I just want to give a huge congratulations to Blizz for somehow being dumb enough to kill off an entire archetype in a card game. This level of incompetence is honestly applause worthy. There will not be a single aggressive deck in the meta post nerf. Just combo and OTK from here on out. Woooo!
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Enjoy Standard 
It’s not dead; it just won’t dominate like the 10 expansions before.
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Can we define aggro here?
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I’ll venture a guess that this concerns the demon hunter nerf.
However, how it could potentially dismantle all aggro decks is unclear to me. Zoo Hunter and Zarimi Priest will likely continue to be among the most dominant decks, and both fall under the aggro classification.
I’ll even speculate that the DH nerf won’t have a significant impact, perhaps only demoting the deck to tier 2 rather than tier 1.
In essence, OP created a venting thread because they lost to a warrior deck in their last game.
Oh no, the demon hunters might get replaced by dragon priests.
Aggro isn’t dead.
I see priest and hunter maybe once every 20 games. If that.
It’s gotta be an issue of the rank you’re playing in.
- Zarimi priest
- Painlock
- Shopper DH
- OTK Shaman
They kill you so fast, that not even hunter compares to those when it comes to aggressiveness.
There are other, slower decks, which could still be called aggro by yesterday’s standards, just not todays’:
- Sludgelock
- Hunter
- Plague DK
I’d say we have more aggro now than in the last 6 months together, and I blame it on Reno+Zilliax terrorizing the ladder and putting most of the decks on a clock.
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For now. Demon Hunter was their biggest issue. If that goes away, they take the spot very cleanly.
In lower ranks Hunter is about 5% and Priest about 3%, when you get to top Legend they’ve switch popularity (Priest 5%, Hunter 3%) but still a total of a little over 8%. So yeah, about 1 in 25 games each.
But popularity doesn’t matter. Winrate does. The best deck is often not the most popular.
I wonder if there would be a logical reason why decks with high winrates aren’t being played that much.
Too expensive, not fun, no identity…
It’s designed to balance play rate and win rate, so decks with high win rates tend to favor aggressive playstyles.
When a path is paved for you and it becomes routine, you’re more inclined to switch between decks rather than consistently playing a deck with little to none variation from game to game.
Well at relatively normal skill levels Shopper DH is the best performing deck, and Shopper DH is the most popular deck. Zarimi Priest is a little bit trickier to play and refine the decklist for.
Really I misspoke. The best decks, with an s, are often not the most popular — that’s what I should have said. And in cases where the best deck is still under development, or underreported by meta websites, then in those cases the best deck might not be popular. For example, right after a new expansion drops. But there are meta websites, so a lot of people play the #1 deck after it’s reported on. They’re much less likely to pick the second best deck though.
It’s really important to understand though that this is almost purely an effect of meta websites though. People don’t just naturally gravitate to the best decks, they are steered towards them by influencers.
That’s because demon hunter is what’s holding them back. You’re going to see a lot more hunters and priests after the nerfs.
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Meanwhile Painlock over here making DH look slow as molasses.
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You’re watching? 
Rvg Rvg
That was truly disgusting to watch. I feel like now the DH knows how the rest of the meta feels about DH.
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this isn’t really true? We’ve had good aggro decks but we’ve also had great control decks for the last year at least (Odyn Warrior was crazy in last expac, control warrior was good in festival before nerfs, control curse lock has been playable, etc)
This has to be a joke.
Hunter?
Priest?
Pain warlock?
Hello?
This comes off as an angry DH player mad that their powerful toy is being reduced in power so they want to exaggerate to make it look like the meta is gonna collapse when it gets nerfed.
Has to be a joke.
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This is a disgrace to and poor example of DH players. I’m not worried, boi! I’ll be fine! 
(Sips on his copium…)
But, really, the deck will still be playable. I use a more tempo based approach, and don’t see this coming anywhere close to killing it.
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