Whenever I hit legend I immediately start messing around with testing and meme decks. I find it far more enjoyable than trying to stay in top1k. Especially since I just do not have the time to stay above decay.
Whether you are trying to climb or if you are just messing around, how do you feel when you run into an off the wall deck? Is it a breath of fresh air? Do you get frustrated if you lose to a strange build? I have gotten a range of reactions from friend requests after playing a meme deck. From outright frustration to asking for a deck code.
My current deck, which is somehow 10-2, is Lightshow mage. With the insane rise in slow Renathal decks it has been doing very well. They are playing for a long game of having to remove boards, not get lasered in the face 15 times in one turn.
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I’m always excited, hoping it’s a new meta-breaker xDD so I try to recreate it based on the cards I’ve seen, and if I succeed, it means the deck is probably good, if not, it can be a disaster or a miracle xDD
I’d rather lose to such a deck, whose cards I don’t know, but who knows mine, than against a deck I’m supposed to win against and play better against
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Anytime I see someone else playing off meta I always enjoy it. I played against another mage earlier who was playing a different off meta deck. Imagine both of us being flabbergasted at finding each other and not another BSM.
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i love seeing a good meme deck, be it my own creation or something my opponent made/netdecked.
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Same. I’ve ran into some fairly creative decks. Probably my favorite was what I thought was some kind of Sif mage but they ended up playing and copying Incindius with discounted Buy One Get One Freezes. It was so unexpected that I couldn’t stop laughing.
It’s not a meme if it works.
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I had lost to a HIGHLANDER ROGUE and I found it funny.
Depends…seems like whenever I talk about Mill Linecracker it gets called a meme, but it is anything but a meme with the winrate it has. I think people call things memes just to disparage or discredit things they don’t want to go against.
It wasn’t a meme if it was better than them.
Definitely makes you wonder what’s the difference between a meme and a baby’s first resseruct deck. Good idea: endlessly ressing pigs for the sword of a thousand disconnects. Bad idea: “Bro Greybough ain’t even a good minion why you spamming him like he’s rat King?!”
Not sure how you built the light show mage, but I’ve periodically tried the spell mage running light shows and it works well vs control decks, except BSM from what I remember. The pop off turns can be insane dealing 50 damage or more if you roll the minion that reduces spell cost by one.
I usually find it does well in clusters or strings of wins, then there are strings of losses where you can’t find the minion even when you cast 5 or 6 copies of the summon.
By the way using the word meme to describe a deck is potentially confusing, because it was TWO very different meanings potentially.
The strict original meaning of the word meme is related to netdecks but I assume here you used the new meaning “silly trollish” deck.
No, meme has NEVER meant that. You are thinking of the word “meta”, not “meme”.
You beat me to it. You are correct.
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Research the actual original meaning of the word meme. Netdecks are practically highly memed decks.
The original meaning is from Richard Dawkins btw.
Look up the original definition by Richard Dawkins
I did not realize Richard Dawkins played Hearthstone
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Hearthstone did not invent the word.
Hearthstone did not invent anything. It isn’t a sentient being
What you are doing is called etymological fallacy. Yes, he spread the concept, but the idea has evolved since then. The idea of a meme deck has been around since early MTG as joke decks or decks that use unorthodox strategies.
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