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Are semi-focused midrange decks in #Hearthstone typically better than super-focused synergistic decks? “Stuff I threw together with one good idea and a bunch of backup plans for doing damage” keeps winning against pro-level netdecks - and I keep winning with them and losing with the netdecks even though I’m not really any better with the card play of my own decks
@Kistaro (which is to say if you're currently playing at lower ranks on ladder, I think you might run into a very different layer of the competitive atmosphere at the higher ones—but this isn't something we'd know from experience)
@Kistaro I'm not anywhere near pro-level, but my impression is that combo/focused-synergy-oriented decks are _much_ harder to pilot, and evaluation of lines is hugely affected by having a more specific set of game plans. Which means you can make subtle mistakes that might be perfectly good plays with some other deck, and plummet down the other side of the variance curve in ways that don't look causally connected to it if observed over a single game. Straightforward midrange decks are much more homogeneous in strategy (straightforward aggro and straightforward control are similar but with tradeoff parameters tilted toward one side or another), with things like type synergy (my usual favorites) being somewhere in between.