the meta is getting boring. In my opinion its a coinflip of who gets his combo of OTK the first, or there are some old style players with quick minions. The last does not bother me, becouse you play your best and can make some mistakes on the way. But iff somebody plays Gnomeferatu and one of the combo cards Goes down, the coinflip is in your favoriet and your opponent gives up.
Play Wild. Sure, it has crazy Meta Decks such as Even Shaman and Big Priest, but the lower Ranks are full of wierd and wonderful decks. My last game this evening, using my Dragon Warrior, was against a Reno Dragon Priest.
I've had games against a board centric Mage who played cards like Archmage Arugal, Vex Crow and Summoning Stone, a Crazy Mill/Pogo Rogue and a Deathrattle/Reno Hunter. And that was just this evening.
I play Wild when I get a bit tilted on the Standard Ladder. It's a relief. As long as you avoid bullshit like Big Priest and Even Shaman of course... 😬
You could play Control Priest or Even Shaman if you're so concerned about coin-flips. They're both decks notorious for having a good matchup spread and not being either very overpowering or undermining against basically the whole field. That's only two at the top of my head, there's also several hunter decks able to say a similar story; and the all-around jack of all trades even paladin.
If you play combo, of course you're going to have polarizing matchups. Aggro will beat you and control will not. If you play combo against combo, of course it's going to be a race of who makes the combo first and that can be determined by the RNG of how are the pieces on the combo on the deck.
If that makes you think combo is boring, well; that makes two of us.
That's why I play a OTK deck with 2 different combos so I can't get wrecked by anything short of a void contract. Surprisingly successful too.
I don't understand this topic though. In the standard Meta there's only 2 really prominent OTK decks and then 2 that are less prominent. That's 2-4 decks out of 27. Even more confusing is most of the ladder is made up of hunters and they don't have any of those 4 OTK decks (gurubashi chicken hunter isn't even on the tier list so not really worth mentioning).
*Shrugs* control has aspects of this as well, as does aggro, and midrange.
Control player gets Jaina, Rexxar, or Gul'Dan before you? Prepare to start falling increasingly behind if your DK is near the bottom of your deck and you have to keep expending resources to have a board presence/not die.
Aggro opponent or Even Shaman gets their board up before your aggro or midrange deck does? Prepare to see at least a 10% drop in your chance of winning that game and ever taking the tempo/board advantage back.
I don't see why this is restricted to just OTKs. Every playstyle currently has something that drastically benefits the player that gets it off first.
the meta is getting boring. In my opinion its a coinflip of who gets his combo of OTK the first, or there are some old style players with quick minions. The last does not bother me, becouse you play your best and can make some mistakes on the way. But iff somebody plays Gnomeferatu and one of the combo cards Goes down, the coinflip is in your favoriet and your opponent gives up.
yeah cheer..... bad days for hearthstone tho.
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Play Wild. Sure, it has crazy Meta Decks such as Even Shaman and Big Priest, but the lower Ranks are full of wierd and wonderful decks. My last game this evening, using my Dragon Warrior, was against a Reno Dragon Priest.
I've had games against a board centric Mage who played cards like Archmage Arugal, Vex Crow and Summoning Stone, a Crazy Mill/Pogo Rogue and a Deathrattle/Reno Hunter. And that was just this evening.
I play Wild when I get a bit tilted on the Standard Ladder. It's a relief. As long as you avoid bullshit like Big Priest and Even Shaman of course... 😬
4/3/19 RIP Keith Flint. 😔
You could play Control Priest or Even Shaman if you're so concerned about coin-flips. They're both decks notorious for having a good matchup spread and not being either very overpowering or undermining against basically the whole field. That's only two at the top of my head, there's also several hunter decks able to say a similar story; and the all-around jack of all trades even paladin.
If you play combo, of course you're going to have polarizing matchups. Aggro will beat you and control will not. If you play combo against combo, of course it's going to be a race of who makes the combo first and that can be determined by the RNG of how are the pieces on the combo on the deck.
If that makes you think combo is boring, well; that makes two of us.
then don't play OTK deck if you think it is boring, play aggro deck :)
Gnomeferatu only in warlock, and it sometimes pull useless cards, you just unlucky
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That's why I play a OTK deck with 2 different combos so I can't get wrecked by anything short of a void contract. Surprisingly successful too.
I don't understand this topic though. In the standard Meta there's only 2 really prominent OTK decks and then 2 that are less prominent. That's 2-4 decks out of 27. Even more confusing is most of the ladder is made up of hunters and they don't have any of those 4 OTK decks (gurubashi chicken hunter isn't even on the tier list so not really worth mentioning).
*Shrugs* control has aspects of this as well, as does aggro, and midrange.
Control player gets Jaina, Rexxar, or Gul'Dan before you? Prepare to start falling increasingly behind if your DK is near the bottom of your deck and you have to keep expending resources to have a board presence/not die.
Aggro opponent or Even Shaman gets their board up before your aggro or midrange deck does? Prepare to see at least a 10% drop in your chance of winning that game and ever taking the tempo/board advantage back.
I don't see why this is restricted to just OTKs. Every playstyle currently has something that drastically benefits the player that gets it off first.