Descent of Dragons Post-Nerf Meta Decks – Best Hearthstone Pro & Streamer Deck Lists For All Classes

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Descent of Dragons nerf patch will be out in just a few hours (around 10 AM PT / 19:00 CET)! It’s out! Once it releases, we’ll start showcasing new builds, which should give you a pretty solid look at how the early meta will look like.

Just like always, we expect meta to shake up a bit. This time Shaman was the focus of nerfs – all four changed cards were played in the most popular deck on the ladder – Galakrond Shaman. It will definitely become weaker now, but will it be weak enough to let other decks flourish? That’s what we’re going to see. The only nerf that affects other decks is Faceless Corruptor, which quickly became one of the strongest and most popular cards on the ladder after Descent of Dragons’ launch. I actually like this nerf, because it’s severe, but most likely not severe enough to kill the card. It should still be played in the decks it was meant to go in – Token builds – but probably no longer in most of the ladder decks. You can find out quick look at the Galakrond Shaman & impact of the nerfs here!

We’ll try to focus on the new & updated decks, but if a certain deck remains unchanged and it’s still viable, it will still find a place on this list. Here’s a quick summary of the cards that are getting nerfed:

• Corrupt Elementalist – Now costs 6 Mana (up from 5).
• Sludge Slurper – Now has 1 Attack (down from 2).
• Faceless Corruptor – Now has 4 Attack (down from 5).
• Mogu Fleshshaper – Now costs 9 Mana (up from 7).

Should I Disenchant Nerfed Cards?

This is a very common question, and the answer is always simple – YES, you should disenchant them! All of them, for that matter. Just dust every nerfed cards the moment update is live (unless you plan to play the nerfed version right away). Why? Because you will never lose out anything that way. Nerfed cards are always disenchanted for their full crafting cost (so 40 for Commons, 100 for Rares, 400 for Epics and 1,600 for Legendaries). Anyone telling you to “save” a certain card is wrong, because it’s always better to have a dust equivalent of a card instead of a card. If you have 1.6k Dust – you can use it to craft any Legendary you want, but also let’s say 4 Epics that you need. It’s much more flexible. And if you have a given Legendary – that’s it, you’re stuck with it no matter what.

Let’s say that a certain Legendary was nerfed. You disenchant it and get 1,600 Arcane Dust. But as it turns out, the Legendary starts to be viable again a few months from now. You can craft it again for 1,600 Arcane Dust (which you gained previously for dusting it). Which means that in the grand scheme of things, you didn’t gain or lose anything.  But for those few months, you will have extra Dust you can spend on something else you might need in the meantime. You can, for example, craft another viable meta Legendary (like Zephrys the Great or Kronx Dragonhoof) and use it in multiple builds. However, if the Legendary turns out to never see play (which often happens with nerfed cards), you’ve just gained a lot of extra Dust. An extra boon of getting rid of a Legendary card right away is that if you crack open packs from that expansion during the “full disenchant” period (which usually lasts ~2 weeks), you can get it again and then disenchant it for full crafting cost second time!

Now a different scenario – someone told you to save X Legendary, because it should see play in the future. In case it does see play in a few months, you still have it, so there was no gain or loss in terms of Dust (but the Dust was “frozen” for that time, whereas in the example above, you could use it for something else). But now, if the Legendary does NOT see play, you’re stuck with a bad Legendary that you can either ignore or disenchant for 400 Dust. Either way, it’s a huge dust loss. You might not care if you pre-order every set and have most of the cards you need anyway, but it’s a huge difference for F2P / budget players.

Descent of Dragons Post-Nerf Deck Lists

We’ll be featuring a bunch of Post-Nerf decks from pros & streamers. Keep in mind that the early meta can be volatile, not as much as when the expansion releases, but still. A certain deck working quite well right after the nerfs (when players haven’t figured out what’s best yet) doesn’t necessarily mean that it will stay as a part of the meta. So I would not recommend doing any extensive card crafting for the first few days. Just wait it out and see which decks end up sticking.

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