I usually try to come up with own ideas which combos/mechanisms could work. For example i first just filter out all rares and mythics and put everything that looks like it could either A: synergies well with a lot of other cards or B: looks outright like an own wincondition on it's own. Then i try to build something around those scrapbook cards without any outside influence, most of those decks end up like crap though, btw ^^. sometimes i have created decks which were so anti meta (without wanting them to be), that i essentially had fun and easy wins against otherwise hard metadecks...
BUT, if i come across a netdeck that looks like it's the type of deckstyle then i usually want to try it out and i am not hesitating to copy/paste those decks into my library, without any bad feelings.
Usually i have to compromise on the cards anyway, because i play more on the budget side of the cardpool, so there will be gaps i have to fill with inferior cards, which shifts the dynamic of that netdeck a bit towards self brewn decks. I don't blame ppl for netdecking. Hell, all those tournament players certainly won't ALL have come up with the exact same "best" meta deck on their own and at the same time (remember the whopping 40% bant-golos deck disaster at that recent tournament).
BUT, if i come across a netdeck that looks like it's the type of deckstyle then i usually want to try it out and i am not hesitating to copy/paste those decks into my library, without any bad feelings.
Usually i have to compromise on the cards anyway, because i play more on the budget side of the cardpool, so there will be gaps i have to fill with inferior cards, which shifts the dynamic of that netdeck a bit towards self brewn decks. I don't blame ppl for netdecking. Hell, all those tournament players certainly won't ALL have come up with the exact same "best" meta deck on their own and at the same time (remember the whopping 40% bant-golos deck disaster at that recent tournament).