Basic Mage Deck

[Guest Rallokai]

Newbie

Question : Would an Arcane Golem be a good replacement for 1 Razorfen Hunter? Thinking the charge could impact games a ton and it's a 3 mana for 4 attack. Not sure how much damage giving the opponent a mana crystal can do though. Let me know, cheers!

[Sottle 221]

Arcane Golem should only be used in decks that are really consistently aggressive, giving your opponent a Mana Crystal is really bad for in the long run.

[Guest SleepyJesus]

is gurubashi important to this deck? because i have difficulties using him effectively.

[Guest Rajey]

is gurubashi important to this deck? because i have difficulties using him effectively.

Yea can be quite circumstantial. Thinking of replacing with Silver Hand Knight for more board control instead.

[Guest Talloneus]

for this deck, it has way too much trouble beating normal maexxna. its impossible. ive maybe got her down to 24 health? i can figure out how to build a deck to mach her minion swarm, which no matter how often i clear the feild, its back to swarmed in 1 round, plus her returning mnions keeping my feild clear. its a bad problem.

[Remo 0]

I made this deck and have since done Naxx and also got Duplicate but thats currently the only secret I have. I have Mad Scientist and you guide says to replace the Acidic Swamp Ooze with them but which 3 drop cards would I swap out for Duplicate?

[Sottle 221]

Duplicate isn't really worth including in this deck, i'd wait until you have more Secrets like Mirror Entity to make the Scientist inclusion worth it.

[Guest Hazyninja]

Thank you for putting this deck together. I have seen several other deck builds on the web, but they seem to lack the reasoning behind their builds. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain why each card is included and when they are important to play. It has really helped me to understand the concept behind deck building in general. I used to play MTG back in the day and am really surprised at the similarities in deck composition concepts. I wouldn't have connected the dots if it weren't for your guide.

 

TL;DR You're Awesome!

[Sottle 221]

Thanks!

[Guest Ben61694]

Is there any reccomendations for those who went the route of blackrock instead of naxx?

[Sottle 221]

I will update all the Basic decks with a Blackrock section soon.

[Guest Jakub]

You really helped me and I am sooo grateful , just have 1 question. What do u think about water elementals instead of some 4-drops in this deck? 

[Guest Jakub]

And what do you think about water elementals?

[Sottle 221]

Water Elementals are already in the deck.

[Guest Guest]

Hi just curious, but why aren't comments enabled for your Legendary Mage Dragon Control BrM Deck?

Legendary Mage Dragon Control BrM Deck

[Guest frightful]

Thank you so much for putting this deck together!  Games like Hearthstone have always been interesting to me, but intimidating. Having a clear, good deck I can use from the beginning reduces the variables to consider and helps me learn.  I breezed through both modes of AI and have been winning Play matches.  This deck has some nice surprises even when things are looking bad.  Thanks again!

[Guest Kitsune]

I've got Violet Teacher and Ice Block from opening packs, are they worth swapping in?

Thanks :)

[Sottle 221]

Violet Teacher absolutely, Ice Block no. Ice Block is best for decks that just want to live enough turns to kill an opponent with a combo, just living one more turn in a regular deck is not worth anything.

Violet Teachers will definitely work though, just cut a Sen'jin or Yeti if you have only one to go in. (Depending on whether you want to keep the Taunt or not)

[Guest Kitsune]

Violet Teacher absolutely, Ice Block no. Ice Block is best for decks that just want to live enough turns to kill an opponent with a combo, just living one more turn in a regular deck is not worth anything.

Violet Teachers will definitely work though, just cut a Sen'jin or Yeti if you have only one to go in. (Depending on whether you want to keep the Taunt or not)

Thank you :)

[Guest Loti]

Hy. Is knife jugler worth adding in this deck? Ty.

[Guest Loti]

What about Wild Pyromancer ,Ancient mage and Gadgetzan Auctioneer, do they have a place in this build?Ty

[Sottle 221]

Juggler and Pyro can both go in in place of the regular 2-drops, not the others though. Ancient Mage is just outright bad, and this deck doesn't play enough cheap spells to cycle with Gadg.

[Guest Loti]

What do you think about replacing a Flamestrike and adding a Blizzard that works good i think with Wild pyromancer? ty

[Sottle 221]

I'd keep the Flamestrikes, card is just better individually, you don't want to rely on the combo too much.

[DocBuch 0]

What do you think about swapping in Mirror Entity?