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Control Paladin with:

2 equality, big game hunter, silence and black knight don't have a lot of problems.

Or you could just rush him down with hunter.

Quote from IronCurtained »

Shieldmaiden is considered bad by masses? What planet do you live on son?

Are you high?

Son, just go read first comments on that card. Not that hard.

Quote from RLaney »

I've been on an insane win streak from level 19 to 11 with a new pally deck. Only had 4 losses the entire time so far.

Paladins are finally viable in ranked!

And i love it!!

Quote from suddenZenith »

Paladin is very strong at the moment, but it has nothing to do with Bolvar.

Point is that all was saying GvG is big nerf for Paladin, and it looks like it is opposite.

Of course it is not because Bolvar, although he seen some play. It is nice all in all that Paladin is still at good spot.

On first tournament after GvG, "Kinguin for charity" every pro player had a paladin deck.

After all cry about bolvar, and that we can delete paladin from game, he is stronger than ever!! In last game today paladin made 3-0.

Also lots of cards considered bad by masses, like shieldmaiden, was standard in decks.

This once again show how guys from Blizzard know what they are doing.

Before 6 months all was saying priest was weakest class. They was saying it's only chance for win is to steal other classes cards.

Blizzard is slow, they made those cards then. In the mean time amaz and other guys populated priest. It got nax buff, and this buff is little overkill. Believe me, in blizzard they are making strong cards for paladin and rouge just now, but it will past 6-12 months before they go live. They are just very slow at balancing game.

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He might very well wander into top Rare picks in Arena. He's essentially a Flamecannon strapped to a 3/3 body for 3 + 2 for the effect in question and while the battlecry is random, it's the kind of randomness you can control to an extent.

Not really a pick in Constructed unless for Randuins or specifically as an anti-Miracle Rogue tech card.

You can't say sludge is Sen'jin + Goldshire for 4+1 mana.

No, this is like 3/3 for 3 mana + draw a card which is flamecanon.

Why not. If you try hard enough. Bloodhoof is even playable in deck. One advantage is that you will have unique deck and people will not know what to expect

Good thing you will get 3 new GvG packs free in few days + gold from quests. Maybe you create nice deck including few GvG cards also.

Good points.

I love this card, but one question: how much is this better than Lightwell?

Problem is that you love when your Sen'jin eat hex/fireball/silence... so you can play stronger things after that.

Probably will not see lot of play out of mech decks.

Technology is not there yet.

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You forget that in 29 games you will get key card one turn earlier, and in only 1 game it will turn key card into chicken. So you loose 1 game 90% but 29 games win 53%. On average you win more. Profit.

Your logic is flawed.  A 3 mana 3/2 draw a card isnt good enough to win you the game 3% more of the time.  Also, you can have more than 1 important card.  There is a rather new mage OTK mage deck on ladder.  It runs double sorcerers apprentice and ancient mage.  If you burn any of those cards, or alextrasa, you are in deep trouble.  This means that every game you play him, you have a 10% chance to lose.  This means that it decreases you win percentage by about 8%.  This is just one example but there are a lot of decks with multiple very important cards that need to be drawn before turn 30.

I'm not saying this card is must for every possible deck. I just say it is okey card.

You must look best decks for card to see is it good, not worst decks. Your current logic is like "Ragnaros is weak card, because if you put him in zoo you will more loose. He can be dead card in zoo."

Of course there are decks where this card would be bad, as any other card in this game.

Where is it good though? What decks rely on spell-based combo enough to warrant this, and also don't have better options already.

On the first thought, midrange hunter can use this.

1) Lot of spells.

2) Chicken/beast synergy.

3) You can leave any minion on bottom of deck and still win a game.

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You forget that in 29 games you will get key card one turn earlier, and in only 1 game it will turn key card into chicken. So you loose 1 game 90% but 29 games win 53%. On average you win more. Profit.

Your logic is flawed.  A 3 mana 3/2 draw a card isnt good enough to win you the game 3% more of the time.  Also, you can have more than 1 important card.  There is a rather new mage OTK mage deck on ladder.  It runs double sorcerers apprentice and ancient mage.  If you burn any of those cards, or alextrasa, you are in deep trouble.  This means that every game you play him, you have a 10% chance to lose.  This means that it decreases you win percentage by about 8%.  This is just one example but there are a lot of decks with multiple very important cards that need to be drawn before turn 30.

I'm not saying this card is must for every possible deck. I just say it is okey card.

You must look best decks for card to see is it good, not worst decks. Your current logic is like "Ragnaros is weak card, because if you put him in zoo you will more loose. He can be dead card in zoo."

Of course there are decks where this card would be bad, as any other card in this game.

Quote from Thotor »

It doesn't matter if this card is OP or not. The simple fact that is the same mana cost as reincarnate with better effect and no drawback is inconceivable.

Wrong. Reincarnate can work with any minion as:

-healing

-giving divine shield back

-removing silence

-removing bad buffs

-knife jungler activator

-giving second charge.... etc..

This one work only on minions with deathrattle and don't do anything from above. Maybe even worse card than Reincarnate.