Top Standard & Wild Legend Decks - Showdown in the Badlands + Delve into Deepholm (Week 14) - February 2024

By Stonekeep - February 18, 2024

~~I'll try to keep it short~~ (edit from the future: it didn't work) because a) it's been a long week, b) I'm not feeling very well and c) I've just started my first Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough and I want to get back to it as soon as I can (what, at least I'm honest).

Earlier this week, a new Hearthstone expansion has been announced. Whizabang's Workshop will drop on March 19, together with Year of the Pegasus and thus the Core Set rotation. First expansion of the year always makes the biggest impact on the meta, because not only we're getting a lot of new cards, but we're losing even more of them. But that's still a month away - we have a whole reveal season and probably a bunch of other announcements coming before it happens, including nerf reverts for some cards rotating to Wild. If things follor the same pattern as last year and the year prior, we'll have a week between patch 29.0 and expansion + rotation, so during that week you will be able to play unnerfed cards in Standard).

As for the current meta - no Constructed balance changes dropped with the patch, so the meta is the same as it was. Well, we technically did get a few new cards - Harth Stonebrew, Colifero the Artist and Corridor Sleeper - but they haven't made a big impact.

Let's start with the most controversial one - Corridor Sleeper is a pre-purchase reward and we absolutely despise that fact. Old Guardian covered it in a separate article yesterday and he put it very well - I agree with all his points. Luckily the card sees no competitive play right now - it has some potential, but if anything, most likely for after the expansion, when power level drops due to rotation. Then we have Colifero, the free Patch 28.6 Legendary... and I haven't seen a single deck running it. I genuinely don't know how to make him work. I get the idea - in theory, you run some big minions in your deck + ways to summon tokens through spells. You summon tokens and then transform them all into a big minion (like Rag who can just shoot opponent to death). But that makes both the deck-building part and the gameplay part very clunky. In other words, the card is unplayable right now

Finally, there's Harth Stonebrew. It's the only card out of those three that sees play. And it's way more popular than I expected - right now it's in ~17% of decks between Diamond and Legend. But "seeing play" and "being impactful" are two different things. Harth isn't a card that makes or breaks decks. It's a card that slots into already existing decks without changing the power dynamics that much. It's also a card that many people play not because it's strong, but because it's fun. I really think they nailed some of those iconic hands (you can find a full list here) and reliving the good ol' days is just fun.

However, the truth is that the current meta is far from balanced. Sludge Warlock in particular is a big problem and we could really use a balance update. We haven't heard anything about it as far as I'm aware, but I'm sure that it'll drop sooner rather than later. When it does, we'll cover it - like always!

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