Standout Rise of Shadows Decks From The First Week - 17 Deck Lists

Rise of Shadows is out for over a week now, and we have a quite clear meta formed. It's easy to pin-point the best performing decks, and we no longer have such variety as we had during the first few days (but that's only natural). Of course, it's safe to say that only a part of the potentially viable decks were tested and discovered so far. Some of the currently popular decks will fall off, while others will take their place.

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Below, I'll list the decks that I think are strongest in the meta so far. Just like every new expansion, remember that the early meta is chaotic (even a week after release) and it might look different later down the road. Decks are chosen based on my ladder experience, watching the steamers & pros, talking with other high ranked players and early statistics from sites like HSReplay.net or Vicious Syndicate.

Since the meta is more stable than it was earlier, I can somewhat assess the strength of each of those decks. That's why I'm dividing them among three categories.

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These decks are only example lists - meta is still changing and more optimized builds might be out soon!

Great Decks

Great decks are the top picks in current meta. At the moment I'm writing this, they all have some high win rate builds with a decent sample size (at least a few thousand games), and they were used by pros to climb to high Legend positions (usually multiple times). They are the decks I would classify as Tier 1 right now.

Good Decks

Good decks are just like the name suggests - good, solid, viable, but not quite as powerful as the great decks listed above. When looking at the best builds, they have a slightly lower win rate than the great decks, but it should still be possible to climb ladder with them without a problem. They are the decks I would classify as Tier 2 right now.

Decks That Almost Made It

And here's the last category. Since this post already got way too long (sorry everyone), I'll keep this one short. Basically, those are the decks that were almost good enough to get onto the main list, but just didn't feel powerful enough. I would classify them as very low Tier 2 or high Tier 3 - which means that they still can be used to climb on the ladder, and sometimes might surprise you positively, but overall are weaker than the ones above.