I wish we live in a world where aggro have 75% winrate. Sadly, most aggro is at early 50+%. Meanwhile i do agree your deck list constitute close to aggro. But that is not the common token list. So the argument from the start isnt on the same premise already. The most commonly played token list is still not an aggro deck.
Itās a bold move to make blanket statements about a deckās winrate when there are plenty sites out there that have actual data that prove otherwise. There isnāt a single archetype in this meta that has a winrate of 60% (let alone 75%), and such numbers would be legitimate grounds to call for a deckās nerfing.
Itās true that Aggro wins if their opponent canāt stabilize. Thatās literally what Aggro does. Doesnāt mean itās overpowered, braindead, or more dominant than any other archetype in the meta.
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Yeah I discarded cards that arenāt favorable to the win condition. It needs a board presence to land savage roar or SotF. The 8 cost drop 5 2/2ās is useless in most situations. Although it has been a win condition for me its a card burning a hole in my hand 4x to 1 easily. Ramp up the deathrattle summons and ability to flood the board for a strong board to play the +1/1 cards and/or +2 att and/or SotF. and its a strong aggro deck.
Infinity, Iām not stating that it has a winrate over all platforms, Iām simply stating my personal experience with it. Iāve won roughly 70% over 25 matches.
So youāre telling me that the following decks didnāt crush aggro in the past:
- Taunt Quest Warrior
- Whatever Control Priest shell I felt like running (Quest + MB is probably my favorite)
- Baku Warriorā¦ where I literally felt SAD for any aggro when I hit them
Control is a bit weak right now due to only have 2 real classes capable right now in Warrior and Shaman. I looked at my deck tracker from last month:
Control Shaman against Druid (vast majority Token): 18-8.
I promise you you are not winning 75% of your games against a competent Control deck + player. 50/50 with the current tools maybe but againā¦ outside of when Priest had Psychic Scream token has never been an open and shut win for Control in HS as they tend to force double removal from the Control class eventually.
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I wonāt say not favourable. Just very different. The common token can refill the board every turn and eventually drain the opponent out of resources until the board stick. It can last till turn 10+ and still have resources. You switch it up and aim for early stabilisation and stick to hope for an early savage roar to end the game. Pretty sure past turn 6 - 7 your deck pretty much run out of steam.
THAT, certainly, is an aggro deck. It isnāt what Iād call the optimal Token Druid build, but itās definitely aggro. The usual build runs Crystalsong Portal and 2 8-drops (The Forestās Aid), which means the resulting play style against control is incredibly different.
I will say that your matches against control are likely to be boring, from both sides. Your match against Mech Hunter is similarly boring, and one-sided. Your matches against Zoo, Lackey Rogue, and Midrange Hunter, though, will likely involve a lot of decisions on both sides.
ā¦And even though your early game is better than the standard Token Druid, I canāt imagine it still wins against Zoo. Zoo contests the board much better early on. and never allows the Druid a foothold. Much more comeback potential, as well.
I will grant that Token Druid beats Murlocs. However, why is it that when a control deck runs a Murloc deck out of gas by killing all its minions, it is ācontrollingā the Murloc deck, but when Token Druid does the same thing, it is āout-aggro-ingā it?? The game plan against Murlocs is clearly attrition; only a newbie would leave a Shaman with Murlocs on the board, unless they have lethal that turn.
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I sometimes play Murloc Paladin in Wild (the normal fast version of it without 10 mana spells).
Because sometimes I just want to be fast and win 1-2 matches with paladin. Itās also the only deck I have that stands a chance against Big Priest (only if they draw badly tho).
Oh and I also drew every card I needed from packs 
It doesnāt take a decklist from the internet to figure out a well-performing murloc wild deck.
I, an aggro player, can explain why I like to play the game like this. I honestly do get it.
How there can be a shred of fun left when I basically do anything and everything to acknowledge every mechanic that brings depth into this game is because Aggro is the reason depth exists in the first place in this game. There is much thinking involved (Iām just top-decking the simplest rewards for my well thought deck construction), and planning my moves pro-actively or adjusting my game play according to the deck I am facing. Its just fun really.
And I donāt mean it in any way offensive to you NON-aggro players who obviously take extreme pride in doing the same fight over and over and over because you show it by the arrogance you ALL display through the emotes you do right before lethal.
I can help you understand it!
(And donāt get me wrong. I have no problems fighting against NON-aggroā¦ Iām just explaining that aggro is the purest form of this game and it quantifies purity and building from the ground up with good things taking time. The very Wisp of the game was made the way it is with 1 Attack because Aggro is suppose to be a very prevalent form in this game. Aggro is a form of offense that represents the binary contrast to heroes having Health but no Attack. Aggro is the initial hero power and life blood running and coursing through this game. The very Mageās Mana Wyrm was one of the first collectible cards for this very reason - for this game to have life blood flowing through it. I play aggro to keep this game alive in its purest form. That is why I play aggro.)
I think this guy abandoned the forum like a year ago.