The Most Popular, Successful, and Worst Cards of The Boomsday Project
We're a couple of days in to Hearthstone's newest expansion and it's time we take a look at which cards are seeing the most successful play. Thanks to the folks at HSReplay, here are the top Boomsday cards so far!
Popular Neutral Cards
Lots of players bringing back Mechs. It feels like GvG all over again!
Popular Class Cards
Warlocks, Druid, and Paladins! Seems about right from what we've been seeing with popular decks.
The Top 20 Successful Boomsday Cards
Cards below must have positive winrates within decks (over 50%) and have more than 50,000 games played.
Card | Deck Winrate | Times Played |
---|---|---|
Doubling Imp | 58.6% | 340,000 |
Soul Infusion | 58.6% | 380,000 |
The Soularium | 58.4% | 110,000 |
Glow-Tron | 54.7% | 220,000 |
Thunderhead | 54.6% | 61,000 |
Crystallizer | 54.3% | 57,000 |
Giggling Inventor | 54.1% | 500,000 |
Menacing Nimbus | 54.0% | 100,000 |
Dreampetal Florist | 53.9% | 110,000 |
Mechano-Egg | 53.7% | 100,000 |
Landscaping | 53% | 59,000 |
Floop's Glorious Gloop | 52.9% | 50,000 |
Voltaic Burst | 52.8% | 67,000 |
Biology Project | 52.7% | 290,000 |
Wargear | 52% | 330,000 |
Mecharoo | 52% | 300,000 |
Void Analyst | 52% | 58,000 |
Shooting Star | 51.8% | 87,000 |
Mecha'thun | 51.5% | 64,000 |
Celestial Emissary | 51.5% | 84,000 |
The Worst Cards
Not showing much promise yet, you may want to hold off on creating decks with these cards.
Cards need to have over 20,000 plays to be included below.
Dr. Boom is crazy strong. It’s meant to reinforce, not decimate games like the Warlock, Mage, or Hunter DKs. If it wasn’t for Dr. Boom we wouldn’t have Control Warrior back.
If you dont see bloodreaver as a decimating card then there is no reasoning with you
No wonder Myra's Unstable Element is having poor stats when 2/3 of the players are using it to durdle with whacky rabbits, Malygos pieces or value, instead of Burst and tempo-efficient cards.
That's pretty astonishing considering how people quickly got the hang of Aluneth and The Soularium.
The average playerbase, proving every expansion how little of a clue they have about how to play the Rogue class.
Have you ever thought that people might just want to play a deck that is fun, and aren't necessarily idiots that don't know what's good?
Haven't called anyone an idiot; having a poor understanding of a class or trying to deliberately do something counter-intuitive with it is not a matter or intelligence and I don't mind it at all. I've myself spent quite some time with another player trying to make non-mill Kingsbane deck work immediatly after K&C's release; we made a guide for it here and did our best to update and answer our bagillions of comments. I also had a blast playing Reno Jackson Rogue decks, in Standard and Wild.
What I'm criticizing here is the choice of Myra's Unstable Element as a draw engine in durdly decks that want to play intricate combos. Sprint, Gadgetzan Auctioneer and basically every other controllable draw engine helps you get your synergy pieces with basically no risk; without putting yourself on a Fatigue clock, and without being a useless draw until turn 10+.
You'd never think about playing Aluneth in your Exodia Mage decks, right ? Well running Unstable Element in a deck with a slow win condition is exactly the same.
It's not as hard to pull off as it might seem, most streamers just haven't taken the time to actually think through and memorize the full combo and other variants you can still win with. The deck has serious potential, since most of the combo pieces can be used for other effects, and you don't need the full combo to win the game if you can get the right minion to stick for even one turn. It'll probably end up as a similar, but overall much less forgiving and thus much less popular version of Patron Warrior, but until people actually learn how to play it correctly, it's going to have a pretty bad winrate.
yeahh!!!! lets go!
I'm looking forward to play some Mech Paladin.
This list is gonna change a lot in a week...
i appreciate some more body in posts - thank you
Lots of comments here not understanding how statistics-driven rankings work... you can't disagree with a particular card being statistically bad. You can express an opinion that it is better than the statistics suggest, but the stats are what they are, folks.
"I disagree with the objective statistic that shows that this card has only a 40% winrate" - people in this thread
That does not mean the cards are bad per se, it just means that in the decks they have been played so far they underperform. Some new brew might arise in which those cards have positive sinergy and they get a positive winrate.
But you can disagree with the importance of these statistics. To me, they mean absolutely nothing and it actually disturbs me that people take these stats as meaningful. We're 3 days in to a new expansion and it's a bunch of people who have no idea how to play the new Boar combo priest, and people playing homebrew rogue decks with Academic Espionage or Pogo Hoppers.
Its also a last gasp card, which influences its stats - take a look at many control/recruit warrior decks. The worst performing cards are usually the board clears, like Brawl and Reckless Flurry. However, those are not the correct cuts from the decks, they are sorely needed to perform when you're behind. That influences their stats however - in games that go well the card isnt played at all, while when played from behind there's still a chance you stay behind because another wave of minions hits the board or something.
Myra's suffers from this as well and more - its played in all the games you're losing. even when a Brawl wouldnt make sense. Along with all the experiments done with it of course.
Top 3 Cards all Warlock....
Myra’s unstable element as one of the worst cards?? Really?
I mean, these are statistics mate. This isn't subjective. At the moment, Myra's unstable element loses games. It's just how it is.
Your comment is also subjective statistics says that decks with myra's unstable element loses more games than the other played cards
I would strongly disagree with several card HSreplay put into The Worst Cards list.
Test Subject is featured in one very successful top tier deck at the moment, and for Myra's Unstable Element, Beakered Lightning, I've seen them used in couple of decks, and they were very good!