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tldr, It's less about the deck being overpowered, which I'm not confident it even is, and more about the fact that this kind of gameplay of, "If you have an answer you win" is unhealthy.
Why does Vicious Fledgling exist
I think that this deck is bad for the game, I think most people agree. I believe it is absolutely counterable, and that oddly rogue is the best counter. rogue can actually clear board on turn 5 unlike priest which needs coin to. Pyro Plague doctor zero cost spell is a strong combination. plus you can stall extra turns with vanish and doomsayer until you draw a pyro a plague and a cheap spell. I personally would play more wild if I was not rank 18 in it, just because grinding with mill rogue takes a long while and it is worse when faced with low rank midrange decks. I might be enjoying wild more than standard though despite the toxicity of the giants decks. Mostly because Jade has longer games that are almost as bad, and wild has decks that I like the idea of a lot.
Just fill your deck with one drops, that is creative deck design, right?
"Yeah, it comes down to the fact that even if it's not explicitly overpowered, games become less, if at ALL about skill, and more about: does he have a good aggro curve, if yes, does the opponent have an answer. If the do they win, if they don't they lose. It's not skillful gameplay, it's, "do you have an answer," which just isn't fun."
Aggro vs Control in a nutshell.
(At least the aggro deck is more interactive than the control deck, because the second one just hindering you to play a game by removing all your stuff with spells. With only a few Control decks being an exception.)
Thanks for all the answers and comments. If I understand all that has been said so far, it is basically:
1. It is good that Blizzard is revisiting and thinking about Wild format cards.
2. It is bad that Blizzard is revisiting and thinking about Wild format cards because it used to be fun before they thought about it.
3. The deck is powerful, but like many other OP decks in the game, very simple to play.
4. It is not fun to play against because it is all comes down to one or two moments at the game with very little interaction.
5. The reason you don't see it more in ladder is because it is super expensive deck.
6. It can be countered, you just need to pray you'll have the right answers at the right time.
currently I am 50% WR as a DK priest against the deck. Hopefully more discussions like that can help us all to play better and have better success against oppressive decks.
@ZebZero: You forget 1,5 points:
5.2. And becaue it's too inconsistent.
7. It get crushed by aggro decks most of the time very easy.
In my eyes this deck is a way lesser problem than Big Priest in Standard.
Oh hai!
Nature is the Day.
Man is the Sun.
Woman is the Moon.
The Stone is the Sky.
The Art is the Way.
To the people saying "I played 40 games and never had 3 giants on turn 5!", my first game I had coin naga 3x giants.
No, it doesn't happen thaaat often, but it's at least 1 in 10, and 1 in 3 to have turn 4/5/6 naga into 1-2 giants... it's consistent enough to be stupid.
I played it for a bit, felt bad because it was stupid, then went back to reno-cheese :D
Ibn Fahd.
Ibn Fahd.
I'm playing a Shaman version of this for fun (I don't have any Bright Eyed Scout and don't care enough about wild to craft it) and it seems pretty good. The Hunter version seems way better with tutor minions. Right now I'm just running even more big in the form of Flamewreathed Faceless and Earth Elemental and other overload cards. Just dump all the big on the board and attack face.
The overload cards to clash with the Naga / Giant synergy because it can clog up your mana turn 5, but realistically you don't always have the witch turn 5 so dumping out a 7/7 or 7/8 taunt is still pretty good and hard for most opponents to deal with.
Catch me on YouTube and Twitch: https://www.youtube.com/c/Hindered https://www.twitch.tv/hindered_
My take on the Patches Raza Bonemare Creeper nerfs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wysTG125huM
So I've been out of the game for a while; did they change the naga/Giant interaction or does it still work?
It hasn't been fixed yet. Not as many people are using it now, and it's basically just hunters now, but it's still a serious problem.
I'm not sure if it's an issue at rank 20 or not. Likely not, since even a bot would rank up further than that with it. (Let me know at the end of the season if it's a problem there) Anybody who has even the slightest knowledge of how to balance cards realizes that turn 6 giants lethal is unacceptable, especially when the only real "counterplay" is to win by turn 5. Blizzard doesn't seem to have figured out how much of a problem it is, but the winrate in the hands of a competent player is around 65%. I tested it for an evening one day and that was the result I got.