The goal with this list is to close in on the enemy Avatar fast and hard, you'll find that the shorter your games are the more you'll win. Your win condition is to not only attack with your [[Battlemage]] every turn, but to double-up on his damage with [[Critical Strike]], [[Grapple Shot]], or [[Leap Attack]]. Ideally you should save your strike spells for after you've increased your power with: [[Overpower]], [[Torshammar Trinket]], or best of all [[Flaming Sword]]; doubling the value of those spells. I like to conceptualize this deck as having a turbo, beat-down, aggro playstyle, but it is almost certainly more accurate to call it combo. It can really depend on match-up.

When you mulligan you will want to look for a turn 2 [[Flaming Sword]]. This can be accomplished with the combination of any 2 of the following: turn 1 [[Dwarven Forge]], turn 1 Core, turn 2 [[Imperial Road]], or turn 2 Tower. Obviously you will also want the [[Flaming Sword]] in your opening 3 spells. [[Grapple Shot]] is your ideal turn 3 spell, especially if it can connect with their avatar, and thus should also be considered in the mulligan. If that plan doesn't work then you can lean on [[Common Sense]]. Use it to find whatever piece can most suit you in the moment or maybe set up for a big combo turn. This should go without saying but [[Philosopher's Stone]] is also a very powerful early play. With 3 elements in the deck it can cheat a lot of mana for you, for example; [[Common Sense]] into [[Grapple Shot]] + [[Critical Strike]] costs 4 instead of 7! You may want to draw from the atlas on turn 1 to secure threshold for the game, but after that you should only draw from the spellbook. [[Observatory]] is made better in this deck by [[Common Sense]] as it allows you to shuffle away cards you don't want. Only spend about 3 turns playing sites if possible, you want to put your opponent on a clock. Be sure you get 4 mana though. The dream opening hand probably looks something like: [[Philosopher's Stone]], [[Flaming Sword]], [[Common Sense]], [[The Colour Out of Space]], [[Imperial Road]], and any Tower.

By default your time to kill is 8 attacks/strikes. When playing your hand you will want to determine how to lower this number by as much as possible. Note that simply by increasing your power by 1 for each stike (such as with [[Torshammar Trinket]] or [[Flaming Sword]]), you lower that count by 2! Once you are in enemy territory you want to stick close to their avatar to put pressure on, attacking their site to avoid taking a strike back (unless of course you've cast [[Critical Strike]]). Something you will want to be aware of if your opponent starts to stack blockers on their avatar is how [[Flaming Sword]] + [[Leap Attack]] interact. When you resolve [[Leap Attack]] while wielding [[Flaming Sword]], you will deal your power (likely 4) * the number of enemies there to each of those said enemies. Even if they only have a single minion there, that is still 8 damage to both the avatar and the minion! This is an incredibly powerful punish and should always be front of mind.

When it comes time to deliver the death blow you may be quiet hurt, perhaps you even end up at death's door yourself. If so, you can simply use [[Truesight Crossbow]], [[Lightning Bolt]], or [[Minor Explosion]] to finish them off safely, though be aware of that double fire threshold. By staying on top of the enemy avatar, [[Truesight Crossbow]] can also help invalidate blockers given that ranged strikes cannot be defended. [[Lightning Bolt]] is great at catching particularly mobile avatars while [[Minor Explosion]] is better if opponents stack units. These 3 aforementioned cards also help deal with a site that would otherwise be an absolute hoser to this deck, [[Gnome Hollows]]. If your opponent nestles their avatar in there, you will need to dig for these spells as without them you will be unable to deliver the death blow at all. Alternatively you can shut them down with [[Smokestacks of Gnaak]]. Luckily, [[Minor Explosion]] and [[Lightning Bolt]] can each be searched out with [[Common Sense]] so it shouldn't be too hard to find the death blow. You should also be highly concerned about healing, especially [[Daperyll Vampire]], she is a kill on sight threat. [[Poisonous Dagger]] or any power increasing card + any one-sided strike are your best answers pre-sideboarding. If you can't kill her then try to make as much distance as possible and/or get your opponent to death's door ASAP. A final thing to watch out for (though there isn't much to be done about it in main deck) is [[Atlantean Fate]]. With only 3 ordinary sites in the atlas, this aura can be completely debilitating. When it comes out you will simply be forced to slow down and take more space to recover threshold.

The sideboard is still very much a work in progress, almost all my games have been best of 1. You may have noticed that I include [[Font of Life]] despite not having many water sites in the deck. This tech is specifically for playing into water decks that play [[Flood]] and [[Atlantean Fate]], capitalizing on the threshold these cards provide you. There is also a [[Disenchant]] which can take care of [[Atlantean Fate]] if needed. It can also be helpful in mirror matches with other [[Battlemage]]s, be careful not to fire it off when you're standing with them! You could instead use [[Telekinesis]] to take whatever gear they are stacking, or more generally take away alchemy 9 pieces from opponents. Depending on what elements your opponent is playing, [[Bury]] or [[Drown]], along with [[Infiltrate]], are for dealing with decks that can go late despite your best efforts to rush them down (looking at you [[Pathfinder]]). Save them for big threats or those pesky [[Daperyll Vampire]]s. [[Divine Healing]] is also for games you expect to go longer and thusbcan spend the time setting up threshold. Finally there is [[Poison Nova]] which can serve to answer any unit(s), be they big or many. As for what to take out for any of these tools... I have no clue! Like I said before, my games have been nearly all Bo1. Probably remove the extra copies of ordinaries (excluding [[Common Sense]] and [[Grapple Shot]]), cut [[Screaming Skull]] if they don't play many early minions... I really don't know for sure.

My final note is that while I think this deck is in a decently refined state, it is a copy of the deck I play in paper and some choices have been influenced by personal card pool constraints. Hope you like it if you try it and I welcome comments!

Full Sprint Battlemage (3 Color)

@Benzion