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Top Standard & Wild Legend Decks – March of the Lich King (+Return to Naxxramas) Week 14 – March 2023

By: Stonekeep - - Updated:

It’s been over a week since the last balance update. Even though only 2 cards were nerfed in Standard, it had a much higher impact than many people have suspected.

Nerfing Construct Quarter to 4 mana slowed Death Knight enough to give other high tempo decks time to fight for the board control – at 3 it was basically impossible to outplay the Egg into 2-drop into Quarter curve. Death Knight decks – especially Frost and Unholy – are still some of the best decks in the game, but they no longer dominate hard.

Nerfing Goldshire Gnoll to 11 mana had an ever bigger impact. Decks that played the card honestly are now a bit weaker, but it made the biggest difference in Evolve Shaman. Instead of evolving into a random 10-cost minion, Gnoll will now always evolve into itself. The change has – obviously – completely killed the deck, as it relied on early/mid-game Gnoll evolves to seize control. Right now the deck is completely unplayable so don’t even bother. I wish they made some changes that would keep the deck alive, but I guess that Gnoll had to go – it was really an imbalanced and unfun combo.

The current meta is still far from perfect. It’s mostly dominated by high tempo/aggressive decks. They simply have too efficient of an early game for slower decks to stand a chance. Even a Blood Death Knight, which should theoretically be a great counter for those, simply doesn’t have tools to deal with their early game fast enough. Yes, it has positive matchups against many of them, but it’s more a 55/45 matchup and not a full counter. If you add the fact that it gets countered quite easily itself by things like Questline Druid or Phylactery Warlock – it’s just not good enough for the most part. People still play because it’s the closest we have right now to a viable Control deck, but if you want to maximize your win rate, you should probably stay away for now.

Patch 25.6 should be dropping next week alongside a new expansion announcement. Time sure flies, huh? .6 patches rarely have any major balance changes, but they come with a new card release. Sometimes they are quite useless, other times they might be very impactful. For example, Prince Renathal was a .6 patch card and it changed the meta considerably. But it’s just guessing at this point. The next few weeks will probably be focused on announcements – card reveals, new Standard year rotation/Core set announcements, and maybe a roadmap with some new features (hopefully). It should be a busy few weeks, but unless the new card shakes things up, the meta itself will probably stagnate. I don’t think the current one is completely solved, but it should be in a couple of weeks, and probably stay that way until the next expansion.

Below, you will find a full list of the Legend decks from last week, sorted by the highest placement.

If you want to see all of the current top meta decks, go to our Hearthstone Meta Tier List post!

If you’re looking for the best Wild Format decks, check out our Wild Meta Tier List!

Hearthstone Standard Legend Decks of the Week

Pure Paladin – #1 Legend (DimitriKazov) – Return to Naxxramas

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Deathrattle Rogue – #2 Legend (Jambre) – Return to Naxxramas

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Aggro Mage – #8 Legend (oyatsu) – Return to Naxxramas

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Undead Shadow Priest – #16 Legend (TonberryBleu) – Return to Naxxramas

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Concoction Thief Rogue – #17 Legend (KayboSlice) – Return to Naxxramas

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Unholy Aggro Death Knight – #21 Legend (YSKM) – Return to Naxxramas

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XL Undead Control Priest – #23 Legend (TicTac) – Return to Naxxramas

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Questline Druid – #24 Legend (reqvam) – Return to Naxxramas

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Shockspitter Hunter – #31 Legend (RonMexico) – Return to Naxxramas

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Phylactery Warlock – #45 Legend (Onkrad) – Return to Naxxramas

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Relic Fel Demon Hunter – #47 Legend (Saluber) – Return to Naxxramas

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Big Beast Hunter – #59 Legend (Odemian) – Return to Naxxramas

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Miracle Combo Priest – #68 Legend (Savjz) – Return to Naxxramas

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Troll Demon Hunter – #72 Legend (Blax) – Return to Naxxramas

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Midrange Murloc Shaman – #76 Legend (Azyrte) – Return to Naxxramas

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Deathrattle Rogue – #79 Legend (veryfatcat) – Return to Naxxramas

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Undead Shadow Priest – #82 Legend (BanditKeith) – Return to Naxxramas

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XL Beast Hunter – #87 Legend (TheSpring) – Return to Naxxramas

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Questline Druid – #91 Legend (Bartje) – Return to Naxxramas

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Fire Enrage Warrior – #92 Legend (worldeight) – Return to Naxxramas

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Unholy Aggro Death Knight – #94 Legend (Otsuna) – Return to Naxxramas

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Undead Shadow Priest – #98 Legend (RidiculousHat) – Return to Naxxramas

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XL Big Demon Hunter – #99 Legend (Harapeco) – Return to Naxxramas

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Imp Warlock – #116 Legend (WuLing) – Return to Naxxramas

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Midrange Murloc Shaman – #135 Legend (Iscoman) – Return to Naxxramas

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Frost Aggro Death Knight – #153 Legend (Lee1k) – Return to Naxxramas

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Big Undead Warlock – #195 Legend (FroBro) – Return to Naxxramas

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Murloc Shaman – #237 Legend (Vox) – Return to Naxxramas

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Murloc Warlock – #240 Legend (den) – Return to Naxxramas

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Imp Warlock – #251 Legend (KrisOFive) – Return to Naxxramas

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Concoction Pirate Rogue – #328 Legend (FunkiMonki) – Return to Naxxramas

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Abyssal Curse Warlock – #357 Legend (Charon) – Return to Naxxramas

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Unholy Aggro Death Knight – #425 Legend (BabyBear) – Return to Naxxramas

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Undead Shadow Priest – #473 Legend (Zeddy) – Return to Naxxramas

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Thief Shadow Priest – #479 Legend (Undericepirate) – Return to Naxxramas

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Hearthstone Wild Legend Decks of the Week

Reno Quest Mage – #1 Legend (NeneTheZola) – Wild S108

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Aggro Demon Hunter – #1 Legend (WildIngmar) – Wild S108

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Overload Burn Shaman – #9 Legend (TSEPiggy) – Wild S108

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Shadow Priest – #19 Legend (Corbett) – Wild S108

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XL Reno Druid – #19 Legend (paradox) – Wild S108

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XL Curse Warlock – #50 Legend (燁魔) – Wild S108

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Mine Rogue – #62 Legend (FSKshuangjin) – Wild S108

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Even Unholy Death Knight – #93 Legend (Sipsophila) – Wild S108

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Even Secret Hunter – #102 Legend (Ratel) – Wild S108

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Big Warrior – #297 Legend (Quasar) – Wild S108

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Stonekeep

A Hearthstone player and writer from Poland, Stonekeep has been in a love-hate relationship with Hearthstone since Closed Beta. Over that time, he has achieved many high Legend climbs and infinite Arena runs. He's the current admin of Hearthstone Top Decks.

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