began running a shaman bloodlust deck, quite the change from a mech lock and its been fun so far  

15-6 with this Hybrid Hunter deck so far. Love it. Can upload a decklist if anyone wants a competitive deck on a budget, a lot of people are using variants of this in tourneys and Legend.  

tavern brawl is kew.

i had rag down to 12 health with chromagus (6-8) on the board then top-deck'd a 5 mana minion with 3 damage battlecry, EXACT LETHAL.  

holy **** looks like Blizzard decided to be generous today

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Man, Mech decks are so annoying. They have so much value and synergy with each other.  

I feel like a robot climbing the ladder using Face Hunter but it's hard to resist using a deck that feels like free wins vs. anything that doesn't include Healbots  

I switched back to my updated Midrange Hunter, Face got really boring really fast. Still saving up dust for a Handlock deck too. Also crafted Dr. Balanced while I wait for Blizz to nerf him. He's pretty fun in Midrange Hunter.  

Also been getting into Oil Rogue, this deck is insanely fun. Also feels so rewarding to execute combos.  

post BattleTags, I have like no one to complete the "spectate a friend win" quest with  

Started to play again. This game is so fun  

Anyone here know a good cheap mage deck for ranked?  

Honestly if you're set on playing Mage, for just starting off and learning the game, I'd just throw in the core spells like Fireball, Frostbolt, Polymorph, etc. and a balanced minion curve. You can probably get through to at least 15ish without netdecking and while still learning the game which is what I'd recommend.

Past then, there aren't many viable Mage decks for more competitive laddering aside from maybe Freeze Mage and Tempo Mage, both of which are extremely pricey and require DLC. And even then they're not that great.

Warrior, Hunter and Warlock seem to be all the rage these days. You can construct Midrange Hunter, Zoolock, Face Hunter, and even the ridiculously ****y Patron Warrior for fairly cheaply and they're all top-tier decks right now. Face Hunter is the epitome of low skill floor, high skill cap as you can pretty much faceroll with it until you get placed against better players, which the deck is very difficult to play at that point, but still effective when played correctly. Zoolock is in the same boat. Patron Warrior is a very combo-heavy deck, harder to learn, but arguably a Top 3 deck in the meta right now.  

For a budget i'd play Zoo Lock or Mech Mage tbh, rn your best bet would be to get all the mechs that are played since u can build a lot of decks around those cards  

Thanks guys

BT: Jaredish#1404  

Zoo or Face Hunter are definitely the best budget decks
I think Zoo is sort of obsolete now to the Demon-y Zoo stuff with Voids and Malganis, but the OG Zoo deck is still pretty strong to me, I got to rank 8 just by playing it casually

Almost every Mage deck is dependent on a Legendary like Archmage or Alex, I think most include Boom too, so they are usually kind of expensive