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Hearthstone is being pushed to be mostly competitive, with real deck-building creativity being pushed aside

 This is a logical fallacy.  Competitive decks needs to be creatively built before they can be played.  At the highest levels, creative deck building is the key to being competitive.  At all levels, if you want to crack the metagame you need to be create a deck builds that beats the most popular decks.  Just because that creativity takes places in a competitive context doesn't make it any less creative.  It just makes it less 'silly'.  Too many complainers seem to think that creativity means silliness, which is not true.

Competitive metagames are adaptive processes, exactly like evolution.  You can't have evolution without variation.  In Hearthstone, that means creative experimentation in deck building.

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The game used to be a lot slower, and thus lets you tinker and play around with different decks

 When?  In Alpha, maybe.  From Open Beta on, people have been saying exactly the same thing.  Back then they complained about Zoo and Face Hunter.  That complaint has been the same for the entire life of the game, the only thing that changes is the name of the current fast decks.

People want to win.  If you can't deal with that, perhaps games in general are not for you...

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I would definetly say it is harder, and I have played multiple legend seasons.

The standard mode in the current form is definetly not a blessing to this game. Because of the small variety of cards there is only a small room for deck buildings. And because of that the aggro decks are more efficent than they have ever been before. Not only efficient, but they are way more friendlier to misplays and the lack of direct counters. 

For example, if you did not trade well before WotoG as a Zoolock and went full face, wasted your ressources like Dwarf and PO for face damage...you had a high chance to lose this game. It was all about efficient trading. That's still the case. But there are several new cards where you can fill up your board again. And others classes don't have enough early removals to counter it (and as long as removals stay expensive af it will never change). You can easily turn around your misplays. Same for the Midrange Hunter with Call of the wild, 8 mana and you have 3 bodies and minimum 5 damage this turn on the board. Only the shaman does not have the refill mechanic, but the shaman snowballs extremely. If you stop their early game you probably win. If you can't or only can do it too late their spells or Doomhammer will probably end it. Hand in hand with the BGH nerf. If he would still be 3 mana the 7/7 would not be as OP as it is right now.

Before WoToG you had some other cancerous decks. But they were easier to counter. Mysterious Challenger? If you counter him once perfectly the paladin almost already loses. Facehunter? Deathlords and so on, was pretty easy to counter in the end. 

The bigger the card pool becomes more things will change I guess. But I bet with the next rotation the same problems will appear again.

 plz stop saying aggro is better than ever. that's a straight up lie. remember the times of undertaker? those were the times aggro dominated.  aggro hasn't been as good as it was during undertaker eversince.

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It's not Standart it's Standard. And it doesn't suck, it's great. Balance was never better in Hearthstone, and exactly cos of that it's harder to climb since more skill is needed to actually win, which you obviously lack. 

Check out that salt thread and search some coaching

Deck cap is 70 in Legends, though there is little to no reason you would ever make a deck with more than 50 cards (because thinning your deck is bad).  Also there kind of are classes in a sense because there are dual attribute epics and legendaries that only work with specific color combos, not to mention all of the combos have class names like spellsword, sorcerer, etc.

Also Legends is quietly by far the best CCG since Hearthstone.

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This brawl sounds fun, but after some play, it turns out this might be the most disgusting, unbalanced, and most boring at all, because of mechwarper + something else, or Coldlight Oracle + Naturalize fatigue shit... most players seems to be like don't have creativity and they play dirty.

I used Jorney Below + Defias Ringleader. You know why? Just for fucking fun, not to make the foe concede. I wanted to PLAY with 'em NOT being asshole with em, like others did.

So screw this brawl. It's not about I can play it or not - its about ENJOYING a brawl. And that's why this brawl does not enjoyable. IMO.

Probably not.  Standard is the biggest change Hearthstone has ever had in one patch.  Beta players have been waiting 2 years for this.

Have you seen how many taunts are in this expansion?  You're never going to get this guy to hit face.

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The fact that they didnt nerf Divine Favor is more disapponting than any nerf.

"Entire mission design team"... All two of them... that would explain some things...

Seems really terrible.

Damn, a really good use for Treachery.

Or you could just silence this.

another gimmicky rogue card. Nothing new under the sun. 

On a side note, did they really learn nothing from Renounce Darkness ?

Funniest shit is that they mention the neutral version of Gadgetzan Ferryman instead of the class card, loooooooooool.

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This card is at best comparable to Dark Wispers and on average worse due to the lack of options, and that card wouldn't be played even if it was neutral.  This card sucks, really.  Cheap/Weak AoEs will make a big comeback anyway because of all the spawn-another-thing deathrattle minions that are leaving the meta forever.

I'm glad Old Murk-Eye isn't in standard, but I wish the way of obtaining him remained the same.