The decks you need to win the Shadow Reflection Hearthstone Tavern Brawl

Who knows what evil lurks in the Hearthstone Shadow Reflection Tavern Brawl? The Shadow knows! If you’re going to win, you can’t let anyone, not even a wealthy playboy, secretly operating as a vigilante terrorizing the city’s underworld, to cloud your mind. Don’t worry, The Shadow [Reflection] will come blazing to your rescue with explosive results.

Tavern Brawl basics

• Name: Shadow Reflection
• Description: Build a deck of any size and we’ll fill the rest of the 30 cards with Shadow Reflection that copy the last card you play
• Fun level: 3/10
• Difficulty: 6/10
• Replayability: 3/10
• Format: Standard
• Type: PVP
• Deck: Constructed
• Rewards: 1 The Lost City of Un’goro pack

I’ll be there… around every corner… in every empty room… as inevitable as your guilty conscience…

With this Brawl, you can put anywhere from 1 to 30 cards in your deck. Whatever slots you don’t fill become Shadow Reflection when the game starts. You may remember Shadow Reflection as the Hero Power from the Valeera Death Knight hero card in the Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion: when you play a card, Shadow Reflection becomes a copy it. It will copy any card whether it’s a minion, spell, weapon, or even a Hero card.

How to win the Shadow Reflection Tavern Brawl

As with almost every Constructed Brawl, there are two components to winning: your deck and how you pilot that deck. In Constructed Brawls, players usually discover the most powerful lists very quickly, which leads to the Brawl falling into a meta structure like we see on the Ladder — and that means you’ll usually find plenty of strong decks you can use. But you also have to be able to pilot the deck, making the right turn-to-turn decisions in order to win — which is essential even if you’re using the best deck available. Most of the decks appearing so far are hyper aggressive or OTK-oriented, so keep that in mind if you’re going to build something on your own.

Let’s check out some solid decks to use for this Brawl.

Some of the best Shadow Reflection decks for 2025

Playhouse Giant Warlock

• Credit: IamAnoob12
• Deck code:

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• This deck is just two copies of Cursed Catacombs, one copy of The Soularium, and one copy of Playhouse Giant.
• Beware! This deck is trying to do something very specific: get a Playhouse Giant into your hand, then use Cursed Catacomb to keep discovering copies of Shadow Reflection, which you’ll repeat over and over, until your Giant costs zero, at which point you’re going to play your Giant, and then fill your board with copies of it. If it works, you win (worked for me on my second try). But sometimes it doesn’t, and you fill your hand with Shadow Reflections that don’t get played (as it happened on my first try).

Protoss Mage

• Credit: PkerBadRs3Good
• Deck code:

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• Two copies of each of these cards: Photon Cannon, Shield Battery, Resonance Coil, Tide Pools, and Colossus.
• This is the usual Protoss Mage kit, which aims at playing lots of Protoss spells and then closing the game with Colossus — except you have a much easier time doing it, since you can guarantee more and more Protoss cards, and discounts.

Quest Warlock

• Credit: Dutchii
• Deck code:

  AAECAa35AwLvjwfDmAcCzZgHhJkHAAA=

• This deck consists of Escape the Underfel (the Warlock Quest), The Soularium, two copies each of Cursed Catacombs and Bloodpetal Biome.
• Although it has many of the same cads as the Playhouse Giant deck above, it plays completely different: you’re not trying to setup a gimmicky OTK, you’re trying to fufill the Warlock Quest “normally” (aided mainly by your Location, try to get it down asap) and then, ideally, at least two copies of the Rift quest reward, which you can even feed through Shadow Reflections themselves to overwhelm the opponent.

More Shadow Reflection deck suggestions

If you’re looking for new combos, keep checking Hearthstone Top Decks. There are more Tavern Brawl decks being added by the hour! And if you find another great list, share it with us in the comments.

Good luck getting this week’s pack!

Last published August 8, 2024; updated September 24, 2025 with contributions by Phil Xavier.