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Top Standard & Wild Legend Decks – Perils in Paradise (Week 3) – August 2024

By: Stonekeep - - Updated:

Perils in Paradise has been out for nearly three weeks now, and we just had our first balance update on Thursday. Because of that, making this compilation is a little bit awkward, because I don’t have a lot of material to work with. I’ve decided to include pre-patch decks but only if they are still commonly played in unchanged form. I think that’s the best approach.

And honestly, I’m a bit disappointed with the patch. But let’s start with the positives – Unkilliax is no more. Or rather, it does still exist as a standalone card, but the decks relying on resurrecting him multiple times have plummeted in terms of win rate. They were sitting around Tier 2 and after the patch they are Tier 4. Of course, some people still do play them, but those are mostly remnants using the same, pre-patch builds – I expect them to disappear soon mostly. I assume that some people will still use them (because a lot of people have enjoyed this style of play) but maybe at a few % of the meta at most. Other nerfed decks are all still there – Combo Druid, Elemental decks, Aggro decks running Pylon + Ticking Zilliax, nothing has really changed about them except a couple of % win rate drop (but they were in such a good position previously that it didn’t push them out of the meta).

The patch also had a lot of buffs. However, the only ones that mattered are those to Shaman/Death Knight’s “rainbow” package (Buttons, Razzle-Dazzler, Natural Talent). Death Knight is by far the class that benefited from those most. Rainbow DK was already good, but it stuck to its own class cards. Now it runs “Double Rainbow” build with the addition of Spell School package from Shaman. It takes a couple of spells from Schools it doesn’t have easy access to (Fire, Nature), but the main meat of the deck is obviously Razzle-Dazzler. The card is insane. The break even point is at a single spell school, then you play a 6 mana 4/4 that summons two random 5-drops. That’s not amazing in Constructed, but good enough. But at 2-3 spell schools (which is pretty easy) it’s quite insane. It’s a single card that just fills your whole board with mid-sized minions, sometimes with extra effects. However, that’s sadly pretty much it. If we look at other buffs, the classes/decks they “pushed” are still as unpopular as they were before the patch.

That’s why I said that I’m a bit disappointed. Other than Unkilliax nerfs and Death Knight buffs, we haven’t really seen many changes in the meta. And I’m not sure if DK can even be called a change in the meta given that Rainbow DK was already good before the update, it just runs the Shaman tourist now. The power and popularity levels of some decks shifted, but overall it’s still the same decks over and over again. And what’s worse is that Tempo (Dragon) Druid is also back. You know, the deck we had to face all the time for the last month of Whizbang’s Workshop. It’s now the second most popular deck on the ladder after Rainbow DK. Fun.

And don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the patch was offensively bad or anything, I just think it was meh. It didn’t accomplish what I hoped a balance update would (get rid of some of the unfun strategies AND bring the lower win/play rate decks into the spotlight). I just hope that the next patch fixes the issue, but we’ll probably have to wait for it quite a while. Patch 30.2 drops on August 20, but that’s a new Battlegrounds season, those rarely have any balance changes unless there’s some sort of emergency that needs to be addressed immediately (but that’s not really the case now). So we have to add at least another week to that. I think August 29 is the earliest we can expect another balance update. Is the current meta so horrible that we won’t be able to wait until then? No, I don’t think it is now that Unkilliax spam no longer ruins games for people who had to face it. But, and this is my subjective opinion, it’s just boring.

Below is 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!

Hearthstone Standard Legend Decks of the Week

Tempo Druid – #1 Legend (ㅇㅇ) – Perils in Paradise

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Evolve Aggro Shaman – #1 Legend (cdssdcs) – Perils in Paradise

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Odyn Control Warrior – #1 Legend (KZGXmg) – Perils in Paradise

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Overheal Priest – #1 Legend (OzumatBest) – Perils in Paradise

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Combo Druid – #1 Legend (Haze) – Perils in Paradise

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Double Rainbow Death Knight – #5 Legend (Gladio) – Perils in Paradise

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Aggro Token Paladin – #6 Legend (Lovelyz_is_god) – Perils in Paradise

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Excavate Rogue – #12 Legend (Unknown) – Perils in Paradise

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Fatigue Warlock – #16 Legend (Karkingg) – Perils in Paradise

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Elemental Mage – #39 Legend (pen) – Perils in Paradise

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Reno Druid – #40 Legend (Unknown) – Perils in Paradise

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Beast Token Hunter – #51 Legend (deathstalker) – Perils in Paradise

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Reno Druid – #60 Legend (ChaosNuri) – Perils in Paradise

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Reno Shaman – #63 Legend (Pizza) – Perils in Paradise

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Handbuff Paladin – #73 Legend (Bighouse) – Perils in Paradise

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Rainbow Aggro Shaman – #79 Legend (LukaWerf) – Perils in Paradise

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Pain Tempo Rogue – #93 Legend (D0nkey) – Perils in Paradise

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Pirate Aggro Demon Hunter – #95 Legend (chuntyun) – Perils in Paradise

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Colifero Druid – Top 100 Legend (FNCRPA) – Perils in Paradise

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Excavate Rogue – Top 100 Legend (NeverGiveUp) – Perils in Paradise

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Beast Token Hunter – #113 Legend (RonMexico) – Perils in Paradise

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Wheel Warlock – #157 Legend (Onkrad) – Perils in Paradise

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Zarimi Priest – #163 Legend (Magesa) – Perils in Paradise

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Excavate Plague Death Knight – #191 Legend (Charon) – Perils in Paradise

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Reno Shaman – #195 Legend (undericepirate) – Perils in Paradise

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Frost/Unholy Deathrattle Death Knight – #203 Legend (chuntyun) – Perils in Paradise

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Rainbow Death Knight – #227 Legend (Zeddy) – Perils in Paradise

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Frost/Unholy Razzle Death Knight – Top 300 Legend (Jambre) – Perils in Paradise

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Aranna Demon Hunter – #312 Legend (Clark) – Perils in Paradise

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Reno Hunter – #368 Legend (Charon) – Perils in Paradise

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Hearthstone Wild Legend Decks of the Week

XL Miracle Paladin – #1 Legend (凛冬将至丨一方) – Perils in Paradise

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XL Mystery Egg Hunter – #1 Legend (chocolatebox) – Perils in Paradise

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Miracle Rogue – #1 Legend (Doraemon) – Perils in Paradise

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XL Reno Shadow Priest – #1 Legend (LOVE) – Wild S125

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Pirate Aggro Demon Hunter #19 Legend (Luckydoggy) – Wild S125

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Questline Mage – #42 Legend (Unknown) – Wild S125

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Even Totem Shaman – #52 Legend (Gummbii) – Wild S125

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Pirate Aggro Demon Hunter – #90 Legend (Wizzy) – Perils in Paradise

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XL Reno Warrior – #247 Legend (Monos) – Wild S125

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Even Paladin – #377 Legend (Sing4Tear) – Wild S125

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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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