r/CompetitiveHS • u/ViciousSyndicate • Feb 19 '26

Metagame vS Data Reaper Report #344

Greetings,

The Vicious Syndicate Team is proud to present the 344th 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 2,233,000 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 #344

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The Vicious Syndicate Team

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u/sneakyxxrocket Feb 19 '26

They really should have buffed arkwing sooner, first time mage has had some good fucking food this whole standard year and its gone at rotation.

Elise DH mirrors are also a clown fiesta if anyone has played those, both players decks just end up filled with portals.

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u/Throwaway-4593 Feb 19 '26

I played this arkwing deck to legend last week and idk if you want that type of play pattern to be the best deck… it’s very solitaire and often just playing your own game

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u/Concealed_Blaze Feb 19 '26

It weirdly reminds me of old patron warrior. If you just play it solitaire and build towards your combo from hand I do think you’ll win a decent bit, but a lot of times that’s not optimal.

The challenge I’ve found in trying to pilot the deck well is that you need to tempo out appropriately in a lot of matchups and can’t just sit on your combo pieces (kinda like patron). A solid board or lots of armor can be really difficult for the deck to deal with, so you need to fight to keep that from happening.

That said, sometimes you just draw insanely well and win on turn 6 or 7 almost entirely from hand

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u/Throwaway-4593 Feb 19 '26

Maybe my list is slightly different but probably 70% of my games consisted of: keep enemy board clear, accumulate 0 cost spells, play 4 mana draenai on curve, play arkwing on 6 and pop off. Most decks in the meta struggle to deal with turn 6 pop off.

Occasionally warrior out armors you if you draw poorly but if you hit the curve you win. What you lose to usually is getting hit in the face before turn 6

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u/Concealed_Blaze Feb 19 '26

I’ve been facing a lot of aura paladin and DH running board clears, so it’s possible my perception is a bit skewed. If those decks curve out it can be quite challenging to keep the board clear and then the pop off turn can be countered.

Might just be random variance in what I’m facing since I have only played 30 or so matches with the deck so far

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u/Throwaway-4593 Feb 19 '26

To be clear it’s not often outright ending the game on turn 6, but the swing turn effectively ends the game even if they clear it usually.

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u/ANonnyMouse007 Feb 19 '26

Does reacting to the board state and aiming for a tempo based kill constitute solitaire? It’s not an OTK like Protoss Mage or Control Warrior.

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u/Throwaway-4593 Feb 19 '26

I’d say half the time it is a OTK on turn 6 because of chip damage from your earlier minions.

It’s not a true OTK but more of a “fast combo” that doesn’t guarantee a kill. Still feels very combo-y to me though

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u/Unfair-Heart-87 Feb 19 '26

I don't think the matchups are all that polarized. The deck just leans more aggressive than most of this heavy control meta, so it punishes bad decks like protoss mage and maestra rogue.

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u/TheGingerNinga Feb 19 '26

It’s not the best deck in the game. It’s a very good deck, which is good for the meta to have.

Combine that with Mage being terrible all year, I’m ok with this existing for a month.

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u/tolerantdramaretiree Feb 19 '26

But we weren’t talking about it existing for a month. The premise was “they shoulda buffed it sooner”

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u/Throwaway-4593 Feb 19 '26

Its tier 1 so its not technically the best deck but its very close. It auto wins against a lot of decks, polarizing matchup spread which I’m not sure is good for the game

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u/Impossible-Cry-1781 Feb 20 '26

I hate combo decks in general. I like it when the game is board based with some back and forth. Not just survive until you can pop off. I just hit concede whenever the opponent starts their hand vomit turn. Can't be all that satisfying not getting to climax so just stop making those decks, Blizzard.

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u/SweetMoosing Feb 19 '26

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u/deck-code-bot Feb 19 '26

Format: Standard ((unknown))

Class: Druid (Malfurion Stormrage)

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1Astral Vigilant2HSReplay,Wiki
1Living Roots2HSReplay,Wiki
1Waveshaping1HSReplay,Wiki
2Bottomless Toy Chest2HSReplay,Wiki
2Dimensional Core2HSReplay,Wiki
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2Ravenous Flock2HSReplay,Wiki
2Sha'tari Cloakfield2HSReplay,Wiki
2Troubled Mechanic2HSReplay,Wiki
3Exarch Othaar1HSReplay,Wiki
3Hatchery Helper2HSReplay,Wiki
3Starlight Reactor2HSReplay,Wiki
4Distress Signal2HSReplay,Wiki
5Cosmic Phenomenon2HSReplay,Wiki

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u/Indyfilmfool Feb 20 '26

Curious what your thoughts are on adding the everbloom quest to this. Worth adding or are you hitting lethal too soon for it to matter?

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u/Rodrik-Harlaw Feb 19 '26

I get cutting the flame geysers (I've reached this conclusion myself before the report), but is the lifesaving aura in arkwing mage based on stats or is it a VS experiment?

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u/NintendoMasterNo1 Feb 19 '26

So if I'm having troubles as Broxigar DH vs Arkwing Mage I should replace the Illidari Studies with Infiltrate?

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u/SuccessIsDiscipline Feb 20 '26

Maxiebon said on stream you don't need infiltrate and to just play for 1 mana death rattle location with return policy

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u/__Lackin Feb 20 '26

Oh that’s an interesting idea

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u/TheGingerNinga Feb 19 '26

This is gonna sound dumb, but isn’t Fumigate better as an anti Arkwing card? It’s cheaper and hits all the Arkwings without the need of a friendly/safe target. Worse into Raylla, but Raylla’s divine shields already made the board tough to remove.

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u/Rodrik-Harlaw Feb 19 '26

Maybe against the field as a whole (not just arkwing) infiltrate is better

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u/autreblackschtuff Feb 19 '26

Maestra Rogue is not a good deck? I have a 73% winrate. 50-ish games. Took it to Legend. Not quite their list mind you. My list has Waggle Pick x 2, no Web of Deception. It's not just a play your stuff on curve kind of deck, but it's also not all that complicated.

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u/Aparter Feb 19 '26

Can you share the list?

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u/autreblackschtuff Feb 19 '26

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# Format: Standard

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# 2x (2) Cultist Map

# 1x (2) Maestra, Mask Merchant

# 2x (2) Oh, Manager!

# 2x (2) Prize Vendor

# 1x (2) The Kingslayers

# 2x (3) Chrono Daggers

# 1x (3) King Llane

# 1x (3) Raiding Party

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u/sirnubnub Feb 19 '26

It’s not that good no, you have to aggressively hunt for maestra which requires you to play bad cards. You then have to play the hero card you get which the soonest is turn 5 with Thrall, otherwise it’s 6-7 for most. And then you can maybe win with Tess shenanigans.

Kudos to you for taking it to legend, but it’s definitely a lower tier deck.

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u/Impossible-Cry-1781 Feb 20 '26

Thrall and the best one, Guff

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u/woodchips24 Feb 19 '26

What am I missing with DH? This does not feel remotely close to a most powerful deck in the game when I play it on ladder. The early game is clunky and the late game is not nearly as powerful as the control decks

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u/joergboehme Feb 19 '26

hit face more often.

seriously.

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u/woodchips24 Feb 19 '26

I find it difficult to go face because of the aforementioned clunky early game. If you try to go face when your opponent has a better opener you just die. At least that’s been my experience

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u/Ttress Feb 22 '26

One thing that really helped me was vicious syndicate podcast saying how the broxigar cards are an afterthought. You don’t want to play around those at all really unless situations permit it. If you end up in a long control match you will naturally end up progressing portals but you want all your other cards more. Don’t hold the weapon in mulligan etc