It’s been almost a week since the expansion’s release, so I’ll no longer be updating this post. If you’re looking for the latest decks, click here: Standard & Wild

Welcome to the Perils in Paradise 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 up to a couple of days after the release 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).

Perils in Paradise is the second expansion of Year of the Pegasus (2024). While the expansion comes with no rotation, we’re still getting 145 new cards, and if the early theorycrafting conclusions are right, some of them are really, really powerful. I expect a lot of changes to the meta, although some of the already viable decks should still stay playable. Some with new support and some without. Sadly it seems like it might be a very “expensive” expansion, since most of the new decks will want to utilize the new Tourist mechanic, and you need a Legendary card for that. Tourist cards might be staples even if they effect isn’t particularly powerful just because they activate the dual-class mechanic.

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 Perils in Paradise expansion guide.

Perils in Paradise 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 better 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 should be obvious, but be very careful about crafting anything right after it launches. A deck can be popular and look powerful on day 1 or 2 and then quickly disappear (alongside your hard-earned Dust). 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, but we understand that it’s a tough ask) 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