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Top Standard & Wild Legend Decks – March of the Lich King (+Return to Naxxramas) Week 15 – March 2023

By: Stonekeep - - Updated:

A new expansion was just announced – Festival of Legends. While we don’t have an official release date yet (just “April 2023”), it’s quite likely that it will drop on April 11. A reveal season has just started, so far we’ve seen all of the Neutral cards and a few class ones.

Of course, a new expansion’s announcement usually has no impact on the current meta. But it just so happens that Patch 25.6 also gives us the free set Legendary. This time it’s E.T.C., Band Manager, and it’s a pretty good one. It sees a decent amount of play in both formats. However, unlike something like Prince Renathal, it doesn’t change the way the game is played that much. It’s mostly a flexible way to add tech cards to your deck, it doesn’t change the basic way the decks are built or played for the most part. That’s why, despite being played in around 25% of the decks in Standard and almost 30% in the Wild, I wouldn’t exactly say that it impacted the meta a lot. And it actually made a bigger difference in Wild than Standard, which is rare for a single card release. It’s more interesting in Wild, because it lets players bypass some of the deck building restrictions. For example, you can play E.T.C. in an even deck, but add odd-cost cards to it. Similarly, you can play a Reno (singleton) deck, but add a few strong duplicates to E.T.C.’s band. Those didn’t exactly turn the meta upside down, but it’s still a strong effect.

Because of that, the meta is mostly the same as it was a week ago. And since it’s actually quite healthy and has no real standout decks that are completely overpowered, I think that’s the meta we’ll be in until the next expansion. Or maybe until the next rotation – remember that Festival of Legends comes with Standard rotation, including changes to the Core Set. There’s a chance that those Core Set changes will drop a week or so before actual expansion, alongside Patch 26.0. If that is the case, we’ll have this extra, short meta with the new Core Set but old expansions. That would be interesting and I hope it happens again. Even if not, the expansion should provide a massive meta shake-up, something I think most of us need since this expansion had some long periods of really unfun gameplay patterns and class dominating (first Rogue and then Death Knight).

Below, you will find 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!

If you’re looking for the best Wild Format decks, check out our Wild Meta Tier List!

Hearthstone Standard Legend Decks of the Week

Thief Rogue – #1 Legend (Spring) – Return to Naxxramas

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Svalna Priest – #9 Legend (Gladio) – Return to Naxxramas

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Undead Shadow Priest – #12 Legend (kanaya) – Return to Naxxramas

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Concoction Miracle Rogue – #16 Legend (ViperMateo) – Return to Naxxramas

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Midrange Murloc Shaman – #29 Legend (Bunnyhoppor) – Return to Naxxramas

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Reno Blood Death Knight – #73 Legend (Otsuna) – Return to Naxxramas

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Midrange Murloc Shaman – #80 Legend (Jambre) – Return to Naxxramas

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Midrange Murloc Shaman – #102 Legend (Azyrte) – Return to Naxxramas

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Control Pure Paladin – #121 Legend (Bankyugi) – Return to Naxxramas

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Aggro Mage – #134 Legend (Norwis) – Return to Naxxramas

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Frost/Blood Death Knight – #137 Legend (Bankyugi) – Return to Naxxramas

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Unholy Aggro Death Knight – #144 Legend (Xepho) – Return to Naxxramas

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Hero Power Mage – #174 Legend (VirtuozZ) – Return to Naxxramas

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Vanndar Rogue – #198 Legend (D0nkey) – Return to Naxxramas

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Undead Shadow Priest – #333 Legend (Geenger) – Return to Naxxramas

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Hearthstone Wild Legend Decks of the Week

Reno Shudderwock Shaman – #1 Legend (AFgudehaofan) – Wild S108

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Pirate Rogue – #1 Legend (GeerFlandre) – Wild S108

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Reno Druid – #1 Legend (Cubyyy) – Wild S108

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Even Totem Shaman – #1 Legend (Capreolus) – Wild S108

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Mecha’thun Druid – #1 Legend (Popcorn) – Wild S108

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Outcast Aggro Demon Hunter – #17 Legend (TWOREFINE) – Wild S108

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Questline Druid – #19 Legend (COPPERSCUM) – Wild S108

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Even Reno Unholy Death Knight – #30 Legend (DocDelight) – Wild S108

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Cube Warlock – #49 Legend (MachineMurlo) – Wild S108

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Quest Mage – #87 Legend (GeerYangQue) – Wild S108

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Elwynn Boar Priest – #97 Legend (Garchomp) – Wild S108

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Aggro Outcast Demon Hunter – #139 Legend (R7tw) – Wild S108

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Even Reno Hunter – #233 Legend (HZomb) – Wild S108

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XL Reno Hunter – #240 Legend (Culler) – Wild S108

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Even Reno Unholy Death Knight – #443 Legend (skatertobineko) – Wild S108

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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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3 Comments

  1. JoyDivision
    March 20, 2023 at 1:50 am

    Hey there!

    As I see it E.T.C.s band isn’t included in the deck code!? Which makes it pretty difficult to use a posted deck.

    And pleeease, remove the link to the Wild Tier List. It’s superoutdated and absolutely useless.

    • Stonekeep - Site Admin
      March 20, 2023 at 9:52 am

      Sadly our website still doesn’t support ETC bands/codes. We tried to make it work, but it’s more difficult than we thought because it completely changes the deck code logic. I don’t think any website has implemented it yet because of that.

      However, if you click on the deck’s name and go to its page, I post ETC’s band (sideboard) in the description. That’s the workaround for now.

      I really plan to get around to updating Wild Tier List, but you’re right, I think it will be better to just remove it until that happens.

      • JoyDivision
        March 21, 2023 at 12:48 am

        Oh my, such effort. Thank you very much for doing this ‘by hand’, very much appreciated!