[Rank 5] Return to Sender
- Last updated Dec 28, 2016 (Gadgetzan)
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Wild
- 20 Minions
- 8 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: N'Zoth Paladin
- Crafting Cost: 13140
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 12/26/2016 (Gadgetzan)
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Battle Tag:
"For Honor"!
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
31
Welcome to the Redemption Pally!
Do you like tough matches and want to kick some meta ass? Play on! This deck works pretty good vs the current meta, but most importantly is fun to play with! I hit rank 5 pretty easy this season. And it is my highest rank yet, sooo, thank you Gadzetan :)
History
This deck started way back in the days of... beta, with the idea to make redemption work. It didn't work that smooth to be honest, but that was because there was some crazy meta going on. The last two years this deck is the only deck I play in one form or the other. It was pretty tough at start, but since N'zoth came along, the deathrattle value has increased immensely. And with the Forbidden Healing and the Lightlord a way back to the light opened up. With the newest expansion we finally have a worthy 3 drop: Mr. Burnbristle. Also de bruiser is a nice taunt and 5-drop. And with Don Han'Cho we have some funky 7-drop that can give you much value.
So here we are, at the high time of this deck, ready to take over.
The basis
Redemption is the core of this deck. Divine shield, taunt and deathrattle are the dream to combo with redemption. Tirion, infested taurens and sunwalkers hold the line
How to play in a nutshell
With many taunts and redemption value, life is a resource you have to abuse till you can stabilize. At the start, turn 1 redemption, turn 2 Loot Hoarder is a classic move to get some easy value.
You have some nasty clear at your disposal with equality, consecration and pyromancer.
Aldor peacekeeper to make that 7/7 4-drop into a overloaded sucker.
Truesilvers for sniping totem golems, frothing beserkers. Or go face to heal up and get some pressure going
Infested Taurens can grow into a menace. They slice of health of bigger minions for that easy consecration. And when not dealt with, stack your board protected by taunts
Bad match ups:
Double Entomb priest can be a nightmare. They suck you dry untill you have nothing left.
Rogue I have some trouble with too. They seem to get this pressure going and a righly timed sap can leave you open for that finishing blow.
Some control decks outvalue u on the long run, but I dont see them around any more. And even then, This deck goes the wire.
How to play aggro warriors/shamans/ etc
It is vital to try and keep some part of the removal mechanic in your hand. Cheap taunts do well. Remember that going low on health is the way to go. Then you taunt up, heal up and well, an empty handed warrior cant do really much, but to concede
Tech choices/ mix it up
I think there is room for some alternate ways to fill in this deck. Like Don Han'CHo, or some other 5-drop. The ooze can be switched i guess. Also I play this deck with Holy Wrath lately, to bring in some more fun, and it works well to remove 4- health minions... mostly
The Dirty rat is still under review. It can be very powerfull, but lately it gave my opponent more power so I put in the Misstress of Mixtures recently.
Just whatever you do, don't touch the redemptions!
Conclusion
If you like playing Paladin and want to face the current meta, I recommend you this deck. It's fun, it's tough, it's out of the meta and when you N'zoth 3 Tirions, you'll know what i mean :)
If you have any suggestions or ideas or comments, I would appreciate it greatly since this is my first post too :)
Put your faith in the light. Truth is your shield and justice shall prevail. Light em up! For justice!
Really nice and fun deck. I went down to 19 at beginning of season and am climbing with this. Running into a lot of pirate decks and destroying them.
I don't have the 3-drop legendary paladin, and I think the Dirty Rat is a bit odd here, so what about replace them for 2 Doomsayer for more early control? Deck looks good. Will test it soon :)
Thanks for the feedback. The Dirty Rat is indeed somewhat weird. I used it vs early aggro but it slapped me back in the face a bit too many times :) I changed it with Mistress of Mixtures for some early heal.
A doomsayer I ran too, but it got benched cause I thought it was a bit too passive and I am not really good with it too :)
Good luck testing it!
Got rank 5 this month with a more standard N'Zoth Pally, but this is more fun! Still searching for Wickerflame Burnbristle and don't have Cairne, so put in Mistress of Mixtures and Psych-o-Tron for now, great deck!
Looking good! The Mistress of Mixtures is a good find. I am playing with it now instead of the Dirty Rat, cause the rat backfired a bit too much, but maybe i play it too optimisticaly :)
I don't like the [card]Psych-o-Tron[/card] though. It is a 5-drop, which I am always looking for in this deck aswell as good 3-drops, but I guess I dont like the stats that much. It's just... not the Annoy-o-Tron :D
Good to hear that there are still Paladin's out there ;) Thanks for the response. I have a friend who also didn't have all the cards, and we ended up with crafting Tirion (which is a pretty cool card!!), and get some budget versions of other cards which had the same idea. Lightlord + Forbidden healing -> guardian of kings+lay on hands, no Don Han'Cho, an extra bruiser instead of Wickerflame, like that.
:D I tried the Getawaykodo at the start of the Gadgetzan, but everytime I had it, I wished I had the redemption :P. In my opinion, especially vs aggro you simply dont have the time to re-cast minions and you have to rely more on the value and tempo of redemption. Also the getaway kodo has more value when you have battlecry minions, where redemption loves deathrattle. So i ended up scrapping it in this deck. If you want to put it in, you could try and fit in Barnes aswell.
Good luck and have fun!