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But that was not your question. Your question was why were people playing kingsbane. I have answered that perfectly johnny.
Except the longer it stays a problem the more likely the card will get the NSW treatment and get nerfed :)
The key to avoid getting your fotm deck nerfed is not to dominate ladder with it for months on end. Should I save you a tissue?
As other people have said, the main reason is to counter the even bigger cancer of the wild format: Big Priest.
Unfortunately cancer has to be fought with cancer, which kinda forces everyone else to play odd or even decks to stand a chance.
You're delusional. Yeah, if everyone decided to play less polarizing decks instead of high winrate decks, the meta would be healthier. And if everyone promised not to hurt each other, we wouldn't have to hire a police force. Look up "the prisoner's dilemma".
Well it's either that or nerf it into the ground. Your choice. We all know Blizzard doesn't nerf cards lightly, even when they aren't trying to kill a card.
Considering the choice is between "Nerf kingsbane" and "get the entire HS player base to disregard human nature", the Nerf seems more likely.
See and I'd be more than happy to have Kingsbane bring back Oil Rogue, but to have a deck whose win condition is to make it so that you essentially don't make any plays (due to board resets and then milling your entire deck) AND to have 15+ damage AND healing every turn. Oh and not to ever fatigue. Reminds me a little of that tavern brawl where the ideal strat was to turn your opponent's entire board into blocks of ice so that they couldn't play anything. Having games like that doens't even make it feel like HS is a card game anymore, but some moded quasi-single player game where the AI can't kill you.
I've played Kingsbane on and off since it came out. I find the deck really fun to play, and I enjoy playing decks that are difficult to play when you have a bad hand. I can understand why people don't want to play against it, and I feel bad for those people, but I play the game for my enjoyment, not for my opponent's enjoyment. There are decks that I don't enjoy playing against, but as long as they enjoy playing them there's not much i can do either.
I dont play wild that much lately but I would use kingsbane rogue to counter big priest probably.
I think it's fun, I like having something that's a little more persistent that I can build up from the start of the game. I would play Kingsbane even if it had low winrates, maybe not to the same extent but I'd definitely have at least one Kingsbane deck lying around to play in casual or low ranks.
When I played it for a bit this was my reasoning:
1) I had the card from a pack
2) I got a couple of frustrating loses against Big Priest
3) Decided it would be fun bully Big Priests with Kingsbane Millrogue
4) It was actually fun to punish people playing Big priests or incredibly greedy decks.
I think I'm going to craft Kingsbane rogue after reading these salt threads. Thanks OP!
It is a common myth that Wild supports deck diversity. In fact, it is significantly less diverse than Standard, and will continue on that path as time progresses. This is inherent. It has nothing to do with Kingsbane. Take KR out of the picture, and Big Priest becomes Tier 0.
Sometimes I feel like you and I are the only ones who understand this.
This is probably the biggest reason to play it in Wild. It reliably counters Big Priest and has a good win rate against other decks. Few decks can say that. Nerf Big Priest, and then we'll see.
No, I don’t care about how much fun other players are having. If this deck is a problem it’s up to Blizzard to fix it. It’s not up to players to stop something they enjoy for other’s benefit.
You can go to the Blizzard forums to complain if you think you can’t have fun because of this deck, but honestly in wild it’ll just be replaced with the next big FOTM deck and people will complain about that.
Why? I like anti-control decks but don't enjoy agro decks. Kingsbane fits that bill, as does OTK DK Paladin.
I don't have an issue with FoTM decks. I understand that that is completely natural for card games. I have no issue with facing a million control locks or even Big Priest with the right control deck because I have methods to at least weaken their plays by making the right plays & by being patient. For example, if you transform Mal'Ganis/Doomguard against warlock you weaken Gul'Dan. If you do the same against Big Priest by making sure Rag never dies you significantly reduce their reach.
With Kingsbane it is extremely hard to do that because the only way to weaken the deck is to silence or transform a deathrattle weapon boost (if the build even runs it). There is no tech to remove an enchantment from the weapon, or reduce its attack. You either kill the the rogue quickly, somehow magically mill the weapon if you aren't warlock, or you just straight up lose. There is no meaningful strategy to hamper their win condition or weaken the weapon.
Go Google the Tragedy of the Commons.