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Novice engineer & Hearthstone dilettante
Arguing on the internet is like playing chess with a pigeon. You may be good at chess, but the pigeon is just going to knock all the pieces down, take a shit on the table, and strut around like its victorious.
I don't see why you think people will mass troll in such mode making decks of particular cards - what do they achieve with this? Some cards will never see play in off-meta match-ups? What's the big deal of this keeping trolls spaming games with useless decks?
About new players: The increased gold income from easier match-ups will simply give them more freedom. How they spend their mana and which cards they craft is their choice. Some will prefer to focus on meta decks, others not. Both options are viable since off-meta decks are usually 10-20 times more cheaper than meta decks. Their off-meta decks can't suddenly ALL become meta when they are built with different cheap cards.
Arguing on the internet is like playing chess with a pigeon. You may be good at chess, but the pigeon is just going to knock all the pieces down, take a shit on the table, and strut around like its victorious.
I think a big point about off-meta deck building that is being neglected in this thread is that often you will have some pretty amazing home brewed decks that either need some 'meta cards' to make the home brew that much more consistent, or may even need one or more popular meta cards to even work.
Take the deck in my sig for a quick example. While N'Zoth is only a meta card in Control Warlock right now having N'Zoth marked as a meta card that wouldn't be allowed in this new 'meta-less' format would actually drastically change how my homebrew'd version of my OTK deck would work.
Removing every meta card wouldn't only get rid of tier decks, but it could also dismantle some home brew decks as well.
Creative ladder:
I've thought a lot about this problem, and here's my best invention:
Each week, only one-third of the cards in your collection are eligible to be played on the creative ladder. But the kick is, it's random for every player, what cards of yours you can put into a creative deck this week is unique to you. So now, you can't possibly netdeck (there are no general solutions), and neither can your opponents.
How Blizzard benefits: the one-third of the cards you could play if you craft them are also highlighted, this is an incentive to craft a bit more so it's an incentive to buy a few more packs; but only a minor incentive if you own a lot of cards. No matter what, you'll still have to be creative, and there will be a LOT of variety on the creative ladder, even from those who are try-harding.
People will complain a bit more about too-common cards such as corridor creeper (with some reason) but they'll be immensely grateful that they never have to face the exact same deck twice in a row. They'll also have a lot of fun just trying stuff out and being able to compete at the same time.
Some weeks, you'll be a bit unlucky in what's eligible, but there are four weeks in a season, you'll have an extra-lucky week, too.
There would be two creative ladders, one wild and one standard.
Arguing on the internet is like playing chess with a pigeon. You may be good at chess, but the pigeon is just going to knock all the pieces down, take a shit on the table, and strut around like its victorious.
Why are you using "META" in all capital letters? Is it an acronym?
Arguing on the internet is like playing chess with a pigeon. You may be good at chess, but the pigeon is just going to knock all the pieces down, take a shit on the table, and strut around like its victorious.