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Top Standard & Wild Legend Decks – Across the Timeways (Week 11) – January 2026

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This week I have slightly fewer decks to share because I’m only posting the ones played after the mini-set. Which is an interesting case itself. On the one hand, it wasn’t THAT strong, but on the other, it has tremendously impacted the meta. What do I mean by that? Well, two words – Imbue Rogue.

According to all the stats so far, and my personal experience, Imbue Rogue is mid to bad deck. I’d probably put it somewhere in Tier 3 right now. At the same time, it’s also the most popular deck on the ladder across almost all ranks, with 15-20% play rate. It only gets taken over around high Diamond by Dragon Warrior, but those ranks are always an outlier because people tend to play the most “efficient climbers” when they get close to Legend. It’s quite rare to see a… let’s call it mid deck to reach such popularity. Yes, there are often outliers in the meta, decks that people play, but Imbue Rogue is a huge one.

It’s safe to say that a lot of players just enjoy this kind of play style. It’s not the first time it happened – Thief Rogue in general is usually more popular than it is good, and while Imbue Rogue is not a full-blown “Thief” deck, it shares the biggest similarity – generating a lot of extra cards from other classes. That’s a rather unique play style that makes each match different. It also often wins through a high-roll (like dropping an expensive, late game bomb on Turn 5, or generating some perfect counter for your opponent’s deck), which I guess feels good. I assume that the novelty will wear off eventually and people got back to stronger decks (we’ve already seen a 2-3% play rate decline over the last few days), but I also think that Imbue Rogue will be a part of the meta at least until the rotation happens.

However, other than Imbue Rogue, the mini-set didn’t have a lot of great cards, which I alluded to earlier. Two strongest ones are Prescient Slitherdrake and Remnant of Rage, but they are mostly played in decks that were already a part of the previous meta. Acceleration Aura is also a really nice addition to Paladin – as it turns out, ramp mechanic in a class that is balanced around not having it is quite strong.

The only “new” deck that’s actually strong is Broxigar Demon Hunter. It was sort of activated by the Remnant (and, to a lesser extent, Press the Advantage). The deck has existed ever since the expansion’s launch, but it was always a bit too slow it has a great late game OTK with Broxigar and Youthful Brewmasters, but you pretty much have to cycle through your whole deck to get all the Portals, and that took too long. Not anymore, the mini-set has made it way more consistent.

All in all, I don’t think it’s the worst mini-set in history, it has a few playable cards and it actually made a huge splash with an underpowered Imbue Rogue. But it’s one of those rare cases where I don’t necessarily recommend buying it if you’re low on Gold, but you have some Across the Timeways packs instead. Pretty much all of the playable cards are Commons, so realistically you should get them after 10 packs or so (assuming you already own all of the base expansion Commons, but I’d say that’s a safe assumption).

We should have a cleared idea of the new meta by the next week’s roundup, so stay tuned!

Below is a full list of the Legend decks from last week, sorted by the highest placement.

If you want to see all of the current top meta decks, go to our Hearthstone Meta Tier List post!

Hearthstone Standard Legend Decks of the Week

Starship Rogue – #1 Legend (FAST44) – Across the Timeways

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Discover Hunter – #1 Legend (大神丨杨杨杨) – Across the Timeways

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Frost/Unholy Aggro Death Knight – #4 Legend (大神丨雾都繊月) – Across the Timeways

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Imbue Rogue – #9 Legend (NAGON) – Across the Timeways

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Dragon Warrior – #9 Legend (NAGON) – Across the Timeways

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Quest Spell Mage – #33 Legend (ホッサル) – Across the Timeways

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Broxigar Demon Hunter – #34 Legend (Kubu) – Across the Timeways

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Imbue Rogue – #37 Legend (Kubu) – Across the Timeways

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Owlonius Location Druid – #38 Legend (MoreCode) – Across the Timeways

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Aura Paladin – #67 Legend (Nohandsgamer) – Across the Timeways

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Broxigar Demon Hunter – #80 Legend (reqvam) – Across the Timeways

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Broxigar Demon Hunter – #85 Legend (Chewie) – Across the Timeways

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Dragon Warrior – #90 Legend (Jakeypoo) – Across the Timeways

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Aggro Demon Hunter – #233 Legend (Freshca) – Across the Timeways

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Unholy/Blood Corpse Death Knight – #259 Legend (rayquinox) – Across the Timeways

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Unholy Corpse Death Knight – #351 Legend (Ike) – Across the Timeways

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Owlonius Location Druid – #596 Legend (DRILL) – Across the Timeways

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Imbue Dragon Rogue – #773 Legend (fioresi) – Across the Timeways

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Tank Aura Paladin – #829 Legend (RiseWasHere) – Across the Timeways

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Imbue Control Priest – Zetalot – Across the Timeways

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Hearthstone Wild Legend Decks of the Week

XL Reno Shudderwock Shaman – #1 Legend (MajorTom) – Wild S142

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Astral Communion Druid – #1 Legend (西风烈丨残阳如血) – Wild S142

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XL Reno Demon Hunter – #11 Legend (Pers) – Wild S142

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Quasar Rogue – #176 Legend (Levi) – Wild S142

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Discard Warlock – Top 200 Legend (生狂丨谦和爱闪退) – Wild S142

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Stonekeep

A Hearthstone player and writer from Poland, Stonekeep has been in a love-hate relationship with Hearthstone since Closed Beta. Over that time, he has achieved many high Legend climbs and infinite Arena runs. He's the current admin of Hearthstone Top Decks.

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