would guess it was around 70%? The deck pretty much rolled through ranks 3-1 except for 2x losing in my last Rank 1 match before finally reaching Legend on attempt #3

People keep talking about Mage/Warrior but forget that Divine Spirit and Prismatic Lens are both big problems that need to be addressed

Control Warrior being so good makes Lunas seem better than it probably is. 

Control Warrior being so popular pushes out a lot of aggro decks.  Against a good aggro deck, Mage players would be taking a huge risk doing nothing on Turn 4 or 5. For example, imagine Turn 4/5 pass against old Pirate Warrior, Even Shaman, etc. It would be be Gg basically.

In my Wild Double Reno deck I use both King and Lynchen.  If I had to cut 1 it would probably be Lynchen but it is very close.

I have gone so far from Rank 20 to Rank 2 with my Double Reno deck. I don't track win rate but would guess it is over 60%

I'm also playing Reno Mage on US server. Currently I am at Rank 2. From Ranks 5-2 Big Priest has been pretty rare. Secret/Tempo Mage is probably my opponent 40%-45% of the time

It isn't designed to be an arena card. It basically serves as a Frost Nova type card designed to stall for a turn.  

I could see a freeze mage or silence priest deck use it

Here is a simple and thematic fix for Dr Boom. After he is played,all generate/discovered Mechs Self Destruct at the end if the turn in which they are played. This way, the control player still gets their abilities/removal effects since they get rush but then can't use them to take control of the board.

The further beauty of this is it somewhat solves the omega assembly issue. It is still a 3/1 but they are worse if used after Boom is played.

It is also super thematic to have them Self Destruct at end of Round his his name is Dr BOOM

Play Wild. You see Control Warrior maybe 1/50 of the time. The most common deck at high ranks is Tempo/Secret Mage

Your friend is an idiot if he thinks his opinion is better than real data. Also, the fact that he would rather take the risk of never even drawing it as opposed to having it as an immediate answer to any situation is laughably dumb.