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So I've been running this deck for a little while now but have started to get difficulty with rush deck opponents.

I'm currently yo-yoing in the rank 13-16 area and bar a couple of games where there was some outstanding top-decking, they've been pretty standard.

Any thoughts on how I could improve this to maintain a balance and better combat rush decks? I've not got enough dust yet to get the legendaries of choice at the moment but can craft something for 400.

I would replace the raiders with Wild Pyromancer

The downside of playing paladins is their 4 mana heavy spellkit.
This results in the well known mana cliff instead of a nice looking manacurve, and bad draws means stalling your hand. Even with those tiny 1/1 you can play in addition to anything, you always feel wasting mana.
I played a stalling paladin from rank 12 to 9 (though with some help of tinkmaster, sylvanas) without any silences. Usually I was able to just trade the board clear, so the 4/3 and 2/1 bodies were more or less useless. I added 2 Farseers instead. Blessing of Kings is a good card, but I alwo would switch it out for something less silenceable. Most of the times you don't need +4/+4 to resolve a trade, and the +2 from a dark iron dwarf is good enough. Sure, +4 Health may result in a surviving minion, but trading while keeping a 4/4 on the board? Why not.

The pyromancer definitely is a great addition to count up the possible cards to combo with equality to five.

Again, these are suggestions based on my experience in a rather short playtime. Ranked alternates all the time across the ranks, so your meta may and will vary.

Thanks for all the thoughts - very insightful. It is clear the meta varies across the ranks so trying to take a top ranked deck won't necessarily work at the lower-mid ranks.

Going to test out the swapped out Bloodsail Raider for the Wild Pyromancer and also swap out the Blessing of Kings for Dark Iron Dwarf.

Diakron - I accept a certain amount may come down to my play and there is always an element of "luck of the draw" in card games but I moved from 25 to 13 without any issues and it's only then I started getting caught out by rush decks.

Revised deck now looks like this:

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You guys  are great, i'm still stuck at rank 19, how can you create all of that rare card?

I mean, i can afford 1 arena per day so i don't open so many bags, i'm really trying to improve my deck but i don't have the cards..

I have only half (or less) of that cards

Hi Betan - nothing special about how I got the cards. I went the old fashioned way of buying card packs. More than happy to pay for a game as fun and engaging as Hearthstone.