Net decks are great

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I don’t like Grocery store foods, I grow my own food. Eating other people’s foods is not tasty.

I don’t like Shopping Mall clothes, I saw my own. It’s just lame seeing everyone wearing the same clothes.

I don’t use a Tech company’s smartphone, I invented my own. It’s so boring to use apps that other people made.

I don’t use the pharmacy’s medications, I make my own. It’s so lazy to take medicine made by someone else.

But I love net decks!

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Net decks have a necessary, or at least unavoidable, place in CCGs. The problem isn’t really the decks, it’s the lack of balance. If each class had multiple viable archetypes we wouldn’t see the same 3 - 4 decks over and over again.

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Depends on where you are net decking from

You might netdeck a low tier deck

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Which is why my card game will only use wholly bespoke cards with statlines generated from the players’ SAT answers, 23 and me results and criminal record.

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Net decks are for when I’m playing a mode purely for the rewards (like ranked standard). In all other contexts plagiarizing someone else’s deck because you cannot build one that functions properly is just sad.

Comparing the creation of a hearthstone deck to “growing food”, “making clothing”, “building smart phones”, and “creating life saving drugs”, all of which have entire industries and long supply chains associated with them is a strawman argument. Congratulations for the subtle troll.

Anyone who isn’t a complete moron can build a decent hearthstone deck, without a entire industry to support the effort. The only questions are:

  1. is it worth the effort? (For me, not at the moment, so I usually get my 5 ranked wins per week using a netdeck)

  2. am I good enough at this game to build a meta-competitive deck if I want to? Yes, but the amount of time it takes me isn’t worthwhile to complete 1 weekly quest.

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It’s really just down to how people want to entertain themselves. Some people don’t like building and testing decks, so why should we make them.

I don’t have a flair for fashion, nor is it something I enjoy or care about or want to get better at, so I just wear a loose approximation of what everyone else does. That’s kind of how I view most people who netdeck.

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Some of us primarily play Ranked. Which brings up a good point. Perhaps it’s more appropriate to compare them to brand name running shoes, sports bikes used in triathlons, and top brand name musical instruments.

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Yeah, all of the achievement of climbing mount Everest can be done with a escalator. Just get on and let yourself do half the work and all the rewards! You’re so busy, saving all that time, you better let someone else smell the roses for you and take that vacation for you too.

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Yeah what kind of doctor goes to medical school and netdecks their surgical techniques?

An uncreative one, that’s what.

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I only practice the finest surgeon techniques learned from operation. I put rubber bands and butterflies in them, and then charge them 10,000$ ahead of time with a big money copay and a extra 200,000$ fee if they die! 9/19 doctors love me and Rukanths experimental netdeck surgery school!

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The only time that happened was in the year of the Raven.

  1. The sets were really low power. Most of the balance patches had more cards outside of the Raven sets than actual Raven cards. Basically they cured the Mammoth sets slowly into this state of balance.
  2. There was a ton of neutral build arounds. So what was happening is that multiple classes were all running the same 10-15 neutrals, essentially creating a “Zoo meta” (Baku, Keleseth, Corpsetaker, Saronite Chain Gang, Carnivorous Cube, Firefly, Stonehill Defender, Tar Creeper, etc).
  3. The same decks remained high at the meta for multiple expansions, with slight modifications.
  4. Sales plummeted, because towards the end people figured out they didn’t need new packs to keep up with the meta. And then those people had very few Raven cards going into rotation, and a lot of them just outright left the game (for Artifact, lol).
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That’s a very interesting take on what happened , have you got any sources for that ( not because I think you’re wrong I just love reading about successes and failures in the gaming world, particularly the failure of Artifact, which absolutely fascinates me tbh).

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OK. We never get confirmation on each game’s specifics, but we did see a lot of streamers leaving Hearthstone during that time.

We did get confirmation from Dean himself that they didn’t properly play test Rastakhan against what was happening in the meta.

We know they didn’t properly plan their December nerfs, because they had never, and have never since, done an unannounced balance patch.

And right before that we have the VS reports right after the Rastakhan release telling players to stop playing the new cards; which had never happened before, or since.

And before release players were calling it Rastayawn. They had also previously called Witchwood as Dustwood before release.

Players will angry buy SolitaireWind more than they will buy Dustwood and Rastayawn. Because they will think they need the new SolitaireWind cards.

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Thanks for the reply, very interesting.

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Awww, netdeckers are so cute. Not a single deck of their own and they think they are genious. They prolly have to copy-paste all the answers in exam too, cos they cant understand themselves.

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That a terrible comparison lol. If anything netdecking is the equivalent of actually learning the material specified so you can provide the correct answer. Building your own decks is reading every book no matter if it applies to the subject and hope that some info is correct.

Why would I waste time when I can get the correct answer with what I know is useful info and ace the test?

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That’s not what I think.

I think I have way too many cards, and way too little time to figure out how they work best.

So instead of spending hours figuring out what cards are good and bad in a single deck, I get to spend more time playing a vast array of different decks that people who already spent those hours refining them.

I would have to quit my job and play full time to be able to figure out all the different decks that I play on a regular basis.

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At least we can spell genius, genius.

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Well, unlike people who feel the need to prove their intelligence in an online card game, I know my strengths and weaknesses.

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Its even more sad, that you have to defend these ppl who born without brains, so sad.