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I'm looking forward to Reno/Secret Mage with Babbling Book, Firelands Portal and Medivh's Valet. Oh, and Arcane Golem.
1. The amount of snobbery in this thread is amazing.
2. AFAIK, control was never a dominant format.
3. There are perfectly viable control decks to play on ladder and get legend with them. Warrior has 2, Shaman and Paladin come to mind, Renolock is very solid.
4. Combo decks were sometimes tricky to play. Control depends on the deck/class really. Control warrior was never more difficult than playing an aggro or midrange/tempo deck. Control Priest required some basic skill, but not like freeze mage or Malygos Rogue, for example.
5. Also, you could say that making 1 small mistake as an aggro/face deck will cost you the game, because in the end you were missing 1-2 damage to finish your oppoenent before it was too late. Midrange decks are less sensitive to "make 1 mistake, lose the game" concepts. It applies equally to Control and Aggro, and it is most pronounced in combo decks.
6. Going face with Shaman 90% of the time will lose you the game, especially if you do it in the early game. That's not how aggro is played, never was, never will be.
Woah, haha, look at all the opinions in here.
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Face hunter never traded only during Undertaker days (except clear with weapon). It did have to trade afterwards in the early game. Such a face deck does not exist anymore anyway. I will agree that Control Warrior was harder to play then a typical midrange deck that plays on curve. But not harder than an aggro deck. Aggro deck does not always play on curve like a midrange deck. But I do generally agree with you. People should stop with the aggro = easy, control = hard nonsense. No HS deck is hard to play if you have half a brain and know the mechanics and have a good knowledge of cards. But if you have to rank them by difficulty: Combo>Some Control>Aggro=Some Control>Midrange. But really, once you learn the deck, it's all super easy. Does a freeze mage or Control Priest specialist think their decks are difficult? No. Laughing or Kolento can play that stuff in their sleep. So, I don't know why all the snobbery here.
You are making it sound like control decks don't exist (not true, some are really good right now) and that the only reason they "don't exist" is Shaman.
I think some people should take a seat, and try testing / playing with all the new cards (for at least 1-2 weeks AFTER all the cards come out) to make such a conclusion.
I mean... Arcane Giant...
Faster decks are definitely better than control decks on ladder right now, but I think all is lost just yet. It only takes 1 or 2 really good defensive cards to give slow decks a fighting chance, prime examples would be Belcher and Healbot. I also think that if Blizzard could print some good removal instead of making their expansions 90% minions, we could get to a more balanced place.
In short, I believe we need more spells (that can't target face). Also at least Warrior Ctrl still holds down the fort, it's pretty much the last and only actually good ctrl deck right now.
Nice looking deck, I'm going to try it out. I've been playing N'zoth paladin with dreadful results. It's full of late game legendaries and seems terrible against aggro. This deck only has 4 legendaries in comparison and may be easier to play on ladder. I'll give it a try!
as long as Reno is around, control decks are going to be a pain in the arse to deal with.. there might not be as many of them as some of the faster decks, but there are still extremely viable control decks out there right now being played, and I'm sure there will be new stuff with the new adventure.. the cards haven't really been tested enough to know how good they will be.
also. wild is control central.
I'd disagree saying that Aggro takes no skill to play. All decks do take some skill to play but yes Control decks do take more skill. The real problem with HS is that it takes so much dust to actually make control decks that most players don't have so they have to settle for cheaper aggressive decks if they want to play standard. It's pretty fucked up but unless there becomes cheaper control options and better control options aggro decks will always dominate the Meta
He was closer than you on the term for tempo deck though, tempo is not agro at all, it's just faster than control. LoL so really just anything that isn't control then!? :D
Yup i agree that combo decks do take more skill then control. I meant that Control decks take more skill then Aggro.