as the most of the negative ones around here, i was kinda bored of the game, and i'm a wild and standard player who tried many decks, and when i made my own viable decks, talking about 55% winrate or so, i had fun, i really had fun at a level i cannot describe, i home brew since i don't know, but recently i think I've found the secret recipe for fun in this game MAKE A DECK AND TRY TO MAKE IT WORK.
and with that feeling i got, i wanted to see how many net deckers\home brewers around here and why ?
Very true.. There's something satisfying in making your homemade experimental deck work.. Even when I look for decks online, mainly for missions, I often add my own customisations to them. Besides the element of surprise gets me many properly used "wow" emotes as opposed to the usual BMs.
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Winning!? Nah dawg *Meme-ing!*!! (but also winning)
I will say that I kind of netdeck, yet not like most people netdeck. I will take a popular archetype, find the cards that make it strong and remove those I think don't work the best and try to make it a deck I enjoy playing more. Thats why I like archetypes with more wiggle room, I don't like the three-four hunter archetypes floating around because I feel like there isn't many cards that don't work (the ones that don't work are the cards that make them the different archetypes. Same for why I don't like druid. I feel like the only cards you can change, change the whole archetype together.
I use net decks 100% of the time, but if there are cards that I think aren't working in the deck I'll tech them out. In many decks (like spell hunter for example) I hate using Tracking. It always seems to pull the critical cards I need and I have to choose to throw one or more of them out. I had replaced them with cards I thought were more effective. The win rate stayed about the same and since the cards I replaced them with were late-game cards, it actually helped in those late-game pushes that I needed. Granted, this is still considered net decking, but I play for fun and don't have the time or inclination to sit down and craft my own every time.
Home brew decks are fun, as they can throw some really interesting combos at you that you weren't expecting, but I feel that net decks do a really good job of planning for nearly any instance.
Ineffective. I'll tweak a popular archetype (currently playing with a LPG/Toggwaggle/Azalina Big Spell Mage, for instance). But trying to come up with new win conditions just doesn't seem viable in a meta with this much mana cheating and synergies. Every viable combo has been discovered at this point, and trying to create your own fair tempo/midrange deck seems kind of pointless against all of the streamlined versions that are just going to do it better.
My only interest is in playing interesting decks. I never really felt a concern over where the deck came from.
Thus my typical system for deck design is to look at tournaments and videos for any decks that look interesting. If it looks good strait as is I'll nab it for example one of my most played decks is The Storm Bringer copied right out of Whizbang's list. If the idea is good but I don't know the full deck or don't like what they did with the deck I'll stitch together what I know of it and fill in the gaps or tweak it. I actually plan to do that with Mech Paladin as I honestly feel we're not moving in the right direction on how to run that deck. If no one has already pushed towards an idea that I have seen, I'll just craft it on my own. My bomb decks and quest driud are examples. Those tend to be the worst designed ones though: I work better with at least a starting mold rather than drafting something from 100% scratch.
Whether I netdeck or craft more depends more on how creative the community has been. This time I've been seeing a lot of interesting decks and had a lot of cases of "Hmm what if we had a deck that does....oh yeah exactly what that person did thank you *copy*). I've been trying to play around with Tess Rogue until Kibbler showed me an interesting variant that I've grown to love (though with the love of aggro I'm wondering if I could tweak it a bit more).
I tend not to use Tier 1 decks because for some reason when I see a deck become REALLY successful I feel like "what's the point of playing it when it already works perfectly right now." I guess I prefer incomplete decks or decks without enough recognition that could do with a bit more exposure.
I know that feeling, I remember when Call to Arms got nerfed and everybody abandoned Even Paladin. Only after the nerf did I go ham and theory craft my own Even Dragon Paladin deck and it was soo good, people emote spamming when they see Genn's trigger when they thought for sure it would be Baku xD
I always try to make my own decks. It's more fun for me to play and to win with them, even if I don't climb efficiently. The process of coming up with a deck idea, trying it out and then improving it is one of the best aspects of this game (at least for me). Sometimes I pick a known deck/archetype and come up with my own personal twists, but I never straight copy and paste a netdeck.
Only homebrew for me. I like to play with underused cards. I sometime just select a card because I like the art and make a deck around it.
I don't see Hearthstone as a competitive game. For me it's just a sandbox where you can create funny combo/interaction with the cards. Winning is not my priority. My reward is to see my opponent "surprised" (like mouse over one of my minions for a long time to read the text because it's never played or congrats me after a fun combo).
I was a 100% Netdecker in past when I want to hit Legend all I have to do is search for Tier 1 Deck and bam I'm Legend Things has Changed now .
I start to Home brew ladder decks in the Couple last Expansions and I was surprised that it can really work ! It takes me to a whole deferents level of Fun in this game .
I think the game is now better than before you can see new Archetypes pops in the meta even in the End of season and I like that .
well this is what gaming has come to. in every game the vast majority is running with the best deck/setup/gear/skillcombo/younameit , which is a little boring but those people are just trying to get the best possible results out of their game.
I tend to look at the archetypes that are doing well in the meta and then just go and make a deck using that archetype. Not really sure if that would be considered netdecking, but whatever.
That being said, that is about 25% of the time when I play. The other 75% is trying to either make lightning strike twice with garbage meme decks or trying to optimize lesser garbage meme decks to where I can get a decent winrate with it.
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I don't have something witty about this deck, I just like it because Malygos is fun.
as the most of the negative ones around here, i was kinda bored of the game, and i'm a wild and standard player who tried many decks, and when i made my own viable decks, talking about 55% winrate or so, i had fun, i really had fun at a level i cannot describe, i home brew since i don't know, but recently i think I've found the secret recipe for fun in this game MAKE A DECK AND TRY TO MAKE IT WORK.
and with that feeling i got, i wanted to see how many net deckers\home brewers around here and why ?
I only use netdecks if don't get rank 5 and the season will end soon, I hate netdecks.
For me netdecks make this awesome game boring as hell, nothing worse than opponent play a single card and you know the others 29...
Very true.. There's something satisfying in making your homemade experimental deck work.. Even when I look for decks online, mainly for missions, I often add my own customisations to them. Besides the element of surprise gets me many properly used "wow" emotes as opposed to the usual BMs.
Winning!? Nah dawg *Meme-ing!*!! (but also winning)
I will say that I kind of netdeck, yet not like most people netdeck. I will take a popular archetype, find the cards that make it strong and remove those I think don't work the best and try to make it a deck I enjoy playing more. Thats why I like archetypes with more wiggle room, I don't like the three-four hunter archetypes floating around because I feel like there isn't many cards that don't work (the ones that don't work are the cards that make them the different archetypes. Same for why I don't like druid. I feel like the only cards you can change, change the whole archetype together.
I use net decks 100% of the time, but if there are cards that I think aren't working in the deck I'll tech them out. In many decks (like spell hunter for example) I hate using Tracking. It always seems to pull the critical cards I need and I have to choose to throw one or more of them out. I had replaced them with cards I thought were more effective. The win rate stayed about the same and since the cards I replaced them with were late-game cards, it actually helped in those late-game pushes that I needed. Granted, this is still considered net decking, but I play for fun and don't have the time or inclination to sit down and craft my own every time.
Home brew decks are fun, as they can throw some really interesting combos at you that you weren't expecting, but I feel that net decks do a really good job of planning for nearly any instance.
The Lich King
Ineffective. I'll tweak a popular archetype (currently playing with a LPG/Toggwaggle/Azalina Big Spell Mage, for instance). But trying to come up with new win conditions just doesn't seem viable in a meta with this much mana cheating and synergies. Every viable combo has been discovered at this point, and trying to create your own fair tempo/midrange deck seems kind of pointless against all of the streamlined versions that are just going to do it better.
My only interest is in playing interesting decks. I never really felt a concern over where the deck came from.
Thus my typical system for deck design is to look at tournaments and videos for any decks that look interesting. If it looks good strait as is I'll nab it for example one of my most played decks is The Storm Bringer copied right out of Whizbang's list. If the idea is good but I don't know the full deck or don't like what they did with the deck I'll stitch together what I know of it and fill in the gaps or tweak it. I actually plan to do that with Mech Paladin as I honestly feel we're not moving in the right direction on how to run that deck. If no one has already pushed towards an idea that I have seen, I'll just craft it on my own. My bomb decks and quest driud are examples. Those tend to be the worst designed ones though: I work better with at least a starting mold rather than drafting something from 100% scratch.
Whether I netdeck or craft more depends more on how creative the community has been. This time I've been seeing a lot of interesting decks and had a lot of cases of "Hmm what if we had a deck that does....oh yeah exactly what that person did thank you *copy*). I've been trying to play around with Tess Rogue until Kibbler showed me an interesting variant that I've grown to love (though with the love of aggro I'm wondering if I could tweak it a bit more).
I tend not to use Tier 1 decks because for some reason when I see a deck become REALLY successful I feel like "what's the point of playing it when it already works perfectly right now." I guess I prefer incomplete decks or decks without enough recognition that could do with a bit more exposure.
One does not simply walk into Mordor,
unless they want to be the best they can be.
50/50. I like to win games, so I just copy what VS lists for ladder games.
But I love crafting my own decks for casual games.
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There are pros and cons to bothtypes of decks
net decks are more powerful and refined, but people know your lists by heart.
homebrew decks have bigger surprise factors. which is a big thing actually, but are generally worse since they areb't tuned by thousands of people.
I tend to homebrew at the start of expansions and tinker with archtypes after the meta is stabilize d
I never play metadecks, I do not even know what decks are tier 1, 2, 3, 4 right now. I just hate netdecks at low ranks and casual.
i usually get a shell from some good/popular players and tweak it for my needs
I play wild. I can't even find netdecks anymore xD
I know that feeling, I remember when Call to Arms got nerfed and everybody abandoned Even Paladin. Only after the nerf did I go ham and theory craft my own Even Dragon Paladin deck and it was soo good, people emote spamming when they see Genn's trigger when they thought for sure it would be Baku xD
So many people voting for 50/50 or made own decks but I NEVER find any homebrew decks in the ladder, that's funny.
I'm sorry for my bad english :)
I always try to make my own decks. It's more fun for me to play and to win with them, even if I don't climb efficiently. The process of coming up with a deck idea, trying it out and then improving it is one of the best aspects of this game (at least for me).
Sometimes I pick a known deck/archetype and come up with my own personal twists, but I never straight copy and paste a netdeck.
Only homebrew for me. I like to play with underused cards. I sometime just select a card because I like the art and make a deck around it.
I don't see Hearthstone as a competitive game. For me it's just a sandbox where you can create funny combo/interaction with the cards. Winning is not my priority. My reward is to see my opponent "surprised" (like mouse over one of my minions for a long time to read the text because it's never played or congrats me after a fun combo).
I was a 100% Netdecker in past when I want to hit Legend all I have to do is search for Tier 1 Deck and bam I'm Legend Things has Changed now .
I start to Home brew ladder decks in the Couple last Expansions and I was surprised that it can really work ! It takes me to a whole deferents level of Fun in this game .
I think the game is now better than before you can see new Archetypes pops in the meta even in the End of season and I like that .
well this is what gaming has come to. in every game the vast majority is running with the best deck/setup/gear/skillcombo/younameit , which is a little boring but those people are just trying to get the best possible results out of their game.
I tend to look at the archetypes that are doing well in the meta and then just go and make a deck using that archetype. Not really sure if that would be considered netdecking, but whatever.
That being said, that is about 25% of the time when I play. The other 75% is trying to either make lightning strike twice with garbage meme decks or trying to optimize lesser garbage meme decks to where I can get a decent winrate with it.
I don't have something witty about this deck, I just like it because Malygos is fun.
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