Making Prelate Pally work this (or any) expansion is a bit of a gamble.
However, I think that the list compiled here shows some promise in aspects of survivability.
Early game: Play your 2-Drops and draw cards with Crystology and Call to Adventure, finding you your 2-Drops. Vs aggro play the Immortal Prelate only if it is buffed or you can buff it. Don´t play it at all until the late game against control.
Mid game:Bronze Herald IS your midgame! Two 4/4 dragons are not amazing in stats, but you can slam them down to stall out the game, together with Truesilver Champion.
Late game: Here is where it gets interesting! After playing your Immortal Prelate and Bronze Herald cards (and having them die!) Da Undatakah when played will take on either two deathrattles of Immortal Prelate and one of the Bronze Herald, or the other way around. Either way, you get a big minion, that will shuffle himself into the deck as well as give you resources (4/4 Dragons) in hand. You can combo playing him together with Lightforged Blessing (which you essentially have 4 copies of).
I personally have enjoyed playing an older variance of this deck in the past, and am excited to see if it can be pulled off reliably in the new expansion.
I would put something else in in place of thalnos and sound of bells. You have very little spell damage and sound of bells is only affective very late in the game when you have a board. I think you would be better off with an enchantment that benefits you at any time during the game. Lastly, I'm not sure why bronze herald is in your deck. Getting two four mana 4/4 is not that strong unless you have handbuffs.
To replace the current two dragons, you might want to put ziliax and an anti combo tool in you deck. Instead of Thalnos, I would consider the new mech that's being compared to sludge beltcher.
I'm not sure if your deck can survive the early game. How do you plan to beat an agro deck that tries to win by turn 5/6?
On the positive side, I think Lightforged Blessing is an incredibly scary spell and control paladin is definitely a deck to keep and eye on.
Before the last patch Undetacah, every time he died he added additional copies to my deck thanks to the prelate becoming practically infinite (as with ancestral tiger in handronox deck), with the last update he stopped working...
Need contact Blizzarrd for this bug... (with one scrabs after undatah stack deathrattle u can gain 100 armor and with prelate nothing -.-)
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Making Prelate Pally work this (or any) expansion is a bit of a gamble.
However, I think that the list compiled here shows some promise in aspects of survivability.
Early game: Play your 2-Drops and draw cards with Crystology and Call to Adventure, finding you your 2-Drops. Vs aggro play the Immortal Prelate only if it is buffed or you can buff it. Don´t play it at all until the late game against control.
Mid game: Bronze Herald IS your midgame! Two 4/4 dragons are not amazing in stats, but you can slam them down to stall out the game, together with Truesilver Champion.
Board clears: Early on there is the option to combo Wild Pyromancer with Lightforged Blessingor Sound the Bells! (and draw some cards with Acolyte of Pain), later you have Equality and Shrink Ray.
Late game: Here is where it gets interesting! After playing your Immortal Prelate and Bronze Herald cards (and having them die!) Da Undatakah when played will take on either two deathrattles of Immortal Prelate and one of the Bronze Herald, or the other way around. Either way, you get a big minion, that will shuffle himself into the deck as well as give you resources (4/4 Dragons) in hand. You can combo playing him together with Lightforged Blessing (which you essentially have 4 copies of).
If Da Undatakah gets transformed by a card like Polymorph, you still have the two Immortal Prelate to buff with Sound the Bells! and give taunt to with Sunfury Protector.
I personally have enjoyed playing an older variance of this deck in the past, and am excited to see if it can be pulled off reliably in the new expansion.
Happy theorycrafting,
Dave
PS: Obviously in many matchups, an infinite value combo isn´t required, and I would recommend focussing on clearing the board and hitting the face.
EDIT: Based on suggestions by TheNameForgotten, here´s a list with some more survivability through the mech package!
I would put something else in in place of thalnos and sound of bells. You have very little spell damage and sound of bells is only affective very late in the game when you have a board. I think you would be better off with an enchantment that benefits you at any time during the game. Lastly, I'm not sure why bronze herald is in your deck. Getting two four mana 4/4 is not that strong unless you have handbuffs.
To replace the current two dragons, you might want to put ziliax and an anti combo tool in you deck. Instead of Thalnos, I would consider the new mech that's being compared to sludge beltcher.
I'm not sure if your deck can survive the early game. How do you plan to beat an agro deck that tries to win by turn 5/6?
On the positive side, I think Lightforged Blessing is an incredibly scary spell and control paladin is definitely a deck to keep and eye on.
Happy theorycrafting!
Before the last patch Undetacah, every time he died he added additional copies to my deck thanks to the prelate becoming practically infinite (as with ancestral tiger in handronox deck), with the last update he stopped working...
Need contact Blizzarrd for this bug... (with one scrabs after undatah stack deathrattle u can gain 100 armor and with prelate nothing -.-)
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