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Any updates on this deck as of the February patch and the nerfs to Bonemare and Corridor Creeper?

Currently working on them, stay tuned :)

thanks mate, appreciate it. i love hand buff paladin, and especially your deck.

What is the best Zola replacement? I was thinking Righteous Protector to counter aggro. Any other good ideas?

Righteous Protector or Stonehill Defender would probly be my reccomendations to replace Zola the Gorgon

Counters KFT Jaina very well. Thank you.

I'm sorry to hear that. Not having Wickerflame Burnbristle is likely a factor since that card is pretty critical for a lot of the synergies. But regardless best of luck in the future.

i agree this deck is not doing well on ladder, but its a cool idea. Would not craft for this deck although most of the cards it uses can be ran in other better decks. 

Hi! Welcome to Hearthpwn!

So a couple of things. You may be struggling because of some of those changes you made. Since you don't have Wickerflame Burnbristle you're losing one of the key pieces of healing and anti-aggro in the deck. He is also essential for activating the lifesteal (as well as the divine shield) on Corpsetaker, which is again key healing and anti-aggro. Without that shell cutting Blackguard makes total sense, so that's a good cut to make. But those changes really hurt the aggro matchup. I'd also strongly advice against cutting Grimestreet Enforcer since they are really important for having consistency for handbuffs.

But all that aside, here are some substitutions you could consider based on the problems you've identified:

1) No Board Clears: It's tricky to slot board clears in effectively because most of the good options are spells, which have counter synergy with handbuffs. For minion-based AoE the only decent choices you have are Primordial Drake (which I've used in the past and is a solid options but it comes down pretty late) or Sergeant Sally (which from my experience is sorta inconsistent but can come down as early as turn 3). Consecration is the obvious Paladin board clear choice, and while it is a spell it's an option. But be warned it's a lot weaker when you don't have Wild Pyromancer or Equality to combo with it but you can't run those since they are 2 mana and ruin Prince Keleseth.

2) Running out of Cards: I've also been running into this problem a bit too lately. The problem though is there aren't a ton of great card generators that are worth running. The Lich King or Ysera are pretty good choices since both of them generate extra cards, but they come down fairly late. The Curator is excellent in handbuffs, but you need to make a lot of tweaks to make sure you have enough Beasts, Dragons, and/or Murlocs to trigger him. Other options you could consider could be Gnomish Inventor, Bright-Eyed Scout, or Meanstreet Marshal, but they are a lot weaker options.

3) Can't Deal w/ Aggro: Righteous Protector and Tar Creeper would be my go-to anti-aggro suggestions. They are cheap taunts that scale well with handbuffs. You can also consider the board clear suggestions above.

4) Can't Deal w/ Control: I can't really make suggestions here since it really depends on the type of control you're losing to and why. So I'd need more to go off of. Generally, to beat control you want to either beef up the early game to out pressure them, or beef up the late game so that you can out-value them.

Hopefully that helps.

Between those suggestions I'd go Mind Control Tech. I've run it in the past and it's a very nice tech choice.

Wickerflame Burnbristle is all but essential since it helps against aggro (more lifesteal for corpsetaker) and Tirion Fordring does the same thing for corpsetaker as Righteous Protector, making Righteous Protector pretty useless.

If you're running out of cards then you are playing the deck wrong. Instead of just playing all your minions without handbuffing them, wait until you can either get maximum value out of their effects or until you run out of ways to handbuff them. One key aspect of this deck is Acolyte of Pain since it can draw you 3+ cards depending on how many times you handbuff him (ideally 2 or 3).

Maybe I'm just bad but I only won 1 game in 10 at rank 7-8. I am just getting smorced down by everyone (Hunter, Rogue, Warlock) or outvalued by Control decks (Druid, Priest)

It seems that I'm always in desperate need for a board clear... 

In my opinion it doesn't make sense to run Stampeding Kodo when there is Scorp-o-matic now.

But then you can't use Prince Keleseth since Scorp-o-matic is a 2-drop.

Doppelgangster isn’t good unless he gets hit by your weapon Deathrattle?  I’m calling BS on that.  Summoning even 4/4 bodies for 5 mana can be hard for a lot of classes to answer.  It’s great if it catches your weapon don’t get me wrong, but how can you say it’s not good for handbuff when it is probably one of the best cards for it?

Edit:  I’ll give the deck a try without any changes but I think you might have underestimated Doppelgangster a bit.  Thanks for all the hard work with the guide.

I guess what I said was an oversimplification and Doppelgangster can be a very strong card, but I still more or less stand behind what I said. As 2/2s or 3/3s it's not high enough impact. 4/4s and 5/5s are certainly good against some classes, but against classes with good AoE like Priest, Warlock, and Mage (which for me personally I'm seeing a lot) they still get cleared out and then that's a lot of wasted resources. If you like Doppelgangster by all means put it in and play however you want, but I personally don't like the card.

Deck has been loosing alot at rank 5... GG would maybe advise waiting to see how meta plays out before telling people to craft things. Cool idea though =D 

people just dislike and not even have a comment lol.... Its just to slow, would recommend not crafting but if you have cards give it a try. Just way to slow in the meta atm. 

I don't have Uther and am gettin zero value out of the blackguards. Priests keep taking them from me and clearing my board. I've gone back to running a modified version of Kibler's deck with Scalebanes instead of spikeridged steeds. How would you play this without Blackguards, or better yet how are you getting value out of them? I've been playing this deck with black knight instead of ysera and am stuck at 18...

To be honest, if you don't have Uther of the Ebon Blade then Blackguard isn't worth it. The cards you have to activate Blackguard are Uther of the Ebon Blade, Chillblade Champion, Corpsetaker, and Wickerflame Burnbristle. Uther of the Ebon Blade tends to be the best activator since you take damage when using the weapon so you'll have life to regain to activate the card. You can also leave the Grave Vengeance equipped to then play Blackguard on a later turn, whereas the other lifesteal minions tend not to stay on the board very long. I guess if you really wanted to keep Blackguard then you need to sub in more healing (i.e. Truesilver Champion, Ivory Knight, etc.), but I would just cut them in place of tech cards based on what you are losing to.