cries in control Priest
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Control Priest is better right now than Control Mage.
I pilot both versions to Legend it was way harder with Control Mage not even close.
With Priest i could cheat out the quest reward with Alura.
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Your evidence and comparisons are extremely faulty. Cope, OP.
Consider your class lucky. At least you can still play the deck - Said Seed-lock in wild.
I agree control priest is somehow viable if you try hard enough and avoid some bad matchups.
But what is that control mage deck? I havent seen one. Is it in the wild?
Control mage is a thing? I tired like a pure aoe quest shaman back when it actually had like a 70% winrate vs aggro and messed with test cards like 1 mana 8 damage torrents and the 2 mana 2/4 damage doubler (itās actually weird thinking about how that card sees more play in a dh with a few spells than 0 in mage with first flames and a billion cards.
Still doing nothing but clearing a board to die to a 1 turn faster combo is all the rage these days. Most of the problem with quest vs quest match ups is it was always whoever went online first won and quest shaman was always just a turn too slow with like quest mage turn 5-7, quest shaman turn 7-8, and quest lol priest like turn 10-12. Shaman always died like 70% of the time a turn before quest was done, but if you flipped it and had a different deck a turn faster it could have flipped.
I think traditional control decks just would have been a intentionally designed flop in sw after gardens priest anyways. they didnāt even cross like 50% wr on hsreplay meta tracker with blocks even with prime qlock and 20% play rate questmages with 70-90% vs junk control deck winrates until that big warrior and fatter pirate warrior decks that just got 20 armor for playing aggro cards came out with the odd barov or two sometimes.
It just doesnāt make sense to make a deck that auto losed 70-90% of the time to 20-40% of the meta and doesnāt even keep up with aggro that well or can play cards that even answer boards quick enough in a meta designed to shift like a pendulum.
For what itās worth the feedback does go through in 2 months, so I actually have fair expectations some of the late game cards will see play even at āslow 5 manaā When quest rewards donāt even come out until 5-7+ XD, but weāll see how it goes. Hopefully everyone gets a chance to play a deck or archetype they enjoy every 2 months. Just like pirate warrior was requested to be buffed in standard despite wild a few months ago and look where we are now. XD.
For all we know mage could be the next for like cards designed 4 months down the line or not, itās just a pendulum haha. But Iām just excited to get my one after losing two decks haha. (10k f2p year of saving dust for raza priest gone, potentially forever or sometime+ 3k q shaman + 20 iterations messed with refinement fiddling tweaking time dust go brrrr)
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I am good with mage now, now due to the recent nerf I can compete and win 50 percent of my matches against em as a priest!!!
thank you for a list. Going to check.
Though how does it fare against aggro druid? Based on the first look on the list, it seems it might struggle vs. that matchup pretty hard. Does it rely just on these first turns on a chance you discover something that might stop/slow them?
I disagree. mage has been hated on since 2013.
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I cast purity on your 2010s arcane missles flame strike and arena firelands portal, die, and end my turn! Iāll be unbeatable! XD
mage should have the best burn from hand imo. Its mage. What is it supposed to be doing?
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Best burst from hand should be reserved for classes like Rogues and Hunters. You know these assassination and sniper classes.
Mage should ā¦ I dont knowā¦ cast portals and refreshments. For example.
lol that isnāt really in keeping with Wow though is it?
Mage is some of the best pure damage in the game.
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Indeed it does you also get Cthun AOE removal , theres quite a few interesting combos in the deck to deal with Druid.
Another thing is the mulligan when you get a Druid they will pick cards counting on a Quest Mage matchup, they dont want to feed the quest with early game minions so they will mulligan for other cards.
You just need to get on board with your own minions on later turns i overwhelmed the Druid.
Quest Warrior is a bad matchup around 40% everything is fine until they get a burst for Mr Smite .
Quest Mage of course is almost unwinable since its a hard counter but i saw little to no Mages in my climb.
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it makes me wonder how much players would complain if mage class actually had all the effects that Jaina had as a raidable Boss in Wow.
I am just pointing out you do not have to focus on raw dmg.
Conjuring Mana Biscuits and casting Unstable Portals still clasifies as a spell mage - master of arcane 
Do you think Mage can win with those things in this meta?
Maybe if somebody disconnects.
To be honest I am not 100% convinced tempo mage would be that powerful in current meta if they would be allowed to bring some wild things to this format.
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yeah. Wow had frost fire and arcane and We already know how this forum feels about Freeze and Fire.