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As I was browsing the Hearthpwn forums today, I came across a comment that I hadn't seen in a while that seems more relevant now than it has been in recent memory.  "If a deck is fair, then it probably isn't very good" , "Most good decks do something inherently unfair."  This got me to thinking; are there any decks now in the meta or that have been in the meta in the past that just skate by doing relatively fair things that still keep you in games against seemingly unfair plays by the opponent? 

My first instinct to try to find these decks were to look into mid-range decks of the past.  One deck that always stood out to me as having really powerful on curve plays, but little that could change a game on its own was the old mid pally deck.  You almost always knew what you were going to see when going up against this deck and while all of the plays were incredibly powerful, nothing stood out as unfair.  However, not everyone agrees with this.  Muster for Battle, shielded mini-bot, and to some even Tirion Fordring were cause for some pause as they were generally considered some of the strongest plays at their respective mana costs and no other class had access to them like they did with chow, shredder, and belcher.  On the coin, muster into Quartermaster could definitely be seen as an issue too. 

Another deck with very little nonsense in my opinion is zoo.  While there have been some iterations that do unfair things (demon and discard zoos), the deck generally keeps a straightforward approach of efficiently putting a lot of minions on board.  Tapping, Sea Giant and things like power overwhelming are as close to unfair as zoo gets in it's most raw form and generally speaking, once you get ahead against a zoo, you win.  But...Zoo is at it's best with demon support which still makes it fairly questionable.  

I haven't spent all that much time thinking it through to be honest, so I'm sure there are other examples that I'm missing.  If anyone down below would like to contribute or argue with the original post, feel free down below. 

So you want a list with the most predictable decks? I guess the game was at it's most honourable when Chillwind Yeti was a card you would consider to run outside of arena and R25-20.

Back on topic, Handlock was strong and predictable.  

Honorable decks! There are honorable decks now?

What is this, I don't even

Curator druid is fair and fun in my opinion, i never feel guilty playing it.

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Honorable decks! There are honorable decks now?

What is this, I don't even

No deck will be honourable in the eyes of the masses.

I think most reno-decks fall in that category actually. Every card on itself needs to be good and of course there is some synergy now with MSG (more cards who have the 'reno' effect) but every card needs to count and so it is always a nice deck in the first place to build, where you need to think about what to include and what not. Most of them see play, renolock ofcourse more than the others, but still.

I thought that this would be a Pavel meme as he calls the Face Decks for ''honorable'' 
My definition of a honorable deck is one that doesn't try to kill you on turn 6 or kill you with burn from their hand the ones that come to mind are:
Midrange Paladin.
HandLock.
Ramp Druid.
Control Warrior.
Circle Priest (the old one)

Old school Handlock was extremely powerful, but imo it was pretty fair for its time. I suppose double Mountain Giant into Argus on turn 3/4 was pretty disgusting, but at that time BGH still cost 3 so there were ample tools to combat the deck (plus if they got you down that quick, they deserve to stare down 2x 8/8 taunts lol). Then there's the ever present shenanigans with Shadowflame, but none of that was really "unfair" in my eyes.

Any control paladin.

I'll have to go with Handlock too. It was epic to see Handlock vs Control Warrior.

Ramp Druid is up there too.

Control Warrior before Justicar also seemed to be pretty fairer than what we have now, but I wasn't around that early.

Pirate warrior or shaman, obviously... Oh, this thread isn't about the Pavel meme? Kappa

Labeling decks "dishonorable" is what salty people do. If a deck doesn't have the potential to do something busted, it's not competitive

Miracle Warrior

Face hunter