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Welcome to the Showdown in the Badlands expansion decks roundup – in this post, we will feature the best-performing early meta builds from pro players & streamers. I’ll try to add decks for all 11 classes, but it’s hard to say whether every single class will be viable around launch. This post will be updated every few hours over the early expansion period (roughly the first week). We also generally have compilations of best-performing decks in separate posts – one after ~24 hours and the second one a week after launch. So if you want something to base your early crafting decisions on, that would be your best choice (it’s still not a guarantee that those decks will remain viable, but it’s better than nothing).

Showdown in the Badlands is the third expansion of the Year of the Wolf (2023). While it doesn’t come with any rotation, a lot of the 145 new cards feel very powerful in the early testing and theorycrafting. It will surely shake things up a bit. The new mechanics and builds look promising so everyone should find something cool to try out.

If you weren’t with us during the reveal season, you can learn more about the expansion and see all the new cards in our Showdown in the Badlands expansion guide.

Showdown in the Badlands Deck Lists

Once the expansion launches, we give streamers some time to open packs and create the decks, then start posting. During the first couple of days, we aren’t very picky – we have no win rate statistics so early into the set, so we can’t sift through the bad decks. Around Day 3, we generally tend to stop posting everything and focus on high win rate decks or decks that achieved high Legend placements. As meta forms, decks become more refined and it’s getting clear which builds are good and which aren’t.

If this isn’t your first expansion then this is obvious, but be very careful about crafting anything this early in the expansion. A deck can be popular one day and then turn out to be really bad the next day. This has happened multiple times in the past, and most likely will happen to at least one or two decks this expansion too. If you are a budget player, we recommend holding off for at least a few days (and preferably until the first balance patch) before committing to crafting anything. Spending Dust on hyped Legendaries on Day 1 is a very common mistake, and can leave you without the means to craft the actual meta Legendaries after everything settles.

Table of Contents

• Death Knight
• Demon Hunter
• Druid
• Hunter
• Mage
• Paladin
• Priest
• Rogue
• Shaman
• Warlock
• Warrior

Death Knight

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4+

Demon Hunter

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4+

Druid

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4+

Hunter

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4+

Mage

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4+

Paladin

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4+

Priest

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4+

Rogue

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4+

Shaman

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4+

Warlock

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4+

Warrior

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4+