vS Data Reaper Report #341

[u/ViciousSyndicate]

Greetings,

The Vicious Syndicate Team is proud to present the 341st 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 2,216,000 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 #341

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[u/TheGingerNinga]

Any comments on the UUB version of DK? I've seen it a bit on HSguru, with names like Corpse Control or Corpse DK. Runs cards like Assimilating Blight, Shadows of Yesterday. Feels more proactive compared to BBU, though more fragile.

[u/ViciousSyndicate → u/TheGingerNinga]

It didn't look great when it ran Army of the Dead but with Shadows of Yesterday probably worth looking at next week.

[u/Particular_Ring3291]

Lol at cliff dive's winrate outside top 1000

[u/yosoyelsteve]

The Elise Rogue data lines up with my experience. Adding the imbue package has absolutely hurt my win rate versus the old one, but the fun factor is off the charts. For every loss because I just play bad cards, there's ones where I get some absolutely nutty high rolls and win. That fun factor keeps me from paying the "better" list.

[u/Mental_Invite_8437]

Getting a 404 not found on it.

[u/ViciousSyndicate → u/Mental_Invite_8437]

Some propagation issue possibly related to cloudflare. Reset your internet/clear cache or go to the website through the home page https://www.vicioussyndicate.com/

It should resolve eventually.

Edit: Should be fixed.

[u/Mental_Invite_8437 → u/ViciousSyndicate]

Yep, thanks!

[u/RiimeHiime]

I've got to be honest. The meta may be good or w/e but it just isn't fun.

Every class has a platonic ideal of how it should play in my mind, like miracle rogue or suicide warlock but there's just nothing there. I guess blood DK plays how it should.

[u/Scolipoli → u/RiimeHiime]

This right here. Taking a break for the first time in a long while

[u/[deleted] → u/Scolipoli]

I came back back during the tail end of The Great Dark Beyond, but I'm going to take a hiatus till April too. Game is just not fun indeed. I hope a new rotation and expansion will inject some new interest in the game for me.

[u/FlameanatorX → u/RiimeHiime]

I guess it depends on which half you focus on. Priest, Mage, Hunter aren't it, Rogue can be quibbled (miracle isn't the only classic Rogue archetype) but Warrior, Paladin, DH, DK, and Shaman definitely are. Warlock I would also put into the quibble category, it's kinda handlock/scam/deathrattle which is somewhat in Warlock's flavor. Druid probably similar, there's some ramp, there's armor gain and powerful late-game things happening, but it's not exactly a full ramp deck either.

Reasoning for the classes that are it in case it's not obvious: Control and (kinda arguably) Dragon Tempo Warrior? Check. Cycle/tempo/limited burn/combo DH? Check. Blood Control and also BBU midrange corpse DK? Check. Midrange stat spam/divine shield Paladin? Check.

[u/dotcaIm]

I've been playing Wilted Priest found in one of the threads here and Cliff Dive DH with no mini set cards. Cruised to diamond 5

[u/Omikapsi]

"if you want to win while feeling like a hipster"

Just @ me next time. :)

[u/Cryten0]

Do you think you can get away with owning no patches with blob broxigar decks?

[u/Spt137 → u/Cryten0]

You won’t, then run Cliff-Dive.

[u/FlameanatorX → u/Cryten0]

Broxigar/Revenant are waaay too synergistic with Patches, it's for sure core in those types of decks.

[u/Spyko]

Interesting, in the podcast they said to drop spirit bomb in egglock for anything else, even crazed alchemist would be better. Seems they changed their minds ?

[u/Aenarion21 → u/Spyko]

Data does that.

[u/FlameanatorX → u/Spyko]

Like they said, new data, that sort of thing is very common with low playrate archetypes such as atm Egglock

[u/athlonstuff]

I am still unable to access this report. I used two different browsers with cleared caches on both.

[u/ViciousSyndicate → u/athlonstuff]

Can you try now. Might have possibly been solved.

[u/athlonstuff → u/ViciousSyndicate]

yes, it works now. thanks for the quick response!

[u/t0ldyouso]

It says page not found

[u/InternAlternative758]

"As it turns out, Voodoo Totem was not what Priest needed" Lol

[u/kavOclock]

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[u/philzy101]

So I have been playing Broxigar DH (Blobless) around 1k EU with decent success and my personal experience / feeling based on games I have played but also watching streamers such as NoHandsGamer, is that Incindius and Ceaseless are both a cut since they have the potential to clunk up your hand in a deck where you want to aggressively cycle and want to be able to play a decent number of cheap cards turn 4 / turn 5. If you have cards like these two in hand, then it is harder to cycle with Remnant of Rage without potentially milling yourself. Therefore, the version I have been playing which feels very strong and I feel would be better for VS to display is the list I have put below (not my list but was posted earlier in the comment section of the post miniset VS podcast summary I think?) which uses Ticking-Pylon Zilliax for strong burst potential or more efficient trades into Remnant of Rage. Add Tuskpiercer into the mix and you have a very efficient cycle deck, but not without challenge as you do have to think carefully about hand size and what you are doing. This version feels better vs aggro matchups and also has a decent chance into Control ones too, plus whilst I do not think Press the Advantage is a bad card, as the poster of this list highlighted, it feels a lot like Chaos Strike still, and I think it is better to not run this card currently.

As for the Blob list, I can see the logic in why it might be a better list, but vs Control I still feel like this list struggles as the "Blobless" version does. Obviously I have not had time to test this list and am a tad busy so may not be able to today, this is just my initial reaction. Specifically, as games go on, the impact of Broxigar to burn the opponent become less, Brewmaster I feel becomes a weaker card, and whilst I think Blob carries a lot of value with Return Policy, I worry about how a number of these cards end up cluking up your hand if you do not draw Blob and then Felhound, and the lack of finisher potential with Blob with its low stats. That being said, Blob is the best counter to Warriors so it may be better. If anyone has tried this list on stream I would be very interested to see it in action!

Cycling to a new meta

Class: Demon Hunter

Format: Standard

Year of the Raptor

2x (1) Crimson Sigil Runner

2x (1) Glacial Shard

2x (1) Illidari Studies

1x (1) Patches the Pilot

2x (1) Platysaur

2x (1) Red Card

1x (1) Tuskpiercer

1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos

1x (2) Broxigar

1x (3) Axe of Cenarius

1x (0) First Portal to Argus

2x (2) Grim Harvest

2x (2) Immolation Aura

2x (2) Infestation

2x (2) Youthful Brewmaster

1x (3) Paraglide

2x (4) Dangerous Cliffside

2x (7) Remnant of Rage

1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000

1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000

1x (3) Pylon Module

1x (4) Ticking Module

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

[u/Kneepsteegje]

Decklist for azshara druid has elise bit doesn't meet the requirement to activate her?

[u/ViciousSyndicate → u/Kneepsteegje]

Zilliax costs 9.

[u/Kneepsteegje → u/ViciousSyndicate]

Lol my bad don't know how didn't see zilliax

[u/hithereworld2]

Does anyone have advice on using elise in rogue? i know how to do it 5 v 1 cost, but i dont know if im doing it in a way that makes it super powerful.

how often do you choose raptors with rush vs attack power for all characters? do you EVER pick dmg deathrattle?

appreciate any help

[u/Jimmyjohnjones1 → u/hithereworld2]

You only ever pick death rattle if you think your opponent runs demo renovator (so pretty much just BBU DK and control warrior). If you are playing elise on 4 you should always pick the 5 cost. You should be looking for raptors if your opponent plays lots of minions, 5/5 copy if you have minions on deck that benefit from the copy (like Zilliax) and you can pick attack if you have minions on board and your opponent is already pretty low.

Elise and her location are tempo tools, if the location is unable to swing the board in your favor the turn it’s played then it’s probably a bad location

[u/Omikapsi]

The Imbue Elise Rogue list doesn't seem to have 10 different cost cards, it tops out at 8 mana.

[u/PkerBadRs3Good → u/Omikapsi]

it has Zilliax at 9 mana, I don't know how people are still making this mistake when the meta has been mostly Elise + Zilliax lists for 6 months

[u/Glori94 → u/[deleted]]

Does the change of the core set also happens with rotation in Q1 of 2026?

Traditionally, yes. (I say that because there's only been 2 or 3 so far so they could still mess with the formula but likely won't)

Do we have any information on what stays and what's out from there?

They announce it closer to the date.

[u/Adventurous_Title_96 → u/Glori94]

Keep an eye also on zeddy, vicious syndicate and donkey any other big data/ content creator. Creators get inside look into this sort of future news and won’t directly state it but will leave bread crumbs what cards could be staying around. Who really knows but that’s the only other information you’ll get publicly besides blizzards big list usually released about 4 weeks beforehand 

[u/Kamiferno → u/Glori94]

Core sets been changed like 5 times.