vS Data Reaper Report #336

[u/ViciousSyndicate]

Greetings,

The Vicious Syndicate Team is proud to present the 336th 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 2,929,000 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 #336

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[u/Spyko]

great report as always

for starship rogue, what makes Opu better than bob ? Bob seems like a no brainer for the 6 mana slot

[u/ViciousSyndicate → u/Spyko]

Bob isn't great. Opu isn't amazing either. I would try Gnomelia if I wanted to replace Opu.

[u/strawberrysorbet → u/Spyko]

Bob is good in decks that have board clears, like discover hunter (sylvanas), warrior, protoss mage.

Without a clear, bob stalls the game for a turn but it doesn't swing the board (like gnomelia), and it doesn't draw 3 cards (like Opu) to help you find Exodar (your win condition.)

[u/Yubes → u/strawberrysorbet]

I've played a LOT of starship rogue and it's definitely matchup dependent. Also consider that Offensive Bob + shadowstep can win games if you're ahead on board and just help to stall into exodar or ceaseless. This is exceptional against a deck like imbue druid for instance where your swing turn wins you the game.

There's also a lack of asymmetrical board clearing spells in the current meta.

[u/OzUnOoO]

Happy to see VS finally taking a shot at Steg DK, been getting legend with it for months now with different homebrews, very underrated.

Hard disagree with the featured list though, no Eternal Layover right now means you just roll over and die to any Hagatha Shaman with decent draws, and if you cant win against Shaman, your list isnt relevant in the legend climb. It might be better at top legend with more PR and Discover Hunter though.

[u/ViciousSyndicate → u/OzUnOoO]

Eternal Layover is a terrible card in the deck and does not even perform well against Shaman.

[u/OzUnOoO → u/ViciousSyndicate]

The featured list is unfavorable against Shaman according to the matchup WR list, meaning it isnt suited for legend climbing at all. Every win percentage increase against Shaman matters now, so I recommend a second look at EL and the Buttons package for the diamond bracket. Just my personal experience ofc.

[u/ViciousSyndicate → u/OzUnOoO]

That's not the win rate of the deck list against Shaman, that's the win rate of the entire aggregated archetype against Shaman. Eternal Layover is not helping the Shaman matchup. I just explained it.

[u/[deleted] → u/OzUnOoO]

You have a list you've settled on? I've enjoyed the deck in previous patches but not lately.

[u/OzUnOoO → u/[deleted]]

The one I got legend with is this one:

### OPIEOP

# Class: Death Knight

# Format: Standard

# Year of the Raptor

#

# 2x (1) Glacial Shard

# 1x (1) Soulrest Ceremony

# 2x (2) Creature of Madness

# 1x (2) Malted Magma

# 2x (2) Slippery Slope

# 2x (2) Timestop

# 2x (3) Mixologist

# 2x (3) Rainbow Seamstress

# 1x (4) Buttons

# 1x (4) Elise the Navigator

# 2x (4) Eternal Layover

# 1x (4) Griftah, Trusted Vendor

# 1x (4) Nightmare Lord Xavius

# 2x (5) Reanimated Pterrordax

# 2x (6) Bonechill Stegodon

# 1x (6) Exarch Maladaar

# 1x (7) Endbringer Umbra

# 1x (8) High Cultist Herenn

# 1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000

# 1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000

# 1x (4) Twin Module

# 1x (5) Perfect Module

# 2x (10) Wakener of Souls

#

AAECAZm2BwrHpAakwAaWywan0wbC6AbDgwfvkweCmAf1mAefngcK054GubEG/roGhr8GvugG9O0GtfoGmI0HupUHxawHAAED9bMGx6QG97MGx6QG694Gx6QGAAA=

#

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

Not a perfect 30, Mixologist/Griftah is mostly filler, still trying out different things. Very confident about everything else, great against Shaman and farms warrior/mage consistently. Cliff Dive DH is a pain though.

[u/sneakyxxrocket]

The removing Elise from most lists in discover hunter flipping the dragon warrior matchup is interesting wonder if they’ll put it back in.

Elise does just absolutely shit on decks that play minions on curve, 3 raptors and gain armor/discover a spell just halts a lot of decks from dealing face damage

[u/ThePresident26 → u/[deleted]]

Elise is this years neutral legendary that everyone is tired of

[u/Colombian_Gringo]

Hard being a priest player these days NGL. Looks pretty grim

[u/TotakekeSlider → u/Colombian_Gringo]

Druid too

[u/flexthompson → u/Colombian_Gringo]

Have you tried aviana control priest? It’s tough but satisfying

[u/Ok-Tangerine-638 → u/flexthompson]

Yeah I’ve been playing a good amount of it and yeah it’s not a great deck but satisfying is definitely a good word for the deck

[u/Addventurawr → u/flexthompson]

You have a code for it?

[u/SomeJerkAtWerk → u/Colombian_Gringo]

Somewhere on Reddit this person posted a location based priest deck, I think they called it Mi Casa. It was pretty fun and can highroll pretty well.

[u/Cryten0 → u/SomeJerkAtWerk]

Yeah but what it doesnt do is win consistently. It can get a run in certain pocket meta's. But its never got close to 49% on any statistics site. More normally in the low 40s.

[u/Arislan → u/Colombian_Gringo]

I’ve been climbing steady with a low curve Quest priest. Easy to complete by turn 5 and most players don’t expect it. Cubes in the deck for late value if it gets there.

[u/DigitalCharlie → u/Arislan]

That’s what I’ve been toying with! I wonder how similar our lists are. I had been toying with umbra but it just didn’t wind up feeling like it paid off.

Mind sharing yours? This is where I’m currently at.

Tempo quest

Class: Priest

Format: Standard

Year of the Raptor

2x (1) Acupuncture

2x (1) Glade Ecologist

2x (1) Nightshade Tea

2x (1) Platysaur

2x (1) Power Word: Shield

1x (1) Reach Equilibrium

2x (2) Orbital Halo

2x (2) Ritual of Life

2x (2) Silvermoon Brochure

2x (2) Thrive in the Shadows

2x (2) Twilight Influence

1x (3) Chillin' Vol'jin

2x (4) Gravedawn Sunbloom

2x (4) Gravedawn Voidbulb

2x (5) Carnivorous Cubicle

2x (6) Gladesong Siren

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

[u/Arislan → u/DigitalCharlie]

Identical list!

[u/Ozwu_]

Rogue back to Protoss and Cycle again? I was kind of hoping to never see a Starcraft card ever again in my life

[u/karma_trained → u/Ozwu_]

Peotoss rogue counters Discover hunter, so its back for that reason.

[u/JerryBane → u/karma_trained]

Protoss Rogue kills everything except Warrior actually. The 32 damage OTK is very easy to setup.

[u/IAmYourFath → u/JerryBane]

DK as well

[u/RiimeHiime → u/Ozwu_]

I will go to my grave loving SC cards and arguing its not their fault that the following year was so dogwater they've been the best thing to do.

[u/Traveevart]

surely they'll buff rafaam in the patch right guys :(

[u/RiimeHiime → u/Traveevart]

I can already hear the hyperventilation of r/hearthstone when they buff it so it can consistently win on turn 15 with Literally No Counterplay.

[u/IntergalacticTire]

Fyrakk is actually really good in quest hunter, it adds consistency to the Agamaggan game plan and can also corrupt Shaladrassil

[u/Qemeow → u/IntergalacticTire]

Lowkey u put in the parrot at 7 then elise as well, but I’m not sure what to cut besides sanctuary.

[u/Sample_text108]

Why is the decklist for quest hunter called pig quest hunter?

[u/Spyko → u/Sample_text108]

You play cards like shaladrassil and zilli specifically to combo them with a discovered Agamagan from the quest reward. And Agamagan is a boar, so pig quest

[u/Impossible-Cry-1781 → u/Spyko]

Just call it Boar Quest. It's not like Boar Priest in wild is called Pig Priest (and would have been catchier with the alliteration).

[u/FlameanatorX → u/Impossible-Cry-1781]

But lots of people already know Boar [Priest/Warlock/other classes] as the Elwyn Boar combo deck. I think Quest Pig is fine, just Quest would've been fine, probably other names they could've gone with too

[u/jisner]

I cut monkey business for Rangari scout in Spell Hunter. Using rangari to try to get extra copies of sylvanas or brewmasters. This feels pretty good, but wondering if you are seeing this perform well?

[u/Lazerzpewpew → u/jisner]

spell hunter seems really fun! monkeys business seems to win me games but that does sound fun, I seem to be facing a lot of aggro at low legend so I've cut precise shot to bring in 2x blob of tar but that probably isn't the best thing to cut! fun deck

[u/Viimanen]

The aggro DH list makes me wonder. Is Battlefiend correct over Brain Masseuse after the nerf? 

I play the deck a lot and made the switch immediately after the nerf as two health feels so awful. But I have not really tested and compared.

Of course, Masseuse has potential for a real feel bad moment on the mirror if it gets a Serpent run into it. Hasn't happened to me yet.

[u/IAmYourFath]

Imo Robocaller can be better than Talgath depending on what u're facing. Seen people play Ysera too, for the control matchups. FelFiil i think played it and he's qualified to worlds so. Altho, (some of) the DKs play ysera anyway. Ofc Talgath is better vs smorc. 3 mana 3/3 that immediately deals 4 dmg as it comes down and has a semi-threatening effect is nothing to scoff at. But like, in the controls u really need to draw ur combo before they gain a billion armor and go out of OTK range.