I'm currently playing a taunt Druid deck, but not what you think. While I do include Hadronox, it's more of a tool than a win condition. My deck is more about getting as many taunts on the board and boosting their stats with Strongshell Scavenger. One of my favorite plays is when my Paladin opponent thinks they have the game won with a full board of minions and my side wiped is to play Spreading Plague into Strongshell Scavenger.
I'm not likely to ever claim a 70% win rate or reaching Legend with this deck. I totally understand that the current top-tier meta decks have a better win rate than this one, but my deck is of my own design, I enjoy playing it, and it is still competitive at Rank 5.
Yesterday, I encountered a Rogue opponent whose deck was also not a "meta" deck. It involved repeating the battle cry of Fal'dorei Strider and drawing as much as possible. It was an original deck that I had not encountered before and led to a long, tense, back and forth battle where it looked like either side was going to win at multiple points. It reminded me how much fun constructed could be when you're playing original decks with unique designs and don't know what to expect!
I understand that netdecking is simply a reality and there isn't anything to be done about it. I tend to favor Arena because I get burned out on facing the same constructed decks over and over. I just wish there was someway to have a constructed environment that avoided netdecking.
I wonder if some sort mixed constructed/draft format would work, where you bring 15 cards with you and draft the other 15? You could still easily have the core cards for, say, Cubelock, but it would force some variety/spice into the proceedings.
Like your idea to have like a sideboard , or wish HS would take a que from Gwent and let you even redraw a few cards during the match. Just something
There are 45 taunt cards now currently in the game and less than six or seven that silence ...so are you really doing anything all that clever or are you just stalling ? Playing all taunt cards is really what makes this game not very fun and you are one of the people contributing to it. But I really think you are just out to have fun in a very stale meta that we happen to find ourselves in now. So can you please just play in practice not comp. Just a thought as you remind of the people in OW who just cheese if they are afraid they are gonna lose a match on defense.
There are 45 taunt cards now currently in the game and less than six or seven that silence ...so are you really doing anything all that clever or are you just stalling ? Playing all taunt cards is really what makes this game not very fun and you are one of the people contributing to it. But I really think you are just out to have fun in a very stale meta that we happen to find ourselves in now.
The taunt minions help me stall against aggro and people think I am playing control, but my deck is really a tempo deck. I'm only stalling until I can boost my taunt minions to go face.
I'm currently playing a taunt Druid deck, but not what you think. While I do include Hadronox, it's more of a tool than a win condition. My deck is more about getting as many taunts on the board and boosting their stats with Strongshell Scavenger. One of my favorite plays is when my Paladin opponent thinks they have the game won with a full board of minions and my side wiped is to play Spreading Plague into Strongshell Scavenger.
I'm not likely to ever claim a 70% win rate or reaching Legend with this deck. I totally understand that the current top-tier meta decks have a better win rate than this one, but my deck is of my own design, I enjoy playing it, and it is still competitive at Rank 5.
Yesterday, I encountered a Rogue opponent whose deck was also not a "meta" deck. It involved repeating the battle cry of Fal'dorei Strider and drawing as much as possible. It was an original deck that I had not encountered before and led to a long, tense, back and forth battle where it looked like either side was going to win at multiple points. It reminded me how much fun constructed could be when you're playing original decks with unique designs and don't know what to expect!
I understand that netdecking is simply a reality and there isn't anything to be done about it. I tend to favor Arena because I get burned out on facing the same constructed decks over and over. I just wish there was someway to have a constructed environment that avoided netdecking.
I wonder if some sort mixed constructed/draft format would work, where you bring 15 cards with you and draft the other 15? You could still easily have the core cards for, say, Cubelock, but it would force some variety/spice into the proceedings.
Like your idea to have like a sideboard , or wish HS would take a que from Gwent and let you even redraw a few cards during the match. Just something
There are 45 taunt cards now currently in the game and less than six or seven that silence ...so are you really doing anything all that clever or are you just stalling ? Playing all taunt cards is really what makes this game not very fun and you are one of the people contributing to it. But I really think you are just out to have fun in a very stale meta that we happen to find ourselves in now. So can you please just play in practice not comp. Just a thought as you remind of the people in OW who just cheese if they are afraid they are gonna lose a match on defense.
So i faced taunt druid and big priest in wild (2 big priest/ 3 taunt druids) in a row...all games ended like this >>>>>
So if you are bored of standard come to wild :)
I run something similar to the rogue deck in wild, including beneath the grounds, the darkness, Elise starseeker, and nerubian eggs. I call it
“The Nest”
it’s so fun when it all lines up perfectly.
Why yes it can
It's almost as if... it was meant to be fun?
Nah, it must just be a coincidence
Proud member of the real casual play network
https://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/general-discussion/222850-new-third-game-mode-real-casual-play-network
Hit rank 15 with a homebrew back in the KOFT days.
Yaayyy...
There's all my notable achievements.