Another weekend and another episode of Wild Weekends! For this Saturday we'll look at the top of Wild Meta, which will be soon shaken to the ground by the upcoming balance changes that will hit not one, but two of the most performing decks of the format.
Today's lists come from Team WildSide's most recent wild meta report - their project is quite new, so don't miss the chance to check it out.
Darkglare Warlock
Darkglare Warlock is pretty good in Standard, but it's a completely different story in Wild - in less than 3 weeks, this list came out of nowhere and now comfortably sits at the top of the meta, and it's not even close. Wild's bigger card pool allows the players to cycle faster and better, be more threatening on the board (Molten Giant, Hooked Reaver) and far more resilient (Loatheb, Enhance-o Mechano). This deck is the complete winner of the August ladder and nothing seems to be able to consistently stop it. Except a nerf to its best card.
Reno Priest
In a world without Darkglare Warlock, Reno Priest would be the best deck in the format, held back only by Quest Mage and Grizzled Wizard/Sir Finley Mrrgglton shenanigans. Lorekeeper Polkelt gives the deck extreme consistency in drawing its combo pieces and Reno Jackson if you're matched against Aggro, while Mindrender Illucia, despite being nerfed, can still win games on the spot. Pew pew.
Kingsbane Rogue
That's a big butter knife you got there. Secret Passage being nerfed will surely hit the deck, but in the end the only card you really need to win is Kingsbane, so...
Bomb Warrior
An aggressive deck that heavily counters drawing reliant and Highlander lists (huge against Reno Priest) - this is the right choice right now if you want to make your opponents regret having queued up a game on ladder.
Big Shaman
Lightning Bloom is one hell of a card, especially if combined on turn 2 (or 1 if you're going second) with Ancestor's Call - who needs mana when you can just have stats?
Comments
Gotta prepare for Darkglare's demise. (Still too soon, Blizz.)
Can anyone recommend substitutes for Lord Barov and Zola the Gorgon in the Bomb Warrior?
Thanks for the weekly wild content. I love it!
I actually started playing Wild last month first time for 5 years because of this Reno Priest deck. Spent like 50k dust for full golden deck and results aren't disappointing so far :D. I'm having so much fun, much more than Standard now.
Indeed I'm afraid of Big Shaman in the post-nerf meta.
At first I thought Tortollan Mage might be the new threat, but I like to think that Aggro decks can keep it in check. Or Flik Skyshiv.
But what can effectively counter Big Shaman powered by Lightning Bloom?
Why are you afraid? Reno Priest is highly favoured against Big Shaman and that deck will be all over meta. Quest Mage might try to counter the Reno, but Kingsbane will eat alive and Reno can tech Illucia against any combo and live 'till it draws her. Even Kingsbane might run double Sap to deal with Big Shaman in case it might try to prey on aggro preying on combo decks. Big Shaman will be bad until it highrolls, but that can be like 20% percent of matches and that's not good for ladder.
Mirror match lol.