SmilodeX’ #10 Legend N’Zoth Reno Mage – S51 (June 2018)

ARCHETYPE EXPLANATION

The core of Reno Mage is Kazakus , Reno Jackson , board clears and a Secret package that always contains Ice Block.

All these cards focus on huge swings when you are behind. For this reason, Reno Mage has always been reactive, often with a late-game win condition. That simply isn’t viable – the problem with reactive decks has often been that the early turns are dead, which you can’t afford in Wild. For this reason, Reno Mage has added even more reactive tools to the decks arsenal for the early game.

The strength of this deck is that it can very often survive until the opponent is out of value. This is possible against many aggro and mid-range decks. However, if these decks mainly focus on growing a huge board, the Reno Mage will sometimes get overrun, and Ice Block will not be very helpful. Ice Block is another benefit for this deck because it often manages to beat one-turn-kill (OTK) combo decks that control decks have struggled against for a long time.

The weakness of this deck is that it can’t pressure that well. So, against decks that have a long-term strategy that beats Reno Mage, there is pretty much nothing to do.

Current Place in the Meta

Reno Mage is currently looking down in the meta. Due to the rampantness of Big Priest and Warlock archetypes, Reno Mage struggles to deal with their quick and huge threats. Some builds of Reno Mage are now teching in some tools to deal with those archetypes. However, it still struggles significantly. 

Reno Mage can still do well against the aggressive decks in the meta, as usual. Many archetypes are currently looking to aggressively target the Big Priest and Warlock decks. If you can avoid those two and hit the aggro decks, then you can win fairly consistently. The current Reno Mage build tries to beat the few aggressive decks that are still populated in the ladder.

Reno Mage is a great deck to focus something specific, like in a tournament Line Up, Reno Mage can shine, if you ban Warlock or Big Priest to focus against the Aggro decks.

        Vs. Token based Aggro Decks:

        Vs. Control Decks:

        Vs. Big Priests, Cubelocks and other Deathrattle heavy Decks

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SmilodeX is a card game enthusiast since he can read cards. He’s collecting cards from different card games and also played Magic the Gathering competetive. Smilo is playing Hearthstone since Naxxramas and had diverse legend finishes (most of them were in the wild mode). His passion is deckbuilding and playing control/combo & midrange decks. His goal isn’t just straight netdeck-meta-grinding, instead he’s trying to reach the higher ranks with his homebrewed decks. To have fun and to try out something new or crazy is his attitude, winning is sometimes insignificant. He’s analysing statistics to work out the best deck techs in current meta, improving different memedecks and matchups to have succcess with them on the ladder.