I really wonder how many people who endlessly complain about Tickatus being the Control killer have actually played Control against Tickatus. Control vs Control doesn't mean automatic fatigue matchup. It's relatively common to end the match with more than 5 cards in your deck, at which point Tickatus may as well do nothing. Most of the time it's only the second Tickatus with the Y'Shaarj that has an effect.
Is Tickatus a powerful card in Control matchups? Sure. So is Rattlegore and Outrider's Axe and War Cache and having an Armor Up button. You can win against Tickatus decks as a pure Control deck with no combo win condition, it's a thing you can do, just play around the fact that they've got Tickatus - mulligan for Rattlegore in your opening hand, realize you're the aggressor in the matchup, don't just sit there being a Control deck and trying to react to their stuff, play minions proactively out to hit their face with. If the draw lines up in such a way that you can't kill them then have the backup plan of gaining five million armor to outlive them in fatigue.
Heck, even assuming Tickatus reads "Corrupt: If your opponent is playing a Control deck, destroy the enemy hero", all the card does is position Tickatuslock in the usual spot that Combo decks have taken: It's a matchup that's very tough for Control decks because it forces them to play the aggressor rather than sit there removing things all day. We've had Control and Combo decks in the same meta before. As long as this theoretical Control Warrior does well against the rest of the field it can still thrive even if it has a massively unfavoured matchup against Tickatus Warlock.
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I really wonder how many people who endlessly complain about Tickatus being the Control killer have actually played Control against Tickatus. Control vs Control doesn't mean automatic fatigue matchup. It's relatively common to end the match with more than 5 cards in your deck, at which point Tickatus may as well do nothing. Most of the time it's only the second Tickatus with the Y'Shaarj that has an effect.
Is Tickatus a powerful card in Control matchups? Sure. So is Rattlegore and Outrider's Axe and War Cache and having an Armor Up button. You can win against Tickatus decks as a pure Control deck with no combo win condition, it's a thing you can do, just play around the fact that they've got Tickatus - mulligan for Rattlegore in your opening hand, realize you're the aggressor in the matchup, don't just sit there being a Control deck and trying to react to their stuff, play minions proactively out to hit their face with. If the draw lines up in such a way that you can't kill them then have the backup plan of gaining five million armor to outlive them in fatigue.
Heck, even assuming Tickatus reads "Corrupt: If your opponent is playing a Control deck, destroy the enemy hero", all the card does is position Tickatuslock in the usual spot that Combo decks have taken: It's a matchup that's very tough for Control decks because it forces them to play the aggressor rather than sit there removing things all day. We've had Control and Combo decks in the same meta before. As long as this theoretical Control Warrior does well against the rest of the field it can still thrive even if it has a massively unfavoured matchup against Tickatus Warlock.