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Man, I have seen like...almost no discussion of standard at all after the nerfs. (The subreddit is all about Battlegrounds and Duels, which makes sense those modes got new content and it's busted, and wild players are excited cause we don't get nerfs very often).

Had the lunar new year quest to play 3 games in standard, and realized I didn't actually have a standard deck (last one I used to ladder at all was pirate warrior, and I've disenchanted the quest). So...I went with the deck that VS hyped the most, which was Drek'thar taunt druid, crafted one oracle of elune I was missing, re-crafted the two nerfed cards and...went 0-3 at bronze 10.

Well, kinda questioning that 800 dust I spent, but oh well.

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Anyway, enough about standard; let's talk about wild.

So...on Odd Quest Hunter--part of the reason I was looking into this deck was cause I thought it might have a good matchup into mech'a'thun warlock and freeze shaman, and it does! Also, Ignite Mage is around and has been piloted at high legend by a few players, and also has a good matchup into mech'a'thun warlock and freeze shaman.

But...what I didn't think about is that there's just a better option that can fill the same role.

The one I've been messing with is...quest rogue (caverns below).

I'm actually at the point that I'm bouncing between evenlock and quest rogue on ladder. Evenlock is better against pirate warrior, and probably some hyper aggro decks. Quest rogue feels better against most other stuff I'm facing. Although...worth noting that quest rogue isn't hopeless into pirate warrior (probably have a 40% winrate or so). One of the few quest rewards that are actually better than pirate warrior's quest reward, AND quest rogue can typically finish the quest a turn earlier. Still a bad matchup cause they hit you in the face with pirates. But like...not unwinnably bad?

That said, Divine Spirit Priest might just be a better option--haven't played it yet, but it's got the best winrate against pirate warrior according to VS, and playing against it, I've seen that deck OTK from an empty board on like turn...5 or 6 or so? No idea how consistent that is, but man, just reading about that deck in the VS report I underestimated how good it would be against things other than pirate warrior. I assumed they would just get frozen and devolved by freeze shaman, and plague of flamed by control warriors, but they have a lot more access to charge than I considered (Gnomeregan Infantry, Wave of Apathy+Potion of Illusion).