“With mostly combo decks topping the winrate charts – and little to no aggro toolkit to counter them on an archetypal level –, we’ll have to wait and see how consistently can a non-Highlander deck trigger Zephrys’ effect in later metagames.”
I find this sentence confusing. Since when are combo decks mostly topping the winrate charts? According to hsreplay and VS, Murloc Paladin is the only Tier 1 deck that could be considered a combo deck and runs Zephrys, and its “combo” isn’t even a one turn kill, it’s a repeated board flooding mechanism, which is normally considered aggro not combo. Other non-highlander decks that run Zephrys are Quest Druid, which is more midrange than combo and isn’t Tier 1, and Holy Wrath Paladin, which isn’t a anywhere near Tier 1, but crops up in tournaments and at legend because it can take games off of particular decks. Meanwhile, the numbers show that if it weren’t for Control Warrior, Aggro Rogue, Aggro Warrior, and Zoo Warlock could all be among the top decks right now and Murloc Shaman and Paladin would be even stronger, and Control Warrior’s ability to shut them down has nothing to do with Zephrys.
“With mostly combo decks topping the winrate charts – and little to no aggro toolkit to counter them on an archetypal level –, we’ll have to wait and see how consistently can a non-Highlander deck trigger Zephrys’ effect in later metagames.”
I find this sentence confusing. Since when are combo decks mostly topping the winrate charts? According to hsreplay and VS, Murloc Paladin is the only Tier 1 deck that could be considered a combo deck and runs Zephrys, and its “combo” isn’t even a one turn kill, it’s a repeated board flooding mechanism, which is normally considered aggro not combo. Other non-highlander decks that run Zephrys are Quest Druid, which is more midrange than combo and isn’t Tier 1, and Holy Wrath Paladin, which isn’t a anywhere near Tier 1, but crops up in tournaments and at legend because it can take games off of particular decks. Meanwhile, the numbers show that if it weren’t for Control Warrior, Aggro Rogue, Aggro Warrior, and Zoo Warlock could all be among the top decks right now and Murloc Shaman and Paladin would be even stronger, and Control Warrior’s ability to shut them down has nothing to do with Zephrys.