Pure Libram Paladin – Ælleden – Ashes of Outland

Class: Paladin - Format: phoenix - Type: midrange - Season: season-73 - Style: ladder

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Mulligans

General Mulligans

Generally, keep Lightforged Zealot, Aldor Truthseeker, Aldor Attendant and Bronze Explorer no matter what the matchup.


- Keep Libram of Wisdom ONLY if you have Aldor Truthseeker or Aldor Attendant.
- Keep Hand of A'dal ONLY if you have Aldor Attendant.
- Keep Sanctuary if you have Coin and face everything but DH.
Also keep vs Priest, Mage, Demonist and Druid.
- Keep Nozdormu the Timeless when face Druid to counter Coin + Overgrowth on T3.
- CAN keep Consecration and Libram of Justice if have Nozdormu the Timeless vs big board decks/Aggro.

Paladin

Pure Paladin Libram

OVERVIEW:
This deck is competitive in the meta (so far!*) and is very very fun to play.

The main principle of the deck is to cast a ton of buff spells on your minions to make them powerfull and hard to trade/kill.
You will be able to regen these spells to get max value out of them with Libram of Wisdom or Lady Liadrin.
I made a ton of different lists for this deck and this one if by far the best, I tested at least 20 different strategies and decklist but this one has been the most succesful so far (11W / 3L , 79% winrate).

A very fun point is that your playstyle will need to adapt depending on your matchup. You will need to Aggro/Mid Range in some cases and Control/Tempo in some others or switch to Control if you didn’t get enough time to finish your opponent with Aggro strat. So you never have the same game and it’s more fun than always doing the same thing match after match 😀
    
As a consequence you don’t have a very bad match up but you will struggle vs Aggro if they get perfect early game and if you dont have your control plays.

LIST OF CARDS YOU CANNOT SUBSTITUTE: (26 Cards)
Consecration x2
Blessing of Kings x2
Noble Sacrifice x2
Aldor Attendant x2
Hand of A'dal x2
Bronze Explorer x2
Libram of Justice x2
Libram of Wisdom x2
Lightforged Zealot x2
Aldor Truthseeker x2
Pharaoh's Blessing x1 (keep at one, 2 seemed to be too much)
Lightforged Crusader x1 (keep at one, don’t really need 2 in most)
Libram of Hope x2
Nozdormu the Timeless
Lady Liadrin

LIST OF CARDS YOU CAN SUBSTITUTE: (4 Cards)
Redemption x1 Purpose: Help counter some very annoying bodies if you only have Consecration and not Libram of Justice, such as Priestess of Fury, Imprisoned Antaen, Rotnest Drake, High Priest Amet, Skeletal Dragon, Deathwing, Mad Aspect (with all the other Warrior minions that wanted to be damaged but that won’t able anymore with 1 Health native), Dragonqueen Alexstrasza, Siamat, Archmage Vargoth, Kronx Dragonhoof, Kael'thas Sunstrider, Shield of Galakrond, Faceless Corruptor, Twilight Drake, all these minions are very predictable and easier to take down when you use that secret efficiently.
Sanctuary x1 Purpose: Bring a very big body early game that will most likely stay alive for a long time or bring control spells on it quickly. Sadly it takes Shadow Word: Death on T2 if remain un-buffed.
Ancestral Guardian x1 Purpose: Big body with resilience, so it will most likely be there on the next turn you play it, even if AoE. Lifesteal helps in late game aswell or vs Aggro.
Commander Rhyssa Purpose: A good body for a cost(3) in pure Paladin, the effect is not needed but can ping Noble Sacrifice 2 times and have an extra body ready to attack in some cases.

Replace by: Blessing of Wisdom, gives some draw but very hard to get good value out of it unless you are already winning the game.
Replace by: Aldor Peacekeeper that has good body and usefull effect vs big demons late game. Also good with Libram of Justice when you need to kill minions with your Hero.
Replace by: Dragonrider Talritha which is a good body aswell and will give your extra value in hand with the Discovered dragons of Bronze Explorer or directly the Dragons you had in hand.

Don’t replace by: low health minions because Demon Hunter can trade them too easily and there are way too many small AoE in the current meta, Sky Claw, Air Raid, Imprisoned Sungill, Shotbot, Micro Mummy are bad choices in that matter.
Amber Watcher is possibly decent but too expensive and the 8 health restored won’t save you if DH has a ton of board already.
Bronze Herald is a cheap card if really you don’t have much else and Call to Adventure is too slow sadly.

Try it and tell me what you think.

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