I agree completly, once again HS is at this stage, where its been constructed around a couple of very strong decks, any deck that is not part of that inner circle is not only not viable for top ranks, its completly unplayable.
The innitial post mentions some of the problem decks, i want to add ramp druid in there as well, there is no way to interact with the deck, it just ramps, ramps, ramps, and then puff unless u killed it in turn 4 or 5 (which only the top tir aggro decks can do, ur 100% dead before turn 7.
But the reason why i poped in here on forums, is aktually to talk about Brann, ive played 5 games today and about 7 games yesterday, and 10 of 12 of those games, Brann poped up and just won the game, didnt matter if i was in a good shape or had the opponent under pressure, just simply 1 turn kills based on Brann. Astalor, shockspitter, and basicly any other card with a battlecry that has some dam tied to it.
For me the soul of HS and any other similar cardgame like Magicthegathering, etc. is that its fun building decks and refining them until u have something that is actually playable, but that whole aspect is currently completly absent from HS cause the high tir decks are so much more powerfull then the rest of the bunch.
To drive my point home, i am not even crying about not gettin into platinum or dimond ranks on standard, let alone legendary (god forbid), but just getting past gold5 seems now to be only possible if u copy/paste on of the toptir decks from on of the many deckbuilding homepages out there.
To the blizz team: dont you think its time, u start looking at the current meta as a whole?
Dont you relize that many ppl play this game to have fun, both while playing but also while building decks ?
Is it realy that important that u keep supporting ur premade decks that much ?
Start accepting that uve made some realy realy bad decissions with some cards, and remove them, especialy when its very obvious which cards are problematic. There is a reason its called shockspitter hunter, its because that deck is carried by a single card, dont try to nerf it, you would have to nerf it to oblivion to make it ballanced, just completly remove it. Its that simple. Same counts for rouge weapon, druid ramp etc.
There like 500 cards in the standard pool of cards that are currently completly irrelevant, but by removing like 10 cards, 90% of those irrelevant cards will get playable again.
And then while you are at it, ply take a good look at cards, that enable players to just sit back and just wait for the right cards, there is nothing fun about playing against a deck, that u can do abseloutly nothing about, because the mechanics of that deck dosent care about anything any other deck does, it just need 3-4 combo cards and its a garanteed win.
Ill stop here, i have a lot more frustration id love to pour out here, and i just deleted like half the post, cause its already long enough as it is.
But serious blizz ( or HS team ), do you realy think this is fun urself ?