I was just looking through my stats for the last 3 seasons and thought that people might want a sense of the most common decks. This is based only on my personal experience, and in ranks 1-5, so the sample size is pretty small, but I thought it was interesting none the less.
Season 2:
1. Midrange Shaman (22%)
1. Zoo (22%)
3. Handlock (13%)
4. Miracle Rogue (10%)
5. Ramp Druid (8%)
Season 3:
1. Ramp Druid (19%) (I unfortunately didn't distinguish Ramp Druid from Fast Druid this season, which may be biasing it to the top)
2. Zoo (18%)
3. Handlock (12%)
4. Miracle Rogue (10%)
5. Control Warrior (8%)
Season 4:
1. Zoo (21%)
2. Miracle (14%)
3. Token Druid (10%)
4. Ramp Druid (8%)
4. Handlock (8%)
Seems like the pattern is take Zoo, Miracle, Ramp Druid, and Handlock; add flavor of the month; then shuffle. It appears that the meta is getting a little more diverse with each season, starting with the top 5 making up 3/4 of all games in Season 2, to now under 2/3.
Do these ranking match your experience? Has anyone else kept similar stats (especially for season 1 where I was still mostly playing arena)? Do you think any of the four mainstays will be dethroned in the next season? What will next season's "flavor of the month" be?
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back before undertaker was nerfed and deathrattle hunter was big, i was playing a lot of control warrior, and that was a pretty decent matchup for me. so, one time i got matched up against a person playing hunter. hunter's turn 1: undertaker. my turn 1: coin, axe, kill undertaker. hunter concedes. next game i was matched up against the exact same player. hunter's turn 1: undertaker. my turn 1: coin, axe, kill undertaker. hunter concedes. needless to say i was pretty amused.
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from 53 packs:
2 legendary (gazlowe, vol'jin)
9 epic
1 golden rare
5 golden common
730 dust (including 9 duplicate rares). i almost got at least 2 of every common, missing only 1 lost tallstrider and 2 darkbomb (and i got 11 explosive sheep!). one pack had 3 annoy-o-tron, so it was aptly named. now to decide what to do with my 4200 dust ...
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srsly. i squelch everybody, with the occasional exception of people that send a greeting on the first turn (and will squelch them as well if they send more emotes). i've only ever accepted one post-match friend request, and the dude started flaming about how i was such a noob (after he lost horribly to me) so i don't accept those anymore either. i doubt most of the people perpetrating these behaviors are participating in forums here though, with the possible exception of decklists (i would guess they're the ones talking about how much a deck sucks after using it for 3 games without winning).
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i *started* a second account to do f2p on the day naxx was released and don't anticipate having any trouble unlocking all the wings. possibly not on the day of release for every one, but just from dailies they will all be unlocked within a couple weeks of the last one hitting.
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i was intending to reply to comment #1, but i seem to have hit the wrong button. i (in theory) like this variation of handlock ... it's at least gotten me interested enough to want to play around with it again.
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here are my two 12-win decks (both 12-2), from maybe 50ish total runs thus far.
losses were both to shamans in games 6 and 13. nothing super-flashy, just lots of solid tempo cards. and
this deck was simply ridiculous, and i was actually sort of surprised that i didn't go 12-0. i made it to 9-0 before the first loss (farthest i've made it undefeated), but i don't remember much about the losses unfortunately. the only really memorable game was when i beat a druid that played ironbark protectors on 3 consecutive turns, which i killed with 3 flamestrike+trade. i think i did take one hit from the third. rewards were 255g, gold blood imp, and 2 packs for the mage and 325g, gold argent protector, and 1 pack for rogue.
i still think the best reward i've received was for an 8-win run, when i got a legendary card prize (even if it was al'akir).