Hearthstone Top Decks: The Best Ladder Decks
With the last expansion released and Hearthstone World Championship concluded, the meta has spiced up quite a lot. Not only that the new expansion brought a lot of interesting cards to the table, but there was a major patch that nerfed cards that were terrorizing the meta for a long time. In this featured discussion, we’re looking at some of the best ladder decks.
1. Terran Shaman
Starting things off, the Terran Shaman allows players to take an aggressive stance and put up damage quickly. Considering the speed at which Hearthstone esports takes place nowadays, this is an increasingly attractive Hearthstone Top Deck.
However, the only downfall is that the commitment to aggression minimizes healing options with weaker minions.
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2. Zerg Location Warlock
As the name implies, the Zergo Location Warlock deck is all about playing multiple location cards to collapse on your enemy with powerful effects. Moreover, using Location cards drastically cheapens super powerful giants and gives the user the best minions in all of Hearthstone.
Indeed, combining and timing Location cards with relentless pressure could end a game in a matter of minutes. However, the drawback here is a heavy reliance on minions and a bit of luck to draw the better Location cards as soon as possible.
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3. Zerk Token Hunter
With a 70% win rate over 30k games, Token Hunter has returned to the meta in a big way. Similar to the other decks mentioned in having an aggressive board presence, this deck has a certain flexibility to it allowing players to adapt to whatever an enemy throws at them.
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4. Elemental Mage
If you don’t fancy being overly aggressive, the Elemental Mage is a budget option with a tempo approach to the game. Involving a longer preparation stage, this deck involves gathering and playing elementals and using their battlecries to climax to a carefully coordinated win at the end of the match.
In the current meta, it’s less common and could be useful against these more aggressive decks – waiting out the storm of furious playing.
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5. Shaladrassil Paladin
This particular deck is also not as common as the previous decks. However, there is some serious potential behind Shaladrassil Paladin, where the goal is to leverage wide boards with buff effects. If that doesn’t work, the other option involves using the likes of Ursol and Shaladrassil, but finding this combo might burn tempo.
At the time of writing though, it’s countered by Warlock and Shaman, two other popular decks at the moment.
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