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You can't get a second quest, but you can use Zola the Gorgon to duplicate Amara, Warden of Hope on turn 8 after you play her.

Yeah, and be bored to tears playing it.

Archbishop Benedictus is a Priest card. This is Rogue. Yogg-Saron, Hope's End might work, although perhaps too much RNG.

"You thought you could steal life, yet only death awaits."

There is not really a replacement in terms of what Pyros does exactly, but since this deck has Frost Lich Jaina, you could replace it with any similar cost elemental as it will give it Lifesteal once you play her. Other than that you could use any similar cost minion that gives you another card, e.g. Shimmering Tempest, Loot Hoarder, or Flame Geyser for example. Novice Engineer would also work, but she's only a 1/1.

A true replacement isn't really possible though, only a compromise.

What pisses me off most of the time, once you face certain opponents more regularly, e.g. Mages with secrets, Jade Druid, or lots of Murlocs or Pirates, you decide to tech in Eater of Secrets, Skulking Geist, Golakka Crawler, or Hungry Crab, and suddenly all those match ups disappear. Match making sucks; I'm reducing deck synergy (often) by teching in those cards.

I know they want to keep things fair, but this happens every single time, and it's frustrating. Golakka Crawler does nothing against Murlocs, Hungry Crab does nothing against Pirates, etc. Can't put one of each of those in every single deck when you only have 30 cards available.

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Best alternative would be Naga Corsair.

Other cards that that have a similar effect are Warrior or Rogue class cards that can't be used in this deck.

I have played all of the various Mage variants. Don't quite get the negativity, but hey, like the meta. Personally, from my own game experience, Antonidas gets the most value when using the Quest, otherwise you end up with maybe two spells before your opponent kills him, unless you use a board freeze or clear; but yeah, fair enough.

A Druid has the advantage of direct minion buffs though. Mage only has one minion it can buff, and that's Mana Wyrm (if you exclude those that cost less depending on spell amount played etc.). The only way Murlocs get buffed when played with a Mage is via each other, and there aren't really enough. In a less aggro meta this could work, but you need to either have removals, walls, or the same amount of aggro to throw back at the opponent to trade. With a good Mulligan this deck might work, but I've not had one once (e.g. 7+ Mana cards before and after Mulligan are not helpful AT ALL).

The deck does look fun, but problem is, so far I've not won a single game. I'm very experienced with Mage decks (played them all, Quest, Burn, Freeze, Secret, and varieties), as well as Murloc decks (Quest Shaman, Murloc Paladin, Murloc Warlock etc., so I understand the synergies). It just doesn't get a chance to get going. The Mulligans never give you the right cards, or a good curve so far, and most opponents have you down to zero health, before anything gets going.

It really looks like fun, and there is a lot of value, but it's a bit of an alround deck it seems, and in the current meta it might try to do too much. Maybe I just had the worst match-ups going, which seems to be a daily thing lately.

Anyway, fun deck for sure, but for me, it didn't work. I've even tried replacing some cards, no luck.

So, I can confirm, Yogg-Saron, Hope's End works really, really well in this deck. I played it on turn 8, got it via Far Sight on turn 3 or 4 (so it only cost 7 Mana), and among other things I got Tirion Fordring from it, which I then duplicated via Faceless Manipulator. This led to concede of opponent, and I had 6 or 7 Deathrattle minions via N'Zoth, the Corruptor still to play.

I can provide screenshots, but sadly the screenshots didn't pick-up Decktracker.

The deck has a lot of spells. Instead of Barnes, maybe add Yogg-Saron, Hope's End as another win condition? I know that card's the master of random RNG, but I've actually had pretty good results with it in a variety of decks such as Mage, Rogue, Priest, Shaman, so, certainly an idea worthy pondering. Definitely a higher probability to get something useful than Barnes provides I'd say.