Hearthstone Secrets Mage

Hearthstone: The Secret Mage Deck


Another challenger approaches! This week, David brings on his own special Mage deck–built on lies and secrets–to challenge Dan’s claim to the Happy Hearthstone throne! Can Dan’s Hunter Beastmaster deck withhold David’s onslaught, or will his reign as the Happy Hearthstone Champion Deck be short-lived?

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The Links

Hearthstone Group Play Art

Hello!

  • David is on the show this week
  • Topic: The Secret Mage deck
  • Reasons to be happy this week

What is a Deck Challenge?

This is a new episode type we started cycling in last month. Basically, guest hosts bring on their favorite deck onto the show, and break it down for you, telling you what cards they put in it, how it works, and why they like playing it.

Then, they put their decks to the test and do battle against me in a best-of-3-series, live on the show. Each time, I’m going to be using the current Reigning Champion Deck of the show — the last deck a guest host brought onto this show and won with.

Right now, Dan’s Hunter Beastmaster deck is the reigning deck. So I’ll be using it!

And, of course, David has put together a full deck list for his deck, along with some great commentary for the deck that he’s going to be playing today — so you can recreate that one too.

The Deck

  • The Secret Mage: Load your deck up with Secrets and creatures that play off of Secrets well to disrupt your opponents plans.
  • How it wins: A lot of the Secrets excel at keeping your big threats safe from removal, letting you invest into big creatures late-game that are almost guaranteed to live long enough to punch face. Disrupt the opponent’s plans and keep them constantly second-guessing with Secrets to delay until then.

Five Key Cards

  • Counterspell: Always useful, great at protecting your minions.
  • Spellbender: Solid as a defense, like Counterspell, and will occasionally steal a huge buff for you.
  • Ethereal Arcanist: Perfect in this deck, where it can potentially scale out of control very quickly.
  • Kirin Tor Mage: Perfect turn 3 drop. Get a big creature and a secret for free!
  • Any legendary minion: The secrets excel at keeping your big threats safe. Any big threat will do.

Hearthstone Secrets Spellbender

Full Deck List

You can get more insight into the deck by reading David’s guide, which goes through every single card with full explanation and advice, but here’s the simple deck list with no commentary (ordered by mana cost), if you’d rather just try it out yourself.

Creatures

Spells

Sideboard

The deck list is pretty tight for The Secret Mage deck, but there are some alterations you can make if you are missing some cards.

The Defending Champion Deck

Dan’s Hunter Beastmaster Deck, which relies on lots of Beast minions and solid removal spells to rush the opponent down.

The Beastmaster Deck has reigned supreme for 1 month, beating 1 other deck before this episode.

The Duel!

David’s perspective

Post-Duel Commentary

  • Who won
  • Obligatory bragging session
  • Challenger Deck: How well did it perform?
  • Defending Deck: How well did it perform?
  • Best moments in the matches
  • The Happy Hearthstone Champion Ceremony(tm)

Community

  • Question: Must-pick Arena neutral minions Nathan Montgomery
  • iTunes Review: Mjb222, Dan Streelman

Card of the Week

Song by Chris Briggs
Hearthstone Frothing Berserker

Farewell

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