Best Death Knight Standard Decks - Violet Hold Meta Guide

The best Death Knight decks in Hearthstone's Violet Hold meta lean on the class's rune system to mix relentless pressure with grindy, corpse-fuelled value. From aggressive Unholy and Frost shells to slower Blood control piles, Death Knight remains one of Standard's most flexible ladder classes, and the archetypes that rise to the top shift with every balance patch. This guide gathers the strongest Death Knight decklists so you always know what's winning.

Each featured deck below comes with its current win rate, a full decklist you can copy straight into the game, and the deck guides and mulligan tips you need to pilot it on the ranked ladder. We update the list as the Violet Hold meta evolves, so bookmark this page and check back before your next climb.

Best Death Knight Decks - Violet Hold Day 1

Updated automatically from the best-performing pro and streamer decks, plus top-rated community guides.

Top streamer decks

PizzaHS's BUU DK (8-2) - Violet Hold Day 1 Decks

Standard · BUU DK · by Fluxflashor · 2 minutes ago

• 1 Fire Fly x 1
• 1 Morbid Swarm x 2
• 1 Murmy x 2
• 1 Twilight Egg x 2
• 2 Battlefield Necromancer x 2
• 2 Command Claw x 2
• 2 Corpse Cannon x 2
• 2 Warden Maiev x 1
• 3 Acolyte of Death x 2
• 3 Falric x 1
• 3 Reluctant Wrangler x 2
• 4 Tower of Ghouls x 2
• 5 Blood Doctor Thal'ena x 1
• 5 Reanimated Pterrordax x 2
• 5 Talanji's Last Stand x 2
• 6 Shadows of Yesterday x 2
• 7 Remnant of Rage x 2

5,800 Dust 0 0 Copy Deck Code

Maxiebon1234's BUU (4-1) - Violet Hold Day 1 Decks

Standard · BUU · by Fluxflashor · an hour ago

• 1 Morbid Swarm x 2
• 1 Soulrest Ceremony x 2
• 2 Corpse Cannon x 2
• 2 Drink Blood x 2
• 2 Holy Eggbearer x 2
• 2 Poison Breath x 2
• 2 Wild Pyromancer x 2
• 3 Chillfallen Baron x 2
• 3 Defias Smuggler x 1
• 3 Dissolving Ooze x 1
• 3 Living Paradox x 2
• 3 The Egg of Khelos x 1
• 4 Mother Duck x 1
• 4 Nightmare Lord Xavius x 1
• 5 Reanimated Pterrordax x 2
• 6 Sawbones x 2
• 7 Endbringer Umbra x 1
• 7 Remnant of Rage x 2

6,900 Dust 8 0 Copy Deck Code

TheoHS_'s Harold DK (3-2) - Violet Hold Day 1 Decks

Standard · Harold DK · by Fluxflashor · 7 minutes ago

• 1 Morbid Swarm x 2
• 2 Command Claw x 2
• 2 Drink Blood x 2
• 2 Hematurge x 2
• 2 Infested Breath x 2
• 3 Chillfallen Baron x 2
• 3 Staff of the Endbringer x 1
• 4 Memoriam Manifest x 2
• 4 Nightmare Lord Xavius x 1
• 4 Obsessive Technician x 2
• 5 Blood Doctor Thal'ena x 1
• 5 Emergency Surgery x 2
• 5 Envoy of the End x 2
• 5 Reanimated Pterrordax x 2
• 6 Experimental Animation x 2
• 6 Ultraxion x 1
• 9 Arisen Onyxia x 1
• 10 Deathwing, Worldbreaker x 1

11,480 Dust 0 0 Copy Deck Code

Feelink's Harold DK (3-2) - Violet Hold Day 1 Decks

Standard · Harold DK · by Fluxflashor · 2 hours ago

• 1 Morbid Swarm x 2
• 2 Command Claw x 2
• 2 Drink Blood x 2
• 2 Hematurge x 2
• 2 Infested Breath x 2
• 3 Chillfallen Baron x 2
• 3 Staff of the Endbringer x 1
• 4 Memoriam Manifest x 2
• 4 Nightmare Lord Xavius x 1
• 4 Obsessive Technician x 2
• 5 Blood Doctor Thal'ena x 1
• 5 Emergency Surgery x 2
• 5 Envoy of the End x 2
• 5 Reanimated Pterrordax x 2
• 6 Experimental Animation x 2
• 6 Ultraxion x 1
• 9 Arisen Onyxia x 1
• 10 Deathwing, Worldbreaker x 1

11,480 Dust 7 0 Copy Deck Code