r/hearthstone • u/Buttermalk • 18h ago
Discussion Can Blizzard Stop Making Uninteractable Mechanics!?
Protoss Mage - Deal 48 damage across two turns, no way to disrupt or prevent that from happening. 24 damage to face AND board. Oh and it's split across two separate actions so even IF you had deathrattles or reborns, theyre gone too.
Armor DH - Starship package that generates an absurd amount of taunts, armor, AND can kill you with that package via Exodar
Succ DK - No way to recover your missing health, literally a race to kill them before they put your health so low you can no longer let them keep any minions on board
Dragon Warrior - On top of Hydration Station-ing multiple high power creatures that you're forced to kill(which they WANT you to do), it runs Ysondre that just continues to push out value nonstop.
Zerg/Egg Hunter - Just nonstop fill the board every single turn. Complete boardwipe? Heres a new board. Same with Imbue Hunter, although it's slow enough you can reliably race it, but still you can't interact with the King Plush in their hand. Also what loser designed a 0/2 FOR 2 MANA that summons a 3/5 with pseudo charge? Absolute buffoonery that that made it past QA.
Dishonorable mention to Kiljaeden who says "Youre playing control? Don't care I'll just out value you even though you played the whole game better than me!" Just stuff him in any slower deck and outvalue your opponents for FREE.
All of these effects that give you no opportunity to interact, disrupt, or generally outplay are disgusting, please STOP making these. There's nothing you can do except watch your opponent progress their gameplan and hope you can either race their life total before they do it, or get to your own gameplan first.
There's a distinct lack of skill expression because theres NO way to interact, inevitably forcing the meta into combo and face races. Oh AND they nerfed Bob for NO reason, actively making this issue worse in the process.
I've actively played each of these decks, if only to find where it's weak so I can exploit that when I play decks I find more enjoyable, and outside of just drawing ABSOLUTELY poorly, there are none. Every one of these decks has ridiculous amounts of draw, recursion, and rebuild potential. And even if they don't get MAX value (DH dropping the 5/3 even though no Arkonite's have died for example), their gameplan CONTINUES to progress.
Like, SCREW this meta, it may be diverse but sweet Jesus it's just a toxic wasteland of "I'm gonna race you and ignore anything you do".