Blizzard's Off-Meta Deck Spotlight
Blizzard has posted three Legend decks with above average win rates which aren't exactly what one would expect. Check out the decks below and give them a try yourself! All decks were played with at least 50 or more games at legend level, confirmed by Blizzard.
StanCifka's Questing with Giants Mage
Win rate: 73%
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小青藤's Minionless Build-a-Beast Hunter
Win rate: 65%
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Jambre's Unstable Recruit Shaman
Win rate: 68%
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Blog Post
Quote from Jesse HillGreetings!
One of the greatest joys in Hearthstone is watching players adapt and grow throughout the course of a competitive season. We’re always surprised and inspired by the inventive deck ideas that spring up on the ladder in the face of stiff competition.
Today, we wanted to showcase a few of the awesome, creative decks that have been successfully climbing through the rank of Legend.
To find these decks, we scoured the rankings for players that did well last week, and picked out some interesting builds from amongst these top performers. We only selected decks that were played in 50 or more games at Legend level.
First up we have Stancifka, running a very creative Quest Mage deck.
Stancifka's deck went through many iterations; however, this version (with an impressive 73% win rate!) seemed to serve him best.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1021568-stancifkas-questing-with-giants-mage-73-winrate
Next up is a deck that created a lot of buzz around the release of Kobolds and Catacombs: Minionless Hunter. On the China server, 小青藤 piloted this deck to a 65% win rate.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1021567-s-minionless-build-a-beast-hunter-65-winrate
Lastly, we have a unique take on the idea of Shaman evolution.
Jambre's Arcane Giants/Unstable Evolution deck went through 15 different revisions during its run, but he achieved a 68% win rate with this version.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1021569-jambres-unstable-recruit-shaman-68-winrate
Each of these players showed great skill and put up impressive numbers with some awesome deck choices. Congrats to each of these players!
What are some of the craziest decks you’ve seen or played on the ladder lately? Let us know on Twitter, Facebook, or in the comments below!
Good luck on your climbs everyone!
Spawn more Overlords.. .. oh, not that creep.
In before "OMG, even Blizz is in on the StanCifka train".
Though in all serious, how is that Shaman deck 'recruit' Shaman? It's literally got Guild Recruiter and otherwise looks fairly typical Evo-Jade Shaman archetypical.
It's called Recruit Shaman because it's the Guild Recruiter package that distinguishes the deck from all others.
Thjis played it 2-3 days ago
Kibler has been playing that deck for a while on stream
Doesn't really matter. The deck is just bad because shaman lacks card draw to keep it in the game.
All of these decks lack the ability to compete with all the top decks currently in the meta. Even worse is that all you have to do is throw some Voidlords in a Warlock deck and keep bringing them back to make these decks irrelevant.
Reno decks only used one Reno Kappa
Seems you missed the part that said "off-meta"? Don't think these decks were made to seriously compete. More than likely a way to blow off some steam and shake things up a bit.
so you tech in some froggers? Polymorphs are giving mage a chance this season, i'm kinda surprised there's not yet a shaman trying to silence the field.