Hello and welcome to the first edition of Hearthstone-Decks.net’s Wild Meta Guide. You might be wondering why this article is classified as a “Meta Guide,” rather than the usual “Meta Report”. We feel typical Meta Reports are too simplistic and are insufficient in explaining why a deck is well-positioned in the meta. They focus mainly on explaining the surface of the deck and its general gameplan, rather than producing a quality and in-depth article that highlights the deck’s advantages/disadvantages, nuances, deck theory, and much more. We feel that there is room to improve with regard to writing Meta Reports, and therefore we decided to classify what we produce as Meta Guides, which is a Meta Report containing several articles, each pertaining to a certain class/deck.

We will refrain from classifying decks and classes under the standard “Tier List” system. We feel that Tier Lists are arbitrary and don’t hold value in a format like Wild. It is often not clear what deck is the best or which deck is better than the other, as a result Tierlists can look radically different from each other thanks to select pocket metas that are commonplace in Wild.

We will simply provide you on how we feel on the current Wild Metagame, showcase decklists containing the most optimal cards and which will perform the most consistently across most pocket metas whilst explaining the reasoning behind decisions on certain card inclusions and exclusions. Ultimately, you can make the final decision on what you feel is the best and which deck you would prefer to ladder with.

Deck archetypes are ordered by strength with the strongest variant of a deck in mind. Most decks contain multiple variants, which may differ in viability or may be intended to counter different metas. Understand that the 4th most viable variant of, for example, Shudderwock Shaman, may not be better than the strongest variant of a weaker archetype.

It is of utmost importance to us that every single deck list is credited to the correct creator. If a deck of yours was wrongfully credited to someone else, feel free to reach out to us here hearthstone-decks.net/discord