Hybrid N'Zoth Paladin
- Last updated Sep 5, 2016 (Karazhan)
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Wild
- 21 Minions
- 6 Spells
- 3 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: N'Zoth Paladin
- Crafting Cost: 10880
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 7/11/2016 (Old Gods)
- Eightlimb
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Battle Tag:
Eightlimb#2313
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
1135
Hi!
Make sure you check out my new decks after the Karazhan adventure.
Yogg-Saron Paladin 2.0
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/602899-yogg-saron-paladin-2-0
Midrange Dragon Paladin
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/629050-finally-midrange-dragon-paladin-karazhan
First of all!
I wanna give a big thanks and shout out to @Fur0, @Khristophesaurus and @Matt_Sparks who took time and effort to share and post some gameplay videos.
Thanks to all you other guys and girls for the feedback and input! keep it up!
We made the front page with this so I promised to put some more content in here. I am sorry that this comes a bit late but I have not hade any time lats month.
About the name of the deck!?
A LOT of people seems to have been upset by the name "Aggro N'Zoth Paladin" on this deck. I will explain why I called it that in the first Place. I have been playing a lot of different types of midrange Paladin decks. All my midrange decks have had a different approach and gameplay. More controling and a lot slower. Like @NiklvRu pointed out in the comments, this deck plays out just like the aggro and divine shield types in the earlie game. When you run out of the aggro steam you switch over to play more like the standard N'Zoth list. This deck just hade a lot more Aggro components and playstyle then any typ of midrange Paladin deck that I built before, hence the name. For me this is not a big deal. What is important is the cards in the deck list, not the name of the deck. How ever, i will change the name to "Hybrid N'Zoth Paladin" since I think this is more fitting then the midrange-tag.
Gameplay
The goal is to mulligan for a hard aggro opening! If you get the earliegame going and can apply good preassure you just push push push! Blessing of Kings, Steward of Darkshire and Keeper of Uldaman often makes it possible to keep the preassure up for a few extra turns, and also gives you time to draw into your lategame cards. Either you do favorably trade-ups our you force your opponents to desperately play their removals. When you then decide to slow down and switch to you mid-lategame cards your opponent ofte struggles to deal with your threats.
If you dont get the fast and strong aggro start you will have to play it different and slower. A lot of times i find it possible to just stall the game with tradeups and the removals. the goal here is to stall as much as you can and hopefully you can start playing your stronger minions on turn 6 and try to turn the game around.
In slower matchups where you dont get to much aggro-push going in the earliegame, you will have to aim for a lot of card cycle. If you fall behind a huge N'Zoth, the Corruptor is what wins you the game. To build this up you will have to commit cards to maximise your draw engine. If you are ahead in the match and have been playing with good preassure, just slam the N'Zoth down and dont play to greedy with it!
You will have to give this deck some matches to figure it out. Decisions on when to switch tempo and how to approach the earliegame with your given starting hand is what will decide if you win or lose in most of your matches.
Mulligan
In general:
Always mulligan hard for a aggro-ish starting hand so you can apply good preassure from the start.
Always keep Argent Squire, Argent Protector and Loot Hoarder if you dont have Argent Squire in your starting hand keep Selfless Hero. If you have a 1 and 2-drop and coin keep Abusive Sergeant otherwise mulligan it away.
Against zoo, keep Rallying Blade
Divine Favor is really up to your taste if you want to keep it in starting hand or not. In faster matchups i tend to mulligan it away and in slower matchups i always keep it.
Agains shaman i keep Aldor Peacekeeper or Keeper of Uldaman to have a answer for Dr.4 and against rouge i keep Truesilver Champion to have a answer for their turn 4. Otherwise, generally mulligan away everything that cost 4 or more. Never keep Steward of Darkshire in starting hand.
Give this a +1 if you like it. Check out my other decks and my new decks for the upcoming adventure. Please keep posting thoughts and feedback!
-Eightlimb
any replacement for rag the lightlord? I Don't have him and want to probably wont craft him.
Ivory Knights a great heal
Yo, thanks for the deck. I know Im late to the party but are there any replacemants for the keeper of updaman? And by any i mean any cards that are not from expansions and i can craft or get in basic packs.
Is there any other card I can use instead of Tirion, I dont have him yet and he is the only card i dont have, whats a good temporary replacement?
Looks pretty good. Have to try this myself before can say more.
How good this deck is against Control Warrior and Priest? What about replace one Keeper of Uldaman (or etc) and put Justicar instead? Yes it is pretty slow card but help a lot against Control decks.
Is there really no other substitutes for cairne??
Ok thx will try that out :)
In my opinion, i think this deck is quite slow, cos u either hve a low cost starting hand or a high cost one. As for the low cost hand, u probably use up ur entire hand before u even know it, so u hve to rely on divine favour to get card draws, but i always get it at the wrong time. And as for the high cost hand, ur opponent rushes you with aggro before u can even react to their attacks.
Any good replacements for Ragnaros, the FIRELORD? I've opened so many Classic packs but still haven't gotten him :\
Dang the only Card I'm missing is Bloodhoof q^q
I'm loving this deck! Just went from rank 15 to 10 in an hour and a half with only 2 losses (and those were close). Excellent deck Eightlimb, as usual :). Most of the time my opponents make plays like I'm pure agro, at least until turn 6 (5 with coin) when the big guns come out. I don't know how it will do at higher ranks, but that's a great climb for a deck that I haven't learned how to pilot effectively yet. Thanks again for sharing your creativity and expertise.
I was able to take this deck to rank 8, but wasn't skilled/experienced enough to go further with it. It's a great deck and a LOT of fun to play. With more time/practice I'll get better with it I'm sure. My main weakness is being too greedy with N'Zoth. Just brining back one heavy hitting deathrattle minion is often enough but I tend to wait until I know I'll bring back two or more and by then I've lost too much ground to catch up. Thanks again for this deck, I'll keep an eye out for future creations by you :).
Just crossed Legend with this (Ran Solemn Vigil instead of Divine Favor, no Equality and Argus and instead a second Truesilver and an Argent Horserider).
Thanks for the inspiration.
Played it from rank 7 and on.
Not sure you can call this aggro with such a high amount of late game moves, at best you could say hybrid but likely this is Midrange. I have to say tho on NA, at the bare minimum, this deck does not play well in the meta. It does not out pace any competent zoolock with any draw, get wrecked by control warrior and pirate warrior, and its hard to beat a ramp druid of any kind. I've played alot of paladin in the past and can't say I am misplaying all these losses, I just believe this is neither the time nor the place for this deck.
I really like this deck. I actually tried to build this deck a while back, but wasn't very successful. But this seems great. Not sure how viable it is at legend rank, but it's a ton of fun and seems very competitive.
This deck loses if your opponent plays a 1/3 on turn one
Fine deck, as expected not upper tier class but still got a decent 65% winrate out of my games so far on rank 6 and 5: Gameplay video
I wouldn`t label the deck as a aggro paladin though and it is more midrange version! Anyway, nice job ;)
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honestly cairne and lightlord are what make both n'zoth work and paladin work. take out lightlord and you probably should just play a diff class/deck
Lingering between rank 2 and 3 at the moment, and after testing the list as is presented in the OP, I guess I will have to fire Divine Favor.
Aggro deck can't include Cairne, 2 Rags (especially Lightlord), Sylvanas, Tirion and N'Zoth. This is definitely midrange deck.