Burn (Discover) Mage Deck List

[Vlad 411]

This thread is for comments about our Burn (Discover) Mage Deck List Guide.

[Guest Doru]

This is by far the most overpriced and the worst deck I've ever had off this website. Losing way more in ranked than winning, can not compete with most decks out there. Such a waste of dust...

[positiv2 952]

1 hour ago, Guest Doru said:

This is by far the most overpriced and the worst deck I've ever had off this website. Losing way more in ranked than winning, can not compete with most decks out there. Such a waste of dust...

I would guess you are playing the deck incorrectly. If burn mage has been used to get Top 100 Legend by multiple players, it is clearly not a terrible deck. Could you upload a few replays?

[CodeRazor 47]

1 minute ago, positiv2 said:

I would guess you are playing the deck incorrectly. If burn mage has been used to get Top 100 Legend by multiple players, it is clearly not a terrible deck. Could you upload a few replays?

I think we should point out that you need to add Skulking Geist in order to defeat Jade Druid, if you are loosing to that.

Also the way you handle your late game win condition (Frost Lich Jaina) is essential as well.

[Caldyrvan 377]

I am not a fan of that deck type, at lest more fun to play against it than all the silly secret and/or quest mage decks. But ...

Compared to some other decks these days it's a pretty cheap deck. But just another one showing how hard it gets to have a top tier deck.

Btw. I think Bloodmage Thalnos is great because of his deathrattle but can easily be replaced by a Tainted Zealot, saving you 1600 dest :)

[FanOfValeera 253]

23 hours ago, Caldyrvan said:

I am not a fan of that deck type, at lest more fun to play against it than all the silly secret and/or quest mage decks. But ...

Compared to some other decks these days it's a pretty cheap deck. But just another one showing how hard it gets to have a top tier deck.

Btw. I think Bloodmage Thalnos is great because of his deathrattle but can easily be replaced by a Tainted Zealot, saving you 1600 dest :)

Kobold Geomancer is a better option than Tainted Zealot for a mage deck. Priest and Warlock has AoE for whole board, which makes divine shield better than 2 extra stats, however, all mage spells (except Volcanic Potion) doesn't deal damage to your board anyways, which makes +1/+1 a better option, in general.

[Caldyrvan 377]

To be honest I haven't thought this way, thank you :) but ...

Your opponent may cast some AoE as well to kill some of you minions, this way you can still have the +1 spell damage minion (assuming it still has divine shield). Another situation I had several times is to make use of the divine shield and easily kill a one health minion (that has more than 1 attack) and still have the Zealot, sometimes your extra damage from your hero power is not enough or it's a good way to save the 2 mana :)

I'm not a pro player so I'm not sure, maybe I am wrong with my thoughts but it looks reasonable for me ... at least a bit.

Edited September 18, 2017 by Caldyrvan

[Karayan7 38]

9 hours ago, FanOfValeera said:

Kobold Geomancer is a better option than Tainted Zealot for a mage deck. Priest and Warlock has AoE for whole board, which makes divine shield better than 2 extra stats, however, all mage spells (except Volcanic Potion) doesn't deal damage to your board anyways, which makes +1/+1 a better option, in general.

I have tried Kobold Geomancer in the mage deck because i haven't Bloodmage Thalnos and it was kind of slow,mana-wise speaking.The Tainted Zealot might be a weaker card altogether but serves better IMO the purpose of not losing the board easily on the early stages of the game.

That means,with a good mulligan you could have a decent starting hand which could easily contrast aggro decks and bring you to the late stage in very good shape.

[FanOfValeera 253]

1 hour ago, Karayan7 said:

I have tried Kobold Geomancer in the mage deck because i haven't Bloodmage Thalnos and it was kind of slow,mana-wise speaking.The Tainted Zealot might be a weaker card altogether but serves better IMO the purpose of not losing the board easily on the early stages of the game.

That means,with a good mulligan you could have a decent starting hand which could easily contrast aggro decks and bring you to the late stage in very good shape.

How is Kobold Geomancer slow mana-wise, but Tainted Zealot isn't :)

In my opinion, none of these cards is good for early board control. While playing mage, you try to do it with spells, and maybe Mana Wyrm and Doomsayer.

Anyways, whichever 2-mana spell damage card you pick to play, you play it along spells, Bloodmage Thalnos is good because of card draw, other two are not too different, you can try both and see which one suits you better.

[Karayan7 38]

1 hour ago, FanOfValeera said:

How is Kobold Geomancer slow mana-wise, but Tainted Zealot isn't :)

In my opinion, none of these cards is good for early board control. While playing mage, you try to do it with spells, and maybe Mana Wyrm and Doomsayer.

Anyways, whichever 2-mana spell damage card you pick to play, you play it along spells, Bloodmage Thalnos is good because of card draw, other two are not too different, you can try both and see which one suits you better.

In all the combinations i have tried for these cards,none of them have had the functionality of Bloodmage Thalnos. Clearly you cannot build board control over them,especially for mage where spells do the work.It's just that i had the impressions that Tainted Zealot had a gear more because of the divine shield. After all the game sample was short,so no safe conclusions about that!

[Guest Syrinx]

The deck mentions using Doomguard. You might want to fix that.

[Caldyrvan 377]

You might want to read that again :)

Doomguard is mentioned as a possible minion summoned by Firelands Portal.

[KatHS 16]

Sorry, Ihave just got around to replying, but Caldyrvan is very much correct.  The guide references many cards that are strategically relevant but not included in the deck, and Doomguard is no exception.