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a special valentine's day to those struggling to achieve legend. may this be your month :)

 i am not finding it slow at all. i am finding it's cost reduction is very fast. what is not always reliable is drawing it.

no, aluneth is pretty essential in this archetype atm. it is what makes it work. 

nvm. i played your deck. it is pretty cool. it got me to the next rank, though it remains to be determined how far it will get me as i only played 3 matches and won 2 of them. thanks.

the arcane giants are meant to be an end game piece. 

hmmmn.. one moment please.

is there a reason no one is running arcane giant . all i did was take out corridor creepr and replace arcane giant, hitting massive 15 winstreaks and climbing to rank 5 slowly. please reply with reasioning. i have tried all these variations of secret  mage and they all suck compared to just adding arcane giant, they lose every game. please explain your deck to me and why i should bother crafting it over my deck which is almost rank 7. the winrate is pretty low, only 51% but still, i am not having difficulty facing zoo, i beat them 100% of the time. i am not having difficulty facing cube - i beat them 35% of the time, i am not having difficulty beating hunter. the ony ones causing me problems are murcadin and spiteful priest. here is my deck. i can show some videos proving i have had 15 win win streaks etc etc and how i am plyaing the deck. i just would like you to explain your deck to me so i can compare the 2 as i would like to climb as high as possilbe this season. thanks. 

HiNo's Arcane Giant Secret Mage

like i said, i have tried all the variations of secret mage. i have tried the ones with bittertide hydraa. i have tried ones without aluneth. i have tried ones that run pyroblast and potion of polymorph. i have tried a mix match of discover mage and secret mage (to varying results) of my own creation. I ultimately never got past rank 11. at one star away from rank 11 i lost every game i played and dropped to rank 15. for a week i bounced back and forth between the decks until finally deciding that simply adding arcane giant (like i didp post patch, since i  never understand what the f corridor creepr was doing in the deck) was catually the right decision. the next day i won 15 games in a row and have been haning around in rank 8 since.

so, my question to you is why should i play your deck? how do you play your deck. I am very hesistant on crafting a bunch of what i feel are useless cards annd dropping all the way to rank 10 again. My dust is basically limited to only crafting mage related deck and decks for adventures (as i am close to beating all of them on heroic) until the new season when i possibly swithc over to druid to get my 4th golden hero. 

so, pleaase msg me, or reply and we can discuss tactics. I am very curious as to why no one is running arcane giant.

cube lock's main wekaness is that it relies on the opponent playing minions for it to kill wiht it's spells nad heal itself. secondly, it is weak to polymorphs, devolves. thirdly silences. Cube lock is very intimidating because all of the sudden there are 4 3/9 on the field. however, i hve learned that you can do one of two things to win. A) pop a bubble and go face with spells ignoring the minions or b) play no minions so the lock is forced to kill his minions with dark pact and the spell stone to heal himself. these remember are minion only lifesteal spells so if their are no targets on board then the lock is forced to kill them. just pop a potion of polymorph turn 5 (if you tech that) or don't make the stupid mistake of having your exploding runes in play turn 5, have your bubble and you are golden.

no, i believe it's still fairly accurate because i reached rank 15 last season and the pop up said 17.5% just like in the pic.

tech cards - potion of polymorph , second firelands portal, pyroblast. Medihv is also okay, but really only serves the purpose of stopping you from overdrawing with aluneth.

great deck :) thanks 1st try.

this is a paladin deck list. those are mage cards.

great deck :) worked like a charm. thanks so much :)

netdecking is actually essential sorry to burst your elitist bubbles. It is no different  than purchasing a CCG at a game store, whihc comes with prebuilt decks. these prebuilt decks are how you play the game. you wouldn't add cards or remove cards from a 52 pack of playing cards would you? no. because those 52 cards are the cards needed to play the game. siimply put, pro players (not blizzard, contrary to what you all are saying) craft the decks that make the current seasons meta. they essentially build the game. to go into ranked play wihtout one of these decks is a waste of time, you will not even be able to make gold cap for the day. you will lose every game you play because people are playing to win, and playing to win means playing a deck that wins.  when you don't win games, you don't get gold. when you don't have gold you can't get into the arena or get your pack of cards on average twice a day. not net decking is a pain in the arse and essentially leaves you tearing your hiar out because you can't win more than 1 in 50 games. that is the truth.

that said, there is definitely something to be said for those who just copy and paste blindly and try to play decks they don't know how to play, relying on how OP they are to get them wins. THESE PEOPLE SUCK. THEY STILL LOSE GAMES, in fact they arguably lose more games then if they just put together their own mish mash of cards. this is why it is hard to get past rank 15 for most people, because the average player between ranks 25-15 is not actually net decking . they are building their own decks. this leaves the person who is netdecking facing up against people's homebrew decks and having no counter against them because hey, the netdeck was made to fight such and such a deck not this cthun battlecry freeze OTK dk shaman deck that just comes out of nowhere. so these people never get past rank 20 because they can't beat these players who are making their own decks because they don't know how to play the deck they netdecked properly. they don't know how to tech out cards and fight against these lowbie players. this is why so many people with netdecks are in casual. BECAUSE THEY ARE HORRIBLE PLAYERS WHO DON"T KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE GAME.

as an example, i am fairly versed with mage. was 1 star away from rank 10. decided i'd netdeck a priest deck so i could get a golden hero. hey this combo deck on the internet is pretty cheap. now i am suffering because i am at rank 15 with 1 star. now i have to climb back up to rank 11.99 because i decided to suck like hte others.

so netdecking is not the problem here. netdecks are an essential component of every TCG. every proplayer will tell you that you need to netdeck. you need to learn a certain deck/archetype. then you can put in your own flare when you learn to play it. that is the point. that is what they call an archetype. 

as another example. i noticed that secret mage had some changes to it, in absence of corridor creeper 1 pyroblast and iceblock were added. what did i do? i put in 2 arcane giants. 

the deck with the pyroblast has a 25% winrate, but my own deck with the two arcane giants still sits at 78%

why, because that is what works with me.

this is called a minor change to the deck. i still swap to the pyroblast version eveyr now and then however.

that is all.

ste 1 silence rod, step 2 pain rod. step 3 get out your lightbringer and deathguard. step 4 win. great deck, took 4 attempts :)