The Meta: What Is It? (A DnDFreaK Article)

**MistahBoweh** · 02-10-2012, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by ahmet476

I've listened to it. It made me wonder, should I even care about the meta? It changes all the time anyway. I believe building a deck with a hero you like and tweaking it through your experience is good enough.

Your voice is presentable and you use it well too. I'm generally put off by long walls of text and just bookmark them. I try to read them one by one when I have time. This is a very good idea.

Yes, it's very important. The goal is to stay one step ahead, not just give up and stop caring. It's defining anticipating the meta that will win you events.

**iClipse** · 02-10-2012, 09:48 PM

I loved the audio version! Very smooth to listen to while doing dishes in the mean time.

**ahmet476** · 02-10-2012, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by dndfreak

Yes, it's very important. The goal is to stay one step ahead, not just give up and stop caring. It's defining anticipating the meta that will win you events.

But that would take a lot of time and dedication, wouldn't it? It's no easy feat.

**MistahBoweh** · 02-10-2012, 10:49 PM

You're right, it's not easy. There's a reason why not everyone can compete in these kinds of games at the highest tier.

**SolarWind** · 02-12-2012, 07:47 AM

+1 on the Audio man...

I can finally do something SE-related while driving... im all SE even when taking a bath :P

Seriously, good initiative... hope you can do 1 for ZhannaX

P.S. - "Chinese Checkers!" Good Lord.. I love this one

**glassbutterfly** · 02-13-2012, 07:01 AM

lol, you must've been out of breath after reading that article. Anyway, I enjoyed listening to it. I wonder if adding a Side Board to the game would help decks with 1-2 bad/non-winnable match ups. I'm still not sure about this because the card pool is fairly small, but it would definitely help with every deck's consistency (not having to run deck specific counters main deck). I used to play Pokemon (Gen 4/not tcg) and the word meta/over centralized etc. was used a lot, but I never fully understood it. Your article helped me understand what it really is and how it works. Ty for sharing this.

**Mrbigguy** · 02-15-2012, 09:20 PM

I wanted to know why this is not sticky?

I found this helpful and do not want it to fall away?

**Atomzed** · 02-19-2012, 06:23 AM

Great article! +1 to sticky!

Haven't heard the audio yet bec I more a reader than a listener. Will get down to hearing your Natural voice soon

P.s. I hate tapatalk... I keep missing good threads with tapatalk

**Bluejet24** · 02-21-2012, 05:23 PM

Keep it up man

**glencocoe** · 02-21-2012, 06:36 PM

Very well done post DND...I think Gene Wilder's smiling in his candy-coated grave. Anyways, yes, I kind of just picked up what meta was in Guild Wars (mmo). It was nice hearing you talk and how well you fleshed out your ideas

in fact, I might do one myself

thouuugghhhh I don't think it'll be as detailed as yours :/

On a side note, I must admit I hate when people get on the meta-bandwagon -_-" it's annoying. I suppose a good amount of people genuinely like a certain powerful hero, but I truly admire players who are able to include smart cards for general counters & such. Great article