My personal definition of a "greedy deck"

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I’ve always been a little confused about what constitutes a “greedy deck”. From what I understand, a lot of Discover cards and such?

So maybe there’s another word for what I see sometimes and you folks can help me out with the proper term.

The game starts, and C’thun separates and shuffles into the other player’s deck. Okay, cool. Save my counter spells or Okani for that. Oh, five legendary minions are also shuffled into his deck. All right, no big deal, those are random anyway. Randomness can be fun. Then he plays a quest. Wow. Okay. Have you considered how having nine cards in your deck that probably have nothing to do with the quest affects your ability to complete said quest? Oh, look, Mutanus just ate Kaz. He had Kaz too? Oh wow, he just played a prime. No way, Jade Golem? And a boar?

There has to be a word for that play style aside from “impressive looking deck that wins like 10% of the time”. At least those decks are fun to encounter. The W feels extra sweet when I face decks that try to pack every big play into it.

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For me a greedy deck is the one that has the most value possible and those in turn tend to be quite heavy in terms of mana and dust cost.
There is nothing more greedy then surving everything your opponent throws at you while you keep making board after board until the sweet fatigue embraces us both.

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someone actually made a 60 cards thief rogue deck, now that’s a greedy deck lol

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Greedy exists on a spectrum. It’s like “old.” 80 years old is older than 70 years old.

Greed isn’t defined by what a deck has, but by what it lacks: early plays. Consider the Mage spell First Flame. It can’t go face, it’s just small removal. You could cut it and the only effect it would have is making you weaker to early minions. But that’d be greedy.

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