Whizbang’s Workshop reveal season is over – we know all 145 cards from the upcoming expansion. You can check them out here. There’s a ton of cool design and throwbacks to old expansions to commemorate the game’s 10th birthday. While I’m not a huge fan of the toy theme, I’m looking forward to the expansion and rotation in general.
We’re still technically over a week away until the expansion’s launch, but the meta will most likely change drastically even before that. Patch 29.0 is bound to launch soon. Normally I would say on Tuesday, but Monday is the game’s 10th anniversary so that’s probably when they will drop the patch. But either way, Patch 29.0 is when “nerf reverts” are going to happen – many cards from Year of the Hydra (2022) that were nerfed over the course of their time in Standard will get unnerfed before sending them to Wild. Because of that, we’ll have a short time period with unnerfed versions of those cards playable in Standard too. Given that it’s only for a week, the meta shouldn’t have enough time to settle, so it should be pretty hectic and unpredictable.
And after that, on March 19, Whizbang’s Workshop officially launches together with Standard rotation, Core Set changes and so on. Like always, I’ll be sharing all of the decks pros/streamers play at launch with you, so stay tuned.
As for the current meta – I won’t discuss it in detail because there’s really no point since it changes tomorrow or the day after. But the last week has seen a massive uptick in Nature OTK Shamans, which I found pretty interesting. Ever since the nerfs, the deck was always niche, but it has seen a massive popularity surge in high Legend (slowly trickling down to Diamond too). Maybe if we had a couple more weeks with this meta it would become even more popular, but alas, there’s probably not time for that. Unless they revert some of the nerfs (like Bioluminescence) but that might be too much even for Wild. Other than Nature Shaman, however, it’s mostly been business as usual.
This is probably the last deck roundup I have for Showdown in the Badlands. Next week not only the meta is going to be pretty hectic, but it might simply not be worth documenting given that the new expansion will launch 2 days after. I’ll still post some post-reverts decks so stay tuned for those.
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
- 2Bash1
- 2Bladestorm1
- 2Blast Charge1
- 2Shield Block1
- 2Stoneskin Armorer1
- 3Bellowing Flames1
- 3From the Depths1
- 3Heavy Plate1
- 3Reinforced Plating1
- 3Steam Guardian1
- 4Craftsman’s Hammer1
- 4Igneous Lavagorger1
- 6Sanitize1
- 7Badlands Brawler1
- 7Trial by Fire1
- 8Deepminer Brann1
- 8Tidal Revenant1
- 9Odyn, Prime Designate1
- 1Awakening Tremors2
- 1Scourge Tamer2
- 2Absorbent Parasite2
- 2Always a Bigger Jormungar2
- 2Barrel of Monkeys1
- 2Bestial Madness1
- 2Castle Kennels1
- 2Conjured Arrow1
- 2Messenger Buzzard2
- 2Selective Breeder2
- 3Harpoon Gun1
- 4Stonebound Gargon2
- 4Twisted Frostwing2
- 5Spurfang1
- 6Defense Attorney Nathanos1
- 6Hope of Quel’Thalas1
- 6Mister Mukla1
- 1Garrosh’s Gift1
- 1Slam1
- 2Bash1
- 2Bladestorm1
- 2Blast Charge1
- 2Shield Block1
- 2Stoneskin Armorer1
- 3Bellowing Flames1
- 3From the Depths1
- 3Heavy Plate1
- 3Reinforced Plating1
- 3Steam Guardian1
- 4Craftsman’s Hammer1
- 4Igneous Lavagorger1
- 5Brawl1
- 6Khaz’goroth1
- 6Sanitize1
- 7Badlands Brawler1
- 7Trial by Fire1
- 8Deepminer Brann1
- 8Tidal Revenant1
- 9Odyn, Prime Designate1
- 1Armor Vendor1
- 1Sir Finley, Sea Guide1
- 2Astalor Bloodsworn1
- 2Dirty Rat1
- 2Gold Panner1
- 2Kobold Miner1
- 2Needlerock Totem1
- 2Watcher of the Sun1
- 3Prince Renathal1
- 4Aftershocks1
- 4E.T.C., Band Manager1
- 4Ignis, the Eternal Flame1
- 4School Teacher1
- 5Burrow Buster1
- 5Steamcleaner1
- 6Theotar, the Mad Duke1
- 7Prison of Yogg-Saron1
- 10Reno, Lone Ranger1
- 1Sir Finley, Sea Guide1
- 2Astalor Bloodsworn1
- 2Dirty Rat2
- 2Flint Firearm1
- 2Watcher of the Sun2
- 3Nerubian Vizier2
- 3Photographer Fizzle1
- 3Prince Renathal1
- 3Rustrot Viper1
- 4E.T.C., Band Manager1
- 4Ignis, the Eternal Flame1
- 4Pozzik, Audio Engineer1
- 4School Teacher1
- 6Harth Stonebrew1
- 7Prison of Yogg-Saron1
- 10Reno, Lone Ranger1
- 10Yogg-Saron, Unleashed1
Hearthstone Wild Legend Decks of the Week
- 1Altar of Fire1
- 1Chaotic Consumption1
- 1Felstring Harp1
- 1Fracking1
- 1The Soularium1
- 2Darkbomb1
- 2Defile1
- 2Elementium Geode1
- 2Gnomeferatu1
- 3Dark Skies1
- 3Hellfire1
- 3Trolley Problem1
- 4Pop’gar the Putrid1
- 4Soul Rend1
- 5Rin, Orchestrator of Doom1
- 5Symphony of Sins1
- 6Dreadlich Tamsin1
- 6Entitled Customer1
- 9Sargeras, the Destroyer1
- 0Raise Dead1
- 1Armor Vendor1
- 1Glacial Shard1
- 1Sir Finley, Sea Guide1
- 2Astalor Bloodsworn1
- 2Dirty Rat1
- 2Flint Firearm1
- 2Greedy Partner1
- 2Watcher of the Sun1
- 2Zephrys the Great1
- 3Brann Bronzebeard1
- 3Prince Renathal1
- 3Razorscale1
- 3Reverberations1
- 3Rustrot Viper1
- 4E.T.C., Band Manager1
- 4Hysteria1
- 5Loatheb1
- 6Reno Jackson1
- 6Theotar, the Mad Duke1
- 10Reno, Lone Ranger1