Hearthpwn

Here are my 2 cents:

The basis of your deck looks quiet good, I would just change it a little bit. Here we go:

Emperor Cobra - Yes a nice addition, but imo it isnt needed here. It is a trade only minion having 2/3 stats. Since you want to control the board, you want to trade and survive. Remove it for 2x Shattered Suncleric. If you play Argent Squire, you want buff minions anyway. It mages absolutely no sense to play Argent Squire, if you have no buff minions in your deck.

Abomination Sunwalker Remove the Abo and 1 Sunwalker for 2x Defender of Argus. Its such an amazing card. Best neutral atm in my opinion.

1 Hellfire for 1 Soulfire (agree with DonFurr here)

2x Molten Giant - always nice with Sunfury Protector. Maybe swap for Acolyte of Pain

Siphon Soul - One of these should be enough imo

Greets

PS: This is just my humble opinion, if you dont agree, well, dont agree on this then :)

Quote from Jonathasin »

I want to make i deck that is different. When i say different i mean without that buffing minios and harvest golem or knife jugler or defender and etc... Nothing against who use it but... I really don't like it. I will try to make a deck that make identity with mages even with that ridiculous nerf.

Good luck with it. I hope you will be successful with it, might be pretty hard to pull off though. 

Quote from Infares »

Mage still has legs, thanks for posting this.  I'm thinking of brewing something up myself but I don't wanna have to bear the 'I WILL BE YOUR DEATH!' spam every time I roll Jaina.

Like Veev´s deck? Its prettyyyyyyyyyy strong, but after testing it for ~30 games, its not that fun to play in my opinion. 

Quote from Nightmus »

Wow! You must be having an easy time maintaining board control if you have only a single Blizzard for AoE. I'm feeling pretty naked without multiple spells. Currently I have as much as 2 Flamestrikes and 2 Arcane Explosions with some spell damage minions. The best thing about 2 Flamestrikes is that as soon as you cast the first one, the opponent usually pours as much minions as he can, not expecting a second one.

With these minions I almost always have boardcontrol. If you manage to maintain it in the early game you usually win. Pyro will do the rest. I just draw a frigging golden Ragnaros (I usually never draw a LG, so I take it as a deserved draw :D ), so Im thinking to replace one pyro with it. Not because its neccessary, but because its a Fucking Ragnaros :D

Quote from Codyksp »

Pretty decent deck, but I am wondering how it faces off against priests... I fucking hate priests they always have removal and buffs.

EDIT: The lack of aoe removal really seems to hurt this deck against rushers.

Ive seen two priest the last 100 games (checked my statsrecorder). Priest is weak in my opinion. MC wont help him on turn 10, because the game is over most of the time. Even if he has it, I dont care to lose a 4/4 minion to it. Usually I buff my minions to about 4 attack, so his removals dont matter.

Quote from aztekxero »

Thanks for posting - I tried out the deck tonight and have been having pretty good success.  Made it from rank 16 to rank 12 tonight.  Only changes I made were swapping out 1 of the Pyroblasts for Antonidas (probably not optimal, but I find Antonidas fun to use) and 1 of the Acolytes for a Flamestrike (maybe switching to an Abomination instead would be good to try to counter Warlock rush decks).

Good idea with the Abomination. I just struggle with it, because of the 5 mana cost. If you dont manage to stay on par with the early WL he should have pretty healthy minions anyway. But it would be good to get rid of the Blood Imps.

Ok, heading to the arena now. Drew a mage without any fireball, pyro or frostbolt :D

You face WL murlocs rank 1 - 7 A LOT! Never saw an Ooze but some of em are running Argus.

Every second opponent is a rush WL. The deck is so easy to built, its cheap and scary. Just put every Murloc (2x) in it  except the Coldlight Oracle.

Blood Imps, Voidwalker and Flame Imps do the rest

Just did^^

Here is the deck, feel free to ask anything or suggest improvements:

http://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/class-discussion/mage/3480-struggling-post-nerf-use-this

Hello fellow mages,

the nerfbat hit us hard and early frost control is too expensive now to be viable. Pre patch I was marching through the ranked system with a very solid buffed minions version. Since I was missing Alexstraza and 2 Mountain Giants, I didnt play the frost giants deck. Luckily mage was so reliable you could get away with many different decks. After the nerf Ive altered mine, removed some frost and got to rank 5. First I still tried to use the frosty aoe, but it became clear pretty fast, that a 3 mana, no damage frost nova is reaaaaaally useless. 4 mana for CoC makes this spell a no-no, too.

Enough with the introduction, heres my deck:

Ok, so let me explain:

Mana Wyrm - Most people know, that this card can be amazing. 9 not-so-cheap-spells may not support it like Arcane Missiles and Mirror Image would, but if you go second and coin it into a Shattered Sun Cleric its becomes an awesome 3/4 on turn 2! Also please note, that it draws removals, because no opponent wants to see a Mana Wyrm on the field. Even if its 1/3, everybody tries to kill it asap.

Novice Engineer Acolyte of Pain - You really really dont need that much card draw here. Even if you run out of steam, AoP+ping works wonders.

Argent Squire - Its funny how often you see this card. The best early drop to be buffed up. Often a 1 for 2, if you manage to buff it.

Sylvanas Windrunner - The best legendary in the game! Its an awesome comback card and can be a nice 1 for 3, if you time it right. Even if it gets silenced, its still a solid 5/5 for 5. If you dont have it, get it! Its a must have.

Heres comes one of my favourite parts:
Counterspell - You wont believe how many people run into this thinking its an Ice Block. Sure, before Ice block became so popular, everyone was playing low mana cards first, to see what secret it is, Nowadays its always an Ice block, right? It won me games, while protecting my loaded board against a Holy Nova or Blizzard.

Possible replacements:
You may want to remove one Novies Engineer or one Faerie Dragon for another Blizzard and/or Ice Block, whatever suits you best.

"Wow man, you cant defend versus rush decks with this!" - wrong!
Mulligan agressively into early drops, but never put down a suncleric. If your running just one Ice Block, you may want to keep it, too. Usually you get early boardcontrol except a WL puts down 2 Blood Imps right away + Flame Imps. You can still win there but its hard, nontheless.

"Healadins" - They became more rare quiet fast, because mages are rare, too now. Just play patiently vs them. Snack down some hp, get boardcontrol, always ping their reinforcements, if possible and buff minions above 2 hp. Dont overdo the board, because Equality + Consecration win games.

If you have any questions or improvements, please let me know.
Hang in there fellow mages, we´re not dead, yet!

Stay frosty

Quote from Nightmus »

I'm kinda lost in this situation. I didn't run a freeze deck, but relied heavily on Cone of Cold and Blizzard. After the nerf these spells became too slow and make me lose tempo a lot. Is there any good Mage deck for 10+ rank currently without the giants and legendaries?

Im quiet ok with mine. Didnt manage to go past rank 5 with it though. Im still struggling with WL´s, so Im still tweaking it a bit. Maybe Ill post it later on, when my hangover wears off^^

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Quote from firespawnie »

I bet some weeks from now blizzard will return blizzard to 5 mana or the rush/aggro decks will be nerfed more!It's one or the other!

I really hope so. What else are Mages supposed to do against rush? Take the now-even-worse Frost Nova?

Tried so many shit the last few days. I went straight to Rank 5, but its so damn hard to maintain, because everyone is playing a WL rush deck. Im dead on turn 5 or 6. No mage with a brain has his CoC still in the deck, because even if u manage to freeze the Blood Imps, ur still screwed the turn after

It works well with Buzzard, Cult Master, Starving Hyena, Fleshgolem or Warlord. Im sure I missed some

So I dont think its bad afterall, pretty nifty tbh

Really no offense dude, but this wont work on higher ranks. 7+ is flooded with rush WL´s. You have almost no control early on and by turn 5 or 6 ur dead.

Time will tell... But I removed CoC as it wasnt viable anymore. Never used Frost Nova, but thinking about removing Blizzard for a Flamestrike now.

Wow, return of the hunter!

My opponent just won against my Rogue with some mean combos. Combos in Arena should be forbidden :D

First he played a Scavenging Hyena which I couldnt kill that turn. Next turn he played Starving Buzzard and UTH (I had 3 minions on the field). Buzzard activated 3 times for 3 hounds. His Hyena went to 8/5 after he sent his hounds into my minions.

I managed to kill it, but 2 turns later he played a Buzzard and UTH again, which gave him 3 new cards again -.-

Im thinking about adding the Wild Pyromancer + Arcane Explosion again. You no take Candle is an option as well.
Ice Block / Barrier might be an option as well against a WL

Ihmo: Did you play Gnimsh heavy buffed minions style or frost giants?

I played the Gnimsh deck and had trouble with healadins, but it was still winnable

First of all, you insulted me first, basically saying I have no skill.

Secondly I did not insult you. Your post was just stupid, thats all.
You keep running through threads crying and complaining. It is quiet annoying.

"You know it's broken, stop pretending otherwise." - These statements let you look stupid, Im sorry (here you go: Insult)

I would be totally fine with a laughing emote.
Its best use would be after the Mad Bomber kills both your 1 HP minions or after it shot all 3 barrels in his face :)