Not everyone buys card packs all at once. I've been spending "play" money occasionally: I spent $10 for 7 classic packs, $10 for 7 GvG, $20 for 15 classic, $20 for 15 GvG, $20 for 15 classic, $20 for 15 GvG, $10 for 7 classics, $10 for 7 GvG.

slightly better than switching to paladin at least

SLGHTLY better ,lol.

Well then, handlock just isn't for me. ******s never ply around moltens bc i never ****ing have them

Bobbo runs bad. Makes legend every season on 3 accounts with the game stacked against him

i think bobbo is up to around 100 games a day

this is the season of DRAGONS for me. not playing any deck unless there are 5 DRAGONS in it

didn't lose a game 2 days ago from 14 to 9 with this deck:

http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/257547-control-mage

exactly 5 dragons! switched it up a bunch today and haven't won many games today with anything, might have to go back to it.

lol... just 2 accounts man, i havent made legend on asia

no way! only 20 games today

Oh, deck must be stacked against you pretty heavily in Asia.

**** yeah man. Fun stuff. I got this great Priest deck from Justsaiyan. It actually is pretty legit. He said it was a secret upper tier deck. But he is a ****ing beast and probably one of the best ladder players around and can turn **** into shinola so who knows.

List may not be 100%, I'm not sure if I ever saw the actual list or had to figure it out over a few games. Also I only have 1 Lightbomb and don't know if he had 2 of them and I just used a Nova instead of a 2nd or not.



Like I have no idea why double Shrink in this deck, but I don't care enough to think about it and it has worked fine so far. With double chow/cabal it may just be ok.

Chromaggus has been ****ing crazy for me though. In priest if he lives a turn he might get you at least 2 doubles due to Cleric and PW:S.

I'm also not sure what's up with all the one of's, but I'm all for just trusting to start and seeing how it goes before tweaking it.

Maly/Dragon lock has also been super fun and at least competitive. Enough that you could grind with it to legend at least if you wanted even if it isn't tier 1.

Have also tried a Druid list that tides was running that seems decent. Might try Kibler's mage next.

Moar Dragons. This is based of a list Tides was running. He had 2 DoC's, that I left off at first cause of all the 5 drops. I was trying Nef in here too, but not sure about him. Added the Sen'jin so I have a 4 drop to play besides Keeper if I get WG. Love having an excuse for 2 Azure Drakes being mandatory in a druid list.

Ran into a Mech Mage/ Arch fireball mix. That was weird

Im pretty sure you can put Antonious in any mage deck and it would be good, that card is so OP.

i thought all mech mages played antonidas

i like the dragon druid list, but 4 dragons seems way too low. My warlock plays 7 and I still find myself playing a lot of 3 mana 2/4s

Pretty sure they do

Not that weird. As others suggested, it's relatively common in that, if you have Antonidas, you'll probably add him to your mech mage deck because mech mage gives you free 1 cost spells that you can later use to make fireballs.

Is this where can get advice on deck construction?

I bought naxx, so I have those cards. Don't have many regular cards... But feel free to offer subs from the film catalog (minus legendaries, I have only naxx ones)


Playing as "control" mage I guess.



I guess I could ditch a shattered sun cleric, but with creepers and harvest golem idk.

Torn on gurubashi as well, he can be great but a lot of times he is dead before getting too buffed. Not sure on the piloted either.


Any thoughts? I'm lvl 17 in ladder currently. Biggest issue is face hunter atm.

needs mad scientists and secrets

swap a yeti for a water elemental

take something out for a second belcher

gurubashi is not very good imo

if you're having trouble with face hunter, add healing or taunts

shieldmasta
healbot
ice barrier

etc.

Don't have any secrets yet I don't think. I think taking out gurubashi for a Belcher is a good choice




I had senjin before, took them out because with yeti, water elementals, fireballs, polymorph, piloted, gnomish, my whole deck was 4 drops

Healbot a good idea though

Have bounced back and forth playing Zoo, Hybrid Hunter, even throwing in some Midrange Paladin and Flamewaker Mage.

I still think Zoo is my strongest deck.

Have debated about some of my techs in that deck. I think the core for any Zoo Deck is so extensive that it doesn't really leave you a ton of wiggle room.

Pretty much any of them will have:

2x Abusive Sergeant
2x Leper Gnome
2x Flame Imp
2x Voidwalker
2x Power Overwhelming
2x Darkbomb
2x Nerubian Egg
1x Ironbeak Owl
2x Knife Juggler
2x Dire Wolf Alpha
2x Imp Gang Boss
2x Imp-losion
1x Doomguard

Which is 24 cards leaving me with 6 slots open.

Currently those 6 slots for me are:

2nd Ironbeak
Soulfire
Arcane Golem
Piloted Shredder
Void Terror
Volcanic Drake

I'm pretty sure the 2nd Ironbeak is necessary with the resurgence of Handlock. By the time Handlock gets their Drake/Mountain Giants out starting on Turn 4, then sets up their taunt wall on 5 or 6, I usually have one Ironbeak by that point to break through at least one of them and threaten lethal.

Soulfire and Arcane Golem are pretty necessary for lethal combos. The Golem > PO > Soulfire Combo being able to go from 12 > 0 with a clear board is pretty huge.

Shredder is just Shredder. It's value, it's strong, the problem with it is that by the time I tip my hand as an aggro Zoo deck it gets silenced quite a bit because there aren't many stronger silence targets in my deck.

So the last 2 are probably my most fringe cards at the moment, I just can't really decide if they're worth it or not.

Void Terror has some nice combo plays with Nerubian Egg and PO, but it's susceptible to silencing. It works really nicely against Hunter because it packs a lot of stats into a single minion, and Hunter rarely has single target removal, and it prevents them from getting value from Unleash the Hounds, which is usually the turn that turns the match against me in Hunter matchups.

Volcanic Drake is something I've been trying out with varying success. In the aggro matchups it definitely helps me have a massive tempo swinging turn because it clears the board and puts something on that is difficult for an aggro deck to remove. The downside is that often I'm the one going to face and they have to clear the board, which leaves me not getting value as often as I should.


If I were to replace Void Terror or Volcanic Drake I think the top items on the list would be Defender for Argus or Fel Reaver. Fel Reaver obviously is the only target that could get BGH'ed, but I feel like BGH is going slightly out of the meta with the meta going more aggro. I don't really need taunts all that often, but they can be helpful against Hunter. Getting 4/5 worth of stats for 4 Mana is efficient though, especially when 2 of the attack can be used to go to face, or to trade.

bgh isn't going out of the meta; everyone is playing boom and handlock is very popular

I definitely agree about running 2 owls

Check out this article: http://hearthstoneplayers.com/basic-naxxramas-mage/

A guide to playing mage with only basic and Naxx cards.