I feel you 100%. All I do is build and experiment with cards. I can easily get Legend anytime I want, but I choose to explore the set and would rather try and counter the meta and or play home brew decks.
I get no enjoyment copying and pasting, and I especially dislike playing decks that are supposed to win.
Wheres the challenge in playing a deck thats supposed to win? Like Paladin or Mage atm? Or 64% face Hunter.
This game is designed for the low attention span instant gratification type people, ie: young people who grow up on cell phones, porn and video games.
The state of the game right now is atrocious imo. Theres almost no real skil left in the game, just OP cards that a child could win with.
The fact its and E sport is a complete joke. Listen to the casters try and complicate the game and make it sound complex and deep, when really its about who draws the broken cards first.
Thers not much a skill cap when you only have to know 30 cards, how to do basic math and plan ahead.
In Hearsthstone, a beginnner can beat a Pro.
In Chess, that would never ever happen. Probably not in MTG either. This game is designed to keep winrates as close to 50% as possible so newbs, grannies and kids can all get that dopamine hit from high rolling someone.
So I lose alot of friggin games cause im stubborn and refuse to accept this fact. I dont play nearly as much as I used too, and I get triggered too easily by this game.
Knowing and realizing things are vastly different, and coming to terms with myself that this game just isnt Chess and never will be takes time.
So to the Op, there are others who value experimenting creativitiy still. We are usually found at Diamond 5, with the 34% winrate while we get beatdown by meta decks over and over again. LOL
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I dont think you understand cancel culture
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Youre an idiot bro lmao read my last post. You do not understand the concept of loans, maybe take an economics course. Both of your metaphors were just flat out wrong bud and way off the mark. But hey if you wanna keep thanking and praising blizzard for giving you what you think are free cards. Go apply for a loan at your local bank, they would be thrilled to trap you in their debt scheme. Oooo free money
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Someone who actually understands the concept of loans. I made a similar complaint about this earlier when core was first announced and everybody dogged on me like I was some idiot. Like, do people really not understand the concept of loaning us a collection for a year and then possibly taking that away and putting new cards in, so we will still, in the long run, have to spend resources to get the “old” core set cards that were new to the game. It doesn’t take a lot of thinking to understand lol, i’m glad someone else gets it. We all spent time and resources to get the classic cards which they told us would never roatate. Then the classic set rotated, making all the time and resources we spent worthless (if you dont play wild) and then LOANED us a core collection that will EVENTUALLY rotate out. However many years it takes, the core set will eventually look completely different and we will have to spend more time and resources to collect the cards that which we were originally loaned. People are stupid lmao no wonder banks rule the world.
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I already explained how tickatus is more of an anti-combo card than an anti-control card, which is what it is supposed to be. Control is weak against combo decks so tickatus answers that problem perfectly. But again, I explained this in my earlier post so I guess youre brain dead while reading, as well as while playing hearthstone decks you copied and pasted from google.
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So much in this post screams ‘I dont understand this game’.
First off, tickatus decks have nowhere near 80% winrates, try 40% range, definitely under 50% last time I checked.
Second, no brain control decks? Name one other than wild big priest, aggro is the “brain dead” archetype and even some aggro decks require specific sequencing etc. and true control as an archetype hasn’t been a thing (in wild at least, where I play all my games) since WoToG or even before then.
Third, tickatus is nowhere near mindrender illucia’s power level. Tickatus is much much MUCH slower and the player has to be ahead on board or at least not behind to play tickatus. Illucia is 3 mana and can pretty much steal a win if a good player knows the matchup and when to play her.
Finally, aggro is the one of the matchups that tickatus decks specifically get farmed for exp. aggro will destroy tickatus decks more times than not because, like I said before, tickatus decks are too slow for aggro matchups.
Tickatus decks get stomped by faster combo decks as well like wild raza priest unless you get lucky and burn one of their combo pieces which isn’t likely because again tickatus is extra slow and mostly comes out around turn 8 at the earliest.
Tickatus is literally a tech/counter card for grindy control matchups which is what it is perfect for honestly, giving you card advantage and giving your opponent a disadvantage if you burn something important. And it puts them closer to fatigue. It’s a control tech card, and it performs its role perfectly.
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Bro youre a priest player. Priest is the reason I put tickatus in my deck. Me spending all my resources to clear a board you can bring back with one card the very next turn? Tickatus is a counter/tech to that style of deck.
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Lol
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The guy felt I was personally attacking him bc I play tickatus and proceeded to call me brain dead. I then started to reply back to which it got side tracked into a different conversation. Perhaps read the actual thread before making comments on the thread? And ya if you play rez priest or secret mage, I think i’m better than you, I think a lot of people are better than you.
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Alright you obviously play standard and not wild because rez priest is extremely prevalent in wild. Big priest, rez priest same thing. And bro my deck literally has the new yshaarj the old nzoth and both yoggs like how much more original to you want me to get while still at least being a little bit viable. Maybe my zoo warlock deck with renounce darkness and lorewalker cho is original enough? I dont play anything meta bro, like anything. So no I dont switch around 3 or 4 cards, I think of fun stuff to do and start from scratch. And the scrubs ladder? I’ve hit legend enough times to know i’m not a scrub and with my own decks too.
You sound like a scrub though if a card like tickatus is ruining your day enough to post about it
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Yessir, got him as my level 25 :)