I feel that there is a problem at the moment in Hearthstone, so I'll write this post based both on my experience and statistics from some sites that I'll not mention, since I'm not sure if I can, but I think that a good part of the community knows those 2 sites that show statistics on hearthstone play mode. This season I hit legend relatively quickly, in 11 days. As always when a new expansion is released is all cool and trying out new stuffs is awesome, but I feel that this time something has gone wrong, since it's already 2 days that I'm seeing something like 30/40% of priests and the majority of the is just the old highlander priest with just 1 diffrent card, Psychic Scream. I thought it was just my impression, so I checked on some sites and... It wasn't, the ladder is really half priests. I want to try to be optimistic, but I have fear that the best deck of this meta is just the same deck as the expansion before this, just with 1 different card. After 3 months of that, I'm already bored thinking of 4 more months of highlander priest. It's not that I'm quitting, but really guys it's so boring... Playing mirror matches of highlander priest is just a coin flip, who draws raza and anduin first wins. You can't play control to counter them, because they kill you from 30 health. You can't play aggro to counter them, because they have too many removals and aoes, the only aggro that's good vs Priest is paladin, which is somewhat "new" (I already played a lot of aggro paladin time ago, so it's not really new...). So, excluding the fact that 30+ damage from nothing on board is kinda unfair, the real problem is that this expansion bringed to us... nothing new. As sad as it is, I only saw some spell hunter be played, then the deck died after 5 days (horribly). So, what I'm seeing on ladder? Aggro paladin, Murloc Paladin, Tempo Secret Mage, Tempo rogue, Big Priest, Highlander Priest, some Face Hunter and some Pirate warriors and Jade druids. So the question is, what's new in those decks? Nothing, they were all existing decks in the last expansion, they just got buffed with 1, 2 or 3 cards. The playstile is the same, you feel like you're playing the exact same deck as before. The only deck that feels a bit different is control warlock, but it's sad that it dies to shoot-your-face-priest.
That's it, probably I'm too pessimistic and new decks will be discovered, probably I wrote this just because I'm really bored of this meta (and guys, it's only a week and I'm already REALLY bored...), maybe hearthstone is fine as it is, but not for me and maybe I'm not the only one thinking that... I don't think it's this expansion the problem, I feel that Mean Streets of Gadgetzan is still ruining the meta now, with jades, kazakus, raza, patches... Until those cards leave, the meta will always look the same to me. Thanks for your attention, I'll wait for some other opinions fro your guys.
Thats so strange, I haven't seen a single one yet. All dragon and big priest so far (12 EU ladder atm).
Im personally loving the expansion because of the warlock love (playing zoo atm). Arcane tyrant was also fun to try in jade. Dire mole and corridor creeper breathes new life into aggro druid too. I guess I dont mind seeing the same decks, because they all have strong new cards- thats enough of a change for me.
I think we may be due some balance changes after a month or so, which will shake up the meta too. Maybe even enough to put secret hunter into the higher tiers too.
Thats so strange, I haven't seen a single one yet. All dragon and big priest so far (12 EU ladder atm).
Im personally loving the expansion because of the warlock love (playing zoo atm). Arcane tyrant was also fun to try in jade. Dire mole and corridor creeper breathes new life into aggro druid too. I guess I dont mind seeing the same decks, because they all have strong new cards- thats enough of a change for me.
I think we may be due some balance changes after a month or so, which will shake up the meta too. Maybe even enough to put secret hunter into the higher tiers too.
It's not that it wasn't fun when the expansion was released, but the fact that it's already getting boring makes me sad... What's also sad it's that I don't see any new tier 1 archetype with 135 cards released...
you want to know the difference between this expansion and the last expansion......well i'll tell you friend.....every deck has 2x Corridor Creeper in them now. xD
Meta has time t change. Some people just don't care to experiment or don't have the dust economy to do so. They wait until cards and decks stand out and while they do they play the current best decks.
Just think of last expansion when people were playing Pirate Warrior and Jade Druid before discovering Priest (although there were some nerfs).
What did you guys expect? This expansion has about as much diversity as is possible.
All the best decks from the last expansion are already very established and strong, no new tier 1 archetype is suddenly going to pop up in a single expac worth of stuff, at the end of a cycle (freeze shaman, anyone?) .
Adding very strong new cards, that will be added to the current good decks, is the best way to shake up the cardpool you see IMO.
I feel that there is a problem at the moment in Hearthstone, so I'll write this post based both on my experience and statistics from some sites that I'll not mention, since I'm not sure if I can, but I think that a good part of the community knows those 2 sites that show statistics on hearthstone play mode. This season I hit legend relatively quickly, in 11 days. As always when a new expansion is released is all cool and trying out new stuffs is awesome, but I feel that this time something has gone wrong, since it's already 2 days that I'm seeing something like 30/40% of priests and the majority of the is just the old highlander priest with just 1 diffrent card, Psychic Scream. I thought it was just my impression, so I checked on some sites and... It wasn't, the ladder is really half priests. I want to try to be optimistic, but I have fear that the best deck of this meta is just the same deck as the expansion before this, just with 1 different card. After 3 months of that, I'm already bored thinking of 4 more months of highlander priest. It's not that I'm quitting, but really guys it's so boring... Playing mirror matches of highlander priest is just a coin flip, who draws raza and anduin first wins. You can't play control to counter them, because they kill you from 30 health. You can't play aggro to counter them, because they have too many removals and aoes, the only aggro that's good vs Priest is paladin, which is somewhat "new" (I already played a lot of aggro paladin time ago, so it's not really new...). So, excluding the fact that 30+ damage from nothing on board is kinda unfair, the real problem is that this expansion bringed to us... nothing new. As sad as it is, I only saw some spell hunter be played, then the deck died after 5 days (horribly). So, what I'm seeing on ladder? Aggro paladin, Murloc Paladin, Tempo Secret Mage, Tempo rogue, Big Priest, Highlander Priest, some Face Hunter and some Pirate warriors and Jade druids. So the question is, what's new in those decks? Nothing, they were all existing decks in the last expansion, they just got buffed with 1, 2 or 3 cards. The playstile is the same, you feel like you're playing the exact same deck as before. The only deck that feels a bit different is control warlock, but it's sad that it dies to shoot-your-face-priest.
That's it, probably I'm too pessimistic and new decks will be discovered, probably I wrote this just because I'm really bored of this meta (and guys, it's only a week and I'm already REALLY bored...), maybe hearthstone is fine as it is, but not for me and maybe I'm not the only one thinking that... I don't think it's this expansion the problem, I feel that Mean Streets of Gadgetzan is still ruining the meta now, with jades, kazakus, raza, patches... Until those cards leave, the meta will always look the same to me. Thanks for your attention, I'll wait for some other opinions fro your guys.
Imo with the death of midrange decks the game lost its balance. Either you play aggro which is braindeadly easy but the only reasonable way to reach legend or you play t1 control decks. New, fun, meme, midrange or combo decks have no chance of being competitive. And yes you are right and not the only one: that really sucks and is boring af! Blizzard should nerf, buff and remove cards to HoF way more frequently. I'm talking about a monthly patch. That would bring fresh wind every month to the meta and we would see more diffrent decks on ladder. Atm this game is kinda broken which is sad because there would be so many enjoyable mechanics and archetypes to try out...
I can't help but agree wholeheartedly with the OP.... I think MSG was a huge mistake (Even bigger than Naxx and GVG) and until Spring,excluding nerfs that I doubt we'll see at this point,no matter how good this expansion turns out to be it will never be able to push cards as powerful as Patches,Jades or Kazakus/Raza out of the meta.... I think a Deck like Control Warrior might be able to deal with Razakus since it can outheal them the problem is that a Deck like that without FWA gets murder by Aggro/Tempo and even if it uses Geist there's no guarantee it'll manage to deal with Jade Druid so there's no way a Deck like that can be meta.... Same goes for Midrange Decks,there's no way you'll ever beat Razakus unless they brick hard since they have so much AOE,against Jade Druid is a race cause they have UI,SP and armor generation,not to mention getting rekt by Aggro cause unless you draw Golakkas keeping up with the Tempo generated by Keleseth and Patches is impossible.... Basically what I think MSG did was creating the most "warping" cards ever.... Patches is the embodiment of Tempo gain (0 mana 1/1 charge that draws a card and has tribe, how can something like that exist is beyond me),Jades as a mechanic and Razakus are the nemesis of any Control Deck that has a "fair" win condition (Like N'zoth or a DK) since there's no way you can outvalue a Priest or get rid of all those larger and larger men.... I think all MSG did was creating this horrible Rock-Paper-Scissors meta that we're experiencing right now and I really can't wait for it to rotate out....
P.s.
As someone stated above I don't get why we can't have monthly balance patches.... Shadowverse has those and the game has got infinitely better after they were introduced.... For those who don't know they released 2 expansions one more game breaking than the other.... There was a Deck that had 60% WR going 1st and a Deck that made up almost 50% of the meta and that had 55% WR against anything else but they acknowledged their mistake,nerfed those Decks and now there's a day each month when they announce whether or not there will be changes to some cards.... They also stated there might be some changes before the end of the month in case things spiral out of control again.... Seriously why can't we have that?
I have a suspicion that Blizzard didn't want to make anything too defining with a rotation approaching. Rather, they just released cards that buffed and/or changed the direction of some existing archetypes, while introducing some "fun" ones that won't completely define the meta. This quite possibly might be the same story for all end of year expansions, since they spend the least time in the meta. Just a thought.
I personally haven't faced much Razakus, but I only have about 30 games under my belt since release, so I guess I can't say (currently r10 on both ladders). I surely hope Highlander Priest doesn't continue to flood the meta, otherwise the meta will stay boring like you say.
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I have a suspicion that Blizzard didn't want to make anything too defining with a rotation approaching. Rather, they just released cards that buffed and/or changed the direction of some existing archetypes, while introducing some "fun" ones that won't completely define the meta. This quite possibly might be the same story for all end of year expansions, since they spend the least time in the meta. Just a thought.
I personally haven't faced much Razakus, but I only have about 30 games under my belt since release, so I guess I can't say (currently r10 on both ladders). I surely hope Highlander Priest doesn't continue to flood the meta, otherwise the meta will stay boring like you say.
I last looked at the "live" numbers yesterday - Priest represented nearly 40% of the ladder from ranks 5-1. It dropped off by nearly half at legend, a little over 20%. The win-rate numbers don't seem to support the high play-rate - both flavours of Paladin had slightly better overall win-rates, and favourable match-ups against the different flavours of Priest, though they only represented about 9% of the meta-game at high ranks. Whether or not the ladder shifts in response is anyone's guess . . .
As others have suggested, the final expansion of the year will likely always have less impact than those which preceded it. The game releases relatively few cards every year, about half as many as MtG, and splits them twice as many different ways. There are predictable consequences for diversity of the meta-game. The card pool in Wild won't be as large as MtG Standard until this time next year, five years after the open beta. HS Standard has an even smaller card pool, and prospects for diversity in the format are limited further by the presence and influence of the evergreen set.
I think it's related to the fact that no cards rotate out for this expansion. It must give the developers more scope for changes when old stuff disappears creating space for new ideas. This one was basically adding on more cards to already powerful and settled decks. It might always just be that expansions at this time of year are more add-ons that game changers.
if you are bored, just make a challenge for yourself to find a non-meta deck that can get to rank 5. That's what I've done for most of this year since I rarely like playing the tier 1 decks over and over (I'll dust them out for tournaments or if I really have trouble getting to rank 5)
Spell Hunter, Recruit Paladin, Totem Shaman, Recruit Warrior, Tempo Mage,
I've been having fun trying out these decks. Sure, I'm not hitting legend and I'm only down to rank 10 at the moment, but it helps keep away the boredom.
BTW - Deck of Wonders can be hilarious, since it will literally pull any spell out to play. Mind Control, Lay on Hands, Ultimate Infestation can be fun, although sometimes its a dud like a weapon buff spell. And Molten Blade in Warrior is pretty cool since it will morph into other legendary weapons.
if you are bored, just make a challenge for yourself to find a non-meta deck that can get to rank 5. That's what I've done for most of this year since I rarely like playing the tier 1 decks over and over (I'll dust them out for tournaments or if I really have trouble getting to rank 5)
Spell Hunter, Recruit Paladin, Totem Shaman, Recruit Warrior, Tempo Mage,
I've been having fun trying out these decks. Sure, I'm not hitting legend and I'm only down to rank 10 at the moment, but it helps keep away the boredom.
BTW - Deck of Wonders can be hilarious, since it will literally pull any spell out to play. Mind Control, Lay on Hands, Ultimate Infestation can be fun, although sometimes its a dud like a weapon buff spell. And Molten Blade in Warrior is pretty cool since it will morph into other legendary weapons.
I like totem shaman, too. you played it on ladder yet? I only had a few games in casual for quest, but as got the new cards in packs I made one. be cool to see your list.
I have a suspicion that Blizzard didn't want to make anything too defining with a rotation approaching. Rather, they just released cards that buffed and/or changed the direction of some existing archetypes, while introducing some "fun" ones that won't completely define the meta. This quite possibly might be the same story for all end of year expansions, since they spend the least time in the meta. Just a thought.
I personally haven't faced much Razakus, but I only have about 30 games under my belt since release, so I guess I can't say (currently r10 on both ladders). I surely hope Highlander Priest doesn't continue to flood the meta, otherwise the meta will stay boring like you say.
The only one that's truly deck defining there is Call to Arms. The others do not require build-arounds, or promote new archetypes. Creeper is just a high-value minion that naturally works with the way the games play out (minions die). Psychic Scream is yet another board clear, nothing new here. Minstrel is another high value card, but doesn't promote anything specific. Voidlord is arguably a build-around card, but it fits right into an existing archetype. Runes is just a straight up powerful card, but again doesn't cater to anything new. Same with Amethyst Spellstone.
I guess I should have been more clear with the word defining; I wasn't saying they didn't release anything good in there, but they weakly promoted a few new archetypes surely with the knowledge that they wouldn't dominate.
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Nature is the Day. Man is the Sun. Woman is the Moon. The Stone is the Sky. The Art is the Way.
I have a suspicion that Blizzard didn't want to make anything too defining with a rotation approaching. Rather, they just released cards that buffed and/or changed the direction of some existing archetypes, while introducing some "fun" ones that won't completely define the meta. This quite possibly might be the same story for all end of year expansions, since they spend the least time in the meta. Just a thought.
I personally haven't faced much Razakus, but I only have about 30 games under my belt since release, so I guess I can't say (currently r10 on both ladders). I surely hope Highlander Priest doesn't continue to flood the meta, otherwise the meta will stay boring like you say.
The only one that's truly deck defining there is Call to Arms. The others do not require build-arounds, or promote new archetypes. Creeper is just a high-value minion that naturally works with the way the games play out (minions die). Psychic Scream is yet another board clear, nothing new here. Minstrel is another high value card, but doesn't promote anything specific. Voidlord is arguably a build-around card, but it fits right into an existing archetype. Runes is just a straight up powerful card, but again doesn't cater to anything new. Same with Amethyst Spellstone.
I guess I should have been more clear with the word defining; I wasn't saying they didn't release anything good in there, but they weakly promoted a few new archetypes surely with the knowledge that they wouldn't dominate.
if you are bored, just make a challenge for yourself to find a non-meta deck that can get to rank 5. That's what I've done for most of this year since I rarely like playing the tier 1 decks over and over (I'll dust them out for tournaments or if I really have trouble getting to rank 5)
Spell Hunter, Recruit Paladin, Totem Shaman, Recruit Warrior, Tempo Mage,
I've been having fun trying out these decks. Sure, I'm not hitting legend and I'm only down to rank 10 at the moment, but it helps keep away the boredom.
BTW - Deck of Wonders can be hilarious, since it will literally pull any spell out to play. Mind Control, Lay on Hands, Ultimate Infestation can be fun, although sometimes its a dud like a weapon buff spell. And Molten Blade in Warrior is pretty cool since it will morph into other legendary weapons.
I'm already legend and I don't think that random stuffs are that fun. Sure it's funny to play deck of wonders sometimes, but when you play it and procede to get stomped by aggro or shooted to death from raza priest it isn't fun anymore.
I feel that there is a problem at the moment in Hearthstone, so I'll write this post based both on my experience and statistics from some sites that I'll not mention, since I'm not sure if I can, but I think that a good part of the community knows those 2 sites that show statistics on hearthstone play mode.
This season I hit legend relatively quickly, in 11 days. As always when a new expansion is released is all cool and trying out new stuffs is awesome, but I feel that this time something has gone wrong, since it's already 2 days that I'm seeing something like 30/40% of priests and the majority of the is just the old highlander priest with just 1 diffrent card, Psychic Scream. I thought it was just my impression, so I checked on some sites and... It wasn't, the ladder is really half priests. I want to try to be optimistic, but I have fear that the best deck of this meta is just the same deck as the expansion before this, just with 1 different card. After 3 months of that, I'm already bored thinking of 4 more months of highlander priest. It's not that I'm quitting, but really guys it's so boring... Playing mirror matches of highlander priest is just a coin flip, who draws raza and anduin first wins. You can't play control to counter them, because they kill you from 30 health. You can't play aggro to counter them, because they have too many removals and aoes, the only aggro that's good vs Priest is paladin, which is somewhat "new" (I already played a lot of aggro paladin time ago, so it's not really new...). So, excluding the fact that 30+ damage from nothing on board is kinda unfair, the real problem is that this expansion bringed to us... nothing new. As sad as it is, I only saw some spell hunter be played, then the deck died after 5 days (horribly). So, what I'm seeing on ladder? Aggro paladin, Murloc Paladin, Tempo Secret Mage, Tempo rogue, Big Priest, Highlander Priest, some Face Hunter and some Pirate warriors and Jade druids. So the question is, what's new in those decks? Nothing, they were all existing decks in the last expansion, they just got buffed with 1, 2 or 3 cards. The playstile is the same, you feel like you're playing the exact same deck as before. The only deck that feels a bit different is control warlock, but it's sad that it dies to shoot-your-face-priest.
That's it, probably I'm too pessimistic and new decks will be discovered, probably I wrote this just because I'm really bored of this meta (and guys, it's only a week and I'm already REALLY bored...), maybe hearthstone is fine as it is, but not for me and maybe I'm not the only one thinking that... I don't think it's this expansion the problem, I feel that Mean Streets of Gadgetzan is still ruining the meta now, with jades, kazakus, raza, patches... Until those cards leave, the meta will always look the same to me.
Thanks for your attention, I'll wait for some other opinions fro your guys.
Thats so strange, I haven't seen a single one yet. All dragon and big priest so far (12 EU ladder atm).
Im personally loving the expansion because of the warlock love (playing zoo atm). Arcane tyrant was also fun to try in jade. Dire mole and corridor creeper breathes new life into aggro druid too. I guess I dont mind seeing the same decks, because they all have strong new cards- thats enough of a change for me.
I think we may be due some balance changes after a month or so, which will shake up the meta too. Maybe even enough to put secret hunter into the higher tiers too.
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What's also sad it's that I don't see any new tier 1 archetype with 135 cards released...
Big Priest, especially, and Razakus are issues right now, most of the data tracking sites confirm this.
But we're still early, and I think there's time for adjustments (mostly in the form of Druid).
you want to know the difference between this expansion and the last expansion......well i'll tell you friend.....every deck has 2x Corridor Creeper in them now. xD
Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.
Meta has time t change. Some people just don't care to experiment or don't have the dust economy to do so. They wait until cards and decks stand out and while they do they play the current best decks.
Just think of last expansion when people were playing Pirate Warrior and Jade Druid before discovering Priest (although there were some nerfs).
Well Met!
Just adding on to my last point:
What did you guys expect? This expansion has about as much diversity as is possible.
All the best decks from the last expansion are already very established and strong, no new tier 1 archetype is suddenly going to pop up in a single expac worth of stuff, at the end of a cycle (freeze shaman, anyone?) .
Adding very strong new cards, that will be added to the current good decks, is the best way to shake up the cardpool you see IMO.
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I've only seen 1 Highlander Priest and like 2 big priests since KaC launched on standard ladder US. I see TONS of Mage, Hunter and Warlock.
I think I've now landed on my preferred deck a voidlock with Rin and The Darkness so SCREW you highlander priests if I meet you! muwahahahah
Either you play aggro which is braindeadly easy but the only reasonable way to reach legend or you play t1 control decks.
New, fun, meme, midrange or combo decks have no chance of being competitive. And yes you are right and not the only one: that really sucks and is boring af!
Blizzard should nerf, buff and remove cards to HoF way more frequently. I'm talking about a monthly patch. That would bring fresh wind every month to the meta and we would see more diffrent decks on ladder.
Atm this game is kinda broken which is sad because there would be so many enjoyable mechanics and archetypes to try out...
I can't help but agree wholeheartedly with the OP.... I think MSG was a huge mistake (Even bigger than Naxx and GVG) and until Spring,excluding nerfs that I doubt we'll see at this point,no matter how good this expansion turns out to be it will never be able to push cards as powerful as Patches,Jades or Kazakus/Raza out of the meta.... I think a Deck like Control Warrior might be able to deal with Razakus since it can outheal them the problem is that a Deck like that without FWA gets murder by Aggro/Tempo and even if it uses Geist there's no guarantee it'll manage to deal with Jade Druid so there's no way a Deck like that can be meta.... Same goes for Midrange Decks,there's no way you'll ever beat Razakus unless they brick hard since they have so much AOE,against Jade Druid is a race cause they have UI,SP and armor generation,not to mention getting rekt by Aggro cause unless you draw Golakkas keeping up with the Tempo generated by Keleseth and Patches is impossible.... Basically what I think MSG did was creating the most "warping" cards ever.... Patches is the embodiment of Tempo gain (0 mana 1/1 charge that draws a card and has tribe, how can something like that exist is beyond me),Jades as a mechanic and Razakus are the nemesis of any Control Deck that has a "fair" win condition (Like N'zoth or a DK) since there's no way you can outvalue a Priest or get rid of all those larger and larger men.... I think all MSG did was creating this horrible Rock-Paper-Scissors meta that we're experiencing right now and I really can't wait for it to rotate out....
P.s.
As someone stated above I don't get why we can't have monthly balance patches.... Shadowverse has those and the game has got infinitely better after they were introduced.... For those who don't know they released 2 expansions one more game breaking than the other.... There was a Deck that had 60% WR going 1st and a Deck that made up almost 50% of the meta and that had 55% WR against anything else but they acknowledged their mistake,nerfed those Decks and now there's a day each month when they announce whether or not there will be changes to some cards.... They also stated there might be some changes before the end of the month in case things spiral out of control again.... Seriously why can't we have that?
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I have a suspicion that Blizzard didn't want to make anything too defining with a rotation approaching. Rather, they just released cards that buffed and/or changed the direction of some existing archetypes, while introducing some "fun" ones that won't completely define the meta. This quite possibly might be the same story for all end of year expansions, since they spend the least time in the meta. Just a thought.
I personally haven't faced much Razakus, but I only have about 30 games under my belt since release, so I guess I can't say (currently r10 on both ladders). I surely hope Highlander Priest doesn't continue to flood the meta, otherwise the meta will stay boring like you say.
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I don't know, I'm only playing against secret mages...
I last looked at the "live" numbers yesterday - Priest represented nearly 40% of the ladder from ranks 5-1. It dropped off by nearly half at legend, a little over 20%. The win-rate numbers don't seem to support the high play-rate - both flavours of Paladin had slightly better overall win-rates, and favourable match-ups against the different flavours of Priest, though they only represented about 9% of the meta-game at high ranks. Whether or not the ladder shifts in response is anyone's guess . . .
As others have suggested, the final expansion of the year will likely always have less impact than those which preceded it. The game releases relatively few cards every year, about half as many as MtG, and splits them twice as many different ways. There are predictable consequences for diversity of the meta-game. The card pool in Wild won't be as large as MtG Standard until this time next year, five years after the open beta. HS Standard has an even smaller card pool, and prospects for diversity in the format are limited further by the presence and influence of the evergreen set.
I think it's related to the fact that no cards rotate out for this expansion. It must give the developers more scope for changes when old stuff disappears creating space for new ideas. This one was basically adding on more cards to already powerful and settled decks. It might always just be that expansions at this time of year are more add-ons that game changers.
if you are bored, just make a challenge for yourself to find a non-meta deck that can get to rank 5. That's what I've done for most of this year since I rarely like playing the tier 1 decks over and over (I'll dust them out for tournaments or if I really have trouble getting to rank 5)
Spell Hunter, Recruit Paladin, Totem Shaman, Recruit Warrior, Tempo Mage,
I've been having fun trying out these decks. Sure, I'm not hitting legend and I'm only down to rank 10 at the moment, but it helps keep away the boredom.
BTW - Deck of Wonders can be hilarious, since it will literally pull any spell out to play. Mind Control, Lay on Hands, Ultimate Infestation can be fun, although sometimes its a dud like a weapon buff spell. And Molten Blade in Warrior is pretty cool since it will morph into other legendary weapons.
Quit complaining and just have fun with this game!
Nature is the Day.
Man is the Sun.
Woman is the Moon.
The Stone is the Sky.
The Art is the Way.