How do standard decks win at the moment?
Demon Hunter
- face. At least this deck is honest. Can interact.
Death Knight
- value. The only other honest deck in the field. Although it tends to scam by playing Explosion for 0. Which is mana cheat. Can interact mostly.
Druid
- scam. Tuned down recently but it’s only scam. Can’t interact with a Dungar turn 4-5.
Hunter
- scam. Grunter otk from hand. Can’t interact consistently (only Dirty Rat and snipe + hard removal ready)
- value. Discovery H it’s all about mana cheat. Can interact but the constant mana cheat value makes it impossible.
mage
- scam. Fast aggro with mana cheat, direct damage for 0, can instakill from hand. Can partially interact but again, the constant value and mana cheat makes it impossible.
- scam. Full board of 4/3 for 21 dmg. Again, tons of mana cheat. Can interact except the combo turn.
Pally
- scam. Buff pally just gets too much value/stats too soon. Can interact but the game at the moment doesn’t offer proportionate answers as it scales too quick and too soon for what is available.
- scam. Lynessa kills from hand via mana cheat. Can’t interact in OTK turn.
Priest
- scam. Time Walk and gg. Can’t interact in the OTK turn.
Rogue
- scam. The recent nerf to Sonya doesn’t impede the big chance of scam/mana cheat with giants. Can interact but as per pally, too much too soon for the current answers.
Shaman
- scam. There’s no answer to roids in the standard format currently. Can’t interact.
Warlock
- scam. Wheel is just stupid. Can’t interact with that.
Warrior
- scam. Odin instakills. Can’t interact with that (Dirty Rat is not a consistent answer considering the deck uses a lot of minions)
- scam. The infinite loop has no answer. Can’t interact with that.
So, out of the 15 most played decks, 1 is honest (face), 2 are dishonest (value) and 12 are pure scam. Out of the same 15, only 3 one can interact, the rest you either can’t or there are no tools for that in the current format.
Remember when they nerfed Patron Warrior because “it’s not healthy for the game to have a deck the opponent cannot interact with?”
Well. This.