With the new card from the miniset, I feel like elemental mage is the perfect modern hearthstone deck.
First of all the main package is quite tempo and value heavy which is appreciated. I get on board fast and never run out of cards in hand.
With the arcane bolt package I have a lot of damage from hand too. And I mean a lot.
I love it because you can change strategies against different opponents during the game. Oh you’re facing a priest and after back to back boardclear on 6 your own minions are more of a liability due to the priest’s lifesteal? You are now an OTK deck able to do 36 damage from hand with arcane bolts and Vexxalus.
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Well at least someone likes it. The elemental cards are pretty cool
I am loving not playing the game at all right now, and forever too by the looks of it.
With the new cards from the miniset, I feel like no class is the perfect modern hearthstone deck.
First of all the main package is quite exploitative and dependent heavy which I never appreciated. I get on board fast and run out of cards in hand.
With the useless 0-Cost cards, I have a lot of trash I could play. And I mean a lot.
I love not playing now because you can change to other fair mindsets instead of being against different opponents during a game. Oh you’re facing an opponent in a game that keeps using exploitative strategies? You stop playing against their OTK deck able to do 36 damage from hand with arcane bolts and Vexxalus.
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Damn what a downer in a thread that’s trying to be an upper
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Any deck list OP?
I see the new mage 5 drop elemental is a bigger goblin blastmage. And blastmage was a very good tempo card back in the day (and apparently it’s been buffed in wild too?)
But something tells me right now it’s easier for elemental mage - along with many other aggressive decks - because people are messing with tendrils and yogg. The latter may be ok but the former is just too random in the early tendrils. If the tendril spell doesn’t save you if not screws you (I saw a shaman cast the new pally 4 mana board clear… but it clears his side of the board too), all you get is a weaksauce 1/1 that can neither save you from a minion board or threaten people building up burn from hand.
The Markmkz in me is wondering if there’s a way to do some silly discount bounce/brann battlecry thing to repeat the blastmage effect
Yeah I don’t get his comment either
My deck is the definition of fair, I don’t rely on mana cheat or nutty draws, just some old fashioned stats and effects that somehow wins me the early game against most decks.
Even in OTK mode I need to work for it with Arcane bolts and that’s only necessary against the greedy controls that run 20 board clears and life steal.
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Yup. Even I don’t go into happy threads trying to be a downer.
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Here’s what I’ve been working with in diamond 3
2x (1) Arcane Wyrm
2x (1) Flame Geyser
2x (1) Glacial Shard
2x (1) Synthesize
2x (2) Amalgam of the Deep
2x (2) Aqua Archivist
2x (2) Flame Revenant
2x (2) Prismatic Elemental
2x (2) Rolling Stone
2x (2) Vast Wisdom
2x (3) Arcsplitter
2x (3) Whirlweaver
2x (4) Unchained Gladiator
2x (5) Tainted Remnant
1x (5) Vexallus
1x (6) Norgannon
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I would say the strongest cards are flame revenant, aqua archivist and Tainted remnant. I suspect Norgannon is the weakest card but he can save a board at the right mana cost.
I’ve been closing a lot of my control matchups with the arcane bolt stuff so I don’t recommend taking it out
What’s good about Tainted Remnant is that it still activates even if your opponent cleared, and at turn 5 clears are usually symmetrical, so it’s usually 7 to face and 7 on board after a brutal early game.
From what I played this deck is better than mechmage and naga mage against control since it relies less on one big minions push and having nutty draws like shark.
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Damn what a downer in a thread that’s trying to be an upper
Yup. Even I don’t go into happy threads trying to be a downer.
What exactly classifies “a downer”? Is that some sort of slur against the mentally challenged? I have made what you two seem to say are “happy” or “upper” threads where the first comment says all my of my ideas in the “happy” or “upper” thread were not even worth reading, and I feel like you two are probably just worse people than me who do worse things than I do but lie about it.
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I think it’s incredible that you didn’t realize this before testing it in practice, it’s difficult to create a new mage build with just one new card! The best card the mage got in this miniset was Void Scripture, if you didn’t realize that before, then you are a NOOB!!