This week’s brawl, “Top 3”, was by far the most popular brawl since HSReplay.net went into Beta, with over 48000 Top 3 games uploaded to the website.

The rules of this brawl are simple: Pick three unique cards, your deck will be composed of 10 copies of each. Find the best combo. It is a variant on the “Top 2” Tavern Brawl that ran a few months ago.

Popularity analysis

So why is this brawl so popular? The games are extremely quick. 65% of games were over by turn 5. And by turn 10, that number goes up to 96%.

In fact, early concedes happened so much that we had to compensate for it quite a bit while gathering statistics - nearly 50% of games were over before the opponent revealed a single card!

Taking a closer look at how our users played this Tavern Brawl, we see that on average, seven Top 3 games were played per user, nearly twice as many as the games played on Cart Crash at the Crossroads.

Deck winrates

In the following table, we look at the top decks this brawl. By far the most popular deck was Mill Druid running Coldlight Oracle, Innervate and Naturalize, run by nearly 20% of players, despite the deck barely making the top 15 by winrate.

The highest winrate deck was Annoy-o-Tron / Mechwarper / Metaltooth Leaper, a variant on the popular Mechwarper / Metaltooth Leaper from the Top 2 brawl.

Disclaimer: All decks in the following tables have at least 100 games accounted for.

Deck Win Rate Popularity Annoy-o-Tron | Mechwarper | Metaltooth Leaper 72.3% 5.2% Malchezaar’s Imp | Silverware Golem | Soulfire 69.5% 5.8% Barnes | Deathwing, Dragonlord | Innervate 68.6% 0.7% Barnes | Innervate | Ragnaros the Firelord 67.6% 0.9% Fist of Jaraxxus | Malchezaar’s Imp | Soulfire 67.4% 4.7% Bolster | Shieldbearer | Target Dummy 67.3% 0.7% Annoy-o-Tron | Gorillabot A-3 | Mechwarper 67.1% 0.3% Annoy-o-Tron | Iron Sensei | Mechwarper 67.0% 0.2% Barnes | Innervate | Y’Shaarj, Rage Unbound 65.4% 1.4% Frostbolt | Ice Lance | Mana Wyrm 65.3% 0.2% Mechwarper | Metaltooth Leaper | Tracking 61.8% 0.3% Everyfin is Awesome | Murloc Tidehunter | Murloc Tinyfin 61.1% 0.9% Gorillabot A-3 | Mechwarper | Metaltooth Leaper 60.7% 0.7% Coldlight Oracle | Innervate | Naturalize 60.7% 19.4% Innervate | Living Roots | Power of the Wild 59.9% 0.3% Gorillabot A-3 | Iron Sensei | Mechwarper 59.8% 0.2% Lightning Bolt | Rockbiter Weapon | Tunnel Trogg 59.8% 0.2% Arcane Intellect | Fireball | Ice Block 58.5% 0.8% Arcane Missiles | Frostbolt | Mana Wyrm 58.1% 0.3% Enhance-o Mechano | Mechwarper | Metaltooth Leaper 57.5% 1.0% Everyfin is Awesome | Murloc Tidecaller | Murloc Tinyfin 57.4% 0.3% Arcane Missiles | Babbling Book | Mana Wyrm 56.9% 0.6% Frostbolt | Ice Block | Ice Lance 55.1% 0.6% Innervate | Naturalize | Prince Malchezaar 54.9% 0.3% Bolster | Protect the King! | Shieldbearer 54.7% 0.4% Arcane Missiles | Mana Wyrm | Mirror Image 53.7% 0.7% Innervate | Prince Malchezaar | Raven Idol 53.6% 0.3% Astral Communion | Innervate | Prince Malchezaar 53.2% 0.9% Everyfin is Awesome | Grimscale Oracle | Murloc Tinyfin 52.9% 0.2% Circle of Healing | Embrace the Shadow | Prince Malchezaar 52.9% 0.2% Arcane Intellect | Frostbolt | Sorcerer’s Apprentice 52.9% 0.3% Bolster | Protect the King! | Target Dummy 52.8% 0.2% Bloodsail Raider | Dread Corsair | Upgrade! 51.7% 0.3% Cold Blood | Conceal | Young Dragonhawk 51.4% 1.3% Astral Communion | Innervate | Yogg-Saron, Hope’s End 51.0% 0.3% Cold Blood | Conceal | Worgen Infiltrator 50.5% 0.2% Barnes | Innervate | Prince Malchezaar 48.7% 0.5% Fiery War Axe | Heroic Strike | Upgrade! 48.1% 0.5% Arcane Intellect | Forgotten Torch | Sorcerer’s Apprentice 46.3% 1.8% Circle of Healing | Embrace the Shadow | Flash Heal 46.1% 0.4% Frostbolt | Ice Lance | Sorcerer’s Apprentice 45.8% 0.5% Arcane Missiles | Frostbolt | Ice Lance 45.1% 0.2% Fist of Jaraxxus | Silverware Golem | Soulfire 43.8% 0.7% Innervate | Prince Malchezaar | Wild Growth 42.0% 0.5% Innervate | Raven Idol | Yogg-Saron, Hope’s End 41.7% 0.8% Divine Spirit | Inner Fire | Shieldbearer 39.9% 0.4% Divine Spirit | Inner Fire | Lightwell 39.8% 0.3% Innervate | Nourish | Yogg-Saron, Hope’s End 34.6% 0.2% Innervate | Wild Growth | Yogg-Saron, Hope’s End 33.4% 1.3% Doomsayer | Mind Blast | Resurrect 33.0% 0.2% Arcane Intellect | Ice Lance | Sorcerer’s Apprentice 31.9% 0.2% Doomsayer | Resurrect | Yogg-Saron, Hope’s End 31.6% 0.4%

Mill Druid analysis

Disclaimer: Due to the extremely high amounts of early concedes, the data here may be biased.

It is quite incredible that Mill Druid is over three times as popular as the next most popular deck (Malchezaar’s Imp / Silverware Golem / Soulfire, sitting just below 6%).

So what does this deck beat? Here are the top 5 matchups in favour of Mill Druid:

Innervate / Wild Growth / Yogg-Saron - 97.5% winrate

Innervate / Raven Idol / Yogg-Saron - 92% winrate

Arcane Missiles / Mana Wyrm / Mirror Image - 75% winrate

Malchezaar’s Imp / Silverware Golem / Soulfire - 75% winrate

Arcane Intellect / Forgotten Torch / Sorcerer’s Apprentice - 70% winrate

We see that Mill Druid beats Yogg-Saron decks nearly all the time.

And what beats Mill Druid?

Annoy-o-Tron / Mechwarper / Metaltooth Leaper - 82% winrate

Astral Communion / Innervate / Prince Malchezaar - 67% winrate

Fist of Jaraxxus / Malchezaar’s Imp / Soulfire - 59% winrate

Winner of the Brawl

With a whopping 82% winrate against the most popular deck of the brawl, as well as a strong lead on all other decks’ winrates, the Annoy-o-Tron/Mechwarper/Metaltooth Leaper combo was the absolute best deck to run this week!

As it turns out, 31 damage on the board on turn 3 is preeeettty good.

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