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Elemental Mage is a Mage deck type derived from Tempo Mage. It focuses on using the strong synergies of the Elemental tribe, introduced in the Journey to Un'Goro expansion. Similar to Dragon decks, it aims to have a strong curve of Elemental minions to take full advantage of their powerful Battlecry effects. The strength of these Battlecries makes the archetype very flexible, and capable of shifting between tempo and value play styles. While Tempo Mage is focused more around spells and burst damage, Elemental Mage is more focused on board advantage and value.

In order to be successful, Elemental Mage needs to reliably play Elementals on the turn prior to using their most powerful cards in order to benefit from their effect. To help with this, the deck employs heavy card draw or inexpensive Elemental tokens generated from cards such as Journey to Un'GoroFire Fly to allow them to consistently benefit from high value cards like Journey to Un'GoroServant of Kalimos and Galakrond's AwakeningAnimated Avalanche.

In the Year of the Mammoth meta, Knights of the Frozen ThroneFrost Lich Jaina was the centerpiece of Elemental Mage decks, giving the deck a source of healing and constant value generation to outlast the opponent even against control decks. Descent of Dragons saw a return of Elemental Mage as a mainstream deck with Descent of DragonsElemental Allies and Galakrond's AwakeningAnimated Avalanche giving Elemental synergy decks the push it needed to fully commit to the archetype. This version of Elemental Mage can use either a Rise of ShadowsMana Cyclone hybrid deck or a Hero Power based deck for Rastakhan's RumbleJan'alai, the Dragonhawk.

Common cards[]

The following cards are usually in the deck.

Core cards[]

The following cards are played in most or all versions of the deck:

Elemental Evocation
Elemental Allies
Violet Spellwing
Frostbolt
Sorcerer's Apprentice
Arcane Amplifier
Cosmic Anomaly
Fireball
Animated Avalanche

Cyclone Mage hybrid[]

Magic Trick
Ray of Frost
Shooting Star
Mana Cyclone
Chenvaala
Mana Giant

Optional cards[]

The following cards are played more than occasionally, but not always:

Daring Fire-Eater
Learn Draconic
Quicksand Elemental
Celestial Emissary
Archmage Arugal

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Zephrys the Great
Book of Specters
Pyromaniac
Fire Hawk
Stargazer Luna
Arcane Intellect
Frost Nova
Water Elemental
Polymorph
Scorch
Conjurer's Calling
Bonfire Elemental
Zilliax
Blizzard
Baron Geddon
Flamestrike
Archmage Antonidas
Siamat
Jan'alai, the Dragonhawk
Mountain Giant

Wild cards[]

Wild cards that fit well into this deck type:

Babbling Book
Fire Fly
Lesser Ruby Spellstone
Primordial Glyph
Pyros
Shimmering Tempest
Brann Bronzebeard
Duplicate
Ice Block
Tar Creeper
Echo of Medivh
Leyline Manipulator
Arcane Tyrant
Servant of Kalimos
Meteor
Blazecaller
Firelands Portal
Ragnaros the Firelord
Frost Lich Jaina
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