Dies to Removal

Fireball and Frostbolt are OK, it's mostly that you can go to the face with them and that Chugger and Water Elemental are great 2 and 4 drops (you also have Goblin Pyromancer[?], the aforementioned Flamestrike, Flame Cannon), and you also have sometimes-awesome Mana Wurm, but then there's a sharp drop-off after that list in the quality of cards. You have Duplicate and Mirror Entity and Counterspell (though there's a sharp drop in the latter two if your opponent has the ability to play around them), but then bottom of the bottom of the barrel stuff like Ice Lance, Spell Bender, Arcane Explosion, Mirror Image, etc. Mage is only at that "omg so broken 12-0" when you get lucky and stack multiple flame strikes behind multiple frost bolts and fireballs with Apprentice Mage[?] and Water Eles and then quality neutral cards, but then there are the drafts where you see 0 frost bolts or fireballs and your only AOE is an errant Blizzard. I feel like Mage has extreme variance swings in arena that are wholly dependent on you opening multiple flamestrikes and water elementals, and as the card pool for the game expands, your odds of pulling any of those cards shrinks, and the class drops off considerably as a result. That doesn't mean Mage is not in the uppermost tiers of Arena (and as I pointed out in the Paladin arena thread, Mage vs Paladin in a vacuum is 100% favored for Mage), I would just pick Paladin 100% of the time over Mage because the quality is spread out both over the cards offered in expansions and there are a similar/greater number of class commons you pick over most everything else, barring curve considerations.

On a similar note, Warlock is actually good in Arena now and I never thought that would be a thing I said. I'm currently 6-1 with such a tepid Warlock deck that just happens to have multiple Darkbombs and a single Void Caller with multiple Pit Lords and Watchers to cheat out. Void Caller and Darkbomb have, in tandem, made Warlock a real boy on their own.

*Flamestrike is considered the best arena deck

I always get bored with ranked and can't pay attention long enough to actually climb to legend/I'm too vested in group arena sessions.
This thread made me locl tho.

So many dick move players

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