Im a casual player that doesn’t take this game too serious. Used to then it became a cash grab so only play “fun” decks to the point of not caring who wins.
Anyways, I don’t que in ranked as I don’t fancy playing against pirate warrior or quest hunter on repeat.
In casual, I find myself queueing constantly into the above two decks and all the other degenerate decks that either kill you by turn 5 or kill you in one turn from full health.
My question is…why not play ranked ?
Where are all the “Burgle Rogues, Lunacy Mages, Thief Priests, Yogg decks etc”?
Speaking from a wild standpoint there is nothing fun or memey about burgle rogue, that deck can go straight to hell, to the boiler room of hell, all the way down.
As for your main question, idk, I’m playing Reno Paladin and the climb is slow, like last time I got high rank I may have to swap to a more meta deck, even though I’ve had quite a few people add me to ask for my deck list
There is room to play for fun decks, and meme decks, but do not expect consistent legend viability, take it to unranked if you can’t win in ranked
After finally making legend I’ve pretty much retired from trying for rank at all, and mostly just play my own self created fun decks. I don’t think I’ve even made it back to diamond since then lol
The thing about “playing for fun” is that its subjective nature causes people not to see it even when it’s staring them in the face, because my playing for fun isn’t necessarily your playing for fun.
Things are much more objective if you analyze the inverse. What’s the opposite of playing for fun? Playing to win. What percentage of top Legend games are players who are playing to win? Well, that’s basically the percentage of players who are playing decks with winrates over 50%. That isn’t that difficult to count.
Naga DH: 30.96%
Control Warrior: 16.56%
Ramp Druid: 11.73%
Mech Paladin: 2.43%
Handbuff Paladin: 1.96%
Total: 63.64% playing to win
So even in the super cereal top 1000 Legend more than a third of the meta is people playing for fun.
“Now Scrotes,” I imagine some of you saying, “just because they didn’t win didn’t mean they weren’t playing to win.” Well, even if you prioritize fun it doesn’t mean you aren’t trying to win, so we’re talking about priorities here. And if your deck winrate isn’t over 50%, you’re not prioritizing winrate as high as people who pick other decks. And by “prioritize” here I mean behaviorally, as in don’t trust what people say they believe, trust what they do.
But I digress. At all ranks a third of the meta or more is playing for fun. It’s impossible not to run into on a regular basis. It’s everywhere. So if it’s becoming invisible to you, then that doesn’t say something about the meta. That says something about you. It says something about your ability to empathize, about your ability to see how something that might not be fun to you can be fun to someone else. It says something about your aloofness towards netdeck fun, because there a lot of decks that are popular despite not winning very much, as if fun isn’t fun if it’s mass distributed. And it says something about whether you’re even having fun yourself, if you’re seeing such a narrow slice of the game as valid anymore.
Scrotie I suspect in your quest for over analysis, you’ve defined “meme/fun” as being anything under 50%, when the OP probably didn’t really invest that much thought into it. Surely there are better things to analyse?
Why not both???
I have done plenty of Legend climbs using my own custom decks and tier 4 fun decks.
I dont get why you cant have 1 without the other , you can indeed play for fun and still do well enouth to climb the ranks to legend.
Just focus on classes you re better at.
The problem with meme decks is that most of the time they don’t work.
When they finally work, the opponent concedes before you can have fun.
Half the time they work, it’s against a priest, do the game is not fun even if you play for 20 turns.
That was my experience at least
(with meme deck I don’t mean a “not good deck for climbing”, but I mean a deck with an akward win condition, like hunter with king krush that gets ressed 4 times with the naga and the spell to OTK)
Well, yes. But when people talk about “fun decks” in contrast to other decks, they mean the non-winning varieties of fun contrasted with winning. Assuming there’s any objective basis to the distinction whatsoever.
If you assume there’s no objective basis, then every deck is a fun deck according to its player. If you assume there is an objective basis, well, that’s what my previous post assumed. Either way, playing for fun is very common and the opening post is greatly exaggerating how seriously the playerbase takes the game.
I’m playing an Elywin Boar deck. I win maybe 33% of my games, but hitting people with the Sword Of A Thousand Truths just tickles my pickle in such a pleasant manner I don’t mind the defeat screen so much.
It’s even better when it happens just as the opponent thinks they won by setting up their perfect netdeck finisher. And as an icing on the cake, so few people at this part of the ladder understand what happened to their precious mana crystals that there’s usually a long pause before they concede (this is distinct from and just as satisfying as those who rope out of frustration).
I assume the objective basis falls into the enjoyment the player experiences.
I, for one, find many decks to be unfun. So, I swap and swap more until I decide on a deck to play competitively.
Forgive me if I am not following you. But, a deck being used by players doesn’t necessarily correlate with fun or enjoyment. Many players look at tier lists, copy tier 1 decks, and have at it. It’s much less about the deck being fun in these instances.
I’ve gotten to the point that I usually hit Legend every month. Since the exp dropped, I’m struggling. I can’t find a deck that fits my play style to make my run and am currently stuck at the D10-5 range. After much teeth gnashing and internal debate about whether it is time to walk away, methinks imma just gonna meme it out from here and have some fun.
The distinction you’re missing is playing for fun vs actually having fun. For every single one of those decks you tried, you were playing for fun. With some of those, you failed to have fun. But the point isn’t results. It’s intent.
It’s not possible to play a deck thinking the deck isn’t fun just to get wins, unless your intent is to play a deck you think isn’t fun just to get wins. If you thought it would be fun, then that’s playing for fun.
I enjoy mid-range to controlish decks. I’ve had the most success with Control Warrior, but I’m kinda bored with it. I’ve tried switching to some of the more popular aggro decks, but I know I misplay them all the time when I focus on board control, when I should go face (which is my tendency based on the type of player I am).
Lately I meme and, when I get tired of losing, I bust out my Control Warrior, win a couple of games, and then go back to memeing.
