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Serious question here: how many of you were actually bothered by decks like this before Blizzard started pushing the sheep mentality that combo decks are "unfun"  and "uninteractive"?

And an even better question: why do you believe that playing a chill wind yeti on curve, and trading it into 4/4 for value trades implied any more true interaction(as in, putting any sort of effort to adapt your plays to your opponent's) than, say, not playing extra minions before a mage flame strikes you on turn 7?

Blizzard has succeeded in creating a community of sheep that want to play a game of "click the green cards and drag to the board" rather than an actual card game.

Disclaimer:My point doesn't apply to OTK shaman. I completely agree that minutes of animations are bad for the game and should be addressed ASAP, regardless of how strong the deck is. But otherwise the deck archetype is completely fine in terms of the gameplan.

 Insulting the people you are ostensibly trying to convince is seldom a winning tactic. I would expect a combo player to be a better strategist.

I've found combo decks annoying since launch, and your false dichotomy of "everything else is curvestone" only makes me think you don't really understand the game very well.

 Yes, I don't understand the game very well, except I probably reached a higher(lower?) legend ranking than your best standard rank.

I'm not insulting anyone in particular, I'm merely asking a serious question. If my rhetoric about "sheep" happened to apply to you, that's not really my problem.

well atleast im not alone with this idea that there is a design problem in the current meta!

Thanks Brian you explain it alot better then I do, someone should give this guy an award. I for one really hope someone at blizzard is paying attention.

The design problem with the Witchwood:

https://youtu.be/tP6YLB1hFxk

I don't see why you are calling names other players. Why calling hunters "brainless"? Your post started kind of properly, underling mechanics - even if you do not provide datas, analysis or references to any scientific statistics from either your own experience or other websites I won't even mention.

I used to play a big taunt drood at the beginning, that was quite unbeatable at the time till the nerf. Yes, I played "brainless" face hunter but never got the right tempo, control one with hyena, eagle, rhino was my favorite. Yes, I played zoo lock with small return, yes I played secret pally, yes I played Dr. boom and ragnaros with immense satisfaction when they went boom boom. Yes I played deathrattles funny meme decks and yes I played token droods, not so satisfying but got to rank 4 the one and only time. yes, I played C-thun. Yes I played tempo mage, yes I played quest rogue...yes I'm currently playing murloc pally and played dude pally last season. Yes I tried Agatha / Shudderwock for fun and shared all possible cards to try that, but it's such a weak deck, stuck at 15 for 2 weeks, gone back to good old murloc pally to get my pack per day and my 35 powders per day...All the above mentioned decks had counter mechanics (destroy 1 mana spell for jade droods) and that is just demonstrated by me having a super deck and opposite players having all the counters (of course on top of my mistakes). So I won't blame the mechanics, maybe I am such an ex-"brainless" hunter to even grasp mechanics, I just play for fun...what the hell, people actually do that, playing for fun...looks like this concept is quite mysterious to some salty posters.

Why net decking on "brainless" net decks? Because I'm ftp and sometimes "brainless" aggro decks are the cheapest - brilliant mechanics in tech decks from Einstein players all into theory have a simple problem: they need tons on gold spent on the strongest legendary, money that I am not willing to pay; most of them are control which is very interesting when you are a student so brilliant with a genius memory not requiring hours of study, jobless or having the pleasure of spending all your weekends on 25/30 minutes games. I just don't have the time, so I grind up with funny, cheap, aggro decks to shard enough and make 4/8 legendaries per expansion which allow me to try more interesting decks.

I play since the beginning, battle tag in the 2000-ish. I have never been a spectator of my own game, probably because I am not so good and in a sense yes, I have been a spectator of my own weaknesses laughing hard at the stupid mistakes I do make.

The only deck I spectated in these (5? 4 & 1/2? don't remember really) years is..

Yogg Saron!!!

Loved to spectate him going completely random crazy with spell of which I did not even know the existence. Booms, whoops, killing by own board, harakiri by massive card drawing, "I will hunt you down" threatenings, laughs...totally rng crazy and yet a totally fun spectator experience like watching a short funny movie with a suspense end.

With all due respect to a player insulting other players, this is not a poll and the post should be moved to salty - unless the word "brainless" is edited by the original starter of this otherwise interesting thread.

the last deck that beat you is not worthy of a thread. 

Your poll is retarded.

I answered No. Not because it never happened to me, but because I don't think it's an issue.

You're just seeking approval from other players who might think the same way than you. You're not actually asking a question.

just run geist if you hate druids and warlocks it's quite effective against them, also who even plays shudderwock? that deck sucks.