I played the deck everyone is complaining about last night and this morning
so that I could see what the players here are so upset about.
It’s great if you mulligan Lunacy, almost an auto win.
If you don’t, you lose. Almost certainly.
You lose to Rogue. You lose to Paladin. You lose to Warrior.
You lose to DH.
I don’t see what all the fuss is about.
Once again, it seems to me that players are gonna’ reach for the old chestnut
of: “it feels bad” “it’s uninteractive,” blah blah blah.
As far as I can tell, although I will concede I’m no expert player,
The deck is only as good as the mulligan.
Otherwise it’s a mediocre deck that loses to all of the other insanely powerful decks out there.
But of course, they’re all fine 'cause they aren’t mage.
I think you are doing it wrong, honestly.
No minion mage is strong even without DoL, but
auto win cards are bad. Nerfs incoming.
You can burst every deck down, with the exception of Priest, w/0 lunacy.
Oh, I guarantee it will get nerfed. I just question how good the deck really is. Maybe I should watch you play it and see if I’m playing it poorly.
Dearest Elune, no! Go watch someone good… find a pro stream… there you can watch the turn 4 otk with DoL in a match between top 10 legend players.
Lol. gotcha:) But seriously, if you don’t draw lunacy within the first five cards the deck seems kinda’ crappy.
It isn’t. Turn 4 apex blast is incredible tempo, same as all those 0 mana spells.
well I’m still playing. Maybe I will get better with it.
Honestly I like the HP deck better.
I think the problem is exactly the mulligan win rate.
No one likes to play against that and it’s compreensive.
With that said I would probably nerf it to 3 or 4 until rotation and that is it.
Also I think that solarian prime and invocation nerf should have be reverted during patch 20.0 too instead of have to wait until next rotation.
Because :
1.sorcerer apprentice and mana elemental not exist in standard anymore.
2. One of the 1 mana card generators aren’t here anymore too(and is the actually potent one).
3. Solarian prime nerf was just arbitrary.
Lots of people have had good success with the deck without Lunacy because they hate the randomness in it. It’ll still be a solid Tier 2 deck unless the meta heavily turns against it, though I believe the tools exist to build it in a manner that can help against that somewhat.
The deck’s main weakness is combating direct damage (burn, hero attacks, etc) which is ironic because that’s also the kind of thing Spell Mage itself does via cards like Fireball, Mask of C’thun n such.
The deck will be fine, just sans the crazy blowouts from Deck of WEHADBETTERGETAFRIGGINNERFPATCHANNOUNCEMENTTHISWEAKBECAUSEDEARLORDMAKEITSTOPTHISDECKISENTIRELYTOOCOMMON.
Well, maybe I should watch you show me how it’s done. I can’t get over 50% with it.
It seems like meme trash to me without the combo on mulligan.
I don’t play much myself. I find ping/spell dmg to be better in all situations besides the Lunacy highroll specifically because the deck tends to do counter-tempo much better while still packing lethal inevitability - WITHOUT having to rely on generation for it, which is my absolute favorite part lmao
But autolose decks are bad in term of balance as well. Should we just nerf DoL and buff the remaining 29 Mage cards in the deck just to be fair?
I have been playing Mage as a primary deck in the last couple of days. Nothing special about the deck at all, still couldn’t reach legend with it. I bet Warlock or Paly would give me a faster climb to legend. But I have no dust to craft anything else, sadly (spent my entire saving fund on Mage).
It’s a good deck without DoL
I guess its just me and that the rng gods hate me, but evry single mage i face has that card within 3 turns… oh except that 1 mage who played the hero power deck🤷🏼♂️
i think i would rather play the HP deck. It’s linear and doesn’t require
drawing lunacy in order to dominate.
I am 58% with the HP deck. I cant break 50% with the Lunacy RNg fiesta.
Actually, the deck is still decent if you never draw lunacy.
I think lunacy should absolutely be nerfed so the rest of us can breathe and play new decks.
It was less than a week into the new expansion and this kind of meta warping is simply unacceptable.
I hope they make lunacy completely unplayable.
Statistics back up the fact that the card is fundamentally broken and toxic.
I get that some folks love the deck but the majority of players hate it for good reason.
Well I certainly don’t love it. It will definitely be nerfed, but I still say the deck isn’t that good.
When Lunacy is nerfed it will probably cease to exist but for meme trash in Casual.
Mallenroh suspects other people of having bias?
This is like watching Fox News pundits whining about the democrats/the left being biased, fake news, being controlled by the rich, etc.
It forced me to play Face Hunter. Do people really want more Face Hunters on ladder? Not likely.