You know, the kind that YOU put together through trial and error, NOT referencing any online source at all.
Playing Standard and going up against the same ol’ multitudes of “flood & buff” decks (and identical Odin/Brann warrior copycats), I suspect it’s a tiny percentage of the population that came up with their own decks.
You mill your own flour from wheat grown in your own fields, too?
Feel free to show us your “Original” deck.
Negative replies devoid of discourse as expected.
You never disappoint, Hearthstone community! <3
Why would I do that to myself?
Asking for your “Original” deck is now negative?? That’s quite a leap.
Ignore the trolling op, it just brings the topic down.
It’s a valid question, and it reveals much about the current state of the game. Sadly, most true homebrew decks haven’t had a real shot for a long time now, and if you aren’t running some cookie cutter deck, or a card or two changed from one, you aren’t going to do very well.
Creative deck building and fun niche decks used to be a thing…but now the unofficial message is “play a cut/paste deck or enjoy staying at the bottom of the ladder.”
I do, but it’s not great. 48% on a good day.
Is this really even possible? Or desirable? At most we can tweak an already good deck.
Here’s my tweak of the Standard Mining Paladin build. I just climbed to D3 with a 13-3 run, the easiest push into Diamond I think I’ve ever had. This deck will easily make Legend in a couple of days.
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Me for example, I like to build my own deck and strategy. Reached success with them many times before a lot of unfair mechanics were created…
Almost 90% of my playing in ranked is with my own deck. I rarely use meta decks.
That being said, most meta decks are better because they have been refined. So, sometimes, you can take a meta deck shell and go from there.
But here’s the thing:
Even if you make your own deck, it’s going to have SOME cards in it that match a meta deck…and people will tell you that you’re just using a meta deck.
For example, you can take Excavate Control Warrior right now. Change like 8 cards out to taunt cards or something else, and people will still call it Excavate Control Warrior.
Several years ago, I got to Legend with a pure Homebrew deck using cards that saw zero meta play. I was using Spirit of the Dead and Bwonsamdi with Cult Leader as a draw engine. But, because I had rez cards and taunt/deathrattle stuff, even though I was using like 10 cards that weren’t seeing play, people claimed it was just rez priest meta deck.
After that, I’ve pretty much given up trying to call any of my decks homebrew decks and posting here. There is no line where people say “that’s a homebrew deck” that’s drawn in the sand. 1 card difference? 5? 10? 15? 20? There is no answer. So, I just make a deck and call it similar to what people are claiming is the meta deck. So I can make an Excavate Control Brann Warrior, I just call it Brann Warrior like the meta deck even though it may have a 6 card difference.
All that being said, yes - there are other people who use “original decks”, even if others don’t call it that. Just do what makes you happy and helps you enjoy Hearthstone. If it’s a 1 card difference from a meta deck and you feel you want to call it original or if it’s a 10 card difference, no difference. Just do what you enjoy.
Yes, but these posts all have a “Holier Than Thou” tone, which is annoying.
You play a home-brew deck? Well La-Te-Da, aren’t you special.
Men, and I mean real men, aren’t afraid to lose again and again in the name of being a subpar deck builder.
There is no subset of men called “real men”.
I hope you were being sarcastic.
I get that, some of them do sound that way. But I don’t know how someone can say they homebrew without sounding that way to anyone else if I’m being honest. This is part of the reason I stopped saying it because there’s no way to say it without coming off that way.
I think some people complain about it because they are just tired of seeing the meta decks. I think something like 90-95% of people meta deck based on what I see. It’s fun to see those other people playing something completely out of left field and I think people want to see more of that, so they make posts like this. That’s my guess anyway.
There is the reverse thinking as well. If you tell someone you made a homebrew deck, they automatically assume that it’s bad. Because, if it was good, it would be a meta deck. And this has been provably false in the past. You can make a deck that beats out meta decks consistently, but if no one knows about it, it doesn’t become meta. It’s why streamers can make a deck go meta instantly but non-streamers can’t. So I don’t know what you would call that…reverse Holier than thou?
Personally, I homebrew because I like “deck doctoring”. That’s the fun of Hearthstone for me, personally. I like building something…seeing why it does/doesn’t work, seeing combos you’ve never seen or thought of before work, and then adjusting your deck. It’s exciting. It takes tons of time, but it’s super fun for me. I can see why other people don’t want to do it because it’s a major time sink.
But, I do agree, many posts about homebrew seem like bragging, even mine at times, so I just stopped. I don’t know how to say/word it in a way that doesn’t sound that way. But I don’t automatically assume the person is doing that.
I’ve enjoyed some of your decks in the past. I think you’ve earned bragging rights if you can climb with your own homebrew. I like to play other people’s homebrew decks as well as meta decks, but I don’t like deckbuilding myself very much. You have a good attitude about it, and I appreciate your perspective
Unironically posted.
Not really. It’s just the usual trolling from people who hate when people call for some form of originality to return to the game.
I can’t really think of a time where I’ve went “Holy Light, schyla’s gone off the deep end” or that you’ve posted something truly unreasonable. Have you been snippy on occasion, sre…but only in response to someone being way more jerkish.
It sucks that you sharing the very ideas that keep the game fresh and innovate for people like the op get shouted down because thinking outside the box is becoming taboo around here.
I do. But only 2-3 times have I been able to make legend with them. For me, if I’m not playing a deck I built, I lose interest in it very quickly. But that’s just a personal preference, no value judgement attached. I’ve also copied decks I play against that look fun, and figure out how I would build them out (since I don’t have a full deck list).
Well I got an original deck allright, in essence I never netdeck, with reasonable results most of the times. If I try real hard I can get a deck tweaked to legend in a month or so.
Right now though, that’s why I say “allright” its just like… the intended deck, with a few cards different. I play rogue, and I excavate, and then I made it a bit lighter with more 1/2 drop minions, and added some burn. Took out a bunch of value.
It’s essentially the same as a netdeck, but then faster. For me that doesn’t really count, but one gotta start somewhere.
Actually, you may have reached the stage of a true ‘home brew’ deck builder.
The importance is not the name of the deck, but the inner enjoyment of building one, without to care for the opinions of others.