Maybe because even though you play the secrets (ideally) for free, it's still slow especially given the agro meta we're burdening under right now

I like the extra spare parts in this deck myself given the presence of both anton and the mana wyrms, but you're right, it's a tradeoff given how easily they die. An extra technician also helps address this but this deck is as lousy with 4 drops as it is with 2 drops so meh.

Seems like the cogmasters would be better against mages, druids and rogues

I'm 8-2 with nonfiction's deck (don't have tosh or blingtron yet). May miss drake's card draw at some point, usually I'm running low by turn 5 when I play mech mage assuming a non-terrible mulligan and the +1 spell damage can be nice too but we'll see.

You'll run out of cards in some games no matter what. If there were a way to draw cards without losing so much tempo it'd be an insane deck. I'm definitely going to test that discover a mech card out.

nm tinker is a 3 drop what was i thinkin

So what's the word on Gorillabot?

haven't seen it in any decks in constructed which generally means it's too weak. or people are too afraid to try. has been good in arena though

I tested it quite a bit and it's just sub par compared to every other 4 drop run in mech mage, and there's not really anything 5 mana + that you'd want to cut to enable it. If it was a 3 mana 2/3 I think it would actually be playable but 4 mana is just too contested.

So I started messing around with my tempo mage list tonight and threw a polymorph boar in there. Decent ofr late game removal/getting around taunts and also hiolarious when one of your mirror imagines becomes a 4/2 and starts wrecking shop.

Quite a bit of fun was had, but not sure how good it actually is. Time will tell.

I had never included it in a deck before but I got one yesterday from Ethereal Conjurer and it won the game for me fwiw

I used it to win another game today by using it as a windfury-like spell on a minion. Attack, transform, attack again.

I really like this card.

^ maybe the word is now out, I've seen it four mage games in a row

I also saw it tonight for the first time against me.

I clearly didn't start the movement, but feels like I'm starting to learn on my own if it's actually becoming a thing in this meta.

So I want to play tempo mage but don't have Antonidas. What are my options? Do I alter the build at all to account for not having one of the main win conditions?

just go a little lighter on the one cost spells and put in ragnaros. if you dont have rag then maybe pyroblast could finish

Yeah, there's quite a few players that run Ragnaros over Archmage on purpose.

I suck hardddd at tempo mage. Any general tips/advice?

I suck hard vs tempo mage in games where I'm favored... Let me know if you wanna run a few.

I'm not good with the deck either, but there's a front page article right now on www.liquidhearth.com that might help.

Unstable Portal is the main win condition

Thanks for the link, Clinger.

I'm maybe getting the hang of it? I think what I was missing was an understanding the deck's reach and how to game plan appropriately. In particular I think I was trading too often and "saving" my spells for later, when I really need to keep minions on the board to keep pressure on and get damage in. The deck can't combo out like a freeze mage can.

cant remember the last time i got multiple draws out of acolytes. cutting them in freeze

Easy to get multiple draws when you have too many cards in hand ime.

This was my tempo mage:

Mirror Image x2
Mana Wyrm x2
Flamecannon x2
Frostbolt x2
Unstable Portal x2
Mad Scientist x2
Sorcerer's apprentice x2
Arcane Intellect x2
Effigy x1
Mirror Entity x2
Fireball x2
Polymorph x1
Azure Drake x1
Spellbreaker x1
Piloted Shredder x2
Loatheb x1
Sylvanas x1
Flamestrike x1
Arch-Thief Rafaam x1


Does really well against everything but secret pallies that outcurve me or hunter/warlock face decks. Which is like evety deck in this meta. So, I made some modifications but I still need help:

-1x Flamecannon
-1x Spellbreaker
-1x Azure Drake

+1x Arcane Explosion
+1x Spellslinger
+1x Sludge Belcher


Thoughts? I don't have Antonidas or boom (fml). Rafaam is a great clean up or get out of jail free card in a lot of scenarios. Right now I'm losing bad to reno decks and hunter/mage face decks. Sometimes control priest can get me but usually I can outlast them. If midrange druids curve perfectly then they own me but mostly everything else is mincemeat. I really wanna throw in an iceblock somewhere in there to gain a turn for late game situations with rafaam but I don't know what to sub out

I prefer counterspell over effigy as you just don't have that many high cost minions. I am also surprised you don't run ethereal conjurer.

Also, why no arcane missles?

A better question is why no flamewakers? Don't have BRM? Flamewaker is THE card for tempo mage.