Seriously. it’s like trying to talent build in WoW. pointless, just take what’s the best in the meta and play it till legend. luckily not everyone does that. but still. The last time i built a deck of my own it a bit after blackrock. I built a control warrior that would destroy secrets with kezan mystic and destroy you minions every play. Just a classic control warrior. Which was fun because i never built a deck before, but then saw it was similar enough to the standard control warrior. Just disrupting tempo with deathlord, black knight, Kezan mystic. ect.
Then I built a priest deck. a big priest c’thun. It was fun looking back and seeing just how similar my “custom” decks were to meta decks at the time.
Now i wouldn’t even know how to build deck and instead run 3 decks i wouldn’t have been able to come up with on my own. Like, if you’re not using a net deck you’re just at a huge disadvantage to be rolled turn 2.
Like, you’d have to be the top 1% of players who are also 150+ IQ irl that uses there aspergers to study WoW and not programming code to build your own deck at this point.
There are still a lotta “homebrew” decks out there, and they can get ya to legend and maybe even top 1000, but they arent optimal is all, but they are jn my opinion fun ti play, and hey fun is what ya should be playing this game for
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Well…
Reality is that there is a small group of players who really can build decks and those decks slowly make impact in the meta.
There are some pretty obvious decks that end very powerful too.
But reality is that only the top 1% of the deckbuilders of the game are really capable of getting away with making their own decks and even those start getting problems when things start to settle after the First month when their creations crash against each other in ladder.
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Either you get it or you don’t.
There’s your answer. Everything starts out as a “home brew,” and gets refined over time until it is optimised to win in the current environment (maybe with a couple of different tech options between lists that contribute towards different matchups). The only time you can build something brand new is when a set is first released. Within a couple of weeks of new cards entering the game, anything you build has probably already been tried and is either standard/close to standard or has already been dismissed because it isn’t good enough.
You can always keep building decks if you find it fun. Just don’t do it if you care about winning.
Having said that, there’s one way to “win” with homebrew decks while still losing: achievement decks. You can’t do whatever you want with it since you’re building around something but its pretty close.
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Every netdeck starts as someone’s homebrew.
As far as why bother, well, it’s the same reason people play local weekend soccer leagues even though they’ll never make it to the World Cup.