Yea, that has always been the case?
An speaking from my personal experience i mostly run control styles an do fairly decent against agro. Yet when I run into tick lock it so far has been about a 100% L
Because it isn’t an issue.
And because you don’t know what you are talking about.
A card that causes you, and a few other people, lose, while being a card that causes the people who play it lose more than they win, is usually not a problem.
I didnt mean to imply it did. I meant that i see a deck coming that will incorporate rustwix and tickatus and itll be disgusting and that Kibler’s current idea is close. My bad for not being more clear.
Yeah, Blizzard should have at least printed a card that prevent Rustix deathrattle, I can’t believe they didn’t think about that.
Except they did.
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Were you borne a simpleton or did you actually follow classes to be this stupid?
Even if you manage to silence this minion, it was still be added to the pool of dead minions, which warlocks still draw from with Raise Dead, or just get them back from Gul’Dan since it’s still a demon. So, unless you are always rocking a deck with 3 silences you will only be able to stop Rustwix with one of the classes able to polymorph. Even then, if the masses tech in these cards to get rid of Rustwix we will just see some Cube-ish combo coming back so its practically impossible to remove said card before the deathrattle is triggered and it’s added to the Guldan/raise dead pool. There is simply no good card to deal with it as of yet. Or they would have a print a card that literally reads ‘no Prime minions can be played this game’.
Much solution, such smart, very wow.
Maybe think about what you type before you press the reply button next time buddy
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It’s not broken, it just stops any creativity in deck building. Why do you think rogue, druid, and paladin are on top right now? They don’t need certain cards to win or kill you so fast it doesn’t matter. You literally can’t run anything fun or control focused because ticketus will screw you over EVERY TIME
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Its Kind of like BIg Priest. Its not a problem because its like tier 3 or 4.
Let me guess: your last account got banned and you couldn’t resist the urge to go insult random people on the internet because you feel miserable. That why you have only 4 posts.
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I’ve been playing since naxx and I’ve yet to recall a single meta where there weren’t at least a couple strong aggro decks out there.
It doesn’t. Even if you were to remove it from the meta you’d still see basically all the same decks you do now because there’s so many strong ways to build aggro decks right now that that’s gonna be where the meta would gravitate towards. Rogue’s and Hunter’s aggro kits at the moment are strong on their own merits, shaman has a bunch of aggressive tools, mage has a lot of burn, warlock has a strong zoo package, demon hunter exists to be an aggro deck, and druid has a strong token package thanks to arbor up. None of this is because Tickatus exists. The control kits available now outside of warrior don’t keep up very well against the myriad of different aggro decks and even warrior struggles if they don’t draw the right board clears.
Ramp paladin is a control deck that wins by either a big blowout play or by pushing the game into the late game as quickly as possible where they have the advantage.
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The whole idea that you can’t run a control deck because of Tikatus is preposterous. Only if it’s some insanely greedy control deck, or a fatigue warrior or something is this true.
Only in a control deck with no way to shift gears and play a little faster is this true. Which are notoriously bad decks anyway.
It’s a win condition for control vs. control, sure. But I think Rustwix does something very similar and is honestly just better and way more reliable than Tikatus is.
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I was agreeing with you.
But their was a few control styles that was viable as well.
the deck loses to decks from all types including some control decks
Tickatus could be indeed a problematic card in the future. But right now its “tame” because the meta and available card pool doesnt make it dominating.
IF there would be a situation in the future (maybe right after the new expansion hits) that would allow Tickatus Warloc to become a monster, I definitely see some nerf hitting it.
But right now I do not see a problem at all. Sure, it sucks if your deck is weak to it and if they manage to burn your important cards, though the performance of the deck is pretty bad in todays meta.
If by decent you mean murders, then sure.
Once again, if we were to make something equivalent to Tickatus but anti aggro it would be a 2/5 taunt legendary for 2 mana that did 2 to board when killed and had “start of game: add this to your hand”. It’d be nerfed in like 2 days but then again would never get made to begin with.
About the only control deck I could see it realistically losing to consistently is big priest and big priest is hilariously easy to beat by most other decks anyway yet people cry about it. Maybe Raza as long as they draw their Anduin and Raza, but it’s a good laugh if they play Polkelt on 7 after tickatus was already corrupted.
Control will not beat them in fatigue, board control, etc. Dead mans can’t be played because the second you play one unless you can redraw it on the same turn, you’re screwed.
Tickatus has forced the entire meta to be as fast as it is. People who defend it as being only tier 4 is totally missing the point that people need to run highly aggro decks to avoid being cheese milled. Control is pretty much dead - the only control players to have a chance are mana cheaters like paladin or druid.
Cant wait for the power creep on this card. Priest legendary “The Exorcist” - destroy all demons in your opponents hand and deck.
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Because it’s ok to shift the meta to brain dead aggro decks and mean priests are getting their comeuppance… sarcasm
Shifting the meta is fine and understandably a part of the game. Im just saying that if the only reasonable counterplay to this card is to go full aggro then thats rather poor design. There was way more counterplay to Jades than Tickatus and yet Blizzard had to introduce the jade killer card.
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If the shoe was on the other foot and dominated by control, the same people defending Tickatus would be up in arms though. If they made a 2/5 taunt starts in hand for 2 that did 2 the board which is about the same impact to aggro that Tickatus has to control, they would be furious and demand it be gone immediately because it would effectively push aggro out of the meta much like Tickatus is able to do to control.
There will always be aggro and there will always be a dominant control class. Whats ridiculous is that Blizzard has in the past been very specific on where it stands on mill decks. They killed rogue and druid decks for using this mechanic … yet here they give warlock the same mechanic on steroids.