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Big question: how do you know it is a net deck? 

For example, I have always been a priest player.  When BRM came out I started working on my own dragon priest deck, and with TGT it got even better.  I have never modeled it after a net deck, but I am pretty sure my deck is nearly identical to a lot of dragon priest decks on this site and others.  Why?  Because the deck has a clear core set of cards: Northshire Cleric x 2; Dragon Whelp x 2; Wyrmrest Agent x 2; Twilight Guardian x 2; Azure Drake x 2; Blackwing Corrupter x 2; Holy Nova x 2; Ysera x 1.  That's 15 cards you are going to see in pretty much every dragon priest.  Then of course are the other really common includes: Chillmaw; Velen's Chose; Blackwing Technician; Dark Cultists, etc.  You tend to see the variety in the three drop slot (technicians or cultists?); tech cards (Harrison; Mass Dispel, Lightbomb, etc); extra dragons (Chromagus; Nefarian; Dragonkin Sorceress); other value drops (Dr. Boom; Sylvanas). Personally, I run a slightly more mid-range with Darkbane, Dragonkin Sorcerers, and power word glories thrown in.  I think this shift is a creative shift from the standard, but if you play me on ladder you may never see these creative choices if I don't draw/play the cards and may just think I am a net decker when I have been refining my deck all season and made it from scratch myself.

See thats another point too you get a 30 limit but theres just too many staples to get REALLY creative with some of these decks some times and its so common for people to make what is literally the same deck. Like if i wanna make a dragon priest ill go home and throw together a dragon priest, and if i play it ill probably be called a net decker because as usual its similar to the decks you see on here, all of the core cards are gonna be the same obviously.

I think it is less the 30 card limit and more the lack of multiple viable archetypes and a small card pool of viable choices.  The more deck archetypes there are for each class the more variety you will see on ladder and that helps keep the game interesting.  Also, the more good cards there are the better, because there won't be just one (or a few) good choices to make.  Take the three drop spot in Dragon Priest: Technicians, Cultists, and the Bane sisters are all pretty good picks right now.  If there was this same variety for the other mana cost slots, you'd start seeing a lot more variety in how people constructed their decks, even within the same theme/archetype.  This is where I hope more sets will continue the variety, because just look at the three drop - a BRM card, a Nax card, and a TGT cards.  If only these choices were exemplary of every slot.

Big question: how do you know it is a net deck? 

For example, I have always been a priest player.  When BRM came out I started working on my own dragon priest deck, and with TGT it got even better.  I have never modeled it after a net deck, but I am pretty sure my deck is nearly identical to a lot of dragon priest decks on this site and others.  Why?  Because the deck has a clear core set of cards: Northshire Cleric x 2; Dragon Whelp x 2; Wyrmrest Agent x 2; Twilight Guardian x 2; Azure Drake x 2; Blackwing Corrupter x 2; Holy Nova x 2; Ysera x 1.  That's 15 cards you are going to see in pretty much every dragon priest.  Then of course are the other really common includes: Chillmaw; Velen's Chose; Blackwing Technician; Dark Cultists, etc.  You tend to see the variety in the three drop slot (technicians or cultists?); tech cards (Harrison; Mass Dispel, Lightbomb, etc); extra dragons (Chromagus; Nefarian; Dragonkin Sorceress); other value drops (Dr. Boom; Sylvanas). Personally, I run a slightly more mid-range with Darkbane, Dragonkin Sorcerers, and power word glories thrown in.  I think this shift is a creative shift from the standard, but if you play me on ladder you may never see these creative choices if I don't draw/play the cards and may just think I am a net decker when I have been refining my deck all season and made it from scratch myself.