Karazhan Dragon Paladin

      Hi! My name is Rakuen and i’m playing Hearthstone on the EU server. I hit legend twice since I first started this game (5 months ago) and I’m generally between rank 3 and legend. 

     With lots of new dragon mechanics and cards in the new Karazhan expansion I think it’s finally time for the dragon paladin to become a dominant deck in the meta. 

     This is a midrange deck, which means you want to control the board and install sticky and value minions, which dragon synergies perfectly fit into.

     This deck is less aggressive than some other midrange decks like Zoolock, Dragon warrior or Midrange hunter, because I thin paladin lacks strong 1 and 2 mana minions. That’s why I put ] doomsayer, to gain a huge tempo swing on turn 2. Otherwise,  faerie dragon or netherspite historian are great to contest the enemy board and gain value.

     On turn 3, all your minions allow you to take a huge advantage and value on the board, be it with stats with blacking technician aswell as the new Nightbane templar, or by controlling the board with aldor peacekeeper. Blacking technician and Nightbane templar both have amazing stats for turn 3s and allow you to trade every enemy turn 2 or 3 if the dragon synergy is active. Aldor peacekeeper is obviously great against ago decks, but it’s also very good against midrange decks to immediately take control of the board by developing yours and weakening the enemy’s.

     Turn 4s are the basic strong cards of any dragon paladin, which are twilight guardian, keeper of uldaman and true silver champion. All of those are great value cards which allow you to control the board, either by developing yours, by weakening the enemy board or doing both.

     Same for turn 5s, with azure drake, dragon consort and blacking corruptor : Azure drake both develops your board and gives card draw, blacking corruptor develops board and contests the enemy board, and dragon consort is allowing you great possibilities, like playing both dragon consort and dearie dragon on turn 5. All those cards bring a lot of value and are very versatile, which means they are strong in almost every matchup. I added 2 solemn vigils because otherwise this deck would lack card draw. I think solemn vigil is better than divine favor here because you will generally only play 1 card per turn with that type of midrange deck.

     On turn 6, I added the new book wyrm, which is also a great tempo card, both developing your board and destroying an enemy minion. Sylvanas Windrunner is here to gain value against other midrange decks or even control decks.

     Tirion Fordring is your finisher on turn 8, and I don’t think the strength of this card needs to be detailed here. 

Always keep your turn 2 – turn 3 dragon activators if you already have a dragon in hand. I would also recommend to (almost) always keep dearie dragon.

Against ago, keep Doomsayer and aldor peacekeeper.

Against midrange, aim for value with true silver champion, although doomsayer can be great in some matchups, when the enemy deck is faster than yours.

Against control, just aim for dragon synergy.

Some possible card replacements : if you’re facing a lot of control decks, I would recommend to add justice trueheart and remove sylvanas ; if you’re facing a lot of ago decks, you might consider putting on consecration or even equality, swell as some healing paladin cards (tuskarr jouster, forbidden healing). Against midrange, I think that this deck is optimal. 

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