I’ve been playing wild the past few expansions now and have never had a problem with Secret Mage before. It was the most basic Aggro deck for newer Wild Players to play and get higher ranks. This however was the way you split the pros amongst the groups, Secret Mage’s goal was simple in going for face to win and trade when only necessary. I did hate the 2 mana AoE dude for a time, but playing other decks made me realize it wasn’t terrible if you weren’t playing Aggro.
Which comes to today’s meta, I have faced 4 Secret Mages as I’ve tried to climb to Legend, all in Diamond territory. Each game showed numerous times that the Secret Mages had no idea how to pilot the deck to the fullest (the biggest highlight was a player pinging one of my 3 Health minions into Cloud Prince-ing same said minion). I’ve dubbed certain decks Dumb Man’s decks because they don’t encourage the players who play them to improve or read the game, just play whatever until they win.
Two of these 4 players were toxic in addition to the games, both emoting excessively despite me having the visible advantage. I beat both of these said Mages and a third of the 4. The main issue is not that I lost with the fourth, it’s that each Secret Mage was able to play so poorly, somehow have the confidence to spam or taunt me with emotes rather than play the game normally, and despite the effort, somehow maintain some chance of a victory or lethal from a topdeck or lucky outcome that they justify for their “well played” emoting.
Out of all the problems with Wild atm, nothing has become more obvious to me than something needs to change with Mage. This has become more of a poison deck to the meta than Quest Mage before it was nerfed in my honest view.
If any of you disagree with me, you are entitled to your own opinion and so am I, but I do suggest that Blizzard take a good consideration of how prominent and difficult Secret Mage is against the rest of the metagame. (So prominent that about every deck runs Secret tech because of it)
Your fellow HS player, Pokeniner.
Edit: Before people spam saying “Just Squelch them”. I did on both toxic players, but I do not auto-squelch players because people do emote purposefully for good reasons. At the point someone spams an emote, or emote after playing every card, is the point I squelch.