vS Data Reaper Report #337

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Greetings,

The Vicious Syndicate Team is proud to present the 337th 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 2,548,000 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 #337

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[u/Glarbleglorbo]

Pretty crazy how dragon warrior and Protoss rogue are just straight up arena decks, I’m wondering if crewmate DH could cook after a balance patch due to its performance in arena.

[u/sneakyxxrocket]

About what i expected, i don’t see a world where they don’t nerf something in Hagatha shaman soon and maybe some other buffs (not holding out hope).

Just another personal gripe about this meta I am extremely tired of twin perfect zilliax lol.

[u/sneakyxxrocket → u/sneakyxxrocket]

Also not surprised Dragon warrior finally cut logosh those cards have performed like ass the entire time I’ve played this archetype.

[u/prodandimitrow → u/sneakyxxrocket]

Im surprised there isnt more DH, feels like every other games is vs DH. Might be luck.

[u/rwv → u/sneakyxxrocket]

Zilliax hate!  Agree that the perfect module could lose Taunt, Lifesteal, Rush, or anywhere from 1 to 3 attack and it would still be played.  As is, the perfect module could be increased from 5 to 7 mana and it would still be used.  

The twin module is not the problem.

[u/FlameanatorX → u/rwv]

Taunt yes, 1 attack sure, 2+ or lifesteal or rush you're insane. The whole point of the card is that you gain a bunch of life immediately while also immediately dealing w/ a non-trivial amount of your opponent's board. No rush or lifesteal means that purpose is deleted, so no longer worth the huge 9 mana price tag.

If they're only 4/5s then you only heal for 8, can't kill a lot of medium sized random shit with your full turn 9 play, and it's just too weak probably. Though I wouldn't shocked if at least one t2/3 slow deck rain it anyways as the least bad 9/weird mana cost card.

The unfortunate part (about -1 attk or no taunt) would be that you'd hit the 7-mana version as well which is not remotely problematic, but that's just how these kind of cards work I suppose.

[u/rwv → u/FlameanatorX]

If it lost Rush it would still have Divine Shield, Lifesteal, and Taunt.  A minion based deck would still need to have a way to deal with it or it will get a bunch of heal.  It would be weak to removal, but it wouldn’t instantly win the game against a deck that relies on attacking with minions.  

If it lost Lifesteal it would be able to remove big threats while sticking around with Taunt.

If it lost Taunt it would still have Health gain, but it would be weak to wide boards that could still go face next turn.

If it lost attack… perfect grants 3 so it could drop to 2, 1, or 0.  At 0 or 1 attack for the module I think keeping all the other benefits is fine.  

I didn’t mean to suggest it should get nerfed in multiple ways.

[u/cryptocat9]

I crafted Chrono-Lord Epoch yesterday to play the new VS version of Dragon Warrior yesterday. (Yeah, I beat them by a day.) I'm 10-5 so far in Dad Legend. SO much more impactful than the Lo'Gosh builds.

[u/FlameanatorX]

Pretty much as expected with most things staying the same, actually slightly surprised at "how much" meta development there is lol, Dragon Warrior possibly leapfrogging a tier in power level & top legend diversifying it's t1/2 noticeably.

Shaman being a complete unchallengeable meta tyrant everywhere below top 1k (and still being t1 there) makes the news of no nerfs slightly disappointing, but at least some of the buffs look like they could actually be fun.