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I'll skip the part talking about Prescient Slitherdrake being released in an insane state compared to literally every single other card we have seen released in past year, or the part about the Dark Rider "nerf" in the patch a few days ago.

I'm sure all of you remember the time right before the release of the Cataclysm expansion, where Blizzard decided to seemingly out nowhere just buff a bunch of cards, giving us a pretty big meta shake-up and a very fun time before the release of the expansion itself. This begs the question: why not just make such changes sooner or at any point throughout the year? The meta only lasted for a month and as the rotation happened... all of the buffed cards rotated, making the decks unplayable and buffs not matter at all past that point. And if you liked one of the decks? Tough luck, the cards are still way too slow for Wild.

But why couldn't these buffs have been dispersed throughout the entirety of the previous year, to create more meta shakeups and make these decks last longer than a month? We currently have an extremely stale meta with not many cards in it due to being right after the rotation, but there are still many archetypes that aren't being explored and played at all due to the cards not being good enough. And the patch a few days ago did ofc not create the huge meta shake-up we were promised, as Blizzard went too safe with both the buffs and the nerfs and to quote Clark Hellscream: "The cards should have just been released in this state".

Anyways, we even have obvious deckbuilding choices like all the quests of which about 5 have seen some play throughout the history of their existence - the Paladin, Warlock and Warrior ones last year (but are now either not good enough or completely unplayable in the case of Warlock), Priest either as a tool for Medivh's Triumph or the Endbringer Umbra OTK at the start of the current expansion, and Mage which just tries to apply a lot of pressure and scam. But what about the other 7 quests? Don't they all deserve a chance? Well, I personally wouldn't like seeing Tick-Tock because a meta with that would be very unfun, but we could always nerf any cards back in some way if they were too strong, right? Still, I would welcome even that to shake up the meta.

Anyways, we also have some obvious deck ideas that aren't quests: Rafaam, Wallow Warlock, any Imbue deck besides Rogue, Vyranoth, Dragon/Sindragosa Mage

And for the super niche decks we could have but don't: Divergence Warlock, Enrage Warrior, Big Demon DH, Elemental Mage

I get the argument that not every single decks can or should be playable in every single expansion, but how many of these decks have had the tools to exist for a year at this point, and have never seen the light of day? And also, what about the pre-rotation period? Are we gonna get the same thing as last year? Don't get me wrong, it was an incredibly fun period, but wouldn't it just be better if we got literally any buffs at all more often, so that if someone ends up liking a deck, they get more than a few weeks of time at most to play with it?

As the title says. I’ve been doing some Herald DH, Shaman, and some Rogue. All seem to have trouble against this deck who, every SINGLE GAME and I mean every single one, get at least one or two or three 10 cost beasts on their board by turn 7. It is way too consistent. I truly can only win from the most aggressive of hands, and even then. If they get lucky on the way with a beast it can just be over instantly. It feels REALLY bad and that would be fine if it didn’t happen in 80% of the games I am playing and every time I’m up against them.

I’m dead serious on them having it every time on turn 7 I have not found a game where someone hasn’t had it by then. Even games where I somehow won regardless. They always had the 10 drops.

I know I’m going to hear that I could play a deck that would preform better against it. That would just be aggro and even then it is more consistent than that!

Hunters ability to go through their deck so quickly and easily it’s driving me nuts. I even like the idea of the class set for him, it’s just too much.

I would rather get steamrolled by aggro or dragon warrior, at least its quick. Imbue/Herald random rogue games can go 15 minutes and half the time they get the answer and half the time they don't.

I'm sure the deck is hard to pilot but it never feels that way. It feels like they hit the slots button and sometimes they come out on top.

Legitimately one of the most frustrating decks to play against in the meta atm, in my opinion.

PS to Mods: There should be a 'rant' flair, because I know I'm just salty about a recent loss. Half the posts in this sub could be flaired rant.