I’ve found the game a lot more fun when you don’t have to deal with playing around those god awful secrets. “is it a counter spell? is it a mirror image?”
Nah, ill take the rating hit.
why concede to a free win?
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I’ve considered autoconceding to Warlocks, as in both Standard and Wild the decks I like are often helpless against them, but usually I just bear it.
LoL… there is a reason its called “secret” - and they are incredibly easy to play around in most cases… unless you really don’t know how to play
I concede as soon as I see a secret when I’m playing ranked. I don’t care about how many stars I have and usually stay at the rank floor anyway. It lets me play random fun decks instead of the meta decks I don’t enjoy. It’s not that secret mage is broken, it’s that I don’t want to be bothered with it.
I do the same with priest and res effects. Those matches bore me so why suffer through them?
If i auto concede to mages its because playing mage myself and i dont mirror matchs for most decks at all (odd pally is one very few i actully like the mirror match)
ELse if i do auto concede its priest, cause ive never liked playing vs any slow/combo/control priest ever at all.
So you have more fun when you not have to actually think?
Interesting. Count a little more.
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Mages? Really? I get maybe doing that in wild but definitely not in standard
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Think? This is hearthstone. Half the crap in this game is RNG. Avoiding secret mages is a blessing to myself to not be at the mercy of the BS RNG guessing game that is VSing a mage. It’s just not fun. I have no problem with any other class.
At least in Standard, i can handle secrets.
What I cannot handle is:
Font of power into Apexis Smuggler into Secret into Magic Trick into Primordial Studies into Malygos into Eye of Cthun into frostbolt + a Pyroblast from Raid the Sky Temple
Secrets aren’t RNG. They’re also not really a guessing game as you can test them. This is doubly true if using a deck tracker which can show you what secrets are still possible.
That said, I also hate facing the cookie cutter secret decks and concede rather than be bored and annoyed. 
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Maybe not RNG exactly but they’re still this mysterious trap we’re forced to throw away cards just to test. And when a mage is discovering spells/secrets throughout the game it’s pretty hard to predict what the secret it. Playing a mage who has the ability to throw a secret down every other turn. That’s terrible and not fun.
I generally auto concede to Priests. Too slow and too much.
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Yo, I use a deck tracker to list out the absurd amount of secrets there are now and it’s helped me learn to deal with them a lot.
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I sometimes concede when I see an aggro DH (doesn’t matter if wild or standard). Feels like pve…
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The only requirement needed to beat them is the ability to not play into their secrets. I often fake signpost / telegraph what I’m about to play next and let them waste a turn and mana countering something I’m saving up for a couple of turns down the line, deathrattle minions come in useful, as do clearance battlecry minions and a brain.
Honestly I don’t see what the fuss is about.
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Complainers want to auto play their cards and not invest too much deliberation.
Folks are getting weirdly defensive and salty about conceding to a deck or playstyle. Sometimes I auto concede to a spells only mage cause the randomized spells can be backbreaking and annoying. Sometimes I don’t for other reasons. I don’t judge anyone for conceding to my StealYurGurl priest, its much more fun for me to play than it is to play against. Hell, I concede to most priests while priest is like my 3rd most played class or something. It has nothing to do with win rates (I think I’ve won a majority of my priest matchups just by virtue of experience, if I decide to play), just individual fun at that specific moment. Chill, y’all.
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It’s usually quite obvious which secret has been deployed past the first one. The board situation and the point in the game usually gives you strong clues.
I just beat a secret mage. It was boring, but not difficult.
I will tell that you I refuse to play against priests and just walk away from every one of those.
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I concede most against priests. if I get a sick draw I might try to burn them early but otherwise I move on.
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