Top Standard & Wild Legend Decks - Festival of Legends (Audiopocalypse) Week 11 - June 2023

By Stonekeep - June 25, 2023

I had to skip another week last Sunday because the patch was released just a few days earlier and the meta has changed. A bit. Pure Paladin, the main nerf target, is still a good deck, but it's no longer dominating. Other best decks remain more or less the same - Big Beast Hunter and Totem Shaman are the other two Tier 1 decks. Demon Hunter is also dominating, especially in high Legend. While it's "only" high Tier 2 at Diamond ranks, Spell and Outcast builds are probably the two strongest builds in Top 1k Legend. And finally, we have the same Enrage Warrior build that has been strong ever since the Audiopocalypse mini-set's release.

As for what changed - as a result of the update, we do have some new decks. For example, Shaman is now dabbling in Evolve mechanics again. The deck itself is no longer as oppressive as it once was, but it's actually a really solid build. Another surprising one is Big Undead Druid - a deck that popped up after Pure Paladin got less popular. It's definitely better than one might expect, it's not dominating the meta in any way, but you can realistically climb with it to Legend and do pretty well on your way. And finally - Secret Mage is viable in Standard. Or should I say "viable-ish" - it's sitting on the edge of 50% win rate, but that's still pretty okay. It's not as good as its Wild counterpart, but if you have missed that deck in Standard, you should give it a spin. Other than that, the meta remains basically the same as before the patch. Sure, some decks went up or down by 1% or something, but no other big changes.

However, some big changes are on the horizon. A brand new game mode was announced earlier this week - Twist. It's a rotating format, with available expansions and rules changing every month (or a couple of months). The first format will be "New Age", which is frankly a bit boring to begin with. It's Ashes of Outlands onwards, so most of the meta are expansions that are currently in Standard or those that just rotated out of it less than 3 months ago (2021 sets - including the infamous United in Questlin... I mean Stormwind). The only "fresh" sets are 2020 expansions that were out of Standard for over a year now. We'll see how people like that. While I'm not the most excited for the first format, I love the idea of rotating Constructed mode in general. It was on my list of ideas for YEARS and I always wanted to see it in Hearthstone. I just hope that they make the next format less familiar. Anyway, I plan to add some Twist theorycraftings tomorrow (Monday) in preparation for launch on Tuesday. After it's out, I will focus on it at least for the first few days (but I will still try to post some Standard/Wild builds if you aren't interested in Twist).

Also, while we don't have any official information on that matter, I suspect that Blizzard will announce a new expansion on Tuesday. Adding Twist will require a major patch - that would be Patch 26.6. And X.6 patches are always when Blizzard announced new Hearthstone expansions. I'm not a betting man, but if I was, my money would be on Tuesday expansion reveal.

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