Basic Zinaar Mage Deck (Normal Mode)

Table of Contents

• 1. About the Author
• +2. Basic Zinaar Mage Deck (Normal Mode)
  • 2.1. Mana Curve
• 3. Strategy

This deck can be used to defeat Zinaar on Normal mode and is comprised of only Basic Set cards. Zinaar's Normal mode deck is extremely poor and should be easy to defeat with almost any deck, but this build provides a particularly easy win.

1. About the Author

This deck is presented to you by Sottle, a professional Hearthstone player who plays for compLexity Gaming. Sottle regularly streams on Twitch and explains all of his moves. Watching him is a good opportunity to see how this and other decks play out in practice, and how decisions are made in real time.

2. Basic Zinaar Mage Deck (Normal Mode)

Our deck costs 0 and it is made up of the following cards.

Mage Cards	Neutral Cards
2x Arcane Explosion 2x Frostbolt 2x Fireball 1x Polymorph 2x Water Elemental	2x Bloodfen Raptor 2x Kobold Geomancer 2x River Crocolisk 1x Razorfen Hunter 2x Shattered Sun Cleric 2x Chillwind Yeti 2x Sen'jin Shieldmasta 2x Frostwolf Warlord 2x Stormpike Commando 2x Boulderfist Ogre 2x Stormwind Champion

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2.1. Mana Curve

3. Strategy

Defeating Zinaar on Normal mode should pose no great problems. His deck is full of extremely poor quality cards like Wisp, Dust Devil, and Young Dragonhawk. To mitigate some of this early board flooding strategy, 2 copies of Arcane Explosion are included in the deck to sweep his early boards. Even if you don't draw this though, his minions pose very little threat.

Card draw is left out of the deck even though Mage has some nice options for drawing cards available to them. Since you are given a 0-Mana spell each turn that draws you a card, you will never find yourself out of options and will in fact often overdraw if you try to draw cards yourself.

Spend the first few turns gaining board control, and once you have a comfortable position on the board you can start pushing damage to Zinaar directly. This fight should be over very quickly as he has very few options to recover a lost board, while his minions are too poor to fight for the board themselves.