I saw many people on this board swear on off-meta decks (Wydrum or Lykotic). It’s fine and ok, but what happens when your decks suddenly become top tier-1 ones?
Are you going to keep playing them or finding another gimmick deck to play? And how do you differentiate between an off-meta deck and a low-tier one?
The ultimate goal is to make your off meta deck go meta. Once you do that, you win the game.
I just play whatever I happen to find fun or interesting. Regardless how popular or top or low tier the decks are.
Depends on how fun I find it.
If I’m sick of seeing something, I’ll usually get sick of playing it myself rather quickly. Not too keen on mirror matches either. Cyclone Mage was really fun for me in May, but was largely shelved in June/July for other stuff. Aggro Overload Shaman was fun in June, but when it started taking off I found something else to enjoy for the most part.
In order for me to play something that’s really popular in the meta, I have to REEAALLY like it, otherwise I’ll start gravitating toward something else.
I enjoyed cyclone mage but when everyone start playing it I played malygos freeze mage instead. Right now instead of quest rogue i’m enjoying highlander rogue but I been actually seeing a few of those now too.
When my homebrew decks should at any time become meta, I will celebrate it for years. I am really bad at deck building.
One day, Silverback Patriarch…
One day.
Highlander warlock
Run silverback
Zeph into silverback lethal
Thank me later
I am open to playing what deck I enjoy that happens to become meta, except if it’s the"Top 1" deck of the meta I have a natural aversion to want to play it.
eg: Tempo Rogue in early RoS, Raza Priest in KFT, Cubelock in KnC-Witchwood, Even Paladin before Call to Arms nerf, Odd Paladin for much of YotRaven.
Those earlier decks were expensive at a time I was still new and playing cheaper decks, but no way did I want to put all my dust in one basket only for the deck to get nerfed later on.
I played Mech Hunter in early RoS, vs many Tempo Rogues and Warriors. When Mech Hunter became close to “Top 1” deck status after the nerfs (and complaints on the forums increased), I played it less and played more Midrange Hunter. I did not enjoy the apparent narrowness of some classes during RoS: I did play Mage somewhat, but I don’t think I played the Conjurer’s Mage and later on, Cyclone Mage particularly well, so they weren’t my main climbing decks. Then in July, I went back to using my own version of Mech Hunter to maintain Rank 5 (I never see Cybertech Chip from any other Mech Hunter).
In Wild I pretty much refuse to play Big Priest and Odd Paladin, but am open to pretty much anything else.
Right now, there is nothing really being a “Top 1” deck, but I was not going to go out of my way to craft Tip the Scales Paladin or King Phaoris Paladin that abuse obvious combos, since there have been many other deck archetypes for me to try.
Maybe they “swear on” off-meta decks because playing one meta deck over and over again gets boring fast even if you win more with it. If I didn’t experiment all the time I would be so bored to this game. Only permanent deck I use is Kingsbane. If my experiment somehow turns out top tier I just keep playing it and delete it when I get bored. Why would I care if someone else plays same thing with me?
This is my #1 thing. I don’t care how quickly a deck can ascend the ladder if I get bored playing it.
I hate mirror matches… absolutely hate it.
So if the deck is tier-1 but still not played a ton I’m cool still playing it (Murloc Shaman in Wild) but if a deck does become too popular where I am facing constant mirrors I do usually ditch it because I just dislike them
I used to, but I now play meta decks instead, or at least decks invented by other people.
Haven’t had any real good ideas for a deck, nor do I really believe that I can come up with something anymore that by ‘surprise value’ yanks out a higher winrate.