Thrombin, it's worth noting that you wouldn't use your Budget Nightbane's Bane deck on ladder - you'd get slaughtered due to your lack of minions under 4 mana. You're a skilled player who crafted a specific deck to deal with the specific boss, taking advantage of the 10 mana available from turn 1. On average, it took you roughly two attempts with that specifically crafted deck to beat the boss. Congratulations, you've made the point of the heroic very clear!Certainly, it'd be fair to say that you wouldn't be able to take a F2P ladder deck and have the same result, except for random poor draws by the boss.Remember that the text is for the baseline player, not the sort of player who comes to Hearthhead to discuss strategy, decks and tips. They say that Hearthstone has something like 50 million players worldwide now. I'd well believe that for over half of the player base, those who can't get past rank 20 in Standard / Wild, they will need multiple deck revisions and multiple attempts to get through.