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Pure Dragon Paladin

  • Last updated Jan 29, 2021 (Darkmoon Races)
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  • 15 Minions
  • 14 Spells
  • 1 Weapon
  • Deck Type: Ranked Deck
  • Deck Archetype: No Neutral Paladin
  • Crafting Cost: 8460
  • Dust Needed: Loading Collection
  • Created: 1/29/2021 (Darkmoon Races)
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  • S0lus
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  • Battle Tag:

    Solus

  • Region:

    US

  • Total Deck Rating

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This is my attempt to make Kibler senpai notice me.

Gameplan is pretty straight forward, play stuff on curve, discount your librams, cheat out big stuff, and being pure pally play broken cards like High Exarch Yrel and also sort of Lightforged Zealot I guess maybe.

Things get a little different with the dragons. The idea is to take advantage of the new card Rally! to get multiple copies of Dragonrider Talritha and/or Bronze Herald to continuously drop threats turn after turn. Rally also gives us additional Redscale Dragontamers, which will draw the rest of our dragon package so we never run out of fuel or Talritha targets.

In an ideal world, Rally and Gift of Luminance are giving between 2-4 Talritha buffs recurring over and over, ala old school Val'nyr paladin. 

Possible answers to possible questions:

Q: Why play Pure paladin if you're not going to run  Lightforged Crusader?

A: Honestly I didn't plan on making this pure paladin, I was looking for 2 last cards to add when I realized I had no neutrals, so I cut the swords for the zealots and added Yrel, most of the value is intended to come from endless dragons, but feel free to add the crusader, I'd probably cut Liadran for it, since she's really only there for more copies of Libram of Hope and value refueling.

Q: Why only 1 Libram of Wisdom?

A: The original iteration of this deck didn't run any, and ran 2 Gift of Luminance. I tried 2 of one, 2 of the other, and 1 and 1. So far the 1 and 1 feels the best, since the libram gives luminance more flexibility, and I generally felt like 2 luminances could get clunky, while I often only had 2 or 3 minions in play and so was getting minimal value out of the libram. But Talritha into libram, then copying the Talritha is a pretty feels-good play until she gets evolved/devolved/sapped/silenced.

Q: But what if Dragonrider Talritha gets evolved/devolved/sapped/silenced?

A: Bottom right bro. But no seriously, pretty much the same thing that happens when a normal pure paladin has their buffed minions get silenced or transformed, you play more stuff. Rally! gives a surprising amount of recovery. I managed to outvalue a rez priest through 2 plague of deaths, a discovered silence, and both of their mass resurrections. Paladin just kind of gets there sometimes.