Highest Performing Rise of Shadows Decks
Rise of Shadows has just launched and we're looking at some of the best performing decks. Remember that during the start of expansions the meta shifts quite quickly so for those on a budget, don't craft anything yet! These decks also will make quick work of Brawliseum, so play that if you want some sweet rewards for being good.
You may use the decks below in their entirety or find ways to make them work with the cards you have available in your collection. Who knows, maybe you'll find something even better!
Decks below have been provided by data harvested by HSReplay.
Bomb Warrior
If you like long games but also love blowing people up, this is it. The most popular deck by far right now and the highest winrate. Kripp, what have you done.
I suspect a more finalized version of Bomb Warrior is yet to come.
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Token Druid
Play little dudes and buff them up. Token Druid is a masterpiece!
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Tempo Rogue
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Mech Hunter
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Murloc Shaman
Disgusting. Murloc Shaman is so good and frustrating to play against. If you're fighting me on the ladder, make me tilt by playing Murloc Shaman. Mrgl!
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Zoolock
Zoo is back baby! Great synergy with Magic Carpet and that EVIL Genius makes for some Lackey fun.
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Khadgar Mage
Come hang out!
You can't get 2 or 3 minions of the same type from omega assembly because you discover and if you have 10 mana you keep all 3 minions. Stop with this bs.
Dude wtf, you can have infinite omega destroyer, Dottor boom wil discover you the others considering it's hero power.
Chill
That's nice information to know, also because I played none of these decks yet (the least dust I need for any of these is 1600, which is not much, but my unwillingess to invest in everything I need is what got me to 14k+ in the first place). I just took pre-constructed decks and left the core with things I believed were better. Tried silence priest and found it to be pretty bad, although my win against a Murloc Shaman was very satisfying, and tempo mage which was ok by my sample size is to small it says practically nothing (though having 6 Fireballs in hand on turn 8 was a real treat).
sure, just lend me the dust for 4 legendaries so I can try it out myself..
So your issue is that you don't have the cards needed to try a deck, and I can only guess the deck you play is also unrefinded. This doesn't mean that Bomb Warrior is super OP.
Hadn't you replied ironically, as you did, I would propose to have some duels with you and lend you my Bomb Warriors to test out.
Well, opportunity lost I guess.
I have no idea why everybody down voted you man.
What you said made perfect sense.
I guess many people are upset because the game developers make the game so expensive to fun with.
I don't mind about the downvotes tbh. I shared my opinion, there will be people who will find it helpful and haters will be haters ;)
I guess it's either the same guy with a bunch of different accounts, or people burnt by Bomb Warriors who prefer to do this rather than go learn the deck.
Midrange Hunter is way better than Mech Hunter ATM - why it is not listed? Mech Hunter is trash
I guess it depends on the bracket as well mate.
Imo, midrange hunter can fall off really quick. If it can't win by turn 6-7, it can be easily overwhelmed from many decks (unless it can play Zuljin and even then it totally depends if Kill Commands actually land on the opponent - in my case they always land in my face :P ).
Without rexxar though and the extra beast value, I thinnk Malygos and Mech hunters are better choices (and more interesting ones gameplay-wise)
Mech hunter, has better / more interesting tools, plus the magnetizing a minion with the 2/2 poisonous + the "deal 1 dmg to all enemies at the end of your turn" (sorry forgetting card names right now), is ABSOLUTELY nuts! Extreme removal
Even though I forgot quoting him, that's for the guy asking why mech hunter is on the list. I'm not entirely sure but here's what I think:
Mech hunter, even though it's not super awesome, it is really good against bomb warrior. And in my case, I'm both playing bomb warrior myself, and seeing it played all the time. (Actually teched my deck to be fairly ok in mirrors)
It's because of the popularity of bomb warrior and how well mech hunter performs against it, imo. Not saying mech warrior is a good deck overall, but it might be pretty decent in the current "meta".
Also, bomb warrior feels kinda new, let that wear off a little and people won't be playing it that much anymore, and thats when mech hunter is going to be worse.
Hope I answered your question. It's not an objective answer though, just what I think. Please keep that in mind.
Exactly as you say it.
I'll ad that Mech hunter has potential though.
I'm trying to make a list with Mech and Lackeys, but I'm failing miserably so far, If I make it work i'll post it xD
Because mech hunter counters warrior which is insanely popular.
That's why mech is good right now, even though midrange is maybe the more balanced deck.
Standard, Standard, Standard, always Standard.
I don't understand people who cry over Bomb Warriors. They are ok-ish, but not broken (yet).
A tip for all of you crybabies: If you have problem with a deck, GO PLAY IT, find it's weaknesses, and then go back to your main class / main deck and you'll know how to beat it (proper mulligans, tempo plays, what cards to keep for X,Y,Z situation).
OR, you can ignore this, keep doing what you doing and end up QQing in forums.
Dr. Boom has become the new Rexxar, the new warrior mechs late game are crazy, especially with the fact that they have Rush when played, meaning he can clear and then retain board. Some classes can hold out on the out-valuing but then there are the bomb cards that allow Bomb-Warrior to keep up with value whilst pushing you in to fatigue where the bombs will inevitably kill you.
Not saying match-ups aren't unwinnable, but it's the feeling of helplessness when they continue to clear, gain armour and push you in to fatigue where there are bombs just waiting to kill you, that is the super frustrating thing.
I have a feeling Dr.Boom might get a nerf. My thoughts are the mechs might lose Rush, as this feature, at this point, is fucking broken and obviously only broken cards get played. Everything else about it is fine imo.
Alright, even though the sample is really small compared to the thousands of games collected in HSreplay, I'll share my experience so far in the new expansion (I'm mostly referring to everyone, I share my opinion about your Dr. Boom argument later).
I have played 122 games since the expansion launched. Every game above rank 5.
I encountered 18 warriors in total, out of which 4 of them where control (without bombs), all others were bomb warrior variants. I lost against all 4 of them. My total W/L against warriors is 9-9, so my W/L against bomb warriors is 9-5.
Now, I've played 7 games with bomb warrior and I stand on a 4-3 W/L (57% even though the sample is too low so the % says absolutely nothing).
Now, I dont know if i'm "lucky" and I havent met that many warriors, but i'll say that friends of mine in the rank 5 - rank 1 bracket do not meet warriors that much, where friends I have below 5 or below 10 are constantly queued against them.
This makes me believe that even if it has a considerably high WR in data sites as HSreplay, it still is very bracket dependent. Let's compare this to HSreplay data.
According to HS replay, rank 15-11 Bomb Warrior is 2nd at 57.4%, followed by Khadgar mage at 55.65%, Mech hunter at 54.89% and Murloc Shaman at 54.87%. Top deck is token druid at 58.62%
Rank 10-6, we see bomb warrior at 57.34% being second again behind a 57.76% token druid, and being followed by 55.12% tempo rogue, 54.66 Khadgar Mage and 54.32 Mech Hunter.
Rank 5-1 Bomb warrior is at 3rd place with 53.71%, Khadgar Mage at 53.14%, control warrior at 52.8%, midrange hunter at 52.16% and mech hunter at 52.10%. Token druid top at 55.5% and tempo rogue second at 54.52%
At legend, bomb warrior is standing in a proud 7th spot at 52.46%, behind zoo lock 52.72%, midrange hunter 53.11%, control warrior 53.13%, tempo rogue 54.81%, token druid 55.04%, dragon warrior 55.13%
All these data, were completely different 2 days ago, where bomb warrior was top in all these brackets with above 60% WR. (I'm talking Europe only btw).
It is obvious that the archetype is quickly falling down. Hype is getting old, new decks emerge or simply other decks are more consistent against a bigger variety of archetypes.
Also, people have already started teching against bomb, or learning how to play better against it.
It's day 5 of the expansion, do I need to remind to everyone what happened with Odd Hunter last year? Everyone was crying for a week or so, until it fell to the bottom when meta stabilized. On the other hand, odd pala stayed strong for the whole year.
I think of bomb warrior as an odd hunter, not as an odd pala.
Now, to the Dr. Boom point. Yes, I agree with you, it is very strong. However, it is literally the only card, in my opinion at least, that makes the warrior relevant. Remove it and nobody will play warrior. I wouldn't like to see this.
Counters to bomb warrior: Super aggro, healing cards / effects, mill, elysiana, rafaam, AoE silence, just to name a few, mechathun shenanigans, malygos decks, tempo rogue or thief rogue (that perma-heal weapon gets too good against them).
Last but not least, let's not forget that most likely, people who struggle so much against bomb warrior, play unrefined decks, cause they probably can't make everything since the expansion is still new. The more people get more cards and are able to construct better decks, the more bomb warriors will fall. That's my feeling at least.
TL/DR:
1. Bomb warrior is a good start-of-the-expansion deck
2. It will fall off quickly
3. Best thing one can do is practice it themselves, to see where they struggle against other decks and learn its weaknesses. This way they will know how to beat it
4. Dr. Boom is strong, but it shouldn't be changed in anyway, shape or form
5. Global stats prove that this deck is all about hype. The higher the ladder bracket, the lower its WR
ps: inb4 I'm called a warrior fanboi, I don't even play warrior too much. I've been playing Hearthstone since beta and my warrior is not even lvl 60 yet, lol. Still, i got no issues with their current decklists.
I’m sorry but if you play control warrior you’re what’s wrong with the hearthstone community
Am I the only one who keeps running across Malygos Hunter?
yep, 0 match agains him
didn't know that was a thing really