Once Oppressive Hearthstone Decks That Are Now Bad 

6:45 “This deck’s a bit too slow” as he gets bopped by a 23/23 Radiant Elemental on turn *3*

Remember when Galakrond was a sick playable archetype? Me too

watching him talk about how good shaman used to be while watching the priest doing their bs was funny af

Honorable mention to beta face hunter when release the hounds effect was "give each beast charge and +1/+1" for 1 mana It also got one of the most useless nerfs ever they removed the extra +1 health it gave changing nothing because its main use was killing consistently in turn 3-4

played since launch, had some less active expansions, but been and seen them all. patches still gives me a slight migrane. doesnt matter even if i win or its played from hand or a random result. that thing just haunts me. shows you how much it affected.

For me, I started playing around mean streets. Decks I remember being really oppressive besides pirate warrior which was on this list are also jade druid and quest rogue. I’ve been playing since but honestly can’t think of anything else in standard.

These videos make me feel soooo old, i never imagined that someone would make videos of things that i experienced there, i remember watching the grand tournament annauncement on day one and now i just watch people beeing like did you know this card existed?? And im like i had that in golden and played it in every deck(i forgot her name but she always said: welcome to the grand tournament, champion), its like my all time favourite card too, raza the chained

I said it at the time and I still hold that all they had to do to Warsong Commander was make her effect a passive that gives Charge to your minions that have 3 or less attack. Meaning if a minion ever goes over 3 attack it loses Charge. Much tamer than gutting the poor girl like they did and likely would of been a healthy change keeping the deck alive but nerfed enough.

I still use "EVERYONE! GET IN HERE!"

I remember the Turn 7 Hunter from the Beta/Release. You could play control until you hit 7, then the OG versions of Buzzard, Hounds and Timber Wolf

Ah yes, day one Demon Hunter. I remember the time where I (with a little bit of help) build a deck specifically to counter Demon Hunter. I think it is a Dragon Warlock.

ah yes, hearthstone before quest mage was printed. what a fun blast from the past

Once I reached Legend with post-nerf grim patron warrior, at the time no one used 3+ damage AOE so, it was just a delayed value-oriented version

I honestly think the whole Grim Patron thing got better with Risky Skipper. It may not be the same cards as before, but I think it's an upgrade. Much easier to tutor pirates and damage your own minions so Frothing can still do a lot of damage.

Incredible video. Try a new video with cubelock, plague jade druid, freeze mage

Im still in shock of the early facehunters beta unleash the hounds and even after the change with the buzzard i still remember a game where i got the turn 1 yeti with druid and still lost

Patches thinning being relevant is one of the biggest myths in hearthstone, thinning in anything that isn't combo is changes so little that you may as well just ignore it. Patches was busted because free tempo is busted, how would have seen the exact same amount of play if he required you to play 31 cards.

I got legend with Secret Pally and lost to many Grim Patrons along the way.

Back when flamewreathed faceless came out, pretty sure there was no standard rotation? I remember Kibler had been advocating for a standard format for quite some time before it happened.

Release the hounds was warsonged during beta ^^ It went from +1+1 and charge for all beasts to +1+0 and charge for all beasts to get a 1/1 with charge for each creature your oppenent has for 1 mana. During beta release the hound otk was oppressive

Demon hunter. What if Lifesteal shaman, shamans tokens and battlecry deal damage shaman but better. Shaman but green.

4 mana 7/7 was even getting cut from Aggro Shaman decks by the end.

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I mean this days with how brutally far power creep has gone, decks from like a year ago or even less sometimes are just unplayable because of all the absolutely nutty stuff they release every expac.

Ah man, i loved aggro shaman back in the day. Good times. Havent touched this game in years tho lol

I thought maybe Crystal Cave Rogue was going to be mentioned. It works on ladder to curb control decks. Loses to pirate rogue and pirate priest every time

for some reason I thought miracle rogue and mill druid were more oppressive than they were, but those were fun decks :p

You are not completly right about the patches situation, warrior was not the best class to use it, it was just the most populair one, but shaman was best on release in higher legend Fun video, brings back nostalgia

Wow, cards changed a lot

Man, I really should play Naxx now that I bought it so I can have my diamond Loatheb.

Bro thinks wild plays pirate quest. That shits too slow now

I really enjoyed Shaman those days , I haven’t the cards to play secret pala (cause I played zoo warlock) , I didn’t play DH day one cause all people played so much

Pretty sure GvG Tempo mage started mid range as an archetype unless you want to argue that it was classic hunter

Do you watch Barry McCockiner? Your delivery and editing remind me very much of him

Another deck which was oppressive and still good is probably jade druid

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What about the infinite shudderwock deck?

The value and tempo you can get from cards these days makes it so hard for me to come back to the game. Most of the decks i used to love aren't even slightly viable anymore because their win conditions are just worse than some modern decks turn 4, 5, or 6 curve fillers. I used to love monkey priest, but replacing youe habd and deck with random legendaries doesnt really achieve anything now. Oh you've got a bunch of legendaries? Cool, take 30 from denathrius (or some other wincon).

Couldn’t the OG 4 mana 7/7 be good now with overdraft?🤔 I could see that and shock hopper being good in a combo/ OTK deck

Wish you showed the cards you are talking about. Not everyone knows what every card does. Like grim patron deck you didn’t even show the namesake card

actually epic content

decks that Tipped The Scales too far you say....

Did aggro shaman even play the 7/7? I thought he was considered too slow, and was usually cut by higher lvl players?

You either die a heroic balanced game or live long to be a villanous money maker. Theres no inbetween, power creep is inevitable in all card games. As its the only incentive to sell packs. I know its hard truth to swallow. People who play to have fun, spend less money than people who want to win. And people who win, spend longer time in your game than people who play to have fun. As they will be more invested both physically and emotionally.

Jade shaman absolutely wrecked Pirate warrior as you could reliably clear their board and kill them on t 7-8.

lol the only time i got to diamond was day 1 demon hunter. in 26 games from bronze lolol. i couldn't lose the deck was so bonkers broken

Face Hunter? 😂

I have only ever played off meta decks. if you dont play supported packages and netdecks it is physically impossible to get into legend. T. Shaman player with 3k wins, and permanently resides in diamond 3 when I decide to log in.

Prrt wrrir

4 mana 7/7 was never good and pirate warrior started in old gods

Edit:If this is about Wild only,thats fine,but it gets even more confusing if its not maaaaan. You are talking about DECKS THAT WERE DOO DOO,but your whole video consisted of videos of mix modern,recent cards. Its confusing.Same as doing a video about roasting beef,and using pork instead. Downvote from me for that man.

Hs is dead😢 and feels like a wasteland of useless forgotten cards rip 2014 to 2017

I wanted to see a modern reinterpretation. At least replace warsong commander with broomstick. That's closer to what the deck used to be.