I member midrange decks.
We edder 1% or 100000%
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Lol the only one I can think of that is a true midrange deck is elemental shaman.
Quest rogue seems like one on paper but most of the time it plays more like a control/otk deck. If your opponent doesn’t play any minions its hard to get value from most of your cards. You can still win sure but it operates the best when you are playing a board based matchup
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There’s a couple mid range decks out there but they tend to be Hunter ATM. I’m having fun playing my mid beast hunter. Get a couple Rat Kings in play and the OwlLocks gets real confused about how they are going to win the game now.
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Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Never forget.
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Elemental Shaman, Quest Rogue, Libram and Buff Paladin are pretty much Midrange decks.
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Elemental shaman definitely. I already stated why I think Rogue is pseudo
mid-range. Palidan is a toss up though. I am leaning towards it being a mid-range deck but at the same time they play enough control tools and they have potential for infinite value which makes me want to think on it a bit more.
The point is traditional mid-range decks are pushed out by so many otk strategies. Besides some versions of elemental shaman, most “mid-range” decks have some kind of otk out (mostly Battlegrounds Battlemaster lol), big control tools, and/or infinite value.
Midrange can still have persistent value. It’s important not to try and pigeonhole the archetype into too specific of a definition or you just wind up with “incredibly limited deck”.
There’s so much more to Hearthstone nowadays than just playing minions on curve until someone plays better/more minions on curve that the understanding of what would make a deck “midrange” needs to evolve with how the game itself functions.
I’m a big fan of VS’ labeling of decks as being resource-focused or initiative-focused. Ideally, a “midrange” deck would fall somewhere in the middle area of that spectrum, which my above-mentioned decks do.
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Seems right but i think with Trogg now libram actually falls into both mid/Aggro. Really depends on their draw and the coin. You can get some pretty fast starts on average with that deck.
Is quest rogue seeing play? I haven’t faced on a in a while. Most are Garrote or the thief version like what bunnyhopper and Thijs played.
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I used to love playing VS back in the old days of the first version. HS reminds me a lot of that game.
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Quest rogue is probably the best rogue deck available right now
Sure, but even Midrange decks can have good openers. Buff Pally is definitely more aggressive, but you don’t see cards like Cariel (the hero) in Aggro decks and Libram definitely runs a much higher curve than any Aggro deck would.
By VS I mean Vicious Syndicate, the Hearthstone data analyst group.
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I remember when there was kinda balance.