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I am going to assume that this reply is not actually directed at my comment.

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Hey Blizzard.  I like to play aggro.  Please give priest more aggro tools. OK yup.  I was just checking to see if I could say something as ridiculous as you are saying.  Hunter is aggressive in its very nature.  Stop whining because the square peg won't fit in the round hole.  Why cant people understand...Homogenization is bad mmkay?

Turn 1 he summoned Aviana and then played Gahz'rilla on me. Didn't even need to coin....

Things like a Freeze Mage pulling a Reno off on you at the last moment are still going to be very scary, and I certainly like using Reno in quite a few decks, but I think one overwhelming fact is simply that if you're looking to Rank, Aggro decks create faster games and playing games more often means you tend to rank up faster if the winrates are relatively similar between the Control and Aggro decks you're using.

So yah, unless I'm playing for fun, I use Aggro more often than not when trying to Rank. Although there are plenty of moments where I switch just because I want a change of pace, even when I'm trying to rank.

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... because I'm not good at RNG ...

 These kind of comments are hilarious ... :D

I regularly coach a friend that started playing in arena and we get 6-10 wins, sometimes 12,
he get pretty decent choices on his draft and topdecks like a champion.
When I draft with my gold I get the worse cards and the worst mulligans, he even makes fun of me about how bad my luck is, so yeah, hilarious.

I don't know what other term I can use if I get decent results when coaching a new player but horribles ones when playing with my own account.

 

Observation bias, perhaps?

I don't believe in luck and I don't believe that Blizzard have hard-coded anything in to the game which gives your apprentice better cards than you.

Alternatively, it may be that you are more strict with applying your knowledge of good drafting maxims to your friend's decision-making process than you are your own, which is why he ends up with better decks.

I think it's worth noting that people often create new topics because they either:

A) Don't know an existing thread exists and can't find it/can't be bothered to find it

B) Feel that creating a new thread with what they feel is their unique opinion will garner more attention than bumping an old thread.

In the case of A, creating an all-encompassing thread would be counterproductive and messy, as Pandalicious pointed out. Instead, might I propose that there be a separate subsection of the forums dedicated to nerfs only, should the amount of threads get too overwhelming?

In the case of B, while I don't think it is a very logical reason to create new threads, I think this is inevitable as there are often people who feel that the existing threads either don't reflect their personal opinions on the matter enough, and the fact of the matter is that it is actually quite true that more often than not, most readers only pay attention to the first couple posts, this is very obvious in multi-page discussions where multiple posters point out the same thing without acknowledging the other similar points, or while ignoring points that challenge their logic because it's buried in a sea of posts and they can't be bothered to read it all.

I don't understand how anyone can use a deck "a few times" and assume they know whether it is good or not. I have to play my own decks 50+ times normally to even remotely feel like I understand how to play it properly, let alone someone else's deck. Piloting even a well constructed deck is a deep process, that's why even when Grim Patron was a superpower budget deck, it still wasn't the most played because it was so difficult to use.

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Would be cool to see a card like this but probably a bit undercosted and OP and would get run in every deck. 5 mana cost maybe.

 The word "OR" ensures no one would play this. Sabotage (best comparison) doesn't see much play in Rogue and it's strictly better. 

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 You mentioned Nerub'ar Weblord and Saboteur in your original post, which also don't see play, so I was going along the same line of discussion. If you're only using Loatheb as "good counter cards that are in the game" as your argument, I don't think that's exactly a large enough card pool to complain about not having alternate versions of it exist.

 I wasn't complaining at all. Like I said, it was more of a theme I wanted to see Blizzard explore some more. I also know those other cards don't see play right now, but they might if more cards came out that supported them.

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Still, at most people only fit one silence in, two in the case of Druid. Overall, I was merely thinking along the same lines of the cards I have mentioned: spell delaying, battlecry delaying, hero power delaying, then deathrattle delaying. It was a theme I wanted to see more of rather than a "necessary counter" to deathrattle cards.

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Silence is a pretty solid counter as is, and if you're really salty you can always run Scarlet Purifiers with them.

 Yes, silence is fine and all, but you still lose some tempo playing an Owl as opposed to something else. We don't have many preemptive cards like Loatheb in the game; it's either heal up after you take damage or taunt up so you don't take more damage, etc. And Scarlet Purifier is about as effective at countering deathrattle cards as Chillmaw was at countering Patron Warrior.

Silence is a pretty solid counter as is, and if you're really salty you can always run Scarlet Purifiers and Lil' Exorcists with them.

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OMG, you're right! I guess I got confused because the discount wasn't instant when I dropped the Dragon Consort, it only showed it to me after his turn, so I somehow thought that his attacks had sth to do (I haven't realized Dragon Consort worked that way). Never mind.

I lost an Arena game like this, but I was the Rogue who played the raptor onto a Haunted Creeper. It only happened once though, and I've played the combo many more times during the arena run, so maybe that's not the only condition to activate the bug.

Thanks for letting us know. I was wondering if they could copy each other but haven't had a chance to test it yet. Of course, you're never going to get a chance to buff your minions that ridiculously in a real game, but it's still really handy if, say, Brann was out when the first raptor did a double copy but died when the second one came out, then you could still get a double copy by copying the first raptor. Or you could copy the deathrattle off of the raptor if the original deathrattle minion that was copied from already died.