![]() ![]() Questline Warrior remains one of the best performing decks in the format. It has extremely dominant matchups against popular slower decks such as Ramp Druid, Questline Hunter, and Rod Warlock and has brutal matchups into aggressive decks such as Aggro Druid, Shadow Priest and Questline Warrior. To nobody’s surprise, Quest Rogue has a very polarized matchup spread. However, the meta seems to have aligned perfectly for Quest Rogue now, and it is boasting a Tier 1 win rate. Many players were worried when the nerf reversion to the Caverns Below was initially announced, and for the longest time, these concerns seemed to be without merit as Quest Rogue struggled to achieve anything in the format. ![]() The slight nerf that the questline received does not seem to have curbed many players’ desires to play the premiere aggressive deck in the format. Questline Pirate Warrior is the second most popular deck at legend and is by far and away the most popular deck outside of legend. Even Warlock continues to be a solid, if not exciting deck for laddering as its play rate continues to hover around 2% of the meta. There are a few decks under the Rod Warlock umbrella: Mecha’Thun, Owl, and Togwaggle/Agony decks, and it seems that people received the message, with combo Warlocks greatly increasing in play. In our last report, we mentioned that Mecha’thun Warlock seemed to be one of the biggest sleepers in the format, with a measly 1% play rate. Shadow Priest remains more popular within Diamond ranks. ![]() However, with the nerfs to Odd Hunter and Ignite Mage, we’ve seen a small, but notable rise in the number of Overload Shaman decks, which can breathe a little easier now that Ice Block isn’t everywhere.ĭivine-Spirit Inner Fire Priest is the new Priest hotness, barely overtaking Shadow Priest as the most popular archetype for the class at legend. Aggressive Druid decks are also gaining popularity, with the Wild version of Beast Druid picking up traction.įreeze Shaman remains extremely popular, as many expected. While this may be a factor, the strength of the deck is playing a role. One may think that Dragon Druid being the only “new” archetype spawning from the mini set has much to do with the popularity of the deck. This archetype captures all the Wildheart Guff, Oaken Summons, Spreading Plague variants of slower Druid decks, including the new Dragon Druid, utilising Kazakusan as its primary finisher. Note that currently, the radar maps are not mobile friendly.Druid is having a renaissance period in Wild, becoming the most popular class at legend, with most of it attributed to Ramp Druid variants. To reduce this noise, we exclude from the charts the cards and links that are less frequent by some threshold (namely 5% of games for cards and 1% for links).Ĭolored circle = Class card (color is different for every class)Īlso, if some of the cards appear to be outside of the canvas’ range, you can click on a card and drag the cluster around to adjust your view. In such a large number of games as our data contains, it looks almost as if every possible pair of tech cards have been played at least once, so that the visualization tends to be cluttered with a lot of irrelevant information. , ) have a central location, while cards that characterize a specific archetype (e.g. Applied to our data, these conflicting forces result in a visualization where core class cards shared by most decks (e.g. These links operate like springs: the larger the number of opponents that have played two cards together, the stronger the spring tension, and the closer the cards are on the chart.Ĭonversely, cards that have no link between them tend to repel each other. Two cards are linked if they have been played by the same opponent. The circle size is an indication of the number of opponents that have played this card. Each circle on the chart is a card that an opponent has played. The product is a chart full of circles and links between them. We scan the database of games of a particular week, and proceed to run it through a code. ![]()
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