I think there will always be people who play Wild, just like there are people who play non-Standard in MTG (not sure if that's what they still call the format these days.) Wild will always be a place where you can play with whatever cards you have, so it will be attractive to players coming back after a long period of time.
I think Standard will be the new "main" part of the game though. It's "future-proof", meaning that newer players will not need to spend as much to "compete". The fact that sets rotate out will mean a (theoretically) dynamic meta. Standard = New. It's exciting.
Wild will be the new Wild West--where broken decks go to retire. I don't think any effort will be made to keep card balance in check. People will just keep playing broken Combo Druid / Paladin decks (or whatever rises up to replace them.)
Those are my thoughts on it though. Personally, I don't plan on playing Wild at all.
Yeah. What BWG says.
TBH, I'm not stressed out about "losing" all these great cards.
Yeah, Lightbomb will go away and I'll have to live without Deathlord (who I both love and hate), but that's kinda the point. Now I can start messing around with other cards like Shadowfiend (current project), Cutpurse, and other crazy crap.
The experimentation and discovery are the most enjoyable parts of Hearthstone for me, not the refinement. I get that people play for different reasons, but when another poster asked earlier in the thread what everyone will be playing, two people answered "Secret Paladin" and "Aggro Shaman" for "easy laddering" against people experimenting with new decks.
There's no way I'm touching that stuff. I'm with the other dood who said he'd do C'thun Druid. lol New Adventures and Expansions are among the funnest times you're (I'm) going to get in HS. I'm going on non-gaf media blackout AFTER the set releases because I don't want to get spoiled on net decks.
