Power Creep has Created worse Players

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That’s incorrect. You don’t care if the thread is about wild or standard, you just chime in with your doomposts all the same.

Last few expansions Rogue decks in standard brought her 50% global winrate. It was the most consistent but least useful deck for grinding. It’s a time-killer. You play it and you kill time, literally. I wouldn’t play something like that if it was the only class available.

Last few expansions are the opposite of power creep. I’m still playing a sludgelock with 0 cards from this expansion and 1 from the previous one, and hitting the same ranks.

Weakest expansions ever made.

And you can’t point that out, since you have no clue about other classes. Speaking about other decks or classes from the perspective of only one class (Mage) is pointless, because you’re biased. Mage can be weak to Rogue, but it doesn’t mean Rogue is broken.

I often see a deck I’m weak to and think “wow, this looks broken”, and then I pick it up and win less than with my last deck.

Also, there’s another thing to stress out regarding your last sentence:

This sentence by itself is meaningless without a time-frame included, because ALL classes were broken for a limited time in the last few expansions.

EVERY SINGLE ONE had a tier 1 highest winrate deck for some time.

No, Mal, you’re not right. Everything you complain about is wrong on absolutely every level and from every perspective possible. Your posts are what they appear to be - venting of frustrations, doomposting, sympthoms of being in a wrong place in life, nothing more, nothing less.

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Your remarks mean nothing to me.

The OP is spot on that skill rarely matters.
Why worry about trading when I can play Zilliax, Theotar, Reno and Reno Lone Ranger along with Quests all in one deck with 40 cards, and if all else fails, simply win by outlasting all else?

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That’s too bad, because it means you gave up on making yourself feel better

Demonstrably false - as stated above, same players occupy the top ranks in both game modes all the time.

Yes, please, do prove time and time again how you’re clueless about the game and don’t care about the topic you hijack, it’s all the same to you

Wrong topic, this one is about power creep and worse players, the one about trading is lower

Do you just open all the threads with new replies at the same time and just copy-paste same doompost spam sentence in each and every one? Sure as hell looking like it

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I’m on message. It’s you who seems to be unaware that We are talking about Op cards.
Case in point: This morning I played against a Kingsbane Rogue player who overwrote his weapon with wicked knife HP.
That should have been game ending, but not these days.

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Nope. OP was about people making stupid mistakes in mid-high legend, like forgetting to swing with a buffing weapon before playing a minion

From then, the thread evolved to talking about strategies and skill needed before and now in the game, and then about ranks and MMR, until you hijacked it with what you consider to be relevant (or claim to consider relevant), while we all know you’re just spam-doomposting your usual nonsense

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and I just posted about a game that I lost against a player who mis-played repeatedly, and yet still won.
But you ignored it because you would rather complain about me like you do every single time I post anything at all.

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Don’t exaggarate, I rarely do this, only when it builds up from too much tolerance/ignoring or when your doomposting touches on something I enjoy/know to be different than you claim

I don’t have anything against you, quite the contrary, I’d like you to get better and start enjoying the game, because then we would enjoy your company a lot more

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If you mean what you say, then at least acknowledge that I am trying to be on message.
It sucks to lose repeatedly to people who overwrite their weapons, ignore trades, and then flop down a theotar and take your win condition.

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Sure thing, it’s true, you do try to be on point. It’s just, from time to time, you’re not. You don’t even read the whole thread or even the whole original post.

For example in this thread, the term “Power Creep” in the title of the thread made you believe the thread is about OP cards, which it isn’t.

That’s how I know you’re TRYING to be on point, but also that you just scan things quickly to determine how to best incorporate your doomposting in the thread to not get reported xD

It does, and it’s all because you refuse to pick up new decks/classes and swing the chances in your favor

I know a thing or two about refusal to change and reasons behind them. None of those are beneficial to your life in general.

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Well, this isn’t a life lesson. It’s about some cards being so good that fundamentals can be ignored without paying any price at all.
That isn’t doomposting. That is truth, and it is squarely on team 5 for not considering consequences when creating cards.

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The 2nd quoted sentence is NOT a logical conclusion of the 1st one.

Not being able to punish a misplay usually means your deck or your hand was very unlikely to win in the first place. If the matchup was 50-50, the misplay could suffice to swing the game in opponent’s favor.

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Perhaps, but in most cases the opponents I face make multiple mistakes, and still are able to win because team 5 has printed cards that simply undo all that has gone before.
Am I to blame for refusing to join them?
I guess so.
My refusal to play 40 decks, or use theotar, or use either reno card, or use anything that steals from the opponent, or mills their deck, puts me at a permanent disadvantage.
But I see all of it as cheating, and always will. Call me old fashioned.

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Yep

I mean, I’m hooked to 1 deck for 3-4 months - sludgelock. The only difference between me and you, is that I’m not married to just one class and I’m willing to try new decks.

Even when I’m 100% sure I won’t be playing them for much longer, there’s at least the added benefit of learning the ins and outs of that deck so you can learn to play better against it with your main deck

But if I didn’t pick up new decks with ease, I’d probably stop playing long time ago. How else do you find your new favorite deck or class without trying some?

And part of that is your lack of skill, although I can’t say how big of an issue that is, since you’re playing terrible decks, and since I don’t play Wild

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I get to diamond 5 every month. I’m not awful.
I just refuse to play the skill free garbage that Team 5 has insisted on printing for the past 5 years or so.

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That’s bad. It’s a terrible rank nowadays when you have hundreds of thousands of people in Legend, who are also bad.

I believe you. We can’t possibly know how good you are when you’re stuck playing unplayable decks.

No, you refuse to try new things so you have to rationalize them with crap like this sentence. You can’t possibly know how something feels until you’ve tried it. Things aren’t always as they look.

How many times in your life did you lie down to bed knowing you only have couple of hours of sleep and it made you feel anxious because you were worried you won’t be able to get through the day with not enough sleep? And that anxiety prevented you from falling asleep at all? And then despite that, you went through the day without issues?

That’s just an example, but a powerful one. Your expectations that something will feel bad prevents you from trying, and when it happens enough times, you are guaranteed to miss some things that would feel really good.

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But I thought the ranks are now done based on MMR? They’re connected. So how can one matter, but the other doesn’t?

Remember, it’s okay to be wrong and to admit being wrong. There’s no shame or judgment about it.

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What makes you think I don’t ever play Standard? I do, you know. Every new release.
Things have gotten progressively worse every single year.
There was a time when you either had to burn your opponent down, or out tempo him, or out last him.
None of that is true now, or rarely is, anyhow.
Now you just draw until you have your win condition, and if you haven’t lost by that point, then your opponent dies.

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Yeah, I bet you know everything about being wrong, being so wrong so often.

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That’s a gross overgeneralization, lol. That’s how combo decks play out, and that’s only one archetype.

I play a flexible deck with many win cons, and it’s not the only such deck on the ladder. You can probably find something according to your tastes, it’s almost guaranteed. It doesn’t have to be tier 1 or tier 2, you said it yourself, as long as it feels good.

Which brings us back to the last paragraph you just skipped, but is the pinnacle of our conversation:

I’d really like it if you’d think about the last two sentences for a little while when you find the time. I don’t need you to tell me I’m right or wrong. I need you to just honestly think about if this resonates with you and makes logical sense to you.

That’s all.

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Well, I did not read your manifesto as it has nothing to do with the topic.
but in closing I will reiterate that the OP is totally right.
Power creep has made skill less necessary than ever.

I won’t respond to you anymore. Have a good day.

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