Hearthstone Battlegrounds: Lesser Trinket Tier List

We have already talked about how Trinkets completely changed the game meta in Season 8 of HS Battlegrounds. In this article, we will analyze all Lesser Trinkets that you can get on Turn 8 and divide them into a tier list so that it’s easier for you to navigate through the article. For a more in-depth look at this season, check out our full Hearthstone Battlegrounds Strategy guide.

The Tier List is up-to-date with the new Hearthstone Battlegrounds 31.0 patch.

You can also check our Greater Trinket in Battlegrounds tier list. Keep in mind that this is a general tier list of Lesser Trinkets and that there can be times when some trinkets might be more useful than others due to the variations that we can’t cover here (hero power, current board, duos setup, etc). Without further ado, you can check out our full Lesser Trinket Tier List for Hearthstone Battlegrounds season 8.

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S Tier Trinkets

Mystery Cube

This is probably one of the best Lesser Trinkets in the game because the start-of-turn effects of other trinkets actually trigger twice. One time when you pick it at the start of your turn, and one time at the start of your beginning turn, and then you can pick another one, and that one will also trigger this way. So, in essence, you can get the double effect “at the start of your turn” trinkets with this one. It’s a pretty good value.

Azeroth Model Globe

One of the most controversial trinkets is the Azeroth Model Globe – it is a bit slow but it does offer a lot of advantages if you are lucky. It is great to choose if you are not sure what comp you want to go for as you can decide based on the first six-tier minion that you get.

Felblood Portrait

If you have one Fiery Felblood on the board, take this – it will propel your Demon army in the Tavern, and since there are several low-level Demons with “devour” abilities it will offer some tempo boost as well. However, your main goal is clear if you take this – you need Felbat if you are going to win the game.

Goblin Wallet

One of my personal favorites is Goblin Wallet. Having a good economy is something that can easily propel you into the first 3 spots in Battlegrounds and this is the trinket that you want to go for. Its counterpart, the Greater gold trinket is not as worthy as this one. The only downside is the fact that you will lose some of your tempo so you need to build defenses fast if you take Goblin Wallet.

Goldenizer Supply

Goldenizer Supply is good, but it really depends on how you use it. It essentially trades off tempo for late game. You don’t get anything from it initially and you will probably need to play it safe because a lot of other players will pick tempo trinkets. But later on, you can golden a key minion like Brann or Titus and start dominating the game from there.

Bartend-o-Tron’s Oilcan

This trinket is pretty good value, and if you don’t have anything specifically for your build in the trinket shop, you should go with this one. The lowering cost of Tavern tier will get you to tier 6 in a few turns, and that is pretty powerful for a lesser trinket.

Rusty Trident

Generally speaking, this trinket is both a tempo-boosting and an eng-game one. The main downside of Rusty Trident is the fact that you are committing yourself to Naga tribe early on – but if you have several Naga units on the board, you can go with this one and see where it gets you.

Twin Sky Lanterns

Twin Sky Lanterns is good for Automaton builds as it increases its innate power. Furthermore, this can be used in Murloc hand scam builds. There are quite a few options for this Battlegrounds Trinket.

Bleeding Heart

Bleeding Heart is a very strong trinket, but also very expensive. The gist of it is that naturally, Undeads have a lot of summons, and you will probably get at least two Undeads if you have a full Undead board. Moreover, it summons the Undeads that you also get, so it’s a pretty good trinket in combat and for resource gathering. Nevertheless, it’s pretty expensive, so keep that in mind.

A Tier Trinkets

The Eye of Dalaran

It’s a pretty good trinket if you already have some no-type minions on the board. It will generate Spells for each of them dying and give you good momentum.

Hoggy Bank

Hoggy Bank is a Quilboar exclusive Battlegrounds Trinket that does give you some tempo in mid-game but it is very risky and generally very slow. Chances are that your Blood Gems will not be buffed at all at this point and that you will just be getting several stats buffs every turn. Pick it if you have decent Blood Gem buffs ready – if not, go with another tempo Trinket.

Yogg-Tastic Pastry

Yogg-Tastic Pastric is basically the most RNG thing in the game – you will be spinning the Wheel of Yogg-Saron at the beginning of every turn and who knows what you might get. Usually, this trinket is good for tempo. However, the wheel is unpredictable, and sometimes … well let’s just say that things might not go as you want to. Good luck!

Deathly Phylactery

This trinket can work with a lot of minions like Fiery Felblood, and you will also discover a Deathrattle, so it’s pretty certain you will use it. You will have a good use of it from the moment you pick it. It’s generally considered good, because the extra proc of the first Deathrattle each combat can go a long way.

Belcher Portrait

Operatic Belcher while everyone is on Tavern Tier 3? Enter Belcher Portrait – this thing is really good. It will instantly give you 2 Venomous units (providing that you have another Murloc) and will scale a bit each turn – good enough to be in our A-Tier.

Bob-Blehead

Instead of me rambling about math and how Bob-blehead affects your choices in Bob’s Tavern, will just leave this bob-blehead guide on Reddit where a guy pretty much did all the math. In short, it’s good – but not too great. It will increase your chances of getting higher-level minions but not too much so you don’t really need this unless you are targeting a very high-tier specific build (like high Pirates or Quilboars).

Innkeeper’s Stein

Innkeeper’s Stain is similar to Bob-blehead as it will give you more choices with high-tier units. Not much to say about this Lesser Trinket in HS BG because it’s totally RNG and it depends on what you have on the board and what you are looking for.

Souvenir Stand

Similarly to Trip Vouchers, this Lesser Trinket allows you to essentially double your Greater Trinket. However, since you will need to wait three turns for this Trinket to have effect, it’s a bit of a risk to take it. If you do, be sure to offer enough sustain and not lose (too much) health while you are waiting for your greater one.

Staff of the Scourge

Since this is a Lesser Trinket, Staff of Scourge is not that efficient. The thing is, at this point you want to buff up your Undead units as much as you can and you want to give them reborn so that they get more buffs – and Staff of Scourge is better in very late game since you don’t really need Reborns after so many hits (Avenge 5).

Book of Medivh

Generally speaking, considering the cost, the Book of Medivh is a good pick. There are plenty of useful Tavern Spells that you can go for and this trinket will allow you to do that for free (well after you pay 4 gold for it). Pick it if you don’t have anything else that is good.

Windrunner Necklace

This is a very niche trinket that can be used effectively with Pirate and Undead builds. Just think about it – every time your left-most minion attacks, it gets +8 attack. So, if your pirates attack 3 times, all of them get it. All your Reborned undead on the left side get it as well. It can be useful but you do need a specific composition for it.

B Tier Trinkets

Training Certificate

This is a dragon-exclusive trinket; and as such it is in B-tier because frankly, Dragons are not good. This trinket is really weird when used with Poet – your Poet will pretty much always be your lowest attack minion so Tiger Certificate will usually just double one minion’s attack (that will remain, the one next to Poet). So… good luck! 🙂

Reflective Pendant

Reflective Pendant is nice in getting you triples and copying key minions on your board, but on the other hand, it costs a lot of money to buy this one. So it usually works in specific scenarios where your board is so good that any copy of a minion would be beneficial to you, but just keep in mind the cost of it and your current tempo.

Ship in a Bottle

Generally speaking, this is actually an OK trinket for Pirates. The main issue with this one is the fact that it’s random and it just provides a tempo boost – which is fine if you need it, just keep in mind that you will still need to for the full pirate build if you want to be in the first 3 spots.

Nerglish Phrasebook

This one is good if you have a way to summon the minions from your hand. That will ensure that you can summon the buffed minion every battle. Moreover, it’s really good in the later stages with infinite Murloc build, because you will have a ton of buffs on your in-hand minions. All in all, it’s decent in this specific situation with Murlocs, but other than that, you should skip it.

Replica Cathedral

Sometimes you get really bad trinkets for your Lesser ones. If that is the case and you see Replica Cathedral, you can take it – it is a decent tempo boost but it won’t really change much. The strongest spells are the ones that target one minion (like Eyes of the Earthmother) and they don’t have any use with this Trinket. The lower-tier ones are fine to be used with this just don’t get your hopes up.

Token of the Old Gods

Pretty much the same as the Inkeeper’s Stain, Token of the Old Gods is not something that you should rely on – it is decent and chances are that you will be able to get a minion or two that you need from it but it’s still totally RNG dependent.

Alliance Keychain (Lesser)

Another Dragon trinket is Alliance Keychain – and again, it has a really weird synergy with Dragon comps. Chances are that Tarecgosa will be your strongest unit and naturally you would want it to die first so that the stats spread to the other two minions – but then, if that happens, do you have Poet ready and will you be lucky enough for the stats to hit adjected minions? Or if Tarecgosa doesn’t die, what if a weak minion dies instead? A lot of ifs with this one.

Goose Portrait

It’s a bit of a goofy trinket, but it’s not bad. Basically, the prerequisite for picking this trinket is also having one Silver Goose on the field so you get more value out of it. You will get a Lucky Egg every 3 Silver Fledglings summons, which is good for resources and for tempo. But don’t pick it if you don’t have a Silver Goose.

Trip Vouchers

We start with one of the most obvious choices for the S tier when it comes to Battlegrounds Trinkets – Trip Vouchers. In short, this is a game-winner if you have any kind of decent tempo and sustain while the trinket starts to really scale. Having two Greater Trinkets can be simply OP and you should go for it no matter what kind of build you are running.

Holy Mallet

A rather decent and straightforward trinket for Dragons is Holy Mallet – it works well with Tarecgosa and Poet builds. Pretty much this trinket will allow all your Dragon units to have Divine Shield. You just have to hope that you can buff their attack somehow.

Shaman Prayer Beads

Artisanal Urn (Lesser)

It’s okay for tempo – but that’s about it. Nothing fancy with this one, you get +3 Attack on all your Undead units and that’s it. It doesn’t scale and it is totally dependent on your board at the moment.

Automaton Portrait

Although heavily nerfed, Automaton is still a pretty good minion and its portrait is great if you have one of them on the board. It’s not something that will win you the game – you will still need your Greater Trinket for that, but it is a good tempo trinket to have.

Blingtron’s Sunglasses

Blingtron’s Sunglasses is a mech-exclusive Hearthstone Battlegrounds Lesser trinket that has a really weird and kind of RNG-dependent synergy with the rest of the Mech tribe. First of all, it won’t work well with Deflect-o-bot because he will get the Divine Shield anyway if you summon a minion. Secondly, the minion that you summon will probably not be a strong one (reborn) and you don’t want that one to get Divine Shield as well. Finally, the minions that remain after you summon will either be the ones that still didn’t fight (and thus probably have Divine Shield already) or the weak ones. Pick something else if you can.

Tickatus Sticker

Tickatus Sticker is a wild one because there are a ton of Darkmoon prizes that you can get in Tier 3. Visit our Darkmoon prize guide for specifics on what each prize does. The general consensus is that it’s a roll of the dice. Since it happens only every three turns, it’s a big deal on what Darkmoon Prize you discover. So it can be good and it can be bad. It’s a gamble.

Eternal Portrait

As is the case with most “portrait” trinkets, you should go for this if you already have 1 (or two) Eternal Knights. It offers a great tempo as you instantly get Reborn+Taunt on all your Eternal Knights and even the scaling is decent for mid to late game.

Quilligraphy Set

Quilligraphy Set is more of an end-game Trinket than a tempo-boosting one – and that is why you don’t really need it as your Lesser Trinket. The thing is, the main issue with Quillboars is low mid-game survivability and this Trinket will most certainly not help with that.

Burgling Claw

This is a pretty strange one, because it’s very dependent on your opponent’s board. And should be only picked if there is no other good choice, or if there is a specific hero that your opponent has, like Galakrond, that can naturally get a very high-tier minion early on.

Lucky Tabby

Lucky Tabby is one of those RNG trinkets that doesn’t really do anything special. It basically means that if you have a normal board, you will get 1 beast each turn, and if you have a summon board that equates to 12+ minions, you will get 2 beasts. Not really ideal, but since Beasts are in meta, it’s a nice pickup.

Fishy Sticker

Fishy Sticker is one of those Hearthstone Battlegrounds Trinkets that has so many uses that we can write an entire guide about it. Undead, Beast, and even Quilboars and Pirates can use this trinket. It is a bit unpredictable, especially early on as you won’t be able to position your army in the optimal way but more often than not, it is a good choice to go for. The main downside is that later on, it can be countered with Blaster, and having it hog one space is annoying., but he can work.

Lava Lamp

Unless you are playing Milhouse and Elemental build (the only that you can play with him), this trinket is no good – it’s slow, you get random stuff that you don’t need and you don’t even get it that often.

C Tier Trinkets

Fungalmancer Sticker

Fungalmancer Sticker is only good if you’re 100% certain you will play Murlocs. It gives that edge for the Murloc build and will go a long way, but it’s not really cheap and you don’t really get any tempo from it. So, in general, it’s very mediocre.

Marine Signet

Marine Signet is a pretty weird trinket. It doesn’t really give you tempo or any resources at the moment. It’s generally good if you’re going to play infinite build with Elementals, Murlocs, or something similar later in the game. It’s kind of iffy because at this stage of the game, when you’re picking a lesser trinket, you don’t really have a clear vision of your endgame build. Taking all of that into account, this trinket is below average.

Comfy Coffin (Lesser)

Comfy Coffin is one of those “commitment” trinkets that are great – but only if you have some kind of tribe lineup already. If you don’t have anything, skip it cause it’s not worth it. 5 Gold is a lot and you will also need to cast a lot of spells to make it worth it. If you have a lot of Undead, it’s not bad.

Great Boar Sticker

Nothing too much to say about this trinket, except that it’s pretty underwhelming because you miss out on a chance to pick another lesser trinket. If you already have a lot of early game Quillboars on the board, it can be good. +3 attack on Blood Gems is okay, but that being your whole lesser trinket while having almost no Quillboars on the board is not.

Kodo Leather Pouch

There are two problems with this trinket. The first one is that it costs 2 gold, and the second one is that it doesn’t really give you a good tempo. The stat gain from buying a card is fine, but you have to keep in mind that at this stage in the game, you don’t have money, and these stats are not that great, because the main issue is that you only get plus 1 health. Again, the stat gain is nice, but there are better options out there.

Shaker Portrait

Although the Naga tribe has been heavily nerfed by the removal of Shelemental at the beginning of Season 8 of HS BG, Shaker Portrait is still an S-tier Battlegrounds Trinket in our opinion, providing that you have at least one Deep Blue Crooner on the field. It scales really well and it’s super easy to use, that said, you will be more or less committed to a build that is not really in meta. This Trinket is good for lower MMR games, but will almost never get you the first 2-3 places in the higher-skill games. The tempo-cost-commitment is not good.

Booty Bay Brew

Just … skip this one. Booty Bay Brew is a Lesser Trinket in Hearthstone that is supposed to offer some tempo boost but in reality, it really doesn’t do much – you will get around +5/+10 per turn on random Pirate minions that you will most likely sell soon anyway so you don’t really need this one.

Charging Staff (Lesser)

Although on paper this Battlegrounds Lesser Trinket looks good, in reality, you won’t use it too much, at least not in the early and mid-game. It will be very effective in the end if you get Divine Shield on all your Mech (or Dragon) minions but at that point, it won’t really mean much.

Lorewalker Scroll

This Trinket is pretty straightforward – and pretty weak I might say. You won’t have a lot of spell-generating Naga’s in the beginning and if you do, that means that your comp is probably weak to start with. Having +2/+2 with each spell won’t really give you much tempo and that’s why this one is in the lower tier of our list of Lesser Trinkets in Battlegrounds.

Rewinder Portrait

If you have one Wrath Weaver or Soul Rewinder on the field, this trinket works like a charm – it will provide you a good tempo boost that will be even better if you at least had one Malchazar.

Kaboom Bot Portrait

If this would be a list based on how entertaining and annoying for opponents the Lesser Trinkets are, Kaboom Bot Portrait would surely end up in S-tier. However, although it’s fun to see things being blasted by your Kaboom bots, it doesn’t really scale well and the tempo boost that you get will only last for a couple of turns after which this trinket will become useless.

Tiger Carving

Tiger Carving is an oke-ish trinket if you want to commit yourself to a beast build (self-inflicting one). The main issue is the fact that you need to commit before you can possibly get any of your key minions.

Colorful Compass

There is not much to say here – it’s good if you get a good minion that you need at this point. If not, it’s not worth it. 3 Gold is a lot of cost and Nagas aren’t really it in the current state of the meta. So that’s why we are putting it in the lower Tier, because you can’t really rely on this Lesser Trinket and surely there are better choices.

Primordial Terrarium

Primordial Terrarium is not that good because it really isn’t that cheap and the whole elemental build is mediocre at the current moment. So unless you really have a ton of key elementals in your board, you should skip this one.

D Tier Trinkets

Dalaran Cheese Wheel

Dalaran Cheese Wheel is a decent option but only if you are lucky enough to get Recycling Wrath. If you don’t get him, you pretty much wasted your Lesser Trinket. So, it’s a tough one – should you risk it? Probably not.

Nomi Sticker

Does anyone remember panda from Season 4? Well, this is it – basically, this sticker does the same thing as Nomi did – your Elementals will be upgraded every time you play one. Again, similarly to the last one, the main downside of this trinket is the potential overcommitment and the stats are just not there, especially when you take into consideration that other people will have Trinkets of their own.

Electromagnetic Device

This trinket is a mixed bag. On the one hand, you get to discover a magnetic minion, which is nice, and you get a +2/+2 on each of your magnetizations. But on the other hand, it really isn’t good for tempo or resources. It just buffs up your Mechs a bit more later on in the game, once you start acquiring a lot of magnetizations. Also, it costs 2 gold, and you really don’t have (some other) a lesser trinket. So it’s not really that good.

Smuggler Portrait

Dragons + Smuggler Portrait is a good way to decrease your rank in HS BG. Putting all your money on one Smuggler that gives +1 Defense when his ability is triggered (and that’s not so often) is really weak and it doesn’t provide tempo or late-game capabilities.

Darnassus Pie

It’s slow, you don’t have enough money to really use it’s full potential, you are committing to Elementals before you have any key Elemental minions and you should stay away from it. Darnassus Pie is not a good pick IMO.

Dragonwing Glider (lesser)

Dragonwing Glider is one of those tribe Lesser Trinkets that doesn’t really offer much – you will be getting some attack points on random Dragon several times (at best) each turn and it won’t do much for your tempo nor for your late game comp.

Glowing Gauntlet

Glowing Gauntlet is just too weak and we are sure that it will get buffed in one of the next patches. If it was at least +4/+4 maybe then it could make some difference.

Rockin Music Box

Generally speaking, it’s not good although depending on what tribes are in the game, it does have some potential for tempo boosting. Look closely on what is in the game and based on that decide if you can get some Battlecry minions that you might use.