The STRONGEST Each Hearthstone Class Has Been 

around 13:00 youtube claimed a song and it was around 2 min, audio is fine after that, so if the audio sounds weird that is why. Please enjoy the video!

Just consider how crazy pirate warrior was back in the day: Rarran got that priest down to two health on turn 5, and would have had lethal if Patches had charge (like it used to) and he remembered to swing on turn 1. Oh and he spent turn 4 playing a frothing berserker which got answered. Oh and the priest had Renathal, which didn't exist at the time anyway.

Cubelock is one of the most iconic decks ever imo. It was super dominant, and insanely strong, but it had such cool tools, was really complicated and had a huge skill cap. I want stuff like that back, maybe in a more balanced way, but I loved it :D

I think chat got upset over tip the scales paladin because they nerfed it so fast people don't remember it very well. That shit was absolutely ridiculous.

I think keleseth rogue would have deserved at least an honorable mention. It was literally a tier 1 with jade druid and Raza Priest around, imagine what it could have done in any other meta

24:27 Raza is an ethereal, beings made of pure energy bound by magic cloths (altough in Raza's case I guess he uses those chains?), and one of the coolest races in WoW which of course means they will never be playable even though people have been asking for it for years. Raza himself is OC, tho. There are other ethereal characters in HS, including Rafaam, Erkh, Saraad and Zerek.

"We've had the strongest each Hearthstone class has been. What about the strongest each Hearthstone class has not been?" - Maestra, probably

"Name one time druid hasn't been broken. You can't." - honestly so true. Jade druid was absolutely disgusting to play against.

Nothing is more "Hunter-like" than top-decking Kill Command for lethal with an empty hand.

Galakrond Shaman was soooo broken on release. It was so fun to play, def felt like a villain lol

I haven't played HS in a long time, seeing Sorc's Apprentince at 4 mana blows my mind

Now do this for wild.

Every time someone mentions caverns below being nerfed twice, I always think of how it actually got nerfed 3 times because they changed its interaction with sonya shadowdancer

(copypasta by u/Taxouck (i think)) Aya Blackpaw is the reason I work out. I have this fantasy where we start talking at Talan's Bar with her approaching me saying 'Golems are a girl's best friend.' We exchange a few pleasantries. She asks what I do. I say i'm a main Aggro Shaman. She laughs. I get my drink. 'Greetings, friend.' I say and walk away. I've got her attention now. How many guys voluntarily leave a conversation with Aya Blackpaw? She touches her neck as she watches me leave. Later, as the night's dragged on and the coterie of gorgeous narcissists grows increasingly loose, she finds me on the balcony, my bowtie undone, summoning a jade golem. 'Got a spare?' she asks. 'What's in it for me?' I say as I hand her one of my big green boys. She smiles. 'Conversation with me, duh.' I laugh. 'What's so funny?' she protests. 'Nothing, nothing... It's just... don't you grow tired of taunt minions?' 'You get used to it,' she says, placing her 7/7 and handing me back the 8/8. 'What would you do if you weren't a playable card?' I ask. 'Jade druid, I think.' 'And if I was your student, what would I be learning?' 'Infinite value,' she says quickly, looking up into my eyes, before changing the subject. 'Where are you from?' 'Gadgetzan,' I say. 'Oh wow. That's lovely.' 'It's ok,' I admit. 'Not everything is to my liking.' 'What could possibly be not to your liking in Gadgetzan?' she inquires. 'I don't like Kazakus,' I tell her. 'It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.'

I was actually hugely surprised Original Shudderwock Shaman wasnt one of the 3. I thought it was kind of insane at the time, gaining nerf after nerf to cards not even in the shaman class too, but maybe Im mis-remembering the winrate back then.

31:10 is my absolute favorite hearthstone deck ever! It’s like the only time I’ve felt totems were actually competitive, and it was pretty cheap for me as the only money I had spent on the game at that point was the adventures and I just substituted a different weapon for doom hammer and there you go every thing is like rare or common.

24:27 In case no one told you already, that is an Ethereal. Beings of pure energy who travel through space selling magical items.

balls

I feel like kingsbane rogue desrves a mention, it was way more consistant than caverns and with the old leeching poison it always felt like you could do nothing against it

"This deck is simple unless you are in a complicated situation" - Rarran

My first time legend was with Raza/Anduin Priest. That deck was filthy good at its peak.

16:55 oh WOW, sorcerer's apprentice has fallen a _lot_

If there's one deck that still traumatizes me, it was Star Aligner Druid, aka Death Star Druid. If you were worried about facing it, you did not run 6 cost cards. Juicy Psychmelon gave them their entire combo, and ended the game on turn 6, so there was no point in running anything costing over 6. That deck was the reason I started running Secret Mage.

This was a lot of fun! I stopped playing after Rastakhan's Rumble so I knew a fair few of these, but not all of them! Thanks for putting them through their paces.

When you got to Shaman and said Trogg overload wasn't its best deck ever I was like "What? What kind of Shudderwock build was stronger than this in Standard?" Then I saw Galakrond and suddenly I remembered, probably top 3 most broken Standard decks of all time, the most infuriating thing is that it was instantly obvious from the moment they revealed the cards that it was going to dominate that much, I remember even getting into arguments with people on RU-vid that somehow believed it wasn't that good

Death knight is like warrior but if it was playable and cool

i love how - in the intro - when he talks about the strongest a class has ever been... " , no warrior on screen, but it pushes in from the left, like : " hey guys..i'm good too ! " I know it was just a fly-by scroll-effect , but funny all the same considering the state of warrior

I left hearthstone during witchwood and came back last December playing classic and death knight in standard. Thanks to this video I rebuilt the jade druid and discovered I had in wild two golden legendaries I never even saw. Now I have more dust for the next expansion 😂

I am curious to see revisits of these old decks. E.g. how would cube warlock look nowadays with new cards to consider?

To answer your question, I played HS from classic to the release of DH. Then I quit and never turned back. But I still watch your vids, they're very enjoyable (especially the content milking from Reynad xD =)

I am so glad that the quest rogue version is the correct one with 5 mana giggling inventor, even though that was the third or fourth version. The previous versions were not that good relative to their formats, but giggling inventor quest rogue had only one counter, which was completely otherwise unplayable aggro mage.

Omg. I literally burst out laughing at that kidnapped Alura 🤣🤣🤣

19:32 Lmao. "Sir, this is Wendy's" Good o' Rarran going on a rant / arguing with an invisible man.

The fact that he's playing at such a low elo that keeping a hand with a bunch of 5 drops works is astonishing

gvg tempo mage was pretty insane. old mana wyrm, old sorc apprentice, flamewaker were all busted. you could clear board with flamewaker pings and cheap spells while your mana wyrm scales up and then finish with burn.

“Watch, watch how good this deck was. Watch this s#!t!” *20:28** happens* I'm watching Rarran! In all seriousness, you were so lucky you had Fishy Flyer in hand.

That Tip the Scales Paladin deck looks like a more modern version of Anyfin Can Happen, which _also_ was a disgusting deck that instantly won through murlocs after playing a spell, but it required a lot more setup than just a simple "play the 4 drop"

As a main Shaman from the very launch of the game, all those years of suffering were worth just so to have those glorious early days of Galakrond Shaman

Back in my day, "Secret" Paladin was called Christmas Tree Paladin

That Priest deck was in standard, it was called Quest Hunter, and it was really good.

Yo rarran! Im a Former legendplayer but didnt played hearthstone for years now but just cause of you i found my Was back to it. So i just wanted to thank you Bro keep up the cool Videos ❤

24:30 to answer your question, I’ve never seen raza in wow, and I believe he is an ethereal (similar to ethereal conjurer)

I’m a boomer that hasn’t played since ungorro, but you got me back into it a few months ago and I’m loving it again😃

Fun fact, Madam Goya is the most broken card of all time in hearthstone. As in, for a while, it enabled some absolutely ABSURD bugs, especially with Chameleos, which led to the entire "transforms in hand" mechanic to get reworked. Feel free to look up some old videos of glitches possible with this card. I know Hysteria had a good one at the time

Rarran narration is one of my favorite narrations.

i didn't play at the time, what is that banner under Aya's mana cost that keeps changing color?

Rarran my man, any chance you can get our boy reynad to react/discuss the core card changes with you? Many of these cards were relevant when he was active, it could be interesting to see his thoughts on the new baseline + the overheal change might be something he'd appreciate on a gamedesign perspective

Old Patron Warrior is the strongest desk in HS history. It cannot be replicated anymore unfortunately.

Galakrond Shaman was so broken after release, that on hs replay that deck had worst matchup versus itself (50% obv)… so any other decks was a positive matchup for shaman

Rarran how did you not mention hunter from Rastakhan's rumble??? In the words of the great Firebat, "Hunter was like a 3-phase boss fight. It had the early game with springpaws and razormaws, the Zul'jin reload, and the Deathstalker endgame final form." Followed by a close control warrior at the time.

How did freeze mage not make the cut??

Cubelock is the most fun I've ever had, if you can line it up you can get defile up to like 20 pops but Pirate Warrior was the most dominant deck in hearthstone history even now, a pre-nerf pirate warrior would destroy every single deck in the game.

What’s crazy about the ICC adventure is that one boss that can only be damaged by weapons basically made everyone play pirate warrior at least once.

Pirate warrior showcases the insane power of hitting face and hitting it often

Didn't conjure mage run that 8 mana summon two 6(?) drops spell

Libram paladin was the first and last deck I hit legend with, and with an absolutely disgusting 85% wr. I would easily consider it the best paladin deck ever personnally.

I started playing slightly before the release of GVG. Undertaker hunter and secret paladin are probably the two decks that give me the most PTSD

Loved the kripp posture segment haha

13:22 No is not, is considered a consistent wild staple FOR YEARS, an absolute powerhouse and arguably *the best 5 drop* overall alongside Guff. Decent tempo, massive disruption, fits in a lot of decks and is kinda necessary for wild's health since it shuts down combo so well, because there's no real counter to fast combo in a card game. PS: Raza is still quite good nowadays, altough not insane because control loses to combo hard. And yes, it would be good, but it would use the better support it gained over the years from control/quest priest.

Droppin my 2c lol for honorable mentions: FoN combo druid, lot of cards tweaked due to how strong it was. Any shenanigans with 2 mana sorc apprentice for mage (freeze mage comes to mind). Patron and Fatigue warrior, one was a test in quick math and also lead to the decline in charge mechanics... fatigue warrior was just balls to play against and would pop up when the meta got control heavy against aggro. Miracle Rogue, still exists but so many cards have been tweaked or nerfed due to it. I know Secret Paladin got mentioned but it still was pretty gross when they had a perfect curve all til Dr. Boom. But for highest WR, people learning patron or miracle on ladder will easily tank it, similar to miracle rogue today. Shrug.

at 5:00 what's the song in the background I can't get it out of my head

I am surprised Galakrond Rogue wasn't at least mentioned. That thing really showed why Lackeys were a mistake.

6:58 coin wild growth, fandral, nourish is a real play pattern

I have played wild since un goro so i don't really know all this decks that much, a second part with wild decks would be really cool, sadly some of those decks don't exist right now like questline warlock or histery priest

i've been off hs for a while now, i've seen DK and it looks amazing. I wonder how much better the game will be with the spec setup dk have. Im looking forward to this change to give hs another try.

It was nerfed VERY quickly, but the recent iteration of big rogue that required Kobold Illusionist to get nerfed to five mana I think is arguably as good as the rogue decks shown here. Also the current pirate rogue deck in wild is also extremely good. Rogues have a lot of choice for which was best because they've had their share of great decks.

Garrote rogue had 3 cards nerfed. Octobot, garrote and penflinger(pen flinger nerf should not matter under most circumstances tho, since it was mainly used to trigger octobot or clear board). It was without a doubt one of the strongest rogue deck ever. In standard anyway.

I am so sad that it wasn’t patron warrior. Patron warrior was 10 times the man pirate warrior ever was.

Great video Rarran! Your hearthstone content is top tier

For each class in my opinion without watching the video: Death Knight: Frost DK with construct at 3 mana Demon Hunter: Aggro DH when DH first came out Druid: Jade Druid Hunter: Undertaker Aggro Mage: Freeze Mage with Ice block Paladin: Odd Paladin Shaman: Galakrond Shaman on release Priest: Raza Priest Rogue: Caverns Below Warrior: Grim Patron/Pirate Warrior. Close call between those two decks Warlock: Demon Seed Lock with 3 mana runed mithril rod

Old school freeze mage was the best mage deck. It had a huge win rate vs all decks but 1. And that 1 deck that it had a bad wineate against, was almost impossible to win vs it. The weakness of the old feeeze mage was control warrior

Rarran your next challenge should be making the worst archetypes for each class better. You take the worst archetype blizzard has ever pushed for a class and you use new cards to try to make it win while still making sure the archetype was the reason you won

Odd Paladin was so dominant in Standard that they had to move it to Wild an entire year early, where it has continued to be a top five deck to this day. Neither Secret Paladin nor Scales Paladin have that legacy.

One thing to Add is that Prime wild Discard Warlock would be a really strong contender to best warlock deck, but equal to the demon seed the core card (in this case tome tampering) got banned. But adding to that, without any cards banned at all, i think that the best warlock deck (maybe even the best deck in all of hearthstone history) would be a combination of tome tampering discardlock with the demon seed, Seeing as the demon seed already used some discard cards, and tome tampering discardlock could easily get you all the cards you need and even kill your opponent with fatigue at turn 5 or 6, a thing that would probably never happen, considering that this deck would probably end most matches at turn 4

I know it's not the point of the video, but you can actually recreate Turtle Mage, albeit without Tortollan. Rommath can replay potion of illusion (if you fetch it from E.T.C.) and Waygate Quest to basically do a similar thing. It was stronger when Graysage parrot could replay quest. Caverns Rogue is a personal favorite of mine, and it's what I would consider a "bad good deck". You can climb with it, but there's Rogue decks which have similar matchup spreads that are much faster (like Mine Rogue currently w/ Teron looping).

Bro that warlock era was cursed guldan vs guldan shit went forever

"Pirate warrior, when it was released in Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, was so much better than every other deck in that format relative to all other warrior decks, that this would be the best deck for warrior." Basically "this warrior deck was the best because it was better than the other ones" Bro graduated the Useless Time Consuming Creator Academy.

21:25 I feel personally attacked by this rant, my only time hitting Legend was with Secret Paladin, haven't played hearthstone since (:

I dont think theres been a time where druid has been like the best deck by faaaaar compared to all other decks in hearthstone since there were always other strong decks when druid was strong but druid is probably the most consistently strong class in all of hearthstone(i think). Its very rare for there to be a time when druid doesnt have at least one solidly tier 1 deck. Its definitely borderlined on absurdly broken at some points but not on the level of day 1 demon hunter or og pirate warrior.

Rarran playing an “aggro” deck in wild and the opponent is still alive in T7 :D Aggro in wild is nowdays T3-T5 lethal or it’s “midrange”

Hey man, i love your style of hearthstone videos! Keep it up.

I stopped playing during Rastakhan's Rumble. Havent played since, but I still enjoy watching the content.

what happened to the audio mid video?

That druid jade was insane, I played some archetype of it for one year, never boring always Strong ahah

Was jade druid actually better than just pre nax druid? It was a huge step up from every other deck in high legend if I remember correctly

Paladin: Secret Pala. I remember there were bots that used to get to legend with this deck is was rediculous. Warrior: Patron Warrior was by far the absolute best deck in a format, let alone a warrior deck.

I used to play a scuffed version of that conjure mage back in the day.

Rewatching this video rn and I feel like the "nerf" that secret paladin got was standard being introduced at the end of the year since they lost a lot of their curve and avenge with the rotation

i quit in knights of the frozen throne or kobolds and catacombs, came back for demon hunter and quit before the next expansion, came back in sunken city still playing atm. I was an arena gamer originally tho, now i just play standard.

16:05 I'm confused, why doesn't it fundamentally play the same anymore? I never played around that time, so did something get nerfed? I looked at all the cards' patch changes, and they all look exactly the same, so why doesn't it play the same anymore?

Keep up the good work Rarran

I'm not against you in the bigger picture but to give another perspective.. most of the people working on a game are fully paid employees to guarantee quality rather than relying on freelancers. If a game took 3-5 years to develop most writers will finish their major role in the first year, so they will get more work just for filler and that's how you get walls of texts unless the director cuts it. So it is with other teams like animators and other teams with the focus shifts. That's why huge studios like Rockstars get more details. Another side effect of this is massive layoffs. We can reduce the budget of games in my opinion by employing support studios.

This video has brought back so much trauma

Now I'm interested how strong each of minion tribes has been.

Raza priest was nuts but do you guys remember quest rez wall priest from Saviours of Uldum.

Conjure Mage crushed Standard when it was there, when it came time for the experimental stream for the new expansion Silvername (Big Russian HS streamer) brought this deck unchanged and obliterated everyone he played against.

aviana druid was playble for 3 months in standard though. look up khuun/c'thun druid by savij

Boomsday Warrior deserved a mention that expac was nuts for warrior

Pre nerf quest rogue had me going crazy back in the day

Next Challenge suggestion: Each class at the most fun they've ever been to pilot.