Spark 1 Human Wizard Overloaded Staff Overloaded Staff Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Spector's Raygun Turnbull's Energy Vest Shielding Warp Boots Advanced Flexibility Electroporter Novice Spoiler: Deck 1 x Warp Run 1 x Wild Run 1 x Hypnotic Beacon 2 x Force Field 1 x Stone Spikes 4 x Weak Strike 3 x Dissolve Armor 4 x Mighty Spark 3 x Memory Loss 2 x Obliterating Spark 1 x Shuffle 1 x Illusory Barrier 1 x Slowed 1 x Arcane Shell 2 x Leadership 2 x Desperate Block 3 x Combustible 1 x Spark Inductor 1 x Spark Generator 1 x Dimensional Traveller Spark 2 Human Wizard Overloaded Staff Overloaded Staff Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Spector's Raygun Turnbull's Energy Vest Shielding Warp Boots Advanced Flexibility Electroporter Novice Spoiler: Deck 1 x Warp Run 1 x Wild Run 1 x Hypnotic Beacon 2 x Force Field 1 x Stone Spikes 4 x Weak Strike 3 x Dissolve Armor 4 x Mighty Spark 3 x Memory Loss 2 x Obliterating Spark 1 x Shuffle 1 x Illusory Barrier 1 x Slowed 1 x Arcane Shell 2 x Leadership 2 x Desperate Block 3 x Combustible 1 x Spark Inductor 1 x Spark Generator 1 x Dimensional Traveller Frost Human Wizard Supercooled Laser Staff Of Winter Sensate's Ring Sensate's Ring Sensate's Ring Runestone Explorer's Force Suit Shielding Warp Boots Advanced Flexibility Electroporter Novice Spoiler: Deck 1 x Warp Run 2 x Cooling Laser 2 x Force Field 1 x Shuffle 3 x Little Zap 1 x Flash Of Agony 6 x Frost Jolt 1 x Cold Snap 3 x Gusts Of War 1 x Slowed 1 x Chilling Rime 1 x Weak Block 1 x Wall Of Fire 2 x Winds Of War 2 x Leadership 5 x Squeamish 1 x Spark Inductor 1 x Spark Generator 1 x Dimensional Traveller This may be an all wizard party, but in some ways it has more in common with bejeweled than it does with your average burrft team. Instead of relying on buffs or multi-target effects to make up for attacks that are individually weak, these wizards simply use high damage attacks to begin with. Unfortunately, while wizards can get attacks nearly as powerful as Powerful Hack, they cannot obtain them in the quantities a warrior could. No staff has more than three 7+ damage attacks, and the cards found alongside such attacks are fairly useless. Trait cycling helps mitigate this a bit, but Leadership turns it into a viable strategy. Weak Strike is a lot more palatable once you cycle it into an Obliterating Spark. The same min/max approach is used on the defensive side as well. Force Field protects better than any armor, and Leadership helps you draw it despite only having two in your deck. Rounding out the build are some miscellaneous utility spells which help ensure that your few attacks can be used to the fullest effect, either by stripping away the opponent's defenses or moving them into range. Peasant Version (almost) Spark 1 & 2 Level 20 Human Wizard Overloaded Staff Overloaded Staff Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Explorer's Force Suit Shielding Warp Boots Advanced Flexibility Superb ElectromancyFrost Level 20 Human Wizard Chillwood Staff Chillwood Staff Sensate's Ring Sensate's Ring Sensate's Ring Sensate's Ring Explorer's Force Suit Shielding Warp Boots Advanced Flexibility Superb Electromancy
I think you should swap out Overloaded Staff for something like Mindsplinter Staff or another top-heavy staff. This should give you more card flexibility in Flash Of Agony over Weak Strike. Staff Of Pain or Painful Flashstaff work well if you find yourself needing a major token.
No. Flash Of Agony simply does not work well in this deck. The key to this deck is the ability to focus your entire team's damage output onto a single target. All three wizards must remain close to each other in order for this to be effective. In this context Desperate Block is preferable to FoA, and the extra spark damage on Overloaded Staff is enough to make up for the Weak Strikes.
Well if it works, it works. I still am of the opinion that you'll get a lot of screw games with the current format, though.
The trait cycling helps draw out the big attacks that this build relies on. Sensate's Ring has control and a cycling trait, but it also has a dead card. Squeamish is also an actual handicap in a direct damage deck. This is acceptable on the frost wizard since he has fewer dead cards from his staffs, and Squeamish is more manageable for him. The spark wizards are at the limits of what can be managed through Leadership.
This is almost a peasant build, without even trying! Is there any epic or lower card I could substitute for Spector's Raygun ? Maybe Command Stone? Ixtli Amulet is a big step down. Edit: I think this actually could be made into a peasant build without cutting too many corners. Explorer's Force Suit x3 maybe? I can't overstate how big publishing a peasant 3wiz build would be. It could singlehandedly shift the meta enough to rebalance 3 elf warriors without any nerfs. The reason 3 elf warriors is so common is that it's a viable peasant build, which means it gives new players access to multiplayer but is also the only good option for many. A 3 wiz peasant build would be the biggest thing to happen to this game since cult of the bejeweled.
You can't quite make it a peasant build, since there is no substitute for Shielding Warp Boots, but you can get pretty close: Spoiler: Peasant Wizards Spark 1 & 2 Level 20 Human Wizard Overloaded Staff Overloaded Staff Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Explorer's Force Suit Shielding Warp Boots Advanced Flexibility Superb ElectromancyFrost Level 20 Human Wizard Chillwood Staff Chillwood Staff Sensate's Ring Sensate's Ring Sensate's Ring Sensate's Ring Explorer's Force Suit Shielding Warp Boots Advanced Flexibility Superb Electromancy
Nice build. It looks much like my farming team for the level 14 - 15 adventures. In single player I prefer the cycling of Raging Rock over the potential cycling of Advanced Flexibility and since Flash Of Agony is great while Desperate Block beeing useles in single player, I play Mindsplinter Staffs over Overloaded Staffs. In my experience leadership builds, like Double-edged Swords together with Officer's Harness, lack consistency. I can't speak for multiplayer, but in single player I get sometimes hands with 6 Obliterating Sparks and sometimes I have 6 Memory Losses. Maybe I try this build out. It is kind of back into the old days, where I used low budget electricity mages together with Whirlwinds.
I tried this build in previous month's map pool and had zero success though some battles were close, gotta try it with current map pool also (might be much more productive). Inspite of my results it was interesting to play this way, thanks for sharing.
Tiwx asked me to try this build out, but I didn't have all the items required, so I made some substitutions. This is what I've been using: Spoiler: My DDL Wizards Torque Level 8 Human Wizard Overloaded Staff Overloaded Staff Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Ripple's Reality Robes Shielding Warp Boots Advanced Flexibility Superb Electromancy 1 x Warp Run 4 x Mighty Spark 1 x Hypnotic Beacon 4 x Memory Loss 2 x Spark Generator 1 x Whirlwind 2 x Leadership 1 x Reliable Mail 4 x Combustible 4 x Weak Strike 1 x Shuffle 4 x Dissolve Armor 2 x Desperate Block 3 x Obliterating Spark 1 x Slowed 1 x Force Field Jolt Level 1 Human Wizard Overloaded Staff Overloaded Staff Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Armorbane Pendant Mercury Stone Turnbull's Energy Vest Ulalia's Boots Advanced Flexibility Electroporter Novice 1 x Spark Inductor 4 x Mighty Spark 1 x Arcane Aura 1 x Dimensional Traveller 3 x Memory Loss 1 x Spark Generator 2 x Obliterating Spark 1 x Arcane Shell 1 x Wild Run 3 x Combustible 4 x Weak Strike 1 x Firestorm 3 x Dissolve Armor 2 x Leadership 1 x Teleport Self 2 x Desperate Block 1 x Hypnotic Beacon 2 x Flanking Move 1 x Slowed 1 x Force Field Flux Level 17 Human Wizard Supercooled Laser Staff Of Winter Runestone Sensate's Ring Sensate's Ring Runestone Explorer's Force Suit Glimmer Boots Advanced Flexibility Electroporter Novice 1 x Spark Inductor 1 x Cold Snap 2 x Leadership 2 x Gusts Of War 2 x Cooling Laser 1 x Spark Generator 1 x Run 6 x Squeamish 3 x Winds Of War 1 x Weak Block 1 x Dimensional Traveller 2 x Wall Of Fire 1 x Chilling Rime 1 x Hardy Mail 1 x Slowed 1 x Flash Of Agony 6 x Frost Jolt 2 x Little Zap 1 x Force Field I definitely feel the absence of Shielding Warp Boots when I'm faced with a Fireball wizard and 2 of my mages are Combustible, but this build can usually get the job done. The first match that I played in Ranked with this build was against Cardotron2000, and I got blitzed. Then I lost the next 3 games. However, by now I feel that I've adjusted to this build and I'm going about 50-50 (in the 1500s). In my last game I finally got a rematch with Cardotron2000, and this time he got blitzed. I can see how a better player than me could take DDL Wizards to 1700+.
Sounds like a really fun deck! I'm going to have to try playing it sometime, though I'm not too sure how it'd do on the current map rotation.
On current maps this build is very interesting. I played a lot of games with this setup and definitely want to say thx to the auther for the funny time i'm having=) Thanks!
