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Switched some things out and had one of my best games against a taunt druid who was trying to do the same with Undatakah. In the end Uther won me the game. Here is the replay if you are interested:  https://hsreplay.net/replay/m9eGLUaE9qchpywGx89FxL

What an epic game man, congrats on winning it. You made Val'anyr look like a core card there in the long grindy matchups, I might consider crafting it even though its rotating out in a few months.

Yeah in a lot of matchups it's just to greedy/slow, but in control games its so much value and normally a must silence for the opponent. You can gain so much value out of it and with prelates you don't run out of minions in your hand and always have a minion to buff. Definitely a really satisfying card if you can make it work. 

Someone please explain to me how in the hell the Plated Beetle's armour is meant to stack? If Undertakah only gets 2 prelates and a beetle, the interactions will only yield 3 armour and a shuffle with potentially a Ridge taunt upon death?

What am I missing here? I do not see how you can stack armour with the beetles since they are not recursive by nature.

The trick is that the immortal prelate keeps ANY enchantment, including previous deatrattles the undatakah has gained as a part of his battlecry. This means that when you are playing it every turn you gain all the previous battlecries deathrattles (from every time you have played him before this game) and 3 additional deathrattles on top. While this rarely matters in this meta it gives you a significant source (one game I had somewhere between 30 and 40 armour gained each time he died) of life gain that I can struggle to put in the deck in any other way. Shirvalla is nice burst heal but not enough often against other control decks.

Thanks for the response.

I am not sure what you mean by the prelate keeping any buffs. I've had many games where they were buffed via ridge, kings and bells etc. but they do not produce armour and the undatakah gains their deathrattle (after they've died) but he only seems to shuffle himself without having any of the other buffs? This is the interaction I am confused about. Does he need to die twice before he starts getting himself as a deathrattle or what is the trick to getting him to stack these buffs because I've never managed to get more than 3 armour and a shuffle out of him despite him copying buffed prelates with ridge etc. so I am not sure where I am going wrong.

Yeah there is actually some sort of weirdness going on with the second and only the second time you play the undatakah (as far as I can tell, need more testing). In my experience it's a bit buggy and you don't get all the deathrattles the second time but after that it works perfectly. I submitted a bug report to blizzard about it a week or so ago.

The second part of your question is a small misunderstanding. He does not keep the buffs from other prelates, rather becomes a larger prelate with additional deathrattles and the ability to gain more deathrattles and retain his own buffs going on. Every additional prelate deathrattle after the first he gains is a waste. I will update this deck with a slightly different version I now prefer, it has a couple of extra deathrattles for more value through undatakah.

Very rough deck to play with after rank 5. Deathrattle Hunters and OTK Priests will walk all over you while you try to get the cards you need. 

Absolutely agreed, there a ton of basically impossible matchups, especially basically every form of priest (well basically psychic scream is dominant vs this strategy). Deathrattle hunter is tricky if they draw really well, but with good planning I have about 40% win rate vs it. That deck is just insane vs any form of control right now anyway.

The worst is when they randomly have 2 spellbreakers in their deck, discover one from a random stitched tracker and get two with DK hero power. Still salty about that, I managed to bait out the first two then basically went all in.

I'm basically treading water at rank 4/5 playing it. I think there are highly polarised matchups but at least aggro seems pretty much fine with average draws.

Can it find some place for Zola? It works really good with Tiger. True comeback

You could cut elek for it, its so rare that elek actually works out anyway it's almost not worth bothering with and replacing with a better card. Zola could well be better than it. Just remember it won't copy buffs from prelates or the Undatakah so the only really good targets will be Lynessa and shirvalla. This iteration suffers from a lack of card draw in longer games so improving that is probably a better strategy than zola, although a well buffed lynessa works as card draw too.

what cards to replace Crystalsmith Kangor  and Shirvallah, the Tiger

I would say righteous protectors would fill a similar role but you also need the cards in hand, so probably one acolyte of pain and one righteous protector. I think Shirvallah is really good though and you will suffer from not having it quite a bit. Kangor is really good in any aggro/face matchup, it often heals you for at least 4 and makes them waste damage on killing it.

The deck needs some optimising overall so try some stuff out. The only truly core cards to the idea are the buffs, immortal prelates, plated beetles and the undahtakah. The board clears and standard control tools are core to control paladin but there are other ways to build it.

Zilliax fits in all decks. And Stonehill Defender is always good in Paladin.

I don’t have lynessa-sunsorrow or uther-of-the-ebon-blade. Recommendation for them?

I believe I have to craft call-to-arms. I think those cards are essential, no?

I'll give you a different version I've been working on which doesn't run CtA, not sure if it is better really, the CtA tempo swing in the late game is insane. Lynessa is more important than Uther but replacing them with draw would be fine.

Try this:

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I ended up making this deck(I didn't have Crystalsmith Kangor):

### Control Paladin
# Class: Paladin
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raven
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# 2x (2) Crystology
# 2x (2) Equality
# 2x (2) Flash of Light
# 2x (2) Immortal Prelate
# 2x (2) Plated Beetle
# 2x (2) Sound the Bells!
# 2x (2) Wild Pyromancer
# 2x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 2x (4) Consecration
# 2x (4) Defender of Argus
# 2x (4) Truesilver Champion
# 1x (5) Mechano-Egg
# 1x (5) Rotten Applebaum
# 1x (5) Zilliax
# 2x (6) Spikeridged Steed
# 1x (6) Sunkeeper Tarim
# 1x (8) Da Undatakah
# 1x (25) Shirvallah, the Tiger
#
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#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

So what happens when they both get silenced? ggwp ?

Ha yeah basically, most odd warriors don't run it right now and aggro that does run silence doesn't really need the extra value. If you think they are running silence you can try and duplicate your prelates with elek to give a better chance at some sort of infinite value.