Just another majiya Deck that needs help

[goedi1988]

Hey there,
I'm relative new to the game and my English is not the best, so I hope you understand what I write up here.
So, now to the deck, that needs help.
4x Gargoyle
3x Fire Snake
4x Shadow knight
3x Brutal Minotaur
4x ironhide karasch
4x Fireball
4x Lightning Strike
4x Portal
4x Bad Santa
4x Tome of knowledge
4x Snow Sapphire
2x collosus

so, my biggest Problem with the deck is , its to slow. I'm loosing to fast board control and then I don't get it back, and die. And to much cards I think. Maybe some suggested improvements for me? I would be thankfully.

[a player]

What happens if you remove:

1x Minotaur
1x Sapphire
1x Collossus

[goedi1988]

I will try, OK that should help to minimize the Deck size but I think that will not help directly to get the board control back hm? Especially when I remove allies...
And thank you for your reply a player :-)

[SET Colosal]

Best way to recover board control in mages? Supernova!

[Crixus]

Put in at least 2 Supernovas

[leblinski]

Sorry, I thought we were discussing about Gravebone!

[ahmet476]

Portal Majiya can feel like slow early game. Some more 3cc allies could be helpful.

You have 45 cards total. You can do this:

-2 Brutal Minotaur
-1 Bad Santa
-1 Tome of Knowledge
-2 Snow Sapphire
+2 Supernova

You could also replace Fire Snake with a 3 cost ally. Death Collector is a good ally.

[painful_smile]

To just answere your question:
You lose board control early, because your deck has a shitty cost curve.
Not enough allies in the medium range and too many allies in the early and late range.
So what happens most of the time is.. you play allies early.. then you have a phase where you can play no efficiant allies at all and all your early played allies die, since you cannot back them up.
And then you try to cast late game allies on an empty board and fail, cause they have no support there.


ok first of all.. you need to know what you want. Your deck is like a bit stall and a bit rush and a bit lategame fatty and a bit portal......

Best results I have, if you go for a mixture of portal fatties and burn in majiya decks.

So lets do it.
take out the snow saphira. You wanna play aggressive and don't stall with your kind of deck so they have no use.

- 4 Snow saphira

Next step is that the firesnake + bad santa combo is okish in very fast rush decks.. but since most of your deck relies on portal and fatties, we need neiter of those.

-3 fire snake
-4 bad santa

Then for both, portal play and early game board presence, 3cc allies are very important.
So you should add some of those.

+ 5 of the following cards (Death mage Taddus, morbit acolyte, death collector)

making your deck up to nine 3cc allies. You can also replace your gargoyles with some of the allies above.
(i would try with 3-4 morbit, 3-4 DMT, 2 DC)

now since we took out all the bad santa, we need some more draw... so we go with:
+2 Sac lamb

now since we have 40 cards + hero in our deck now (making it too much) we take out one of the fatties (we have enough of those anyway)

-1 Brutal Minotaur or Shadow Knight

If you now want... you can replace the Brutal minotaur with Furion terror.
I think Furion terror is by far the better option, but its a bit more difficult to play. So do it like you want.
I would suggest to go with either 3 shadow knight and 3 furion terror or 4 shadow knight and 2 furion terror.

Any questions?


(yes I know, I suggested to change most of your deck :-D )