Post-rotation meta?

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While the new expansion hasn’t really been announced yet, I was thinking about the decks that could potentially rise up and become powerful meta contenders now that the 3 of the most OP sets are rotating out.

  1. Tempo Rogue. Hooktusk, Gral and Hench-clan Thug are all nuts, and I definitely feel like it’s going to be pretty good after the rotation. While losing Keleseth hurts this archetype, cards like Shieldbreaker or Sharkfin Fan could potentially become decent replacements.

  2. Midrange Hunter. The core of the deck is solid, it’s not losing much, and it’s pretty cheap. Definitely going to see play.

  3. Treant Token Druid. This is more of a personal wish, but I hope this deck will be good enough post-rotation, or else Druid will remain dead for a while.

  4. Aggro Spirit Shaman. Same as n.3, it would be cool to see Shaman playable again. Plus the deck wasn’t too bad at Rastakhan’s launch.

  5. Control Warrior. Dr. Boom, Warpath, Supercollider… it’s all there, but with Baku out of the picture it might have a less polarized winrate than it does now.

And now for the rest of the cast.
Warlock - Maybe a handbuff Zoo version? I kind of doubt it, seeing as Doomguard will no longer be a thing in Standard, but I don’t see anything else possible atm.

Priest - Some old-school version of Control Priest, I guess. Chump had a pretty cool Tempo Spell Priest too, so who knows.

Mage - I… I honestly have no idea.

Paladin - I kind of wish Heal Paladin would become a thing, but maybe Holy Wrath Paladin will still see play.

Welp, those are my guesses. Again, I get that it’s a bit pointless without seeing the new expansion, but it’s still pretty fun speculating about new meta decks. What do you think about the post-rotation meta?

EDIT: Whoops, forgot about Rush Warrior. That deck’s pretty damn good.
Also updated the formatting, so that it’s actually readable.

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I won’t speculate before seeing the new set but the pirate package in rogue does look strong, just not sure if loosing Keleseth, Minstrel and Vilespine will be too much.

Midrange Hunter and Zoo can’t be killed :wink:

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I feel like Zoo could do some Shenanigans with Nethersoul Buster/Duskbat for self-damage value, Blood Troll Sapper for a token based gameplan, and maybe even Glinda Crowskin + Summoning Portal for echo value.

Keleseth is a big loss, but there are viable 2-drops that can make up for losing it;
Minstrel… yeah, that does suck too (although during KoFT Rogue was good without it, so idk);
Vilespine can be replaced with Sap/Walk the Plank, so I’m not too worried there.

One card I’m worried about more is Corpsetaker, since it was really strong in Tempo Rogue of the current meta.

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Zoo never needs much help, simply because of the Warlock hero power and the Solarium still being around means it’ll be ok at worst.

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Rush Warrior is most definitely also going to stick around. Potentially even become stronger depending what cards it gets in the next expansion. The only core card it loses in the rotation is Fungalmancer. The other popular, but not mandatory, cards being The Lich King, Prince Keleseth, Scourgelord Garrosh and Blood Razor. But all the Rush cards will stay.

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You’d think so but it is a deck that thrives on their rush minions lining up with other minions. Plus the wr% numbers on Keleseth are actually disgusting (8 of the 10 most played versions run it and I bet the other 2 don’t have him lol).

The warrior hero power going against the archetype is what makes me go against the definitely good analysis, the deck just seems too fair without Keleseth. Still a fun deck to play regardless :slight_smile:

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Hm, yes. You do have a point. Guess I was being too optimistic when I said it could potentially become even stronger. I just want to see the archetype succeed! It’s the most fun Warrior deck from the entire Year of the Raven! Odd Warrior, with or without the quest, is boring af. :tired_face:

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Nothing wrong with optimism and you could easily be right :slight_smile:

In boomsday I played dead mans omega assembly warrior, which was fun. For Rumble I switched to wild Dragon Warrior which I’ve really enjoyed…I’ll get to that 500 wins eventually, the curse of playing slow warrior decks outside of that small time frame where I played my own version of Patron warrior :smile:

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I’m currently playing odd mech warrior with a 100% win rate (only 8 games so far though) and I love it. I feel without the odd mechanic it would just be even stronger.

So I think mech / rush warrior will be strong, I think maybe elemental Shaman will come back. I love Shaman. But don’t play it at the moment. I think tempo Rogue has potential.

I would love to see a strong mage deck come out of the new expansion.

I think Druid and Priest will be dead for a while, maybe Priest less so.

I think Zoo warlock will always be a thing but wont be as overpowered… Discolock may still be a thing with Jeklik.

I think midrange Hunter will struggle without the late game vaue. Zuljin might save it… But Zuljin without spellstones is nowhere near as powerful

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Think that deck might need a bit of help seeing as 80% of the elementals leave standard :grin:

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Oops my bad lol

I meant Shaman in general. Force of habit haha…

I haven’t played Shaman since my first week of Hearthstone back in December. I was so sure I would stick with Shaman as my main class but haven’t touched it.

Yet I have shudderwock, zentimo, grumble World shaker, kragwa the frog, al’akir the windlord… But no Shaman deck… Such a shame

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There’s definitely hope, because Shudder, Zentimo and Kragwa are all potentially OP, it’s just depends on how much the dev team wants to push them.

Maybe with unstable evolution leaving standard, Shaman can get some more ridiculous spell synergy cards and that proved it wouldn’t take much to be able to build a deck around.

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Assuming that the power level won’t be so too damn high after the rotation of quests DK’s and odds/evens I have a few ideas on what could be good in every class:
the obvious:
Midrange beast hunter, even if Flanking Strike and Spellstone leave the Hybrid kinds of Hunter already proved to be powerful enough, having Zul’Jin as one of the 3 Hero cards we know about so far will also make this a popular deck for starters

Zoo Warlock: While this one looses Doomguard, keleseth/humungulos and more I can see people still trying to bring it back with more traditional styles of play…which won’t work (the first 2 weeks of water heads playing greedy stuff don’t count to me as relevant) until the list is optimized latter on in the meta, if at all

mage is likely to be the worst class again, priest second

now out of the obvious, but still close to it:

Dragon warrior, Rush warrior, mech warrior, token shaman, control shaman, overload shaman, taunt token druid, token druid, spell shaman, spiteful stuff but not druid XD,

bad tempo rogue, cause it’s bad.

now to the hopefully: since it’s year of the dragon we might get dragons for hunter mage warrior and priests and murlocs for paladin, hopefully, some hybrid warrior that throws away armor instead of stacking it, deathrattle rogue in all seriousness

if I get any more ideas I might add em

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Yeah I’m kind of hoping Deathrattle Rogue will get some support, seeing as so many good Deathrattles are rotating out…