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Quote from TomskiHS >>

I don't see what Aldor Attendant, Divine Favor and Libram of Wisdom add to the deck. I'd rather add more draw or survival.

Preferably with Polkelt, you'll draw your combo pieces or major survival tools first. The combo exists of Auctionmasters Beardo, 2x Tour Guide and 1x a 1-mana cost spell. Beardo and Call to Adventure cost 3, so we're looking for draw and survival cards that preferably cost 0-2 mana:

- Sphere of Sapience, Crystology, Bloodmage Thalnos, Loot Hoarder, Novice Engineer, Flash of Light.

- Forbidding Healing, Noble Sacrifice, Annoy-o-tron, Air Raid, Doomsayer.

Doomsayer could be played on turn 2 or maybe later combined with Air Raid or Annoy-O-Tron. Even if he gets killed atleast your hero got less damage. Crystology finds Thalnos, Novice Engineer, Annoy-O-Tron and Tour Guide.

Time Out is also a good inclusion because it's hard survival, so you can use it until you can do the combo.

In my opinion, a typical turn 9 would be Thaurissan + Time Out, followed by turn 10 Uther + Time Out and then combo on turn 11. Unless they are not aggressive and you can play Uther on 8/9 without risking dying that turn. Than you can do the combo on turn 9/10. Thaurissan also reduces your 2-mana spells to 1 for the combo btw.

So, I'd make the deck like this:

https://www.hearthpwn.com/deckbuilder/paladin#158:2;395:2;435:2;467:2;525:1;12181:2;14454:1;33126:2;49659:1;62906:1;89847:2;90164:2;90262:2;90617:2;184657:2;329906:1;329907:1;329972:2;

I don't feel like this deck is very strong compared to other OTK decks like Mecha'Thun Warlock or Malygos Druid, but atleast it's something different. It might be a bit better against control because if the only Dirty Rat target to destroy your combo is Auctionmaster Beardo.

 Thalnos, Hoarder, Doomsayer, Annoy-o and Engineer defeat the purpose of Call to Adventure, which is to specifically draw Beardo or Polkelt after having drawn the four 1 mana minions using Crystology. Also, they go against the philosophy behind the deck, which is not having to draw all 30 cards to combo, since that is why it uses Polkelt and Sphere of Sapience.

Librams are good for buffing your minions, which should along with the secrets help keep aggro at check. Also, the Aldors are cheap and so are their librams, which means you can empty your hand fast for a high value Divine Favour, they also don't need to be reduced in cost by Thaurissan.

The problem is, the deck really struggles with removal, so an extremely aggressive deck like Pirate Warrior or Token Druid is really hard to deal with, especially when card draw isn't in your favor. Lord Barov seems great, but I don't know whether including him is worth it or not, since I don't own him. 

I might seem stubborn, but I want to make the deck work as it is, not change it to another deck, otherwise I would have just copied the code of any other deck and never made this thread.

Quote from SirJohn13 >>

OTK decks mostly lose to aggro and therefore I don't see the value of Divine Favor in your list. Also with Beardo + Tour Guide you can OTK with exactly 10 mana, therefore why Thaurissan? Maybe adding the new 0-mana First Day of School is enough?

I understand why you don't add the other cards from the Libram package (you want to draw Beardo quickly after playing Polkelt), but I am thinking whether Exodia Paladin would work just as well with just the Tour Guide + lots of card draw

 Divine Favour works to accelerate the OTK so you can finish faster than other combo decks, also really helpful against decks like Even Warlock or Big Priest, you play as many cards as possible the first couple of turns, like Aldor, Crystology, even the Tour Guide but you refrain from using the hero power after until you combo.

Thaurissan is helpful for many reasons, one of them happened with me today, I had Uther and Thaurissan in hand, plus 2×Time Out, if I played Uther I would be dead (opponent had a board full of demons with lethal, and playing 2×Time Out on 2 turns changes nothing, eventually I had to play Uther alone in a turn, so I played Thaurissan with 1xTime Out and Uther for 8 mana and Time Out for 2 mana the next turn and pulled off the OTK.

Librams are 0 cost spells that can buff you minions (from Air raid, the Aldors and the tour Guide) and they return to your hand for when you need them with Beardo.

Also, First day of school sabotages Divine Favour but I still thought of it as being viable, but the entire game plan changes if I had to include it, as it is really bad if drawn in later turns compared to drawing really anything else.

Beardo is usually drawn before polkelt due to it being a prime target for call to adventure (after drawing 1 mana minions with Crystology, hopefully)

I just made this decklist and I need the thoughts of the community before I begin trying it, so that I make the desirable changes beforehand.

Any feedback is appreciated, even a harsh one.

http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1361110-polkelt-exodia-paladin

Well that's exactly why I posted the photo, on the log to the left,Headmaster Kel'Thuzad is played directly before Grievous Bite.

It's definitely something that needs a fix at this point.

Well yes, the damage is dealt by the spell and it (with the help of poisonous which it HAS (not an after effect of the minion like Acidmaw)) destroyed the two minions.

So in my first game since the last expansion which was against an Odd Paladin today (surprised that those guys are still around looting those trying new cards since 2018), I had Professor Slate and Headmaster Kel'Thuzad on board and killed two minions for the Paladin, but they weren't summoned on my side of the battlefield, and as far as text is concerned, Headmaster Kel'thuzad doesn't say overkill, but rather destroy. Professor Slate also says your spells have poisonous, not damage dealt by your spells is granted poison, or this minion poisons minions damaged by spells, so arguably, the spells are destroying the minions. So what am I missing ?

Thank you

You can tech in Zilliax instead of one of the giants for more reliable early game lifesteal, plus always mulligan for lightforged blessing.

I appreciate any other feedback you can offer.

It's also better to play BES before Prismatic Lens just to have something on board.

Hello.

I just wanted to get some feedback on this deck that I made which took me from rank 15 to 13 and back to 15 and now on a winning streak to rank 12, apart from 10s of games on casual (the deck is like a casino, either you crush opponents and send them to oblivion or you can't do anything and lose).

I'm also missing Shirvallah so all those wins and losses are without him (planning on crafting him soon though), so I just wanted to see how the deck would do with all the cards and what additions you guys might have that make the deck more consistent .

Holy Wrath is used as a finisher and not an OTK combo piece, lots of giants as targets and usually better than a Pyroblast with up to 25 damage (an average of 10) (it draws you a card as well).

Uther is game over for Aggro most of the time if you draw him with BES on turn 4.

Lightforged Blessing is really good with all these cheated giants, you might want to use it on BES in some cases when getting a giant on board seems difficult.

Thanks !

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Quote from oyabun >>

Not everyone can put 80 euros every 4 months.
He can play any deck he wants.

 I mean his Baku granted him 1600 dust along with a couple of packs he should be good, especially since he is playing Wild which usually signifies he has a not-so-bad collection .

My collection is small but i have wild decks. I crafted wild even shaman because it costs 6k dust and will last forever contrary to standard decks. He must have done the same thing, crafting standard paladin and by adding some cards the wild version.
You should be the happy one having fun trying a lot of new cards and new decks while this guy is stuck with a tier 1 deck forever because he can't craft any other decks on the release day.

 I just crafted Power of Creation, Astromancer, Khadgar and Kalecgos for HoF dust and all I opened was no more than 12 packs since I didn't save gold and didn't buy any bundle .

All I spent on the game was LoE, BRM and the Wild Bundle , none of which I used cards from to build this deck .

If his collection is so miniscule then Standard might be a better option now for him to start trying new things .

I mean sure he can play whatever he wants and wherever he wants, but we as players have the right to discuss what is causing this to happen, whether it's game economy or people who are farming Casual (which again brings us to the point of a new mode with no daily gold accumulation) .

This topic is mainly a discussion of why we still have to face the meta deck that has been around since last year (not enough changes, casual farming of homebrewers and so on )

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Isnt Baku hall of famed?!

 This is Wild Casual .

Quote from oyabun >>

Not everyone can put 80 euros every 4 months.
He can play any deck he wants.

 I mean his Baku granted him 1600 dust along with a couple of packs he should be good, especially since he is playing Wild which usually signifies he has a not-so-bad collection .

Quote from Kaladin >>

Of course.  You know what's better than a bunch of untested theorycrafted garbage?  Time tested refined aggressive decklists.  This happens every time.  Your best bet for laddering right now is old aggro decks. 

 This is casual .

Still doesn't have the dust to craft another deck or what is the excuse this time ?

His emotes were crazy btw.

Imagine a Dragon Warlock with Deathwing, Dragonlord