I prefer to keep my deck close to the vest, but it was originally based on board clears, specifically to counter the ENDLESS “flood & buff” DKs I was matched against when I returned to the game. (I only play Standard by the way.) Since this also worked well against many of the other F&B decks, my deck has largely remained unchanged over the last few months.
It looks like I’ll never reach Legend with this deck as I can’t seem to get past Diamond 3, but that’s good enough for me.
Haha, same. Trucked to legend with a homebrew sludgelock pre-miniset (cause paladin was rampant and i wanted to run defile). Then got obliterated once the meta optimized it (but I was too stubborn to incorporate the clearly better cards).
I used a deck I put together and got to Diamond 5. No internet referenced…
That’s why I deleted my post. Don’t expect the secrets of others if you don’t do the same.
i only run homebrews
i don’t know how much they resemble netdecks because i only hear about them on the forums really and when i occasionally follow a link from the forums to some meta analysis
i’ve never made legend though
hopefully someday
been playing since beta so i must suck lol i know it
Obviously I must be pretty thick, as I have no idea what you mean by this. There are so many cards available, finding even 2 cards to combo well together is nearly infinite options, finding synergy with all 30 cards though? Aint no way I can even maintain that unless its all thematic like the C;thun cards work.
It’s just what happens when the whole community works on finding the best decks and combos because they want to win.
Best decks and combos are found, and the only thing that can change that is an intervention (a patch)
And now we’re just back to the good old difference between people where for some people fun means playing with their own decks, while for majority others fun means winning.
Yeah i got all that but Ive been playing a long time and its only because of this forum and very recently Ive learned of a thing call Highlander decks, as well as aggro, and control. Never once heard of these ideas prior to maybe a few months ago in relation to hearthstone. Definitely never heard of it related to any other card game (pokemon), tho it wouldnt surprise me if they had their own terms for it.
So Im not saying thats a common experience for all, I know Im not a common experience encountering person. But even with that new knowledge, I came across the term Win condition for the first time in the same stretch of time that i learned of the others. This still puzzles me as I cannot think what a win condition is outside of the Reno card. I mean get their health to zero is always the goal, so as much cards that can help get that to happen is usually the method to do so. Decking them to take fatigue, minions to go to face, direct damage spells, etc. But Other than those methods I cant really follow what you mean by all this. I cant even remember what cards i have in my own deck, i find it frustrating as all get out that I cant hover over my ETC to see what it contains for the 3 selected cards within it. I have to play it to find out. very inconvenient.
IDK, i must just be thick. but I dont see how yall are able to refine your decks as such, or have unlimited board clears when by my collection there is maybe 1 or 2 per class. idk. I can understand seeing someone else’s good combo and wanting to recreate it, sure, but the genesis of the first one to come up with it, thats the part Im not seeing as obvious.
It’s a combination of pure luck and large number of people trying.
Some people have a bias for some kind of play or a card and try to make combos/decks with those in mind. Some people are poor f2p with only a few such available so they try to force those.
In the end, some of them work and get copied around.
It’s fun times. Interesting times. Also, not for me xD
I couldn’t make myself play a losing deck 20-30 games wondering if the deck was bad or I was just on a bad luck streak, because that’s what happens.
I’ve learned a lot about luck streaks grinding 250 games to hit legend this month. It’s possible to lose 15-16 in a row without making a single misplay, as well as win as many without thinking about the game.
you could try using a deck tracker program, like HSReplay or Firestone. they can show you what cards you’ve used & still have in your deck, including what’s in ETC
It’s a simple fix to your Standard Play format. If a deck has more than 1000 players using it at any time, use your matching algorithm to force the deck to play against another copy of it. Win rate will always be 50% and those that don’t want to play with or against it won’t have to keep encountering it in Standard play.
The thing about card games is that if you have any kinda brain at all you will eventually come to design “meta decks” anyway.
Once you’re good enough your deck building will tend to lean that way even if you don’t look at any resources.
I mean…I swore I created face hunter list because my “unique” list started popping up. No. Not special at all. Just smart enough to figure out what a meta should be based on the power of the cards.
Home brew decks inherently suck but can be pretty fun and I encourage everyone to homebrew regardless of if you end up making a meta deck or not. The feeling of homebrewing something that works sometimes is awesome and the feeling of homebrewing a meta deck all on your own is also vindicating.
HOWEVER. Netdecking makes the game stale and gross. That’s the only problem with it. Otherwise its absolutely fine to turn your brain off and copy a list and learn to pilot it. Youre no better or worse than a homebrewhomie.
Not many because you’re actively punished for playing off-meta.
“punished” lol you see losing as a punishment eh? That sucks. You must be one of the saltiest gamers ever.
Instead how about you enjoy the game as its being played instead of focusing on the end result screen.
You might actually enjoy yourself like… once.
Yes, we all play games to lose 90% of our matches. It’s so fun being steamrolled by highly refined decks. You’re the one that sounds salty. Perhaps you should take your own advice and worry about yourself and how you want to play the game rather than defending some niche, arrogant view that you’re somehow better than the majority because you don’t netdeck. Maybe then you’ll be tolerable enough that people will interact with you and you won’t need to seek satisfaction in a card game or praise in a forum.
I guess I’d be mad too if I were this bad. Yeesh.
I am though.
You admitted it yourself.
Two remarks on that. 1) why not both; winning and making your own deck can be the goal; if I make my own deck and loses: it’s not fun and if I blindly copy-paste only: it may not be a good long-term goal.
and 2) you missed a third factor here: learning how to play even a netdeck can be fun and meaningful: i.e. I may copy-paste a deck which is supposedly good but it might be more fun to learn to play it.
PS the 2nd is a necessity to be played well anyway so it’s not like netdecking is an automatic win (it also includes learning …and learning itself can be very important and …CREATIVE).
My man. Thats the way.
piloting is a skill, a skill most hearthstone players lack because they figure copy/pasting is enough to win games.
It does not allow you to see what is inside of ETC. I use HSReplay. when hovering over the ETC on the right hand decklist all it will show is the card as a tooltip popup and the flavor text at the bottom of the screen. It does not show whats inside of ETC in the match. (Nor outside the match when looking at the decklist on the right hand side of the screen that the game naturally gives before pressing play for the next duel match.
I would love to have as little as only 20-30 losses in a row. Thatd be such an improvement lol.