He is bad because any high cost minion has to impact the board the turn it is played, or it has to have a REALLY good effect (like Ysera, which is also not being played right now).
Imagine an enemy zoo Warlock with a board full of minions. Would you rather: Play Tirion who has taunt, play Baron who clears the board, play Ragnaros who can clear a big minion or play Gruul who does... Nothing?
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You should avoid trading unless necessary for better board state against aggro. That being said, always trade with a murloc deck until you can swing in for lethal. Against things like control, let them do the trading unless it's gonna seriously cripple your board.
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That's odd... I just went from 15 to 10 on a winstreak up til 11... Mulligans tend to suck pretty hard on occasion but my trick is to keep the upgrade or bloodsail just in case. Been working out for me that way.
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Card ratings pre-expansion? ;)
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Not sure how this survives pirate warrior (which is still gonna be a thing for sure)
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I guarantee pirates is very soon to be the only deck on the ladder. With removal spells not being replaced like you were saying, we're in for a world of hurt. Since pirates isn't losing anything it's gonna stay around and yeah... they kinda have some taunt dudes but they really aren't that scary if you can't actually draw and play them. They wanted to slow the meta down, but I'm pretty sure they sped it up.
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Yay pirate hating! If only Blizzard also hated pirates just a little more the meta could be fun and janky again. It's like my biggest fear right now that meta will change to ungoro and pirates will take over again (cuz they only lose Sir Finley Mrrggleton if they're even running him) and there will be none of that in-between chaos of fun decks. That's kinda why I'm playing jade shaman for now... cuz next month is gonna be all pirates or lose.
EDIT: At least that's what I'm afraid of. If you play enough MtG you realize that after every meta shift there is a zoo or aggro deck that takes over the meta for the first month or two before someone comes out with an Anti-that-specific-agro-deck-using-control-deck-x
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So since this season is so easy for noobs to reach rank 5, why are you having a problem beating them? I only started playing again seriously about the 19th of the month and in the last week I've gone from 25 to 7 so I mean yeah I could just be less experienced cuz the new meta is a little different. But nah I don't think it has anything to do with me. Pirate warrior is just too easy to play right now. It's like facehunter or Red Deck Wins if you're an MtG fan. I think the only reason so many newer players are higher rank is because of how brainless it is to play a pirate and swing. The shaman deck takes some thought to win and while it has less GREAT matchups than pirate warrior, it doesn't really have any matchups it can't win. I guess what I'm saying is it's a lot more fun to play this deck and have a lower winrate than it is to play a pirates deck and mindlessly swing.
Though yeah, it does sound like it wasn't just RNG for you if it was a 20 game loss streak. Sounds like you're back to the deck you enjoy but if you ever come back around to some midrange janky fun, I can always give you pointers. :)
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I hope so cuz a 5/5 for 5 legendary isn't exactly all that exciting...
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Try playing MtG professionally. You get used to it real quick
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Don't forget the new token that they previewed today. "Galvadon" Supposed to be the token from the new pally quest they haven't yet revealed.