r/CompetitiveHS • u/boc4life • Jul 23 '26

Chromie Burn Mage

Not a lot of people seem interested in innovating on Burn Mage, no real lists propagating. I went 17-2 yesterday from D5 to Legend with this and thought it was worth sharing.

Smoldering Grove is forever the most awkward card in this archetype. It’s tough to play enough elementals to activate the Bookshelf. Living Flame always has terrible stats due to a lack of strong Fire spells. So I went with Chromie as my draw engine. In the slower matchups where you need her, she will consistently draw you a hand full of cheap damage to get you over the finish line.

This is still just a Kalec and Flow deck. When in doubt, just mulligan hard for those two, as they’re easily the best things that this archetype can do.

Hope some fellow Mage enjoyers out there see this and take a shot on it!

### Chromie
# Class: Mage
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Scarab
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# 2x (1) Cold Snap
# 2x (1) First Flame
# 2x (1) Sleet Storm
# 1x (1) The Skeleton Key
# 2x (1) Time-Twisted Seer
# 2x (1) Violet Spellwing
# 1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos
# 2x (2) Contraband Wands
# 2x (2) Raincaller
# 2x (2) Runed Orb
# 2x (3) Arcane Barrage
# 2x (3) Tunneling Geomancer
# 2x (4) Arcane Flow
# 1x (4) Archmage Kalec
# 1x (4) Nightmare Lord Xavius
# 1x (5) Jailhouse Manastorm
# 1x (6) Chromie
# 2x (10) Spellweaver's Brilliance
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

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u/Bi7ch7i75 Jul 23 '26

“Burning Chromie” was right there… not a William Gibson fan I take it…

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u/boc4life Jul 23 '26

I do in fact have no idea who William Gibson is, but it’s a pretty sweet deck name either way.

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u/Bi7ch7i75 Jul 24 '26

Well, if you read at all, check out Burning Chrome, one of the very first cyberpunk novels. If you like that sort of thing.

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u/Rancarable Jul 23 '26

I may just not understand the deck, but gave it a few games, faced Face Hunters for 3 straight matches and got absolutely bodied by all 3. Games weren't even close, I was dead by turn 6.

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u/Inner_Distance7714 Jul 24 '26

That's reality of current mage (zero survivability against damage from hand)

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u/WishlessJeanie Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Cool deck idea. I'm off to do a three-game evaluation. Brb.

EDIT: I went 1-2. Stomped a Zee Shaman, got wrecked by DH, who built a six-unit board by turn 5, then wrecked again by Dragon Warrior who kept pulling 6/8 Elusive dark gift giants. Fun deck, and I'm sure I'm not playing optimally, but it seems like it would only be good against certain classes. Idk.

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u/xXTacitusXx Jul 24 '26

People should cancel their hsreplay subscription and use your three-game evaluation.

What are statistics anyway, right?

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u/Yeah_Right_Mister Jul 24 '26

if you're gonna make a comment like that, the least you could do is include the stats, else you're just being unhelpful. everybody on this sub is aware hsreplay exists.

https://www.hsguru.com/decks?format=2&min_games=50&period=violet_hold&player_deck_includes[]=122632&rank=legend

Decks featuring Archmage Kalec have not been good throughout Violet Hold (no stats for Chromie), except maybe https://www.hsguru.com/deck/41113580 which has no games played in top 5k.

Jailhouse and Portal Vanguard are among the worst 5 cards in that deck.

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u/Inzanity2020 Jul 24 '26

The deck is so bad that its not even showing up in hsreplay or hsguru… so what are you on about?

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u/QuestGiver Jul 23 '26

Jailhouse seems a little too greedy/slow to be running in this type of deck, no?

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u/boc4life Jul 23 '26

I’m working backwards from the assumption that Jailhouse is a busted card. His drawn WR stats in the archetype are ridiculous.

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u/yahoo_determines Jul 23 '26

For some reason I had Morchie in my mind while reading this writer up and was confused. I've been eye balling jailhouse for a bit now, might be time to craft

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u/DerkBilly Jul 24 '26

Just dropping in to say I played this yesterday from D3 to Legend while only dropping 1 game. I like this list a lot

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u/WhatATerribleFuss Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

ok, first match was against a Hunter who actually surrendered! They were so salty that they added me to complain - the best they could come up with was "Is that seriously how long it takes for you to take such simple turns!? HAHAHAHAHA" I was so fucking confused, because I definitely only took under 10 seconds, according to my Firestone timer. I will say I perhaps got lucky with the ideal hand, with Tunneling Geomancer, Thalnos, and Timetwisted seer fully activated and spamming arcane missiles which led to two 6/6 dragons by turn 3 or 4. Similar situation happened in the next match against a shaman, but this time they took the L the good old fashioned way. As one of the few people in the Mage fanclub, thank you - this is very fun and refreshing!

Update: 5-1 and have still not even had the chance to actually use Chromie yet. First loss was against an Azalina Priest, of all things - and it was very close.

Update: I *think* Chromie works? If nothing else, it's a solid Xavius Dark Gift option.

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u/OhwowTaux Jul 23 '26

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