Happened to me 5 minutes ago. Thats the reason why im here.
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yes there f***** is Iāve played mages a lot, every other game is a mage right now. Maybe youāre playing in silver or something. Itās either your entire board gets frozen or your most valuble minions, until they have 6 dmg heor power and play apprentice and then mordresh etc. And having your most valuble stuff on the board frozen for 4+ turns is not an incommon sight.
or if you are playing shaman starfish +bloodlust on turn 8+
Doesnāt matter the amount of times. It happens a lot and it is broken. Symantecs do not matter.
You long post is cute but its an oppressive mechanic and a broken deck regardless of what you say.
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why do you jump on other people post and say they are wrong? i though it was considered toxic to not agree with someone! according to your standards!
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Yeah my wording was a little abrasive there. Thanks for pointing that out.
how about you stop being an idiot for once in a while?
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funny because i dont. and i dont use parrot eitherā¦ so you are playing against big spell mage? LMFAO this sums it all upā¦ big brainsā¦ LMFAO
other words ''i am mad because i cannot beat it or get around it. k interesting story too short never do it again.
When they say their whole board they probably mean ā3-4 minionsā instead of 7 minions, or even 2-3 key minions instead of the whole board.
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No both top competative mages decks use parrotā¦ incuding spooky xl the deck list is above.
Its just too good of a card.
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It has sadly, and they have alibi now, in my opinion it is stronger than ice block mitigating much more damage, which allows them to do ridiculous things in both wild and standard. Solitare mage is back from the grave in wild because they are simply unkillable, while in standard they just constantly freeze and refresh boards of skeletons which juice their sire, usually with a hero power that ends around 8/10 damage which can go face twice
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The thing is the board isnt frozen turn 4-10, its frozen maybe 4 of those turns with spells from hand, all your damage is negated another 2 with alibi, and then they will continue to freeze your board / clear board/ do face damage with cast 20 mana worth of spells at enemies + hero card
Parrot with the 9 cost cast 20 mana is ridiculous to play against, especially if they brann it
The problem with mage is these three issues:
- The freeze mechanic
- Mage has too many win conditions
- A lack of counters
Letās tackle the first issue, freeze. Freeze has been a problematic mechanic for years now. Either it needs to have a slight rework (minions canāt be frozen two turns in a row), or more (actually viable) cards need to be printed to counter it.
Secondly, the class has too many win conditions at the moment thanks to Renathal. The deck is in the same spot that pre-nerf Shaman was in. Avoid getting beat down by its minions, ah you now have boatloads of skeletons to deal with if you fill up your board.
Survive the skeletons? Whelp good luck with my Kelāthuzad (pray Brann isnāt able to be played).
Survive that? Whelp eat my 40+ damage Denathrius. Oh, by the way, it heals me to full.
Miraculously survive/steal that? Whelp enjoy dealing with an infinitely scaling hero power that casts spells!
Also, enjoy every character on your board eating a pyro-blast in the form of a minion.
The deck is able to run so many win-conditions due to the third (and biggest issue), not enough counters. Paladin and warrior are jokes at the moment. Demon Hunter is a meme, Shaman is dead, and Rogue has one viable deck. The only thing that actually makes mage sweat is Quest Hunter (which should be deleted, IMO). Druid is 50/50 and warlock completely depends on a damn good draw.
The key isnāt to nerf mage, but buff everything else.
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Every class has a BROKEN PILE OF CRUD deck that noone likes.
Quest Hunter stupid stupid stupid
Spooky Mage stupid stupid stupid
Implock stupid stupid stupid
you get my point
Fact is every single one of these decks have close to the same win/lose % if you are going to nerf 1 of them you need to nerf ALL OF THEM.
āThe Biggest lie of the dayā
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cause it was after the first nerfs but yet people kept crying about it even thou it was barely T3
Nothing ever changes in this forumā¦
So glad I gave up on Standard.
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