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Damn, I'm still having the new expansion fuzzies over Kingsbane, I haven't even crafted my warlock deck yet. Try different stuff is all I can say.

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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.

My usual response to threads like this is that when you are seeing a lot of one deck, you should obviously start playing a deck that counters it.

But I can't say that here, because there are NO matchups where Big Priest is at a disadvantage. So while I will point out that it's Big Priest, not Razakus Priest, that is dominating, I cannot prescribe a cure, because there really is a problem here.

The absolute worst win rate Big Priest has against any specific archetype is 50 percent. It's usually much higher. But 50 percent as your worst matchup? That puts you at Tier 0, and it cannot be allowed to stand.

When this happened with Druid after Frozen Throne came out, there was a nerf about two weeks later. Let's hope Team 5 acts as quickly this time around.

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My usual response to threads like this is that when you are seeing a lot of one deck, you should obviously start playing a deck that counters it.

But I can't say that here, because there are NO matchups where Big Priest is at a disadvantage. So while I will point out that it's Big Priest, not Razakus Priest, that is dominating, I cannot prescribe a cure, because there really is a problem here.

The absolute worst win rate Big Priest has against any specific archetype is 50 percent. It's usually much higher. But 50 percent as your worst matchup? That puts you at Tier 0, and it cannot be allowed to stand.

When this happened with Druid after Frozen Throne came out, there was a nerf about two weeks later. Let's hope Team 5 acts as quickly this time around.

Maybe I just need to wait for the rotation and, as suggested, try to play something that I have fun with while waiting. Thanks you all for your answers.

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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.

 They did release a lot of defining cards. Corridor Creeper, Call to Arms, Psychic Scream, Elven Minstrel, Voidlord, Explosive Runes, Lesser Amethyst Spellstone, etc.

 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.

Voidlord is deck defining.

grind to a higher legend rank, rank 1 is end game =p