Decks to Get Your Grind On

 

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Hello everyone! Today I wanted to talk about the current state of Hearthstone ranked metagame. What decks I think are best suited to climb the ladder and what decks you should be looking to build if you’re starting out.

In my opinion, the best performing decks right now are the following, in order of relevance:

Warlock: With the nerf to Mage’s AoE spells these decks have risen to the top again. Whether it is Murlocs or the pump version (the one with Argent Squires and lots of creatures that pump each other), it is probably the deck you have to be more prepared against.

Rogue: Rogue decks are remarkably efficient, and very good at defeating Warlock , thus the reason why they are so high up in the list. Another good thing about Rogue decks is that they can take both the beatdown and the control role depending on the matchup.

Druid: If these decks weren’t so damn expensive, druid would be, with no doubt, top 1. The combination of cheap removal, efficient mid-game creatures and late game bombs (legendaries) make this class very well suited in the current metagame. However, for it to work, there has to be a ton of legends in it. So it’s unlikely you will face a lot of them, specially in lower ranks.

Shaman: Shaman is the class I started with and one I believe is very well suited for the current metagame. The combination of early removal and lots of efficient taunt creatures make it very good against Warlock and Rogue. However it is weak against Druid and Mage, that’s why it isn’t higher on the list.

Mage: Mage has been nerfed, but it is still there and so is pyroblast. They are especially good against mid-range decks such as Shaman and Rogue. However Warlock is no longer a favorable matchup, and it is very weak against druid. It’s been falling out of favour at the top ranks lately.

Paladin: Paladin’s lack of AoE spells makes him a poor choice nowadays. Most Warlock decks will get out of control really fast and it will require a two card combo to wipe the board. That’s not reliable. On top of that it has no clear favorable matchups besides Mage.

I believe the remaining classes are not worth mentioning. There are some builds that might work out however, so feel free to experiment if you want. Just be sure your deck can beat Warlock, otherwise is probably not a good option.

My last advice regarding this topic is that if you try to make a deck, Wild Pyromancer is probably the card you always want to be playing.

Now as I said, I know most of you guys are just starting out and don’t have many (if any) legendaries to work with, so I wanted to give you a couple of cheap budget decklists to start climbing the ladder with.

This is the deck I used to get from rank 25 all the way up to rank 2. It’s proven to be quite successful. Even at the highest ranks.

2x Forked Lightning
2x Lightning Bolt
2x Earth Shock
2x Stormforged Axe
1x Bloodmage Thalnos
2x Wild Pyromancer
2x Feral Spirit
2x Harvest Golem
2x Lightning Storm
2x Unbound Elemental
2x Defender of Argus
2x Earth Elemental
1x Sylvanas Windrunner
2x Fire Elemental
2x Sunwalker / Argent Commander

You can replace the two legendaries with 2x Earthen Ring Farseer if you don’t have them, but if you like the deck I recommend you get them as soon as possible, specially Bloodmage Thalnos. If you have something like Ragnaros the Firelord, Ysera or The Black Knight you can also replace them with those.

Keep in mind that this list is quite weak against Mage decks and you will probably face many in lower brackets. They are not unbeatable but they are tough.

Second is a common Murloc Warlock list that doesn’t run any legendary besides Old Murk-Eye, which is given for free when you unlock all the murlocs. It’s a very efficient and fast deck that will get you out of the lower brackets easily.

2x Soulfire
2x Power Overwhelming
2x Blood Imp
2x Flame Imp
2x Young Priestess
2x Grimscale Oracle
2x Murloc Raider
2x Murloc Tidecaller
2x Voidwalker
1x Demonfire
2x Bluegill Warrior
2x Knife Juggler
2x Murloc Tidehunter
2x Coldlight Oracle
2x Murloc Warleader
1x Old Murk-Eye

This list is weak against AoE spells (Specially decks running Wild Pyromancer) and Rogues. However, it will catch off-guard most of your lower rank opponents. In my opinion a very reliable choice to climb with.

I’d also like to point out that there are many Rogue decklists that are quite cheap, but I haven’t played them much so I can’t recommend a proper one. If you like the archetype I’m sure you can find some running around.

Well, I believe that’s all for today people. I hope you found this article helpful and that you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing. If you have any questions feel free to comment here, ask me on my stream or give me a message on twitter.

Thanks for reading,
Duckone.