It’s been a week since the expansion’s launch, so it’s time to stop updating this post. From now on, you can find the new decks here: Standard & Wild!

Welcome to Across the Timeways expansion decks roundup – in this post, we will feature the best-performing early meta builds from pro players & streamers. We’ll try to add decks for all 11 classes, but it’s hard to say whether every single class will be viable around launch. This post will be updated every few hours over the early expansion period (roughly the first week). If you’re looking for something more specific, we will have two “best decks” compilations – the first one after 24 hours, and the second one about a week after launch. So if you want something to base your early crafting decisions on, that would be your best choice (it’s still not a guarantee that those decks will remain viable, but it’s better than nothing).

Across the Timeways is the third (and final) expansion of Year of the Raptor (2025). While it comes with no rotation, 145 new cards injected into the Standard should always have a significant impact on the meta. This time around we’re getting two brand new mechanics – Rewind and Fabled. Rewind cards allow you to see the random outcome and then either decide to keep it or bring the game state back to before you played the card, then replay it (usually with a different result). Fabled are more of a deck building mechanic, where the Fabled Legendaries represent Heroes from across the time and come with a small, heavily synerigstic 3 cards packages (with an exception of Warlock’s Rafaam, who adds 10 cards to your deck while also increasing its size to 40). Both mechanics were well-received in testing, with one exception of Rewind’s animation being too long (but devs are actively working on making it shorter, so let’s hope that it will become better in the future).

If you weren’t with us during the reveal season, you can learn more about the expansion and see all the new cards in our Across the Timeways expansion guide.

Across the Timeways Deck Lists

Once the expansion launches, we give players some time to open packs and create the decks, then start posting once we see the brand new decks in action. During the first couple of days, we aren’t very picky – we have no win rate statistics so early into the set. We try to sift through the really bad decks, but it’s hard to say what works and what doesn’t at that point. Around Day 3, we generally tend to focus on deck with proven track record and those that achieved high Legend placements. As meta forms, decks become more refined and it’s getting clear which builds are good and which aren’t.

If this isn’t your first expansion then this should be obvious, but be very careful about crafting anything right after it launches. A deck can be popular and look powerful on day 1 or 2 and then quickly disappear (alongside your hard-earned Dust). This has happened multiple times in the past, and most likely will happen to at least one or two decks this expansion too. If you are a budget player, we recommend holding off for at least a few days (and ideally until the first balance patch, but we understand that it’s a tough ask) before committing to crafting anything. Spending Dust on hyped Legendaries on Day 1 is a very common mistake, and can leave you without the means to craft the actual meta Legendaries after everything settles.

Table of Contents

• Death Knight
• Demon Hunter
• Druid
• Hunter
• Mage
• Paladin
• Priest
• Rogue
• Shaman
• Warlock
• Warrior

Death Knight