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Top Standard & Wild Legend Decks – Perils in Paradise (Week 4) – August 2024

By: Stonekeep - - Updated:

Last week I talked about being a bit disappointed with the balance update, because it didn’t seem to do much for new/less popular decks, it mostly got rid of Warrior and shuffled already strong decks around. But it was still early after the update, so I didn’t want to give a final judgment. However, I think that things got even worse. Keep in mind that this is only my opinion, but I’ve been enjoying the meta pre-patch more than post-patch.

The most dominating force in the meta is Tempo Druid (also called Dragon Druid). You know, the same deck that has been topping charts ever since mid-Whizbang’s Workshop. Other than that, the meta hasn’t changed much since last week. Death Knight is still the second-most-popular class. Most people play Rainbow version, but there’s a slightly different Frost/Unholy on the rise (it actually seems to be a bit better than Rainbow, but they are pretty close). And then we have Fatigue Warock, which has replaced Pain version as a go-to Warlock deck. It has solid matchups across the board and only really loses to Handbuff Paladin. Those are the three (well, four if you count both DK versions) popular decks.

Then we have a bunch of slightly less popular, but still good builds like aforementioned Handbuff Paladin and Pain Warlock. Combo Druid, Reno Warrior and Elemental Mage are also up there. One thing that patch changed more than I imagined is the popularity of board flood Aggro decks. Before the patch, Aggro Shaman, Aggro Demon Hunter, Aggro Paladin were all quite popular. But the nerf to Zilliax and an overall meta shift has made them less common. They are still good, but hover around 2-4% play rate now.

One big development is the rise of Sonya Rogue in Legend, especially high Legend. It’s a very, and I mean VERY high-skill deck. If we just look at its win rate in Diamond vs Top 1000 Legend, there’s a ~10% difference. And that’s the Top 1k Legend we’re talking about, which is still pretty broad. If we only looked at the absolute top players, the win rate difference would be even higher – maybe up to 20%? It almost never happens to this extent, even high skill level decks usually just have a few % better win rate in Legend. But this one is different. If you don’t know what you’re doing, the deck sucks hard, but if you do, you can beat any matchup. Players should probably be thankful that an average person can’t pilot it well because if the deck was all over the ladder it would surely be complained about even more than Unkilliax Warrior.

The deck relies on getting a good 1 mana spell from Mixologist or Griftah (6 damage from Griftah is the best one and leads to an easy OTK, but others can also win the game). Then it basically goes infinite with Sonya Waterdancer + Tidepool Pupil + Breakdance shenanigans. While you’re obviously limited by turn timer (and hand size, managing it is incredibly hard), you can just keep bouncing your stuff and replaying the 1 mana spell over and over again. It’s incredibly frustrating to face, because once they assemble the combo (and it usually doesn’t take long), you can’t really do much. If you’ve been watching Masters Tour: Summer Championship, you’ve probably seen the deck a lot.

Normally I would say that a strong deck rising in Legend means that it will likely spread over the ladder over the next days, but in this case I don’t really think so. People will definitely attempt to replicate the top players’ success, but I think most will give up after trying it a few times and failing. So, for the rest of the ladder, Tempo Druid it is.

As I’ve said last week, we probably still have some time until the next balance update. 30.2 is coming on August 20 (Tuesday), but it’s a Battlegrounds-focused patch and since we already have the patch notes, we know that there are no Constructed changes. So the earliest I would anticipate an update is August 29 (Thursday) with a teaser a day or two before it. But if not, then we’ll have to wait until early September to see any changes. Which is fine if you like the current meta, but not really great if the stuff you like doesn’t work very well (or alternatively you dislike the top meta decks).

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

Handbuff Paladin – #1 Legend (Norwis) – Perils in Paradise

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Sonya Rogue – #1 Legend (BlizzconJan) – Perils in Paradise

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Double Rainbow Death Knight – #1 Legend (나무) – Perils in Paradise

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Fatigue Warlock – #1 Legend (PrincesS) – Perils in Paradise

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Sonya Rogue – #1 Legend (小トトロ) – Perils in Paradise

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

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Fatigue Warlock – #1 Legend (BiuBiuBiu) – Perils in Paradise

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

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Sonya Rogue – #1 Legend (SAVOR) – Perils in Paradise

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Draw Rogue – #2 Legend (Unknown) – Perils in Paradise

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Excavate Rogue – #3 Legend (IFGtrispear) – Perils in Paradise

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Frost/Unholy Buttons Death Knight – #5 Legend (mlYanming) – Perils in Paradise

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Zarimi Priest – #8 Legend (Unknown) – Perils in Paradise

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Frost/Unholy Buttons Death Knight – #9 Legend (Glory) – Perils in Paradise

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Double Rainbow Death Knight – #12 Legend (Cantelope) – Perils in Paradise

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Pain Fatigue Warlock – #29 Legend (fydds) – Perils in Paradise

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Jormungar Hunter – #39 Legend (Homi) – Perils in Paradise

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Pain Aggro Demon Hunter – #45 Legend (chuntyun) – Perils in Paradise

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Egg Jormungar Hunter – #52 Legend (OddEye) – Perils in Paradise

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Odyn Control Warrior – #79 Legend (MrYagut) – Perils in Paradise

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Tempo Druid – #99 Legend (Mills) – Perils in Paradise

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Pain Aggro Demon Hunter – #99 Legend (hanniballz2) – Perils in Paradise

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Tempo Druid – #103 Legend (Bighouse) – Perils in Paradise

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Reno Hunter – #117 Legend (Lovelyz_is_god) – Perils in Paradise

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Reno Blood Death Knight – #126 Legend (TicTac) – Perils in Paradise

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Pirate Aggro Shaman – #167 Legend (AzubuVern) – Perils in Paradise

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Reno Shaman – #237 Legend (Nohandsgamer) – Perils in Paradise

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Naga Demon Hunter – #252 Legend (Pace) – Perils in Paradise

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Rainbow Shaman – #323 Legend (Maruk) – Perils in Paradise

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Lynessa Paladin – #962 Legend (Clark) – Perils in Paradise

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Hearthstone Wild Legend Decks of the Week

XL Reno Hunter – #1 Legend (One) – Wild S125

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Pirate Rogue – #1 Legend (Remilia) – Wild S125

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Fatigue Questline Warlock – #1 Legend (Unknown) – Wild S125

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

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XL Mill Druid – #10 Legend (Unknown) – Wild S125

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Draka APM Rogue – #29 Legend (Unknown) – Wild S125

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XL Hero Power Mage – #33 Legend (Unknown) – Wild S125

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Pirate Aggro Demon Hunter – #270 Legend (impermanence) – Wild S125

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Mecha’thun Warrior – #479 Legend (DeckTech) – Wild S125

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Shadow Aggro Priest – #489 Legend (egraz) – 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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