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Top Standard & Wild Legend Decks – The Great Dark Beyond (Week 8) – December 2024

By: Stonekeep - - Updated:

Before I start, I want to say that issues with deck codes are sadly still present. Any deck with Zilliax Deluxe 3000 (and let’s be real, that’s a lot of decks) won’t have its code working. The issue turned out to be more difficult to solve and the dev bandwidth I have access to is very limited. Believe me when I say it that I try to solve it as quickly as possible but it might take some more time. As a workaround, I always try to post a working deck code whenever I can. This post will be no different – for every deck running Zilliax, I will paste a working deck code BELOW the deck itself. Use it instead of the usual deck code box. I’m sorry for the inconvenience.

Hope you all had a nice Christmas break. I don’t have many decks to share this week because I just came back home a couple of days ago. Truth to be told, though, not that many decks get shared over holiday breaks in the first place. I guess people want to spend some time with friends and family (yes, I also find it hard to believe, but there IS a world outside of Hearthstone). Still, I managed to post some new stuff over the last few days, including a bunch of off-meta decks, probably more than usual. Maybe players got drunk on eggnog and decided to try something new, haha.

It’s hard for me to analyze the meta changes since I haven’t really been playing the game this week, but after looking through social media and glancing at the stats, it’s clear that Cycle Rogue is on the rise again. The deck got “nerfed” when Sonya Waterdancer was hit last patch, but it turns out that the card wasn’t key in . I’m still glad that she got hit, because she created some incredibly frustrating late-game turns, but the deck’s main power lies in its – as the name suggests – cycling capability. It can draw A LOT of cards and play free 8/8’s (Playhouse Giants) very quickly + bounce them back with Breakdance to create even more 8/8’s. And then, if multiple 8/8’s in the mid game are not enough to close the game, it can deal massive damage with Incindius/Moonstone Mauler (possibly replayed a couple of times) combined with Spell Damage cards. In fact, getting rid of Sonya made the deck easier to pilot, meaning that it has a higher chance of being popular at lower ranks (although I don’t expect it to dominate the meta outside of high Legend, it’s still not the easiest deck to pilot properly).

In other news, The Ceaseless Expanse is now the most-played card in the game. It overtook Zilliax Deluxe 3000 (which I always feel bad counting as a single card since different modules go into different decks) and is now played in almost 50% of the decks in Diamond-Legend. That’s still not quite at the level of the most popular cards in history, we had some 60%+ cards before (including aforementioned Zilliax at its peak), but it’s getting close. Another card from The Great Dark Beyond – Ethereal Oracle – is also up there, as #3 right now (almost 40% play rate in Diamond-Legend). Sadly outside of those two, the expansion overall hasn’t been incredibly impactful. I’m honestly never a fan of Neutrals going above 20-30% play rate because it makes the decks feel too same-y. I’m pretty convinced that Ethereal Oracle is going to get nerfed soon unless the meta completely changes in the mini-set. And while Ceaseless Expanse is a cool card design, it might also need to get hit at one point (luckily there’s a lot of room to adjust it without killing it completely).

Overall, I’m really waiting to see what the mini-set brings to the table. With 49 cards, it’s going to be slightly bigger than usual, thus having more potential to change the meta. And given that it’s the first cross-over, I assume that they tried to make the designs interesting and impactful. Luckily we won’t have to wait long, while we don’t have any official release dates, it should be out sometime in mid-January. I expect to hear more about it in about 2 weeks.

P.S. Oh, and I sadly have no Twist decks to share at the moment. It looks like the format isn’t very popular (surprise surprise) so people don’t share tons of stuff, I also haven’t seen anyone streaming it in a couple of weeks.

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

Cycle Rogue – #1 Legend (santamaks) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Pipsi Lynessa Paladin – #1 Legend (HUYAbbayy) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Zarimi Priest – #1 Legend (整条该最靓滴仔) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Weapon Rogue – #2 Legend (Unknown) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Reno Priest – #2 Legend (Unknown) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Odyn Taunt Warrior – #3 Legend (Unknown) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Sif Mage – #3 Legend (Tianming) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Lynessa Paladin – #4 Legend (不忘初心丶九千羽) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Shaffar Rogue – #7 Legend (Unknown) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Taunt Druid – #13 Legend (Unknown) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Rainbow Death Knight – #52 Legend (Ioatheb) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Murmur OTK Shaman – #100 Legend (東區_巨蟒) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Raylla Tempo Mage – #188 Legend (Ribby) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Naga Demon Hunter – #283 Legend (Pace) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Secret Hunter – #497 Legend (Tweeg) – The Great Dark Beyond

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Hearthstone Wild Legend Decks of the Week

Mecha’thun Druid – #1 Legend (Laratt) – Wild S129

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XL Shadow Aggro Priest – #1 Legend (SMGuff) – Wild S129

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Questline Demon Hunter – #7 Legend (桃影灼客) – Wild S129

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XL Questline Warlock – #10 Legend (FTPigRushed) – Wild S129

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XL Reno Hostage Mage – #35 Legend (Unknown) – Wild S129

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XL Starship Hunter – #87 Legend (LordTony) – Wild S129

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XL Reno Paladin – #90 Legend (sinf3rn0) – Wild S129

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Lynessa Libram Paladin – #95 Legend (サンた～！？) – Wild S129

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XL Fatigue Warlock – #98 Legend (Wizzy) – Wild S129

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XL Frost/Unholy Aggro Death Knight – #125 Legend (JambaJooze) – Wild S129

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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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