It seems really that in either Standard or Wild, the best thing to do is go online and pick a deck and if you’re lucky you’ll have all the cards and you can follow the recipe.
If you don’t have all the cards then you tweak it somewhat but its never as effective as the original recipe.
Is that the essence and experience of Hearthstone?
It depends on what you want to experience, really. If you want to play ladder, then, probably what you describe is the overall experience for the vast majority of players. There are some that are really good and they not only create those recipes (I’m referring to the infamous net decks) but tweak them according to the meta.
Another type of experience is to experiment. Build decks for the sake of building decks and experiment with other decks, often off-meta decks. Players that do this are either 1) really good and actually play ladder with these decks, they are very rare in my opinion or 2) are like me, bad but relaxed, and happy to just play around in casual.
I guess I reduced this to either be competitive or not caring about competitiveness… I’m pretty sure it’s not that simple though.
In my case it’s a case of taking some popular deck list and modifying it to fit my playstyle.
For example, my version of Casino Mage has replaced most of the stuff that did not include the word “random” with stuff that have it. I even left out discover stuff despite Primordial Glyph being so good.
AAEBAf0EAumsApaaAw7AAcsEhw+JD4sUjqwCgbICnNMCoNMCwvMCtPwCo/0Cg5YDppgDAA==
It’s been a ton of fun, I tell you.
There are people here who also play their self-made decks, however I never ever seem to run into them.
Playing wild casual exclusively, all I’m facing are netdecks. Literally all.
Incredible how boring people are.
So im one of those rare players then? Cause all i do is make some new decks for fun or just think “would deathrattle priest still do well now thats its lost its quest” the answer yes suprisingly especially if you add in some silence and use some resurrect stuff (and no i dont have the legendary that brings minions back but i do have deathrattle legendarys) and it pretty much worked against all decks except mage, i even made a deck called “this should never win” where i just shoved random warlock cards into a deck and for some reason it works 99% of the time unless i decide to throw the game for memes
Interesting. Do you have a high(ish) win rate in wild casual? I’m asking because, while I do find net decks, I find plenty of homebrews and the occasional “poor man’s deck” around and I’m wondering if it’s because my win rate is low?
I concede every time against big priests, baku/genn decks, mech hunters,…
So I’m guessing my winrate should be around 0.3%. It’s a mystery why I’m not running into these homebrews, because I’ve read before winrates influence the opponents you come up against.
Just played, or tried to play, a few games. One murloc shaman, 2 mech hunters, 2 big priests, 1 odd paladin. It’s so draining.
Pretty much. Those lists are based on people who have essentially done all the research for you and have come up with the optimal build for said decks. So changing any cards that aren’t a direct tech choice against the meta shifting will only make that deck weaker.
That said, this does create some opportunities to do well with complete snowflake decks, simply because the fact that you know every card in your opponents deck gives you a massive advantage over them not having a clue about what your doing. This month I’ve been climbing a bit with a Priest that uses the Vargoth + mindblast x2 finisher. Won so many games simply by my opponent not playing around 15 damage from hand, when I’ve had 3 cards stuck in my hand for ages.
That’s the reason why I asked about your winrate. Just checked my replays on HSReplay, and on the last 100 games I have a 46% win rate and faced (in my last 21 replays):
3 x Mechadin (Meta)
2 x Odd Paladin (Meta)
2 x Pirate Warrior (Meta)
1 x Tempo'ish Demonlock (Budget?)
1 x Burgle Rogue (Meta)
1 x Combo Priest (Meta)
1 x Inspire/Tempo Mage (Homebrew)
1 x Murloc Shaman (Meta)
1 x Budget Buffadin (Homebrew/Budget?)
1 x OTK Paladin (Homebrew)
1 x Darkest Hour Warlock (Meta)
1 x All Legendary Paladin (Homebrew)
1 x Big Paladin (Meta?)
1 x Control Warlock (Meta)
1 x Reno Mage (Homebrew)
1 x Disconnected Druid (?)
1 x Discard Warlock (Budget)
So of these 21 encounters, 13 were meta decks and 7 were homebrews and/or budget decks and 1 is unknown, which, I think, is pretty good. Note that on my last matches I got no Big Priests and no Mech Hunters, which, let’s admit, it’s kinda odd.
The initial question stands though, especially because my win rate was much higher than I thought: how are we getting matched against other players and why, since your experience sounds much worse than mine.