Okay i played a lot of games today. The deck is quite strong, i removed holy wrath for that lifestealbuff btw. You farm rogue's like crazy, but you struggle against warrior, the main force atm. I am currently on rank 3 with a standing of 25-15.
It suprised me, how good this deck actually performes.
problem with warrior is that they started playing some new lists with Harrison Jones / Oozes / Archivist Elysiana which makes it difficult to outgrind them. most of my games vs warrior go to fatigue and knowing when to play Archivist Elysiana / Duel! is very important. I playtest atm a different list, which has 100% vs warrior on rank4 but i only played 3 warriors so far. It works a little bit different than my original list but feels even more powerful.
Your guys were right about Oondasta and I also listened to the advice with mechs + kangors endless army which helps vs warrior too, because we can know refill the board.
i also think this list does even more things vs midrage/aggro because all minions have taunt or rush (except Archivist Elysiana) compared to my original list with Ysera/Big Bad Archmage/Archivist who sometimes do nothing to stop a big threat. taunt/rush/oondasta make the deck much more consistent during critical phases.
due to the recent swift in the meta ( less warriors, more rogues / token druid, hunter , zoolock ) I had to make some changes and reinclude Concecration to deal with tokens / Lackey spread. Archivist Elysiana is not needed anymore because there are hardly any control decks around who can become dangerous for us. we just overrun everything with big minions + clear the board with conceration / Batterhead or weapons.
atm playing at rank2 ( 18-7 , 72% wr)
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updated decklist v 1.0: AAECAZ8FCvoGognA/QKggAO9hgPshgObigPWmQOKmgOGnQMKjAHPBtYG/PwC2IwD+ZMDkJoDtJsDhpwDg6ADAA==
i feel the 2x batterhead are too much and i woudl add second flash of light. 2x redemtion also too much ?
In my opinion 2x Batterhead, Tirion and Shirvallah are the core set of minions, the rest is flavor/meta depending. Batterhead kills 99% of all rouge/token/zoolock minions which are 75% of my meta. 2x redemption are not necesarry but there are hardly good 1 drop spells atm for paladin and we need secrets + cheap spells for mysterious blade / prismatic lens and redmeption works rly great with Zilliax/Tirion vs aggro/midrange. 1x Redemption + 1x hidden wisdom will work as well if you face many aggro decks who play 3+ cards during a turn
I would definitely run 2x Tunnel Blaster as they are great against aggro and can be summoned easily after using Prismatic lens and can be brought back with redemption for extra fun.
I run two in my Big Paladin and they have saved me countless times against Murloc Shaman, Token Druid, and other swarm decks. It’s awesome.
tunnel blaster is for sure a good sideboard card. i am atm 32-16 @ rank 600 legend with my latest version and hardly face aggro/token/swarm decks. 2 consec + weapons do the job for me but if you face more aggressive metas go for anti aggro cards just like tunnel blaster or witchwood grizzly :)
problem with warrior is that they started playing some new lists with Harrison Jones / Oozes / Archivist Elysiana which makes it difficult to outgrind them. most of my games vs warrior go to fatigue and knowing when to play Archivist Elysiana / Duel! is very important. I playtest atm a different list, which has 100% vs warrior on rank4 but i only played 3 warriors so far. It works a little bit different than my original list but feels even more powerful.
Your guys were right about Oondasta and I also listened to the advice with mechs + kangors endless army which helps vs warrior too, because we can know refill the board.
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# 2x (1) Desperate Measures
# 2x (1) Redemption
# 2x (2) Flash of Light
# 1x (2) Lightforged Blessing
# 2x (2) Mysterious Blade
# 2x (3) Call to Adventure
# 1x (4) Archmage Vargoth
# 2x (4) Prismatic Lens
# 2x (4) Truesilver Champion
# 2x (5) Duel!
# 1x (5) Zilliax
# 2x (6) Damaged Stegotron
# 2x (7) Amani War Bear
# 1x (7) Kangor's Endless Army
# 1x (8) Archivist Elysiana
# 2x (8) Batterhead
# 1x (8) Tirion Fordring
# 1x (9) Oondasta
# 1x (25) Shirvallah, the Tiger
i also think this list does even more things vs midrage/aggro because all minions have taunt or rush (except Archivist Elysiana) compared to my original list with Ysera/Big Bad Archmage/Archivist who sometimes do nothing to stop a big threat. taunt/rush/oondasta make the deck much more consistent during critical phases.
Updated decklist + some explainations why + some replays from my latest games @ rank3 ranked (8-1)
Here's a mech version I'm currently trying, wargears to buff other mechs.
due to the recent swift in the meta ( less warriors, more rogues / token druid, hunter , zoolock ) I had to make some changes and reinclude Concecration to deal with tokens / Lackey spread. Archivist Elysiana is not needed anymore because there are hardly any control decks around who can become dangerous for us. we just overrun everything with big minions + clear the board with conceration / Batterhead or weapons.
atm playing at rank2 ( 18-7 , 72% wr)
original decklist:
AAECAZ8FCPoGogmggAO9hgPWmQOKmgOGnQODoAMLjAHcA88G/PwCz4YD7IYD+ZMDxJkDkJoDtJsDhpwDAA==
updated decklist v 1.0:
AAECAZ8FCvoGognA/QKggAO9hgPshgObigPWmQOKmgOGnQMKjAHPBtYG/PwC2IwD+ZMDkJoDtJsDhpwDg6ADAA==
updated decklist v 2.0: ( current version)
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i feel the 2x batterhead are too much and i woudl add second flash of light. 2x redemtion also too much ?
In my opinion 2x Batterhead, Tirion and Shirvallah are the core set of minions, the rest is flavor/meta depending. Batterhead kills 99% of all rouge/token/zoolock minions which are 75% of my meta. 2x redemption are not necesarry but there are hardly good 1 drop spells atm for paladin and we need secrets + cheap spells for mysterious blade / prismatic lens and redmeption works rly great with Zilliax/Tirion vs aggro/midrange. 1x Redemption + 1x hidden wisdom will work as well if you face many aggro decks who play 3+ cards during a turn
I would definitely run 2x Tunnel Blaster as they are great against aggro and can be summoned easily after using Prismatic lens and can be brought back with redemption for extra fun.
I run two in my Big Paladin and they have saved me countless times against Murloc Shaman, Token Druid, and other swarm decks. It’s awesome.
tunnel blaster is for sure a good sideboard card. i am atm 32-16 @ rank 600 legend with my latest version and hardly face aggro/token/swarm decks. 2 consec + weapons do the job for me but if you face more aggressive metas go for anti aggro cards just like tunnel blaster or witchwood grizzly :)
I put Baron Geddon instead of tunnel blaster, with lifesteal on he just locks out the game vs aggro.
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