16 Theorycraft Standard Decks for Throne of the Tides - Budget, Memes, & More!

Hearthstone's newest mini-set The Throne of Tides is either just around the corner, newly-launched, or over six months old depending on when you're reading this--but in all those timelines we've got a plethora of theorycraft decks to try out with these new cards!

All our decks are untested and unrefined, so keep that in mind while perusing--if you think we've overlooked something, you're probably right! We've organized our theorycraft decks by class, and tried to come up with at least one budget and one non-budget idea for each of them. If we didn't, that's OK, and we'll let you know about it!

Let's get to it!

Theorycraft Decks for Demon Hunter

Our budget offering for Demon Hunter is a fast Naga list that uses the Fel synergies of Metamorfin and new cards like Harold of Chaos to help win the board. Fossil Fanatic is really good for drawing our Fel spells, which we have quite a few of.

The more expensive theorycraft takes those same new cards to build on a Fel Demon Hunter shell that tops at old favorite Jace Darkweaver while packing in a few extra top-end cards to feed Topple the Idol. Unlike Chaos Nova, Topple isn't a Fel spell, which means it's not going to mess up our Jace turn. Also, we're running Ambassador Faelin to give Topple a few more big options to Dredge from.

Theorycraft Decks for Druid

Harold of Nature is a great buffer for a deck that can jam out cheap bodies to buff, so we've got a Token deck that uses Razormane Battleguard to get more bodies in play, and Jerry to draw and split cheap Nature spell Living Roots to get Harold in a buffing mood.

Having 20 Mana makes it much easier to talk yourself into an overly-complicated OTK stunt, and that's exactly what we've done here. Moonbeam should double up any Spell Damage it receives, so playing it with two copies of Guild Trader will spell a lot of damage that we can use to kill our opponent. Also, because this is effectively Ramp Druid, we're running 10 Mana Big Boy Neptulon the Tidehunter.

Theorycraft Decks for Hunter

Face Hunter remains a good choice for budget players, and with cards like Twinbow Terrorcoil and K9-0tron we can still find fun ways to build the deck. Specifically, we're running a few extra 1-Drops for the good boy, while still jamming in enough spells that we feel like there's a good chance we activate Ancient Krakenbane.

Questline Hunter's fallen off a bit thanks to nerfs to Drek'Thar and Dragonbane Shot, but we've got a feeling that with new additions Ancient Krakenbane and Shellshot that it's at least possible to have fun with the archetype again.

Theorycraft Deck for Mage

We'll be honest: we couldn't come up with a palatable budget option for Mage that incorporated the new cards, but maybe that's because we didn't try hard enough. We still have a pass at a decent Naga Mage deck that runs Lady Naz'jar for extra versatility--although we're most interested in her Arcane form that can make our Spitelash Siren turns even more degenerate. Eagle-eyed viewers will note that we've included Polymorph: Jellyfish to deal with big minions while being another Arcane spell to trigger Naz'jar.

Theorycraft Decks for Paladin

Both our Paladin decks are buff archetypes that slot in Snapdragon for a huge boost in stats across all sort of minions. The budget version is more focused on Mechs, but adds in Twin-fin Fin Twin for a little more oomph.

The more expensive version gets to play with the interaction of Snappy and First Blade of Wrynn while also doing the standard mega-buff Paladin stuff that everyone loves--there's even Lightforged Cariel to remind our opponents that nothing they do will ever truly matter!

Theorycraft Deck for Priest

We couldn't find a budget deck for Priest, either, so you'll have to sate yourself with this Wig Priest that runs the new Harold of Light for more survivability while making our other Naga harder to kill. We've also got Drown to answer a big threat.

Theorycraft Decks for Rogue

You may remember that Keleseth Rogue used to be one of the best decks in the format. We've decided to try to replicate those glory days with a budget deck that builds around Snapdragon with a ton of Battlecry minions (mostly Pirates, for Cutlass Courier and Swordfish reasons). We've also put in the new Shattershambler combo with Nerubian Egg because no one stopped us.

Deathrattle Rogue got a huge boost thanks to Shattershambler both making it cheaper to get them into play and actively triggering their Deathrattle at a point when you have Snowfall Graveyard up. The rest of the deck doesn't have to change all that much from what we've seen in recent days, just patch in the new 1-Drop and know that it's gotten better.

Theorycraft Decks for Shaman

Murloc Shaman has been knocking on the door ever since Forged in the Barrens released over a year ago, and this budget list is taking advantage of all the new and old Murlocs the class has. Clownfish allows for earlier plays of high-value Murlocs like Gorloc Ravager or Tidelost Burrower so we can quickly finish with a Nofin Can Stop Us. Coilfang Constrictor wants to help us blank our opponent's removal going into a big turn.

Clownfish makes Mutanus the Devourer Cost 5, which we can't imagine will ever be a problem with Brann Bronzebeard and Bolner Hammerbeak around. This deck is called "Permission Shaman" because--thanks to Coilfang Constrictor, Blademaster Okani, Mutanus, and recursive tools like Zola, Brilliant Macaw and the two previously mentioned guys--it's highly unlikely our opponent does anything without our say-so.

Theorycraft Deck for Warlock

In the vein of Permission Shaman comes Nopelock, a deck that just decides that its opponent doesn't actually get to play any cards for the low, low price of 4 Mana. But of course, that isn't low, low enough, so we're running Runed Mithril Rod as well. Thanks to Nopelock, everyone can have fun: The Warlock, and all those people who didn't really want to play Hearthstone, anyway.

Theorycraft Deck for Warrior

Kazakusan Warrior is unlikely to make a huge comeback in a world where Charge Warrior is a lot more efficient in closing games, but with new survival tools like Igneous Lavagorger and Tidal Revenant, Control Warrior can try to be a little slower while having more targets to use an Amalgam of the Deep on; perhaps to find an extra Neptulon the Tidehunter?

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