I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Hearthstone is in a stale meta. Even Hearthstone ’s content creators are starting to get bored. Tempo Storm is a popular Hearthstone team, owned by streamer Reynad. Every week they release a “Meta Snapshot” where Tempo Storm’s team of players discuss tiers of decks and what makes one deck better than another. This week, for the seventh straight week, the top two decks are Midrange Druid and Secret Paladin. There have been some fluctuations in tier two and tier three, but for the most part nothing has changed.
The Tempo Storm writers are obviously getting bored, and have decided to do something different for this week. Instead of regurgitating the same trivia, they wrote about the state of the game. These “Meta Snapshots” are written by a few professional Hearthstone players who seem to be fed up with the status quo. In “Thoughts and Observations” they wrote: “Here you would usually find a bunch of statements about the decks, their match-up against one another, and some mention of deck popularity. All of this is done in an effort to validate the importance of those minor shifts in the meta, a vein [sic] attempt to make the most stale meta in Hearthstone history seem vaguely exciting.”
Under each deck, they normally talk about deck matchups and changes in the meta. Their Secret Paladin roundup is so sarcastic, even Evil Heckler would find it in bad taste. Under Agro Druid they added this gem: “What's this... another week with Mid-Range on top of the Snapshot rankings? What a surprise! Why this deck is so good? Cause you can literally beat any deck with early ramp and a strong curve.”
Everyone is waiting on the release of Standard for something interesting to happen. Right now, the game is in a stasis, a coma that it can’t wake up from. I’ve accepted I’m not getting past rank 5 this season, because I can’t stand to play another Secret Paladin. I’d play casual, but come on, the only people that touch that are noobs and people who want to try “fun” decks. Until the format changes I’ll be hibernating under a rock, playing League of Legends .
