Supposedly it's a tier 1 deck, but my winrate with it is lower than tier 3 hunter I played last month. Granted, I played my hunter a lot more and probably pilot it better, and I had to improvise with this pally build to replace cards I didn't have (so it's not the best version of the deck). Here is what my current build looks like: https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1098103-odd-paladin
My winrate with hunter was 54%, my winrate with this deck is around 50%. It seems like everyone is teching against my deck, from running large taunts to board clears. I understand why I get owned by even paladin, their deck is just better (I start more agro, but I'm always just 1 consecrate + call to arms away from falling behind permanently, and once they take out silver sword it's like a mini Level Up every turn for them). What I don't understand is why I get owned so often by other decks, maybe I just suck.
I'll admit that I've only been playing a couple days now, but I seem to be stuck around rank 8.
Here is what I noticed, and my thoughts on this deck:
Marsh Drake isn't as good as it seems on paper, I usually play him around turn 3-5 and sacrifice a 1-1 into the poison. I can't play him when enemy has a taunt up, and often the opponent is able to remove him before I can get a hit in. I'm considering replacing him with Muck Hunter. Frostwolf Warlord is another alternative I'm considering, or even Boisterous Bard, which would allow me to trade with mirror matchups without losing my dudes.
Best versions of this deck all seem to be running Corridor Creepers, which I don't have and I'm not wasting 800 dust on a card that's been nerfed so bad that it can only be played in this one deck anyway. I do see a drop in winrate on HSReplay between decks that run them and those that don't but it's not 10% win rate drop that I'm experiencing.
I don't have Divine Favor but can craft it if needed, although I don't see it as a key card in this deck. I rarely see it played, and my Witch's Cauldron seems more useful, it also has an anti-synergy with Divine Favor.
I did run Azalina Soulthief in earlier versions of the deck, and while I didn't play her much because of the higher cost, I never regretted when I did. Most people see her as a meme, but I've had some nice saves with her, from stealing a warrior's Sulfuras to warlock's Voidlord. She really shines against control decks. The best thing about having her in this deck is that my turn 10 hand is usually trash, while theirs is usually full of the cards they saved for their win condition. I'm considering putting her back in, but since I didn't play her that frequently I'm still on the fence.
I don't have Glacial Shard and unless it's a must-have, I would prefer not to craft situational cards.
I see some variants run Tar Creepers, which seems like a good card worth crafting to me. However, I really like my Stonehill Defenders, they've saved me way too many times by discovering Tarim.
How do you recommend I tweak the deck? Or do you recommend I just leave it alone and play more games? Admittedly it has only been 50 games so far according to HSReplay, so it's possible my winrate will normalize. Looking at the history, most of my losses do seem to be against mirror matchups. Other decks that I find hard to play against are Prince Keleseth decks.
EDIT: Looks like I just had a bad starting streak, sorry for starting this thread, doesn't look like I can delete it. I got off work early today and in a couple hours climbed up to rank 5. Overall win rate is now 56% for this deck for me according to HSReplay. I did make a couple changes to the deck:
replaced Marsh Drake with Boisterous Bard, this allows me more favorable trades in mirror match ups, where most of my losses were coming from (yesterday I was 0-8 vs other paladins, today I seem to be doing better)
replaced MCT with Azalina, MCT was mainly for Keleseth decks and I noticed that overall I could usually keep up simply by trading better because I have more minions. Overall, neither MCT nor Azalina does much in most games, but Azalina did win me a couple games I had no business winning. Just today, I was losing to spiteful druid after he respawned his taunt wall via Hadronox, I decided to grab his hand. At first it seemed useless, but then I played a couple of his Rotten Applebaums, next turn cubed one and destroyed the cube via his Naturalize. I thought I was still in losing position, but he conceded.
Glacial Shard is good because you can use it to slow down your opponent,it may seem useless but it's actually a good card in odd Paladin deck.You can protect your minions with it.
Divine Favor is one of my favorite cards against Warlocks & Priests,for me it's a very important card.
Try this:
### Odd # Class: Paladin # Format: Standard # Year of the Raven # # 2x (1) Acherus Veteran # 2x (1) Argent Squire # 2x (1) Blessing of Might # 2x (1) Dire Mole # 2x (1) Glacial Shard # 2x (1) Lost in the Jungle # 2x (1) Righteous Protector # 2x (3) Divine Favor # 1x (3) Ironbeak Owl # 2x (3) Tar Creeper # 2x (3) Unidentified Maul # 2x (5) Fungalmancer # 2x (5) Level Up! # 2x (7) Stormwind Champion # 2x (7) Vinecleaver # 1x (9) Baku the Mooneater # AAECAYsWAqICnvgCDkanBfEF9QWXwQLKwwKDxwK4xwLjywKVzgLR4QKL5QLW5QK15gIA # # To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
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Supposedly it's a tier 1 deck, but my winrate with it is lower than tier 3 hunter I played last month. Granted, I played my hunter a lot more and probably pilot it better, and I had to improvise with this pally build to replace cards I didn't have (so it's not the best version of the deck). Here is what my current build looks like: https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1098103-odd-paladin
My winrate with hunter was 54%, my winrate with this deck is around 50%. It seems like everyone is teching against my deck, from running large taunts to board clears. I understand why I get owned by even paladin, their deck is just better (I start more agro, but I'm always just 1 consecrate + call to arms away from falling behind permanently, and once they take out silver sword it's like a mini Level Up every turn for them). What I don't understand is why I get owned so often by other decks, maybe I just suck.
I'll admit that I've only been playing a couple days now, but I seem to be stuck around rank 8.
Here is what I noticed, and my thoughts on this deck:
How do you recommend I tweak the deck? Or do you recommend I just leave it alone and play more games? Admittedly it has only been 50 games so far according to HSReplay, so it's possible my winrate will normalize. Looking at the history, most of my losses do seem to be against mirror matchups. Other decks that I find hard to play against are Prince Keleseth decks.
EDIT: Looks like I just had a bad starting streak, sorry for starting this thread, doesn't look like I can delete it. I got off work early today and in a couple hours climbed up to rank 5. Overall win rate is now 56% for this deck for me according to HSReplay. I did make a couple changes to the deck:
Glacial Shard is good because you can use it to slow down your opponent,it may seem useless but it's actually a good card in odd Paladin deck.You can protect your minions with it.
Divine Favor is one of my favorite cards against Warlocks & Priests,for me it's a very important card.
Try this:
### Odd
# Class: Paladin
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raven
#
# 2x (1) Acherus Veteran
# 2x (1) Argent Squire
# 2x (1) Blessing of Might
# 2x (1) Dire Mole
# 2x (1) Glacial Shard
# 2x (1) Lost in the Jungle
# 2x (1) Righteous Protector
# 2x (3) Divine Favor
# 1x (3) Ironbeak Owl
# 2x (3) Tar Creeper
# 2x (3) Unidentified Maul
# 2x (5) Fungalmancer
# 2x (5) Level Up!
# 2x (7) Stormwind Champion
# 2x (7) Vinecleaver
# 1x (9) Baku the Mooneater
#
AAECAYsWAqICnvgCDkanBfEF9QWXwQLKwwKDxwK4xwLjywKVzgLR4QKL5QLW5QK15gIA
#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone