to be hones if you are a good HS player you could take any deck to legend rank.
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Haha yeah, cyclone Mage with Mana Wyrm would have been hella fun.
For about 10% of players
Problem I see with Aggro rogue right now is that, sure it can beat spell mage, but then ya gotta pray that you play a lot of mages because there are a lot of decks it just does okay against right now
I agree problem is that everyone is playing it so they have to nerf it away to force people to play something else.
Rank 1 Legend is just a bit different from a normal Legend rank.
It means he beats every other legend player, at least at that point of time.
thats fine. besides the previous season was my first time reaching leged rank so yea its w/e
No actually spellmage is strong anyways. No matter how you look at it, the deck can blast you for usually 14 dmg( +1spell dmg of whatever study minion they get). That half your life gone in one turn (usually turn 8) . + orb, + mask of cthun, + cheap dmg from minion discovered.
If your deck has no heal and doesn’t kill them faster, then you lose by turn 7-8 . Simple as that. And that not even taking lunacy into account.
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There’s really nothing wrong with that, though.
That’s like saying “If your deck has no taunts or removal, a minion-based deck will kill you by turn 7-8.”
…yes. That’s how that works.
Hearthstone is a game where you’re supposed to actively defeat your opponent, not just try to make it so they can’t defeat you.
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There’s really nothing wrong with that, though.
That’s like saying “If your deck has no taunts or removal, a minion-based deck will kill you by turn 7-8.”…yes. That’s how that works.
Hearthstone is a game where you’re supposed to actively defeat your opponent, not just try to make it so they can’t defeat you.
I do believe there is something wrong with that.
This make the game into a burn contest, which is uninteresting to say the least. Its uninterractive when Half the class only go face and the other only stack heal and armor.
Most people don’t like going against face deck that ignore the board all the time. I don’t either. Current spell mage is similar to soul DH, face hunter or bomb warrior. Unenjoyable to say the least.
And what make you think I need you to explain the game to me ? Keep down the condescension, or is it that you’re so insecure that it’s the only way you can communicate?
Wasn’t aiming to be condescending, just stating that burn decks exist, and I believe that they should be allowed to exist.
While it should absolutely be viable to play some midrangish board-based deck where you trade for 12 turns and eventually win, there should also be other avenues of play available.
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I agree 100% with OP. If they nerf spell mage I swear I will…god I am so angry right now. I am on a 7th game losing streak because the RNG is off every game. How is this deck so good then?
Lunacy has so many bad spells people forget this. One time I was stuck with two deck of chaos in my hand.
Paladin is a bigger problem. The tempo from secrets is just insane. 1 mana counterspell? Come on.
while i agree paladin is a problem however i would say libram is.
but seriously learn it. oh my yogg is not exactly a counterspell… it is a spellchanger or deflector in hearthstone terms.
In one game as Spell Damage Mage vs. Spell-Only Mage, I dealt 26 damage from hand in one turn while I had 24 damage on board. So I had 50 damage in a turn.
So I wouldn’t say that No Minion Mage is necessarily better than Spell Damage Mage (if you take Deck of Lunacy out of the equation).
You’re perfectly right.
A secret that costs 1 mana which morphs my reactive clear or control spell into one that is completely useless in the current setting, overloading me into oblivion or worse is a better counterspell.
And no, there are no such things as “spellchangers” or “deflectors” as per hearthstone terminology.
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Good thread and very much correct.
We cant blame mage for the inability of players to make good decks for some of the other classes.
you kidding right? go check oh my yogg! and see what it does. it literally changes the spell… as in being a spell changer secret… /facepalm
other then that they should look into libram.
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well i dont know consider the fact that mage has little options to make a deck other then secret or a combination of maybe secret/burn and or no minion. right now im trying something thats called elemental mage or my version of it but i tell ya making something like that is kinda difficult.
spell dmg mage is better than spell only for face dmg indeed, if you remove lunacy . you can even OTK for 30 if you have one mana biscuit. Not to mention the insane draw power. Imo phoenix is a busted card and should be adressed sooner or later, as it setups some incredible draw turn or face OTK turn .
But we were talking about no minion mage, not spell dmg mage, and no minion mage can do basically almost the same, thanks to the studies that give spell dmg minion . The spell dmg buff is RNG but the core of the deck , fireball, orb , is the same. And it’s quite busted. Even the different face hunter didn’t have 30 dmg from the hand in the past xpac. The only deck that could do that was Illidan, and you could stop illidan with taunt.
You can’t stop a fireball. unless you have oh my yogg and counterspell, which can easily be triggered by cheap spell and belongs to only two classes. so yeah, you can’t stop a fireball. There is no counter but hard heal and armor stacking to that.
No matter what it does, hearthstone players won’t see where you’re coming from if you make mention of “deflecting a spell”, hence making it less practical than the term “counterspell” when it comes to, you’ve guessed it, a situation where you’re countering a spell…
And yea I’ve read the actual card and I know what it does.