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Top Standard & Wild Legend Decks – Across the Timeways (Week 16) – February 2026

By: Stonekeep - - Updated:

Card reveal season for the upcoming CATACLYSM expansion has started in full earlier this week with a new formula. Instead of having multiple smaller reveals every day, most of them are focused in those bigger dumps. We still get a single card reveal here and there, but they are far less common. From the content perspective, I actually did like the previous cadence more. But personally I have been enjoying the streams so far. It’s clear that they were pre-recorded well in advance, so I wish that the participating players had a bit more knowledge of the expansion, but it’s still been fun to see some of the reactions. And there’s still a lot of them to come.

It’s been 2 weeks since the big buff patch so players have mostly figured out what’s strong and what isn’t. While I can’t say that there will be no new breakthroughs from now on, most of the buffed decks have already been tested extensively. Turns out that by far the biggest winner of the patch was Arkwing Pilot in Mage. Previously it was a niche/meme card, but now the deck built around it is very good (I’d put it in high Tier 2, maybe even low Tier 1). Well, I said “the deck”, but in reality there are two decks – one that purely focuses on Tempo/Burn damage and then the Arkwing combo, and one running Tsunami as as a secondary finisher (+a few cards to tutor it/get it out quicker). Their overall strategy is still similar, but they are probably distinct enough to classify as two different decks.

Other big winner is Libram Paladin, but to be completely honest, this one isn’t a 100% new deck. It’s more of a variation on Aura Paladin. It still runs the entire Gelbin of Tomorrow + Auras package, but it cut some of the support/less important cards to run the Libram package instead. Because Interstellay Wayfarer now discounts them by 2 mana instead of 1, it’s much easier to make them cost 0, and thus get infinite Libram of Divinity and big mid game swings with Libram of Faith (that one is still a bit tricky to get down to 0, but realistically playing it for 1-2 mana just to fill the curve is still very good). Overall both versions of Paladin (Aura and Libram) are very close in terms of win rate. The old Aura version is probably a bit stronger, but I don’t think it’s gonna give you a significant competitive edge, so it’s really up to you which one you prefer.

And then we’re getting into “popular, but not that good” territory. Here’s where Tess Rogue and Demon Warlock (and all its variations) sit. Tess Rogue used the fact that if you turn into a different Hero (by a Hero card from the now buffed Maestra, Mask Merchant), all Rogue cards now count as “cards from a different Hero” and are replayed by Tess Greymane. So the idea is that you play Chrono Daggers as a damage spell and Shadowstep/Web of Deception as a bounce effect, and then keep replaying Tess over and over again. And since Tess is ALSO a card from a different Hero now, you summon more copies of her, filling the board with 6/6 on top of that. But, as you can imagine, not drawing your Maestra, or drawing her too late and having to spend entire turn on a Hero card that you might not even want to play, is not great. Plus, as it often is with combo-oriented Rogue decks, it doesn’t have great defensive capabilities, so it often falls prey to Aggro. So all in all, it’s more of a meme Tier 3 deck, but it’s actually quite popular.

Then, the Warlock decks are mostly focused on the newly buffed Abduction Ray. At 1 mana, the card now gives you an actual discount and it’s also much easier to squeeze multiple times into your turn. It led to a few versions of the build – one a bit slower, another one focused on Zoo-like tempo, and finally a Dark Gift version with Wallow, the Wretched. The Zoo variant is probably the strongest of them all, but it’s still maybe low Tier 2 at best. The other ones fall squarely into Tier 3 category.

Still, as you can see, the patch had a pretty significant impact on the meta. Whether it’s a good impact or bad impact I leave up to you. Personally, while I’m not a big fan of decks like Arkwing Mage or Tess Rogue, I’m still happy that we got something new because I was really bored with the previous meta. And it’s only really a beginning – in about 3 weeks, we should get the big unnerf patch for cards that are about to rotate to Wild (which will turn Standard WILD for a while), and then a week later the expansion itself drops and resets the power level.

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

Deathrattle Broxigar Demon Hunter – #1 (maxiebon1234) – Across the Timeways

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Arkwing Mage – #1 Legend (大神丨地表风月) – Across the Timeways

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Imbue Rogue – #1 Legend (시이나마히루) – Across the Timeways

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Deathrattle Broxigar Demon Hunter – #1 Legend (LoveXiaoDi) – Across the Timeways

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Quest Control Warrior – #5 Legend (Unknown) – Across the Timeways

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Blood Control Death Knight – #8 Legend (Asuna) – Across the Timeways

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Starship Token Druid – #17 Legend (Ormendo) – Across the Timeways

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Arkwing Mage – #17 Legend (Ike) – Across the Timeways

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Unholy/Blood Corpse Death Knight – #36 Legend (Naith) – Across the Timeways

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Arkwing Mage – #43 Legend (mlYanming) – Across the Timeways

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Imbue Rogue – Top 50 Legend (Feno) – Across the Timeways

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Rainbow Handbuff Death Knight – #50 Legend (Onkrad) – Across the Timeways

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Libram Aura Paladin – #51 Legend (BoringPriesttt) – Across the Timeways

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Aura Paladin – #58 Legend (BoringPriesttt) – Across the Timeways

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Arkwing Mage – #84 Legend (Jakeypoo) – Across the Timeways

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Unholy/Blood Corpse Death Knight – #89 Legend (Capixc79) – Across the Timeways

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No Minion Demon Hunter – #181 Legend (HoboJed) – Across the Timeways

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Zoo Demon Warlock – #251 Legend (Onkrad) – Across the Timeways

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Sandwich Discover Hunter – #408 Legend (D0nkey) – Across the Timeways

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Tess Rogue – #465 Legend (katakuchi) – Across the Timeways

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Hearthstone Wild Legend Decks of the Week

Mech Paladin – #7 Legend (Unknown) – Wild S143

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Broxigar Questline Demon Hunter – #49 Legend (Unknown) – Wild S143

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Pirate Embiggen Druid – #227 Legend (Pelthune) – Wild S143

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Burn Warlock – #246 Legend (SquareZ) – Wild S143

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XL Questline Reno Priest – #444 Legend (MrTrenbolone) – Wild S143

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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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