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I think aggro is the most boring way to play hs. There's very little decision making involved. The choices you make rarely go past, "what's the most damage I can go face this turn." As long as you don't draw terribly or your opponent doesn't draw incredibly well you win. Combo, control, and occasionally mid-range decks are the only interesting decks to play imo. A card game should be about making calculated risk-benefit decisions, not slamming down as much damage as you can every turn and hoping your opponent doesn't have a good answer. 

 You probably aren't very good at aggro, because there's a LOT more to it than that.

What you've described is aggro in an easy matchup.

If we look at a control game in an easy matchup, it's similarly mindless.

 2019 and there's still people saying aggro is "Hard" "involve making decision" bla bla bla...so funny how people had their egos ahead of the sad reality

 Yet you can still encounter aggro decks at lower ranks, so they haven't all just autoplayed up to Legend. The only thing that gives the advantage to aggro players at lower ranks is they're naturally playing more proactively, so they can be favored in some ways. Also if you're playing a slower deck with a strong win condition, then obviously their gameplan is to win before you reach that, so the strategy is the same which may be why you perceive it to be mindless. On the other hand, (I think I heard it from a pro player) aggro mirrors involve a lot of decision making and are far from mindless. I guess you'll just have to play aggro to find out.

 I would agree that aggro mirrors require a lot of decision making. I think the problem is that most of the important decisions happen in the first few turns, which means they are heavily impacted by you're early draw and as such more subject to rng. So it feels bad and like you have less freedom in making the decision, which naturally makes the decisions harder, but not more fun imo. 

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If you are winning consistently with that strategy, they are easy matchups. Either that, or your opponents are not very skilled. Possibly both.

 I'll take your word for it. I still find aggro boring and neigh pointless to play unless you're trying to grind ranks. 

I mean, I don't play a lot of aggro, so I'm no expert, but my winrates with aggro are generally higher than when I play any deck where I actually think about my plays. So respectfully, I disagree. I roll face when I play aggro and still win a majority of my games. Is it possible they're all easy matchups, maybe. Is it likely, not really. 

I think aggro is the most boring way to play hs. There's very little decision making involved. The choices you make rarely go past, "what's the most damage I can go face this turn." As long as you don't draw terribly or your opponent doesn't draw incredibly well you win. Combo, control, and occasionally mid-range decks are the only interesting decks to play imo. A card game should be about making calculated risk-benefit decisions, not slamming down as much damage as you can every turn and hoping your opponent doesn't have a good answer. 

This brawl is a mess. Fun the first few games, weird wacky decks. Now its all hyper aggressive decks. 4 patches? cmon.

Love going into casual to play with some of the whizbang recipes only to get shit on by meta decks 4/5 games. Odd paladin, odd rogue, odd rogue, one new deck (thank god, this person was my hero even though I lost terribly), and then odd warrior. I understand playing meta decks in ladder, its why I'm not playing ladder, cus I want to have fun. But why in the ever living fuck are you playing meta decks in casual...on the first day of a new expansion release!?!?! Come on people.

It seems like a really effective deck. I lose to it almost all the time cus I play control. Had to switch to anti combo lock specifically because I kept running into this.

EDIT: I was being salty

Play control deck, OTK priest into OTK rogue. Switch to OTK rogue, zoolock into mech hunter. Good shit.

I get the rage, but why bother? They're a corporation that's out to make money off the backs of suckers like me. Personally I only buy pre-order packs when new x-packs come out cus I don't want to pay more than $1 per pack. So being the dutiful sucker I am I bought both pre-orders. 

Honestly, rage over cosmetics is one of the silliest things you could entertain. I understand rage against high costs to buying content that actually impacts how you play the game, but getting mad about something that doesn't have any impact on the game play? Why bother?

Sure, cards are prohibitively expensive for many people. There are too many legendaries and epics are too rare, especially considering theres no duplicate limitation like with legendaries (you could get 5 of an epic you don't want before any epics you do want). These concerns make much more sense to me than complaining about a cost barrier to a cosmetic accessory. 

It's probably somewhere between 40 and 100 honestly. I'd guess closer to 40 though, considering how rare epics and legendaries are.

Man, I'm starting to feel like Kaladin. My draw has been absolute garbage all night. 

 I love this deck. Thank you. 

So this guy asks me to play 1v1 and I agree; this isn't the first time. Since it friendly stuff I try to not play cheesy aggro decks or razakus. After 4 games I tell him I'm out of decks I want to play, but he asks for another game. I agree, but since I didn't want to play anymore I play secret mage. He's playing big priest and gets upset and starts saying its a stupid counter cus the game isn't going his way. Anyway, in the end, the game isn't even over and he concedes and then starts cussing me out. Now, don't get me wrong, I totally understand the sentiment of trying to play a highroll deck and getting mowed down by an aggro deck. But the part that gets me, is that secret mage was the VERY FIRST deck he played against me and my big hunter.

He then proceeded to block me. I guess the point of this is, what the hell is wrong with this community? I never cuss him out cus he's getting a perfect curve playing tempo rogue and I'm playing a slow deck.

Just be nice to each other. For fucks sake people.

inb4 someone says I'm salty, I won 4/5 of the games we played, including the one where he played secret mage against my big hunter.

Screw perfect curve big priest

Love playing against satellite priest in casual. Dope. Super awesome. Very fun.