At this point, my opponents seem more aggressive… I am not aggressive enough. BUT, RNG believe or don’t is real… I mulligan for any starters 1or 2 cost tops, if I didn’t get them already. I cannot continue to clear full boards, with minimal removal… So that is what I am up against now… I am going to share my deck list… can I improve? or is it just all boiling down to who gets what first, at this point? My opponents from here, are almost all minion based. Not spell based like me…
as far as I understand this is standard Quest mage deck that is played all way to legend.
You will struggle vs aggressive minion decks like paladin or shaman, but you will absolutely murder quest warlock.
I am no expert of current Mage deck, but at Silver you will do better by playing an aggressive minion deck - doesn’t have to be expensive, there are budget versions of paladin, shaman, DH. Once you get to Gold, you will start seeing Quest Warlock like 50% of the time, and then you can switch back to Mage
I haven’t been playing quest Mage lists recently, but the latest VS report suggested that dropping Apexis Blast for something like Shooting Star was potentially a good improvement to the deck. It would certainly help against aggressive minion decks.
(Though they also said quest Mage is largely only strong against quest Warlock and quest Shaman, so it’s not the best all-around option if you have other classes you’d be able and interested to use.)
here is where it sticks me… My wins lately, didn’t even happen with my quest reward… I had apexis, and fire ball… OR a big enough ignite, to finish my opponent off… MY losses, are to heavy board presence, more than quest reward before mine… I am terrified of putting it back in, but should I add flamestrike again?
Your best bet is just to drop Quest Mage altogether. It’s a terrible win rate deck.
VS even said:
“since the archetype is loved by many players, they’re willing to sacrifice their win rate to keep playing it.”
Basically, the deck has a bad win rate but people keep playing it because they love it. You shouldn’t be playing this deck as a win rate deck to rank up unless you want to have a terrible experience. The deck is there to farm like 1-2 deck types but get completely wrecked by many others. If that’s ok with you, then you’ve already got the basic deck that everyone is playing even at legend.
The fun thing about quest mage is, love it or hate it. Everyone who gets stuck with playing it camps the rank floor ladder. Great if you’re aggro! Laddering with quest shaman, i had to take a break since one dude was camping literally nothing but quest mage for like hours previously on some of the grinds lmao.
Some people just camp the deck nonstop at ladder floors honestly so, watch out for that, or free food for aggro lmao.
If you’re stuck with Quest Mage one way or the other, heavy board presence is just your weakness, teching against them will more likely weaken your better matchups. The quest Mage deck lists from VS and HSreplay (variations included) don’t use Flamestrike at all - it’s probably better to (hopefully) discover it if really needed.
I have a similar list but i would cut Cone of cold and shattering blast for another first flame and another barrier. If tokens are a concern (like hunter and druid) combustion is another option to wipe out crappy 1/1s and 2/2s.
If you don’t have the cards for (or don’t want to) play another class, my suggestion for the deck would be:
-1 Ignite (Multiple Ignites just slow down the scaling)
-1 Shattering Blast (Needs to combo with specific other cards to do anything)
-1 Fireball (Decent damage even without the Questline reward, but possibly too slow)
-2 Apexis Blast (Too slow/expensive)
+1 First Flame (Helps control an early board)
+2 Shooting Star (AoE that can help take out early aggression)
+2 Wand Thief (Can get you something useful for a specific matchup)