Countering Frost DK

I’m confused.

This is the first patch which didn’t nerf something in a way I didn’t see fitting, but just like every other patch, this one also left me confused.

I don’t mind Pally avoiding nerfs - again - but I’m kinda left wondering how the hell are we supposed to counter Frost DK?

VS names only Reno Druid (unplayable) and Overheal Priest (semi-playable, unpopular) as its counters in top 1k.

Why are we doing this? Why leave an aggro deck uncountered and unnerfed? It’s literally 90% of the top 1k after the patch.

The game’s not fun this way, it’s tilting.

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What do you mean overheal priest unpopular. It was the most successful deck for the past 10 days.

A bit annoying opponent since it’s mainly “glorified easy AOE”.

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It’s played around the same frequency as Handbuff Pally, so not too much

And now it ate a nerf, as well, due to Tidepool Pupils

I guess it’s not bad, but it’s also not enough to say a deck has a counter.

It’s not quite a fair deck, frost dk.

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From the stats hsguru was collecting, it was clearly better than handbuff on the last days of the patch; easy 60%+ win rates when handbuff had stagnated; most people learned to predict handbuff easily and the tech cards only worked when the opponents were card generators and those started becoming fewer after a point.

It’s a kind of “Shopper DH pre-nerf”: it just collects a couple of inevitable cards and then starts spamming AOE to people.

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Whatever, bro, the fact stands that the deck is very unattractive to play

This is a game, after all

even if I take it more seriously than most, I still wanna have fun, not act as if it’s a chore or a job

I wanna play fun decks, not overheal priest or Frost DK mirrors all day long, all week, whole month

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No minion mage!!! Go abead cold feet me bwahaha

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You probably aren’t someone that enjoys playing DK but Blood DK is a real deck and it destroys frost DK not to mention Paladin and other decks. Ironically the Combo Rogue deck was the real bad matchup and it’s basically gone.

It will get even scarier if Blood DK ever gets a card that is a genuine game ender type card. ATM they just grind their opponents out until they basically give up.

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You got that right xD

Although I’m trying to play it right now, since I don’t see other options, but I’m not sure that’s something I’ll be able to do for long

Yeah, definitely not that one :confused:

Seems only the slow, grindy decks counter it, and I’m not one for playing those

I literally stopped playing arena not because of botted accounts, but because my last 2-3 runs had games lasting for 30-40 min each

If I wanted to play long games, I’d be playing a different game xD

With that said, thank you for the useful reply!

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The new Hunter deck is pretty good at beating Frost DK as well. Solid early game and the mid game is a massive board spike that is hard for them to handle.

This seems to be the most common version being played. I think Nohands is playing it.

Custom Hunter

Class: Hunter

Format: Standard

Year of the Pegasus

2x (1) Miracle Salesman

2x (1) Tracking

2x (2) Absorbent Parasite

2x (2) Always a Bigger Jormungar

2x (2) Bestial Madness

2x (2) Birdwatching

2x (2) Greedy Partner

2x (2) Patchwork Pals

2x (2) Titanforged Traps

2x (3) Mixologist

2x (4) Mystery Egg

2x (4) Yelling Yodeler

1x (6) Aggramar, the Avenger

2x (6) Hollow Hound

1x (6) Mister Mukla

1x (8) Stranglethorn Heart

1x (9) King Plush

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Yes! That would be the list which beats me these days, too xD

Thanks again

Egg on 4 is absolutely bonkers into a Plush on 5.

Not sure why you should be upset about it. Since you aim for the very top of Legend I suspect your next step in your “career” is to stop caring switching decks because that’s part of the game up there; you should be able to switch decks; you should have “homebrew” skills at least in the sense you have to understand yourself what to switch to because looking at stats sites has low data up there unless you want to trust other players speaking to you (it seems the people winning competitions combine both deckbuilding skills and having top ranked friends giving them homebrews (what later others copy-paste and call “netdeck”)).

It reminds me of me being upset I play f2p and don’t have all the decks; I shouldn’t care; why should I be upset that the p2w part of the game got me in part?

This month you appear to have titled because you didn’t change deck fast enough as the top of Legend demands to stay …top of Legend.

So only decks YOU think is fun should be played got ya… Selfish is what you are.

How did you conclude this from:

This?

I literally said what I want to play, not what others should play

Illiterate is what you are. Back to school, kiddo

P.S. Stop embarrassing my country and language

Only person embarrassing your country and lanuage is you child.

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No sure how you want to be in the top 100 ranks and at the same time play fun decks. There’s some cognitive dissonance there.

You can’t have both fun and be near the top 10; you might think those people have only fun; they definitely also have pain.