Strife's Legend Paladin
- Last updated Jun 22, 2015 (Blackrock Launch)
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Wild
- 22 Minions
- 6 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 10640
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 6/16/2015 (Blackrock Launch)
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Hello!
This is the deck that I used to get Legend this season. It is also the deck with my highest win ratio in my history of playing Hearthstone. Getting to Legend this season only took me 9 LOSSES.
If this get lots of views, or if some people request a detailed guide on how to use this deck in certain situations, I will fix that!
Proof of Legend: http://puu.sh/hxxQD/f7cf0c2522.jpg
UPDATE MULLIGAN GUIDE
Since many requests about a mulligan guide has come in, I will very briefly go over the mulligan you want against the most common classes and decks you are going to face.
Hunter
You generally want to have Zombie Chow, Shielded Minibot, Knife Juggler and Muster for Battle in your hand. However, if you get two of these and a Antique Healbot or Consecreation, it is viable to keep them. Keep in mind that you can only keep these high cost cards if you are certain that you have a strong early game.
Rogue
Shielded Minibot, Zombie Chow and Truesilver Champion are great early cards in this matchup. If you go second it might be worth saving coin for Truesilver Champion so you can easily remove your opponent's SI-7 Agent. Keep in mind that Knife Juggler is a high risk card vs Rogue since both Backstab and SI-7 Agent will punish you hard.
Patron
Here you want to push for damage and really dominate the board until turn 7/8/9 when your opponent does his combo. Therefore, you want sticky minions, such as Shielded Minibot. Knife Juggler is also a good card, but can be easily removed by weapon. Remember to use your Harrison to proc your opponent's Death's Bite when you want, not when he wants it to. Piloted Shredder is also a good card in this matchup. I would not recommend to keep Muster for Battle since it is very easily removed and can bring alot of value to your opponent.
Mirror
Since most of Paladin's early cards have 2 health or less, it is very recommended to keep a Consecreation. Since it very effectively deals with your opponent's board including Muster for Battle. Otherwise, it is recommended to once again keep, Zombie Chow, Knife Juggler, Shielded Minibot and Muster for Battle. Knife Juggler might be better of to be saved until you know it can survive, or when you can combo it with other minions.
Control Warrior
Just push that damage, with all strong early minions. Once again, Zombie Chow, Shielded Minibot, Knife Juggler and Piloted Shredder. Truesilver Champion is a very good clear for both Acolyte of Pain and Armorsmith. Harrison Jones might also be worth keeping your other cards are early cards.
DRUID
You want cards that can deal with their strong creatures, since they are often ahead of mana or could innervate something out. Therefore Aldor Peacekeeper, is a very good card to keep. Otherwise you want strong early minions, such as (ONCE AGAIN) Zombie Chow, Knife Juggler and Shielded Minibot.
I might add more decks/classes later if people feel like something is missing! Good luck to you all!
UPDATE
There have been alot of questions about substitutions for certain Legendaries. Therefore, I will now go through all legendaries in the deck.
Unreplaceable:
Tirion Fordring
Dr. Boom
Replaceable:
Harrison Jones
Sylvanas Windrunner
The Black Knight
For all of these three legendaries, you can replace them with Loatheb, Emperor or in worst case, Azure Drake.
MATCHUPS
Good Matchups:
Tempo Mage
Control Warrior
Demonlock
Dragonlock
Shaman
Neutral Matchups:
Rogue
Hunter
Zoo
Handlock
Druid
Priest
Bad Matchups:
Grim Patron Warrior
Most midrange decks are like that, they won't always work for everybody(but they do work for most ppl) due to that draw factor especially in aggro matchups which i presume is what you are having trouble with. You should either keep playing and hope your luck will even out or maybe try some variants which run stuff like seal of light, guardian of kings etc, where having a super strong early game vs aggro is not as important.
The saddest story I've heard today, so sorry man :D
Amazing how often that happens, huh? Same thing for me when I crafted Boom, next pack has Boom in it. Me: "REALLY?"
well, i'm glad to know that i'm not the only one who got rekt by packs
I crafted Sylvanas, then, i opened up a pack with her. Damn RNGesus
My story was a lot luckier. Needed 400 dust to craft The Black Knight, in the pack I got King Krush. Decided no to dust him, and just do the arena to maybe get something different to dissenchant. Played the arena, got 100 gold, purchased classic pack and got another King Krush:D 400 dust for free;)
I have pulled no less than ten Malygos, 4 golden and six regular.
I mean, I don't hate getting dust, but damn.
So I tweaked the deck a bit to better counter the EU meta (around 8 rank). Here are some descriptions about that is different from strife's list
2x Equality - because fuck Grim Patron warrior.
Just 1 Muster for Battle - because fuck Unleash the Hounds. Consequently, just 1 Knife Juggler.
Avenging Wrath - I like this card. Sometimes it's a finisher, sometimes a last resort board clear (with Equality).
Acidic Swamp Ooze instead of Harrison Jones - well I don't have Harrison, nor do I wish to craft him. I think 5 mana weapon removal is too slow. But you have to remove weapons nowadays, I don't need to exlpain why.
Mad Bomber - that's kinda experimental, but sometimes it swings early game tempo big time killing Worgen Infiltrator, Leper Gnome and even Shade of Naxxramas.
No The Black Knight - I like him, but there are way too many facehunters now, and I don't see any handlocks. And Loatheb is always a good turn 5 play.
Thanks for the reply man. You are right, I indeed value Equality a lot, though against hunters it's often a dead card, but so far this works for me. The only constant is change, so I will further tweak the deck to my liking.
I literally had a very similar experience. Thank you for this deck.
Rank two now with this deck loving it. It is so good against all the aggro decks out there, and it outpaces many of the control decks.
Rank one now so hyped.
I don't have harrison and tbk, what cards can replace them?
Harrison is actually an extremely valuable card in the patron meta. So replacing him is difficult. Loatheb is best bet.
TBK is easily replaced with something like Emperor .
Thanks for sharing this deck bud!!! I'm using a "low budget" version (Replaced Sylvanas and Tirion) but the deck is still working very well, i'm at 10 atm but i'm sure i can climb up to 5...
Tirion is actually pretty much critical in this decks mid-late game play. Its an almost impossibly sticky big. I would even almost put his value in this deck dead even if not slightly above Boom.
I Replaced Tirion with Sunwalker (as i said low budget) hahahah
I personally just built this deck with 2 equalities and -1 faceless manipulator with some of the legendary subs. After a handfull of games I surely didnt miss the Manipulator but the equalities never really proved to be extremely valuable either.
I will say however this deck absolutely owns face hunters and man does that feel good!
In hunter matchups Muster for Battle has screwed me a lot of times, giving the oppenent good Unleash the Hounds...
Loving this deck! Been stuck at rank 12 all month but went on a crazy win streak to rank 5 today! Trick is to trade smart and stay on curve.
I love this deck, but can I get some advice on how to face off against Warlocks, specifically the new Malygos hotness?