How do you rate decks that beat you ?

[furballdn]

SoSa has moved to the top of my list of decks that gets a thumbs down if it manages to defeat me.  It's easily countered when I know it's coming, but lately I've seen it used in decks that have absolutely no business using it which just annoys me.  Seriously getting bored of beating decks using them and being defeated by others.

*fighting a life rush with a mark of fire for deflag* "Oh, that's a pretty unique idea. Quite cool, using the mark for PC while the frogs do damage." *Opponent suddenly plays SoSac and then chains more* "The Fu-"

[mesaprotector]

SoSa has moved to the top of my list of decks that gets a thumbs down if it manages to defeat me.  It's easily countered when I know it's coming, but lately I've seen it used in decks that have absolutely no business using it which just annoys me.  Seriously getting bored of beating decks using them and being defeated by others.

*fighting a life rush with a mark of fire for deflag* "Oh, that's a pretty unique idea. Quite cool, using the mark for PC while the frogs do damage." *Opponent suddenly plays SoSac and then chains more* "The Fu-"

Lol yeah, it also annoys me when a deck without a life mark uses SoGs. Basically, if the card doesn't make sense in the deck, why are you trying to squeeze it in?

[Shylderidh]

Automatic thumb down :
- ghostmare if oracle card isn't ghost or nightmare
- any deck using sosac if oracle card isn't sosac or death pilar
- quanta denial decks if oracle card isn't a quanta denial one (ie devourer, quicksand, trident, black hole)
- hope decks if oracle card isn't hope or a light emitting creature

And in general :
- unimaginative decks only good due to arena advantages (ie double drawing fire or nature rush or triple fire mark firestall)

Usual thumbs up :
- original decks especially based on water, air or earth, elements I find very rarely used in arena
- most decks allowing the opponent to play (= decks not based on quanta denial, boring stale or as fast possible dammage)
- most decks using their oracle card as their primary weapon
- most low level for their category decks (ie when I'm beaten by a level 22 or so deck in silver league despite its advantages are looking more like bronze ones)

[zombie0]

SoS, voted down every time.  no idea why this card exists, its not fun, its not balanced.

instead, how about giving a creature you control an ability "sacrifice".  the creature gains immortal and prevents all damage to you for X turns.  when no counters left, the creature dies (suggesting it actually sacrificed itself to help you).  maybe it is delayed while sacrificing, maybe not.

isnt that a 1000 times better idea than "chain this card for 20 turns, you cannot lose.  deck out all 30 card decks.  poison is a cool guy."?

[mesaprotector]

I love decks with SoSa because I'll just use Holy Flash But seriously yeah, it needs to be nerfed.

[Powerfrog]

I basically say to myself "Have i seen this deck before?"

Yes. Thumbs down.
No. Thumbs up.

If it's a really bad deck i'll thumb it down too, though. I admire the guts to be original, but you need to keep trying.

(Oh and SoSa. That's pretty much the one card i'll instantly thumb down regardless of circumstances. It's just rediculously overpowered.)

[tempalt3]

I usually just thumb down when there are really uncreative decks like: cremation lava rush, graboid, mono aether, and that sort of stuff. But if I sometimes see a deck that I simply really hate and would never use as a nice person, I might also thumb that down

EDIT: People still use oraclebows? x-x

Whats an oracle bow

[regen2k9]

Pretty much anything that's not one of the 5 most commonly used deck for its respective arena tier gets a thumbs up from me.

[Calindu]

With SPlat I started to thumbs down: SoSac decks, 12 of those will just deck out me, big stall decks that have nothing to do with the oracle card(example: mono aether with 12 SoGs), Ghostmares w/o SoV, those usually get killed with a good hand from me, but if they start to draw lock you, it's annoying, decks with 12 BHs, different monos with triple mark to splash oracle cards and the most annoying: rainbows that just splashed the oracle card(Rainbows with nova/QT wont get thumbs down).

Rest is pretty much Thumbs up, depends on some decks though.

[xdude]

I thumb up everything. It's more or less the only thing I do for the community.

[fbparis]

I guess decks with many "up" are more likely to be selected to play against people, so when I have a good arena deck in place, I think I should vote "down" every decks that can beat me in my league.

In Plat League, I'll also vote "up" every decks I know SPLAT or TOAST can beat cause these decks are the most common farming decks in this league I think

[waterzx]

All those crap decks that do nothing but hide behind the stupid dim. shield and wait for the lobo. to finish you. It doesn't even need a thought to build those decks.