The title says it all but to reiterate, will you play either Standard, Wild, Both or have you not decided yet?
I know a lot of people might shift to wild due to the overwhelming popularity of Reno decks these days, since Kazakus COULD be unplayable without Reno (We will have to wait and see what the next Expansion/Adventure brings).
However it's not only Reno people may miss, but cards such as Brann, Justicar, Emperor Thaurissan etc, seem to be cards that some people might say are irreparably priceless. As for me I'm probably just going to wait for what the next expansion/adventure brings before i make my decision, but i might just end up playing wild.
I love Standard, and that's my primary play mode. It's not really out of any desire to be hyper-competitive, but it lets you play "bad" new cards without worrying about having all of the cruft of old cards like Boom/Shredder/Belcher to slot in.
Wild however is something I dabble in, because every once in awhile it's just fun to do something broken. I imagine it'll probably stay the same after the next rotation.
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I play some of both now. Hoping for some new dragons and dragon-synergy cards to replace the outgoing Blackrock cards in Standard, since Dragon Priest is the only Standard deck I'm playing at the moment.
Wild is like an old card dumpster ... they only added it so people couldn't moan about their bought cards being defunct. Because that would be Blizz robbing us, they avoid such claims this way. It is basically the new casual, I never bothered with that, I won't bother with it under a new name either.
I have been playing both equally much up until the Mean Streets of Gagdetzan expansion, now I play mostly Wild because I'm tired of face decks... If they make Standard skill-dependent again i will go back to it, but otherwise it's a Wild life for me.
I play and will continue to play both and both are filled with cancerous decks.I don't get why anyone will strongly prefer the one over the other.I starting playing wild because everyone said it's better and more diverse than standard but it's clearly not the case neither in casual or in ranked.
Wild=secret pala,zoo,face hunter and pirate face with ship cannon and standard=pirate face,renodecks and miracle rogue.Sure there is decent healing in wild but there also the super op hyper sticky early minions.There no less tryhards in wild than in standard.
I play both. They are very different, and i like the creativity part of building a deck with old cards. I have been experimenting with Iron Juggernaut since gvg.
It has sort of become this "old car" project. Some day it might work you know? I love tingering with cards that may some day have potential, and that is what wild offers me. It also serves as a break when the meta in standard grows stale.
I will always play both types, as they serve two very different goals for me. The competitive (standard) and the fun (wild).
Wild is going to become a LOT more different from Standard once the rotation hits. With Reno, Dragons and Justicar all going out of Standard, I think this will be the final push towards the "no slow down" policy of Standard, and the beginning of the ultimate meta speed discrepancies in both modes.
Of course, I could be wrong, but this whole "when the meta slows down" has become an overused joke. To me, its Belchers and Healbots, the extent of good neutral control cards Blizz is willing to release, and those aren't coming back when Pirates and Jades consist of 90% of the Standard ladder.
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Start of Year: Provoke the failure of 3 expansions, force nerfs on otherwise balanced cards, bring deckbuilding to an all-time low and get rotated one year earlier for being such a threat to the game's health. - Genn and Baku's historical entry on the White Book of Shit Design, shortly before retiring unpunished
Currently I'm playing Demonlock, experimental Demonlock (Imp Masters and stuff), Renolock, Lockdown Priest and super Anti Aggro Warrior in Wild, and Dragon Priest and Control/Midrange Hybrid Warrior in Standard. Dragon Priest is pretty much rotating, so the question is whether the Warrior deck gets any replacement for Varian or not. If not, 100% Wild.
The title says it all but to reiterate, will you play either Standard, Wild, Both or have you not decided yet?
I know a lot of people might shift to wild due to the overwhelming popularity of Reno decks these days, since Kazakus COULD be unplayable without Reno (We will have to wait and see what the next Expansion/Adventure brings).
However it's not only Reno people may miss, but cards such as Brann, Justicar, Emperor Thaurissan etc, seem to be cards that some people might say are irreparably priceless. As for me I'm probably just going to wait for what the next expansion/adventure brings before i make my decision, but i might just end up playing wild.
So what's your decision?
Depends what cards they kick out of classic and whether the next expansion is good quality.
I love Standard, and that's my primary play mode. It's not really out of any desire to be hyper-competitive, but it lets you play "bad" new cards without worrying about having all of the cruft of old cards like Boom/Shredder/Belcher to slot in.
Wild however is something I dabble in, because every once in awhile it's just fun to do something broken. I imagine it'll probably stay the same after the next rotation.
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I play some of both now. Hoping for some new dragons and dragon-synergy cards to replace the outgoing Blackrock cards in Standard, since Dragon Priest is the only Standard deck I'm playing at the moment.
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The amount of standard decks in wild bothers me so much, that I've decided to stick to standard.
Fuck cubelock
I am playing mainly Wild, Standard is so boring and I'm not enjoying it.
Wild is like an old card dumpster ... they only added it so people couldn't moan about their bought cards being defunct. Because that would be Blizz robbing us, they avoid such claims this way. It is basically the new casual, I never bothered with that, I won't bother with it under a new name either.
I have been playing both equally much up until the Mean Streets of Gagdetzan expansion, now I play mostly Wild because I'm tired of face decks...
If they make Standard skill-dependent again i will go back to it, but otherwise it's a Wild life for me.
Wild 90% of the time but I want to give the new standard a shot so I'll be checking out both
I play and will continue to play both and both are filled with cancerous decks.I don't get why anyone will strongly prefer the one over the other.I starting playing wild because everyone said it's better and more diverse than standard but it's clearly not the case neither in casual or in ranked.
Wild=secret pala,zoo,face hunter and pirate face with ship cannon and standard=pirate face,renodecks and miracle rogue.Sure there is decent healing in wild but there also the super op hyper sticky early minions.There no less tryhards in wild than in standard.
I play both. They are very different, and i like the creativity part of building a deck with old cards. I have been experimenting with Iron Juggernaut since gvg.
It has sort of become this "old car" project. Some day it might work you know? I love tingering with cards that may some day have potential, and that is what wild offers me. It also serves as a break when the meta in standard grows stale.
I will always play both types, as they serve two very different goals for me. The competitive (standard) and the fun (wild).
Wild is going to become a LOT more different from Standard once the rotation hits. With Reno, Dragons and Justicar all going out of Standard, I think this will be the final push towards the "no slow down" policy of Standard, and the beginning of the ultimate meta speed discrepancies in both modes.
Of course, I could be wrong, but this whole "when the meta slows down" has become an overused joke. To me, its Belchers and Healbots, the extent of good neutral control cards Blizz is willing to release, and those aren't coming back when Pirates and Jades consist of 90% of the Standard ladder.
Start of Year: Provoke the failure of 3 expansions, force nerfs on otherwise balanced cards, bring deckbuilding to an all-time low and get rotated one year earlier for being such a threat to the game's health.
- Genn and Baku's historical entry on the White Book of Shit Design, shortly before retiring unpunished
Currently I'm playing Demonlock, experimental Demonlock (Imp Masters and stuff), Renolock, Lockdown Priest and super Anti Aggro Warrior in Wild, and Dragon Priest and Control/Midrange Hybrid Warrior in Standard. Dragon Priest is pretty much rotating, so the question is whether the Warrior deck gets any replacement for Varian or not. If not, 100% Wild.
My favorite deck to play is some variation of Patron Warrior. After rotation, I'll have no other choice than to play Wild.
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It depends and I have not decided yet.but I am inclined to the standard