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.
Exactly - that is the idea - adapt, build, experiment, adapt, change, adapt...
I know you find it strange - players don't do this type of game in HS anymore since they don't expect to break the meta. Such mode would revive deck building and bring back all underused cards in the game. Suddenly HS would feel fun again.
I feel you may have missed my point. Some of the meta cards actually encourage underused cards to be used again because those meta cards strengthen weaker underused cards. I feel that is a better approach than getting rid of all strong cards so that we can have a psuedo-vanilla meta with a bunch of cards that never saw play.
The Spiteful Mech Mage that was on Hearthpwn recently actually is a great example of this. While Mech Mage used to be a meta deck years ago it isn't anymore, even by wild standards, and whenever I'd try to make a version of the deck prior to K&C it simply ran out of steam way too fast by today's deck standards. However, when somebody's version of the Spiteful variant of this deck got featured (with Spiteful Summoners, Creepers, Patches, etc it actually made the deck a lot more fun again since it could actually wins games more consistently and even allowed for tempo plays that the deck previously never had access to.
^ That is one reason why I like how meta cards can strengthen underused or forgotten cards, not by creating some abstract banned list that guts synergy and tries to more or less create arena decks out of standard.
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.
Meta is anything that is the most efficient at winning, end of story. You could ban 1 or 100 cards and after the dust settled you would find someone patching together a clown deck of mismatched stuff that would be the most efficient with what we would have available.
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.
Meta is anything that is the most efficient at winning, end of story. You could ban 1 or 100 cards and after the dust settled you would find someone patching together a clown deck of mismatched stuff that would be the most efficient with what we would have available.
You can't prevent metas from forming.