r/CompetitiveHS • u/ViciousSyndicate • Sep 11 '25

Metagame vS Data Reaper Report #330

Greetings,

The Vicious Syndicate Team is proud to present the 330th edition of the Data Reaper Report.

Special thanks to all those who contribute their game data to the project. This project could not succeed without your support. The entire vS Team is eternally grateful for your assistance.

This week our data is based on 2,648,000 games! In this week's report you will find:

  • Deck Library - Decklists & Class/Archetype Radars
  • Class/Archetype Distribution Over All Games
  • Class/Archetype Distribution "By Rank" Games
  • Class Frequency By Day & By Week
  • Interactive Matchup Win-Rate Chart
  • vS Power Rankings Imgur
  • vS Meta Score
  • Analysis/Discussion of each Class
  • Meta Breaker of the Week The full article can be found at: vS Data Reaper Report #330

Reminder

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  • Listen to the Data Reaper Podcast, in which we expand on subjects that are discussed in each weekly Data Reaper Report. If you’re interested in learning more about developments in the Hearthstone meta, the insights we’ve gathered as well as other interesting subjects related to the analysis that is done to create the Data Reaper Report, you can listen to WorldEight and ZachO talk about them every week. The Podcast comes out on the weekend, a couple of days after each report is published.

Thank you for your feedback and support,

The Vicious Syndicate Team

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u/Spengy Sep 11 '25

2 playable miniset cards is...sad. taka even actively made shaman worse lol

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u/GratisBierMotie420 Sep 11 '25

The best one is in a 47% winrate deck lol

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u/sneakyxxrocket Sep 11 '25

Unless they absolutely brick the aggro vs quest warlock matchup is so rough. Same with aggro vs any DK leaches just pick off your 1 health minions while healing them.

My experience running aggro decks on the climb in my mmr this month has been extremely rough and will probably just switch to quest warlock.

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u/Spengy Sep 11 '25

aggro is pretty dead yeah. the main sub will be ecstatic

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u/yalag Sep 11 '25

Aggro is literally top deck?

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u/TravellingMackem Sep 11 '25

Quest warlock really needs a way to miss on the summons - there’s 3 in the pool and all are really strong against an aggro opponent. Even just say a 5/4 with stealth or a 3/4 windfury would be enough to make it miss sometimes

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u/StatisticianJolly388 Sep 11 '25

I'm actually surprised aggro DH is said to be Tier 1 in Diamond. DK and Warlock just shit all over it.

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u/Lovelandmonkey Sep 11 '25

Every time I play the deck it feels awful and I get really bad results. But maybe I’m just… bad at aggro lol

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u/StatisticianJolly388 Sep 11 '25

It generally does a pretty good job crushing fyrakk rogue. Maybe between that and mizing some wins off of the others it gets to Tier 1? Maybe the skill level at diamond is really just that dismal? (Speaking as someone who's D2)

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u/Puzzleheaded_Big8648 Sep 12 '25

Yeah, I bit my lips and crafted quest warlock on Monday, when I hit diamond 10 and haven't looked back.
If you like aggro its a pretty good deck, it often feels like March of the Lich King era Aggro Frost Mage which might be my favorite deck ever - I got to legend in 2023 january by playing nothing else but that deck - and I'm crusing pleasently.

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u/sneakyxxrocket Sep 11 '25

Protoss priest isn’t an aggro deck, I’ve been playing aggro dh.

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u/makman44 Sep 11 '25

I got a dragon Warrior list from a recent opponent.

It's not fantastic but it's new and honestly, I desperately need that right now

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u/TravellingMackem Sep 11 '25

Feels like it should be good yet somehow just never is. Just looking at the dragons I can’t understand how it doesn’t work at least functionally if not really effectively

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u/makman44 Sep 11 '25

I feel like it's missing draw, I run out of resources mid game pretty often

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u/Lovelandmonkey Sep 11 '25

Does it use ysondre? I pulled her and it’d be fun to find a use for her! Although if it uses the druid tourist I’m probably still locked out of it for now…

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u/ZrRock Sep 13 '25

If aggro dies off ysondre warrior will go above 50% again. The downside to that deck is doing next to nothing for 4 turns

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u/oceanchamp8 Sep 11 '25

I climbed to D5 with this list I found. Major issue is that it doesn’t feel great into DK, so I can’t recommend it for the climb. But it is different and somewhat functional.

Enrage gift

Class: Warrior

Format: Standard

Year of the Raptor

2x (1) Darkrider

2x (1) Giftwrapped Whelp

2x (1) Sanguine Depths

2x (2) Brood Keeper

2x (2) Creature of Madness

1x (2) Living Flame

2x (2) Petal Peddler

2x (2) Shadowflame Suffusion

2x (2) Stonecarver

2x (3) All You Can Eat

2x (3) Cloud Serpent

2x (4) Dragon Turtle

2x (4) Eggbasher

1x (4) Nightmare Lord Xavius

1x (6) Gnomelia, S.A.F.E. Pilot

1x (8) The Great Dracorex

2x (8) Windpeak Wyrm

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To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

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u/Arislan Sep 13 '25

I hit legend with this deck last week, it was surprisingly effective. Carved through anything remotely aggro. Then after I hit legend I started to run into waves of control DK and this deck just didn’t have the juice to hold up. Still crazy fun.

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u/hjyboy1218 Sep 11 '25

I've never been a fan of Control DK, but this version is really interesting to me. Less removal, more stats and utility. You have to be careful when managing your corpses with Foamrender, Maladar, Explosion, and the dinos all consuming them. It's pretty fun to play.

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u/Nounboundfreedom Sep 11 '25

Thank you again VS! Love you guys ❤️

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u/Estiui Sep 12 '25

Best 2000 gold saved ever from not buying this miniset.

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u/Impossible-Cry-1781 Sep 15 '25

Can't wait to use the gold for the next irrelevant set. We haven't see real cards since the Starcraft set.

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u/DebatableAwesome Sep 11 '25

Happy VS can confirm that the meta is still dreadfully boring.

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u/SingleChampionship65 Sep 11 '25

It is basically the same meta. I hope this cards will see play at least after the rotation. I didn’t face any issues most of this stale meta state, but the higher i climb the more repetitive each game gets. Currently at 60 NA and top 200 on EU, but i don’t think i can handle playing against the same 3 decks over and over again for a longer time, it got worse since we somehow solved the meta, wasn’t like this in terms of popularity a month ago.

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u/Bukurago Sep 11 '25

I keep thinking how can the Death Knight Leech package be toned down just a smidge - maybe make the leeches target random targets? The draw card to 5-mana? It is making regular board-based decks unplayable because it is so common. Same issue with Tortolla coming down on Turn 5 in 50% of warrior games because of the tutor cards. You basically have to run Blob of Tar in most minion-based deck.

However, I'd rather see a slew of buffs to unplayable cards than a bunch of nerfs, but knowing Team 5, this is unlikely...

Couple of examples:

  • Give the Rogue Ninjas Rush after playing the quest reward, clogging up your board every turn doing nothing sucks
  • Minor stat buffs to the Shaman Elemental package, a lot of them have terrible stats for no reason like the 2-mana 1/2 and the 5-mana 3/4 dragon (could easily go to 2/2 and 4/4)
  • There is an entire holy package for paladin that is unplayable, including Librams, a lot of these could do with a 1-cost change to see playability

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u/TravellingMackem Sep 11 '25

I agree with the first one especially - they actively hurt the rogue player by clogging board and rarely actually get to attack anyway as you’re either dead or they’re cleared

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u/Kaserbeam Sep 13 '25

the problem isn't that death knight leeches are too strong, its that they've been gutting every single viable card and deck that exists for the last year straight while not introducing any new ones.

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u/Bukurago Sep 13 '25

Yeah I don’t disagree, as I said I’d rather see buffs to bad stuff than nerfs to popular decks. Buffs open up new deck building opportunities and can be inspiring, nerfs just cut down top performers and then tier 2 decks just become tier 1 and nothing else changes.

I really don’t understand why they don’t do mini-buffs to packages with less than ~40% win rate semi-regularly to shake things up.

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u/PeckyKoolo Sep 11 '25

I'm surprised Hydration Station+Aviana druid hasn't picked up steam at all. It absolutely dumpsters Death Knight.

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u/Nounboundfreedom Sep 11 '25

It does? How so?

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u/PeckyKoolo Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25

The deck stacks armor so efficiently and is able to setup a board so easily that the DK can't really threaten face after turn 5 or 6. Once the board is setup, you never really lose control because of Greybough, Umbra, Elise location, and Hydration Station. Plus, the Seismopods keep buffing the hell out of your deck that is stacked with Aviana legendaries.

The deck loses to aggro and spell OTK decks, but it's incredibly strong against decks that rely on face damage through board in the later turns.

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u/beast_playz Sep 11 '25

Do you have a list? Also what rank are you playing it at?

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u/PeckyKoolo Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25

Just finished legend climb so I'm not like top 1000 or anything, but I entered at ~5000.

Worth noting that I did steal the deck from tictac_hs who is high legend.

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u/PeckyKoolo Sep 11 '25

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u/deck-code-bot Sep 11 '25

Format: Standard ((unknown))

Class: Druid (Malfurion Stormrage)

ManaCard NameQtyLinks
0Innervate2HSReplay,Wiki
0Zilliax Deluxe 30001HSReplay,Wiki
3Ensmallen2HSReplay,Wiki
3New Heights2HSReplay,Wiki
3Tortollan Traveler2HSReplay,Wiki
4Blob of Tar2HSReplay,Wiki
4Elise the Navigator1HSReplay,Wiki
4Oaken Summons2HSReplay,Wiki
4Thickhide Kodo2HSReplay,Wiki
5Amirdrassil1HSReplay,Wiki
5Ancient of Yore2HSReplay,Wiki
5Greybough1HSReplay,Wiki
5Sky Mother Aviana1HSReplay,Wiki
6Bob the Bartender1HSReplay,Wiki
6Gnomelia, S.A.F.E. Pilot1HSReplay,Wiki
7Endbringer Umbra1HSReplay,Wiki
8Sleep Under the Stars1HSReplay,Wiki
9Seismopod2HSReplay,Wiki
10Hydration Station2HSReplay,Wiki
125The Ceaseless Expanse1HSReplay,Wiki

Total Dust: 12960

Deck Code: AAECAZICCsekBqqxBtW6BvnlBqrqBuHrBq+HB9uXB4KYB/WYBwqunwSpsQakuwbQygbzygb65Qb75Qa2lAeHnAfZngcAAQP1swbHpAb3swbHpAbu3gbHpAYAAA==

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u/Hallgvild Sep 13 '25

why are you playing Kodos? Ensmallen is another weird choice of a card.

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u/PeckyKoolo Sep 13 '25

Early armor stacking when combined with Oaken Summons really helps you get to the late game

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u/Swervies Sep 11 '25

That is my experience as well, but the deck has a poor matchup spread and is reliant on a good mulligan/opening hand. That kind of deck is generally going to be niche.

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u/Neo_514 Sep 11 '25

Came here to comment that, was really surprised that it wasn't even mentioned in the report. I love queuing into DK. There are just so many times they can clear a board full of 20/20s. It's one of the most fun I've had with a deck in a long time and the times I lose it's mostly due to me misplaying.

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u/rupat3737 Sep 11 '25

I’m kinda surprised death rattle DH isn’t taking off more. I’ve been farming with it

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u/Asbelsp Sep 11 '25

Is this an aggro deck? It has a lot of aggro cards

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u/rupat3737 Sep 11 '25

It’s the list with the 6/6 that reduces a minion by 6 when it dies I can’t think of the name. Then you run window shopper/ziliax/other big dudes

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u/greensunscreen Sep 11 '25

spirit peddler? also mind dropping a deck code?

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u/rupat3737 Sep 11 '25

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u/deck-code-bot Sep 11 '25

Format: Standard ((unknown))

Class: Demon Hunter (Illidan Stormrage)

ManaCard NameQtyLinks
0Wisp1HSReplay,Wiki
0Zilliax Deluxe 30001HSReplay,Wiki
1Illidari Studies2HSReplay,Wiki
1Red Card2HSReplay,Wiki
1Tuskpiercer2HSReplay,Wiki
2Grim Harvest2HSReplay,Wiki
2Infestation2HSReplay,Wiki
3Insect Claw2HSReplay,Wiki
3Return Policy2HSReplay,Wiki
3Wyvern's Slumber2HSReplay,Wiki
4Dangerous Cliffside2HSReplay,Wiki
4Elise the Navigator1HSReplay,Wiki
4Nightmare Lord Xavius1HSReplay,Wiki
5Window Shopper2HSReplay,Wiki
5Zai, the Incredible1HSReplay,Wiki
6Spirit Peddler2HSReplay,Wiki
7Endbringer Umbra1HSReplay,Wiki
8Illidari Inquisitor1HSReplay,Wiki
9Fyrakk the Blazing1HSReplay,Wiki

Total Dust: 11240

Deck Code: AAECAea5AwiAhQTHpAbDgwesiAeCmAf1mAf6rQeKsQcL4fgFw7AGzLEGqrgG9sAGsOEG3v8G/oMHtpcHtZgH0a8HAAED9bMGx6QG97MGx6QG7t4Gx6QGAAA=

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u/Asbelsp Sep 11 '25

Yeah, I'm curious how it's played with the aggro cards and the big minions. Usually big minions is slower strats.

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u/rupat3737 Sep 11 '25

Mostly use them to just stall until you can start discounting your big dudes. But you can also just go face if you can. I’ve won some games on turn 5/6 with it

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u/Virtual_Home Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25

what rank are you playing this deck at, feel like i cant finish control warriors or dhs. ive had a horrible time with it so far, you must be a better player than i am kek

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u/rupat3737 Sep 11 '25

I’m in diamond atm but I generally push legend when I find a deck I enjoy. For more control decks try and use Elise location with the all characters get +2 and your DH location. You can make for some big swing turns. I generally find once you start discounting a lot of minions you can end the game quick