I think Control Warlock is actually pretty balanced atm, sure it has great clears and Gul'dan but you can out value them with Control/Recruit Warrior, Quest Priest and even Big Spell Mage. Those matchups do often just come down to who gets the DK first (less so with Warrior and Priest).
Zoo on the other hand got a massive boost from the expansion with Soul Infusion and Doubling Imp , these cards along with Fungalmancer makes damage based clears much less useful and so gives them a bigger edge vs control. Soul Infusion in particular allows them to pump out stats too fast for the defensive tools to handle or allows rather large burst damage from hand.
Still the age of old problem of how to mulligan vs Warlock, you can either get punished by mountain giants or punished by not having early removal/AoE.
Warlock is just the most flexible class right now. It's arguably the best aggro deck, and control warlock is great against both aggro and combo, something that no other control deck can do in standard.
Don't blame the playerbase, blame Blizzard for giving the only anti-combo card to warlock.
I mean you say that, but it isn't stopping players from playing decks that can only cheese against control. There have been lots of druid threads popping up on this very site recently that basically say "HELP I CAN BEAT EVERYTHING BUT ZOO", then the other half have been "zoo makes up half the meta blargagag!!"
Do you think that maybe there is some correlation between playing combo decks that bully control, and running into a ladder that is full of combo hate? Yes, Blizzard did fail in helping control fight combo and yes it is a big part of the problem, but the other part is the people on ladder playing decks that bully the cure to their problem. Pot meet kettle. You want a diverse meta? Play diverse decks.
So this is not a great survey. But playing rank 10 games at rank 19 and 7 were against Warlock (zoo and some anticombo). Ugh and folks wonder why some of us really don’t like playing ranked games.
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I think Control Warlock is actually pretty balanced atm, sure it has great clears and Gul'dan but you can out value them with Control/Recruit Warrior, Quest Priest and even Big Spell Mage. Those matchups do often just come down to who gets the DK first (less so with Warrior and Priest).
Zoo on the other hand got a massive boost from the expansion with Soul Infusion and Doubling Imp , these cards along with Fungalmancer makes damage based clears much less useful and so gives them a bigger edge vs control. Soul Infusion in particular allows them to pump out stats too fast for the defensive tools to handle or allows rather large burst damage from hand.
Still the age of old problem of how to mulligan vs Warlock, you can either get punished by mountain giants or punished by not having early removal/AoE.
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So this is not a great survey. But playing rank 10 games at rank 19 and 7 were against Warlock (zoo and some anticombo). Ugh and folks wonder why some of us really don’t like playing ranked games.