Wanderer people hear my call

[phoinexflame]

Wanderer has the same problem as old Variax, It is perfectly fine if played on curve but it gets out of hand if when it gets ramped. Possible solutions include the Variax treatment i.e. increasing its cost (will quite possibly kill Wanderer for factions without ramp), Nerfing its stats, and simply making it unrampable. I personally would prefer the last option but I doubt that will happen.

As for countering Wanderer there are actually quite a few ways to do that including Artifact decks (One-woman army Reva), Aggro and Burn decks, Decks with better lategame than Wanderer that can reliably achieve said lategame (Fault) and lastly decks that can Snowball/out Tempo Wanderer (the only decks I’m aware of that reliably do this are Pantheran Vet and Arcanyst decks). The main problem is if you can’t abuse one of Wanderer’s weaknesses (which almost every midrange deck in the game cannot do) he will just steamroll you with Statsticks.

[beelakor]

i just see people with no ribbons playing wanderer on diamond and i understand the situation.

Must feel awful when you can see duelyst grow amiright?
I am always happy to see new people… even when they play meta decks.

[alplod]

Those noobs should have no place in our wonderful community.

Oh no, the game is so dead…

[epicflygon]

(the only decks I’m aware of that reliably do this are Pantheran Vet and Arcanyst decks)

Add Midrange Faie to the list, it’s such a powerful but incredibly high skill deck, imo it’s actually better than Fault but requires so much skill that the normal player should stick to fault.

[beelakor]

look into my eyes and explain why you don’t like me.

[phoinexflame]

I was trying to list decks that are well known enough or those which I have personally tested. Since I don’t play Midrange Faie nor do I see it on the Ladder as often as Aggro Reva I cannot comment on its strength.

[epicflygon]

There was a single day where it was popular but because it was so high skill they couldn’t win with it.

Solafid took it to S1 awhile back.

[phoinexflame]

IIRC that was quite some while ago, right after ToM came out. Lots of things have changed since then; cards have been nerfed, Unrotation, the Meta has changed completely. I am quite sure that midrange Faie is no longer one of the top decks.

[epicflygon]

A lot has changed but the deck is just as powerful, it was never meta because too little people played it but it’s one of if not the strongest deck if you can play it correctly.

[phoinexflame]

I recall rather frequently running into it on the ladder upon ToM’s release, but I haven’t seen it in a long time which leads me to believe it isn’t what it once was.

[epicflygon]

I already stated the reason, it’s knowm to be a high skill deck. People would’ve net decked it because it was the best deck, unknowing of how much skill it required and after a few games dropping it because they lost too much.

[nwardezir]

“i’m a bitch so i run wanderer”

I’m a bitch so I run wanderer.

Even if I don’t really see how it’s correlated

[lazyremus]

I don’t know enough to say whether wanderer is op or not. It doesn’t seem particularly fun to me, but to each his own. I understand its popularity though. It’s effective and, by far the easiest trial. I’ll admit, when it comes out, I do get the urge to concede. Hopefully, after more experience and a larger collection, it won’t cause me as much trouble.

[yerboijosh]

you are the hero we need but dont deserve

[owlbeastmd]

A friendly reminder that if all of you so called vanar mains solved your faction instead of waiting for the cross faction guys to do it for you, we probably wouldn’t be having this convo

Edit: yes, wanderer is fair, but its floor is too forgiving for noobs running it to not be called bitches.

[longshot405]

Two of my 15 decks are wanderer decks (Argeon and Lilith). I haven’t played either of them in over a month.

[ryousen]

Admittedly, I dont know wether or not Wanderer is OP because I just play memes on gold, but as far as Ive witnessed, this is the best worst top deck Ive ever seen.
Compare it to arcanyst vanar for example- T1 was always Circulus or Manaforger, and Owlbeast at T3 at most. Not only those were always the same strategy, its the same sequence, and the same cards every time. Now, Wanderer feels like an actual match because who the hell plays Maw???, and, wow i never thought i’d see Dustwailer being played, and, what kind of janky ass minion is this; the fact that its highlander ensures that the match is more interesting, at least to me, than most other decks.

[alexx55]

vault

Questions in Gate

[halcyon98]

I’m a bitch so I run Wanderer. What?