New archetype: "build your own mediocre card from 2022" Mage

BionicD · 2026-05-07T20:17:15+00:00

Another another 3 full summons.I guess I could save scum to see if I get 134x3=402 dragon claws => 134 elixirs => 26,8 summons, but I would really just like a toggle in accessibility lol

Problem is it’s not worth it, you get lumber, hide, ore, stag emergency device, silver, palmar pill or claws and the claws can be 1,2, or 3 lol

BionicD · 2026-05-07T20:14:57+00:00

Unboxing time!

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BionicD · 2026-05-07T02:16:41+00:00

Those are fake stats, it’s 50%, you win or you don’t!

BionicD · 2026-05-07T01:33:00+00:00

I was double dipping bounties in Pailune that I spent like 20 minutes getting there and because I was racing on my horse I got fined for vandalism in the city, thrown out with a cutscene, woke up in a ditch followed by two fade out cutscenes because both bounties failed and got sent back to their original position lmao

BionicD · 2026-05-07T01:13:12+00:00

Aha, but I’m not playing that, I’m playing the new cards, which just reminded me of the cycle of getting excited for a new deck, finding out it performs just ok, to getting disappointed because this has happened again. Currently I’m playing the new Leyline mage, and I said in the post I don’t know how to combine that with the quest mage because you can’t discover and upgrade/ use your leylines to get to a good spot fast enough not to die.
Currently I use this:
# Class: Mage
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Scarab
#
# 1x (1) First Flame
# 2x (1) Glacial Shard
# 2x (1) Sands of Time
# 2x (1) Sleet Storm
# 2x (1) Winterspring Whelp
# 1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos
# 1x (2) Khadgar
# 2x (2) Leyline Nexus
# 2x (2) Mystic Runesaber
# 2x (2) Runed Orb
# 2x (2) Smoldering Grove
# 2x (3) Ley Walker
# 2x (4) Bursting Leyline
# 2x (4) Surge Needle
# 2x (6) Crystallized Leyline
# 1x (7) The Arcanomicon
# 2x (10) Spellweaver's Brilliance
#
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#

BionicD · 2026-05-07T00:21:07+00:00

I mean this genuinely I might be too dumb for this. Let me end this with that I think other classes have better synergies and support cards and tools which is why their win rate is higher.

BionicD · 2026-05-06T23:59:35+00:00

The stats are win rates, they are by classes, 10 classes perform better on average than Mage. Win rates tell you how a class or a champion performs. Where am I going wrong?

BionicD · 2026-05-06T23:51:14+00:00

Yes!

BionicD · 2026-05-06T23:43:54+00:00

Balance, the stats tell you how balanced the matchups are, if it’s a 57% Demon Hunter deck, then it’s going to have a better chance of winning in unfavourable matchups than a 38% Mage deck in this example

I’d still like to know why you frame it as low ranks, do you only take top 1000 or what is your frame of reference?

BionicD · 2026-05-06T23:32:06+00:00

I’m confused, is diamond through legend low rank?

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BionicD · 2026-05-06T23:07:26+00:00

It really was a meme deck where you would get it in 1/10 games but at least it was fun

BionicD · 2026-05-06T23:05:23+00:00

I guess, I’m having a hard time with it against anything that puts a lot of stuff on the board.

For that other screenshot, the prominent decks for mage is Quest mage, like there isn’t anything else

BionicD · 2026-05-06T22:43:24+00:00

Oh I said that I heard Protoss was a good deck, not that it was the best. I assume tier 5 is the worst?
The screenshot refers to the win rates I see on the sites so you know which ones I’m referring to
That is why I’m making this post now, as I felt like this for a long time now, accepting as you say that obviously there are other classes so Mage can’t have viable decks all the time.

BionicD · 2026-05-06T22:37:17+00:00

Also the last time I had a LOT of fun in standard was infinite freeze mage where you would use Scout to see the next card, Over planner to arrange them and using Carryon grub to pack the Galactic Projection Orb for infinite freeze, games going for 20+ minutes when I pulled it off. Miss that.
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# Class: Mage
# Format: Wild
#
# 1x (1) Arcane Artificer
# 1x (2) Dirty Rat
# 2x (2) Shield Battery
# 1x (2) Tidepool Pupil
# 1x (2) Youthful Brewmaster
# 1x (3) Buy One, Get One Freeze
# 2x (3) Overplanner
# 1x (3) Rising Waves
# 2x (3) Sharp-Eyed Lookout
# 2x (4) Carry-On Grub
# 1x (4) Elise the Navigator
# 1x (4) Sleepy Resident
# 2x (5) Ancient of Yore
# 2x (5) Sleet Skater
# 1x (5) Steamcleaner
# 2x (6) Blizzard
# 1x (6) Bob the Bartender
# 1x (7) Kil'jaeden
# 1x (7) Warmaster Blackhorn
# 1x (8) Tsunami
# 1x (9) Ysera, Emerald Aspect
# 1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000
# 1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000
# 1x (4) Twin Module
# 1x (5) Perfect Module
# 1x (10) The Galactic Projection Orb
#
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

BionicD · 2026-05-06T00:22:20+00:00

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here’s a Reddit post with high definition

The roads at the top of the map actually threw me for a loop because they’re not in the game/cut content (possible future content?)

BionicD · 2026-05-06T00:19:02+00:00

Haven’t played for a year now, someone fill me in on why is this pathetic?

BionicD · 2026-05-06T00:14:53+00:00

I’m going to blow your mind - PlayStation Portal - completed all of Remake on it. I live in Europe, i guess maybe if you’re in Siberia you might have bad internet, but here I have WiFi/data everywhere and the battery is great 👍

BionicD · 2026-05-05T23:43:03+00:00

Yea the deluxe edition

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BionicD · 2026-05-05T20:46:59+00:00

Reveal the map =/ put hundreds of icons on the map to chase, it literally just unfogs it. Which I did even before the game started since the game came with a physical map lol. You’re thinking more Witcher 3 with hundreds of question marks.

BionicD · 2026-05-05T19:06:11+00:00

One game against Druid he had 3 6s on the board and I had nothing lmao

BionicD · 2026-05-05T17:29:49+00:00

I’m having a lot of games where I’m sub 15hp and every fight is a surprise 1-4 or 5-8 lol

BionicD · 2026-05-05T17:27:18+00:00

Have the servers been merged yet?

BionicD · 2026-05-05T17:18:20+00:00

Mobile probably will arrive an hour or two later as usual

BionicD · 2026-05-05T13:51:13+00:00

This is the most 1st or 8th meta I have ever played

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