However, this also causes another inconsistency: since you have to spend time digging through your deck to find cards that finish your quest, you may also inadvertently draw your Archmage Antonidas and Malygos prematurely, making your combo much weaker. For that reason, I’ve put several removal spells and freeze effects in the deck, with cards like Blizzard and Volcanic Potion to help mitigate your opponent’s threats and stall time until you draw your necessary cards. Since this deck isn’t running minions like Babbling Book, Shimmering Tempest, or Burgly Bully, the only way you can finish your quest is by playing spells generated from Primordial Glyph, Cabalist's Tome, Mana Bind, and Fireballs from Archmage Antonidas, which are only 6 out of the 30 cards in the deck. The main problem in this deck is consistency.
And regardless of what deck you play against, Barnes is a must-keep.
Mulliganing for your more “greedy” value cards like Primordial Glyph, or general card draw in Arcane Intellect is key. Against Midrange or Control decks, you will also be trying to remove your opponent’s threats, but you’ll have a little more time to complete your quest and set up your combo. You’ll want to aggressively mulligan for cheap removal and AoE against Pirate Warriors and Zoo decks. Against Aggro, your main goal will be to stabilize against your opponent by removing their threats, setting up Ice Barrier and Ice Block, and getting marginal value with one of your big minions. However, you’ll also need to be slightly conservative with your burn spells like Arcane Missiles, Frostbolt, and Fireball, since you’ll need them for your combo. The deck is played like your typical Control Mage, which means you will be using the majority of your spells to help your survival via removal and secrets. Since they are the only 2 minions besides Barnes in the deck, you are guaranteed to get a minion which can combo with several of your cheap spells, like Arcane Missiles, Frostbolt, and cards discovered from Primordial Glyph. Originally I was trying some Barnes and Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound shenanigans within the deck, but I believe Malygos and Archmage Antonidas are much stronger because of their ability to benefit from the cheap burn spells in Mage. Ultimately, the goal of this deck is to use Time Warp to setup an OTK by using either Archmage Antonidas or Malygos summoned by Barnes to deal lots of burn damage around Turn 9 or later.
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