Last weekend was home to the first Masters Tour event this year, taking place in Las Vegas. We've recapped everything you need to know down below including decks! Beware, spoilers ahead.
Top 8 Hearthstone Masters Las Vegas Decks
First things first, here are the decklists from top 8 players of the tournament. The Swiss record of each player is included in parentheses.
- Posesi's Conjurer Mage (11-1)
- Hypno's Bomb Warrior (10-2)
- Gallon's Bomb Warrior (10-2)
- Kalàxz's Conjurer Mage (10-2)
- Tom60229's Conjurer Mage (10-2)
- Neirea's Tempo Rogue (10-2)
- Dog's Conjurer Mage (9-3)
- Feno's Conjurer Mage (9-3)
As a special treat, here are the lineups of some fan favourites
- Bunnyhoppor's Pogo Rogue (9-3) He just had to go with hopping bunnies didn't he.
- Hunterace's Conjurer Mage (8-4) The same lineup was also piloted by Justsaiyan (also 8-4)
- Viper's Mech Hunter (7-5)
- Thijs' Tempo Rogue (4-4)
- Kolento's Midrange Hunter (3-4)
All decklists can be seen by clicking a matchup with the player-of-interest on Battlefy.
Hearthstone Masters Las Vegas Results
If I made any mistakes in the images please don't tell me, it took me way too long to make these.
Group A
Group B
Top 4
Hearthstone Masters Las Vegas Recap
The drama began before the games started over on Reddit as the class distribution was posted early before the deck submission deadline by a twitter user. There were also claims of people being able to access entire decklists. This may have given advantages to the players who noticed it and were able to tech their decks better against other lineups. Some people changed their lineup entirely; Jay, who would've been the only player to bring Priest, felt forced to swap his deck choice due to the leaked info.
The matches themselves were a party of Mages, as the graphics above indicate. According to Battlefy's stats, Mages came out on top with a 57% win-rate (WR) with Druids tailing behind at 51%.
One big reason for Mage's success was the highly favourable match-up against Warrior (63% WR), which was by far the most popular class with over one third of players opting to pick Garrosh. The same trend can be seen with other classes too: the only three classes with a win-rate of 50% or above (Mage, Druid and Hunter) had positive win-rates against Warrior. Mage's only weakness turned out to be Druid (45% WR) but with less than 10 Druid players in the mix, the scene was set for major dominance.
Comments
Why did Gallon attack into Ice Barrier... not sure if reward for dodging vape would be enough reward vs risk of triggering Barrier...
Thanks for the hard work making this. :)
No one going to mention the handshake? That was one of the funniest bits!
Kameratai vs Languagehacker.
I really enjoyed the tournament. The top 4 all had incredibly impressive levels of play. Warrior mirrors can be a bit boring to some (I actually don't mind them) but mage mirrors are usually pretty insane and fun to watch.
Posesi was actually someone who impressed me most out of everyone, and I didn't even know him before this tournament. He actually had the most impressive record and the highest overall winrate (had the best swiss record being the only person to go 11-1). His conjurer mage play was insane. I feel like he was playing that deck about as well as anyone including the grandmasters who brought it and apxvoid. I feel like the pressure got to him a bit in the final games, but for the most part his decision making and play was so fast and clean. He had some amazing Luna turns and looked awesome at the mirror, even often winning the mirror without the coin which is a big disadvantage. I felt like i was learning about the deck just watching. I felt like his sidedecks could have been better, but his main deck was simple and clean and his play was top notch.
Tom was pretty sharp on Conjurer mage as well. One game in particular, against a mech paladin (can't remember their name) he had a super impressive performance. They were running a side deck that had big game hunter and mc techs for the mage matchup, and he played around them beautifully by dropping his questing adventurer on the right turn to make it stick with freezes while only building it up to 6/6 so it played around BGH, the next turn he had three minions on board including a giant so BGH would leave a big guy up no matter what WHILE playing around mctech. Every turn in the game he played around his opponents hand like he knew every card in it.
Gallon had pretty much the best warrior play of anyone at the tournament (obviously since he made the finals). He played the mirror well and despite all the decks trying to counter warrior, he pulled through. I feel like he had one of the best understandings of how to pilot the deck strategically. Some pros preach tempo and aggression with bomb warrior while most pros in general favor slower play.. Gallon knew how to balance the two and when to use each strategy. He won games by being super aggressive and others by being super controlling. He almost went 2-2 with Dog's hyper anti-warrior deck but ended up making what some would call a mistake in the last game, but you always push the one damage. Show dominance by hitting that mage in the face with your super-collider.
Dog played well and he was heavily rewarded for bringing what was kind of a meta breaker. this site has his deck listed as conjurer mage but it's really more of a freeze/conjurer hybrid. It's a nightmare for warriors, favored against regular conjurer mage as long as they don't highroll, and did well against Rogue. The kinds of decks it probably would lose against just weren't common at the tournament. It also seemed like he had Luna's Pocket Galaxy on curve every game, but you gotta get a bit lucky to make it through so many games.
Well, i'm happy Mage wins against Warrior.
Surprised to see players like Thijs and Kolento performing poorly.
Some big names definitely struggled: Muzzy went 1-3, Nalguidan 2-4, Orange and Purple 3-4, Zalae 4-4.
So sad to see an entire group made of only 1 class (and more specific only one kind of deck). The whole tournament was played by 3 classes out of 9: basically 2/3 of HS is unplayable at top competitive levels.
Congratulations to Dog! He damn sure deserved it.
Thanks for all the hard work in making these
Pogohoppor! :D