I’ve been trying to get high ranks in standard for the first time in months but has been getting very frustrated with the design philosophy. For reference I’m hovering around 1000 legend and there is basically two types of decks, scam druid/rouge and token shaman/demon hunter. Both decks just ignore what the other player is doing. Games are now 100% luck dependent and the winner is decided on turn 4 or 5 based on draw rng.
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United in Stormwind was the worst meta ever by light years imo personally.
This meta isn’t even bad. I’d give it a 7/10.
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Yes and no. Even if randomness is high it’s still a zero sum game given enough games played. I’m sure you understand yourself intuitively that if a player is 10% better than someone else and they play a game in their house 1,000 times then the best player will eventually show an edge on the final rank.
It’s only a problem if you play very few games a month, and with the rank you have I doubt you play less than 100 games a month.
And someone still say Hearthstone does not need counterplay. 
this game is super cringe and for losers
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So if i run a bunch of no-effect, 0 attack minions i can still win if i get a lucky draw? Sweet!
What you describe reminds me of the Face hunter/aggro shaman decks that dominated a few years ago for awhile. Made the game so uninteractive people didn’t care to play. There was no control. There was no mid game decks. It was “see who draws the better aggro cards first” all day long.
Ive seen worse metas.
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Whatever the next expansion meta is as that would be the newest worst expansion ever.
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I dunno, we had two Christmases ruined by wildpaw gnolls taking over the format.
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I don’t think this meta is worse than united in stormwind, which was the worst meta to date. I personally put it in the same realm as Rastakhan’s Rumble.
The set was not good, and very little had impact on the meta. They nerfed all the old decks to make the new stuff playable, but everyone just gravitated towards other old decks. Is it bad? yes, but because it’s boring beyond belief seeing the exact same decks we’ve seen for the last year.