Odemian : Number 2 EU Rafaam+Reno Paladin (cred...
- Last updated Dec 14, 2015 (Explorers)
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Wild
- 24 Minions
- 4 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 7240
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 12/14/2015 (Explorers)
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Hey there! I'm Odemian a french pro-player from team Millenium.
I was having a bit of a hard time climbing ladder this season , so I decided to try some whacky stuff with the new LOE cards. It turned out Rafaam was actually not that bad, especially in paladin, which massively lacks burst damage. So I just stuck him in Lifecoach's Highlander Paladin, made a couple of other changes, and voilà!
I got to Legend [2] with the deck on the day of its creation (today :D) and I have to say that Rafaam MASSIVELY carried a couple of games where I felt pretty screwed. The deck behaves superbly well in almost all matchups, and Reno is incredibly OP versus all aggro and midrange decks.
I must repeat that most of the credit for this deck goes to Lifecoach, but I just thought it would be cool to share with you guys a deck where Rafaam actually works. I'll probably be writing a full guide to this deck at some point, but for the moment just try it out, and enjoy ;)
I will have to say, played about 20+ games with this deck and loss about 4. even battled a few friends that are much more experienced with card games and this one and beat them.
deck doesn't have burst, but has very good survivability and control.
I don't have Sylvanas Windrunner and Tirion Fordring, so I use Faceless Manipulator for copy legendaries and Ysera as really good lategame card.
Any replacements for Sylvanas guys?
if you ever come up against priest, Wobbling Runts will be a pretty bad card. Try Guardian of Kings or another high power six drop similar to Sky Golem. Wobbling Runts' low attack makes him somewhat situational and even bad when you need to deal with another high health minion.
Love the tension with this deck, finally (I'm a catching-up player) I get to play a good control deck in ranked play! Finally! (I don't have very good Priest cards yet, can't afford Control Warrior or Freeze Mage.)
Control is a different world, and I'm best suited to it. Early decisions really matter (as they all do), don't try to survive completely intact, let your opponent peel some face off of you. Most interesting play, every game is quite different so far. Thanks!
If Blizzard hadn't messed up their sign-ins for their accounts - Security question: "What was your second pet's third skin disease and on what day of the week did in finally clear up?" "Uhh... say what? That was like years ago, that account, wtf??" - I would have been playing from the Beta.
This deckis insane... justicar never ever heals. rafaam seems useless, when i have mana to use the spell its not game changing cause ive won already, when i need it its useless again cause most of the time my health is like 10 in 10th turn and opponent's is 30.
I never have board control
Druids wreck me
Locks destroy me
Hunters eat me alive
10+ games 1 win
U might say i suck and that might be true but honestly im constantly a rank 5 player with pala And i really cant get this deck to work
I mean no offence , im just alittle frustrated cause its tiring to chain lose
Keep it up though and merry christmass!!
I meant to say jouster not justicar , also its impossible to win any priest
I've used Jouster 4 times this evening, and it hasn't healed me once. T.T
In general, though, the deck is doing wonders for me! :D
I think winrate of this deck is about 55% or so, but I make some missplays, so for me it's around 45.
Btw, changed Piloted Sky Golem into Kezan
Do you think it's possible for this dude to get to legend with 55% win rate? That seems odd. That, and the number of upvotes on this deck in case you're right.
This deck gets eat alive by the aggro shamans inhabiting the ladder. Even if do get reno. Not enough card draw and just too slow for the meta.
I won 8 wins straik with this deck from rank 9 into rank 5 without any lose
Thats fantastic!!
Lost all games I played with this deck at Rank 7
I don't have Sylvannas nor Tirion. So, I use Justicar and Quartermaster. The deck got me a rank immediately with 3 wins in a row from rank 10 to 9. It's a very solid deck!
rafaam was a win more kind of card in most of my matchups (approx 15 games, and i encountered like 3 which i easily crashed with tempo mage). best artifact he can give a paladin is the 10 burst damage (chance to come back if losing or finish the game if struggling) since paladin lack burst (except for anyfin, but thats a completely different deckstyle)
i like the idea of using justicar instead backed by a quartermaster. you got my upvote
In the end I think it's a fun deck and an ok one. Though I'm not sure I'd consider it strong deck. You are just too helpless in the early game and have little card draw to help you out. If RNG isn't really strong, you just can't catch up to get to the late game. There's no doubt that a lack of skill as well is at work, but I'm not sure how much of that.
After spending many hours just going about even if not losing a bit more than winning at rank 11 (currently on the way to slipping into rank 13....make that 14) ...I'm not sure I'll get through that wall with this one. Be it Secret Paladin or really anyone, it's not going well.
Interesting deck, but not sure how it's ended up so popular. Some fun finishing potential, but in order to make Reno functional I feel that it's too thin.
I'm sure the downvotes will rain down, but just how I feel after going with it for a few days.
I agree with you, deck seems to lack card draw, and would fall behind in control matchups... too dependent on RNG from drawing one card a turn until turn 8 when you, MAYBE, can use lay on hands...
Great deck I have about 75% winratio so far, I just started to consider to add the Brann Broznebread. What do you think about it? Coghammer and many others battlecries may work really good. What could I replace?
Nah, not enough synergy. You pretty much only get boom and cog, MCT and tuskar. Rafaam is too costly as bran has to live a turn.