Hearthstone: Arena beatdown!

I have played through all of the decks to level 10.  I've practiced, I'm played unranked matches, I've even dabbled with a couple decks in some ranked.  The one thing I still hadn't done was Arena.  I tried it last night.

It hurt.  Bad.



I entered the Arena with for the first time and was greeted with the free pass and offered a choice of three classes.  I picked a class.  I've had decent success with a Priest and I see people complain about how OP they are.  Let's do it!  I get the first group of three cards.  I gaze upon them in great wonder.  It is like I've never played this game before.  OH SHIT!  The thought slams into my face.  I don't get to make any REAL choices.  There is a basic plan to most of my decks.  This is my focus and highlight and this is how I support it.  Not in Arena....

I go through and I pick cards that I feel have a decent synergy.  I mull over choices and build my deck.  I'm not happy with it.  I only had two taunts show up.  Almost everything is spells and I'm not too excited about a caster Priest deck build.  I immediately regret making this decision and hate my deck.

The first match starts.  I have nothing, I play nothing.  1/1 Boar with Charge.  Okay.  Not too bad.  It goes horribly down hill.  I'm playing a Druid and by the time they have 7 resources the game is fucking OVER.  DONE.  ENDED.  It took six fucking turns to wipe me.  This is disgraceful.  I feel bad.  I feel like shit.  What have I learned in this game?  Am I new here?  What is wrong with me?  What is wrong with my deck!?  GOD DAMMIT!

I go again and find similar results.  This time all of my draws are shit and I see the EXACT SAME STRATEGY.  It's all low-drop bullshit.  This isn't a deck, this is a fucking zerg.  A bunch of shitty low-drop menus that just swarm you.  Charges seemed pretty popular, too.  There was no real strategy, draw cards, play cards, BOOM.  Ugh.  I knew what was going to happen.  I wasn't wiped as quickly, but still didn't do very well.  I managed to get them down to 12, though, before being zerged down.

Fuck this!  I'm going again!

My draws at the beginning were bad, again.  I redraw ALL of my cards and get even worse cards, somehow.  Gross.  This match goes much better.  I get them down to 3 HP before being trampled.  The last match was a Paladin who healed for 8, 6 and 6.  It was literally like killing them twice.  GAH!  I see the same thing again.  Lots of low drops supported in between by heals or Paladin damage buffs.  I did my best to keep control, but just couldn't outlast those big heals.

Three-and-out.  Disgusting.  I was pretty unhappy with the entire thing.  My first stab at the Arena was bitter.  I wasn't happy at all at my showing.  However, at the end I did get a few gold, a couple of dust and a pack of cards that gives me one blue and 4 white dupes.  OH BOY!  A free card pack ain't so bad, I guess.

I'm gonna have to regroup and get some confidence up and give this another try.