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Wild is awesome, you get to play with all your favorite cards of old and the variety of decks is very high. Although the meta is a little towards the aggro side right now I feel.

I don't understand why this deck is upvoted to front page. It's just a jumbled mess of cards, you have elements of control warlock while also having discard and zoo. 

I'm so excited that they finally added an option to import/export decklists! Something that I think is pretty important to a virtual card game.

Bloodmage thalnos is an excellent legendary that has been used in pretty much every single meta in a variety of decks, he is considered a safe craft and he'll always be in standard because of being a classic card. It's very hard to find a replacement for the versatility of thalnos.

This is actually a really cool deck! Played it some time during rank 15 and won 2 out of the 3 games. Really fun deck.

Elise is not mandatory, Lord Jaraxxus is a must have for playing any kind of control warlock imo. For elise you can sub in a faceless manipulator, spellbreaker, or another aoe like felfire potion.

Who would've known that this card would be so good in miracle rogue.

Is sleep with the fishes a must have for the deck? Any replacement suggestions? 

Wow, this story kinda parallels the same way with my hearthstone experience. I just broke rank 5 last month only after I decided to do what you did in your post, play a deck I enjoyed. After playing for about 9 months already and spending a couple hundred bucks on the game I decided enough was enough and instead of try harding with net decks I stuck with a deck I enjoyed playing.

I discovered that control shaman was actually a thing a few months back and I went through reddit, hearthpwn, etc just to learn more about the deck. Then I gave it a go, it wasn't easy at first however, I lost many times but throughout those times I actually had fun because I was doing something the aggro netdecks didn't really need you to do that much, planning your turns. I had tremendous fun every game through making decision after decision, I felt like I was in the driver seat of the deck and if I made a wrong decision everything will go crashing.

Last month, at the very early days of the month, I spent game after game playing and eventually I made it to rank 5. It was incredibly tough and frustrating at times but when I got there I felt like I actually achieved something, a personal achievement. Satisfying my desire to break rank 5 felt amazing. I never desired to grind to legend though. Probably because all those games grinding took a toll on me. I was never a player to play many games in one sitting. But that month I broke that habit.

Thank you for making this post, I was a player that thought that netdecks gave easy victories and I blamed rng and the luck of the draw and that wasn't fun. But finding a deck that I enjoyed really made ladder that much more enjoyable.

For the people who want to play a game more like mtg, there's, well, mtg. There are multiple ways of playing mtg online and also many places to go and play irl.

Mtg is a waaay more complicated game that requires a higher level of concentration and dedication than hearthstone, whereas hearthstone requires very little commitment, so it has a different appeal.

If they were more alike, I don't think I would play hearthstone at all, but just go for mtg instead, since it does what it does so well.

No. If Jade Idol didnt exist the meta would be exactly the same, minus the 5% of people who play jade druid.

People gravitate towards fast, cheap, easy and strong decks. Pirate decks easily fulfil these requirements, so the majority of people play them. Removing jade idol doesn't stop pirate decks from doing their thing.

OP's point, if I get it right, is that people in community bitches too easily, and with less than real reasons.

Foreword: I dislike Aggro Shaman (which is an abomination, mainly built with supposedly Midrange and even Control cards) and Pirate Warrior.

-> Yes, there's a problem with Pirate Warrior. Yes, there is a problem with Shaman if it can afford Pirates so easily, while eg Paladin can't.
-> Yes, Legend is overpopulated with Aggro, so all this requires some attention by devs.

But since the vast majority of players is NOT Legend, which is the only place where Aggro is too overspread, the most part of all the whining against Aggro is just bullshit. Whining just because. Just to complain about something, possibly as an excuse that relies of responsabilities.

Aggro is currently overestimated by non-Aggro players and over-bitched about, mainly by Reno players.
So many non-Legend players say the game is sealed at turn 1 because of STB. As if they could play nothing at all next turns. As if heals and taunts were not there.
You have no idea of how many Aggro matchups against Reno finish in a turn6 Reno and gg.

Too many Control players do not understand that Control can sometimes lose against Aggro.
Problem is that this happens far beyond the "unlucky card draw". Why?
Because Control are too often just Greedy players, and this game punishes greed very hard. More importantly, Greed IS NOT Control.
Control strategy MUST BE ADAPTIVE. They have to follow up, NOT to play their own big bad minions and combos and greedy stuff, as if the opponent was not even there! Because that is Aggro, but Aggro CANNOT be greedy (hardly any deck can)!

In other words, too many players think that the game should finish at turn 10. Ideally always.
Too many players want to play Control, but with an Aggro mindset.

But since there is no logic behind all the overreactions, I guess there is no point in trying to logically explain anything, so there's no point in this thread either...

Seeing this is so beautiful...

silly me, coming here thinking 'best decks' means good fun decks, turns out 'best decks' means aggro cancer

Warlock is actually dead :/

This deck is actually awful. Took me from rank 4 back to 5... Warlock is in an awful place and only Blizzard can fix it with some new cards next expansion.

Or you know, he actually hasn't provided any proof so this could just be all fake..