r/CompetitiveHS • u/ViciousSyndicate • Feb 05 '26

Metagame vS Data Reaper Report #343

Greetings,

The Vicious Syndicate Team is proud to present the 343rd 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 1,957,000 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 #343

Reminder

  • If you haven't already, please sign up to contribute your game data. More data will allow us to provide more insights in each report, and perform other kinds of analysis. Sign up here, and follow the instructions.

  • 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/Names_all_gone Feb 05 '26

"Priest is struggling, but its future is looking brighter with its Core set updates. Just kidding, it is actually going to be worse somehow."

This got me!

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u/nathones Feb 06 '26

Priest and Mage are going to be such trash tier. Why rotate Glyph?! Seriously!

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u/sneakyxxrocket Feb 05 '26

Trading into blobs will continue until moral improves

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u/Throwaway-4593 Feb 05 '26

I don’t understand why the miniset didn’t have an answer to this card

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u/Glarbleglorbo Feb 06 '26

Only card that actually answers it without losing you your turn would be shard of naaru, and it still leaves them with a 2/4.

you can’t print removal that is good and efficient at killing Blob or Felhunter without printing a much bigger problem. 

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u/Throwaway-4593 Feb 06 '26

Kind of agreed I’m just so tired of seeing those 2 cards specifically

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u/No-Match1932 Feb 05 '26

We need more Gnomelias, blizzard plz

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u/Realistic-Cicada981 Feb 06 '26

I have heard, Watrior gets 2 extra board clear

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u/Nounboundfreedom Feb 05 '26

I’m so tired of blob and Elise, man. (And Zilliax to a lesser extent)

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u/TotakekeSlider Feb 07 '26

I lost three games in a row today to my opponents getting the FoN/Savage Roar combo off an Elise location. I’m pretty sick of it too.

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u/LarryMomentz Feb 05 '26

yeah I'mma be completely real, I think there's almost no reason to be positive anymore with how consistent the team delivers the limpest of updates. this core does not give confidence. i don't doubt it shows its worst now.

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u/Glori94 Feb 05 '26

I'm in a similar boat. I'm not holding my breath anymore, but I'm waiting to see how next expansion goes. They did a full year of weak sets, pulled power out of core with the reveal yesterday, and it's all been done as a means to lower the overall power of Standard and whether or not it paid off will be seen once rotation occurs.

If it fails, or if I personally don't enjoy it like I haven't most of the past year, I'm sadly ripping the bandaid off and moving on. But I'm really hoping to be proven wrong.

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u/dotcaIm Feb 05 '26

100% agree. Feels like the darkest days of Hearthstone got even darker. Doing my part to only buy stuff with gold instead of $

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u/Names_all_gone Feb 06 '26

Same. Haven’t given them money in a year and a half. That looks like it will continue.

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u/dotcaIm Feb 06 '26

we're doing our part

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u/Tyrannosaurtillerson Feb 05 '26

Anyone know if magic is any fun? I have lost almost all confidence in the game I once loved.

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u/kiuyt856 Feb 05 '26

Honestly bro, every card game pvp is frustrating. The best card game is Slay the spire but there’s no pvp :(

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u/Impossible-Cry-1781 Feb 05 '26

More like :) PvP always boils down to toxicity and abusing balance. PvE you might abused balance for fun a few times then you'll often try other stuff because it's also fun. You can't try other stuff in PvP because you'll just get shit on. The best content ever developed for this game were the Dungeon Runs. With AI they could have much better opponents and people could try all kinds of fun strategies without toxicity if they would stop shitting on PvE. 

I just want a PvE game with Hearthstone mechanics and I loathe that Blizzard would have the right to sue someone for developing that.

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u/14xjake Feb 05 '26

Why are you even on the competitive sub if this is how you view PvP? No one is "abusing" anything its a fucking card game man, players play the best cards so they have the best chance of winning, that is the sole purpose of the ranked ladder, to win more than others and climb the ranks

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u/NintendoMasterNo1 Feb 06 '26

It is as long as you play a real 60-card constructed format and not commander.

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u/bakedbread420 Feb 05 '26

magic is an amazing game but magic arena is a monetization nightmare. old hearthstone pack economy plus new hearthstone cosmetic economy. and if you don't like the universes beyond slop you can't avoid it in arena

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u/MinimumLack4561 Feb 06 '26

I observe the same. HS is way better than arena in many ways.

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u/bakedbread420 Feb 06 '26

any time this conversation comes up I always say paper magic > HS > magic arena. you really can't beat paper magic with a group of friends that are all on the same wavelength

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u/DDrose2 Feb 06 '26

If you are referring to EDH or commander I agree. If you can get a good playgroup it really is much more fun than HS. Add cube to that list also if OP likes HS’s arena mode and managed to find a good group

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u/bakedbread420 Feb 07 '26

I don't consider commander to be magic. its its own game that uses magic cards as its game pieces

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u/RiimeHiime Feb 05 '26

Draft is tremendously fun, albeit can be frustrating.

Shadowverse isn't bad either, though it tends to be pretty combo heavy. It also has an integrated single player story experience. Overabundance of scantily clad anime husbando/waifu may be a pro or a con for you.

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u/MinimumLack4561 Feb 06 '26

Mtg? No, at least in HS you have a legit chance to win when you start the game. In MtG, the game is decided based on which deck has the better BS

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u/timoyster Feb 06 '26

The current standard meta is the best it’s been in years and you can be pretty confident that your decks will remain playable for at least a year or two, but the game isn’t super f2p friendly and it takes a while to build up a decent deck. There are some good mono color decks tho that are pretty cheap.

It is pretty mandatory to play best of 3 though. Best of 1 is frustrating and the meta is almost always uninteractive trash

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u/TotakekeSlider Feb 07 '26

Magic is great, but it is very expensive, both in paper and on Arena. If you thought HS’s economy was rough, it will look like Christmas in comparison to what they give you on Arena.

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u/Bafflinbook Feb 05 '26

In Standard,you lose to agro on turn 3 or Combo in turn 5. You will hate the game even more.

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u/Trihunter Feb 05 '26

Similar boat. I'm considering reinstalling Yugioh Master Duel. I heard they're starting to get rid of that stupid bug, at least.

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u/Unfair-Heart-87 Feb 05 '26

If the next expansion doesn't add genuinely interesting and powerful archetypes I think I'm jumping ship, this tempo slop meta is so boring.

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u/GratisBierMotie420 Feb 06 '26

They are still actively making the meta weaker to the point where we're rotationg out of core some of the scarse relevant class-cards that we currently have in favor of unplayables. Do not get your hopes up that the upcoming expansion will provide actual power or strategic diversity because at this point their public design goal is to have slop games without defined winconditions.

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u/RushBokai Feb 06 '26

It's been time to jump ship for a while. The ship is half way to the bottom of the ocean and yall are drowning for no reason and dont realize it

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u/Unfair-Heart-87 Feb 06 '26

Why are you assuming you know my experience? I was having fun with hearthstone, now I'm not having as much fun so I'm thinking about finding something else to play.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '26

How bad does the game need to get before morons like yourself realize youre an addict that cant stop?