Don't like Spellbender. Counterspell is underused and underrated as a tempo push with Kirin Tor Mage though, so keep those. Shade is also pretty bad imo. You need a couple more turn 2 plays imo.
Anyone care to offer opinions on how to clean this up? It's been surprisingly successful so far.
Sounds good all in all. For those of us with nearly complete sets of cards, I like being able to buy expansion packs and not get regular crap that's just going to get dusted. And speaking of dust, I wonder if that means they're going to introduce a new currency (something like "mystic" dust) for crafting the expansion's cards or if they're just going to stick with one currency. I really hope they stick with just one but I can see why they'd go with a new form.
That is pretty close to a deck I threw together when I had 2 mage quests to burn through. It got me from rank 21 to 15 with like 2 losses in a matter of a couple hours which was fun. I just tweaked it to remove an arcane intellect and a gurubashi berserker for Loathed and the sludge belcher.
Maybe you will have to open the card in a booster before being able to craft the second copy ? That doesn't solve legendaries though. Or they need to introduce another dust sink.
I doubt it. I think their plan was to use Adventure Modes as a vehicle to release small sets of cards built around a raid/dungeon theme and the larger expansions as straight card packs.
Usually when that happens give it a day or two and an aggro deck dominates the ladder making control decks less greedy, but naxx did give control a lot of tools to survive the early game so it'll be interesting to see how things settle down.
Like Sludge Belcher. The reason I added one to my dumb mage deck was I mirror imaged then duplicated someone elses and it basically was game over for them. By the time 5 drops are happening I should have been hitting their face too much for them to last much longer. I don't imagine that deck will get me anywhere near the top but it creates some hilarious games, like the last one I played where my enemy had to get through 6 water elementals over the course of like 4 turns.
Oh, I'm playing it wrong then. Probably because I have no high-mana legendaries or epics (I have like one crappy giant), so I just ride early/mid game and hope I can pull it off. Basically all of my decks right now have nothing past 5 or 6 drops
I did that to a warrior once. Made me hard.
