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Quote from ShadowsOfSense >>

You pre-suppose that netdecking is an issue that needs to be solved by Blizzard. It isn't. Forcing people to be unable to play the cards they want to in their decks will just drive people away from the game, because why would you arbitrarily restrict people like that? It's one of the most idiotic things I've ever seen somebody suggest.

You keep reiterating your cutesy 'oh, you can't take 60% of a song and play it on the radio :)' argument, but the situations aren't comparable at all. When you netdeck, you are not claiming to have created the deck - furthermore, even if you did, by doing so you don't gain anything. It's not like you get money for creating a brand-new deck the same way getting a song played on the radio does.

Right now, I can take the best Warrior list, copy it exactly, and play it on ladder. Who created the list? Who knows, doesn't matter, thousands of people are also playing it. In tournament play, you don't see people getting disqualified because they brought the same deck as their opponent, because that would be ludicrous. Of course you just bring the best 30 cards - if they happen to be what someone else thinks is the best 30 cards, so be it.

I'm sure I'm just feeding the troll, but if I can get even one person who thinks you have some sort of a point to see how nonsensical your suggestions and arguments are, then I honestly couldn't care less. Congrats, you got me.

 Hey man if you get a kick out of copying other people's decks you didnt come up with yourself good for you. But just know the deck build is 90% of the work and you personally didn't accomplish much when you win with it.

Quote from delkoHS >>

If you want to be competitive, then you netdeck. You don't have to if you don't want to. If you like losing then make your own decks, but don't force other people to do the same. Some people enjoy winning.

 You are essentially saying the only way to success is to copy, and that is a losers mentality. Sit down sir.

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Quote from Pops >>

Let me dumb this down for you. If you want to make a song, you can't take 60% of someone else's song and play it on the radio.

Yes you can. "Ice Ice Baby" is a carbon copy of "Under Pressure" and "Can't Touch This" is a copy of "Super Freak." 

 nobody is going to confuse ice ice baby with under pressure.. but token druid will never be mistaken for anything but token druid. I have beaten every point of your arguement to the ground. Please sit down, you are invalid.

Quote from Shadowrisen >>

Quote from Pops >>

Plagiarism (by google): The practice of taking someone else's work or idea and passing them off as one's own. : )

 So you agree then, this is not plagiarism.  Thank you for bolstering the point.

The idea that someone is representing that a deck is their original creation just by playing it is self-evidently incorrect.

And of course, we all know this to be true, because when someone DOES actually post a deck on this site or write about it on twitter as if they came up with something original, that person gets flamed by EVERYONE.

 

In any case, the OP suggests rebalancing the game around the prevalence of certain cards.  If you do this for everyone, then the people who actually created the net decks are punished, just because others wanted to use the same decks.  If you somehow grandfather in the first few people who played the decks that later become popular, then those players would have an insurmountable advantage that would destroy all balance considerations.

Either way, it's a terrible idea.  There are a finite amount of cards.  Each meta will have individual cards and combinations that far outperform others.  And people will use them. 

Dumbing this down for you. If you want to make a song you can not take 60% of someone else's song and play it on the radio

This sounds like a core Blizzard gameplay problem with balancing

Let me dumb this down for you. If you want to make a song you can't take 60% of someone else's song and play it on the radio.

Let me dumb this down for you. If you want to make a song you can't take 60% of someone else's song and play it on the radio. : )

I am not "trolling" : )

Let me dumb this down for you. If you want to make a song, you can't take 60% of someone else's song and play it on the radio.

Not "trolling" : )

Plagiarism (by google): The practice of taking someone else's work or idea and passing them off as one's own. : )

Netdecking, at the core of the concept is cheating, copying, plagiarizing another's work.

Solution:

Stop Netdecking by rewarding creativity and restricting decks to not have the statistically most common card combination of cards from the top 20 decks recorded online in real-time by limiting these decks to not have more than 10 cards in common

This would require a simple stats algorithm and a simple questing rework I could come up with in an afternoon.

Result:

New players would have to enjoy being creative and being rewarded for that instead of being rewarded for plagiarism at the end of every season.