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Quote from ColinthePyro >>

I'd be interested to see the Tempo Dragon deck OP. On topic, I love facing zoo. I mainly play secret/spell hunter and its great farming wins off of aggro. 

The only decks I really hate are the Rogue decks, Quest and Kingsbane seem to be more and more common lately. I just don't see why they had to make those polarizing cards, because at least against Zoo you have a fair chance with any deck.

 By all means. Here you go :-)

Quote from Chocobrownies79 >>

I mean I play topsy priest vs people all the time and I can actually pull off the combo.  Would that be considered meme-y enough?  Idk

 

I often try playing Topsy Priest on my phone. Apparently I hate my life... XD

The answer to this question would rely heavily on the answer to : "Are you any good with this deck?", one would think...

I would agree there - I would certainly say its more interactive than most / a lot of previously non-interactive decks like the old Ice Block Quest Mage, or the original Quest Rogue (before it's  many nerfages).

In those decks, the opponent could almost be replaced with a basic AI Bot that went through the motions against you. You practically ignored everything they did (barring the occasional clear etc) and waited for your win condition to appear in time.

With Zoolock, it is certainly more apparent that you are required to consider trading the opponent's minions and whether to throw up taunts or to buff for the damage etc. 
It requires "choices", but on the other hand, the choices are more often than not fairly easy and making the less optimal play is hardly punished unless in the extreme misplay situations.

Maybe that's one of the points of frustration for some opponents? Watching the zoo player make horrible judgement calls and still managing to overwhelm the board, etc.

Quote from Criticality11 >>

I feel like its BM when an opponent has obviously lost (you have lethal on board and its your turn) and they don't concede right away hoping you DC.

Lol-WUT?  You... think it's BMing for an opponent not to automatically concede when you have lethal on the board? Are you serious? lol!
So it never occurred to you that your opponent is either :
A) Being polite and considerate enough to let you have the enjoyment of the victory and finish as you prefer
B) Waiting to see if you make the ultimate BM-Fail (I've won from this so many times) and mess up the finishing combo (such as Priest Mecathun)
C) Waiting to see if maybe you've not realised that you have lethal and are distracted with trading minions, etc.

EDIT: Additionally, waiting to see if you DC is hardly bad manners. If you can't be bothered to get a decent enough connection to stay in the game, that's BM on your part, not theirs....

Simply put...

Hang on. Who determines what decks are allowed here?
Considered one man's meme is another man's top tier, there's a heck of a lot of subjective opinion involved.

For example, I see Mecathun decks as the ultimate memey type of deck - yet some would consider them top tier which I would disagree. 
And let's assume they aren't - the best way to combat them is to use a high-aggro deck or similar, which are definitely top tier. 
So removing decks you just happen not to like means other decks that others hate will become forefront instead. 

It's a slippery slope...

To be honest, I've won almost every brawl game so far based purely on the strength of Ice Block alone (Paired with plenty of burn and card draw to replace it every turn).

Was an easy brawl, this one!

I'm hard-pressed to imagine people play it for the "fun" as such, since the whole game play of the deck is very dull and linear. Play minions, make value trades, go face lots.

That said, however, I really enjoy good high tempo decks (like Priest or Shaman tempo), which rely on a similar game play style. So maybe who am I to judge perhaps? 
It just doesn't seem to have the same effect with Zoolock for me. It feels a lot more autopiloted. You don't have to think too much.

Oh - and The Soularium? That card just outright won games almost by itself for me. The number of times it arrives to find you that Soulfire or Leeroy Jenkins is uncanny! Super strong card!

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Quote from scorpyon >>

 there's simply little point in playing casual any more.

 And therefor you are allowed to not play it and leave the mode to those who do enjoy playing it while you stick to ranked.

If nobody cared about unranked, there wouldn't be so many threads started by people complaining about there being high winrate decks in there all the time.
Seems those people disagree with you regarding the only playing ranked.
Therefor these posts merely show it is a valuable mode and there is no point in removing it cuz a minority doesn't need it.

Those who want ranked play ranked, those who don't care about or just dislike playing for rank can enjoy unranked.

Umm. Dude, I never said I didnt care about casual mode?
In fact, I even went on to say that I thought it would be a great idea to improve the mode with new play styles and concepts.
I also didnt say that nobody plays in casual - some people still use it for quests etc. 
I simply put forward a reason for why casual doesnt get the attention it used to. Why that should cause you any irritation (judging from your reply) is beyond me...

I do realise (of course) that there is always the psychological phenomena that the mind can use to highlight the events that cause us irritation or negative emotion. Since these are more often than not caused by facing a zoolock deck, they can seem more prevalent.
So it was nice to at least have some confirmation that it's not all psychosomatic! :-)

Quote from Bee >>

I expected a patch today...

 You're welcome! :-)

It really was! Haha! :-D

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Quote from Sudosev >>

Sure, I can spam aggro on ladder and beat them 100% of the time but I prefer control decks, especially some of the control decks that are around right now but, they stand 0 chance against Shudderwock.  The infinite clears and cheesy Reno combo with Electra and Healing Rain, it's so boring and sad to play against.  Does nobody else feel the same way?  I feel as though I'm locked into playing more aggressive decks because of this single counter which.. I always seem to meet when I switch to control..

Time to join the rest of the braindeads and spam Zoo Lock I guess.

 How do you feel about mechathun?

 Ironically, my absolute favourite moment of Hearthstone today was playing against a Druid Mecathun deck.
1 turn before he could play his Mecathun combo, I Psychic Screamed my Archbishop Benedictus into his deck! XD 
Ahhh he insta-conceded! Lol!

Quote from Wingdude22 >>

That’s something they touched on Omnistone last week. 

HS would definitely feel more interactive, if they had tools to interact/make them play differently with their combo decks. 

Tech cards that flat out destroy the combo don’t feel fun either. 

 If your whole combo relies on one single card (like Shudderwock) and one single card kills it (like Dirty Rat, etc) then that's the risk you have to take. Complaining that you should be able to make an unstoppable combo deck that the opponent can do nothing about is somewhat benign, I feel.