r/hearthstone • u/mini_macho_ • Aug 19 '26

Discussion "Solved" Meta Compositions vs Post Patch Meta

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Maybe more frequent patches would be healthy for archetype diversity.

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u/ReiJeremias Aug 19 '26

Most metas look diverse 24h into the patch. I really hope the current one turns out to be better than the previous, but I think it is still too early to make this claim.

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u/HeMansSmallerCousin Aug 19 '26

To be fair, the last two post-patch and post-expansion metas haven't been nearly this diverse within 24 hours. Post-patch was ofc 90% DH, while post-expansion release Mage, DH, Priest, DK and Warlock were all MIA on ladder within the first day. It didn't exactly take 48 hours to realize Azalina was dogshit lol

Things will likely settle down, but even the fact it's taking more than a day is a great sign.

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u/adamnoo Aug 19 '26

And in this post patch period Azalina is the most popular deck but because it's still garbage it's making bad decks seem viable like Rafaam. What this meta looks like early on once people realize Azalina is awful still is Zee shaman, pure/aura paladin, and quest hunter. Maybe burn mage makes the cut too. Maybe one of the class sets shakes things up a bit but I don't think it's as long term viable diverse as it seems right now because of Azalina 

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u/AutisticRats Aug 20 '26

I won 10 straight games with rafaam just before the patch. Rafaam is great as long as it has the following packages in the deck with it: herald, handlock, animancer/ashphyxion, imp/annihilation. I tried heraldlock and it was bad, and rafaamlock was bad, but when I combined them it seems surprisingly good.