Dean talked about adding a special card back for reaching high legend.
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You can change card backs? Mine must remind people of a certain ice cream flavor
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When I see a Legend card-back I don’t think too much of it.
I typically only run this card back because it’s one of a handful of card-backs in the game that has a hint of player achievement tied to it for those who just play ranked ladder.
When I was playing standard more enthusiastically some months ago, many players in top 1k Legend had it.
This expansion had to have been one of the easiest expacs to reach Legend imo.
Meta decks the devs brute-forced by design are at such a high base power-level that you can just spam them and reach Legend eventually.
While they may still be a big achievement for those who only play HS casually or don’t have the time to commit harder, I hardly ever take time to think about whether Legend card backs mean anything beyond a neat design.
P.s For what it’s worth, it’s not uncommon to see players in top 100 Legend make really bad plays about every other game.
The number next to your name after you reach Legend really doesn’t mean a whole lot these days for the most part imo
Your hidden MMR does but for some reason devs think it’s better for players not to know thier own mmr.
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Which is a pretty bad choice if you ask me.
If you look at a game like SC2, they chose to display MMR alongside the rank, I don’t see why they couldn’t implement the same feature in HS.
At least do it in Legend rank and your player profile.
And it’s also great because it shows you how close you really are to other people, the number besides your name is irrelevant, you could have a guy who’s MMR is super high but stops playing at diamond or doesn’t play at all for a few months and remains bronze 10.
Also as you said there are some guys who are high rank because they are mad grinder.
Rank is an illusion.
I have a different ideal, on it, some people might be using the random card back - but also if someone I face the same name (this happen when ur in a niche meta for those who don’t know). It’s a coin flip, some might of used the card back and hasn’t change since.
I’ll Admit I haven’t change my card back in ages honestly and I honestly forgot cardback were a thing cause it something I don’t think about at all.
I don’t think too much of card back, and while I’ve been in legend for a few years back and forth, but I learn to ruin my MMR and started to find more and more meta deck seep at lower rank…
I actually still using the basic hearthstone card back lol.
I can’t believe we’re having a convo over cardback tbh…
Am I the filthy person who hasn’t use any of my card backs?.. This is making question is it normal to care about card backs now
Some time ago, before I had hit Legend myself and was content to get the Rank 5 rewards, I noticed I was getting roped a lot by Lego card backs.
So it turned me off, and I only wear it if I have the Random card back.
BTW, this month’s card back is gorgeous.
When I see the Legend card back I say: “Another tanked account”
Actually, my last 3 players with the Legend card back were all bots/afk/rope burners. The 4th flat out auto-conceded. Against the 3 though, I used the opportunity to get Barrens achievements done.
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I would not even recognize the legend card back, so no?
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Random card back for life!
There are a decent amount of highlegend players who still use it in wild. Mostly by people who don’t bother with cosmetics. There are people who have set their main cardback years ago and have simply never changed it.
(the exact same topic has already been discussed on this forum in the past)
Btw, I see it more often in casual. People may simply want to show that their skill level isn’t abyssmal despite playing a meme deck.
My first thought is that they are unlucky and rolled Legend cardback as it often happens to me.
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For me i will give my opponent the benefit of the doubt and play seriously.
It could be like Izizero said or it could be that they no longer have time to play alot and are low rank or they are a returning player who happend to be legend.
I’d rather play my best then think the guy is bad and lose i feel.
This has always been the case, regardless of the actual meta or the way Ranked works/worked. We haven’t had a single meta without an easy to pilot deck with a winrate or more than 50%. And as long as you play a deck with a winrate above 50%, you’ll eventually hit Legend if you play enough Ranked.
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I somewhat disagree with you, saying so implies any player can pilot a tier 1 deck to legend.
There’s clearly a lot of bad players playing tier 1 meta decks who are stuck in the low ranks.
Is it just because they play so little ? Or because they are bad ? I don’t think everyone is capable of Legend despite playing an above 50% deck.
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The first time I hit legend years ago, I was happy and directly equipped it, then I’ve never changed it until the Hakkar event did it for me, and from now on, I have the Hakkar card back. Because I like it ? Nah, I don’t care, just because I not that interested in card backs, so I don’t change.
Maybe the one you face with legend card backs equipped it because they were very proud in 2015, and they just never changed it since then.
This is pretty true - it what really annoys me seeing huge misplays of top tier decks and winning just cause it a solid deck that normally has answers for X problems while I do fun stupid deck now.
Some T1 deck are kinda simple to polite and other need some thought, but with how most cards are the top tier deck can remove ur board with little trades (Shamen is a perfect example of this) they just need to draw it or tutor it.
While other deck are abit more skill base to use properly. But it is possible for a bad player to get to legend cause how MMR work if they play enough games, or do MMR dipping by basically going on a lose streak while in higher rank to vs other people that be close to their skill level but due to the deck being more refine can beat some ‘random deck’ or cards people are missing and using a semi meta deck.
But it is truly possible to MMR dip then play games to level ranks much like how some people still drop their legend ranks to Silver/gold players in Trash Legend ranks.
There are almost always simple Tier 2 decks with a winrate above 50% (sometimes these decks are Tier 1). There’s also the difference between the Legend and pre-Legend metas.
As far as I’ve seen, it’s usually either a case of willfully playing sub-optimal decks or not putting in the requisite time that keeps players from reaching Legend more than it is actual skill.
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When I see that card back, all I gather is that the player has at some point in time reached legend.
It depends on what you mean by bad. They’re probably in the top 50% of players, since you generally have to at least play a lot somewhat consistently to reach legend.
But probably only a tiny fraction of the people using the card back have hit legend multiple times. And yeah, I’d guess the people that hit it more often take less pride in the card back. I set mine to random, personally.
The only association I’ve noted is with the corrupted blood card back, which tells me this person is rather disengaged from the game and might make some sloppy plays, and will probably accidentally rope once or twice.
Users of the Legend cardback:
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