Kayle
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In regards to Kayle's OP, a format can be diverse and remain stale.
Just because I played against four different decks doesn't mean it was enjoyable to do so. The rogue decks that you see tend to either be garbage or capitalize on a contextually strong card. The rogue decks you see, Scizor, Steelix, etc., aren't any more fun to play against, you either have a counter in your archetype and it's a fairly straightforward match, or you don't and suffer the improbable loss dealt to you by TOM.
It's not the fault of the rogue decks or archetypes. Boring wins. It's just that there are only so many viable decks that are capable of contending against the meta at large, and another category of decks capable of doing extremely well given a specific distribution of decks in its pairings.
I found this post to be very insightful.
In light of this it is pretty clear that it's the format. You're saying then, that it's not that there aren't ENOUGH decks, but the QUALITY of the decks is poor?
In which case, reflecting on it, I agree.