Is this how this set is going to work? We moved from ‘funnel tokens into the board and either die by aggro or by a Sire from hand’ to ‘the former is still true but also get OTK’d on turn 7’.
So far I am enjoying the set, I’m not saying everything is bad; but if the meta settles into shockspitter hunter, armor druid and implock my enjoyment is going to dry out pretty soon. I honestly was not expecting this turn of events. I am a combo enjoyer, but this is a bit ludicrous. Are you finding as many OTKs as I am?
edit: Brann is a serious offender in all this, that should be underscored
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yea, feeling the same way already. Hunter and druid are pretty obnoxious and will polarize the meta back to sth UISy i feel.
Brann should never have been reintroduced to standard, it´s really more obvious than ever at this point. (also candleshot has to be nerfed to 1/2 - the amount of value it brings with the current hunter for 1mana is off the charts).
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It’s like they looked themselves in the mirror and said how can we make this new xpac even less fun than the one before it. I’m already over this. It’s just one blood DK after another. I’m doing my dailies and finding something better to do
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People told me that druid works great against blood DK. Maybe try out druid?
Might as well. Only other deck I’ve seen so far this morning was one curselock. Everything else was blood DK
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People will get tired of running Blood DK before too long. It’s just new and shiny right now.
Uhg already bummed out, we want a more board centric meta… hello out of hand otks…
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Brann Kaelthas Sire
Better nerf Kaelthas into unplayable so we can keep printing our Brann combos since the devs have no idea how to do anything more than a two card combo
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i havent seen sire in a while
but thats because im playing priest 
druid is really strong yeah, unless you steal their denathrius or hyper aggro, there aint much you can do.
I think I have maybe won once against shockspitter hunter, with 1 life remaining. The deck looks consistent and strong.
There a is a bunch of OTK stuff out right now. If all of it turns out to be good, it’s going to be an aggravating meta.
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I mean, shockspitter is very vulnerable to aggro… But who can run aggro with 50%+ blood dk around?
Certainly feels like a “wait and see” situation to me. When dk is not as shiny, we’ll see where the meta will stabilise imo.
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Shockspitter is basically a two turn combo of brann shock shock devouring and repeat next turn, usually a two turn 56 or so dmg otk. About the only broken thing i have seen so far from exoansion.
Usually turns 7 and 8
Can you elaborate on druid? I understand hunter decks are all built around the OTKawful mess, but I have yet to see a OTK druid.
My main annoyance vs Shockspitter is that most disruption vs this OTK is useless due to the number of minions they can generate in hand! This means we are putting up with Theotar in the meta, but Theotar is useless against the deck archetype he was supposed to keep in check! Absolutely awful, worst of all worlds, theotar is still rampant stealing non-OTK cards through-out the meta meanwhile OTK decks are playing with impunity vs disruption, great design blizzard.
Just spectated a hunter OTK a death knight at 48 HP lol, on turn 9…
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the ones i ran into just CA, then ramp back up and earliest i got the combo of brann, denathrius and the new legendary 8+8 guy for 60+ had been turn 10 (you can play them for armor instead of health, it´s 1 mana for the legendary after CA and then the combo is just free-ish), usually it´s about 13-15.
and with all the armor and scales it´s really hard to beat them before that with anything that doesn´t aim for a kill before turn 5.
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Yeah, as predicted, CA with the new armor minion ends up being more busted than Ramp Druid from before.
Once they CA, it’s pretty much over. They can play their minion and go infinite until they OTK you. And all the armor and free taunt minions help against aggro.
Can you elaborate on druid? I understand hunter decks are all built around the OTKawful mess, but I have yet to see a OTK druid.
Celestial alignment druid runs armor minions, brann, astalor, denathrius, and now they’ve been including Lor’Themar Theorin to double all the stats of their minions in deck. It’s the greediest pile of greed you’ve ever seen. How is it hard to see how this is polarizing? They can brann + denathrius astalor for over 100 damage in a single turn. They drop 4 mana 15/15 bodies because they zola the Lor’themar, and they have OTK fueled by armor as a mana resource. So either you go hyper aggro or druid just wins every single matchup that goes past turn 7 or 8.
Druid eats death knight alive by the way. Shocksplitter hunter is the other polarizing deck.
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Yeah, this is pretty much the most accurate description. I’m trying to find a way to maximize disruption against all this. You have to kill multiple combo pieces.
Brann seems to be the backbone to all of this.
They zola the Lor’themar Theorin anyway. Every minion after that has quadruple its original stats. With the current celesstial alignment build they don’t even need to OTK you. Their board is oppressive. Every single minion is a 10/10 or 20/20. And they actually have a lot of them. Plus scales, raid boss onyxia, and more. You can’t disrupt it. Even your plaguebringer isn’t enough. The pile of greed is just too greedy.