LogFAQs > #904690329

Generally speaking, in the new standard meta, defensive options (76) seem to outnumber aggressive ones (50) by a fairly wide margin. Moreover, the aggression options have been getting progressively more expensive to play, focusing on the 3-5 mana range, on average. Long gone are the days of Tunnel Troggs and Small-Time Buccaneers. The best aggressive options in this period were good - like Corridor Creeper, Call to Arms, and Bonemare - but many have suffered nerfs (well deserved in most cases, don't get me wrong) and largely fallen out of favor because of it.

By contrast, the defensive options have been among the most powerful the game has ever seen: Defile, Spreading Plague, Duskbreaker, and almost all the Deathknights. The only one that received a nerf was Plague, from 5 to 6 mana, and it's still a stable in the best 3 decks in the game at legend, according to VS. While these tools had been used to keep pace with the previous crop of offensive cards, the offensive pools have weakened while the defensive ones largely haven't. The best aggressive option right now is Baku, which is less a card (as the card itself is basically unplayable) and more a deck build around a theme.