Don’t let people groom you into thinking otherwise.
You want a more or less balanced game ?
Check
You want viable Control decks ?
Check
You want blizzard to not need to kick the door for the meta to change for once ?
Check
What more do you want? Really.
To force everyone into playing only what you like to play against ?
What type of childish behavior is that?
Bônus: I suggest not playing zarimi Priest while It is popular. It’s mirrors are frustrating at minimal.
I want some of what you’re having 
I agree with you here. I think there are many viable paths in this meta.
There are certainly some polarized match ups, but that is to be expected in any meta.
If your Fun is directly correlated to what your opponent play then you never gonna have Fun and thank god you don’t.
Last thing we need is a game made for wannabe dictators.
Garbage take is garbage. I’ll be waiting for the 2nd round of nerfs incoming to back that up.
This is easy best metagame of this year.
What you think that gonna happen after any change really…
Combos Will stop existing ?
You for sure gonna more happy to die to the same stuff but one turn later?
We all know the only thing happening is the game getting unbalanced on top of you thinking it’s toxic or whatever.
Not surprising OP thinks this is the best meta. The majority of players enjoy the autopilot style decks and are mostly checking into the game for a brainless distraction on lunch break.
Said the masters tour Champion. Oh wait…
making this game mobile was a mistake
As someone that has played Hearthstone since its release in 2013 I’d say this is probably one of the worst metas the game has ever had and some of its cards are one of the most overtunned cards there has ever been.
Not the best not the worst. Compared to what we had in december its miles better.
In case some people forgot/didnt play, going from ele mage, cycle rogue, weapon rogue, handbuff paladin, cringe shaman decks to zarimi priest, tree paladin etc is an improvement nonetheless.
I simply dont get what people want anymore for real. Its not perfect but game is in a far better position compared to the last 6 months.
More board heavy match ups, more interaction, more fun to play decks.
Guess why I post once every week nowadays. Because I actually enjoy to play the game and spend my time there instead of ranting here in the forums.
If people are totally honest here they want to win 80% of their games with whatever deck they personally think is the most fun to play while facing opponents slightly better than AI who play decks that do not make them worry or think or force them to adapt in any way.
People love solitaire decks and they love winning no matter what they tell you.
I think the meta is ok. Not great, but better than when Titans and Badlands were in the game.
I think there’re still some balance changes they could make. I tend to think they should change Colossus, Zarimi and Imbue Hunter a bit (but I dunno how) not to kill them, just to change up their playstyles a bit because they’re just way too linear. Probably Menagerie Jug too. That card is super dominant right now, in a really weird way. But it doesn’t need super hard nerfed or anything.
Ehhh… there’s more OTK stuff now, weirdly, but I think the Year of the Wolf stuff was way more toxic and worse designed than anything we’ve got now.
Like Odyn alone was 100% worse than anything except maybe Colossus. But at least Colossus doesn’t give you a ton of armor and make you unkillable.
There was also the ubiquitous board clears, they’ve fixed that. Lifegain’s still pretty extreme, but not as bad (honestly the ball hog-DR deck is the only thing I have issues with). Damage from hand I think is at a very fair level outside of the aforementioned OTKs.
Sorry bro, but between you and people whining about the game, I’d say you’re the bigger wannabe dictator.
They are making a fuss over ultimately cards and decks in the game, but you’re making this thread, making a fuss about them.
Which is to say you’re trying to dictate how people behave not just in the game, but outside the game too when they’re on the forums.
Other people aren’t even to the level of moral nannies who are scared about video games (or comic books or rock and roll etc) corrupting the kids, seeing as moral nannies wouldn’t care about details like game balance in this fictional game about wizards and dragons and half naked murlocs
Your post could very well be the script for TikTok video yapping about politics. Replace “the meta” with “the economy” and you’re like 3/4 way there.
edit: this in no way means I endorse any and all complaints about the game. I’m just saying people complaining is far from making them dictators, but you trying to tell them that they can’t or shouldn’t complain is a lot closer to being a dictator.
I feel like the meta is shifting every day and there are many decks popping in and out of viability. There should be something for everyone. If not, then you haven’t looked hard enough. Even the auto-complete feature in Hearthstone creates some pretty winnable decks which I’ve been using sometimes.
Alright, I mean…sigh.
Fine.
Thank you for the likes on my post above, but I have to rescind my statement.
Looking at top 1k meta, there’s a huge number of decks with >50% winrate, which means that the meta is objectively quite diverse, and I think that’s a good indicator of quality.
It might not just be everyone’s cup of tea, but:
this seems pretty correct in theory
It might be the more diverse meta, but It’s not the best meta.
This is definitely a meta I’d completely expect a Mage player to think is the best, because they have a variety of different mass damage decks. So, of course you love the meta.
The meta just has a scammy feel to it, but it’s not terrible.
I’d give it a 6/10.
In the last 2/3 years it probably is.
Again my argument is that it is not only more diverse but moves on it’s own legs without the need of intervention from outside that is basically the way most of the metagames should move if blizzard did a better work.
And i can go with a slight more drastic tone and say that it probably gonna be the best metagame from this year without getting too much risk of being wrong unless blizzard this year done a 180 flip an can maintain a balance as good as this one while putting more cards into standard.
But the Mage thing I said is correct, isn’t it? Since you conveniently didn’t mention that.
Any meta is “the best standard meta in years” when your specific class has a great variety of decks to play. If you were a Shaman main, you wouldn’t be saying this.
It is honestly about the lack of true aggressive decks giving them room to get their parts. I know people are complaining about the lack of control tools, but these combination decks are doing just fine and managing the board long enough to win using sticky minions, good spells, and massive draw.