Exactly…netdecking is lazy…pretty sure it has been said several times on this forum.
Conservatively, yes. Might be $20k. I wasn’t keeping exact track back in my MTG days, but it was a lot.
I was also drafting regularly with Pro Tour players.
Actually they were copying our decks before Scrye even existed. They just openly came up to us and asked us for the lists and we were more than happy to give them to them. Even at the competitive level it didn’t matter because the best players will always pilot a deck better then the other 90% of the field.
I was very much a builder and refiner of decks first and player second. Although i still competed in some constructed and lots of draft. I had no issue giving my decks and ideas to the best players. I played with the NY NG crew in the very early days of MTG so i have some experience in this area. I never understood this rage from the player base that were always upset over players playing decks created by others. Real deck builders derive their joy of the game seeing players take their creations and succeed with them at the highest levels of the game.
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This is a great point.
It’s really fine to like to build decks and just as fine not to like to make decks.
If I ever made a good deck, and I never really will, I can see where someone using it to win at the highest levels would be a source of pride.
Just as lazy as anyone that’s ever followed a recipe to cook a meal.
Or just as lazy as a crafter that follows a pattern.
Or just as lazy as someone that draws up plans before constructing a house.
You’re lazy too because you didn’t build your dwelling from scratch.
It’s all just nonsense that is made up to feed the fragile ego of whiny deck builders. It is really sad that this is the level you sink to try and feel good about yourself.
Human’s greatest skill is copying, copying from his fellow men … and there are plenty of examples, starting with the fire, the wheel, the transistor.
Lazy ? really ?
Oh and some people are saying sales are built around good decks … erm, im pretty sure it’s other other way around. Printing cards that will be in most good decks to incentivize people to buy them … it’s common sense. How do the devs know that ? AI, since a long time.
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Incorrect. It is far more lazy to copy a deck than follow a recipe. There is work in cooking…also incorrect about my dwelling since it takes upkeep to keep the dwelling going. Do you own your house or live with your parents?
yes lazy…what do you have to do to build a fire? You guys keep comparing things that take work with netdecking…next thing you will say is it is lazy to climb mount everest because someone else did…
Yeah if you do anything but rub 2 sticks together to start a fire its lazy. It’s lazy to do anything in any way that isn’t the most difficult or obtuse way to do it. Using tools of any kind to assist with any task means you are a dumbass.
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Hey that’s just stealing in another form. I myself have the superior method to creating fire. I sit outside and pray to the fire gods to strike my sticks and create fire. That’s the truly creative way to do it.
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Actually, it takes work learning how to pilot the netdeck.
It’s like someone holding a wrench and claiming they are a mechanic.
Just because someone has access to the tool does not mean they know how to utilize it.
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You guys are comparing apples with oranges on these last few posts. There’s no "more skill’ to pilot or to construct. Both can be very challenging or very easy; both can be meta braking; besides: piloting is working in the “long term” since you take your time to design and you often do it gradually over a long time so in a sense PILOTING WORKS WITH CONSTRUCTING for a player to be the most optimal (frankly I have NEVER seen a player I admire not standing aside for a second and saying “wait a second this netdeck is good BUT what if I just use this card over there instead of that card over here?”.
incorrect…i never play the deck that is copied and I can almost always tell you what they are going to play next. You guys take so much offense because it is true that making decks is harder than copying a deck and that is why most people HAVE to net deck to play this. You are way off in what you said. Almost anyone can turn a wrench…do this one experiment and it will prove me right: Make your own deck and get to legendary. I have done it twice, can you?
There is way more skill in making a deck than piloting a deck…I don’t know if you know this but making a car is harder than driving one.
It’s still apples and oranges. A mechanical engineer is bad at racing, a pilot is bad at mechanical engineering.
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It’s possible that people do both. There are mechanical engineers with pilot licenses.
Hard disagree. You can’t honestly compare the two as they’re simply different skill sets.
Doesn’t that honestly depend on how well you do either one of those things? Excellence is excellence, and saying one is more important than the other is pretty foolish.
If I cared to do it? I’m sure I can. The proof? If you did it, then any monkey who can turn a wrench can do it.
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Work smarter, not easier
I do wish there were a true Casual mode for people who just want to play homebrew decks, even intentionally bad ones. Unfortunately the Casual mode we have is either net decks for easy wins, or bots. It’s pretty sad to me that all the creativity and fun of Hearthstone has been steadily squeezed out and discarded in favor of trying to squeeze the most money out of the last remaining whales
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You are wrong about piloting a deck vs making a deck. You can train a monkey to play a deck but you can’t train one to make one. You can keep getting offended about it but you will not be correct about it.
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I’ve known you for years and you are the epitome of getting offended and being wrong