Paladin is so gross right now. Any good counter decks?
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Yes.
Pally with a better hand.
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Spell Mage and RNG him into conceding.
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I spent a solid day playing Spell Mage and it’s not gonna break 40% WR this expac. Too slow for early tempo, too unreliable to beat the lategame stuff.
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I am 17 - 9 with it and I think I am only now grasping it.
Basically, you just want to cheat. Cheat mana, cheat Spells, cheat board clears and in the end cheat the win. My version is probably suboptimal even by now but as long as you stall until 8 and Yogg box it’s good from there.
I think Soulfreeze is one of the better includes in the deck in this meta.
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Great. The 40% of games you can do that, that’ll work great.
the only games I reliably won were against bad decklists. Deck literally has 20% WR against paladin and DK right now and it’s worse against Hunter.
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I am not a statistics guy you are free to discredit what I am saying through that.
I like the deck and think it’s not bad, if it can get buffed even, hooray.
For a deck like Paladin though it’s great. Soulfreeze their big minions. Cheat mana through Yogg box, maybe even cast Volley and you are set. imo it’s good against Pally, but that’s based on my personal experience.
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yogg box does roll beneficial spells, but there’s a lot of stinkers. A good number of those boxes cast nothing but “Wheel of Lose the Game!” and “Blackrock and No Minions in Deck Dumbsh*t”
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Well yeah, that’s the whole archetype, isn’t it?
It’s all about cheating your way to a victory, that much is obvious, but that’s what makes it good. The counter to a good straightforward deck is an RNG fiesta one.
Based on my deck tracker history I am 3 - 0 against Paladin with it.
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Hunter is 50/50 imo
Control Warrior gives me problems, but those are few and far between.
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Rogue can do the same thing…
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Aren’t Rogue decks pretty straightforward now . What deck are you referencing?
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i feel fighting pallies is more about making sure they don’t have minions on board.
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Warrior but you can’t be playing the standard old warrior deck. You have got to start thinking outside the box. I won’t lie I tried to make a deck based on the design of the old style warrior and I just discovered that it was not possible. So I started with a new style of warrior control and it works a whole lot better better.
Basically dropping Odyn or dropping Brann and doing nothing against the aggro decks will almost certainly lead to a loss in the game. You need to be proactive in fighting for the board every turn of the game against these decks because they are so strong at pushing damage when the opening is available.
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The best counter is aggro hunter. Going wide and then saddle up is game over for the pala. It’s not a hard counter but I bet it’s the only negative MU.
But aggro hunter is not great against some other decks, so overall might as well just play pala until it gets nuked.
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Mmmhmm I made dk with some pretty basic removals Headless Hero and eat paladins alive.
Are you playing against the Aggro Paladin deck with Deckhand or the slower version with Titan?
True one wrong turn with warrior and you’re instantly done. I’ve made that mistake several times haha
Except " cheat" spells cost 8 mana to even cast, while enemy board already full 5-8 hp minions and you left at 10 hp.
Mage is trash, even though i crafted 10 mana spell. Spell mage is just trash.
Meta now is aggro buff paladin and plague DK.
Well this just happened.
Daily was play lock
Instead of big demons which I saw quite a few locks do since expansion, I’m like “I’ll be aggro baby and try sludge lock”
I godcurved and ruined a greedy handbuff pally. Turn 6 fel spell threw like 20 damage for lethal
So like if they are handbuff greedy, aggro them harder.
But if they’re the ones doing aggro, well who knows?