So, I started playing Hearthstone one month into the MSoG meta, and spent my first two months at rank 20-15 getting absolutely decimated by Jade Druids. And naturally, I hated the deck. Eventually, the newbie sentiment of 'hating the deck that destroys you' wore off, but my hatred for Jade Druid continued, because of my distaste for the Jade mechanic.
With rotation, I had slowly forgotten about the deck. But over the last month, I have been playing Wild ladder for the first time, and I encountered a handful of Jade Druids along the way. I was quite taken aback by the visceral hatred I still had for the deck. I am generally not someone who has a strong reaction to a game, and I didn't even lose to most of these Druids. But every time the first Jade Spirit or Jade Idol came down, I could feel a long-forgotten rage well up inside.
This made me interested in similar stories other people might have. Did any deck come to haunt you from the dead when you started playing Wild? Any particular no-longer-rational hatred that you harbour towards some particular deck?
Face hunter prenerf right after Naxx. I get triggered when i see Undertaker. Couldn’t even hero power with shaman for fear of just filling his hand with the Unleash/Buzzard combo.
Freeze Mage. I hate to fill my board but can't attack. It really wakes the rage inside me. I always like control decks but That Freeze Mage really haunts me.
And Pirate Warrior. That damn thing is so powerful on early even without Pirates If you don't have Taunt. Fiery War axe face, +4 attack face, 5/2 weapon face.... I hate it.
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Memedeck-seeker. Always tries to build new decks. Hates tournements, streamers, netdecks and poor-o players. ah, but a tournement mode could be great !!!
Ever since the beginning of the game, I've hated Doomguard. I still think it's like the most bs card out there haha, especially paired with the warlock hero power. They aren't even particularly op any more, but man does that minion ever frustrate the hell outta me, and I just can't shake that feeling.
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The problem with Kingsbane is that there is no way to interact with it. If there are to be cards like this, there needs to be a way to silence them or force their permanent discard. Other games have this type of interactions - send to graveyard, prevent return from graveyard, or just have enough cards in the deck that redrawing will not be assured during a match.
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Free to try and find a game, dealing cards for sorrow, cards for pain.
I do hate Big Priest a lot, because only few of my decks actually have cards that can fend off their ridiculous strategy (Sap, Counterspell, Polymorph: Boar, Loatheb, and some other).
Yet i do not feel the visceral rage you mentioned.
That happens sometimes, when i face a lose streak, but it's more salt than rage.
Shadow reaper Aunduin. So much time wasted because the opponent had the combo on turn 8. Had a streak of 8 games where all opponents were priests and all had raza + aunduin by turn 8. And it left scars.
The problem with Kingsbane is that there is no way to interact with it. If there are to be cards like this, there needs to be a way to silence them or force their permanent discard. Other games have this type of interactions - send to graveyard, prevent return from graveyard, or just have enough cards in the deck that redrawing will not be assured during a match.
As much as I absolutely loathe Kingsbane Rogue in wild interaction doesn't have to be a "Do I interact with a card and win the game, or cause my opponent to lose the game?"
People have this very flat perception of what interacting is supposed to be. For example, you can make a card that could interact with Kingsbane without turning it into a polarizing 'Hate on [insert deck here and win] card.'.
Just one example could look like this;
Kingslayer Ooze
4 mana
4/4 Echo. Battlecry: Remove one durability from your opponent's weapon. If it still has durability reduce its attack in half.
Such a card would interact with Kingsbane without necessarily instantly winning you the game. It would make it so that the rogue still has fatigue immunity, with some pressure/healing, without carting around a partial 'otk' level 18+ attack weapon.
I came into hearthstone same time as you, and I decided to not invest in any cards suntil ungoro. My thinking was everything was about to rotate out and I would start fresh.
Pirates were everywhere, and when I say everywhere I don't mean pirate decks. I mean freaking shaman was running the 'pirate package', two one drops who pulled patches. No matter what deck I built, I started each game with 'im in chaaaaarge' and 29 health. There were pro tournaments where patches was in almost 70% of all constructed decklists.
I ended up becoming someone who spends on every expansion, and I crafted a ton of msog cards, but I refused to craft and play patches. Emotionally he was a bad guy card and I fought patches, I wasn't patches.
When Blizzard nerfed him, I was irrationally angry. I'd played my whole hearthstone experience against patches, and now when I was finally about to see him gone from standard there was some ridiculous token Nerf?
So, I started playing Hearthstone one month into the MSoG meta, and spent my first two months at rank 20-15 getting absolutely decimated by Jade Druids. And naturally, I hated the deck. Eventually, the newbie sentiment of 'hating the deck that destroys you' wore off, but my hatred for Jade Druid continued, because of my distaste for the Jade mechanic.
With rotation, I had slowly forgotten about the deck. But over the last month, I have been playing Wild ladder for the first time, and I encountered a handful of Jade Druids along the way. I was quite taken aback by the visceral hatred I still had for the deck. I am generally not someone who has a strong reaction to a game, and I didn't even lose to most of these Druids. But every time the first Jade Spirit or Jade Idol came down, I could feel a long-forgotten rage well up inside.
This made me interested in similar stories other people might have. Did any deck come to haunt you from the dead when you started playing Wild? Any particular no-longer-rational hatred that you harbour towards some particular deck?
Mill kingsbane.
big priest....
but i also can't stop laughing when they draw barnes from their spells or their 10-10 that draws a minion
Thank god it wont ever return, but the mere thought of Pirate Warrior in its prime, gives me some nam flashbacks
Kingsbane. Worst design ever
Unpopular opinion: Rogue is OP
Face hunter prenerf right after Naxx. I get triggered when i see Undertaker. Couldn’t even hero power with shaman for fear of just filling his hand with the Unleash/Buzzard combo.
Reno warlock/mage, Kingsbane, Jade druid, Big priest. Played wild the first time in this year today, not so funny tbh, even at 25-23 ranks.
Freeze Mage. I hate to fill my board but can't attack. It really wakes the rage inside me. I always like control decks but That Freeze Mage really haunts me.
And Pirate Warrior. That damn thing is so powerful on early even without Pirates If you don't have Taunt. Fiery War axe face, +4 attack face, 5/2 weapon face.... I hate it.
Memedeck-seeker. Always tries to build new decks. Hates tournements, streamers, netdecks and poor-o players.
ah, but a tournement mode could be great !!!
Exodia mage.
Ever since the beginning of the game, I've hated Doomguard. I still think it's like the most bs card out there haha, especially paired with the warlock hero power. They aren't even particularly op any more, but man does that minion ever frustrate the hell outta me, and I just can't shake that feeling.
Twitch name: Anatak15
NA Legend Season 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 74
Shudderwock, Odd Paladin, anything Druid...
The present gives me so much headache that I don't need to think about the past to self torture me.
The problem with Kingsbane is that there is no way to interact with it. If there are to be cards like this, there needs to be a way to silence them or force their permanent discard. Other games have this type of interactions - send to graveyard, prevent return from graveyard, or just have enough cards in the deck that redrawing will not be assured during a match.
Free to try and find a game, dealing cards for sorrow, cards for pain.
I do hate Big Priest a lot, because only few of my decks actually have cards that can fend off their ridiculous strategy (Sap, Counterspell, Polymorph: Boar, Loatheb, and some other).
Yet i do not feel the visceral rage you mentioned.
That happens sometimes, when i face a lose streak, but it's more salt than rage.
T4/5 Naga Sea Witch along with her giant buddies for 0 mana....
Shadow reaper Aunduin. So much time wasted because the opponent had the combo on turn 8. Had a streak of 8 games where all opponents were priests and all had raza + aunduin by turn 8. And it left scars.
Tempo Mage. I hated the Flamewaker clown fiesta era. Glad they nerfed Mana Wyrm and finally killed the deck.
As much as I absolutely loathe Kingsbane Rogue in wild interaction doesn't have to be a "Do I interact with a card and win the game, or cause my opponent to lose the game?"
People have this very flat perception of what interacting is supposed to be. For example, you can make a card that could interact with Kingsbane without turning it into a polarizing 'Hate on [insert deck here and win] card.'.
Just one example could look like this;
Kingslayer Ooze
4 mana
4/4 Echo. Battlecry: Remove one durability from your opponent's weapon. If it still has durability reduce its attack in half.
Such a card would interact with Kingsbane without necessarily instantly winning you the game. It would make it so that the rogue still has fatigue immunity, with some pressure/healing, without carting around a partial 'otk' level 18+ attack weapon.
T4/5 Naga Sea Witch, Kingsbane /mill rogue, big priest. Still hate the lot.
Since Witchwood they introduced a lot of OTK decks, which i don't like as well for in the current meta.
Friggen Patches.
I came into hearthstone same time as you, and I decided to not invest in any cards suntil ungoro. My thinking was everything was about to rotate out and I would start fresh.
Pirates were everywhere, and when I say everywhere I don't mean pirate decks. I mean freaking shaman was running the 'pirate package', two one drops who pulled patches. No matter what deck I built, I started each game with 'im in chaaaaarge' and 29 health. There were pro tournaments where patches was in almost 70% of all constructed decklists.
I ended up becoming someone who spends on every expansion, and I crafted a ton of msog cards, but I refused to craft and play patches. Emotionally he was a bad guy card and I fought patches, I wasn't patches.
When Blizzard nerfed him, I was irrationally angry. I'd played my whole hearthstone experience against patches, and now when I was finally about to see him gone from standard there was some ridiculous token Nerf?
Haaaaate that card. Never played him. Never will.
Freeze mage, tempo mage, big priest, and kingsbane 'skill' rogue