I am a Wild player who plays an off-beat deck on the ladder. I do this because I only play decks I get enjoyment from. Unfortunately this is the extreme minority in Wild as most people simply choose from what is currently broken.
It is time to stop rewarding people that flock to over-tuned decks. It is not right that someone like myaelf who plays a sporting deck has to endure every other game against a deck that is purely being played because it has an unfair advantage.
Imbue Mage is the biggest culprit here. Combo Paladins are a close second. These decks serve to give false advancement to people playing them while creating a toxic environment where people like me do not want to play since I am going to be matched with someone who is essentially cheating too often.
People like me are more healthy to the pool than the countless drones that play whatever is broken: do you want returning players to stick around when they dust off their old Un Goro decks and try to give it a spin? The reality is they will be turned away as soon as they face a mage that slams singalong + reckless dealing 50 damage to their face because they wanted to have fun and dared playing minions?
Why do you allow this? There’s times I want to sit down and play my silly Reno-Thief Rogue deck and hope to face a healthy diversity of decks. Instead (I play around diamond 5-10) it’s just imbue mage over and over. There is literally nothing I can do but concede and go play Battlegrounds where the atmosphere is a lot more balanced.
I have pushed for this idea for years and you won’t adopt it: just work into the matchmaking a scan that checks first if A. They are playing with the cards that comprise a deck that falls above 50% WR, B. That they are winning with it and then respectful of how much A and B match them if possible against another person queuing up that fits that criteria.
Presto. Wild would be fixed.
No more slow chasing your tails with nerfs that merely replace that deck with the next broken… no, it would blanket solve it all. The higher a deck is overperforming and that player has been winning with it, the more likely they meet a peer doing the same.
Mind you, I play a lot of Wild. There is a plenty of players like myself that enjoy climbing with DECKS THEY WANT TO PLAY. We would all appreciate it immensely if Blizzard could just make it we face the soul-less drones that only exploit their oversights a fair amount less.
If you do this Wild would become a lot more fun. And at the end of the day that is your job- keeping the game fun. I paid a lot of money over the years for the cards I WANT to play with! If people like exploiting oversights make it at a cost they face off against their own kind more.