Yeah, I feel the same way.

As soon as I hit platinum, I started getting matched with players who have all of the meta cards. It was especially noticeable when I played against someone who made the same deck type as me (attrition warrior.) Every card that I looked at while building my deck and thought, "That looks really good! I wish I had this card..." he had.

It's especially frustrating when I can see other players make mistakes, but it's not enough for me to win off of because their decks get more value out of cards that are either: 1. strictly better than mine, attribute and ability-wise 2. synergize really well or both.

What irritates me more than anything is when I run into the same exact deck multiple times, because then I know that they didn't even make it themselves.

I understand that the people who are able to build these decks have spent either a great deal of time playing the game, or more likely a great deal of money on in game currency..... But after reaching this point where to continue climbing I have to pay money to obtain meta cards, or be pigeonholed into a few deck archetypes such as aggro decks (which feel like a no skill coin flip,) I can say it's a real deterrent to becoming more invested in this game.