OurHighlander Mage Deck Guidegoes through the ins-and-outs of this singleton deck in the Saviors of Uldum expansion! We’re featuring the currently best deck list for the archetype, and have play strategy, mulligan guide, and additional cards you can substitute! Reno Jackson is back, but this time he’s a Mage exclusive, let’s see how he does in this new version of Reno Mage!
Reno Mage was quite a powerful list when the first edition ofReno Jacksonwas released to the public in the League of Explorers adventure. While it won’t be able to heal itself back to full like before, it can now do some crazy things viaZephrys the Great,Reno the Relicologist, andKing Phaoris. The big piece of the puzzle, however, isLuna’s Pocket Galaxythat will make all of your minions cost 1-mana. If you’re in need of a miracle to happen, thenPuzzle Box of Yogg-Saronwill hopefully have your back! Will this archetype make it through the Uldum meta? Well, that remains to be seen!
Situational Keeps
General Gameplay Tips
Highlander lists are very fun but can be somewhat hard to play. A lot of the skill involved starts with the mulligan, and understanding which cards you need for what particular matchup. If you’re in a slow match, then you’ll want to make sure to keep your more powerful cards that might be 4+ mana. If you’re against aggressive archetypes, then you obviously want to try and pick stuff that will help keep you in the game!
We’re mainly looking to stabilize in the early game and just keep things from getting too far out of hand. We can sometimes be at the mercy of what kind of hand we end up with due to the nature of singleton decks.DoomsayerandFrost Novais one of our classic combos, but we also have other AOE chances, even withReno the Relicologisthimself.
What we are really looking for is to hitLuna’s Pocket Galaxyon curve. If we can do that, then we have a much greater possibility of winning. Each minion we draw from then on is going to be 1-mana, and that enables a lot of shenanigans.
Conjurer’s Callingcan be insane if you can play it on aMountain Giant. It guarantees that you will get twoGrave Horror, which is a 7/8 Taunt. So, you can have a pretty insane board very early in the game.
As we head into the late game, we’ve hopefully gotten ahead with our advantage of having 1-cost minions in our deck. However, we’re not always going to do that, so we do have some ways to get back into the game. One of them isPuzzle Box of Yogg-Saron! This isn’t always going to go in our favor, but there’s a pretty good chance it will end up clearing the board.King Phaorisis a pretty nutty card, we’ve got a lot of high cost spells, so we should be able to get quite a strong board if we can play this.
Other Card Choices
The sky is the limit when it comes to the Highlander archetype. You generally try to tailor it to beat whatever meta you are facing. If you are facing a lot of aggro, then try for more early game focus. If you’re playing a lot of slow decks, then add more late game cards.
