I say this as someone who has reached a fairly high legend multiple times.
First day of season reset, why are you playing facehunter and faceshaman at low rank?
2 of the most boring and broken decks.
Part of it is Blizzards fault, we need a card like Reno in rotation to stop these braineless aggro decks.
But at the same time, it’s also the players fault.
The vast majority of these people will never reach legend rating much less a professional HS level.
Why so sweaty on first day of reset? Why not try something new or play a deck that’s still good but not broken like hunter/shaman?
Proof of your supposed status? You sound like someone who has never gotten out of silver
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You get matched according to your hidden MMR until you’re out of stars, don’t you?
Yeah, that’s why wild meta has been one Reno deck after another…
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by playing good decks you increase your chances of reaching legend.
If you just want to play for fun, play in casual: the few people that plays meta decks are just wasting time there, since they gain nothing and you can just concede against them whenever you want (turn 1).
If your star bonus is high enough, you will see meta decks at any rank and at any time.
I have a 2x bonus in standard and it’s basically like playing in casual: every match I see a different class and a different deck.
With a high star bonus I used to face the same deck many times in a row, with a grand total of 2-3 decks per day (in wild at least).
If you want to play ladder, you don’t care about rank and you want to have fun, stay in the silver/gold ranks.
Not by losing on purpose, but by playing “bad” decks; if you are levelling up too fast you can lose on purpose I guess.
If you are playing meta decks as well, you deserve to be matched against other meta decks, or it wouldn’t be fair for people like me who are in the low MMR section
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dude theres people net decking in casual.
i want to atleast be creatively silly in casual. not worrying about a kazakus druid
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It’s also a new month and rank is reset. So a lot of hardcore ranked players are all at the bottom. Give it a while, it’ll even out.
Because humans have been programmed to win at all costs since the day they are born. They are told winning is one of the most important things in life, so they take the path of least resistance, shut off their brain and go face.
Someone somewhere convinced someone of the sham that winning = fun. Instead of the concept of playing the game being the fun part, winning shouldnt even be a thing one strives for in a game. Enjoyment should be. And again, its a flim flam salesman’s pitch when you buy into the propaganda that winning the game is the fun part.
Proof of someone that gets this is the infinite turn mage. They dont have to win because their opponent will never get another turn.
Netdecks are just propaganda shills that have no depth and only value one thing. Winning. Those people are considered Charlie Sheen in my book. (Not a compliment).
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If you still have bonus stars, I think you’re matched according to MMR, not your current rank. If you tend to hit legend, you’ll be matched up with others that tend to hit legend, even when you’re in the bronze ranks, until you run out of bonus stars (at Diamond 5 for most legend players or never if you get 11 stars). I get 11 stars each month and never play against anything but top meta decks, even at bronze 10.
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Have you ever heard of Timmy, Johnny and Spike? If not, google it. It explains the 3 main types of players that played Magic: The Gathering. The creators used this to guide their card design.
There’s nothing wrong with different people getting enjoyment out of a game in different ways, but it does seem a bit wrong to be so judgmental towards those who enjoy a game differently than you. Why does everybody have to think exactly like you?
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But matchmaking is based on MMR, not ranks. The monthly reset doesn’t change who you get matched against, at least not until you’re past the bonus star ranks. That’s a source of confusion for many people, since it’s not well stated in game.
I dont even get what the stars are about. they go away immediately but most ive ever seen is 3 stars
I get a legend 3th season in row with Hunter
Why so sweaty on first day of reset?
Becouse I don’t want to waste time 
I’ll tell you a secret story in Legend you will meet exactly the same decks 
It depends on how good you are, not just the deck
You get more bonus stars the higher you finish on the ladder. For example, if you reach legend, you start with 10x bonus stars. If you reach Diamond 5, you start next month with 9x bonus stars. You lose a bonus star every 5 ranks as you climb the ladder each month. So if you start with 10, after reaching bronze 5 you have 9. After reaching silver 10 you have 8, etc. If you reach a high legend rank, you can start with 11x bonus stars and have one bonus star left for the last part of the climb, diamond 5-legend.
Absolutely none of that made any sense. 
Try again but go in increments I can get my head around. How Many for Bronze 10? Bronze 1? Silver 10? Silver 1? I never reach Gold 10 on purpose as I cannot descend back to Silver to play people not netdecking the same crap over and over. (They exist there too but not a constant annoyance, just like 1 in 4 annoyance).
What are they for? What happens to them and why? How are they earned in the first place? Can I spend them?
It’s at least partially tied to MMR and doesn’t necessarily scale based on highest rank achieved each season. For example, I usually end seasons around Gold 10 or Gold 5, but I regularly (and consistently) get 8 stars no matter which it is. This seems to indicate that my MMR aligns to a higher rank than I play enough games to actualize.
Like too many other systems in HS, it’s a bit opaque, and not really explained in game.
As long as you have bonus stars, matchmaking is based on MMR and not rank. You’ll still be facing the same players.
You’re right, it is more nuanced than this, but how I described it works for almost everybody.
I started playing in a new region and left the apprenticeship ranks with 10x stars before I ever reached bronze 5 let alone legend, for example.
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Here’s a very oversimplified example that doesn’t take into account the nuances possible.
If you’ve reached Bronze 5, you get 1 bonus star.
If you’ve reached Silver 10, you get 2 bonus stars.
If you’ve reached Silver 5, you get 3 bonus stars.
…
If you’ve reached Gold 5, you get 5 bonus stars.
…
If you’ve reached Legend, you get 10 bonus stars.
If you’ve reached pretty high legend (top 1,500 or so), you get 11 bonus stars.
After the monthly reset, those stars help you climb back to where you were more quickly. Every 5 ranks you reclimb, you lose a bonus star, until you’re close to where you were last month and have 0 bonus stars left, since you don’t need any more “catch up” help.
So if you start with 5 bonus stars because the highest you’ve reached is Gold 5:
After reaching Bronze 5, you go down to 4 bonus stars.
After reaching Silver 10, you go down to 3 bonus stars.
After reaching Silver 5, you go down to 2.
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After reaching Gold 5, you have no more bonus stars left and must keep climbing without them.
One last note, while you’re still reclimbing with any bonus stars, your opponents are matched by your hidden MMR, not by your current rank. Once you’ve run out of stars, you’re matched by people with a similar rank. So say you reached legend and start with 10 stars, even when you’re in silver 5 you’re matched against other players that reached legend, since you’ll still have bonus stars left until you reach diamond 5. This keeps high MMR players from dominating low MMR players in the bronze/silver/gold ranks at the start of each month, since they are only matched against other high MMR players.
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You have no control over others. Precludes every other response you’ve been given.