Finally hit gold pally today

Grats on golden pally!

Nice. I don't even have 500 total ranked wins...I think my highest is like 75 with Warlock.

Thanks! Been a grind but it was worth it

Starting to play a little pally: Is aldor a keep during mulligan? With/without coin? Does it matter if we already have a 2 drop?

I would keep it vs druid almost always

other than that, i would almost never keep it. if i knew a warlock was handlock, it's ok then. otherwise, you really want to push for a good curve, and aldor tends to have more value later vs most decks

its a bad keep vs most classes.

I've had great results with Paladin this month (not a ton of games) but the key has been I've swapped down to 1 QM. It's an insane card but it requires the appropriate situation to pull it off. Here's the list:



Cards not shown are Boom and Tirion.

Has the kind of mid-range curve I love.

Love the deck. I did make a few tweaks later in the day that fit my play style more. Took out two equalities, mind control tech, and avenging wrath for two zombie chows, the black knight and Ragnaros. Works great as well.

Love the taunt heaviness in this deck and it is built to stave off Aggro decks. Plenty of power late as well

What do you guys think of this deck?

I needed a cheap paladin deck to do the daily challenge, found this one and I did a lot better than I thought I would. Obviously won't get you to legend, but it seemed to work in the lower ranks where I reside (won 4 in a row on my lunch break).

All mech shells seem OK in that none are going to be terrible (but only a few are legit good)

Ravenholdt seems like a bad fit, and I'd prefer a 2nd Jeeves, but otherwise, it's OK.

Healbot has no real place in an aggro deck. I don't like the Ooze, messes up your curve too much.

I'd opt for 1 Sword of Justice.

Cobalt Guardian just seems like a flatout bad card, but I've never really tried it, so I dunno.

Something like:
-1 ooze, -2 consecrate, -1 healbot, -1 assassin, -1 cobolt guardian
+1 Jeeves, +2 equality, +1 Sword of Justice, +1 Coghammer, +1 avenging wrath

seems better.

Thanks for your thoughts, I'll try them out.

Yeah, I crafted him, put him in my deck and immediately thought that I had wasted 100 dust. 5 mana for 3 health means that he's dead before you even use his ability. Only seems to be really useful in the late game, which this deck should never get to.

Yeah. And waiting to play him with a mech seems excessive, too. It's the kind of card where if they can't deal with him, he can have a lot of value, but then you probably don't need him and any other 5 drops is just as good (or better)

And if they can deal with him, it's probably bad for you

This is a similar deck I've been playing around with, mostly on EU where I don't have a lot of cards:



Jeeves is okay if you don't have Divine Favor, but I don't think I would ever run 2x Jeeves in any deck.

Scarlet Purifier is only ok in this deck, but it is important to note that his battle cry will deal damage to all death rattle minions, so he will allow you to kill a sludge belcher a little bit easier.

I got absolutely wrecked playing midrange pally yesterday. Granted, I was playing on 5 hours of sleep, but still..

Edit: I mean 3 hours of sleep haha

Hey Bobbo (or anyone else for that matter). How are you approaching face hunters as a midrange Pally? I know you mentioned that you approach that matchup aggressively. Can you expound on that? I feel often times, that I spend a lot of time trading only to see my health total drop to lethal range before I'm finished off with skill command, arcane golom, bow/hero power etc.

Also, thoughts on zombie chow in aggro matchups? I love the card for tempo purposes in most matchups, but is the health benefit to the opponent a negative in the face Hunter matchup of you are trying to race em?

I know much of this can be situational in game but any strategic thoughts would help

Zombie Chow is amazing vs face hunter because what generally happens is they end up getting 10-15 damage into your face by turn 5 or 6, and simply have to hero power plus KC and some charge damage to finish you off after you've stabilised.

Having Chow on turn 1 means they lose 5+ damage they would have had, so once you stablise you are at a much higher health total and it takes a much longer and a stronger draw for the hunter to kill you. The health they gain is not really of consequence, especially since most of your resouces at that point would have been dedicated to stabilising and they won't gain more than a couple health from it anyway.

Yeah, this is one of the more challenging matchups. If you use your weapon to clear, it makes your opponent happy, but if you trade off your minions, you'll never do enough damage to slay them.

I wind up not trading and just pushing face - racing them. Relying on my taunts to force them into trading, or get decent value from an aoe.

Chow is an elite card, of course. I just find myself being the aggressor as a paladin a lot, which is why I cut it.

It works well vs face hunter, since if you play it early you gain the card advantage and the heal they receive is minimal

Awesome! Thanks Rempel and Bobbo.

I guess to sum it up... if you are taking the zombie chow, stablilize approach, you are essentially setting up to finish them later once they have run out of steam. By that point, heals and taunts should stabilize the matchup and punish the hunter late game.

In Bobbos case, cut zombie chow and race the hunter...using taunts and aoe to get value after going face (albeit make trades with immediate threats, ie knife jugglo)

Hey guys,

I need your thoughts on this Midrange Paladin Deck; I've been thinking about it all morning on what can combat this current meta the best. Sorry it's just typed out, but I'm at work so i can't post a visual list:

2X Zombie Chow
1X Haunted Creeper
2X Knife Juggler
2X Shielded Minibot
1X Coghammer
2X Muster For Battle
2X Aldor Peacekeeper
1X Big Game Hunter
2X Truesilver Champion
2X Consecration
1X Defender of Argus
1X Kezan Mystic
2X Piloted Shredder
1X Captain Greenskin
2X Quartermaster
2X Sludge Belcher
1X Sylvanas
1X Dr. Boom
1X Lay on Hands
1X Tirion Fordring

Now, I know I don't have equality in this list, but in this meta, I don't think it's that necessary, plus, personally, I don't like the card...i understand its insane in many situations, but it's my personal preference not to run it.

I go back and forth on whether to run a silence or not...and if I was i would probably take out one quartermaster...I love having the initiative, and using a silence for taunts/sylvanas is obviously great value...but at the same time, ive ran decks with no silence and I've been perfectly fine in most situations

Kreme, like most lists, that one seems fine-to-good. Just have to play it and try it out

It doesn't really seem too different from the standard-ish midrange shell. Just different swaps

Hey Guys,

Created a solid Tempo/Midrange Pally Deck that I've had some good results with of late.

It has enough healing to stabilize against aggro w/ Earthen, Healbot, Lay on Hands, and Truesilver, and is built for the long game as well (what midrange should do haha). I've personally found more value with Earthen with such face hunter out there over something like MCT...thats a personally preference. This deck also has a decent amount of taunt with coghammer, sludge and tirion coupled with healing for needed stabilization.

I really like acidic ooze in this deck. It answers against hunter with early glavezooka, early board presence that can challenge things like mechwarper/northshire cleric/zombie/etc...not to mention answers rogue and keeps tempo for another play...TBK into acidic is really strong against pally (taunt answers with Truesilver/owl/captain greenskin for sludge).

It has silence/BGH/Kezan to answer the big threats in this meta as well.

In this deck, you are often the aggressor. Your opponent often has to answer the questions (the essence of a Tempo Deck) which is why I don't run equality. Obviously Consecration is there in case the board does get out of control and you need to make efficient trades.

Lemme know if you have any questions or thoughts. Hope you like the deck

If some of you are looking for something with more power, Strifecro created this deck...ranked up pretty high in legend yesterday playing this deck. I have yet to test it. I will today and report back. Not much healing, but has a lot of power. Excited to try it out.

EDIT: above strifecro deck has one less belcher...instead add an owl

changed deck up a bit...took out ONE SLUDGE BELCHER and added SYLVANAS and took out Kezan to have double SHREDDER (one doesn't provide enough value...and zoo is becoming more popular than mage...)fell to rank 9 yesterday...getting wrecked by face hunter and rogue...today I ranked back to 6 with ease...two losses....Played rogue priest shaman mage and facehunter with one pally. This deck has a fighting chance against all those classes. I went undefeated in casual last night (9 games) took it to ranked today to test it out and it proved to still be good...gonna make a push for legend the next few days...

Try it out if you're so inclined

The final meta optimized list...have at it. This was the deck I played yesterday.