Introduction Even Paladin was first created in The Witchwood, and it quickly started to dominate the meta. It had enough tempo and defensive plays to withstand hearthstone nerfs 2019 aggression of faster decks, as well as enough pressure and ways to refill the board to fight versus slower builds. If you combine that with the fact that it increased the quality of your future draws there were less small cards in your deck leftas well as synergies, the end result was insane. Getting a Turn 4 Call to Arms was often a game-winning. But then, the card was nerfed, and so Even Paladin fell out of favor. Odd Paladin has started seeing more and more play in its place, and it was the dominating Paladin deck ever since. But more recently, after the Boomsday Project nerf-patch, Even Paladin is starting to get some traction again. It has positive matchup against majority of the meta, with only a bunch of removal-heavy decks being able to beat it consistently. Copy Deck Code Find more versions of this deck type on our archetype page. Those three cards are your best 2-drops — Hydrologist is always a solid T2 play, Argent Protector should have a target if you open with a T1 Hero Power basically turning it into anwhile Pyromancer is best against Aggro, especially if you open with Coin or Hydrologist so you can T2 Hydro and T3 Pyro + Secret. You have some powerful T4 plays. Corpsetaker is probably the best one against slower decks. In the perfect scenario, it will start with all four Keywords — Taunt, Divine Shield, Lifesteal and Windfury. Truesilver Champion is a good weapon, especially useful vs faster decks, since it lets you clear the impactful 3-drops like or. Mulliganing for a 2-drop has a higher priority — you have more time to find a T4 play than a T2 play. When you play vs Aggro, keeping board control is your 1 priority hearthstone nerfs 2019 all times. Most of the time, you want to keep the board clear as well as you can. Try to play on the curve, and plan your curve ahead. The latter is really important. Keep in mind that you will always have a way to fill one mana with Hero Power. Buffs are a big part of your deck. You always want hearthstone nerfs 2019 use your buffs on a minion that can attack. Kings is not that vulnerable against Silence assuming you use it the way you shouldbut Steed really is. That said, is a great buff target whenever you want to heal up. He has Lifesteal, and doubles all of your healing, which means that buffing him with Kings and attacking heals you for 10. Talking about Kangor, he also doubles the healing from Truesilver Champion from 2 to 4which is quite meaningful in Aggro games. If the minion happens to have Windfury too, then you will heal up for 12. Despite being a pretty proactive deck, Even Paladin has some good ways to come back from behind. There are four cards that can be combined with each other for some good board clears —, and. Equality + Avenging Wrath is the most expensive and worst of them all, given that it has a chance to miss. He is a good buff target vs Aggro — not only you put your opponent under a constant threat hearthstone nerfs 2019 AoE, but you also keep him alive so you can get more triggers. Pyro + Consec is also a solid 3 damage board clear because the base 2 damage hearthstone nerfs 2019 Consecration is often not enough. You can even try a late game Consecration + Avenging Wrath — first to clear all of the smaller minions and then Avenging Wrath to finish off the remaining ones. There are plenty of options, but you want to be a bit conservative when it comes to your board clears, since the best of them rely on Hearthstone nerfs 2019, and you only have two of those in your deck and on average, you will draw only one per match. The longer the game goes, the more it favors you in general. With a few ways to heal up, you should also be able to escape the burn range quite well. Vs Control Games vs Control decks are generally harder than those vs Aggro. Even Paladin is an incredibly board-oriented deck, and withoutit now has limited ways of refilling the board. Hearthstone nerfs 2019 you should be able to refill it after the first AoE, maybe even the second, it might get harder after that. Even Paladin is a Midrange deck, so while it tries to take a Control role vs Aggro, it also takes the aggressive role vs Control. Your deck is at its strongest around Turn 4-6, and you want to utilize that and try to deal as much damage to your opponent as you can. Early Hero Powers, as well as your 2-drops, are amazing, because they will either stick to the board and deal chip damage to your opponent every turn, or he will be forced to use some of his hearthstone nerfs 2019 resources to deal with them. One thing to consider, though, is that has a really good late game scaling vs slower decks. You have three main options. Divine Shield should be easy, as there are 3 different sources that give you it, but Windfury is only provided by. Of course, you can still win without it, but it will be harder. Actually, dropping Windfury Harpy on T6 can also be a better play than one might expect. If your opponent turns out to not have a removal for it, buffing it or even just attacking for 8 can quickly close out the game. Your second best T4 play is. It survives most of the early removals and Hearthstone nerfs 2019, which is great. Whenever you gain health, you restore the Divine Shield, which is something you want to utilize if you can. For example, after you trade into it, or when it loses it because of an AoE damage, the easiest way to get it back is. Swinging with it should restore it. A big harder way to do it is through Lifesteal minions, such as or. Keep in mind, however, that you need to be damaged in order to trigger that. Which means that sometimes your opponent damaging you is actually good for you. Either way, if you get a Divine Shield train going on The Glass Knight, it can really win you the game. Your third best Turn 4 play is a simple. Ideally, you want to play it on a Divine Shield minion or Windfury minion, preferably both. If your opponent has no Silence oractuallyit will be very hard to clear. The Glass Knight is also a great buff target, especially if you also have a way to restore his Shield. But to be completely fair, any minion will do. Most of the time, you should have more minions on the board than your opponent. On average, your minions will also be smaller than the ones from your opponent. There are two main ways of using him. The first one is to deal with a bigger threat. The other use is just as a board-wide buff. Your 8 mana plays should be seen as game finishers. All three plays, however, are great in slower matchups. However, there are still a few ways to push some extra damage even if your hearthstone nerfs 2019 is constantly getting removed. Against slow decks you will hearthstone nerfs 2019 want to use it on the empty board. Dealing 8 damage for 6 mana is amazing for Paladin, if you also have some minions pressure, it might be enough to set up next turn lethal. If your opponent has a bigger minion in the way, you can also combo it with. Another way to deal damage without using minions are obviously weapons. Keep in mind, though, that the more cards you will replace, the worse the deck will get. Replacing 2-3 cards can still leave you with a solid build, replacing most of them will probably give you a pretty bad deck. You can replace it withbut it will be significantly worse. It needs to get Silenced and then cleared, hearthstone nerfs 2019 removed two times during a single turn, or else your opponent risks you renewing its Divine Shield. Very good card in the deck, but it can be replaced with or. You still can play the deck without it, but it will be much worse. Since there is no direct replacement for the card, you can try a second or instead. If you already play two, however, use any of the replacements listed under other cards. Right now the Corpsetaker builds are the best and only, to be honest Even Paladin builds. You have some techcards you can change i guess. I run Chaingang, cause of my Valanyr. If it triggers and you have them in hand you may have two of them cicling through your Hands minions. I also run one Dinosize, cause if any of your 3 windfury minions survive you can make a huge damage turn. You also can put Dinosize on Kangor. For your question: you can replace Tirion for Valanyr. Cause you lose Tempo and Maybe value if you Play him alone, or if he gets silenced. You can also change one Avenging Wrath into Valanyr. Or also one Argent Protector. Just find out how your meta goes in your ranks. Pyromancer is nessecary i guess, for any big clears with Equality. So your ways to change some card for Valanyr: Tirion, Spellbraker maybeArgent Protector, Avenging Wrath. But remember, all of them are really good Cards. You can keep Tirion too and replace any other of them. The other like 20 Cards are a big deal and you dont want to change them like windfury Harpy only for Corpsetaker in this deckif you dont have Kangor put in Scalehide for lifesteal.
