If I had minions out and my opponent ignored them and just kept going face there needs to be cards with effects to punish this behavior. There simply is not in this game almost to the point that proper board control is only one players problem to worry about cause the lesser aggressor will have to always sacrifice the minions to stop from dying faster.
This has been a problem for so damn long
You aren’t going to get any this year at least. This is the year of “The Board Mastters”. whatever that is supposed to mean. You need to pray to go first so you can dictate the pace of the trades. If you go second Good Luck in your trading endeavors. Your alternative is to play one of the current OP decks that still have early removal to compete for the board when they go second.
Frankly, plenty of classes fight for board well, even from going second. Like, I don’t know how any class sticks ANYTHING against Demon Hunter right now.
But if we’re complaining about going face too hard, it must be a Hunter complaint thread.
The major criticism Hearthstone received when it first came out when compared to other card games was that players were just going to go face every turn and not care about what the opponent was doing because barring a taunt card you couldn’t stop it.
Low and behold I watched my younger brother get legend for the first time playing Facehunter in Classic which literally did just that.
Whenever we have a meta where games are decided in the mulligan and the deck that wins board turns 1-4 wins the game, I just have to shake my head.
The game would have been in a much better place if they didnt nerf elise and the tar taunt thing. It might have seemed like a good idea at the time but I mentioned it way back when that they gutted all the defense in the game and here we are.
The elise nerf i’m thankful for, it was way too overpowered before when it had 3 uses. But Tar’s only problem was the fact they could revive it over and over and over, the minion itself was balanced fine. Instead of nerfing it to 5 mana they shoulda gotten rid of the enabler for the revive.