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The Witchwood Off-Meta Decks Compilation #2 (June 19th)

By Stonekeep -

Deck RoundupThe Witchwood

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Welcome to another off-meta decks compilation from The Witchwood! My usual deck compilations list mostly the meta decks, with maybe a few interesting/off-meta lists. I tend to post those after the new expansion or patch releases. However, further into the meta, there are many other sources that are simply better for finding the currently trending meta decks. However, what those sources do not focus on are maybe not best, but most fun and interesting builds. The decks that aren't popular enough to be considered "meta", but some players had success with. And this will be today's point of focus.

Off-meta decks are much harder to write about, because it's very difficult to measure their real power. We know that Even Warlock is one of the strongest decks in the game right now, and we know which builds work best, because thousands of people play it every hour, testing and optimizing (or at least providing data for other people to optimize) the lists. Off-meta decks, on the other hand, are mostly one-time experiments from a certain pro, which aren't adapted by more than a small percentage of the player base. These decks aren't optimized, aren't extensively playtested against the entire meta etc. On the other hand, off-meta decks have their own advantage too - I like to call it a "surprise factor". Not only are your opponents likely to mulligan badly (because they will assume that you play one of the meta decks), but without knowing your deck list, they might make a lot of silly mistakes along the way, ultimately increasing your chance to win if you can capitalize on them.

One more thing that you need to remember is that off-meta decks usually have a very short lifespan, because at their core they are simply worse than most of the meta options. The surprise factor is great at the beginning, but the more people start playing the deck, the worse it gets over time. That's why I've decided to keep things relatively fresh and only cover the decks from the last 10 days or so. However, keep in mind that these decks were usually played by pros on their way to Legend or at Legend - depending on your own skill, the meta you face etc. you might not be able to replicate similar results.

Without further ado, let's get straight to the second off-meta decks compilation from The Witchwood.

glibgizzard’s #80 Legend Kingsbane Rogue

Format: standardSeason: Season 51Dust7,840

Rogue Cards (27)

Neutral Cards (3)

StrifeCro’s Legend Togwaggle Malygos Druid

Format: standardSeason: Season 51Player: StrifeCroDust11,320

Druid Cards (24)

Neutral Cards (6)

hint24s’ Legend Rush Tempo Warrior

Format: standardSeason: Season 51Dust5,140

Warrior Cards (26)

Neutral Cards (4)

Triton’s #23 Legend Quest Rogue

Format: standardSeason: Season 51Dust7,200

Rogue Cards (15)

Neutral Cards (15)

Fibonacci’s Recruit Control Warrior

Format: standardSeason: Season 51Player: FibonacciDust12,860

Warrior Cards (27)

Neutral Cards (3)

Thijs’ #73 Legend Big Druid

Format: standardSeason: Season 51Player: ThijsDust13,700

Druid Cards (15)

Neutral Cards (15)

hansi_hanter’s Legend Big OTK Priest

Format: standardSeason: Season 51Dust6,180

Priest Cards (25)

Neutral Cards (5)

10 Comments

  1. zEeoN

    I do not agree to the Kingsbane part at all – I took this deck from rank 20 to rank 11 over the course of the last two weeks after not having played ladder in a while, using the following two subs:
    - Faldorei
    - Vilespine
    + 2 Assassinate
    -Gluttonous Ooze
    +Witchwood Piper

    I regularly end up with a Kingsbane that has 12/6 Lifesteal and I feel that outside of RNG (good cards from Lich King for a lot of burst) and Skulking Geist there's only heavy, heavy aggro to stop you. Even those decks can be countered if their draw is off slightly or yours is on point.
    I have not once lost to priest and warrior and only twice against Taunt Druid, in both cases only due to the Lich King (One player had 4 mortal coils from 4 ticks… the odds are somewhere near 0.0014%) and the other player had the weapon, milled a pirate with naturalize and had branching paths. Not something you can rely on. I have also not lost against Midrange Paladin, Miracle Rogue or Mage yet.
    The only real enemies of this deck are Malygos OTK Druid, early Jaina Mage, Odd Paladin and Odd Rogue.
    Even Warlock and Shaman can only beat you with way better draw than you, if both are on point, you still win. So yes, it's off-meta, yes, it has a counter; but it does not have "a few good match ups in Warrior and priest" because that would be horrible. It straight out beats all decks that are about control or value.

    1. Stonekeep

      "In the slow meta we currently have, it actually has some really good matchups, such as different variants of Priests and Warriors."

      Key words are "such as". Those are only examples of good matchups, I didn't say that those are the only good matchups.

      So I'm really not sure what you disagree with.

      1. zEeoN

        Don’t get me wrong, it might be due to the fact that the culture around hearthstone is often hyped by decks fairly quickly. Seeing all new decks that get the occasional win are „meta-breaking“ according to Youtube and so on, the description just sounds like it’s a deck that „might sometimes get an 8/3 Kingsbane“ (but actually lets you die with your pitiful 2/3 in hand 90% of the times). I agree that rereading the article it’s not like you said that anywhere but I think I was influenced by the overall „omg it’s OP!“ tonality, making the contrast sound flat out bad, if you know what I mean. So no offense either way! It’s probably for the better to read the occasional objective opinion about hearthstone than the OP cries eventually...

  2. A Hearthstone player

    As I remember, King Towaggle doesn't transfer fatigue damage.

    1. Stonekeep

      You're right, for some reason I remembered dealing more damage with that combo, but I've checked it and it's not the case. Fixed it.

  3. Tweeg

    Stonekeep, I would like to submit my minion-based skelemancer zoo, in which runs no burn spells or doomguards for discard, only leeroy for that extra extension, Focuses on strong minions that are sticky to the board and resistant to AoE and the power of sea giants and black knight. I've piloted it to top 50 legend before this season and I still dabble in it now.

    1. Socrates92

      Let me see that list! O.o Sounds very interesting and promising!

      1. Tweeg

        Gladly. Here's the code. You can take out 1x sea giant for another veteran if you wish.

        ### Paul Coffey
        # Class: Warlock
        # Format: Standard
        # Year of the Raven
        #
        # 1x (1) Acherus Veteran
        # 2x (1) Fire Fly
        # 2x (1) Flame Imp
        # 2x (1) Kobold Librarian
        # 2x (1) Voidwalker
        # 2x (2) Dire Wolf Alpha
        # 2x (2) Vulgar Homunculus
        # 2x (3) Devilsaur Egg
        # 2x (3) Vicious Fledgling
        # 2x (4) Defender of Argus
        # 2x (4) Ravenous Pterrordax
        # 1x (4) Spellbreaker
        # 2x (5) Despicable Dreadlord
        # 1x (5) Fungalmancer
        # 1x (5) Leeroy Jenkins
        # 2x (5) Skelemancer
        # 2x (10) Sea Giant
        #
        AAECAf0GBK8E8gWVzgLR4QINMNMB+wXZB8II58ECn8ICq8IC68IC2MoC980C8dAC8tACAA==
        #
        # To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

        1. Tweeg

          You can also go the keleseth route and take out the vulgar and direwolves, but that's out of preference.

  4. SlapLaB

    These are my favourite articles - love a bit of off-meta!

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