With the card nerfs arriving earlier this week, it is time for some deck recommendations! We've got 5 great decks that will do you well on Hearthstone's Standard ladder.
Included on each deck is their good matchups and which cards you'll want to target for mulligans, so be sure to click through to their guides for more information.
Secret Rogue with Galakrond
We'll start things off with the non-Demon Hunter powerhouse - Secret Rogue! Blackjack Stunner is your 1-cost Sap on steroids. You get a body, the control, and forcing your opponent to spend more mana to get that same card out again. It can help curb some initial aggro if you must but it can save you in a pinch later on too. Holding onto a Secret to make sure you can activate this is a really good idea. Play with your secrets, control the board, bring out big boys, and conclude with Galakrond.
Some alternate lists run a single Shadowstep to use with Kronx Dragonhoof. If you want to play with that, drop one of your Devoted Maniacs.
Murloc Paladin
Murloc Paladin is a disgustingly good deck and thankfully for us it does well against many of the other players we're showcasing today. The Murloc generation isn't quite as crazy as Shamans once had access to, but Imprisoned Sungill can help us replenish a board after ours gets inevitably wiped out. Felfin Navigator spreads the fishy love on our tiny units and Underlight Angling Rod (later brought back with our Hoard Pillager) gives us much-needed card generation.
Face Hunter
Personally speaking, I've always adored Face Hunter and winning games in the lowest number of turns possible. The potential brought to us with Toxic Reinforcements when paired alongside Teron Gorefiend and some fantastic cards from Ashes of Outland (notably Pack Tactics & Scavenger's Ingenuity is an absolute delight. Face is the Place! SMOrc
Totem Shaman
Totem Shaman is one of those funny archetypes where we waited for years to get something that actually worked decently and now we've got a deck that can be tough to beat. It does great against those pesky Hunters, Mages, and Priests especially, and we know how popular Hunter has been as of late.
Tempo Demon Hunter
I can't not advertise Demon Hunter. Even though they've gone through two rounds of nerfs, their greedy gameplay continues to deliver wins and I'd be lying if I said they weren't fun to play as. YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!
Comments
I have been trying to get cutlass Rogue to work for ages, but I really only dabble in wild. Unfortunately I think my mmr carries over from standard so I always get queued against Tier1 decks :(
I will try your list! Although I may need to consider some crafting (like loatheb)
There is also Highlander Pries
For Wild, much to my own chagrin, I did Mage with Open the Waygate. I cracked and Evocation and I just had to use it. IT's worked wonders for me in Wild... even though I feel like part of my soul has chipped off.
I refuse to do that. Doesn't help that I don't have the quest or the mana giants, though.
Odd DH was working fine but stopped working at diamond 3 too. The loss of Albatross was gross.
I felt the burn from that to
I embraced the darkness and finished my Legend grind with Secret Mage. I swapped to it from Odd Demon Hunter after the nerfs at diamond 2 and fell back to diamond 4 so it didn't start too well either. I also had some zero progress days but then breezed through the last 5-6 games in win streak (mostly because my opponents weren't drawing well) so I guess my cliche-ic advice is stick to a deck even if it sometimes looks it's going nowhere. Cubelock was a horror matchup for me so I'd imagine it's also very capable of doing the thing.
I said it on the day of nerfs and I'll say it again, as long as DH has 0-1 mana cost spells Altruis will always see play.
if they want to nerf DH the classes just need to run cheaper AOE, they're minions are super squishy
And that is a big issue. Blizzard needs to start looking at real nerfs, not cosmetic ones. I believe they did make the class OP on purpose to get people to play it. It is their new baby and they refuse to bring it under control.
Yeah problem with demon hunter is that all the cards are too good... mildly hitting a couple won't fix that...
That Murloc Paladin is doing fine and Libram Paladin is not makes me want to puke :(
*cries in wasted Dust*
Well, I didn't waste that much, since I got Liadrin fairly early in my pack opening. But I did have to craft a few Librams and other cards to support a Pure version of the deck. Shows what I know about what will work and what won't :P
shush, there's only fish now
Totally agree. Libram Paladin was a new archetype for once with a different mechanic and what do we get? Bloody Murlocs... again...