ok so, what happened to control decks? When i take a look at all the classes that have the flavor of control, all of them either play aggro or suck at what they do. Paladin is a great example of a class that got weak support for control and has even weaker control class cards. If you look at the best preforming control decks, Priest has the highest win rate of any deck right now with an average of 50 percent. I just want to know if the devs managing hearthstone said that control shouldn’t be a thing anymore because there are tons of aggro decks in the meta that just go face an do nothing else. To me it seems like a control deck should rise from the ashes of control warrior but nothing really has.
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Galakrond Priest is pretty legit as far as Control decks go. Chok full of removal and value.
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I think it’s just the state of adding a brand new class and not having enough time for the meta to settle down. People jumping on the flavor of the day post-nerf top decks makes it tough early on. But those are the same people the streamers feed on next week when they break that deck and THAT ONE goes viral lol…
Ultimately the game is in full on Battle Bots mode! Where the more sparks that fly and brutal damage is done, the happier the fans are. At least that seems to be the marketing push. They could always boost our starting health pool.
Yup I was thinking the same. Priest is the only class with a control type deck that is viable in standard. And it doesn’t even have a very high win rate.
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Aggro is too fast and lackeys provide the slightly slower decks like rogue infinite value. Sad because control is my favorite archetype
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@wardum. maybe, but it is in tier three. It isn’t better than rez priest statistically
How did nobody say highlander yet? Most highlander decks are control decks (not all of them, but most).
Big spell/naga mage is also a control deck.
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They play more like a value deck tbh. Highlander mage is half control half value but highlander hunter/rouge is a tempo deck 100 percent. Also all highlander decks besides hunter are tier 3 at most. Specifically i want to focus on why control paladin, warrior, and priest are subpar.
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Many of old control classes have stopped working in standard and wild.
Standard:
Standard Control warlock? Dead. It was ever only good while Sac Pact was good against DH.
Standard Control warrior? Dead when Dr Boom rotated and there is no legitimate value generator. That said, Hack the System is worth experimenting.
Standard Control mage? Dying. Too little healing to sustain against DH. Cannot out-tempo or out-value rogue without Pocket Galaxy.
Standard Control priest? Alive. Galakrond priest has some game to it as a DH counter. But with the rise of rogue again, their stock will go down again.
Standard Control Shaman? Dead As in the class does not exist in standard, nevermind a control version.
Standard Control Druid? Dying. Since everyone is switching from big druid (control) to spell Druid (combo).
Standard Control Rogue? Alive and well. Technically secret and highlander rogues count as control decks since they lost leroy and have to win by board.
Standard Control Hunter? Dead
Standard Control Paladin? Dying Arguably dead to some. I still have some fun with libams but the winrate leaves much to be desired, especially against Rogue.
Standard Control Demon Hunter? Never Existed
In conclusion, in standard, just two of the ten classes have reasonably successful control decks.
Wild:
Wild Control warlock? Dying. In between a meta with Reno priest, DH and Combo/Reno Mage, there just isn’t a viable control (specifically cubelock) warlock deck, especially with their primary counter tools; Bad Luck Albatross and Sac Pact nerfed.
Wild Control warrior? Dead. Has not existed for a very long time.
Wild Control mage? Alive and well. Technically if you count Reno mage as a control deck
Wild Control priest? Alive. Technically if you count Reno priest as a control deck
Wild Control Shaman? Never Existed
Wild Control Druid? Never Existed
Wild Control Rogue? Never Existed
Wild Control Hunter? Never Existed
Wild Control Paladin? Never Existed
In conclusion, in wild, true control decks are mostly dead and gone. A few decks formerly considered as combo decks feel like control decks only because they tend to need more than 10 turns to activate their combo
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For most part no control is dead in both wild and standard. Game is mostly aggro and midrange and combo and DH is a big reason for it.
If you want to play a grind deck ,galakrond priest is the way.
I’ve been enjoying it a lot.
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But why play a highlander deck when you could run a deck filled with card draw that lets you play multiples of your best cards, plus enough ways to run through your deck that you can consistently trigger the payoffs from the highlander cards, without having to worry about the intended deck building constraint?
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You might be right, but it takes hard losses to DH. A deck that it probably should not lose to…