The battle pass drama is rampant and everything seems grim, but if you want to have fun on the ladder and gain some experience points, we've got you covered!
Check out these lists; Some are niche archetypes you can try (hey, it's been a week since the release of Darkmoon Faire, the meta isn't figured out yet!), others are interesting approaches to existing ones!
Raylicious' Pirate Shaman
The Old Gods gave Shaman a lot of Midrange/burst potential and, when it comes to aggro, Pirates are good at dealing damage in the early game. Seeing Southsea Captain together with Lava Burst is quite unusual, but it shouldn't matter as long as you're able to clap your opponents.
ZachODR's Pure Paladin
What? Pure Paladin in an off-meta article? Are you out of your mind? Yes, but actually no. It's true, Pure Paladin has been a top-tier list in the past few months, but for those who don't know him, Zach is the founder of Vicious Syndicate, which is by far the best place to find good decks and data analysis about the game. This list is spicy - "no situational cards: just taunt up, heal up and smash" he says. I trust him, do you?
FunkiMonki's Token Demon Hunter
Now that Demon Hunter has all this insane token support, it must be somewhat viable, right? Wrong, but at least it's fun. Blood Herald, Nethrandamus, Fel Guardians and Feast of Souls are crazy reward cards in an archetype that needs more consistency to be meta, but if all you care about is memes, there's no reason to ignore this deck. Plus it's quite cheap (only 4 epics, 2 of which are Classic).
CronoSSBM's Combo Quest Rogue
Directly from r/CompetitiveHS, here's a deck I've never seen on ladder. If you check out the reddit thread, you'll find a quite detailed guide that will explain how to play it through various matchups. Moreover, if you're a fan of Bazaar Burglary, this is one of the last chances you have to play it while it's still in Standard.
Are you playing anything that goes against everything the meta has to offer? Share it down in the comments below after adding it to our deck database via our deckbuilder.
Comments
I was playing no minion mage this week with Deck of Lunacy thinking that it is a meme card. Guys, it is not, not entirely at least. I'd say Deck of Lunacy is a competitive meme card and you don't even have to fill your deck with cheap spells.
The token DH is fun. Cult master can have it drawing though the entire deck. I even dropped a 14/13 Blood Herald (buffed by a wriggling horror or something). Inconsistent, though.
I shoved some dragons in pure paladin if you guys have a Dragonrider Talritha sitting around you've never got a chance to play
I love these off meta spotlights. Please keep them coming <3
A Wild article is coming very soon ;)
I have been playing with a Shuffle Tempo Rogue to give some use to my golden Grand Empress Shek'zara and it is quite fun but not great. I managed to use Shek'zara once to fill the board with Plush Bears from Ticket Master and that gave me the achievement where you need to draw 5+ cards with her so that's pretty good already.
I'm also playing an extremely greedy Hunter list with mid sized beasts and Guardian Animals/Beastmaster Leoroxx. I was unfortunate enough to open two copies of Don't Feed the Animals so i needed to cook something to use it. The card itself is pretty bad/slow. The lack of proper card draw in Hunter really limits any usability for the hand buff. Guardian Animals is very impactful just like in Druid but Hunter has to play fair with it and wait until turn 8 which makes it unimpressive. It's fine but not great. If you pull a Tundra Rhino with it, it can create a decent amount of surprise damage and that characteristic is exclusive to Hunter. Trampling Rhino is simply great and should be explored more. The win rate of the deck is positive (pretty shocking) but i don't have faith that this will keep happening.
Have you uploaded them yet? I'm sure we'll be more than happy to try your own home-brews!
I uploaded them just now.