HANDLOCK DOESN'T MATTER - NEW GIANT PALADIN
- Last updated Mar 10, 2016 (Explorers)
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Wild
- 20 Minions
- 8 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 8640
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 3/8/2016 (Explorers)
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Battle Tag:
BoomX9#2619
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
365
Hello guys, I'm BoomX9, 12 times legend player, you might know me from my murloc warlock deck I posted a while ago. This is my new deck - giant paladin.
Let's talk about the card choices:
Equality - One of the most efficient removal cards in the whole game, especially when used with pyromancer or consecration.
Holy Light - As you can probably see the deck is really slow, so you need as much cheap healing as you can fit, also it activates pyromancer's effect, which is a really important in aggro match-ups
Sunfury Protector - Twilight Drake, Mountain Giant, Molten Giant - Perfect minions to taunt up, this card can win you more games than any other card in this deck.
Wild Pyromancer - Clears whole board in combination with Equality. Turns out 4 mana twisting nether is pretty good.
Aldor Peacekeeper - As it rurns out Dr. Boom is in every deck.
Big game hunter - Did i mention Dr. Boom?
Truesilver Champion - 8 damage, 4 Health, can kill 2 minions. Also let's you not fall behind that much.
Consecration - With that many paladins 2 mana AoE is really good, also works great with equality.
Keeper of Uldaman - Helps you remove stuff, sometimes you can buff one of your tokens to trade favorably. Not good enough to play 2.
Twilight Drake - You are not going to play anything before turn 3 anyway, so it's huge.
Antique Healbot - 8 more health.
Sylvanas Windrunner - Just a great value card overall, makes your opponent play inefficiently.
Guardian of Kings - 12 more health, just relax, they're not going to kill you.
Lay on Hands - And 16 more health, at this point you can feel like a heroic adventure boss. Also it makes you draw cards, so it's really good.
Ragnaros, the Firelord - Really big minion, opponent has to kill it, also a good card to finish your opponent.
Alexstrasza - So yeah... if you for some reason are out of healing, here is some more + You can kill your opponent in one turn with alexstrasza and a few big minions.
Mountain Giant - You are playing very slowly, so Mountain Giant is often really cheap.
Molten Giant - Well what can I say? Molten giant has a perfect synergy with alexstrasza, holy light, healbot, guardian of kings and lay on hands. Play it, taunt it, heal yourself... Yeah, it's not bad.I will make a full guide + mulligans if this deck hits 30 upvotes.And here is the guide.
So let's start with a mulligan guide:
Mulligans are pretty simple when it comes to this deck - you want to keep Aldor Peacekeeper, Twilight Drake and Truesilver Champion in every match up, also if you are playing against an aggresive deck you may consider keeping Wild Pyromancer, Holy Light, and in very specific match ups (that being patron warrior for example) you want to have an equality and Wild Pyromancer and/or Consecration in your starting hand.
Gameplan:
You need to remember, that you aren't the aggresor. Your gameplan is very passive. You are almost never the one applying the pressure, so you need to think a few turns ahead.
Some of you may wonder why do you always keep twilight drake - you do it because you dont have anything that you want to play before turn 4, so drake is a really big threat. Also you shouldn't be too greedy with how you use your equality, if you have to use it to trade favorably, just do it, you don't have to wait until you see some huge minions on the other side of the board, because that can lose you the game. Use your healing whenever you get value off of it - you run so much of it. Also some people say that they are losing against freeze mage - i disagree with that - dont try to be aggresive, just play slowly, sometimes even to the fatigue and outheal them, save your equality/cons for antonidas and emperor, as these are the biggest threats in this match up.
You're kidding right?
nah hes not kidding, the real question is are you kidding? Do you know what an aggro shaman is?
Do you?
very fun, very bad
Very cool deck, but it's not really new. I played a deck very similar to this with Holy Wrath back when Kripp made a video about it (anywhere from 6-12 months ago, you can look up the Holy Wrath Kripp video). I'm mostly just impressed that people are apparently glad to try something different and cool like this rather than the 18th iteration of Mysterious Challenger decks. Good on you folks!
No fun without a 20 dmg Holy Wrath.
Thanks, man!
Played 10 games and won 9.
One of the niciest decks I've played.
I added Holy Wrath as mentioned by Elkeb and it works GREAT!
what did u replace to use holy wrath?
looks like the old molten man deck from months ago. still, it's good to see the 8/8s in paladin
I have only two words: Holy Wrath
I hate you lol jk! The reason why i say that is cause this deck looks so fun that i need to delete a deck just to try it!!! very good looking list!!
Thanks for being different. Winning deck is great but finally nice to see something on the main boards that is not the same rehashed deck or concept as every other season.
How do I play the mountain giants? It seems counter intuitive since paladin doesnt have life tap. I probably change the mountains to finley and brann considering the battlecrys and the possible lifetap, heals and armor up. Anw innovative idea
What about Sir Finley Mrrgglton will be good if you change your hero power to lifetap or fireblast !
This is a really nice deck and I think it has a great use for countering aggro meta. Unfortunately I've been facing mostly other control decks, tempo decks or freeze decks and I took a royal beating time and time again so for now I'm giving up on it. I think this deck will have some awesome potential once the new modes take and effect and so many of the current "auto includes" are banned from standard play. Overall I give this a thumbs up though for innovation. Thanks.
Would be a super sweet opportunity to drop a link to your counter secret paladin deck. Like you have a cure for cancer but don't want to share with the world. SHARE WITH THE WORLD. SAVE A CHILD TODAY!
Midrange Hunter with 2 Flares?
Legend
Deck sucks went from rank 9 - 10.
Rofl this guy