Classic Format Live Today - The Hottest Decks To Start With
With Patch 20.0 the Classic Format will go live and we will all be able to journey back to 2014 and the glorious beginning of the game. You get a Golden Classic pack just for logging in after the patch goes live! To help with playing we put together a list of some of the best decks of that era!
Many of these decks have great guides, so be sure to open up the deck page and read for some insight into what makes Classic decks tick.
But, I hear you say, I dusted my Wild Collection, I have none of these cards, but I want to play: Don't worry, we put a deck at the very end that is made of just basic cards and still works.
Have fun out there!
Quote from BlizzardReady for some nostalgia? The Classic format invites players to craft decks and compete using Hearthstone’s original 240 cards as they were in 2014, the year that Hearthstone launched! When the patch lands on March 25, your entire collection of relevant Basic, Classic, and Hall of Fame cards will be mirrored and available for deck building in the Classic format—as they were in the 1.0.0.5832 patch of June 2014 (after we made a few important changes), with any and all balance changes since then reverted. Classic packs will now add to your Collection for the Classic format, as well as the Legacy set in Wild. The Classic format leaderboards will launch on March 30. Read our announcement of the Classic format to learn more.
We’re celebrating the launch of the Classic format by rewarding all players with one Golden Classic Card Pack just for logging in after the 20.0 patch has gone live!
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It was fair for the most part. But it will lose its "nostalgic" touch after a few months. After that... well... I played during that time but I dont think I will play than a few games.
only 1 priest deck just makes me really sad.......
Thief priest is pretty decent but not meta ^^ I think I have a list from back then I have to recreate it
Prepare for a lot of "LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROYYYYYY JEEENKIIIINS"
Atleast the game was good back than , now 90% of the streamers just pay Battlegrounds.
The main problem is back than we had Zoo lock , Tempo Rogue , Aggro Shaman , Aggro Hunter ect. and many years later we are still playing the exact same stuff instead of new Archtypes.
The Dev team is too hung up on class identity but every class should be able to play control/Aggro/tempo ect. Why does Paladin have to be the small dude class for an internity. Even when looking at world of warcraft and paladin tanks and there spells , the class could easily be a viable controll deck but they never had a tier 1 control deck not even ones.
For me personally the fact that we are still playing zoo lock , wich is one of the first decks on this website back than , really ruins the game. Please make up new stuff and give every class variaty instead of doing the same archtypes over and over just with different cards.
I quit doing standard and Wild for battleground like most of us , but will definitly start doing my daily quests again in classic mode.
People play Battleground just because they prefer battlegrounds not because "the game is worse now" how much do you imagine that people will spam the classic bottom? The first week, after that people will try to make their own classic decks sure but after that it will be as you can imagine "well this is boring now that everyone is playin X class that is almost impossible to outmatch"
Card Games are about change, grind and deckbuilding. If the HS player base really dont like standard as much as people is saying its because they dont like card games as a concept. They just like to casually play cardgames for time to time. I actually not belive that most people that keep playing this game is like that. I cant deneid that Battlegrounds is probably more played than rotation but that is just because is free content. People still need to play a couple of standard games or pay for the pass with their own money to keep playing Battlegrounds. So in my opinion Battleground players still like to play rotation (or wild) they just play more Battlegrounds cause you dont need farm gold for new cards.
Been playing this game since Beta and on a really high level aswell , Battlegrounds is more fun and challenging. Again 90% of the streamers are playing battlegrounds aswell , not because they don't have to spend money. In fact I watch most of there streams daily and know why they left standard because they don't like the game and battlegrounds is more fun. I never spend that much on this game but have played every top tier deck , even had a golden control wallet warrior deck in the past , just from playing the game and doing your quests , wich doesnt take much time at all.
Also never claimed people will play classic forever , only that the game was better in the beginning but they didnt evolve it enough in all those years , they just keep repeating decks like zoo lock and rogue and paladin never had a viable control deck for example. They can push archtypes if they really want to , Warrior and Warlock has had loads of differend archtypes.
Challenging is a matter of opinions. If i see Battleground guides and stick with the strongest heroes is not really that much challenging. Its just like fun: How exactly is more fun buy heroes and see an auto battle instead of playing a cardgame? (this is just my perspective i know that there is people that will prefer play auto battles and just take pre-battle decisions). Less RNG? dont think so even if you have the best expectatives for battlegrounds you know that there is Hero Tier RNG and Shop RNG in that game too.
And i am not saying it cant be fun but i also heard from some streamers why some of them play more Battleground and is either that they dont like laddering anymore (more than playing the game) and others just because is less money invol. Obviusly its also because its fun but this other reasons are as valid as that one. But my point is not about Battlegrounds is about HS: saying that the game is worse now is a big lie.
The game is not worse know. More classes can be played, the game is not decide by how get the best tempo every match (GvG meta) or how can put his wincondition first (Grand Tournament meta, probably the worse in the game) or how can get his combo first (The first Quest mage meta, Cube lock meta). A lot of problems in card design where solve. Yeah in the road Blizzard get a lot of hate from their streamers by compay decisions but that is not directly related to the game which is ironic because atleast 2 big streamers leave the game and butcher a good % of the popularity of the game because of Blizzard, not the game state. And yeah there is still some questionable decisions in card design but i mean that is the eternal problem of every card game atleast once each 2 expansions, not even MtG the best in terms of card design is free from that.
Every cardgame has this kind of times of "this game is not great anymore" i mean you cant just keep people happy forever every expansion, they are ups and downs in this games that is just how it is.