I took the VS Burn Spell Mage list and made some modifications to get both 500 wins on Mage (starting around 390) and to legend this month. I had an insane win rate at the start and didn’t really hit a wall until around d5.

Removals:

• heatwave (post miniset)

• lightshow

• reverberations

• wisdom of norgannon

Additions:

• jaina’s gift

• malfunction (post miniset)

• frost lich cross stitch

• sunset volley

Heatwave was situationally strong on quick draw, but malfunction is just better I think. Often times the turn quick draw was active was not the turn you wanted heat wave to be played. Malfunction can better handle early-mid game boards and allow you to maintain board without needing to trade minions, resulting in more face damage. Lightshow is just not competitive, I am surprised VS is still entertaining it. Reverberations was typically a dead draw or took up hand space - not enough valuable targets for this. Wisdom isn’t necessary imo.

Jaina’s gift is sleeper really strong, people don’t play around this card or expect an additional 3-6 damage from hand. It won so many of my games. Frost lich cross stitch is just very strong, especially with the weapon in play. Freezing opponents face was very valuable pre-miniset, even after the update opponents are generally afraid of the water elemental and will waste resources dealing with it. Sunset volley is extremely strong on turn 6 but serviceable on turn 9 especially with weapon equipped. I tried elemental inspiration in its place at one point, but ultimately sunset volley felt better as the one big spell in the deck.

Mulligan:

Very straightforward - keep weapon, 4 mana spells (not fireball), 5 mana spell on coin (can keep off coin in slower matchups). I will keep malfunction or flame geyser against aggressive decks. Ditch pretty much everything else - sometimes keep elemental companion with weapon.

Key Matchups:

Warlock: pain lock is favored, very very important to count damage from hand because they just kill themselves pretty quick. Control board until they are in lethal range. Insanity lock is very unfavored, this is for sure the worst matchup imo. They have access to healing, burn, and make big boards. Popgar usually ends games for them.

Hunter: secret hunter is winnable but annoying as always - difficult matchup nonetheless.

Paladin: buff paladin is easier because of access to freeze, getting water elemental on board to prevent the weapon buffs is key. Aggro paladin is all about board control - this is a neutral matchup. If they get the aura online with 2-3 minions on board you will lose. Do not go wide in this matchup.

Warrior: pre patch coin branns were majority of my losses (how did they always have brann on turn 5!?). Post patch this is a free win.

Other classes: I would say pretty heavily favored, the only tough matchup can be excavate rogue because of all the random cards they generate it is difficult to play around.

I genuinely think this deck has a place in the meta. If you like burn strategies it isn’t uncommon to be throwing 20+ damage from hand by turns 7-8. Always be counting your damage. Don’t use star gazing until you have at least 4 mana - it will always draw glyph or malfunction. Knowing when to play star gazing is important for matchups. Similarly void scripture was primarily a panic button to search for board answers. Typically would play it at 8+ mana hoping to find blizzard, yogg in the box, flamestrike, etc. Sometimes manufacturing error on 5 is not the play and that is a hard pill to swallow as the “fun” card of the deck.

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Highlander priest has actually been working pretty well and it’s easily the most fun deck to play right now. It generally beats other Highlander decks pretty hard because you can copy other Highlander rewards with puppet theater.

Don’t sleep on hidden gem, some decks just hand no answer to it and it will literally heal for 10-20 hp over the course of the game and activate overheals

Having a ton of success with Aggro Naga Demon Hunter, got me to legend easily and 80% winrate through 20 games since hitting legend. This deck is both and aggro deck and a miracle deck. Blindeye Sharpshooter is just Auctioneer on steroids and Sock Puppet Slitherspear is a 1 drop that can easily do 10 damage if left on the board.

Reno Warrior only dropped 2 games from D3 to legend. Still good.

I've been way too stubbornly tweaking, scrapping, rebuilding the Mech and Bomb Warrior archetypes in all sort of shapes and forms and running several packages, but it's just not coming together. At this point I'm wondering if I'm just bad or if the deck itself is just really bad. Whatever it is, I'm kinda burnt out due to it for like the last 5-6 days exclusively

I've found some dust I had hidden away in old Golden Cards recently (about 10K worth). I knew it was a good idea to keep them :D
I've have finally upgraded a few of my decks from almost meta to fully meta
I've got Fizzle and Symphony for my Warlock decks now.

I've been hoping between Fatigue, Pain, Sludge and a Tempo List that someone posted around here.
Been stuck in D5-D3 for a while. I'm sure my bouncing around decks isn't Helping but I've been having fun.

Picked up the overheal priest from that one crazy chineese guy who seems to only play that deck since exp hit cause i only see that from him on donkey.top and didnt lose a game yet lol. Take this with a grain of salt thou because its wierd deck to play you can try it and go 0-10 if you dont know what you are doing or have bad luck.

Nohands put out a video on Gaslight rogue a few hours ago and it's literally all I'm seeing at D1 now lol.

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I did get to legend today, with two decks, i use Painlock to get from D5 to D3 and then switch to Odyn Warrior from D3 to Legend, the control warrior deck with duplicates just crushes aggro, and destroy mages.

Here's the Warrior list, i'm not gonna post the Painlock, because it's just the traditional list with the 2 new cards from the mini-set.

Edit: Change Zilliax to Perfect+Virus module

Control

Class: Warrior

Format: Standard

Year of the Pegasus

2x (1) Garrosh's Gift

2x (1) Razorfen Rockstar

1x (1) Shield Slam

1x (1) Slam

2x (1) Verse Riff

2x (2) Bladestorm

2x (2) Needlerock Totem

2x (2) Safety Goggles

2x (2) Shield Block

2x (2) Stoneskin Armorer

2x (3) Acolyte of Pain

1x (3) Photographer Fizzle

1x (4) Aftershocks

2x (4) Craftsman's Hammer

1x (4) Ignis, the Eternal Flame

2x (6) Sanitize

1x (8) Inventor Boom

1x (9) Odyn, Prime Designate

1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000

1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000

1x (4) Twin Module

1x (5) Perfect Module

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Just went 14-4 with a Dragon Drum Druid (lost two games against crescendos). It feels like an alternate Hybrid Druid but going with tall boards and a shit ton of refill with Beanstalk. Dragons help a lot with ramp and stabilization through taunts, lifesteal and draw. Treants are here to make sure you have around 5 waves of minions and constant aggression.

List below. Edit : climbed to 2500 legend.

Edit 2 : switched Aerosoilizer for Cactus construct to help with early game aggro and get some value (or whelp). Score is now 23-11.

Buff paladin seems busted. Been climbing with Reno hunter beating or at least competing with most decks. Buff paladin can't even make a dent.

Reinstalled Hearthstone for the first time in over a year and went from bronze 10 to Legend with Zarimi Priest with a 71% winrate. Paladin and Warlock can feel pretty difficult because if they can bully you off the board there's not much you can do to stabilise reliably, but the deck generally feels very strong and well rounded and has a lot of late game reach with Zarimi and Leeroy. Also Aman'Thul feels completely busted lol.

Saw owl Druid doing somewhat well on d0nkey and gave it a whirl. It feels the closest to real it ever has been, but that’s still probably closer to tier 3 than anything, but just the general existence of burn wins games vs pain lock

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What's working is the Elusive Rush Zilliax everybody is running now. Single-handedly wins every aggressive matchup. It's giving me ulcers, and pushing my tempo deck into the can.

Brann warrior still absolutely wrecks. Going with a lower curve to deal with painlock now though.

Went ~75% winrate with plague excavate DK and new gheists. Pretty much the same core as usual except with gheists. I lifted the deck list from someone in here a few days ago and all I changed was moving zilliax from the 10 mana 4/5 rush "costs 1 less per minion on board" dude to the 9 mana 6/5 "battlecry: summon a copy of this" dude around diamond3 for more healing and a more solid later turn drop. It is pretty much the same as it was from patches ago except with gheists. Not having mining casualties as a 2 drop hurts a bit but having gheists and more AOE helps to cover the gap.

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Mulligan:

• vs aggro/flood things like Pally, mulligan for weapon and 1-2 aoe

• mulligan for tempo is also good, especially if you can get like 2 excavate into the turn4 4 mana 3/3 guy that gives you a free excavate

• for a longer game control matchup ditch the AOE and the removal cards and try to tempo out with excavates/discovers and/or try to get Helya

• never keep anything in mulligan that is 5+ mana

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Matchup-specific notes:

• vs mage: I was losing to this more than other matchups, I started to realize how important it was to keep my health up and clear their minions. They have shitloads of removal but not as much burn/reach, so pressuring them while clearing out their minions and keeping your hp value high should let you win on eventuality. This is as opposed to leaving their stuff up and going face a lot.

• vs warrior: never give them a good turn to drop an 8 mana brann. Play just enough that they need to clear and can't afford to use 8 mana for him. Gheists are amazing for this. Try to hold Reska for their Zilliax specifically so you can Reska+attack or Reska+cast removal at small minion hiding behind zilliax ---> steal their zilliax so they can't revive him easily with Dr Boom.

• vs Reno: try to use gheists value to make boards just big enough that they have to use Reno. Dropping an 8 mana gheist right after a reno is also nice since it is a big fat 8/8 and the biggest natural singular threat in the deck to drop after a reno while still feeling okay about it (primus can't summon 3/3's into reno).

• vs handbuff DK: tempo out then just adjust gameplan based on discovers. If you get things like reborn effects or more reskas or soulstealer/corpse explosion for example then you can afford to let them drag the game and take the board. Until you get cards like that, you need to keep playing for the board and making sure you never fall behind because otherwise they might drop something like 40/40 worth of stats on turn 8 randomly. So far it seems like the game ends up going long anyways due to them being able to drop big minions with lifesteal even if they get low, e.g. buffed up Seamstress or Hollow Hound w/ lifesteal cleave; if all goes well, you will have an early board, then they start taking board with their buffed minions, then eventually they will run out of gas and be at around 3 cards in hand or less for the rest of the game.

• vs DK in general: Primus and Reska must always be played around. Avoid playing your Primus if you do not have a gameplan for what to do if they use their next turn to eat your primus with blood rune, or Reska your Primus.

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Plague 2.1

Class: Death Knight

Format: Standard

Year of the Pegasus

2x (1) Staff of the Primus

2x (2) Distressed Kvaldir

2x (2) Down with the Ship

2x (2) Frost Strike

2x (2) Kobold Miner

2x (3) Chillfallen Baron

2x (3) Hardcore Cultist

2x (3) Reap What You Sow

2x (3) Toysnatching Geist

1x (4) Helya

2x (4) Skeleton Crew

2x (4) Tomb Traitor

2x (5) Burrow Buster

1x (8) The Primus

1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000

1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000

1x (4) Twin Module

1x (5) Perfect Module

2x (11) Chained Guardian

1x (20) Reska, the Pit Boss

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Got legend with reno priest most games are winnable except wide early paladin blowoits (warlock is managable). New location is mvp (cloning internal and sherif against locks lmao). Control games are long and exhausting but thats the price fir playing prieet

I've been experimenting a little bit with reno Shaman, not really found a list that I like yet. I enjoy playing Shaman but the deck doesn't feel really strong , or maybe I'm playing it wrong. Im at d3-d2 eu

What beats paladin ? I bumped into a lot of em with little success. I'm pretty sure reno Shaman is supposed to be favored but I don't know I always got overwhelmed by their board and never really had enough clear.

Anybody playing anything that stomps pally?

Excavate Rogue making an unexpectedly pleasant climb this month with 18-3 score. Deck seems really strong, although I faced 0 warlocks (somehow) so take the score with a pinch of salt.