Ranked Decks

[Ender]

Klauso asked me to post what I have been playing for ranked lately, so here it is (this will totally change with GvG coming out tomorrow, but oh well):

Shaman

• 2 x Lightning Bolt
• 1 x Acidic Swamp Ooze
• 2 x Earth Shock
• 1 x Doomhammer
• 2 x Feral Spirit
• 1 x Gnomish Inventor
• 2 x Hex
• 2 x Azure Drake
• 1 x Al'Akir the Windlord
• 2 x Flametongue Totem
• 2 x Rockbiter Weapon
• 1 x Bloodmage Thalnos
• 1 x Defender of Argus
• 1 x Mana Tide Totem
• 2 x Fire Elemental
• 2 x Lightning Storm
• 1 x Loatheb
• 2 x Sludge Belcher
• 2 x Haunted Creeper

Shaman is really strong right now with the changes that have been made lately, none of which affected this class. The main way you will kill someone with this deck is by saving at least 1 Rockbiter to use with either Doomhammer or Al'Akir. If you don't have Al'Akir, Rag is an okay substitute. You will face a lot of hunter decks, so that is why the ooze is in there, and you will also need earth shocks in your hand for all of the deathrattle minions.

Trap Hunter

• 2 x Savannah Highmane
• 2 x Hunter's Mark
• 2 x Freezing Trap
• 1 x Cult Master
• 1 x Tracking
• 1 x Snake Trap
• 2 x Houndmaster
• 1 x Unleash the Hounds
• 1 x Explosive Trap
• 2 x Eaglehorn Bow
• 2 x Kill Command
• 2 x Animal Companion
• 2 x Flare
• 2 x Undertaker
• 2 x Webspinner
• 1 x Loatheb
• 2 x Mad Scientist
• 2 x Haunted Creeper

Pretty much just a rush deck. You want undertaker in your starting hand with another 1-2 cost deathrattle minion. If you get that, it is tough to loose. Try not to use kill commands on minions... they are for finishing off your opponent. Don't use unleash without having the cultmaster in your hand or on the board, since this is your only card draw.

Circle Priest

• 2 x Wild Pyromancer
• 1 x Sylvanas Windrunner
• 2 x Circle of Healing
• 2 x Thoughtsteal
• 2 x Cabal Shadow Priest
• 2 x Injured Blademaster
• 2 x Power Word: Shield
• 1 x Shadow Madness
• 1 x Holy Fire
• 1 x Ysera
• 1 x Silence
• 2 x Shadow Word: Death
• 2 x Northshire Cleric
• 2 x Auchenai Soulpriest
• 2 x Holy Nova
• 2 x Dark Cultist
• 1 x Loatheb
• 2 x Sludge Belcher

Read more about priest in the other Priest deck thread.

I will post new GvG decks later.

[Klaus]

Thank you!

[Ender]

Here is the deck I am using now after gvg. Very fun and strong.

Rogue Mech

• 2 x Deadly Poison
• 2 x Eviscerate
• 2 x Backstab
• 1 x Enhance-o Mechano
• 2 x Cogmaster
• 2 x Annoy-o-Tron
• 2 x Spider Tank
• 2 x Mechwarper
• 2 x Micro Machine
• 2 x Piloted Shredder
• 2 x Clockwork Gnome
• 2 x Goblin Auto-Barber
• 2 x Jeeves
• 2 x Iron Sensei
• 2 x Cogmaster's Wrench
• 1 x Tinker's Sharpsword Oil

[Ender]

The new Priest decks after GvG are pretty incredible. Here is the one that I will be playing:

GvG Priest Control

• 2 x Circle of Healing
• 2 x Thoughtsteal
• 2 x Cabal Shadow Priest
• 2 x Injured Blademaster
• 2 x Shadow Word: Pain
• 2 x Power Word: Shield
• 2 x Shadow Madness
• 1 x Ysera
• 2 x Shadow Word: Death
• 2 x Northshire Cleric
• 2 x Auchenai Soulpriest
• 1 x Holy Nova
• 2 x Shrinkmeister
• 2 x Dark Cultist
• 1 x Velen's Chosen
• 1 x Dr. Boom
• 2 x Sludge Belcher

The addition of Shrinkmeister really opened up some interesting combos. You can Shrinkmeister+Shadow Priest to steal 4 power minions (my Ysera kthx), Shrinkmeister+Shadow Madness to steal a 5 power minion and attack something else with it (using this combo on an opponent's Sylvanas would be too funny), or just Shrinkmeister+SW Pain in the absence of the other 2 more powerful combos. In any case, Shrinkmeister should only be played for use with these combos.

Dr. Boom should be your first crafted GvG legendary. It is very strong and can be thrown into any control deck like this one.

[Chadwick]

Pally seems to be the strongest in the meta right now a few weeks after GvG. Priest is probably 2nd strongest and getting stronger as people tweak them. Shaman and Hunter are about where they were before meaning good but not tops. The Lock decks are strong, especially with the new cards, there are now multiple versions you can run and you arent limited to just lame old zoo. Warrior and Rogue can be good but can be out controlled by good versions of Priest or Pally control decks and don't have good win rates from what i have experienced and read.

I have a couple paladin decks, a tweaked version of probably the more popular one everyone is playing and a 2nd version heavily using secrets which is not as successful but boy is it a HOOT to play it. It completely drives opponents NUTS. It wins maybe half the time. It's kinda nice because prior to GvG, pally was an outlier that was fun to play but more in the boat of warrior and rouge meaning you couldnt make any mistakes and against good lock or priests even mistake free you would still lose more than half the time.

The standard pally deck i built won like 6 matches in a row and i got bored so i went back to playing unique types of decks and of course lose more than i win and dropped back down to level 17.

I don't talk about mages. I hate them. You don't even need to be good to play any mage deck and still have a chance of winning. Once you are below 20 life against mages the outcome completely subject to their draw luck. I think that's probably one of the things that makes priests so good is the ability to float life out of mage DD territory and maintain control until you simply wear them down.

[Ender]

I also like pally. Here is a good pally deck that I have been playing. Requires a few legendaries that you guys may not have, but you can substitute some other ones if you want. The general curve and other cards can still be used.

GvG Paladin

• 2 x Shielded Minibot
• 1 x Coghammer
• 2 x Muster for Battle
• 2 x Aldor Peacekeeper
• 2 x Truesilver Champion
• 1 x Consecration
• 2 x Quartermaster
• 1 x Tirion Fordring
• 1 x Guardian of Kings
• 1 x Zombie Chow
• 1 x Haunted Creeper
• 2 x Knife Juggler
• 2 x Ironbeak Owl
• 2 x Defender of Argus
• 2 x Piloted Shredder
• 1 x Captain Greenskin
• 1 x Harrison Jones
• 1 x Loatheb
• 2 x Sludge Belcher
• 1 x Sylvanas Windrunner

[Ender]

Just wanted to update this and show you guys what I have been playing for Ranked Decks lately.

First of all, there is a hunter deck called Face Hunter that is the new trendy/popular deck being played. You need to be aware of this deck when playing ranked games because it is all over the place and you WILL see it often:

Face Hunter

• 1 x Glaivezooka
• 2 x Explosive Trap
• 2 x Eaglehorn Bow
• 2 x Animal Companion
• 2 x Kill Command
• 2 x Unleash the Hounds
• 2 x Abusive Sergeant
• 2 x Leper Gnome
• 2 x Worgen Infiltrator
• 2 x Haunted Creeper
• 2 x Ironbeak Owl
• 2 x Knife Juggler
• 2 x Mad Scientist
• 2 x Arcane Golem
• 2 x Wolfrider
• 1 x Leeroy Jenkins

This is just an agro deck where every single attack is made against the opponent to kill them as fast as possible. It uses kill command and leeroy as finishers after cheap minions, chargers, and weapons were used to widdle life away. You can use this deck if you want... it is effective and the cards are easily obtained. However, if you don't use it, you need to make sure whatever your playing is countering it. The two essential counters to this deck are taunts and healing.

My favorite deck right now, which totally destroys hunter, is the following druid deck:

Ramp Taunt

• 1 x Sylvanas Windrunner
• 2 x Ancient of Lore
• 1 x Big Game Hunter
• 1 x Force of Nature
• 1 x Ancient of War
• 2 x Wild Growth
• 2 x Sen'jin Shieldmasta
• 1 x Savage Roar
• 1 x Mind Control Tech
• 2 x Keeper of the Grove
• 2 x Innervate
• 2 x Druid of the Claw
• 1 x Cenarius
• 2 x Swipe
• 2 x Wrath
• 1 x Zombie Chow
• 1 x Shade of Naxxramas
• 1 x Piloted Shredder
• 1 x Loatheb
• 2 x Sludge Belcher
• 1 x Dr. Boom

This deck has a lot of taunts, which will help against the face hunter and other agro decks. Zombie Chow on turn 1 also shuts down face hunter. Ancient of Lore can be used to heal against face hunter or draw cards against anything else. 1x Big Game Hunter is a staple in almost all decks because almost every deck runs Dr. Boom. This deck also has a 14 damage finisher using Force of Nature + Savage Roar (9 mana). I have been having very good sucess with this deck and highly recommend it. You will destroy hunters, and it runs well enough against everything else.

Another good deck is a rogue deck that uses blade flurry and tinker oil for some crazy damage plus board clears:

Oil Rogue

• 2 x Deadly Poison
• 2 x Sprint
• 1 x Southsea Deckhand
• 2 x Blade Flurry
• 2 x Azure Drake
• 2 x SI:7 Agent
• 2 x Preparation
• 2 x Fan of Knives
• 2 x Eviscerate
• 2 x Sap
• 2 x Backstab
• 2 x Tinker's Sharpsword Oil
• 2 x Earthen Ring Farseer
• 2 x Violet Teacher
• 1 x Antique Healbot
• 1 x Bloodmage Thalnos
• 1 x Loatheb

This deck is very tricky to play. You are looking to build up a 3+ power 2 durability weapon, attack opponent's face with it, then use blade flurry to clear their board plus damage them again (blade flurry also does damage to opponent). You can do tons of damage in one turn if you get the combo bonus with Tinker's Oil and a minion on the board that can attack. Southsea Deckhand is in the deck for cases where you don't have a minion out and want to combo Tinker's Oil. It has healing with Farseers and 1x Healbot for playing against agro decks, and Fan of Knives can deal with face hunter's stupid minions very well.

The last deck that I haven't played much lately but can be really good is control Priest:

GvG Priest Control

• 2 x Wild Pyromancer
• 1 x Sylvanas Windrunner
• 2 x Circle of Healing
• 2 x Thoughtsteal
• 2 x Cabal Shadow Priest
• 2 x Injured Blademaster
• 1 x Mind Control
• 2 x Power Word: Shield
• 2 x Shadow Madness
• 2 x Shadow Word: Death
• 2 x Northshire Cleric
• 2 x Auchenai Soulpriest
• 1 x Holy Nova
• 1 x Shrinkmeister
• 2 x Sludge Belcher
• 2 x Light of the Naaru
• 2 x Recombobulator

Northshire Cleric and Wild Pyro+PW Shield are good to have early against face hunter, and since you can heal yourself they will have a difficult time finishing you off. Light of the Naaru is great when comboed with Soulpriest because you can use it for 3 damage removal, and when the creature dies, it will summon you the Lightwarden since technically the creature was still damaged after casting the spell. Recombobulator is used with shadow madness because after you shadow madness and attack with their minion, if it is still alive you recombobulator it and you will keep the minion that it is changed to.