Descent of Dragons Meta Decks - The Best Ladder Decks
Let's just start with the obvious: in a few days this line up of decks might all be nerfed and invalidated. But we don't know when exactly this will happen and we don't know which cards will be affected and which decks. With this uncertainty we decided to go ahead with our previously made plans and present you with what's best RIGHT NOW, regardless of what might happen later. When time comes, we'll do a new Meta Decks post, but this one will work for now. Enjoy!
The Top Of The Mountain
For the time being Shaman will be the top dog, so if you had plans to ladder with a broken deck, now's the time to do it. I would advize against crafting anything for the deck however, with the nerfs coming. Dust refunds are nice and all, but not every card gets refunded and historically speaking, Blizzard has a tendency to swing from one outlier to the opposite end of the spectrum. It's a pretty good bet that Shaman will not be that good soon.
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The Mountain Climbers
For every amazing Meta Deck there's a counter deck, even Shaman. In this case Shaman has a bad win rate against Holy Wrath Paladin (largely unchanged from SoU, but kind of bad in general) and is pretty evenly matched with Quest Hunter (and evenly matched is about as good as it gets against Shaman).
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The Sonic Decks - Gotta Go Fast
If control matchups bore you or if your approach to laddering is to just have a higher quantity of games to make the climb faster, then these decks are right up your alley. They need little explanation, as both are old archetypes with some new tricks: Pirate Warrior and Zoolock
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There Can Be Only...two?!
Highlander decks remain a popular archetype, in this case in a Secret Hunter version and a Dragon Mage version. Arrows or Fireballs, time to pick your projectile of choice.
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At The End, There Is Only Death
We'll bookend the Galakrond Shaman at the start with a Deathrattle Galakrond Rogue at the end. If Shaman does indeed get whacked with the nerfbat in a serious way, then this deck might be the one to try to rise in it's place. The deck struggles against faster decks, but does well against most everything else.
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Descent of Dragons Card List & Guide
Learn more and see all the cards in our dedicated expansion guide.
Huh? As of right now, HsReplay has non-quest at 17.2% played / 59.6% winrate and quest at 9.6% played / 53.7% winrate. https://hsreplay.net/meta/#tab=archetypes That's 27% total played, and it is averaging over time--non-quest was actually 20.04% yesterday, for example. As for the winrates: the weighted average of those numbers is 57%, but it include mirrors which are very common. If you dig into the matchups for both archetypes, you'll see win-rates in 60-70% range against most non-shaman decks.
I'm not saying it is 50% played / 100% winrate either, but it is clearly well beyond the acceptable limits for a competitive game.
https://hsreplay.net/decks/OpDuqTtVEI6ub4qzw06Rfe/#gameType=RANKED_STANDARD
It was the highest winrate deck two day ago for shaman. Now Electra is replaced by second faceless and this version beats the top.
Why do so many people seem to think that Galakrond Shaman has like a winrate of almost 100 percent and a playrate of 50 percent? The winrate is 60 percent and the playrate is around 8 percent according to hsreplay
yeah, but what percentage of playerbase does hsreplay get data from? like 1% probably not even that
Sooo many awesome cards, but a few are so op that everyone plays the same deck.
Exact same story every expansion for over 5 years straight now. Is playtesting truly that much more difficult than we can see as a community?
Why the Electra Stormsurge version of Galakrond Shaman? I don't see that one on ladder and HS Replay seems to indicate it's not the common version either.
Maybe that's why. To show the variation what is not played by totally everybody.
Funny and sad in the same time that there priest is not in the list
nice list but i can only see 1 deck
yeah why do they even say "decks" when its just one
But are the rest of the decks good enough to contend with regular quest Shaman if they don’t nerf Corrupt the Waters? Or do folks foresee corrupt getting hit too?
Hopefully both lol
Hopefully just addressing Galakrond Shaman is good enough to re-balance the game--i.e., no need to also address Corrupt the Waters. Other than Galakrond, Quest Shaman didn't really gain anything from the expansion, and while it was definitely Tier One pre-DitT it wasn't oppressively so. Meanwhile, so many other classes got shiny new toys in DoD that everyone thought were ridiculous power creep during theorycrafting. If Corrupt the Waters is still Tier One after the Galakrond nerf, then something is seriously wrong.
Do you know how to kill an arachnofob? With a spider
Um sure and a claustrophob with a empty small room?