Slightly Green wrote:
I can understand your dislike of 'fast' decks, I have found them irritating in the past also, but it is how the game meta goes. Had a few weeks of nice slow decks (Control Warrior and Priest in my case) but now the meta has gone so slow a rush deck is again viable, give it another week or two and rush decks will be dominant again and the mid range block decks will be back in force to stop them.
I don't have the time to build my own decks (well any that have any traction in the game) so am happy to cherry pick fun decks that I get enjoyment from playing, have taken a look at the fatigue mage deck you linked and I may give it a go. I thoroughly enjoyed decks which involve alot of thought going into every turn, but I also can get enjoyment from just rushing and destroying peoples faces. Have been playing around with Mill decks alot recently, and they are nearly viable but not quite, hopefully one of the new cards from Blackrock will fill the gap.
I think the main reason I like this deck is it has been a while since I have had a viable Paladin deck (am still missing Quartermaster and Tyrion so the midrange deck isnt available to me at the moment), anywho main thing is that it is a game, people can play any deck they want within the framework of it. I did a full legendary deck a few weeks back just for giggles, lost 20 games on the trot but was hilarious.
There's nothing in that post that I'd particularly take issue with, and yes it is a game and therefore people should just do whatever they think is fun.
For me personally though, I just have no interest in, and gain absolutely no satisfaction from, playing any sort of aggro or rush deck. Get the right draw and you'll win with minimal thought about what you're doing, the cards actually do most of the work for you simply by appearing in your hand in the right order.
I did keep an aggro Warlock deck in my deck list for a while, just so I could knock down the Warlock or Priest quest (when I was still boycotting Priest), but by fuck I felt cheap and dirty when I played with it, to the extent that I often gave my opponent a genuine 'Sorry' emote when I won, because you could damn near train a monkey to play those decks. (Now I use the EBG lock deck, and I have a control Priest deck as well.)
Last year I did enjoy playing a fast hunter deck (albeit not aggro/face), but I feel I'm at a stage now in my Hearthstone 'career' as it were, whereby playing those decks is just some sort of pointless regression.
I can understand there are some situations whereby aggro decks make sense, a high-rank Legend player who just wants to quickly get back to the ranks where he really gets challenged for example, or someone who wants to efficiently take down a daily quest for the gold and get back to the classes or decks he's really interested in.
But for me though, aggro just equals filth, although in a way I'm glad it exists because it does delight me when I systematically take apart an aggro deck with a far more complex and brain-challenging control deck